Chapter 7433
Charlie had locked onto the three elders when they last departed and returned to South America, thanks to a ground network system he built based on airport docks, station vending machines, and AI models.
This time, they first took a seaplane to the waters near Buenos Aires, then transferred to a speedboat to dock. After docking, the three of them drove straight to the airport.
The three were immediately identified by the system as soon as they arrived at the airport’s VIP terminal.
Neither Victoria nor the three elders were aware of the potential dangers of revealing their faces, nor did they know that Charlie possessed such an insect-level killer move. Furthermore, the most ingenious part was that all international airports and ports prohibited face coverings during customs clearance, meaning that as long as the target wasn’t completely disguised, it was impossible to escape the ground network’s search.
The three elders entered the world this time not on a mission with a specific purpose, but rather to enjoy a year of leisure. For them, disguising themselves was extremely troublesome, as they traveled all over the world and couldn’t always maintain their disguises. Furthermore, when traveling between countries, their faces had to match those on their passports, so none of them were cautious enough to take the initiative to disguise themselves.
After hearing this news, Charlie felt a deep sense of anxiety. Could it be that his conversation with Maria Lin had come true?
With all three elders deployed simultaneously, is the Qing Destroyer Society really planning something big?!
Nervously, he immediately said to Duncan Li, “Detective Li, make sure the ground network system keeps an eye on them. I need to know where they’re going next as soon as possible.”
Duncan Li said, “Mr. Wade, rest assured, half of the AI model’s computing power is now concentrated in Argentina. As long as these three appear in the camera lens of any monitoring device on the ground network system, the AI model will immediately identify them and see where they will go next.”
Although Charlie had his concerns, he didn’t know where the three elders would go, so he could only wait patiently for their next move.
Just then, in the VIP lounge of Buenos Aires airport, the three elders sat, each holding a plane ticket.
Wu Bowen holds a plane ticket from Buenos Aires to New York, USA. Wu Bozhong, standing next to him, holds a plane ticket to Rio de Janeiro, the capital of Brazil. His final destination is Kathmandu, Nepal, so he must fly from Rio de Janeiro to Dubai first, then transit in Dubai to Kathmandu.
As for Elder Wu Bolin, what he was holding was a plane ticket to Ushuaia.
Faced with the choice between going north and going south, he decided to go south.
This was because he had been doing his homework with Wu Tianlin’s help for the past two days.
Argentina is adjacent to Antarctica, which is a forbidden territory with an area of tens of millions of square kilometers, where barely a thousand people live there during the winter.
Of this, the ice sheet covers an area of more than 13 million square kilometers.
According to Wu Bowen and Wu Bozhong, Antarctica is a frigid place where almost no grass can grow. What amazing things could they possibly find there? Wu Bolin’s journey would almost certainly be in vain.
But Wu Bolin has his own ulterior motives.
More than a hundred years ago, he heard a legend from a senior member of the Boxer Rebellion that he would never forget.
During the Boxer Rebellion at that time, there were many members of the clergy who were called “Big Brother,” and even the leader, Zhu Hongdeng, was called “Big Brother Zhu.”
The main task of these “senior brothers” is to use their own religious system to lead various rituals of sacrifice and supplication to the gods, thus brainwashing and blessing their members, making them believe that they are invulnerable to weapons, when in fact it is all a lie.
However, not all senior students are cheaters.
Wu Bolin once met a senior disciple who had almost reached the altar of the Boxer Rebellion in the south.
Even though Wu Bolin had attained enlightenment, he was still asked by Victoria to disguise himself as an ordinary peasant rebel and infiltrate the Boxer group to spy on their movements.
After the internal ritual to pray to the gods, the senior brother told a story to lift everyone’s spirits, a story about a special ethnic group before the end of the Dharma era.
He said that before the end of the Dharma Era, when the world was still in the Bronze Age, there were a great many cultivators in the world. The world of cultivators was filled with powerful sects and individuals. The overall strength of cultivators was far greater than that of cultivators at the end of the Dharma Era.
Level advancement is also a common occurrence. Almost every sect has Mahayana cultivators who successfully overcome trials and advance, which greatly boosts the confidence of other cultivators and strengthens their Dao hearts.
At that time, cultivators focused solely on cultivation and achieving immortality. In their eyes, ordinary mortals were like uncivilized barbarians, so they had no time to engage in worldly affairs.
At that time, until the end of the Dharma era, most cultivators lost the channel to improve their cultivation and perished because their time had come to an end.
It is precisely because cultivation is so difficult in the Dharma-Lattering Age that the older generation of cultivators is gradually dwindling, and the new generation of cultivators is becoming fewer and fewer, resulting in the complete loss of the cultivator’s scale and strength.
The surviving cultivators began to seek opportunities to live, seeking immortality and ascending to higher levels. However, immortality and ascending to higher levels became increasingly difficult. As the last generations of many sects died without their desires in their quest for immortality, the thousand-year glory of entire sects was completely extinguished in the long tide of history.
However, according to legend, a sect once discovered the final gateway to enlightenment in the southernmost and coldest place in the world, which may be the last hope for cultivators in the Dharma-Lattering Age.
At that time, no one who listened to Wu Bolin’s story believed their senior brother’s words, dismissing them as myths. In their minds, the further south you went, the warmer the weather, and the coldest place in the world was definitely in the far north, not the far south.
The peasants who joined the Boxer Rebellion at that time had no idea what the North Pole and the South Pole were. They had never been abroad, or even more than a thousand kilometers from home. They only knew that the north was bitterly cold and the south was springtime all year round. Therefore, such stories contained a significant gap in their common sense.
Wu Bolin was different from the others. He could see the senior’s cultivation level and knew that he was far more advanced than those frogs in the well. Therefore, he always felt that the other party’s stories weren’t necessarily just empty talk.
Later, he heard from Western missionaries that there was indeed a very cold continent covered in glaciers at the southernmost point of the earth, and that Western explorers had set foot on that land many times at that time, and even began planning to explore the South Pole.
At that time, he became even more convinced of the authenticity of the legend.
At the same time, he considered Antarctica as the ultimate goal of his self-development.
In this declining age, he didn’t want to repeat the mistakes of Meng Changsheng and Victoria. He wanted to find the gateway to enlightenment and reach heaven in one step.
He never told this story to anyone, not even Victoria.
Now, Victoria had suddenly granted them a brief moment of freedom, and her cultivation was only a step away from unlocking the Niwan Palace. In this world, other than cultivators with stronger cultivation than her, the winds and waves, the cold and heat of nature, could hardly harm her in the slightest.
Therefore, he said, now is a good opportunity to go to Antarctica and find out what the place is really like.
Once in a lifetime opportunity!