I handed over to another world

Chen Lin stood in front of the black square monument, his fingers unconsciously stroking the mask of his protective suit.

The cold wind on the ice field of this strange planet swept past everyone, and the bone-chilling wind formed strange vortex patterns on the surface of the square monument.

Chen Lin suddenly noticed that those lines were strikingly similar to the quantum foam in the gravity well - although he didn't know what this meant, his intuition told him that there seemed to be some connection between the two.

"Vice President, abnormal energy fluctuations detected!"

The accompanying scientific researcher suddenly shouted, "Something is moving inside the square monument!"

Chen Lin quickly took a few steps back and saw that the geometric patterns on the surface of the black stele began to flow violently, as if some creature was awakening.

Slimy dark matter seeps from cracks and snakes across the ice in intricate patterns.

"Everyone back off!"

The guards behind Chen Lin immediately shouted, "Activate the protective force field!"

A blue energy barrier unfolded around everyone, but the black substance seemed unaffected and continued to spread on the ice.

Chen Lin noticed that the mucus was forming a certain symbol - exactly the gesture Ding Yi made at the last moment.

“He is guiding us…”

Chen Lin muttered to himself as he turned on the holocron and compared the scene in front of him with Ding Yi's gestures.

The symbols formed by the mucus actually matched the symbols that Ding Yi had laid out before he was completely torn apart, which meant that this was the place where the final explanation was given, and the direction pointed directly to a certain location under the ice.

"Notify the origin station and have them prepare the drilling equipment."

After Chen Lin realized what was happening, he immediately ordered the guards behind him, "We need to go down and take a look."

"Vice president?"

Xiao Wu from the guard team didn't understand what he meant yet. He said to Chen Lin, "This planet is dangerous and evil. How about we go back first?"

"Ok?"

Chen Lin glanced at Xiao Wu, causing the young man to immediately explain: "Why not let the intelligent machines or the engineering team we sent to handle these tasks? Your status and position are different now. If something really goes wrong, we really can't take the responsibility."

"It doesn't matter. If anything happens, I can at least take you back with me."

He casually swiped towards the open space in front of him, and a portal appeared out of thin air, immediately making all the guards speechless - what Chen Lin said was absolutely true, if anyone were to ask who was the most amazing person in the world, I'm afraid no one would dare to object if Chen Lin said he was number one.

Following the order of Vice President Chen Lin, the Origin Station quickly dispatched a landing ship, and the super-large drilling equipment was directly sent to the designated location by the intelligent machine.

The drilling process went extremely smoothly, and the temperature under the ice was actually higher than that on the surface.

The drilling rig made a low roar on the ice field, and the huge drill bit rotated slowly, splashing ice chips everywhere.

Chen Lin stood in the command cabin, watching the progress of drilling through the holographic screen. The temperature sensor of the drill bit showed that the temperature of the ice layer increased instead of decreased with the increase in depth.

"Vice President, the drill has broken through the first layer of ice."

The technician reported, "The temperature is abnormal, minus 50 degrees...minus 40 degrees...and it continues to rise."

Chen Lin narrowed his eyes. Under normal circumstances, the temperature of the ice should decrease with increasing depth.

This abnormal phenomenon can only mean that there is indeed some energy source under the ice.

As the drill continued to drill deeper, irregular cracks began to appear in the ice, and the vibration frequency of the drill rig soon changed.

"The drill is encountering resistance!"

The technician yelled nervously, "It's not ice...it's more like some kind of metal structure!"

On the holographic screen, the image sent back by the drill showed a smooth black surface, which was completely different from the texture of the ice.

"Be careful not to damage the structure below."

Chen Lin gave a reminder, and the engineering team quickly began to try various types of equipment. After several rounds of attempts on this device, they finally decided to choose laser cutting.

The final action plan was normally sent to Chen Lin for review. Chen Lin approved it without a second thought: "After you make a decision on these things, don't come to me for a second review. After all, I'm not a professional engineer."

As soon as the plan was finalized, the construction workers immediately started to work - the laser beam drew a perfect circle on the black surface, and when the last metal plate was removed, a stream of warm air rushed out of the hole, forming a white mist in the cold air.

"Atmospheric composition testing completed, suitable for human breathing."

The technician looked at the data in amazement, "There's a whole ecosystem down there!"

Chen Lin's perspective gradually became clearer as the intelligent device slowly descended, and he soon saw the scene under the ice - it was a huge underground space with countless black square tablets standing in it, and in the center was a circular platform engraved with flowing patterns.

The circular platform is engraved with flowing geometric patterns, and the huge and magnificent super underground building makes people feel physically and mentally shocked.

"Is this... a teleportation device?"

The physicist from the Origin Station who came with them exclaimed, "This is very similar to the teleportation device that Professor Ding had envisioned before..."

"He has designed something like this?"

Chen Lin exclaimed in surprise, these buildings looked more like some kind of ancient ruins rather than being designed by humans or Ding Yi himself.

The situation in the underground ruins was stable. Many intelligent machines and a large number of staff members entered below one after another. As the mechanical fingertips of the first intelligent machine that landed touched the edge of the circular platform, the flowing patterns suddenly accelerated their rotation.

The light in the entire underground space began to distort, and the geometric patterns on the surface of the black monolith projected a holographic star map, which was a quantum communication network spanning multiple galaxies.

"Gravitational wave resonance detected!"

The technicians' exclamations echoed in the confined space, "These devices are transmitting signals in the direction of Cygnus!"

Chen Lin suddenly felt a chill on the back of his neck.

He recalled the scene of Ding Yi dancing in the quantum tide in his last moments. The physicist's semi-mechanized body seemed to resonate with the device in front of him.

A crystal column rose in the center of the platform, with countless nanomechanical insects suspended inside the column. The pattern they formed was exactly Ding Yi's face.

"You finally came."

The mechanical bug suddenly spoke in Ding Yi's voice, "Now you should understand why I chose quantum state transformation."

Chen Lin's pupils contracted violently as he saw a holographic image emerge from inside the crystal column - that was the quantum wave spectrum of the Red Dragon Association's gravity well device, which perfectly overlapped with the signal ripples on the unknown planet.

Some kind of monitoring system beyond human comprehension is awakening in deep space, with a coverage area of ​​an astonishing 500,000 light years - this is the data detected afterwards, and Chen Lin actually did not know it at the time.

"This is the cosmic cleaning procedure." Ding Yi's voice was filled with mechanical friction. "Whenever a civilization breaks through the limits of their quantum communication technology, higher-dimensional beings will activate the formatting protocol."

The image switches to the destruction scene of a silicon-based civilization tens of thousands of years ago, as their Dyson sphere falls apart in the torrent of dark matter.

Chen Lin's breathing became heavy. He saw the Red Dragon Association's gravity well model emerging from the crystal column. Billions of quantum bubbles were being disguised as the afterglow of a supernova explosion.

"You transformed your body into a living buffer?"

Chen Lin suddenly understood the meaning of the blue fluorescent light coughed out from Ding Yi's mouth.

The face made of mechanical insects smiled: "My mechanical body can carry enough quantum devices to disguise the communication signal as a natural phenomenon for twenty years."

The crystal column suddenly cracked, revealing the boiling substance solution inside. "But someone needs to stay here forever and become the core component of the system."

"You are really crazy..."

Chen Lin looked at the quantized Ding Yi, and after a long while he slowly spoke.

"Who are they, and how do you know them?"

Chen Lin asked the quantized Ding Yi at this time.

"It's a long story."

Ding Yi directly established the most direct dialogue with Chen Lin, bypassing all the communicators. "It was actually six years ago that I first discovered that there was a super civilization hidden in the inner world where the origin star was located."

"Six years ago?"

Chen Lin was slightly stunned. This time point seemed to be the time when Ding Yi had just gone to the astronomical observatory at Anyun Base. At that time, he had personally reviewed and approved Ding Yi's application form.

"I was observing at the observatory at Anyun Base. That night, a detector I made had an abnormal reaction. At the time, I just thought it was a regular interstellar radiation signal, but later I found out that it was a series of text."

Ding Yi's voice echoed in the empty underground space, carrying an indescribable heaviness: "Those words are a code that we cannot understand, but I know that it is a warning."

The shadows of those words emerged in Chen Lin's mind. Although he had never seen them with his own eyes, just imagining them made him feel an inexplicable sense of oppression.

Those words seemed like whispers from the depths of the universe, telling of the existence of an ancient and powerful civilization.

"That civilization, their technological level is far beyond our imagination. They can manipulate matter and energy, and even change the basic laws of the universe."

Ding Yi's voice became deeper and deeper. "The advanced civilizations we discovered are like gods in the universe, and we are just insignificant dust in their eyes."

Chen Lin felt suffocated.

"Why didn't they just wipe us out?"

Chen Lin asked with difficulty, "Doesn't being able to be detected by ordinary equipment mean that they have discovered us?"

"Perhaps, in their eyes, we are not worthy of their personal efforts."

Ding Yi's answer chilled Chen Lin's heart. "They set the rules. As long as we abide by them, we can survive in this universe."

"Once we touch their bottom line, it will be a disaster."

Chen Lin was silent for a long time before he spoke: "What should we do now?"

Ding Yi walked slowly in the underground space. "This special relic is actually not the same as the ancient advanced civilization I discovered. This relic is actually a defense tower on a planet... Its birth is no longer traceable, but after I figured out how this thing works, I basically understand its function."

"With the buffering function of this device, I can provide at least another twenty years of peaceful development time for the association's rapid progress."

Chen Lin didn't know what to say next. He just felt that Ding Yi was too hasty to give up his life so easily.

"You don't have to worry about me so much,"

Ding Yi's voice sounded again, "Actually, this posture is more free for me."

"I remember that our association's consciousness transfer was a great success, right?"

"Ian was also destroyed because of the problem of the cracked black domain, but we are still developing things on the planet of Kinolion. At worst, I can be transferred away from here with more advanced technology in 20 years. I will be even happier if you give me a perfect metal body by then!"

Chen Lin didn't know whether to laugh or cry for a moment, "Are you enabling your mechanical ascension in advance?"

"That's it!"

Ding Yi laughed heartily: "My technique is pretty good. I use the fluctuations of quantum states to fuse all the organs in my body and my entire consciousness into one. The reason why I changed half of my body into mechanical ones in advance is actually to ensure that I can adapt to the mechanical body faster in the future."

"If Ian were still alive, perhaps this old man from the pioneer civilization would praise my method!"

Chen Lin shook his head slightly. Ding Yi really deserves to be called a crazy physicist. Many of the things he did were not even attempted by anyone else in the Red Dragon Association. At least in this field of directly dedicating one's life, he was absolutely unique.

"Come on, stop wasting your time here. I'm in great shape!"

Ding Yi said to Chen Lin: "Let the association install a signal transmission device here. I will contact you immediately if there is any unusual movement. In the future, don't call me by my name directly. Just call me by my code name."

"Code name?"

Chen Lin was slightly startled, and asked, "What's your name?"

"DE?"

"It's a bad name."

Chen Lin also smiled, "Why not just call me Ding Yi? The original name can be used to commemorate your existence, and it won't attract much attention."

"You can name my project this, and this planet can be called Dingyi Star, right?"

"That's a small matter."

Chen Lin exited the communication network. His mind was still a little confused at this moment. After all, the operation that Ding Yi had performed in such a short period of time was enough to make many people unable to react. He also needed to sort out what had happened in the recent period and report to President Zhang.

At the very least, the senior executives of the association must be informed.

"Secretary Zhao!"

Chen Lin shouted towards the door, and a figure immediately poked his head out.

"Get ready to go back. I need to sort things out while I'm here...things have been a bit too chaotic lately."

"Yes, Vice President." (End of this chapter)