Hero of heart The amazing son in law complete
Chapter 7447
In Charlie’s understanding, the Antarctic continent offered little other benefit to cultivators than allowing them to escape from modern society.
First, there are no traces of human settlement here, and second, there are no rare plants or animals. Farming here means finding no treasure or magical materials.
If I hadn’t been chasing the aurora borealis, I wouldn’t have come all this way to a place like this.
However, since the elder of the Corrupt Qing Society has come in person and brought the entire Japanese scientific expedition team as his servants, he must be looking for something valuable that I don’t know about.
For a moment, Charlie instinctively felt a little tempted. If there really were good things in Antarctica, and he could find them before that troublesome Qing Society elder, wouldn’t he be getting a huge benefit for nothing?
However, Charlie also realized his own limitations. Even with Jeremiah Yun and Song Ruyu, the three of them were no match for the elders of the Warriors’ Den. Even if they knew what he was looking for, it would be difficult for them to outmaneuver him.
Moreover, because Antarctica is currently frozen, ships can no longer enter, meaning both parties will be stuck on the continent for at least four or five months.
If he continues to search for Antarctica for the next four or five months, then Maria Lin and the others will face unknown risks at every moment in the coming months.
I’m afraid we’ll have to play hide and seek with him again.
However, Charlie didn’t want to just sit and wait for his fate, so he gave his satellite phone number to Matsushita Heikichi and reminded him: “If that Guanghan Zhenren contacts you, call me immediately and tell me the details.”
The satellite phone he used was from an overseas service provider, and it was prepaid and didn’t require real-name registration. Even if the elders of the Corrupt Qing Society found out, they wouldn’t be able to find out his identity.
However, as long as the elder didn’t come directly to the research vessel, he wouldn’t know that Matsushita Heikichi had been controlled by another cultivator. In that case, Matsushita Heikichi could continue to act as his secret agent.
Additionally, Charlie asked Matsushita Heikichi, “What is the current status of the ship’s surveillance cameras?”
Initially unsure of the ship’s surveillance system, Charlie tried to avoid the cameras, ensuring his face and profile were out of their range. He also had to cover his face first.
Matsushita Heikichi replied, “Currently, all of the ship’s surveillance cameras are active, but they haven’t been synced to the cloud. No one else has access to this data except the ship’s data center, which stores these surveillance images.”
Charlie asked him, “Can you send these images to the server I specified?”
Charlie’s ground network system utilizes the built-in cameras of countless vending machines in the field. These cameras capture each person’s face and transmit it to a server. Its AI model also captures faces in real time on the server and then performs facial recognition.
Therefore, as long as the ship’s surveillance footage can be uploaded to the designated server, the entire ship will become part of the onshore network system.
Matsushita Heikichi told Charlie, “There’s no problem uploading data. Our ship is equipped with multiple satellite networks, including eight public and private Starlink devices, which can be used to upload surveillance video.”
“That’s good.”
Charlie felt relieved and instructed, “I’ll give you the server address later. You need to set it up right away.”
“No problem!” Matsushita Heikichi said respectfully, “I will do my best to resolve this as soon as possible.”
Charlie nodded and said, “Do it now. I’ll wait in your room. Tell your crew that no one is allowed near your room.”
“Okay!” said Matsushita Heikichi sincerely, “Please wait here for a moment, I will arrange everything.”
Remembering something, Charlie reminded him, “By the way, when will the people from the research station come again?”
Matsushita Heikichi thought for a moment and said, “They’ve arranged for an oil tanker team to come deliver fuel once or twice a day. The team should arrive in two or three hours.”
The research station is consuming enormous amounts of fuel, more than ever before, not even during the Antarctic summer, let alone the Antarctic winter. With so many people and research teams on board, they’ve never been busier.
Almost all vehicles and helicopters now operate outdoors continuously, and radar scanning requires a lot of electricity, so the internal combustion engines in these vehicles and aircraft also consume a lot of fuel to generate power.
In winter, Japanese research helicopters, when equipped with ice radar, consume about two tons of fuel per hour, making them very fuel-hungry vehicles.
To ensure the operation of these facilities, the Japanese research team formed a dedicated fuel transport team, using snow tractors coupled with heavy-duty fuel tank trailers to transport full fuel loads daily. The 20-ton capacity of these fuel tanks is only enough for a single helicopter trip.
After hearing that the transport team was coming, Charlie asked Matsushita Heikichi, “Does the transport vehicle have GPS tracking and video recording capabilities?”
“Yes,” Matsushita Heikichi explained. “In fact, every vehicle used at the Antarctic research station is equipped with a GPS positioning system and an Internet of Things system. Furthermore, this data is available to relevant domestic authorities. They can monitor the vehicle’s location in real time, and even record real-time video footage of the vehicle’s surroundings. However, we have been instructed to remove the network modules from all vehicles. Without the network, video and GPS coordinates cannot be uploaded, and relevant domestic authorities cannot track them.”
Charlie asked him, “Are you sure you only removed the network communication module?”
“Confirmed,” Matsushita Heikichi said, “The order given by Guanghan Zhenren was that domestic authorities must not know the real-time status of all vehicles and equipment. Therefore, we immediately arranged to remove the IoT modules from all equipment, including our research vessel. In theory, as long as the network module is restored, the coordinate information will be immediately uploaded to the server via satellite, and local staff will be able to view it.”
Charlie asked him, “Is there a way to secretly restore these cars’ network communication functions? But there’s one thing: we can’t let them transmit any data to your local area. Instead, we have to send all the data to my server according to my requirements.”
Matsushita Heikichi nodded and said, “That’s not difficult either. We just need to replace the network communication module. We happen to have several Starlink systems on board, so we just need to install one of the Starlink systems on the vehicle and configure its data transmission address.”
Matsushita Heikichi then explained, “The vehicle’s GPS and camera aren’t intelligent hardware; they simply provide data, just like a cell phone’s GPS and camera. The communication module we removed was used to send data to the relevant domestic authorities. This module also uses a dedicated network for transmission. We simply need to replace it.”
Charlie immediately felt very happy.
If I could track the location of one of the oil tankers in real-time and access the camera footage on board, I could see the specific situation at the research station every day, and perhaps even see the elders of the Corrupt Qing Society in the footage.
This will definitely give me more control.
So he asked Matsushita Heikichi, “If I let you do this, won’t Guanghan Zhenren or the transport team find out?”
Matsushita Heikichi said, “That shouldn’t be the case. All the equipment is integrated into the roof of the vehicle. It’s highly unlikely they could hide a Starlink terminal inside, unless they need to restore their original private network someday.”
Charlie smiled faintly and began to deduce the logic behind it.
First of all, the elder had been in the business for many years and likely didn’t understand such professional matters. Therefore, he wouldn’t have given such a professional order, such as directly asking them to disassemble a specific network module.
He must have given verbal orders, instructing the research team to use their own methods to ensure they wouldn’t be exposed. This was the solution the research team found themselves.
Second, since these professionals chose to remove the dedicated communication module, logically, it’s the same as removing the SIM card from a cell phone and disconnecting its internet connection. These professionals solved the problem using their professional knowledge, which means they’ve completed their task.
They should not have to periodically go back to check whether a different SIM card has been inserted into the SIM card slot, as this makes no sense in their job.
Second, spiritual energy cannot sense the signal, which means that even if the mobile network is working again, the invisible and intangible signal frequency is impossible for others to detect.
The professionals wouldn’t investigate, and the elders of the Warriors’ Den Association wouldn’t be aware of this matter. Wouldn’t this give me a good opportunity to observe secretly?