I handed over to another world

Li Tianyun controlled the floating wheelchair and slowly approached the railing, looking at the brightly lit city in the distance.

The night wind blew his gray temples. It had been nearly thirty years since this old man abdicated. When Chen Lin first opened the portal, he was the president of the Red Dragon Association. Although Zhang Shouren took over later, Li Tianyun still gave Chen Lin direct help for another seven or eight years.

"Xiao Chen," the old man suddenly spoke, his voice full of emotion, "When I was in charge of the association, my biggest worry was the allocation of resources between several space stations."

Chen Lin leaned on the railing, tapping the metal surface with his fingers. "Now any alien civilization can make the entire solar system nervous. We have to consider more than just a few space stations."

"It's very stressful, right?"

Li Tianyun turned his head and looked directly at Chen Lin with his eyes that had seen through so much. "In my time, humans hadn't even built a complete lunar base yet."

Chen Lin chuckled, took out a delicate metal wine bottle from his arms, unscrewed the lid and took a sip: "Would you like to try it? This is a specialty liquor from the Origin Star."

The old man waved his hands: "The doctor won't let me."

"But..." He winked slyly, "I usually don't listen to doctors."

Chen Lin handed the wine jug over. Li Tianyun took a deep breath and suddenly started coughing violently: "Cough cough... This is not wine, it's fuel!"

"It's really bad. We old guys refuse all kinds of organ replacements and cell transplants in the medical cabins. This means we are still following the law of birth, aging, illness and death. Our health is really getting worse and worse."

Chen Lin didn't say much. Li Tianyun and other elderly people were special in themselves. They had made an agreement not to use the medical cabin casually. It was not easy for Chen Lin to persuade them about these things.

"Strong liquor is just right for the situation right now."

Chen Lin took back the wine pot and looked up at the night sky. "Mr. Li, do you know what the most ironic thing is?"

"Ok?"

"Those aristocratic families."

Chen Lin's voice turned cold. "They would rather waste resources on internal fighting than build an extra battleship. If they had started preparing for war three years ago, we would have at least three more main fleets now."

Li Tianyun was silent for a moment, and suddenly called up a holographic projection: "Look at this."

The picture shows the Earth thirty years ago, when countries were still on the verge of territorial disputes.

"At that time everyone said that human beings would never be able to unite."

The old man's finger slid across the projection. "But what about now? We've even built an outpost in the Kuiper Belt."

"That's not how you unite them by talking, that's how you unite them by force."

Chen Lin sneered and said, "It depends on absolute military suppression. You know much more about how the White Eagle Association was destroyed than I do. I was not inside the association at that time. I was wandering around on the Origin Star."

Li Tianyun couldn't stop laughing after hearing these words. After a while, he said, "In fact, pressure is never a bad thing."

"The pressure in my time gave rise to the powerful Red Dragon Association, and the pressure you face..."

“It will allow humans to truly go interstellar.”

Chen Lin continued his words, with a sharp light flashing in his eyes.

The two smiled at each other, and this moment seemed to have spanned thirty years.

The suspended wheelchair made a slight hum, and Li Tianyun adjusted his posture: "Speaking of which, your Chi Xiao..."

"Want to take a tour?"

Chen Lin raised his eyebrows.

"nonsense!"

The old man suddenly became excited, "That's a super battleship equipped with an antimatter engine! My old bones..."

His words were suddenly interrupted by the piercing sound of an alarm.

An emergency communication window automatically popped up on Chen Lin's terminal, and Secretary Zhao's face appeared in the holographic image: "President! The Kuiper Belt Outpost has sent an alarm, and the alien fleet has begun to move!"

Chen Lin's expression instantly became serious: "Notify all fleets to enter combat readiness and activate the defense system."

He turned to Li Tianyun, only to find that the old man had already controlled his wheelchair and floated to the elevator entrance: "What are you still standing there for? Take me to see your precious battleship!"

Chen Lin was stunned for a moment, then laughed: "At your age..."

"What's wrong with being eighty?"

Li Tianyun turned around and glared at him, "I now have the body of an eighty-year-old, but the mentality of a twenty-year-old!"

……

The alarm sounded throughout the Shangdu Spaceport. Chen Lin quickly caught up with Li Tianyun's hovering wheelchair, and the two walked through the corridor with flashing red warning lights.

As the elevator rapidly descended, one could see through the transparent bulkhead that the port area had entered a wartime state—ground crews were running to load ammunition into fighter planes, energy shield generators were preheating, and blue-white arcs of electricity were jumping on the metal surface.

"The Chi Xiao is at Dock No. 3."

Chen Lin's terminal projected a map of the port area. "Let's go through the special passage to take a look."

When they passed through the last airlock door, Li Tianyun couldn't help but hold his breath.

The "Chixiao" in front of us looked like a sleeping black beast. Its streamlined hull was several thousand meters long and its surface was covered with nano armor that could absorb electromagnetic waves.

The most eye-catching thing is the huge antimatter main gun at the bow. The densely packed heat dissipation slots on the barrel are slowly opening and closing, like the breathing of a giant beast.

"It's so beautiful..."

The old man murmured.

"President!" An engineer came running over, "All systems have been preheated and are ready to leave the port at any time."

Chen Lin nodded and turned to Li Tianyun: "Would you like to see the command center?"

"nonsense!"

The old man controlled the wheelchair and rushed directly to the boarding ladder. The holographic tactical sand table in the bridge had been deployed.

The alien fleet outside the Kuiper Belt advances in a spherical array, numbering more than three hundred ships.

Chen Lin walked quickly to the command seat and tapped his finger on the console: "Start the quantum communication network and connect all participating ships."

Hundreds of blue dots of light immediately appeared on the sand table - the human fleet was gathering.

Li Tianyun noticed that the formation of these warships presented an exquisite three-dimensional spiral structure.

"This is……"

“Swarm Tactics 4.0.”

Chen Lin explained, "Each battleship is both an attack unit and an energy node."

Suddenly, a dazzling red light appeared at the edge of the sand table - the alien fleet began to accelerate, and they immediately released tens of thousands of micro drones, which swooped down like a swarm of interstellar locusts.

"Fire!"

Following an order from the front-line commander, the main gun of the "Chixiao" suddenly lit up with a dazzling blue light.

Countless antimatter shells cut through the void, exploding an energy vortex with a diameter of several kilometers in the center of the enemy camp!
At the same time, other warships in the human fleet also opened fire at the same time. Dense light beams intertwined into a web of death in space. The entire battle took place in the Kuiper Belt, far away from the Earth's galaxy. Everything they saw now was a holographic projection, played back in real time.

"Look at that." Chen Lin pointed to a corner of the sand table. Three alien motherships suddenly disintegrated, releasing dozens of huge ring-shaped devices.

"Space twister!"

Li Tianyun exclaimed, "They are going to jump to the low-Earth orbit of a nearby galaxy!"

Chen Lin sneered: "The fleet commander on the scene will know what to do, we don't need to worry so much."

In an instant, thousands of hidden satellites throughout the solar system were activated at the same time, forming an invisible quantum interference network, and those alien devices that attempted to jump through space went out of control and exploded into gorgeous fireballs in the void.

"Beautiful!" Li Tianyun patted the wheelchair armrest, "Did you design this?"

"Where can I find such talented people?"

Chen Lin rubbed his hands and said, "This is the result of the cutting-edge talents from the Red Dragon Academy of Sciences. The ones we have now are all improved versions."

He called up the engine room surveillance and asked Li Tianyun, "Want to see the antimatter core?"

"look!"

The old man suddenly became excited. These things were quite far away from him when he was in his prime, but by the time they really came, he was already very old.

What a pity!
The elevator descended to the core area of ​​the battleship. Through the thick observation window, the two could see a silver sphere suspended in the magnetic field - that was the antimatter storage cabin. The entire cabin was surrounded by twelve giant restraint devices, which continuously released blue plasma streams.

"Each gram of antimatter produces..."

Li Tianyun was calculating.

"Equivalent to 43,000 tons of TNT."

Chen Lin continued, "And there are two kilograms stored here."

The old man whistled: "Enough to blow the moon in half."

When they returned to the bridge, the battle situation had become clear. The human fleet destroyed nearly 80% of the alien fleet at the cost of losing 27 frigates, and the remaining enemy ships were fleeing in panic.

"Pursuit?"

The adjutant asked the commander on the front line for instructions, and the commander said without hesitation: "Treat the wounded first and retrieve the escape pod."

Chen Lin was very satisfied with the frontline commander's operation. He turned to Li Tianyun with a smile and said, "How is it? Do you like this antique?"

"Old antique?"

Li Tianyun laughed, "This is simply the most beautiful war machine I have ever seen! But..."

He pointed to a flashing red dot on the sand table and asked, "What about the fish that slipped through the net?"

Chen Lin narrowed his eyes—it was a strangely shaped alien command ship, trying to escape to the Oort Cloud.

"Just right."

He pressed the communication button to connect directly to the commander at the front line and briefly explained the situation. The commander immediately started broadcasting on all channels, "Attention all personnel, prepare for the first actual combat test of the Starlight System."

As the order was given, the armor plates of the main battleship slowly slid open, revealing twenty-four crystal-like launch tubes, and dazzling golden energy began to accumulate inside the tubes.

"what is this?"

Li Tianyun looked at this scene and asked curiously, "The times are evolving now."

"Quantum entangled missile."

Chen Lin explained, "Once the target is locked, it will hit instantly regardless of distance."

At the moment the countdown to launch reached zero, twenty-four golden lights burst out at the same time, but mysteriously "disappeared" after leaving the barrel.

A second later, the alien command ship millions of kilometers away was suddenly shrouded in golden light and silently turned into elementary particles, and cheers broke out in the bridge.

Li Tianyun noticed that Chen Lin was still frowning.

"has a problem?"

"It went so well."

Chen Lin called up the alien fleet's navigation data, "Their tactics are too...human."

He zoomed in on a video of the engagement: "Look at this evasive action, it's completely in accordance with the standard procedures in the human flight manual."

Li Tianyun's expression gradually became serious: "You mean..."

“This is not the first contact.”

Chen Lin turned off the video, "There are humans guiding them from behind."

Li Tianyun's hands were shaking slightly as he controlled the wheelchair. He stared at the data on the holographic projection, frowning, "How is this possible? How could humans collude with alien civilizations?"

Chen Lin seemed unusually calm. He tapped the console lightly and called up an encrypted file: "Mr. Li, do you still remember the scientific research team that disappeared seven years ago?"

The files showed photos of twelve top scientists, and the faces of several of them made Li Tianyun gasp: "Isn't this... the core researcher of the Zhang family?"

"Exactly."

Chen Lin's voice was terrifyingly calm. "On the surface, they are researching warp engines, but in fact, they have been in contact with this alien civilization."

Outside the window, fireworks celebrating victory bloomed in space, and the brilliant colors reflected on Chen Lin’s stern profile.

He turned to Li Tianyun, his eyes flashing with complex light: "You find it incredible, but to me, this is just another betrayal."

Li Tianyun was silent for a long time, and suddenly moved his wheelchair closer to the window: "Xiao Chen, how many things like this have you experienced in these years?"

Chen Lin did not answer immediately. He pulled up a long list with nearly a hundred similar incidents recorded on it: "Since five years ago, an average of one incident has been discovered every two months. At first, I was as shocked as you, but now..."

He smiled bitterly and shook his head, closing the list: "I'm a little numb."

The old man stared at the vast starry sky outside the window and suddenly said, "So this is why you have become so cold?"

"Cold?"

Chen Lin walked up to the old man and said, "No, I just realized that to protect human civilization, ideals alone are far from enough."

He pointed to the returning warships in the distance and said: "Look at those soldiers. How many of them had their relatives killed by these traitors? If my cruelty can protect more people from living, then I would rather bear this infamy."

Li Tianyun sighed, stretched out his hand and patted Chen Lin's arm: "I am old and can't keep up with this era. But..."

He raised his head, his eyes rekindled with the sharpness of his youth, "If you need my old bones to do anything, just ask."

Chen Lin immediately smiled and shook his head: "The association is running very well now, there are not many places for you old people to play."

"Besides, although these things that happened before were a headache for me, it was still easy for me to deal with them. After all, I am also the officially recognized president of the association."

"You are really good as the president."

The old man clapped his hands, "It's beyond my expectation that I can sit here for almost my entire life."

"You were the one who gave me this position in the first place. Why do you have so little confidence in me?"

Chen Lin pushed the old man's wheelchair onto the elevator to the command console. As he walked forward, he said, "But I'm really tired too. It's time to rest." (End of this chapter)