Chapter 3625

Ye Chen also considered whether to have Ito Nanako help, directly feeding back the problem to Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.

But after thinking carefully, if this matter is to be done, it must be done without leaving a trace; otherwise, once there is an information chain, there is a possibility of being traced.

He also did not want to leave Ito Nanako with any risk.

Thus, after long consideration, he said to Lin Waner and the other two: "I have decided to still start from those Japanese scientific expedition team members, making them expose their flaws to Japan domestically."

Lin Waner asked: "Young Master, do you have any specific ideas?"

Ye Chen said: "These Japanese scientific expedition team members have all been subjected to psychological suggestions that they must not reveal the actual situation to domestic superiors and family members; if they are made to directly leak the information, no matter what method, in that elder's eyes it will appear very deliberate, so... I want to use their equipment to help us convey these messages."

"Equipment?"

Lin Waner asked: "You mean vehicles or helicopters?"

Ye Chen said: "The icebreaker."

Ye Chen continued to explain: "The icebreaker is their only equipment that has not been tampered with in the information upload system; other vehicles and helicopters' information upload equipment have all been removed from the original machines and left in fixed positions, to give Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology the illusion that nothing has been moved."

"But, because the icebreaker was originally not prepared to move, and moreover the target is really too large, they had no choice but to let the ship be ice-locked in place, and Japan can always see its position information."

Speaking of this, Ye Chen analyzed: "I am thinking, these days they have been searching intensively, consuming so much diesel, the icebreaker's fuel amount will surely decrease rapidly; if the fuel information were real-time synchronized to Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, they would certainly detect an anomaly, so it is likely that the ship's marine engineers have tampered with the fuel detection; no matter what they did, I want to find a way to restore it to normal, and when Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology sees the fuel amount suddenly drop by thousands of tons, they will certainly realize something is wrong."

Lin Waner nodded and said: "Fuel amount is their biggest bug; so many vehicles in the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology's view remain motionless, the ship also remains motionless, but once they obtain the true fuel consumption, they will inevitably realize that those most fuel-consuming snow vehicles must have been moving behind their backs, unauthorized mobilization of equipment is already serious, and deliberately sabotaging equipment information is even worse; they will certainly find a way to investigate thoroughly."

Ye Chen said: "I will call Matsushita Heikichi of the scientific expedition ship."

At this time, Matsushita Heikichi was resting in the captain's cabin; after the whole ship became immobilized, he basically had no actual work, each day just idling away.

Upon receiving Ye Chen's call, Ye Chen's psychological suggestion immediately took effect; he perked up with full energy and pressed the answer key: "Mr. Hello!"

Ye Chen hummed and asked him: "In your daily reports to the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, does the data include your remaining fuel amount?"

"Of course." Matsushita Heikichi said: "There is an electronic liquid level sensor in the fuel tank, and also a physical sensing float; data is calculated every minute and automatically uploaded to the cloud, and the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology can check it anytime."

Ye Chen asked again: "Then have you tampered with the fuel information?"

"Yes." Matsushita Heikichi said: "At that time, that real person instructed that we must absolutely not let the domestic side detect any abnormality, so I arranged several marine engineers to remove the electronic liquid level sensor and its corresponding error module, and the physical sensing float was also tampered with, by artificially controlling its height, we can create the illusion of slow fuel consumption."

Ye Chen thought, as expected, and then asked him: "What method are you using?"

Matsushita Heikichi said: "Just in the fuel tank, using a strong magnet to suspend a small micro-control motor at the top of the fuel tank, controlled by a microcontroller, the motor drives a winding device, which hangs the float and slowly lowers its height, thus producing false fuel information."

Ye Chen asked him: "If the micro-control motor malfunctions, causing the float to quickly return to the actual liquid level, what will happen?"

Matsushita Heikichi said: "That would be frightening; the system would think that in the few seconds or tens of seconds gap between two data readings, we rapidly consumed thousands of tons of fuel, which clearly far exceeds our icebreaker's fuel consumption, so the system will immediately judge it as a fuel leak, and a high-speed leak at that, which will trigger a first-level danger signal."

"Good." Ye Chen asked him: "If I need you to destroy this device, can you do it without anyone knowing?"

"Not difficult." Matsushita Heikichi said: "I can change the microcontroller's program parameters, let it quickly reverse the gears and lower the float during a certain time period, then after finishing, rewrite the microcontroller to restore it; at that time, the data cannot be restored, and no one will know I tampered with it."

Ye Chen smiled and said: "Good, then rest assured and wait for my message; once needed, you do this immediately!"

……

Since this time we need to drive nearly three thousand kilometers, and the road conditions are complex, Kikuchi Kohei specially arranged fuel tank trucks to follow their convoy.

Otherwise, the range of any vehicle would be far insufficient for three thousand kilometers.

Moreover, here the environment is harsh, and we also need to consume large amounts of fuel for heating and warming up equipment, so the overall fuel consumption is even more astonishing.

After the fuel tank truck was incorporated into the convoy, Kikuchi Kohei checked the status of all vehicles, confirmed no errors, and then said to Wu Bolin: "Real person, we can set off."

Wu Bolin nodded and said to Kikuchi Kohei: "Set off immediately!"

A convoy of four snow vehicles and one fuel tank truck immediately set off, following the coastline first southwest, then turning northwest, completing a U-shaped route.

They will need about eight days for one way; Ye Chen can just in time use the fuel tank truck's positioning to real-time track their movements.

After Wu Bolin set off for four days, Ye Chen called Matsushita Heikichi, instructing him: "You can now operate the float."

Matsushita Heikichi immediately said: "Okay, Mr., please wait a moment."

After hanging up, Matsushita Heikichi immediately went to the fuel tank, and rewrote the program of the microcontroller controlling the suggested system.

Then he returned to his resting room, and after waiting five minutes, the entire ship's cabin alarm sounded loudly!

From the speaker came the system's AI alarm voice: "Suspected fuel leak, please check immediately!"

Since a first-level danger signal was triggered, everyone on the ship became alert; the marine engineer immediately went to the fuel tank to check the situation, and upon discovering the float had a problem, immediately lifted it back up, then manually entered the password to cancel the alarm.

The entire alarm lasted about three minutes.

During these three minutes, Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology had already exploded.

At the very first moment the alarm was uploaded, the Ministry's system sent a synchronized message to senior management personnel.

When they saw the scientific expedition ship actually issuing a first-level danger signal of rapid fuel leak, each one was nearly scared crazy.

After all, this scientific expedition ship is Japan's only heavy icebreaker; if something were to happen to it, the entire country would lose icebreaking capability in a short time.

Just as the higher-ups were inquiring of the scientific expedition ship, the ship's reply left them puzzled.

The scientific expedition ship's reply was: "The liquid level monitoring system has malfunctioned; the malfunction has now been cleared."

It seemed like a false alarm, but sharp staff immediately sensed something was wrong.

If the electronic liquid level system had a malfunction, that would be possible, after all sensor problems are not uncommon.

But, the physical float malfunctioning, that is a bit strange.

Moreover, the float's malfunction was a sudden low liquid level alarm, which proves that the float underwent a physical downward movement in an instant.

However, such a float is a hollow sealed body made of corrosion-resistant material, like a float board specifically used for learning to swim; if thrown into a sealed pool, with no one touching it and no external force, not even one or two months, let alone ten or eight years, it could not possibly sink to the bottom by itself.

This also means that the float in the fuel tank, even if it could possibly be stuck motionless, could not suddenly jam into the fuel; this does not conform to physical logic.

Therefore, this staff member immediately thought of one thing: that the lowest liquid level detected by the float just now should be the icebreaker's true liquid level; the reason it had not been detected before must be that something was restricting its sinking speed!

He retrieved the icebreaker's data, used the difference in float height between two readings, and immediately determined that the icebreaker had at least concealed a fuel consumption of 1,300 tons.

A thought popped into his mind: secretly using 1,300 tons of fuel, what the hell are these people doing in Antarctica?!