Darkstone Code

Chapter 1358: Chapter 1357: Leaked Information

When Koskao saw his wife and daughter, he could no longer remain silent.

"They... are innocent."

In some sense, this sentence was akin to admitting to the Major that he indeed worked as an intelligence operative for Sedolas.

The Major smiled satisfactorily, "We invited you here today not to harm anyone."

"I believe your wife and daughter are loyal soldiers of the Empire; today is merely to inform you that they’ve made their own choices."

Upon hearing these words, Koskao looked at his wife and daughter, slightly puzzled.

The Major smiled, "Your wife has decided to join the Empire’s Number Three Plan, proving her loyalty."

"As for your daughter, she will join the Empire’s Army, and when we help the Sedolas people gain freedom, she’ll be the first to storm the President’s Mansion..."

Boom! Koskao’s brain felt like it was undergoing a magnitude nine earthquake; everything became a blur!

The Empire’s Number Three Plan—he had heard of this plan, involving human biochemical experiments, who knows where those damned Empire scientists found some inexplicable materials and formulas.

Allegedly, these things could create a kind of Super Warrior, leading to the establishment of the Third Institute and the Empire’s Number Three Plan.

This plan has been ongoing for over a decade, and some say for twenty or thirty years. It has yielded no results but annually consumes thousands, even tens of thousands, of death row prisoners!

These people are sent in, never to be seen again, more terrifying than execution!

Some have dubbed the Empire’s Third Institute as the "Third Hell," and Koskao’s wife had voluntarily joined it.

As for his daughter... he couldn’t imagine the scene of his daughter representing the Peng Jieao Empire invading his homeland.

Perhaps she’d kill her relatives, kill his friends, do...

"How... how can you do this?!"

Koskao’s latter sentence was almost shouted; this was more dreadful than directly killing him or continuing to torture him!

The Major suddenly punched him in the jaw, the immense force causing his head to whip around.

Blood splattered along the direction his head moved, forming a straight line on the floor, even spraying onto the wall.

Koskao made no sound, he simply raised his head slowly.

The stitched wound burst open, blood gushing out rhythmically.

The Major called for a medic for him.

Perhaps having his wife and daughter by his side, Koskao exhibited remarkable manliness; during the closing of the blood vessels and stitching of the wound, he didn’t let out a single shout.

His body trembled continuously, while the mother and daughter spoke all the while.

Peng Jieao’s patriotic education... it’s a bit terrifying. It’s not merely brainwashing, though Gafura and the Federation both claim Peng Jieao enforces dictatorial rule and brainwashing education, it isn’t.

At least, not entirely.

They present various facts, comparing the present with the past, domestic with foreign, showing all objectively existing phenomena right in front of everyone.

Letting people decide for themselves what is good, what is right.

Then, accompanied by fervent patriotic education, as long as an Empire citizen completes intermediate education, almost all of them become fervent patriots.

Koskao’s daughter is like this, and his wife too.

They volunteered to do this to atone for their sins, also to cleanse themselves of suspicion.

The Major looked at Koskao, "You know, you say you’re Koskao, but obviously, you’re not."

"That’s the reason!"

"But it doesn’t matter; this is your family’s last meeting. His Majesty the Emperor of the Empire is forgiving; even towards spies like you, we offer humane treatment!"

Quickly, Koskao’s wife and daughter left, his faith, spirit, was collapsing.

His wife willingly went to Hell, his daughter voluntarily joined the military to become the vanguard invading Sedolas. He was bewildered, even sinking into an almost unresolvable state.

This too is a method of interrogation. When your target is resilient, you must think of ways to gradually break him down from a mental standpoint!

Koskao’s line of people were all captured, but nobody knew that the small canister containing secret intelligence had already been swapped out.

One of several Peng Jieao officers on business in a neighboring country took it away from Peng Jieao’s border, then placed it in a secret location at the train station.

Subsequently, the contact person took away the intelligence, and after half a month of continuous transmission including telegrams, the intelligence appeared on the desk of the Sedolas intelligence reconnaissance office.

And a day later, appeared on the desks of the intelligence agencies of the Federation’s Ministry of Defense and all World Development Committee member countries.

An intelligence about why Peng Jieao dared to brazenly challenge world peace gradually became known to people.

The Tri-body Sea Fortress, its special structure allows it to transform into an aircraft transport ship or a single runway at any time and place.

It can form a large take-off and landing platform on the sea surface!

Plus, the Federation has also learned through some channels that Peng Jieao is experimenting with a new type of torpedo that is dropped by aircraft, and has understood where their proactive war-preparation courage comes from.

If everyone is leveled at sea in terms of naval forces, then on land, it would be very difficult for other countries to confront Peng Jieao’s military strength, and the originally very optimistic situation was suddenly reversed.

Various experts began crazy research, and in various simulations, the Federation’s fleet could not directly confront Peng Jieao’s fleet.

Because their air power at sea is too strong!

Everyone is well aware of the tremendous threat aircraft pose to fleets, and the Federation itself also has an aerial torpedo project and has entered the experimental stage.

They know that once such fighter groups launch an attack on the sea surface fleet, the fleet will be crushed instantly!

You might be lucky and dodge some torpedoes, or the other side might be unlucky and miss some torpedoes.

But when at least a thousand torpedoes are shot over simultaneously, whether they miss or whether you can adjust the angle, it actually no longer matters!

Now the Federation’s only chance of victory remains Lynch’s island chain plan at that time.

Relying on each island as a defensive circle, using the unique nature of the islands to confront the enemy on the sea surface, and the Ministry of Defense even believes that at this stage they should increase the shore artillery on the islands in the island chain plan to confront the potential encirclement by Peng Jieao’s fleet.

As long as these islands do not sink, they are equivalent to a nail inserted in the sea surface.

The connection between the islands will not be cut off, and Peng Jieao’s fleet will always have concerns.

Not to mention that islands can serve as stable platforms for aircraft take-off and landing, forming effective deterrence around the islands...

As an important military equipment supplier, key military cooperation partner, and significant overseas military action contractor for the Federation Military, Lynch was once summoned to the Ministry of Defense to attend a countermeasure meeting.

Sometimes the Federation’s approach may seem silly; they encounter a problem and hold a special meeting for that problem, and try various methods to solve it.

Their choices can make people laugh—investing millions to tens of millions to study new things to solve simple issues; the Gafura people have laughed at the Federation for this.

But not every time, Gafura people or those who laugh at the Federation can laugh to the end.

Lynch sat in the office looking at documents printed with top-secret tags, seeing the contents inside, he roughly knew what was going on.

The Ministry of Defense hosted the meeting by the people from the strategic research room, and they presented some simulated results, which were of course beautified and optimized; at least they cannot make people feel the Federation’s fleet is so... useless.

After all, they spent billions to build these new fleets, and the result is that before or just after launching, they became scrap metal-like entities that taxpayers would not agree with.

Those invited to the countermeasure meeting expressed their own ideas and opinions, mostly centering around defense discussions.

For example, Sheep Ship Company’s chief engineer proposed a suggestion that they could manufacture a type of lightweight vessel operating on the fleet’s periphery.

The role of these vessels is to tow a huge ’net’ cruising around the fleet, and the role of these nets is to entangle those torpedoes, trigger them, and prevent them from damaging the main ships in the fleet.

This plan received initial approval from the Ministry of Defense, deeming it of certain value.

In addition, lightweight speedboats for dedicated anti-aircraft purposes also became the central discussion topic.

These items have simple designs, cheap production costs, low mass production technology content, and are considered a relatively good method to deal with local intensive bombing or torpedo deployments.

Almost as the meeting was about to end, the host from the Ministry of Defense suddenly remembered that Lynch hadn’t spoken at all, and looking a bit embarrassed, glanced at Lynch, "Mr. Lynch, do you have any ideas?"

Everyone’s gaze suddenly turned to Lynch, who was crossing his legs, smoking, showing no sign of feeling nervous.

He flicked off some cigarette ash, didn’t speak immediately, but took another drag from his cigarette, then slowly exhaled, "I don’t consider this a problem for us."

The Ministry of Defense officer hosting the meeting was stunned for a moment, "You think Peng Jieao’s sea fortress poses no threat to us?"

Lynch shook his head, "There is a threat, but not a big one."

He took another drag of his cigarette, extinguished it in the ashtray, "Because we have Darkstone Airlines, we possess the best fighter aircraft, and if Peng Jieao hasn’t surpassed us by an era in the aviation field, their bombers won’t be able to conduct large-scale bombing campaigns over our heads!"

"We’ve already conducted verification on this point in our research institute; fighter jets have a significant victory rate in confrontations with bombers."

"I believe that as long as we have enough fighter jets, we can completely blockade the airspace for our fleet, preventing any Peng Jieao bombers from flying over us!"