The man opened his eyes.

His name is Zhang Ling, an 'Earthling'. Of course he is an Earthling, but he was actually born on the super-border Earth numbered 1000. He is a country bumpkin in the standard sense. Moreover, he was a company official who created it on a whim when he was traveling in another world.

illegitimate son.

Of course, an 'illegitimate child from another world' like him is not entitled to receive a loan from the family foundation, but he finally has enough to eat and drink, and he got citizenship after serving in the military. Now his consciousness is uploaded to the quantum network to work for the 'family business', which is barely enough.

He can be regarded as a junior cadre at the department head level.

The original body was left to open up wasteland in another world, and by the way, it was rented out to the financial bosses on the virtual network to earn some extra money. You could take risks, grow vegetables, and eliminate pests. You could also be considered a small internet celebrity in a farmhouse to earn some extra money.

But this is Zhang Ling’s first time visiting Parallel Earth 001, ‘Zhuan Xu’.

Or should I say, this is the first time he has truly connected to the subnet of the 001 plane, using the feet of an organic vehicle to stand on the observation floor of the orbital elevator coming out of the starship cabin, overlooking the scenery below.

In the dark deep space of the universe, there is a spherical celestial body that is darker than the void, like a gravity-free black hole. From a distance, it is an endless smooth curved surface, like a polished black ceramic sphere, and there seems to be no waves on the sphere.

ocean.

And in the dark ocean, it was faintly like a lighthouse, dotted with many faint starlights. Of course, those were not starlight, nor were they real lighthouses, but star cities built on the sphere.

These colonial star cities shoot out bright fireworks like alcohol blowtorches, but when the lights spread out, they seem to be absorbed by the boundless dark 'ocean'.

Of course, through documentaries on the Internet and quantum teleportation experience, Zhang Ling already has a considerable understanding of ‘Zhuanxu’.

Of course it is not a real ocean, but an artificial polymer material, a huge curtain, a photovoltaic film or a solar sail.

And those 'lighthouse' star cities are the connection points between solar sails, responsible for the functions of colonies, power stations, solar sail link maintenance points and network servers. They use billions of solar sails to connect to the star cities and wrap the stars.

Perfectly able to collect energy without emitting any light, this is 'Zhuanxu'.

In a word, this is the first and possibly the only Dyson sphere in the history of human civilization.

As for the star being collected, it is naturally the 001 Sun.

A long time ago, when mankind was in the era of legion rule, the most mainstream technologies were space colonization, interstellar travel, and wormhole travel. What everyone was talking about was not the virtual network, but the era of stars and seas.

This Earth in Parallel Plane 001, as the first world colonized through wormholes, was planned by the Legion as the capital of the multidimensional human universe empire. The Legion's new capital and base camp were established here, and a huge wormhole star gate was prepared.

As a transit station for the conquest of the multiverse, the sun of Earth 001 is also planned to begin long-term construction of a Dyson sphere.

But later, as the wormhole technology went out of control, one-third of the Legion's fleet was lost in the void, and then a world war and an omnic rebellion broke out. After the bloody war, the Legion was destroyed, and Earth 001 was destroyed.

The wormhole stargate was destroyed and the Dyson sphere was shut down.

It was not until the end of the war, when the remnants of the Legion were expelled to the corners of civilization and the edge of the universe, that a company finally took over the project and completed the construction of 'Zhuanxu'. Parallel Earth 001 was built into the center of the quantum network public security system.

One of the servers, and 'Zhuanxu' is the battery and server host.

"Purpose."

The golem from the public security system connected to Zhang Ling's system, automatically took over the authority of the organic vehicle, and began scanning his system's security logs and potential threats.

"interview."

When Zhang Ling was a citizen, he worked in the Public Security Bureau and knew that this was a process.

After all, in order to protect the safety of 'Zhuanxu', hundreds of thousands of warships and orbital cannons have been lurking in space recently. UFOs that enter the asteroid belt without permission will be directly destroyed.

The organic vehicles on the 001 plane also stay in the space station outside the circle and are on standby. They regularly undergo the highest-standard biochemical inspections from the Sixth and Nine Departments. There are no biological hazards or physical access hacking attacks.

possible.

And if his intelligent system wants to connect to the Earth 001 subnet, it has already passed countless screening reviews. If there is a hidden demon, the brain will have been burned by the firewall.

"Login permission"

After only three seconds of review, Zhang Ling regained control of the organic vehicle. Then he walked into the orbital elevator under the guidance of the system and jumped into the boundless darkness.

The nanobugs around the vehicle formed a bubble-like isolation layer, and fell from the external star track under the guidance of the guiding beam, flying towards those 'lighthouses'.

Each of these satellite cities is an office building rented by a company. Although in this era, cold fusion batteries have been used by civilians and Dyson spheres are not necessarily very efficient, the meaning of 'Zhuanxu' itself is extraordinary and it is basically considered to be beyond the times.

A wonder of technological and economic value.

Therefore, any company with some reputation likes to rent an office on the tombstone of this legion to enjoy the glory of victory and experience the thrill of conquering the sun.

"Executive Officer."

Zhang Ling flew directly into the company's office and, under the guidance of the system, met his interviewer, the company's CEO and his genetic father Zhang Jian.

Of course, at this time, neither of them were using the gene body, and in front of them was a clone vehicle controlled remotely by the executive.

And Zhang Jian had no intention of reminiscing with one of his countless 'sons'. Although the other party did have such a slight relationship after screening, it was not the main reason why the other party appeared in front of him.

"You used to serve in the Security Bureau?"

Noticing that the system had been shut down after entering the company building, Zhang Ling also knew that his father spent a lot of money to bring him to Zhuanxu to meet him not to reminisce about old times, nor to chat with him.

"There are four level 10 investigators. However, all the memories related to the mission have been removed after being discharged."

"Sir, Counterintelligence Investigation Division...I see, that's quite appropriate..."

Zhang Ling knew that although Zhang Jian was said to be the chief executive of the company, he was still a big butler who worked hard. At most, it was found that he was serving in the public security system, and his authority had not reached the level of 'master', and he probably didn't.

Know what you are doing.

But from this point of view, it's not that this 'father' suddenly wants to promote himself. He doesn't care at all how his 'illegitimate child from another world' lives. That person's profile should have been selected by the board of directors and specially arranged for him.

Dad's providing support, in corporate style, and he's probably in quite a bit of trouble...

"It seems that you already know what to do. This time the company has a difficult matter for you to handle. I hope you can use your professional skills to solve the problem."

Zhang Jian took out a crystal ball. There was some kind of purple-blue lightning arc stored in the crystal ball. It looked like a plasma light ball toy.

Zhang Ling's pupils shrank sharply. Although he couldn't remember because he had his task memory blocked, he could still recognize it when he saw it.

This is something obtained by converting the human brain from a solid state into an ionic state through surgery. To put it simply, it is a 'plasma hard drive'.

The biggest function of this 'hard disk' is to pass the 'gate'.

The 'Gate', or 'Boundary Membrane', is the most advanced field of scientific research. To put it simply, what is on this side of the 'Gate' is the scientific world, and what is on the other side of the 'Gate' is the non-scientific world.

Although the parallel plane on the other side of the 'door' can be reached through various FTL voyages such as wormhole jumping, current technology cannot send living people to the other side of the 'door'.

Therefore, currently, drones are first dispatched to establish quantum communication satellites on the other side of the 'door', and then organic vehicles are used after establishing a stable quantum network.

However, there is also a new technology that does not rely on quantum communication, but directly transforms personality consciousness into an ionic state and projects it to the other side of the 'door'.

The advantage of this is of course economic efficiency, convenience and speed. It can directly transform people into ionized states and project into other worlds. There is no need to spend centuries sending robots to build communication satellites and clone vehicle factories. After all, if it is discovered that the opposite world is not

With development value, these investments are all in vain.

Of course, this technology is still very, very unstable, and its use is extremely limited, and it is far from practical. After all, there must be at least equipment on the other side of the 'gate' to restore ionic humans to a solid state, right?

And according to current experiments, after passing through the door, the personality will be fragmented, and it is almost impossible to restore self-awareness. It can only be used to analyze the information in the memory fragments, and it seems to be in some kind of tragic torture forever, so it can

Just treat it as a collection.

As for the ball in my hand, I spent money to project it to 001. In other words, is it the world on the other side of the 'door'?

"What did he do? Corruption?" Zhang Ling stared at the plasma ball.

"She is the acting manager of Border Assets 49327. She is from another faction. I don't know what she did. Anyway, she made a mess there and turned it into a non-performing asset. The board of directors gave me the responsibility to finish it off and even named it.

You come to investigate, that's fine, I'll give you a two-level promotion, make you a regional manager, investigate, and if there are any problems, just deal with them. If you can't deal with them, just report them to me directly."

Zhang Ling was shocked when he heard this. The board of directors directly asked them, father and son, to investigate people from other factions. Isn't that suspected of infighting within the board of directors? If something goes wrong, wouldn't he be the same as the ion ball in his hand?

The end? And...

"49327!? What kind of plane is this! Even if it's on the opposite side of the door, it's too far away... Isn't this beyond the limit of the parallel universe observation system? The quantum network will be delayed..."

Zhang Jian also found this matter troublesome.

"The fringe star field bought at a low price from the ethics committee is probably infested by the remnants of the legion. Hmm, I like to take advantage of such small advantages when purchasing.

Aren't you a counter-espionage person? Go and use your expertise. Once the non-performing assets matter is resolved, I will transfer you back. If there are no other problems, just go and do the work."

Zhang Jian put his hands behind his back and walked to the office window to look at the red sun under his feet.

Zhang Ling frowned and thought for a while, "You asked me to come to Zhuanxu specifically for the non-performing assets on the border? What's the big deal about these cockroaches in the Legion? Do you want to find out something else? For example, commercial espionage or something?"

Zhang Jian sneered, "You don't need to worry about this. A new round of corporate war is about to begin again. There must be many people who want to take this opportunity to donate money and secretly find new jobs.

So just in case, you should link up on Zhuanxu and link directly to 49327, so as not to get burned by some 'hacker'."

Zhang Ling also knew that he had no room for refusal, so he simply agreed. Anyway, he, a country bumpkin, was used to staying away from big cities. And he would get a promotion and a salary increase, right? If he could handle this matter well, he might be able to get a job from the board of directors.

If you are favored, you may not be promoted to a senior executive in the future.

So Zhang Ling took the ion ball to the company office on the ground floor, found the one with the lowest performance from the local employee list and fired him, then cleared his memory, loaded the memory in the ion ball, confirmed that there was no virus golem in it, and then

Filter out useful information.

"Is it a paradise with the theme of cultivating immortals? Oh, it's actually the theme of palace fighting... It really is a legion... an octopus-headed sergeant..."

Zhang Ling repeatedly watched the memory clips. Border asset 49327 was probably a classical fairy-tale amusement park. This employee played a role like the Queen Mother to maintain order, but was inexplicably assassinated by a legion of hackers.

The logic of the matter is quite simple, but Zhang Ling felt something was wrong.

Although he cleared his mission memory after retiring from the army, his professional skills are still there. The intelligence analyzed from the damaged chip is that this company employee has restricted permissions for some reason, and then actively contacted the legion and tried to escape, but was subsequently killed by the legion.

Kill with brain-burning golem.
To be continued...