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Chapter 197 A Time-Space Portal That Makes Wishes Come True? A Surprise Awaits! (Please Subscribe)

"President Su! Something's happened here!!!"

The voice coming from the communicator carried an unsettling, strange tension.

Su Mingjin's heart skipped a beat. Her brows, which had been furrowed with worry about dealing with the elves, relaxed slightly. She replied in a deep voice, "Speak."

"Door! Damn it! The portal suddenly expanded again! And now the door has closed!"

Su Mingjin suddenly stood up, causing the chair to slide back half a meter with a screeching sound.

She went out and arrived at the command center next door, which was now in complete chaos.

At this moment, the screen has switched to real-time monitoring of the time portal area.

At the edge of the pale blue light curtain, the originally stable energy field began to slowly undulate like a living thing, extending to both sides.

The entire width of the light gate is being widened at a speed that is visible to the naked eye but not abrupt.

"What about real-time data?"

she ordered.

The assistant's fingers flew across the keyboard, projecting a stream of data.

"Reporting to Commander: The initial width was ten meters, and it has now expanded to 10.1 meters at a stable rate. Based on model calculations, the expansion is expected to be completed in twenty-four hours, with a final width of at least fifteen meters!"

Fifteen meters!
Su Mingjin's breath caught in her throat for a moment.

She knew all too well what that number meant.

The current width of ten meters sounds spacious, but considering that heavy trucks are nearly 2.5 meters wide, and the excruciating dizziness and spatial tearing sensation when passing through the time portal, the pioneering team can only arrange for two vehicles to pass side by side at a time to ensure absolute safety during transportation, with a huge safety margin in between.

Transportation capacity is completely blocked, like a breathing tube being squeezed shut.

But a width of fifteen meters will completely change all of this.

At this point, there's more than enough room for four cars to drive side-by-side!

That transportation ceiling curve, welded to the bottom of the chart, is finally about to take off!

The overwhelming surprise left Su Mingjin momentarily dazed.

Just moments before, she was worrying about the impending traffic jam, even muttering Lin Li's name in her mind, begging him to make the door bigger.

As a result, the door really did get bigger.

It feels like... it's like you shout "Give me some water!" at a dry well, and the next second pure water gushes out of the well, complete with a fully automatic faucet.

Of course, it could also be that the goddess of your dreams suddenly appears when you're emotionally exhausted and desperately need emotional and physical comfort.
Furthermore, the other person is lying on your bed and actively helping you undress.

It's outrageous, yet perfectly timed, enough to send chills down your spine.

"What about the altitude?" Su Mingjin stared at the light screen and asked the crucial question.

"The height hasn't changed at all; it's still eight meters," the assistant replied. "It's very strange; this expansion is purely a lateral stretch."

Pure lateral stretching...

Su Mingjin's eyes deepened.

The last time the time portal expanded, its width and height were increased!

If the stretching is repeated as before, the time portal will probably become 12 meters high and 15 meters wide.

This precise change of widening without increasing height must be manipulated by a force behind the scenes, right?

Linli?

is it him?
It must be him!
Is he really like an omnipresent observer, watching everything that happens here all the time?
He saw the oil derricks in the far north, the production curve that was about to awkwardly intersect with the transportation limit, and heard his own muttered words that were half complaint and half prayer.

Then, when we needed it most, he simply moved his finger and gave us the most direct and effective help.
But does he have that much authority?
Thinking of the numerous silly animations, some even using the code names of some members of the pioneering team as animation content with only appropriate artistic processing, she swallowed hard.

Once this thought arose, it grew wildly in Su Mingjin's mind.

"It's probably all related to him!"

She thought so.

She then pulled up the logistics department report again, looking at the two curves that had once kept her up at night.

By manipulating the data and observing the speed at which the spacetime portal expands, the horizontal line representing the bottleneck seems to have begun to curve upwards, heading towards a hopeful future.

They have always regarded the time portal as a great miracle bestowed upon them by a high dimension that needs to be constantly explored.

But now it seems that this may not be a miracle.

Could the other party really control the time portal?

No, could the other party be the very sect of the Time-Space Gate?
Su Mingjin scratched her head, wrote down her guess, and prepared to send it to Li Weiguo so that they could investigate.

Then, as she looked at the even wider portal, a slight smile involuntarily crept onto her lips.

The door has become larger, which means their transportation potential has increased, and the increased transportation potential means that the exploration of the other world has become more advanced, and the two worlds complement each other even more strongly.

No, it should be said that the other world simply gives back to the modern world in a stronger way.

The thought of countless rare resources from another world being rapidly transported to the modern world, then transformed into high-tech equipment through various processes, greatly enhancing the military strength of Dongda University and making the eyes of her friends overseas, who were originally restless, clear again, filled her with immense joy.

This is much more interesting than capturing elves and making them grow potatoes.

"Notify the logistics department," she turned around, her voice carrying an unprecedented ease and sharpness, "The transportation plan needs to be redone. Let's see how much we can increase our capacity!"

The assistant hesitated for a moment: "Mr. Su, shouldn't we wait a little longer? The door isn't even secured yet! Are we going to confirm it now...?"

“No,” Su Mingjin interrupted his doubts, her gaze fixed intently on the door on the screen that was growing larger, “Be bolder, broaden your horizons. I estimate that the increase in the door's size this time will be substantial.”

……

In the modern world, the grassland serves as a logistics and coordination base.

Li Weiguo stood with his hands behind his back in front of the huge monitoring screen, his expression exactly the same as Su Mingjin's in another world.

On the screen, the deep blue portal was slowly expanding to both sides with a steady and unstoppable momentum.

"I was just thinking that the time portal is somewhat similar. Could it be that I dreamt about the ancient sages yesterday, and they enlarged the portal?"

"Strange, why did it expand at this particular time? Not too early, not too late? Can it really sense people's inner thoughts?"

Li Weiguo muttered to himself, his deep voice revealing neither joy nor anger.

As the overall commander of the plan, he was mostly accustomed to having all variables under control.

This scene before him once again shattered his understanding.

But he felt no sorrow, only joy!

Just today, he was still sighing in his office, thinking about how the transportation team's workload had increased and the pressure had risen. In addition, the spatial distortion caused by crossing the two-dimensional portal had put everyone under high tension. Now, the transportation of supplies needed to be very frequent. If this continued, an accident was bound to happen.

As a result, the door widened by itself today.

"Is destiny in the East?"

Perhaps so!
Li Weiguo's tense smile became increasingly difficult to control.

He turned around and stood in front of the huge electronic sand table in the modern command center, where the terrain and resource points of the other world were clearly marked.

His fingers lightly traced across the sand table, leading south from the oil-producing region in the far north of the other world, through the relatively flat and sparse northern forest belt, to the portal, and then the oil pipeline extended into the modern world.

Subsequently, this black gold was transported through large underground tunnels being excavated to oil fields where oil was discovered in modern times.

Subsequently, it was easily transferred to the petrochemical production line that was already under construction.

In the past, this line was constrained by confidentiality principles and various other principles, and there were many factors to consider when it came together.

And now...

In Li Weiguo's eyes, the dotted line seemed to solidify into a physical entity.

Multiple thick pipes and ever-flowing conveyor belts continuously transport black gold, refined gold, and various ores from the other world, like blood in a major artery.

The energy arteries and resource transportation corridors that have plagued everyone for so long have been solved in this way.

"Ha, just what I wished for came true."

Li Weiguo shook his head, returned to his desk, sat down, picked up the cup of dark, brewed Pu'er tea, and slowly took a sip. The scalding tea calmed the turbulent emotions churning within him.

A few minutes later, he dialed a number.

On the other end of the phone, Zhong Mengyao was sitting in a corner of a coffee shop, pretending to be a beautiful white-collar worker.

"Mr. Li."

"Xiao Zhong, has the target made any unusual moves today?" Li Weiguo's voice was as calm as ever.

"Reporting to General Manager Li, the target went for lunch break two hours ago and instructed everyone not to disturb him." Zhong Mengyao's reply was professional and swift.

"Lunch break..." Li Weiguo pondered the word, finding it somewhat absurd. "He...didn't mention anything strange? Like thinking the road was a bit narrow and wanting to widen it?"

There was a moment of silence on the other end of the phone. Zhong Mengyao was clearly taken aback by the question: "No. Mr. Li, has something happened over there?"

"It's a good thing, a fantastic thing." Li Weiguo chuckled. "Don't be nervous on your end, just keep observing. Once the situation stabilizes tomorrow, approve another sponsorship for his studio under the guise of an advertising collaboration."

"clear."

After hanging up the phone, Zhong Mengyao's beautiful eyebrows furrowed.

Should the road be widened?
What kind of strange code is this?

She returned to her van parked by the roadside, took out her walkie-talkie, and spoke briefly with her colleagues who were providing support nearby.

Then, she opened a laptop that was clearly military-grade from a hidden compartment herself.

After triple authentication, an internal data website popped up.

Despite her young age, Zhong Mengyao has a lot of authority because she is a second-generation hat maker and frequently comes into contact with Lin Li.

The top-pinned, urgent red bulletin, with its eye-catching title, reads: "Report on Unknown Positive Expansion of the Door."

Initial width: 10 meters.

Current width: 10.7 meters.

Expansion rate: Expanding steadily!

Minimum expected width expansion: 15 meters!
Zhong Mengyao's breath hitched, and her mind went blank.

She instantly connected everything—the logistics bottleneck, Li Weiguo's nonsensical question about road repairs, and Lin Li's lunch break where he wouldn't allow anyone to disturb him.

A chilling conclusion emerged.

Could it be that guy again?

Was he the one who expanded the door?

She subconsciously looked up and, through the glass skylight fitted with a privacy film, gazed at the floor where the office buildings, lined with studios, were located in the distance.

An unprecedented impulse surged through her; she wanted to rush up to him, grab him by the collar, and loudly demand to know why he didn't serve his country and what he actually knew.

Reason ultimately prevailed, suppressing the impulse.

"These are individuals with a strong sense of self! It's not a time of crisis, so where do all these selfless acts come from?"

Zhong Mengyao thought to herself.

Suddenly, her phone vibrated; it was a message from a subordinate.

"Sister Yao, that guy who recently came to Lin Li's studio to harass the target and try to acquire their company has been persuaded to leave according to procedure. We guarantee he will never see us again."

Zhong Mengyao looked at the message, then at the information on the screen that was likely to be changed regarding the pioneering troops, and sighed softly.

If it weren't for the task assignment, she really wouldn't want to deal with these trivial troubles.

Her first action was to sneak up next to Lin Li and observe him closely.

Zhong Mengyao leaned back in her seat, exhausted, and let out a long sigh.

Just then, the curtains in the upstairs office were drawn open.

A lazy figure appeared by the window, stretching out a big yawn, looking like he had just woken up, feeling relaxed and content.

Zhong Mengyao was positioned so that she could see the Linli trees in front of the window.

She stared intently at the figure and forced out a sentence through gritted teeth.

"Just how many secrets do you still have, you rascal?"

upstairs!

Lin Li stretched, his joints making a series of fine cracking sounds.

His gradually strengthening physique and senses made him feel that something was watching him.

He glanced casually downstairs, his gaze landing precisely on the unremarkable new energy nanny van.

Although the car windows were covered with dark privacy film, to his vision enhanced by the spacetime source matter, the sunroof was not much different from transparent glass.

The beautiful woman named Zhong in the car is probably busy writing a report right now about "whether the target's lunch break is related to the anomaly of the time portal?"

Lin Li found it amusing.

He had long since developed a tacit understanding with the authorities.

He pretended not to know that he was being protected and monitored 24/7.

The authorities also pretended not to know that he actually knew everything.

Everyone keeps to themselves on important matters, but on minor matters, the authorities will proactively clear obstacles for him.

Take, for example, his studio that took off miraculously.

Because of a lack of funds, he impulsively spent over 100,000 yuan to make a few silly animations.

As soon as the product went live, the data was ridiculously good, with various recommendation slots appearing one after another, and after-tax profits easily reaching several million.

The company's size has also expanded from three to five people to more than twenty people.

With so many people involved, the popularity of silly animations naturally translates into very high revenue.

Lin Li has gradually become a small business owner.

But is this kind of brainless, ridiculous animation that has been criticized by countless people really that popular?
Lin Li himself did not believe it.

He believed it was driven by an invisible force behind the scenes, and that this force was very obvious.

However, he accepted it calmly.

This small amount of money is nothing to the authorities.

Using the resources they gained from exploring another world, they are playing a grand game that will determine the future development of the human world.

The connection between the two worlds, along with the various novel materials, outrageous energy reactions, and diverse manifestations resulting from the influence of magical particles, have greatly benefited the modern world.

Materials science alone can enable humanity to make rapid new breakthroughs.

He has been closely following the recent developments in nuclear fusion.

Of course, what caught his attention most were the Space Marines' relics; those things terrified not only the people on board, but also him.

If it really is four street vendors...

Forget it, I won't think about that world where there's dung everywhere!
Anyway, he can only take it one step at a time.

As for the income he earned at the end of his time running the studio, it was at most a few grains of sesame seeds picked up from the edge of the human chessboard.

What he wants is his own stability, to enjoy a peaceful life, and occasionally take some risks.

He already has enough spacetime source matter, so it doesn't matter if his precious projection clones die a few times.

During this time, he also discovered a problem while secretly observing the progress and difficulties of the pioneering team.

Seeing that the door's transport capacity was about to reach its limit, supplies were piling up and the logistics department was in a panic, so he decided to lend a hand.

Thanks to the hard work of the entire official exploration team, his exploration progress accelerated, and the total exploration progress reached 20%.

After reaching 20%, Lin Li obtained far more spacetime source matter than he had guessed.

When he first reached 10%, he only obtained a few dozen spacetime source particles.

Now, the amount of source matter in the forest is a hundred times greater than before.

With so many things, he has countless choices and can indulge in his desires.

However, most of the time, Lin Li would not waste spacetime resources.

This is a wondrous energy that can not only be used to strengthen himself, but also, like kneading dough, to freely modify the spacetime portal and create a completely integrated energy projection clone.

At times, it can even consume spacetime essence to allow one's brain to gain higher-dimensional thinking.

Or perhaps strengthen others!

It's basically an all-powerful cheat.

During the two hours he took a nap, he quietly modified the time portal.

Oh, and he even made his own time portal!

Once the time portal is fully formed, it will be much more convenient to transport oil or other liquid minerals.

Incidentally, he also used his authority to shorten the cooldown time for transporting goods between the two worlds by another hour.

"Gentlemen, focus on your work! I'm going to continue relaxing and enjoying my happy ordinary life."

Lin Li returned to his office, opened Delta, and it became lively.

An hour later, I felt that the Delta was no longer very interesting.

"Why not a real-life adventure?"

Lin Li's physical fitness is improving, as are his reflexes and senses.

After he fully absorbed the spacetime source matter, his physical attributes had long surpassed those of ordinary people.

Lin Li sat at his desk for a long time before finally picking up his phone and sending a message to his assistant.

"Order thirty afternoon teas, with desserts, from Luckin Coffee, and get the bill reimbursed by the finance department!"

Lin Li sent the message to the company group chat, and his phone was immediately flooded with a series of "Long live the boss" messages.

Interspersed among them were a few emojis saying things like, "President Lin is so generous, I'll tear up my resignation letter right now." He smiled and put his phone down.

The screen also showed the manuscript he was writing, about the next episode of the silly animation.

"While silly animations are great, audiences are very discerning."

Lin Li stroked his chin, browsing the comments section below the video.

He laughed at all the complaints, such as "slow updates," "flopy plot," and "good for nothing but making jokes."

With dozens of employees in the studio, we can't rely on him alone for ideas.

He simply treated the comments section as a free planning meeting, intending to make some appropriate improvements.

"Perfect timing, let's take care of the matter in the far north as well."

His gaze fell on the words "Undead Catastrophe" on the manuscript, and a brilliant idea popped into his head.

"Hmm... turn those undead skeletons into an inexhaustible magical tillage machine?"

Since they were all skeletons anyway, they should have been laid to rest, but magic has risen again.

Since they're just standing there anyway, instead of wasting time, let's turn them into a magical perpetual motion machine for tilling the land!
Once the idea took hold, it could no longer be contained.

Never tires, requires no food or fodder, and comes with a complete service of turning the soil, sowing seeds, and fertilizing right out of the factory. It is all-natural and pollution-free.

All you need to do is guard against malicious attacks from the other party!

If this really happens, wouldn't Li Weiguo, who's in charge of logistics in the other world, kowtow to him overnight?
After writing things down, he then had his subordinates get to work.

The boss's ideas are important, but the employees' execution ability is also very important.

All he needs to do is come up with some outlandish ideas and then have his employees refine them.

The film included some funny and cheerful moments, making it a very lighthearted experience.

After everything was settled, Lin Li stretched and prepared to move his body.

He stood up from his executive chair and strolled to a corner of the office.

There was a large shelf there, and on the shelf was an exaggeratedly large greatsword.

The sword has a thick, unsharpened blade and is entirely black, resembling an enlarged version of Yang Guo's Xuan Tie Heavy Sword.

He ordered this from Pinduoduo when he had nothing else to do. It weighs a full fifty kilograms and is incredibly sturdy.

As long as it can be swung, it's a matter of death if it's even grazed, and injury if it's touched.

Two months ago, during the miraculous transformation of his spacetime source matter, he had to hold his breath and use both hands to barely lift it off the ground.

And now...

Lin Li casually gripped the hilt of the sword with one hand, lifting it up as easily as picking up a fire poker.

With a flick of his wrist, the fifty-kilogram iron lump became as docile as a toy in his hand.

He even started practicing some more delicate tasks.

He took out some sand trays, and with a slight flick of his wrist, the heavy sword tip swept across the sand trays, creating a series of subtle movements as the sword tip began to write characters.

A moment later, a character with a sharp, unrestrained, casual, and thoughtful stroke was clearly engraved on the sand table.

"Haha! Beautiful!"

Lin Li examined his masterpiece, deftly flattened it with one hand, and then continued working.

An hour had passed after the workout.

Looking at the sand table with the restored credentials, Lin Li had a thought in his mind—

"Why is it that my knowledge of the source only knows how to enhance the strength and density of my physical body?"

He muttered to himself, somewhat dissatisfied.

"Can't I just look ordinary, with a normal weight, and then easily blow up an armored vehicle with one punch? That's what style is, that's what being low-key is."

Lin Li's physique has become quite muscular, and the source energy is practically shaping his body into that of a super muscular man, which doesn't fit his "lying down and enjoying life" laid-back persona at all.

Too violent, not elegant.

He shook his head, casually put the greatsword back on the shelf, and sat back down at his desk.

As he lay there, his gaze once again fell upon the ancient battlefield ruins of giants in the far north.

Within a radius of several dozen kilometers in that area, all high-tech equipment malfunctioned, and any living creature that entered would mysteriously disappear. The reclamation team dispatched a lot of mechanical equipment and military dogs to investigate, but they all died.

It was a dead end for the organism, but for him, even death was just the loss of a projected clone.

That place was practically a stage made for him.

"Once the source energy is fully absorbed, I'll create a projection clone and then go explore those ruins."

Lin Li's fingertips tapped lightly on the table.

"The tough nuts that the authorities can't crack probably contain a lot of good stuff..."

Thinking about this, Lin Li was extremely excited!

He felt that if he could crack the mystery of that ruin, he would be able to make some significant breakthroughs.

First, I'll train more and accumulate enough spacetime energy. After some further preparation, I'll condense an energy clone and wander around the other world to see what good things are there.

If you find some good spots, have a blast!
At that time, the clone will be fighting to the death in another world, while the original body will be enjoying a spa treatment with a beautiful lady in the modern world. This is the ultimate secret to a perfect life.

……

Downstairs in the building, inside a seemingly unremarkable nanny van.

Zhong Mengyao's fingertips swiped across the tablet, the screen's cold light reflecting on her delicate face.

When she saw the latest synced information, she couldn't help but raise her beautiful eyebrows.

"The new script mentions capturing undead Scourge and then controlling them to farm the land?"

This line of text comes from the script outline that Lin Li just finished that afternoon, and the title is "A New Episode Script Summary About Transforming the Undead Scourge into a Magical Farming Machine".

Zhong Mengyao's lips twitched, and for a moment she didn't know what expression to make.

The Scourge of the Undead is incredibly terrifying; in the frontline reports of the otherworldly exploration teams, it is the most chilling existence for even the most elite warriors.

These guys are impossible to communicate with; if you encounter them, you must completely destroy them.

If they are not destroyed, the forests in their path will be devastated, and the skeletons will transform into their fellow undead.

But in Lin Li's script, it becomes a tireless, resource-saving, and factory-installed "magical tillage machine" that comes with a complete set of services for tilling and sowing?

"This idea... only silly animations would dare to make it like this." Zhong Mengyao shook her head, both amused and exasperated, but inexplicably felt that the idea was kind of cool.

She quickly archived the content, tagged it with "Target One Today's Updates," and added her own analysis.

"The target's mental state is stable today, their imagination is active, and they show no unusual tendencies. They also haven't developed any particular connection or chain of thoughts with the neighbor!"

Only after doing all this did she feel a little tired.

As the only confirmed target of Dongda University, and the one most likely to control the opening and closing of the time portal, Lin Li's every move is on the minds of countless people.

As soon as the time portal changed, Li Weiguo felt that it was related to the other party.

This left them in a real mess!
Zhong Mengyao rubbed her temples, just about to finish the quick dinner she had prepared in the car, when she suddenly heard a colleague's hushed warning voice through her earpiece.

"Sister Yao, the target is heading towards us... It looks like it saw your car, and it's heading your way."

Her heart tightened, and her body reacted before her brain could.

With a "snap," he slammed the protective case of the tablet terminal shut and immediately put it on silent mode. He then quickly stuffed it into the hidden compartment under the seat, tidied up the camouflage items on the dashboard, and finally smoothed his hair, which had been messed up by the headphones, in the rearview mirror to make sure his makeup was in good condition.

The whole process was smooth and quick, taking only two or three seconds.

Just as she sat up straight, pretending to look at her phone, there was a gentle knock on the car window.

Knock knock~
Zhong Mengyao rolled down the car window, and a smiling face peeked in.

"Hey, Mengyao, you're really here? What a coincidence." Lin Li's tone was full of surprise at the chance encounter.

"Yes, what a coincidence. But could you please not call me Xiao Mengyao?" Zhong Mengyao felt her heart skip a beat. She straightened her back, making her figure appear even more upright, and flashed a bright smile. "You're off work too?"

"Yes, just got off work." Lin Li's gaze swept casually across her car before returning to her face. "Want to go get hot pot?"

“Uh, at this time…” Zhong Mengyao glanced at the sky subconsciously, her brain racing.

It's lunchtime now, so it's normal to eat together.

But I haven't finished writing my task report yet.

But does having dinner with the target person count as dereliction of duty?
Lin Li raised an eyebrow as he saw her hesitant expression.

"What? You won't do me the honor?"

"No!" Zhong Mengyao blurted out almost immediately, then realized she had overreacted and quickly added, "Okay, let's go!"

Seeing her anxious expression, as if she was afraid he would run away, Lin Li's smile deepened.

He opened the car door and naturally sat in the passenger seat.

"Let's go then. I know a restaurant nearby that has really authentic food and fresh ingredients."

Zhong Mengyao's hands gripped the steering wheel slightly. "The previous food was much better. Why didn't you go?"

"Those things are just for novelty. I feel that the taste of everyday life is much more interesting."

Although the food from another world was delicious, Lin Li preferred the lively atmosphere of the modern world.

Going to a restaurant and not eating the disguised food that was brought from another world is also a way of telling them that they are primarily from the modern world.

"That's it!"

With that thought in mind, she quickly turned off the electronic brakes, stepped on the accelerator, and headed to her destination.

A few hours later, Zhong Mengyao, whose face was flushed and who had clearly drunk quite a bit, was taken back to her residence by Lin Li.

"You've had quite a bit to drink, get some rest!"

"No, stay with me!"

"No, I'm afraid Tongtong will misunderstand!"

"Tongtong? Who is Tongtong?"

"My game friend is in Jiangxi!" With that, Lin Li left without looking back.

After Zhong Mengyao confirmed that Lin Li had indeed taken a taxi and left, she angrily punched her pillow twice.

"That stupid straight man! Am I really that unlikable? I'm definitely not bad at all!"

Zhong Mengyao took out her phone and asked her colleague Lin Li where he was.

"Oh, he went to a spa!"

Zhong Mengyao: "..."

This bastard!

Zhong Mengyao punched the pillow a few more times, then, despite being drunk, sent a new message to Li Weiguo.

"After some subtle probing today, we found out that the target knows a lot about time portals. He said he plans to add a special tag to the time portal in his silly animation."

"I didn't ask about the specific functions."

Edited and sent!
Li Weiguo quickly replied, "Understood, I've noted it down. Please continue to pay close attention."

After the call ended, Zhong Mengyao threw her phone aside and then threw herself onto her bed.

She didn't want to think about that bastard Lin Li today.

All she wanted was a good night's sleep!
The next morning, after a simple breakfast, Su Mingjin went straight back to her post in the command center.

On the giant screen, the azure blue portal dominated the main view, visibly larger than it had been yesterday.

The joy on her face was almost impossible to hide.

How big is the door now?

"Report: The width has expanded to 14.5 meters, the height is increasing in tandem, and there are no signs of the speed decreasing."

"Is the interdimensional teleportation still disabled?"

"Yes, Mr. Su."

Su Mingjin stared at the screen. The larger the gate, the stronger the transportation capacity and the wider the strategic depth.

This is a great thing.

She quickly processed several documents that required readjusting the transportation schedule due to the expansion of the time portal. These tedious tasks were a happy kind of trouble.

After finishing her urgent tasks, she finally had time to turn her attention to the reports from the various defense zones and pioneering areas of the other world.

There was no fighting among the pioneering team, and everything was safe.

Fortunately, no war broke out during this expansion of the spacetime portal.

Otherwise, relying on the firepower delivery capabilities of modern troops, ammunition would easily run out.

If war breaks out during the period when the time portal is closed, the consequences of a supply line being cut off would be unimaginable.

Now, the ammunition stockpile depleted in the previous war has been replenished.

More importantly, the small-scale military industrial system established in the other world is already producing finished products at an overtime pace.

Even if the frontline troops were to engage in war again, the fear of insufficient firepower could be somewhat alleviated.

Plans for oil transportation and refined oil refining have also been put on her desk.

The planning department's plan is very sound: increase the number of oil tanker fleets and rely on the powerful industrial capabilities of the modern world to proceed steadily and surely.

Su Mingjin showed little expression. She picked up her pen, signed several documents that required her personal approval, and then got up and left the command center.

Today, a group of wounded soldiers are being discharged from the hospital, and she needs to boost morale by recognizing and rewarding them.

When she arrived, she saw many warriors wearing heavy hospital gowns basking in the eternally gray light of the otherworldly hospital's temporary sunroom.

Su Mingjin walked over quietly with a smile.

"How are you feeling with the new medicine? Have you experienced any discomfort?"

"Reporting to Commander Su, no! I feel wonderful!" A soldier with a cast on his arm suddenly stood up, moving his still somewhat clumsy arm, his face flushed with excitement. "The new drug developed by the scientists is simply miraculous! It was a little itchy when I first used it, but now the bone has already started to heal, and in a few days I can return to the front lines!"

"You're just bragging, kid. The doctor told you to rest for another month!" His comrade next to him mercilessly exposed his boast, drawing a burst of laughter.

Su Mingjin looked at them, and the smile in her eyes warmed up a bit.

She spoke with each soldier individually to confirm that their injuries were healing well and there were no abnormalities before conveying the commendation and greetings from her superiors, and then headed to the intensive care unit.

The atmosphere there was much heavier.

The physical impact of the Bose condensate ghost can cause fatal damage to internal organs.

Unlike severed hands and feet, which can regenerate and be reattached, the repair of damaged internal organs is currently the most challenging problem in medical technology.

Seeing the soldiers lying on the hospital beds, their complexions noticeably improved and their eyes regaining their clarity, Su Mingjin's heart, which had been hanging in suspense, finally settled down.

"They're all recovering very well. Thank you for your hard work, everyone in the medical department," she whispered to the head of medical care beside her.

After a brief reassurance and praise, just as she was about to leave the hospital, a communications officer walked over quickly with an encrypted terminal, his expression somewhat strange.

"President Su, the time portal is now open. This is the latest news from President Li, a briefing on the latest developments regarding Target Number One."

Upon hearing that the time portal was ready, Su Mingjin's eyes lit up: "Fifteen meters?"

"Yes, expansion stopped after it reached 15 meters in width! Troop supply transport has resumed."

Su Mingjin smiled and nodded, took the document, and carefully read the message Li Weiguo sent a day later...

Most people aren't in a hurry, just like with rational reporting.

Li Weiguo also sent over the silly animation script from Lin Li's side.

Regarding the transformation of the Scourge into magical farmland...

Upon seeing this, her eye twitched almost imperceptibly.

Undead Scourge...A Tillage Machine?
The undead locusts that gave countless elite warriors a terrible headache became, in Lin Li's mind, agricultural machinery with its own soil-turning and sowing services.
Su Mingjin's expression was quite interesting for a moment.

She could even imagine Li Weiguo's constipated expression when he saw the report—wanting to laugh but not daring to, and having to suppress his urge to write the analysis.

“This guy…” She shook her head, both amused and exasperated, and handed the terminal back to the communications officer. “Do you think we can control the undead and turn them into tillage machines?”

"Huh? This... is very difficult. The undead have an extreme aversion to the living, and they only come together as one because of the condensation of magical particles. Even if we control the undead, we still need to control them separately, otherwise the necromancer can easily cause their skeletons to separate and reconnect!"

"No, that's not it. I mean, how about designing them to be used as millstones or as oxen and horses for generating electricity?"

"Well, it's highly feasible, but I think it's not worth the risk."

Just as Su Mingjin was about to ask about the analysis of why the gains were not worth the losses, a call suddenly came from her walkie-talkie.

"President Su! The time portal! The time portal has shown new anomalies!"

Su Mingjin's expression changed drastically, and the slight relief she had felt earlier vanished.

She rushed straight toward the portal.

The hospital was located in the core area, very close to the time portal. Since she had just come from the hospital, she naturally didn't need to return to the command center to observe.

When she arrived, a large crowd had already gathered outside the safety line, all staring intently at the massive object, their expressions filled with horror.

The enormous light gate, originally eight meters high and nearly fifteen meters wide, still stands stably on the otherworldly land, radiating a reassuring blue aura.

But right next to it, a new streak of light is appearing, tearing through space little by little!
Countless blue energy filaments were forcibly stripped and pulled away from the main gate, surging wildly into the new rift.

The crack in the light trail was being stretched wider and wider, and an unstable small light gate was taking shape!
That feeling wasn't like opening a door.

It's more like a new wound being torn open on the curtain of time and space!
Su Mingjin felt a chill run from the soles of her feet straight to the top of her head.

A new door...

Is that a new world?

(End of this chapter)