Colonia Storm Tour

Seeing Youhua Zhizi with her head down, seemingly having lost all hope, Lin Haiyuan also felt it was time.

"Don't lose hope yet, I have a second option for you."

Lin Haiyuan's words immediately made Youhua Zhizi raise her head.

"Hoping for... a second option?"

Gardenia's face showed undisguised confusion.

"You should know my name, and you should also know the official name of my Project 9991. I am here as the highest-ranking leader of the Fenfeng..."

Lin Haiyuan extended his right hand to Youhua Zhizi with a beaming smile, "I invite you, the homeless one, to join the Burning Wind."

"ah……?!"

Gardenia let out a sound of astonishment that sounded rather silly. In her mind, the Burning Wind should be an organization that rejected foreigners and traitors, judging from their ability to easily massacre traitors within their own ranks as well as foreigners whose identities could not be verified.

"You're surprised, aren't you? You feel this doesn't match the initial impression you had of the Fenfeng, but the Fenfeng isn't such a narrow-minded ethnic organization. They have Miss Gardenia."

Lin Haiyuan continued, “As long as someone is willing to be loyal to Fenfeng forever and never betray it, and is willing to obey orders and be transformed into a qualified Fenfeng member, Fenfeng will never treat it unfairly. Even if someone sacrifices themselves one day, they will be forever engraved in a monument, so that everyone in Fenfeng will remember their bravery and sacrifice. If there are any descendants or relatives, Fenfeng will also treat them well and support them. The children will continue to be supported in their education and upbringing, so that they can become heroes worthy of respect, just like their sacrificed relatives.”

"Compared to the dark future you would face if you returned to Japan, joining us, joining the Fenfeng, I can bring you a brighter and more honorable future. Miss Gardenia, are you willing to be forever loyal to Fenfeng and become a part of Fenfeng?"

This time, Lin Haiyuan invited Hua Zhizi to join Fenfeng, and just as he told Walker.com AI, he didn't use any mind control tricks to get her to agree immediately.

"……………………"

After a moment of silence, Youhua Zhizi considered the tragic darkness she might face upon returning to Japan. She then thought that although joining the Fenfeng organization, which she didn't actually know what would happen, was still much better than becoming a prostitute or escort in Japan, or even being murdered.

"Youhua Zhizi, I hereby swear to Mr. Lin Haiyuan, the highest leader of Fenfeng, that I am willing to be forever loyal to Fenfeng and become a part of it. I am willing to obey the organization's arrangements and follow orders!"

After saying that, Youhua Zhizi firmly grasped Lin Haiyuan's outstretched left hand.

Lin Haiyuan also squeezed Youhua Zhizi's delicate hands tightly, "Welcome to the future, Miss Youhua Zhizi."

I recently heard that EA is planning a reboot of the Command & Conquer series. I think, what's the point of EA turning a free game into a StarCraft (a designer's rant)? Interestingly, Blizzard's bald-headed manager used to work on Red Alert.

As for the Turtle Arena, even Uncle Kukan, who plays Kane, complained that the players who play the Turtle Arena play the game like crap. Most players are attracted by his portrayal of Kane, watching him play the Prophet Kane of the Brotherhood of Nod over and over again.

There's a reason why EP uses dog power to generate electricity. When you control two different players (AIs) and put their troops in the bio-reactor, and then when that player (AI) is defeated, just like garrisoning troops in a building, the bio-reactor will immediately explode, letting the troops inside run out. Instead of becoming neutral, they die instantly. But the other surviving troops are released, which is just ridiculous.

Holy crap, I forgot to ask for votes and blades (a form of online abuse).

Chapter Twenty-Six: Preparing

After Gardenia voluntarily joined the Burning Wind, the plan to create clones of Gardenia and return them to her was naturally shelved. Code:Eureak could proceed to the second step after finding a suitable individual to become Eureka, just like Epsilon created many berserkers and the hero "Rahn" who guarded the headquarters in the four Latin Alliance-controlled cloning vats in Zaragoron, Spain.

One of the Epsilon technologies that Rushdie took with him when he escaped was Epsilon's pinnacle of genetic technology, which currently serves its purpose of medical treatment and limb regeneration within the Foehn Wind.

However, once these genetic technology data were in Lin Haiyuan's hands, they not only gave him a certain chance to create Libra and guarantee 100% delivery to Rahn, but also served all the Foenwind personnel, especially those with genetic defects.

Genetic technology can not only create monsters or perfect killing machines, but it can also be used to treat genetic defects, restoring a person with a genetic defect to normal.

Therefore, the most crucial part of the Eureak Project is to genetically modify "Eureak" to give it greater physical strength, making it more resilient and capable of using CR-UNIT for longer periods of time.

From the introduction of CR-UNTI, we know that using CR-UNIT will bring mental and physical burdens. The physical symptoms are due to the adjustment of gravity within the arbitrary field. When the human body receives normal Earth gravity again, it will feel abnormally heavy, which may cause the body to be unable to move or stand up for a few minutes, similar to the situation when astronauts return to Earth.

Moreover, using CR-UNTI and controlling the voluntary domain also puts considerable stress on the brain.

In conclusion, using CR-UNIT and controlling the Free Domain not only causes physical fatigue but also mental exhaustion. Of course, having a sufficiently strong physique can alleviate the effects of using this technique to some extent.

Equipment puts a strain on your mind and body because you have more energy than the average person.

There is a significant connection between genes and the mind. With comparative data on the genetic technology of Rahn and Libra, and by creating clones for preliminary experiments to ensure everything goes smoothly, it's possible to prevent "Eureak's" mental state from becoming extreme. Rahn isn't stupid, but he's bloodthirsty; Libra is a not-stupid, but insanely crazy woman.

It's much more reliable than DEM's so-called magical manipulation that drains a person's life force to gain greater power; at least it won't reduce lifespan.

In the unlikely event that an irreversible error would occur during the genetic experiment, Lin Haiyuan would rather have Gardenia undergo training to become a barrage apostle on Colonia's flank.

While genetic modification and enhancement is certainly a crucial part of the plan, it is not indispensable in Lin Haiyuan's desire for "Eureka" to have the ability to fight against Pokémon head-on.

However, their combat strength will be much weaker than planned. At most, they can compete with Ellen Mira Messer, Artemisia Bell Ashcroft, and Takamiya Mana for a while...

Oh, right, there's also Kannazuki Kyohei. Although he seems like a perverted gentleman, he's actually quite strong. He was the ace wizard of AST, and I bet he's still the ace wizard (magician) in AST now.

In any case, when facing such a well-known opponent, Lin Haiyuan would not act like the villainous bosses in Japanese games, foolishly sending his subordinates to their deaths one after another.

As for why Gardenia was to undergo the apostle training on Colonia's flank using the air pressure ball, in addition to the mental and physical strain inflicted on CR-UNIT, there was also the requirement of the Free Domain for energy and willpower.

The stronger one's willpower and the more focused one's energy, the higher the precision and intensity of one's arbitrary domain. The Apostle of the Air Pressure Ball just happens to meet these two requirements.

If you want to use your mental power to control airflow and form a pressure sphere around yourself, how can your willpower not be strong, how can you not be fully focused? Moreover, the pressure sphere apostle also needs to have a strong physique and a tailor-made nano combat suit. The nano combat suit not only allows the pressure sphere apostle to have better defense, receive treatment from nano drones, communicate with teammates, and understand the battlefield situation.

Furthermore, there is an unconfirmed point: if the power of the gardenia's spirit is activated, can her spirit power help her use CR-UNIT more easily?

After all, some of the mental experts in Epsilon possess even stronger mental powers; these mental experts are known as mental elites.

The Mind Elite possesses a much stronger mental power than ordinary Mind Experts. This immense mental power not only allowed them to prove themselves to Yuri and become members of the Mind Legion's elite forces, but also created a slight mental energy field that allowed the Mind Elite to levitate on the ground and move freely across the water.

While this cannot directly prove that having mental power as strong as that of the mental elites, Youhua Zhizi was able to use her mental power in conjunction with DEM to make the mass-produced CR-UNIT of AST perform better in terms of performance and combat power than those called Lancelot, Pendragon, and Mordred, because everything still needs to be experimented on by Youhua Zhizi herself.

As for the small display device embedded inside her brain that controls the arbitrary domain—Lin Haiyuan was well aware of its existence from the beginning. At first, Lin Haiyuan thought it was just a hair clip on her head and didn't take the idea of ​​burying a small display device in her brain seriously. But when Walker.com's AI examined her body, holy crap, they actually cut open her skull and put it in there, and it was placed at the top of her brain like a joke or a Teletubby.

Then Lin Haiyuan finally understood the allocation of the core structure of CR-UNIT. The AST standard configuration includes a basic display device in the CR-UNIT "Wiring suit" and one in the brain.

The basic display device of the Wiring Suit is responsible for deploying the arbitrary field. The small display device on the brain, acting like a computer's CPU, uses the brain as a central hub to issue commands to the Wiring Suit's display device to deploy the arbitrary field and the entire Wiring Suit, such as switching to activate a weapon or transforming into normal clothing.

Okay, this design is just so frustrating! These two display devices should theoretically be able to be integrated into one unit.

However, the separate design of the two display devices makes it easier to understand if we consider the entire Wiring-suit as a quasi-Pycommu system for ordinary people in Gundam. This explains why the AST members don't have to point to any buttons or anything.

WalkerNet AI, with its arch-rival Epsilon database, naturally found a way to remove the display device from the brain without affecting the control of CR-UNIT.

Remember the device with cables running from the back of Yuri's head to his spine? And if you must remember, Libra's "basket" on her back. The device connected to her spine is a machine used to enhance mental power. Libra's power is more violent and unstable than Yuri's, so hers is a CAS (Cyberstimulator/Inhibitor).

However, it's obvious that adding such an ugly device to the back of the head and carrying a basket will affect the presence of gardenias, and it will also affect the equipment that Euryka can wear.

You should know that Euryca's heavy armor looks bigger than Ellen Mira Messer's Pendragon, and it's equipped with a cyclone engine.

Therefore, it is necessary to test and modify the small display device that is inserted into the brain of the gardenia. Lin Haiyuan did not want this thing to have the function of sending the current location to the GPS system.

Fortunately, WalkerNet's AI did not detect any related radio waves from it; it really only served to control the CR-UNIT "Wiring-suit" and random areas.

Going back to the hair clips I only mentioned once, they are the "hair ornaments" that AST members generally wear on both sides of their hair. The purpose of these is to receive radio waves and communicate with teammates, yes, dual-channel audio on both sides.

Once the core display device and power supply of the entire Wiring-suit have been analyzed, the enhancement of the Wiring-suit can begin.

First, there's the material used to manufacture the entire system. It has been previously identified as a high-strength composite material with excellent energy flow and the ability to directionally bind a certain field, as well as being ductile and deformable. Strictly speaking, this is similar to the nanofibers of the foehn wind. Therefore, by changing the internal structure of the nanofibers, the foehn wind can achieve the same or even better results.

It's worth mentioning the flight thruster, which is a miniaturized solid-fuel rocket engine. However, this thing is much inferior to the cyclone engine, and it conflicted with the cyclone engine that she was to be equipped with after becoming Euryka, so it was removed.

That's right, it was dismantled. Although Fenfeng didn't understand the principle and design of the display device, the display device in his brain had to send instructions to a certain device in CR-UNIT through brainwaves.

Therefore, as long as the cyclone engine installed on the Wiring-suit is equipped with a brainwave command receiver that is the same as and compatible with the flight propulsion unit, it can be recognized and used.

However, neither Lin Haiyuan nor Walker.com AI were reckless enough to directly modify the CR-UNIT "Wiring-suit" which served as the prototype. Instead, they modified the CR-UNIT made of nanofiber materials.

As it turned out, Walker.com's AI, which meticulously replicated the CR-UNIT "Wiring-suit" using a nanoscale manufacturing array, encountered the expected failure.

"Chief Lin, no."

Wearing the CR-UNIT "Wiring-suit" replicated from nanofiber materials, Yuuka Yuuka let out a deep sigh.

From the very beginning, no matter how many times I tried to visualize the levitation command in my mind and send it to the flight thrusters behind me, they did not respond at all. Not only that, but I was also unable to expand my free domain. It was a complete failure in the true sense of the word.

"So it really can't work without the principle data and design drawings of the display device. Looks like I need to find a way to get that kind of data."

Lin Haiyuan put his right hand behind his back and looked at the black metal ceiling above his head.

"There have always been rumors that Japan is trying to reverse engineer the wiring kits for AST, but according to my captain, such things have been stuck on the material issue so far."

Gardenia touched the nano combat bodysuit and wiring kit made of nanofiber material on her body, which was both thin and tough. "Chief Lin, I don't know exactly how effective your nanofiber material is, but it feels much lighter and more substantial than the original wiring kit."

"Miss Gardenia, your actions are very arousing. You should be careful not to do this in the presence of men in the future."

Lin Haiyuan gave her a reminder, then continued to think about how to obtain the principle data and design drawings of the display device.

"Uh?!"

Upon hearing Lin Haiyuan's reminder, Hua Zhizi's face flushed crimson. The next moment, she immediately covered her chest with her hands. She then remembered that the tight-fitting clothes she wore during the combat preparations had initially made her feel ashamed and uncomfortable. However, she had gotten used to it over time because she was surrounded by women. Now, in an unfamiliar environment, she was being told this by a man who was her superior.

Her mind immediately conjured up images of a boss sexually harassing a female subordinate, engaging in sexually suggestive acts and repetitive movements. Her thoughts raced to the point of sexual escapism, and Hua Zhizi's face was already as red as a crab's, accompanied by soft sobs.

"Is it really necessary... You're not in a Japanese workplace, so you can't experience the same kind of unspoken rules that women might face in a Japanese workplace in Fenfeng, understand? Fenfeng doesn't have the superficial gender equality that Japan has; it's completely gender-equal. Whether you're a feminist or a patriarchal, you can all be shot! You talk about gender equality and yet you act like this? You're asking for it."

Lin Haiyuan reminded him.

"Wow, Laozi... This self-reference is completely inappropriate for the young leader in front of me. Not only does he refer to himself, but his words are also extremely barbaric."

That said, this Chief Lin is a language genius. He speaks fluent English and Japanese perfectly, not to the point of being mechanical.

How did Lin Haiyuan learn Japanese and fluent English? Of course, it was because he had a convenient memory recorder.

Gardenia clicked her tongue in amazement, "Yes!"

"Remember this: the communicator you're given has the authority to call me anytime, anywhere, 24 hours a day. If any scoundrel tries to do that, do you understand what to do?"

Lin Haiyuan lowered his hands from behind his back. "Don't give in because you're worried about your reputation being damaged or being coerced. This isn't Japan. No one will look at you with strange eyes. Every law in Fenfeng is a red line that cannot be crossed."

A common plot in NTR (Netorare) hentai (male-male anime/manga series) is that the female protagonist is coerced by a blond thug because of nude photos or other reasons, and chooses to submit in order to protect her reputation.

My communicator has the right to call Chief Lin anytime, anywhere, 24 hours a day?! This is just like something out of a shoujo manga, where the man says to the woman he's interested in and wants to protect, "If you get harassed by bad guys, call me and I'll come to your rescue immediately..." Hua Zhizi immediately felt her heart flutter. No man had ever said anything like this to her before, especially not a man who seemed so powerful and reliable.

Hey, are all anime girls this easy to win over and fool...?

With the help of his spiritual power, Lin Haiyuan understood Hua Zhizi's thoughts, but he chose to pretend he didn't know, as he wasn't so lonely that he needed a woman to release his sexual desires.

There are things that are even more worthwhile for him to spend his time on than romance and physical intimacy.

"I understand? Miss Gardenia is here?"

Lin Haiyuan asked again.

"Yes, Commander Lin."

This time, the response from the gardenia showed a genuine joy that was more evident than before.

"I really don't understand women's hearts..." Lin Haiyuan put the thought out of his mind and said to Youhua Zhizi, "Miss Youhua Zhizi, I have thought of a way to make the CR-UNIT created by Fenfeng work."

"Huh? What method is it, Chief Lin?"

Gardenia asked in confusion.

"Go to the UK and borrow it from DEM."

Lin Haiyuan spoke with a beaming smile about things that seemed like a fairy tale.