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After telling Sugawara Keisuke about MacArthur's Bible.

Sander Humphrey's expression immediately turned serious, and he continued:

"All right, Mr. Sugawara. We're short on time, so there's no time to beat around the bush."

"I'm ordering you, as the commander of the Combined Fleet, to dispatch ships at once to track Huaxia's three survey vessels. You must secure the Data Pod at the earliest opportunity!"

"If this mission goes smoothly, I'll put in a good word for you when we return to Japan!"

Sugawara Keisuke hesitated briefly, but in the end he brought his feet together and bowed his head.

"Yes, sir!"

Although the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force was flying the Japanese national flag, in practice the Seventh Fleet, represented by Sander Humphrey, was in charge. They even referred to themselves internally as the Combined Fleet.

Sander Humphrey had the final say over the entire fleet. Now that he had given the order, Sugawara Keisuke could only comply.

Besides, Sugawara Keisuke's idea was just a vague hunch, unsupported by any solid evidence. Even he himself didn't really believe it could come true.

After all, this was an Intercontinental Missile.

The precision of an Intercontinental Missile was measured using CEP, an abbreviation for Circular Error Probability.

In theory—

A ballistic missile fired from one point would land at another, and the distance could be calculated using the principles of projectile motion. This was a purely physical process, a bit like the "free fall, ignoring air resistance" problems in physics textbooks of later generations.

In practice, however, various external factors, such as general aerodynamic conditions, could cause the actual impact point to differ from the ideal one.

Therefore, an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile's target was defined not as a precise geographic coordinate, but as a circular area with a certain radius around a