Vol 19 Chapter 6-3 (1/2)
Night had fallen by the time Xuan and WangXia returned to Shanghai. The curfew left the streets quiet and empty. Occasionally a squad of Japanese soldiers walked by. The foreign settlements, the red light district, and gathering sites with people with power were not affected by the curfew. Normal citizens were always the people affected by such rules.
Xuan and WangXia floated in the sky standing on their respective Sky Sticks. Current anti-air systems could not detect this sci-fi item. The night sky further masked them from visible view from the people beneath.
WangXia stared at the lighted city and asked Xuan, “What should we do next? We can we do with just the five of us… excluding Heng’s girlfriend.”
Xuan also stared below quietly. He sighed. “Such a strange and wonder feeling. Emotions or perhaps feelings have been coming closer to me the closer I am near the fourth stage. Yet at the same time, my heart’s devil is surfacing. WangXia, maybe I shouldn’t say this during a mission…
“Somehow I feel like I am stepping on top of the world.”
WangXia’s heart beat heavily from the shock. He raised his head abruptly and saw Xuan looking down with an apathetic expression. His hand reached out as though to grasp the whole world into this hand. This was a Xuan that had never appeared before. WangXia suddenly felt a sense of danger… The same sense of danger Zheng gave off when he used the power of the fourth stage before defeating his heart’s devil, a raw and instinctive sensation.
The sensation lasted for merely an instant. WangXia felt Xuan returned normal as he lightly pulled his hand back.
Xuan calmly said, “This state is not good. I will find a solution in the near future. Back to our mission. Our priority is the bonus mission. What can we do… How much do you think we can do?”
WangXia paused for a moment as though he still hadn’t woken up from the shock. He said, “We… can probably come to a deal with the Kuomintang party and then use technologies or money to trade for their information.”
“Impossible.” Xuan shook his head. “We can use this method if we have several months or half a year. But we only have six and a half days. Do you have an idea how long six and a half days is? Fly around the Earth several times. Six to ten meetings. Or transmit a few messages between hundreds of people. Six and a half days pass in almost a blink of an eye. The Buddha has gone for several months already. It isn’t possible to find it using this method. We must employ a different tactic.” “A different tactic?”
“Brute force.” Xuan slowly said. “Intelligence and strength are relative. The situation determines whether it needs intelligence or strength. However, when intelligence and strength reach a limit, you can brute force through any problem. Our strength is invincible to this world. We have the strength to destroy a country before the atomic weapon is finished because our strength have broken through the limit of this world.”