Once twelve hours had passed, Jiang Yan Hai did not have the Mechanical Octopus bring the manufactured hard drives directly to the beach. The reason was simple: better safe than sorry.
Technology had advanced to this point. Although Jiang Yan Hai's active warning range was broad, covering several kilometers around him, it was still only several kilometers. Modern optical equipment could easily see what was happening here from more than ten kilometers away.
That was without even considering satellites, high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft, and the like. Ordinary optical equipment alone was capable of that, let alone the optical devices from the Seer's world. For all anyone knew, theirs might be even more advanced.
If the Seer saw from afar that Jiang Yan Hai was dealing with the Mechanical Octopus, he might mistake Jiang Yan Hai for someone on the Mechanical Octopus's side. Even though Jiang Yan Hai controlled the Mechanical Octopus, he would not tell the Seer that.
So Jiang Yan Hai would not allow even that tiny risk to arise. If he went into the seawater to retrieve them himself, there would be no problem.
Since they were placed in the seawater, no one could know who had put them there. It was entirely possible that someone had placed them there from the seafloor to avoid being discovered, so Jiang Yan Hai was not afraid of being seen.
In any case, the Seer did not come over while Jiang Yan Hai retrieved the specially made hard drives. Jiang Yan Hai climbed down the cliff, jumped into the sea, and swam until he was more than seventy meters from shore before retrieving the hard drives and returning.
By the time Jiang Yan Hai got back atop the cliff, the Seer had arrived. While Jiang Yan Hai was swimming toward the seafloor,