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Chapter 145: The Repair Robot Returns With a Box

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

In less than five minutes, Tang Rui saw the aircraft carrier on the sea surface.

Frankly, from above, the aircraft carrier really didn’t seem that big. In fact, it even looked rather small.

“Fish Pond to Fisherman, requesting a landing.”

“Fisherman to Fish Pond. The deck is clear, you are clear to land.”

“Roger.”

Under Tang Rui’s control, the fighter jet slowly landed on the aircraft carrier’s deck.

Ground crew personnel standing below the island looked at the fighter jet in astonishment, not sure how to direct.

But after the fighter jet landed, the ground crew personnel reacted, directly directing the nearby tug to move the fighter jet to the side.

The aircraft carrier deck was not a runway. After the aircraft landed, it had to be moved away as soon as possible to avoid obstructing the takeoff and landing of other jets.

After the fighter jet was towed to the side.

The ground crew personnel brought a ladder and set it up.

Tang Rui opened the cockpit, helped Li Shuyao up, let her get off, and then got off himself.

“Please go inside and rest, we will stow the jet in the hangar,” the ground crew personnel said to Tang Rui.

“Alright, thank you, but 1 need to get something first.”

Tang Rui said and went to the belly of the aircraft, and opened the internal weapons bay.

He placed the luggage and the remaining four robotic drones on the ground.

After the drones landed, Honglian controlled them to pick up the luggage and followed Tang Rui.

Beep beep!

Tang Rui locked the aircraft.

He hadn’t set this feature before, mainly because it wasn’t necessary; his fighter jet wasn’t about to be stolen by anyone.

But later, he thought about it, and it was similar to locking a car.

Not hearing the sound of locking the car always felt like something was missing, and it bothered him.

Every now and then, he’d wonder whether the car was locked.

It was becoming a compulsion.

So, he deliberately added a locking mechanism to the fighter jet…with a locking sound effect.

Arriving on the deck, Tang Rui looked at the electromagnetic catapult system on the deck and thought of a joke.

A decade of hard work, destroyed in an instant.

“Is this the electromagnetic catapult?” Li Shuyao looked in the direction Tang Rui was gazing.

“Yes, the medium-voltage direct current integrated power system, at least ten years ahead of the Ford-class carriers.”

Tang Rui nodded; the system developed by Professor Ma was truly impressive.

Ding ding ding…

The ground crew personnel’s whistle sounded.

Tang Rui turned to see a ground crew member running towards them.

“Sorry, there’s a fighter jet about to land; you two can wait for a moment.”

“No problem.”

Tang Rui quickly brought Li Shuyao to the side of the island.

Tang Rui had watched videos and played games of fighter jets taking off and landing on carriers, but seeing it in person was an entirely different experience.

So, he brought Li Shuyao over to witness the fighter jet landing.

The fighter jet about to land from the sky was the Osprey team they had just encountered.

The arresting cables were ready.

After confirming there were no issues, the ground crew personnel reported to the island.

The tower relayed the message to the pilot.

The pilot controlled the fighter jet and started the landing.

Buzz…

Screech…

The J-15 landed, and the arresting cables immediately caught the aircraft.

The fighter jet stopped after rolling about 20 meters.

It was all rather impressive.

“Let’s go; they’ve been waiting for a while. Let’s go inside.”

After watching the fighter jet land, Tang Rui brought Li Shuyao to the ship’s cabin, where someone had been waiting for them.

However, they had seen Tang Rui and Li Shuyao go to the deck earlier, so they didn’t want to disturb them.

Now that the two had arrived, the crew approached them.

“Welcome, Mr. Tang, onboard the Hu Jian 1.”

“Thank you for your hospitality.”

After exchanging some pleasantries, Tang Rui inquired about how to get to the yacht.

The yacht was anchored not far from the aircraft carrier.

He had spotted it when he landed.

“The speedboat is ready; you can leave at any time.”

“In that case, we won’t disturb you. We’ll go directly to the yacht.”

Tang Rui wasn’t particularly curious about the aircraft carrier, so he didn’t request a tour.

He knew that if he asked, they wouldn’t refuse, but it wasn’t necessary.

He had no intention of exploring the aircraft carrier; there was nothing for him to do there.

They arrived on the deck next to the carrier, where a speedboat was parked right below an elevator.

Tang Rui and Li Shuyao used the elevator to descend to the speedboat, and they set off for the yacht.

Soon, Tang Rui arrived at the side of the yacht, and there was a spot designated for speedboats behind the yacht.

“President Tang, be careful; it’s a bit slippery here.”

“Thank you… Brother Yang, why are you here?”

When Tang Rui looked up, he saw Gao Yang’s face and was momentarily stunned.

“President Tang, I’m here to pilot the boat,” Gao Yang replied seriously.

“You know how to operate a boat?” Tang Rui asked in surprise.

“I learned for a while when I was driving amphibious landing vehicles.”

Impressive.

He could operate a boat too.

This arrangement was actually good for Tang Rui; at least they were all familiar with each other.

Once on the yacht, the two men went back to their rooms to change clothes.

Tang Rui took off his powered exoskeleton suit and changed into swim trunks and a tank top, leaving his feet bare as he came out.

He walked to the side of the yacht’s rooftop swimming pool, and started enjoying the sea breeze.

It felt very refreshing, to say the least.

Shortly after, Li Shuyao also finished changing and came to the poolside in a chiffon skirt, handing Tang Rui a bottle of sunscreen.

“Help me apply sunscreen.”

“Of course.”

Tang Rui took the sunscreen and started applying it.

Apart from the two of them, there was only Gao Yang on the entire yacht.

Even cleaning and maintenance were done by robots.

Gao Yang was also in the control room, not coming out.

For Tang Rui, this place was no different from his private space.

Knock!

At this moment, there was a bump from below the ship.

Tang Rui got up to look and saw that the repair robot from earlier had returned with a box on its mechanical arm.

“Red Lotus, what’s in the box the robot is holding?”

Tang Rui asked with suspicion when he saw the box, so he quickly asked Red Lotus.

“Master, please praise Red Lotus.”

“Why should I praise you?” Tang Rui was puzzled.

“Master, this box contains what Red Lotus salvaged from a sunken ship at the bottom of the sea.”

A sunken ship?

Could it be that Red Lotus found some treasure?

In this region of the South China Sea, back then, it was a major route of the Maritime Silk Road.

At that time, nobody knew what a typhoon was.

So, every year, there were a lot of shipwrecks.

The porcelain on these sunken ships, if put up for auction today, would be considered as precious antiques.

Furthermore, the porcelain preserved on the seabed was usually quite intact.

Tang Rui was excited at the thought of treasure.

Not because of the money, as he had enough of that now.

The main thing was the excitement of treasure hunting.

“Let’s go, I’ll show you something good.”

Tang Rui pulled Li Shuyao and rushed to the lower deck, where he took the box from the robot.

Darn!

Bad luck.

It turned out to be Japanese.

Tang Rui frowned when he saw the ointment box and read the label.

“Red Lotus, what was the sunken ship like?”

Tang Rui looked at the box, feeling that something was off, so he quickly asked Red Lotus.

“Master, the sunken ship looked like this.”

Red Lotus showed the images captured by the maintenance robot on Tang Rui’s smart glasses.

It was a Japanese warship from World War II.

“You call this treasure?”