Colonia Storm Tour

Lin Haiyuan couldn't guarantee that Anshan would bring Fushun, Changchun, and Taiyuan with him on this adventure.

"Where do you live, Captain?"

In Raffi's mind, it seemed that the only answer was on the warship.

"The back of the Azure Moon".

Lin Haiyuan's answer was self-evident.

"Aha?"

Raffi was stunned when she heard the back of the moon. No matter how hard she tried, she never thought of that place.

"I have already established a satellite control base on the back side of your Azure Moon. You will be able to live inside the closed satellite control base, so you won't have to live on the warship."

Lin Haiyuan replied.

“Uh… Oh, Raffi understands.”

Laffey's disbelief quickly turned into indifference. This captain named Lin Haiyuan had the ability to come to this world from another world, so why couldn't he establish a base on another planet, such as the moon? Was that normal?

"Let me tell you about the survivors we rescued. There are four from the Eastern Kingdom and four from Sakura Empire. Like you, Miss Laffey, they are all destroyers."

Lin Haiyuan wanted to give Lafite a heads-up.

"Hmm... like Laffey, it's a destroyer...?"

Laffey, being more pragmatic, began to consider how to get along with the survivors, since they would all be ship girls living under the same roof from now on.

"The ship girls from the Eastern Empire are easy to get along with, so you don't need to worry too much, Miss Laffey. It's just that the Sakura Empire ship girls are a bit independent and unconventional, so you might have to put in some effort, Miss Laffey."

Lin Haiyuan needed to hurry to Saturn, which had silver-white to blue stripes, to find the lady named Exile and resolve the trouble caused by the virtual realm. Having the Griffin special operations ship take satellites to conduct reconnaissance and scanning wouldn't take him too long, at most three days, and if things went well, one day would be enough.

"Yeah……"

Laffey began to consider how to deal with the Sakura Empire's destroyers, and that was just the most basic approach.

"Once the surviving ship girls are all gathered together, I will ask Miss Laffey for your opinion again: whether you want to come with me to find the lady who has a way to solve the Void Mist."

Lin Haiyuan wasn't insistent on whether or not to bring the ship girls along; they could come if they wanted, or not if they didn't.

"Ah."

Raffi nodded slightly, his expression returning to its previous sleepy look.

"By the way, Miss Raffi, when your White Eagle Federation was on the verge of collapse, I obtained a complete set of equipment and a large amount of supplies. According to the information I obtained from it... there was enough of that equipment and supplies to support the enhancement process called modification."

Lin Haiyuan only just remembered that she had the blueprints, parts, materials, and the main body of Laffitte that she needed for enhancement, which was just right for her to carry out a comprehensive enhancement and modification.

It is worth mentioning that Lin Haiyuan's favorite form is not Laffey's initial form, but Laffey's modified form, which is a rare combination of heroic spirit and beauty.

"Huh?"

Lafite never expected that Lin Haiyuan could actually obtain a complete set of equipment and a large amount of supplies.

How did this captain manage to do that? Those were equipment and supplies blueprints that were absolutely under tight security!

She couldn't connect it to the "mysterious disappearance" that occurred at the Kloshid headquarters, because such mysterious disappearances were considered a secret known only to the Extreme Team, the investigation team, and the personnel involved.

"I just picked it up casually. If you're interested in becoming stronger, Miss Raffi, feel free to tell me anytime. And this fellow, now's a good time for you to learn more about it."

Lin Haiyuan said, pressing the button to call Walker.com AI.

"Walker AI, what's the situation at the Qingdao naval base? Are Anshan, Fushun, Changchun, and Taiyuan alright?"

Lin Haiyuan glanced at the monitor; the Griffin Special Operations Ship was now approaching Colonia's flank air base.

"Master, they haven't suffered too much damage, but the number of the Ringed Messengers' warships is gradually increasing. Once the resistance on land is crushed, they will soon become the target of everyone's attacks."

Walker.com AI responded.

"Alright, keep me updated on their situation. Once preparation time is up, my Griffin Special Operations Ship will take them away. We'll need to return to Tri-Star Island to get them off this planet."

Lin Haiyuan also planned to take the Colonia flank air base back to Sanshengxing Island to retrieve all the buildings and materials there and escape.

"Yes, Master."

Walker.com AI responded.

"Walker AI, now introduce yourself to Miss Raffi, so that you won't be startled by a sudden voice later."

As Lin Haiyuan spoke, he looked at Lafite, raised his eyebrows, and gestured with his eyes to indicate that he should not be nervous.

Is he Captain Lin Haiyuan's adjutant? Judging from his voice, he seems like a mature and reliable adult.

As Raffi was thinking this, he heard the introduction of Walker.com's AI.

"Hello, Miss Raffi, my name is Walker, and I am the adjutant of Commander Lin Haiyuan. It's a pleasure to meet you."

Walker.com's AI provided a concise, powerful, and easy-to-understand answer.

"Hello, Mr. Walker, it's a pleasure to meet you too."

Lafite responded politely.

“Miss Raffi, WalkerNet AI is not the real thing, but an artificial intelligence composed of many arithmetic machines whose basics you can hardly understand. So you can’t see its actual existence, but it is actually around us, as long as it is within the reach of WalkerNet.”

Lin Haiyuan explained it as simply as possible, but it was still very difficult for Lafite to understand.

"Artificial intelligence composed of arithmetic machines is difficult to understand..."

Raffi's face showed obvious confusion.

“Then let’s take yourselves as an example. Do you know the mind cubes and mind units that you needed to be born? WalkerNet is built using similar things.”

Lin Haiyuan could only use the ship girls themselves as an example.

"Oh, I see. I'm amazed..."

After listening to Lin Haiyuan's words and thinking about it, Lafite suddenly understood.

"That concludes the introduction to Walker.com AI. Now, Miss Raffi, let me show you my flagship product."

The Griffin special operations ship, which had already deactivated its stealth mode, was accelerating at full power at speeds exceeding several times the speed of sound. As a result, it slowed down and braked to approach Colonia's flank air base during the conversation.

The imposing figure of Colonia's flank air base was perfectly presented on an even larger holographic projection, displaying proportions and other data that could be transmitted.

“……………………”

When Laffey saw the holographic projection of Colonia's flank air base, she, like the other ship girls, gaped wide in shock.

"Let me reintroduce myself here. My name is Lin Haiyuan, and I am the supreme commander of the Fenfeng Colonia flank. Walker AI is my adjutant, or chief of staff. And the warship you see in front of you is the flagship of the Colonia flank, the [Eternal]."

After Lin Haiyuan finished his introduction, he smiled just like Yuri, looking at the stunned Raffi with amusement in his eyes.

Feedback is a skill of the Dark Archon in StarCraft 1. Perhaps it was because the Aiur Protoss and the Nerazim Protoss of Sargeras worked together that the High Templars learned this skill from their brothers.

What's rather unusual is that neither the Archon nor the Dark Archon ever used feedback again—except for the Archbishop in Co-op Mode.

That's why I don't like merging Electrocutors into Archons. The most valuable lightning and feedback are gone. Dark Archons are pretty good; just unleash a few bursts of chaos and it's great. Control is just an extra bonus.

Chapter Nineteen: Vanishing into the Void (Part III)

Theme song: Virus - Morphscape

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At this moment, the three-legged golden crow intercontinental ballistic missile launched from the Three Saints Islands has made a beautiful vertical trajectory and crashed into the headquarters and branches of Kloshid, Wesker, and Buruk.

With a deafening nuclear explosion and a shockwave sweeping in all directions, the underground and above-ground parts of the entire building were annihilated in an instant by the brilliance of nuclear fusion. Mushroom clouds rose slowly over the lands of Tricolor Continent and Whitedra Continent. The Ring Messenger warships and troops within the nuclear strike's impact range, as well as the company's guards and others, were all wiped out in the nuclear explosion. A few were torn to shreds and completely disappeared by the shockwave generated by the nuclear explosion.

A nuclear explosion with a sizable mushroom cloud would normally cause an uproar across the entire nation, but given the devastating impact of the Ringed Messenger fleet, the nuclear explosion is merely a minor incident, and the same applies to humanity in this world.

However, it's different for the agents of the Annihilation Central in the Virtual Realm.

“Acting sir, the locations of the three companies we planned to occupy in Lin—Kloshid, Wesker, and Buruk—have all been hit by fusion attacks. Those companies have been completely destroyed by the powerful nuclear explosions, which also destroyed some of our troops near the locations.”

The Void Crystal Core immediately reported this bad news in its entirety.

"I...!!!! Hahahahahahaha!!"

The agent's mood had deteriorated to the point where he was so angry he was laughing instead of laughing.

Alright, you're always ruining my plans, aren't you?! Now I'm going to turn this damned planet into a virtual world and ravage it all first!

The Executor, emitting a deafening laugh, commanded in his mind: "Slaughter all living beings! Destroy everything above the horizon! All of them!"

Under the Executor's almost manic orders, these mist-formed troops became even more frenzied, as if they had been put into a berserk state or had their time accelerated, and began to kill and destroy with even greater efficiency. More chain disasters were created in this blood-pumping attack, and more and more scars were left on the islands of this ocean planet.

However, Lin Haiyuan was unaware that the crazed Agent was causing his virtual forces to destroy everything like they were on steroids, and of course, he didn't need to consider the Agent's so-called feelings.

After being stunned, Raffi gazed up at the holographic projection of Colonia's flank air base for a long time, unable to forget it. She had never seen a city of such exaggerated size before. It was equivalent to a city flying in the sky, rather than something that could be described simply as a ship. Even the legendary Noah's Ark could not compare to this creation from another world.

She felt deeply how insignificant humanity and herself were in the face of this truly miraculous ark flagship.

"Is the technology in other worlds really that advanced...?"

This was her first sentence after gazing at him for a long time.

"This is the power of technological progress, and we can do even more, Miss Raffi."

Lin Haiyuan responded to her with a smile.

Of course, this brief moment of contemplation on the colossal spaceship was short-lived, as the situation at the Qingdao naval base had deteriorated to the point of complete collapse. The final counterattack had been completely swallowed up by a large number of Ring Messenger warships, and the defenses of the naval base were practically nonexistent. Only scattered sparks remained, which would soon be extinguished by the Ring Messenger ground forces that were running around everywhere.

"Commander! Commander! Commander!"

Anshan called out to the commander loudly over the radio, but her communicator could only pick up more and more static and nothing else.

She knew that from this moment on, she would never be able to contact the commander again, and now they could only fight on their own.

"Damn it! Fushun, Changchun, Taiyuan, join me in attacking that warship!"

She could only raise the other 130mm single-mounted gun and fire at full speed at the Destroyer warship in the air.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

The shells from the four 130mm single-mounted guns tilted at a slightly low altitude on the Destroyer warship, and the 130mm shells exploding on the plasma shield stirred up blue lattice ripples.

After several rounds of concentrated firepower bombardment on the Destroyer warship, the plasma shield on the warship was finally broken.

With the booming sound of gunfire, 130mm shells slammed into the hull of the Destroyer warship. The entire ship visibly shook under the bombardment, and several small fragments were blown off in the explosion.

"Fushun, Changchun, Taiyuan, aim at the cannons firing beams from those warships!!"

Anshan didn't believe that the weapons in his hands could destroy the entire ship; the right thing to do was to first destroy the warship's offensive capabilities.