Yama Reborn-Chapter 567 - 564: Octopus Monster’s Plan
Chapter 564: [The Octopus Monster’s Plan]
Chen Nuo and several other Controllers, simply ate some food in the restaurant and then all left to rest.
Obviously, none of them were interested in staying here to be stared at by a crowd.
Well, except for a certain shameless Old Biscuit!
As Chen Nuo and the others left the restaurant, they saw the Son of the Sun smiling and talking with a rather voluptuous female Special Ability User.
Who knows when this old guy made the move, probably during dinner when someone approached to chat, and the Son of the Sun, this old rascal, got tempted.
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Naturally, Chen Nuo and the other Controllers enjoyed the best treatment here, staying in the highest standard individual villa-like vacation houses in the retreat.
When coming out of the restaurant, the Wizard and others didn’t speak to Chen Nuo.
Chen Nuo noticed another detail: the Wizard and Diamond Queen Lillian were staying in the same house.
Hmm... seems like there’s another scoop?
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Chen Nuo got the room key from Nolan and returned to his room with Lu Xixi. On the way, he specially checked out the surrounding environment.
The area of this tourist resort is quite large—probably because it’s in Africa, where land is wide and people are sparse, making land cheap.
There are vast expanses of grassland around the buildings.
Chen Nuo roughly estimated that there are over three hundred fully armed mercenaries in the entire resort.
Temporary military accommodations are also set up on the grass—surprisingly using the same disassemblable and movable modular building units Chen Nuo saw during the Octopus Monster Company mission in Antarctica.
These modular assemblable building units formed a temporary military camp.
Next to it were weapons and ammunition warehouses.
And on the other side of the camp in an open space, there were many vehicles.
The modified off-road vehicle they arrived in was the least conspicuous among them.
Chen Nuo also saw several multi-wheeled military transport vehicles and tracked armored vehicles.
And... there were four heavy-lift transport helicopters and two armed helicopters.
Looking at the armed helicopter’s "Namo Gatling Buddha" gun muzzle and the helicopter’s rocket launcher—these all belong to the category of the [Carbon-Based Life Equal Divine Artifact].
Some distance from the camp were two heavy fuel transport trucks.
Chen Nuo said nothing, just walked with Lu Xixi, casually strolled for a while, and returned to their house.
Entering the room and closing the door, Chen Nuo stood by the window looking outside.
On the grass, the mercenaries were already having dinner, but the entire resort’s defenses remained extremely strict, with patrols and sentries arranged tightly and comprehensively.
Chen Nuo even saw a military multifunctional satellite command vehicle.
"See those troops and equipment outside? In Africa, that’s enough to stage a coup and overthrow a small country’s government," Chen Nuo smirked.
"The Octopus Monster is really wealthy," Lu Xixi laughed.
Chen Nuo shook his head, "This scale is already no less than the Antarctica mission I attended before, and besides these ordinary combat units, the number and level of participating Ability Users far exceed that mission."
"After all, it’s to deal with a Seed," Lu Xixi frowned, "But that guy still hasn’t revealed his specific plan."
At this moment, both Chen Nuo and Lu Xixi raised their eyebrows simultaneously. They both sensed a spiritual power fluctuation outside their door.
The other party was actively sending a signal.
Chen Nuo glanced at Lu Xixi, walked over, and opened the door.
Kamisou Ichiro, dressed in a neat three-piece suit, stood smiling at the door, holding a bottle of red wine in his hand.
"How about it? After dinner, we can have a drink or two."
Chen Nuo glanced at the wine in Kamisou Ichiro’s hand, sighed, "You’ve really studied human social habits deeply—but you forgot, I’m Huaxia. Bringing a bottle of wine to visit is a Western social etiquette."
Kamisou Ichiro actually thought about it seriously, "Then according to Oriental customs, should I bring a fruit basket?"
Chen Nuo rolled his eyes, "Hmm... we generally use that custom when visiting someone who’s ill."
Kamisou Ichiro laughed, not offended, smiling sincerely, "Alright, I’ll study your Oriental social etiquette carefully after I return. Next time I visit, I’ll make sure to bring an appropriate gift."
"Come in," Chen Nuo stepped aside to let the Octopus Monster in.
Kamisou Ichiro walked to the sofa, looked at Lu Xixi, "I’m interrupting your rest, Your Royal Highness the Empress."
Lu Xixi looked Kamisou Ichiro up and down, saw the wine in his hand, her eyes brightened, only to be slightly disappointed afterward.
"Just this little, enough for whom..." Lu Xixi shook her head.
Kamisou Ichiro was stunned, and Chen Nuo quickly took the wine, "She’s joking. We have serious business tomorrow, so let’s not drink this now."
What a joke, if Lu Xixi drinks too much, she might transform.
Chen Nuo definitely doesn’t want to be beaten by the Empress after she’s had too much.
Lu Xixi smiled, went over, and sat with Chen Nuo, then looked at Kamisou Ichiro, "Octopus Monster, tell us your plan."
Kamisou Ichiro’s sitting posture on the sofa seemed very well mannered and elegant, he smiled, "I figured if I didn’t explain before acting, you two would have concerns, so tonight I plan to explain everything thoroughly to you both.
However, before that, I have a request."
Hearing this, Chen Nuo instinctively exchanged a glance with Lu Xixi, then looked at Kamisou Ichiro, "Go ahead."
"What I tell you about the plan may differ from what I’ll tell the whole team tomorrow. However, I hope you won’t share tonight’s details with others—including Mr. Wizard and the rest."
Chen Nuo nodded, "So, tomorrow you’ll fabricate a story to deceive them?"
"Not fabricating, just omitting some information."
Chen Nuo’s heart stirred, "Not even Nolan can be told?"
Kamisou Ichiro didn’t answer, just smiled at Chen Nuo.
Chen Nuo nodded, "Got it, we’ll keep it a secret, go ahead."
Kamisou Ichiro smiled satisfied, leaned forward slightly, and said unhurriedly, "Based on my global search over the past six months, the Fourth Seed should be hidden in Africa, more precisely in this vicinity."
"How close exactly do you mean by ’vicinity’?" Chen Nuo frowned.
If the Fourth Seed is already nearby, then I still need to stay alert.
"Approximately a hundred thousand square kilometers," Kamisou Ichiro answered.
Chen Nuo was stunned.
Do you have some misunderstanding about the word "vicinity"?!
One hundred thousand square kilometers, in Huaxia, is roughly the size of a province!
The land area of Hainan Province is only around thirty thousand square kilometers!
Chen Nuo’s hometown Jinling City, in Su Province, is just over a hundred thousand square kilometers.
Yet you say "vicinity" is as large as a province?
Noticing Chen Nuo’s odd expression, Kamisou Ichiro calmly explained, "For a Seed to hide, it would first suppress its energy, and most importantly, suppress and conceal its Life Force level—because to Seeds of the same level, hiding energy is pointless.
When we Seeds look for our kind, we can sense the Life Force level of the other, which might not be entirely clear to you; in principle, higher life forms are like torches in the dark to us.
So, to evade others of the same kind, when a Seed hides, it will first create an independent space world, creating a barrier in an area.
Just like... when Seed hid in the Maya relics in the tropical rainforest, creating a small world and completely isolating from the outside. This way, it could evade other Seeds’ perception of its Life Force level.
Make sense?"
Chen Nuo nodded, "I understand, you’ve made it very clear."
"However, creating a small space world also causes some energy fluctuations and displacements, involving some spatial physics, which I won’t go into detail to explain.
Overall, creating a separate small world can evade our Seeds’ detection, making each other’s Life Energy levels undetectable.
Ironically, though, lower life forms, through evolved scientific technologies, can actually capture these spatial energy changes.
I control several high-energy spatial physics research institutions in Mi Country, where they have experimental equipment capable of capturing such spatial energy fluctuations.
After months of investigation and global search, we narrowed the range of energy fluctuations to here."
Chen Nuo smiled bitterly, "Honestly, you haven’t narrowed it down much, have you?"
"It has reached the limit. At this stage, with your human level of space physics, the instruments you can manufacture can reduce the range to tens of thousands of square kilometers on a global scale, which is the current ultimate in remote sensing.
From here on, we can only rely on manual searching.
This time, I’ve brought some equipment that needs to be carried by a transport vehicle and then conduct a grid search in this area.
Each piece of equipment can capture spatial energy fracture fluctuations within about a kilometer around it."
Chen Nuo raised his eyebrows.
Grid search?
"So, how many pieces of equipment did you bring? How many teams are you planning to deploy for the grid search here?"
"Four," Kamisou Ichiro laughed, "And I’ve already had experts divide the area and design the most efficient distribution routes for a four-way grid search."
Chen Nuo shook his head, "That’s quite an undertaking. Four pieces of equipment, and each can only search about a kilometer radius.
Even though cars travel much faster than walking, you’d still need four cars to cover tens of thousands of square kilometers. 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝘦𝘸𝑒𝒷𝓃ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝒸ℴ𝘮
It would take a long time.
Besides, this is Africa, and there are many places where cars might not be able to go."
"Not just cars, so I’ve prepared four transport helicopters," Kamisou Ichiro shrugged, "If it’s not enough, I’ll bring in a few more.
However, there’s no need for that right now, because only four of these mini detection devices were manufactured due to material limitations, and more can’t be made in the short term.
Plus, I don’t want to wait any longer. After all, The Fourth Seed is injured, not dead.
Every day we wait, his strength recovers a bit.
The sooner we make a move, the lower the difficulty for us."
Chen Nuo nodded, "I roughly understand. Now, tell me your plan."
Kamisou Ichiro paused for a moment before slowly saying, "Before Seeds go into sleep, generally speaking, they’ll assign themselves a Night Watchman role, which I believe you can relate to."
Hmm?
Chen Nuo was moved in his heart.
"Night Watchman, guard...whatever you want to call it, it’s just a code name. My point is, your experience in the South America Tropical Rainforest back then should give you some personal insight into this."
Chen Nuo understood.
That time in the Tropical Rainforest, Seed, hiding in a small world of the Maya ruins.
But, for that small world, Seed arranged a Guardian to protect that ruin mini-world.
However, unexpectedly, that Guardian had rebellious intentions and aimed to absorb Seed’s power while Seed was asleep, harboring ambitions of its own.
That time, Mr. Chen Nuo and others fought two battles with that guy.
Lu Xixi, who was disguised as a Japanese woman at the time, fought against them.
Also, the Son of the Sun fought them too — incidentally, the Son of the Sun wasn’t their match.
This, thus, allows us to infer that the Guardian wielded Controller level power.
Chen Nuo frowned, "You mean, you Seeds can create a Controller level master in a short time?"
"There is a price, but it’s not very difficult," Kamisou Ichiro explained, "There are two ways: one is to directly cut a portion of your Life Level to the other side, letting them rapidly enhance their ability temporarily.
The other way is to establish some special connections between yourself and the Guardian, allowing the scattered power during your slumber to be absorbed by the Guardian, who can then take a slightly longer time to absorb energy and upgrade to a Controller.
I heard the Son of the Sun mentioned your experience in South America.
So I can confirm that last time, the Guardian Seed arranged for himself used the second method I mentioned... after all, last time Seed needed to sleep for a very long time, so he needed a Guardian capable of long-term protection.
Because, what I described as the first method, directly forcing a person to rapidly become a Controller in a short time, has a huge drawback: this kind of forced growth actually stimulates the opponent’s Life Level through special means, overdrawing it temporarily.
The guardians created by this method, after overdrawing their Life Level, although they gained strong power in a short period, generally speaking... their lifespan is quite short."
"How short?"
"Depends on the person," Octopus Monster shook his head, "If someone is originally very gifted, already has Controller potential, but their current strength is relatively low—this kind of person would have lighter overdrawing, a relatively longer lifespan, able to live ten or eight more years.
But with more average potential... after overdrawing, they might only live another two or three years."
Chen Nuo’s eyes widened, "That’s still very frightening, okay!
"Could it be that as long as your Seeds don’t care about overdrawing others’ life, you can arbitrarily mass-produce Controllers? If he created a few hundred Controllers before going into sleep to heal, how could we even fight?"
Kamisou Ichiro finally showed some emotional fluctuation, rolled his eyes: "Do you think our Seeds are infinite power strips? Can we just plug in as many plugs as we want?
The rules for selecting targets and establishing life energy connections are second only to the Chosen One model.
We can only create one at a time.
If I could freely mass-produce Controllers, there would be no need to trade with you and invite you to join.
I could create a few hundred Controllers myself, and bury that guy."
Chen Nuo nodded: "So, when we conduct a carpet search and find the location, we must first deal with his guards?"
"To be precise, not just deal with them crudely and simply.
The optimal solution is to capture the opponent alive, and in a way that the opponent is not fatally or severely injured.
Because when a Seed is asleep, it establishes a life link with its guards. If a guard enters critical injury or near-death, causing a significant drop in life energy, the Seed will sense it — that’s equivalent to an alarm, signaling danger from the outside, prompting the Seed to awaken."
Chen Nuo nodded... Indeed, back in the Relic World, the awakening of the Seed was caused by the guard being severely beaten by Lu Xixi when she intruded into the Relic World, which then led to the Seed waking up.
Chen Nuo pondered for a moment: "You mean, if we can capture alive, we should, to avoid disturbing the sleeping Fourth Seed.
After all, a sleeping enemy is easier to deal with, right?"
"Yes," Kamisou Ichiro confessed straightforwardly: "A Seed in combat awakened state versus a defenseless sleeping Seed, it’s obvious which is easier to handle.
Of course, I’m talking about the imagined optimal solution, the ideal state.
If the difficulty of live capture during a fight is too high, then killing the opponent isn’t out of the question. However, awakening the Fourth Seed adds some unpredictable factors to the success rate of the operation."
"Tell me specifically how to do it."
"You, Star Sky Empress, Son of the Sun, Wizard, Diamond Queen, Nolan — a total of six Controllers, plus me, making seven people.
Four search instruments.
My plan is, seven people split into four groups, conducting a carpet search in four directions.
If any of the groups makes a discovery, the guards will be alerted immediately — the guard should most likely be a powerful Controller-level individual.
We ensure that any group encountered by the opponent has an overwhelming advantage, capable of defeating them, ideally capturing them alive, if not, at least holding the opponent without escape while notifying other groups to reinforce, gather manpower, and capture the opponent alive together."
Chen Nuo smiled: "Then group division requires some careful consideration. Each group must ensure an overwhelming advantage..."
"From an allocation perspective, me alone forming a group is the best choice. Being a Seed, facing a Controller-level opponent, I can independently defeat and capture them. I only need myself, no need to waste a Controller to assist me.
Then for the other three groups, each should have at least one top-tier strongest Controller, not those ordinary weaker Controllers — preferably paired with the strongest, or else they might not function as intended."
Chen Nuo understood the meaning: three strongest Controllers, as the absolute main force for each of the three groups.
"In my mind, the three strongest Controllers are... Your wife, Star Sky Empress, of course, among them." Kamisou Ichiro smiled, nodding at Lu Xixi, "The battle in Jinling left a deep impression on me. If we disregard Life Level, your combat power isn’t weaker than mine. Your reason for not being my opponent lies in the suppression of Life Level. So, aside from me, Star Sky Empress is the strongest human in my mind."
Lu Xixi remained expressionless, saying nothing.
Kamisou Ichiro then looked at Chen Nuo: "In my mind, the second strongest is Mr. Wizard."
This wasn’t unexpected for Chen Nuo.
Originally in the Underground World, many considered either Wizard or Star Sky Empress the strongest entity today.
"Who is the third?"
"It’s Mr. Chen Nuo." Kamisou Ichiro smiled: "We have also faced each other. Although you were not my match then, you have mastered spatial abilities — which already puts you ahead of many Controllers — plus, our duel happened long ago. I think your skills should be stronger now.
I even believe that your current combat power should be above Wizard, comparable to your wife, Star Sky Empress."
Chen Nuo chuckled.
Hmm... If I told this Octopus Monster that I can currently only exert Destroyer-level power, one level weaker than Controller... Wouldn’t that be a huge surprise?
However, my defense is invincible. If I stand still and let opponents attack, the guard arranged by the Fourth Seed can’t possibly harm me.
The issue is, the top priority target this time is to capture the opponent alive. Standing still to take hits — this ability isn’t very useful.
At this point, Chen Nuo also understood the purpose of Kamisou Ichiro talking to him.
He wants to separate me and Lu Xixi for team division!
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