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"Especially the ones in Bikini Atoll."

"...You really dare."

Prince Eugen raised his leg and kicked Liu Cheng in the thigh.

Chapter 46 I came at the wrong time

Prince Eugen's thighs were long and tight, and her black leather shoes reflected a sharp light, but she used her gracefully curved instep, and a kick on Liu Cheng's leg bone only caused slight pain.

In fact, if Prince Eugen wanted, this kick could not only paralyze Liu Cheng, but even pierce through the Sardinia Horizon-class destroyer under his feet, so this was just a playful exchange of courtesy.

Prince Eugen hesitated for a moment. She seldom did such impulsive and playful behavior, especially when facing a human male whom she had only known for two days. But she did not calm down. Instead, she became more and more angry. She was always calm and had always been the dominant one. Even when facing Bismarck, she could handle it with ease. When had she ever suffered such anger? So she kicked him out again.

"Sorry, sorry, I just wanted to fight back a little, but Miss Eugen, you are really impeccable, so I can only use this despicable means of attacking life."

"Then why are you hiding? Is this the sincerity of your apology?"

"It's mainly because your shoes are too sharp. I'm scared when I see them..."

The two of them then chased each other on the corridor, one chasing the other, one hitting the other and dodging. Littorio, who was watching from the side, did not feel embarrassed. Instead, he held his chin up, thinking that this was such a good way to ease the atmosphere, should he also join in? This kind of game might be a little childish for the little girls on the destroyer, but it was just right for adults and cruisers and battleships.

However, Littorio still chose not to join in. After all, in her opinion, two equally charming treasures chasing each other was also a beautiful scenery.

Prince Eugen hasn't felt so indulgent for a long time. He doesn't have to think too much, make false expressions or say teasing words. He just does whatever he wants subconsciously. His smile is pure happiness, so he raises the corners of his mouth. He doesn't need to hit the opponent with his fists or feet, even if he just hits the air, he feels inexplicably happy.

"Snapped--"

This time, the slap did not miss, but landed on Liu Cheng's face. The force was not strong but it still made a crisp sound. Prince Eugen froze in his place and blurted out, "Why didn't you hide?"

Liu Cheng rubbed his cheek and said, "After all, I was wrong. It's really mean to joke with such a life-attacking method. It's normal for you to hit me twice. The atmosphere was too heavy just now. I was afraid that you would really kill me and cripple me... It should be about time now. If you are still angry, you can hit me a few more times, but it's better not to hit my face."

"Slapping you in the face is a reward for you."

Prince Eugen looked at her palms, thinking that the carefree indulgence just now was rare but short-lived. She smiled and said, "I shouldn't have forgiven you so easily, but I also know that you want to make the atmosphere less heavy, so forget it."

"So you forgive me?"

"If you don't forgive me, I'll settle the score with you next time."

"Then I'll take it as that you forgive me." Liu Cheng said, "Also, your smile just now was much more beautiful than your fake smile now."

"Tsk, you're just being smart."

At this time, Ron walked out of the conference room. When he saw Liu Cheng and Prince Eugen, he went up to them, happily hugged Liu Cheng's arm, and asked, "What are you talking about? Are you talking about something bad?"

Prince Eugen looked at Ron's natural and intimate gesture, shrugged and said, "Nothing, just someone mocked me for eating a nuclear bomb in Bikini Atoll."

Liu Cheng scratched his head, not being able to refute, and stood at attention while being beaten.

Ron looked at Liu Cheng in surprise and said, "Did you also see Eugen's heart?"

"No, I just played a bad joke."

"Oh, luckily it's just a joke." Ron smiled sweetly and reached out to help Liu Cheng tidy up his hair that he had just messed up. "It's okay. It's enough for you to understand me. It's enough for you to have me."

Liu Cheng couldn't help but think, girl, your remarks are a bit dangerous.

Then Ron stood on tiptoe and kissed Liu Cheng's face as if no one was around, and said intoxicatedly: "Today's expectation, yesterday it was on the left side, today it's on the right side."

The hot and wet touch made his heart beat faster, but before Liu Chenglian could savor it, he suddenly heard a faint voice behind him: "It seems that I came at the wrong time."

Liu Cheng turned around and immediately saw Zara, who was holding her sister Bora's hand and had obviously just come out.

"Just go on, don't worry about us."

But Bora looked at Liu Cheng with complicated eyes and said, "Sister Zara, there may be some misunderstanding."

Zara turned around and said, "There is no misunderstanding, Bora, let's go."

"Zara, let me explain..."

Liu Cheng of course chased after him, and Ron held his arm tightly and followed behind him.

"Seeing Liu Chengzhen is like seeing another me. I am too busy to illuminate every beautiful person." Littorio sighed as she watched the scene. She extended her hand to Prince Eugen who was also left behind and said, "Miss Eugen, do you want to discuss war and humanity with me for a while?"

"No, I'm tired."

Prince Eugen stretched and walked in the other direction.

Littorio gracefully withdrew her hand. She was so confident that she didn't feel embarrassed at all. She just leaned on the railing, looked at the endless waves and murmured, "How dishonest, Miss Eugen. In fact, you must have been excited after hearing my invitation. After all, it was my invitation from Littorio."

In a sense, Littorio's confidence was not wrong. At least Prince Eugen

I was really a little uneasy, but it wasn't because of her.

The destroyer's bridge fell silent again. In the peaceful atmosphere, everyone seemed to have forgotten what a heavy topic they had just discussed.

But in fact they all remembered it, Liu Cheng also remembered it, and he had many more emotions and thoughts.

However, Liu Cheng and the other ship girls knew better that they could not indulge in this heavy burden. They had to look forward to everything. As long as they looked forward, there would be a solution.

Enterprise, York City, Amagi, Akagi...

These names came from Prince Eugen's mouth, and given her character, they were definitely not spoken without purpose. Combined with Hutten's attitude, the trust of the Iron-Blooded Ship Girl, Tirpitz's vague words, and what Prince Eugen and Littorio said about the relationship between the Ship Girl and the country, plus the turbulent situation on the European continent in recent years, Liu Cheng had a vague guess that was a bit outrageous.

Chapter 47: The Lost Iris and the Appearance of the Siren

Iris's fleet still hasn't arrived.

Since Iris' Mediterranean Fleet strictly followed the exercise regulations and implemented complete information silence, both Sangvis Iron and Sardinia could only send messages to the Iris branch of Azur Lane, confirming that the fleet led by the battleship Jean Bart did indeed depart from the port area near Iris' Toulon port three days ago, and theoretically should have arrived at the scheduled rendezvous area yesterday. They could only assume that they were delayed by something on the way.

Although in fact the main purpose of the Iron Blood Initiative in organizing this military exercise is to obtain joint command, and the content of the exercise is just incidental, even if the real purpose is not to do so, some superficial work has to be done.

Even if the Iris fleet does not come, Sardinia can still conduct confrontation exercises with the Iron-Blooded ship girls.

On the vast sea, the ship girls of both sides took out their respective response formations. The carrier-based aircraft of Skyhawk and August dived at each other, making harsh clicking sounds. A silver-haired little loli holding a naval sword dodged left and right in the gunfire and rushed forward. Liu admitted that it was z46, the iron-blooded destroyer led by Southwest Wind when he was narrating the Romance of Three Women yesterday afternoon. He didn't expect that the literary girl who was eloquent in his impression would be so brave and outstanding on the battlefield.

But soon Ron passed z46. Seeing the expression on Ron's face, Liu Cheng was very sure that Ron had definitely shown mercy that day. Unless he was Donghuang Superman, it would be a miracle that he could still stand here and watch the battle.

Zara stood proudly above the sea, and even with Littorio's triple-mounted 381mm main guns, it still did not lose out, and together with the Duke of Abruzzi, it formed the backbone of the formation.

Fighter planes were entangled, shells were flying, and the heroic and beautiful ship girls were shuttling across the battlefield, giving Liu Cheng a different understanding of the beauty and cruelty of the battlefield.

"Zara, you're so handsome."

"Of course, the power of the Zara-class heavy cruiser is unquestionable." Pola responded subconsciously, and then her face was a little struggling. She hesitated for a while and said, "Since you have done that with Sister Zara, you must keep a distance from other women. Don't look at other women casually, and don't talk to other women casually."

Liu Cheng felt something was wrong and said casually, "If you don't talk to other women, then are you considered another woman?"

"Forget it." Bora nodded to Liu Cheng's surprise and said seriously, "So I am warning you now, otherwise I don't want to pay attention to you."

Having said that, Pola turned around and walked to the other side of the deck.

Liu Cheng was a little surprised. How could Bora's attitude change so quickly? Maybe they could become a family in the future. As the sister-in-law of her future brother-in-law, Bora seemed a little cold.

However, before Liu Cheng had time to think about this question, another uninvited guest came over and stood next to Liu Cheng.

Hu Teng still had that cold expression that said "no approaching" and her sharp black leather military uniform gave her the aura of an androgynous queen.

"Looking out at the battlefield from here, don't you have any insights?"

Liu Cheng said without turning his head: "Looking at the battlefield from a peaceful place, I don't know what to say except 'How cruel it is'. I understand a little bit."

Hutten narrowed his eyes slightly: "These are Tirpitz's words."

"Yes, she once asked me that."

"Then I'll ask you this, if it was Tirpitz fighting in the distance, and she was on the verge of death in the battle with the Siren, what would you do?"

Liu Cheng really didn't want to answer this kind of question, as it was meaningless to prejudge his position. If the ship girl didn't have parents, he would definitely ask in return, "If your parents fell into the water at the same time, would you rather be without a father or a mother?"

"Try to save her."

"How can you, a human being, save him?"

"Then don't let her be on the verge of despair before."

"That's easy for you to say."

"Yes, it's easy for me to say. So even if I talk about suicide for love, revenge, or killing all the Sirens with my unparalleled skill, it's just talk. Tirpitz won't ask such meaningless questions."

"Hmph." Hutten snorted. It was not disdain that was expressed, but she was reluctantly satisfied with the answer. At least this man understood Tirpitz, but she did not show it.

"Then what question makes sense."

"For example..." Liu Cheng glanced at Hu Teng and found that the cold and aloof woman's face was pale and almost sickly. "Iris's fleet was so late that it was obviously a warning to Iron Blood. How can you be so patient?"

Hu Teng's heart skipped a beat, wondering if Liu Cheng had noticed something. However, this was Bismarck's conspiracy, so it didn't matter if he noticed it.

"Superficial thoughts, trust is the poison that corrodes the heart, but we don't mind for Iris

Colleagues drank poisoned wine."

"Maybe I'm judging others by my own standards."

Liu Cheng did notice some things, but he didn't understand some key points.

A day passed and the Iris fleet still hadn't arrived.

Sardinia and Iron Blood have already contacted the flagship Richelieu who stayed behind at the Iris headquarters. She is also the sister of the battleship Jean Bart who led the fleet to participate in the exercise this time. However, they still have not received any specific news about the Iris Mediterranean Fleet.

"This radio silence is too thorough. He even protects his own sister." Upon hearing the news, Liu Cheng stopped telling the story and couldn't help but sigh.

"Maybe it is. I heard that Jean Bart and her sister Richelieu didn't have a good relationship." Alfredo was very dissatisfied. The story of the Romance of the Three Women was being told well. The legendary god Zhu Geliang was about to use a forbidden spell to borrow the wind. Why did they talk about these irrelevant things? "Ah, Iris's people can come later. Just continue telling the story!"

"That's right, go on." Southwest Wind also joined in the fun.

Northwest Wind, Z46 and the new little Loli Z20 who joined the story club, although they did not respond, their big eyes as they looked at Liu Cheng had already revealed their attitude.

Even the Duke of Abruzzi, who was sitting behind Tianying, had listened to the story with great interest. In her words, she heard the romance and tragedy of heroism in this seemingly humorous story.

"Okay, okay, I mentioned earlier that the legendary female mage Zhu Geliang made a bet with the female mage Zhou Yu, who was a forbidden fire mage..."

As Liu Cheng spoke, he thought to himself, even a child knows that the relationship between the Iris sisters is not harmonious, so there must be a real conflict. Littorio is confident that Iris's flagship Richelieu is the leader of pride and freedom, so what about her sister Jean Bart?

Another day passed, and there was still no sign of Iris's fleet.

The human military exercise has completed all the planned items, and there are only two days left before the scheduled blockade of this sea area. This means that even if Iris's fleet arrives in the sea area, there will not be much time to conduct exercises.

"Maybe Iris won't come? Or is this behavior a protest?"

Littorio denied Liu Cheng's opinion: "Jean Bart is a very straightforward person. If she wants to express her dissatisfaction, she will not use such a roundabout way."

Liu Cheng asked meaningfully, "Will Tiexue take advantage of this issue to make a fuss?"

Littorio denied it again: "If it is force majeure, it is just talk at best."

Zara noticed something and asked Liu Cheng, "Do you have any ideas?"

"There is a little bit, but it's probably just hearsay. Key politics is all just talk."

Liu Cheng is not confident enough in his judgment, after all, his logic is not yet perfect.

A day later, news came, but it was not just news about the Iris Fleet, but also news about the Sirens. A large number of Sirens suddenly appeared in the Mediterranean Sea.

The moment Liu Cheng heard the news, he suddenly had an epiphany, and all the clues were connected. It turned out that the key point that he had been unable to figure out was an external force, a large enough external force. Obviously, this external force was Siren.

Chapter 48: Iron Blood At this moment, it seems just like that moment

At this time, the joint frequency band of Sardinia and Iron Blood was noisy and chaotic. After discovering the trace of Siren, the joint reconnaissance intelligence system of Azur Lane came into play, and information poured in like snowflakes.

"The exact number of Sirens is unknown. According to the current detection results, there are two large forces. One has already surrounded the Iris Fleet, and the other is still moving quickly with an unknown target."

"A large number of sirens were spotted off the Strait of Gibraltar, and they appear to be preparing to attack."

"Why did Sirens, shore-based radars and satellites suddenly appear in the Mediterranean?"

"I'm not sure. The current speculation is that the military exercise has restricted all information and communications in the current sea area, so I don't know whether Siren took this opportunity to sneak in by chance or by plan."

"What a coincidence? There haven't been any sirens invading the Mediterranean Sea for eight years!"

"Richelieu has led the Iris Fleet to provide emergency support. Since the area where Jean Bart is trapped is relatively close to us, Iris Fleet has requested our support."

"We Iron Blood need to send some of our men to defend the Strait of Gibraltar. We can send some personnel to support us."

"The Sardinian fleet can set sail now to provide reinforcements."

"The latest intelligence is that another Siren has appeared in the Mediterranean Sea and is heading towards Sicily. The number is unknown, but the radar detected a large number of reflection sources."

"The news from Veneto is that she has already set sail with the Sardinian fleet to meet the enemy. Let Littorio act accordingly."

"Damn it, they're attacking on three fronts? I have to go support Sicily first. I can't let the Siren achieve their goal."

On the Sardinia destroyer, the deck and the command room were in chaos. All kinds of messages and orders were received and issued by Littorio. Every ship girl had a serious expression on her face as they went in and out of the cabin.

The Iron Blood's ships have already weighed anchor and are heading for the Strait of Gibraltar at full speed. As the new protector of the Gibraltar waters, Iron Blood will never allow such a slap in the face to happen as soon as it comes to power, and vows to do its best to keep the Sirens out to sea.

The Sardinian destroyer was also weighing anchor and rushing to the vicinity of Sicily.