Chapter 3621 What is he looking for?

As Matsushita Heikichi belted out his song with his hoarse voice, he suddenly noticed a figure appear beside him.

Before he could even react, he had already lost the ability to move.

He could only stare at Ye Chen in terror, his whole being in a state of extreme panic.

Ye Chen didn't know if the man spoke Chinese, but considering that these Japanese people working on the research vessel must have at least a university education, they should be able to understand some English. So he planned to give him a psychological suggestion and then ask him a question in English. But when he actually gave him the suggestion, he was shocked to find that there was already a suggestion in this man's mind!

A cultivator?!

Ye Chen suddenly became alert.

Are there cultivators in Antarctica besides myself?

Then... this person must be one of the three elders who disappeared from the Earth Network system after arriving in Ushuaia, right?!

A few days ago, just as Ye Chen was setting off for Antarctica, the ground network system discovered that one of the three elders had already arrived in Ushuaia.

At the time, Ye Chen was worried that this person might be tracking him, but he never heard from him again.

Unbeknownst to him, Wu Bolin, in order to reach Antarctica, no longer used any public transportation, but instead took a fishing boat to the shipping lane where the research vessel was departing, and took the opportunity to board the Japanese research vessel.

However, now that Ye Chen saw that the Japanese crew members had been psychologically manipulated, he immediately guessed that the elder's route to Antarctica was through the research vessel he was on.

The fact that the research vessel ran aground here proves that the other party had already arrived in Antarctica, and the recent major actions of the Japanese research team must have been entirely under their control.

At this moment, Ye Chen was very worried.

He didn't know what the elder's purpose was in coming to Antarctica—whether he was looking for him, for Lin Wan'er, or for some other reason.

He wanted to get some answers from the Japanese man in front of him, but the thought that the man had been psychologically manipulated made him uneasy.

Psychological suggestion cannot coexist.

In other words, if he wanted this Japanese man to obey him, he had to erase the psychological suggestion left by the elder.

Although Wu Bolin was much stronger than Ye Chen, spiritual energy was still very precious to him. Therefore, when he made psychological suggestions to these ordinary people, he only touched on the surface and did not waste too much spiritual energy. As long as Ye Chen used stronger spiritual energy, he could erase the suggestions he left behind.

However, this also carries a significant risk.

Once the elder returns and sees this person, he will likely notice the other person's unusual behavior.

Even if he still manages to make this Japanese man obey him, if he examines the situation carefully, he will find that the psychological suggestion in the other man's mind has changed. It's like how everyone recognizes their own handwriting. Others may be able to imitate their own handwriting to deceive a third party, but they certainly can't deceive the person in question.

Ye Chen soon realized that he seemed to be in a dilemma.

Using psychological suggestion might be discovered by the other side; if psychological suggestion is not used, the only option is to kill the Japanese man, otherwise he will definitely report to the other side immediately.

However, killing him still poses a significant hidden danger.

A person who has been given psychological suggestion cannot commit suicide or disappear on their own. If they do disappear, there must be someone else behind it.

The other side may have already psychologically manipulated everyone on the ship, which means they won't fight each other. So, whether they kill the Japanese man or make him disappear, the other side will realize the danger.

After much deliberation, Ye Chen decided to take the risk and try psychological suggestion, at least that way he would still have a chance to fool the other party.

Moreover, this research vessel is probably not the main base for the other party's search for the Antarctic continent. Perhaps the other party will not come in person again, in which case there will be no risk of being discovered.

Therefore, Ye Chen immediately made a decision, using stronger spiritual energy to erase Matsushita Heikichi's psychological suggestion, and then placed a new one.

Once his mental suggestion took effect, Ye Chen asked in English, "Whose orders were you to stay here before?"

Matsushita Heikichi immediately replied, "I am acting on the orders of the Immortal Guanghan."

"The Immortal of Guanghan?" Ye Chen wondered. He took out the Poqing Society elder who had disappeared in Ushuaia from his phone, showed it to the other person, and asked, "Take a look, is this the person?"

Matsushita Heikichi immediately nodded: "That's right, it's him, this is the Guanghan Zhenren."

His answer was not unexpected for Ye Chen, so he asked again, "Where is this person now?"

Matsushita Heikichi replied, "The real man should be at Wu Han Palace at this moment."

"Wu Han Palace? Where is it?"

After Wu Bolin proclaimed himself the Immortal of Guanghan, he treated all these Japanese people as his servants. Therefore, he specifically ordered Kikuchi Kohei to inform everyone about the renaming of the research station and his self-proclaimed title of the Immortal of Guanghan. So Matsushita Heikichi had already received the order.

In response to Ye Chen's question, he truthfully replied, "Wu Han Palace is the Showa-era Japanese research station in Antarctica, only the name was changed by the real person."

Ye Chen was both amused and exasperated. This elder was quite playful, even giving the Japanese research station such a chuunibyou-esque name. It seemed he also aspired to be a leader like Wu Feiyan.

Then, Ye Chen asked him, "Has that Guanghan Zhenren been here recently?"

“No,” Matsushita Heikichi said. “He hasn’t come back since he landed and went to the research station, but he sent someone over a few days ago to transport some supplies.”

Ye Chen continued, "Do you know what he's going to do in Antarctica?"

"I'm not quite sure," Matsushita Heikichi replied. "I've only heard that the Mashin has deployed several snowmobiles and a helicopter to scan the entire Antarctic continent with ice radar."

"Ice radar? What does that do?"

Matsushita Heikichi said, "It scans the structure beneath the ice sheet at a depth of two to four thousand meters, which can reveal the topography and structure beneath the ice sheet."

"Under the ice cap..."

Ye Chen frowned.

The elder instructed these Japanese to explore beneath the ice sheet, so it seems he was unaware that he and Lin Wan'er were also there.

But what's so interesting about exploring the Antarctic ice sheet? Didn't it already take shape millions of years ago? You probably wouldn't even find a dinosaur fossil here.

He asked Matsushita Heikichi, "Do you know what he's looking for?"

"I don't know," Matsushita Heikichi said. "All I know is that they are exploring outside every day. Wu Han Palace is consuming fuel rapidly, and they need to transport some marine diesel from our oil tanks. However, at their rate of consumption, it won't be long before our ship runs out of fuel. Not to mention that it won't be enough to last until the frozen sea thaws in the summer, we probably won't even make it through this winter."

Ye Chen frowned and asked, "Without fuel, are you doomed?"

“Yes,” Matsushita Heikichi said casually, “If we run out of fuel, we won’t last two days before we freeze to death.”

Ye Chen sighed inwardly. This elder seemed to be a heartless executioner who didn't care about the lives of these people in order to achieve his goals, and was even hastening their deaths.

He became even more curious: what was that person looking for in Antarctica?