I handed over to another world

Chen Lin's eyes were as sharp as a scalpel. He turned slowly and tapped the railing with his fingers: "Of course I have investigated it clearly. Three years ago, when you were handling Southeast Asian business, you did receive a set of antique tea sets from a local consortium. It was blue and white porcelain from the Ming Dynasty, with a market value of about 120 million Red Dragon coins."

Qian Ming’s face turned pale instantly, his knees went weak and he almost fell to the ground.

"But..." Chen Lin suddenly changed the subject, "You later donated it to the association museum, with the registration number MH-7732. It is now in the exhibition hall on the third floor."

The corners of his mouth rose slightly, "The whistleblower obviously didn't do enough homework."

Qian Mingru was pardoned, but before he could breathe a sigh of relief, Chen Lin's next words made his heart hang in his throat again: "But last month, your daughter's admission procedures in Shangdu did go through some special channels."

"President! That's just a normal alumni recommendation—"

"I know."

Chen Lin raised his hand to stop his excuses, "What I want to say is that I don't care about these little things at all."

He turned around and looked down at the entire production base, the blue light of the maglev workshop reflected on his angular profile. "As long as you can guarantee a 7% increase in monthly production capacity and keep the defective rate below 0.3%, I will pretend not to see you even if you collect ten sets of antiques."

Qian Ming finally understood the president's intention, his back already soaked with cold sweat.

"but……"

Chen Lin suddenly leaned closer and lowered his voice, "If you dare to tamper with the castration degree of the quantum core, or let the premium version of the force field shield flow into the black market..."

He patted Qian Ming's shoulder gently and said, "You know how the association handles traitors."

Qian Ming shuddered, and the image of the department head who tried to resell anti-gravity technology three years ago flashed before his eyes—that person was still working as a laborer at the Pluto mining station...

"My subordinate understands!"

Qian Ming straightened his back and said, "The production base in District 7 will be completed—"

"okay."

Chen Lin interrupted his show of loyalty and turned to the landing black flying car, "Remember, what the Red Dragon Association needs now is efficiency, not saints."

The door of the flying car slid open silently. As Chen Lin stepped in, he suddenly turned around and said, "By the way, that set of blue and white porcelain...was actually your great-grandfather's collection, right? It's fate that I can find it back on the black market now."

Qian Ming's eyes widened. He had never mentioned this to anyone.

"Good job."

Chen Lin finally said, "Once the maglev production line is upgraded, I will spare you a new project at the Mars base."

The flying car took off into the air, but Qian Ming was still standing there in a daze.

It was not until his assistant came to report on his work that he came to his senses, took out his encrypted communicator and deleted several sensitive contacts.

As the flying car passed through the stratosphere, Chen Lin unbuttoned the top button of his suit.

Outside the porthole, the flickering aurora in the ionosphere looks like a flowing emerald river - this is a meteorological wonder unique to the Australian space base, formed by the reaction of special particles in the atmosphere with the exhaust of the anti-gravity engine.

"President, we will arrive in five minutes."

The Secretary-General handed over the holographic tablet. "The local Dr. Williams has prepared three test data, but..."

Chen Lin's finger slid quickly across the data stream and suddenly stopped at a parameter node. In the three-dimensional projection, a set of quantum fluctuation curves showed an unnatural jagged shape.

"She increased the antigravity field distortion rate by 0.7 basis points." He chuckled. "To pass acceptance testing?"

Secretary Zhao's pupils shrank slightly. Even the technical department didn't notice this subtle change. Who knew that Chen Lin noticed it with just one glance? He couldn't imagine how Chen Lin did it.

The flying car began to descend, and through the gradually thinning clouds, the Australian base covering an area of ​​300 square kilometers could be seen.

Twelve pyramid-shaped launch towers surround the central quantum collision ring. The latest "Albatross" class interstellar shuttle is being preheated on platform No. 3, and the dark blue plasma flow is fluctuating at the engine nozzle.

When the hatch opened, a heat wave and the smell of ozone hit us in the face.

As soon as Chen Lin's leather shoes touched the ground, the base supervisor and technical team were already lined up waiting.

Kate Williams, standing at the front, adjusted her glasses, her short blond hair fluttering in the engine jet.

"We welcome the president's personal guidance." Her Australian accent had a unique upward ending tone. "The Albatross prototype has already--"

"Just go to the test bench."

Chen Lin interrupted the greeting and strode towards Platform 3, which was flashing a dangerous red light.

As he passed the quality inspection table, he picked up a pair of magnetic wrenches. The metal gloves made a slight electric sound when they touched the tools.

The inspection hatch on the shuttle's belly was open, revealing an intricate network of quantum core conduits.

Chen Lin suddenly stuck half of his body into the gap of the machine, and the magnetic wrench accurately clamped a pressure valve.

"Doctor Williams, could you explain why the B-47 duct bypasses the main regulator?"

The technical team suddenly became agitated, and Kate's cheek muscles tightened: "This is to deal with the Martian atmosphere--"

"Nonsense."

Chen Lin suddenly exerted force on his wrist and the wrench rotated 360 degrees.

With a crisp "click", the entire shuttle suddenly emitted a low hum, and the blue light of the engine suddenly turned into a healthy emerald green.

"You installed interstellar-level quantum fluctuation suppressors on intra-atmospheric aircraft."

He threw off his gloves. "Do you know what this means?"

Cold sweat slid down Kate's neck into her collar. Of course she knew - this would make the shuttle shatter like an eggshell when it broke through the Karman Line.

The alarm suddenly rang throughout the base, and a hurried broadcast came from the control tower: "Emergency! The magnetic confinement field of Transmitter Tower 7 has fluctuated. Repeat, Transmitter Tower 7--"

Chen Lin had already rushed towards the nearest hovercraft. While others were still frantically looking for protective masks, a three-dimensional structural diagram of the base had flashed across his irises.

On top of Tower 7, the confinement field generator was emitting blinding arcs.

Chen Lin's hovercraft climbed vertically to a height of 300 meters and stopped directly next to the faulty equipment.

The moment he jumped out of the car door, the nanofibers on his wrists quickly weaved into protective clothing.

"President! The radiation level is exceeding the limit!"

There were screams of terror coming from the ground.

Chen Lin turned a deaf ear to him. His fingertips danced across the generator control panel, and every touch created a ripple of data.

When the seventh password was cracked, the abnormal code hidden in the bottom layer of the system was finally exposed - it was a carefully designed virus program, and the activation condition was exactly today's test date.

"interesting."

The corners of his mouth curled up coldly, and a countdown flashed on the HUD of his protective mask: 47 seconds left before the core melted.

In 38 seconds, Chen Lin dismantled the main control board with his bare hands.

In 22 seconds, his personal terminal was connected to the base's backup power supply.

7 seconds, a whole new set of constraint algorithms are forced into the system.

As the countdown reached zero, a brilliant blue light erupted from the top of Tower 7—not a catastrophic explosion, but the signature pulse of the restraint field restabilizing.

When he returned to the ground, the technical team looked at him as if he were a god.

Only Kate noticed that Chen Lin's left ring finger was trembling slightly - that was the sequelae of nerve current overload. In the state just now, Chen Lin was able to complete such an operation very efficiently, which was already amazing.

"Routine inspection."

Chen Lin threw the virus chip to the security director and said, "I want to know which hand the author of this code used to hit the Enter key."

On the way to the central control room, Secretary Zhao reported quietly: "President, the technical department has checked all the records. Dr. Williams entered the main control room alone late last night." Chen Lin's footsteps did not pause at all. Through the curved observation window, he could see that the Albatross shuttle was undergoing final debugging. Its streamlined shell glowed like mercury in the setting sun.

"Let the monitoring team prepare two reports." He suddenly said, "One report is for all the vice presidents at the top level, including those overseas, to prove that today's accident was caused by equipment aging due to solar flares. The other report..."

His eyes fell on Kate, who was scolding her assistant in the distance. "Keep a detailed record of all of Dr. Williams' communications over the past three months, especially any contact with the New Dawn organization."

Secretary Zhao quickly marked it on the tablet. As they stepped into the elevator, Chen Lin suddenly asked, "Did the Pluto Mining Station apply for an atmospheric treatment expert last week?"

"Yes, they—"

Secretary Zhao suddenly understood the president's hint and stopped talking.

Before the elevator door opened, Chen Lin took a last look at the transmission tower outside the window.

The dusk light stretched his shadow very long, like a sword of Damocles across the entire control center.

"Notify the Mars base."

He stepped into the elevator. "Tomorrow I want to see the Alpha Mine Incident Report, not the version they've carefully polished."

The moment the metal door closed, Kate Williams was hurrying through the hall, with a flashing encrypted communicator hidden in the pocket of her white coat.

……

Outside the curved floor-to-ceiling windows of the control room, the Albatross shuttle was performing its final self-inspection procedures before takeoff.

Chen Lin stood in front of the data waterfall and tapped the holographic projection with his fingertips, marking the seven abnormal data nodes in glaring red.

"President, the monitoring team has completed the communication tracing."

Secretary Zhao handed over a crystal the size of a fingernail. "Here are Dr. Williams' call records for the past 72 hours."

Chen Lin did not reach out to take it. His irises glowed slightly, and the data was projected directly onto his retina through the neural link.

Three seconds later, a sneer appeared on his lips.

"New Dawn's technical director is very talkative." He suddenly raised his voice, which was clearly audible in the control room. "The encrypted call at 23:47 last night was about how to modify our restraint field parameters?"

Kate, who was debugging the console, suddenly stiffened, her fingers hanging in the air, only three centimeters away from the emergency stop button.

"Keep up your work, Doctor."

Chen Lin said without looking back, "I am looking forward to seeing Albatross' performance today."

The entire control room was silent. The technicians lowered their heads to operate their respective consoles, but everyone's eyes were focused on the petite figure in the white coat.

Kate's Adam's apple rolled, and she finally pressed the green start button she was about to touch.

"Propulsion systems online."

"Quantum core preheating completed."

"Navigation system calibrating..."

Amid the mechanical broadcast, Chen Lin walked towards the main console.

His leather shoes made a regular sound on the metal floor, like a pendulum counting down.

As he passed Kate, he suddenly leaned over and whispered in her ear: "Your father stood in this position."

Kate's pupils suddenly contracted, and she turned her head sharply, but only saw Chen Lin's back as he walked towards the observation deck.

Outside the window, the Albatross's engine nozzle began to emit blue light. Just as the landing gear was about to be retracted, a shrill alarm suddenly sounded in the control room.

All screens flashed a blood-red warning at the same time: [Data leakage detected]

[Quantum core encryption protocol is triggered]!
Kate's face changed drastically and she typed on the keyboard frantically, but the system was locked.

"Impossible... I clearly bypassed it..."

She suddenly realized something and turned to look at the observation deck.

Chen Lin was leaning against the railing, playing with a familiar encrypted communicator in his hand - the one that Kate had hidden in the pocket of her white coat.

On the communicator screen, a message that failed to be sent was clearly visible: [Quantum core parameters have been obtained, requesting evacuation]

"Your New Dawn's decoding algorithm is too old."

Chen Lin gently pinched the communicator in his palm and it shattered into powder. "The firewall designed by the association eight years ago was more complicated than this."

Kate suddenly pulled out a pulse pistol from under the console, but before she raised her arm, the lights in the entire control room suddenly went out.

In the darkness, only a soft "whoosh" sound was heard, and Kate's wrist was entangled by some kind of nanofiber, and the weapon fell to the ground with a clang.

When the backup power was activated, twelve fully armed Ghost agents had already taken control of every exit.

Kate was pressed against the console, her cheek pressed against the cold metal surface.

"You know what's the funniest thing?"

Chen Lin walked up to her and asked, "What did New Dawn promise you? They said they would help your father get justice?"

He snapped his fingers, and a dusty file lit up on the main screen.

In the image, a man who looks 70% like Kate is carrying ore at the Pluto mining station. Chen Lin enlarged the timestamp in the lower right corner of the picture and it was obvious that this was a real-time image.

"Senior Williams engineer is alive and well."

Chen Lin's voice was as precise as a scalpel. "It's just that the evidence that he betrayed the association is irrefutable. Even your mother signed and confirmed it."

Kate's struggle suddenly stopped, her lips trembling: "You...you lie..."

Chen Lin did not answer. He turned to Secretary Zhao and said, "Notify the fleet at sea to close the net. The coordinates of the base in New Dawn disguised as the Ocean Research Institute have been sent to them."

At this moment, the Albatross shuttle suddenly vibrated violently, and a new alarm sounded on the control console: [Unauthorized takeoff procedure detected]

"Ah, I almost forgot."

Chen Lin patted his forehead and said, "Your accomplice is still on the shuttle."

He pressed the communication button, "Attention Platform 3, permission to execute the mouse capture operation."

Just as he finished speaking, the shuttle door was suddenly forcibly opened by some magnetic device.

Five special agents wearing anti-gravity gear filed in and in less than ten seconds dragged out a technician who was struggling desperately - the assistant that Kate had just scolded.

"You planned it very carefully."

Chen Lin checked the seized data chip and said, "Let the assistant take the core parameters away first, and you stay to create chaos. What a pity..."

He threw the chip up and caught it again. "From the first day you stepped into the Australian base, you have been living under the holographic surveillance of the Supervision Group."

Kate suddenly screamed: "Do you think this is the end? The power of the New Dawn is far beyond your imagination! The Mars base has already-"

Chen Lin made a gesture to keep quiet.

The two agents immediately put a neural suppression collar on Kate, and her voice stopped abruptly.

"Take her to reunite with her father."

Chen Lin adjusted his cuffs and said, "The Pluto mining station is in need of a chemical analyst right now."

"Since I took office, there have been endless shit like this. I don't want to bother with it anymore... I'll find time to step down someday!" (End of this chapter)