I handed over to another world

Chen Lin stood in front of the observation window, looking at Xiao Li who was in deep sleep through the glass.

The cold blue mist in the emergency room had not yet dissipated, blurring the young man's face.

"Pull up the 'consciousness transmission' files of the pioneer civilization. I want to see them."

Chen Lin's voice was low and calm, "Highest authority, biometric authentication."

Old Wu quickly handed over an encrypted data pad, and Chen Lin pressed his palm on the identification area. As a blue light swept across, a holographic projection unfolded in the air, displaying ancient symbols and complex neural maps.

"here."

Chen Lin pointed to a distorted text. "The pioneer civilization mentioned the concept of consciousness firewall, but their description is completely different from Xiao Li's situation."

The text on the projection slowly changed and was translated into modern language. The database of the pioneer civilization clearly stated that knowledge transfer must go through three stages: deconstruction, purification, and reconstruction, and the lack of any step would lead to cognitive collapse.

"Why haven't I seen the purification phase in the document report?"

Old Wu leaned in to take a closer look: "We skipped the 'purification' stage? But that's impossible. The seventh-generation equipment clearly has a complete filtration system..."

Chen Lin suddenly called up a video of an experiment. In the video, what burst out of Xiao Li's helmet at the moment of leakage was not ordinary electric sparks, but a strange blue arc.

"Pause! Zoom in on this waveform."

Chen Lin's fingertips passed over the projection. "This is not a device failure. This is some kind of resonance phenomenon."

The technician quickly analyzed the waveform: "President, this frequency... is exactly the same as the background noise of the quantum computer!"

The laboratory fell into a brief silence.

Chen Lin's eyes moved back and forth between Xiao Li and the projection, and suddenly he understood something.

"It's not that the equipment has a problem." He said slowly, "Xiao Li's brain spontaneously produced some kind of quantum resonance. This is not the knowledge transfer process we designed at all."

Old Wu's eyes widened: "You mean... he opened an unknown transmission channel himself?"

Chen Lin did not answer immediately, but called up all of Xiao Li's monitoring data. When his eyes fell on a tiny fluctuation in the brain wave graph, his pupils suddenly contracted.

"Look at this time." He pointed to the screen. "0.3 seconds before the leakage occurred, Xiao Li's brain waves showed abnormalities. This was not caused by the accident. Instead, his brain changed first, which caused the equipment to overload."

The projection suddenly switched automatically, showing a passage of pioneer text that had never been seen before: [The chosen ones will hear the call of knowledge, and their consciousness will become a bridge. ]

"Is this... newly interpreted information?" Old Wu asked in surprise.

Chen Lin's expression became extremely serious: "No, this just appeared, the system is automatically updating the database."

He turned to the sleeping Xiao Li, "He is still transmitting data even though he is unconscious."

At this moment, the monitor in the emergency cabin suddenly made a steady "beep" sound.

Xiao Li's eyelids trembled slightly, and he slowly opened his eyes and then closed them again. Chen Lin frowned as he watched this scene.

“Two special teams will be set up immediately.”

Chen Lin's voice echoed in the laboratory. "The first group is responsible for a comprehensive review of the existing experimental procedures and re-evaluating the safety factor of each operation link. The second group specializes in studying the purification technology of the pioneer civilization. I want to see a preliminary report within three days."

Old Wu quickly recorded the instructions, his fingers sliding quickly on the holographic keyboard: "President, how many people do you need to mobilize?"

“Everyone in the lab is involved.”

Chen Lin said categorically, "Suspend all non-core projects and give priority to these two tasks."

He turned to the monitoring screen, "Yanhuang, pull up all the experimental logs for the past three months and focus on marking all abnormal data points."

The AI's electronic voice then sounded: "247 abnormal fluctuations have been retrieved, 83% of which were concentrated during the seventh-generation equipment testing. It is recommended to prioritize the quantum resonance threshold of the neural interface."

The technicians looked at each other in confusion, and the sound of keyboard typing could be heard in the laboratory.

Chen Lin walked to the central control console and called up the core database of the Pioneer civilization.

"Pay attention to the description of this purification stage."

He zoomed in on a complex three-dimensional model. “The pioneers did not use simple information filtering, but a process of refinement at the consciousness level.”

Old Wu took a closer look and said, "... this looks like some kind of quantum state of consciousness reorganization?"

"Yes."

Chen Lin nodded. "Our equipment only deconstructs knowledge, but lacks the key purification step. It's like stuffing raw meat directly into the brain. It would be strange if there were no problems."

A sudden cry came from the medical team: "President! Xiao Li's brain wave spectrum is abnormal again!"

Chen Lin rushed to the monitoring screen in two steps. He saw that Xiao Li's brain waves were forming a strange symmetrical pattern. Chen Lin frowned and said, "It looks like a rejection reaction after the transfer..."

"Don't interfere yet!"

Chen Lin raised his hand to stop the medical staff who wanted to inject sedatives. "He should be completing the purification process spontaneously and recording all the data. This may be the key to our understanding of the pioneer technology."

"The Pioneer's purification is not filtering, but forging! Immediately adjust the design of the eighth-generation prototype and add a quantum consciousness forging module!"

The laboratory suddenly became busy, and each group began to advance their work in a new direction.

Chen Lin stood in the middle, his eyes sweeping over every researcher who was busy working, finally landing on Xiao Li who had just woken up.

“Why didn’t he lead?”

Old Wu quickly explained to Chen Lin: "This is not the first time. When the knowledge transfer was just over, he didn't respond for several days..."

"It seems there are still many problems."

After a while, Chen Lin spoke quietly. He turned and looked at Old Wu: "Let's stop here for today. If there are other new discoveries, I will report them then."

"understand!"

Chen Lin's fingers tapped lightly on the metal railing, and Xiao Li's pale face in the emergency cabin flickered in the blue light.

He turned and walked towards the safety door, and the wind created by the hem of his protective suit overturned the clipboard in Old Wu's hand.

"President, you are..."

Old Wu trotted after him.

“Have the medical team synchronize data every half hour.”

Chen Lin swiped the iris lock, and the moment the electronic door slid open to both sides, the cold light from the corridor split the dark blue of the laboratory. "I'm going to the Biotechnology Department to see the progress of the Phoenix Project."

Old Wu nodded immediately. There were too many problems in his laboratory today, and he really didn't want Chen Lin to continue watching over here.

As he passed through three airtight doors, Chen Lin's retinal projection automatically loaded the encrypted briefing of the Phoenix Project.

Holographic images floated on his irises: the genetic chimera culture chamber, the quantum-level gene editing instrument, and the experimental subjects immersed in the light golden nutrient solution... Suddenly, a dynamic picture of the experimental subject opening his eyes flashed in the briefing, and the silver-white halo flowing in the pupils made his temples jump suddenly. The disinfection room of the Biotechnology Department has an additional plasma disinfection procedure compared to the cognitive laboratory. When Chen Lin stepped into the core area, the 30-meter-high cylindrical culture chamber array was humming slightly.

There were humanoid creatures suspended in each cabin in front of him, with faint golden circuit-like lines visible under their skin.

"These are seventh-generation genetic chimeras."

The project leader, Lin Yuchen, wore a spotless white coat and tapped his fingertips on the holographic console. "We have successfully integrated the gene fragments of the pioneer civilization with human DNA..."

Chen Lin suddenly raised his hand to interrupt her report. His eyes were fixed on the B-17 incubator. On the side of the neck of the experimental subject numbered "Phoenix-7", there was a light blue ring-shaped mark, which looked very special indeed.

"Start the awakening procedure for No. 7."

Chen Lin's voice alarmed the entire laboratory.

"But President, the quantum entangled state of No. 7 is still unstable..."

"Now."

"Yes!"

As Lin Yuchen input commands, the light golden liquid in the culture chamber began to recede.

When Phoenix-7's eyelashes trembled, the data on all the monitoring screens suddenly twisted into strange ripples. Chen Lin noticed that the little finger of the subject's left hand twitched unnaturally. This subtle detail actually caused a bigger problem, but it was still difficult to tell what caused it.

Phoenix-7's eyelids slowly opened, revealing a pair of pupils that were like molten silver, reflecting the shadowless lamp on the top of the laboratory.

He raised his head, his eyes stayed on Chen Lin for 0.3 seconds, and then he suddenly spoke, but his voice was not transmitted through the air, but sounded directly in everyone's mind: [What are you looking for? ]

The laboratory fell into silence in an instant, with only the beeping of the monitor echoing.

Phoenix-7's body began to twitch slightly, and the spasm in his left little finger became more and more obvious, but his eyes were unusually clear, as if he could see through everything.

"Tell me your number."

Lin Yuchen's voice trembled a little. She had never seen an experimental subject display such high intelligence.

"Phoenix-7, but it's just a shell."

The experimental subject's voice had an electronic synthesized texture. "Who are you?"

Chen Lin's pupils suddenly contracted. He noticed that the quantum monitors around the experimental subject were issuing shrill alarms. The distorted wavy data were surprisingly similar to the patterns that Xiao Li had seen when his brain waves were abnormal.

"explain."

Chen Lin's voice was low and powerful.

[You are deconstructing knowledge, but forget that consciousness itself also needs a container. ]

Phoenix-7's pupils glowed silver, [The seventh-generation equipment is just a shabby pottery jar that can't hold the boiling galaxy. ]

Suddenly, the subject's body twitched violently, golden lines moved wildly under the skin, and the data on the monitoring screen went completely out of control, turning into a chaotic noise.

"Stop the experiment immediately!"

Lin Yuchen shouted, but it was too late.

Phoenix-7's pupils suddenly dilated, and the silver light quickly dimmed. He fell on his back, soaking in the re-rising nutrient solution, like a body with its soul drained out.

"what happened?"

Lin Yuchen stared at the monitoring screen in horror, "His quantum entangled state has clearly stabilized!"

“It’s not a matter of quantum state.”

Chen Lin's fingertips slid across the holographic projection and called up the brain wave data of Phoenix-7 at the last moment. "Look at this frequency!"

On the projection, a sharp wave peak pierced all the data lines, with a frequency of up to gigahertz per second, far exceeding the limits of the human brain.

"Is this...a consciousness overload?"

Lin Yuchen's voice was filled with disbelief, "He...he burned himself?"

Chen Lin did not answer. His eyes were fixed on the light blue ring-shaped mark on the side of Phoenix-7's neck. At the moment when the experimental subject fell into a coma, the mark suddenly flashed, like some kind of signal receiver.

"Call up the gene comparison reports of all the test subjects, and focus on investigating the source of this mark." Chen Lin's voice was cold. "I want to know whether this is the legacy of the pioneer civilization, or... something else."

Lin Yuchen's fingers moved rapidly on the holographic keyboard. After a few minutes, she looked up with a pale face and said, "President, all the test subjects with this mark have shown varying degrees of consciousness awakening, but... but there is no corresponding code in their gene sequences."

"Sure enough."

Chen Lin turned and walked towards the security door. The plasma wind from the disinfection room swept across his furrowed brows. "Go to the cognitive laboratory and cross-check Xiao Li's brain wave data with Phoenix-7's. I suspect... we have touched something older than the pioneer civilization."

The emergency lights in the corridor suddenly flickered and alarms sounded faintly in the distance.

The protective gloves were pressed on the genetic testing instrument, and the DNA double helix of Phoenix-7 jumped wildly on the screen.

The edited base sequences were falling off at a rate of three per minute, like a dam being eaten away by termites.

"Adrenaline injection completed!"

"The neuron connection rate has fallen below the critical value!"

The alarm sounds in the emergency room mixed with the shouts of the researchers. The subject's right hand suddenly twitched and grabbed the breathing mask. The capillaries under the skin burst one after another, and tiny blood flowers bloomed on the pale cheeks.

Chen Lin's temples were throbbing - he clearly remembered that the genetic adaptation test three days ago showed a match of 98.7%, which was the most perfect data in the history of the entire Phoenix Project. But at this moment, the brain wave map of Phoenix-7 on the monitoring screen was splitting into strange double peaks, like two venomous snakes biting each other.

"Shut down the core!"

The roar caused the two technicians to collide with each other. Old Wu lay on the quantum computer console, cold sweat dripping down his nose onto the emergency stop button: "The power was cut off twenty seconds ago, but...but the consciousness transmission is still continuing!"

The light blue nutrient solution in the culture chamber suddenly boiled, and the spinal arch of Phoenix-7 formed an incredible arc.

Chen Lin saw that the gene chain on the monitoring screen finally collapsed completely, and those carefully edited bases disappeared one after another like dominoes.

When the last artificially inserted gene sequence disappeared, the young man's pupils suddenly dilated into two black holes.

"Time of death: 9:7 on September 22."

The mechanical sound of medical AI pierced the silence. An intern knocked over a biological sample box, and the sound of the petri dish breaking was as crisp as a slap in the face.

"Immune system overload causes gene editing sequences to fall out, triggering a general neuronal collapse..."

"We were too impatient."

Chen Lin's voice sounded like it was squeezed out of a rusty pipe. He closed the encrypted database of the Phoenix Project. The electronic screen on the wall instantly went out and turned into a black wall, sealing the numbers of the thirty-seven experimental subjects in darkness forever.

"It seems that we need to re-arrange the project expectations related to genetic modification..." (End of this chapter)