The Mech Touch novel Chapter 3806

Chapter 3806 Smooth Shell

A portal!

A portal had appeared in the testing chamber!

Ves and many other Larkinsons became incredibly attentive as they observed all of the samples disappearing in place while a small portal emerged in their place.

This was a completely unprecedented phenomenon that none of the Larkinsons had ever dealt with! How could they know that bringing together all of these special materials together would produce such an improbable result?

What happened could not be explained by conventional human science!

None of them would exhibit as much surprise if the portal showed up after piecing together all of the parts of an alien machine.

Yet what actually happened was that the Larkinsons put many pieces of raw, unprocessed ore together without putting any thought into the sizes, shapes, proportions and other properties of the experimental materials!

There was no point in asking how or why this could possibly occur. What Ves really wanted to know at the moment was whether the portal was stable and where the opening led to. An unknown party must have definitely formed this arrangement in advance!

"Why? Is it safe? Can we expect anything unpleasant to emerge from the other side?"

Just because they managed to make progress didn't mean it was good. Who knew if the spatial portal was connected to a Had they inadvertently opened up a gate that led into the middle of the blue supergiant star?

Dozens of seconds went by as the people in the armored shuttle as well as the Larkinsons working aboard the capital ships of the clan analyzed the sensor readings as quickly as possible.

Who knew how long the portal would last. They needed to figure it out quickly and decide whether to do anything quickly.

"Send in a probe! We have a few on hand, right? Just shove them in so that we can take a look on the other side!"

Fortunately, the Larkinsons had made adequate preparations so there were definitely plenty of bots and other devices on hand.

A dozen probes of different shapes and sizes soared to the middle and passed through the portal.

As expected, the Larkinsons immediately lost contact with them, but their operators had already accounted for that. The probes received different instructions that dictated what they should do in the event they became disconnected.

Ves waited impatiently for the initial wave of probes to turn back.

Whether they could come back or not was still in question. Either way, the Larkinsons would have a better understanding of what they faced.

Half a minute later, a head-sized probe flew back. Not only did it come back intact, it also brought valuable footage and other sensor readings!

"Retrieve the data from that probe but keep it on a self-contained system! No one is allowed to access them unless you have received express permission! Bring the probe to safety but make sure it is isolated from everything else. If that thing brought back any space germs or anything, the Larkinsons had to make sure these hazards didn't jump to the expeditionary fleet."

To be honest, neither Ves nor the others expected a spatial portal to appear all of the sudden. It didn't make sense! What they had done was far from building an entire beyonder gate!

"Sir! The portal is slowly beginning to destabilize."

"How fast is it decaying?"

"We cannot say as we do not know at what threshold the portal will collapse, sir. According to our hasty calculations, the portal will only be able to last for 96 hours at most."

"That long?"

"This is only assuming the portal will remain active until all of the available energies have dried up. We cannot make any accurate estimations about the threshold until the portal disappears, but it should show increasingly more unstable signs when it comes closer to collapsing.

"I see."

No portal could last forever without receiving enough support to maintain its existence.

Ves suspected that he could prolong or create a new portal if he brought in additional samples of all of the resonating exotics.

The question was whether it was worthwhile for him to do so. He had already ordered his men to ship many tons of ore to his fleet.

Did he have to order his subordinates to bring them all back again?

Ves was unwilling to do so if it meant burning away much if not all of the valuable resonating exotics that he obtained.

Many of them were completely new and unfamiliar to the rest of humanity. If he submitted large quantities of undiscovered exotics to the MTA, he would gain a large amount of MTA merits for his services!

In fact, even if he could only get tens of thousands of MTA merits at most, it was still worthwhile to give up a proportion of his total loot. Ves needed to make sure he stayed on the good side of the Association, and the best way to do that was to behave as a model mech designer who was eager to make contributions.

Did he have to give all of that up just so that he could form a stable portal to whatever was on the other side?

"Let's wait and see."

Ves stuck to his cautious approach and did not send any actual humans or mechs over to the other side.

In fact, the portal was so small that mechs couldn't even fit through the spatial anomaly.

Human-sized figures should be able to pass through, but Ves did not want to risk any of them getting lost for no reason because they failed to map out all of the dangers.

This was why learning what was on the other side was so important!

After enough time had passed to indicate that no other anomalies or dangers would emerge for the time being, Ves turned his attention to the data retrieved from the returned probes.

He did not know what he might find from the data, but he tried to keep it as confidential as possible in case there was anything controversial.

Ves moved to an enclosed compartment of the armored shuttle and waited until he received a data pad that stored a copy of the probe data.

He switched it on and authenticated his identity before he went straight to the optical footage.

Apparently, the other side of the portal was doused in darkness. The only source of light came from the probes themselves. The flood lights attached to their chassis illuminated a large and empty space that did not look that different from the tunnels and caverns dug by the Worker Bee mechs.

Ves immediately grew suspicious.

"Where the hell is this place? Is this space located on another part of this moon?"

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