Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, Chief of Staff of the Diving Fleet, Inoue Shogun.

The military rank system in modern Japan is rather strange, and the so-called general supplement actually means major general; Inoue is in his early Chinese New Year's Eve, but he has already served as chief of staff in the diving unit, and he is a young Zhuang faction with considerable potential in the Japanese naval circles.

At this moment, Inoue is turning on his computer in his office to browse the patrol schedule of the submarine fleet next month.

No matter which country it is, the submarine force represents the meaning of secrecy, especially the movements of nuclear submarines of several world powers, which are highly secret.

Although Japan does not have nuclear weapons, its submarine force is also a state secret, and even within the Maritime Self-Defense Force, only a few dignitaries can learn about the movements of the submarine force, and the young Admiral Inoue is one of them.

Rumble~

Suddenly, Inoue slammed his fist against the desk, his eyes wide open.

I saw an anonymous email in his exclusive mailbox, the content of which was written in English and Japanese, to the effect that we already knew about Japan's secret underwater base in the Celebes Sea, and if we wanted to ensure that the secret was not made public, it was better to pay a billion dollars in secrecy fees as we demanded.

You have twenty-four hours to think about it.

There is also a photo attached to the email, which shows the Soryu-class, the strongest submarine of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force, slowly entering the underwater base in the deep sea.

Scold~

General Inoue broke out in a cold sweat in an instant.

First of all, this anonymous email was able to pass through the military-grade mail server and enter your mailbox without knowing it, which is terrifying enough in itself, which means that someone has broken the military mail system!?

This is the military's mail system! How many secrets are in it!?

Before he had time to care about how the other party entered the military's mail system, General Inoue hurriedly transferred out the duty list of the submarine unit last month, and the entries shown in red were the classified tasks of the submarine unit.

If you take a closer look, the time is exactly the same, and the Canglong-class submarine under his command entered the secret base under the sea of Celebes at the time when the photo was taken, that is to say, this photo is real!

Inoue only felt a tightness in his chest and shortness of breath, and he suppressed the shock in his heart and picked up the red telephone on his desk.

Among the people who knew about this secret underwater base, Inoue was the lowest-ranking one, and he didn't know the purpose of the base, but he personally arranged for the dispatch of a Canglong-class into the underwater base every month, and even the crew and cargo carried by the submarine every time was directly responsible to the higher levels.

Therefore, the secret of the underwater base was leaked, and Inoue was powerless, he could only report to the upper echelons.

Call~

Before the phone could be connected, Inoue glanced up at the quartz clock in the office, Tokyo time, night, 10:47.

…….

At 10:47 p.m. that night, the chief of staff of the diving unit, Inoue Oguami, reported to the chief of staff of the Maritime Self-Defense Force, Jun Kono, on the exposure of the secret underwater base.

At 10:51 p.m. that night, the military's mail system was abruptly shut down in favor of an emergency backup system, which had been secretly built to ensure smooth communications in the event of a nuclear attack on Japan, and was put into use for the first time since its completion.

At 10:59 p.m. that night, SDF security experts, including all those on leave, were immediately stationed in the SDF Information Security Center, which was on standby 24 hours a day, while the Information Security Center was completely closed.

That night, at 11:03 a.m., the chief of staff of the diving unit, Inoue Take, was picked up by the National Security Agency and boarded by a helicopter, and the destination was unknown...

Walking through the long tunnel, Inoue arrives at a secret base he had never been to before, and as he passes through the security gate, Inoue is detained of all his belongings, including car keys, a box of chewing gum, and even the metal buckle on his belt.

However, Inoue was not angry at this excessive level of security, because he clearly saw that before him, the two major chiefs of staff of the Maritime Self-Defense Force, Jun Kono and Takeihisa, were treated the same as him.

In the depressing underground conference room, Inoue Oshi sat at the bottom of the room, and he found that not only the two chiefs of staff of the Maritime Self-Defense Force were present, but even the chief of staff of the Self-Defense Forces, Watanabe, the Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications Takasanae, the Minister of Defense Nakatanihara, and a man with a hooked nose who he didn't know, sitting closest to the top, seemed to be above several military elders.

Rumble~

The door of the conference room was pushed open, and no one who walked in with a gloomy face did not recognize him, he was none other than Japanese Prime Minister Abe San, who was known for his economics and hawkish style.

"What do you eat!?"

Without waiting for the door of the conference room to close, Abe San vented his anger, and even the security personnel outside the conference room could feel how angry Prime Minister Abe was at this moment.

Call~

Inoue frowned and looked up at the quartz clock hanging in the conference room, 0:06 midnight.

With so many elders gathered in one place, staying up late for a meeting, and the Prime Minister's almost hysterical anger, there is no doubt that this is a moment of crisis that I have never understood.

People who can be prime ministers are often very eloquent, and Abe San first crossed his waist and stood in the conference room for two hours, scolding a bloody dog.

Perhaps tired, Prime Minister Abe finally sat back in his place, waved his hand helplessly, and said in a deep voice: "Now you say what to do yourself!?" ”

The most uncomfortable thing at the scene is the two chiefs of staff of the Maritime Self-Defense Force, although Inoue is an insider, his responsibility is only to arrange the submarine force patrol plan according to the orders of his immediate boss, as for the rest, Inoue knows nothing, it is the two chiefs of staff who are in control, and now that the underwater secret base is exposed, they are the most responsible.

Unexpectedly, both chiefs of staff turned their eyes to the eagle-hooked nose who was sitting next to Abe San, as if asking for help, and this person Inoue did not know.

Ahem~

The treacherous and cunning Minister of Defense Nakatanihara said in a deep voice: "Yoshino-kun, you are in charge of the intelligence department, what do you think?" ”

The Minister of Defense apparently intended to be on the same side as the military, and took the initiative to ask the man with the hooked nose.

Inoue Oshi was stunned, it turned out that this hooked nose was the first person in charge of the Japanese intelligence department, the head of the Cabinet Intelligence Investigation Office, Motowa Yoshino, nicknamed the ghost of Tokyo!

The reason why he has this nickname is because when he was young, he used to be in charge of intelligence work in the entire Tokyo area as a secret policeman, and over the years, he arranged the secret network to be pervasive, which dignitaries drank and said, and which high-ranking officials found assistance and communication, all of which were in Yoshino Motokazu's control.

For this reason, many politicians hated Yoshino Motowa to the core, calling him the ghost of Tokyo.

But it is undeniable that Yoshino Motokazu is indeed very talented in intelligence work, and is now the head of the Cabinet Intelligence Office, Japan's top intelligence agency.

Don't look at Yoshino's official position as the head of the office, but his rights are equivalent to the director of the CIA and the director of MI5 in the United Kingdom.

Of course, the current Yoshino Motowa is no longer just a ghost in Tokyo, but a ghost in Japan as a whole and even in the world!