With a consensus reached, everyone began to set their plans into motion.
Lin Chuan took Bulma to find his spaceship.
Krillin and Master Roshi, with the help of Mr. Popo, returned to Kame House first.
For one thing, Master Roshi needed to go back. While his strength was naturally very high among Earthlings and he was a highly respected figure, he was, at the end of the day, getting on in years. Even Kami would feel bad about asking such an elderly man to keep working hard and training.
Counting his age, Master Roshi was over three hundred years old, making him one of the oldest Earthlings alive.
For another, Krillin wanted to take this opportunity to return and explain the situation to Chi-Chi.
After all, Goku had already gone to the Otherworld to train under King Kai and wouldn't be back for at least a year.
Gohan couldn't go back for the time being. They were afraid that if he returned, Chi-Chi would immediately prevent Lin Chuan from taking him away. Thus, he remained at Kami's Lookout, waiting for Lin Chuan's further arrangements.
After all, before Goku left, he had entrusted Gohan to Lin Chuan and had already explained the situation.
Krillin didn't understand why Goku would do such a thing, but since Goku had said so and Gohan didn't object, he couldn't stop it either.
Having to handle all the difficult tasks himself put a great deal of pressure on him.
He was a sensible man; he knew that once Chi-Chi learned that both her husband and son would be leaving her for a year, she would certainly be unable to accept it.
Time slipped by in the blink of an eye, and another half hour passed.
Because Bulma's aircraft was too slow, Lin Chuan carried her as they headed toward the location where the spaceship had crashed.
Originally, Lin Chuan had intended to pay a visit to Korin to ask for a Flying Nimbus and some Senzu Beans.
But after thinking it over, he temporarily set that idea aside.
The Flying Nimbus was one thing, as he had seen it before...
But the Senzu Beans? He had never seen them, so how would he even know about them?
When it came down to it, he hadn't been on Earth for long. He would have to wait for an opportunity, or slowly insert himself into the plot, and find a way to get them once he had learned of their existence.
One thing he definitely had to do was deal with that brat, Yajirobe.
The reason Senzu Beans were so scarce in the original story was entirely because of that little punk.
Lin Chuan had ignored him before because he simply hadn't cared about him, but now that he had Senzu Beans on his mind, he would find a chance to intimidate him later.
Or, I could get the cultivation method for Senzu Beans from Korin.
I believe that with Bulma's intelligence and resources, mass-producing Senzu Beans in the future is not impossible.
The idea is there, but implementation will have to wait for later.
Carrying Bulma, Lin Chuan returned to the dense forest where the spaceship had landed.
I have to say, Lin Chuan had to put in some effort.
He had given his original Scouter to Raditz, so he couldn't pinpoint the location accurately and had to rely on his memory to retrace his steps.
Fortunately, he didn't make any mistakes.
He owed this to his twenty-plus years of survival experience on Planet V3114; he wasn't someone who easily got lost.
Otherwise, having to carry Bulma, an ordinary human, meant he couldn't fly at top speed, and finding the spot wouldn't have been as simple as an hour or two.
However, there was one thing Lin Chuan had overlooked: the sheer number of wild creatures inhabiting such a primitive forest.
Even if they had been scared off by the commotion of the spaceship crashing, once half an hour to an hour had passed and they realized there was no danger, the creatures native to this area would become active again.
With no threats present, the spaceship had become a toy for these animals.
It was just that Lin Chuan had thought the spaceship would be useless once they reached Earth, so he had chosen to abandon it.
He never imagined he would need to use this ship for Bulma to study so she could build even better ones.
After driving away the various wild animals, Bulma couldn't wait to break free from Lin Chuan's embrace.
After a while, Bulma was no longer bothered by Lin Chuan taking advantage of her by holding her. Once her feet touched the ground, she began to earnestly observe what she considered a unique alien spaceship.
"So this is a spaceship? It's so small, yet it can travel through space. Alien technology is truly incredible." As she spoke, Bulma began to examine it while getting to work.
After all, the seemingly small spaceship was actually a concentration of the essence of technology. As long as she could fully grasp its techniques, her knowledge in the scientific field would also make a massive leap.
Her heart was filled with curiosity, and that curiosity fueled her drive. She couldn't wait to dismantle the spaceship to thoroughly understand its internal structure.
Seeing her so ecstatic, Lin Chuan just smiled without saying a word. He walked quickly to the side of the spaceship, searched inside, and took out two spare Scouters.
Both of them were unlinked and had never been activated or used.
"Here you go. The way to use it is by pressing the button on the side. The intelligent system can even analyze your brainwaves to provide corresponding feedback..." Lin Chuan handed one of the Scouters to Bulma while putting on the other, demonstrating as he spoke.
As a genius, Bulma clearly had no resistance to such novel things.
After tinkering with it for a while alongside Lin Chuan, she had a rough understanding of the Scouter's functions and how to use it.
However, just as Lin Chuan had said earlier, the alien script was not so easy to understand; she couldn't make heads or tails of it at all.
"It is indeed extremely complex textual data, though I have no idea what the internal structure is like..." As she spoke, Bulma took out the universal key she kept on her person and used the finest screwdriver on it to touch the entrance of the base, popping open the outer casing of the Scouter.
The moment she saw the motherboard parts and various components inside, Bulma's eyes were filled with shock. "I never imagined a tiny detector could be crafted so precisely. This is amazing... And this intelligent chip, it's at least ten to twenty years ahead of Earth's technology. Still, having an intelligent chip makes things easier; I have several ways to quickly modify this detector."
"Good thing I always carry portable work equipment with me."
As soon as she finished speaking, Bulma took off the pouch at her waist, pulled out a Hoi-Poi Capsule case, selected a capsule, and opened it.
After a puff of white smoke, what appeared wasn't a room, but something similar to a workshop, just without the walls.
It was an integrated workstation with three tables pushed together, long and wide, with a swivel chair in the middle.
Looking at the tables, they were covered in all sorts of equipment that Lin Chuan had never seen before and couldn't even identify.
Bulma didn't say another word and quickly sat in the chair to get to work, leaving Lin Chuan feeling a wave of emotion: this was the gap between a genius and an ordinary person.
Damn it, as a transmigrator, he certainly knew the entire plot of the original story and had a broad perspective, but when it came to raw intellect, he was absolutely crushed by Bulma.
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