Picking out a pair of pearl earrings from the counter, Lynn only spent 2 minutes and 9 US dollars, and then calmly teased the charming female clerk, and waited for her to wrap the earrings in exquisite packaging, and then walked to the door unhurriedly, deliberately stopping at the door for a moment. Skilled shoe-shiners generally grasped the timing well, and when a boy of fifteen or sixteen years old came first, Lynn ignored it, and took a few steps to the side.

"Sir, do you want to shine your shoes?" This is a very immature child's voice, the child who ran to Lynn looked like he was ** years old, wearing a shabby vest and shorts, and a pair of rotten slippers on his feet, but his face was very clean, and his big eyes were also bright, and he looked like a poor but educated child.

"Hey, let's go!" The captain sat in a taxi and greeted him.

Because he didn't have his own name, Lynn simply pretended not to hear, put one foot on the shoeshine board, and waited until the captain called a second time, he overlooked it in surprise: "Oh, right away, wait a minute!" ”

The shoe boy had already dusted his shoes diligently, and the captain came and ripped Lynn away in a rough manner.

Lynn lit a cigarette and bent down to pat the dust off her trouser leg, but she was talking to the shoe boy, "Hey, kid, can you do me a little favor?" There's a lost and found sign at the exit of the train station in front, you look for a pen or something, draw three circles side by side in the bottom right corner, and at 6 o'clock in the evening, there should be one or two very young gentlemen waiting there, you give them these two cigarettes, and they ask them to give you two dollars, and I'll pay you a dollar in advance, how about it? ”

The shoe boy raised his head: "Sir, you mean that I will do what you say and get a total of three dollars?" ”

"Yes!" Lynn said with a serious face: "But you must remember that it is three circles side by side, at 6 o'clock in the evening, and these two cigarettes that must not be exchanged with ordinary cigarettes, if you miss it, the 2 dollars will be earned by someone else!" Do you understand? ”

The shoe boy nodded hurriedly: "No problem, sir, I will definitely be able to do it!" ”

"Alright, it's time to polish these shoes!" Lynn took the opportunity to change his other foot to a shoe-shine stool, let the shoe boy wipe it a few times, and then took the opportunity to pay for it, took out two cigarettes from his pocket and a dollar coin that he had just made change in the store, stuffed them into the shoe boy's pocket, and winked at him: "The smart boy will definitely be able to complete the task, goodbye!" ”

"Goodbye sir!" The shoe boy replied childishly but seriously.

Pinning his hopes on a **-year-old American boy, when walking back to the taxi, Lynn's state of mind is really difficult to describe as "relieved", but this is the method he can find with the highest chance of success - if he hopes that the negligence of this seemingly absent captain may lead to the end of stealing chickens and rice, once exposed, he may be waiting for a hopeless prison life. Not to mention that there are no women, even Coke can't be drunk.

The captain didn't complain about Lynn's dragging, but carefully checked the gift that Lynn had just bought, and even didn't hesitate to open the package and box. Lynn looked at this guy indifferently, and when he was done busy, he asked with great resentment, "Can you help me repack it when I go back?" ”

The captain casually returned the box to Lynn and said lightly, "Naturally, someone will be in charge!" ”

Lynn was not angry, not at all, because the gift was to be sent to the Empire's intelligence liaison office in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Of course, even if the Americans had sent people directly to Argentina to investigate, they would not have easily discovered the mystery, not because of the new level of work of German intelligence officers in South America, but because of the complex political environment and the sympathetic and supportive attitude of a large number of German residents who had emigrated in the early 20th century towards the Third Reich (a situation that was also common in the United States, but was curbed by Roosevelt's forceful measures).

For the next 7 hours, Lynn became a witness to the love of a pair of American lovers, lunch at a Western restaurant, afternoon at a movie theater, dinner at a Mexican restaurant and a walk after dinner. It was precisely because of this positive and cooperative attitude of his that the captain extended his right hand to him for the first time on the return journey.

"Is this a thank you?" Lynn asked bluntly.

"Whatever you want to understand." "I had a very good day. ”

Regardless of success or not, the key to intelligence has been sent, and Lynn's mentality has changed a little at the end of the day, and he said with a smile: "As a thank you, don't you reveal how this romantic and wonderful relationship began?" ”

The captain paused, perhaps hesitating, perhaps just reminiscing about the sweetest beginning, and then he spoke: "A year and seven months ago, my colleague and I were dining in that restaurant at noon, and she came in an apron...... I thought she was a waitress, but in fact, she was the daughter of the restaurant owner, hehe, it was very funny. Later, in order to apologize, I specially bought a bouquet of flowers, she was very nice and kind, and then every time I came out of vacation, I had to send a bouquet of flowers, until last Christmas, she promised to be my fiancée, as long as the war was over, we would get married. ”

Such a story did not sound new to Lynn, and the way the two men started was too dramatic to raise doubts about the woman's motives—if it weren't for the terrible intelligence work of the Germans in the United States, Lynn might have tried her luck to see if she was a colleague who had come here with the same purpose.

People who are immersed in happiness are often willing to share their own happiness with others, and they are willing to share the happiness of others, and the captain then asked, "What about you?" Tell us about your Italian girlfriend? ”

"We? We met on a resort beach in southern Argentina, and I was already a student at the University of La Plata, which is the best university in Argentina......" Lynn chatted half-blowing, but people were in danger and had to be on guard, so they had to take care of it without saying a word, so they had to briefly go through their brains before saying a word, and confirm that this sentence would not be caught by the other party with obvious loopholes, so the speaker was not very happy, but the listener returned to the test base of the atomic bomb with relish, and Lynn temporarily put down his psychological burden, Every time he said that he was still doing Mr. Nan Guo's errands on the surface. In a grand physics research project, all the small details are actually not sloppy, especially the data calculation and proofreading, but the data that has been sent out by Lynn's hand is not complimentary, but few people have found errors and omissions in these works. Secretly, the wolf mixed in the flock did not relax his observation of the surrounding environment, he exchanged all his salary for cigarettes or beer drinks, and used some seemingly random opportunities to talk with experts, technicians, logistics personnel, officers, guards, etc., and sifted out some valuable military information through people's speech and behavior.

The U.S. Army captain, who looked a little like Wing, the commander of the company of brothers, was still in charge of the vigilance of the two main test areas of the AB of the base, and he was off duty and had more opportunities to meet with Lynn than others. After Albuquerke's vacation trip, he is obviously happy to chat with Lynn when he has no tasks, and although the topic is mostly focused on women, it will inadvertently bring out some hidden information. Gradually, Lynn engraved in his mind the crucial contents of the changing of the guard, the division of the company and platoon, and the situation of the officers, and he believed that these vital contents would play a big role sooner or later.

Since entering the base, Lynn's dormitory for the "assistant researcher" has remained unchanged, with no other household appliances in the room except for fans, desk lamps, and electric shavers, and can only listen to the radio during meals - the only way to receive public information is completely controlled by the military, and most of the time, people can only listen to music programs and relatively time-laggy positive news. The Potsdam Conference ended without a hitch and the Potsdam Proclamation was released as scheduled, but it was not until the end of July that Lynn learned from the radio that there was no information that the head of the Allied Powers had been attacked and suffered casualties, or whether it was a deliberate concealment on the part of the Allies, or whether the Reich's assault had failed completely.

In early August, in this highly classified test base, the news that the US military was about to use the atomic bomb had not yet spread, but many of the physicists at the core of the test base were full of sorrow, especially Oppenheimer, who was angry one after another in just a few days because of the inadvertent negligence of the technicians, which also made the atmosphere in the base quietly change.

On August 6, halfway through dinner, a middle-aged man's voice suddenly sounded on the radio: "Please be quiet, everyone, we will listen to important news next." ”

After a hissing noise, the radio was tuned to the appropriate channel.

"Earlier today...... The Army Air Corps dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, a powerful bomb, and there is reason to believe that our atomic bomb destroyed the entire city in an instant, and President Harry S. Truman said that Allied scientists had mastered the most basic forces in the universe, which was good news for the side that represented justice...... At least we don't have to worry about this terrible weapon being used by the enemy to threaten our cities......"

From the beginning to the end of the broadcast, there was silence in the restaurant, and everyone put down their utensils, kept their posture in a daze, listened extremely attentively like a sculpture, and judged the meaning of the news with their own thoughts. At the end of the broadcast, Lynn saw several scientists with mono-letter codes leave their seats with mixed expressions, with unfinished food on the table.

Gradually, some people began to cheer and celebrate, and even whistled, saying things like "I deserve it" and "I deserve it", and some bought beer and sat on a chair to blow the bottle alone. These people, who were born, raised, and completely belong to this era, are standing at a fork in the road of history, feeling optimistic about the road ahead, or feeling confused, apprehensive and panicked, Pandora's box is open, and few can accurately predict how it will affect the world.

(To be continued)