Colonia Storm Tour

Lin Haiyuan shrugged expressionlessly. In the past, the hot-tempered Lin Haiyuan would have immediately said impatiently, "Aren't you annoying, woman? I said I wouldn't move, so you mean it!" or he would simply turn away and not bother to look at her again. As for her future life or death, that was definitely none of his business and he wouldn't care.

"Miss Chun, I admit you are very pretty and beautiful, with the look of a black-haired beauty from the Cherry Blossom Islands, but you are not within my range of preferences. I will not make a move on you. In fact, if I wanted to make a move on you, I could have done it at Huaxiaolou long ago. Don't distrust me to this extent. If I want to help you but you don't trust me, I won't be able to help you."

Lin Haiyuan could only patiently explain it to her.

"Uh... I'm sorry, I suspect you went too far, but the question you asked on our first meeting... is really hard to let go of."

Chun clearly had no choice but to completely reverse Lin Haiyuan's image of a perverted lecher in just a short moment.

"(Silent yawn) Okay, okay, let's not dwell on that now, Lin Haiyuan. Our clothes are in the closet, so you can't sleep in there. Besides, we're not so stingy as to let you sleep in such a small space as the closet. Tsubaki, take Lin Haiyuan to the storage room to tidy up. I want to take a shower and go to bed now. I'll leave the rest to you."

Kazuha yawned silently and drifted towards a room, looking extremely sleepy.

"I understand. Remember to change the bathwater today. We can't mix the bathwater together today. We need to wash away the smell from Huanle Town properly."

Chun gave a slightly helpless reply and watched her enter the bathroom before turning back to look at him.

"You... want to take a shower here, right? But we don't have any spare clothes for you."

"I have a way of going in completely dry and coming out completely dry."

Lin Haiyuan possessed almost omnipotent mental power, so drying his clothes was not a problem for him.

Unfortunately, YR is still too old, and there are still many flaws in porting StarCraft units to YR.

Chapter Forty-Eight: Miscellaneous Matters (Part 1)

Chun led Lin Haiyuan to the storage room in their apartment. Upon entering the storage room, Lin Haiyuan did not see the scene of clutter piled up in disarray as he had imagined, because there was very little clutter.

"I thought your storage room would be cluttered with all sorts of things, but it's much emptier and cleaner than I imagined."

Lin Haiyuan didn't hold back and spoke his mind, then clenched his hands repeatedly to loosen the bones in his hands.

"Those kinds of storage rooms that can be filled with all sorts of random things can only be filled with money or good luck. Neither Kazuha nor I are rich people, so we won't just buy things that are unusable or can't be used for long here. If you want to find something on Taobao, there are plenty of professional garbage collectors in Dong Taishou's area. We don't have that chance."

Before Chun became a wandering knight, she had done something similar: she would find unexpected treasures in junkyards to supplement her income.

Are they similar to those who made a fortune by collecting scrap and foreign waste after China's reform and opening up? If they were in that environment, they could indeed have made a lot of money from the price difference and scrap sorting if they were smart enough.

Lin Haiyuan came from a family that collected scrap metal, but the difference was that his family didn't continue down the path of collecting scrap metal. Instead, they started a small shop, which was also quite profitable at the time. In the end, they didn't get rich, but only made a little money. However, he rarely mentioned his family situation to others because he had obvious conflicts in thought and behavior with other family members. Talking about it would not help, but would only make him feel worse.

When it comes to topics that easily evoke memories of one's own family experiences, Lin Haiyuan wondered why he had never heard Chun and He Ye mention their parents in conversations or inner monologues. Chun is a fox spirit, and if her parents were more "primitive," they would have driven their children out of the nest (home) after they reached adulthood, regardless of their own circumstances. He Ye is a cat spirit, and the mother cat would also drive her offspring away to fend for themselves, but it's uncertain whether she would drive away all the kittens. Some say that she would drive away the male kittens while leaving the female kittens to stay with the mother cat for a long time.

Lin Haiyuan, out of curiosity, asked, "Are you all living together in a rented room here with the Prefect of the East, supporting yourselves? I haven't heard you mention your parents at all."

[Father and mother... Haha, I didn't expect to be asked this question again. The last time I was asked this was back when I first became a ranger.]

"Both Kazuha and I are children without parents. We grew up in an orphanage kindly run by the local shrine priest. When we finally grew up, we left the orphanage together."

Chun felt melancholy thinking about her parents whom she had never met, but she had gotten used to it over the years. In her opinion, her parents, whom she had never met, were not as close as the older sister who took care of them in the orphanage, so she did not miss her real parents much.

So she grew up in an orphanage, and one that was kindly established by the head priest of a shrine. Wait, the head priest of a shrine? I see the connection between the two.

Lin Haiyuan's thoughts suddenly veered towards the man with the "I'm so angry, I'm so angry" meme, wearing a floral painter's hat and black-rimmed glasses, but he quickly corrected himself.

"I'm sorry to ask such a sentimental question, but since you were in an orphanage, did you receive any education?"

Lin Haiyuan was also curious to know if they had attended a formal school to read and write. Of course, this was not out of any ill intent, but simply out of personal curiosity.

"Where would we get the money to go to a proper school? It's already a blessing that Kazuha and I are taught to read and write in the orphanage. We don't want to go to a school anymore. School means being bound by its rules, which is nothing compared to the freedom of being a wandering knight."

Tsubaki chose to team up with her companion, Kazuha, to become a wanderer because of the potential for earning a little money through the freedom of being a wanderer, rather than becoming an office worker like a restaurant waitress.

“I feel the same way. After I graduated and left school, I would occasionally miss my time at school, but I would never think of going back.”

Lin Haiyuan was not a well-behaved and outstanding student in school. Instead, he was the kind of guy that teachers turned a blind eye to and ignored. Whether among the good students or the bad students, he was an outlier who did not fit into any of them in terms of thought and behavior. But this did not make him feel lonely. You know, in his outlier “outside the law”.

Shallow waters breed many turtles. The Lakshir ritual is a fixed event, and the reasons for initiating it are mostly simple: to establish authority and to deal with ordinary, vulgar women. Lin Haiyuan often becomes the one being challenged or innocently implicated and represented. So he would be happy to find a way to pass the time other than reading novels, and he would grab a desk and chair and smash them to death.

The victors will receive the respect and fear they deserve, while the losers will only be bullied and subjected to random insults and provocations. Lin Haiyuan won by attacking without mercy and without regard for the consequences, thus earning the fear and respect of everyone. He never formed cliques or fawned over those who flattered him, thus becoming a complete lone wolf.

"By the way, since this storage room is so spacious and doesn't have much stuff, I can just sleep here. Don't bring me a mat or anything; I'll take care of the rest myself."

Lin Haiyuan banished those school memories he had no desire to recall and began to talk about the important matters at hand.

"You don't even want a quilt? Don't be fooled by the fact that the fire-leaf trees are in full bloom and there doesn't seem to be much snow outside. It gets really cold at night. Are you sure you won't catch a cold?"

No matter how you look at it, Lin Haiyuan doesn't seem to possess any novel human characteristics that can withstand cold and freezing.

"This outfit is warm enough. If you really want to sleep well, you can stay in a hotel from the start, so you don't need to worry about it."

Lin Haiyuan is a being enhanced by Rahn-level genetic modification, so why would he fear the local cold, which is far less severe than the year-round ice and strong winds of Antarctica?

"The statement that you are demi-humans like us is still convincing, but you are human, and you are not as resistant to the cold as we are. Stand here, and I will find you a blanket to cover yourselves."

As Chun spoke, she began searching among the few odds and ends in the storeroom. Soon she found a light-colored blanket, but the dust that rose up when she picked it up caught her off guard and made her cough a few times. She then vigorously patted the blanket to remove the dust and handed it to Lin Haiyuan.

"You really don't need to... Never mind, I'll accept your kind offer. Thank you."

Lin Haiyuan simply took the blanket from Chun's hands.

"You'll have to stay here for now. We'll let you know when to come out after we've both finished showering, understand? This is the first rule you have to follow if you stay here."

Chun raised one finger of his right hand and said earnestly.

[Both Kazuha and I like to come out of the shower wearing only a short towel, and sometimes Kazuha doesn't even wear a towel. If this guy saw that, it would be so embarrassing.]

Her inner thoughts were completely exposed to Lin Haiyuan, who still had the ability to read minds, so he internally criticized the two of them.

Hey, hey, hey, is this some kind of shock? Coming out of the bathroom without wearing proper clothes or a towel?

I'm not popular with cats or similar animals; on the contrary, they all avoid me. I wonder if it's because I have too much of a murderous aura (if so).

Unfounded associations

Chapter Forty-Nine: Miscellaneous Matters (Part Two)

Since he was instructed not to leave the storage room until they had finished showering and informed him, Lin Haiyuan used his mental abilities to manipulate the airflow to blow the dust off the floor after Chun left. He then lay down among the boxes in the storage room, covered himself with a blanket, and closed his eyes. It already takes a lot of time for an ordinary human woman to take a shower, and now she has an extra tail and a pair of animal ears to clean. Presumably, she will need more shower gel and shampoo, as well as more time to wash her body and soak in the bathtub. It seems like it will take at least one or two hours to finish.

So he changed his mind and started thinking about something else he needed to do: he had to find time to contact the Azur Lane liaison in the Crested Arms Islands and report on the progress there.

Logically, he could simply carry a satellite phone and make a call, but the first drawback of losing the Colonia flank air base is that the military communication satellites needed for global positioning and military operations cannot be replenished. Li Xiangyang and Kang De's ship girl operations do not rely on any artificial satellites, so they do not have the ability to build and launch artificial satellites. Secondly, Shinonono no Tsukasa brought the Pacific Front military base. As a construction site for battlefield bases, MCV would not be responsible for the construction of a battlefield for satellite launches. It might be possible if it were a GDI construction site, because GDI's space command center is a battlefield building that integrates rocket launch site functions. Usually, when you see a rocket launch from the space command center, similar to how missiles erected in NOD's operations center using radar jamming missiles are delayed for a few seconds, it means that you have used the area heavy infantry airdrop pod skill. But why go through the trouble of using a rocket to take the heavy infantry in the airdrop pod into the air and then the missile body flies away, making it so troublesome for area heavy infantry to enter the battlefield through the airdrop pod?

Without satellites, contacting the distant headquarters via satellite phone is clearly a pipe dream. In this fantasy world that has developed magical technology as advanced as modern technology, satellites should only be available to the Eternal Revelation Alliance, which uses intercontinental ballistic missiles. However, the Eternal Revelation Alliance is thousands of miles away, so it's impossible for them to use their products in both locations. Moreover, satellite phone communications can be detected and eavesdropped on. They are not some insignificant people who say it doesn't matter. Therefore, without satellites for long-distance communication, they can only rely on the all-powerful magic. Lin Haiyuan will have to find a magical phone booth to call the Azur Lane liaison officer in the Curved Arm Islands. However, the phone here is not called a telephone, but a magical voice transmitter. They are usually fixed, and mobile phone versions are almost never seen in the Curved Arm Islands and the Cherry Blossom Islands.

"It's even more tragic than Anton Slavik in Firestorm. They only need to get a GDI EVA and modify it to resume normal troop command and communication without worrying about satellite issues. While we have EVAs, we don't have any important satellites, making communication and military operations particularly troublesome."

Lin Haiyuan knew that the Azur Lane organization and Shinonono no Tsukasa were able to access the minimap to control their troops and make communications by relying on an integrated air force command with battlefield radar and communication capabilities, or an old-fashioned radar dome. As for the radar dome and the "reconnaissance satellite" skill provided by the air force command, they were also unusable without a reconnaissance satellite in orbit.

"Phew, I can't possibly lead a team there to find that Exile immediately after finishing the affairs on the Cherry Blossom Islands. I'll have to go to the Republic of Ikchino Alliance first. How annoying."

Lin Haiyuan also believed that there was a very small chance that his daughter was still alive somewhere in this world, and that somewhere might be where Exile was. However, this was just a baseless idea that was close to intuition. He could not confirm it until he found his eldest daughter, Lin Shiyin, in Exile's location.

Right, since there's still some time before I have time to go to Exile's island, should I try using my mind vision to see if I can bump into Exile and get her to give me a specific location to reduce the search time? ...No, I should forget about it now. I should focus on doing what I need to do. This kind of deliberate mind vision usually doesn't have the desired effect.

Lin Haiyuan pondered how he could help Chun and He Ye, the two beast-eared girls, complete their investigation and capture all the foreign criminal gangs they mentioned.

His mental abilities weren't used haphazardly; he wasn't able to easily capture these skilled criminal gangs who knew how to strike stealthily and swiftly.

He pondered until late at night when the door to the storeroom was opened again, and a slightly warm airflow and a woman's voice entered.

"Lin Haiyuan-san? Lin Haiyuan-san? Kazuha and I have already taken a bath, and the bathtub is already filled with water. Come with me, and I'll take you to the bathroom and explain a few things."

Chun looked around in confusion, but there was no sign of him. She called out from inside the storage room.

"Oh, I see. But are there any special rules for taking a shower? I won't touch anything that I'm not supposed to touch."

Lin Haiyuan quickly put the blanket aside and walked briskly to He Ye.

At this moment, Tsubaki had changed into another outfit, which looked like a loose-fitting modified kimono with small flowers and grass printed on it. Unlike the modified shrine maiden outfit, the hem of the modified kimono was not shortened to the length of a short skirt, and it had no warmth and did not ruin the overall aesthetics, so it looked like a yukata.

"There are some things you don't know whether you should touch or not, so this is the second rule I'm going to tell you. Hurry up and come with me, or you won't have time to sleep."

After Chun finished speaking, she turned around and walked towards the door of the storage room. Lin Haiyuan shrugged and followed her slowly.

After taking off his shoes and Altaïr's armor and placing them outside the door and inside the basket respectively, Lin Haiyuan entered the bathroom barefoot, wearing a dark black plaid shirt and loose black trousers. The bathroom's interior differed from typical bathrooms in anime, as it lacked dense tile grids and instead featured a smooth, flawless surface with piled-up black pebbles decorating the walls.

Next up are common faucets and shower heads. Just by looking at these, Lin Haiyuan knew how to use them, especially when there were familiar water pipes and pipes.

Instead of explaining how to use those things, Chun began to explain what items in the bathroom were usable and what were not, usually their own precious shower products.

Then there are the instructions for using the bathroom bathtub. Lin Haiyuan doesn't have the habit of using shower gel or anything like that when taking a shower. At most, he uses shampoo when washing his hair, so it's only natural that he doesn't use those kinds of shower gels with floral scents. There's nothing more to say about that. He just needs to take a shower, tidy up the bathroom, get dressed, and go back to the storage room to sleep.

However, when she came out of the bathroom and saw the living room, she found that Tsubaki and Kazuha were already sleeping soundly in the warm kotatsu.

"He really fell asleep quickly," Lin Haiyuan commented before quietly returning to the storage room, silently closing the door, wrapping himself in a blanket, and waiting for the next day.

Although GDI is also very good, I still choose Protoss!

The beast girls here all have four voice channels, with a pair of round human ears and a pair of beast ears.

Chapter Fifty: Apartment Morning

The next morning, Lin Haiyuan woke up instantly as usual, folded the blanket covering him and placed it on the pile of boxes next to him, and got up to go to the bathroom to wash up. Chun had told him about the washing up for tomorrow in the bathroom the night before. The washing up method in this alternative modern fantasy world was not much different from the washing up method in the modern world.

Lin Haiyuan never liked to waste too much time on washing up, so he quickly finished washing up, put everything back in its place, and went to the living room to find the fox girl and the cat girl.

Huff huff~, Tsubaki and Kazuha lazily curled up in the kotatsu, breathing comfortably. Compared to Lin Haiyuan, who slept without making a sound and was no different from a dead person, they were obviously more lively and cute.

“They’re still sleeping. I have to wake them up, otherwise there won’t be enough time to complete the investigation, arrest those foreign criminal gangs, and then negotiate with the people from Astoria.”

As Lin Haiyuan spoke, he first walked up to Chun, gently touched her head, and then sent a little spiritual power into her brain to stimulate her to wake up from her sleep.

"Wake up, little fox. If you sleep until you naturally wake up, everything will be delayed."

"Ugh?!" Chun made an ambiguous nasal sound, lifting her sleepy eyes. Her delicate nose twitched involuntarily, and after smelling the unfamiliar scent, she suddenly woke up as if struck by an electric current. She rolled over and lay on the ground, preparing to attack. When she opened her eyes and saw Lin Haiyuan wearing Altaïr armor, she immediately relaxed.

"Ha, I thought it was some kind of intruder. I didn't expect that the owner of this rather unfamiliar scent is you."

Chun rubbed her eyes and sighed, stroking her breasts, which were only a B cup. Even though she was wearing a loose yukata-style nightgown and was shorter than Lin Haiyuan, there was no cleavage to speak of.

"Good morning, little fox. Judging people by their smell won't work on me. It's best to use your eyes and conversation. I've taken measures to deal with your smell."

When manufacturing this Altaïr armor, which uses pure optical cloaking technology, a special deodorizing treatment was performed to prevent military dogs from detecting any unusual smells.

"Good morning, I know. It's only... 6 o'clock. Why are you waking me up so early? I haven't had enough sleep yet."

Chun glanced at the hands of the magic alarm clock, which was powered by magic crystals and placed beside her while she was speaking.

"The early bird catches the worm, little fox. If you want to get the reward for the investigation and catch the criminal to claim it quickly, you'd better get up early. I can't accompany you tonight to continue searching and catching people. I'll be negotiating with the Astoria Empire's personnel."

Lin Haiyuan explained why he had called them to get up, then straightened up and walked to the other side of the kotatsu to call out to the catgirl and Ye who were still sleeping.