Meanwhile, Barlin was meditating in one of the snow tractors.

He was preparing to mind-bend the two-hundred-odd members of the research crew at McMurdo Base, not knowing that the Pentagon and the Japanese Ministry of Defense were already discussing countermeasures against a suspected mutiny.

They were just a two-day journey from their destination, too…

However, even after the Pentagon confirmed that the Japanese Antarctic research crew was committing treason, they only warned their own bases