Colonia Storm Tour

No, no, no, these enemies who are completely unaware of the approaching enemy are the best test subjects for new or outdated orbital strike weapons.

"Shockwave Bomb"

This is the third breakthrough application of sound wave technology by Foehn Wind: using sound waves to cause damage. This sounds similar to the sonic grenades used by GDI's ZOCOM Sonic Oka, but in reality, the two are quite different in power, and even the launching methods and manufacturing processes are very different.

Compared to ordinary sonic grenades, this shockwave bomb is large enough to create a more powerful sonic impact on surrounding objects. Secondly, its impact effect is due to the hard body of the projectile, which also has an armor-piercing effect. This means that it will not shatter immediately upon impact with anything, but will instead create a crater before exploding.

As for the embarrassing consequence of falling into the water and only splashing out, that is impossible, because the shockwave bomb has a high enough speed to crash into the water surface.

The Ringed Messenger's warships and troops are secondary. As long as everything inside the Zao Heavy Industries branch is destroyed, the Ringed Messenger's fleet will be of no use here.

Lin Haiyuan controlled the Leap of Faith to raise the flight altitude to the airspace above the Zangwang Heavy Industry branch. Because of the high altitude, the entire Zangwang Heavy Industry branch appeared tiny.

This seems unsuitable for normal orbital strikes. According to standard orbital strike procedures, the Fengshen UAV must mark the target and provide coordinates to the orbital strike system. If we rely solely on the meteor shower, which is to convert the aircraft coordinates into orbital strikes, we can certainly drop a large number of hybrid plasma bombs, but the accuracy will be severely affected. We can only compensate for the accuracy problem by increasing the quantity.

Shockwave bombs would have the same problem, but like hybrid plasma bombs, they also have a numerical advantage, and Lin Haiyuan also has a positioning orbital strike method in addition to the Fengshen drone.

He switched to the orbital strike guidance mode and used the composite guidance mode to mark the Zangwang Heavy Industry branch. On the monitor, he saw that the Zangwang Heavy Industry branch was protected by a layer of blue film.

"Huh, a plasma shield. Looks like I need to be a bit ruthless."

Lin Haiyuan pressed several buttons to deploy more orbital strike weapons, no longer simply using shockwave bombs, but planning to first destroy the plasma shield with hybrid plasma bombs.

After continuous guidance, a nostalgic, dull whistling sound came from the sky above, and a large number of hybrid plasma bombs that emitted a white-to-blue gradient light in daylight rained down from the sky!

The whooshing sound or energy reaction of the hybrid plasma bomb caught the attention of the Ring Messenger fleet stationed there.

Those photon turrets, resembling pink mohawks, continuously fired spheres containing antimatter energy at the hybrid plasma bombs falling from the sky. Except for the Voidwarships, which were unsuitable for dealing with such small objects, the other warships and aircraft had already opened fire to intercept the hybrid plasma bombs.

Lin Haiyuan controlled the Leap of Faith to maintain continuous guidance and distance himself from the Ring Messenger fleet that was intercepting the hybrid plasma bombs.

Because of the high density of hybrid plasma bombs, the destruction of one hybrid plasma bomb can trigger the explosion of multiple hybrid plasma bombs, causing more sub-plasma to be ejected.

These sub-plasma particles are much less powerful than hybrid plasma bombs, but if they appear in large numbers, the damage they cause is no less than that of hybrid plasma bombs. Furthermore, the sub-plasma particles are difficult to intercept, so they can bombard the plasma shield of Zao Heavy Industries' branch like rain.

The plasma shield protecting the Zao Heavy Industries branch was flashing under the barrage of sub-plasma. If it weren't for several shield chargers nearby continuously charging the Zao Heavy Industries branch's plasma shield, it would have been destroyed by the sub-plasma several seconds ago, not to mention that not all hybrid plasma bombs were intercepted.

"That's about it, shockwave bomb, go!"

Lin Haiyuan activated the second type of orbital strike weapon.

With a series of booming sounds, the shockwave bomb, which had a faster initial velocity and gravitational acceleration than the hybrid plasma bomb, fell with a sharp whistling sound, accompanying the hybrid plasma bomb.

The shockwave bomb also did not use the traditional bomb shape of "arrow-shaped body with wings", but rather a spherical structure similar to the Fengshen drone. Experiments have proven that the spherical shape is the most suitable bomb configuration to maximize the power of the shockwave bomb.

Boom! Clang!

When the shockwave bombs were intercepted or struck the plasma shields, they unleashed extremely destructive and ear-piercing sound waves, like the striking of a large bell. Vulnerable fighter jets and ships near the shockwave bombs were immediately destroyed by the sound waves after their plasma shields were blasted away. The relatively fragile ships were twisted and destroyed under the destructive and penetrating sound waves. Explosions, unlike those of hybrid plasma bombs and shockwave bombs, also began to appear in the sky.

The reason why the sonic emission crystals of the sonic emitter, the Jackal mobile vehicle, and the Shadley sonic tank have different effects on armored units is due to the output power. If the output power is high enough, then the severe damage to heavy armored units is not a problem at all. The shock wave bomb releases an even stronger sonic wave at the moment of explosion to destroy everything around it.

However, sonic weapons also have a significant drawback: in the absence of a clear and direct propagation medium in space, their effectiveness is negligible.

Amidst the clanging and booming sounds, the shield charger ran out of power and could no longer maintain the plasma shield in the face of the almost endless barrage of bombs. As a result, the plasma shield quickly disappeared in the plasma explosions and powerful sonic waves. Within minutes, the hybrid plasma bombs and shockwave bombs destroyed some of the overly close air phase fighters, the Sage Ship, and the Zao Heavy Industries branch, which was the primary target. This news was quickly reported to the Agent by the Void Crystal Core.

“Acting sir, one of our Zao Heavy Industries branches in Hokkaido has been completely destroyed by an air attack of unknown origin, and we have also lost some warships and ground troops.”

The report on the Void Crystal Core was undoubtedly bad news.

"What?! Who did this again?!"

The proxy nearly jumped off his throne, looking furious.

"It was caused by an orbital bombardment, possibly carried out by an unknown human ark that appeared in Tokyo."

The Void Crystal Core offered a guess that wasn't entirely correct.

"Strengthen the defenses of the other Zao Heavy Industries branches that have already been taken over, and then search for that spaceship to attack and prevent orbital bombing. I'm not in the mood for defensive matters right now."

After finishing speaking, the agent leaned back in his chair and continued to stare at the "construction" of the virtual forces, pondering where to begin annihilating all the nations on Aquamarine in one fell swoop.

"Yes, Your Excellency."

Following the Actors' orders, the Void Crystal Core strengthened its defenses, constructing more Void Crystal Towers and Shield Chargers to enhance the plasma shield's defensive capabilities and support more Annihilation Turrets in carrying out defensive missions.

More air phase fighters, destroyer warships, and sage ships were warped to various Zao Heavy Industries branches in the Sakura Islands to strengthen air defenses. Attacking the Ark-class spaceship was not considered.

Because that Ark-class spaceship had such powerful firepower and such bizarre abilities that it could instantly cripple their forces.

Only after completing the task of strengthening defenses can more idle warships and aircraft be allocated to search for Ark ships that may be conducting orbital bombing in orbit.

After seeing that the foundation of the Zao Heavy Industries branch had been completely destroyed by the shockwave bomb, Lin Haiyuan quickly left in his Leap of Faith to prevent any more enemies from discovering that the Leap of Faith was secretly conducting orbital strike marking.

The orbital strike method of the Leap of Faith is difficult to implement on the commonly equipped Quetzalcoatl because its Quetzalcoatl drones can mark the coordinates of the orbital strike in a safe airspace without worrying about interference from geographical environment and other factors. Moreover, the Leap of Faith is able to do this only because it has a sufficiently large airframe and other more advanced equipment.

In the world of Date A Live, Alice, Moni, and AI Odin finally came to a conclusion about the disappearance of Lin Haiyuan and the flank of Colonia.

I almost forgot to release the second update.

There was never any Command & Conquer 4, only Turtle Arena.

Chapter Twelve: The Jealousy of Time (XII)

The lunar observation station detected a wormhole signal that had already disappeared just moments after crossing the air base on the flank of Colonia. If it weren't for rigorous considerations, it would have been immediately assumed that they had traversed through a wormhole.

However, just to be on the safe side, Alice and the others still used Nia Honjo's omniscient angel to investigate, and finally confirmed that Lin Haiyuan and the Colonia flank air base had indeed legendaryly traversed a wormhole.

According to a very Japanese-sounding explanation, Lin Haiyuan and the Colonia flank air base were "mysteriously disappeared".

The actual process was more complicated than her summary of "disappearance". When the Colonia Flanking Air Base was accelerating, a "wormhole" happened to appear in front of it. Because the Colonia Flanking Air Base was accelerating, it lost control and plunged into the wormhole. As for the appearance of the wormhole? It was a wormhole that was generated randomly.

People have always believed that "wormholes" only exist near celestial bodies with extremely strong gravity that can influence nearby spacetime, such as pulsars and black holes. However, that is only a high probability of occurring under such extreme gravitational environments. Other celestial bodies may also cause wormholes to appear, but the probability is much lower than that of pulsars and wormholes, so low that it can be almost ignored.

So Lin Haiyuan and Colonia's flank air base were both lucky and unlucky, as they crashed straight into a wormhole that appeared directly in front of them.

The outcome of the wormhole crossing is already known, but they are now more concerned about the whereabouts of Lin Haiyuan and the Colonia flank air base.

Niya Honjo also inquired about this, and then the veiled text gave an answer that was both expected and unexpected.

"Lin Haiyuan and the Colonia flank air base have traveled through a wormhole to another world, which is not in the current world. Further details cannot be found outside this world."

They initially thought that Lin Haiyuan and the Colonia flank air base were being directed to another star system or something, but the result of actually being transported to another world was truly unexpected.

If one were to travel to another world again through a wormhole, it would be even more troublesome than being sent to another star system by a wormhole, because Fenfeng has not yet mastered all the technology to travel to another world.

The "paradox project" left by Einstein and Siegfried has only just begun regarding the part about traveling to another world. What's worse, the wormhole was annihilated the moment the journey was completed, so it's still impossible to find Lin Haiyuan through the wormhole now.

Fortunately, there is the whispered record of Nia Honjo, through which Alice can obtain crucial time and space coordinate information. With that time and space coordinate, she can find Lin Haiyuan in the future.

But all of this depends on the completion of the "World Travel" part of the "Paradox Project." The warp technology obtained from the already dead Omega only accelerated the progress.

Thus began the full support for the Paradox Project. A large number of researchers trained in spacetime technology were put into the "world travel" project. Due to the omniscient nature of the Whispering Book, Nia Honjo also occasionally entered the Paradox Project as an outsider to participate in the research on world travel, providing crucial technical and knowledge support.

If a problem becomes truly difficult to solve, it can generally be resolved by using the Whispering Tome. The rest is up to Burning Wind to solve.

Even with the help of the "omniscient angel" cheat device, the entire research is expected to take at least one to three years to complete. Alice and the others can't rush it; they can only wait for the project results.

At this moment, Lin Haiyuan, in another world, had no time to care about the situation in his original world. He was now piloting the Leap of Faith to destroy the Zao Heavy Industries branches in various parts of the Sakura Islands.

The equipment used to manufacture those ship girls cannot remain in the hands of the Ring Envoys. Since they haven't moved the equipment, it's convenient for Lin Haiyuan to destroy it.

Walker.com's AI has already marked the locations of all the Zangwang Heavy Industries branches for Lin Haiyuan. He only needs to pilot the Leap of Faith to mark the locations for the orbital strike.

When they arrived at the "third" Zao Heavy Industries branch, which was to be destroyed, Lin Haiyuan discovered a large number of Ring Messenger warships that had already warped over. Some machines that looked like Detective Princesses were also opening warp rifts, warping out more shield chargers and photon turrets to guard the Zao Heavy Industries branch.

"It seems they have increased their defenses, but our Uranus satellite system has enough bombs to drop; it's just a matter of time."

Lin Haiyuan paid no attention to the Sage Ships and the photon turrets on the ground outside their range. The Leap of Faith was outside their sensors and could not detect its existence.

Beep beep! The communication connection sounded.

"Master, the Ring Messenger's warships have suddenly warped into planetary orbit. Judging from their aggressive approach, they are probably searching for the satellite network we are currently targeting with our orbital strike."

Walker.com AI detected them using the GLONASS satellite system and the radar system of the Colonia Flanking Air Base.

"The reaction was quite quick. Do the Ring Messenger's warships have any anti-stealth units like Oracles or Detectors?"

Lin Haiyuan asked.

"No presence of the [Prophet] or [Detector] was detected."

Walker.com's AI-powered shipboard radar scanning array and GLONASS satellite system can "see through" stealth and camouflage tricks.

"Emmm, it seems they haven't anticipated that our satellite network can become invisible. Walker AI, change the satellite network's orbit now, try to avoid being hit by the Ring Messenger's warships. After they can't find our tracks, they might send out detectors and prophet ships to search for us."

Lin Haiyuan knew that using hybrid plasma bombs and shockwaves for an orbital strike was out of the question. If he didn't want the Uranus satellite system to be discovered and destroyed, then he couldn't use an orbital strike.

"Yes, Master."

Walker.com's AI immediately adjusted the satellite network's orbit to avoid detection by potential anti-stealth units.

The fact that they didn't find the particularly large spaceship after warping into orbit puzzled the Void Crystal Core.

Such an obviously massive spaceship couldn't possibly be missed. Even the scanning array couldn't detect it. Could it have already been evacuated?

In fact, the Colonia flank air base was not on track at all. It had already completed the charging of its first backup battery and arrived at the Three Saints Island to carry out the covert construction of the Three Saints Naval Base.

Moreover, according to Lin Haiyuan's operational requirements, the Colonia flank air base camp must return to its concealed position above the Cangyue rear base without any mission. Finding the Colonia flank air base camp without Lin Haiyuan's orders is nothing short of a pipe dream.

Could our enemy have mastered the technology to make their warships invisible? Should I then send the Sage Ship and the Silent Flower to join the search party?

The Void Crystal Core warped through the Void Butterfly Realm and the Sage Ship into the battlefield—small things like the "Silent Flower Cave" cannot warp on their own, so they can only be warped by...

It's worth mentioning that small things like "detectors" cannot enter the warp state on their own, so they can only be warped over by the Virtual World Mirror which has entered phase mode.

The Sage warship that had warped over first immediately began darting around in its orbit, searching for enemies that might be hiding in the stealth field. If the particularly large Ark ship entered stealth mode, the Sage warship could quickly detect it.

If Lin Haiyuan hadn't moved the two satellite networks, they could indeed have discovered the invisible object, but it wouldn't have been the Ark ship; instead, it would have been a familiar-looking satellite network. As for disguising it as space debris, that would have been too difficult, because Aquamarine hadn't yet developed space technology, so there weren't many man-made debris objects in orbit. If man-made debris appeared, it would look very suspicious.

After searching around potential locations for orbital strikes, the Void Crystal Core quickly reached a conclusion.

"The unknown force's Arkship is not in its current location. It is speculated that it warped away after completing the orbital bombardment to avoid being counterattacked."

Since there was no gain, the Void Crystal Core placed a large number of "Silent Flower" detectors in orbit for monitoring. These "ding-dong" detectors with gravity accelerators can run in orbit for a very long time. This running time is enough to support the Ring Messenger until the entire Aquamarine Star is transformed into a Void World and there is still plenty of time left.

The inability to use orbital strikes temporarily does not mean that Lin Haiyuan is helpless against those seemingly impenetrable defenses. He still has intercontinental ballistic missiles, which can be described as a weapon of destruction and annihilation.

The Yatagarasu intercontinental ballistic missile, originally developed from the Topol-M and MAZ-7919 trucks, has undergone a unique improvement after the self-destruction of the Omega-Jung intercontinental ballistic missile. First, it continues to use a single warhead to reduce the yield by employing cutting-edge isotope stabilization technology to minimize the radioactive contamination left behind after the intercontinental ballistic missile explosion. At the same time, the "Athena device" is installed on the intercontinental ballistic missile to ensure that it can achieve optical stealth penetration.

After a live-fire test over Chicago, radar systems confirmed that the intercontinental ballistic missile maintained optical stealth well during the initial and mid-course phases. The only visible fluctuation in optical stealth was during atmospheric reentry when the speed reached over Mach 10.

Afterwards, personnel wearing anti-radiation suits like those worn by radiation engineers were dispatched to verify and determine the effectiveness of the radioactive contamination suppression. The radioactive contamination caused by this intercontinental ballistic missile, which has a strike range only equivalent to that of a tactical nuclear weapon, dissipates very quickly, comparable to the rate at which radiation engineers inject radiation by inserting shoulder-fired radiation cannons into the ground.

Ultimately, this intercontinental ballistic missile, nicknamed "Three-Legged Golden Crow," and the Flame Cat tri-purpose launcher were left in the hangar of Colonia's flank air base, which seemed to have a collector's obsession.

The value of this three-legged golden crow missile is relatively low for the Last Fortress, the Mad Shark Vanguard, and the flanks of Colonia. Although it has the characteristics of optical stealth penetration, the use of technologies to reduce yield and stabilize isotopes in order to suppress radioactive contamination makes this intercontinental ballistic missile particularly useless.