The Amazing son in law Chapter 7877
Because they were to travel nearly 3,000 kilometers and the road conditions were complicated, Kohei Kikuchi specially arranged for a tanker truck to accompany their convoy.
Otherwise, the range of any car would be far less than three thousand kilometers.
Moreover, the harsh environment here requires a large amount of fuel for heating and warming up equipment, making the overall fuel consumption even more astonishing.
After the tanker trucks were added to the convoy, Kohei Kikuchi checked the condition of all the vehicles and, after confirming that everything was in order, said to Bolin Wu, “Masato, we can set off now.”
Wu Bolin (Bick) nodded and said to Kikuchi Kohei, “Let’s go immediately!”
The convoy, consisting of four snowmobiles and one tanker truck, set off immediately, traveling southwest along the coastline before turning northwest to complete a U-shaped route.
It would take them about eight days to travel one way, and charlie wade could use the location of the oil tanker to track their movements in real time.
Four days after Wu Bolin (Bick) set off, charlie wade called Matsushita Heikichi and told him, “You can operate the float now.”
Matsushita Heikichi immediately replied, “Yes, sir, please wait a moment.”
After hanging up the phone, Matsushita Heikichi immediately went to the fuel tank and rewrote the program for the microcontroller of the recommended control system.
He then returned to his lounge, and after waiting for five minutes, the entire cabin was filled with alarms!
The system’s AI alarm sounded from the speaker: “Suspected fuel leak, please check immediately!”
Because a Level 1 emergency was triggered, everyone on board became alert. The engineer immediately went to the fuel tank to check the situation. After discovering that the problem was with the buoy, he immediately raised the buoy back up and then manually entered the code to deactivate the alarm.
The entire alarm lasted approximately three minutes.
In those three minutes, the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology was in an uproar.
The moment the alarm was uploaded, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology’s system sent a synchronization message to senior system administrators.
When they saw that the research vessel had issued a Level 1 emergency warning indicating a rapid oil leak, they were all terrified.
After all, this research vessel is the only heavy icebreaker in all of Japan. If anything were to happen to it, the entire country would lose its icebreaking capability for a short period of time.
Just as the higher-ups were asking the research vessel questions, the vessel’s response left them puzzled.
The research vessel responded that the liquid level monitoring system was malfunctioning, but the problem has now been resolved.
It seemed like a false alarm, but the astute staff immediately realized something was wrong.
It’s possible for the electronic liquid level system to malfunction, since sensor problems aren’t uncommon.
However, it’s rather strange that the physical float malfunctioned.
Moreover, the float malfunctioned by suddenly issuing a low liquid level warning, which proves that the float physically shifted downwards in an instant.
However, a float is a hollow, sealed body made of corrosion-resistant material. It is like a buoyancy board specially used for learning to swim. If this thing is put in a sealed pool and no one touches it or any external force touches it, it will not sink to the bottom on its own, not to mention a month or two, even ten or eight years.
This means that even if the float in the fuel tank might get stuck and remain motionless, it is absolutely impossible for it to suddenly plunge into the fuel and get stuck, as this does not conform to the logic of physics.
Therefore, the staff member immediately realized that the lowest liquid level detected by the buoy should be the true liquid level of the icebreaker. The reason why such a low position had not been detected before must be that something was limiting its sinking speed!
He retrieved the icebreaker’s data and, using the height difference between the two floats, immediately determined that the icebreaker had underreported its fuel consumption by at least 1,300 tons.
A thought popped into his head: what were these people doing in Antarctica, secretly using 1,300 tons of fuel?!