Chapter 3622 Good opportunity

In Ye Chen's understanding, the Antarctic continent offers almost no other advantages to cultivators besides allowing them to escape from modern society.

Firstly, there are no traces of human habitation here, and secondly, there are no rare plants or animals. Cultivating here would mean finding neither magical treasures nor materials.

If I weren't chasing the aurora borealis, I wouldn't have come all this way to a place like this.

However, since the elder of the Broken Qing Society has come in person and taken the entire Japanese scientific expedition team as his servants, he must be looking for some valuable things that I don't know about.

For a moment, Ye Chen instinctively felt a little tempted. If there were really some good things in Antarctica, and he could find them before that broken Qing Society elder, wouldn't he be getting a great bargain for free?

But Ye Chen also knew his own limitations. Even with Yun Rugo and Song Ruyu, the three of them were no match for the elder of the Poqing Society. Even if they knew what he was looking for, it would be difficult for them to get ahead of him.

Moreover, with Antarctica currently frozen over, ships can no longer enter, meaning both sides will be trapped on this continent for at least four or five months.

If he continues searching for Antarctica for the next four or five months, then Lin Wan'er and the others will face unknown risks at all times in the coming months.

I'm afraid we'll have to play hide-and-seek with him again.

However, Ye Chen 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 the cost was prepaid and did not require real-name registration. Even if the elders of the Broken Qing Society knew about it, they would not be able to find out his identity. However, as long as the elder did not come to the research ship in person, he would not know that Matsushita Heikichi had been controlled by other cultivators. In that case, Matsushita Heikichi could continue to act as his undercover agent.

In addition, Ye Chen asked Matsushita Heikichi, "What is the current status of the ship's surveillance cameras?"

Because he was initially unsure of the status of the ship's surveillance system, Ye Chen tried to avoid the cameras, making sure his face and profile were not within their coverage area. Inevitably, he also obscured his face in advance.

Matsushita Heikichi replied, "Currently, all the ship's surveillance cameras are on, but they are not synchronized to the cloud. Apart from the ship's data center storing these surveillance images, no one else can access this data."

Ye Chen asked him, "Could you send these images to the server I specify?"

Ye Chen's ground network system benefits from the built-in cameras of countless vending machines on the ground. These cameras capture the faces of everyone and transmit them to the server. His AI model also captures the 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 ground network system.

Matsushita Heikichi said to Ye Chen: "There is no problem with data uploading. Our ship is equipped with several satellite networks, including eight public and private Starlink devices, which can be used to upload surveillance videos."

"That's good."

Ye Chen felt relieved and instructed, "I'll give you the server address later. You need to make arrangements as soon as possible."

“No problem!” Matsushita Heikichi said respectfully, “I will do my best to implement this as soon as possible.”

Ye Chen nodded and said, "Go and do it now. I'll wait in your room. Tell your crew that no one is allowed to come near your room."

“Okay!” Matsushita Heikichi said sincerely, “Please wait here for a moment, I will make the arrangements.”

Remembering something, Ye Chen reminded him, "By the way, when will the people from the research station come again?"

Matsushita Heikichi thought for a moment and said, "They have organized an oil transport team that comes to deliver fuel once or twice a day. It should arrive in another two or three hours."

The research station consumes an enormous amount of fuel, more than ever before, not even during the Antarctic summer, let alone the Antarctic winter. With so many people and their research team members, they have never been this busy.

Almost all vehicles and helicopters now operate outdoors continuously, and radar scanning requires a lot of electricity, so the internal combustion engines on these vehicles and aircraft also consume a lot of fuel to provide power.

In winter, Japanese research helicopters, when equipped with ice radar, consume approximately two tons of fuel per hour, making them absolute fuel guzzlers.

To ensure the operation of these facilities, the Japanese research team organized a special fuel transport team, using a snow tractor paired with a heavy-duty fuel tanker trailer to transport a full truckload of fuel back every day. The 20-ton capacity of this fuel tanker is only enough for a helicopter to use in one trip.

Upon hearing that the transport team was coming, Ye Chen asked Matsushita Heikichi, "Do the transport vehicles have GPS tracking and video recording capabilities?"

“Yes,” Matsushita Heikichi explained. “Actually, every vehicle used at the Antarctic research station is equipped with GPS positioning and an Internet of Things system. Moreover, this data is made available to the relevant domestic authorities. They can monitor the vehicle’s location in real time, and even the real-time video around the vehicle. However, we have been ordered to remove the network modules from all the vehicles. Without the network, the video and GPS coordinates cannot be uploaded, and the relevant domestic authorities cannot track them.”

Ye Chen asked him, "Are you sure you only removed the network communication module?"

“Confirmed.” Matsushita Heikichi said, “The order given by Guanghan Zhenren is that the domestic authorities must not know the real-time status of all vehicles and equipment. Therefore, we immediately arranged to remove the IoT modules of all equipment, including our research vessel. Theoretically speaking, as long as the network module is restored, the coordinate information will be immediately uploaded to the server via satellite, and the local staff will be able to see it.”

Ye Chen asked him, "Is there any way to quietly restore the network communication function of these cars? But there is one thing: we can't let them transmit any data to your local area. Instead, we have to transmit 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 some Starlink systems on board, so we just need to install one of the Starlink systems on the vehicle and set the data transmission address."

Then, Matsushita Heikichi explained, "GPS and vehicle cameras are not intelligent hardware; they only provide data, just like a mobile phone's GPS and camera. The communication module we removed is used to send data to the relevant domestic authorities. It also uses a dedicated network for transmission. We just need to replace them."

Ye Chen was immediately overjoyed.

If I could track the real-time location of one of the oil tankers and access the onboard camera footage, I could see the specific situation at the research station every day, and might even be able to see the elder of the Broken 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 it be discovered by Guanghan Zhenren or the transport team?"

Matsushita Heikichi said, "That shouldn't be the case. All the equipment is integrated into the roof of the vehicle. It's highly unlikely that they would be able to hide the Starlink terminal inside, unless they need to restore their original private network someday."

Ye Chen smiled slightly and began to deduce the logic behind it.

First of all, that elder has cultivated for many years and is unlikely to understand such a professional issue. Therefore, he could not have given a particularly professional order, such as directly asking them to dismantle the dedicated network module. He must have given a verbal order, instructing the research team to use their own methods to ensure that the team would not be exposed. This was the solution that the research team came up with themselves.

Secondly, since these professionals chose to remove the dedicated communication module, according to normal logic, it's equivalent to a phone having its SIM card removed and internet connection cut off. The professionals solved the problem using their professional knowledge, which means they have completed their task. They shouldn't periodically go back to check whether a different SIM card has been inserted into the SIM card slot, as this doesn't make sense in their work.

Secondly, spiritual energy cannot sense the signal, which means that even if the car's network is working again, the invisible and intangible signal frequency will be impossible for the other party to detect.

Professionals won't investigate, and the elders of the Poqing Association won't notice the problem. Doesn't this provide me with a good opportunity to observe secretly?