Colonia Storm Tour

Consciousness slowly sank into the deep, sticky darkness, the process of which was silent and imperceptible.

This time, Lin Haiyuan's nap was finally peaceful. The mental vision phenomenon did not reappear during his deep sleep, meaning that there were no confusing messages or eye-related hints.

Lin Haiyuan was fast asleep, his breathing barely audible as he held Hei Yu in his arms. His expressionless face and seemingly furrowed brows made it seem as if he was contemplating something with his eyes closed. In reality, he wasn't thinking about anything with his eyes closed; it was just that he did have this expression when he slept. However, ever since Alice and the others came along, this expression would crumble and become difficult to maintain when he was completely relaxed.

Hei Yu nestled in his arms, closed her eyes to rest, and remained silent, waiting for Lin Haiyuan to wake up.

After the ship girls, who were assigned to their respective dormitory rooms by Orange Fox and Walker.net AI, settled down in their rooms and, without exception, requested Walker.net to send them some daily necessities.

These empty dormitories remain unassigned, with nothing but the most basic furniture.

After Walker.com's AI recorded what they needed, it checked whether the items were available, asked them to modify their requirements, upload them again, and then sent them everything they needed.

The items they needed were all packed into several boxes, so each box was swarmed by three rows of nine terrifying drones.

Clapping clapping clapping...

After the terrifying drones carrying boxes arrived in front of the ship girls' dormitory, Walker.net AI notified them to go out and collect the daily necessities they wanted.

Upon stepping outside, Anshan and her companions were immediately startled to see the terrifying drone. However, upon seeing the box atop the drone, they understood its purpose.

"Uh, this scary-looking machine is used to move things?"

Fushun stared curiously at the expressionless terror drone—the terror drone in Red Alert 2 didn't have a "face," while the terror drone in RA3 could be considered to have a head and a "face."

Changchun crouched down to examine the terrifying drone: "Hey, it's totally spider-shaped, but the head is surprisingly simple."

"It looks as simple and crude as the machinery of Northern Union."

Taiyuan felt something was off. Compared to the sophisticated machinery seen on the road, the head design of the terrifying drone seemed very crude, as if it hadn't been done well in terms of bionic engineering design.

"…………"

Anshan stared in surprise, but said nothing.

She was not only surprised that the terrifying drones were used to move things, but also astonished by their very existence.

As a fairly decent RTS game player, she wouldn't forget the classic Command & Conquer, nor the once-fascinating Red Alert 2. The terrifying drones among the Soviet units, which were full of Russian war aesthetics, were the units that impressed her the most—swift and deadly, yet extremely fragile.

Why would a terrifying drone appear on a super flagship that could be classified alongside Leviathan and the Spear of Adun? This is quite different from the futuristic and sophisticated style of the Fenfeng. The Thousand-Mile Drone I saw before, although it looked strange, still seemed to be in harmony with the overall Fenfeng. Could it be a transmigrator who brought his own three-way base vehicle and then developed into an interstellar civilization?

This is the most likely idea she currently has. As for why the names of the Foehn Wind and the Colonia flank seem familiar, it's because she didn't have enough time to wait for the 3.3.0 version of the "Mental Omega" mod, which was derived from the Yuri's Revenge expansion. In version 3.0, there were still the traditional three factions, without a new fourth faction.

If she had actually played and learned about the fourth faction, the Burning Wind, that appeared in version 3.3.0 before her transmigration, she would have had a deep understanding of Lin Haiyuan's origins, instead of just feeling a sense of déjà vu.

Even before the release of 3.3.0, there were already rumors about the Foehn Wind, but there was no more specific information, such as the Last Fortress, the Mad Shark Vanguard, and the Colonia Flanking.

After all, as an older game, it is still much inferior to StarCraft 2, which she is used to playing. She mainly spends her gaming time on StarCraft 2.

However, she couldn't rule out the possibility that Lin Haiyuan created this still-useful robot out of nostalgia. With the ability to build a spaceship with a volume of 25KM and an advanced super AI, how could he not be able to make a terrifying drone? It's just a matter of whether it was worthwhile to do so. If she wanted to know what was going on, she should ask him sometime.

Just as she was thinking this, the box made a slight mechanical turning sound and opened its top lid.

"Please collect the items in the area corresponding to your name. Temporary exchanges can only be made after you have collected them."

Walker.com's AI provides a suggestion.

Because the box is large enough, the four sisters can walk around this "supply box" to retrieve the daily necessities they want.

Urakaze, Isokaze, Hamakaze, and Tanikaze, who lived across the street, were not surprised at all by the terrifying drone's delivery. They simply followed Walker.com AI's instructions to collect the daily necessities they wanted.

Compared to the lively East Huang ship girls and Sakura Empire ship girls, Laffey looked much lonelier. She was all alone in her dormitory room. The Anshan team and the Urakaze team shared a dormitory room with four people, which was understandable since there were no other Eagle Union ship girls around.

Anshan saw this and kept it in mind. She turned to her younger sisters and whispered, "Fushun, Changchun, Taiyuan, when you've settled into your dorm rooms, let's go say hello to Lafite next door, shall we?"

"Go and say hello to Miss Lafite?"

Fushun turned his head and glanced at one of the Lafite bottles before nodding in understanding.

"Going to visit, okay?"

Changchun nodded.

"Ah."

Taiyuan would certainly not object to this.

The Sakura Empire ship girls, on the other hand, didn't have the same leisure time as Anshan and the others. Their daily necessities included needles and thread for weaving or mending clothes, so they seemed to be busy for a while. As for whether they would follow their old habit of visiting their neighbors with small gifts after moving to their new residence, that was another matter. Perhaps their small gifts would be their knitwear or something similar.

After collecting all the necessities from the box, the lid closed automatically, and the terrifying drone, carrying the light box, clattered back the way it came.

While they were setting up the room, Orange Fox remained on standby in the corridor, waiting for Walker.com AI to confirm whether the little guys had explored other parts of the living facilities.

It's impossible to keep these little ones in the dormitory all the time. There are other places in the living facilities area for them to pass the time during non-wartime. Non-wartime time will probably take up a lot of their time because these ship girls are away from the ocean environment of Aquamarine Star, and their combat strength in other aspects may not be as good as that of 50 good brothers.

Well, why do I say that? Because they lack NBC (nuclear, biological, and chemical) protection and life support equipment, and unlike artificial elves, they don't have the unique ability to breathe in a vacuum without any external force and are protected from terrible space radiation and sub-zero temperatures.

Without additional equipment, they would likely be unable to survive on the alien continent and thus fail to perform their combat duties effectively in the upcoming battles.

Fortunately, the display device technology brought from the Date A Live world can still be used in this somewhat chaotic world. Therefore, as long as they are dressed in combat suits equipped with display devices, there should be no problem and they can continue to fight. They can even fly and dive into the ground, making them virtually omnipotent. Of course, if their weapons and protection are not improved, they will still be quite powerless in the face of even stronger battles.

After spending a considerable amount of time decorating and furnishing their dormitory rooms, they felt tired and sat on their beds to rest for a while.

Walker.com's AI did not ask whether or not to visit other parts of the living facilities area, waiting for the ship girls to bring it up themselves.

While the ship girls were getting ready in their dorm rooms and taking a short rest, Lin Haiyuan also woke up naturally after a deep sleep.

Like a sudden outburst, Lin Haiyuan quickly stood up from the back of his chair and adjusted the backrest angle to a normal 90 degrees. After neatly resetting the ambient brightness to the default value, the previously dim and almost dark command room became bright again. He picked up a teacup similar to the one used by Haha and gulped it down.

"Hey, WalkerNet AI, how's the scan of the floating continent going?"

Lin Haiyuan asked, "The first thing I asked when I woke up was about this."

"The satellite network has been established and is fully online. The Griffin special ship has completed a full scan of the floating continent with the GLONASS satellite system, and the scan results have been compiled."

Walker.com's AI then displayed a holographic projection showing the scan results.

A pale green holographic projection stretched out in a straight green line, revealing the entire floating continent to Lin Haiyuan. There were also many different kinds of signs and divisions, which were all auxiliary means to understand this floating continent. The true center point of the entire continent was a black dot.

Since no forces were detected, the map was not a typical "world map" with defined boundaries, but rather a combination of a layered, color-coded topographic map and a military topographic map.

"Judging from its shape, it looks like Antarctica with the Antarctic Peninsula cut off as its 'tail'."

The first thing Lin Haiyuan said after clearly seeing the terrain of the floating continent was...

"The artificial modification is very obvious, which can rule out the possibility that the polar crust was directly collected, modified, and placed on Saturn in the solar system. It was placed in the atmosphere after being modified to a certain extent."

Walker.com AI can see this from the shape of the floating continent because the orderliness of its terrain is so obvious.

"Master, our energy detection and analysis satellite has detected an unknown energy fluctuation. This unknown energy fluctuation does not match any of the energy fluctuations recorded in our database. There is a greater than 90% chance that this unknown energy is driving some equipment to maintain the orbital stability of the floating continent."

Walker.com's AI displayed dynamic energy fluctuations on a holographic projection map, indicating the range of influence of these energy fluctuations.

"The energy intensity seems quite high. Is it possible to pinpoint the exact location of the energy source?"

Lin Haiyuan could sense the immense power within those energy fluctuations, which had already surpassed those of the floating continent itself.

Walker.com's AI has marked the locations of energy sources on a map, each marked with a light green tower-shaped street light icon.

"This logo looks so familiar. Walker.com AI, is there an energy source on the ground? I want to see what the energy source looks like."

He wanted to see what the energy source that produced the energy fluctuations looked like.

“Those energy sources are all located underground on the floating continent. There are no energy sources that appear directly on the surface. However, we still managed to identify the shape and some of the structure of the energy source devices through various detection methods.”

A slightly smaller holographic projection appeared next to Lin Haiyuan, with the shape of the energy source device displayed on the holographic projection.

This is a device with a triangular prism base and a triangular tower top. In the hollow center of this device, there is an energy barrier that seals the hollow part, and inside the energy barrier is a sphere that radiates light outward.

Lin Haiyuan frowned after seeing the shape and structure of the energy source device: "The more I look at it, the more it resembles the structure of an unknown energy core."

"An unknown energy core, what is that? Master."

Walker.com's AI has no knowledge of the unknown energy core.

"It is the most powerful ship reactor that can be used after the development of mysterious energy generator technology among the stars. It operates in a way that seems to defy the laws of nature, and it can obtain more energy than the Zero Point Reactor. More specific details are not clear."

Lin Haiyuan could only learn so much about it from the game's description.

"Is it a more advanced power generation device than a zero-point reactor? That's amazing."

Walker.com AI has not yet foreseen the emergence of a reactor that is more efficient than a zero-point reactor that uses vacuum zero-point energy to output energy.

"If it is indeed the unknown energy core that provides power to the stabilizing equipment of the floating continent, then the civilization of this unknown ancient pioneer is truly more powerful than we imagined."

Lin Haiyuan also knew that if the player, the Fourth Calamity, wanted to obtain the technology of the mysterious energy generator, it would not be difficult at all.

Both the console-based Scourge, which drives AI to despair, and the greedy and cunning player Scourge, have ways to acquire this device that greatly increases ship power generation in order to meet the requirements of more powerful warships.

In fact, Lin Haiyuan himself was also very interested in the unknown energy core, because it provided unimaginable energy. For the Colonia flank air base, which needed to devour a large amount of energy to achieve the time-stopping effect, this advanced reactor equipment, which was even more advanced than the Zero Point Reactor and produced more energy, was simply a dream come true.

"We should study these unknown energy cores carefully. Maybe the huge energy consumption problem caused by the time stop of the Eternal can be solved."

Lin Haiyuan could then use time stop less cautiously and extend its duration.

The activation process of "time stop" is not like the Spear of Adun, where a transparent sphere explodes and time actually stops. Here, it is necessary to explain the difference between the two activation methods of time stop. The Spear of Adun is a "time bomb" that is very easy to throw. Once this time bomb explodes, the affected things will be immediately stopped in time for a certain period of time.

However, the time stop of the Sigma Tuning Array is not an explosion like a time bomb, but a process caused by continuous activation, which is quite different from the time stop method achieved by the Spear of Adun.

This means that the Spear of Adun can drop a time bomb to stop the time of an enemy target and then immediately warp away, leaving the enemies stunned for a moment, unlike the Colonia's flank air base.

Once the warp leaves, it means that the Sigma-tuned array can no longer affect the time stop, and the area where time was stopped will return to normal immediately or with a delay of one or two seconds.

"Based on Master's description of the unknown energy core and mysterious energy generator, the Colonia Flank is not capable of independently developing and using this technology."

The very fact that energy is generated in a way that seems to defy the laws of nature has already shown Walker.com AI the difficulties involved; it's not something that can be solved simply by having a physical object in front of you.

The ease or difficulty of reverse engineering depends on the technological level of both parties. It becomes increasingly easier to reverse engineer products at the same technological level, while the greater the gap in technological level, the more difficult it becomes until it becomes impossible to reverse engineer.

Just as it would be impossible for primitive humans to reverse engineer and create a usable jet engine, it would be completely beyond their understanding and knowledge of the world.

“I know, so if possible, we’ll dismantle an unknown energy core and wait for it to be analyzed for our use. Speaking of which, Exile told me I’d find something good on this floating continent. She was probably referring to the unknown energy core used to attack the floating continent, and it certainly is…”

Lin Haiyuan had to admit that just the "unknown energy core" that appeared in one of the stars was enough to make him come to this world.

"Master, there are multiple abnormally chaotic gravitational field signals on the entire continent. These chaotic and huge gravitational field signals can significantly and effectively interfere with our warp drive. Our warp drive cannot be used in this area. We can only use normal sub-light speed travel methods to move forward."

Walker.com's AI started talking about the bad things that were not good for them.

"Can't we warp in this area? That would be a huge problem..."

Lin Haiyuan knew what it meant to not be able to warp. It meant that in an emergency, if he wanted to escape from the battle, he would have to rely on sub-light speed travel. It was impossible to use tactical warp to escape quickly and easily.

"This means that any military operations we undertake on the floating continent must be carried out with extreme caution, otherwise they could very well turn into a devastating retreat."

Walker.com AI is very wary of this, because no one wants history to repeat itself.

"Hmm, are these the only negative impacts the floating continent has brought us?"