In southern Bavaria, at the northern foothills of the Alps, lay a military restricted zone covering more than ten square kilometers. More than a decade ago, an engineering unit had arrived here and only withdrawn after three years of construction. Replacing them was a guard unit directly under the General Staff Headquarters, which moved in. From then on, without a pass issued by the General Staff Headquarters, no one could enter this military restricted zone. At the same time, it was also a place under the key protection of Germany's intelligence and security agencies' counterintelligence departments.
Every year, hundreds of spies from various countries were caught here. Although every nation had dispatched its finest agents, no one had yet managed to infiltrate the place. Thus, while all countries knew this was one of Germany's key confidential facilities, they had never been able to determine what exactly the Germans were doing here.
That day, German Emperor Qin Tian and Field Marshal Manstein, the Chief of the General Staff, arrived under the protection of the guards.
When Oscar got out of the car, the base commander and Professor Oppenheimer, the director in charge of the research project here, were already waiting. None of the other scientists were present. To those scientists, time was precious. Rather than waste it on meaningless formalities and greetings, they would rather hurry back to their research.
This military base had gathered the finest physicists in all of Germany, Europe, and even the entire world. They had only one research focus: how to apply the immense energy released by nuclear fission to the military sphere.
That was right. The main research conducted at this military base was nuclear weapons—or, more precisely, atomic bombs. Within the German military, only a very small handful of people knew of this project.