Revisit Azur Lane

Zhou He rubbed his nose and explained. Long Island's eyes widened. 3 seconds, 4 seconds... wait, she realized that Yuudachi seemed to take it seriously. She changed the subject and talked about carrier-based aircraft with great interest, asking Zhou He if she could also bring a few seaplanes. She wanted to fly small planes like Zuikaku and the others.

"As for destroyers, that would be a bit of a stretch."

Zhou He thought for a moment, and realized that even after Yuudachi's modifications in the game, he didn't seem to be equipped with a seaplane.

"No way."

Yuudachi quickly gave up and wasn't disappointed. She leaned against Zhou He with a grin and said, "It's better this way. I can run fast and get to the Commander's side faster than others."

"Yes, luckily Yuudachi was the first to come to my side, she was a great help."

Zhou He smiled and spoke from the heart.

"?"

Long Island looked left and right from behind, curious about the relationship between the two.

Chapter 83 Research Objectives

Hood Bismarck and his men engaged the Sirens, preventing them from approaching the port from the northeast, while Zhou He and the rest waited for the Sirens to approach from the west.

However, the speed at which the Sirens approached the port was far beyond Zhou He's expectations. It was too slow. In his opinion, the Sirens would have reached his doorstep and landed within three hours. Bismarck and Hood had already begun fighting, while the group of Sirens in the west was still cautiously and slowly advancing. Some of them were even attracted by the battle in the north and turned north.

"These guys really don't play by the rules. Is this a sign of prudence, or are they afraid of something?"

Zhou He played with Yuudachi by the sea for a while, then, having nothing else to do, he went back to the command post to clean up the environment. However, Hermione usually cleaned it up, so he only did it for a short while before running out of things to do. After conveying the message to Kursk about preparing to meet the enemy, he sat under the eaves of the command post entrance and sunbathed.

At the same time, observe Bismarck and her comrades' battle situation.

He remembered that at the beginning, when Yuudachi was sortieing alone, she had to take detours and wait for opportunities when facing three or five Siren squads. Now, when he looked at his own fleet sortieing, the Siren icons on the map disappeared almost as soon as they met. But from this very familiar and stress-relieving scene, he could see that in addition to the increase in the number of his ship girls, their combat power had also grown terrifyingly.

Mass-produced models are practically cannon fodder compared to them.

"Hmm... In the future, we should try to avoid letting newly joined ship girls and veteran members engage in live-fire battles."

After checking the stat changes of his ship girls in the dock, Zhou He came to a conclusion.

"So much free time~"

Zhou He was sunbathing here, and the others had nothing to do. Jean Bart was already reading a book on the origins of religion in the hall, his eyebrows furrowed so deeply they were almost standing on end. Even though he was so unhappy, he still insisted on reading.

"Hmm? It's unusually quiet today. Could it be that I missed the attack?"

Suddenly, a rather energetic voice came from the stairs. Zhou He glanced to the side and saw Ling Min holding a stack of white paper design drawings, her clothes loose and baggy. He also saw Jean Bart rubbing his temple with one hand, tossing his books aside, and lying on the sofa with one hand covering his eyes.

Zhou He remembered that Jean Bart was the same model as Richelieu from Iris Libre. Iris Libre had a stronger religious belief, so he felt that Jean Bart was probably trying to find common ground with Richelieu when they met in the future.

I hope she succeeds.

Thinking this, Zhou He got up, walked into the command post, and shrugged at Ling Min: "I thought you were probably busy with design and drawing, so I didn't notify you."

"Humph."

Lingmin didn't comment on the pros and cons, but instead handed the design book in her hand to Zhou He: "These designs are all based on modifications of tanks and armored vehicles on the ground. There are no major problems in terms of structure and strength. It's just that the specific range and firepower need to be tested after completion. If they are not suitable, we will continue to modify them."

"That's enough. Thank you for your hard work. Leave the rest to me."

Zhou He smiled and nodded. Ling Min listened to his words, stretched, yawned, and walked out of the command post: "Then I'll leave it to you. I'm going to get something to eat first. I'm starving."

"That's awesome."

Watching Lingmin leave, Zhou He sat down and started looking through the design drawings she had made. The first page almost made him give up. Compared to the simple lines he used when drawing maps, Lingmin's obviously expert-level drawing style was like a foreign language to someone like Zhou He who had never studied hard military knowledge.

He was just like Jeanbart earlier, his brows furrowed, looking at something he couldn't understand, yet wanting to understand it, a cycle that almost overloaded his brain.

"Tank and armored vehicle design blueprints? Instead of these land-based weapons, why don't you just build warships? It's not like we don't have shipyards."

Jean Bart glanced at Zhou He's bewildered expression as he listened to the conversation, and immediately felt amused. He got up and leaned closer to look at the drawings, dimensions, part detail markings, and text, all in the Beilian script.

"As for the warships, I plan to start construction once resources are more plentiful."

Zhou He hummed in agreement, pinched his brow with his fingers without giving it much thought: "Besides, our port area doesn't currently have that many workers to help with the work."

"That's what happened."

Jean Bart sat down again, adopting a boss-like posture with his legs crossed and his hands resting on the backrest: "Commander, have you considered that these coastal defense armored vehicles are useless if no one drives them?"

“I’ve considered it. What I’m thinking of is making one that can execute commands on its own after being recharged, so that there’s no need for a driver.”

Zhou He remembered that the cruiser modified by the system had the very practical and convenient function of 'autopilot', so other armed equipment should also have the same function.

"Huh, is there really such a convenient thing? Can it really be made?"

Jean Bart was quite surprised; she had never paid attention to such a thing before, and there was no record of it in her memory.

"perhaps."

Zhou He flipped through a few more pages of the design drawings, but there were no designs related to the autonomous driving system.

"Probably? Such vague terms are not convincing."

Jean Bart glanced at Zhou He. Just from how he looked at the design drawings earlier, she could tell that Zhou He wasn't cut out for military design. But despite her lack of knowledge, Zhou He was able to describe functional designs that she had never heard of before.

Where does this confidence come from?

"Haha, it's not very convincing for me to say that, but we have more than just Lingmin as a scientist in our family."

Zhou He closed the design drawings, smiled, got up and walked out of the command building. He turned around and came to Ming Shi, who was sunbathing on the lawn. He squatted down and rubbed Ming Shi's cheek with his fingers. Ming Shi had closed his eyes and looked peaceful. "Little kitty, you have a job assignment."

"Meow?"

Akashi reluctantly opened his eyes a crack, his face showing a hint of disgust. When he saw it was Zhou He, he closed his eyes again. As a result, Zhou He pinched his face with both hands to help him wake up. He sat up and took the design drawings from Zhou He with both hands, looking quite bewildered.

"These are the tank and armored vehicle design drawings that Lingmin has created. I would like to add automatic cruise and target acquisition functions. Akashi, would you like to see whether I should directly modify and add these features from the design drawings, or should I give you a physical prototype and you can then modify it?"

After Zhou He explained the whole story, Akashi also seemed to have come to his senses. He looked down and flipped through the design drawings. Unlike Zhou He, who was reading gibberish, Akashi's flipping speed was quite astonishing. He could finish a page in an average of 2 to 3 seconds, and he finished flipping through the ten or so pages in less than a minute.

"I need a real cat."

Akashi's ears twitched, and she explained in a very natural tone and expression, "Modifying from blueprints is ultimately just theoretical modification. Only by disassembling the actual object and then reassembling and modifying it can we get something truly useful, meow."

“I thought so too. Akashi, you can teach me how to read these pictures.”

Zhou He pondered for a moment, then sat down next to Akashi and opened the research system. There were no design templates outside of the navy, but there was a separate '+' option that could consume general research blueprints and general research components to design anything other than warships.

In these details, the system is quite comprehensive and there are no obvious shortcomings.

"Commander can't even understand meow?"

Akashi's reaction was somewhat similar to Jean Bart's. Despite it being a research and development project initiated by Zhou He, he couldn't even understand the blueprints and needed to be taught on the spot. Yet, he spoke with full confidence, as if he could complete the research and development simply by speaking.

"I really can't understand it."

Zhou He smiled and patted Ming Shi's hair: "But it doesn't matter if I don't understand it. As long as you can understand it, it's the same as me understanding it."

“…That’s a strange statement, meow.”

Akashi didn't understand but felt a sense of awe, yet his tail wagged, and he was subtly pleased.

Not far away, Jean Bart stood by the wall of the command post, watching Zhou He enter a state of study. She raised her hand and scratched her head. Although she felt that he was a simple-minded guy after getting to know him, she couldn't figure out his way of doing things.

"?"

Suddenly, her gaze shifted to the back of the restaurant across the lawn, where a white figure flashed by, making her raise an eyebrow.

There are really a lot of weirdos in this port area.

……

With the help of Akashi and Lingmin, who joined in after dinner, Zhou He, who had been distracted several times, finally managed to understand the internal structure of the tank and the anti-aircraft armored vehicle. He built models of the two basic models in the "+" interface of the research interface, deployed two general research blueprints and two general components, and stood up and reached out towards the paved cement road after the system's "rational adjustment".

'Confirm build.'

After a few simple steps, a blue light shone in front of Zhou He, and two tanks and an anti-aircraft armored vehicle of considerable size suddenly appeared in front of them.

According to Lingmin, the tank in front of Zhou He seemed to be based on the T-54 medium tank on land. It weighed about 35 tons, was over three meters wide, two and a half meters high, and six and a half meters long. Including the gun barrel, it was more than nine meters long. In addition to the 100mm main gun, it also had several machine guns. It was truly a land beast.

The armored vehicle behind it had replaced the main gun of the tank with an anti-aircraft gun, making the vehicle much longer. It had four 37mm gun barrels, the specific model of which was a bit of a mouthful and Zhou He couldn't remember. Anyway, it looked very cool lying on its back. Both vehicles were painted in dark blue, which looked quite suitable for parking among the trees.

Because it was too wide, the one-meter-long cement road was completely ignored, and the grass on both sides was pressed into deep depressions.

"Very handsome."

After finishing, Zhou He clapped his hands and ran forward excitedly to touch the outer shell and tracks. He then jumped again, trying to reach the main gun of the tank, but failed because his jumping ability was not good enough. He could only turn around to face Akashi and Lingmin in a cool manner. Then he was surrounded by the two of them as if they were looking at a treasure. He couldn't help but take two steps back and asked, "Wh-what's wrong?"

"I really want to study the Commander, meow."

Akashi's eyes gleamed with a thirst for knowledge, and her agility was equally impressive. She reached out and grabbed Zhou He's hand, turning it over and over to examine it closely: "How did you do that? It's so strange, it doesn't conform to the law of conservation of mass at all. Commander, are you really human?"

"Cough cough cough, of course I am human, and besides, I'm not the one you should be studying right now."

Zhou He was a little flustered. The combat-type ship girls wouldn't delve into his abnormality, but the two research-type girls were different. Compared to the two big guys behind him, it seemed that he himself had higher research value.

To be honest, it's terrifying.

"What a pity, meow."

Akashi wiped away non-existent drool from the corner of his mouth, stared at Zhou He with regret for a long time before turning away. Despite his short stature, he climbed onto the tank with remarkable agility, crawled around and observed the surroundings before crawling into the cabin. Lingmin, on the other hand, still couldn't give up, pinched Zhou He's arm and then touched his waist, abdomen, and back. Only after confirming that Zhou He was indeed human and not a robot did she, with the same regret, begin to inspect the anti-aircraft vehicle.

"call."

Zhou He, who was almost drenched in sweat, breathed a sigh of relief and quickly moved away from the two. However, he had only taken two steps when Jean Bart, who had come closer, hooked his arm around his shoulder and asked with a slightly gloomy expression, "Commander, will the modifications you mentioned earlier also apply to us?"

"what?"

Zhou He was stunned for a moment before he understood and said, "Jean Barth, your ship equipment should be in its best condition right now. Moreover, with the support of the Mind Cube, your ship equipment capabilities are even comparable to the ship equipment fifty years from now. There is no need to upgrade or modify it."

"Huh? I forgot."

Jean Bart thought about it and realized that it was true. So he let go of Zhou He's shoulder and patted his arm with a laugh: "Sorry, I was so dizzy from reading that book that I didn't react for a moment."

"it's okay no problem."

Zhou He's lips twitched. Luckily, Jean Bart was a veteran player in the game, and he could still vaguely remember some things. If it had been a newer player he didn't know, he wouldn't have known how to respond.

While the two were interacting, Akashi and Ryoumin had already climbed into the tank and anti-aircraft vehicle. The engines started up and made a rather noisy sound, which drowned out the two people's voices and diverted their attention to the two vehicles, which left tire tracks on the lawn as they drove towards the dock.

As the car sped away, Zhou He spotted Nagashima and Yuudachi walking back from the bay. Nagashima was also looking at the car, while Yuudachi ran back to Zhou He's side: "Commander, Nagashima's reconnaissance plane has spotted them! The Sirens from the west are finally approaching!"

"Oh?"

Zhou He's gaze narrowed slightly as he switched the system interface to the map. He discovered that some Sirens had already entered the sea area marked by the command post in the west. However, he couldn't access the detailed map of the area around the command post, so he could only ponder and wait for Long Island to approach. He then instructed, "Long Island, continue to use the reconnaissance aircraft to conduct reconnaissance, and at the same time, actively lure the Sirens toward the port area. Yuudachi, let Bar and the others leave the port area and wait on the eastern coast of the island."

"If my guess is correct, the Sirens will bypass our island and go to the eastern region. Then you can attack and deal with them."