Before coming to Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, Lynn did not have much vision for this city known as the Venice of Northern Europe, after all, most of the Nordic cities he had come into contact with in the past gave him the impression of small scale, old layout, monotonous color, and many cities were expanded on the basis of ancient fortresses. It's like a female surname living in Scandinavia, burly and tall, but often lacking the femininity and elegance of a female surname. Coupled with previous visits to the famous international cities of Neva, Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam and Copenhagen, Lynn felt that Stockholm was not as famous as it could be.

It was already nightfall when we arrived in Stockholm, and the hotel where we had arranged accommodation was located in the southwest corner of the city, across the water from Kings Island. The cold sea breeze howled overnight, and the next morning, Lynn walked to the old stone balcony wrapped in thick pajamas, originally wanting to smoke a cigarette, but the city under the sun made him feel like he was in a fairy tale fairyland. Standing on a high vantage point and looking into the distance, the proud capital of the Swedes is so calm and dignified on the vast, snow-capped coast, the entrance to Lake Mälaren, the entire city is spread over more than a dozen islands and a peninsula, the city is crisscrossed by waterways, and countless bridges of all sizes connect them together. It has both an elegant, antique style and the prosperity of a modern city. In the old town, there are splendid palaces, imposing churches and towering minarets, while the narrow streets and alleys show the charm of medieval streets. In the new town, there are high-rise buildings, neat streets, green trees and sparkling waves. Cars, ships, ospreys, and seagulls compete on the ground, at sea, and in the air, adding infinite vitality to the city.

For no reason, Lynn remembered "Ermania", the legendary imperial holy city built under the South Pole, which turned out to be nothing more than a cover used by the planners and implementers of the "Aryan Ark Project" to divert the attention of the allies, whether it was these powerful men or the elusive Führer himself, who from the beginning only wanted to build Berlin into a real "Germania". Now that the empire's majestic temples have collapsed, all that remains is a "refuge" that hangs in the sea, and if you can use Sweden's geography, population, and economic and industrial power as a cornerstone, and turn a beautiful city like Stockholm into Germania, it will be a dream change in today's situation.

After all, dreams only exist in the imagination of nothingness, the Swedish people support their king, and with the usual toughness and tenacity of the Nordics, and the intricacies of the international environment, it is impossible for a fallen empire to "borrow a corpse" here. Biting on an expensive cigarillo, Lynn leaned her hands on the cold, hard stone railing, and looked out over the spire-lined King's Island, a modern area north of the city with the most advanced steel, machinery, chemistry, oil refining, textiles, universities, and scientific research institutions in Northern Europe, and the Nobel Center for Physics in these complexes.

A cigarette was almost finished when Dinah pushed the door open and walked onto the balcony. On the occasion when the two get along, she is still so helpless and sad, but she does not refuse to talk to Lynn.

Lynn looked back to see her wife's chocolate-colored hair draped in a natural and fresh way, her traditional white dressing gown made her look like a princess living in a castle, and her bare feet looked so soft and delicate on the stone slabs that anyone could not help but be amazed by it.

"It's still so peaceful and beautiful, you don't have to worry about the war." Sakura's red lips quivered briskly, jumping out sweet and melodious syllables.

Having not heard Dinah say that she had been to Stockholm before, Lynn asked curiously.

The Plain Men replied lightly: "My family traveled when I was 12 years old." ”

Well, I really shouldn't have brought it up again, Lynn thought with some chagrin. That group of damn SS scumbags, looking for a dozen stunning beauties and kidnapping their families, even if the kidnapping is over, there is no record in the end, and people don't know where to go, I don't want to think about these clean women who are not extraordinarily beautiful may one day become the wives of their top bosses, are they really brainless or have other hidden secrets?

Facing the direction of the rising sun, Dinah closed her eyes and tilted her head slightly, allowing her face to be fully immersed in this soft light, calmly breathing in the breeze with the scent of the sea. Lynn didn't speak, and after a while, she spoke: "As I stood here, I suddenly felt that the answer to the question you asked me last time in Copenhagen could be found. ”

Lynn squeezed the last small cigarette butt in her hand and looked into the distance: "Yes, the Third Reich's latent power in Sweden is weakening over time, and they are basically unable to find two people living incognito in a big city like Stockholm, but if we really choose this path, we will give up hope of finding your family, right?" ”

"Do you think there's hope?" Dinah asked rhetorically in a tone as cold as air.

What people see with their eyes is not necessarily the truth of the matter, and as time went on, Lynn became more and more aware of this. In fact, from the first day Dinah appeared in his life force, he felt that there must be a lot of things hidden behind this incident that he didn't know yet. Until now, what he has been able to touch and understand is still very one-sided and marginal, and the so-called chief strategic staff officer of the base camp still only enjoys the so-called privileges from the perspective of the overall situation.

"As long as there is a glimmer of hope...... Lynn snuffed out the cigarette butt, and that's all he said, the half of the cake behind it, it's better not to paint it.

In late winter and early spring, Northern Europe is in the stage of long nights and short days, and the sun has just risen, and the clock is already pointing to ten o'clock in the morning. After washing, the two of them enjoyed a hearty breakfast in the suite, but their minds were not on their appetite. When it was time for the last coffee, Andriy and his wife came and knocked on the door.

After the door opened, Andriy smiled and said, "Do you mind having someone else to share with on this honeymoon?" ”

This period of time seems to be limited, but there is not much time at all. Since the Führer insisted that the secret funds of the Empire could only be used under the co-chairmanship of Lynn, Andry, and Courtland, and under the supervision of special commissioners from the Gendarmerie and the Base Staff, much of the work could not begin until they were in person, so they still had a lot of work to do before the spring came.

Pouring hot coffee for Andriy and his wife, Lynn went straight to the topic: "Go through the capital injection procedures today?" ”

Andri smiled unhurriedly and said: "The bank has communicated in advance, and it will be done quickly, don't you think this Stockholm is a particularly charming place?" ”

Lynn replied simply: "Indeed, it is a completely different style from Berlin and Paris. ”

"This is my fourth visit to Stockholm, and to be honest, I really envy the kings of Norway, how wonderful it is for them to live in this fairyland that seems like a mortal is difficult to set foot in!" ”

Although he agreed with this very much, Lynn still said calmly: "No matter how beautiful a city is, it is built brick by brick, and one day you will become famous, maybe you will take your wife to buy a piece of land in a place with more natural scenery and build a warm and comfortable little castle?" ”

"This must be a long-cherished wish between you and Dinah!" Andriy laughed.

Lynn looked at Dinah, barely smiling.

With Andri's shrewd eye, he should have seen the strangeness of the Lynn couple's mood and demeanor in recent times, but he never took the initiative to inquire about Lynn, and it seemed that he respected others, but in this way, Lynn felt that he should know something about his position and experience.

"By the way, our intelligence agents have just received a very important news: the Nobel Research Center for Physics in Sweden has introduced two high-speed centrifuges, which are likely to be used for atomic research." In the presence of the two ladies, Andriy did not shy away from the topic of official business, and the ladies did not intervene much.

Lynn had just picked up her coffee cup and paused slightly when she heard the news. The centrifuge reminded him of Iran, which dared to argue with the US imperialism in his previous era, and the West Asians used centrifuges to separate enriched uranium. In fact, there are many ways to enrich uranium on a large scale, and in the early days, the gas diffusion method was mainly used, that is, natural uranium was first made into uranium hexafluoride gas. After refining and purifying, uranium hexafluoride gas is driven by a compressor through a porous diffusion membrane, and the most critical component on the diffusion machine is the diffusion membrane, which has hundreds of millions of micropores with a diameter of about a few hundredths of a millimeter per square centimeter on the diffusion membrane. The uranium hexafluoride gas molecule composed of uranium-238 and uranium-235 has a slight mass difference. When these gases are forced through the diffusion membrane in the diffuser with a compressor, the gas molecules composed of uranium-235 are light, and the proportion of each pass through the diffusion membrane is slightly larger than that of the gas molecules composed of uranium-238. Each set of diffusion membranes constitutes a separation stage. It is necessary to pass through thousands of such separating stages in series. If you want to increase the concentration to more than 90%, you have to go through three or four thousand separation stages.

The centrifugal method is to pass uranium hexafluoride gas through a hollow cylinder that rotates at high speed. When the diameter of the cylinder is ten centimeters, the rotational speed reaches 6 to 100,000 revolutions per minute. At such a large speed, the slightly heavier uranium-238 uranium hexafluoride gas molecules are more concentrated near the cylinder wall due to the large centrifugal force, while the slightly lighter uranium-235 gas molecules are more concentrated in the central area of the cylinder. The tandem stage required to produce 3% concentration is only a few tenths of the diffusion method, but due to the limitation of materials, the size of the centrifuge cannot be too large, and its production capacity per unit is much lower than that of the diffuser. With the same scale of production, the number of centrifuges is more than dozens of times more than that of diffusers.

In the 21st century, the principles and manufacturing diagrams of nuclear weapons are available on the Internet, and some young people abroad have even used laboratory equipment to create small atomic bombs. Unfortunately, Lynn was not a genius boy who loved physics since childhood, and he said to Andri, "Centrifuge...... It also appears to be a method of refining enriched uranium. ”

Andriy touched his chin: "Sure enough! Our intelligence officer said that the Swedish political axe had recently put up a guard around the research center, so that's why! Ha, simply, let's use special operations forces to carry out a Los Amos-style raid and snatch the technicians and key equipment back to the base! ”

Although the sea distance from the "refuge" to Stockholm is about the same as going to North America, it is very close by land and air, and the power of the Swedish military cannot be compared with the American imperialism at this time. As long as there is sufficient planning and preparation in advance, the probability of a successful raid should be higher than that of the previous battle of Las Amos, and if it is cleverly acted, it can also blame the Russians and add another fierce fire to the already tense US-Soviet relations.

"Wouldn't that be a big risk?" Mrs. Andriy interjected in a rare way. In terms of the proportion of losses, the raid on Los Amos was relatively successful, but in another operation at about the same time, the attack on the Allied Heads of State assembly, more than 50 people were killed, except for a small number of people who were responsible for liaison and support, and they were counterattacked by the Allied counterintelligence department when the United States was close to the real target...... Andriy replied confidently, "General Gargo has done a perfect job in this regard, and if he can plan it completely, the whole world will be shocked again!" ”

Hearing this, the two ladies each stared at each other with very different contents, and Lynn could not care what Madame Andriy thought of herself, but she could not ignore Dinah's thoughts. He turned his head to look at his young and beautiful wife, who was in a state of conflict, and made a non-caring expression to her.

Dinah apparently didn't think he could do "nothing to do with herself", so her reaction was calm and cold.

Andri, who was clearly optimistic about his idea, tirelessly said, "Either ...... We send people to find out the situation in the name of cooperation and exchange? This time it could be a physics researcher at the University of Buenos Aires or the University of Chile, or a high-level physics research center in South America, with staff and equipment readily available. ”

"Don't be in a hurry!" Lynn held the coffee cup in one hand and raised it in the other hand to signal Andriy to calm down for the time being, "We better be cautious about this matter!" ”

"How?" Andriy looked at him in amazement.

"It is not surprising that high-speed centrifuges are used in atomic physics research, and it is natural for Sweden to be on increased vigilance, but now international relations have become very tense because of our raid on the Los Amos atomic bomb test center in the United States, and this is a very delicate period," Lynn analyzed. Even if it is normal for the Nobel Prize Center for Physics to introduce high-speed centrifuges, I think the United States will definitely keep an eye on this place in an attempt to find the forces behind the kidnapping of experts and the seizure of technical drawings. ”

Andriy thought for a moment, and years of intelligence experience made it easy for him to understand the possible surnames of this hypothetical existence, and he touched his chin again: "That is...... Is it entirely possible that this is a game set up by the United States? ”

Lynn drank her coffee calmly, and although the judgment just now was a thought, she felt more and more reasonable after thinking about it. If this is a trap, it is not necessarily the Americans who are playing the trap, after all, in the Nordics, especially Sweden and Norway, the political axe and the European powers are much more closely connected and cooperative than the United States on the other side of the ocean. If you look at the weapons warehouses and museums of the Swedish army, the proportion of British and German manufacturing far exceeds that of other countries, and the British Empire has been in the decades between the two world wars, from the height of its power to its rapid decline. There is a way that a skinny camel is bigger than a horse, and the British overseas intelligence service's investment and control ability throughout Europe is also far stronger than that of the United States at this time. Although Britain was also theoretically suspicious in the Las Amos incident, from the point of view of the close cooperation between Britain and the United States, both Washington and London clearly distinguished between theoretical possibilities and reality, which can also be used to explain the speculation of the remnants of Germany.

British intelligence may have set a trap in Sweden, and the Soviets had the same motivation and ability to do so. Over the past few months, Kremlin's decision-makers have been under much speculation and pressure, and in the face of turbulent undercurrents, catching the real culprits is undoubtedly one of the most effective ways to get rid of suspicion. If they really think that a third party other than the United States is secretly indulging in this incident, and it is reasonable for them to put on a good show in Sweden to lure the snake out of the hole -- or to use this as an opportunity to put on a posture of waiting for the rabbit.

Seeing that Lynn did not speak, Andrie took out two individually wrapped and unopened cigars from his pocket, and the fine ingredients, exquisite workmanship and brand effect made this "Danneman" sold for 120 Swiss francs in Switzerland, which is equivalent to nearly 8 pounds, enough for a table of people to eat in a star-rated hotel, and most of these funds were taken from the public and private property looted by the Third Reich from the occupied territories during the war, and were counted as hard currency by Swiss bankers, Portuguese businessmen, and Spanish political axes.

Lynn did not refuse the cigar that Andriy handed over, but did not open the package, but placed it next to the coffee cup and let Andriy cut it slowly and methodically.

"Won't you go outside and smoke one?" Andriy gestured to Lynn.

Lynn put down her cool coffee and got up and walked with him to the balcony. Looking at this charming Nordic city again, his urge to take it for himself is still as strong as every man's thoughts about the beautiful women who walk by him.

Andriy lit his cigar and smoked as he said, "Let our people act rashly, first carefully observe the situation around the research center, if there are indeed traps, we can always find some anomalies, you say?" ”

With Dinah not around, Lynn became a ruthless character again: "The technicians and equipment there are certainly valuable, but if we can make the contradictions between the great powers come to the fore, we would rather not take anything from here." ”

"Sure enough, he is a person who does great things, and he has courage." Andriy said with a smile.

Lynn directly ignored such compliments: "When everyone's attention is focused on Stockholm, on the contradictions of the great powers, we jump out of this circle and add a real fire to the enemy's ass." ”

Andriy rubbed his scalp upside down with his thumb: "You mean ......"

Lynn looked to the northeast, that is, in the direction of Soviet Russia, and the dark line at the intersection of the sea and the sky was reflected in her eyes.

(To be continued)