Bird-Catching Plan

Normally, if only Yang the Third behaved so strangely at night, Tang Baona would definitely try to investigate. And if only Tang Baona was daydreaming and suddenly started singing songs she had never heard before, Yang Zhen'er would definitely notice something was wrong, then harass her relentlessly, trying to uncover Nana's "secret," and then, with a burst of imagination, fabricate a "truth behind it all."

But tonight, after nearly experiencing a plane crash, Tang Baona and Yang Zhen'er each made a significant "discovery," one about themselves and the other about Lao Xia. However, their attention is currently focused on their respective "discoveries."

After finishing our late-night snack, we helped Xiang Kun wash the dishes and tidied up the kitchen before everyone went back to their rooms to sleep.

Yang Zhen'er strongly invited Lao Xia to sleep in her and Nana's room, implying that they wanted to have a long talk by candlelight, but he refused. She then asked to sleep in Lao Xia's room, but was refused again.

Despite her excitement, Yang Zhen'er fell asleep within 30 seconds of returning to her room, washing up, and lying on the bed.

Tang Baona wasn't in much better shape. She had just lain down and was trying to come up with lyrics for a song she had transcribed from Yang the Third's emotions. She was fiddling with her phone when she fell asleep before she could even think of a single lyric. Then, her phone fell and hit her on the forehead, causing her to scream in pain.

Tang Baona rubbed her forehead, which had been hit and was now sore. The two lines of lyrics she had just thought of were completely forgotten after the blow. She decided to give up and just tossed her phone aside to go to sleep.

After sensing that Tang Baona, Yang Zhen'er, and Lao Xia upstairs were all asleep, Xiang Kun was sitting in the downstairs living room, got up and went out into the yard.

"Where is it now?" Xiang Kun was too lazy to go back into "Hyper-Sensory State" to carefully sense and search, so he asked directly.

Alice's voice came through the phone. "Here it is, boss! I'm watching it!"

Xiang Kun glanced down at the map location Alice had sent him; it was in a mountainous forest at the border of Haixi Province and Jiangyou Province.

The airspace is indeed a "blind spot" for Xiang Kun's "Super-Linked Object" monitoring network; otherwise, the "mutant bird" wouldn't have been able to successfully ambush the passenger plane. However, once the "mutant bird" appears, with Alice's current computing and deductive abilities, the coverage area of the "Super-Linked Object" that has already been deployed, and the distribution area of "Little Radish's" "sub-plants," it is entirely possible to analyze its flight trend and use the process of elimination to deduce its possible landing area.

Based on the types of birds that were brought here and driven away, Alice deduced the approximate area in which the "mutant giant bird" had brought and driven these birds, and knew the direction in which it might have previously hidden.

Based on its past behavior patterns, Xiang Kun and Alice deduced from the cognitive model they had built that it had a general safe flight range, and if it was not being pursued closely after the failed attack on the passenger plane, it would have an escape distance, and at what distance would it feel safe to land;

If it lands in an area with "Super-Linked Object" distributed, whether in a city or a mountainous area, Alice will be able to pinpoint its location immediately, without a doubt.

If it didn't appear in an area with "Super-Linked Object" within the flight time Alice calculated, then it's most likely in a place where "Super-Linked Object" haven't been deployed yet—mostly in the mountains and forests;

Of course, if it could fly long distances across multiple provinces, then locating it using this method would be much more difficult, and even if it could be found, it would take a very long time. But according to the model established by Xiang Kun and Alice, not to mention whether that big bird has such a strong long-duration flight capability, given its behavior, it would not fly that far in one go.

Ultimately, Alice mobilized the "Little Radish Plant Group" in Haixi and Jiangyou provinces to conduct targeted seed releases with the assistance of level four and five ant colonies. This quickly increased the release of "seed plants" in several mountainous areas where the "mutant bird" was predicted to land. Then, while Xiang Kun was making a late-night snack for Nana, the exact location of the "mutant bird" was pinpointed.

Over the past few months, "Little Radish" has been releasing its "sperm plants" on a large scale, primarily within Haixi Province, then expanding along the coastal cities to the north into Zhijiang Province, and south into Guangdong Province and Guihai Provinces. Most mountainous areas are now covered with "sperm plants," and some mountainous areas in Jiangyou Province are also under "Little Radish's " control. However, considering the limits of "Little Radish's " control over "sperm plants," Xiang Kun did not dare to let it expand indefinitely and occupy territory all at once, which is why there was space for the "mutated bird" to hide before.

When Xiang Kun really started to exert his efforts and invest resources to search for it, unless the "mutated bird" could stay in the sky forever or go directly into the sea to live, it simply couldn't hide.

According to Alice's location of the "mutated bird's" hideout, for an ordinary person to get there from Chongyun Village, they would undoubtedly first have to drive through the provincial highway into Jiangyou Province, then exit at the exit closest to the mountainous area, drive to the nearest point accessible by car, and then get out and climb the mountain. The whole process would take at least ten or even twenty hours, especially the final step of climbing the mountain, which would vary from person to person.

But for Xiang Kun, there was a "shortcut" to get there.

Because Chongyun Mountain and the mountainous area where the "mutated bird" was located are connected, he could enter directly from Chongyun Mountain and "cross mountains and ridges" in his own way.

With a large number of "Super-Linked Object" on his body, and "Super-Linked Object" also pre-placed in the surrounding mountains, as well as "seed plants" of "Little Radish", Xiang Kun can create a very suitable environment for the application of Super-Linked Object. He can call upon the ability of "Electric Flight" without disturbing the weather on a large scale or affecting the changes in the electric potential between heaven and earth.

Although this ability doesn't allow him to fly, it enables him to glide and leap through the mountains, using terrain differences for aerial movement. Combined with his already exceptional off-road, running, and climbing abilities in the mountains, this greatly increases his speed of movement within the mountains.

They set off at around 2 a. m., expecting to reach the location of the "mutated bird" before dawn.

During the time he was on his way there, Alice had a lot to do in addition to continuing to monitor the "mutant bird".

According to Xiang Kun's plan, dealing with the mutated giant bird mainly involves several stages:

1. Locate the location; 2. Clear the area; 3. Deploy the Super-Linked Object to create the main battlefield; 4. Xiang Kun enters the field; 5. Resolve the battle and clean up the aftermath.

Alice helped him solve the first, second, and third stages. The "location" was self-explanatory; she used the "Super-Sensing Item System" to access all resources and find the location of the "mutated giant bird."

"Clearing the area" refers to Alice using her control over the network and all electronic devices to guide the people around the target or those who might be there, creating an undisturbed and spy-free zone.

"Creating a home ground" naturally involves deploying "Super-Linked Object" to the target area. Although there are many "sub-plants" of the "Little Radish" used for positioning, the absolute number is not enough. In order to ensure success and prevent the target from escaping again by using its flight ability, a larger number of "Super-Linked Object" are needed.

Alice directly mobilized drones from various secret organizations, including "Shenxing Technology," and then used fake orders to have their staff attach sealed boxes filled with "Super-Linked Object Beads" that she had prepared in advance to the drones, and rushed to the periphery of the target area to deploy them overnight.

Xiang Kun and Alice have not only established a nationwide "Super-Linked Object Network" that will eventually spread globally, but they will also establish a flexible "Super-Linked Object" deployment model. When a region needs to exert strong interference or influence, the nearest "Super-Linked Object" stockpiling point will proactively mobilize and deploy "Super-Linked Object" to that region, creating a home field in advance.

However, at present, only a small number of regions in China have established such a mechanism, and most of them use the "Shenxing Technology" operation network. After all, "Shenxing Technology" operates in secrecy, and its personnel are highly qualified and have good confidentiality. They will not investigate the details of the operation. Alice has complete control over Tai'e and can accurately control all orders and their dedicated communication network.

At 4:30 a. m., eleven drones from "Shenxing Technology" deployed a large number of "Super-Linked Object" spheres around the target area.

At 4:50, Xiang Kun was only two kilometers away from the "mutated giant bird" in a straight line.

With Alice's assistance, a large number of "Super-Linked Object" began to be controlled by Xiang Kun, creating a range of influence, and then slowly moved towards the location of the "mutated giant bird".

Because she was afraid that the appearance of the drone during the deployment would startle the mutated bird and scare it away, Alice instructed the people from "Shenxing Technology" to deploy the drone in an area that was actually quite far away from the mutated bird.

If you look down from the air and mark all the Super-Linked Object as a red dot, you'll see a large circle of red dots surrounding the mutated bird, which is slowly converging towards the center.

The night sky in the mountains and forests began to become restless, and the wind rose and changed direction erratically.

The clouds in the sky grew thicker and thicker, pressing down overhead, with flashes of lightning and faint rumbling sounds.

The "mutated bird," which was resting in the forest, looked up at the sky, seemingly recalling a past experience and the terrible, terrifying encounter, and became somewhat uneasy.

So, instead of instinctively looking for shelter from the rain, it changed its mind and decided to flap its wings and fly away before the heavy rain arrived.

But just as it was about to take flight, another force within it warned it, startling it and causing it to wane and hide among the bushes in the forest, appearing to be one of the bushes itself.

Danger is approaching; taking flight now would expose us.

This was the information it gleaned from the warning; the will within it coexisted with it, and it had no choice but to trust the other's judgment.

However, a few minutes later, it sensed that familiar presence and saw that familiar figure walking barefoot and bare-chested from the forest. It instantly understood the warning—it wasn't telling it that flying would make it visible, but rather that danger was approaching and it should be prepared—whether it flew or not, it had been discovered.

If this mutated bird knew how to curse, it would have already been unleashing a torrent of profanities upon the other will within it. Since its ability to fly or not had already been discovered, it was clearly easier for it to escape by taking off earlier.

It knew very well that this guy could fly, and that he was terrifying when he took flight, but that his endurance in flight was probably not as good as its own, and that it could shake him off after a short distance.

Upon seeing the shirtless man, whose head suddenly emitted a bright light and whose hair sprouted strands of electric "hair," and whose body seemed to be enveloped in a layer of fluorescence, the mutated bird no longer hesitated. It flapped its wings from the bushes, instantly pushing its physical capabilities to the limit, and soared into the air.

But at the same time, it kept its eyes fixed on the man with the electric "hair" dozens of meters away, ready to deal with the attack, and even prepared to withstand the lightning strike.

Sure enough, the next second, electric dragons danced wildly in the clouds, and then bolts of lightning shot from the sky to the ground, forming a lightning storm in a small area.

The "mutant bird" was accurately struck by lightning, but its body had undergone special modifications, making it not only resistant to high temperatures, but also capable of creating a vacuum between its outer shell and inner body at the moment of impact, thus undergoing a forced molting.

So after being clicked, its charred feathers, outer skin, and even its beak cracked and fell off. But as it continued to flap its wings, the charred ash dissipated, revealing a smaller version of the large bird. However, this bird looked somewhat strange, as if it had not fully developed.

The mutated bird struggled to fly through the air, recalling its previous escape. After being struck by lightning, it kept an eye on the location of the long-haired man with lightning bolts. If it could shake him off, it should be able to escape alive.

But to its surprise, the man remained standing on the ground and did not fly away.

Just as it breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that the man thought he couldn't catch it and that it could escape this time, a dense, impenetrable wall of objects suddenly surged from all directions, leaving it with no way to avoid them.

Standing on the ground, Xiang Kun was enveloped in a faint halo of light. His long, electric hair danced in the air, and the ends of his hair emitted arcs of electricity, forming a dense network of electric light on the ground. The network of electric light continued to extend outwards and then disappeared into the ground in the far distance.

Now, when Xiang Kun starts creating an electric field and Electric Flight, his control is far greater than before. Moreover, because the "Super-Linked Object" cover a very wide area, his flight distance is also much greater, and he can no longer be "shaken off" by the mutated bird as he used to be.

However, his large-scale and full-force activation of "Super-Linked Object" today, creating extraordinary phenomena in the heavens and earth, was not for his own flight.

In this environment, his flight ability and self-control will be enhanced, but at the same time, the controllability of the "Super-Linked Object" itself will also be enhanced.

The Super-Linked Object he carried with him, along with tens of thousands of Super-Linked Object that Alice had placed around him beforehand, rose up from the ground like a dense wall, instantly covering and enveloping the mutated bird that had taken flight.

The electric shock Xiang Kun just gave was not intended to leave the mutated bird in its place or injure it, but rather to place a "strong mark" on it so that the Super-Linked Object could attach to it more accurately.

In the blink of an eye, the mutated bird had been enveloped by the Super-Linked Object and turned into a large iron ball.