Chapter 87: Breakthrough in the Lab: The Secret of Hyperspace Technology

Qiongxiao.

Inside the laboratory.

Lin Yu donned a white lab coat, his fingers flying across a virtual keyboard at the console.

In front of him, over a dozen screens stretched out in three curved rows, forming a semicircle.

A torrent of streaming data flashed rapidly across those screens.

Lin Yu’s eyes darted from display to display, scanning information at lightning speed.

Even the other lab-coated team members in the room watched in stunned silence at his performance.

“Is…”

“Is he even human?”

“Major General Mu, how about letting us have Colonel Lin Yu at the Far East First Research Institute?”

“Letting him waste away on the front lines is the ultimate betrayal of humanity!”

Dr. Lu finally snapped back to his senses.

He turned to Mu Qingxue.

But the outcome…

Just a second ago, Mu Qingxue had been so elated she could hardly contain her joy—Lin Yu had just wowed the entire research team.

Did you see that? No matter the field, whether in a lab coat or battle armor, that’s my Lin Yu. He can hold his own against anyone.

Now that’s what you call pride.

But the next moment…

Dr. Lu openly tried to recruit Lin Yu, going as far as calling it humanity’s greatest betrayal to let him fight on the front lines.

Mu Qingxue’s face instantly fell.

“Dr. Lu, if it weren’t for Lin Yu fighting at the front, humanity might have perished already!”

“So, do you still think it’s betrayal to have Lin Yu in combat?”

Mu Qingxue shot back with a smile.

Dr. Lu froze.

He honestly had no comeback for that.

Given his status, he knew a lot—had even been personally involved in plenty of things.

Take the “Ignite Jupiter” operation, for example. He’d been on the project, leading a team that designed the scheme to crash Io into Jupiter at a precise time and speed.

He knew exactly who had come up with that plan.

It was only thanks to that mission’s success that humanity got a much-needed breather, enough to square off against the Klein in the Asteroid Belt.

So yes, it was Lin Yu’s presence that had helped the Human Federation avoid the worst-case scenario. Not a word of that was an exaggeration.

And what’s more…

Word was that the recent Operation Starfall—which Commander Mu Xingchen used to cripple the Klein’s vanguard fleet—

was yet another strategy Lin Yu had put forward and that Fleet Headquarters finally adopted.

Alright, then…

Saying that putting him on the front lines was humanity’s biggest betrayal was definitely out of line.

Even so, Dr. Lu wasn’t ready to give up on poaching Lin Yu.

He still had plenty of time.

He planned to use every opportunity to befriend Lin Yu—and to nudge him toward joining his own Far East First Research Institute.

Except…

Mu Qingxue saw right through his little plot.

Now, she was starting to have second thoughts.

Honestly, why had she ever asked Lin Yu to help out with research? Great—she’d basically served him up to Dr. Lu, the big bad wolf eyeing her precious sheep.

No way—she had to warn Ling Wei right away. Dr. Lu needed to be guarded against at all costs.

She couldn’t risk letting anyone put Lin Yu in danger.

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In the days that followed,

Lin Yu dealt with mountains of data from dawn till dusk.

Then, on the seventh day…

Huh?

Lin Yu paused, staring blankly at the streaming data before him.

Did I just… unlock the first layer of data?

He could hardly believe it, but as more and more information opened up before his eyes, he went wide-eyed in shock.

Wait, what did I just see?

[Hyperspace Project]

Because jump engines are limited in range, they can’t do a single jump over a million kilometers for true interstellar leaps.

Meanwhile, breakthroughs with spatial gates have stalled, so the Hyperspace Project was proposed as an alternative.

Opening the project overview, Lin Yu read those very lines.

There was also a brief technical summary of hyperspace.

Put simply, hyperspace is a realm beyond conventional three-dimensional space—allowing ships to move faster than light.

To enter hyperspace, you have to open a quantum window and wrap the ship in an energy field to withstand dimensional tearing.

Exiting requires painstakingly precise coordinate calculations, or you might end up lost forever in a hyperspace bubble.

The biggest draw of this tech? There are no range restrictions.

Once inside hyperspace, ships can travel as far as needed—whether that’s a million or tens of millions of light-years—before exiting at their target.

The only catch: Energy consumption grows exponentially with distance.

Lin Yu let out a long, shaky breath when he finished reading.

So… The Klein discovered a Level 5 civilization’s scientific facility?

Apparently, that civilization had already mastered the basics of spatial technology and was pushing for advances in gate systems to travel between galaxies.

But their research on spatial gates had pretty much stalled.

That’s why they’d launched the hyperspace project instead—the very project Lin Yu was looking at now.

“Lin Yu, what are you staring at? You look like you’ve seen a ghost.”

“Dr. Lu, I… I think I managed to unlock some files.”

“So you did. You’ve barely rested in a day and a half—go… Wait, say that again?”

“I said, I unlocked some files. One of them details the project this alien laboratory was working on.”

Despite being over seventy, Dr. Lu moved with the speed of a cat—leaping straight to Lin Yu’s side to peer at his virtual screen.

Right there was the file that Lin Yu had just cracked open, still displayed.

“A hyperspace engine—they were working on a hyperspace engine!”

“And that sphere made from degenerate matter? It’s actually the hyperspace engine’s core!”

“Wait a second—there are full technical records on hyperspace?”

After Lin Yu showed him the document, Dr. Lu kept diving into other files—letting out one astounded exclamation after another.

Half an hour later…

Mu Qingxue arrived.

She stepped in, immediately frowning.

What was going on?

This was supposed to be a top-priority laboratory, so why was it so noisy?

“Commander Mu, that’s why Lin Yu should be working as a researcher with me. See? He’s already cracked several files in just a few days!”

“Do you know what this alien research base was actually studying? Hyperspace technology! It’s even beyond jump technology! Jump has its distance limits and can’t handle galaxy-spanning travel, but hyperspace is a whole different level…”

And on and on Dr. Lu went…

Once he got started, he could talk for hours.

As for Mu Qingxue, his words went in one ear and out the other.

She didn’t even think about it.

There was only one thing echoing in her mind—

“Lin Yu really ought to be working with me!”

Great, now someone was trying to steal him away right before her eyes. No way she’d let that slide.

“Lin Yu, the Klein fleet will be arriving soon. You need to get back to your post!”

“Yes, Commander!”

That order was music to his ears.

After these exhausting days, Lin Yu had been dying for an excuse to escape—now he finally had one.

With the Commander’s orders in hand, why stick around even a second longer?

He didn’t even give Dr. Lu time to react.

Lin Yu tore off his lab coat and dashed out of the lab at full speed.

Watching this, Mu Qingxue nodded in satisfaction.

Now that’s what you call being sensible!