The Disqualified Commander of the Abandoned Shipgirl

Akamori Yuaki should know it very well, but Lin Shen naturally couldn't ask.

As the research progresses, the public content is also expanded bit by bit.

The impact on the remaining countries will also become increasingly greater.

Among all those who saw the news, 80% were excited.

Of the remaining 20%, 10% thought it was not appropriate to open the champagne in advance, and that it was necessary to be cautious. After all, the ultra-rare level was completely different from the previous ones and was not on the same level. Moreover, considering the unknown changes that all the variants had, it was necessary to remain somewhat optimistic.

The other group is pure pessimism. They believe that, given the current situation, even if humans make progress, they will not be able to overturn the war situation. Not only that, but it will increase the Sirens' intention to attack - causing the flames of war that have been suspended to reignite, dragging the world into the abyss of war once again.

Instead of this, it is better to survive and not make any trouble. Live one day at a time.

Such thoughts are certainly still in the minority, but they are not without reason.

Well, from the perspective of ordinary people, it is true.

Just make sure you stay alive first.

What does the victory of mankind have to do with "necessary sacrifices"?

Regardless, all this intelligence indicates that this year will be a year of dramatic change.

The rain is coming and the wind is all over the building.

Perhaps the current stability will not last long.

Lin Shen quickly sorted out the information, then linked them together, and sent them to Glasgow for secondary sorting. All his thoughts were on those typed comments, which looked disorganized.

Jiang Feng stood behind Lin Shen, just watching him typing silently on the keyboard.

Everyone went to rest, even Glasgow.

Only Lin Shen did not rest.

He was responsible for every action of the fleet - failure was his, victory was his too.

As the person in charge of the overall situation, even if he pulled Glasgow up, in fact, when it comes to making decisions, Lin Shen is still the only one who has to do it.

He was responsible for every mutant in the fleet, including the last altercation with Ise as well.

But no one was responsible for him.

If he threw away all the tinted glasses, Jiang Feng would see something closer to reality.

These things made her stand there in a daze for a long time.

All sorts of disorganized thoughts kept running through my mind.

In the end, it all disappeared, leaving only a feeling that cannot be described in words.

"Well...it's time to rest."

Lin Shen glanced at the time in the lower right corner of the laptop screen, reorganized all the files, and then closed the laptop.

He stood up, turned around, and then found that Jiang Feng was still here.

"Why haven't you gone to rest yet?" Lin Shen asked in surprise.

Of course, his soul network detection was turned on, but it was only for his own people. As long as he did not sense any malicious intent, he would be in an unguarded state. Therefore, he naturally ignored Jiang Feng behind him and automatically classified her into a zone similar to the harmless background.

"I..." Jiang Feng stuttered for some reason, as if he didn't react, "I'll go rest now."

"?" He felt that her mood was a little abnormal, but Lin Shen didn't think too much about it. He just said, "Well. Just remember to have a good rest. If you have any questions, you can come to me. Well... strange questions are also fine."

"…I didn't ask any weird questions, did I?"

"Who would suddenly ask about the eighteen levels of hell? Isn't that strange enough? As a ship girl, don't always think about hell. That's where human souls go. Even if the ship girl sinks, she will go to heaven, don't worry."

"Why? Are you so sure?"

"Yes, that's for sure."

Lin Shen didn't explain. He just waved his hand with his back to Jiang Feng and went to find an empty room in the back.

"..."

To Lin Shen, mutants, or ship girls, do seem to have different meanings.

Even if it is a weapon, it is probably more than just a weapon...

Jiang Feng thought of the relationship between Lin Shen and Chu Shuang.

It seems that it is not just as simple as the weapon and the user.

It was a more intimate...relationship, being able to do that kind of thing together.

"Does the relationship between human lovers really apply to shipgirls and commanders..."

Jiang Feng thought silently, took a step forward, and went to find a room to use as his bedroom for temporary rest.

……

“…This is a bit difficult…”

Back in his room, Lin Shen looked at the panels of the ship girls, the favorability levels of 99 and 100, and let out an inexplicable sigh.

Except for Tirpitz, Nagato, and Hinata, almost everyone else has become 99.

Well——Jiang Feng was going to be an exception.

Lin Shen remembered that the last time he looked at it, it was still hovering around 60.

I don’t know why it has inexplicably risen to 99 now…

Although the number of battles is indeed large enough, under normal circumstances, the favorability is about to overflow.

And the overflow is far more than just a little bit.

But this obviously cannot be calculated according to general circumstances.

Otherwise there wouldn't be three exceptions.

Maybe there are some underlying factors.

Maybe, probably, possibly.

Ok……

What could be the factor?

This kind of question is impossible to figure out even if you try to think about it.

sleep!

Lin Shen turned over and stopped thinking about these miscellaneous things.

let it go.

……

"I want."

"what?"

The next day everyone slept in, and Lin Shen was no exception.

But he woke up because something approached.

Lin Shen opened his eyes and saw a pink-haired cat.

She lay on Lin Shen's body, and when she saw Lin Shen open his eyes, she said those three straightforward words.

"May I?"

Chu Shuang looked at Lin Shen with longing eyes and asked again.

"Hiss... Even if you say so—"

Lin Shen felt that his mind was in a mess.

"May I?"

"Early in the morning..."

"May I?"

"can."

Lin Shen stared at Chu Shuang for a while and suddenly realized something.

She was in very bad shape.

Sitting up from the bed, Lin Shen stared into Chu Shuang's eyes and asked, "Didn't you get enough rest last night?"

"Hmm... kind of? I don't know whether I have rested well or not..." Chu Shuang looked very bad, and replied: "I always feel like I haven't rested well..."

She frowned, and mentally, or perhaps more accurately, she seemed to be feeling a kind of lingering fatigue.

"...Don't move, let me take a look." Lin Shen hugged Chu Shuang, and then used his soul power to check her emotional state. As for the mind, that thing has no entity, it is not like the electronic brain of Siren, so it cannot be checked.

The carrier of the mind is not in the brain of the ship girl.

She can be considered as the ship girl herself.

But according to relevant research, the brain of the ship girl is also a fatal point. Although the mind does not exist here like the human brain, it still has a certain connection with the mind. At present, it is basically believed that the brain of the ship girl is the concrete entity of the mind... In short.

Just like the memory in a computer.

Human consciousness is in the brain and relies on it. But the KanColle does not rely on it, or rather, it should be just the opposite. The KanColle's mind needs the brain to manifest and control the body, so it looks like a human.

But it is completely different.

Different priorities.

Humans first have a brain, then have the so-called "soul", and then develop soul power based on it.

But the ship girl has a "mind" first, and then a body to carry it.

What if there is no body?

do not know.

Lin Shen had not read any more in-depth research reports and only based his analysis on Tierbitz's description.

If there is no body, the "soul" of the ship girl, also known as the "mind", will not land, and they will not be born.

"Mind Cube", the order of this name is almost the same as "soul body".

The order is different, but the others are quite similar to humans. But Lin Shen can't check Chu Shuang's brain now, he doesn't understand this. But as a similar thing, soul power can almost directly touch the mind and conduct an in-depth examination.

The interference he caused with his soul power before was based on a similar principle.

Almost like disturbing people.

The only exception is the mechanical brain of the Siren soldiers, which requires the use of soul power to cause physical damage and interference in order to be effective.

This is different from a replica.

Siren's minions are simply without self-awareness.

There are many kinds of damage to the mind caused by the replica. The mainstream one now is to artificially interfere with the process of taking over the mind during the lengthy construction process, separate the body shaping and mind taking over processes, and operate on the mind alone to achieve the effect of deleting unnecessary things.

To make an inappropriate but basically similar analogy - when the driver intends to drive his own body, his hands and feet are removed in advance, and he is artificially turned into a dead object that cannot move (think) flexibly.

From this perspective, each replica in motion is actually a walking corpse. Each of these walking corpses contains a soul that is truly dead, and only retains the most basic reactions because of the need for action.

This is just the tip of the iceberg of the vast amount of experiments on the mind.

Lin Shen was worried about Chu Shuang's abnormality because of the hidden dangers left over from the previous mental experiments.

So he checked carefully and found...

There was some "wear and tear" on Hatsushiro's mind, like a shadow formed by countless scratches gathered together.

"..."

Lin Shen was stunned.

He suddenly came to his senses and remembered that he had known this a long time ago, but because of various other things weighing on him, he had subconsciously ignored it.

The mind of a ship girl will wear out...

This is one of the reasons why humans cut off something like the mind which is a "drag".

The mind of a KanColle is like a giant disk. She will never forget, so she is always burning. What kind of hard drive can keep burning so many things into it?

Even the human brain needs to forget to clean up redundant garbage.