Colonia Storm Tour

"Ulmus is currently located over Clementine, French Guiana. Even at full speed, it would take five days to reach Jost Vandak Island in the Virgin Islands."

Karen's statement indicates that sending Ulmus to the rescue is unrealistic at this time.

"It seems we need the help of our ever-unexpected allies..."

At this moment, Elliott immediately thought of the elusive Foehn Fleet.

"Elliott? Their fleet is still heading towards Antarctica in the Philippine Sea. How could they possibly arrive in time to help us? Even if their warships are fast, they can't be fast enough to reach speeds of over 100 knots."

Karen was not optimistic about asking Foehn for help.

“No, Karen, although the massive expeditionary fleet of the Firewinds cannot come to the Virgin Islands to help us immediately, they have other means to help us.”

Elliott pointed to the ceiling above him as he spoke.

"In the sky? They simply don't have the capability to build a Fraxinus, train qualified crew members, and then enter low Earth orbit to penetrate the atmosphere and reach the Virgin Islands."

Karen immediately realized that the warships were built using their technical data.

"Karen, the forces that control the universe are not only DEM and Ratatosk, but also Foehn. Don't you remember those drones that were like rolling stones and were called Roadrunner mobile bombs during the Tibet War? Those spherical drones were not airdropped by Black Moon Wing transport planes. Judging from the orbital capsules that were not much different from what I imagined, those drones were airdropped from orbit through the orbital capsules to fight."

Elliott believed that she would understand after he said it that way.

"Elliott, are you requesting that Foehn's drones be deployed on Yostvandal Island to relieve the pressure on our defense of the island?"

Karen immediately understood Elliott's thoughts.

"That's right. If the Foehn Drones join the battlefield to help us defend, then our magician forces can concentrate on fighting the enemy magician forces, while the fighters sent by the US Atlantic Fleet and Bondsky will be dealt with by our magic turrets and Foehn Drones."

Elliott's idea is excellent, but if the magician forces cannot defeat the enemy magician forces, the balance of victory will ultimately tip in DEM's favor.

“Elliott, we are currently unable to directly contact the Fenfeng's Mech-toothed Whale fleet. We need to first request Lady Alice to contact Lord Lin Haiyuan.”

Karen and the others had already been informed that they could not directly contact the Foehn Fleet.

"Alright, contact Lady Alice of the Burning Wind Organization immediately!"

Elliott shouted with great energy.

"Yes!"

The crew member in charge of communications responded, his fingers rapidly tapping on the buttons.

Then the large monitor in front immediately opened a window showing the connection in progress. After waiting for 3 seconds, the window displayed that the connection was complete.

"Good evening, Mr. Woodman. What brings you here at this hour?"

As Alice spoke, she raised an eyebrow, signaling Odin beside her to stop, and together they looked at Elliott and Karen in the holographic projection.

"Good evening, Lady Alice. I am very sorry to bother you at this time, but we are in a lot of trouble. I would like to ask you to contact Lord Lin Haiyuan."

Elliott needed to wait until Lin Haiyuan was also present before he could talk about the Virgin Islands.

"Emmmmm... Okay, Odin, contact that crazy guy Lin."

Alice's last words were spoken in her native dialect.

What was Lady Alice saying at the end? It sounded like she was calling the general's name, but the pronunciation after that was completely incomprehensible, Elliot pondered in bewilderment.

"I'm not sure, but I'm sure it's Chinese, and it's a dialect."

Like Elliott, Karen had some basic understanding of Chinese through her knowledge of Japanese.

Alice's image was then split to one side, while Lin Haiyuan, sitting in the office chair in the command center, appeared on the other side of the screen.

"Tonight, Lord Lin Haiyuan, has our request to contact you through Lady Alice been relayed?"

After giving a greeting, Elliott quickly got to the point.

"Your idea of ​​using distant water to quench an immediate fire is truly an extraordinary and ingenious idea. Tell me what trouble you've encountered."

Lin Haiyuan said that because Woodman didn't know they had a time-space teleporter.

"Here's the thing, our research facility on Jost Vandak Island in the U.S. Virgin Islands was discovered by DEM through U.S. intelligence agencies. If it were just a regular research facility, we could destroy it on the spot and take the data with us and leave. But the problem is that the research facility is also responsible for the construction of Fraxinus. Fraxinus is almost finished now. In order to avoid all our efforts going to waste, I need to protect our research facility from DEM's attack until Fraxinus is completed, then we can destroy the facility and set sail to evacuate."

Elliott paused after speaking, "Generally speaking, our defenses on the island are sufficient to deal with the incoming Magicians and Bondskis. However, now that DEM has taken control of the entire United States except for its overseas territories, it means that DEM, considering that the Magicians and Bondskis alone may not be able to complete their mission and that their airships are no longer capable of launching attacks, will definitely send the controlled Atlantic Fleet to attack us. In this way, we will be in a situation where we cannot compete with the enemy on both fronts in terms of numbers and defense. Therefore, I am requesting drone reinforcements from Foehn Wind to help us protect the research facilities on Jost Vandak Island from the air attacks of American warplanes and Bondskis."

"……………………"

Neither Lin Haiyuan nor Alice spoke. Instead, they instructed Walker.com AI and Odin to open a global map and then focus the camera on Jost Vandak Island in the Virgin Islands.

“We need to discuss this first, so communications will be temporarily interrupted. We apologize for the inconvenience, Mr. Woodman.”

After Lin Haiyuan finished speaking, Walker.com AI immediately terminated its video communication with Ulmus.

“Please excuse me, Mr. Woodman.”

After Alice finished speaking, Odin immediately ended the video communication with Ulmus.

Their subsequent conversation could not be known to the people of Ratatosk, so communication with Ratatosk was temporarily suspended.

"Lin the Madman, don't you think this Yostvandak Island, where the 'Fraxinus' research facility, Ratatosk, is located, looks familiar?"

Alice felt that Yostvandal Island was looking more and more like it.

"The terrain of the island where the weather control machine was located in the Stormbringer level is exactly the same. Even the location of their research facilities is in the same place where the weather control machine was originally placed. However, judging from the metal baffle on the mountaintop, the actual dock for building Fraxinus is inside the hollowed-out mountain. When the time comes, their Fraxinus will definitely appear by opening the ceiling on the mountaintop."

Lin Haiyuan glanced at it for a few seconds and realized why Jost Vandak Island looked familiar.

"Should we help Woodman out? But I feel like you wouldn't do something that doesn't benefit you, Lin Dafengzi."

Whether Alice should help Ratatoskr depends entirely on Lin Haiyuan's opinion; Lin Haiyuan chooses neither to help her nor to help her.

"We should definitely help. Although Ratatosk doesn't have much left for us, it's still good to have him owe us a favor. Secondly, our magician troops need to see some blood. They need to be placed on a complex battlefield and deal with various types of enemies. Only through real combat training in blood and fire can they truly grow."

Lin Haiyuan also had the idea of ​​using the battle in the Virgin Islands to give his own people some practice.

"So that means you're going to lead the team with Youhua Zhizi, right? You've probably prepared an emergency teleportation device to avoid things going wrong, otherwise it would be a waste to die there."

Alice didn't stop Lin Haiyuan from participating in the battle. Rather, it would have been strange to stop Lin Haiyuan, who was using Artemisia's body, from participating in the battle and only let Hua Zhizi lead the team.

"Don't worry, Herok and Brunhilde have already installed emergency teleportation devices."

During the time Lin Haiyuan and Walker.com AI were at sea, they had already completed the modification and installation of emergency teleportation devices on Herok and Brunhilde.

"That's good, but here's the problem: why does Ratatosk seem to know we have a time machine that can get here instantly, and come to us for help?"

It was only then that Alice realized that, logically speaking, Ratatosk, knowing that distant water cannot quench a nearby fire, would not ask Foehn for help.

“The people in Ratatosk aren’t stupid either. They knew about our orbital airdrop before the Tibet War. It’s just that their warships didn’t detect our stealthy GLONASS and Uranus satellite systems once they were in orbit. So they must be hoping that our orbital airdrop drones will assist their defensive operations.”

Lin Haiyuan felt that this was all the information Ratatosk could think of.

"Fortunately, the satellite systems are equipped with mind illusion devices to hide themselves, otherwise it would be quite dangerous if they discovered that our satellite systems were leaving the country."

Alice was relieved that most of the Epsilon technology brought by Rushdie was still at the Colonia flank air base.

"We should also warn Ratatosk to be careful. Our magician troops will be teleported there directly, and the teleportation device in the last fortress base will handle it."

Lin Hai originally did not intend to use the energy of the Colonia flank air base for this kind of intercontinental hyperspace teleportation.

"Alright, the final fortress's Foehn wind construction vehicles will appear on Jost Vanderka Island along with your magician troops, Lin Dafengzi, to help you with the defense."

Alice finally revealed her plans.

"Alice, have you been cooped up in Antarctica for too long and are planning to personally command a battle?"

Lin Haiyuan seemed to have figured something out.

"Of course I've been bored for a long time! I haven't been involved in or personally commanded a battle for a long time, and I've been itching to get my hands dirty. Although the drone force and defense alone are enough to satisfy my craving for command, the Ratatosk magic turret's defensive effect doesn't seem very good. Apart from its great power and the ability to withstand explosions with its arbitrary domain protection, it doesn't have any other special features. In essence, it's just a dual-purpose anti-aircraft gun."

Alice wasn't too optimistic about the defensive capabilities of the magic turret.

"However, these magic turret cousins ​​caused us a lot of trouble in the Tibet campaign. These things are like tortoise shells, and I don't recommend revealing the secret base vehicle to DEM and Ratatoskr."

Lin Haiyuan has kept the secret of the motor construction vehicle very well to the outside world.

"Hey, why? Then our enemies won't just be DEM, but also the US Atlantic Fleet!"

Alice didn't quite understand why Lin Haiyuan didn't want to give the base vehicle to DEM and Ratatoskr.

"DEM can't possibly bring over the entire Atlantic Fleet to deal with a small island base that doesn't seem well-defended. Bringing over the Theodore Roosevelt carrier battle group is enough."

Lin Haiyuan didn't think DEM would be so bored as to bring its entire Atlantic Fleet over to attack a small island. Although it was claimed to be a drill, if others saw that DEM had gathered all its fleet and aircraft carriers near the Caribbean Sea to prepare for some kind of exercise, Cuba and other South American countries, as well as the European Union, would definitely think that the Americans were up to something. They would feel it would be a disservice not to send people over to spy on them.

"Well, I thought we could surprise those Americans and DEM by setting up one or three plasma fortress cannons on Jostfandark Island."

Alice looked disappointed.

"Our plasma fortress cannon's Avalon main gun has a maximum range of 400 kilometers, while the combat radius of an aircraft carrier battle group is more than 1000 kilometers. How can you expect the plasma fortress cannon to shoot down other people's planes and aircraft carriers?"

Lin Haiyuan complained.

"Hey, but... Lin the Madman, I always feel that DEM is going against the grain this time. There's a reason why I said we should send the Burning Wind construction vehicle."

As Alice spoke, she gently tapped her temples with two jade-like fingers, mimicking the pose of the Mind Elite in the icon.

"Shall you share your thoughts with me? Are you sure this is your intuition and not just a passing whim?"

Lin Haiyuan's expression immediately turned serious—the intuition of a psychic cannot be ignored.

"All in the mind! Of course, this is not a spur-of-the-moment decision; it is truly my intuition. Otherwise, I would not have suggested setting up two or three plasma fortress cannons on Jostfandark Island."

Alice said seriously.

"Alright, take the Furnace base vehicle with you, prepare the plasma fortress cannon as soon as possible, remember to bring the nuclear reactor, and also bring the blueprints for the Skyfire anti-air tank and the Blizzard tank. Remember to also bring the blueprint for the defensive command post."

Lin Haiyuan started nagging like an old woman.

"Commander Lin Haiyuan, why do you seem different from before? Why do you seem to have become like me?"

Ou Ting felt Lin Haiyuan in front of her starting to move closer to her.

“Oh no… I’m still in the Artemisia state, so I’ve become so talkative. But we obviously can’t let Ratatosk destroy the facilities that Ratatosk built for Fraxinus and then just walk away.”

Lin Haiyuan corrected the errors in his speaking style.

"So what are you planning to do? And you plan to learn from Regene, after taking over GDI's recovery center, research the information inside, collect data, and then produce the Redeemer mechs and the Savior Engineering Bay to deal with DEM?"

Alice used a very apt metaphor.

"Of course, we don't know what mistakes and troubles we might encounter if we build a production facility on our own. In our current situation, any waste of resources would be fatal, so it's just right to use the existing facilities to produce FraxinusEX."

That was exactly what Lin Haiyuan was planning.

"It seems we'll need to transfer enough nanomaterials to build FraxinusEX. But that's a good idea. It's funny that Ratatosk, the original family of Fraxinus, didn't upgrade Fraxinus to FraxinusEX before us, the Foehn."

Alice covered her mouth with her hand and chuckled softly.