Space Odyssey from Abandoned Mining Space Station-Chapter 445 - 155 Change_2

After acknowledging briefly, he said, "Yes, Xiao Ming also has a similar feeling. I’ll send you the recording I just made."

"Okay."

"Alright, we’ll talk later."

The boss hung up the phone and immediately explained to Chen Ming, "I have a habit of recording my everyday life, which helps me in many situations."

"Although sometimes it leaves evidence of my actions, the benefits generally outweigh the drawbacks."

Chen Ming nodded; he had no objection to the boss recording.

Because he himself had been recording all along.

Chen Ming skipped over this topic and asked about the recent call, "What did the director just say?"

"The director said he sensed a bit of a problem and wants to discuss the issue of dimensional infection with you in more detail. He needs to prepare, and he will call back soon."

"What exactly did he sense?"

"He just said he felt something was off, and it would be better to wait until he understands it before meeting with you. Then I sent him the recording of our conversation just now."

"Is that so?"

Chen Ming felt that the director seemed to have only detected something slightly amiss.

He hadn’t perceived that extremely dangerous feeling as finely as Chen Ming had.

The director’s spiritual energy wasn’t even as keen as his in danger perception?

Chen Ming was somewhat surprised, but surely this couldn’t be a bad thing.

"When is the director going to call again?"

"Not sure yet."

Just as the boss finished speaking, his terminal vibrated again.

"Hold on."

The boss glanced at the terminal and said, "Looks like it’s now."

He answered the call, saying, "Director."

Chen Ming watched the boss nod slightly, then take out the earpiece and turn on the speaker, placing the terminal on Chen Ming’s hospital bed.

The director’s voice soon came from the terminal: "Chen Ming, it’s best we don’t meet for now."

Through the things you said earlier, I cross-checked them with my previous research records and found some major problems.

"First, I can say your suspicions are mostly correct, except for the judgment regarding the number of people who’ve undergone dimensional infection."

"Due to the relative position changes of dimensions over time, confirming our Empire’s location requires not three, but four coordinates; other than that, there’s no issue."

The director corrected Chen Ming’s mistake and basically rephrased his own statements to Chen Ming.

However, more detailed, more specific, and backed by a lot of the director’s research data.

He also shared his feelings and his more detailed understanding of the spatial content with Chen Ming.

It’s mostly the director’s research on another space, the specific results discovered through research.

But Chen Ming’s knowledge wasn’t in this field, and he found it hard to understand these advanced spatial-related terms and data.

However, he understood the director’s meaning. 𝐟𝚛𝕖𝚎𝕨𝗲𝐛𝚗𝐨𝐯𝐞𝕝.𝐜𝗼𝗺

That is, he and the director should ideally never meet again in this lifetime.

Chen Ming had no objections to this; he definitely didn’t want to wake up one day and find the entire Empire had turned into twisted, mutated flesh.

"Additionally, I will report this matter to the Imperial Government to facilitate quickly finding anyone who has encountered dimensional infection in the future."

After the director finished speaking, he specially reminded Chen Ming, "Make sure we maintain physical distance between us to avoid giving those things a chance to find us."

Chen Ming also understood the seriousness of the matter and said solemnly, "I will be careful."

"Hmm, actually, I’m quite assured with you. Wu An previously acquired sponsorship from the Association, saying you would be going outside, so we practically won’t meet again."

"I’m just reminding you; the real caution should be with the potential third or fourth person appearing in the future."

"Fortunately, entities who’ve contacted dimensional infection and are still alive should only be us two right now."

"Even if we unintentionally gather together, it only provides a small possibility for the other dimension’s things; it will take a long time to find us."

Chen Ming was suddenly curious and asked, "If we do meet, does that practically start a countdown to destruction? Since one line is in place, those things will sooner or later find us."

"You can understand it like that. If three people gather, the countdown progresses rapidly."

"If it’s four, the impact would be absolutely catastrophic."

"We must pay attention to this point."

Chen Ming was fully aware of the danger if another dimension’s entities located the Empire.

The Empire’s future newborns are likely to exhibit deformities, and genetic engineering and cloning technology would be blocked.

Without the birth of new babies, the Empire is essentially facing extinction.

Although the existence of cryogenic sleep technology might prevent problems for one or two hundred years, even five or six hundred years.

But as time passes, due to the Empire’s need to sustain itself, the sleepers must be awakened, and ultimately, humanity will face its end.

The only solution seems to be relocating the Empire, leaving the original position.

To search in the cosmos for a new region capable of accommodating the Empire’s existence.

Yet, it’s difficult to relocate even the tiny Dusk Star Realm nearby; a vast Empire spanning countless Star Realms is clearly even less feasible.

And even if relocation succeeded, the Empire’s original territory would become the source of another dimension’s invasion, a bed of development.