Colonia Storm Tour

A vast holographic projection unfolded before him, and immediately appeared on the holographic projection the planet Aquamarine, whose territory was divided into different colored blocks.

"The fleet and ground forces of the Ring Envoy have spread across the globe like a tsunami. The radio waves we are detecting are becoming increasingly chaotic and fewer. The forces on Aquamarine are melting away like snowflakes. Based on the progress of the Void Mist and the carpet bombing by the Ring Envoy, it is estimated that within three days, no human life will be detected on the surface of the entire planet. Four days later, the Void Mist will completely cover the entire planet. Now the speed of the Void Mist is constantly accelerating, and the time when the entire planet will be covered by the Void Mist is getting sooner and earlier."

Walker.com AI responded.

The colors representing various factions and nations on the holographic projection gradually faded under the erosion of the pink color representing the Ring Messenger. At the same time, a purple film symbolizing the Void Mist was constantly expanding on the pink surface, eroding and covering the planet's surface at an increasingly rapid pace. It seemed that the transformation of Aquamarine into a Void World could be completed in a relatively short time.

This means that the time it takes for Aquamarine to become a virtual world will be faster and faster, which is directly proportional to the ever-accelerating expansion rate of the virtual mist.

"Whether it's faster or slower than expected, it's all the same anyway. I remember the Ring Messenger was planning to chase us just now? Are they still coming to hunt us down?"

Lin Haiyuan was more concerned about whether the Ring Messenger had tracked them down.

"They didn't detect our exact warp point, but before they could retrieve our detection array tower, the GLONASS satellite system had already spotted a large number of Ring Messenger warships and fighters emerging from the Void Mist, surging in all directions like a tide. They were conducting a carpet search because their detectors in orbit hadn't found us, so they concluded that we were still in the atmosphere and were conducting a carpet search in an attempt to find and destroy us."

Numerous corresponding circular messenger warships and aircraft symbols were marked on the holographic projection. Some of these symbols were moving towards the Three Saints Islands in the direction of the Great Horn Ocean, while warships and aircraft were also moving towards the Three Saints Islands in other directions. It looked as if the Great Horn Ocean was being attacked from both sides.

"Their luck and obsession are both quite good. We were indeed still in the atmosphere and in the Great Horn Ocean. We didn't expect to warp directly away from Aquamarine... Walker.com AI, when do you predict the Ring Messenger's warships will discover this place?"

Lin Haiyuan asked.

"Based on their movement speed and sensor range, the Eternity will be detected in 10 minutes and appear in the nearby waters within 8 minutes."

Walker.com AI responded.

"It's alright, enough for us to leave after we finish recovering the Three Saints Islands base."

Lin Haiyuan nodded.

After confirming that the situation was temporarily safe, Lin Haiyuan relaxed and wanted to relax without thinking about anything. Just then, Anshan, who was supposed to be admiring the command center with his sisters, arrived.

"Mr. Lin Haiyuan."

She called out to him first.

"what's up."

Lin Haiyuan turned to look at her.

"Now let me talk about what I mentioned at sea before. I still couldn't bring any survivors other than my sister onto the ship."

Anshan sighed as he finished speaking.

"In other words, no one wants to run away in that situation... or is it too late to run away once they realize they need to?"

Lin Haiyuan nodded.

"That's how it is. Now, the only survivors on Aquamarine are me, Fushun, and the other ship girls you rescued."

Anshan inevitably felt disheartened.

"Everyone has their own destiny, so what's the point of being discouraged? Those who have survived have something more important to do, which is to continue living and start a new life."

Lin Haiyuan watched the rapidly decreasing death toll beside him, which meant that the killing efficiency of the Ring Messenger fleet was decreasing due to the reduced density of people.

"Haa... To survive and start a new life, are we all going to live on your flagship Eternal from now on? But as a ship girl, that's only right."

Anshan thought about it and realized that since she was a ship girl, it was only natural for her to live on a warship.

"If you don't want to live on the Eternal with your sister, that's fine too..."

After Lin Haiyuan finished speaking, we heard Walker.com's AI report.

"Master, the base buildings on the Three Sacred Star Islands have been completely recovered. The Eternal awaits your next instructions."

"Alright, warp back to the sky above the base on the other side of the Azure Moon. Now let's leave this planet."

Lin Haiyuan gave the order.

"Yes, Master."

Walker.com's AI immediately activated the Leviathan warp engine in the relativistic propulsion system and completed a series of tedious tasks, such as setting warp coordinates. After completing preparations within seconds, it began warping.

The Colonia flank air base was visually stretched into a long, thick noodle as it entered the warp space, bursting into a huge flash that illuminated the sea and islands below as if they were being lit by an incandescent bulb.

The considerable commotion caused by the Eternal's warp was immediately detected by the Ring Messenger warship, which was already approaching the nearby waters, but the detection was of no use.

"Acting Agent, we have detected the warp signal of that unknown Ark flagship. They left before we discovered them. Our Cave Silent Flower did not see that Ark flagship appear."

The Void Crystal Core reported a situation that would make the Agent jump in fury.

“…hiss, whoosh—”

The Proxy Inhaler inhaled the aura of the God of Roundness, trying to calm himself down.

After inhaling the aura of the God of the Round for a while, the Executor remained silent for a moment before saying, "Continue with the current mission. Once we have completely transformed this planet into a virtual world, we will set off to find that runaway bastard."

"Yes, Your Excellency."

The Void Crystal Core also kept quiet and carried out the task required by the Agent.

Blizzard made the Spear of Adun look pretty cool in the CG, but battlecruisers are often the unlucky ones. Apart from the Hyperion, other battlecruisers appearing in the CG are either burning and falling down or falling to the ground from a sky full of dark clouds, giving off a feeling of cannon fodder.

Interestingly, Sirius A is classified as an F-type star in the constellation, but according to current data, its spectral type is A.

I heard Paradox Interactive is making a multi-star system project, and I can almost picture CPU0 running rampant, along with an increase in the habitable planet correction factor.

Chapter Twenty-One: Vanishing into the Void (V)

The next moment, a pale light flickered in a certain space above the Cangyue Back Base, and then the Colonia Flanking Air Base quickly rushed out from there and appeared above the Cangyue Back Base.

By this time, the destroyer lolis, whose curiosity about the command center had been fully satisfied, lined up around Lin Haiyuan's seat.

A giant holographic projection unfolded in front of Lin Haiyuan and the ship girls, displaying surveillance and original images of the Cangyue base on the back side.

"This is the kind of thinking that you all would have if you were born on Aquamarine. What does the other side of your Azure Moon look like? Does it look as desolate as it does? The answer is on the right. The right side is the original image, and the left side is the image of the base I established on the other side of the Azure Moon after I came to this world."

Lin Haiyuan replied.

So the ship girls turned their gaze to the left, to the back of the Azure Moon where the construction base had not yet been built. What came into their view was only a dark, desolate, and lifeless world, with light and shadow swaying uncertainly on the edge of this darkness.

Like the moon, the crescent moon also exhibits libration, allowing people to glimpse 18% of the far side of the moon.

The far side of the moon on Aquamarine is just as desolate and lifeless as the far side of Earth's moon, with only a series of impact craters and lunar rocks of all sizes and thick gray-white dust. The terrain is rugged and uneven, with undulating mountain ranges of various shapes. All the people and things described in mythology about the moon are not here.

This cold and desolate scene seems to be telling the observers from Aquamarine that whether it's the Jade Rabbit, Chang'e, or the Moon Palace, they are all just beautiful fantasies formed by humanity's long-term lack of scientific understanding of the moon. Now, that legendary fantasy has been shattered.

"It's so desolate. There's nothing there except rocks, dust, and pits."

All that can be seen in Fushun is the unchanging desolation of time.

There is no moon palace and no Chang'e.

Changchun was greatly disappointed by this.

"There is no Wu Gang who cut down the laurel tree."

Taiyuan was equally disappointed by the desolate back of the moon.

"It seems that Princess Bamboo Cutter is also a non-existent figure. What we have seen is merely a figment of our imagination and a legend..."

Pufeng and her sisters were disappointed by the desolate back of the Azure Moon.

"It looks desolate and boring. Are the expectations for going from Earth to the Moon too high?"

This is Lafite's only comment on it.

"On the surface, it not only looks desolate and boring, but it is also deadly. In fact, it is not suitable for organic life forms to survive in this environment without any protection or modification, because there is no air on the Azure Moon. It is in a vacuum state, and you all understand what a vacuum without air means."

When Lin Haiyuan uttered those words, all the ship girls present could imagine what a suffocating operation was like—it was impossible to breathe without air.

In fact, Epsilon's modifications to the Beastmen and Librans can be considered successful, at least allowing these two types of units to stand brazenly on the lunar surface without any problems.

The berserkers that move in groups in the shadows and in the light are always impressive, as are the Libra clones that have no breathing aids.

"However, if you have mineral scanning instruments, you will definitely be able to discover that this place is rich in mineral resources, and there are also many minerals that can be called rare earth elements on Aquamarine that exist here in large quantities."

Lin Haiyuan could see more than they could, such as the various metallic mineral resources contained in these dust and lunar rocks, the abundance of which was even higher than that of the moon.

Of course, the main attraction is on the far side of the moon, where "Helium-3" is used as fuel for nuclear fusion. The abundance of Helium-3 here is even higher than on the moon, thanks to the presence of the F-type star, White Sun.

Every star releases a "stellar wind" into the surrounding interstellar space. This stellar wind is essentially a stream of charged plasma particles that often travel at speeds exceeding several times the speed of sound.

The stellar wind emitted by the Sun is much more intense than that emitted by the Sun, thus allowing it to accumulate more helium-3 on the far side of the Moon. Although the Sun has only 2.02 solar masses and is a medium-sized star like the Sun, the speed and mass of their stellar winds are not comparable. The larger the mass of a star, the greater the proportion of mass loss it will experience when evolving into a red giant will come from the stellar wind.

However, this does not mean that Baiyangxing will have a magnificent supernova explosion, because a supernova explosion requires more than 9 solar masses, which means that the star itself must have the pressure and temperature to fuse carbon and oxygen nuclei. Otherwise, it will only form a white dwarf composed of carbon and oxygen, and the overflowing outer gas layer will form a beautiful planetary nebula on the outside.

"I won't go into more details here. You have two options: one is to stay and live in the Cangyue Back Base that I built. If you stay in the Cangyue Back Base, you won't be able to live the lively life you used to have, and you won't be able to go out. You can only move around within the underground base area. This is to ensure your safety and the safety of the base."

The Cangyue Backside Base, built by Lin Haiyuan and Walker.com AI, was designed with concealment in mind from the very beginning.

Therefore, the base on the back of the Azure Moon was not built openly on the land on the back of the Azure Moon. Instead, it was built underground, just like an underground base. Only a few necessary buildings and units were left to carry out necessary work, such as mining, under the cover of the Invisibility Tower.

Especially with the Azure Star, a natural satellite orbiting the Azure Moon, transforming into a virtual world and the possibility of the Ring Envoy fleet leaving at any moment, concealment is absolutely essential. Once exposed, it would pose a serious threat to the growth and survival of the Burning Wind in this world.

Currently, the mining units on the back side of the Azure Moon are not only mining on the back side of the Azure Moon, but also conducting small-scale mining on the side of the Azure Moon facing Aquamarine Star to replenish resources.

The energy consumed is not only for maintaining the base's daily operations, but also for manufacturing Kodiak warships and converting them into nanomaterials and other supplies to be delivered to various locations and the air base on the flank of Colonia.

"Well, that means if we stay at the Cangyue base you established, Commander Lin Haiyuan, we'll have to live underground forever."

Anshan understood Lin Haiyuan's meaning and summarized it.

"Being stuck in the underground base all the time is fine for a short time, but it will definitely get boring after a while."

Fushun could already foresee how quickly his initial excitement would fade.

"It's hard to accept if someone has to hide for a long time."

Changchun also doesn't like to hide underground for long periods of time; it feels like being in prison.

"That kind of life must be very difficult, you have to be careful in everything you do."

Taiyuan also dislikes the feeling of hiding underground.

"You'd better think about which planet the Azure Moon revolves around. After Aquamarine became a virtual world, the warships of the Ring Envoys could fly out at any time. We all know what the consequences would be if they wanted to search for life signals and abnormal human creations on the nearest Azure Moon. So hiding underground is a must."

Lin Haiyuan was adamant about this; he didn't want the Cangyue rear base to be destroyed because of these girls' reckless carelessness.

It is essential to isolate ourselves from all currently conceivable scanning methods to minimize the chances of being detected.

The Holy Guard has a virtual world called the Apostate Realm, which may not seem like a big deal, because if anyone dares to invade it, it will cause the Holy Guard to awaken, and then anything that escapes from the virtual world will be doomed.

"And what is the second option, Commander Lin Haiyuan?"

Changchun asked curiously.