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The atmosphere froze for two seconds.

"So you mean to use such a dangerous thing on my ship girl?"

The commander's tone was unfriendly.

He had no problem with Nohara, but he couldn't accept this proposal that would endanger the ship girl.

"General, please listen to me."

Nohara said calmly.

He seemed to have expected the commander to become like this.

"Go on."

"I know the general's concerns, so I was against it at first, but the opponent was that sea snake, so I had to use it."

"I understand, but the fundamental problem is."

The commander asked: "Why didn't the ship girl's attack on the sea snake work?"

"Well, it's okay to tell you this."

Nohara took a sip of tea and began to explain: "Do you know why the attacks of the old ships are useless against the deep-sea ships?"

"Because the deep-sea ships are equipped differently from the old ships."

"It has that component, but more importantly, there is something like a protective shield on the surface of the deep sea."

Nohara spoke slowly.

………………

"The ship's suit can break through this layer of protection."

"But why can't we break the Awakened's shield? The Awakened's ship suits aren't necessarily stronger than the normal ones, and there's no one to develop ship suits for them."

“Because of faith.”

Nohara finished speaking in one breath.

"belief?"

"Yes, it sounds mysterious, but the way they improve their combat effectiveness is often through their desire to fight."

Nohara said: "In other words, as long as the ship girl's belief is higher than the awakening species, she can break this layer of protection."

“Isn’t that too mysterious?”

“It’s very mysterious, so I sent the code: N over.

As the general said, such things should not be used on shipgirls, but――"

"But--?"

"In the South Sea Port area, there was a ship girl who used code: N. With the blessing of the soul of the Southern War Girl, she used the Princess-class ship equipment freely and sank the sea snake. There was no corrosion phenomenon afterwards."

"That ship girl, the Royal Navy's J-class ship No. 8, the lead ship of the Javelin destroyer, known as the Royal Phoenix—"

"javelin."

Chapter 322: The Blood of the Golden Sword in the Box Has Not Yet Dried

This would explain a lot of things.

For example, Shancheng was initially beaten half to death by the awakened species, but after being simply healed by Changbaishan, he was able to defeat the awakened species.

It can be explained by faith.

As for the javelin...

Where should I start?

There are two scars on the javelin that run through the shoulders.

The commander didn't know about the Javelin's past at that time.

The Javelin was one of the three original ships in the Nanhai Port area.

Nanhai is Donghuang’s first base composed entirely of ship girls, and Bai Ri is also Donghuang’s first commander.

Insufficient experience and resources.

Therefore, most of the earliest ship girls in the port area were transferred from the training center.

In addition, there are also battlefield veterans like Javelin.

They are called battlefield veterans, but in fact they are battle-damaged veterans.

Just like Yamashiro's situation, Yamashiro was diagnosed by Yokosuka as having a mental breakdown and was kicked out by Yokosuka.

Some had mental problems, while others left their original naval bases for various reasons.

The Nanhai Port Area was built in the midst of such ruins.

There was nothing at the time, and even the commander took office amid suspicion.

Marshal Meng mobilized all the resources the navy could mobilize to set up such a makeshift team for the Nanhai Port Area.

There were only five ship girls in the original South China Sea port area.

The javelin is one of them.

She is the most serious about combat among all the ship girls.

The commander didn't know where her enthusiasm for fighting came from.

Now I probably understand.

Understand why the sea serpent specifically named the javelin.

Understand why the javelin is afraid.

I had clearly killed that guy, but he appeared in front of me again. I felt so scared.

And last time, the javelin was able to win thanks to code:N.

There is absolutely no way to defeat the Sea Serpent without code:N.

It is precisely because of this that her reaction is more intense than that of other ship girls.

In this case――

Let’s take a quick look at the so-called deep-sea ship equipment.

………………

Evening, half past six.

It was already dark, but the heavy rain outside had not stopped yet.

The commander and Nohara put on raincoats and waited in front of the factory.

"commander."

"Well, here we come."

See the javelin coming.

There was nothing unusual about Javelin's expression, and the commander breathed a sigh of relief.

"Javelin, it's like this..."

I briefly talked about code: N.

Javelin nodded, as if he had known this for a long time.

"Can I take a look then?"

The commander turned and asked Nohara.

"of course."

Nohara shrugged.

So the commander came to the truck loaded with code:N.

Even when it was raining, the closed truck doors were cooling.

It seems like it is sealing some prehistoric creature.

"It's so cold..."

The commander rubbed his hands.

"Stay the same as always, keep it in the refrigerator."

Javelin couldn't help but smile bitterly.

That being said, it's too cold.

Although the temperature dropped due to the rain, it was still around 25℃.

Despite this, I could still feel the cold air blowing towards me.

"The temperature has been tested and is consistently below minus thirty degrees."

Nohara said from the side, "General, can you open the door?"

"open it."

The commander nodded.

Having said that, Nohara is in a rare serious mode.

Ever since Nohara came to Nanhai Port Area, he has basically never been called by his name, and everyone just calls him General.

It can be seen that he is also very cautious.

It's not just him.

The commander expected the Javelin to be even more panicked.

After all, something like that happened, and Javelin felt somewhat guilty.

If it were her, she would definitely blame herself.

But the result was unexpected, Javelin was extremely calm.

The situation is urgent now, let's talk to Javelin later.

"Squeak...squeak..."

The door of the refrigerated truck is electrically controlled.

Both doors could be heard creaking as they were opened.

"..."

Looking at the things in the refrigerated truck, the commander was speechless.

"Do I have to be so cautious?"

It's more than just cautious.

The refrigerated truck is full of ice.

It still looked impressive, like a whole block of ice had been put into the truck, but now—

"How to get it?"

The commander went to ask Director Nohara.

“This is going to be done manually.”

Nohara sighed, went to the driver's seat to get the props and prepared to crush the ice.

In order to facilitate the crushing of ice, the garage ladder was lowered.

"Bang bang bang."

The tool left marks on the ice.

again and again.