Transmigrated into Azur Lane

After regaining his senses, Lin Dong patted Cao Zhengping on the shoulder and chuckled.

"I'm sorry to have troubled you, Brother Cao. I'll buy some souvenirs for the brothers in the Third Fleet when I get back."

"Haha, that's exactly what I've been waiting for. Don't try to renege on your promise."

Cao Zhengping laughed heartily.

"Then I'm off, Lao Cao."

After Lin Dong finished speaking, he pulled down the couple's sunglasses that were hanging on his hair.

"Bon Voyage."

"calm down."

Lin Dong waved his hand and boarded the bus. After starting the engine, he drove the bus towards the city of Xiamen.

After watching the bus disappear from sight, Cao Zhengping let out a long sigh, perhaps also regretting the loss of their friendship.

...

After crossing the bridge between Xiamen and Fujian Province, Lin Dong drove his bus straight inland.

On the national highway.

"Firefly, don't stick your head out, or I'll drive towards the telephone poles."

Lin Dong, in the driver's seat, threatened as usual. Firefly saw that the commander had actually veered slightly towards the telephone pole and immediately withdrew his head. Before he could calm down, Lin Dong spotted another idiot.

"Santiago, don't fly kites in the car! You'll hurt someone! Get down right now!"

Santiago was standing on the seat with most of his body sticking out of the sunroof of the bus. If Lin Dong hadn't used the special external mirror that usually comes with large vehicles, he really wouldn't have noticed what this idiot was doing.

With her upper body still outside the vehicle, Santiago couldn't hear the commander's reprimand. Soon, the kite string in her hand got tangled in the telephone pole the commander had approached to threaten the fireflies. Santiago's face darkened, and she gripped the kite string tightly, struggling against the telephone pole. Her kite had come at a great cost from Zibuli, and the kite string was some kind of high-end equipment salvaged from military equipment. The exceptionally strong string didn't break under the immense force of Jin Kela. Instead, the telephone pole, which had been wrapped with the string several times, seemed to be about to give way.

Inside the car, Cleveland, who was also wearing matching sunglasses, couldn't help but grin when he saw Santiago's unmoved expression. He then reached out and tickled Santiago's waist. Santiago, who was only focused on one thing, completely forgot about the kite string that was tightly wrapped around his hand after feeling the tickle.

"Hey~"

Santiago, who forgot to exert himself, was dragged out of the bus sunroof by the kite string and ended up hanging on a telephone pole.

"Ugh..."

Lin Dong looked at Santiago, who was hanging in mid-air, in the rearview mirror, sighed helplessly, turned on the hazard lights, and started to turn around.

Under the telephone pole, Lin Dong, inside the car, looked up speechlessly at the idiot who didn't know how to let go of the kite string.

"Let go of the line and come down quickly!"

Lin Dong stuck his head out of the car window, patted the car's exterior, and shouted impatiently.

"I do not!"

Santiago in mid-air wasn't as foolish as the commander imagined; she was simply reluctant to give up the kite.

"Hmph, leave it to me."

After Cleveland, the culprit, got into the driver's seat, patted the furious commander, and said something. He then deployed the anti-aircraft gun and fired a shot through the car window at the kite string on the telephone pole. The sudden sound of the shell startled the onlookers who were happily watching on the highway, and they all started their parked cars and drove away.

"Snapped!"

Santiago, now free of his restraints, fell to the ground with a thud.

"Are you OK?"

Lin Dong looked at Santiago, who was sitting on the ground without saying a word, with some concern.

"Humph!"

The idiot crossed his arms and lay on the ground, refusing to leave, his face full of unhappiness, the kind that can't be coaxed.

"I'll have Xiao Buli make you a new one later."

Seeing Jin Kela's shameless appearance, Lin Dong had no choice but to force a smile and compromise.

"Give the order now!"

"Has this guy gotten smarter from the fall?"

Lin Dong looked at Santiago's head in surprise and muttered to himself, then shouted helplessly into the carriage.

“Zibuli, make a new kite for this guy... cough cough, for Santiago.”

"Bulibuli, leave it to me, Commander."

Zibuli stuck his head out of the driveway and shouted energetically.

"hey-hey."

Santiago, who had been lying on the ground refusing to leave, chuckled upon hearing Zibuli's response and stood up. She then dusted herself off and shamelessly boarded the bus.

"Tsk tsk..."

Lin Dong rolled his eyes at Jin Kela's shameless behavior before restarting the bus and heading towards the capital of Fujian Province.

Fuzhou, the capital of Fujian Province, is not far from Xiamen. Lin Dong drove his bus on the highway for about two hours before entering the capital's territory. Although both are coastal cities, Donghuang, as the provincial capital, would not allow Fuzhou to decline. With the support of various resources from Donghuang, Fuzhou is much more prosperous than Xiamen, which is only the size of a county town. This is very different from the Earth where Lin Dong lived in his previous life. You see, when Fujian is mentioned on Earth, most people only think of Xiamen and not Fuzhou.

Driving on the bustling streets of downtown Rongcheng, Lin Dong couldn't help but feel a subtle sense of returning to human society as he looked at the crowds coming and going. Perhaps, as Rodney said, he had indeed been cooped up in the Security Bureau for too long.

The bus soon arrived at the front of a star-rated hotel. Thanks to the meticulous arrangements made by Lin Dong's henchmen, everything went smoothly. After everyone got off the bus, the waiter who was already waiting at the door took the keys from Lin Dong and drove the bus away.

"Welcome, General Lin, and welcome, ladies."

Chapter 138 Journey to the Eastern Empire II

Inside the hotel lobby.

"Commander! Hurry up!"

Z19 stood at the hotel exit, waving impatiently and shouting.

"coming."

At this moment, Lin Dong was holding Kaga's hand with his left hand and Akagi's arm around his right, with a Z46 riding on his neck. After settling into their hotel room, the group decided to go out and enjoy the scenery of the provincial capital.

A group of dozens of people arrived at the hotel entrance in a noisy manner. Soon, a young man in a suit ran up to Lin Dong and respectfully greeted him.

"General Lin, ladies, the car is ready. This way, please."

"Thank you for your trouble."

Lin Dong, who had already learned about this from Chen Yi, replied to the guide in front of him with a faint smile.

Once everyone from the security bureau was on the bus, the young guide took his seat and started the bus.

"General Lin, would you like to have dinner first or would you like to do some sightseeing first?"

The young guide, gripping the steering wheel, turned to Lin Dong, who was sitting in the front seat, and asked.

"It's still early, why don't you take us to explore the city?"

Lin Dong glanced at his watch and replied. Then he pulled the firefly, which had stuck its head out of the window again, onto his lap and pressed it down. Since he had been the driver all along and hadn't been able to properly manage this clumsy and mischievous kid, Lin Dong decided to teach this big-headed doll a lesson now that someone else was available to drive him.

Lin Dong was still dealing with the restless fireflies on his leg when Santiago, sitting next to him, followed suit and stuck his big head out.

"Snapped!"

Lin Dong impatiently freed his hand and slapped Jin Kela's round, plump buttocks.

"Commander!"

Santiago pulled his head back out of the window, looking at the commander with a flushed face. His little hands kept rubbing his bottom up and down, looking quite aggrieved.

"Cough cough..."

Lin Dong, who had always categorized the San Diego as a mischievous destroyer, realized that his unintentional behavior was indeed quite bad, and he awkwardly apologized.

"Um... I mistook you for someone else... Sorry, Santiago."

"Commander, you touched my butt! You have to marry me!"

Santiago's shout instantly silenced the previously noisy carriage.

The guide, who was already a little nervous about serving the ship girls, stumbled when he heard the noise behind him and almost drove the bus onto the sidewalk. The bus swayed for a while before finally regaining its balance.

"sorry!"

The young guide cried out, his face contorted with tears.

However, at this moment, everyone was not concerned about the driver, but focused their attention on the commander in the front seat.

"I mistook you for someone else..."

Lin Dong pinched Santiago's cheek, trying to persuade her to forgive and forget about his petty mistake.

Santiago, who probably doesn't even know what marriage is, is not willing to give up. She has a lot of affection for the Commander, but she only vaguely knows that if she wants to become the Commander's best playmate, the last step is to sign an oath. She pouts and acts like a spoiled child.

"I do not care!"

"Two kites?"

"Humph!"

"Add another paper airplane?"

"make a deal!"

Santiago, finally satisfied, stuck his head out of the car window again, opened his mouth, and drank in the wind rushing towards him.

"How stupid."

The firefly, sitting on the commander's lap, made its assessment of Santiago's pert buttocks, which were turned away from it.

"Shut up!"

Having finally managed to subdue Santiago, Lin Dong turned his attention back to Tie Touwa, who was seen clenching his fists and continuing to rub the firefly's large head.

"Uh..."

The guide, who had almost been involved in a car accident because of himself, quickly drove the bus to the city center of Fuzhou with a heavy heart.

"General Lin, the famous Three Lanes and Seven Alleys of Rongcheng are just ahead. Would you like to go down and take a look?"

"Alright, everyone, let's go."

"call..."