I handed over to another world

Chen Lin quickly ended his short vacation and returned to the Red Dragon Association's headquarters in Shangdu.

Chairman Zhang is currently conducting research in other provinces and cities these days, which gives him a good opportunity to investigate recent events.

In fact, for Chen Lin, Li Tianyun’s warning and those abnormal data were not a big deal. As the president of the Red Dragon Association, Zhang Shouren was no ordinary person to be able to sit in this position. Chen Lin didn’t think he would do anything to betray the Red Dragon Association or even human civilization.

However, in order to take precautionary measures, Chen Lin decided to find out as soon as possible what Zhang Shouren had been doing recently - at least to give an explanation to Li Tianyun.

He walked into his office and directly awakened the Star Eye System.

The Star Eye system quickly confirmed his identity, and then a holographic projection unfolded in front of Chen Lin. Countless data streams flowed like a galaxy. After Chen Lin glanced around, he quickly swiped his fingers in the air and soon called up Zhang Shouren's recent activity records.

"Retrieve all of Chairman Zhang's travel and communication records for the past month."

Chen Lin whispered, and the voice of Star Eye AI rang out in the office.

"Retrieving data..."

On the holographic screen, Zhang Shouren's movements gradually became clear.

Chen Lin's eyes were fixed on the data, and his brows were getting tighter and tighter.

Because he soon discovered that President Zhang Shouren had frequently entered and exited the association's quantum laboratory in the past month, and had used the president's emergency authority to call up the observatory's quantum matrix many times.

What made Chen Lin even more uneasy was that a large number of encrypted signals appeared in Zhang Shouren's communication records. The frequency and waveform of these signals were extremely similar to the crystal signals in the previous space station accident - these contents made him more and more suspicious.

Of course, they were not doubting what kind of person Chairman Zhang was, but they were suspecting that Zhang Shouren might be doing something they didn't understand and was trying to solve these problems on his own.

"Star Eye, analyze the source and destination of these encrypted signals."

There was a hint of urgency in Chen Lin's voice.

"Analysis in progress... The source of the signal cannot be determined, and the target coordinates point to an unknown dimension."

The voice of the Star Eye AI remained calm, but Chen Lin felt a chill.

Unknown dimension...

Li Tianyun's warning flashed through Chen Lin's mind. What Li Tianyun said before was not groundless. It was obvious that the information came from a reliable source.

He quickly called up the energy fluctuation map of the observatory and found that Zhang Shouren had tried many times in the past week to create micro-dimensional cracks at specific coordinates.

The energy fluctuations of these cracks are far beyond the association's existing technological scope, and are even highly consistent with the signal frequency of higher-dimensional existence.

"What on earth is President Zhang doing?"

Chen Lin whispered to himself, his heart full of doubts and uneasiness.

At this moment, the door of the office was suddenly pushed open, and Secretary Zhao walked in hurriedly: "Vice President Chen, President Zhang asked you to go to his office immediately. He said there is an urgent matter to discuss."

Chen Lin nodded. It seemed that Zhang Shouren had returned.

He quickly turned off the Star Eye system, straightened his clothes, and followed Secretary Zhao to Zhang Shouren's office. Zhang Shouren's office was located on the top floor of the association's headquarters, and he could overlook the entire city through the huge floor-to-ceiling windows.

When Chen Lin walked into the office, Zhang Shouren was standing in front of the window with his back to him, seemingly in deep thought.

"President Zhang, you're looking for me?"

Chen Lin's voice was calm, but there was a hint of scrutiny in his eyes.

President Zhang turned around with a faint smile on his face: "How was Chen Lin's rest?"

"Not bad, thank you for your concern."

Chen Lin nodded, his eyes still fixed on Zhang Shouren, "I heard that you have an urgent matter to discuss?"

Zhang Shouren smiled, walked to the desk and sat down: "Yes, some of the association's projects have not been going well recently, I would like to hear your opinion."

Chen Lin's mind moved, and he asked, "Is it about the quantum laboratory project? I heard that you have been going there frequently recently."

Zhang Shouren's eyes flickered slightly, but he quickly regained his composure: "Yes, we are conducting some high-dimensional energy experiments, hoping to provide new directions for the future development of the association."

"Higher dimensional energy?"

Chen Lin frowned slightly. "Have these experiments been formally approved by the association? I remember that such high-risk projects require approval from all senior management."

Zhang Shouren's smile froze for a moment, but soon returned to normal: "These experiments are emergency projects. I used the president's emergency authority... You know, time waits for no one."

"We must master high-dimensional technology as soon as possible to cope with the challenges that may come in the future."

Chen Lin was silent for a moment, then said, "President Zhang, I understand your sense of urgency, but experiments with high-dimensional energy are extremely risky. If you are not careful, it may cause an irreversible disaster. Therefore, I suggest that you suspend these experiments and wait for the association's top leaders to discuss before making a decision."

Zhang Shouren's face darkened slightly, but he soon smiled again: "Chen Lin, I appreciate your caution, but sometimes we have to take some risks to achieve a breakthrough."

"Don't worry, these experiments are under my control and nothing will go wrong."

Chen Lin felt even more uneasy, because Zhang Shouren was known for his prudence and would never take risks easily.

But now his behavior is very different from before.

Chen Lin took a deep breath and decided to confront directly: "President Zhang, I heard that you have been calling the quantum matrix of the observatory recently, and the target coordinates point to an unknown dimension. Can you tell me what the real purpose of these experiments is?"

Zhang Shouren's smile completely disappeared, and his eyes became sharp: "Chen Lin, are you investigating me?"

Chen Lin looked him in the eye without flinching. “As the vice president of the association, I have a responsibility to ensure the safety of the association. If you are conducting some unapproved high-risk experiments, I must know the truth.”

“Not many people know about the Star Eye system. I am just carrying out necessary management for everyone according to the specifications we set up in the beginning.”

Zhang Shouren was silent for a moment, then slowly stood up and walked to the window.

His back seemed particularly heavy, as if he was carrying some unspeakable secret.

After a long time, he whispered: "Chen Lin, there are some things I can't tell you now, but I can assure you that everything I do is for the future of the association."

"I can now tell you something about the unknown dimension. The beings in that dimension are not some kind of aliens. It can even be said that they have a close relationship with us. Although I cannot communicate with them directly, I can establish a certain connection with them by briefly opening a micro-dimensional crack."

Chen Lin narrowed his eyes and said, "What you are doing is tantamount to handing your fate over to an unknown life form in a higher dimension." "I am doing this for the association... or for human civilization."

"You're taking a risk."

Chen Lin interrupted Zhang Shouren directly, "If a completely uncontrollable phenomenon really occurs, it will be a complete disaster for us."

……

In the starry sky at the edge of the Orion spiral arm, with the electronic sound in the quantum communication channel, seven streamlined starships tore open the dark matter curtain, and the surface of the ship reflected the faint light of the dark red nebula.

"Warp drive detached!"

The dragon logo engraved on the belly of the pilot ship "Pangu" suddenly lit up, and the hexagonal honeycomb shields unfolded layer by layer, isolating the plasma flames generated by friction in the atmosphere.

Inside the bridge, Colonel Qin Zhao’s tactical eyepiece reflected the holographic sand table.

On the surface of this Earth-like planet code-named "Guixu", twelve inverted pyramid-shaped buildings are spewing out blue light mist. Quantum radar shows that their arrangement corresponds exactly to the projected coordinates of the three stars in Orion's belt.

Such a strange phenomenon attracted the attention of relevant scientific researchers from the association a few years ago, but there had been no opportunity to send a fleet before. Now that there was an opportunity, the fleet arrived as scheduled.

"3rd Marines, prepare to drop."

Qin Zhao tapped the floating console with his fingers, and a scarlet halo representing combat instructions appeared on the edge of the eyepiece. "Silicon-based life reactions have been detected around the ruins. Execute alert according to Article 17 of the Law of Interstellar Contact."

On the fleet's side, twelve two-meter-tall dark black exoskeletons filed out from the airdrop cabin. The surface of the Vala alloy composite armor layer was flowing with the silver light of nano-repair fluid. These extremely cool armors have been updated for who knows how many generations, and the current strength is a world of difference compared to the previous ones.

As the landing ship landed, the team led by Marine Captain Li Jin filed out. His tactical boots crushed the purple crystals on the surface, and the HUD inside the mask showed faint neutrino fluctuations three hundred meters under his feet.

"Install the phase stabilizer, quick!"

His voice had a metallic texture after being filtered through the mask. The folding mechanical arms behind the two team members unfolded, and the hexagonal device was embedded in the crack of the ruins base. The dark matter probe beeped.

The ground suddenly shook, and dark green mucus gushed out of the cracks. Li Jin's pupils contracted slightly - the biometric system of the tactical goggles marked the creatures crawling out of the mucus as dark red - this represented danger.

These creatures all have arthropod-like structures, three pairs of sickle-shaped forelimbs, and strong acid vapor seeps out of the gaps in their shells. They are obviously some special kind of insects in the interstellar space.

"Fire!"

Before the order was given, the particle cannons on the shoulders of the twelve exoskeletons had already lit up with a faint blue arc of light. The alien creature in the front was directly vaporized by the high-energy particle beam. The acid splashed on the armor and white smoke rose, but was instantly decomposed by the nano-coating.

Li Jin stretched out his hand and grabbed an alien that was rushing towards him, and the power joints made a low hum of hydraulic devices.

As the five fingers closed, the crisp sound of the shell shattering was like crushing a ceramic puppet. Light green blood dripped through the fingers and condensed into harmless crystal clusters the moment it touched the armor.

"That's it?"

The team members' sneers were heard in the channel.

"I thought they were so powerful that they could corrode our armor!"

"Don't waste your time talking nonsense, just get it done and leave!"

"Captain, why don't you let the intelligent machines do this job? Why do you let us do it ourselves?"

Li Jin was about to scold when a violent gravitational shock suddenly came from under his feet. The readings of the phase stabilizer jumped wildly, and golden lines like blood vessels appeared on the surface of the ruins - the remains of the killed aliens were melting into liquid and seeping into the hieroglyphics on the surface of the ancient buildings.

"Everyone take off!"

He slammed the thrusters, and the vector nozzles on the back of the exoskeleton burst into white flames.

Under their feet, the entire ruins were moving back and forth in some strange posture, and soon one of the huge pyramid-shaped buildings turned into a dark abyss, from which the alien creatures began to emerge continuously.

"I'll go, there are so many!"

"Luckily we ran fast. These little gadgets may not be able to penetrate our armor, but if they really surrounded us, I would be in extreme pain!"

"Go to the landing ship—"

Li Jin, the team leader, hovered in the air and observed the creatures below. He then reported into the communicator, "I suggest bombing the area directly. There are too many creatures. I'm afraid the team won't be able to handle them all."

Li Jin's exoskeleton hand pressed on the safety pin of the antimatter grenade at his waist, staring at the picture below. Statistics appeared frantically on the HUD display. Just in the past moment, there were probably tens of thousands of these alien monsters emerging.

"This isn't an archaeological site, it's more like some kind of...hatching ground."

The fleet outside the planet also saw the current situation here. Captain Qin Zhao, the captain of the fleet, gave an expressionless order: "Go back first and observe the ecology of this planet."

"Yes!"

Li Jin immediately called on all the team members to move upwards at high speed. The landing ship was hovering at an altitude of more than a thousand meters at this time, in order to prevent any unexpected situations.

"Let's not try it, Captain!"

The soldier in the team spoke on the team communicator at this time, "These little gadgets have basically no lethality except for their large number. I'm afraid the shipborne weapons on the landing ship can handle them all!"

"An order is an order, why all the nonsense?"

Li Jin accelerated his ascent and was the first to enter the hovering landing ship. He waved his left hand to quickly confirm his identity and checked his entire body - the so-called landing ship was actually hundreds of meters long. Except for the fact that it could not perform jump navigation, the rest of the ship was almost a one-to-one reduction of a large ship, so naturally it had all the functional facilities.

The team members entered the landing ship one by one, and the dirt on their armor was quickly cleaned off. After taking off their exoskeleton armor, a group of people gathered in front of the console display.

Looking at the dense red dots on the screen, several people suddenly felt goose bumps all over their bodies.

"Oh my god, what on earth is this planet? Why is it the same as what Blue Star discovered at the beginning, with so many bugs!"

"Really? I'm feeling a little physically uncomfortable..."

Li Jin remained quite calm as he listened to his team members' words, and directly signaled the pilot to start the return journey.

"I estimate that the fleet will launch an attack on this planet by tomorrow at the latest."

He was quite confident, "These little gadgets are easily crushed by the current strength of our Red Dragon Association." (End of this chapter)