bioinnovel Chapter 384 The Gate of Helios!
Chapter 384 The Gate of Helios!
Nie Qingcheng continued, "Helios's cash flow can only last for ninety days."
"You want money."
"I need permission."
"This deal is very simple."
The other person took a deep breath.
"Ms. Nie, sample number 2021-SA7 is under the sole control of the Ministry of National Defense. We can only grant peripheral research access at most."
Nie Qingcheng asked, "Scope?"
"Prometheus Desert Branch, Levels One to Three"
"What about the fourth basement level?"
"Special approval is required."
"Five underground floors?"
"impossible."
Nie Qingcheng did not speak immediately.
Zhang Yan looked at her.
She also glanced at Zhang Yan.
Both of them understood.
The commercial route has reached its peak.
Nie Qingcheng looked at the screen again.
"I accept the external access."
The other party visibly breathed a sigh of relief.
Thank you for your understanding.
"But I will send a joint research delegation into the facility."
"Can."
"Identity documents must be confirmed today."
"Can."
"The equipment list will be provided by us."
The other person frowned.
"The equipment must undergo security checks."
"no problem."
"The research representatives were under full security supervision after entering."
Nie Qingcheng's voice was calm.
"Can."
The other party nodded.
"Then, it's a pleasure to cooperate with you."
Nie Qingcheng hung up immediately.
Qin Xiao immediately spoke.
"Brother Yan, the legal route can only take you up to the third floor."
Zhang Yan said, "That's enough."
Nie Qingcheng looked at Zhang Yan.
"You'll have to rely on yourself for the fifth basement level."
"Um."
I'll say it again.
Zhang Yan looked at her.
Nie Qingcheng said, "You can take risks, but you can't be reckless."
"clear."
"Get the Stardust and leave."
"clear."
"If the sample isn't stardust, but something far more dangerous, evacuate immediately."
Zhang Yan paused for a moment.
"I can judge."
Nie Qingcheng frowned.
"Zhang Yan".
Zhang Yan changed his tune.
"The system's red alert level has been exceeded. Withdraw."
Nie Qingcheng then nodded.
Qin Xiao began to project the map.
"The blind spots for facility security have been marked."
The underground structure diagram is unfolded.
Office space on the first floor.
Two-layer experiment.
Three-layer material testing.
Four-layer isolation zone.
Five-story core warehouse.
Qin Xiao said, "The quarterly maintenance will begin at 1:00 AM local time three days from now."
"Electromagnetic shielding downgraded for four hours."
"But I found a problem."
Zhang Yan asked, "What?"
Qin Xiao zoomed in on the fifth layer.
"The core warehouse was built at the wrong time."
Nie Qingcheng looked up.
"What's wrong?"
"The Prometheus Desert branch was built twenty-six years ago."
"The record for the five-story underground expansion is from twenty-four years ago."
"But the concrete samples, metal supports, and structure of the core warehouse are at least sixty years old."
Zhang Yan's eyes narrowed.
"In other words, the facilities were built on top of it later."
"right."
Qin Xiao said, "The warehouse wasn't built for meteorites."
The sound of stargazing came from the channel.
"Give me the structural diagram."
Qin Xiao immediately transmitted the message.
A dozen seconds later, Guan Xing spoke.
"This is not an ordinary warehouse."
Zhang Yan asked, "You've seen it before?"
"A similar structure can be found in the fragments of the Guantiange manuscript."
Nie Qingcheng asked, "What structure?"
The stargazer said, "A container."
The room fell silent for a moment.
Qin Xiao asked, "A container? What's in it?"
The stargazer replied, "A fragment from a higher dimension."
Zhang Yan looked at the blueprints.
The core warehouse has a spherical, nested shape with three outer isolation rings and a central suspension area inside.
It is different from the runic space surrounding the black sphere underground in Shennongjia.
But the logic is similar.
Zhang Yan said, "The meteorite was placed in a pre-existing container."
Nie Qingcheng said, "This means they knew there was something there before they discovered the meteorite."
Qin Xiao chimed in, "Or perhaps that place was originally intended to await that meteorite."
Guan Xing said, "There's another possibility."
Zhang Yan: "Speak."
"That wasn't a meteorite impact."
I paused stargazing for a second.
"It's the return of door fragments."
Qin Xiao felt a chill run down his spine.
"Can you guys from the Heavenly Observation Pavilion please stop talking so intimidatingly?"
Guan Xing ignored him.
Zhang Yan looked at the blueprints and brought up the system to scan for residual data.
System notification.
It appears to be a maintenance container attached to the third gate.
Status: Occupied.
Occupied by: Unknown gate debris.
Risk level: High.
Zhang Yan shared this information with Nie Qingcheng.
After reading it, Nie Qingcheng's first question was, "What does 'occupied' mean?"
Zhang Yan said, "The container may not have originally been intended to hold it."
"It's inside now."
"Um."
"Will this affect the third door?"
"meeting."
Qin Xiao immediately said, "The Sahara is the coordinate of the third gate. The sample resonates in the nearby facilities, indicating that it is connected to the third gate."
Guan Xing said, "If this fragment belongs to the third door, removing it may cause a brief fluctuation in the door's structure."
Nie Qingcheng looked at Zhang Yan.
"risk assessment."
Zhang Yan accessed the system.
"Sampling does not mean taking everything."
"As long as a sufficient amount of stardust debris is obtained without damaging the main structure, the fluctuations can be controlled."
Nie Qingcheng asked, "How large is the sample size?"
"Thumb-sized"
Qin Xiao glanced at the blueprints.
"You want to cut a piece of the door from the military's core warehouse?"
Zhang Yan said, "Hmm."
Qin Xiao remained silent for a moment.
"It sounds absurd, but it makes sense when it applies to you."
Nie Qingcheng opened another document.
"The identity is ready."
Zhang Yan accepted it.
Name, nationality, academic background, and research interests are all complete.
Qingcheng International Joint Materials Consultant.
Aerospace high-temperature alloys.
Zhang Yan looked at the long list of papers.
"These papers?"
"real."
Who wrote it?
"I bought the attribution license."
Qin Xiao couldn't help but ask, "Sister-in-law, is this even possible?"
Nie Qingcheng looked at him.
Qin Xiao immediately replied, "Okay, absolutely okay."
Nie Qingcheng continued, "I disguised the equipment list you brought this time."
"A thousand-arm machine?"
"It is disassembled into three sets of material testing instrument components."
"The Heart of Heaven's Craftsmanship?"
"Cannot go through security."
Zhang Yan said, "I keep the Heart of Heavenly Craftsmanship close to my body."
Nie Qingcheng frowned.
Will it be detected by the scanner?
"Won't."
"The Prometheus facility may have a device for detecting high-dimensional remnants," said the observer.
Zhang Yan looked at the screen.
Guan Xing continued, "If they have studied the door fragments, they are not necessarily completely ignorant."
Qin Xiao asked, "Then what should we do?"
Zhang Yan said, "Before entering, the Heart of Heavenly Craftsmanship will go into low-power hibernation."
Nie Qingcheng asked, "What if the detection still triggers?"
"withdraw."
Nie Qingcheng looked at him.
"You answered very quickly this time."
Zhang Yan said, "Because you know how to investigate."
Nie Qingcheng snorted coldly.
Qin Xiao lowered his head, suppressing a laugh.
That evening, the action plan was finalized.
Three days later, Zhang Yan flew to Algeria as a joint researcher.
Nie Qingcheng remained in Jinghai to remotely control the market.
Qin Xiao was in charge of military data and evacuation support.
Stargazing provides ancient rune identification and high-dimensional fluctuation judgment.
The Black Scorpion was secretly transported to the outskirts of the Sahara in advance, disguised as deep-earth exploration equipment, and taken over by Qingcheng International's overseas mining channels.
Zhang Yan looked at the last page of the plan.
There are three evacuation routes.
There are four safe houses.
There are two medical points.
Twelve drone relay aircraft.
Nie Qingcheng said to him, "Don't complain about having too much."
"Won't."
"If you miss one line, I'll go with you."
Zhang Yan flipped through the entire contingency plan from beginning to end.
"I've finished watching it."
Nie Qingcheng reached out her hand.
"Recite it once."
Qin Xiao almost burst out laughing.
Zhang Yan really started memorizing.
"The first evacuation route is the maintenance access road on the southeast side of the facility, where an unmanned vehicle will provide support 3.7 kilometers away."
"The second evacuation route, the underground drainage pipeline, requires the Black Scorpion to cut through the outer layer of rock."
"The third escape route involves a forced breakthrough on the surface, with White Tiger providing backup. This will only be used as a last resort."
Nie Qingcheng nodded.
"continue."
Zhang Yan continued reciting.
Qin Xiao listened for a while and then silently turned off his microphone.
The stargazing area fell silent.
After Zhang Yan finished reciting, Nie Qingcheng said, "That's fine."
Zhang Yan asked, "Satisfied?"
Nie Qingcheng looked at him.
"Not satisfied."
"What is that?"
"I just want to make sure you really prioritize coming back."
Zhang Yan took her hand.
"Release them."
Nie Qingcheng did not pull it back.
"Zhang Yan".
"Um."
I won't stop you now.
"I know."
"But remember, the door needs to be fixed, and the people need to come back."
Zhang Yan nodded.
"I remember."
One o'clock in the morning.
Zhang Yan returned to his study alone and examined the blueprints for the Prometheus facility once more.
He enlarged the cross-section of the core warehouse to its maximum size.
Suddenly, the system provided a label for a structure.
Zhang Yan's gaze stopped.
That's the bottom support layer of the warehouse.
There were no instructions on the original drawings.
After the system analyzed the data, it displayed a single line of text.
The third door is attached to the maintenance container.
Construction time: Unknown.
The most recent record was manually accessed 30,000 years ago.
The most recent unauthorized access record: 26 years ago.
Zhang Yan stared at the last line.
Twenty-six years ago.
It wasn't a meteorite that fell three years ago.
It was not the Prometheus Laboratory that was built.
It was earlier than that.
He continued scrolling down.
The system displayed a second line of prompts.
Residual identity characteristics of the unauthorized opener: human.
Residual gene fragment matching in progress...
The moment the matching results popped up, Zhang Yan's finger stopped.
Genetic similarity: 49%.
Suspected blood relation.
Zhang Yan slowly lowered his head and looked at the inside of his chest.
There are photocopies of my parents' files there.
The next second, the study door was pushed open.
Nie Qingcheng stood at the door.
"You're not asleep again."
Zhang Yan did not answer.
Nie Qingcheng walked over and saw the matching results on the screen.
Her voice immediately lowered.
"Zhang Yan".
Zhang Yan looked at the line of text.
"Twenty-six years ago, someone opened the container of the Sahara."
Nie Qingcheng looked at him.
Zhang Yan raised his head.
"That person might be related to my father."