With everything settled, Chu Feng no longer felt that anxious, uncertain feeling from before. He treated this trip as a vacation.
By evening, they had found nothing. Everyone was starting to give up, and the salvage team officially confirmed that no items had been discovered at the meteor's impact site.
Chu Feng also put on a regretful expression and had the yacht return to Magic City.
Naturally, Xue Qing was disappointed as well. It had not been easy for her livestream to gain such massive popularity.
Although everyone had come to see Chu Feng, she had ridden the wave of popularity and become famous herself.
So Xue Qing was very grateful to Chu Feng. Once they arrived in Magic City, she wanted to treat him to a meal.
But Chu Feng, utterly oblivious to romance, only wanted to get back to inspect the spaceship and retrieve its contents, so he politely declined Xue Qing's invitation.
Xue Qing cursed him inwardly for it.
With no other choice, the two exchanged contact information, and Chu Feng took a taxi back to Hailing overnight.
The ride from the Bai Ting Hui Marina back to Hailing cost nearly a thousand. Chu Feng gave the driver an extra thousand, and the driver immediately beamed with delight.
Still, Chu Feng felt that he should buy himself a car. It really was inconvenient otherwise.
By the time he returned to Hailing, the spaceship had long since reached Jiangxin Islet.
He commanded the spaceship to activate stealth mode and head directly beneath Hailing Bridge.
It was already ten at night. There was not a single person beneath the bridge—only Chu Feng and a spaceship hatch that had appeared automatically.
If anyone had seen it then, they probably would have been scared half to death and thought someone was traveling through time.
Fortunately, it only lasted a moment. Chu Feng verified his identity and entered the spaceship, after which the hatch disappeared.
"Welcome back, Captain!"
A woman dressed in a white officer's uniform bowed to welcome Chu Feng.
Her black hair had been carefully combed back and tied behind her head. She wore a fitted white suit uniform that cinched at the waist, perfectly displaying an S-shaped figure. The white shirt and black tie gave her a stunning appearance. Beneath her knee-length skirt were long, slender legs, paired with black high heels. At around 1.75 meters tall, she had the flawless figure of a model.
Don't misunderstand—this was the spaceship AI.
And it was a specially customized version.
It had been customized on Planet Taibo's black market to imitate one of Planet Taibo's most popular celebrities.
That was why it had such a seemingly perfect body.
Do not underestimate that seemingly delicate body. It was absolutely a humanoid female tyrannosaur.
Although it could not compare to those interstellar combat robots on Planet Taibo, it could still utterly crush the so-called fighters and sanda masters on modern Earth.
Take Stoudemire, for example. His bench press was 111 kilograms.
McGrady's was 120 kilograms.
Durant's was 140 kilograms.
Even Shaquille O'Neal's 210-kilogram bench press was already terrifying.
Boxing champion Tyson's was as high as 312 kilograms.
But this body's bench press was measured in tons...
Who could withstand that?
Fine, it was incomparable. This was simply not human.
Moreover, the entire body perfectly imitated a human body. Its skeleton was made of high-density bone porcelain, as hard as diamonds but far more flexible, so it would not shatter on impact.
Its skin was made of Kantela material. It possessed the smoothness and delicacy of human skin, yet it could withstand ordinary laser fire. Even real anti-armor sniper rifles could not penetrate it. Probably only a tank's armor-piercing shell could damage it.
It also had a constant-temperature system and a biological digestive system. Aside from being unable to bear children and not having periods, it was basically no different from an ordinary woman on Earth.
Chu Feng had specifically come here today to enhance his body first.
All citizens of Planet Taibo underwent Body Enhancement to optimize their genes and physical strength. Their enhanced bodies could reach the strongest state possible for living organisms.
Therefore, people on Planet Taibo could theoretically live indefinitely, because they did not die from illness or similar causes. Even if they lost arms or legs, they had replacement limbs and organs, some of which were even stronger than their original bodies.
As a result, there were many "assembled humans" on Planet Taibo, while pure humans made up the smallest proportion instead.
Chu Feng had also brought a Gene Enhancement Device onto the spaceship, intending to enhance his family's bodies. He had not expected to use it himself first. Thankfully, the medical equipment had not been lost, or he would have been devastated.
Although the spaceship was only a little over a hundred meters long, it carried quite a lot of supplies and equipment.
The middle of the spaceship was storage space. There were only fifty compartments, each around two meters long.
They looked small, but there was more to them than met the eye. The storage cabinets all had spatial folding equipment. Each contained an enormous space of one thousand square meters and one hundred meters high. This was still low-end equipment; it was said that the Grand Commander's personal storage space could hold an entire planet.
When Chu Feng returned, he had sold all his assets. Apart from buying this lowest-grade interstellar spaceship, he had exchanged everything else for supplies stored in the spaceship's storage units.
"By the way, I remember storage cabinet number thirty-two was damaged. What was inside?"
Chu Feng asked the AI uneasily. There were fifty cabinets, and he could not remember them all. He was terrified of hearing that something incredibly valuable had been damaged.
"Storage unit number thirty-two contained one hundred thousand tons of gold and one million tons of silver collected by the Captain."
The AI stated it calmly.
Chu Feng clutched his chest, feeling as though it were about to explode.
One hundred thousand tons of gold.
The density of gold was 19.32x10^3kg/m^3.
The volume of one hundred thousand tons of gold was
10000000÷I9.32xIO^3≈517.6m^3
For a room measuring 5x3.3x3 meters, such as a 16.5-square-meter bedroom with a height of 3 meters, it would take roughly 10.5 such rooms to hold it all.
He really could have built a house out of gold, not to mention the one million tons of silver, enough to build city walls.
The pain was suffocating.
Planet Taibo had many resource planets made entirely of gold and silver. There, gold and silver cost even less than scrap iron did on Earth. Basically no one wanted them. If certain equipment did not require gold and silver, their prices would probably be even lower.
Chu Feng had seen this opportunity and crazily stockpiled massive amounts of gold and silver.
In 2010, the total amount of gold mined worldwide was 163,000 tons, while even the United States, the country with the world's largest gold reserves, had only a little over 8,000 tons.
This was an astronomical fortune.
Although Chu Feng was not short of money now, how could he not feel heartbroken after losing nearly all the gold in the world?
Fortunately, there were no problems with the other storage spaces.
Chu Feng could only console himself.
After passing through the storage area, he arrived at the main attraction of the day: the Gene Enhancement Device.
Ten enhancement chambers, each three meters tall and two meters wide, emitted blue light as soon as Chu Feng entered, indicating that they were functioning normally.
He entered one of the enhancement chambers with practiced ease.
"Beep. Scanning... Please wait."
A red light flashed.
The test results appeared on the display inside.
Although he had been prepared, he was still defeated by the densely packed rows of failed marks on the report.
"Begin the enhancement!"
He stopped looking at that unpleasant report and began the enhancement directly.
"Enhancement beginning..."
An electronic voice sounded, and Gene Enhancement Fluid began flowing into the chamber. It quickly submerged Chu Feng's mouth and nose, yet he did not feel suffocated. It was as though he had become a fish and could breathe underwater, which was truly astonishing.
He remembered that during his first enhancement, he had thought they were trying to murder him. He had screamed and wailed inside the chamber, humiliating himself terribly.
Even though he was used to it now, it still felt strange.
The pale-blue liquid matched the temperature of his skin. It was neither hot nor cold, just comfortable, like soaking in a hot spring. His entire body felt warm.
In truth, it was merely an illusion caused by the enhancement fluid subtly strengthening his body.
The enhancement was not excruciatingly painful like in other novels. It felt like getting a massage while soaking in a bath, incredibly comfortable. After all, everyone on Planet Taibo had to go through it, so the focus was on combining effectiveness with comfort.
An hour later, the enhancement fluid gradually became transparent. Chu Feng knew that the process was nearly complete.
Sure enough, within a few minutes, the completion notification arrived. The enhancement fluid, now clear as water, was swiftly drained away.
Chu Feng felt his body. It had completely become perfect.
The slight bulge of fat around his waist had vanished completely, and six well-defined abdominal muscles were visible. His height had not changed; he was still 186 centimeters tall. But his entire body had been adjusted to the golden ratio for his height, giving him the perfect model physique.
Slim in clothes, muscular without them—that was exactly what he looked like. Even his facial features appeared more angular and resolute, full of masculine charm. Together with his bright, piercing eyes, he looked even more handsome.
His slightly nearsighted eyes had recovered as well. After the enhancement, the fatigue from traveling all night had completely vanished, leaving him looking full of energy.
He tested his strength. A single punch registered 514 kilograms.
An ordinary man's maximum punching force was 100 to 150 kilograms, while Tyson's was only a little over 200. Chu Feng completely surpassed them.
With proper combat and fighting techniques, Chu Feng could break world records.
Next, he tested his athletic ability.
The highest instantaneous running speed achieved by a human was 44.722 km/h, set by Jamaican sprinter Bolt.
It happened on August 19, 2009. During a 100-meter race, he ran 9.58 seconds. Between the 60- and 80-meter marks, he used only 1.61 seconds, reaching an instantaneous speed of 44.722 km/h. This was the highest speed in human sprinting. In another race, American star Tyson Gay's maximum speed in the 100 meters also surpassed 44 km/h.
Yet Chu Feng's speed easily reached 65 km/h.
The known record for the farthest standing long jump was held by American football player Byron Jones of the Dallas Cowboys. As one of the most physically gifted players in that draft class, Jones became widely known to fans for breaking the standing long jump record at the combine. The 6-foot-1, 199-pound cornerback jumped nearly 12 feet 3 inches in testing, which was around 3.73 meters by standard measurement. As for Chu Feng, he casually cleared five or six meters with ease.
Chu Feng could not help feeling smug. With this physical ability, would Olympic medals not be his for the taking? Could he not break world records whenever he wanted?
"Captain, based on your current physical strength and fitness report, you are judged to be barely qualified. You have not yet reached the level of the top 25% on Planet Taibo. I hope the Captain will train harder and improve your bodily functions."
The smile had not even faded from Chu Feng's face before the AI crushed it...
Could it stop comparing him to those freaks?