Colonia Storm Tour

The three men stared in surprise at their hands, realizing that they had unknowingly lowered their pistols.

"You are... Commander Lin Haiyuan?!"

Xiao Yuanxun's voice trembled as he spoke; the gesture and speaking style he had just heard were all too familiar to him.

"Who else could it be but me? No one but me would agree to let WalkerNet AI come to see me."

Lin Haiyuan withdrew his outstretched right hand.

"Wait, what's going on?! I...I'm so confused, what is this?!"

Poor Yuwen Fei was completely bewildered by this utterly inexplicable situation.

"?????????"

Xue Lianshan was so surprised and uncertain that he was speechless.

"What's going on here?!"

Dai Hong was also completely bewildered and unable to fully understand the situation before him.

"Even now you still don't understand... I am Lin Haiyuan. If you don't believe me, I will immediately have Walker.net AI send out long-range drones and terrifying drones to take you down."

Lin Haiyuan snapped his fingers as he spoke.

"Yes, Master."

After Walker.com's AI respectfully responded, several terrifying drones and long-range drones immediately sprang out from the surrounding area.

"You have five seconds to answer the question of whether I am Lin Haiyuan."

Lin Haiyuan's serene and pretty face immediately turned cold, and an invisible pressure began to spread around them. Then, she used her mental power to manipulate the airflow and blow it towards them.

Upon witnessing this phenomenon, they all realized that the person in front of them, Artemisia, was actually Chief Lin Haiyuan.

"Huh?! This feels like Chief Lin!"

Xue Lianshan sensed a familiar aura emanating from the girl in front of him and immediately confirmed that it was indeed Lin Haiyuan. He had only ever felt such a unique aura from Lin Haiyuan, especially the kind of wind-blown effect.

"Well, there's no doubt that it's Chief Lin!"

Dai Hong felt the same way as Xue Lianshan and confirmed that it was Lin Haiyuan through the oppressive aura emanating from Artemisia in front of him.

“Uh… Artemi… Although I understand now that you are Chief Lin Haiyuan, what exactly is going on? We urgently need an explanation, Chief.”

Xingfeng Shiyu looked at Lin Haiyuan, who was now in the form of Artemisia and speaking in the voice of Artemisia, with a troubled expression.

“We still have many questions. We can understand your battle with Artemisia, the laser guns, grenades, and hoverboards, but what about those balls?”

Xue Lianshan witnessed the battle between Lin Haiyuan and Artemisia that day.

"ball?"

Dai Hong looked at the two of them with a bit of confusion. When the 4V Keelung Port battle broke out, he and the Stormbringer Air Assault Division flew the Quetzalcoatl. Even after the pursuit failed, they patrolled the South China Sea until the next day before returning to Keelung.

"Now that things have come to this, all I can do is tell you about the technological achievements of Project 9991. Walker.com AI sent over the memory recorder, one for each of them."

Lin Haiyuan then gestured for them to follow, and walked towards the office where he had been talking to Alice.

Upon seeing the familiar gesture, Xiao Yuanxun, Xingfeng Shiyu, and the others became even more certain that the blond man in front of them was Chief Lin Haiyuan, so they followed Lin Haiyuan to his office.

As Lin Haiyuan sat in his office chair with his hands on the desk, the floor in front of Xiao Yuanxun and the others rose up, presenting them with evil-looking helmets.

"Put it on."

Lin Haiyuan's pose of placing his hands in front of him became the famous pose of Commander Ikari.

Everyone was put on a memory recorder, and then the memory recorder, under the control of Walker.com's AI, imprinted the specified memories into their minds.

A minute later, they all took off their helmets and looked at the smiling Chief Lin Haiyuan with disbelief.

"Mind technology? Hyperspace technology? Gene technology? Apocalyptic balloons?!"

Xue Lianshan uttered the four technology names with an incredulous look on his face.

"The Colonia's flank air base?! So there's been this behemoth in the sky all along, creating a typhoon-like storm right next to us?!"

Xingfeng Shiyu was utterly shocked.

"The ability to stop time for all targets?! So that's why the DEM warships in those videos fell like dumplings being dropped into a pot, and also why the DEM magicians suddenly froze?"

Xiao Yuanxun was shocked by the incredible ability of the Colonia Flanking Air Base. This was the ultimate weapon for the Burning Wind China to defeat the enemy. No matter how powerful the enemy was, as long as they could not resist the stop of time, they would only turn into a statue and be slaughtered by them.

"Is this why Commander Lin Haiyuan was able to order the Stormbringer Air Assault Division to take off and attack the USS Ronald Reagan carrier battle group? The Vanguard gunships also took off and landed on that spaceship..."

Dai Hong had been wondering where the Fenfeng air force and drone team came from, but for various reasons he hadn't brought it up until now.

"I never imagined that the Republic would have had enough financial, material, and human resources to build such a spaceship that could be called an aerial fortress city in that era..."

Xingfeng Shiyu could no longer suppress his deeper awe of China before the Eurasian air disaster, and at the same time, he felt even more disgusted with the three people who had led the Eurasian air disaster: Isaac, Ellen, and Woodman.

If it weren't for the Eurasian air disaster, with the unparalleled technological achievements of Project 9991 alone, China could have easily dominated the world and become a unique superpower.

After marveling at the air base on the flank of Colonia for a while, Hoshikaze Tokiha remembered a question that remained unanswered.

Why is Artemisia now the former leader of Lin Haiyuan? The information from those mind-body technology sources doesn't provide an answer to this question.

So Xingfeng Shiyu turned his questioning gaze to Artemisia (Lin Haiyuan) in front of him, and the others followed suit.

"Religious myths always mention that humans have souls, and that after death they go to heaven or hell depending on the circumstances. Here I can tell you that the first part is true, but the second part is false."

Lin Haiyuan's words directly revealed that humans have souls.

"Huh?!"

Yuwen Fei was shocked to hear Lin Haiyuan so explicitly confirm the contents of a religious myth.

"Practice is the sole criterion for testing truth. I myself am now the result of testing whether the truth that the human soul exists is true, comrades."

Lin Haiyuan stood up and spread her hands out to them, showing herself off. Even in her hospital gown, her frail and beautiful appearance was still very attractive.

"But this...it sounds and looks so unacceptable, it's practically idealism..."

Xingfeng Shiyu had a troubled expression on his face.

"Reality is before you, comrades. Idealism advocates that spirit, consciousness, and ideas are primary, while matter is secondary, that is, matter depends on consciousness for existence. My current changes are like proof of this."

Lin Haiyuan continued without stopping, “We all know that the memory mode used by the human brain is a holographic memory method. The information is not recorded in a certain area or cell, but is presented as a holographic cloud, which permeates every area of ​​the brain. Every neuron is the information base point of holographic memory. You all know more, so I won’t go into details here.”

He turned his sky-blue eyes and scanned the people around him: "Now I have been resurrected in Artemisia without any memory recording, and I have completely retained my memories, personality, and power."

As she spoke, Lin Haiyuan raised her left ring finger to show them, and a small vortex, visible to the naked eye, formed on her fingertip.

"That's not even the most."

He spread out his entire left palm, and the vortex spun faster and faster until it twisted into a standard air pressure ball in her hand. Then Lin Haiyuan carried the air pressure ball and moved away from the desk so that they could see the air pressure ball surrounding his entire body.

Within seconds of hearing the distinct sound of wind and airflow, they saw Lin Haiyuan, using Artemisia's body, surrounded by a pressure balloon, just as they had seen in the video.

“After you learn about mind technology, you should all understand that it amplifies, adjusts and interferes with brainwaves to achieve limited interference with matter. The air pressure balloon apostle manipulates airflow on the same principle. The reason I was able to appear in Artemisia with my memories, personality and power except for my dying body is also based on this principle, except that I also added my own soul.”

After Lin Haiyuan finished speaking, the air pressure ball surrounding him slowly dissipated.

"So, Chief Lin, you've accomplished the same feats as those in myths and legends where ghosts or gods possess people?!"

Xingfeng Shiyu was still not 100% sure whether Lin Haiyuan had done that.

“I did it better than those ghosts or gods in myths. I directly assimilated and merged with Artemisia’s soul. I not only have my own memories, personality and power, but I also have everything that Artemisia had. It’s just that her personality has no effect on me at all.”

Lin Haiyuan did not mention that Artemisia's body could not withstand his power.

"No, Chief Lin, I still can't understand this. This kind of behavior, which is called 'possession' in those supernatural stories, is simply..."

Yuwen Fei felt that this was seriously contrary to his current understanding, and that for a materialist, this kind of idealistic phenomenon was simply incomprehensible.

"Comrade Yuwenfei, don't you understand materialistic theism?"

Lin Haiyuan understood Yuwenfei's inner turmoil very well.

"Materialism and theism?"

Yuwen Fei's question shows a complete lack of understanding of this materialist viewpoint, which is still in the hypothetical stage.

"The memory recorder contains the information I compiled. If you want to understand it in detail later, you can have it recorded. Right now, I'm just explaining the basics of this concept to you. Sit down."

As Lin Haiyuan said this, a chair automatically rose behind Xiao Yuanxun, Yuwen Fei, Xingfeng Shiyu, Xue Lianshan, and Dai Hong.

Everyone understood that Lin Haiyuan was going to give them a lecture, so they immediately sat up straight in their chairs.

"The basic view is that gods and souls are objective existences with a material and energy basis, not purely spiritual existences that are absolutely beyond the material world. In other words, they can be considered a kind of biological being. However, the existence of gods is relative. Why is it relative? Because of the gap in knowledge and power between the two sides. To primitive people, we are those high and mighty gods. Superstition stems from ignorance. Do you understand?"

Lin Haiyuan glanced at them and asked.

"Understood!"

Xingfeng and Shiyu answered in unison. They could easily understand this reasoning. Compared to the primitive people who lived a cave-dwelling, nomadic life and ate simple roasted meat, their lives were indeed like those of the gods in mythology. If those primitive people understood and comprehended everything about them and their lives, then they would no longer be high and mighty gods, but just human beings like themselves, only living much better lives. Poverty and ignorance had limited their imagination.

“Materialistic theism holds that we no longer regard God as a spiritual being that is absolutely above nature, as traditional religions do, but rather as a special life form, as a part of nature, as the part of nature that we have not yet fully understood, and as a powerful life form with a certain material and energy basis. In this way, materialism and theism can no longer be opposed, and science and religion may be able to achieve unity.”

As soon as Lin Haiyuan finished speaking, someone asked a question.

"Wait a minute, how can science and religion possibly be reconciled? Aren't they completely opposite?"

Xingfeng Shiyu asked in confusion.

"Good question. The unity mentioned here refers to the possibility that natural science can provide a reasonable explanation for the existence of religious elements such as the soul, gods, and miracles, without involving the moral norms, behavioral guidelines, and ritual settings advocated in specific religious doctrines. This is because these are parallel to science, so there is no issue of conflict or unity."

To put it simply, it means using science to explain religious elements such as the soul, God, and miracles, instead of returning to the ridiculous circle of ignorant superstition and worship of God.

"I see……"

Xingfeng Shiyu nodded seriously.

"But when it comes to the soul, it's not as easy to explain as the gods. Gods can be said to be relative and based on the difference in power and knowledge between the two sides, while the soul is not. However, it is not false, but real. Otherwise, I wouldn't be standing here telling you these things."

Lin Haiyuan returned to his office chair, rested his arms on the desk, and continued, "It's not like our political commissar shouting 'This is unscientific!!!' and it automatically vanishes into thin air. It's not an illusion or monster conjured up by human imagination, like magicians and elves. It's an objective reality. The soul truly exists, and it's composed of matter and energy very similar to dark matter and dark energy. We can't currently analyze what matter and energy the soul is made of. In short, we can consider the soul as a form of life. If you still can't believe it, I can take you to Antarctica to see an instrument that can capture your souls, and then put your souls into different bodies to try living there."

Lin Haiyuan felt that his own situation and so many explanations alone were not enough to make them accept reality. He could only let those who had doubts experience firsthand what it felt like for this reality to fall on their own heads.

Unable to accept the facts before him, Lin Haiyuan had no choice but to get rid of this stubborn fellow.

"Alright, since you've put it that way, Chief Lin, and your case is right in front of us, we have no choice but to acknowledge this objective fact."

Yuwen Fei found it somewhat difficult to understand, but he still nodded in agreement, simply because it was the truth.

"But Chief Lin, what kind of Antarctica are you referring to when you said you'd take us to Antarctica to see the instrument that can capture our souls?"

Xingfeng Shiyu remembered that the power of the Burning Wind had not extended to Antarctica in his memory.