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Lightning can be categorized by its occurrence location into cloud lightning and ground lightning. The former is the discharge process between a charged center within the cloud and a differently charged center outside the cloud, which during thunderstorms results in multiple lightning bolts crisscrossing the cloud layers. This type is frequent, of lower intensity, and often obscured by cloud layers, causing the sound of thunder to quickly attenuate or even become entirely inaudible.

On the other hand, ground lightning is the discharge process between the cloud layer and the ground, i.e., the lightning that strikes the earth. In this process, the narrow channel of lightning releases a huge amount of electrical energy, creating powerful shockwaves and producing a dull thunderclap.

With the help of the 3D lightning tracking system, it is possible not only to determine the geographical coordinates of where the ground lightning occurs but also to accurately track its trajectory in three-dimensional space and thereby plot the propagation pattern of sound waves in the 3D space.

Thanks to the geographical advantage of Wudun Town, Li Cheng just took out two mobile phones, making one call to Cervantes and another to contact Yuan Zhixia.

The Special Affairs Bureau monitored the phone call in real-time, using local meteorological monitoring and supercomputing systems to calculate Cervantes’ approximate location based on the intensity, delay, and echo frequency of several ground lightning sounds. The precision was less than a thousand meters in radius.

To be cautious, Li Cheng also fired shots in that direction, and activated the "Life-Sacrificing Gambler" skill title obtained from the last regular task, consuming more than 200 points of his Sanity Value down to just 30 points, to increase the probability of "Shooting And Hitting Cervantes."

Given the villa in the mountains was too far from Wudun Town for bullets to reach, but under the mystical effect of the skill title, a slight deviation in the bullet trajectory was sufficient to make it veer towards Cervantes’ position.

Combined with the Special Affairs Bureau’s positioning, it was enough to narrow down the range once again, achieving a radius of one hundred fifty meters.

This distance was enough for the Special Affairs Bureau to decisively deploy a barrier, to locate Cervantes.

Li Cheng put away the two mobile phones, hands in his pockets, and turned back to walk into the bamboo forest.

In a guesthouse in Wudun Town, a group of burly men in black suits violently kicked open the suite’s security door, aiming their guns at Cervantes, who was sitting in front of a computer desk.