Chapter 301: Visiting the Battleship
As Tolle felt the slightly different surging sensations coming from both of his hands, he explained to them, saying, "Mm~, let me put it this way. This Huayan is a transformable, high-speed multipurpose battleship. It can sail through the sky, outer space, and even beneath the sea.
Aside from being able to enter Earth's atmospheric sphere on its own, it can also independently break through Earth's atmosphere without relying on a mass accelerator.
But as for its most crucial functions, you'll have to board the Huayan and experience them for yourselves before you'll really know."
"Oh, this Huayan is really that amazing? It can actually break through the atmosphere without relying on mass acceleration?" Yulia squeezed Tolle's arm and continued excitedly, "And those other key functions—we should go try them out right now and experience them for ourselves."
Mina nodded as well and said, "Darling, you're always being so mysterious. I really want to see what's so special about it."
"Alright, no problem. Then, you two, please follow me and let's take a tour of our new battleship."
Tolle immediately wrapped an arm around each of their slender waists and brought Mina and Yulia together onto the Huayan.
After arriving in the living area and guiding them to stand against the wall, Tolle said to Nami, "Nami, activate the Ahab Reactor and generate artificial gravity in the living area."
In that instant, Mina and Yulia, faced with the sudden appearance of gravity, almost fell to the ground as their bodies, which had been floating just moments ago, were pulled downward.
Both of them wore expressions of utter disbelief. After bouncing around and moving a bit to adapt to the gravity, Mina spoke first, saying to Tolle, "This gravity function is really amazing. There's absolutely no feeling of rotational acceleration at all. It feels exactly like being on Earth—there's no sense of weightlessness anymore."
Beside her, Yulia blew a breath into Tolle's ear and said in a worldly, teasing tone, "Mm~ dear, this function is really fantastic. Even if we lived on the battleship all the time, we could still live happy, blissful lives here."
Mina coughed lightly and agreed, saying, "Ahem, without gravity, you can barely even stand up, let alone live happily."
Tolle laughed awkwardly and said, "Hahaha, alright, you're both right. On this battleship, we can experience what it's like to live on a massive space station."
Mina asked curiously, "But how is this achieved? Can it be mass-produced?"
"This is a special type of Ahab Reactor. It can generate gravity within a certain area. As for the principle…"
After explaining the function of the Ten-Thousand Ahab Reactor to Mina, Tolle continued, "Large-scale mass production would be somewhat difficult, but it's not impossible.
However, anyone who uses it must at least be one of our trusted people. Otherwise, if the technology were stolen, it would be a huge problem—it would drastically enhance the enemy's combat strength."
Mina nodded in agreement and replied, "That's true. This kind of Ahab Reactor really can't be used recklessly. Just the fact that it's extremely hard to destroy already makes it troublesome.
If a unit equipped with it were shot down by the enemy and the reactor couldn't be recovered in time, it would be no different from handing it over to them."
"Alright, let's stop discussing such a heavy topic." Yulia couldn't help but interrupt, cutting off the discussion. She then continued asking Tolle, "Dear, what other special functions does it have? Keep introducing them to us."
"Well, for one thing, this Huayan battleship can be fully controlled by artificial intelligence. Its primary AI is the Nami I just called."
Nami immediately disguised herself as an ordinary artificial intelligence and said to Mina and Yulia, "Welcome, Miss Mina and Miss Yulia. I am Nami, the primary artificial intelligence of the Huayan. It is my pleasure to serve you."
Mina and Yulia chatted with Nami curiously, marveling at her intelligence.
In the end, Mina looked full of envy, as if she wanted to claim the battleship as her own and make it her personal vessel. She then asked Tolle, "This is just too amazing. I really want one. Dear, you have to help me build a high-speed multipurpose battleship like this too."
Tolle immediately felt a headache coming on. It seemed like he had dug himself another hole. But there was nothing he could do—how could he not spoil his own woman? In the end, he could only let Nami work harder. "Alright, no problem. Once I go to Heliopolis again and get some materials, I'll build one for you."
"Dear, you're the best." Mina happily rewarded Tolle with a kiss.
However, Tolle secretly notified Nami right away, instructing her to use the large quantity of materials already stored in the storage space and immediately begin constructing another identical Songstress-class battleship.
There was no helping it—he had to make good on the promises he had boasted about. Otherwise, it would be far too embarrassing.
After all, waiting until they went to Heliopolis to build it would be too late. The Huayan had only been modified on the basis of an existing ship, so it had been fast.
But building a brand-new one from scratch was a different matter entirely. Three or four days simply wouldn't be enough.
Still, some things needed to be explained in advance. Otherwise, if she later discovered that the Huayan had a core space while the newly built one didn't, that would cause trouble.
"Mina, what I'm about to tell you next is about the source of my technology and abilities…" Tolle decided to bring Mina and Yulia to meet Lynn Minmay and Ange.
After all, he had already told them about possessing technology from parallel worlds. So this time, he also explained that he was able to randomly travel to other worlds at certain intervals.
As for the time intervals between crossings, he said that the timing of each trip was not fixed.
After all, even he didn't know when the system upgrade would be completed. For now, there was no way to take the two of them to other worlds for sightseeing.
He then also revealed to Mina and Yulia the existence of the one-of-a-kind battleship core space aboard the Huayan.
Both of them were filled with anticipation and eager to see what the battleship's core space looked like.
After pulling Mina and Yulia tightly into his arms, Tolle said, "I'll take you there right now—to a small world inside the Huayan.
Just relax. I'll bring you in to take a look. It'll be very fast—just a blink of an eye and we'll be there."
"Is that really true? You're not lying, are you…?" Before Yulia could finish speaking, the surrounding environment completely changed. The original corridor turned into a vast sea of flowers.