The attackers were the Poison Arrow Mercenaries, affiliated with the Arrow Military Company registered in Madagascar.
Speaking of which, this company had some conflicts with Xin before. Country F once hired them to take military action against Xin, openly committing murder on the street, and attempted to kidnap Jiang Chen. Although the team sent to Coro Island was wiped out on the island, and Jiang Chen later dismembered the rogue country by supporting the Moro Liberation Organization, he never paid much attention to this military company in Africa.
This time, they were hired by the Freemasonry to launch an attack on Jiang Chen and the others exploring the polar region, resulting in the death of five Sea Lions, and the other five were also injured to varying degrees … but the debt of blood had been repaid.
After Jiang Chen used the truth-telling serum to obtain information from the captives, he ended their suffering.
After using an EMP to clean the electronic equipment on the polar expedition ship and eliminate the possibility of being located, Jiang Chen sailed the ship out to sea. After he lowered the speedboat on the ship and installed explosives on the deck to sink it, he drove the speedboat back to the polar vehicle on the shore. He stored the speedboat into the storage dimension and drove the polar vehicle back to the camp.
Jiang Chen did not respond to the head of the expedition team's questions about the casualties of the Sea Lions Special Forces. He just said that they encountered a storm.
Although the wounds on Garrett and others didn't look like they were caused by "hail" …
After returning to the Antarctic Gull Station, Jiang Chen went straight back to the ship and locked himself in his room.
Freemasonry, Rothschild, Arrow Military Company, Golden Apple, 1g of antimatter … all these keywords were entangled together. He now needed to sort out the information and think about future countermeasures.
"Freemasonry?" Jiang Chen squeezed the ring in his hand and observed the pattern on the surface.
This ring was taken from Griffin's hand. The two opposite openings had a "V" and a capital "G" in the middle. Just by looking at the pattern, Jiang Chen couldn't see anything at all. It should be the symbol of the Freemasonry.
Jiang Chen shook his head and put the ring aside.
One thing was certain. Rothschild must have a connection with the Freemasonry, and the purpose of his trip to Antarctica was likely told by Rothschild to the Freemasonry. This could be seen from Griffin's soliloquy.
At this moment, there was a knock on the door.
"Who?"
"It's me, Marshall." Marshall's voice came from outside the door.
"Come in, the door isn't locked."
Opening the door, Marshall walked into the room and looked at Jiang Chen nervously.
Anyone would be nervous, especially when they saw the injured special forces soldiers and the five corpses in the body bags. Furthermore, they had no idea what these people had been up to in the past 24 hours.
"You, you were looking for me?"
Jiang Chen looked at Marshall and read the nervousness in his pupils.
But Jiang Chen didn't mind and just smiled. After a pause, he said in a calm tone, "Get ready. We'll depart in five hours and return to Coro Island."
After a slight pause, Marshall then asked.
"What about the people from the investigation team?"
"Do what you need to do," Jiang Chen said.
The Freemasons' target was only him. There was no reason for them to complicate matters by attacking the observation station and causing a commotion on the international stage. If he stayed here at this time, he would bring danger to the members of the investigation team. The only thing he needed to do now was to return to Xin as soon as possible. That was the only place that was absolutely safe.
"But …"
Although there were a lot of questions he wanted to ask, intuition told Marshall that it was better not to say anything unnecessary at this time. The more he knew, the more dangerous it was. This was how it was in the movies.
"… Yes."
All the confusion turned into one word. Marshall nodded and left the room.
The next morning, the Pathfinder was ready to return.
After what happened, the people of the investigation team were deeply uneasy about staying here. This uneasiness stemmed from the fear of the unknown. They didn't know what Jiang Chen encountered in the hinterland of Antarctica, and they weren't sure if they would encounter it.
After some thought, Jiang Chen finally decided to order the temporary evacuation of the station.
Although the Freemasons had no reason to attack the ordinary scientific researchers of the investigation team, since they planned to explore the fortress in the hinterland of Antarctica, they were bound to land at Cape Goodenough, and the two sides still had the possibility of meeting.
It was just over a month away from June. At that time, the polar night phenomenon would make Antarctica extremely cold, and the climate here would no longer be suitable for scientific research activities. Evacuating now was only a little more than a month earlier.
After locking up the equipment, He Gaoyang finally boarded the polar expedition ship. Captain Marshall retracted the anchor chain and ordered the Pathfinder to begin its voyage, ending this short trip to Antarctica ahead of schedule. As for what kind of danger he encountered in Antarctica, Jiang Chen's explanation was that he encountered heavily armed kidnappers. Those people knew he would go to Antarctica, so they deliberately waited for him in Antarctica …
It was a very far-fetched reason.
He didn't know if such an explanation was convincing, but at least it would reduce some unnecessary speculation.
When he returned, he would order people to sign confidentiality agreements with the members of the expedition team and the crew of the Pathfinder to suppress this matter.
The two-week voyage was long, but it was also very safe. Jiang Chen originally thought that they would be surrounded and intercepted by the Freemasons, but in fact, they did not encounter any trouble, except for a few thunderstorms.
Griffin's ship was bombed and sunk, and the Freemasons didn't even know that Jiang Chen and the others had left Antarctica. By the time they realized that Griffin was dead, it would be at least two weeks later. Searching for the sunken polar expedition ship could take days or even months depending on their luck.
Even if they learned that Jiang Chen had left Antarctica through intelligence analysis, they would have to face two choices – to search for Jiang Chen in the Pacific Ocean, or to focus all their energy on investigating the fortress in the hinterland of Antarctica.
However, no normal person would choose the former because it was an almost impossible task. Even with the help of satellites, it was not an easy task to locate a 100-meter-long research ship on the vast sea. But if they chose the latter, they were destined to gain nothing.
The suitcase containing antimatter had been taken away by Jiang Chen. In addition to a lot of equipment that could be put into the museum, there was only the "radio station" that could communicate with the survivors in the void.
Jiang Chen did not take the "radio station" away. The "ghost" had clearly told him that they no longer had enough energy to interfere with the more distant future. And the 1g of antimatter was the last help they could give to the people on World Line B.
After dismantling some of the parts, he left the basement.
Leaving the "radio station" here could instead confuse the Freemasons and divert some of their energy to the machine that had lost its function.
However, compared to the trouble from the human side, Jiang Chen was more concerned about the "gift" he received from the void.
The antimatter weighing about 1g may be hope …
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