Memories began with the war, Lynn's ass was only beaten by the boots of the "butcher", looking back on that ignorant and difficult time, the original familiar faces and figures have gradually become unfamiliar.

After less than two minutes of sitting on the sand dunes at the landing site, a group of American GIs wearing M1 steel helmets, M1 rifles, and M43 combat uniforms rushed over with great vigour, and without saying a word, pointed their guns at the two young uninvited guests, and then a burly man searched them one by one, except for the clothes themselves, and then drove them to the side of the barbed wire fence. Presumably to vent their anger at being disturbed, the American GIs viciously kicked the two of them in the ass on the way, and Lynn was a size bigger than Hughes Jr., so he got slightly more boots. Hughes Jr., a civilian, had never seen such a scene, his face turned pale with fright, and his limbs trembled, but his experience on the Eastern Front had made Lynn fully aware that as a prisoner of war on either the Soviet or German side, his fate would be extremely bleak, but the American army treated prisoners of war more benevolently—at least in the general opinion of the outside world, under the deliberate propaganda of the United States.

After the balloon was shot down, the revealing searchlights were quickly extinguished, and only the lights on the perimeter of the base were on, and the group of American GIs drove the two young men in their early twenties into the heavily guarded fence, while another team of American soldiers on motorcycles and small cars rushed to search for the wreckage of the balloon. Unlike Hughes's fear, although Lynn was a little nervous and apprehensive, it was more of an excitement - the excitement of exploring the truth and the secret realm.

From the outside, the base looks like a village built in the desert, and most of the buildings inside are similar to ordinary houses, except for the high walls of barbed wire built to protect against the wind and sand and bandits. Apparently just a cover-up, the soldiers pressed Lynn and Hughes Jr. through the side entrance into the underground passageway, where the iron doors, concrete walls, and chandeliers with transparent covers all showed the careful setting up of the facility. After walking a short distance along the passage, Lynn and Hughes Jr. were each ushered into a small room of less than ten square meters, but it was not for them to calm their frightened emotions. Pale walls, pale lights, and grim-faced soldiers facing each other for detention. Lynn deliberately feigned panic, knowing that he would face interrogation from the base guards next.

A moment later, a scumbag American officer walked into the room, he deliberately made his gaze look fierce, but in Lynn's eyes, this guy was a little similar to Winster in "Band of Brothers", so that he looked cold and kind, and he didn't look like that kind of fierce and perverted inquisitor.

"Name, identity, origin." The officer said three words coldly, then lit a cigarette for himself.

Lynn deliberately lowered his head, and occasionally raised it to never figure out the other party's rank, but deliberately made the other party think that he was extremely frightened. At the same time, he stammered and said:

"Report to the Chief...... My name is Carter. Homme, recommended by the National University of La Plata, Argentina...... Arrive...... Exchange Scholar at the University of California, majoring in ...... Uh, molecular physics, come to ...... Robert. Dr. Oppenheimer...... Professor Oppenheimer. ”

"Robert. Oppenheimer? The officer, who seemed to know the name, stood still and stared at Lynn to see a haggard, panicked, and chagrined young face.

Half a minute later, another officer pushed the door open and placed the papers, papers, and items that the soldiers had found from Lynn on a table directly below the chandelier.

Picking up the passport issued by the Argentine political axe and the letter of recommendation from the National University of Plata and looking at it for a moment, the American [***] official who looked like Winster glanced at Lynn: "Argentine? You're not going to be an exchange scholar at the University of California, what are you doing here? What country did your ancestors immigrate? ”

The other questions were easy to explain, but the last one was something that Lynn was worried about, he was silent for a while, and replied: "Before coming to the United States, my supervisor at the National University of La Plata, Dr. Halguhi, asked me to ask Dr. Oppenheimer for an unsolved problem in molecular physics, and he believed that only Dr. Oppenheimer and a few others in the world could answer it, and after arriving at the University of California, I was told that Dr. Oppenheimer would not return to school anytime soon, but my supervisor, Dr. Hargouse, was seriously ill, I wanted to unravel the questions that had been bothering him for all these years before he died, which is why I am here. ”

"Really?" The officer looked at Lynn suspiciously, but he was not as easy to fool as civilians like Pamarot and Hughes, and pondered Lynn's answer with his hands behind his back, and then he asked, "I don't think you're a native of Argentina!" ”

Of course not, Lynn thought to himself, such a typical European face could not be hidden, so he had to hang his head and whisper, "Germany." ”

"Germany? Ha! The officer's voice immediately raised in volume, as excited as if he had discovered a new continent, but he certainly hadn't expected Lynn's backhand.

"Like Dr. Oppenheimer, my father was a German-Jew, and it was only for this reason that no matter how hard we tried, we were still discriminated against everywhere by those around us, and we were the lowliest, the most pitiful, and the most cowardly people in the world." Lynn said in an extremely gloomy tone, as if she really belonged to that nation that had been extremely miserable. Throughout history, Germany was not the only country that persecuted and killed Jews. Because they were seen as the murderers of Christ, evil devils and heretics, Jews were suppressed and even slaughtered by the rulers from the Greco-Roman period more than a thousand years ago, and there were even additional provisions against Jews in the Roman code of Theossius, which came into effect in 438 AD. In the Middle Ages, hatred of Jews continued unabated in Europe, with French rulers expelling Jews from their borders four times, and in the Holy Roman Empire, Christians destroyed more than 100 Jewish parishes and killed 100,000 Jews simply because of the red spots found in the sacred bread used by Christians. In modern times, the persecution of Jews in Tsarist Russia was so appalling that thousands of Jews fled from Eastern Europe to North America and Western Europe. It is estimated that more than 20 million Jews have been slaughtered over the past 2,000 years.

Whether or not the officer knew Oppenheimer's origins, his emotions were clearly swayed by Lynn's words. Putting away the smug gesture he had just made, he flipped through the other items on the table, including the travel book, several physics books and notes, as well as the train ticket stubs and dollar bills that Lynn had deliberately left behind.

"Who told you you could find Dr. Oppenheimer here?"

The question was easy to answer, and Lynn whispered, "As the pride of the University of California, many people know that he was hired by the political axe to do scientific research in the desert region of New Mexico. If you want to ask more specific people, I'm sorry, I don't want well-meaning people to be involved. ”

In terms of words and logic, this is a well-crafted answer, the so-called law does not hold the public accountable, and the officers will never go to the University of California to arrest people for this, and Lynn deliberately does not mention the word "secret", pretending to understand it as a normal scientific activity.

"Then how did you get from California? Where did you get the hot air balloons that we forbid? Why use a hot air balloon? ”

The train ticket already laid out the time and how to come to New Mexico, and as for the hot air balloon, Lynn explained the whole process frankly, and I think she could confess to Hughes Jr. Finally, he said in a low voice, "I'm sorry, sir, but in order to find Dr. Oppenheimer as quickly as possible, I chose an irrational way that violated your ban. I hope that after you have investigated the facts, you will release Mr. Hughes, who has come with me, who is only employed by me, and who is in no way complicit in this matter. ”

Lynn's posture was extremely high, and this beautiful [***] official was not high, and he said in a calm tone: "Whether it is complicit or not, we will judge." If you're telling the truth, you shouldn't be in much trouble, but if you lied to us, think about the consequences now! ”

Such intimidation was completely ineffective against Lynn, and he lowered his eyelids and nodded: "If possible, I would still like to meet Dr. Oppenheimer, just for a difficult problem in molecular physics." If I can solve the problem, or if Dr. Oppenheimer writes a letter to my mentor, I would be willing to spend 10 years in prison. ”

After such a conversation, the American [***] officer obviously regarded the young man in front of him, who was taller than himself, with a sturdy physique, and calloused hands and feet, as a weak scholar, and he turned around and motioned for the officer just now to take everything on the table, and then said to the guard: "Just let him rest here!" As long as there are no special circumstances, everything will wait for me to come back. ”

"Yes!" The guard, with a pistol at his waist, replied in an upright position, and when the two officers were gone, he followed out of the room and closed the iron door lightly.

Hearing the sound of the key turning, Lynn finally breathed a sigh of relief. As I expected, although the Americans had been involved in the war for three and a half years, the threat or even attack on the homeland was minimal, and the German intelligence operation seemed to them to be stupid and incompetent, and although the spies of the Benben had made great contributions to the attack on Pearl Harbor in the early stages of the war, after that, everyone with an Eastern face was given special attention and surveillance, and it was difficult to make any more achievements. Based on these circumstances, the United States has indeed become less wary, at least not as much as the Gestapo in Germany.

There were only two chairs and a table in this small room used for interrogation, and there was no way, so Lynn had to put them together by herself, barely made a table, and stayed up for most of the night, physically and mentally exhausted, it was time to take a good rest and recuperate.

(To be continued)