With Luo Shu's full assistance, Anomalous Item-100 completed the underground facility's infrastructure in just one week. A hemispherical underground space with a 100-meter radius had been excavated.
Within this range, all mechanical and electronic objects would gain sentience under the influence of Anomalous Item-100.
This would become the most automated, most intelligent underground facility on Earth—perhaps even surpassing the Foundation's Site-01.
Now came the tedious part: interior work.
Luo Shu couldn't help much with that, so he decided to leave temporarily for another plan—visiting Anomalous Item-196, the Time Paradox.
Last time, when he went to Site-17 for support, "Him" had interfered, causing Luo Shu to miss several anomalies—including Anomalous Item-196.
The key point was that this anomaly was the very reason "Him" was stationed at Site-17 in the first place. That made it even more necessary for Luo Shu to meet it.
But getting to Site-17 posed a major problem.
Driving from Anomalous Item-100 to Site-17 would take at least two hours one way.
Factoring in round-trip time and the conversation with Anomalous Item-196, the whole trip would require at least five hours.
Even if he left at 11 PM and reactivated his abilities at midnight, Luo Shu could only maintain anti-distortion for two hours.
That meant he'd be exposed to the Foundation's satellites for most of the trip.
This would either reveal his intention to go to Site-17 or expose his hideout at Anomalous Item-100—both unacceptable outcomes.
Did he really have to haul the Scranton Reality Anchor—already installed in the underground facility—with him?
But that would mean bringing Jianjia and Aeolus too, or else Anomalous Item-100 would still be exposed.
Not to mention, the device was too bulky—without size manipulation, it couldn't even be transported in a small vehicle.
"If only there was a portable Scranton Reality Anchor I could carry around!" Luo Shu sighed.
Hearing this, Jianjia and Aeolus exchanged glances before speaking up:
"That actually exists! It's on Achilles' Heel's field team's jet."
Aeolus added: "There's one installed under the floor of the main cabin in their Gulfstream G700. The effective radius is 10 meters, and it's only the size of a suitcase."
Without hesitation, Luo Shu immediately set off.
As luck would have it, Achilles' Heel's Gulfstream G700 was currently parked at Columbia Metropolitan Airport in South Carolina—just over an hour's drive from Anomalous Item-100.
If he only needed one-way anti-distortion, that was more than enough time.
The reason Achilles' Heel's field team was in Columbia?
They were here for Luo Shu.
They'd chased him here last week and still hadn't left.
Right now, Barbie was playing cat-and-mouse with the Chaos Insurgency.
Here's what happened:
After parting ways with Luo Shu, IR1705 and the logistics captain—both reality benders—were no longer suppressed by the Scranton Reality Anchor, making them detectable again by the Foundation's satellites.
But the Chaos Insurgency, having fought the Foundation for so long, obviously had countermeasures.
Though they didn't possess Scranton Reality Anchor technology, they had a simpler solution—satellite jamming.
The Scranton Reality Anchor worked by suppressing Hume levels, balancing a reality bender's personal Hume with the environmental Hume.
Its primary purpose wasn't concealment but stabilizing Earth's reality.
Satellite jamming, on the other hand, simply flooded the satellite's sensors with electromagnetic noise.
From the Foundation's perspective, the two were completely different.
When scanning a Scranton Reality Anchor zone, satellite radar showed everything normal.
But when scanning a jammed zone, it showed massive signal noise.
While both methods could prevent the Foundation from accurately detecting reality benders, the Foundation wasn't stupid—they knew the Chaos Insurgency was hiding something.
In fact, the Foundation's recent large-scale operations against the Chaos Insurgency weren't just based on undercover agents—they'd also used this very method to locate Chaos sites.
Having learned their lesson, the Chaos Insurgency knew satellite jamming wasn't reliable.
But they were still using it to hide IR1705 and the logistics captain's movements, mainly to divert attention from Luo Shu and Anomalous Item-100.
For the past week, IR1705 and the logistics captain had been running all over the continent, using satellite jamming to confuse the Foundation's tracking.
Barbie had been chasing them nonstop, always one step behind.
As a result, the Gulfstream G700 had been parked in a hangar at Columbia Airport for a long time.
After driving the soil-hauling pickup truck to the airport, Luo Shu quickly located his target.
It was late at night, and the hangar was completely empty.
Then, the pickup truck emitted a loud "DUANG-DUANG!" and began transforming on the spot.
This was a real Transformer!
When Luo Shu had previously called Anomalous Item-100's car-shaped robots "Transformers," he was just flattering them.
In reality, they were crudely made machines given life by Anomalous Item-100's mechanical animation.
Those robots lacked advanced intelligence or computing power—they were basically mindless drones.
But this pickup truck was different.
It was a true Transformer, empowered by Luo Shu's Silicon-Based Intelligence.
Originally, Luo Shu had given the truck Silicon-Based Intelligence mainly to enhance its loading capacity and self-loading/unloading functions for soil transportation.
But unlike mechanical animation, Silicon-Based Intelligence granted machines a silicon-based neural core—akin to a human brain—with considerable computational power.
Once it gained independent intelligence, the truck began evolving on its own.
Every day, it absorbed silicon-based materials from its surroundings to upgrade itself.
Starting with just mechanical arms for loading soil, after a week of evolution, it had now gained full transformation capabilities.
After completing its transformation, it strode over to the Gulfstream G700 and began dismantling it like an Autobot fighting a Decepticon.
It ripped open the fuselage, tearing the business jet to pieces, until it finally found the "suitcase" Aeolus had mentioned.
Portable Scranton Reality Anchor—acquired!