After more than a month, the school's administrators looked into the matter and only then learned what Chen had been up to. He was given more than a month's detention and graded D in Conduct and C in Military Training.
最後校方徹查，才被告密揭發，陳千武受罰在學校監禁一個多月，還得到「操行丁」、「軍訓丙」的期末成績。