Colonia Storm Tour

Unlike paradoxical engineering and the inverted weapons of the Reversalists, which are based on principles that are confusing and incomprehensible, mind technology is undoubtedly one of the easiest principles to understand.

It's nothing more than amplifying, adjusting, and interfering with brainwaves to achieve limited interference with matter. Yuri's helmet in Epsilon is a prime example of this. Mind experts and mind elites are the best among mind users. They can control people's minds and release super energy waves to destroy the brains of unprotected infantrymen with just their own brains. They are the mind masters who have transformed the saying "a person with a brain but no will" into terrifying monsters.

Under the influence of her mental power, Gardenia opened her bronze-blue eyes, which had been enhanced by genetic modification. At this moment, her eyes shone brightly under the influence of her mental power.

"With gardenias in bloom, remember, you are always the master of your inner strength! Forever!"

Lin Haiyuan unleashed his spiritual power explosively and then systematically channeled it into Hua Zhizi's mind and brain, instructing her and paving the way for her to utilize her spiritual power.

The inexplicable light in his eyes had covered his entire eyes like a primordial light illuminating everything.

At this moment, the bronze-blue eyes of the gardenia shone even brighter than before, and then the light broke through the limitations of the eye sockets and extended outwards.

"Now, unleash the power that humanity is born with!"

The inexplicable light that suddenly surged in Lin Haiyuan's eyes was like a photon falling into a black hole, spiraling down to the center of his singularity-like black eyeballs.

The bronze-blue light emanating from her eyes, including the outward-expanding portion, was also distorted into a vortex that rapidly returned to her eyes. But this was not the end; rather, it was the beginning.

At that moment, the airflow around Youhua Zhizi was completely controlled. Most of the mental power controlling this airflow came from Lin Haiyuan, and only a small portion came from Youhua Zhizi's own mental power.

Although it was only a few, it was more than enough to serve as her introduction to manipulating air currents using mental power.

The result of the airflow being controlled simultaneously by two mental forces of different intensities was not the formation of a stable pressure sphere surrounding her, but rather the formation of a cyclone with her as its eye, whose life was so short as to be fleeting. Before this cyclone could even begin to rotate, the disordered mental forces' control over the airflow collapsed, and the short, sharp whistling sound was the clarion call that the cyclone was about to collapse.

The airflow that made up the cyclone dissipated in all directions like waves. Lin Haiyuan used his mental power to control the airflow that was blowing towards him and made it bypass him, thus creating a strange scene.

Despite the wind blowing in all directions, Lin Hai and the hem of his clothes remained completely still.

Hua Zhizi, who initially maintained her conscious mind, accepted Lin Haiyuan's mental power without resistance, and was able to sense more changes in the world around her.

The most obvious change was that she could feel the movement of the air, the fleeting vortex that dissipated, and Lin Haiyuan's mental power to control the airflow.

When she was wearing the CR-UNIT "Wiring-suit", she tried to control the airflow, but that was only for the convenience of flying. She never tried to control the airflow more deeply, nor could she achieve high-precision airflow control.

Having experienced a wondrous spiritual experience, and feeling as if she were controlling a random realm, Yu Hua Zhi Zi now felt as if she were using a wiring kit, and could control the surrounding airflow at will.

"The Power of the Mind"

This power that everyone can possess felt so wondrous to Hua Zhizi, almost identical to her initial experience with the Freedom Realm. However!

The difference between mental power and the realm of free will is quite significant. At the very least, mental power doesn't allow her to control gravity to the point of not feeling weight, even when using a Gatling gun on a vehicle or airplane without feeling weight or recoil. However, mental power can clearly help her manipulate airflow more freely. At that time, her air manipulation in the realm of free will was just child's play; manipulating airflow with mental power was the real deal.

As long as one's mental strength is sufficient, one can conjure a storm or form a wind shield to protect oneself.

"Can you feel the movement of the air?"

Lin Haiyuan slowly lowered his hand from Youhua Zhizi's forehead.

"Yes, Chief Lin, now I feel that I can not only sense the movement of the air around me, but also know where it is moving, and I can even control the airflow to form an air sphere or make the airflow surround me to form a wind shield made of airflow!"

As expected, Hua Zhizi said what Lin Haiyuan had just anticipated, and then she showed Lin Haiyuan the mental power she had just gained.

She raised her hands, creating an ever-expanding pressure balloon, just as Lin Haiyuan had done when facing her miniature missile barrage in Kagoshima Prefecture.

"Very good, now try to make the airflow of this air pressure balloon peacefully disperse and disintegrate."

Lin Haiyuan stepped back to give the gardenias more space to be displayed.

Gardenia's eyes became serious and focused. The air pressure sphere, which was expanding, slowly shrank in size, and Lin Haiyuan could feel the airflow blowing out from the shrinking air pressure sphere.

One minute later, the air pressure balloon that had been "lifted" by the gardenia vanished without a trace, with only a faint breeze emanating from its original location as proof that it had ever existed.

"Now create the wind shield you mentioned."

Lin Haiyuan thought that the name "Gardenia" was simply a way of referring to the air pressure balloon surrounding the apostle, according to her cultural habits.

Following the feeling left to her by the power of her mind, the gardenia manipulated the airflow to rotate around her, and she looked as if she were wrapped in a rotating membrane.

It looked good, but in reality, the flaws were obvious: the air pressure sphere formed by that layer of airflow became thinner and thinner until it disappeared as it got closer to her feet.

Given the basic ability to control the airflow to this extent, it's already quite impressive. The only shortcoming is the need for accelerated training as an apostle in air pressure balloons.

"Stop."

Lin Haiyuan did not directly state his opinion.

Gardenia immediately stopped manipulating the airflow with her mental power, and the incomplete air pressure sphere surrounding her quickly disappeared.

"How is it, Commander Lin?!"

A look of pride and excitement appeared on her face, making her look like a child waiting for praise.

"My spiritual power will not remain with you permanently; it will eventually dissipate with your use and the passage of time."

Lin Haiyuan subtly reminded her.

"Huh?"

You Huazhi was confused by Lin Haiyuan's seemingly disjointed words, but the next moment she understood. Then, by sensing the power of her own mind, she discovered the truth as Lin Haiyuan had said.

My mental strength...is waning? No, it's not my mental strength that's slowly decreasing, but Chief Lin's mental strength!

A look of astonishment appeared on her face. Although she couldn't articulate the difference between Lin Haiyuan's and her mental powers, she could sense that it wasn't hers.

"Mental power is not static, because it originates from brainwaves. If your physical condition is poor and affects your brain, your mental power will also be affected. If you have a brainwave amplifier, you can clearly feel your mental power becoming stronger. But if you lose that brainwave amplifier, your mental power will revert to its original state. Mental power and brainwaves complement each other, so mental power can do many more things. One of them is to amplify other people's brainwaves, just like your mental power is temporarily enhanced. But this effect is not permanent. So what would happen if you lost my mental power amplification?"

As Lin Haiyuan spoke, he released the "control" over Youhua Zhizi, which was to say, the mental power that remained on her body to amplify her brainwaves.

Just as once the mental beacon is destroyed, the people and things previously controlled by the mental beacon will regain their senses, Hua Zhizi immediately had a direct feeling after losing Lin Haiyuan's mental power.

That is my sense of control over airflow. Before, I felt that I could control the airflow over a large area around me, but suddenly I shrank to only a pitiful little bit of airflow around me.

"Well………………"

The gardenia paused, stunned.

"What you can feel right now is just a tiny bit of airflow that your true mental power can manipulate, right?"

Lin Haiyuan could sense just how weak her mental energy fluctuations were; she was merely a beginner-level mental ability user, the kind who, according to Epsilon's classification, could only bend iron bars with great effort.

You Huazhi raised her right palm and looked at it, then tried to control the airflow with her mental power, but she could only control a very small amount of airflow to swirl around in her palm.

"Yes……"

She showed obvious disappointment.

"Don't be discouraged, because you have experience controlling the random field, and you now have the feeling of controlling the airflow to form a pressure balloon in a short time. You will learn quickly in the following pressure balloon apostle training and you will soon be able to regain a similar feeling."

Lin Haiyuan offered her a word of comfort.

Upon hearing that the Air Pressure Balloon Apostle Training could help her achieve the same level of airflow manipulation as before, Hua Zhizi's bronze-blue eyes immediately lit up.

"So, when can the air pressure balloon apostle training begin?"

Gardenia is starting to look forward to the air balloon apostle training.

"Because it's a crash course in air pressure ball apostle training, and there's only one week to go, you can start training now. Your Nirvash will be in place in a week."

After Lin Haiyuan finished speaking, he stood up from his office chair. "Walker.com AI, you'll be in charge of the accelerated air pressure ball apostle training with Hua Zhizi."

"Yes, Master."

Walker.com's AI naturally took on this task, just as Walker.com's AI was responsible for Lin Haiyuan's accelerated training of air pressure ball apostles.

"Is it...? Walker.com's AI is in charge of my barometric apostle training? Isn't it Chief Lin?"

Gardenia was utterly bewildered.

“I also have other things to take care of. I have to finish all the schedule from yesterday today, and there are even more things waiting for me to handle, so Walker AI can only take care of your training.”

Lin Haiyuan replied.

"Ok."

You Huazhi felt regretful about this, as she had originally thought she would have more opportunities to get closer to Lin Haiyuan.

Lin Haiyuan naturally discovered You Huazhi's thoughts. He looked at You Huazhi with a hidden look of pity. Thinking about the crash training he had received at the Colonia flank air base, he knew that You Huazhi would have to face training that would bring shame and danger, and she certainly wouldn't want him by her side.

"Walker AI, prepare a vehicle for me to get to the ground."

Lin Haiyuan also had to return to the 4V Keelung Fenfeng Construction Site on the ground. He was responsible for handling and making decisions regarding the exchange of American prisoners of war, including the "Angel of Annihilation" elf Rowan, U.S. Navy Admiral Arkens Freys, the carrier air wing commander and air tactics commander Bill Culler, as well as defectors from inland China and abroad.

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Foehn Construction Site - Command Room.

"Walker.com AI: What do the Americans think about our demands for exchanging ore for prisoners of war?"

Lin Haiyuan sat in his office chair, looking at the colorful holographic projection in front of him.

"The Americans thought it was too expensive to exchange 15 tons of magnetite and 15 tons of chalcopyrite for 15 tons of manganese ore for one prisoner of war, and they demanded to negotiate with us to reduce the percentage of minerals exchanged."

Walker.com's AI report details the US response to Lin Haiyuan's proposal to exchange prisoners of war for ore.

In fact, Lin Haiyuan had a further provision for the ore exchange prisoner-of-war agreement: the higher the rank of the prisoner of war, the more tons of ore needed to exchange for them would be multiplied by 1, 2, or 3.

When it came to U.S. Navy Admiral Arkanss Freys and Captain Bill Culler, the air tactical commander and air wing commander, their salaries were tailored separately.

10吨稀土矿、10吨磁铁矿、10吨黄铜矿、10吨锰矿、0.5吨金矿两个人一起打包带走不谢赶紧滚。

"Tell the Americans that training sailors doesn't cost money. Do you think this is the Middle Ages where you can just grab any thug and scoundrel to become a sailor on a ship? Either send ore-carrying ships over, or watch these people hang from lampposts and beg for a swing. You figure out how to explain this to your voters and their families. I don't care about their feelings. As for attacking? Who's afraid of who? Take it or leave it."

Lin Haiyuan scoffed, "If these American prisoners of war weren't still valuable as hostages, I would have torn them up with a nano-recycling drone long ago to save space from imprisoning them."

"Yes, Master."

Walker.com's AI followed Lin Haiyuan's instructions, and after revising them for Lin Haiyuan, sent them to the Americans in the network, rejecting the objections raised by the U.S. State Department regarding the ore-for-prisoner-of-war agreement.

Then, while waiting for news from the diplomatic negotiators in front of his computer, U.S. Secretary of State Thomas Steve received Lin Haiyuan's ultimatum, which was full of bandit-like qualities.

"Regarding the objection raised by the United States regarding the percentage of prisoners of war exchanged for ore, we hereby offer the following response after careful consideration: Are you Yankee sailors and generals just some random thugs recruited from the streets? We hereby issue this ultimatum: either the ship carrying the corresponding tonnage of ore arrives at Keelung (4V) to unload and the passenger ship comes to pick up the prisoners of war, and we confirm that the tonnage and quality of the ore are correct, then we will exchange the prisoners for the goods. If the ore is not delivered by February, all American prisoners of war will be hung on streetlights and used as swings! At that time, we will not consider the issue of the families and relatives of your country's sailors and generals; the United States can handle it themselves. As for provoking another war? Who's afraid? Take it or leave it. I have no interest in wasting time arguing. If you're so capable, why don't you send your entire Pacific Fleet and Atlantic Fleet to kill me?"

"I have never seen such a shameless person! Is this how they treat international politics as a bargaining chip for bandits?!"

Mr. Thomas Steve's hand, which was holding the printer paper, was trembling violently. His outstretched right hand pointed westward and cursed Lin Haiyuan in Keelung, 4V.

What infuriated the Secretary of State even more was that the repatriation of the stranded and detained tourists was unconditional, but now this Far East butcher was making outrageous demands for tons of ore! While the US and the international community do possess such a large quantity of ore, how could the Secretary of State, who had accepted President Carole Fritz's offer to reduce his losses in the prisoner-of-war exchange, not be furious? Moreover, this message was an ultimatum, meaning there was no room for negotiation; any further discussion would simply lead to a breakdown in negotiations! What kind of adversary is this?!

If his negotiations break down and cause those US Navy officers and soldiers to hang themselves on streetlights, in this politically charged public opinion environment, he won't be able to hold the position of Secretary of State for long, and he shouldn't even think about it anymore.

Feeling extremely troubled, Thomas Steve could only pass the decision-making power to President Carol Fritz, stating that he had done his best as Secretary of State.

Faced with an opponent who sets such firm and uncompromising conditions, what can the Secretary of State do? He's desperate too!

Just as Thomas Steve was about to contact President Carroll, he heard some rather unexpected news.

"Your Excellency Secretary, President Carroll has summoned you to an emergency meeting in the White House conference room."