Colonia Storm Tour

Chapter 142 A Key Fragment Leading to the Future (Part 1)

After Li Xiangyang, Kang De, Shinonono Shu, and Lin Haiyuan, who were waiting in the conference room, did not receive any reply from the Ikchino Republic Alliance after 15 minutes, they realized that the Ikchino Republic Alliance was probably no longer able to respond to any messages expressing that they were not mind-controlled. Now, they should all prepare for the worst.

At this moment, Li Xiangyang's head maid, Belfast, said with a solemn expression, "Xiangyang, the embassy of the Republic of Ikchino has not responded to its attempts to contact its motherland."

Li Xiangyang didn't say much, but simply pressed her arm to pull her back to his side. Then he turned and glanced at Lin Haiyuan, Shinonono no Sugimoto, and Kant, saying:

"Just as we anticipated, after sending the document to the Crimson Heart Palace of the Ikchino Republic Alliance, along with your special instructions, if the Ikchino Republic Alliance doesn't respond immediately within 15 minutes, and Miss Stellin doesn't assimilate properly, and their embassy in the area can't be accurately contacted, this means..."

"Our probing move did indeed provoke an extreme reaction from Epsilon. They realized they had been exposed and were planning to take direct control of the entire Republic of Ikchino. Soon we will not only see psychic beacons and psychic control amplifiers on Serafin Continent, but also on Rosno Continent."

Kant continued Li Xiangyang's words, scratching his head with his right hand. His expression showed a terrible sense of impending doom, and now they would have to bear the pressure of Epsilon alone.

"Rosno Continent is beyond saving. It's only a matter of time before they are all mind-controlled and become the vanguard for Epsilon's conquest of the world. Now, all we can do is what we can: before Epsilon's Grim Reaper's Hand intercontinental ballistic missiles descend upon us, we must build my Paradox Engine. That is our last hope against Epsilon."

Lin Haiyuan thought that even if they went to Rosno Continent to carry out a mission, it would only buy them a negligible amount of time. Rescuing the generals of Rosno Continent and then having them lead a portion of the Icchino Republic Alliance forces that weren't mind-controlled against Epsilon? Don't be ridiculous. They had little chance of winning; they could only buy time. In this world, Epsilon didn't have a shortage of troops. The only limitations on their forces were resources, the number of cloning cylinders, and maintenance costs. If needed, their forces in this world could easily grow to an unparalleled size. While the initiative of cloned troops was questionable, they certainly possessed the ability to overwhelmingly defeat the enemy. Especially now that Epsilon had mastered the hyperspace teleporter and could create wormholes for teleportation, they were fully capable of spreading large numbers of troops to the weaknesses of military forces and fortresses to quickly and thoroughly crush the enemy. They could also quickly establish mind beacons and mind control amplifiers without the need for extensive prior deployment of these devices.

"The Alliance of Eternal Revelation will likely soon succumb to mind control and become slaves of Epsilon. What we get from Eternal Revelation, Epsilon will also get. It's just a matter of time. To be honest, on paper, this is a rather hopeless battle because our trump cards, besides the Paradox Engine and another Miss Seye, are nothing else."

Shinononozuka didn't hide her true thoughts either, saying frankly that their chances of winning the battle were not as great as they thought.

"So running away is also an option, but it requires waiting for the technological data of our time-space teleporter to be restored, and whether you are willing to abandon everyone except your army and ship girls and leave this world. This way you can avoid Epsilon's attack, but whether she can find us again through inter-world wormhole teleportation is another matter."

Lin Haiyuan's words clearly meant that if they continued to choose to escape, they might become eternal wanderers. Of course, the only thing that was not eternal in this eternal voyage was that these transmigrators had a limited lifespan. However, Lin Haiyuan and Shinononozuka, who had been genetically modified and strengthened, would live a long life, but Li Xiangyang and Kang De could not be guaranteed to live long lives.

"According to what you've said, we have no hope of winning if we fight, and we won't have any peace if we run away. But if we don't run, I'm not confident about facing their ICBMs. We don't have anything that can stop those things that can destroy a large city with a single blow. But I don't believe they'll always be so lucky as to find us in another world..."

After weighing the pros and cons, Li Xiangyang was inclined to leave this world and settle down in the next one.

"But can we easily abandon everything we have and leave here? Our ship girls and military are absolutely impossible to abandon, but what about our supporters..."

Kant also tended to leave this world in order to find a more hopeful way to survive, but the question is whether they could really simply take their army and ship girls and escape to another world.

"If you don't intend to fight Epsilon to the death... or if you originally had no connection with the Burning Wind Rebellion and Epsilon, Epsilon won't hunt you down if you escape, because their only target from beginning to end is me—Lin Haiyuan. Interdimensional teleportation technology isn't a problem, it's just that because there are no fixed coordinates, the worlds you can go to after opening the wormhole are random. You need to repeatedly perform this operation to find a suitable world for you to evacuate and live in peace."

Lin Haiyuan didn't expect Li Xiangyang and Kang De to fight alongside him and Shinonono no Tsukasa in the battle against Epsilon, so it was best for them to part ways at the right time.

"This is the trouble caused by being forced to defend passively. The offensive power is completely in the hands of Epsilon, and even if we have the strength, we can't hit Epsilon's weak point. Even if we have interdimensional teleportation technology and want to annihilate the root of Epsilon once and for all, we don't have the world coordinates controlled by her. To outsiders, it is indeed a futile and hopeless resistance, but if we don't resist, we will only die. If we continue to resist, there is still a way to survive. And this time, I don't plan to run away."

"Finding the coordinates of the world controlled by Epsilon isn't entirely impossible. Miss Seye and I will do our best to capture a psychic expert or elite, or perhaps seize one of their bases, or find a way through psychic energy. Then you can settle down in another world..."

Lin Haiyuan looked at Li Xiangyang, Kang De, and Shinonono Tsukasa, paused for a few seconds, and then said seriously, "Then I will lead the Paradox Engine, with the troops directly under my and Shinonono Tsukasa's command, to Antarctica in that world, to destroy the ultimate invention that forged her ideal country, so that she will no longer have the mood to invade other worlds to hunt her down, and it would be best to (harmonize) directly (harmonize) kill (harmonize) her, and end all of this."

Chapter 143 A Key Fragment Leading to the Future (Part Two)

After the meeting, Li Xiangyang and Kang De, representing the Azure Front, truly understood that Lin Haiyuan was tired of Epsilon's endless pursuit of him. He planned to avoid involving more of them and, with his former flagship which had been forced to "degenerate," settle scores with Epsilon, who had been entrenched in a world as their lair and were waging war everywhere.

After the data from the Chronosphere is successfully recovered and constructed, it will be no problem for Shinonono no Tsukasa to create a random inter-world wormhole leading to a certain world. At that time, Li Xiangyang and Kangde can take their fleet, their army (including the Pacific Front mobile construction vehicles and existing technological data), supporters, and people willing to leave with them to a new, safe new world to take root, sprout, and start their new lives, because they were originally just outsiders in the battle between the Firewind led by him and the Epsilon led by Yuri.

These outsiders have done a great job rebuilding his army and ships. They don't need to do the things that will cost him and the ship girls their lives. These are the problems and messes that he, Lin Haiyuan, created because of his inaction due to various time-travel accidents and failure to nip the problems in the bud. Now, only he and his army can solve these problems and messes.

Lin Haiyuan will bring his daughter, the now unnamed Shinonono Tsukasa, and Iroha who voluntarily follows her, to lead their army in the battle against Epsilon on the Paradox Engine.

Faced with his decision, Li Xiangyang and Kang De looked at Shinonono no Sugimoto, who should have been his superior or his unofficial wife, with puzzled and pleading eyes, hoping she could persuade Lin Haiyuan. Perhaps there was a better way, such as escaping to another world with them. After all, Epsilon couldn't always be so lucky as to come to their world, could it? However, Shinonono no Sugimoto, who was clearly of one mind with Lin Haiyuan or another Lin Haiyuan, understood "his" temperament very well. Since the other Lin Haiyuan believed there was no need to escape, and he no longer sought comfort, being chased by Epsilon every time he came to a new world had made him annoyed and furious, he planned to solve the Epsilon problem once and for all, it was a fight to the death, and no one could stop him then.

Therefore, Shinononozuka's reply to Li Xiangyang and Kant afterwards was: "It's impossible. He had already planned to do it, and once he decided to do it, he would definitely do it."

Thus, the actions of the Pacific Front, currently under the dual leadership of Lin Haiyuan and Shinonono Tsukasa, are quite simple. Apart from the research and construction of the Paradox Engine and the mass-energy extraction and conversion facility, the two bosses are preparing to embark on a path they never imagined before: to fight against a seemingly invincible opponent, to execute a strike at the heart of the matter, and to eliminate the ultimate boss.

Thus, while the Azure Front was heavily defending the Crested Arms, Epsilon successfully activated the mind control amplifiers and mind beacons on Seraphim and Rosno. At the moment when human voices echoed amidst the sounds of machinery, the purple dawn descended on Seraphim and Rosno. From then on, the vast majority of humans on these continents became Epsilon's mind-control slaves. The few who were not subject to mind control would be ruthlessly hunted down or recruited by Epsilon, provided they were willing to join Epsilon and serve him. However, the expeditionary fleet, which had already fled, escaped mind control and successfully returned to the Crested Arms for reorganization.

Thus, the forces that still maintain so-called free will in the world are the Astoria Empire, which is completely ignorant of Epsilon and mind control, and the Azure Front, which is huddled in the Crested Arms Islands. However, the Azure Front will soon be dismantled and reorganized under Lin Haiyuan's decision, because the Pacific Front, led by him and Shinononozuka, will leave the Crested Arms Islands in the future.

Overall, it felt great to have the upper hand over Epsilon. Yuri herself was very satisfied with the significant increase in her slaves, and also gained a lot of new and practical technologies. Next, she could prepare to deal with the Pacific front huddled in the Spinning Arms Islands. As for the Astoria Empire? Its fate was irrelevant to Epsilon and the Burning Wind Rebels. It was something that could be dealt with easily with mind control. To Epsilon, the Astoria Empire was only worthy of the description of being "as insignificant as an ant."

While Epsilon and Yuri were enjoying themselves, someone else was unhappy. That unhappy person was the unknown avatar of Nyarlathotep, who had caused Lin Haiyuan's shipwreck and nearly separated him from his daughter forever. She had placed Lin Haiyuan in this world because she found it interesting to see what he could do and what interesting interactions he would have with other transmigrators in an environment where their limited abilities were exposed. However, she never expected that Epsilon, this uninvited guest, would come to the world she had chosen for Lin Haiyuan and cause trouble, even using mind control to completely ruin the plan she had prepared. Normally, she would have had no objection to this situation and would even have been happy to see what consequences these reckless humans would suffer for playing with technologies they didn't truly understand.

But now this Epsilon is about to turn the stage she chose upside down and change everything. Doesn't that mean her previous plans for Lin Haiyuan have completely fallen through?! No, they were already doomed from the moment the Mind Control Amplifier and Mind Beacon were activated. It was only a matter of time before the whole world fell into Epsilon's shadow. Although Nyarlathotep's unknown avatar could solve this problem herself, she never liked to take direct action but planned to indirectly push or shove someone to accomplish something. So, she once again set her sights on Lin Haiyuan.

"Hmph, since this girl named Yuri is so eager to kill Lin Haiyuan, whom I've set my sights on, and has ruined the stage I've chosen for her, then I can change my plans. And coincidentally, Lin Haiyuan is also planning a final showdown with this Yuri-named Epsilon to settle scores with them. So I'll grant both of your wishes at the same time. Let me see if Lin Haiyuan is worthy of my expectations and hard work. If you lose to that arrogant human girl, don't worry, I'll continue to find that arrogant human girl and play with her until she dies. It's impossible for her to kill such an interesting person as you so cheaply."

Nyarlathotep's unknown avatar tossed aside an unconscious psychic expert like trash, appearing as a silver-haired beauty and gazing up at the void.

"However, Lin Haiyuan, who believes he suffered an undeserved calamity, will definitely want to kill me at all costs when he sees me again. Now that the survivor of the ancient interstellar empire beside him has joined forces with him to deal with me, there is a possibility that I might actually be defeated and expelled from this world. So I need to find another way to make them able to meet reasonably in an arena."

As he spoke, Nyarlathotep's unknown avatar snapped his fingers and said, "I've got it! His research team must be having a headache over their heavy research workload. I can infiltrate their research team and give Lin Haiyuan a hand, as long as he completes his plan..."

After speaking, Nyarlathotep's unknown avatar transformed into a cloud of dark mist and disappeared from the spot.

Chapter 144 A Key Fragment Leading to the Future (Part 3)

For Nyarlathotep's unknown avatar, finding out what Lin Haiyuan was planning to do wouldn't be difficult. Perhaps he and the last survivor of that ancient interstellar empire were capable enough to sense her arrival, preventing her from spying on Lin Haiyuan and Seye. She might even get a beating from the two of them. However, while Lin Haiyuan and Seye could effectively protect those within a few meters of him, they couldn't protect everyone around him. Therefore, she could obtain information about Lin Haiyuan's actions through others to understand his plans.

Helping Lin Haiyuan complete his plan wasn't a burden for her. Evil gods aren't bound by as many rules as humans; their actions largely depend on their mood and thoughts, especially since Nyarlathotep is [Chaos]. Furthermore, she quite liked this knowledgeable and interesting soul-related individual, and they shared common interests.

Lin Haiyuan was tired of being hunted down by Epsilon in every world and wanted to destroy Epsilon completely. Nyarlathotep's unknown avatar also wanted to punish Yuri, who was pregnant with her, through the hands of others.

Therefore, it is perfectly normal to choose to help Lin Haiyuan secretly. However, this help is not unlimited, but more of a push-type help, and will not allow his technology to skyrocket to an exaggerated level.

Thus, Nyarlathotep's unknown avatar possessed and remotely controlled multiple researchers on Frontline Island, helping his research team complete their research tasks in a way that was difficult to detect.

For Lin Haiyuan and Shinonono no Tsukasa, who were completely unaware of the situation, their research team seemed to have been blessed by the source of the Fourth Calamity's power [~]. Everyone possessed the skills of a curator, a custom AI assistant, a synthetic mechanical body, a flash of inspiration, a chosen one, and multiple specializations in particle physics, materials science, industrial science, force field manipulation, and computer science. The progress of their research was astonishing. Research work that was originally expected to take one or two months or even half a year to complete was shortened to a few weeks or even a week. Their Paradox Engine construction was progressing remarkably well, and the previously damaged Allied Forces data core had been repaired. Now that they had regained the technology of the entire Allied Forces, the key Sigma tuner equipment on the Paradox Engine could finally be manufactured and installed in the designated space location of the Paradox Engine. Soon their Paradox Engine would be completed and ready for combat.

Lin Haiyuan and Shinonono Tsukasa wondered if someone was secretly helping their research team, perhaps by adding features to their team through the control console to speed up the research to 100% or even by giving them a 500% time-space acceleration for phase technicians, allowing them to complete the research and most of the construction work so quickly. Iroha, on the other hand, didn't think much of it. She simply said that maybe it was divine blessing, but she couldn't offer any valuable answers. If she or Lin Haiyuan were to see the researchers being possessed and remotely controlled, they would understand that there was indeed divine blessing and human assistance. However, if this god was the unknown avatar of Nyarlathotep, whom Lin Haiyuan wanted to tear to pieces, it would be a shocking revelation to everyone.

However, considering that Epsilon has already taken control of the Republic of Ikchino and the Eternal Revelation Alliance, the only ones left in the world besides the Astoria Empire, which is kept in the dark, are the ones who know the truth. They don't have much time left to safely conduct research, construction, and mass production. In addition, Li Xiangyang and Kang De finally made their final decision. Based on the results of their previous discussion with Lin Haiyuan and Shinonono Tsukasa in the conference room, they will leave this world where they have been staying for a few years with their ship girls, army, and supporters. The hyperspace teleporter used to open the inter-world teleportation wormhole is ready.

The research team, seemingly aided by divine intervention, quickly completed the modification and upgrade of the time-space teleporter, successfully creating a wormhole linking to another world. After dispatching brave scouts in full protective suits and hunting drones to conduct reconnaissance and confirm that the world on the other side of the wormhole was a new world suitable for their survival, the largest but also the most covert transfer operation began.

Li Xiangyang and Kang De must first take the ship girls inside to avoid being wiped out by the unexpected Grim Reaper's Hand intercontinental ballistic missiles. Next will be their army. The mobile construction vehicle contains Allied coalition technology, improved hyperspace teleporters, and Eternal Revelation technology data. If they encounter a similar insurmountable threat one day, they can choose to build a Paradox Engine to fight to the end or take people away from this world to another. Then, they will bring their supporters accumulated in the Crested Arms Islands to the new world to establish their new home.

To ensure a flawless defense and to prevent their withdrawal from being detected, thus leaving Lin Haiyuan and Shinonono no Tsukasa with sufficient resources to fight against Epsilon, he chose to transfer all the naval fleet and most of the army to Lin Haiyuan and Shinonono no Tsukasa. They didn't need the navy in the New World for the time being, and they still had to go through the trouble of transporting naval ships to the water.

During this period, a few Epsilon infiltrators lurking within the Azure Front vaguely discovered clues about Li Xiangyang and Kangde's evacuation. However, they never had reliable intelligence to determine what they were doing. But after further intelligence gathering, they discovered that the army defenses of the Crested Arm Islands had become quite weak. Many of the previously overcrowded military bases had been reduced in number, and many army and amphibious units had gone to a certain place and never appeared again. Even the three transmigrators, Li Xiangyang, Kangde, and Shinononozuka, had not shown up.

When this intelligence was conveyed to Yuri, who was at the IS World Antarctic Headquarters, she immediately thought that the Pacific Front might have fled under the Fenfeng Resistance Army led by Lin Haiyuan. Otherwise, it would be impossible for so many troops to disappear into thin air, and they all disappeared without a trace after going behind an intelligence black hole called "Frontline Sea Area". It seems very likely that the followers of the Pacific Front were withdrawing from there.

Yuri then ordered all the troops at the No. 1 Otherworld Headquarters to prepare for an invasion and occupation of the Spinning Arms Islands to find out the reason behind the unusual actions of the Pacific Front and the Foehn Resistance.

At the same time, she dispatched a wormhole teleportation assault team to prepare to assault any land in the Pacific Front's waters to investigate all activities of the Pacific Front in the region. If she could find that the Burning Wind Rebels' air flagship was there picking up passengers and transporting their troops, then she would launch several Death Hand intercontinental ballistic missiles to destroy everything there, including everything belonging to the Burning Wind Rebels.

Just as Yuri gave the order to prepare for the attack and mobilize the infiltrators, Li Xiangyang and Kangde had already left this world with their ship girls, a small number of troops, and allied MCVs. All the fleets that maintained a defensive posture had gathered on Frontline Island, preparing to travel to the IS world through the wormhole to fight Epsilon to the death.

Chapter 145 A Key Fragment Leading to the Future (Part 4)

As a result of most of the army having retreated to the Frontline Island and a small portion following Li Xiangyang and Kangde to the other world, when Epsilon launched surprise attacks on various parts of the Spinning Arms Islands using the enhanced hyperspace teleporter and Scrin's wormhole generator, their army encountered virtually no effective resistance and occupied the target locations. Of course, there was some resistance, but how could swords and rifles withstand Epsilon's garbage-filled floods and various genetically modified humans? Therefore, these resistances were quickly and bloodily quelled. Then, the psychic beacon was erected and began operating safely. There were no large-scale counterattacks attempting to destroy the psychic beacon, so they quickly gained mind control over city after city. It was only the "voluntary" confessions provided by the city administrators who encountered the psychic beacon control to the Epsilon agents that made Epsilon, who had been puzzled by the lack of resistance from the Pacific Front army, realize that the last batch of troops stationed inside the city had already withdrawn.

All the troops have withdrawn to an island called Frontline Island, and there are only a few police officers maintaining order in the city.

All the testimonies pointed to the location of the army's withdrawal, which flowed like a torrent towards an island in the Frontline Sea, a sea area where no unauthorized vessels were allowed to approach. This intelligence was quickly condensed and sent to the heretic who was supervising the wormhole teleportation assault team's operations in the Frontline Sea, instructing him to find the Frontline Island that matched the characteristics of the island described in the testimonies. However, this was of little use to the heretic, and there was no need to search for it. The advance team and reconnaissance satellites soon discovered that there was a natural island in the area that had been artificially expanded, and it was the only island in the sea area.

This artificial island was large enough to be called a floating city. However, what was strange about this island, which could be called a floating city, was that there were no signs of human activity on it. Their psychosensors did not detect any human mental fluctuations on it. This made the Heretic doubt the intelligence sent by EVA earlier. The previous intelligence said that all Pacific Front troops and fleets had withdrawn to Front Island. In that case, in theory, the advance force should have seen an astonishing number of Pacific Front fleet and ground troops protecting this island called Front Island. From the moment their troops entered this sea area, they would be subjected to fierce air attacks. But the reality was quite the opposite. On the huge artificially expanded island, apart from the lifeless Prism Towers that emitted a buzzing sound and the Patriot missiles and giant cannons that emitted mechanical turning sounds, there were only Future Tank X-0 and robot tanks protecting this island. There were no other warships or other troops present here, presenting a rather terrifying inorganic silence. This scene, which was no less than the ancient Empty City Stratagem, made the Heretic suspicious and decided to have EVA send the on-site intelligence to Yuri.

They will decide their next move based on Yuri's will: either use the Death Hand intercontinental ballistic missile to directly destroy the island and eliminate any tricks deployed there by the Pacific Front and the Burning Wind Resistance, or send a fearless clone army to attack and destroy all the automated defense facilities and drones, and obtain intelligence to understand what the Pacific Front and the Burning Wind Resistance are really up to. After receiving this intelligence from the heretics at the front, Yuri, after careful consideration, decided to have the headquarters of the Otherworld draw nuclear missile silos from the Republic of Ikchino to launch a tactical nuclear strike against the fully automated island using multiple tactical nuclear missiles. Using the Death Hand intercontinental ballistic missile to deal with a small island the size of a city would be too wasteful.

Under Yuri's orders, the advance force and the planned wormhole teleportation assault team ceased operations. After the tactical nuclear missiles were ready, a targeted tactical nuclear strike was launched, focusing on destroying the automatic defense facilities and unmanned tanks guarding the island. After the radiation dissipated, the clone army, which would not care how many died, was sent up to lay the bombs.

With the enhanced hyperspace teleporter, the MO Soviet forces from the Ikchino Republic Alliance quickly deployed multiple nuclear missile silos. Tactical nuclear missiles roared into the sky and then crashed almost vertically into their designated targets. As shockwaves and mushroom clouds rose, the seemingly impregnable automated defense network instantly turned into a large pile of radioactive burning debris. After the nuclear radiation completely dissipated, the Scrin wormhole, emitting a dark, mixed light, opened on the frontline island. The cheap and readily available berserkers once again poured out and rushed to various parts of the island. However, they never encountered the expected surprise of the gauntlet bombs. Instead, they only found inorganic metal left behind and large areas of cleared land. Then, when the berserkers arrived at an undamaged Allied construction site, the site suddenly exploded, blasting them into the air. The island was shattered into pieces, and at the same time, the future tank X-0 and the robot tanks on the island also began to self-destruct. In the end, all the unmanned tanks self-destructed, leaving only the defense facilities that had been cut off from power and stopped operating. It was obvious that the Pacific Front and the Burning Wind Resistance had made a feint and then fled the place. The base that was left here was just a way to appease them and was completely abandoned. Yuri was originally going to sit in her Antarctic command room and laugh at Lin Haiyuan, the former commander of the cowardly deserter army, but she saw a huge building behind the Allied construction site that had self-destructed and destroyed itself. This huge building had a beige exterior wall made of reinforced concrete and a large number of ventilation windows. More importantly, a large Allied blue eagle insignia was hanging in what was suspected to be the entrance. There were obvious holes in the ceiling. Structurally, the ceiling of this huge building could be retracted.

Just as Yuri was wondering why the building felt so familiar, she suddenly realized, "Destiny Technology Hangar! Paradox Engine!"

Suddenly, a piercing alarm sounded in her office. The Epsilon EVA communication and the giant monitor's screen immediately changed, switching to a scene a few kilometers away in the Weddell Sea of ​​Antarctica. An unprecedentedly large and unforgettable giant airship occupied 90% of the screen, while flying units such as Thor gunships and Black Hawk helicopters occupied only a few pixels. More fighter jets and transport planes were taking off from the runways on either side of the Paradox Engine, while a large fleet escorted them on the sea.

"WARING: Enemy Air Armada Detected!" "WARING: Enemy Fleet Detected!"

"Lady Yuri, an epic aerial unit that you call the Paradox Engine in the database is leading a massive fleet and air force toward our Weddell Sea defenses!"

Seeing this scene and hearing EVA's report, Yuri finally understood where those vanished Pacific Front troops had gone. Instead, they had merged with the Paradox Engine and then traveled through interdimensional teleportation to the IS world she ruled, ready to fight her to the death. The one who orchestrated this was definitely Lin Haiyuan and his Burning Wind Resistance Army!

Chapter 146 A Key Fragment Leading to the Future (Part 5)

One day before Epsilon launched its attack on the Spinning Arms Islands, all the troops willing to follow Lin Haiyuan and Shinonono no Tsukasa had already set off for Frontline Island. Scattered throughout the Spinning Arms Islands, they had been mobilized and assembled on Frontline Island in advance. According to the arrangements of Lin Haiyuan, Shinonono no Tsukasa, and EVA, half of the army and all the air force were loaded onto the Paradox Engine, while the remaining army would attack together with the naval fleet aboard the Traveler Hovercraft. Also boarding the Paradox Engine would be Iroha and her daughter Lin Shiyin, along with their research team that had achieved numerous feats.

Iroha will make an invaluable contribution to their collective resistance against the mind control effects of the Mind Terminator, and her daughter, Lin Shiyin, is safe with her by her side. Lin Haiyuan and Shinonono Tsukasa will serve as commander and deputy commander, respectively, to direct the troops' attack. Shinonono Tsukasa is no longer in the mood to focus on scientific research; she also needs to seriously command troops in battle. Although she has no actual experience in commanding any troops in combat, Lin Haiyuan believes that since she is another version of herself, she wouldn't be unable to command battles with the assistance of EVA. Moreover, her mind is even sharper than her past self, easily crushing most people in the past. At the very least, she won't cause any trouble by not knowing how to use shortcut keys to operate troops or not being able to see the battlefield situation.

However, after they arrived in the mind-controlled IS world, which was a desperate gamble, the first problem they faced was communication interference and satellite link disruption. Communication interference was not a major problem; it would only shorten the effective communication distance rather than completely block all channels, rendering them unable to communicate or fire with the US fleet in the world of the agreement.

This problem had already been considered. A technology satellite intrusion center was integrated into the Paradox Engine block as a modification. Therefore, after Shinonono Tsukasa successfully hacked into the original CN and Epsilon satellite networks, they could continue to fight using the CN and Epsilon military satellite networks. As for launching their own satellites? Unfortunately, they are currently using the Paradox Engine instead of the Colonia flank air base, and without mass accelerators or nanosatellite networks to launch them into space.

However, it is a fact that high-intensity mind control energy lingers in the IS world. If they come to that IS world without any mind defense measures, they may be mind controlled and become slaves of Epsilon within 30 to 60 minutes once Epsilon notices them. Therefore, Lin Haiyuan and Seye chose a method to deal with Epsilon's group mind control, which is neurotoxin.

Although the Epsilon Armory Data Core was completely damaged beyond repair, the neurotoxin formula was not only preserved in the Epsilon Data Core, but also in the Burning Wind Rebellion Data Core. Therefore, everyone took a certain dose of neurotoxin to maintain their sanity. However, the neurotoxin could not make them immune to the point-to-point mind control effects of mind experts, mind elites, mind masters, and mind control towers. Furthermore, the mind control energy of the fully activated Mind Terminator was expected to be too strong, so they needed a second method to combat mass mind control.

Lin Haiyuan and He Se re-tuned the Purification Key, so that its psionic power would no longer be used to release and destroy the psionic energy of the Void Realm, but would instead generate a psionic field with three combined effects. The first effect was to neutralize mind control energy to prevent mass mind control. The second effect was a psionic matrix field, which, together with the auxiliary warp facilities already built inside, allowed warp troops to be deployed around the Paradox Engine. The third effect was relatively weak, which was to interfere with the use of enemy support skills within the range, preventing the Epsilon commander from successfully specifying the coordinates for the use of support skills within this force field.

In addition, their research team also completed some data repair work on the Foehn Resistance's armory before withdrawing into the Paradox Engine that night. However, the Paradox Engine no longer had large-scale nanotechnology production facilities to produce the Foehn Resistance's armaments, so their forces would still mainly rely on the Allied Forces' armory. But the Foehn Resistance's armory was definitely the main force, because the Foehn Resistance's armaments had undergone a final upgrade. In addition, there were some other armaments that did not belong to the MO Armory (censored) that had been developed, such as the Purifier Mechanical Sentinels in Glasius... that is, the Motivators, which could be used on the battlefield. However, the rarity of the Kedarin Crystals would prevent any commander from building them on the battlefield, and they had an emergency recall device to ensure that the Motivators could return with the core components and then be repaired... or have the Kedarin Crystals removed from the core components and installed on other Motivators.

However, the biggest problem with this desperate military operation is the Death Hand ICBM. They have no active defense against the Death Hand ICBM. Their passive defense is to hack into Epsilon's satellite network system and interfere with the Death Hand ICBM's satellite navigation equipment so that it cannot prepare to hit. Their last means of resisting the Death Hand ICBM is the Sigma tuner's time stop, which can turn the Death Hand ICBM into a piece of scrap metal and fall from the sky.

Epsilon, possessing the Chronosphere and Scrin wormholes, can also use their spatial teleportation to counter their attacks. It is anticipated that they may face an siege by Epsilon forces from across the world, and may need multiple time stops and new war machines to cope with the even greater challenges. However, they still only have two Paradox Batteries available. The third Paradox Battery, brought back from the Acutan Islands, was severely damaged and beyond repair, so the usable materials were disassembled to repair the other two damaged Paradox Batteries.

Believing that everything was ready and they had nothing to lose, they began to assemble all their forces and rush into the interdimensional wormhole to prepare for battle.

“I understand that you are at a great disadvantage. Considering that Epsilon uses your space technology and the space technology of aliens, although I cannot destroy their space teleportation generator, I still have a way to prevent them from using space teleportation technology, and let them taste the power of being able to fight against the enemy’s final assembled force with only the strength of one place.”

The thoughts of Nyarlathotep's unknown avatar fluctuated in the chaos, surging towards the Antarctic region of Epsilon in the IS parallel world. In the void, it began to infiltrate its power into an indescribable realm. Then, the technicians around the world who controlled the Scrin wormhole generator and the enhanced hyperspace teleporter discovered that the equipment had a fatal malfunction and could not be used. They tried to quickly repair the Scrin wormhole generator and the enhanced hyperspace teleporter, but the more they repaired, the more problems arose, eventually making the technicians think that they might as well dismantle and rebuild them.

Perhaps demolishing and rebuilding is the right choice, but for Yuri, who is stationed at the Antarctic headquarters, she feels like a trapped beast in an arena, ready to wrestle with a gladiator with a large army and foul abilities.

Chapter 147 Sleepless Days (Part 1)

Military Operations: Sleepless Days

Location: Antarctica - Weddell Sea coast

时间:1982年3月20日6:00:00

Theme song: Virus - Morphscape (Frank Klepacki)

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The Weddell Sea Defense Line, guarded by Epsilon's headquarters, was once the world's most heavily fortified first line of defense. It was once staffed with a large number of mobile and underground forces, ready to defend against enemy attacks and amphibious landings. However, with the activation of the Mind Ender Device, along with numerous psychic beacons and mind control amplifiers around the world, a near-perfect mind control network was formed, bringing the entire globe under Epsilon's control. With no significant enemies on Earth, a large number of defensive forces and some defensive facilities on the Weddell Sea Defense Line were naturally withdrawn, and the state of first-level combat readiness was lifted. Now, the most effective ground defense facilities along the line are the Antares Battery and the Wraith Nest, which hosts all Epsilon military aircraft.

"Establishing battlefield con/t/rol standby."