Colonia Storm Tour

"Congratulations on the successful construction of Fraxinus. I hope you can keep up the good work. It would be beneficial for both sides to complete the basic testing of Fraxinus in Ratatosk as soon as possible. According to the intelligence we just intercepted from the UK, DEM is preparing a business charter flight. It is very likely that Ellen Mira Messer will be coming. It is expected to arrive in the Virgin Islands in 12 hours."

Odin has some bad news to share.

"Okay, it's troublesome now that that woman is here. I'll have our technicians and engineers work harder. I'll continue to supervise."

After finishing his sentence, Supervisor Benjamin Fletcher hurriedly closed the door and left.

"Oh... I can finally relax tomorrow."

Colonel Jack breathed a sigh of relief at that moment.

"If we can get out of DEM's control range by then, we won't have to be so worried."

Milia's expression also looked much more relaxed.

"Captain Milia, tell the girls this news now, tell them they can go back to safety tomorrow."

Colonel Jack gave Milia instructions.

"Ok."

Milia accepted the order, opened the conference room door, and left.

"Although the Foehn Winds have been doing things that surprise us, it took us two months to build just one Fraxinus. Can you really complete all that in a single day?"

Colonel Jack looked at Alice on the monitor.

"Seeing is believing, Colonel."

Alice felt there was no more convincing evidence than the facts.

"Then I'll look forward to it."

Colonel Jack stood up as well: "Now I'm going to tell those lads the good news, and also remind them not to let their guard down."

"Battalion Commander Artemisia, Political Commissar Youhua, let's talk the rest in our command room."

Alice gestured for them to leave and go to the command room at the Foehn Wind Construction Site.

Yes! x2

After saluting Alice on the monitor, the two left the conference room and hurried to the command room in the Foehn Wind Construction Site.

Second update complete. Hmm, these two elite magician extras won't be eliminated so easily.

Chapter 11 Stormbringer (RYUSA MIX) - 3

Upon arriving at the command center, Alice's holographic projection was already waiting for them.

"Didn't we already discuss everything that needed to be said in the conference room at the Ratatosk research facility?"

Lin Haiyuan felt there was nothing more to say after the story of "Fraxinus" in the command room was told.

"You haven't finished yet, Lin the Madman. When we finish building the Fraxinus EX, someone has to go up there, at least a captain and a political commissar."

Alice's ideal captain and crew member were undoubtedly Lin Haiyuan and Youhua Zhizi.

"Commander Alice, do you mean that Commander Lin Haiyuan and I should go to FraxinusEX together to serve as political commissar and captain?"

Some gardenias felt this was a bit too difficult.

"Of course, after all, we can't just teleport you all back to the Colonia flank air base as soon as we finish FraxinusEX."

Alice replied.

"Bring it back to the air base on the flank of Colonia? Why not place it on the Antarctic side for scientific research, teaching, early warning, and patrol missions?"

Lin Haiyuan initially wanted the Fraxinus not for immediate combat, but as a research and training warship to lay the foundation for the later Kodiak warships and battlecruisers.

"We haven't made any moves against those research stations in Antarctica yet, so our secrets in Antarctica are absolutely confidential to everyone outside of us and Ratatosk. DEM would never guess that most of us are located on the South Pole plateau and underground in the mountains. Therefore, we don't need FraxinusEX for now. As long as we take over the research and construction facilities in Ratatosk, it won't be difficult for us to build a major overhaul of the warship in Antarctica later."

Alice looked at Lin Haiyuan and Youhua Zhizi and said, "After you and Youhua Zhizi finish the mission in the Virgin Islands, take the entire Valkyrie Battalion and board the ship to serve as crew members."

"Leave it to us, but none of us have experience piloting an airship. Is the memory recorder already prepared with the relevant memories? Do we still need to train in virtual reality?"

Gardenia and the others are just magicians, not trained crew members responsible for their respective duties on a warship.

"Although the standard crew of the Fraxinus EX only requires 8 people, including the necessary captain, vice-captain, and 6 assistants, the 15 magicians of the Valkyrie Battalion, including you, will all receive these memories and undergo training in the virtual world. This Fraxinus EX will be retained as a prototype for future teaching and research purposes, so there will be no other modifications."

Alice and Lin Haiyuan discussed whether to modify "FraxinusEX", for example, replacing the convergence magic cannon with the powerful plasma fortress cannon of Avalon or the particle impact cannon of mechanical creations. However, considering that they had to keep a prototype and not waste resources to build a prototype later, they rejected the proposal to modify "FraxinusEX".

"Shouldn't we just select eight team members for training? In the future, when we develop new air warships, we'll need to train specialized crew members instead of just using magicians to make up the numbers."

One of the gardenias raised her own questions.

"The more the better. Perhaps we'll need the Valkyrie girls' help with future warship training."

Alice's thoughts were very straightforward.

"Yes, how much time do we need to allocate to familiarizing ourselves with the operation of the warship in the virtual world?"

A gardenia asked.

"You will have an hour before bedtime to familiarize yourselves with the operation of FraxinusEX in the virtual world."

Alice's arrangement is very reasonable.

"By the way, Ratatoskr expects to finish Fraxinus by tomorrow morning. How long will it take us to finish FraxinusEX?"

After arriving in the Virgin Islands, Lin Haiyuan forgot to ask about the construction time of "FraxinusEX" because of the magician troops.

“We don’t need to build slowly like the Ratatosk. Our nanotechnology can complete warships that would take months to build in just half an hour.”

Alice spoke with great confidence.

"Completed within half an hour?"

The initial estimate from Gardenia was 12 hours, because no matter how bizarre the appearance of FraxinusEX is, it is still a large warship, not a relatively small thing like the Vulture attack aircraft, Pteranodon attack aircraft, Quetzalcoatl, or Eternal Bird Sky Outpost.

"Because Ratatosk's construction facilities are large enough and have a high degree of spatial redundancy, it is convenient for us to temporarily install nano-construction facilities and invest more resources in a short period of time. Moreover, unlike Ratatosk, which is troublesome to transport materials to the island in batches, the materials we use to build Fraxinus EX have already been prepared."

Alice laughed triumphantly.

"We didn't foolishly wait for Ratatosk to complete the construction of their 'Fraxinus' before taking over and understanding their research and construction facilities. Our long-range drones have already infiltrated their construction facilities and formulated a comprehensive modification plan. Completing this modification plan will only take a few minutes, thanks to Political Commissar Hua."

Odin came to Alice's side and said.

Lin Haiyuan turned to look at her: "You're a bit too straightforward, there are flowers."

"Uh, okay, so it turns out we can do it like we did at the DEM Integrated Research Base in the UK."

It was only after being reminded by the gardenia that I remembered that the foehn wind also had infiltration methods such as long-range drones.

"Speaking of the UK DEM Comprehensive Research Base, Lin Dafengzi, are you interested in infiltrating the DEM Comprehensive Research Base with Miss Youhua again? We need to update the DEM technical database now."

Alice was worried that DEM might come up with some even more bizarre manifestation device.

"They created the Lord of Memory and the Tower of Babel, as well as the Avalon manifestation device. This is probably the pinnacle of their use of manifestation devices. The next step is to improve upon the existing ones."

Lin Haiyuan didn't think that DEM could be used in any more creative ways.

"DEM has formed a simple and direct combat system: Magician + Bondsky + Airship. Their development direction is expected to be how to enhance the combat power or quantity of the three combat units. As for the Babel Tower display device, which is currently the most effective, DEM probably doesn't need to deploy a third one in the world before we launch an attack on them."

Odin speculated that DEM would also not be able to find a place to continue placing the Tower of Babel manifestation device, because DEM could not find a place in the short term where it was necessary to place the Lord of Memory manifestation device and the Tower of Babel manifestation device.

Judging from their tit-for-tat placement of the Lord of Memory Manifestation Device and the Tower of Babel Manifestation Device in the United States and Tibet, China, their goal is to control the United States, then control Foehn to acquire their technology for their own use, and finally eliminate Ratatosk to achieve their objectives.

"There's no need to do this again with the comprehensive research base that infiltrated DEM, because it's no longer necessary. The second time we went to the UK, it was time to send the entire DEM headquarters to hell."

Lin Haiyuan didn't think that DEM could come up with any more terrifying display devices besides using old tricks.

Just as Odin said, DEM's simple and direct combat system has already determined their development in manifestation devices. Creating the Memory Master and the Tower of Babel, two knock-off mind beacons and mind control amplifiers, is already a done deal. As for developing things like mind termination devices or time-space teleporters, which seem unrealistic, the pragmatic Ellen Mira Messer would definitely not agree.

After all, these funds could be used to train more magicians and create more sophisticated manifestation devices to enhance their existing combat power, instead of foolishly following the Japanese in developing some kind of decisive weapon.

But just imagine Isaac or Ellen suddenly summoning nuclear weapons and saying to the company directors and magicians below, "The fate of DEM rests on this battle!" It feels really exciting. In fact, the original novel's seventeen volumes also give people this feeling.

Gardenia tilted her head: "But if that's the case, it feels like we're using our weaknesses to fight the enemy's hard punches?"

"We would like to use their own methods against them. We would also like to overwhelm the DEM magicians with a hail of bullets and swarms of nanobots. However, the existence of the random realm proves that we must use similar methods to fight them. Besides, developing magicians and warships will not do us any harm."

Lin Haiyuan wouldn't engage in a war of attrition like DEM, sending out his magicians and drones. Even if he had the resources, he wouldn't fight a war of attrition that would cost lives and resources.

As she spoke, she stretched out her arms to Alice and the gardenia beside her in the picture, just like in the past, "In the future, we will definitely not be limited to this corner of the earth, but there is a wider world waiting for us to explore."

"For us, both the Earth and the universe will become very monotonous in the future."

Alice smiled.

"Why do you say that, Chief Alice, Chief Lin? Shouldn't life in the future be more colorful? Whether it's the Earth we live on, or the starry sky that's waiting for us to uncover its secrets."

Gardenia doesn't think her future life will be monotonous at all, after all, in the future they will not only be able to soar in the sky above Earth, but also explore outer space.

"Most people aren't scientists or anything like that. Would they be too interested in those profound and obscure physics and biology topics? Even if they had memory recorders, most of them would just be polymaths. There's something we have to admit: people knowing more doesn't necessarily mean their vision will be broadened instantly. So we're going to do something more practical and easier for people to understand."

The only way for Lin Haiyuan to do something more practical and easier for people to understand is to wait for Fenfeng to make further progress in his research on paradox engineering.

"However, Lin the Madman, you've forgotten one thing here. Some people will fall into the same delusion as our former friends, fearing the existence above us and wanting to become an existence of their own level to fight against them... How should I put it? I think it's a very unrealistic worry. Thinking about it will only lead to a brain in a vat or similar predicaments. In the end, they might even deny their own existence."

Alice didn't think it was a good idea.

"I think only the Great Old Ones from the Cthulhu Mythos can give an answer to the mysteries that torment her. But once she knows everything, will she still be able to maintain her sense of self? I'm afraid her sense of self will completely disappear under that immeasurable knowledge. Because omniscience means that everything is meaningless and there is no motivation to continue living. Perhaps in her eyes, those evil gods are also seen as ants. But what does that bring? Even if she becomes a Great Old One, it will not change the fact that she is just an ant in their eyes. In the end, she can only bring herself eternal fear."

Lin Haiyuan looked at the gardenia, unable to understand why she could only smile awkwardly to hide her embarrassment.

"Emmmm...why did we start talking about her rambling and eccentric comments? There are flowers here, don't worry about them, it doesn't matter if you don't understand."

Lin Haiyuan patted her shoulder to comfort her.

"Yes……"

Gardenia smiled and nodded, looking completely bewildered.

"However, that's just our opinion. Even if we could read her mind and read her inner thoughts and memories, we probably still wouldn't be able to say that we fully understand her."

Alice turned her head slightly to the side: "Alright, now you can leave the meeting room and go do whatever you want. Anyway, there's nothing I need to say to your face."

"Yes, Chief Alice."

Lin Haiyuan instantly switched into the Artemisia character mode, saluted Alice in the holographic projection, and then stepped back.

"Yes, sir."

The greeting with the gardenia was a bit shorter; she saluted, stepped back, and then left the command room with Lin Haiyuan.

"You have flowers, what do you want to do next?"