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Furukawa, aren’t you going to report in? Shall I make it?

[Sigh] Yes, you go ahead.

All right.

Base unit, this is area A. Standby, I’m going to report on unit number 3. Let me know as soon as you are recording.

This is base unit. Go ahead, inspection team.

It’s exactly 8:38. Temperature and humidity the same as unit 6. Have recharged to full capacity, voltage stabile. Silver iodide, OK.

Morio? That’s not a proper report!

Oh, the doctor! Ah… yes sir!

Each inspection must be a thoroughly detailed confirmation. I will decide what is the same and what is OK.

Right! Sorry sir.

Uh-huh… he’s a stickler. I don’t like that doctor.

He’s not the only thing I don’t like around here. (Grunt) The island’s much too hot. The heat makes it hard even to think. That thing’s out again! [?] I’ll be ready in case it sees us!

It’s gone back again.

(Grunt) Sooner we get off this island, the better I’ll like it!

You said there was something wrong with the high-altitude component, right?

Uh-huh.

What’s wrong?

The printed circuit has a break.

Then change the component. The experiment’s too important. I want everything to work right.

Yes sir.

[Sigh] I don’t know why I agreed to come to this island.

You volunteered, I thought.

That’s right. I figured there’s a lot I could learn working for a famous scientist like Dr. Kusumi. And actually it’s turned out even better than I expected.

So why complain, eh?

Well the only trouble is he keeps us on our toes, day and night! He’s got us going 24 hours a day. I get homesick once in a while for an ice-cold glass of beer.

I know what you mean. Thanks, Ozawa. Hmm? There’s some interference!

Huh! It’s happening again!

Get a bearing, and hurry!

OK! Too late. That’s the end of the interference.

Were you able to get a fix on it?

South-southwest.

It’s strange, I just can’t figure it out. Something’s causing it, but what?

I wish I knew the answer.

Hmm.

Oh!

What is it?

Who are they? We are going to have visitors!

It’s impossible! Nobody’s supposed to know that we’re here. The project’s known only to the United Nations commission on agriculture.

You’re right. Then the United Nations must have sent it.

Hi! Nice of you to come and meet me. I don’t have a lot to carry, just my luggage, but I’ll take care of it myself.

Who are you, huh?

Maki Goro’s the name. A reporter and photographer.

You’ll have to go home.

I’m sorry but I won’t go.

I can’t permit you to stay.

No? I want a story and I’m staying ’til I get it. I will not go home.

There isn’t any story.

So you plan to sit there forever?

Right.

You can’t stay on the island. We don’t want any publicity at all at this time.

I didn’t come here to do publicity. I just dropped in after I felt a pain in my stomach.

Oh you did, eh?

That’s right. You see, whenever I think there’s a good story, I get this sort of ache. And my stomach doesn’t lie, that’s how I know I’m on to a good story. And I’m staying right here ’til I get it. Now isn’t it the same with you? You start out making tests and you don’t stop ’til you get what you want.

You’re being smart. Too smart!

You know, sir, I guess he’ll have to stay. There’s no way to send him back. And after all, we are shorthanded in this place, Doctor. Let’s assign him a little work, eh? I can think of a dozen necessary chores like cleaning and KP and trash dispo-

Now wait a minute!

It’s either that or start swimming home. What do you say, Doctor?

Do you plan to leave that lifejacket on forever?

Huh?

Aha! You’re officially accepted. You’re now a member here.

(Chuckles)

You’d better be a good cook, though. (Laughs)

What’s that? What’s that strange noise?

We’re about to find out.

(Group chatter)

Look, I can see it!

Up there!

A huge mantis!

Come back here! You can’t go into the jungle after dark, it’s too dangerous!

I didn’t get a shot…

Mr. Fujisaki, were you able to find the giant mantis?

Don’t you think you’d better concentrate on making a good dinner for tonight?

I, uh… Hey! Anything interesting happen out there?

There’s nothing interesting anywhere on this cursed island.

I guess the heat make ’em feel like that, huh?

Uh-huh. It gets everybody here. It’s maddening. I don’t know how much longer any of us will be able to stay here.

Why do you say that?

We’ve all been on this spooky island three months already.

Uh-huh, that’s interesting. You think it’s spooky, eh?

Oh? What do you got there? [?]

Just greens to make a salad.

But we use that for washing clothes in.

I know. Nobody’s been using it today though.

Oh that’s what you think! Look, Morio washed his clothes in it this morning!

Uh… huh? Ew…

Ah, Goro. What’s for dinner? Are we going to have stewed vegetables again tonight?

Goro’s got a new specialty. [Laughs]

Those vegetables look wilted. Why don’t you get fresh ones?

These were the only ones I could find.

Try something else. We call it Solgel spinach. Most of it’s been picked from around the camp. You’ll find a whole lot of it back in the jungle.

Oh, uh-huh.

(Gasps)

This proves it. [?] The weather conditions are getting a lot better. If it continues like this, you can start your testing, sir.

Mmm. That low pressure area there could cause us trouble, I think.

I don’t think it will. Do you?

I’m not sure, sir.

High altitude winds should push it to the north. Otherwise, it will remain stationary. And that will be good.

(Grunt) Well now, in slightly less than 24 hours, our test can start.

(Group mutters)

Oh, so soon?

That’s good news. Very good news.

Doctor?

Hmm?

Are you going to try to freeze this island?

Don’t ask so many questions.

I can’t help worrying what’ll happen to that native girl.

What native girl?

That’s ridiculous. It’s uninhabited, the entire island.

Is it? I saw a girl with my own eyes.

You just imagined it. Every part of this island was searched, right?

(All agree)

(Yes, all of it.)

But she could have been hiding. Please don’t start your test until you get her to safety.

Who cares about her! It’d mean just one more delay, that’s all. And all we want to do is get off this island, so let’s get the test over with!

Doctor, is the test really that important?

Yes. Mhmm. The result could change the future of everyone in just a short time. You claim you’re a journalist, so you know how quickly the Earth’s population is reaching its limit, hmm?

Yes.

Know what children then’ll face?

They’ll starve to death. In only a few years, there won’t be enough for anyone.

Mhmm. And so our plan is to make use of all the wastelands here on Earth: the Siberian tundra, the African deserts, South American jungles. At present they can be used for very little. And yet, if we can control the weather conditions as well as climate and temperature, we’ll make fertile lands of them.

Can you really control weather?

Yes, in theory we can. And that’s why we’re here: to test that theory.

Let me ask you another question.

Mhmm?

If you’re working for the good of the world, why keep it secret, huh?

For a good reason. Anyone who knows about it could turn any area on the Earth to ice.

Oh.

In the wrong hands, such power could create havoc. Try to get a good night’s sleep. At dawn we’ll start the tests.

Wind velocity: 3. No clouds. Temperature: 98. Humidity: 64.

Zero in exactly twenty more minutes.

Five minutes to zero. All units stand by.

Where’s that newspaper reporter?

Oh, uh, he’s somewhere around. He was here five minutes ago, sir.

You’d better sound the alarm.

Ah.

Two minutes to zero. Return to base unit immediately!

Girl! You don’t need to hide! You’ve got to get out of this area!

Thirty seconds to zero.

Start experim (?): ten seconds! Eight. Seven. Six. Five. Four. Three. Two. One. Zero!

Refrigeration unit.

Refrigeration units, beginning to go up. Temperature unit: -1200.

Balloon’s altitude 300, and it’s still climbing steadily. 400.

Good. Stand by to blow it up. Ignite at 800 feet.

600. 700. Nearing 800. 800!

Blow it up.

An updraft has started, sir. It’s drawing the hot air away from the island as expected.

Start operating the towers.

Yes sir.

Eject silver iodide!

Now where is she?

Temperature has dropped ten degrees centigrade since the experiment began!

It’s working so far, Doctor. I’d say it’s a success.

Hmm. Has Goro come back yet?

No, sir. Let’s hope he doesn’t catch pneumonia out there.

Look, the temperature is still dropping. It’s already much colder.

Good!

Cut the system for cooling and start up heating operation.

Activate the solar heat stage and launch the radioactive unit.

Uh-oh, the remote control unit’s not working!

It’s not?

Doctor! The globe (?) transmitter doesn’t respond. It’s completely out!

Try another frequency. What is it, hmm?

It seems as though something’s jamming the wavelengths.

[Sigh] Can we get the unit down in time?

Sorry, sir, it’s impossible.

What’ll happen if we can’t detonate it correctly?

It’d be a disaster. We’ve got to try to do it. Otherwise the unit will cause intense heat and a radioactive storm. Haven’t you made contact?

No, not yet.

The radioactive capsule created a chain reaction. Solgel Island became the center of a radioactive storm. The temperature rose to nearly 200°. The tremendous heat precipitated a thunder storm of cloud burst proportions and the rain that fell was near the boiling point.