The Amazing son in law Chapter 7896

When Watanabe Goro rushed to the room where Kikuchi Kohei was being held, Kikuchi Kohei’s body was hanging on the bathroom door frame.

The item he used to hang himself was his own thermal pants. This material, specially developed for polar regions, is warm, skin-friendly, breathable, and tough. The two pant legs, when tied together, can easily hang an adult weighing over 140 pounds.

Unlike most people who hang themselves, Kohei Kikuchi’s expression showed no pain or ferocity; on the contrary, he wore a smile that suggested he was ready to die.

Just as Goro Watanabe and the other Americans were at a loss, the research station’s doctor arrived and immediately pulled Kohei Kikuchi’s body from the knots made of his clothes. The doctor performed CPR on him while checking his pulse and heartbeat.

Unfortunately, Kohei Kikuchi was already dead by then.

The research station was neither a prison nor a police station; there were no special detention rooms. After interrogating Kohei Kikuchi, they put him in an empty room and left a few soldiers outside to guard him in case he escaped. But no one expected that he would commit suicide.

The Americans were baffled. The military official angrily cursed, “Is this guy fucking crazy? What’s the big deal? Even if we send him back to Japan for trial, if nothing serious happens, he’ll only get five to eight years at most, right?”

After saying that, he pointed at Goro Watanabe and questioned, “Come on, tell me, how many years will he be sentenced for this unauthorized command of a scientific expedition to explore Antarctica?”

Watanabe Goro looked bewildered: “I don’t know either. It’s never happened before. It depends on whether he had the intent to commit treason. If it doesn’t involve treason and it’s just unauthorized exploration, he should be sentenced to less than five years. But if it involves treason, he might be sentenced to death.”

The military official sneered, “Don’t try to scare us. That gunman from the mountain only got a life sentence, right? This Kohei Kikuchi won’t get the death penalty when he goes back to court, will he?”

Goro Watanabe said awkwardly, “What you said isn’t entirely unreasonable.”

The military official then pointed to Kohei Kikuchi’s body and asked, “Since he was unlikely to be sentenced to death, why did he commit suicide?”

Watanabe Goro, unable to contain his emotions any longer, said angrily, “I don’t know either. You didn’t let us speak to him from beginning to end, and you didn’t let us participate in the interrogation. Now that he has committed suicide, you come to question me. I want to question you too. Did you put pressure on him or torture him to extract a confession?”

Realizing he couldn’t get anything out of Watanabe Goro and not wanting to be reprimanded in front of everyone, the military officer immediately told the soldiers around him, “Take him and the other members of the Japanese surrender delegation to the Third District for residential surveillance. Without my order, they are not allowed to step out of the Third District!”

McMurdo Station is the largest Antarctic research station. It is a huge scientific research institution with several semi-independent areas.

The term “semi-independent” means that these areas are all connected to the core area. To put it simply, it’s like multiple prison sections in a large prison, where all sections can be completely sealed off.

Goro Watanabe and the members of the Japanese surrender delegation who accompanied him were all placed under house arrest by the US military in the Third District.

Immediately afterwards, the US military was deployed.

Just as the US paratroopers began boarding their planes in preparation for takeoff, charlie wade also set off alone from the Nordic research station to Showa Station.

Through Nanako’s connections in Japan, he learned that the Japanese scientific expedition team heading to McMurdo Station in the United States had been intercepted en route, and that the elder of the Anti-Qing Society had fled on the way back to Showa Station. This meant that the US military would definitely take over Showa Station, and that the elder would certainly not dare to return.