Chapter 894 - 472: Fox Mountain’s Little Gift (Part 2)

Chapter 894: Chapter 472: Fox Mountain’s Little Gift (Part 2)

"Did it go smoothly?"

The two engineers forced out lukewarm smiles.

"It was okay, yeah, pretty smooth overall.

"But... uh... this signal transmitter of yours, the signal isn’t exactly strong."

Su Yaoyao gave an awkward smile.

This signal transmitter really was pretty mediocre.

After all, the pigeon-factory project didn’t have priority, so they couldn’t get support from any of the Immortal Committee’s internal institutes.

On top of that, they were spending someone else’s pharmaceutical budget, so they had to pinch every penny.

They also had to rush to show results, working overtime, cramming the schedule...

All those factors stacked together, and this signal transmitter really was pretty mediocre.

The dozen or so pigeons on the other side of the table couldn’t fully understand human speech, but they were quite spiritual.

At this moment they more or less realized that what the leaders were discussing was the signal transmitters on their chests—that they were saying the transmitters weren’t good enough?

"Coo?"

"Coo?"

A few pigeons instinctively lowered their heads and looked at the signal transmitters on their chests.

Why?

Why not give them better ones?

The two engineers, although they’d been grumbling behind the scenes just now, had a decent enough work attitude at the moment.

"How about we let this flock of pigeons do a test flight around West State first?

"While they fly, we’ll test how the signal reception is along the route.

"If it stays okay, we’ll just leave it as is for now.

"If the problems are serious, we’ll write up a report. You can take it to the signal transmitter manufacturer and have them make improvements based on it?"

Su Yaoyao hurriedly nodded.

"That’s great, thank you both!"

She stepped forward, opened the office window, waved toward the sky outside, and gave this squad of pigeons their orders.

"Mission start, city patrol!

"After the mission, return here!

"Mission begins..."

Before she could finish speaking.

The dozen pigeons turned around and were just about to jump.

When suddenly a fiery red figure outside the window leapt in with a "whoosh"—it was none other than Bai Mo’s fox disciple, White Tears.

It landed on the windowsill, then glanced at the squad of fully geared-up pigeons on the desk, and immediately broke into a grin.

"Awoo awoo awoo!"

It had heard from its senior brothers that these were all little underlings from Fox Mountain!

It hopped onto the desk, a big chunk of Sinking Cotton clutched in its fox claw. Now it looked at the pigeons, then at the Sinking Cotton in its paw, thought for a moment, gestured a bit, then waved its claw—rip rip rip... it tore the Sinking Cotton into a dozen strips. Under the stupefied gaze of Su Yaoyao, the engineers, and the pigeons, its fox claws swished and swished as it quickly tied Sinking Cotton scarves onto the pigeons one by one, using the Sinking Cotton to protect their chests.

The very last pigeon turned out to be Xiao Mayu.

White Tears stretched its head forward, peering left, then peeking again, recalling how its senior brothers had described it, and confirmed that this was indeed the most sensible, most eye-catching one that had stood on the conference table back then.

"Awoo awoo awoo!"

Just right—the last and biggest strip of Sinking Cotton in its fox claw was tied onto it!

Swish swish swish... the fox claws moved nimbly as it put a scarf on Xiao Mayu, shielding its chest, then patted its head and looked at its bright, spiritually fawning little eyes.

"Awoo awoo awoo!"

The gift from Fox Mountain was now complete.

They could take off!

...

The pigeons flew out the window one after another, disappearing into the sky.

In the office, a group of people crowded behind the engineers’ computer, watching as the flight trajectories of the pigeons appeared on the screen.

"As long as the signal can still be received, we can see the trajectories."

On the screen, the trajectories of thirteen pigeons turned into thirteen thin lines, staying parallel as they swept across the map of West State.

Fang Xiaoyu didn’t really understand the data like signal strength, latency, or packet loss rate; she only saw that the thirteen thin lines were all still there.

"Mm, looks pretty good, actually!"

Su Yaoyao had been camping out here this whole time. Looking at the atrocious data, she forced a crooked smile.

"Uh... sigh..."

The two engineers glanced at Fang Xiaoyu and gave her ingratiating smiles.

"It’s okay, it’s okay."

White Tears squatted on the desk, occupying the C-position in front of the computer, staring at the screen and the parameters with a grave expression, scaring the two engineers badly enough that they started to suspect this fox might actually understand the data?

...Of course it didn’t.

The reason it was staring at the parameters was because it noticed the two engineers’ eyes were on the parameters.

The reason its expression was so solemn was because it noticed that Su Yaoyao’s face didn’t look good.

Foxes are very crafty!

After observing those two details, it started acting out the role of "actually knows tech," firmly establishing this persona—this fox-sona!

When the trajectory map was over the main urban area, the thirteen lines were still very clear, and the data was barely acceptable.

Once the trajectories reached the outskirts, the signal towers thinned out, the signal weakened, and the thirteen trajectory lines turned choppy, with the data getting even more atrocious.

Su Yaoyao let out a bitter laugh and slumped into the chair beside her.

Fang Xiaoyu sat down, held her hand, and stopped talking, calculating in her heart whether she should go and talk to Expert Bai Mo about this later.

White Tears’ eyes secretly swept around, instantly figuring out the situation. She fixed her gaze on the screen, pretending she understood, clasped her fox claws behind her back, and let out a sigh.

The two engineers smiled awkwardly.

Su Yaoyao lowered her eyes. Thinking about how hard it had been all the way, working on the Pigeon Plant, she couldn’t help turning back to look at the office door, really hoping to see that door pushed open, really hoping to see that figure walk in.

"Sigh..."

She still liked Bai Mo a lot.

Just like she had back then.

But she knew very well that now Bai Mo’s status and level were far above hers.

This feeling in her heart was destined to fall through, destined to have no result.

If it weren’t for being able to keep the Pigeon Plant project going, she would even have wanted to stay farther away, wanted to avoid Bai Mo... After all, every time she saw that figure, there was always a strange taste in her heart, really not a pleasant feeling.

"What are you sighing for?"

All of a sudden, a smiling voice snapped her out of it. She looked up and saw that Bai Mo had somehow arrived, standing beside the desk, scooping up the Fox Immortal Beast and rubbing its head with a smile.

This Immortal Beast was really giving it its all!

It actually stretched out its fox claw and pointed at the engineers’ computer, at those lousy parameters!

"Awo awo awo!"

Bai Mo followed the direction of the fox claw and looked over.

"What’s wrong?

"Are the parameters off?"

He watched for a while, then picked up the sample signal transmitter lying to the side, squeezing it, inspecting it.

"Huh?

"This was made by a commercial company?

"If I remember right, the Communications Support Department has a model of micro signal transmitter, don’t they?"

...

Swoosh!

Swoosh!

On the outskirts of West State, the sky was clear.

Two drones sped over a village.

The high-frequency cameras they carried were firing continuously at a terrifying shutter speed, then uploading the images back to Immortal Committee headquarters, back to the server room, for the artificial intelligence to analyze.

"Coo coo coo!"

It was Xiao Mayu leading a flock of pigeons, flying over as well!

Seeing the two drones, they were all quite happy... they’d spotted their colleagues!

"Coo coo coo!"

They flew into the village, spread out, and started their patrol.

...

In the office.

The two engineers from the Communications Support Department were both frozen in embarrassment.

Their Communications Support Department really did have that micro signal transmitter, and its performance really was good!

But the stock on that thing was a bit tight, and if they were going to strap it on pigeons, they’d have to do a bit of minor refitting and adaptation.

So when Su Yaoyao had sent a letter asking for help back then, their director hadn’t wanted to bother with it and had brushed it off perfunctorily.

Now, facing Expert Bai Mo, the two engineers stammered, sweat beading on their foreheads, not knowing how to answer.

"Uh... uh... well..."

They didn’t dare say they didn’t have it!

"Our... our director..."

Bai Mo quickly said with a smile,

"It’s fine, it’s fine!

"Totally understandable!"

Maybe over at the Immortal Committee, they really didn’t think much of the Pigeon Plant.

But Bai Mo himself had a very good impression of that flock of pigeons.

He looked at Fang Xiaoyu.

"Help Sister Yaoyao and give Communications Support a heads-up.

"If... they can lend a hand, have them try to do us a favor.

"If they need funding, we can cover it on our end."

Fang Xiaoyu hurriedly nodded, pulled out her phone, found the secretary at the Communications Support Department, and sent a message.

Su Yaoyao felt quite embarrassed.

"Actually the Communications Support side is pretty busy... I know their Deputy Director Zhang, I tried to make appointments several times before, and he never had time..."

The reply came back almost instantly, which even surprised Fang Xiaoyu.

"Uh... Expert Bai Mo, they say their director just happens to be free and wants to come over in person to talk to you about this?"

In the office, the two engineers, Su Yaoyao, White Tears, and Bai Mo all had awkward expressions on their faces.

Bai Mo was embarrassed for a moment.

"Forget it, what’s their director coming over for?"

Bai Mo vaguely remembered that that old guy actually didn’t understand technology.

"Just have them find a few engineers to interface with the Pigeon Plant, that’ll be enough."