At 10 a.m., just seven hours after landing, Lynn walked with Titchmel to a modest jeweler in Boston West to ask for a price for a single diamond.

Among the 24 diamonds given by Bach, Lynn chose only medium in size, luster and clarity, so as not to be too eye-catching. However, Boston is a traditional trading port after all, and the waiter of the jewelry merchant house took a very calm look, politely explained the inspection rules here to Lynn, and invited an appraiser to conduct an appraisal in person.

"$500!" An appraiser, with a long horse face and about forty years of age, quoted an estimate.

"$500? Make no mistake! Lynn was a little surprised, but his tone was not amazing, he frowned and thought about it, this diamond is more than two carats, how can it be worth tens of thousands of RMB in that era in later generations, and it is also six or seven thousand US dollars, and in 1945, it instantly shrank by one-tenth, this is the price at that time?

Changma replied lightly: "Our store has a history of nearly 100 years in Boston, and has always won the trust of customers with integrity. Eckvins. ”

Lynn looked at the nameplate on this guy's chest, although the other party was serious, maybe it was because of his foreign accent that he deliberately lowered the price, so he decided to change to another jewelry store to try the situation.

"This gentleman, if you don't sell it with us, you will need to pay a $5 appraisal fee for a separate appraisal."

Seeing Lynn picking up the diamond and preparing to leave, the young waiter reminded him.

Well, not to mention, the $5 could still be paid, and Lynn took out a $5 denomination from the extra roll of bills that Burtreme had given herself and put it on the counter.

The waiter took the money and said with a smile: "If you change your mind and come back at any time, the $5 will be refunded in full." ”

Previously, whether it was on the Eastern Front battlefield or in the "Shelter" base, Lynn really didn't have many opportunities to use money, so the concept of the current currency was also a little vague, and the appraiser who looked at the face of the long horse also had a similar expression, thinking that according to the price of diamonds, the 5 dollars was indeed not a small amount, and the three of them had breakfast in an ordinary café before, and the three of them spent 40 cents, and the food was relatively rich.

In any case, the rich boy, though only a rich Argentine boy, should still show his monetary generosity, Lynn snorted contemptuously, beckoned his attendant Titchmel to leave, and turned his head abruptly before going out, not hearing any disdain or similar glance at the counter.

Hmph, even if you still have a bit of cultivation.

Then two jewelry stores were changed, and the price of the same diamond was between $460 and $480, and it was indeed the highest price given by the appraiser with a long horse face. However, Lynn did not turn back because of the high price, he estimated that all 24 diamonds given by Bach were sold in jewelry stores, and the total price was only a little more than $10,000, so the $500,000 cashier's check was really a lot.

Walking out of the third jewelry store, Lynn looked left and right, and walked around the corner: "Let's go, Igo, go to the bookstore!" ”

Tanze, dressed as a poor scholar, stepped out of his inconspicuous corner. Assman is a new name tailor-made for him. Fearing that his activities in Boston would be monitored by Bertrane's people, Lynn deliberately arranged for him to keep a sentry in the back, but he paid close attention to the road without any abnormalities. It seems that the work of German intelligence agents in the United States is really 108,000 miles worse than their repressive domination at home.

Looking back on his months of battlefield career, it was not only the bosses and comrades-in-arms who helped Lynn the most, such as "The Butcher", Eric, Bach, and Dietrio, but also the "English-German Dictionary" and "German Conversation" that he found in the bookstore of the White Goatee in the East Prussian town of Halgen, which allowed him to overcome the pain of the initial language barrier, and only with communication could he make greater progress. Therefore, before arriving in Boston, he originally planned to go to the bookstore after temporarily settling in, although there was an interlude with a jeweler in the middle, but after that, he immediately took Tanze and Tchmel to find the largest bookstore in the neighborhood. However, instead of swimming in the ocean of knowledge, they purposefully selected the tools that would be most helpful for the trip - American textbooks, geography books, physics books. Of course, Lynn is interested in looking for books with Chinese characters, hoping to have at least one "Chinese-English Dictionary" to solve her troubles about those obscure English words. However, unfortunately, not only are there no bookshelves, but after consulting the staff at the bookstore, the answer is still negative.

I bought books in the bookstore, matched Tan with glasses in the optical store, and bought some essential daily necessities, and the day was consumed. Fortunately, Lynn said hello to the hotel concierge in advance, and it is only 5 kilometers from Boston Harbor to Harvard University, so you don't need to buy a train ticket or a long-distance bus ticket in advance, just hire a taxi. Therefore, after dinner, the three of them honestly stayed in the hotel room to make up for their own evils. Lynn is looking at Mary. Curie's compilation of research, including "General Theory of Radioactive Species", "Research on Radioactive Substances", and "Isotopes and Their Compositions", although these belong to early research theories, are still of great significance in modern physics, but the dense English text makes Lynn look a little headache, and another book, Heisenberg's "Theory of Quantum Mechanics", is also placed on the shelves of bookstores as ordinary research books for people to choose at will, and Lynn bought them as if he had found a treasure and put them properly in his luggage. Prepare for a long journey – the University of California is located on the West Coast of the United States, nearly 4,000 kilometers across, taking three days by train and more than a dozen hours by plane. However, for a non-physics major, it is not easy to understand these advanced research theories, so Lynn's purpose is to talk to people and quote some theoretical ideas in a way that cannot be handled in a few days or months.

Thanks to his early family education, Tanze was able to use English for basic conversations, but his English reading skills were still unsatisfactory, so he held Lynn's two "divine books" to make up for it.

Early the next morning, the three of them took their luggage and hailed a taxi with a green top plate at the door to the train station. Boston's taxi drivers don't seem as eager as their New York counterparts, but they chatter about the same. The middle-aged American man with a beard spoke with great interest about the recent incident: the trophies of American GIs returning from Europe were not only medals and honors, but also babies born to them by European women; Even in such a warm early summer, the Arabs were still tightly wrapped from head to toe, and Boston was also seen by the Yellow Oriental who had never seen the big world, and the English, who thought they were gentlemen but were very funny.

The taxi driver spoke American with a slight accent, Lynn could basically understand it, but he wasn't very interested in what he was saying, and it was very normal for a port city like Boston to have people from all over the world. Along the way, he secretly figured out and imitated the driver's way of speaking, the difference between American and English, and he would have a very direct experience after a conversation. Not long after, the taxi stopped in front of the main entrance of Haval, a place that countless young people once dreamed of. Standing here as an uninvited guest, Lynn felt not heroic, but a kind of envious apprehension -- the strength of the United States is not based on one or two superweapons and the military itself, but on the synthesis of economy, industry, resources, culture, and other aspects. A country without a traditional nation and history has become the most vibrant place in the world at this time, leaving many inspirations for people, but not many people in power can really understand it. Because of this, Lynn thought that even if the "Manhattan Project" of the United States could be destroyed this time, and even if the scientific and technological elites of the empire could make nuclear weapons based on the stolen materials, if the pattern of high-level thinking could not be fundamentally changed, the revival of the empire would still be just a hopeless utopia.

At noon, Brewer came as promised, and because he couldn't leave the action team alone, he had to bring Handmark, Diglio, and Wither. This did not surprise Lynn, and in fact, Brewer could not fulfill the task entrusted to him by himself.

After much deliberation, Lynn decided to take a risk and speak openly and honestly to the four-member action team. This is not only a trust trust, but also an "all-or-nothing" that makes full use of resourcefulness and emotion.

With Tanze and Titchmel around, Lynn led Brewer and the other four into a café, asked the waiter for a private room with relative reading power, and then expressed his judgment and worries to them.

After listening to Lynn's explanation, the four of them were really stunned. It has already taken a great risk to come to the United States from a long distance, and now there is a situation where the commander of the operation may slip away at any time, and it is difficult to maintain calm in the mentality of whoever changes.

"There's no way we can counterbalance him?" Handmark gritted his teeth.

Lynn looked at Diglio, and the look in his eyes confirmed his suspicions.

"What a operation! Planning, personnel, implementation, all messed up! Wither fouled up viciously, and of the eight people Lynn had chosen, this shooter who had previously served in the base's gendarmerie department was the most resistant.

Lynn did not refute, but put on a posture of mourning: "In all aspects of the war, overseas intelligence is indeed our weakest point, and if we do not participate, it is almost predictable that this operation, which is vital to the revival of the empire, will most likely end in failure." Ladies and gentlemen, I should not have forced everyone to share such a heavy responsibility, but ...... I am simply powerless to overcome these difficulties. ”

Then there was a terrible silence, as the lowest rank of the four, Brewer was full of support for Lynn but could not speak first, and at the critical moment, Handmark said: "Since the matter has come to this, we have no choice, for the highest honor of the soldiers, let us fight without hesitation!" ”

(To be continued)