My own war game

Chapter 181 Reward or Trouble?

He shook his head and stood on the ground. The bed board under He Chi creaked. He looked around and found that the room was empty. There was almost no furnishings except a radio with a lot of noise in the corner.

Behind the door there was a small hook with a pressed white uniform on it.

Click! The door opened, and a tall German came in with a plate of food. He Chi almost used all his strength to suppress the urge to twist the man's neck.

He made the right choice.

"Hey, Schneider, my friend, are you feeling better? I got you some food from the cafeteria. The food here is very good. I suggest you have some." The man put down the plate and looked at He Chi's face, as if checking his condition.

Without understanding the situation, He Chi chose to remain silent, with a confused expression on his face.

"Okay, I know you are still angry about what happened before, but you have to know that I am a German soldier now and I have to be responsible for my motherland." The person sitting opposite He Chi handed him the fork.

"Don't think about it, just eat something, the bacon here is very good."

Through the conversation over the next half hour, He Chi roughly understood the current situation.

He is a researcher at a former Danish weapons laboratory. Because Denmark surrendered, the entire laboratory has been taken over and he is under house arrest.

The body's former owner refused to work for the Germans and chose the drastic method of hunger strike.

The German on the other side was Jonathan Coleman, his former classmate and the German leader currently in charge of taking care of these Danish researchers. (Or it would be more appropriate to say surveillance)
Looking at the German man in front of him who had a good attitude, He Chi picked up the fork on the table, poked a meatball and put it into his mouth.

Coleman showed a surprised expression on his face, "Are you willing to cooperate?!"

"That's enough. People have to live." He Chi's face turned into a look of disheartened and compromising.

"Great!" Coleman jumped up. "This is really good news. I will arrange an independent workroom for you and let you meet the director as soon as possible."

"Mr. Director? Who?" He Chi raised his eyebrows.

"My goodness, you must be starving. Of course it's Mr. Werner Heisenberg."

Werner Heisenberg?!

The head of the German nuclear program?!
He Chi kept a straight face, but he was muttering in his heart. He realized that he might have come to a strange node in history, which was Germany's ultimately aborted atomic bomb plan - the Uranium Club Plan.

In fact, Germany began its nuclear fission research in 1938, three years earlier than the British and four years earlier than the Americans, but in the end it was the Americans who first developed the atomic bomb.

What is the reason for this?
Almost no one can fully explain this problem.

According to Werner Heisenberg, the main person in charge of Germany's nuclear program at the time, after the war, he was a scientist with a conscience and did not want Germany at the time to truly master nuclear weapons, so he deliberately slowed down the progress and even provided wrong data for this purpose.

But considering the international social environment at the time, Heisenberg was probably trying to gild his own image for self-protection.

Among them, a closed-door conversation he had with his teacher, nuclear physicist Niels Bohr, who was under house arrest in Denmark at the end of 1941, about whether to help Germany build an atomic bomb left a century-old mystery.

According to the two people's subsequent recollections, the content of their conversation was completely different, with almost no similarities except that the final outcome was a bad one.

Technically, at least one of them lied, but the details of how it happened have been lost to history.

"Serve Professor Heisenberg? I don't know what I can do?" He Chi did not refuse directly, but tried to bring up the other party's topic.

"Of course, my friend, I know your main job is weapons design and production, but it doesn't matter. We just need you to think rigorously and do the basic work well. Mr. Heisenberg will take care of the theoretical construction." After saying that, Coleman took out a booklet from his arms and pushed it to He Chi.

"Ordinarily, these things need to be screened before they can be shown to you, but we are classmates after all."

He Chi took the booklet in his hand and found that it was a paper written in German entitled "A Preliminary Study on Atomic Fission", written by Heisenberg himself.

"This is an internal reading material. You must hand it back after you finish reading it. The number of copies will be counted," Coleman reminded.

He Chi opened the booklet and flipped through it briefly, and found that this book was the most entry-level popular theoretical reading material, and even someone like him who was not good at physics could probably understand it.

But when he flipped through it, he suddenly felt something strange.

"Contact with small information fragments, the player's collection progress increased by 0.24%, and the current total progress is 0.24%." The system's voice sounded dryly in my ears.

? ? ? ! ! !
This task is indeed related to nuclear fission.

"Schneider? Schneider? What's wrong with you?" The German man on the side saw He Chi in a daze and couldn't help but pat him on the shoulder.

"Oh, sorry, I'm a little shocked." There was no expression unusual on He Chi's face.

"Of course, I was the same as you when I first came into contact with it. Just think about releasing the power of the sun. Only the noble Germans can do such a job... Oh, sorry, I didn't mean to offend you at all." Coleman looked at the Asian face opposite and said apologetically.

"It doesn't matter, but can you let me adjust myself before working? You know, my current state..." He Chi put forward the condition unobtrusively.

"Of course, of course, you will get two days off. You can do whatever you want as long as you don't leave the institute. Also, eat more. Look at your frail body. I'm really afraid that you will collapse in the lab."

Coleman left, and He Chi fiddled with the booklet in his hand, his expression becoming more and more serious.

Nuclear fission

【Knowledge Fragments】

[Collection progress increased by 0.24%]

【Heisenberg Project Team】

Each of these nouns points to one event - the development of the atomic bomb!
But what does this have to do with me? Why does this thing appear in the so-called bonus level?

He recalled what the system said before entering the dungeon.

[Retrieving the highest demands made by players so far...]

My highest need? What did I say before?

He Chi suddenly remembered a joke he made a year ago when he first got the system:

"Anything? If I want to build an atomic bomb, can you build one too?"

"Damn it, this unlucky system seems to have taken my joke seriously." He Chi cursed helplessly at the mirror.

(End of this chapter)