Chapter 1343 - Using The Fleet As Cover (1/2)

“Matching…Matching complete.”

The photos flashed through Jiang Chen’s tactical eyepiece one by one, and finally froze on an unsmiling face.

[Frank, the highest-ranking CIB official in Nippon, commanding over 400 field agents.]

In the Ghost Agents database, there was only a brief sentence about him. Even Gill did not obtain more information about the area head in Nippon.

Jiang Chen then performed facial recognition on several other CIB agents. Three of them did not show up in the database due to minimal activities. After Jiang Chen established profiles for them, he focused all his attention on Frank, as well as the two navy officers approaching them.

[Thomas, Lieutenant Admiral, Commander of the UA Seventh Fleet, Resume: Graduated from the University of California with a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering, and later received a master’s degree in national security studies from the National War College…]

[Howard, Major Admiral, Chief of Yokosuka Military Base, Resume: …]

A lieutenant general, a major general, plus a senior CIB offical.

Jiang Chen raised his eyebrows slightly.

Things seemed to be getting more interesting.

The tiny probe protruded from the bottom of the Hummingbird drone, aimed at the window of the car, and projected invisible infrared light. Jiang Chen pressed his headset and soon he listened in on the three people’s conversation.

“…If you’re worried, we can send a s.h.i.+p to transport these servers to Guam, and then s.h.i.+p it back to Los Angeles by air.”

“We cannot s.h.i.+p by air! You must use a submarine! We must!” Frank said immediately, “Only a submarine can ensure that these servers can be safely delivered to the Los Angeles Research Center! In addition, the Seventh Fleet must cruise to Guam and create the illusion that these severs were sent to Guam!”

“I don’t understand,” Major Admiral Howard frowned. “No matter how arrogant Celestial Trade is, do they dare to directly attack our plane?”

“Humph,” Frank sneered, and the eyes above the hooked nose pierced sharpness, “You don’t know them. They never played by the rules. They may not dare to shoot our plane down blatantly, but they can make us never find where it went.”

“Are these servers so important?” Lieutenant Admiral Thomas asked seriously. “It is not a trivial matter to mobilize the Seventh Fleet. It requires doc.u.ments from the Department of Defense. Although Secretary Carter asked me to follow your orders, the mobilization of the fleet has exceeded your authority…”

“I’m here for this very reason.” As Frank spoke, he took the briefcase from the agent next to him and handed the doc.u.ment he took from the briefcase to Lieutenant Admiral Thomas. “This is the authorization doc.u.ment signed by the Department of Defense, Capitol, and Congress. I hope you take this matter seriously.”

Under the streetlight, Lieutenant Admiral Thomas looked through the doc.u.ment with a serious expression. After about five minutes, he pa.s.sed it to the officer next to him and showed a stern look.

“Tomorrow morning, I’ll verify with the Department of Defense. If it is true, I’ll follow everything as you order.”

The three said something more and then walked to the barracks.

They were certainly quite dedicated to distracting Celestial Trade by using the entire Seventh Fleet as a cover for those servers. The question now was where those servers were. If he couldn’t locate the servers, it would be like searching for a needle in a haystack, and he would have to monitor every single nuclear submarine that may set off at any moment.

He had to admit that Frank’s a.n.a.lysis was spot on. Jiang Chen possessed the means to “hack” both planes and s.h.i.+ps, but he could not do much to nuclear submarines. Even with Celestial Trade’s technology, to locate a completely silent submarine would be no easier than finding a needle in the Pacific.

Jiang Chen hesitated as he looked at the patrolling Marines.

He was by the port warehouse, about a kilometer away from those people, and he did not want to sneak into an enclosed building. Because they set up countermeasures for optical invisibility, in addition to infrared rays, there must be other countermeasures he was not aware of in these sensitive areas.

Otherwise, Gill would have penetrated in long ago.

As for those drones…