Chapter 3618 Fanatics

Wu Bolin's slap sent Kikuchi Kohei flying backward.

This was only because Wu Bolin restrained himself; otherwise, it would have been quite normal for him to smash Wu Bolin's head in with a slap.

Kohei Kikuchi collapsed unconscious in the snow. Wu Bolin saw this, cursed, and walked over. Seeing that he was seriously injured and indeed unconscious, he considered leaving him to fend for himself, but now he needed to figure out the new technology Kikuchi had mentioned. So he could only grit his teeth and mutter, "Damn it, I have to waste my spiritual energy to wake you up after slapping you. You're such a fucking piece of trash!"

Despite the beatings and the scoldings, we still have to help when necessary.

Left with no other choice, he could only channel some spiritual energy into Kikuchi Kohei's body to help him wake up quickly.

Upon waking, Kohei Kikuchi touched his head, which was swollen like a pig's head, still feeling a bit groggy. Wu Bolin couldn't wait to ask him, "When can that radar you mentioned be activated?"

Kikuchi Kohei, disregarding his dizziness, immediately said respectfully, "Reporting to the Master, the ice radar is ready to be activated at any time. However, I need to know what type of target you wish to detect and its exact size, because this detection technology is not very accurate and cannot detect very small objects."

Wu Bolin said, "What I'm looking for is an underground city, or rather, an underground town."

"An underground city?" Kohei Kikuchi said subconsciously, "This...this is impossible. The Antarctic ice sheet has existed for hundreds of millions of years, much longer than human history. How could there be a town underneath it?"

Wu Bolin said, "This is not something you need to worry about. Your task is to believe that it exists and to find it!"

As she spoke, she couldn't help but give him another psychological suggestion.

Kohei Kikuchi's eyes immediately lit up, and he said firmly, "The real Masato is right! Antarctica is so vast, there must be some unknown underground town! If we find it, it will definitely be a groundbreaking discovery that will be recorded in history!"

At this moment, Kohei Kikuchi had been doubly brainwashed by Wu Bolin, and under these circumstances, he had completely entered a fanatical phase.

The frenzy phase has one advantage and one disadvantage. The advantage is that it can unleash stronger execution than ever before, while the disadvantage is that it often leads to a loss of objective judgment due to the frenzy.

However, Wu Bolin was very satisfied with his attitude, so he ordered him: "From now on, you will take your men and do your best to find this underground town. It may not be the traditional town you think it is, so you must pay attention. If you find any traces of human activity underground, tell me immediately!"

Kohei Kikuchi excitedly said, "No problem! Don't worry, Master! We'll develop an exploration plan, deploy three ground teams, and explore in three directions. We also have a helicopter that can be equipped with radar for searching when the weather is right! We'll try to find it as quickly as possible!"

Then, Kohei Kikuchi immediately had all the snowmobiles turn on their ice radars and divided the people into three teams, each heading in a different direction.

Once the ice radar is deployed, the exploration range and speed will increase exponentially. Kikuchi Kohei plans to use the radar to scan as many areas as possible first, and then have the people at the base carefully analyze the images detected by the radar. In short, both the front line and the rear are working overtime to find the underground town that the real person mentioned.

However, they soon realized a serious problem: the detection range.

Currently, based at Wu Han Palace, a snowmobile fully loaded with fuel can travel about 600 to 700 kilometers in this frozen land. However, the problem is that they need to conduct reconnaissance along the way, so they cannot go too fast. Moreover, the vehicles and equipment require electricity and heating, which will increase fuel consumption. A full load of fuel can only support about 400 kilometers.

However, they also had to calculate the amount of fuel needed for the return trip; otherwise, if they ran out of fuel in the freezing cold, the people in the car would likely freeze to death.

Based on this calculation, they have to start the return journey every time they drive more than 200 kilometers to ensure they have enough fuel. However, if they go back to refuel and then come back, they will have to drive another 200 kilometers for nothing.

To ensure the progress of the exploration, Kohei Kikuchi made a radical decision: he put all the other snowmobiles at the base into operation, assigning each exploration vehicle a snowmobile as a support vehicle to shuttle between the bases to transport fuel and supplies, thus ensuring that the exploration snowmobiles would not backtrack.

However, in his frenzy, Kohei Kikuchi overlooked one thing.

Their base was already overloaded, supplies were scarce, and fuel reserves could only meet the needs of small-scale operations. Now all the vehicles were in motion, and they were operating at high capacity, shuttling back and forth. In addition, they had also deployed helicopters, so the fuel consumption rate was several times faster than the design speed.

When Ye Chen awakened Yun Rugo and Song Ruyu and brought them back to the aurora, the Japanese research team from Wu Han Palace had already entered a high-intensity search phase.

Under the aurora, Ye Chen once again sacrificed most of the spiritual energy in his body in exchange for sixteen new hand seals.

At this point, the Vairocana Buddha had performed a total of ninety-six hand seals.

The underlying logic of the Vairocana Buddha's hand mudra is also very simple: with each additional mudra, the overall effect is enhanced. By gradually accumulating in this way, it is no longer the predicament of having only sixteen mudras.

This gave Ye Chen immense confidence.

If there are further developments in the Vairocana Buddha's hand mudras, then when the number of mudras reaches 160, the efficiency will likely reach an astonishing level.

However, Yun Ruge noticed a problem under the aurora.

She said to Ye Chen with doubt, "Mr. Ye, I tried the new hand seal, but it doesn't seem to have any effect."

"It didn't work?" Ye Chen asked in surprise, "That shouldn't be the case. I've already used ninety-six hand seals, which are stronger than before. How could it not work?"

Yun Rugo was also puzzled and said, "I have indeed completed all the hand seals, but strangely, spiritual energy was generated when I finished the first eighty hand seals. I was a little confused at first, because when I changed from sixteen hand seals to thirty-two hand seals, as long as the seventeenth hand seal could be connected at a steady speed, spiritual energy would be generated when the thirty-second hand seal ended and returned to the first hand seal. I thought that should be a complete cycle, but just now it seems that the last sixteen hand seals are not connected with the first eighty hand seals."

At this moment, Song Ruyu also opened her eyes and said, "Mr. Ye, my situation is the same as Sister Yun's."

"That's really strange."

Ye Chen frowned and analyzed, "When I completed the eightieth hand seal, I performed the eighty-first hand seal at a normal speed and frequency. The spiritual energy was generated after all ninety-six hand seals were completed, and it was indeed significantly improved compared to before. Why didn't it work for you?"

Yun Rugo asked, "Could it be that our own cultivation level is insufficient, so we can only perform the first eighty hand seals?"

Song Ruyu added, "Or perhaps the hand seals themselves are also registered, for example, eighty hand seals constitute one level, and we are currently only at the first level?"

Ye Chen said, "What you two said is possible. Let's go back and try again. If it still doesn't work, you should continue your seclusion and consolidate the first eighty hand seals."

Yun Rugo nodded gently and asked him, "Shall we go back now?"

"Okay." Ye Chen stood up and said to the two of them and Lin Wan'er, "Let's go back."

Under the aurora, the four walked back to the research station. In the quiet of the night, Ye Chen suddenly heard an unusual noise.

He murmured to himself, "Strange, why is there the sound of a helicopter engine?"