CHAPTER 1523: CHAPTER 726: CONSIDERING THE LONG TAIL EFFECT_2

Had he already begun to make preparations in advance?

"Of course!" Lana Brown said with a smile, "I believed you would agree. I also believed that you definitely wouldn’t sell all those things."

Well, Sean Knight shrugged his shoulders, with nothing to say.

In the past, every time they met, Lana Brown would always express her feelings first, but this time she spoke from a work perspective, and it was entirely for Sean Knight’s career. Sean really didn’t have much to say.

Having such a woman, despite his own significant contributions at the time.

But compared to the benefits, what was that really?

Sean Knight felt it was somewhat mercenary to think this way, but wasn’t it similar to selling organization materials and earning revenue from long-term research?

Lana Brown didn’t say anything more; she believed Sean would understand her painstaking efforts.

Of course, Lana Brown had her own selfish reasons.

Gently covering her now protruding belly, she could already feel the movement of the little life inside. Despite Big Island essentially being under her control now, she hoped to leave even more for her descendants.

She wanted to live as long as possible in the future, to be with Sean Knight, to be with the child for a happier and longer life.

Even for that, she hoped to develop a longevity medicine.

Even if it was just a hope.

After returning to his private residence, Sean Knight handed over the only complete monster corpse from the spatial realm to Lana Brown—or rather, placed it in the cold storage specifically built for it by Lana Brown.

Only two people had the key to the cold storage.

Sean could feel Lana’s level of importance placed on this matter.

Next, Sean took out an energy mask from the spatial realm and gave it to Lana Brown.

He extracted a bit of vital energy from it and let Lana Brown absorb it, then said,

"Keep this mask in the bedroom and hold it when you have nothing else to do, it’s good for you and the baby."

Lana Brown wasn’t touching vital energy for the first time. Although curious about how Sean managed to obtain so many precious things, she didn’t ask and obediently held the objects in her hand.

Afterward, Lana would still handle some matters every day, but not many. Most of her time was still spent accompanying Sean Knight and absorbing the vital energy from the mask.

With Sean present, the strong woman vibe Lana Brown originally had would be much subdued, occasionally surfacing only in response to the more troublesome affairs of Big Island.

After all, Big Island wasn’t just Big Island now, there were also new islands being developed nearby. And those new islands had a bit more trouble—after all, they were in the midst of development, thus they had begun operating due to the increased flow of people.

Revenge tourism, for well-known reasons, led to Big Island’s population being overcrowded year-round. So to alleviate the pressure, a few newly developed Small Islands were diverting traffic.

But in reality, these places were far from sufficient.

Although the domestically reported middle class wasn’t considered numerous in China, there were still many who could afford to spend some money to travel to such seaside areas.

"In two more years, the effects of nuclear contamination will come, and our tourism industry here might become a bit depressed,"

Lana Brown said, sighing at the current data.

"It won’t be too bad." Sean Knight waved his hand, "The main ocean currents are not on this side; if they were to come here, they’d first loop around to the west, so the impact on this side will be limited.

Moreover, by that time, the whole world would be in the same predicament, and it’s not possible for everyone to stop going to sea. Since people will still travel, this place will naturally still be a good choice."

The bioresearch lab had already started work, and Sean Knight and Lana Brown together had visited it a few times; the experts were very dedicated. There were experts from inside China, those poached from other places, and also those who had recommended themselves.

After all, Lana Brown had let the word out in the industry, and those who were hopeful to achieve something in the new field of research wouldn’t miss this opportunity.

Seeing Lana Brown handling these matters methodically, Sean Knight didn’t ask anymore but instead reminded her to let the research personnel properly study the mask once she had absorbed most of its energy.

After all, such energy was very useful. Sean Knight thought if they could come up with some results, it might benefit humanity, but of course, more importantly, it would allow him to make another profit.

While Lana Brown dedicatedly absorbed energy, Sean Knight boarded his yacht from his private port and took to the sea.

Since he had salvaged that submarine, he had been so busy that he simply hadn’t had the time to investigate the details of the Bronze Dragon.

Now that he finally had time, and no one was following him, Sean Knight planned to sink the submarine in the nearby sea area and take out the Bronze Dragon to study it properly.

Nowadays, Big Island has become very famous in China. Or rather, not only famous in China but also well-known in many neighboring countries. Lana Brown was generous in her investment, adding quite a few yachts for rental at the port.

As a result, even though Sean Knight used a private port to go to sea, despite Big Island having a perimeter of nearly 100 kilometers, once he went out to sea, there would always be three or two yachts or speedboats cruising in his view.

Making more money leads to more troubles!

Sean Knight had no choice but to continue driving the yacht westward; he was almost reaching the South Sea.

However, this was still part of Big Island’s Sea Territory. Since the last time Sean Knight’s Type 22 speedboat and the 052D appeared and had a standoff with some boats, the sea area of Big Island had expanded significantly, directly connecting to that of China.

After stopping the yacht, Sean Knight didn’t drop the anchor but jumped straight into the seawater.

This was not a route or fishing area, so there were no cargo ships or fishing boats nearby. Sean Knight guessed that even if a boat did come by, it would most likely be just a tourism boat.

The seawater was about fifty meters deep. After jumping in, Sean swam all the way to the bottom, where he found a flat sandy surface and released the submarine.

As soon as the submarine was released, it immediately caused panic among the various sea creatures on the seafloor; all sorts of fish and shrimp churned for a while before they calmed down.

Sean Knight had already taken the Bronze Dragon out of the submarine and surfaced.

Climbing back onto the yacht, Sean Knight returned to the cabin, took out the Bronze Dragon, and began his research.

Sean Knight had studied the Bronze Dragon at the Abu Dhabi Louvre. That dragon did not resemble the traditional Chinese five-clawed golden dragon but was more similar to the most primitive form of a dragon.

Its head resembled a crocodile, with exposed fangs that looked fiercely aggressive.

The Bronze Dragon in Sean Knight’s hands, however, was a typical traditional Chinese golden dragon—according to some researchers, bronze was originally golden. It was only after corrosion that it turned into the color people see today.

After all, in ancient times, copper was also treated as gold.

This Bronze Dragon was not as fierce as the other one, but its head and tail spiraled upwards, with its head looking down contemptuously, embodying a majestic posture, unmatched by countless other cultural relics Sean Knight had seen!

He could feel that the Bronze Dragon contained a massive amount of energy with a dignified aura—the power of faith, or perhaps the power of the common people.

This kind of energy was something Sean Knight had never encountered in any of the objects with spiritual energy that he had come across before!

He couldn’t help but mobilize the spiritual energy within his body, trying to burst open a hole in the cluster of spiritual energy contained within the Bronze Dragon and then absorb some to feel it.

However, even after using double the usual amount of spiritual energy he used for statues, the spiritual energy within the Bronze Dragon didn’t budge.

Sean Knight found it strange, but then thought it was normal.

Unconventional things require unconventional means.

If double the amount doesn’t work, how about ten times?

If ten times doesn’t work, how about fifty times?

If fifty times doesn’t work, then a hundred times... two hundred times...

At the beginning Sean Knight still had the leisure to be tentative, but after increasing the amount time after time, he started to feel that something was off.

It was true that the Bronze Dragon contained a cluster of spiritual energy from the sea, but the cohesiveness of that cluster was beyond Sean Knight’s imagination.

Grinding his teeth, Sean Knight directly exerted a thousand times the usual amount of spiritual energy he would use for probing, not believing that this time it would still be like a stone sinking into the sea!

But truly, it didn’t work!

That thousandfold spiritual energy was nearly a tenth of the total he could currently muster!

So much spiritual energy poured into the Bronze Dragon, and yet there was not the slightest stir!

Sean Knight outright refused to believe in this anomaly and continued to increase the force!

Boom!

An output of ten thousand times the spiritual energy finally burst open a hole in the cluster of spiritual energy within the Bronze Dragon, and before Sean Knight could react, a tremendous surge of domineering spiritual energy rushed into his body!

With just that one impact, Sean Knight was knocked unconscious!