CHAPTER 1068: CHAPTER 77: SPEED COMPETITION (PART 3)

After entering the industrial area, Asgard put down the case she was carrying on her back and opened the top layer. Inside was a whole row of drones. These quadcopter drones were in a folded state. With the command given, the drones powered on and began to extend their frameworks.

The tightly packed black frameworks inside the case began to expand and slowly unfurl. Without gravity, the drones hovered mid-air until the propellers started spinning. Amidst the sound of air vibrating, the drones scattered like a dandelion dispersed by a small animal.

The seeds of the "dandelion" flew in all directions.

Tila Lee spoke with a bit of displeasure in her voice, "Since you planned to use drones for the search, why did you call so many people over? This doesn’t align well with the action principles we discussed earlier."

"To deal with the Six Dragons Sect," Jeanne replied. "There are various ways to deceive drones, and I can list dozens right now. Drone inspections are just a supplementary method. The real action still relies on the city’s protectors."

At this moment, Jeanne had already connected to the nearby base stations. The data returned by the drones would be initially processed by Asgard. Asgard was extremely sensitive to information. She would perform a simple prioritization of the data’s importance. Then, this data would be synchronized to Jeanne and uploaded elsewhere.

Previously, to conduct research for Li Zheyuan, Jeanne had specially purchased cloud compute resources. Now, these resources could also be repurposed for modeling the drone scan results.

Of course, there’s no need to worry about Li Zheyuan having no compute resources to use. Jeanne had previously requested computational resources from Chaldea, and Chaldea gave her an account to access some of Chaldea’s internal network resources.

Naturally, Jeanne wouldn’t use Chaldea’s compute resources to model Chaldea’s sensitive areas. So this batch of resources was allocated for Li Zheyuan’s research.

Li Zheyuan simply wanted to first calculate a batch of drug molecular structures that "could potentially affect specific receptors."

It has been mentioned before that through research, Li Zheyuan had already discovered "what kind of structure a certain class of organic molecules must have to affect Tumor Xiang Shan’s cells but not Jeanne’s." This "class" included thousands of specific drug types. Li Zheyuan could only conclude that "they can purely affect Tumor Xiang Shan’s cells and not Jeanne’s cells."

As for the exact effects of a particular substance, further research is needed.

And this category of research, even if seen by Chaldea, is not much to worry about. They might at most suspect that Jeanne and her group are researching drugs aimed at special groups of people.

Considering the Six Dragons Sect’s current public image as "deeply involved in drug research," this research might even increase Jeanne and her team’s persuasiveness.

After all, they are leveraging compute resources to research professional problems, potentially related to revealing Six Dragons Sect’s true face!

Let’s digress less. The streets modeled by the drones were just one aspect. Jeanne also secretly approached those squad leaders who had been victims of the Six Dragons Sect, asking them for the maps they usually used to patrol the industrial area. Although the maps they had only covered the areas they were responsible for and a few adjacent blocks, when pieced together, they were undoubtedly more detailed.

Additionally, there’s one more crucial point. The nature of this "industrial area" is essentially the remnants of an Emperor Shitian-class battleship fused with the hangar of a Lord of Hosts-class spacecraft carrier.

These two types of warships are extremely ancient, being the first-generation space battleship and spacecraft carrier of humanity, which underwent several upgrades and retired from the front line a hundred years ago. These were the universal warships that Martial Ancestor Xiang Shan once charged against head-on.

The design diagrams of these two types of space warships were memorized forcefully by the Martial Ancestor back then. And considering that these two types of warships had already been out of the fleet for a century, the Martial Ancestor did not eliminate this part of the data when teaching Jeanne and her group. More detailed parameters can also be looked up on the Protector’s intranet.

During Tumor Xiang Shan’s dormancy period, he had already completed the missing "knowledge memory" of the "event memory" through Jeanne’s account.

He knew what the spaces here should be like.

He could also roughly identify where hidden spaces might exist.

Soon, Tumor Xiang Shan had already preliminarily identified several potential hiding spots. Jeanne shared the coordinates with the others, saying, "Start searching."

Tila Lee felt something was not quite right. She secretly messaged other squad leaders to inquire whether the locations marked by these coordinates might be designed for Chaldea’s secrets. Most people did not respond. Only one person said: "No major concerns."

Jeanne sensed that subtle electromagnetic signal. Yet she said nothing.

She knew this was the purpose.

Having found suspicious locations in this industrial area, it’s hard to say whether it’s the Six Dragons Sect’s doing or Chaldea’s official activities. Though typically, nobody would place anything confidential in such a bustling industrial district, some sensitive places related to energy supply or security might prefer not to have her prying around.

Hmm, even if they did discover a suspicious point, Chaldea might first hold a meeting to decide whether to search it, and who should carry out the search.

Moreover, there’s another aspect that must be considered. A First Heavenly Layer Prosthetic Body—this is an immense asset to a neutral city-state like Chaldea. One First Heavenly Layer Prosthetic Body could significantly boost their overall strength, offering more leeway for their workers collecting resources outside.

Tumor Xiang Shan had not yet informed Chaldea that they were seeking a First Heavenly Layer Prosthetic Body, fearing that it might cause a commotion, allowing the Six Dragons Sect to take advantage amidst the chaos.

Meanwhile, the warriors embroiled in the Six Dragons Sect’s clinical experiments, whose mental defenses had nearly collapsed under terror, couldn’t afford many concerns.

As long as they weren’t storming Chaldea’s reactor group, those visiting squad leaders would turn a blind eye.

"Hurry up, there are quite a few places that really need searching."

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Protector Shi had entered a dangerous zone. Since many sectors had checkpoints set, the flow of people between areas had long vanished. Without the ceaseless crowd for cover, he couldn’t hide himself.

He had to traverse paths unmonitored by the government.

After all, this was a city pieced together from ruins. These warship remnants were riddled with holes, even bearing the marks left by martial artists penetrating through.

Even the builders of the city couldn’t know the condition of every metal panel.

There would always be a way.