Technology invades the modern world

Chapter 113: Back to the Phone Booth
Being used to dealing with Lin Ran, he knew that he would unexpectedly give him a little "surprise".

So this time, after Lin Ran finished speaking, Chen Jingrun's expression did not change, as if nothing had happened, but his brain was concentrating on taking note of what Lin Ran said.

You have to remember it, because everything the other person says is crucial.

This is what Section Chief Zhang said when he assigned work to Chen Jingrun: you can ignore everything else, but you must remember everything that Lin Ran told him.

"Are you still used to life in New York?" Lin Ran asked.

Chen Jingrun said: "It's pretty good, except that the winter in New York is a little too cold compared to Hong Kong.

Apart from the weather, I adapted to everything else pretty quickly.”

How to say it, Chen Jingrun's change of mind gradually changed as Lin Ran's status and position improved.

At the beginning, he felt that he was being sent to New York, thousands of miles away from home, to do a special job, and he would feel uncomfortable, confused, and even resistant.

But after Lin Ran entered the White House and became a powerful figure in the White House in the newspapers, his resistance disappeared without a trace, and he even became very proactive and enthusiastic about his work.

This is not only because he can access the most cutting-edge mathematics in New York, but also because he knows that as a link between him and Lin Ran in New York, the higher Lin Ran's status, the greater the help he can provide to China, and the more meaningful his work will be.

In 1961, most Chinese people had similar simple mentality. Chen Jingrun was even simpler in this regard because of his work in mathematics.

I will complete whatever task you assign to me.

The resistance mentioned above is also at the subconscious level, manifested in missing home and family.

After a brief chat with Chen Jingrun, I returned to Jenny and asked, "Professor, who is that Chinese person?"

Lin Ran explained: "He was the most talented student when I went to Hong Kong to give lectures.

I believe he can achieve as much as I do in number theory."

After the dinner, Lin Ran drove Jenny home in his Beetle. Before she got out of the car, he took out an apple from his pocket and handed it to Jenny:

"Give."

Jenny took the apple, a little confused.

Lin Ran said: "In Chinese customs, apples are eaten on Christmas Eve because the pronunciations of "apple" and "peace" in Chinese are similar, and eating apples symbolizes peace in the new year.

Thank you for accompanying me today. I told you a long time ago that mathematicians' gatherings are boring."

Jenny suddenly kissed him on the cheek: "Professor, thank you for bringing a math idiot like me into the world of mathematics. See you at the White House after Christmas break."

After Jenny left, Lin Ran touched the remaining warmth on his face and sighed.

But his melancholy didn't last long, and his thoughts drifted to Times Square.

That’s right, Lin Ran placed the “The Man in the High Castle” which he rewrote in 2020 at the first door in his 1960 time and space.

That is, under the floor of the telephone booth in Times Square at the beginning.

The more dangerous the place, the safer it is.

And even if someone finds it, it's just a science fiction novel.

The person responsible for taking it was not Chen Jingrun, but Huang Yunji.

After Chen Jingrun passed the message to the corresponding person, he no longer had to worry about it.

As the president of the "Chinese American Daily", no one was watching Huang Yunji.

The fact that the other party was able to survive the McCarthy years without being investigated is enough to show that no one was watching them.

On December 1961, 12, Times Square was cold and the streets were crowded with pedestrians shopping for Christmas. Neon lights were flashing and long lines formed in front of the theaters.

Huang Yunji had booked the latest play for tonight. Before the play started, he went to the phone booth that Lin Ran mentioned at the intersection of Seventh Avenue and 46th Street to make a call.

While on the phone, I tapped my feet a few times to make sure it was indeed hollow underneath.

Standing in a red telephone booth with the New York Telephone Company logo, Huang Yunji's mind was full of how to complete the task.

He also had another thought: how did Lin Ran stuff this thing down there?

He was puzzled by this.

Logically speaking, the other party should not be able to get such an opportunity.

Although Huang Yunji did not understand the working mechanism of a certain IA around a key figure like Lin Ran, his superficial understanding as a colleague was that it was impossible to let a key figure hide items in a crowded place like Times Square.

The red telephone booth is even more eye-catching.

Moreover, prying open the floor, hollowing out a hole, putting things in, and restoring the floor, this whole process *IA even a pig can figure it out, right?
Huang Yunji thought of the Bay of Pigs incident in the first half of the year and complained in his heart that maybe they really were pigs.

With this idea in mind, Huang Yunji didn't find the right opportunity until he walked out of the dance hall at four in the morning on December 12, when he found a thick manuscript and the note on it in the red telephone booth.

He had made sufficient mental preparations before coming, but he was still shocked when he saw the note:

"What I'm giving you is the most advanced product of the American Alien Research Base. It contains detailed technical data on the U-2 high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft." Just these few words frightened Huang Yunji so much that he quickly stuffed the entire note into his mouth, fearing that if he was a little slow, a bunch of *IAs would rush out and shoot him.

The U-2 high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft was already shocking enough. If the news of the former were released, and if it was known that the source of the information was Randolph Lind, a senior bureaucrat in the White House responsible for space affairs, it would at least be on the global hot news for a whole month.

As the editor-in-chief of the "Chinese American Daily", that is, a so-called media practitioner, Huang Yunji has always believed that the existence of aliens is fake.

In other words, the rumor that America discovered aliens is false.

"So the Roswell incident was real?"

Rumors of UFOs have been circulating since the Roswell incident in 1947.

In July 1947, the United States initially announced the recovery of a "flying disc" after the wreckage of an unidentified object was discovered on a ranch near Roswell, New Mexico.

The announcement quickly made international headlines, but within a day, the US government reversed its statement, saying it was just a crashed weather balloon.

The incident sparked persistent rumors that the American government had covered up the discovery of alien spacecraft and alien bodies.

The Roswell incident also became the starting point of UFO rumors.

Including the space race during this period, it further intensified the space rumors among the people.

From America to Europe to the Soviet Union, many UFO enthusiasts believe that the rapid development of space technology in America and the Soviet Union was due to the discovery of aliens and the collection of alien debris.

Since Huang Yunji was responsible for collecting news related to Lin Ran, he even saw rumors in some local conspiracy tabloids that Lin Ran was an alien.

It is said that Lin Ran is an alien aid hired at a high price by the American government in cooperation with aliens.

The other party only looks like a yellow person on the surface, but in fact does not look like a human at all.

In the past, Huang Yunji had no faith in this.

But now, this is the first-hand news from Lin Ran.

Although he didn't know what the other party had given him, since he said so, there really were aliens.

Huang Yunji suddenly felt a surge of emotion, feeling fortunate that Lin Ran was inside the White House.

Otherwise, China would never know this news.

Because the situation was serious, almost everyone who had the right to know about it gathered together that night to discuss the matter.

"There is a book and a note. The contents of the note have been sent back via the Jiemi telegram. Our comrade only said a few words after Jiemi."

After he finished speaking, the entire conference room fell silent. Only the cast iron radiator, which expanded and contracted due to temperature changes, deformed slightly and rubbed against the pipes, making a "clicking" sound.

There was also the sound of everyone's heavy breathing.

In the early hours of the morning, such news seemed particularly terrifying.

Dean Qian was complaining in his heart that news about Lin Ran always gave him a little "fright" in the middle of the night.

The news is hidden under the iceberg.

Although Lin Ran only sent back one sentence, the information contained in it was endless.

Dean Qian knew that he had to speak and it was his turn to speak.

America commissioned Professor von Karman to lead the development of long-range rockets. The entire Corporal missile design team was heavily staffed by Chinese nationals, with President Qian leading the theoretical research group, while Lin Jiaqiao and Qian Weichang conducted ballistic analysis, combustion chamber heat conduction, and combustion theory research.

If there's anyone here who might have heard of it, it's him.

Dean Qian carefully sorted out his thoughts and said word by word:

"In my previous experiences with America, I've never heard of her having any contact with aliens, or having any alien debris, or obtaining any alien technology.

I've never heard of it.

But this does not mean that I think the news conveyed by Bai Ma is false.

The news that the other party went through so much trouble to send back to us, judging by the news that Bai Ma had sent back in the past, the news he chose to tell us must be very valuable.

Including item No. 6101 brought back from Geneva this time, it can be seen at a glance that it is very different from current technological products.

Although I have been away from America for seven years, I don't think they can advance to this point in just seven years.

In addition, we have been exposed to European and American applied science journals all the time, and there is no technology similar to 6101 in them.

Therefore, the information sent back by Bai Ma is credible, but we don’t know whether this is an imitation of an alien product by America, or it is an alien product.

I personally tend to favor the former.”

6101 was the code name for the item that Lin Ran gave to the other party in Geneva.

It means it is the most important item inside this year.

(End of this chapter)