I handed over to another world

The setting sun gradually sank into the sea, dyeing the sky deep purple, and then the stars began to light up one by one.

The sea breeze blew gently with a salty and moist scent, brushing Chen Lin's cheek, sweeping away the fatigue in his heart.

At this time, Chen Lin was lying on a recliner on the second floor of the sanatorium, feeling particularly relaxed - it would be nice if he could continue like this.

If he had not joined the Red Dragon Association directly and become one of the association's top leaders, his life would probably be much more comfortable than it is now.

At least I don’t have to be as busy as I am now. I have to deal with endless work as soon as I open my eyes. There are a lot of meetings and approval projects every day...

In the next few days, Chen Lin completely let himself go. He would jog along the coastline every morning, feeling the cool sea breeze and the warmth of the sun.

After running, he would sit on the beach, watching the waves coming in one after another and listening to the cries of seagulls in the distance, as if the whole world had become simple and peaceful.

Chen Lin even let the chef take a day off and simply cooked some simple seafood dishes himself.

Although he was far from an expert at this kind of cooking, the food seemed to taste especially delicious on this isolated island.

In the evening, Chen Lin would walk to the other end of the island, where there was a reef area. He liked to sit on the reef and watch the sunset slowly sink into the sea level, dyeing the sky a gorgeous orange-red color.

Every time at this time he would feel an unprecedented calmness, as if all his worries and stress were carried away by the waves and disappeared into the distant horizon.

However, even though his body had rested, Chen Lin's mind was still unable to completely get rid of those thoughts about crystals and higher-dimensional existences.

He knew that the crisis was far from over and might even have just begun.

The demise of the Forerunner civilization, the threat of higher-dimensional existence, the abnormality of the crystal signal...all of this was like a fog, shrouding his mind.

Two days passed like this. On the third day, Chen Lin finally took out the communicator and after hesitating, he finally dialed Lin Yun's number.

"Wife, it's me."

Chen Lin's voice was gentle and calm, "How are you doing recently?"

"husband?"

Lin Yun's voice was a little surprised, and then he laughed, "It's rare that you have time to contact me now... Everything is fine here, but the children miss you very much. Are you free now?"

Chen Lin smiled, his eyes still fixed on the sea in the distance: "I'm going to rest on the island for a few days. I want to ask if you and the children are interested in coming over? The scenery here is nice, and it's quite suitable for rest."

Lin Yun was silent for a moment, then readily agreed: "Okay, the kids are on vacation recently... They've been thinking about going to the beach."

"How about we set off early tomorrow morning?"

"Okay, I'll wait for you."

Chen Lin hung up the phone and inexplicably felt a sense of relief.

Perhaps the company of his family can make him forget the heavy pressure temporarily. He now has both a son and a daughter. To be honest, he could not even imagine his current situation ten years ago.

The next morning, Chen Lin stood on the tarmac early, waiting for Lin Yun and the children to arrive.

Soon he heard Secretary Zhao waving at him from a distance, and then Chen Lin noticed a small aircraft appearing in his field of vision, and then the aircraft slowly landed at a stop far away from the island.

When the cabin door opened, Chen Lin's two children rushed out excitedly.

"father!"

The youngest daughter Chen Xiao ran in front and threw herself into Chen Lin's arms.

The eldest son Chen Xiao followed behind. Although he behaved calmer than his sister, his eyes were full of anticipation.

"My dear daughter!"

Chen Lin smiled and touched his daughter's head, then patted his son's shoulder, "Dad is taking a break these days, and I heard from mom that you guys are also on vacation, so how about we stay here for a few days?"

"Great!"

My daughter Chen Xiao jumped up excitedly, "I want to go to the beach to pick up shells!"

"I'd like to go scuba diving."

Chen Xiao seemed calmer, but there was a hint of expectation in his tone. Although he was the son of the vice president of the association, Chen Lin actually did not allow him to reveal this identity. He was no different from other people in the school. On weekdays, Chen Lin was often elusive, and Lin Yun was even busier. In fact, he was almost the same as Chen Lin at the beginning.

Lin Yun followed the children and walked over with a smile: "I'll trouble you to be our tour guide for the next few days."

Chen Lin immediately laughed: "Why do we need a tour guide? We are here for vacation, not for traveling!"

In the next few days, the island was filled with laughter. Every morning, Chen Xiao would take Chen Lin to the beach to pick up shells. Chen Lin followed his little daughter patiently. He brought a small bucket to help his baby daughter pack things, and they were all having fun.

As a boy, Chen Xiao was very interested in diving, so Chen Lin accompanied him to dive into the shallow sea area. The diving equipment of both sides was obviously different from before. Now the technology of the Red Dragon Association was so powerful that it could completely block out the surrounding seawater simply by wearing it on the hand.

This made it easy for them to create the scene of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. They saw colorful coral reefs and swimming fish on the seabed around the island, which greatly satisfied the countless scientific fantasies of children of this age.

Lin Yun preferred to sit on the terrace and watch the father and his two sons playing on the beach, as if this moment was what she had been looking forward to for a long time.

One evening, Chen Lin was watching the sunset with his children in the reef area when he suddenly heard a familiar sound of footsteps behind him.

He looked back and found Li Tianyun standing not far away with a faint smile on his face.

"President Li? Why are you here?"

Chen Lin was a little surprised, but soon smiled, "We don't talk about work here. I came here just to rest for a few days."

"Of course. I heard you were resting here, and I happened to have nothing to do, so I came to see you."

Li Tianyun walked over and patted Chen Lin on the shoulder, "You don't mind if I interrupt your family time?"

"Of course I don't mind."

Chen Lin smiled, turned to the children and said, "You can call him Uncle Li. He is an old friend of Dad."

"Hello Uncle Li!"

Chen Xiao greeted sweetly, and Chen Xiao nodded politely.

President Li laughed and touched Chen Xiao's head: "Did you have fun?"

"happy!"

Chen Xiao said excitedly, "Dad took us to pick up a lot of shells, and also took my brother and me diving... I saw a lot of beautiful things!"

Li Tianyun nodded, with a smile in his eyes: "It's great, such a time is rare." Chen Lin glanced at him and smiled: "If you are interested, you can also bring your family along."

Li Tianyun shook his head, with a hint of helplessness in his tone: "I'm not as leisurely as you. I still have a lot of things to do at the association... But seeing that you can relax, I feel relieved."

The two stood on the reef, watching the sunset slowly sink into the sea level, and no one mentioned work again.

The sea breeze blew gently, bringing with it a salty and humid scent, as if blowing away all the worries.

"Vice President Chen,"

Li Tianyun suddenly spoke up, with a hint of emotion in his tone, "Sometimes I really envy you for being able to put down your work and spend time with your family."

He looked at the sea level that was gradually swallowed by the dusk, "But I didn't come here just to reminisce about the past."

Chen Lin keenly grasped the deep meaning of his words, turned around and leaned on the wet reef: "What happened?"

"I got the news that President Zhang has been using the quantum matrix of the observatory recently."

Li Tianyun took out a thumb-sized holographic storage device from the inner pocket of his suit, and a dark blue projection unfolded on his palm.

It was an encrypted star map trajectory, and Chen Lin was sure that he had never seen this little thing before.

"After seven consecutive deep space scans, the target coordinates all pointed to an unknown dimension - he used the president's emergency authority and even bypassed the technical department, so even my channels don't know what he is looking at or what he is talking to."

The sea breeze suddenly became fierce, and the hem of Chen Lin's shirt rustled.

He stared at the constantly reorganizing Klein bottle topological model in the projection, and thought of the glowing shell his daughter picked up on the beach three hours ago. The quantum entangled patterns on the inner wall of the shell were clearly the same structure as the crystal fragments in the space station accident last week.

"How did you find out?"

"The day before yesterday, the technical department discovered an abnormality in the energy distribution of the observatory."

Li Tianyun waved his hand and called up the energy fluctuation map. The dark red curve suddenly collapsed into a strange Klein bottle shape at a certain threshold. "This energy transition mode is exactly the same as the waveform when the space station crystal was activated at that time, so I asked the people in the channel to pay special attention to it. I didn't expect to find this."

The sound of children playing could be heard in the distance, and Chen Xiao waved the glowing shell towards this side.

Chen Lin calmly blocked the holographic projection, smiled and waved at his daughter, but his voice was very low: "You mean, President Zhang is secretly activating the crystal?"

"Worse."

Li Tianyun turned off the projection and took out a translucent scaly object from his pocket. The object was flashing continuously at a low frequency. "The technical department brought it to me this morning. Guess what this is?"

The moment Chen Lin took the scale, the biological monitoring ring on his wrist suddenly beeped.

He clenched his fists suddenly, and the quantum shield was activated, wrapping the crystal in a light golden energy field.

"Residues of the collapse effect."

Li Tianyun's voice seemed to come from the deep sea. "The source from the channel said that Zhang Shouren might be establishing some kind of connection."

He looked up at Li Tianyun, with a hint of caution in his tone: "You mean, President Zhang may be communicating with creatures in higher dimensions?"

Li Tianyun nodded, his eyes solemn: "Not only that, I suspect he is secretly conducting some kind of collapse effect experiment - the quantum matrix data of the observatory shows that he has tried many times to create micro-dimensional cracks at specific coordinates. The scale and energy fluctuations of this crack are far beyond the scope of our current technology."

Chen Lin was silent for a moment, his eyes cast towards the sea level in the distance.

The afterglow of the setting sun shines on the sea, and the waves sparkle as if countless tiny crystals are flashing.

He took a deep breath and then slowly said, "President Zhang is currently the absolute core figure of the association, and his decisions have always been based on the overall situation. You should have known about him when you chose him as the successor. Maybe he has some plans that we don't know about, or he is trying to solve some crises that we haven't noticed yet."

Li Tianyun frowned, and there was a hint of urgency in his tone: "If it is according to the previous habits, I have always trusted Zhang Shouren...but the situation is different this time."

"Intervention of higher-dimensional organisms, experiments on collapse effects - these are not trivial matters."

"If his behavior gets out of control, it could lead to an irreversible disaster."

"After all, after taking this position, he no longer represents himself, but the entire high-level association... The problem is that what Zhang Shouren is doing now does not seem to be known to all high-level personnel."

Chen Lin was silent for a few seconds before speaking again: "Since he chose to do this, he must have his reasons... We should give him some trust and time."

Li Tianyun hesitated for a moment, and finally sighed: "I hope you are right."

"But I still suggest that you use the Star Eye system to investigate as soon as possible after you return. If there is any problem, we can respond in time."

Chen Lin nodded, with a thoughtful look in his eyes: "I will."

"When I get back, I will talk to President Zhang in person. If he doesn't talk about relevant topics, I will use Star Eyes to try to understand his behavior. If there is any problem, I will inform you as soon as possible."

Li Tianyun's expression relaxed a little. He looked at the children playing on the beach in the distance and smiled: "Well, since you said so, I won't say anything more."

"It's just that the future of the association is not just the responsibility of a few of us, but the future of the entire civilization. We can't be negligent in any way. I don't need to elaborate on this point, you must understand."

Chen Lin smiled slightly, with a hint of determination in his eyes: "I understand, don't worry, I will take care of this matter."

Li Tianyun looked at the time and nodded slightly: "It's getting late, I should go back, there are still a lot of things waiting for me to deal with at the association."

"I send you."

"No need for that, you should stay here with your wife and children!"

After watching Li Tianyun's aircraft disappear from his sight, Chen Lin stood there thinking for a long time before returning to his residence. It was already completely dark outside. When he returned to his residence, Chen Lin saw Lin Yun sitting on the terrace, holding a cup of hot tea in his hand, looking at him tenderly.

She asked softly, "President Li is gone?"

Chen Lin nodded, walked over to sit next to her, and held her hand: "Well, he has some things to deal with."

Lin Yun smiled slightly and leaned on his shoulder: "What were you talking about just now? It seemed very serious."

Chen Lin was silent for a moment, then said softly: "Some work matters, no big deal... I will take care of it when I get back."

Lin Yun didn't ask any more questions, but just gently held his hand.

"You come back less and less often..."

"busy."

Chen Lin held Lin Yun's shoulders and looked at the endless black sea. No one knew what he was thinking at this moment... (End of this chapter)