Colonia Storm Tour

Caught completely off guard, Artemisia was immediately assaulted by Lin Haiyuan's violent mental power. Although she tried to resist, Lin Haiyuan's furious and violent mental force shattered her hastily constructed mental defenses. Furthermore, as a user of the CR-UNIT, controlling a high-precision, free-range domain, her brain was already under heavy strain, further compounded by the unstable mental influence from the brainwashing device. Under the onslaught of Lin Haiyuan's desperate mental attack, she finally couldn't withstand it! As a result of the body's self-preservation mechanism, Artemisia immediately lost consciousness and fell into darkness.

Lin Haiyuan's torrent of spiritual power flowed into Artemisia's body and mind without any hindrance.

"Walker AI, please catch me and this woman's bodies, and stop the Overlord Squad from firing on the DEM Magician! That's an order, give it to me now, Time-Stop!"

Lin Haiyuan shouted the attack lines of the Hummingbird support aircraft with all his might.

"Yes, Master! Time Shield System, activate!"

Walker.com's AI voice echoed in Lin Haiyuan's ears. Despite the fact that the Colonia flank air base had just been replenished with nuclear fuel and its energy had not yet returned to normal levels and was still using backup batteries, Walker.com's AI activated the Sigma tuner array on the Colonia flank air base.

As a sound of some kind of energy gate being opened and energy surging in violently echoed between heaven and earth, an incredible phenomenon occurred that seemed unbelievable to outsiders.

All the DEM warships, the missiles and beams they launched, the magicians fighting the Overlord Squad inside Keelung, the falling Lin Haiyuan, and Artemisia all froze in their previous positions as if someone had pressed the stop button.

If anyone were to stand next to Captain Ernest of the DEM flagship, the Lemegeton, they would surely see that all the ship's clocks, including electronic alarm clocks, watches, and pocket watches, have stopped flashing or their second hands have stopped moving.

Time Freeze!

Lin Haiyuan, Artemisia, and all the DEM warships were frozen in spacetime and unable to move. This freezing did not mean that their spatial coordinates would also be fixed.

Therefore, those DEM warships whose time was stopped, along with their display devices, ceased to produce magic power to maintain their domains, much like iron blocks being dropped from a great height.

Boom!

The 27 DEM warships crashed into the water like dumplings being dropped into a pot. Due to their massive weight and the fact that water molecules couldn't give way in time, the warships plummeted from the high altitude and slammed into the sea like heavy hammers.

Clearly, the DEM warship wasn't tough enough to contend with the sea that couldn't make way for it, so the DEM warship was smashed to pieces like a figurine thrown by a naughty child.

Those who were still frozen in time drowned quickly and painlessly in the sea, buried along with their warships in the turbulent ocean, followed by missiles falling with a splash.

The entire DEM air fleet, except for the retreating Notoria and Picatrix, was wiped out and buried in the sea.

Although the Dominator Squad was puzzled by WalkerNet's AI commands, after seeing that these seemingly harmless female magicians of DEM were completely harmless, they poked them a few times and then bound them according to WalkerNet's AI instructions, paralyzed them with the Clairvoyant Drone, and then took them away.

"They...time has been stopped."

Wang Jing revealed the truth with an incredulous expression.

"Huh? / What?! / What?"

The rest of the Dominator Squad expressed their bewilderment, dumbfounded as the Thousand-Mile Observation Drone and the Terror Drone carried the DEM Magician to a designated location side by side.

The falling Lin Haiyuan and Artemisia were caught steadily by the terrifying drones and the long-range drones arranged in a large square formation, with cushioning pads equipped with anti-gravity devices on their heads.

Then the Commander-type Jackal mobile vehicle controlled by WalkerNet AI immediately moved over, and the nanodrones that came with the Commander-type Jackal mobile vehicle immediately enveloped Lin Haiyuan to prevent his injuries from worsening.

However, in reality, Lin Haiyuan's injuries... the heart had been pierced and a lethal amount of blood had flowed out, and there was no way to save him. But the nanodrones commanded by Walker.com's AI were still trying their best to save Lin Haiyuan's life.

Subsequently, the Terror Drone and the Long-Range Drone, together with the Nano Drone, carried Lin Haiyuan and Artemisia to the passenger seats of the Commander-type Jackal Mobile Vehicle, where they lay down and received treatment.

The Commander-type Jackal mobile vehicle, along with its escorting Long-Range Drones and Terror Drones, was then transported to a designated medical location.

With the sound of some kind of energy gate closing and disappearing, the time-stopping effect ended, and everything that had been frozen in time resumed its normal flow...

Beep beep beep — Walker.net AI's Post-Battle Report —

In the Battle of Paradise in the Kashi region of Tibet, we and Ratatosk paid an extremely heavy price. Only through the desperate attacks of Professor Miller and Comrade Rowan did we manage to destroy the upper part of the Tower of Babel manifestation device. The Betelgeuse device, which powers the Lord of Memory manifestation device, was also destroyed. This greatly delayed the activation of the Lord of Memory and the Tower of Babel manifestation device by DEM, giving us a two-week safety period.

However, due to DEM's diversionary tactic, our fleet and Stormbringer air assault division failed to destroy the rapidly fleeing EU Dai carrier battle group, and were unable to return to Keelung Port in time to deal with DEM's fleet. It was not until Master ordered the use of Time Stop that the massive DEM fleet attack was completely dealt with, and all DEM magicians were captured.

Ratatosk lost all of their mercenary forces and an elite unit of magicians.

The price we paid for this included the drone units that were completely lost or destroyed in the Battle of Heaven, the two Super Thor gunships that were severely injured and unable to fight, Captain Kaul, Vice Captain Ling Yunrong, Comrade Li Yang, Comrade Yu Xiao, and Comrade You Hua Zhi Zi who are still unconscious and will need time to wake up, and the only elf, Rowan, who also sacrificed and perished in the Battle of Heaven... The emergency teleportation device was unable to save her.

As for the crucial Master, his body was completely dead due to Artemisia's fatal attack...

DEM suffered heavy losses for this, but for Foehn Wind, even if the airflow manipulation system of the Colonia flank air base was partially damaged, preventing the generation of Colonia storms to protect the base, his losses alone were far more costly and incalculable than any of DEM's fleet and magician losses.

The Memory Master Manifestation Device and the Tower of Babel Manifestation Device still stand on the Kazi Peak and Kazhong Peak in the Kashi region of Tibet, and the threat of mind control has only been temporarily relieved.

What will become of the Fenfeng in the future?

Hamartia, a flawed judgment, a tragic weakness.

The death flag has come true.

Look, a long chapter of 16,000 words! I've decided to stop tomorrow because I need to write the more complex Vision chapter.

Of course, if you give me enough monthly tickets and swords, then I won't update as usual.

Chapter 57 The Point of Divergence (I)

时间：2014年2月18日6:00:00

Location: Antarctica

Antarctica, located at the southern end of the Earth, consists of a continent, ice floes, and islands, with a total area of ​​1424.5 million square kilometers. The continent covers 1239.3 million square kilometers, the ice floes cover 158.2 million square kilometers, and the islands cover 7.6 square kilometers. The entire continent is a high plateau with an average elevation of 2350 meters, making it the continent with the highest average elevation in the world.

This continent, almost entirely covered by glaciers, stretches from its center into the sea, forming the massive Ross Ice Barrier, with icebergs floating in the surrounding waters.

Since its discovery by humankind, Britain, France, Argentina, Chile, and New Zealand have all made territorial claims to Antarctica. However, after the Soviet Union and the United States, the two poles of the world, announced in the 1940s that they would not recognize the aforementioned countries' territorial claims to Antarctica, a multilateral treaty, the Antarctic Treaty, was born on December 1, 1959, and signed by 12 countries. It officially came into effect on June 23, 1961. The 300-year-long struggle for Antarctica, which began at the moment of its discovery, thus came to a relatively peaceful end. In the years that followed, humankind established many research stations of different sizes on this frozen land of Antarctica, under the watchful eyes of the fierce cold winds.

However, the sheer number of these research stations, coupled with Antarctica's harsh natural environment, means that the arrival of these stations and their staff will not make Antarctica more populated or lively, not even for tourists.

In Antarctica, the most abundant living creatures you'll ever see, besides those deadly, venomous insects, are all sorts of penguins and seals that Africans and Asians alike dread getting rid of, or sea lions with long teeth. Sometimes you might even spot killer whales that are generally friendly to humans in the surrounding waters, and whales spouting water...

In general, only the Antarctic Peninsula region and the Eklund Islands at the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula are suitable for human habitation. The closer to the center of the Antarctic continent, the harsher the natural environment becomes and the less suitable it is for human habitation.

The average precipitation in Antarctica is only 55 millimeters, which is even more tragic than the world-famous Sahara Desert. Moreover, there are strong winds 90% of the year, and the wind speed is even more intense in different regions. Under the constant "Antarctic descent winds", the ice surface of Antarctica has been sculpted with undulating grooves.

In this world, the South Pole and the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station and Vostok Station, located northeast of the South Pole, were not established as they were in the original world, for unpredictable reasons.

Therefore, in this world, you can no longer see the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, which looks like a long, grayish-white shipping container, or the Vostok Station, which looks like yellow bricks.

At the South Pole Plateau, you can see nothing but blue skies, the sun, and the ever-changing ice and snow, and barring any unforeseen circumstances, the South Pole Plateau will always remain so.

This phenomenon of polar day only occurs when the sun shines directly on the Tropic of Capricorn, causing Antarctica to transition from polar night to polar day, while the Arctic region transitions from polar day to polar night.

This is caused by the Earth's rotation around its tilted axis as it revolves around the sun in an elliptical orbit. During its rotation, the Earth's axis forms a tilt angle of approximately 23.5° with respect to its vertical. Therefore, during the Earth's revolution, for about six months of the year, one pole faces the sun, resulting in daylight, while the other pole faces away from the sun, resulting in darkness.

The sun's rays shine on the ice surface of the South Pole plateau, where fierce winds howl and the frigid air is blowing, seemingly like an eternal symphony for this land before the arrival of polar night.

It lies beneath the Transantarctic Range, which runs east of the plateau and connects with the Ross Ice Shelf, near the South Pole.

Clang!

At the lowest point where the rock face meets the ice at the bottom of the mountain, a large cylindrical hatch with four small cylinders was ejected. However, the snow disturbed by the ejected object fell in droves and buried the thing that had been ejected.

It would be impossible for one of the few polar explorers who aspire to the honor of reaching the South Pole to leave behind such a hatch that could be embedded in a solid, ice-covered mountain; it must have been left by some other force.

The large circular hatch did not open immediately. Instead, the four small cylinders around it stirred, and the pipes on the cylinders suddenly emitted a pure yellow light.

Then a thick, high-pressure, and hot airflow was continuously ejected, which effectively melted the snow buried around the hatch and prevented it from freezing.

This process lasted for four minutes before the four small cylinders stopped spewing out high-pressure, high-heat airflow—if Lin Haiyuan had seen this, he would have recognized it immediately as an explosive trench and explosive airflow.

With a creaking sound that made your teeth ache, the round hatch began to rotate and disintegrate into four pieces, revealing the inner door, which bore the unique Fury Shark emblem and the Last Fortress flag.

The inner door, like the previous hatch, disassembled and rotated into two pieces before opening, and then a girl jumped out from inside.

"Wow! Wow! Wow! The sun! We've finally seen the sun!"

The girl jumped up and down, shouting as she raised her partially bandaged arm. Her hair, almost the same color as snow, and a small braid tied at the back of her head danced in the wind, and her purplish-black eyes shone with an inexplicable light.

She wore a pink and black witch's cloak and a cat-ear hood that flapped wildly in the wind at the South Pole, revealing her pitifully thin chest beneath the cloak-like evening gown and sports bra.

Apart from a pair of fur-lined knee-high boots and black tights, her outer garment, which exposed a large expanse of snow-white skin below her chest, and her short skirt with its common ruffles, looked anything but warm.

For ordinary people, even if they wrapped themselves up like an emperor penguin in Antarctica, it wouldn't be enough to resist the bone-chilling cold brought by the ice and wind of the Antarctic plateau.

In short, this 145cm tall, seemingly identical woman did not shiver in the freezing winds of Antarctica; instead, she appeared completely unfazed by the cold and sub-zero temperatures.

"Master, please wear enough warm clothes before coming out."

A woman with long blonde hair, wearing an office lady dress and a top that barely covered her breasts, carrying a thick, fluffy coat and a blue and white striped shawl, walked out.

Her shapely legs, encased in black thigh-high stockings and clad in black ankle boots, treaded upon the solid ice of the South Pole plateau. Judging from her attire, she wasn't much warmer than the little witch over there.

However, the absolute territory formed by the skin between the OL skirt and black thigh-high stockings was enough to make any lecherous person swallow hard—as for the little witch, she was a different kind of person who preferred that.

For example, those who like to sing about men whose barren chests are pregnant with hope or women with pitiful flat chests.

Seeing the absolute territory in the polar regions is an extraordinary visual experience, usually only a few people, magicians, and elves can do it. However, it is clear that neither the little witch nor this blonde woman are magicians or elves, let alone the so-called few people.

Generally, we can see this absolute territory in Japan during the winter, and then you will find that the beauty of the absolute territory is only reflected in a small number of Japanese girls.

There's no need to reiterate the bowlegs caused by kneeling; those are self-inflicted. As for the thick legs of some Japanese girls, besides being born with them, there's also the possibility of them being exposed to the cold.

Since their fur is insufficient to protect them from the cold, Antarctic seals and sea lions enhance their cold resistance by increasing subcutaneous fat, which is why some animals have such large, thick legs.

If you really want to show off the beautiful curves of your legs and make them look worthy of admiration, wearing thick, warm tights is a great choice, hahaha.

By the way, why am I writing this? Explaining these principles in the world of two-dimensional characters seems a bit illogical, so I'll skip that.

"It's alright~ I'm the most powerful psychic, controlling the surrounding temperature is a piece of cake! Besides, Odin, you don't need to wrap yourself up like a penguin or seal, do you?"

The little witch continued to rejoice at the sight of the azure sky and the bright sun, which she hadn't seen in a long time.

"Because I am a genetically modified and enhanced human created entirely using existing Epsilon genetic engineering technology, except that this human has had the consciousness of a shipborne AI implanted into him."

Odin, clutching the fluffy coat, approached the jubilant little witch—before possessing this body, she was merely an artificial intelligence.

This body also represents the highest achievement of Epsilon's genetic engineering, and she can be compared to Rahn, the hero guarding the headquarters.

“Alice, even with Archer-level and Elite-level genetic modifications, your body still cannot compare to my Rahn-level body.”

This time, Odin did not refer to Alice, the only supreme commander of the last fortress, as "Master".

"Although I don't have a body as strong as Rahn's, I can use my mental power to form a kinetic shield to block bullets, shells, and melee weapons!"

Alice is most proud of her mental strength.

"Alright, hurry up and put your coat on."

After grabbing Alice and pinning her down, Odin, with Alice's disgruntled face puffed up, put a fluffy coat on her, which made her look like a little bear.

"So I already said I don't need a coat to keep warm, really."

After complaining for a moment, Alice still wore the coat that Odin had draped over her shoulders and continued to praise the sky and the sun with carefree joy.

After the snow on the frozen plateau had been churning for a while, Alice finally stopped and gazed at the white desert.

"I've been living underground for over a month. After coming up here, I thought I would see some human habitation, but I can't see anything except what's in front of me."

Alice sighed after she finished speaking.