Transmigrated into Azur Lane

"I understand, Commander!"

After saying that, Z23 broke free from the commander's embrace and walked into the tea room on her own, leaving Lin Dong completely bewildered.

Soon, Z23 brought a cup of tea to the guest.

"Please enjoy your meal, Miss Zhu."

Zhu Ling, who had been sitting trembling in the corner, was completely bewildered by the little girl's 180-degree change in attitude. Out of habit, Zhu Ling politely accepted the teacup with both hands and said repeatedly.

"Thank you, thank you."

'patta'

Just as Zhu Ling accepted the tea, the door to the reception room made a sound.

"Commander, I'm here."

With a confident smile, Comet entered the reception room and sat down next to the commander, looking at the woman sitting on the opposite sofa.

"Hello, Miss Comet."

"Hello."

Soon, Comet and the woman named Zhu Ling began to talk about various matters on their own. Lin Dong, who was initially worried, put aside his concerns and let them talk as Comet spoke fluently. He sat aside and listened attentively with Z23 in his arms. Z23, who was determined to become the perfect secretary ship in the commander's eyes, also listened carefully to the two's conversation, trying to find loopholes.

The two continued their discussion until evening.

"General Lin, I'll go back and prepare the contract and send it to you tomorrow."

"Well, walk slowly."

...

After driving away from the Security Bureau, Zhu Ling finally felt relieved. As she gripped the steering wheel, she suddenly murmured something.

"What an amazing place..."

Chapter 131 Maritime Expansion

On the sea area of ​​Guangdong Province.

"Santiago, Raffi, Yuudachi, and Ayanami, advance to meet the enemy."

At this moment, the company was holding the bow and arrow ship equipment and standing at the bow of the warship, looking at the several Siren squads blocking the front of the warship. More than ten days had passed since the mission to clear the waters of Guangdong Province, and the group had set foot in the open sea, nearly 50 nautical miles away from the land.

As they delve deeper, the Sirens have improved in terms of both the density of their strongholds and the average training level, but they are still far from being a match for the Security Bureau, which seems to have cheat codes. This is a result that Lin Dong had already known through comprehensive intelligence and by constantly sending ship girls to investigate. Otherwise, Lin Dong would not have sent the ship girls to risk their lives for mere supplies.

"Riding the waves, we strike!"

Upon receiving the flagship's order, Santiago unfurled his ship's equipment and jumped off the warship amid shouts and cries.

Santiago, who was jumping headfirst, could not possibly ride the waves as she claimed. Instead, she plunged headfirst into the sea, creating a huge splash.

'Splash!'

A large splash and a loud noise appeared on the turbulent sea surface, and soon after, Santiago's big head emerged from the water.

"Pfft~~~"

After spewing out several jets of seawater, Santiago slowly stood on the sea surface, activating her ship's equipment. She wiped the seawater off her face and then sped off toward the Sirens.

"Warm-up begins~biubiubiu"

Santiago, who quickly closed in on the Siren formation, shouted and launched the Atlanta-class barrage that had been fully charged in its ship equipment. The dense barrage, which was launched in a fan shape, had an extremely wide attack area, comparable to a reduced version of the overwhelming Bigseven barrage of the Nelson-class sisters.

Despite the overwhelming difference in skill level, the Siren shipgirls were all damaged to varying degrees by the three rounds of barrages. The main guns and torpedoes mixed in with the barrages quickly sank several of the Sirens.

Enterprise stood at the bow of the ship and couldn't help but chuckle as she watched Santiago's performance. Although this clumsy old lady usually didn't seem very reliable, she had participated in almost the entire Pacific War just like Enterprise in history. With her outstanding military achievements, she was only a few medals less than Enterprise, ranking second in the White Eagles.

Santiago, who had activated all her artillery systems and was now in a cooling-off state, began yelling and dodging the Sirens' shells. But her hands didn't stop; she kept shooting down the incoming aircraft while making noises.

'Bang bang bang! '

A barrage of bullets grazed past Santiago and swept directly into the swarm of Sirens.

"Wow! Do you know how dangerous this is?!"

Santiago turned to Lingbo and shouted angrily. She stopped firing her anti-aircraft gun and kept touching her heart, clearly quite frightened.

Lingbo blinked her unfocused eyes at the angry Santiago, remained silent for a moment, and then replied.

"Oh."

After speaking, Lingbo turned her head to look at the Sirens in front of her. Her expressionless face suddenly furrowed, and she raised the legendary warship sword and charged straight into the Sirens' formation.

"Wow! That's dangerous! Come back quickly!"

Santiago stood there, calling out to Lingbo's retreating figure, completely forgetting Lingbo's earlier somewhat offensive behavior. Perhaps it was this carefree personality that led to her consistently good interpersonal relationships.

'Swish'

A mass-produced warship was cleaved in two by Lingbo's ship-slaying sword. Lingbo then put away her serious expression and stared blankly at Santiago, who was waving and shouting at her in the distance. After hesitating for a moment, Lingbo returned to Santiago's side.

"What’s wrong with you?"

Lingbo asked with some confusion.

"Have you forgotten what the commander told us before we set off?!"

Santiago, with his hands behind his back, reprimanded the expressionless Ayanami in a serious manner, and then imitated the commander's tone.

"Golden Fertilizer, if you can't beat someone, run away. If you can beat them, just stand far away and fire your cannons, understand?"

"Is this what the commander ordered...? Alright then."

Lingbo heard that it was the commander's order and had no objections. After speaking, she put away her ship-slaying sword and obediently stood next to Jin Kela, firing cannonballs.

Santiago was very pleased to see Lingbo's promising performance. Soon, the Sirens' second wave of attacks came again. Santiago looked at the incoming shells and said to Lingbo.

"When you see a shell, you need to take cover, understand?"

Santiago had barely finished speaking when he tilted his head to dodge a cannonball. Perhaps it was because Lingbo looked a little dazed that the enthusiastic Santiago always found himself wanting to teach her.

"There's no need for that trouble..."

Lingbo spoke to the silly-looking Santiago, then drew her ship-slaying sword from her back and began slicing at the incoming cannonballs.

"Lingbo, you're so cool!"

Santiago shouted exaggeratedly with his mouth agape, completely unashamed of his previous actions.

"It's alright."

Lingbo gave Santiago a rare, slight smile.

Just as the two were talking, two figures suddenly rushed out from behind the Sirens.

"Lafite, I arrived first."

Yuudachi said smugly, showing off her little tiger teeth.

"Hiccup~"

Lafite blinked his eyes, which were almost closed, and let out a hiccup.

"Since you admit defeat, I won't humiliate you anymore, hmph."

It's unclear which syllable in Laffey's burp signal Yuudachi picked up, but she simply waved it off as if she were a magnanimous adult and headed towards the warship...

Chapter 132 Maritime Expansion II

On a destroyer in the distant waters off Fujian Province.

"Glory is now in your hands."

Elizabeth, her eyes half-open from sleep, looked at the Sirens' stronghold in the distance and yawned as she spoke.

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Standing behind Shabai, Guanghui smiled, bowed, accepted the order, and then turned to the Security Bureau members.

"Portland, Indianapolis, Belfast advance in single column formation."

"Z1, Z19, Z20, and Z21 are responsible for flank support."

"Suffolk and Edinburgh garrison flagship."

After issuing several orders in an orderly manner, Illustrious nodded to Rodney and Warspite beside her, and then, with a smile on her face, she shouted to everyone, displaying her ship rigging.

"Attack!"

...

'Bang! Bang!'

Belfast, at the forefront, launched several smoke grenades into the surrounding sea, and the thick smoke from the grenades quickly enveloped most of the sea area.

At this moment, the Siren outpost leader hesitated for a moment before issuing an order to the Siren ship girls. The Siren ship girls, who were surrounding the Security Bureau in an arc formation, began to launch an indiscriminate attack on the area of ​​thick smoke after receiving the order.

Königsberg, the Siren outpost leader, stood at the back of the group, looking somewhat uneasy at the smoke that had remained motionless for so long.

The next instant, three shells emerged from the smoke and shot toward Königsberg. Königsberg, whose training level was above 90, quickly made an evasive maneuver, but unfortunately, it was a step too late. Before Königsberg could escape the fire, it was hit by one of the shells.

"hateful..."

Königsberg, whose ship was already engulfed in flames after being hit by just one shell, said rather sternly, as the head of the outpost in the far seas, that Königsberg's intelligence level was not too low.

No sooner had she finished speaking than three more shells emerged from the smoke and hurtled towards it. The Königsberg, its ship already suffering heavy losses, knew, seeing the shells so close at hand, that it was too late to recover...

'boom!!'

"Ms. Warspite is as accurate as ever."

Glorious, who was far behind the lines, did not hold back in praising the old lady beside him. After all, having worked together for so long, Glorious knew that Warspite liked to be flattered.

"Hmm...only 4 hits, that's way below par..."

Warspite frowned slightly, indicating his disappointment.

The scene then shifts back to the front lines.

At that moment, Portland, who was still in the smoke, rushed out of the smoke and spoke to the thick smoke behind him.

"Cute Indians, keep a close eye on your big sister's heroic figure~~"