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Deep within the wasteland workshop, air felt especially heavy from highly concentrated energy.
Cairo's dark-red frame stood before the dimensional transport device that had undergone multiple iterative optimizations.
His crimson optical lenses scanned continuously at frequencies far exceeding human vision, locked onto the central energy focal region where ghostly light rhythmically twisted and flickered with precise energy injection, presenting controlled unstable states.
Previous experiments had successfully verified information and small-mass sample transmission feasibility, but remained limited by energy supply and resonance precision, unable to open rifts large enough and stable enough for engineering-practical material units passing through.
Energy output ceilings, minute deviations when resonance frequencies coupled with local physical rules, plus high energy consumption maintaining channel stability—these were technical obstacles lying ahead requiring solving one by one.
Through near-exhaustive deductions and simulations on accumulated massive experimental data, Cairo constructed multiple highly realistic energy-space models.
He clearly realized—to achieve next-stage breakthroughs, he must execute precisely-calculated injection protocols dramatically raising energy levels.
He'd already thoroughly calculated relevant data, establishing data models simulating various possibilities.
All potential risks—including energy circuit overload thresholds, spatial structure tolerance limits, plus energy dissipation pathways under failure scenarios—had been repeatedly calculated in his models, equipped with corresponding buffers and safety mechanisms.
"Execute energy injection protocol." Cairo's synthesized voice rang through the workshop—steady and certain, carrying zero hesitation.
His massive mechanical body established deeper physical connections with the transport device's control core. Multiple specially-made thick energy cables extended from dedicated ports on his back, tightly interfacing with main console key nodes.
This enabled him directly regulating about-to-be-released energy torrents with higher authority and finer control granularity.
The instant directives issued, workshop auxiliary lighting systems auto-dimmed, prioritizing electricity supply to core equipment.
Energy conduits embedded in walls and floors emitted humming at gradually rising frequencies and intensities—stable and continuous.
Visibly increasingly-rich azure energy flows—like precisely-guided torrents—surged along reinforced pathways, efficiently injecting into expanded and reinforced core energy pools within transport device bases.
The device's central multi-layered ring structures began synchronously rotating at speeds far exceeding past rates. Precisely calibrated movement trajectories left afterimages in air.
Geometric symbols floating within rings were activated by abundant energy, brightness and complexity sharply rising, emitting high-frequency yet not-piercing whistling sounds—inherent physical sounds from high-efficiency energy operations.
In the air, ozone and heated metal scents became more obvious—normal phenomena under high-energy environments.
In floating interfaces beside Cairo's vision, waterfall-refreshing data streams and dynamic models showed energy readings steadily climbing along preset optimal curves, precisely adhering to theoretical trajectories.
Multiple key parameters—like spatial curvature tension, local energy density, background radiation levels—had all entered high-load operational zones never previously touched, yet all values remained strictly controlled within verified safety boundaries.
System feedback highly aligned with his model predictions, indicating entire processes still under his precise control.
"Core energy field stability maintained at seventy-three percent threshold. Local spatial curvature fluctuations exceed baseline models by fifteen percent—within contingency plan B prediction ranges." The servo-skull reported real-time data in monotone electronic tones.
These fluctuations didn't surprise Cairo. They completely fell within multiple scenario models he'd pre-deduced.
His logic core ran at high loads—not responding to emergencies but executing tasks requiring ultimate precision fine-tuning.
Based on real-time feedback, he micro-adjusted energy output frequencies and phases at millisecond speeds—like experienced operators continuously adjusting control parameters in known turbulence, countering and utilizing inherent, partially-explored regular "rejection" effects of spatial structures themselves.
The entire process resembled more high-intensity interactions with known, powerful physical laws following preset procedures.
"Execute final stage directives."
His synthesized voice stayed steady. After directives issued, specially-encrypted coordinates and identity verification signals—plus precisely-modulated, highly-condensed energy pulses—were synchronously and precisely injected into the device's core.
Instantly, brightness at workshop center sharply intensified, reaching levels difficult for naked eyes directly viewing.
A ghostly-blue rift with edges flickering complex geometric light patterns, form constantly self-adjusting toward stability—gradually manifested under powerful energy field support.
It wasn't brutally-torn gaps but more like anomalous zones temporarily "woven" into reality's fabric. Internal light-shadow flows reflected dimensional characteristics and energy pathways incomprehensible to ordinary people.
Rift dimensions fluctuated during initial stages—expected transient processes before energy and space reached new equilibriums—but quickly converged and stabilized under Cairo's continuous regulation into oval forms with clear boundaries, sufficient for adult humans passing through.
Channel successfully established.
A temporary cross-dimensional interface possessing actual material transport capabilities had formed under his complete control following preset objectives.
Almost the same moment rifts stabilized, a figure stepped out from that chaotic light-shadow.
The servitor emerging from roiling energy rifts—its standard humanoid outline appeared abnormally bulky from multiple carried and mounted equipment.
Torso and limbs fixed with several structurally-unclear metal crates. Wiring and reinforcement brackets interlaced. Most conspicuous was a substantial cylindrical device loaded on its back—obviously a small plasma reactor.
These extra loads made its originally smooth lines clumsy, movements carrying heavy mechanical sensations.
The instant the servitor stepped onto workshop floors, its head single-lens sensor rapidly locked onto Cairo, emitting static-noise-carrying, rigid synthesized speech: "Directives confirmed. Transport Unit-Zeta-7, mission sequence execution complete. Cargo status: awaiting inspection."
Speech ended. It completely froze, entering standby states—like packages marked "delivered."
Cairo didn't delay a moment.
His attention completely bypassed successfully-opened rifts themselves, directly concentrating on this just-arrived, fully-loaded metal body. To him, contents loaded within far exceeded this technical verification's success in importance.
"Begin unloading." He issued directives. Multiple mechanical tentacles carrying different tools extended from workshop locations—like operation arms possessing autonomous consciousness—precisely surrounding the stationary servitor.