I handed over to another world

The hovercraft slowly landed on the top-floor helipad. When Chen Lin stepped out of the cabin door, Qingteng Bio's founder and CEO Lin Qinghe was already waiting in line with his executive team.

This biologist in his sixties is still energetic, and his gray sideburns contrast nicely with the ivy badge on his white laboratory coat.

"President Chen, welcome to our guidance."

Lin Qinghe stepped forward to shake hands. His smile was gentle but revealed the sharpness that only a researcher can show. "Thirty years ago, we started with the blue-veined vines from the Origin Star. Today, we can finally show you its 'descendants'."

Chen Lin nodded slightly, his eyes sweeping across the biological cultivation park outside the glass curtain wall: "I heard that you have recently made a breakthrough in the 'quantum synthetic serum' technology?"

"That's right." Lin Qinghe stepped aside to lead the way. "Please follow me to the core laboratory. We can talk while we walk."

When passing through the ecological corridor, the holographic projection automatically plays images of the company's history.

In the picture, the young Lin Qinghe is wearing simple protective clothing and collecting samples in the purple jungle of the Origin Star.

"At that time, the Red Dragon Association had just established portal control, and everyone advised me not to touch alien creatures."

Lin Qinghe pointed at the video and smiled bitterly, "But the first group of exploration team members were infected with these special plants and their bodies were festering... I can't just sit back and watch."

Chen Lin stopped in front of a certain picture - it was a news clip of the first generation of antitoxin serum successfully treating patients.

"I remember this." He tapped the floating screen with his fingertips. "When the association debated whether to patent the formula, you insisted on making the basic molecular formula public."

“Because the virus knows no camp.”

Lin Qinghe pushed open the airlock door of the laboratory. "Besides..." He suddenly lowered his voice. "The research and development funds given by some 'partners' later were much more generous than the patent fees."

The two looked at each other and smiled.

Chen Lin knew that he was talking about the secret grants of the Red Dragon Association - those files are still marked "Top Secret".

These projects were actually engineering grants made when Li Tianyun was the president, and Chen Lin only learned about these things later.

The group walked into the core experimental area, and Chen Lin saw hundreds of culture chambers suspended in the quantum force field, with the serum inside the chambers crystallizing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"It takes three months to produce one dose of antivenom using traditional methods."

Lin Qinghe activated the console, "But with the latest technology provided by the Red Dragon Association, it only takes 72 hours now."

The holographic screen showed a set of data streams, a certain protein structure was replicating itself under time acceleration.

Chen Lin suddenly frowned: "These mutants..."

"Did you notice?"

Lin Qinghe nodded in admiration. "We mixed 0.3% of Jupiter's deep-sea bacteria sample into it, and found that the difference in time flow rate can make the serum adaptable across species. We have to thank your daughter Dr. Chen Xiao for providing the extreme environment database."

In front of the floor-to-ceiling window of the top-floor conference room, Lin Qinghe handed over a sealed test tube, the dark blue liquid inside was emitting a faint pulse of light.

"The newly developed 'Sentinel Serum' can provide early warning for 95% of known alien pathogens."

Chen Lin took the test tube that was flashing with a faint blue light and carefully looked at the liquid flowing in it.

"This breakthrough is of great significance." There was a rare approval in his voice. "With the 'Sentinel Serum', our deep space exploration team can be warned of alien pathogens at least 48 hours in advance."

He turned to face the French window, overlooking the entire biological park: "Remember the first exploration team of the Mist Hidden Star? At that time, due to an unknown spore infection, an entire advance team was lost. If there was such technology at that time..."

Lin Qinghe walked up to him, his eyes also looking into the distance: "It was because of that accident that the Red Dragon Association approved our first large-scale cooperation project."

He pointed to the buildings on the east side of the park and said, "That is the 'Adaptive Serum' R&D center that was urgently built that year. It has now become a cross-planetary vaccine production base."

"Tell me how you got to where you are today."

Chen Lin suddenly asked, "From a laboratory with only five people to the current scale."

Lin Qinghe smiled slightly and signaled his assistant to bring up the holographic projection.

A dynamic development map unfolds in the center of the conference room: Phase 1: Survival period (5- years after the origin star event)
The images show a crude underground laboratory where team members take turns sleeping on folding beds.

"During the most difficult times, we couldn't even afford a sterile incubator."

Lin Qinghe pointed at the homemade glassware in the picture and said, "We could only use a pressure cooker to modify the sterilization equipment. The situation at that time was really at its limit. Many of us were actually students who had just graduated from school. There was a limit to how hard we could endure."

"But fortunately, we soon caught up with the Red Dragon Association's patronage time."

The scene switched to the first standardized laboratory, and Lin Qinghe said to Chen Lin: "At that time, Chairman Li Tianyun personally approved 3000 million start-up funds, on the condition that we develop a specific drug for 'purpura' within three months."

Lin Qinghe recalled, "During that period, the laboratory was brightly lit and everyone lived and ate inside."

Chen Lin stared at the image of young Li Tianyun inspecting the laboratory, his eyes moved slightly: "Chairman Li rarely pays so much attention to private enterprises."

“Because he knows we have something that no one else has.”

Lin Qinghe called up a set of data. "Some samples from the origin star will decay rapidly under normal conditions, but we have discovered a method to use Earth plants as carriers for cultivation - this is Qingteng's earliest core technology."

As he finished speaking, the holographic image in front switched to the Qingteng branch of the Mars base.

"As the Red Dragon Association expands across the stars, our research and development center is also being built."

Lin Qinghe said with pride, "Now every planet with human settlements has a Qingteng emergency medical station."

Chen Lin suddenly pointed to an obvious data jump point on the graph: "What's going on with this explosive growth?"

"Ah, that's a breakthrough brought about by some technological applications."

Lin Qinghe's eyes lit up. "The technology shared by the Red Dragon Association has allowed us to shorten the serum development cycle by 90%, and directly won the vaccine supply contract for all bases in the Sun."

He walked to the other side of the conference room and activated a special booth.

Under the glass cover is a blue plant sample sealed in a quantum field.

"This is the original blue-veined vine, the starting point of all our technologies." Lin Qinghe's voice suddenly became gentle. "Thirty years have passed, and it is still providing us with new research directions."

Chen Lin stared at the plant that changed the history of human medicine, and suddenly asked: "If you were allowed to choose again now, would you still take the risk to collect these alien plants?"

Lin Qinghe answered without hesitation: "Yes, but I will bring a few more sample containers this time."

The two smiled at each other.

"Let's get back to business." Chen Lin took out a data chip from his arms, "The Red Dragon Association is preparing to launch the 'Ark Project' and needs you to provide a full-spectrum anti-virus solution."

Lin Qinghe took the chip and looked at it quickly with a surprised look: "Intergalactic biological isolation agreement? This is to prepare for..." "Just to prepare for a rainy day."

Chen Lin interrupted, "I need to see a preliminary plan in a short time. Can you accept it?"

"Understood." Lin Qinghe nodded solemnly, "Qingteng Biology will not let the association down."

When the inspection was over, the afterglow of the setting sun shone on the two of them.

Before Chen Lin got on the hovercraft, he suddenly turned around and said, "Oh, right, that sample of Jupiter's deep-sea bacteria..."

"A detailed report has been prepared."

Lin Qinghe handed over an encrypted memory, "Including the seventeen possible mutations in the time acceleration field."

Chen Lin gave him a meaningful look and said, "You always think ahead."

After saying that, the floating car door closed silently and took off into the air.

Lin Qinghe stood there, looking at the car going away, and whispered to himself: "If I don't want to go to the front, how can I keep up with you guys?"

As he turned around, the ivy emblem on his white coat gleamed in the setting sun.

……

The moment the hatch is closed, the light inside the car automatically adjusts to a soft blue-white color.

Chen Lin inserted Qingteng Biology's encrypted memory into the console, and a holographic projection immediately unfolded in front of him - the mutation map of Jupiter's deep-sea bacteria flickered like stars.

"President, the next stop is Nova Materials Technology."

Secretary-General Zhao sat in the co-pilot seat and called up the trip briefing. "They recently broke through the mass production technology of the sixth-generation quantum protective coating, and the association's deep space fleet has placed the first batch of orders."

Chen Lin's eyes were still fixed on the data stream: "Is it the company that started out as a waste recycling company?"

"Yes."

Secretary Zhao nodded. "Twenty years ago, it was just a small environmental protection company, but now it is the largest supplier of special materials in the solar system."

The holographic screen switched to show a promotional video of Nova Materials: the simple factory building in the desert has now been transformed into a giant production ring on orbit.

"interesting."

Chen Lin turned off the projection and said, "Inform them that I want to see the core production line, not the sample workshop prepared by the PR department."

When the hovercraft passed through the energy barrier, it was suddenly as bright as day outside the porthole - a circular factory with a diameter of 30 kilometers was operating in a synchronous orbit, and its surface was covered with a solar energy collecting film, floating like a huge silver ring against the blue background of the earth.

"Welcome to the 'Forger' ring!"

Zhang Rui, CEO of Xinxing Materials, had already been waiting in the docking bay. This thin entrepreneur, who was an engineer by profession, had metal powder on his work clothes. "I'm sorry I didn't change into formal clothes. There was a small problem with the coating test in Area A-7 just now."

Chen Lin noticed the burn marks on his wrist: "Accident?"

“It’s just normal.”

Zhang Rui grinned, revealing teeth bleached by quantum radiation. "Playing with new materials is like taming a beast. You have to pay some tuition."

They took the internal shuttle to the core area.

Through the observation window, Chen Lin saw hundreds of automated cabins arranged in a vacuum, each cabin flashing with a strange metallic luster.

"That's our stardust coating."

Zhang Rui pointed to the nearest cabin and said, "Reconstructing the arrangement of materials at the nano level allows ordinary alloys to gain the ability to resist solar winds."

He suddenly lowered his voice, "Of course, the real breakthrough is in Area B..."

Chen Lin and others soon witnessed what Zhang Rui called the "real breakthrough" - after triple biometric authentication, everyone entered a space filled with black cubes.

On the platform in the middle, a palm-sized piece of material was being continuously bombarded by a stream of particles, but the surface remained intact.

"This is the latest research and development of our group company - quantum superposition armor." Zhang Rui's voice was full of enthusiasm. "Theoretically, it can absorb 99.9% of energy impacts, even those from antimatter weapons."

Chen Lin's fingertips lightly brushed across the surface of the material, feeling the strange vibration frequency: "Is it the latest technology provided by the association?"

"I can't hide it from you." Zhang Rui called up a set of equations, "We reverse-analyzed the space-time wrinkle experiment data abandoned by the Red Dragon Association and found that a certain vibration mode can allow matter to switch between multiple quantum states..."

Secretary Zhao suddenly interrupted: "This is suspected of violating Article 17 of the Technology Confidentiality Law."

The laboratory was instantly quiet. Zhang Rui's Adam's apple rolled, but Chen Lin raised his hand and signaled: "Continue the demonstration."

When the piece of material remained intact in the test simulating the gravity of a neutron star, Chen Lin suddenly asked: "If you are given enough resources, can you make a protective layer covering the entire space station?"

Zhang Rui's glasses reflected the data stream: "Maybe it wouldn't work three months ago, but now..."

He hit the hide button on the console, and the wall slid open to reveal a larger compartment—there suspended an armored plate large enough to wrap around a small spacecraft.

"We call it the Ark Shield."

Chen Lin's attention was instantly attracted by the huge suspended plate.

It does not have a metallic luster in the traditional sense, but rather presents a deep starry sky texture, with subtle, living energy ripples flowing on the surface, as if a small piece of the laws of the universe are imprisoned within it.

The entire board is quietly suspended in the force field, exuding an absolute sense of calmness.

"Incredible..." Chen Lin approached the observation window, his voice filled with shock, "Is this a large-scale application based on quantum superposition armor?"

"Exactly!" Zhang Rui could not hide his excitement. "The core principle of [Ark Shield] is the same as the small piece of armor we showed you, but scale and stability are the key to the breakthrough."

"Its characteristics can be summarized into three points: the first is energy absorption and conversion. It can use the unique quantum resonance frequency analyzed by the folds of space-time. The surface of the armor can switch between countless possible quantum states at ultra-high speed at the moment of impact."

"This allows it to absorb and disperse impact energy almost perfectly - whether it's kinetic weapons, energy beams, particle streams, or even theoretically antimatter explosions that could annihilate everything."

"And most of the absorbed energy is converted into harmless thermal radiation, which is discharged into the vacuum through specific channels and directed to the heat dissipation array on the outer edge of the armor."

"And the spatial adaptive capability makes it more than a 'dead' steel plate. The powerful computing core monitors the attack type and intensity in real time, and dynamically adjusts the quantum state distribution and resonance mode of different areas of the armor."

"President Chen, you can imagine that it can 'soften' like running water to disperse shock waves, and can instantly 'harden' to a level beyond neutron degenerate matter to resist penetrating attacks. This adaptive ability allows it to cope with composite attacks of various forms and directions!" (End of this chapter)