In the core laboratory of the "Manhattan Project", Lynn was just a very inconspicuous little person, and the work assigned to him was the same as when he was a junior staff officer in the Imperial Strategic Staff, doing some very technical work with the technicians under the top physicists, sometimes doing boring manual work such as calculating data over and over again, sometimes building models. Oppenheimer occasionally thought of the "gifted" young physicist, the son of a German-Jew, and discussed with him about the theory of nuclear fusion.

Fortunately, as the director of such a large laboratory and the head of technology, Oppenheimer was very busy, really busy, and had to walk away several times because of other things in the middle of his words, which made Lynn sit on a psychological roller coaster again and again, constantly switching in a nervous, depressed, and relieved mood, and gradually there was a kind of tortured pain, eager to find out the environment, explore the structure, recognize the personnel, and find an opportunity to slip away or send the information out. However, the test base was heavily guarded, and in every detail it was inferior to the Empire's "refuge" base. Not only are the buildings, laboratories and equipment given a simple code name, but so are the individual researchers. Oppenheimer's code name is A, and people call him "Dr. A" to his face, in addition to Dr. FM, Dr. B, Dr. FL, Dr. R, Dr. S, Dr. AS, etc., just by looking at their faces, where can Lynn recognize their identities.

In this inexplicable atmosphere, the wolf spent its first week in the sheepfold. Time is the best emotional soothing, not only for the emotional side, but also for life. In the following time, the most celebratory thing was that Comrade Lynn, who pretended to be an Argentine exchange scholar, passed the preliminary examination of the American side, and returned the physics books, notes, and personal belongings he had brought before, but the small telescope sent by Bach was missing. This is the end of the daily "commuting" escorted by American soldiers, except that they cannot leave the base for half a step, and they cannot set foot in the forbidden areas that require special authorization to enter, and other treatment is basically the same as that of ordinary technical employees, and even the first week's salary is also paid.

Oppenheimer fulfilled his promise, in fact, objectively understand, this laboratory brings together the world's top physicists, hundreds of thousands of people, almost half of whom are not Americans, or only in recent years have been exiled to the United States experts and scholars, if they want to carry out strict identity scrutiny one by one, the United States does not have so much energy, not to mention, their intelligence and security business in 1945 has not yet expanded to the world. Moreover, as long as the test base is firmly guarded and no information is allowed to leak out, the effect of secrecy will be achieved.

Although the control of the base has been slightly relaxed, Lynn, who is on an intelligence mission for the first time, still does not dare to relax a little psychologically, even if there is no American GI by his side, he is still cautious and follows the rules every day, burying his head in the work he can, never copying the formulas and data in the laboratory in his notebook or other places (he doesn't understand it, and he is afraid of making a mistake), nor does he chatter or talk with people indiscriminately, let alone gaze at any important physical expert unconsciously.

The passage of time always follows the law of relativity, some people say that it is long, and some people say that it is short. Since Lynn entered the lab, Oppenheimer and the leading scientists have had mixed emotions as the days passed, with tension, heaviness, excitement and longing mixed together. It is naturally difficult to understand the inside story just by superficial observation, but thanks to her diligent and kind attitude, coupled with her greatly improved English level, Lynn is gradually getting acquainted with the people around her day by day.

In this experimental base, especially in the departments where theoretical research is most concentrated, people do not always communicate in English, and the familiar, local accent of German is introduced to the ears from time to time, and when Lynn first arrives, he thinks that this is a specially arranged test by the American side, so he only listens and does not interject. Over time, he realized that German was the second official language here. Without him, a significant number of top physicists and their assistants were German-Jews who had fled to the United States before and after the war, as well as non-Jewish physicists who had emigrated from German-speaking Europe for political or other reasons. Most of these people are also able to speak English, but they are not proficient in it, and they are more able to express their opinions clearly in German when discussing more specialized theoretical issues.

It is a loss to recognize German Jews as fathers, but at the beginning, he won the sympathy of the American [***] officials and Oppenheimer, and later when discussing problems with these persecuted experts who had no choice but to leave Europe, this also invisibly narrowed the distance between Lynn and their identities. Although the rules of the laboratory are that they can only mention code names and cannot name them, as long as they pay attention to the conversation, Lynn can also speculate about their research direction and significance and status in the atomic bomb research and development project from the project they are responsible for, and continue to collect very important information from their words, including the approximate test date, location and method of the first test atomic bomb, and even know that this guy belongs to a complex implosion-type fission atomic bomb with multiple plutonium cores. How much conventional explosives are on the outside, and how much of it is expected to explode -- experts optimistically estimate that such a superbomb would have a power of more than 5,000 tons of TNT, but later generations clearly state that 20,000 tons are the place where theory can never replace practice.

The wolf hiding in the sheepfold though collected James. Mr. Bond could hardly match the key information, but Lynn's lack of preparation in advance and relying on the disadvantage of relying on chance to enter the test base were also fully apparent at this time. High-tech radio equipment, no; Arranged for the reception within the enemy, there was none; There were no escape plans, routes, and tools. While planning her next step, Lynn painfully realized that she was alone, and that engaging in intelligence was the same as fighting on the battlefield - individual heroism could never become a big thing!

As the day of the atomic bomb test approached, all Lynn could do was wait for an opportunity, and in the dead of night, he always asked himself the same question: The empire has come to an end, why can't those in power work together to get through it?

In Lynn's lonely and hopeless waiting, July 15, 1945 arrived. It was the day before the atomic bomb test was scheduled, and the entire base was strangely busy, with teams of soldiers coming and going, cars, trucks, and even airplanes roaring incessantly, and there seemed to be many tracked vehicles passing nearby. Lynn was hopeful and wanted to take advantage of the chaos to find an opportunity to slip away, but the guards at the base were like the backline of the Italian football team, and they were in good shape. Oppenheim disappeared early in the morning, and the top physical scientists also left through the passage one by one after verifying their identities, and except for the technicians who were assigned to go to the explosion site to collect and analyze data, everyone else had to stay in the office space honestly. When all the key figures were gone, the experimental base with hundreds of technicians was like an abandoned wasteland, where people had no intention of working, and most of them were discussing the impending atomic bomb test curiously in private, except for Lynn who sat there stunned, drinking cup after cup of coffee, with no taste in his mouth.

It turns out that the funniest and most ironic thing in the world is not being deceived by a seemingly good liar, nor being defeated by a seemingly cowardly opponent, but having the skills of a tiger and a leopard, but being firmly locked in an iron cage at the most critical moment.

It turns out that there is a deep pain in this world called "loneliness".

Lynn was reluctant to give up trying, he tried his best to find the last chance of a glimmer of opportunity, lunch, toilet, bath, all the ways he had conceived before, but they all failed, and the last time was even discovered by the guards. As Mr. Key and the key experts left the base for the test site, the U.S. guards put aside their usual ideological burden, saw Lynn's behavior as a manifestation of pure clumsy stupidity, and gave merciless taunts while repairing the window fence that he had "accidentally" broken. Looking at the faces of these guys, Lynn wanted to use violence to knock them down, and then snatch a car and flee quickly, but he finally chose to forbear.

The empty base made Lynn destined to be sleepless this night. Powerless, helpless, and inactive, this filled his heart with loss. I thought that in the face of the fierce Soviet armored frenzy, he was still able to hold on to the trenches with the robes, and resist the opponent's attack with iron will, but now that the smoke is gradually dissipating, he came here with a strange will, and the enemy he faced was neither fierce nor cunning, but they were like invisible virtual bodies, and he didn't even have a chance to punch!

Is it really that there is no chance, or is it that you have not found the right way at all?

His rhetorical question made Lynn stir in the dark, and he suddenly realized that once tomorrow passed, the Americans would officially have a nuclear bomb, and the Soviet Union, the only one in the world that could confront it, would inevitably go to great lengths to acquire atomic bomb technology. This seems to be a rift that follows the trajectory of history, but it is the biggest opportunity in just four years. If this is used to provoke the contradictions between the two superpowers, to detonate in advance the fierce conflict that would have arisen during the Cold War confrontation, and to bring back the changes in the world pattern that had already taken shape -- since the hegemony of the United States and the Soviet Union, both of which had risen in the middle and late 20 th century, plunged the whole world into the terrifying shadow of nuclear war, and the United States, which eventually monopolized the world hegemony, bullied the weak and ran amok at the end of the 20 th century and the beginning of the 21 st century, why can't they be ruthlessly put on a fierce display before they become ferocious beasts?

Arrogant? Evil?

No! Lynn overturned these stereotypical positions in his heart, the winner is the king, the loser is the villain, and when he stands at the pinnacle of power, that is the time to judge justice and evil, reason and madness!

(To be continued)