After preventing the world from being destroyed, the ship girls started acting strangely.

New Jersey: "Image".

Essex: "Where is this? The commander's lounge? I've never been there before. Does anyone know where I am?"

Saratoga: "I don't know, but it doesn't seem like it to me. It must have been something this guy did in his dorm room."

Da Feng: "Picture."

Taihou: "Tch, so be it. Stop pretending. Taihou is truly in Commander's bedroom right now~"

Charybdis: "Taihou! You've gone to Master's house again without permission?! Haven't I warned you so many times? You can't go into Master's house without permission, why don't you listen?"

Taihou: "Alright, hold on. Putting aside the rules set by the Commander for now, don't you want to know why the Commander has never said anything despite me coming here so many times?"

Quejie: ​​"Why?"

Taihou: "Don't you all understand yet? This is obviously because the Commander has been tacitly allowing me to enter all along, isn't it??"

New Jersey: "Yes, yes, so you've been tacitly relegated to the sidelines, right?? You know perfectly well how long it's been since Honey's last been home. I'm lying in the bed Honey sleeps in every day, you know~"

Kewei: "Alright, alright, you can fool your girlfriends with this kind of talk, but don't fool yourself. Forget the middle part, forget the end part, but you need to know, besides your girlfriends, who else will believe you?"

Purify: "You triggered a combo, didn't you??"

Quejie: ​​"Um... everyone, to be honest, this picture really does look real..."

San Francisco: "?"

Saratoga: "?"

Royal Ark: "?"

Essex: "?"

There are many acquaintances in the forum, but very few ship girls are honest and willing to stay online with their real names. Over time, Quejie's sincere and honest junior image has left a deep impression on the other ship girls.

Therefore, when Quejie speaks now, most ship girls instinctively believe him.

Seeing this, New Jersey was naturally overjoyed.

New Jersey: "Heh heh, believe me now? But it's too late. I won't tell you even if you beg me now."

Want to take care of the Commander~ (St. Louis): "Choje, are you serious? What did New Jersey give you? I'll give you double, no, ten times, if you just expose her now."

Quejie: ​​"No, no, it's just that I really did sleep in it yesterday, so it's very memorable..."

Essex: "So I'm the only ship girl who's never even been to the Commander's lounge???"

San Francisco: "The clown should just stay quiet and watch. We'll find you a companion later."

Quejie: ​​"How about... I ask around for you?"

Cheshire: "Alright, it's pointless to ask. That big idiot of mine hasn't replied to a single message from a ship girl in decades."

New Jersey: "Indeed, if Honey were online, I would have just had him tell you."

Upon seeing the news of Quejie, New Jersey, who was lying in bed, was also startled and quickly sat up to type a reply.

Quejie: ​​"Anyway, there's no harm in trying, so I'll ask anyway."

Actually, if it were the day before yesterday, Quejie wouldn't have dared to be as daring as he is now, but yesterday's day really changed a lot of things. Thinking about the little secret between himself and the commander, Quejie mustered up his courage again.

After all, Quejie still vaguely remembered what the commander said when he held her in his arms yesterday, something about making her a frigate on his forum. Although she didn't hear it clearly at the time because her head was spinning, now that she thought about it, it should have been about making her maintain the commander's reputation on the forum.

Thinking of this, she shyly crawled into bed and switched the forum to the background, then opened the pinned chat contact in the chat window.

Quejie: ​​"Um, Commander, did New Jersey sleep in your bed last night?"

After sending the message, Quejie immediately buried her head under the covers, then slowly peeked out from behind the covers, staring nervously at her phone screen.

Meanwhile, inside the command center.

Sitting at her workstation, looking at Harman not far away, You Ran was thinking about how to trick this arrogant little girl into her arms, but before she could come up with a plan, her phone on her desk lit up.

Seeing that it was a message notification from Qiuqiu, You Ran was not surprised. After all, under the influence of the past thirty years, most of the ship girls in the port knew that he would not reply or even read the messages, so a considerable number of them would go crazy towards him without any scruples every day.

At first, just a couple of days ago, You Ran felt a little awkward looking at his phone, but now he can accept it calmly, and is even quite curious about what kind of amazing messages those ship girls who usually seem very serious or tsundere and introverted would send him.

However, when You Ran opened her phone, the source of the message did surprise her.

Quejie?

Immediately after reading the message, You Ran glanced listlessly into the lounge.

This New Jersey guy must have been unable to resist showing off online again. I was wondering why he suddenly became so well-behaved; it turns out he was planning this.

But after thinking about it, she was still not quite sure what exactly New Jersey had said on the forum, so You Ran decided to remain vague for now.

You Ran: "You could say yes, or you could say no. Why did Que Jie ask that?"

Quejie: ​​"Hmm, Commander, didn't you see the forum? The post about New Jersey."

Quejie: ​​"[The link, after careful planning, finally landed...]"

You Ran: "..."

Just looking at the first few words of the title on the link made You Ran almost lose her composure. You Ran suddenly regretted letting New Jersey off so easily earlier. She definitely couldn't admit to this. After thinking for a while, You Ran decided to just make things "clear".

You Ran: "I understand about this. Quejie, you did a great job. If you hadn't reminded me, I probably wouldn't have noticed this. I'll inform Belfast to clarify this later."

Quejie: ​​"No, no, I just felt that this matter might affect your reputation, Commander, so I specifically told you. Besides, you told me yesterday that you wanted me to be your escort ship on the forum, so this is just what I should do..."

You Ran: "Of course, I haven't forgotten. I must say, you did an excellent job as a frigate. If this were a battle, you would undoubtedly be the MVP."

Quejie: ​​"MVP?!!"

Quejie: ​​"Then, does Quejie, as the forum MVP, receive the same rewards as a regular MVP?"

MVP reward?

Upon seeing the message from Quejie, You Ran was slightly taken aback, but quickly recalled that this was a privilege she had established to encourage the ship girls to fight bravely.

The general idea is that if a ship girl gets MVP in a battle, she can use that MVP to exchange for a reward she wants. However, the specific exchange value of the reward depends on the size of the battle.

At first, he thought the ship girls would use these privileges to exchange for more powerful equipment and more resources to strengthen themselves, thus achieving a virtuous cycle.

But he later discovered that things were far beyond his expectations. Very few ship girls came to exchange for equipment. Most of the ship girls wanted to exchange for rewards like dates, movies, or meals. And requests from ship girls like Taihou were not even allowed.

However, at the time he was focused on his work and research and had no extra time for things like dating and dining out, so he directly rejected such applications.

Just when he thought the matter would end with his refusal, a rumor began circulating in the port that if you accumulated 999 MVPs, you could come to him to exchange for a Ring of Oath.

During that period, the number of applications he received to fight increased exponentially, to the point that the Sirens almost thought he was going to fight them to the death.

Fortunately, after a while, the difficulty of this task became too great, so a considerable number of ship girls chose to give up. As for the remaining ship girls, You didn't pay attention to them afterward, so he didn't know whether he had saved enough.

However, it is only now that You Ran remembered that some ship girls had not redeemed the rewards they wanted because they had never been able to get them. In the past, this would not have mattered, and he would have ruthlessly rejected some unreasonable requests.

But now, when she thinks that those MVPs were all the result of the ship girls' hard work, You Ran really can't refuse.

He could accept most of the conditions, but You Ran was afraid that if he used one MVP to reward a ship girl, those ship girls who had hundreds of MVPs would suddenly come looking for him and ask him to reward them with hundreds of MVPs at once.

That kind of thing is just too terrifying...

But honestly, there probably isn't any ship girl in the port who has accumulated that many MVP rewards... right?

For a moment, You Ran hesitated again.

No, I'll have to ask Belfast later to see if there are any relevant statistics or anything, otherwise I'm really not comfortable with him rewarding the other ship girls...

Chapter 42 The Awakening of New Jersey

Holding her phone, You Ran gave a few more instructions after promising Quejie the same rewards as a regular MVP. Then she clicked on the link Quejie sent her, intending to take a look before making any decisions.

Meanwhile, in the forum, having understood the commander's meaning, Jie also rejoined the battlefield with smoke grenades.

Quejie: ​​"Everyone, I'm sorry... I guess I was overthinking it. The Commander didn't respond to me at all..."

New Jersey: "Hey, I told you the honey could never be yours, but you just wouldn't believe me."

Fearless: "No, no, no, although it failed, I feel that the credibility of the Commander's reply to Quejie is still more than ten times higher than that of your Commander Leip. So since Quejie has failed, why don't you lay your cards on the table?"

New Jersey: "Fine, looks like I have to produce some evidence before you'll believe me, right?"

San Francisco: "If you really had any evidence, would you have needed to hide it for so long? Alright, stop explaining. No amount of explanation can hide the fact that you are...?"

New Jersey: "I'm just afraid that what I'm about to pull out is too big and will scare you."

San Francisco: "I'll be watching with bated breath!"

This... the evidence New Jersey is talking about, could it be that recording?

After entering the thread, You Ran quickly caught up with the latest update. Looking at the comments from New Jersey, she couldn't help but become suspicious.

But wasn't her recording deleted by him last night when he passed out in New Jersey?

Could it be... there's a backup?

No, that shouldn't be the case. He remembered checking it over there.

If that's the case... wouldn't New Jersey really become the clown?

His first instinct was to help New Jersey out of this predicament, but he quickly realized that it was all her own doing. After thinking about it, You Ran decided to continue watching before making any further plans.

Meanwhile, in the lounge, New Jersey, confident in her evidence, quickly switched the forum to the background and then found the recording software she had used the night before.

However, as soon as New Jersey opened the software, before even finding the audio, her right hand, which was tapping the screen, suddenly hovered halfway open.

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