Colonia Storm Tour

The Destroyer vehicle is basically a modified version of the Maintainer Siege Cannon, while the Armadillo Heavy Vehicle is more complex.

The settings for the Destroyer vehicle and the Flat Shark support submarine have been updated.

Chapter Thirty-Nine: Fate

时间：2014年1月31日，AM12:00:00

Location: California - San Francisco - Alcatraz

Alcatraz, a small island in San Francisco, California, was originally intended to be decommissioned as a prison for hardened criminals and become a tourist attraction like the Golden Gate Bridge. However, since 2012, the island has not become a tourist attraction; instead, it has become home to an increasing number of hardened criminals, and some of them have even been found to be hiding things they shouldn't be looking at.

Today, this island, which holds prisoners, has received guests unlike any other. They are neither transporting supplies nor prisoners, but rather engineers from a construction company and state government representatives.

They came to explore and observe. On this island, which is less than 3.2186 kilometers from Fisherman's Wharf, the terrain is very different from that in the original timeline. This island is no longer as flat and long as a slipper, but has become more rounded and larger.

The U.S. side agreed to allow DEM to build an ATMDDIRD, or "Memory-Dealer," in San Francisco to control and manage the memories of the local Chinese community.

DEM, which had already made preparations for this, had its technicians survey and decide to choose Alcatraz Island, which is surrounded by the sea and can only be accessed by ships and airports, to build this device, as it is not easily disturbed by outsiders.

The memory control device was placed in a large open space behind the largest and longest building on Alcatraz Island. The original design of that open space was for prisoners to get some fresh air.

Now that there's such a large open space, it's just the right size to place the Memory Master Manifestation Device, although it's just a small guy compared to the "Migdal-Ba/vel" Tower of Babel device.

As for the serious criminals who were originally detained there and the unfortunate souls who saw things they shouldn't have seen, the US and DEM had already decided their fate long ago.

These prisoners will never escape Alcatraz Island, but instead of being imprisoned in a jail, they will be placed in a special device.

The DEM Integrated Research Base, located near the DEM headquarters in the UK, has overcome the challenge of ensuring the accuracy of memory operations. However, it now faces the challenge of supplying energy to the energy-intensive regional memory directional erasure insertion and display device.

That is to use "human" energy to provide energy. As we all know, the operation of the CR-UNIT display device requires a certain amount of life force as a catalyst and biomass energy to maintain operation. This energy supply method can also be applied to large display devices. The United States may not be willing to spend money to build a nuclear power plant to solve the energy problem, but they are not so stingy when it comes to providing energy for prisoners who are held until the end of their lives.

The federal government is struggling to deal with these criminals who are difficult to handle due to legal issues, but now a company called DEM claims it can solve the problems these people pose.

The device that solves the problems caused by these prisoners looks like a huge domed research lab with pipes and cables laid on the outside. This device is placed on the salient of Alcatraz Island facing San Francisco Bay.

Inside this enormous dome-shaped research chamber, however, lie even more inhumane results than those of the Epsilon biochemical reaction chamber. At least Epsilon pursues circuits that can be used for a long time, while DEM's are more brutal and short-sighted.

They would force the prisoner to calm down and then have him sit on a chair that resembled a "throne." Once the restraints had completely subdued the prisoner, the "throne" would begin to simultaneously absorb biomass energy and life force.

The vital energy, an indispensable catalyst for activation, is enough to release the initial activation energy to support a single soldier-level CR-UNIT in just one second. What if it were continuous? The answer is self-evident.

The life force and biomass energy of these prisoners eventually undergo a complex process to become energy that can be used by the display device. This energy is stored in an energy hub installed underground on the island, and then, depending on the distribution of the energy hub, it flows to various facilities on the island that require electricity or to the memory master device.

The fate of all the prisoners on Alcatraz Island is predetermined: they will be drained into a pile of dried corpses or bones by the "Throne," then transported away and burned, and then replaced by the next batch of prisoners to extract their life force and biomass energy.

According to the estimates of the DEM headquarters technicians, a total of 1000 people, in five batches, are needed to complete the initial activation and subsequent calibration of the Memory Master device. After that, 100 prisoners will be needed every month to maintain the operation of the entire island. If an emergency calibration is required, an additional 500 prisoners will be needed to complete the emergency calibration.

In this Date A Live world, although DEM and Ratatosk don't have mobile construction vehicles or mobile construction technology, their manifestation devices can achieve similar effects, such as repairing buildings that have been destroyed in battle or spacequakes, restoring them to ruins in just one night.

Since the display device can repair, it can also construct, but it can only be used to construct specific buildings.

The materials for constructing the Master Memory Device were all airlifted directly from the UK headquarters. Then, scaffolding and dark green waterproof tarpaulins were installed on the outside to cover it up. The construction of the Master Memory Device could then begin using specific construction display devices to combine those materials.

Such a massive project couldn't possibly be kept secret from the outside world, so the US cleverly used this excuse: they plan to abandon Alcatraz's prison function and turn it into a tourist attraction, which is currently under construction and renovation.

They even held a serious bidding process to win the right to build the project. In the end, the pre-selected Lofefield Construction Company won the bid for the "Tower Overlooking San Francisco" project, which will build a sightseeing tower on Alcatraz similar to the Seattle Space Needle for tourists.

In fact, the appearance of the Lord of Memories' device is also very cool, resembling the Seattle Space Needle. However, there is also a device that looks like a UFO revolving restaurant in the original location of the revolving restaurant.

Inside the structural support and energy pipelines, the "UFO" contains a protective device named "Pulsar".

This device, called the Pulsar, is responsible for radiating the magic with memory manipulation effects in all directions like the light emitted from a lighthouse. The specific content of the memory manipulation effects is determined by the underground memory manipulation center of the Memory Master device. Because of this radiation-like characteristic, if the relative position of the Memory Master is lower than the area to be controlled, the memory manipulation effects may be greatly reduced. This is because the magic radiated by the Memory Master device will be lost when it hits obstacles, and the device's own power limit cannot be overloaded. Therefore, the "Migdal-Ba/vel" Tower of Babel device is needed to amplify this magic with memory manipulation effects.

With the near-omnipotent display device at its disposal, the construction of the Memory Master device was completed within three days. However, the veil covering this terrifying machine that manipulates memories has not yet been lifted.

The "Tree of Life," a necessary underground energy hub and energy supply system installed on the island's promontory, was completed in just five days.

During this period, Walker.com AI noticed the activity on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco, but the construction plan for the "Tower Overlooking San Francisco" and the existence of Lofe Field Construction Company and the bidding process, coupled with the fact that DEM was not found in the process, meant that they only maintained the most basic level of monitoring and did not take any further action.

By February 8, 2014, all the American scientists and staff trained by DEM, including the DEM company technicians who trained them, were in place at the Memory Master underground control center.

The second day that would forever change humanity's destiny began on this day, at this very moment.

“Jack.”

Tomens turned to look at his close friend Jack, who was sitting next to him, also working on a computer.

"What's wrong, Tom?"

Jack turned to look at his friend, who looked nervous.

"We've seen the wonders of the display device technology many times, but this device that can manipulate the memories of people in an entire city doesn't feel new to me this time. Instead, it makes me feel... very uneasy."

Tang Wens rolled his eyes and thought for a moment, "Although this memory manipulation was only performed on those Chinese people in San Francisco, to make them understand which country they belong to, something still feels wrong."

"According to your bookish thinking, you probably want those Chinese to be educated in a conventional way before they can accept and recognize reality. But you should know that the stubbornness of the Chinese in that area can be comparable to that of the Jews."

Jack dismissed Tovens's unease, saying, "But these Chinese are better than those blacks; at least they know how to obey the law!"

"If the initial memory operation target of this device is a black person, I feel there is no problem at all. I would be happy to teach those black people what the law is, instead of running around seducing other people's girlfriends and robbing and causing trouble and chaos. There were a lot of black people around the neighborhood where I lived when I was a child. Don't even mention what they were like. It was only after I moved to a rich area that it became quiet."

Fletcher turned back to his computer as he spoke, “But the problem is why they specifically chose Black people to do this kind of thing instead of Chinese people? It doesn’t make any sense.”

In the minds of Americans, apart from the gangs made up of Chinese people in Chinatown, the rest of the Chinese in the country are generally well-behaved, compared to those troublesome black people.

"Alright everyone, please stop whispering. We're about to begin the memorization process."

The voice of the DEM technical director blared from the loudspeakers installed in the control center, reminding the whispering American researchers.

Tomens, Jack, and Fletcher all stopped talking and sat down in front of their computers, ready to begin their operations. They were all members of the memory manipulation team, and they would be responsible for locating the information content for the memory manipulation.

"Memory operation group, begin inputting memory operation data."

"DEM Technical Director shouted."

All members of the memory operation team immediately got busy in front of their computers. After more than ten days of intensive training, these scientists and staff members responsible for the crucial memory content were finally able to use the computers in front of them, which were specially designed to operate the memory, with a certain level of proficiency. The computer array composed of these computers controlled the memory operation content of the entire memory master. Group erasure and memory insertion were the most basic, while individual erasure and individual memory insertion were delicate tasks, which required a sufficient number of technicians and scientists.

Ten minutes later, the memory operation group completed its task, finished writing the memory operation content, and set up the group/individual clearing of the inserted memory objects.

"Memory operation data has been entered! Memory operation object has been set! You are ready to proceed to the second step: memory operation!"

The head of the memory operation team reported to the DEM technical director through the microphone on the headset.

"The Memory Master Manifestation Device is fully charged. The energy input data is stable. We are waiting for the energy output data to be uploaded."

At that moment, a report came from the energy center.

The key energy and memory operation details have been confirmed. A metal tube slowly rises in front of the DEM technology manager, with a conspicuous red button on top of it.

"Now, it's time to press the button that opens Pandora's box."

The DEM technical director looked at the CIA agent accompanying or monitoring him and said, "Sir, would you like to try pressing this button?"

"No, I don't have permission to press the button."

The agent refused without hesitation.

"Really? What a pity. This could have been an opportunity to become a figure remembered in history."

The DEM technical director regretfully pressed the "Operate Start" button to activate the memory operation, and a prominent progress bar appeared on the huge LCD screen in front of him.

"Memory-Manipulation rate of progress 1%." The progress bar has reached 100% and is expected to take 1 minute.

Within that minute, the rotating disc containing the pulsar device, which was covered by a waterproof sheet and scaffolding, began to slowly rotate, evenly distributing the magic power with memory operation effects generated by the internal pulsar display device to the surroundings.

Inside a well-known Chinese restaurant in Chinatown, the owner and his wife, along with their familiar Chinese customers, sat solemnly in their respective seats.

These Chinese people, dressed in various styles, don't seem out of place to the average person. Only professional intelligence agencies can identify whether they are spies.

These people, far from home, were initially surprised and incredulous upon hearing about Project 9991. When they heard that it directly destroyed a traitorous regime, they were excited and applauded.

At first, they were worried when they heard that the US carrier battle group would intervene, but the incredible victory in the East China Sea naval battle greatly increased their confidence in the 4V Foehn.

"Everyone, after we finish singing this Chinese national anthem, we'll immediately contact Chief Lin in 4V and ask him to revitalize our intelligence network in the United States. Come on, everyone, let's sing together!"

"Forward, heroic people of all nations! Great Communist Party..."

Before anyone could even finish the first line, the magic radiated from the Memory Master Device, which had the effect of memory manipulation, quickly took effect on them.

After a few seconds, the chaotic sounds caused by the mechanical operation and energy fluctuations echoed in their brains.

"Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light!"

"What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?"

"Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight."

"O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?"

"And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air"

“Ga/ve proof through the night that our flag was still there”

“Oh, say does that star-sp/a/ngled banner yet wa/ve”

"O'er the land of the free and the home of the bra/ve?"

The Chinese intelligence personnel, who were originally singing the national anthem solemnly, began to sing the chilling Stars and Stripes.

If this had only happened in a Chinese restaurant, it would have been merely a little strange. However, at this moment, all the Chinese people in Chinatown seemed to be entranced, stunned for a moment before recalling something from their memories. "This is the time to sing 'The Stars and Stripes Will Never Fall'..."

The entire Chinese community in Chinatown achieved a perfect, almost eerily synchronized, unison singing the Stars and Stripes in perfect tune.

"Memory-Manipulation rate of progress 30%."

Soon this phenomenon not only appeared in Chinatown, but also spread like a domino effect, with Chinese people throughout San Francisco singing "The Stars and Stripes Will Never Fall."

Other American citizens in the San Francisco area who witnessed this scene showed expressions of disbelief or strangeness.

"Memory-Manipulation rate of progress 40%."

American citizens near the Memory Master device have become indifferent or ignored the Chinese people singing the chilling Stars and Stripes anthem.

“Memory-Manipulation rate of progress 50%”

50% of San Francisco's American citizens have already ignored those Chinese people who suddenly started singing.

"Memory-Manipulation rate of progress 80%."

90% of San Francisco's American citizens completely ignored the Chinese people who suddenly started singing.

"Memory-Manipulation rate of progress 90%."

The American citizens of San Francisco, with their varied expressions, joined the entire Chinese community in singing the Stars and Stripes.

In the memories of journalists, newspapers, and television media, there was an imperative not to report on this event. In San Francisco, Chinese and American citizens on social media were singing the Stars and Stripes, but they also had the added memory of not being able to post about it on social networks, otherwise they would face the death penalty or permanent imprisonment. The well-prepared US government had already banned text clips about the San Francisco mass singing of the Stars and Stripes from appearing on various social media sites.