Colonia Storm Tour

Walker.com's AI statement made Lin Haiyuan sense a dangerous atmosphere.

"Circle Messengers? What do they do?"

Lin Haiyuan's expression turned wary. His first thought was of the fifty-year lifespan, the dreamlike and illusory creator's cycle of reincarnation, and only then did he think of the little round face.

"According to the radio communications of the indigenous people, there was no declaration. They only brought destruction and enslavement. However, the specifics of the enslavement were beyond the understanding of the indigenous people. It seemed that they simply locked the captured people in some kind of building, and then purple mist would rise from the areas occupied by these monsters, as if it were another world."

This is all the intelligence that Walker.com AI can currently obtain.

"So, all you're saying is fighting, killing, and taking prisoners... How did these so-called Ring Messengers even appear?"

Lin Haiyuan was concerned about how those things came about.

"There are two ways in which they appear: one is by falling from the sky, and the other is by appearing out of thin air from somewhere. Neither of these two ways of appearing can be 100% certain, because the indigenous people have two different accounts of how the Ring Messenger appears."

Walker.com AI responded.

"Descending from the sky and appearing out of nowhere—this is all too familiar to us; it's like airdrops and teleportation. Considering their suspicious background, is there any description of the Ring Messenger's military equipment?"

Lin Haiyuan also wanted to see what those ring messengers looked like.

"Yes, the Ring Messengers use flying spaceships and propellerless fighter jets, strange melee soldiers, and arthropod-like mechanized units. After being attacked, they also display blue flashes and grids to block attacks..."

This is all the information Walker.com AI can obtain.

"...Are we so destined to have something with the Protoss?"

Lin Haiyuan smiled helplessly.

"It does sound very similar to the Protoss. I suggest we immediately launch the GLONASS satellite network to observe the entire planet, or move to a location nearby for observation. The latter is riskier, but it can yield more meaningful intelligence and samples for our analysis."

The last point about Walker.com's AI is a classic example of "fortune favors the bold."

"Going to see it in person is like courting death. It's safer to let the Griffin Special Operations Ship launch the satellite. Even if it's discovered and damaged, we won't feel bad."

Lin Haiyuan certainly wouldn't risk Colonia's flank air base.

"Walker.com AI activates a mental illusion field, keeping us constantly visible. We may be discovered by indigenous people's astronomical telescopes."

He almost forgot the custom of concealing himself, and now he had exposed Colonia's flank air base, which was not good.

"Yes, Master."

As Walker.net's AI finished speaking, the entire Colonia's flank air base disappeared from human sight and radar within the mental illusion field.

Then the Griffin special operations ship, stored in the hangar of the air base on the flank of Colonia, activated its warp drive and stealthily flew out of the invisible base.

The Griffin Special Operations Ship has the same appearance as the Phoenix Flame, but its internal purpose is very different from that of the Phoenix Flame. Its purpose is to open the induction field to provide anchor coordinates for the "Ark Warp Channel". Other functions are just side functions, such as deploying a satellite network to support any military operation by stealthily sailing in a suitable orbit.

With the Griffin Special Operations Ship, launching and connecting the satellite network cluster to Colonia's flank air base is much easier than launching satellites into orbit via a mass accelerator.

If the Protoss fleet encounters the Ring Messenger in orbit, the Griffin Special Operations Ship will be left without a warp disruptor and a warp frequency disruptor.

Everything seen by the cameras and radar of the Griffin special operations ship is displayed on a brand-new holographic projection, scanning the planet below while simultaneously deploying a satellite network.

"Walker.com AI, are there any suspicious radio waves or energy fluctuations on the Azure Moon?"

Lin Haiyuan was obviously after this lunar-like satellite.

"No radio waves or energy fluctuations were detected. Based on the current level of planetary technology, the natives are not capable of colonizing satellites. It is possible that the ring messengers of colonizing satellites have not appeared on the Crescent Moon Satellite. Therefore, it can be confirmed that the Crescent Moon Satellite is safe at this stage."

Walker.com's AI detected no radio waves or energy fluctuations in Cangyue.

The Azure Moon is a natural satellite similar to the Moon. It would be virtually impossible for them to find signs of life on a satellite like the Moon, which has no atmosphere at all. Especially since the opposing planets don't even have a chance to launch rockets into space. And those "Circle Messengers" who are capable of landing on the Moon and establishing a lunar base have not established any base on the Moon. Epsilon? It doesn't exist.

"Now let's establish our air base on the flank of Colonia. We'll first set up a branch base on the Azure Moon satellite, so that we can have a place to stay in a temporarily safe location."

Lin Haiyuan would definitely want to take pictures of a base when he sees a satellite, especially since he is like a rootless duckweed in front of him.

"Master, should we build the Azure Moon base on the front or the back of Azure Moon this time?"

Walker.com's AI needs Lin Haiyuan to make a choice.

"The other side of the Azure Moon is currently shrouded in darkness and is also tidally locked, which provides the perfect opportunity for our Azure Moon branch base."

Lin Haiyuan's favorite thing to do was to set up branch bases in the dark or in the shadows.

"Yes, Master."

Walker.com's AI began to control the invisible Colonia flank airbase, drawing ripples of light invisible to ordinary instruments and the naked eye as it flew toward the back of the natural satellite "Azure Moon".

Chapter Two: The Jealousy of Time (II)

Theme song: Virus - Morphscape (Frank Klepacki)

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Upon approaching the back of the Azure Moon, Colonia's flank air base deployed a large number of probes to carefully scan and explore its back side.

The terrain and other data collected during the scan will be sent back and combined, allowing Lin Haiyuan to choose a location to deploy the mobile construction vehicle.

A large number of probes quickly completed the scanning of the far side of the moon, combining complete topographical and other data into intuitive images, labels, and figures.

"Both lack plains, are covered with impact craters, and have abundant helium-3 on the far side, making them very similar to the lunar environment. Let's begin, Walker.com AI."

Lin Haiyuan designated a relatively spacious and excavated area as the location for deploying the MCV.

"Yes, Master."

After Walker's AI spoke, the Time-Space Teleporter immediately teleported the Furyong Mobile Construction Vehicle to the designated location.

On the dark, moonless land behind the sun, amidst the fluctuations of time-space teleportation and dazzling blue light, a massive construction vehicle, as large as an aircraft carrier, stood on the flat surface.

The following process is self-explanatory: it simply unfolds into a foehn wind construction site, and then a large number of nanodrones are used to build a base.

It is worth noting that because there is no air on the moon, the power generation bellows became a useless decoration. Therefore, a redesigned magnetic energy reactor and nuclear reactor were used to power the base. The redesigned magnetic energy reactor was no longer the classic horizontal shape, but rather a more introverted "cooling tower" shape, which is similar to the reactor of the Soviet RA3.

The redesigned nuclear reactor and magnetic reactor use new materials, and their exteriors feature the distinctive white and silver-gray colors of the Fountain architecture.

An essential element in establishing a base is an ore refinery. However, it seems unnecessary to build an ore refinery on a lunar-like moon because there are no mineral deposits for mining vehicles to directly extract. Aside from gameplay and game engine issues, mining minerals on the moon cannot rely solely on mining vehicles; additional equipment and modifications to the mining vehicles are also required.

Needless to say, the mining beetle using a cyclone engine would be unable to move on the moon. Moreover, due to its size and design, it could not carry more additional equipment. In the end, a large number of armed mining vehicles took over the task. Of course, there was also additional equipment for mining helium-3, but I won't go into details.

While the base construction was proceeding smoothly, the Griffin special operations ship, which was deployed to carry out the Sabuglonus satellite network mission, sent back a report.

"Master, our Griffin special operations ship has detected anomalies on the planet."

Walker.com's AI presented the report on a holographic projection for Lin Haiyuan to view.

Lin Haiyuan shifted to a more comfortable position, holding Bai Luochang, and placed his right hand on the desk to look at the content on the holographic projection.

This ocean planet, located in the Tricolor Continent outside the borders of "Iron Aca," is shrouded in an eerie purple mist that overlaps with white clouds.

"The virtual realm..."

This was the first thing Lin Haiyuan said after seeing it.

"The Void Realm? What is that, Master?"

Walker.com's AI doesn't understand what a virtual reality is.

"A dimension composed purely of psionic energy, if there is an analogy, is the subspace that we mention from time to time."

Lin Haiyuan had already realized the origins of this group of ring messengers, but he still needed to confirm it.

"Walker.com AI, have you seen any communications you've collected mention that entering the fog is a one-way trip? From the sky or the ground?"

If it truly is a case of no return from entering the fog, then it is 100% certain that it is related to the Void Realm.

"There are relevant records that, whether from the ground or the air, they never returned."

Walker.com AI confirmed this.

"A planet that has become a virtual realm is basically beyond saving. At the very least, we do not currently have a way to directly tear through space to expel that virtual realm mist."

Lin Haiyuan could recognize that the energy barriers created by the [Virtual Realm Mist] and the Colossus's [Global Imprisonment] served a similar purpose. The former was more advanced than the Global Imprisonment and could swallow anything that tried to pass through the mist, while the latter prevented scanning and prevented things from escaping from the sealed planet.

There are no ways to deal with this kind of thing in the Stars, but games are games, and in reality, there might be ways to deal with the Void Mist and the Global Imprisonment Energy Barrier.

The method, as described above, is to solve the illusionary fog and energy barrier by directly tearing through space. However, while it sounds simple, it is not easy to do in practice.

What methods do you have for tearing space? Superpowers or magic? Foehn doesn't have such convenient superpowers or magic; the most reliable method available is the very practical "vacuum implosion bomb."

The name "vacuum implosion bomb" might sound confusing, but it's actually a simple and brutal "black hole bomb." It creates a short-lived black hole that tears apart and swallows anything that dares to approach its range. No matter how strong the illusory mist or energy barrier is, it can't resist the gravity of a man-made black hole.

But the Foehn doesn't have something so convenient, because the Foehn doesn't have RA3 Soviet technology, so it's impossible for them to have ready-made vacuum implosion bombs that they can manufacture and put into use. *shrug*

As for the extended applications of time-space teleportation, that involves another research project.

“Master, we also learned from conversations with the local natives that those ring messengers did not disappear after being shrouded in the Void Mist. Instead, they would emerge from the Void Mist and attack them.”

Walker.com AI also mentioned a piece of information that it had just obtained.

"This is a huge problem. I never knew that things from the Void Realm could come out of the Void Realm through the Void Realm Mist, but if it's related to the end of the Void Realm's cycle, then passage is possible."

Lin Haiyuan also did not believe that the current reality would be too constrained by the game's settings.

"The end of reincarnation, what is that? Master."

Walker.com's AI does not understand the end of the cycle of reincarnation.

“Entities in the virtual realm can also be understood as god-like beings, possessing spiritual power that we cannot imagine, and their actions directly lead to the end.”

Lin Haiyuan was very wary of these things in the virtual realm, because of their ability to directly alter reality, and secondly because of the Time Worm.

Fortunately, these illusory entities are like evil gods. Unless they actively contact them, they are indifferent to the situation of humans in lower-dimensional worlds. Otherwise, it would be impossible to kill such idealistic things. As long as the Ring Messenger is eliminated, and no psionicist holds a ritual to contact the illusory realm and encounters the end of the cycle, it will basically have no impact on the universe in which humans live.

As the saying goes, "If you don't court death, you won't die." If you don't actively provoke evil gods, how will they notice you and then do anything?

"An idealistic deity, an existence in another dimension."

Walker.com AI has a good understanding of this concept.

"Has the GLONASS satellite system completed its deployment? Walker.com AI."

Lin Haiyuan needs to learn more about this ocean planet.

"Completed. Our satellite network has not been subjected to any possible attacks and is currently conducting a global scan."

Walker.com AI responded.

"Should we launch the Uranus satellite network now...?"

Lin Haiyuan did not launch the Uranus satellite network before because he was worried that the satellite system might be attacked. Now the GLONASS satellite network and the Griffin special operations ship have completed their missions safely.

"It is recommended to deploy the Uranus satellite network in orbit, as our main strike flight unit, the Quetzalcoatl, needs the Uranus satellite network."