Chapter 39: Ninja UAV

Over lunch the very same day when he met Ananya, Alex made an order for the drone casually online. It wasn’t any normal drone, it was a customised type of the Ninja UAV drone.

This monster could remain airborne for eight solid hours on one charge, it also came with a spare battery packaged in for long-range missions.

In the center of it was the industry-standard Zenmuse H30T camera, which featured five modules wide-angle, zoom, laser range finder, thermal, and near-infrared.

The zoom lens alone was astounding forty million pixels, with 34x optical zoom and 400x digital zoom.

The thermal module? A sharp 1280×1024 resolution, sufficient to detect the thermal signature of a mouse in the dark.

And the drone itself? It could be said a living sky monster. It could fly over 7,000 meters, find things with its six binocular vision and infrared detectors, and can even steer away from incoming shots with its millimeter-wave radar.

Eighty-five percent of its chassis body was constructed of carbon fiber—the very same material used in high-end sports cars.

The only exceptions were its delicate parts and its cutting-edge optical systems.

Of course, such a masterpiece was not cheap at all $350,000 altogether! But Alex did not bat an eyelid.

He simply clicked "Buy" with a flick.

By 2 p.m, the package was delivered to Emerald Villa. The shiny black drone rested inside like a masterpiece. Alex’s fingers began aching with anticipation.

He opened it up right away and set to work. In college, he had experimented with drones a little bit, so the controls were familiar. Wearing the Ninja UAV’s exclusiveVR glasses, he got a jolt of adrenaline.

The instant the rotors began to spin and the drone took flight, Alex’s heart rate accelerated. In the VR perspective, the experience was oddly exciting.

The Ninja UAV drone flew straight up in the air like a black hawk, its rotors quietly whirring as Alex stirred it forward.

It had glided outside the glass windows of Ananya’s office within seconds.

With the immersive VR goggles, Alex saw a whole other side of the girl who had been so helplessly direction blind this morning.

Standing behind the desk, Ananya tapped at the keyboard with trained rhythm, her brows creased just a little as she shifted through piles of papers. There was a unusual attraction in the serious look in her eyes that her careless side could never possess.

"Huh?"

As if feeling the force of his stare, Ananya jerkily raised her head and looked towards the window. But there was just a speck on the horizon—a tiny black dot in the sky. With her more than one-hundred-degree myopia, there was no way of making out what it was.

She just blinked in confusion before going back to work.

Alex smiled softly. "It’s fun."

Once he had enjoyed that peek, he veered the drone off course from the office and into the center of Mumbai’s skyscraper belt.

His actual entertainment started as he experimented with the features of the UAV.

The initial discovery was quite fun while navigating it functions he found self-tracking mode in it.

A tap, and the drone locked in on a target and pursued it relentlessly.

His unfortunate victim at the time just happened to be a German shepherd named Tyson, running on the Tech Park grounds.

The altitude was set to ten meters, yet the drone dived down with the accuracy of a predator.

Witnessing the whirring machine tailing his every step, Tyson came close to peeing himself with fear, running through the park as if pursued by demons.

Alex laughed until his belly ached. "Poor Tyson."

As soon as the prank was finished, he moved on to serious testing. Thermal imaging, infrared scanning, zoom stabilization—everything performed perfectly. The clear resolution of the sensors left no hideout, cave, or shadow hidden from him.

"Every function is functional," Alex murmured, "Assisting Miss Evelyn in finding those bandits should prove no trouble at all."

In the coming days, he need to continuously accumulate the time from doing his duties as he was well aware that he would have to return to the Ancient Times.

A promise is a promise—he could not leave Miss Evelyn to endure that peril without him.

On the other hand, he must make strategic arrangements. Cannons and guns were still out of his reach in this modern era, and in the absence of proper connections at that, they were mere concepts within his head.

Fortunately, two days before, he had talked to Vikram, who said he had someone in his contacts who might be able to source him with firearms.

Naturally, as owning guns was against the law, Alex couldn’t expect much... but simply getting his hands on two pistols would be a turning point in Ancient Times.

"Vikram hasn’t responded yet... as soon as the security uniform is recharged, I have to hurry back. Nathan told me that Charles is a very vengeful bastard, so he’ll surely retaliate. I can’t be slack."

As the Guns are still out of reach from him temporarily, Alex opted for something simpler to obtain—a stun baton.

He ordered a high-voltage one through the web, then messaged the shop owner privately with his true request: he wanted the baton customised for better battery life, and preferably enough force to knock a person out with a single blow.

The response was quick: an instant refusal!

The salesman swore on and on that he was a straight-forward businessman who never laid a hand on any illegal workings. His voice was so self-righteous that Alex nearly believed it.

But the second Alex carelessly tossed in an additional $3,000 for the work... the "upright" shop owner’s ethics broke like glass.

Within less than ten seconds, the guy was smiling from ear to ear:

"Hey hey, you’ve found the right guy! Add me on What’s App for a chat—anything can be done!"

What a turnaround!

With $ 3,000 transferred, the shop owner instantly promised to finish the modification by tonight and have the custom stun baton shipped out by tomorrow. His enthusiasm was enough to make Alex wonder if the man had been waiting his whole life for a client like him.

Having ordered that upgrade, Alex flew his Ninja UAV drone until 5:30 pm in the afternoon, then stored it with great care.