Colonia Storm Tour

This floating continent has been able to float in Saturn's atmosphere for so long that there must be a place to manage and control the entire floating continent. It just so happens that this ancient pioneer civilization set up a backup control center to ensure the stable operation of the floating continent in order to prevent the artificial intelligence it created from malfunctioning.

"No matter how you look at it, these low-dimensional beings who set up control centers are quite incredible. They clearly have a created intelligent personality to control this floating continent."

The higher-dimensional demon spoke with disdain.

In the eyes of this high-dimensional demon, the backup central hub was superfluous, a waste of space on the warship.

"Without a backup control center, after we destroy that intelligent personality, we will enter the core of this gas giant planet along with this floating continent and be reduced to elementary particles."

The high-dimensional demon leader glanced at the high-dimensional demon who had just spoken.

"These low-dimensional beings always like to create trouble. They could just live peacefully on their own planet and wait for us to eat them."

The words of the higher-dimensional demon reveal its arrogant nature.

Does this idiot not remember what he was driven away by and how he survived on this floating continent?

The high-dimensional demon leader cursed his incompetent teammate in his heart. If it weren't for this teammate's unauthorized attack on an interstellar empire's outpost, which caused the dozing interstellar empire to wake up and send a large fleet to hunt them down, they wouldn't have needed to escape from another star system to this one! They would have already settled down in the neighboring star system and devoured and destroyed everything.

The high-dimensional demon leader pressed the next button, and mint green energy flowed through the floor beneath his feet, revealing a complex circular pattern.

"To activate this function, three people need to stand diagonally opposite each other, step on the button next to their feet, and then shout 'Nasdru Ulandak' together to activate the function."

高维恶魔头领站在12点钟方向的大圆环内部，而他指示另外三个高维恶魔站立在、2、4、8、11点钟方向的大圆环上。

"Are you ready? We don't have time to waste on ceremony preparations now."

The high-dimensional demon leader glanced at the other three demons.

The other three higher-dimensional demons reported to their leader in a manner similar to telepathy that they could begin at any time.

“Na·S·D·Ru·U·Lan·Da·K!”

The high-dimensional demon leader and three other high-dimensional demons shouted in perfect unison to activate a function called "Void Ascension".

Then everything happened just as the higher-dimensional demons had hoped: the "Void Escape" function in the defense system was activated.

The circular pattern beneath the high-dimensional demon's feet emitted an unusual pink light, and then the entire floating continent underwent an extraordinary change.

The entire floating continent showed visible tremors, both from satellites and with the naked eye, as if an earthquake had occurred. However, this floating continent had no subsurface structure whatsoever, making an earthquake impossible.

The unusual activity on the floating continent was quickly noticed by Walker.com's AI.

Dididi! The alarm suddenly blared in the command center.

"Abnormal geological activity detected! The output of the unknown energy core of the floating continent created by the ancient pioneer civilization is showing a linear increase followed by a decrease! The specific reason is unknown! The gravitational field signal fluctuation is decreasing and returning to normal! The energy shield generator of the ancient pioneer civilization has stopped operating, and all energy fields are disappearing!"

Walker.com AI provided the most concise and understandable description of the current situation possible.

"What the hell? Why does this floating continent suddenly look like it's about to collapse? Who... wait, could it be those high-dimensional demons who are behind this?"

Lin Haiyuan immediately thought of the high-dimensional demons that were entrenched here.

"Master, the energy field in the sky has completely collapsed. According to our detectors, this floating continent is disintegrating! Its internal structure is not as reliable as we detected."

Walker.com AI provided a reminder.

Upon hearing Walker.com AI's words, Lin Haiyuan looked towards the "surface" and discovered that the entire floating continent's frozen and barren surface was cracking and splitting apart, looking like the sky was falling and the earth was cracking.

"Alright, let's get the fleet airborne and get out of this hellhole to see what's going on."

He had no desire to get a close look at what was happening on this floating continent in the current environment.

"Yes, Master."

Walker.com AI responded.

The energy field above the Colonia flank air base and the 20 Kodiak warships has completely disappeared, meaning there are no longer any energy barriers preventing them from entering or leaving the universe.

As a result, the engine nozzles at the tail and wings of the Colonia's flank air base emitted even more intense plasma tail flames, and together with the other Kodiak warships, they increased their flight altitude and flew into outer space to avoid the fragments of this suddenly "shattered" floating continent crashing into the warships and base.

At the core

"What's going on?! What happened, boss?!"

The higher-dimensional demons nearly fell flat on their faces in an unseemly fashion due to the sudden tilt of the control center—even though they don't have mouths.

"What exactly did we do?!"

The higher-dimensional demon, with its extraordinary perception of space, noticed the fact that the floating continent was disintegrating.

"This defense system is completely different from what we imagined. Everything here is being destroyed!"

The higher-dimensional demons never imagined that the floating continent they had used as a refuge would be destroyed.

"How on earth did these low-dimensional beings design their creations that suddenly broke down?"

The high-dimensional demon leader had not expected this unexpected situation.

At this moment, under the actions of these leaders of higher-dimensional demons, the defenses they had built out out of fear of their brethren from higher dimensions collapsed along with the disintegrating continent. The higher-dimensional demons were like meteoroids thrown into the sky, flying wildly under their own inertia and the gravity of the planet.

Although these higher-dimensional demons can survive without air, they will starve to death in the cold and desolate universe if they do not have an energy supply for a long time. The only way for higher-dimensional demons to die is to dissolve into a wisp of energy and dissipate. As higher-dimensional beings, they also differ from silicon-based and carbon-based beings in their life form.

Meanwhile, the Colonia flanking fleet, which had already rapidly returned to orbit of the floating continent using the sub-light speed engine, also witnessed a truly astonishing scene from space.

Like an Antarctic continent without the Antarctic Peninsula, a floating continent is splitting apart at its dark center—it looks like a massive cloud of gas entering the Roche limit of a black hole and being torn apart by rotation.

However, the dark center was not actually a black hole, but something that Lin Haiyuan and Walker.com AI did not understand until now, but now they had the opportunity to learn about it.

Amidst the inaudible whispers of the wind and the ancient, lingering sound, the entire floating continent split into four pieces, slowly receding towards the dark center in the four cardinal directions, resembling an intricately designed cross mechanism rotating and extending.

The four rotating and receding floating continents stirred up a very bright surge of energy, with a lot of black and red energy flowing within them and many amazing lightning bolts flashing through them.

A dark red circular outline appeared at the center of the once dark continent, and this dark red circular outline expanded outward along with the darkness inside.

"Master, an unusually strong spacetime fluctuation has been detected in the dark region, which has been confirmed as the center of the original continent!"

Walker.com AI reported.

"An unusually strong spacetime fluctuation? Could this be..."

Lin Haiyuan stared wide-eyed as the "black hole" with a dark red edge on the holographic projection slowly expanded and grew.

The most amazing thing about this process is that the expansion of the "black hole" did not affect Saturn in the slightest, as if the scene was just an illusion. However, the data and observation results from the sensors proved that it was not an illusion. The floating continent, which was originally divided into four equal parts and expanded into a cross shape, stopped expanding when the black hole expanded to become a dark hole on the surface of Saturn.

Then the four floating continents continued to rotate around the "black hole." At this moment, the "black hole" seemed to be rotating as well. The unusual gravity distorted the path of light, and the entire Saturn looked like the moon reflected in water, rippling and undulating.

At that moment, a powerful flash of light erupted from inside the "black hole," instantly filling the visual field with white light, as if a flashbang had been thrown at you.

Fortunately, this flash, similar to the flash of a black hole exploding, had no power; at least it did not generate enough light pressure to burn up the entire warship.

As the light faded quickly, a breathtaking scene unfolded before Lin Haiyuan and Walker.com's AI.

The "black hole" has disappeared, leaving only the still rotating dark outline emitting ominous black mist and the floating continent split into four pieces, while inside is an unprecedented new world.

A starry sky with ever-changing pink skies and white stars, another space, another universe...

No double updates today either; my thoughts haven't been flowing smoothly lately...

The Protoss mod for Stellaris feels a bit lacking in character art; it has a texture reminiscent of a concrete road… Everything else is fine, except it doesn't include the Spear of Adun or the Cybros, lol.

It has now been suddenly discovered that the works of Anshan and USAS-12 are by the same artist...

Chapter Twenty-Eight: Vanishing into the Void (XII)

"Master, I have detected a powerful and stable wormhole signal. It is a wormhole leading to another space. This is simply unbelievable. Such a powerful and stable wormhole has not affected the surrounding celestial bodies at all."

Walker.com's AI exclaimed in amazement.

"It seems the function of the floating continent is more complex than we imagined..."

Lin Haiyuan had calmed down. He had seen similar scenes before, but the shock of seeing it unfold was far greater than what he had witnessed through a monitor.

"From an engineering perspective, it would be virtually impossible to present such a complex process and deploy such a massive wormhole while maintaining stability."

Walker.com's AI is very good at understanding the technological gaps involved; the "power supply" aspect alone is a huge challenge.

"The Exile guided me there, probably so that I could activate the wormhole generator to create a wormhole that leads to another dimension to find her."

Lin Haiyuan looked at the starry sky filled with light pink to dark pink nebulae and white stars.

"Master, we need to enter the wormhole. I suggest sending the Griffin special operations ship ahead to scout and find out what's inside the wormhole."

Walker.com AI suggests.

"That's exactly what I was thinking. Let's send the Griffin special operations ship over there to do some reconnaissance."

Lin Haiyuan nodded and flicked his index finger, pointing at the black hole in the holographic projection.

[The Griffin special operations ship is being dispatched...]

The following message was displayed above the holographic projection.

"By the way, those higher-dimensional demons should have been affected. Did our sensors detect any of them this time?"

Lin Haiyuan suddenly remembered that there were also high-dimensional demons who were grounded on the floating continent.

"According to the ship's onboard detection array, some high-dimensional demons were also sucked into the wormhole, while the whereabouts of some high-dimensional demons are unknown, and they may still be on the deformed floating continent."

Walker.com responded.

"If it's just some lowly high-dimensional demons or small fry that enter, that's fine. They don't know how to open dimensional portals and they don't have the ability to do so anyway. We can just kill them one by one."

Lin Haiyuan's attitude towards high-dimensional demons was naturally to kill them all.

The greatest benefit these higher-dimensional demons bring to us is the provision of extradimensional technology, such as matter decomposers, super shields, and shield capacitors. Without these technologies, these higher-dimensional demons would only be considered higher-dimensional garbage.

The prerequisite is that they bring ships and attempt to open dimensional portals, so that the three technologies mentioned above can be analyzed from the wreckage of their warships and the situation of higher dimensions can be glimpsed.

Lin Haiyuan hasn't seen a single high-dimensional demon warship yet, so it's practically impossible to analyze and obtain samples of the three technologies mentioned above. Those land-based matter decomposers and dimensional beam emitter arrays can't be destroyed to obtain the analytical technology, and capturing a sample from fixed buildings and shipborne weapons is two different levels of difficulty.

They didn't have the chance to cut off the power supply and disable the two weapon turrets just now. Now that the floating continent has split into four pieces, it seems that there will be no more such opportunities. Only the shipborne matter decomposers and dimensional beam emitter arrays will fail due to the ship's power system failure and lack of power. They are usually able to survive intact in the wreckage formed by the attack on the ship.

The floating continent broke apart into four wormholes, which generated powerful gravitational signals and subspace fluctuations. Although it was several astronomical units away from Aquamarine, which had become a virtual world, it was still perceived by the beings in the virtual world.

Meanwhile, the executor, who was on his way to the expedition, immediately received a report from the Void Crystal Core that remained in the Void World of "Aquamarine Star".

“Agent, we have detected extremely strong gravitational signals and psionic fluctuations in the Baiyang planetary system. Based on the comparison and observation of the waveforms, a psionic wormhole equivalent to 80% of the area of ​​Saturn has been opened.”

"A psionic wormhole, equivalent to 80% of Saturn's surface area, has been opened? What the hell is a psionic wormhole?"

The agent found it strange when he heard the word "psychic wormhole." Wormholes were still within his understanding, but what did the addition of "psychic" mean?

"This is a hole created by using a large amount of psionic energy in the basic structure of reality, rather than being caused by the rotation of stars and the effects of gravity, as those materialists believe."

The explanation for the core of the Void Crystal is quite simple and straightforward: as long as you bring in almost omnipotent psionic energy, it is feasible to create a wormhole that does not affect anything around it and is passable.