Dimensional Teleport

After seeing Yao En off, Qin Mo began preparing for the Dimensional Teleport experiment.

The Dimensional Teleportation Device was transported to the testing site.

The testing site was located in a newly excavated cavern beneath the fortress. Two prison cells had been built in opposite corners of the vast underground hollow.

The test subject had already been locked in the cell on the far left.

He was not a Rebel bishop, but a criminal convicted of trying to dismantle Logistics Machines for sale.

After Grot sent Yao En onto the transport plane, he immediately hurried to the testing site to serve as Qin Mo's assistant and await his orders.

"Put this thing on the test subject." Qin Mo pointed at the metal backpack on the table.

Grot immediately picked up the backpack and entered the cell. The prisoner did not dare defy him and obediently put it on. After Grot left the cell, he even took the initiative to close the cell door.

"Is that a Gravity Backpack?" Grot asked curiously.

"No, it's a protection device." Qin Mo activated the Dimensional Teleportation Device as he explained. "The backpack contains a locator, a Soul Binder, and a shield generator. It can ensure that he can be teleported, and teleported intact."

"That sounds profound..." Grot could not make sense of such complicated technology, so he turned his attention to the teleportation device.

It was a square object, two meters in both height and length, forged from alloy with energy patterns running across its metallic surface.

When Qin Mo raised his hand, countless cables pierced through the walls and entered the testing site, connecting to the teleportation device.

"First experiment, begin." Qin Mo placed his raised hand on the teleportation device, then activated the entire machine with telekinesis.

Grot quickly looked up at the prisoner.

The prisoner's body began to twist and distort as he let out a heart-wrenching scream.

At that moment, the backpack released energy. A humanoid energy form gradually took shape above the prisoner's flesh. It tried to grab at its own body but could not touch it. Yet it was not pulled out of the body either; it was firmly fixed to the flesh by the energy.

"That thing is his soul," Qin Mo said.

"That backpack doesn't seem to be working," Grot hurriedly warned him.

"It is working. It's just not fully working." Qin Mo continued observing for two seconds, then raised his hand.

Only then were all the devices inside the backpack fully activated. An oval barrier enveloped the prisoner's body and soul.

The next second, the prisoner appeared in the other cell. The barrier around him gradually faded, and his soul merged with his body once more. He collapsed to the floor, gasping painfully.

"Are we going to use this thing to teleport out of the Underhive?" Grot asked worriedly.

"Of course. The teleportation device is only the first step. In the future, we'll use this thing to travel through different star systems." Qin Mo nodded.

Grot stared at the prisoner with a deathly pale face. He felt that the teleportation device looked more like an instrument of torture.

"If the protection device had been activated before the teleportation began, he wouldn't have felt any pain." As Qin Mo spoke, he walked to the cell and asked the prisoner, "What did you see during the teleportation?"

"Before it started... I saw lots of lines... Everything in my vision turned transparent... Then I think I saw many things... but it also felt like I saw nothing." The prisoner spoke in confused, disordered words.

Qin Mo listened quietly and eventually reached a conclusion.

During the teleportation, the prisoner had briefly been sent into another dimension. However, his human senses were not sharp enough, and his sensory organs could neither hear nor see much within that dimension.

But that did not matter. He had been teleported successfully.

"You're quite lucky. I thought this experiment would send you into a wall." Qin Mo smiled.

"What?" The prisoner looked up in terror, only then realizing that he had been incredibly fortunate to escape a disaster that had been highly likely to kill him.

Qin Mo turned and walked to the teleportation device. Rather than beginning the next experiment, he fell into thought.

The principle behind Dimensional Teleport was very simple: use sufficient energy to open a Dimensional Channel, then stuff a person or object inside and transport it to the other end.

If the material universe were a chessboard, a chess piece moving from the left side to the right would have to advance one square at a time. Dimensional Teleport was like someone simply picking up that piece and placing it directly at the destination.

When the teleportation device began a transfer, it used the Master Control Intelligence's computing power to precisely calculate all kinds of data between the person wearing the protection device and the target location. But if there was no locator near the target location, the calculation would inevitably have deviations.

The deviation might be one or two meters, or it might be ten or even a hundred. For a warship, that did not matter. As long as it was not teleported directly into a planet, being off target was no problem.

But for a human, a deviation of several meters could mean becoming embedded in a wall, or even merging with debris...

The solution to this problem was simple as well: let the Master Control Intelligence calculate for a longer period to make the result more precise.

As long as the first person was teleported safely, everything would be secure. They could place a beacon at the destination, eliminating the need for the Master Control Intelligence to calculate, and the teleportation error would not exceed one meter.

"New Kato suddenly lost power! The cause is still under investigation!" Klein suddenly pushed open the door and shouted his report, interrupting Qin Mo's thoughts.

"I used New Kato's electricity for the experiment," Qin Mo explained to Klein.

The drawback of Dimensional Teleport was its enormous energy consumption, but that was not much of a problem for Qin Mo. He could use lightning to charge the teleportation device in advance.

This time, he had used New Kato's electricity merely to test how far the city's power could teleport a single person.

The test result was obvious. Teleporting the prisoner between two cells less than a hundred meters apart had caused New Kato to lose power. Anything farther really would not work.

"How did the experiment go?"

As he asked and waited for the result, Klein looked at Qin Mo nervously, afraid that he would say the experiment had failed.

"Success."

"Great! So we can enter and leave the Underhive freely now?"

"Of course. In another five days, once I've mass-produced the Protection Devices, we'll be able to enter and leave the Underhive freely."

Klein was overjoyed. After so many days of anxious waiting, there was finally a result. He could finally leave this Underhive and return home to see his family.

"In three days, mobilize all troops and have them prepare for large-scale teleportation."

While Klein was celebrating, Qin Mo issued an order he could not understand. He froze for a moment, then asked tremblingly, "W-why? Aren't all the Underhive rebels dead?"

"But the people who set us up aren't dead yet. I don't intend to start a war, but we must be ready to fight in case someone wants to make a move against us after we leave the Underhive," Qin Mo replied.

"Yes... yes..." Klein nodded thoughtfully.