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"Of course the association will make preparations. In fact, we already have enough troops stationed here."

Chen Lin spread his hands in the video. "But this is just a small problem after all. I and the entire association cannot spend too much time on it. You have to know that the Red Dragon Association is responsible for too many things and fields at this time. The work I am busy with every day now is several times more than before. This is after the people below have dealt with most of them and sent it to me."

Ai An naturally understood what Chen Lin said. The Red Dragon Association was completely different from when he first discovered it. Now the Red Dragon Association had to take into account a bunch of affiliated planets, various development zones and new technological processes.

Although the total number of people in the entire Red Dragon Association has not fluctuated much in the past eight years, the population of more than one billion is still very troublesome. All matters, big and small, require a lot of effort to manage for the vice president and above the association members.

Chen Lin is no longer just concerned with the issue of the Origin Star as he was before. After he has firmly secured his position as vice president, he is busy running around on Earth every day.

The entire association governs more than 35 provinces. Shanhai City is considered a super city circle directly managed by the Red Dragon Association. Chen Lin's current main jurisdiction is still in Shanhai City, but in fact, Shanhai City is equivalent to the combination of three or four provinces inland. Li Tianyun was indeed not joking at all. His method of entrusting important tasks was so simple and crude.

This often made Chen Lin feel a little tired.

"I understand, I understand. It's just that the problem of the cracks needs to be taken seriously by the association. The current technological level of your civilization is not enough to crush creatures from other dimensions, and many of your technologies are only superficial..."

Ai An was now used to using human language to communicate with Chen Lin and the others. He said to Chen Lin, "Compared to other things, the crack is indeed not a big deal, but the current protection measures and the number of people stationed there are simply not enough. What I just showed you was a scene of a battle between energy bodies. Just imagine, if those scenes appeared in our temporary base, or on the origin star behind the crack..."

Chen Lin signed the video, pointed at some content on the paper and said a few words, then turned to Ai An and asked, "What do you think? Tell me."

"I'm thinking of building a complete energy barrier zone on this side of the crack. If the creatures behind the crack really break through the crack and enter the origin star, at least we can deal with them."

Ai An said to Chen Lin seriously at this time: "I have sent you the specific project plan, take a look."

"I'll take a look right away."

Chen Lin nodded: "I'll give you an answer by tonight at the latest. Just continue with your current work."

Both parties hung up the phone very quickly. Chen Lin waved his hand quickly, and a densely packed pile of files appeared in front of him. He searched for the content sent by Aian. The file name was very simple - "Summary of ideas on building an energy barrier zone."

The so-called energy barrier zone is actually similar to the fortress defense mechanism that Li Tianyun presided over when he was in office. This device is actually a highly automated defense system. The coverage range of each barrier defense tower can reach hundreds of kilometers, and a huge defense bubble will eventually be formed in all directions. The city in it will enjoy the protection of the barrier defense tower.

In the defense bubble of the fortress defense mechanism presided over by Li Tianyun, any form of phase portal cannot be opened normally, because the Star Sea Crystal used to make the fortress defense tower can interfere with and stabilize space fluctuations, thereby destroying the energy structure of the phase portal and making the phase portal completely ineffective within the affected range.

The new energy barrier zone designed by Ian was actually derived from the fortress defense mechanism and adopted a similar energy tower design.

Chen Lin quickly browsed the file sent by Ai An and frowned slightly.

The document describes in detail the construction plan of the energy barrier zone, including the required materials, technical parameters, budget estimates and expected results. The size and complexity of this project actually exceeded Chen Lin's expectations. The budget required was finally calculated to be at least around 1400 billion.

This is still a little unacceptable to Chen Lin.

The document sent by Ai An mentioned that the core of the energy barrier zone is the energy tower. These towers will use the latest technology combined with the unique properties of Star Sea Crystal to form an indestructible defense network.

Each tower requires precise location layout to ensure seamless connection of the energy field. The construction cost of a tower is about 1 billion yuan. This is the budget after drastically reducing costs by using the dimensional constructor. The actual budget will only be higher than this, not lower.

At least hundreds of similar energy towers need to be built simultaneously on the Origin Star to completely construct the energy barrier zone - after all, this thing is different from the fortress defense designed before, the construction cost of that thing is much lower than these, and it itself is to prevent the abuse of the portal, so the required level is not that high.

Chen Lin carefully read through all the information, and then said to the intelligent assistant beside him: "Contact the association's assessment department."

The intelligent assistant quickly contacted Chen Lin with the evaluation department of the association. After the video was transferred, Chen Lin nodded slightly to the staff there and said, "I have a design plan for the energy barrier zone that Ai An, the head of the Intelligent Machinery Research Laboratory, just sent me. Please help me evaluate the final budget and whether the current technology of the association can achieve the design in the plan."

"Okay, Vice President Chen."

The other side agreed immediately, and Chen Lin waved his hand and the file was transferred over. He then transferred the call to the association's financial department: "I need to create a new project here, and the budget is expected to be in the range of 400 billion. Please keep a separate project budget for me."

"I understand, Vice President Chen!"

Chen Lin nodded and hung up the phone. He sat in the chair and carefully looked at the design plan provided by Ai An. Ai An specially designed an energy tower with such an energy barrier area, which was actually also to guard against the enemies behind the cracks.

At least for now.

The cracks appeared suddenly, and everyone had their own opinions on what the pure energy bodies inside looked like. Even the association's top researchers had different opinions on the structure of those irregular energy bodies, and there was no final conclusion. Chen Lin himself didn't know much about this kind of information, but because the cracks appeared suddenly, and the association had also explored the cracks in the early stage, and several high-level meetings that followed also popularized knowledge about this kind of thing, so Chen Lin knew a lot.

The space crack actually links to a pure energy area, which exists somewhere independent of the world. The various creatures discovered in it so far - let's call them creatures - are basically pure energy bodies.

These energy creatures were a pure dimensionality reduction attack on the super equipment created by the Red Dragon Association at this time. At least the heavy armor and exoskeleton armor that they were proud of, and even the full set of intelligent mechanical equipment made of Vala alloy, could not resist the direct erosion of these energy bodies.

It is very likely that the intelligent mechanical devices that had previously lost connection suddenly lost connection due to this reason.

The good news at the moment is that Ian has successfully established a direct connection with an energy body behind the crack. At least he knows the unique structure of the crack space, and basically understands some basic rules of the world behind the crack at this time.

This is also the main motivation for Aian to prepare to establish an energy barrier zone.

Chen Lin knew very well that Ai’an’s design was not only the key to fighting the energy body behind the crack, but also a major test for the Red Dragon Association’s future defense strategy.

He closed his eyes, and the scenes of those energy bodies fighting emerged in his mind. He couldn't help but feel a sense of urgency in his heart - if this energy barrier area was not designed, if the pure energy body behind the crack really entered the Origin Star, it would cause a devastating blow to everything on the Origin Star.

For example, the entire Stuttgart continent might be destroyed.

After all, Chen Lin had seen in the video before the powerful effect caused by the battle between pure energy bodies in the purple world behind the crack - that was a terrifying effect that could truly destroy a continent, and it was an effect of a super energy explosion that could not be achieved even with the super weapons on the Red Dragon Association's starship at that time!
The evaluation department was extremely efficient. After just a few hours, they gave a preliminary evaluation report - the report pointed out that Ai'an's design was technically feasible, but the budget was not as Ai'an estimated, which would only require more than 2000 billion. According to the association's plan, the entire project might cost at least billion!
This number made Chen Lin feel a little tricky, but he still immediately convened an emergency meeting at the vice president level according to his original idea. At the meeting, he delivered the evaluation report and Aian's design plan to everyone, and also elaborated on the severity of the crack problem and the importance of the energy barrier zone.

“…What we are facing is not just a problem of a space rift, but a challenge to the security of our entire civilization.”

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"Although Ai'an's design has a huge budget, if it can work properly, it will provide us with a stable defense measure. The key point is that we can't afford to take the risk."

"Once those pure energy bodies pass through the cracks and mix into the Origin Star, will everything we have learned on the Origin Star over the past eight or nine years have to be abandoned?"

Chen Lin spoke to the crowd, and a group of senior executives basically agreed with what Chen Lin said, but the budget issue is still the biggest obstacle. Hundreds of billions of funds are used to guard against problems that may or may not arise in the future. The key point is that according to what was said before, this crack may disappear at any time, which is indeed a bit risky.

"But the budget is indeed too high. A few hundred billion for the entire project is still acceptable, but this will be 2000 billion. I'm afraid it will be difficult to get approval from Chairman Zhang when the time comes."

"That's right. Can't the cost of the Dimension Constructor be greatly reduced now? Why is the cost of this still so high?"

"It may be due to the problem of Xinghai Alloy. That thing is not a common thing. The only way to make it is to rely on equipment to melt it. The Dimension Constructor cannot make it directly."

Chen Lin spoke to the crowd, and a heated discussion began below. He was not in a hurry sitting there, just waiting for the final decision here.

After a heated discussion, the association's top leaders finally decided to approve Aian's design and agreed to build the energy barrier zone.

They realized that although the budget was as high as 2000 billion, it was a necessary investment to protect the origin star and the civilization on it.

Chen Lin proposed a solution, suggesting that the cost be shared and funds from multiple branches of the Red Dragon Association be used to jointly undertake the project.

His proposal was supported by the majority of people present. After all, this was a major matter concerning the safety of the entire association and should not be undertaken by a single department.

“We will set up a special fund and all association members will contribute to it according to their financial situation and resource capabilities.”

Chen Lin announced, "In addition, we will also seek external investment, including with our partners and some friendly forces willing to contribute to civilization and security... For example, the Grizzlies Association, the Western Association, and even some institutions and organizations on the White Eagle Association side. For them, this is a critical moment to participate in our actions. I believe they will be very willing to join in."

After the meeting, Chen Lin immediately took action - the negotiations with external forces did not require Chen Lin to be present in person. He only needed to simply use the influence of the Red Dragon Association and the potential threat posed by the crack problem to the entire Earth civilization to attract several large companies and several friendly associations to join in sequence.

In fact, the Red Dragon Association has become powerful enough now. As long as it is willing to reveal a little bit of opportunity, a large number of people will flock to it. Chen Lin is just taking advantage of this momentum.

The initial start-up capital of more than 100 billion only requires tens of billions. The construction of the energy tower will take a total of two months. The early construction and contracts will take some time. Chen Lin has also arranged people to plan the land and do preparatory work.

Because of the tight time schedule, Chen Lin directly used his position as vice president to eliminate all problems and try his best to ensure that the construction progress would not be affected.

His current position is such that even if he just makes a phone call to inquire about a certain matter or project, the project team over there will be nervous and conduct several rounds of internal inspections, and it may even cause someone to have an accident.

Chen Lin basically knew what was going on, and usually he would just follow his own requirements on time, and he was not so strict. (End of this chapter)