Transmigrated into Azur Lane

With his exceptional intuition, Nelson coldly stared at the commander.

"what?"

Lin Dong stared at Nelson with his innocent-looking big eyes.

"Humph!"

"Honey, let's hurry up and go, they're still waiting."

Lin Dong, with a forced smile, dragged the sulking Nelson out of the dormitory building.

The two arrived at the electric car. Lin Dong scurried over to the passenger side to open the door for his angry wife. After Nelson got into the car with a cold face and as if it were the most natural thing in the world, Lin Dong then got into the driver's seat.

The two soon arrived at the entrance of the security bureau and waited. Shortly after, a bus slowly drove through the gate, and a black-haired woman in military uniform got off.

"Hello! General Yixian!"

Chapter 56 Yixian

Wearing the Donghuang Navy uniform, the elegant Yixian looked dashing and heroic. The numerous medals on her white uniform told the story of her great contributions to Donghuang over the past 80 years.

Yi Xian glanced at Nelson first, then smiled and shook Lin Dong's outstretched hand.

"General Lin, I have long admired your name."

"Hahaha, no, no, I wouldn't dare."

Lin Dong, disguised as a replica of Cao Zhengping, laughed like a chrysanthemum and echoed.

Then Yi Xian reached out her hand to Nelson, who was standing next to Lin Dong.

"Hello, Miss Nelson."

"Ah."

In the eyes of the arrogant Nelson, the frail Eastern Huang ship girl was not worth a second glance. She casually shook hands with Yi Xian with a condescending gaze, her attitude extremely arrogant.

"Ahem, everyone must be tired from their journey. Let's settle in first before we talk about anything else."

Lin Dong regretted bringing Nelson along to greet him and quickly laughed it off.

"Thank you for your help, General Lin."

Yi Xian seemed unconcerned about Nelson's arrogance, and simply smiled and said to Lin Dong.

"Haha, no trouble at all. It's our security bureau that should be thanking you for coming to our aid."

After Lin Dong finished speaking, he led Nelson back to the car and drove the bus into the security bureau.

"Honey, be nicer to them. They're here to help."

Lin Dong glanced at the passenger seat while holding the steering wheel.

"understood."

Nelson casually fiddled with her fingernails, saying that she was extremely unwilling to let the commander ask for outside help; wasn't that disrespecting Royal Nelson?

"Honey, tell me, how come Yixian is over 80 years old but still looks like a young girl?"

Lin Dong voiced his doubts.

"I can feel that as long as the consciousness of that warship remains, the Mind Cube will continue to operate forever."

Nelson lowered his fingers and replied thoughtfully.

"Does that mean I'll be a decrepit old man in the future, while my wife will still be so young and beautiful?"

Lin Dong seemed to be joking, but in his heart he was thinking about what would happen to these ship girls if he died of old age. Only those who are not yet mature would say something like, "What do I care about the world after I die?" How many people in this world spend their entire lives just to leave something for their family and descendants? Concern is one of the most important human emotions.

However, Lin Dong then made a somewhat wicked guess that perhaps the ship girls would be better off without him; let's talk about things decades from now.

"Honey, why aren't you pregnant yet?"

After finishing his random thoughts, Lin Dong asked Nelson with a smile.

"I do not know either."

Nelson was also very frustrated. The two of them had tried so hard for the past three months, but the baby just wouldn't grow bigger. Could it be that there was really a reproductive barrier?

"It seems we've been too lazy; we need to work harder!"

Lin Dong spoke in a righteous and awe-inspiring tone.

"Okay! I'll come to your room tonight."

Nelson nodded emphatically.

"tonight……."

Lin Dong hesitated because he had made plans to have an affair with Tirpitz that night.

"Tirpitz?"

With his sharp intuition, Nelson's eyes blazed with fury. He pounced on the commander, who was still driving, and grabbed Lin Dong's hair tightly with both hands.

Suddenly, the car leading the way in front of the bus began to drift left and right.

....

The group arrived at the reception building where the Security Bureau used to reside. With the completion of other buildings, this building also resumed its original function.

After the bus doors opened, Yixian got off first, followed by a large group of little girls. Lin Dong looked at them for a long time before recognizing them as the Ninghai and Pinghai ships.

Although they belong to the same type of ship girl, their appearances are quite different. Apart from their hair color, no two of them have the same hairstyle or outfit, which dazzles Lin Dong.

After getting off the bus, the little girls chattered and observed the Security Bureau's surroundings. One of them walked behind Yi Xian and together they walked towards Lin Dong.

Lin Dong immediately recognized the little black-haired girl as Colonel Ning Hai, the culprit who had arrested him. Although the Ning Hai sisters were twins, they could be distinguished by their hair color: black hair for Ning Hai and brown hair for Ping Hai.

"Colonel Ninghai, how have you been?"

Lin Dong greeted him with a smile.

"Humph!"

Ning Hai rolled her eyes at Lin Dong, her attitude truly rude. The reason was simple: after Lin Dong announced at the press conference that ship girls could interbreed with humans, the ship girls of the Eastern Empire's Navy were immediately subjected to a frenzied siege by countless male humans. Although Ning Hai and Ping Hai both had loli-like appearances, the longest-serving member of the Navy had been with them for 40 years, making them typical "legal lolis," which made their suitors feel no psychological barrier. Among them were genuine lovers and ambitious individuals; in any case, with Lin Dong's successful example, these suitors with various motives fully displayed the Eastern Empire's fine traditions of perseverance, tenacity, and hard work.

Pinghai and Ninghai are relatively fortunate; the most troublesome are mature and beautiful women like Yixian. The entourage of suitors is deafening, like a cacophony of gongs, drums, and firecrackers; if all the suitors lay down and lined up, they could circle the entire planet more than twice.

Lin Dong, who was completely unaware of this, was somewhat puzzled by Ning Hai's hostile attitude. However, he was not a petty person, so he laughed it off and led the Donghuang ship girls into the reception building.

..........

The reception room of the office building.

Lin Dong poured a cup of tea and handed it to Yi Xian, then sat down on the sofa to observe General Yi Xian.

Historically, the Yi Xian was slightly inferior in strength to the Ning Hai and Ping Hai. However, in this world, the ship's consciousness endowed her with an extremely terrifying talent: 'Eastern Empire Bond'. This immediately made the Yi Xian's status in the Eastern Empire extremely important. In addition, she had served the Eastern Empire for 80 years, and her rank was second only to the marshal stationed in Liaodong. The rank system of the Eastern Empire's ship girls is completely different from that of humans. This is also due to the ship girls' long lifespan. After all, if they had continued to use the human system after serving the country for nearly a century, there would probably be dozens more marshals. According to Lin Dong's understanding, the predecessors of Ning Hai and Ping Hai had already chosen to retire 40 years ago. Later, this bad Ning Hai captain succeeded to the name 'Ning Hai'. Other Ning Hai ship girls of the same type usually gave themselves another name, such as Ning Jing, Ning Ru, Ning Qing, etc., including Yi Xian.

"General Lin, just as I thought, you are a suitable candidate."

“E…EVA??”

Chapter 57 Qualified Person

"EVA?"

Upon hearing Yi Xian mention the 'suitable one', Lin Dong immediately thought of the EVA pilots in Neon Genesis Evangelion.

Yi Xian was somewhat confused by Lin Dong's ramblings, but after seeing Lin Dong's puzzled expression, she immediately explained.

"A suitable candidate is a being that can connect to the Mind Cube."

"Are you saying that no other human being can connect with the Mind Cube?"

Lin Dong was troubled by the problem for a long time.

"At present, yes."

Yi Xian nodded slowly and continued.

"However, General Lin, you... are only barely maintaining the connection, and are not a qualified candidate."

Yi Xian was also completely baffled as to how Lin Dong could lead so many ship girls.

"What's the purpose of connecting it to the Mind Cube?"

"Language? Didn't General Lin notice that the ship girls under your command can all speak the Eastern language? This is one of the effects of connecting to the Rubik's Cube."

"Ship girls are beings that exist based on consciousness, so the suitable candidates must be individuals with strong 'mental power' in order to bear the burden of consciousness."

Yi Xian told Lin Dong all the information she knew, but this was only some knowledge that she was born with as a wild ship girl. Since there was no other suitable person in the world besides Lin Dong, Yi Xian only had a superficial understanding of it.

"Mental strength, huh..."

Lin Dong couldn't help but recall the throbbing pain in his head when he first started building ship girls. This side effect had completely disappeared with each subsequent build. Especially after his last massive build spree, Lin Dong even felt his mental state was much better than before. This made him suspect that the unknown entity residing in his mind was gradually strengthening its mental power with each build. This also explained Tong Yixian's barely maintained state. With his exceptionally vivid imagination, Lin Dong then confirmed his judgment: mental power would continue to increase with each build until he finally became a qualified pilot, and as his mental power grew stronger, the functions of the Mind Cube would eventually become clear.

"What about the Sirens? Were the Sirens also considered suitable candidates?"

Lin Dong then thought of a serious problem.

"I don't know, but based on intelligence gathered over the years, the Sirens are very likely to be suitable candidates."

Yi Xian replied solemnly.

Lin Dong felt a chill run down his spine upon hearing Yi Xian's words. How many Siren ship girls ruled the entire ocean of this planet? Countless, it could only be said, because like Earth, the ocean covered 71% of Azure Planet's surface. Just how powerful must the chosen ones who commanded these Siren ship girls be?

After forcibly suppressing his feelings of despair, Lin Dong immediately completed the handover procedures with Yi Xian.

The ship girls sent to provide support this time represent all of Donghuang's elite forces deployed in the south: 24 Ninghai and 24 Pinghai-type ship girls, all with a training level of 90 or higher. Add to that the max-level boss, Yixian. This gives Lin Dong immense confidence in this campaign against the Siren South China Sea Fleet.

According to Lin Dong, the number of Donghuang ship girls has reached nearly 2000 after more than 90 years of accumulation, but very few have a training level of 90 or above. Each ship girl with a training level of 90 or above has to serve in the military for at least several decades to reach this level, and many of them have sacrificed their lives in war.

Later, through his conversation with Yi Xian, Lin Dong learned that the ship girls who chose to retire would transfer their original power to their juniors. The strengthening and breakthroughs in the other world were achieved under these circumstances, and there was no such thing as mountains of corpses and seas of blood, or tragic scenes of utter devastation.

The respect that humans in this world have for the ship girls is not merely superficial, but comes from the bottom of their hearts, including Lin Dong after he came to understand this world. They have fought for humanity for more than 90 years without hesitation, simply to follow the memories inherited from the warships' consciousness. Yi Xian, in particular, has served Donghuang for 80 years. This spirit makes it impossible for any human to have any disrespectful thoughts.

Yi Xian was a good conversationalist, and the two then spent the entire afternoon chatting in the reception room. Of course, Lin Dong wasn't really interested in acquiring any ships; he was simply curious about a wild ship girl. Putting aside whether Yi Xian was willing or not, Lin Dong's own Yi Xian was already much stronger than the one in front of him. After all, Ninghai and Pinghai in the game already had a modification system, and Lin Dong had been focusing on developing the Donghuang trio all along.

The same applies to Yi Xian; after all, it's rare to find a suitable candidate, especially one who is extremely powerful. Wild ship girls also consider compatibility when searching for suitable candidates; they don't just pick anyone out of desperation.

With this in mind, the two quickly became 'friends despite their age difference'.