Colonia Storm Tour

In the small villa on Frontline Island, Lin Haiyuan, who had worked hard all day guiding the warp troops, sat on the sofa with his eyelids drooping as he listened to Shinononozuka's report on the warp troops.

"All the Black Hawk helicopters, Kappa hover tanks, destroyers, Peacemaker artillery, and Aegis cruisers, including the personnel who were sent back to the rear for treatment, remained in their pre-warp state without any accidents during the warp process. The guided warp you and Color Leaf conducted was very successful, and nothing was lost during the warp. Our troops are now stationed on the Island of the Gaze in the Fris Sea and have begun frontline production and construction to restore the fleet's combat capabilities. However, as for important personnel replenishment... we still need you to guide the warp over there."

"Anyway, things are going well, right? We'll talk about what kind of troops we're warping tomorrow. Right now, I'm practically drooping as I listen to your report."

Lin Haiyuan waved his left hand slightly, his words filled with weariness, clearly indicating that he had been thoroughly exhausted from being guided through the warp jump.

"In that case, I have another piece of good news to tell you: our researchers have found a way to replicate warp gates, stargates, and fleet navigation marks using our existing technology."

As she spoke, Shinononozuka placed the report on the table, then pulled the drowsy Lin Haiyuan into her arms, letting him enjoy the familiar, comforting, and reassuring way of burying his face in her chest to relax.

"That's really too much. If I had to be the warp gate, stargate, and fleet navigation beacon all day long, I really wouldn't do it."

Lin Haiyuan buried himself in Shinonono's chest and mumbled incoherently, as waves of weariness washed over his mind and brain.

"It's rare to see you so exhausted and out of sorts, but I still have something I want to ask. Is it really okay for Seye to teach your daughter to become a psychic?"

Shinonono no Ikuko wants to become a psychic like Iroha, which clearly means she needs to change her materialist ideology to an idealist one.

"Don't worry about that. I've already transmitted the psychic theories originating from Epsilon to her through my psychic vision. I don't need to worry that she'll teach my daughter wrong. Once she studies it herself, she'll discover that the activation of our psychic power doesn't require spirit to be primary and matter to be secondary. So the basic psychic training methods she's learned are completely unsuitable for Shion. Besides, their psychic power is much harder to control than our psychic power. Although she's not the real Madoka, her personality is similar to Madoka's. I don't need to worry that she'll harm my daughter. As for doing good deeds but causing harm... that's her area of ​​expertise. It's too difficult for her to do good deeds but causing harm... Alright, alright, I just want to sleep like this tonight. Don't make me do any more social security."

After Lin Haiyuan raised his head and forced himself to finish speaking, his head slumped down into the crevice between the large cat paw-shaped paws and remained motionless.

"Phew, you've had a tough time, my other self. It'll probably take a few more days of your hard work."

Shinononozuka patted the already sleeping Lin Haiyuan on the shoulder as she spoke.

Those materialists and idealists among the stars... in reality, are absolute materialists and absolute spiritualists.

Of course, spiritualists are still within the realm of idealism; they are still idealistic fools.

Chapter 111 Within the Virtual Realm (Part 1)

BGM: Black ice 9 - Nine Realms

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Exhausted, Lin Haiyuan quickly fell asleep in Shinonono's arms. Seeing how exhausted he was (for himself), Shinonono gave up on the idea of ​​exploiting him.

However, she couldn't let Lin Haiyuan stay on her like that. She still had warp-related work to do. So, as she laid Lin Haiyuan flat on the sofa, covered him with his coat, and prepared to leave, she happened to run into Iroha, who had come to visit. For Shinonono Tsukasa, Iroha's visit to Lin Haiyuan at night had a different, ambiguous meaning.

"Miss Seye, it's already evening and you should be resting. Why are you here to see Lin Haiyuan? Is there something important he needs to discuss?"

Of course, Shinononozuka couldn't directly ask Iroha if she was there to see Hayashi Kaigen about something illicit, because it would be awkward if Iroha actually had something important to discuss with Hayashi Kaigen.

"Is Lin Haiyuan already asleep from exhaustion? Just like he said. Ms. Shinonono Tsukasa, after guiding the psychic warp, Lin Haiyuan asked me, who still had energy left, to stay by his side after he fell asleep and monitor his mental fluctuations. If any uncontrolled mental power appeared, I was to immediately suppress it and prevent disaster from happening."

Iroha answered Shinonono no Tsukasa's perfectly normal question truthfully, and as for the X18 thing, it was never in her consideration from the beginning.

"To stay by his side and suppress his mental power at all times?... Oh, I see. He himself told me that once he falls asleep due to excessive mental or physical exhaustion, he will experience emotional fluctuations that he himself is unaware of, which will cause his mental power to be affected and trigger an accident that no one wants to see. Then it will really be hard for you to take care of Lin Haiyuan all night, Miss Seye."

Shinonono Tsukasa, having had his memories transmitted by Lin Haiyuan through his mental vision, learned that the only time his mental power was unstable was when he was overworked. During this time, his will weakened, and his control over his powerful mental energy decreased significantly. If he didn't want to end up like Libra, whose CAS was paralyzed, causing destruction and madness due to his uncontrollable mental power, besides fixing a CAS to his spine, he needed to have a sufficiently powerful mental ability user by his side to suppress his mental power and calm his restless mind.

Libra, who went berserk after being paralyzed by Yunru's CAS, was anesthetized and sent to Yuri, the most powerful psychic, where her psychic powers were used to suppress her and restore her composure.

"It's so good that Ms. Shinono Tsukasa understands. It saves me a lot of trouble explaining. Could you tell me where his room is? I'll use my psychic powers to transport him back to his room."

Shiroha felt relieved that Shinononozuka understood Hayashi Kaihara's control over his mental power. If she hadn't, it could have easily led to a deterioration in their relationship. After all, she would be by Hayashi Kaihara's side from now on, and if her relationship with Shinononozuka, with whom he had a close relationship, so so that she had a falling out, she would face many awkward problems in her life.

“His room is right there, it’s unlocked. Cover him with a blanket so he can sleep more comfortably. I still have work to finish, so I’m leaving the task of taking care of him to you.”

Shinononozuka pointed to Lin Haiyuan's room with her thumb, then picked up the report on the table, bowed slightly to her, and left.

"Please rest assured and leave it to me, Miss Shinonono no Tsukasa. I will definitely keep a close eye on Lin Haiyuan and make sure nothing happens to him."

Iroha bowed slightly in response, then used her spiritual energy to wrap around Lin Haiyuan, who was sleeping in a crooked position. Pink spiritual energy emanated from the edges of his body, and he floated up from the sofa and returned to his room with Iroha. He was then placed on her bed, and as Shinonono Tsukasa had instructed, she covered Lin Haiyuan with the blanket so that his head wouldn't be sticking out.

After looking at Lin Haiyuan, who was completely covered by the blanket, for a few seconds, Seye felt very strange. It was as if she were covering a dead person with a shroud. She wondered if she would be suffocated if she covered her head with the blanket. So she pulled the blanket down to her neck, picked up a cushion and placed it on the side of the bed. Then she sat on the cushion, put her hands on the bed, lowered her head and closed her eyes.

As Shinononozuka said, this was sleeping time. As someone who was close to being a psychic, physical fatigue in the conventional sense was almost non-existent for her. However, maintaining mental synchronization with him and guiding the troops to warp was no easy task either. Lin Haiyuan was exhausted, but that didn't mean she was in good shape. She was also mentally fatigued, so it was perfectly normal for her to sit on the edge of the bed with her upper body lying on the bed to sleep. As for taking care of Lin Haiyuan, it wouldn't be a problem, because when it was time for her to fulfill her duty of care, the abnormal fluctuations in her mental power would be enough to wake her from her sleep and deal with Lin Haiyuan, who was emitting abnormal mental fluctuations. However, considering how powerful his mental power was, whether there would be any remains of the villa was still a question worth discussing. As for Iroha, she could only hope that Lin Haiyuan's mental power wouldn't go berserk, and the same was true for Shinononozuka.

However, the uncertain opportunities brought by the power of the mind, that is, the vision of the mind always chooses a moment when Lin Haiyuan is exhausted to appear, bringing new experiences to Lin Haiyuan who is still asleep.

Its consciousness fell into the darkness called deep sleep, like a pebble falling into the surface of a dark abyss, making a tinkling sound, just like a pebble being thrown into calm water.

The appearance of layered ripples on the surface of this silent, cold, dark abyss is undoubtedly another manifestation of the mental vision phenomenon, which could bring both good and bad things.

Subtle mental fluctuations emanated from Lin Haiyuan, and the mental ripples collided with Seye and automatically dissolved within her, as if resonating with her. Her spiritual energy formed a wave that reflected back to her, and then the mental power/spiritual energy of the two began to intertwine, establishing an unreal connection. Seye, who was asleep, also consciously entered a state of mental vision.

After the ripples had been moving for an unknown period of time, the ripples in the center of the dark lake gradually disappeared, leaving only the outer perimeter of the dark lake's center to continue its orderly and slow circular ripples.

Clouds ranging from deep purple to light purple and from bright blue to pale blue swirl and dissipate against a dark background, spreading into an indescribable space, with flashes of different colors flickering within the eerie clouds.

These fierce battles, accompanied by flashes of light amidst the clouds and mist, resembled typhoons or long, narrow tornadoes. The flashes, carrying large amounts of unfathomable clouds and mist, began to collide and fight silently. In each silent explosion, large amounts of clouds and flashes shattered, scattered, or even dissipated. The fragments of clouds and mist drifted along unpredictable and eerie trajectories like wreckage.

Se Ye, who was linked into Lin Haiyuan's mental vision and saw the same scene as him, immediately realized that Lin Haiyuan's dream and the mental vision he had created had led them both to the storm zone of the virtual realm! The large amount of primordial spiritual energy flowing here, which violently produced semi-intelligent spiritual beings, and the collisions between them, were enough to prove this point.

How can you say you've truly experienced a world with a starry backdrop if you don't visit the virtual realm at least once?

Chapter 112 Within the Illusory Realm (Part Two)

"Good heavens, why did we suddenly end up in the Void Realm, and in the Void Realm's storm zone at that? He didn't actively guide his spiritual energy into the Void Realm, did he?"

Seye was completely bewildered, asking herself inwardly. In her mind, for a psychic to enter the Void Realm, a considerable number of psychics had to gather together and pool their spiritual energy. Although Lin Haiyuan's mental power was strong, it wasn't strong enough for him to enter the Void Realm on his own. Could it be that he had entered the Void Realm by sheer luck with an extremely small probability?

"Well, we should try to get out of the virtual realm as soon as possible, no matter what. It would be bad if we attracted the attention of the End of Reincarnation."

Soryu immediately activated her spiritual power, swiftly severing the connection between her mental vision and the illusory realm to avoid being targeted by the whispers of the void, the threads of life, the ghouls of the world, the artifacts of desire, and the terrifying and loathsome end of reincarnation within the illusory realm. In particular, Soryu was the only one who had escaped the punishment of the end, and if the end of reincarnation saw her, this lucky one, who knows what kind of disaster would occur.

After the faint psychic connection between the Mind Vision and the Void Realm was severed, the scene the two could see in the Mind Vision suddenly turned pitch black. However, the Mind Vision did not end there; instead, an interesting new change occurred. With a crisp dripping sound, the pitch-black scene suddenly produced visible transparent fluctuations. This time, the original psychic energy of the Void Realm, which changed from deep purple to light purple and from bright blue to light blue, and the dark background curtain reappeared. Lin Haiyuan's Mind Vision was once again linked into the Void Realm, which gave Se Ye a terrifying feeling of seeing a ghost.

"What exactly is going on? I clearly severed the connection between his mental vision and the virtual realm once. If he managed to connect to the virtual realm by chance before, it shouldn't happen again now."

Seye thought this was impossible. It was impossible for a psychic to access the virtual realm repeatedly in a short period of time, unless... something in the virtual realm was attracting the psychic.

"Try to sever the psionic connection between his mental vision and the virtual world once again. If his mental vision reconnects to the virtual world, you must protect him and see what is calling him."

She once again used her psychic powers to sever the psychic connection between the Mind Vision and the Void Realm, causing the Mind Vision to turn completely black again. After a few minutes, the Mind Vision began to show transparent fluctuations again, and the original psychic energy, which changed from deep purple to light purple and from bright blue to light blue, reappeared along with the dark background curtain. The aura of the Void Realm rushed over, and the Mind Vision was once again linked to the Void Realm.

Ding-wu-wu-wu-wu~, a strange metallic synthesized sound echoed in the mind's vision. Accompanying this strange metallic synthesized sound, a humanoid phantom suddenly appeared in front of the mind's vision.

"That's a psionic phantom of a humanoid creature. Are there humanoid creatures entering the virtual realm at this time? Judging from the number, it doesn't seem like a phenomenon that only occurs at a gathering of psionicists. It's impossible that there's only one humanoid figure."

Seye subconsciously wondered if the psionic phantom opposite her was also a psionic being, like Lin Haiyuan, who had entered the virtual realm alone. However, based on her experience of entering the virtual realm, even if a single psionic being consumed a large amount of Zelo, they would not be able to enter the virtual realm alone according to their own will. Moreover, being unable to control their heightened psionic energy would also cost a psionic being their life.

Ding-wu-wu-wu~, the strange metallic synthesized sound continued to echo in the mind's eye. The psionic humanoid phantom became more complete in the visions of Se Ye and Lin Haiyuan. The psionic humanoid phantom's appearance changed from a glowing humanoid creature to a glowing female human. Judging from her appearance and figure, this female human was a girl of similar age to Se Ye. However, this girl looked a little strange. On the forehead of the psionic humanoid phantom that appeared opposite her, Se Ye saw a glowing symbol similar to a VIP. Her expression looked gloomy and serious, and psionic energy fluctuated around her.

"This psionic girl phantom is quite young, wait... something seems off about her psionic power... how come it's almost exactly the same as Lin Haiyuan's psychic power!"

Seye quickly sensed the difference in the psychic power of the phantom girl with the VIP mark on her forehead, while the phantom girl with psychic powers stared at them blankly.

Because of his deep physical and mental exhaustion, Lin Haiyuan's dormant consciousness partially awakened during this process, allowing him to consciously see the scenes of his mental vision.

When he first saw the primal psionic energy ranging from deep purple to light purple and from bright blue to light blue against the dark backdrop, it took him a few seconds to realize that this was a sight that could only be seen in the virtual realm. Then, when he saw the psionic girl's phantom with a VIP symbol on her forehead, his partially awakened consciousness immediately became alert. His own psionic phantom was also taking shape in the virtual realm. He knew that the VIP symbol could only appear on people like Yuri! His part of his consciousness could still read memories.

"Lin Haiyuan, Lin Haiyuan, Lin Haiyuan, Lin Haiyuan, ah, ah, ah, I never expected, I never expected, we, we actually met in the virtual realm."

Yuri Abel's words of surprise and cruel ecstasy echoed in his mental vision. She never expected to see Lin Haiyuan in the virtual world, after capturing Shinonono no Tsukasa in the IS vision.

She not only drove Shinonono to work on the technological development of Epsilon, but also made her explain everything about Lin Haiyuan, drawing and describing Lin Haiyuan's facial features to him.

That's why she was able to see Lin Haiyuan's psionic phantom and recognize him based on his mental power and external features.

"Who exactly are you? How do you know his name? The mark on your forehead... you're from Epsilon, aren't you?"

Seye immediately shielded Lin Haiyuan's consciousness, questioning the psionic phantom of Yuri Abel in a sweet voice—she had heard Lin Haiyuan say in her mind's eye that this Hebrew alphabet combination, which looked like a VIP, only appeared on members of the Epsilon organization, as it was their faction emblem, so she could identify the unknown psionic girl in front of her.

"Hmm? A psionicist, good heavens... Who am I? Before you want me to answer your question, answer mine first: And who are you to Lin Haiyuan?"

When Yuri Abel saw that the psionic phantom of Seye was protecting the stunned psionic phantom of Lin Haiyuan, she felt quite apprehensive. She sensed the power of Seye's psionic energy, which was powerful enough to rival or even overwhelm her mental power. So she tried to get some information out of Seye first.

"No, you should answer my question first. Who are you, and why do you know his name? You are an Epsilonian."

Iroha wasn't so naive as to be tricked into revealing information without realizing it, so she decided to pursue her questions to the end and see who could hold back and decide to take action first instead of arguing.

Psionic projection and psionic phantom both refer to the same thing.

Chapter 113 Within the Illusory Realm (Part 3)

"It seems you're not going to answer my question. Since your projection hasn't even taken shape yet, then you might as well get out of the virtual realm. This is none of your business!"

Yuri Abel gathered powerful mental energy in her hands, forming two spheres of mental energy, and hurled them at Seye, who was blocking Lin Haiyuan's psionic phantom.

"Unfortunately, I should be the one saying the same thing. It seems that it is your existence that is causing him to keep entering the virtual realm!"

A wooden bow forged from psionic energy and two pinkish-white energy arrows swiftly appeared in Seye's hands. With a flick of the energy string, the two energy arrows were launched and destroyed two psychic energy orbs.

The explosion of mental and spiritual energy created a burst of dissipating spiritual energy that vanished into the dark veil of the virtual realm. Lin Haiyuan's awakened portion of consciousness immediately roused the rest of his dormant consciousness. However, due to excessive fatigue, Lin Haiyuan's consciousness did not fully awaken as quickly and required some more time.

"It seems your psychic power is quite strong. But how about trying this move? Your psychic projection looks rather weak!"

Yuri Abel chose to directly attack Iroha's mind, sending an invisible wave of psionic energy towards her psionic phantom, attempting to severely injure both the psionic phantom and the real Iroha at the same time.

"Psychic shock? Such a rudimentary method is not powerful enough to seriously damage my psionic phantom and my physical body. It's a waste of effort."

The psionic phantom of the leaf instantly emitted an extremely pinkish-white psionic light, repelling the psionic wave emitted by Yuri's mind-piercing psionic phantom and briefly disrupting the surrounding psionic energy.

This spiritual energy is indeed very powerful, but she has not fully revealed her spiritual energy projection in the virtual realm yet, so she may not be able to exert more of her strength. I should not get entangled in a fight with her. The reason I came to the virtual realm is because I foresaw Lin Haiyuan's existence in my mental vision, and I want to see if there is any chance to severely injure or even kill him in the virtual realm.

Yuri realized even more deeply after receiving the first move that without the help of other psychic abilities, it would be difficult for her to defeat Seye in the virtual realm. So she immediately turned around and gathered her psychic power to form two sharp bolts of lightning, which she shot out from her hands to bypass Seye and attack the psychic phantom of Lin Haiyuan, who was still standing there in a daze.

"Realizing the difference in strength between us, you still chose to attack the one I was protecting. I can sense your obsession with him. You wouldn't happen to be Yuri Abel, would you?"

Seye could sense the emotional fluctuations in Yuri's psionic phantom opposite her, so she tentatively asked a question and created a pink psionic shield to envelop herself and Lin Haiyuan. The mental energy lightning struck the psionic shield, creating ripples and dissipating residual mental energy.

"Do you really think that all the emotions and thoughts you perceive are real? Enough with the nonsense, where exactly did Lin Haiyuan promise you what benefits to make you serve him?"

Yuri was startled. She wondered how the psionic phantom protecting Lin Haiyuan knew her name! Then she thought of Shinonono no Tsukasa, who had sided with Lin Haiyuan, and realized that her personal information must have been leaked to Lin Haiyuan, who then told this psionicist to be wary of her!

“Your mental power is not advanced enough to completely conceal your intentions. I have already read through Epsilon’s mental theories in their entirety.”

Seiye could tell that Yuri was lying and trying to confuse her, so she immediately fired a rain of pink energy arrows from her wooden bow at Yuri, who was standing still.

"What?! This is impossible! How could the Foehn Resistance have our mind control theory? They are the Foehn Resistance, how could they have and use our mind control theory?!"

Yuri could no longer hide her surprise. She hadn't expected that the psychic on the other side would know about Epsilon's psychic theories. She hadn't heard anything about the Burning Wind Rebellion possessing Epsilon technology from Shinonono no Tsukasa's confession. At most, they knew how to train specialized psychic experts with defects because of the Apostle of the Pressure Ball. Faced with the psychic arrow rain attack, she immediately chose to retreat and dodge the attack. A large amount of psychic energy exploded and added a lot of psychic smoke to the field, making vision and perception confused.

"What does his Foehn resistance have to do with whether or not he can use the theory of mind? It has nothing to do with the difference between idealism and materialism."

Color Leaf nocked a pink energy arrow, imbued with even more spiritual power, onto the wooden bow. With a quick glance, she spotted Yuri behind the spiritual smoke. She tugged the bowstring, and the energy arrow shot out like a meteor, hurtling towards Yuri, who had just stopped. Yuri tried to retreat to dodge the attack, but the pink energy arrow had a tracking ability. She had no choice but to unleash a super energy wave to destroy it. The silent spiritual explosion was enough to engulf Yuri. As the spiritual smoke dissipated, Yuri's spiritual phantom began to flicker, her energy level dropped, and her existence became unstable.

"What a joke! The Burning Wind Rebellion was created to rebel against our mental power, and they will use the very mental power that led them to rebel! This is absurd!"