The plane quickly rose to the stratosphere, Emily had also flown in a domestic piston airliner before, and it was extremely uncomfortable in the turbulence of the air current, she took a jet for the first time, and immediately liked it, the jet flew smoothly in the stratosphere, and she began to look forward to life in the United States with Kerry. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

They can work for commercial computers, and with their experience, they will certainly have no problem getting a good salary, and Kerry plans to rent computers to help banks and insurance companies with payroll accounting, which will certainly make a lot of money.

By the time the plane landed at New York International Airport, it was already getting dark, so Kerry and Emily hailed a taxi and found a hotel to stay in.

Kerry didn't care about eating, bought a copy of the local yellow pages, looked up the number of the Federal Statistical Office, and he dialed it from the hotel's public phone, and fortunately, the Federal Statistical Office had not yet left work.

When Kerry explained his intention and wanted to seek a job related to electronic computers, the person who answered the phone immediately transferred his call to the engineering department, and the person who listened to the phone in the engineering department patiently listened to Kerry finish his story, "Young man, we welcome talents like you to join, but the story you tell is too bizarre, what can you do to prove that what you say is true, you can operate an electronic computer?" ”

Kerry thought it made sense, and replied, "Of course I can operate electronic computers, and if you don't believe me, let me tell you that our British giant computers type programs on perforated paper tapes." ”

"Okay, I believe you, wait for me in the hotel lobby tomorrow morning, and we will come to pick you up." The engineering guy hung up. Kerry went back to the room and picked up Emily, "Looks like we've come to the right place, they're coming tomorrow from Washington, D.C., we're in high demand!" ”

Emily was so angry that Kerry couldn't let go and put her on the bed, and Kerry and Emily were so excited that they couldn't sleep all night.

Early the next morning, they got up early and went to the hotel lobby to wait, after eight o'clock, a Hudson sedan stopped at the door, two middle-aged people got out of the car, they walked to the lobby front desk, "We are from the Federal Statistical Office, we want to find an Englishman named Kerry, which room is he staying in?" ”

Without waiting for the waiter to answer, Kerry pulled Emily up to him: "Hello, I'm Kerry, this is my girlfriend Emily." ”

"My name is Sean", the one who spoke reported to his home.

"My name is Anderson, and I'm glad I am." The tall man next to him came up and shook their hands.

"Where's your luggage? Pack up and check out and let's go, you're hired. ”

Kerry didn't expect good things to come so quickly, "And what about our salaries?" Emily didn't forget the key issues.

"There's a talk to us when we get to our office." Anderson sounds like the one who decides.

Kerry and Emily ran upstairs and quickly cleaned up, the four of them got into the car, Sean drove the car in front, it took half a day to drive from New York to Washington, Kerry and Emily didn't sleep well all night, and soon the two fell asleep next to each other in the car.

By the time the two woke up, the car had stopped, Sean was knocking on the door, and he handed over two sandwiches, "We still have to hurry, so we can only order a simple lunch." After saying that, he got out of the car.

When Kerry looked out the window, it wasn't the Washington, D.C. he imagined, there was no Capitol Hill in the magazines, there was nothing on the empty ground except the roar of planes taking off and landing, Kerry pulled Emily out of the car, and the sign reads Andrews Air Force Base.

Seeing that the two of them were stupid, Sean explained: "Our computer is not in Washington, D.C., we are entrusted with the management of the military, and we will fly for a day later." ”

Emily exclaimed in surprise, "Fly for a day? Flying out of the United States? ”

"Isn't your Aeniac in Pennsylvania?" Kerry asked, and Sean didn't answer.

Anderson led them to the front of a C-47 transport plane, "I'll take you to the place of work later, and you need to demonstrate your computer skills, you are ready." ”

Sean didn't get on the plane and shook hands with them and said goodbye. Kerry had no choice but to sit on the transport plane with Anderson, the plane seemed to be prepared for the three of them, and there were no other passengers, Anderson took them into the cargo hold, the windows were covered, Kerry didn't dare to ask more, and sat down honestly.

With a roar, the C-47 took off into the air, after all, it was a military propeller transport plane, and after flying for several hours, Emily vomited sadly, and the sandwich she had just eaten had not been digested, and it all spit on the floor.

Kerry asked Anderson how long it would take, and Anderson didn't answer, just signaled that it was going to be soon, and when it was almost ten o'clock in the night, the C-47 landed. Kerry thought he had arrived, so he stood up and walked towards the door, the door opened, and two GIs came up, "This is refueling, and it will take so long to fly." Anderson's words almost made Emily faint.

The GIs who came up took them off the plane, it was an unknown airfield, Kerry asked where they were, no one answered him, and several people finished dinner in the restaurant and got on the plane again.

Anderson got on the plane and put on blindfolds, Kerry and the others had to lie down in their clothes, and the two accompanying GIs threw blankets over to cover them.

When they woke up again, the plane was firmly parked on the runway, and the GI carried the three of them to the surface. Kerry took a deep breath, it was the smell of the sea breeze, and he looked around, the airport was built on the edge of a large island, and there was a small island opposite, which looked like a medieval coastal defense fortress from a distance.

Outside the airport, a whistling sound suddenly came in, and Kerry turned his head to see a guy like a German Nazi V2 missile soaring into the air, Emily grew up in Coventry during the war, and was so frightened that she grabbed Kerry's arm tightly when she saw the missile.

Just as they were looking around, two jeeps drove up, and an officer got out of front of them, "Welcome to Roosevelt Road Naval Base!" ”

He saluted Anderson, who raised his finger to his head and said hello, and they got into the car and drove into a large hangar, where computers stood in front of them, unlike the giant machine operated by Kerry, the computers here no longer had punched paper tapes, and the rumored most advanced equipment such as magnetic drums and tapes were installed on the machines. A group of engineers are still moving in new equipment, as if assembling a computer.

Kerry and Emily were dumbfounded, this was certainly not the legendary Eniac, at least five years ahead of their giant machine. Just when Kerry was nervous, Anderson called a young man, "Rui, these two new people belong to you, and they are in your group. ”

Rui came over and shook hands with Kerry and Emily, "You come with me, we're in dire need of manpower, will we change the tape?" ”

Kerry hurriedly nodded and said, "Okay, you guys are responsible for replacing the tape for this bat, replacing the tape and backing it up for them on the tape drive, and then numbering and sealing." ”

Rui just let them go to work, and Emily was a little surprised and a little drummed, "Rui, can you tell us why you are doing this?" and why it's called a bat."

Rui's face turned pale and his face was cloudy, "Here, never ask why, just work, don't ask about other groups of work, as long as you do a good job, the salary is three times that of the United States, and there are special subsidies." ”

"Native America? We left the United States? Emily asked again.

"I repeat, don't ask about anything outside of work." Rui's voice was a little higher, Anderson looked over from afar, and Emily was too frightened to speak, so she had to work with Kerry.

In the evening, Rui took them to the room, it turned out that they were all living in the base, Rui also sent them a work manual, read the manual, Kerry and Emily were cold, the control measures here are ten times stricter than Manchester, let alone go on vacation, even the naval base can't leave.

Emily hugged Kerry and cried bitterly, but Kerry had no choice but to whisper to comfort her. There was a knock on the door, and Rui invited Anderson in, and Anderson waved his hand for Rui to step out, "Do you think we lied to you?" ”

Kerry did not dare to speak.

"You should thank me for saving you, and we'll find out your identity the moment you call. You have caused great trouble in the United States, Prime Minister Churchill personally called President Eisenhower to ask for your repatriation, and immigration people are now searching the whole city of New York to find you, are you going to go back to your hometown in England? ”

Listening to Anderson's words, Emily was so frightened that she stopped crying, "Work hard here, use your expertise, and give to the United States, and the United States will be grateful to you." With that, Anderson Gate went out.

After another sleepless night, Kerry and Emily settled down at Roosevelt Roads Naval Base, and the following year, their baby was born, whom they named Assanzi.

In the days that followed, the naval base was shut down, but their project continued, operating computers that evolved from tubes to transistors, computers that ran more advanced programs, and more and more data on tapes.

Kerry and Emily slowly discovered that their set of computers was responsible for East Asian intelligence processing, because although the information in the tapes was messy, it was all from East Asia, and China had a lot of intelligence, and Kerry lived a life of isolation and could only use this information as a news pastime.

At first, it was all kinds of intelligence on major projects aided by the Soviet Union, and then for a while it was concentrated on the steel production data of various parts of China, and Kerry himself found that it was more than the British, and then there was the data of Chinese grain, and there was a period of surveillance information on the participants in the Chinese atomic bomb and other secret projects, and some of the investigations of celebrities.

One day, a piece of information about the painter Lin Sen caught Emily's attention, saying that Lin Sen, a painter at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, was sent to Xinyang, Henan Province for labor reform, and died of hard work and malnutrition in Xinyang. His wife Gao Fengxia took her young daughter Lin Shuangmian all the way back to her hometown in Guangdong, and absconded from Tsim Sha Kok in Shenzhen to Hong Kong.

"Kerry, come and see, we have seen this Lin Sen's art exhibition in the UK, I can't imagine such a miserable fate."

Hearing Emily calling him, Kerry came over and glanced at him quickly, "Don't talk about it anymore, we don't know how many times luckier than this Lin Shuangmian." Listen to Rui and talk about nothing. ”

Under the strict system of secrecy and secrecy, they never knew what the source of the information was and where it would be used, and Kerry did not dare to inquire about it, for fear of breaking that rule and being deported to the United Kingdom. All day long, they could just feel that the engineers were busy, constantly setting up new computers, and it seemed endless, until by the end of 1962, things suddenly changed.