50s: Starting with a storage ring

Chapter 304 Einstein's Brain

Today is December 26th, and in 25 days, Jimmy will officially take over.

In fact, his ex had already moved out; after all, no one would stay until the very last day to leave, that would be too embarrassing.

These days, Jimmy is moving and handing over his work. He believes the cabinet list must have already been released, either in the office or in Jimmy's study.

Once he gets nearby, given the current spatial detection range, he can easily obtain those classified documents.

Lying on his bed in his new home, Sun Zhiwei was thinking about the middle-aged man he had met on the bus that day.

He found two large glass jars in the other person's trunk, which contained two halves of a human brain.

They have been cut into pieces and are soaking in preservative solution.

This easily reminded him of the notorious serial killers in the area who, after committing murder, leave behind the victim's bodily tissues.

Such disgusting things have happened before here. It's not impossible to unexpectedly encounter one.

However, the neatly cut pieces reminded him of a story he had seen in a previous life, a story about Einstein's brain.

In 1955, Einstein died at Princeton University Hospital.

Thomas Stoltz Harvey, the doctor on duty at the hospital at the time, removed Einstein's brain and two eyeballs without the family's consent and secretly took them home.

Afterwards, the matter was exposed and made the news.

The hospital was furious and demanded that Harvey immediately return the stolen brain and eyeballs.

Harvey was determined to ignore it, and he didn't even know how he managed to get a license from Einstein's son.

The authorization only allows the stolen brain and eyeballs to be used for serious scientific research purposes, and the results must be published in a respected scientific journal.

It must never be allowed to become a tool to satisfy vulgar curiosity or create media hype.

However, this incident had a very negative impact on Princeton University Hospital, and Harvey was soon fired by the hospital.

Harvey has no regrets about losing his job.

He quickly traveled to Philadelphia, found a friend at the University of Pennsylvania who helped cut the brain tissue into 240 pieces, and then preserved it in two formalin bottles.

In the decades that followed, Harvey's work and residence changed constantly, and Einstein's brain followed him as he moved around the United States.

Because of his poor economic situation, Harvey insisted on carrying his brain tissue with him at all times.

So, those two bottles of Einstein's brain tissue sometimes stayed in a simple cider refrigerator, sometimes in an inconspicuous cardboard box, and sometimes even in the trunk of a car for a long time.

During this period, he did not frequently send small brain samples to researchers he trusted.

However, this research has not received much attention from the world. For a long time, the brain simply lay quietly in the preservative solution, ignored by everyone.

What Harvey didn't know was that shortly after he left Princeton, Bald Eagle realized the importance of this brain.

From then on, the FBI sent people to follow Harvey and protect the safety of his brain samples.

He only knew one thing: that he carried a brain with him at all times and treated it with such care and preciousness.

And coincidentally, he had seen the driver's license of that car owner during the day, which bore the name Thomas Stoltz Harvey. He felt this was unlikely to be a coincidence; it was very possible that he was the 'brain thief' Harvey.

Since tomorrow is Monday and the White House is closed, he plans to use tomorrow to visit Harvey's address.

The next morning, he went to a nearby supermarket and bought a lot of daily necessities. In order to play the role of a down-on-his-luck middle-aged man, he bought cheap consumer goods.

When he entered the apartment, he met several neighbors from other floors. Sun Zhiwei took the initiative to introduce himself, which left an impression on the residents of the building.

In the morning, the telephone company he had booked came to set up a phone line for him. He took some time to go back to the liaison office and left his phone number with Deputy Director Han.

As is well known, American phone lines are constantly monitored by the FBI, so this number can only be used for emergency communication using code words.

Normally, he would come to the liaison office once a month, but he didn't need to use it otherwise.

At noon, Sun Zhiwei baked a lot of cookies with the ingredients he bought, and then divided them into many portions, giving one to each of the security guards at the gate and the neighbors.

In Bald Eagle, it is basic courtesy to give a small gift to your neighbor after moving, and this is usually done by the lady of the house.

However, Sun Zhiwei didn't bring his wife, so in order to maintain his public image, he had to do it himself.

Sure enough, once the gift was given, the whole building knew that a middle-aged salesman had joined the apartment building. He wasn't exactly well-off, but he was a very nice person.

In the afternoon, Sun Zhiwei walked out of the apartment dressed in a salesman's suit.

He walked several kilometers to the vicinity of Harvey's house, and through casual observation, he discovered the FBI agents lying in wait outside Harvey's house.

This made him even more certain that this Harvey was the Harvey he was thinking of.

He immediately went around to the back of the house and began scanning the entire house through space.

Soon, he found the two cans of brain tissue in a cider box in the basement of the house.

These guys are all the same. In the name of scientific research, they can steal the brains of the dead, rob other people's property, and even murder and arson have a righteous justification.

Just like the Indiana Jones movie series, although it is called fantasy, its core is the Anglo-Saxon theory of bandits.

"I committed murder, arson, and tomb raiding at your home all in order to better protect the world's heritage."

Sun Zhiwei hated this kind of person the most, so he had no sympathy for Harvey in the room.

Although he almost lost his family and his family because of this brain, he has been wandering around for decades.

After thoroughly searching the entire house, he also discovered thousands of photographs of the brain and its slices, as well as dozens of research reports.

He even found the authorization document that he had originally obtained from Einstein's son, Hans Albert Einstein.

Sun Zhiwei took all of these items and stored them in his spatial storage. These robbers were not qualified to possess such valuable research materials.

After taking the items, he didn't linger and left the neighborhood directly, heading to a pharmaceutical company he had seen in the newspaper that was hiring salespeople.

In the following years, he planned to continue operating under his current identity.

Therefore, a formal sales job is indispensable. He is a diligent person and started looking for a job on his very first day of settling down.

(End of this chapter)