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(Title: Pentagon Steps In and Surprising Facts from Surveillance Planes)
“Good grief!”
The person in charge immediately started cursing in frustration.
If a horrific murder really happened in Antarctica, even if he didn’t commit seppuku (ritual suicide), he would still have to kneel and beg for forgiveness before the entire nation.
He immediately issued an emergency instruction: “The meeting is adjourned. You must immediately contact the families of all expedition members and gently ask them when they last contacted them.”
“Make sure of one thing,” he added firmly, “Can you be 100% sure that the person they’re contacting is the person they’re actually talking to? If so, record it as ‘alive’; if not, record it as ‘doubtful’. Let’s look at the general situation first.”
Everyone immediately moved quickly, getting to work contacting the family.
Half an hour later.
Watanabe, the reporter, began his report: “Sir, we just did a head count, and the families have basically been video chatting with them. They have internet access there, so it doesn’t look like there was any terrible bloodshed.”
The person in charge let out a long sigh of relief: “Very good, very good…”
The fact that no one died made his initial worries disappear instantly, replaced by a deep sense of relief.
He then said, “Since they are still alive, let’s try to investigate their current situation and see if we can ask for US military assistance.”
The idea evolved, “Ideally, they could send a reconnaissance plane to check out the situation there.”
Some meeting participants agreed: “Yes! Asking for American help is the best thing to do! Make this situation sound serious. The United States has hundreds of research teams in Antarctica. They will definitely take this situation very seriously and help us find the truth!”
The person in charge nodded firmly: “Then, let’s report this situation to the Ministry of Defense and ask them to contact the United States for help!”
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When the US Department of Defense received the official notification from the Japanese Ministry of Defense, the person in charge showed a stiff and confused expression.
He found the information provided by the Japanese absurd and ridiculous—had the entire research team betrayed their country? What kind of logic led them to such an assumption?
However, based on their military alliance, they decided to still help Japan ascertain the situation first.
Therefore, an order was immediately given to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, requiring them to immediately develop a feasible plan for monitoring the Japanese Antarctic expedition team.
The US military has extensive experience in warfare and intelligence, and they quickly found the most efficient way to address the problem.
There is no need to send commandos or ground reconnaissance troops for high-risk infiltration.
To determine whether these Japanese had betrayed their country, the US military concluded it only needed to determine one simple thing: whether the Japanese research team’s machines were resting at home or working outside.
The Japanese must be wondering where all that fuel goes, right? It can’t be eaten or drunk; its only use is to fuel the engines of these heavy vehicles.
If all these vehicles were detected inside the base, the US military wouldn’t have to waste time arguing with Japan; there’s a good chance the fuel signal was simply a technical malfunction.
However, if there is not a single car at home, then this becomes a big problem.
The problem is, in the Japanese monitored GPS system, these cars appear to be at home and have not moved at all!
So, a military high-altitude reconnaissance plane immediately took off from a base in South America and glided towards the skies of Antarctica.
At that time, down there, the Japanese scientific expedition team was still busy carrying out Wu Bolin’s exploration requirements.
Almost all the cars that could still move had been taken out of the garage, leaving only a few open snowmobiles, as these types of open vehicles could not be driven in very cold weather.
The research team members didn’t even notice when the reconnaissance aircraft arrived above them.
The high-flying aircraft’s engines are almost completely drowned out by the noise of their own mechanical equipment. Furthermore, their radars operate at high power, and their diesel engines operate at full revs to provide sufficient power and electricity.
No one realized that a sophisticated reconnaissance aircraft was flying at high speed over Antarctica in the freezing winter, a time when normally almost no aircraft would dare to fly over.
However, technology can’t be fooled. The aircraft’s thermal imaging system clearly detected numerous unusual heat sources across the frigid Antarctic continent.
All of those hotspots were mechanical devices operated by the Japanese team at incredible speed.
Shortly afterward, when the images taken by the aircraft were synchronized in real-time with the United States Joint Chiefs of Staff, the commander in charge of the operation experienced a moment of utter shock.
Pointing to various evidence photos on a large screen, he asked in a high-pitched voice, “What exactly did these Japanese research team members do?! They deployed almost every vehicle they had!”
One of his men suddenly exclaimed, summarizing the facts on the screen, “This is very serious, sir. They’ve split into several groups; they’re clearly on a military reconnaissance mission!”
The commander did not hesitate any longer, he immediately gave the order: “Report to the Pentagon immediately!”