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Volume Two: My Country Six Hundred and Seventeen. Wollerston Center

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    Berlin, Wollerston Center.

    This house, which looks no different from an ordinary house, is a spy training center for the German intelligence agency.  Here, the always rigorous Germans, like producing on an assembly line, continuously send newly trained spies to any corner of the world.

    Germans do not regard spies as normal people, but as "products".

    Once such a "product" appears, its power will be astonishing.  In many cases, an excellent spy can be as effective as an elite Waffen SS armored division.

    Now, a new batch of students have appeared at the Wollerston Center

    In the morning, Colonel von Groening handed the new student Chapman a pistol. It was a brand-new American Cottle revolver with bullets loaded. Before entering the Wollerston Center, Chapman had never  Touching the gun, when he asked why he needed such a weapon, von Groening simply said "You can shoot when you are in trouble."

    Firearms instructor Leo taught him how to aim and shoot, and they used objects in the open space in the center of Wolleston as targets.  Soon Chapman was shooting pennies from fifty feet away.

    The revolver fully demonstrated von Groening's trust in the new cadet Chapman, and allowed Chapman to move to a separate cabin so that he could practice mixing explosives and burning them in the laboratory at any time  these mixtures.  Homemade bombs are getting bigger and more sophisticated.  He practiced making underwater detonators and then dropped them into duck ponds to test them.  There were a lot of tree stumps in the mansion's yard, and Chapman tried to blow them up.  Once, he stuffed so much dynamite into the stump of an oak tree that the explosion was so powerful that the burning wood flew into a neighbor's yard, nearly hitting someone else.

    Von Groening was furious. In the past, Chapman said that he was so good at explosives, but now it seems that this is obviously not the case, and he cannot be called an expert.  Once when he was trying to make a sulfuric acid nozzle, the unstable mixture that suddenly came to life burned his hands, set a strand of his hair on fire, and covered his face with soot.

    The relationship between von Groening and his beloved Chapman grew increasingly close.  The relationship between Chapman and his father is very estranged. They used to see each other occasionally, but now they have not seen each other for about ten years. The loving and friendly von Groening plays this role. Their love for each other  It's all true.  In the evening, when von Groening drank one after another, Chapman would listen intently to the elder's talk about art, music and literature. They discovered that they both liked Wells's novels and both liked Tennyson's.  In his poetry, von Groening rarely dealt with political or military content.  He always firmly believed that Germany would eventually win the war. If the Allies tried to march into France, there would be a fierce battle between the two sides. His evaluation was based on a veteran's judgment of the situation, rather than promoting a certain ideology.

    ????????????? If von Groening believed that war was delicate and balanced, his deputy thought exactly the opposite.  Praetorius and von Groening had never been friendly to each other.  Pretorius viewed his boss as a pretentious remnant of the old world, and von Groening's tolerant character allowed Pretorius to be endlessly fascinated by Hitler.  This young man insisted that the fall of Russia meant that victory on the Eastern Front was imminent. He believed that Stalingrad would fall in 1943, and then Germany would concentrate all its forces in Europe and Russia to launch a full-scale attack on Britain. He thought of the "beautiful blitzkrieg" in Britain.  "The prospect, he believed that Marshal Ernst was invincible. This idea could make him extremely excited.

    ¡°As you can imagine, our bombers and fighters are rigorously trained, brave and strong,¡± Pretorias claimed, ¡°but what can our enemies do?¡±

    In the next week, Chapman will focus on learning the latest blasting technology from blasting experts.  This explosion expert is Dr. Ackermann, a chemist and the most prestigious explosion expert in Germany.  Chapman came to the laboratory, which was full of corked glass bottles, test tubes, thermos flasks, scales, pestle and mortar.  Dr. Ackerman carefully and patiently explained to Chapman the mysterious world of lethal weapons, the magical secrets of explosives, flammable mixtures, booby traps and delayed sabotage operations.

    He taught Chapman to use a cheap watch to make a timing lead, insert a screw with a nut at each end into the watch cover, connect one end of the wire to an alkaline battery, and insert the other end into the watch. When the watch needle touches the screw, it will  Causes the battery to discharge, triggering the fuse to cause an explosion.  Later, he brought an alarm clock and showed Chapman how to connect the spring spring to the detonator to delay the blast for up to fourteen hours.  If he didn't have a watch or an alarm clock, he would make bombs out of ink bottles.  He first filled the ink bottle with sulfuric acid, and then placed it between the glass bottle and the bottle cap.A piece of cardboard, sulfuric acid will slowly corrode the paper, and eventually trigger the fuse hidden in the cover, causing an explosion due to a thermal reaction.

    Then, he took out a large piece of coal from the coal basket and told Chapman how to drill a six-inch hole in the coal, stuff the explosives and detonators into the hole, and cover it with clay, boot powder and soot.  The hole is blocked.  Then put it in the coal bunker of a train or ship. This device will not detonate by itself. Only when people throw the piece of coal into the furnace will it explode when it is heated.

    Ackerman told Chapman how to blow up munitions trains and gas stations, how to pack a suitcase, wrap the bomb, and put pajamas and towels on top.  Chapman learned how to make booby traps out of packages. Although the wires on the outside of the package had been cut, there were still two separate wires inside, so cutting the wires with scissors would trigger an explosion.  Ackerman drew a diagram showing how to connect explosives to detonators and explained how much high explosive could be used to blow up a bridge.  Some of the techniques Ackerman used were brutal: dead butterflies were tied to the rails with linear detonators, a device that would never be discovered by ordinary people and would cause an explosion when a train passed by, derailing the locomotive.

    This teacher who teaches blasting never smokes or drinks. He only interrupts his lectures when eating.  Chapman considers himself a perfectionist: He demands precise proportions, never rushes anything, grinds everything into a very fine powder, and then mixes it carefully.

    ¡°These raw materials needed to make bombs can be bought in pharmacies,¡± Ackerman explained: ¡°Potassium chloride is usually used to kill slugs, potassium nitrate is a fertilizer, and potassium permanganate is used as mouthwash; the British use  Iron Dan dyes the floor, using aluminum oxide as a silver-white dye.¡±

    Chapman has classes late every day.  After dinner, Ackerman would pull up a chair and sit by the fireplace to continue tutoring Chapman, sometimes asking Pretorias to help Chapman translate technical terms.

    Three days later, Ackerman seemed relatively satisfied, and Chapman was exhausted.

    After returning to the Wollerston Center, Chapman was warmly welcomed by von Groening, who prepared a small test for Chapman.  Colonel Mayer was their friend and was responsible for the security of local factories, including those in Batignolle that made locomotives.  Von Groening introduced Chapman like this: He said that he had trained an agent who was engaged in sabotage operations. This man was a former robber who could break into almost any house. He bet that Chapman could even break into an unknown house.  The loud bomb was placed in the locomotive factory.  Colonel Mayer accepted his statement.  A few days later, Chapman and Leo sneaked into the factory through the barbed wire fence, evading dozing guards, and dropped a package next to Mayer's office.  Von Groening was overjoyed and used the money he won from betting to organize a party for Fritz.

    Chapman returned to the gardener's cottage where he lived.  The successful raid on the locomotive factory was interesting, but after nearly five months in the center of Wolleston, Chapman began to feel bored and frustrated by his forced abstinence. Apart from Nantes' prostitutes, he saw almost no women.  , others couldn¡¯t help but laugh at themselves when talking about not having a woman by their side, ¡°like the monk he is.¡±

    One night, Chapman, Albert, and Watts went out for a party. They found several girls in an officer's car. As a result, a Gestapo officer happened to find the girls getting into their car and filed a complaint.  When von Groening found out about this, he was furious.

    ¡°We are in trouble,¡± Chapman wrote.

    Wachs was the first victim of von Groening's wrath: the stocky sabotage agent was assigned to a guard unit near Paris, and Chapman never saw him again.

    In a letter to his boss, von Groening cautioned that, although Chapman was otherwise excellent, he was prone to what Groening called "impulsive behavior that gets you into trouble."

    Von Groening found that he had to act quickly and get Chapman to work as soon as possible, otherwise, he might completely lose this young spy wizard.

    On August 29, 1942, Chapman was summoned by von Groening in his study and handed him a stack of typed documents.  Von Groening asked Chapman to read the documents and sign them if he had no objections.  It was a contract, with formally enforceable terms, requiring him to spy on his country in a way that was unprecedented in recorded history.

    The first section lists what is forbidden: Chapman must never reveal the name of any German he met in Jersey, France, or Germany, where he has stayed, or what he has studied.  .  If these rules were violated, Chapman would be executed.

    Chapman will engage in espionage activities in the interests of the German High Command and complete German military affairs unconditionally.Tasks assigned by the bureau.  He will receive the following amounts of money as compensation: twelve thousand francs per month in France, and three hundred German marks per month from the day of his departure until the day of his arrest.  If he successfully completes the tasks assigned by the German Military Intelligence Agency and returns to France, he will receive a total of 150,000 German marks.

    Chapman estimated that the sum was roughly equivalent to fifteen thousand pounds.  If calculated according to the current exchange rate, it is roughly 7,300 pounds.

    This was not a contract with the German government, but a private legal treaty between Chapman and spy chief von Groening.  (To be continued. Please search Piaotian Literature, the novels will be better and updated faster!)
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