I handed over to another world

In the Ice Abyss Canyon on the planet Omega-7, the silver bodies of the Robotic Legion reflected a cold blue light on the ice.

The three hundred "Breaker" type engineering machines surrounding the metal structure of the Forerunner ruins are now fully ready, and the red dragon emblems on the outer shells of these engineering machines shine brightly under the searchlights.

Chen Lin's holographic image was suspended in the exploration captain's tactical eyepiece, and his voice came through the quantum communication channel: "Remember, all operations must be carried out at a safe distance of five meters. The progress of laying the energy conduit is synchronized to the master control system."

"Understood, anti-phase energy buffers are being deployed."

The exploration captain waved his hand to activate the holographic command board, and the robotic army immediately took action.

Three spider-shaped decoding robots climbed onto the surface of the structure, and their tentacle-like probes accurately pierced the energy nodes of the geometric patterns.

"Zizi..."

The dark blue lines on the surface of the ruins suddenly lit up, and a circular energy barrier rose from the ground, covering the entire canyon.

Chen Lin narrowed his eyes in front of the holographic sand table in the command cabin. This scene was exactly the same as the defense mechanism of the ice field ruins, but this time the reaction of the intelligent machine legions was unusually fast. The moment this side was activated, all the intelligent machine legions instantly activated the force field protection.

"Start the "Zhulong" protocol subroutine, calibrate the frequency to the 91st array harmonic!"

The commander floating high in the sky immediately ordered twelve heavy intelligent machines to deploy their folding launchers at the same time. The orange-red neutralization beams intertwined into a web, colliding with the energy barrier at the bottom, creating an avalanche-like rain of particles.

The ice cracked due to the shock, but the buffer had already directed the shock wave into the rock 300 meters underground.

"Barrier resonance frequency locked, overload in 37 seconds!"

When the AI's mechanical sound rang out, Chen Lin's index finger tapped the console unconsciously.

In the holographic image, the light curtain that had swallowed dozens of lives was receding like a melting glacier, revealing a hexagonal entrance with a diameter of 20 meters at the bottom of the structure.

"A group of defenders has appeared! The number... my god, more than two thousand!"

Amid the exclamation of the exploration team leader, silver-white diamond-shaped machines swarmed out from the entrance, and the trajectories drawn by the hard light blades instantly dismembered the two Wall Breaker Engineering Intelligent Machines.

But this time there was no blood or flesh flying around - because three hundred combat intelligent machines code-named "Guards" had already lined up in the front, and the particle disintegration cannons on their shoulders fired in unison to form a blue barrage, which directly covered the entire sky the moment these diamond-shaped machines flew out of the ruins!
Chen Lin stared at the real-time battle damage data, his pupils contracted slightly.

The charge of the Forerunner ruins defenders was forcibly stopped fifty meters away. The alloy shell of each guard-type combat intelligent machine was beating with reverse interference waves of the Forerunner energy patterns - this was the result of cracking the wreckage of the ice field ruins.

Don't think that the Red Dragon Association is still as weak as it was before. Any small detail and technological discovery will be directly grasped by the Red Dragon Association at this time.

This reverse interference wave itself is nothing compared to the current technology of the Red Dragon Association, but it is used at this point in time.

"The core area passage has been cleared!"

Seven minutes later, when the exploration captain's voice sounded again, the chair that Chen Lin was holding had already had deep marks on it.

The holographic screen switched to the interior of the ruins—the hundred-meter-tall crystal core was suspended under the dome, and the runes flowing on the surface matched perfectly with the fragments of the ice field ruins.

"Don't touch anything. First put an exploratory intelligent device in to explore the situation."

Chen Lin gave the order in a hoarse voice.

Following the response from Omega, Chen Lin noticed on the screen that hundreds of nanoscale detection bugs swarmed into the core area and constructed a holographic projection - stardust-like light particles suddenly rained down from the dome, condensing into an AI phantom that was exactly the same as the ice field ruins.

[Secondary authority holder detected]...

The mechanical female voice echoed in the ice abyss, and Chen Lin suddenly became a little nervous, but this time the AI's pupils did not glow with murderous red light. Instead, it projected a string of coordinates that he was very familiar with - that was "Delta-12", the farthest of the six target planets.

"Vice President, there is something inside the core!"

From the perspective images sent back by the nanorobots that had entered, a prismatic crystal was slowly rotating, and its energy readings caused all monitoring equipment to explode instantly.

The corners of Chen Lin's mouth finally curved up - they won the bet, this little gadget was most likely a brand new crystal core, and it was completely defenseless!
If they master this gadget, they will most likely gain control over most of the technology in this relic, just like when Ian donated his database as a pioneer!
The alarm lights in the command cabin suddenly went out, and Zhang Shouren's holographic image appeared next to it: "Well done! But I just received news here..."

He flicked his fingers and pulled out a newly deciphered inscription. The words "Spark Restart" were flashing wildly. "I'm afraid this crystal is more than just a key."

The wind in the Ice Abyss carried snow particles that hit the outer shell of the intelligent machine, making a dense clashing sound. Chen Lin looked at the heart-poundingly beautiful crystal in the hologram with an excited smile on his face: "No matter what it is, at least we made the right bet this time. This thing will advance civilization by a few decades!"

……

The association finally decided to take out the crystal core - at least take this little thing out of the ruins.

And when everything was ready, the moment the prismatic crystal detached from the suspended base, the entire Ice Abyss Canyon's terrain began to collapse quantumly.

Outside the temporary force field constructed by the guard-type intelligent machine cluster, the ice layer with a radius of 30 kilometers is like a pencil mark erased by an eraser, exposing the planetary skeleton structure woven with hard light materials underneath - it is the remains of a Dyson membrane composed of countless regular hexagonal honeycomb units, each of which contains a micro black hole energy node.

"Report! The crystal is releasing interference information flow!"

The holographic image transmitted from Omega Star was shaking violently due to energy interference. "This is not the main program of the ruins. This is..."

Chen Lin's retinal projection has been occupied by massive amounts of data - he saw the images of the Forerunner engineers carving galaxies with gravitational waves, and tens of thousands of hard-light structures automatically assembled into ring arrays in a vacuum - he saw the entire process of the recombiner disassembling the gas planet into quark soup and then reshaping it into a Dyson sphere control node - he also saw the test of some kind of weapon that transcends three-dimensional structure - a civilization called "Mantle" used space-time itself as a string, and plucking a certain coordinate would make the entire star cluster return to the chaotic state at the beginning of the Big Bang.

The crystal core suddenly unfolded inside the Guardian Omnic's confinement cabin, projecting a hard-light holographic sand table with a diameter of two kilometers.

A large number of engineers from the Red Dragon Association were horrified to find that their proud warp engines and even antimatter reactors that had not yet been used on a large scale were marked as "Spark Preservation Project - Primitive Stage" in the technology tree presented in the sandbox!
"look here!"

A trembling voice pointed to the flashing stargate model in the sandbox, "They use vacuum zero-point energy to drive the galactic-level jump network. Each node is a miniature artificial universe!"

More shocking discoveries followed - analysis showed that the outer shell of the ruins was just a basic application of some kind of micro-light technology, and the real horror was the "logical weapon", that is, the weaponization of physical laws through the quantum observer effect. In the sandbox demonstration, the fleet of a certain civilization was forcibly modified in the mass-energy equation, and all the warships suddenly followed the cartoon physics rules and began to collide elastically!
In the images shown, the nano-scale Forerunner construction units can even dismantle an Earth-like planet and reconstruct it into a battle fortress within 72 hours!

The sand table replayed the process of a certain rebellious galaxy being transformed into a giant weapon - the hydrogen elements of the gas giant were woven into a Dyson ray emitter, and the whole process did not even take more than half a day...

The cold wind in the Ice Abyss Canyon was carrying quantum reverberations, and overload warnings kept popping up in front of Chen Lin's eyes.

The Forerunner technology tree projected by the holographic sandbox is still expanding, and every branch pierces the cognitive boundaries of human civilization.

He saw the eleven-dimensional hypercubes replicating themselves in the void, and those angular structures were forging the laws of physics into programmable weapon modules. In the demonstration screen, a rebellious galaxy was injected with a new strong nuclear force constant, and all heavy elements instantly decayed into helium clouds.

This is a super technology that completely exceeds Chen Lin's cognition, and the picture it presents is like the end of the world.

"Vice President! The Dyson sphere debris of Delta-12 begins to devour the satellite!"

Secretary Zhao's emergency communication was forcibly cut in. The expanding stellar debris in the holographic picture was tearing the three icy satellites into particle streams, but Chen Lin's attention was attracted by the corner of the sand table - there were flashing fragments of the code left by Aian, which produced a strange resonance with the quantum pulsation of the Forerunner runes.

Chairman Zhang appeared from behind Chen Lin at this time. He directly held down Chen Lin's trembling right hand and injected a nerve blocker into his carotid artery: "Boy, your brain waves are overloaded!"

He pointed to the holographic wall of the command center, on which the physiological monitoring alarms of some researchers were jumping, "We are like primitive people holding lightsabers. This weapon can burn through our palms at any time. This thing can even affect us on Earth from such a long distance!"

The crystal core erupted with a second torrent of information at this moment. Everyone saw the Forerunner engineers strolling in the reconstructed Orion Nebula, with galactic-level mathematical rate weapons flowing through their fingertips. A certain carbon-based civilization was forcibly locked in a binary causal cage for launching an interstellar war.

What is even more suffocating is the note in the demonstration log: this type of operation belongs to "routine maintenance by junior supervisors"!
Just the simplest routine maintenance?

This completely tears apart many people's imagination!

"Report! There is something wrong with the guard robot!"

The technical officer suddenly called up the surveillance footage and saw that the originally silver-white combat units were now being eroded by dark blue geometric patterns.

The particle barrel of a certain intelligent machine suddenly twisted into a Möbius strip, while the navigation core of another one directly began to recompile the combat protocol using functions - the Forerunner's protocol was remotely formatting the technological foundation of the Red Dragon Association!

Chen Lin wiped the blood from his nose and staggered to his feet. The last intercepted rune string remained on his retina. Those flashing codes perfectly matched a piece of data listed as taboo in the Aion database. He suddenly realized that both were keys - the former was used to open the shackles of technology, while the latter was the code to unlock a certain secret.

"Shut down all reverse engineering equipment!"

He smashed the protective cover of the console and manually activated the incineration protocol. "These are not gifts for the heirs, but examination halls set up by a higher civilization!"

"Too bad... Every formula we scribble on the test paper could trigger a cosmic-scale deduction mechanism!"

But the warning came too late. The quantum cloud above the Omega Ice Abyss began to collapse, and a gamma-ray burst suddenly erupted from the planet Delta-12, kilometers away.

The entire sand table projection automatically switched to the disaster simulation interface - the six illuminated ruins coordinates were weaving a vacuum phase change network. After seven days, all activated forerunner devices would be started synchronously, and by then, the physical laws mastered by mankind would collapse like a sand castle.

The only way to stop all this is to choose to accept the mantle of this civilization - of course, the prerequisite is to first pass the challenge of the guardian of the ruins.

After all, not everyone can accept the mantle of this super civilization.

The sand table projection ended, and the atmosphere in the Ice Abyss Canyon froze like ice.

Chen Lin slowly raised his gaze from the holographic screen, his eyes filled with heaviness and determination.

The technical officers and engineers around looked at each other, shock and anxiety written all over their faces.

Chairman Zhang walked to Chen Lin's side, his brows furrowed: "It seems that something has happened again..."

Chen Lin took a deep breath and said, "Let's prepare to activate the emergency plan. First, evacuate the non-combatants on Omega and notify the Origin Star to prepare for the worst."

"If this Forerunner civilization is really that powerful, I'm afraid it will affect the Origin Star galaxy..."

Complex equations and simulation results began to flash on the holographic screen, and engineers got busy, trying to find a glimmer of hope from the massive amount of information.

Zhang Shouren was silent for a few seconds, then slowly said, "I'm afraid this can't be avoided. What is the exact time shown on the program?"

"Seven days at most..."

"Seven days? I'm afraid the fleet on Planet Omega won't be able to withdraw by then!"

President Zhang sighed, and then asked, "Then what exactly...what do we want to do with this thing?"

"Try to inherit the mantle of this civilization - prove to them that our current civilization has enough capabilities and technological level to be the successor of their civilization."

"It's ridiculous!"

After hearing this, President Zhang was furious and said, "Is this the inheritance of a high-level civilization to a low-level civilization? This is purely a destruction program!"

"If we hadn't discovered them, but any other civilization, as long as their civilization level was lower, wouldn't they have been directly wiped out?"

"This is simply an open conspiracy between the universe, and it is obvious that they want to destroy low-level civilizations!"

Chen Lin didn't say anything for a long while. Finally, he turned his head from the screen and said to President Zhang, "Do you think it's possible that the Forerunner civilization did this because they are no longer here?"

"Just like the pioneer civilization where Ian is?" (End of this chapter)