After saying that, the US military official left the video conference.
The two Japanese men were deeply embarrassed. In this situation, they naturally didn’t dare make any rash decisions. Therefore, after discussing the matter, they decided to immediately report the matter to the cabinet and let the cabinet make its decision.
Some things can be passed on not only to your subordinates, but also to your superiors. As long as you have the courage to avoid responsibility, you can tell your superiors, “I’ve already done this, you figure it out.” Your superiors can’t do anything about it; at best, they’ll just fire you.
Looking back now, getting fired wouldn’t have mattered, as long as they didn’t have to shoulder any responsibility for the country. What if they hadn’t served America well, and America retaliated against Japan later? Wouldn’t they have become traitors to Japan? At the time, it wasn’t just about losing their jobs; who knows, one day someone with a gun might show up and kill them.
After receiving the report, the cabinet did not dare to delay even a second and immediately held a meeting with all its members to discuss the matter.
While the cabinet was still discussing the next steps, Victoria, far away in Antarctica, also received the news.
He never imagined that Antarctica, where he had spent so many years, would become the center of global attention.
He immediately realized that this must be related to Wu Bolin!
After Wu Bolin left, he headed for Ushuaia and, with the help of Wu Siyuan, governor of the Left Army Command, went to Antarctica.
Victoria wasn’t too surprised to receive the message, as the original plan was for the three of them to go searching for opportunities. No one knew if there were any opportunities in Antarctica. Victoria also felt that this kind of unexpected effect was precisely what she wanted. Otherwise, if everyone followed her own preconceptions, some aspects might never be noticed.
However, he never expected that Wu Bolin’s trip to Antarctica would result in such a big incident!
He didn’t know the specific situation in Antarctica yet, only knowing that the US military landed there overnight with weapons and equipment and attacked the Japanese research team, but he didn’t know if it was related to Wu Bolin, and he couldn’t contact Wu Bolin at the moment.
However, regardless of whether this matter had anything to do with Wu Bolin or not, he was now in a very tense mood.
Although the Qing-Breaking Society’s headquarters was extremely well-hidden and almost entirely underground on an unnamed island, this concealment method could only detect ordinary satellites and aircraft. If any country’s military accidentally swept the island with professional detection equipment, they would find that the island, which only had a small portion of its top exposed, had been hollowed out.
Previously, Victoria had never worried about being discovered because the island is hundreds of kilometers from Antarctica and South America. South America itself attracts little attention, and Antarctica even less. There are no tourist attractions near the island, and there are no commercial flights. Civilian passenger planes, ships, and even research vessels would never pass over or pass near the island.
Furthermore, he had commissioned a special survey of the surrounding area two or three decades ago. There were no oil or mineral resources, and the fisheries were not abundant. Furthermore, the island had been acquired by a South American government, and no one was allowed to enter the area. Therefore, he had never worried about any security risks.
However, the situation is different now.
The US military deployed hundreds of troops, several armored vehicles, and even self-propelled rocket launchers to the Antarctic continent overnight. This military intimidation with modern weaponry made Victoria uneasy.
Because he knew very well that once everything here was revealed to a military power like the US military, there would only be one outcome: conquest.
To destroy this place, the US military wouldn’t even need to send troops; they would simply deploy more bombers to level the island.
As for the underground fortress here, even if it could withstand the first wave of bombing, the people and facilities inside would not survive.
Since all the air in the underground facility was supplied from the island’s surface using massive ventilation equipment, if the surface were bombed, those inside who were not sufficiently skilled would face certain death.
Furthermore, although this place was only a few hundred kilometers from the Antarctic continent, a few hundred kilometers was nothing to the US military. If the situation in Antarctica continued to develop, and if a US military aircraft happened to fly over and discovered something unusual, it would all be over. Antarctica was bound by the Antarctic Treaty, and they could go there without hesitation, let alone here.
Victoria was gripped by panic, feeling a life-and-death crisis. So she immediately called Wu Tianlin and anxiously instructed him: “Tianlin, inform all the scholars in America and Japan and their families, and have them investigate why the United States is sending troops to Antarctica. I’ve always felt that this matter is very strange.”
Wu Tianlin knew that this matter was of great importance and could potentially affect the survival of the Anti-Qing Society, so he immediately said solemnly, “Your Majesty, rest assured, I will immediately go and inform them!”
After saying that, he suddenly remembered a detail and said, “By the way, Your Majesty, according to a routine report submitted by the Office of the Supreme Commander of the Left Army some time ago, it was mentioned that when Grand Elder Wu Bolin went to Antarctica, he boarded a Japanese research vessel at sea. Could the US military’s attack on the Japanese research team this time be related to Grand Elder?!”
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PS: Chinese New Year is almost here! I’ve been pretty busy lately, so I’d like to wish everyone a Happy New Year in advance. I’ll try to update once a day for the next few days.