Royal Ark, come on!

"What I cherish more is your present and your future..."

"Who you were in the past, what position you held, and what you did, I will naturally know if you are willing to tell me..."

"I just want you to know, and you acknowledge, that your present and future are the shipgirl of my Royal Ark, and my Nimi-chan!"

"Ah... Shift, isn't this a bit like saying something sweet to you, Z23?"

"I heard that girls really hate these so-called cheesy love words. If you think what I said is not very nice, please forgive me, z23..."

"No, girls don't actually hate cheesy love talk. The reason they act like they hate it is either because they are shy or they are not interested in the person in front of them..."

"Then... z23, which situation are you in?"

"!"

Z23 rarely showed the vulnerable side of a girl. While still being held in the arms of Royal Ark, she buried her head in Royal Ark's arms. The answer was self-evident. It was not one of the above situations, but every situation:

z23 was both shy and very interested in the guy in front of him!

"If that's the case, then the test you mentioned should be over..."

"So what are the results of the investigation?"

After patiently waiting for Z23 to calm down, Royal Ark mentioned casually that if it came to this and the cooked duck still flew away, Royal Ark would really doubt himself and feel that he had failed to show face to all the senior time travelers...

"It's a test..."

Unexpectedly, Z23 actually took out a notebook from his ship's space, and used a pen to write on it:

"About the test..."

"As for whether I care about you... I care, and I care too much. How can I be a commander? I am getting worse and worse. I am almost a servant in everyone's life!"

No one can stop me

"Your attitude towards various things... looks nonchalant, but you are full of tenderness. To quote a line from Dong Huang's lyrics, you are so damn tender!"

"for……"

"Alright, alright, z23, Nimi-chan, I got it!"

Royal Ark covered his face and subconsciously stopped z23 from speaking next, because it was too embarrassing. He asked z23 to read out the inspections of various projects recorded in the notebook one by one.

This is not an inspection at all. In the eyes of Royal Ark, this small notebook has become something like a love letter, with so many sentences praising himself spoken to him for free.

Perhaps even if z23 were to write a love letter seriously, he wouldn't be able to write so much - judging from the clear dividing line between the new and old pages on the edge of the notebook, most of this notebook is filled with z23's densely packed notes...

But Z23 was also very serious at this time. Since the Royal Ark was unwilling to let her tell the test items one by one, then it was Z23's turn to announce the results:

"The above is irrefutable evidence. Now I will announce the verdict:"

"You have successfully passed this test, Royal Ark!"

After saying that, Z23 slowly put away the notebook with a smile on his face. Seeing Z23's expression, Royal Ark also smiled:

"It's still that... Z23 who is so serious about everything..."

"You won't be so strict with me in the future, will you? I still need to be given the necessary rest!"

"Ahem, let's not talk about these anymore..."

"I want to ask you a question...please promise me!"

"Z23, are you willing to serve as... my secretary ship?"

"I am willing!"

"Although I'm not a commander yet, I don't know what procedures are required...but...um, what did you say just now?"

"I said...I do!"

"You...you have to think it over carefully. This is a lifelong thing...If you agree, you will have to serve as my secretary ship for the rest of your life. You can't go back on your word!"

"I understand. I say it again, I am willing... My, Commander!"

……

Volume 190: Second Beacon Operation

After officially becoming the secretary ship of the Royal Ark, Z23's first job was to find a commission for a sea buoy operation that would utilize everyone's abilities.

Sea buoys are actually quite common in this world and have several uses:

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One is to use your own position to tell passing ships whether you have deviated from your course and whether you are sailing in a safe position.

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Secondly, the automatic detection system above can often provide the corresponding buoy deployers with hydrological and meteorological data of the deployed sea area.

Not only that, a certain amount of emergency supplies and communication equipment are often stored on sea buoys, which can provide certain rescue when passing ships encounter dangerous situations.

It all looks wonderful, right?

If this is a relatively peaceful world, although there are disputes on the sea, it is still a human ocean, then these buoys can indeed perform their corresponding duties.

But the problem is, in this world we live in now, the Sirens control most of the oceans. Although humans have recovered some important shipping routes near the coast, these are places that the Sirens left for humans as a mercy.

Therefore, at least in those places that humans can control, densely packed port areas have been laid out, somewhat similar to the previous practice of building bunkers on key transportation routes. The places connecting these bunkers, like such sea buoys, are nodes.

The Sirens are not that honest. Even the buoys that are strictly guarded by humans are always cleared away by some mass-produced fleets.

The continuous deployment and anti-cleaning have also cost humans a lot of costs, but compared to other means, the deployment and construction of sea buoys is still the most efficient and cost-saving way to maintain important human routes.

Of course, this is the second commission that the Naval Academy has given to these newbies, so what needs to be checked are the buoys near the coast, which is not that dangerous. In the days to come, the Naval Academy will also hand over various types of commissions to these ship girls one by one. This is just the beginning!

However, this time, the time and place for completing the commission have changed significantly. The coastal area is so vast, there are so many ship girls enrolled in this batch, their strengths are uneven, and the allocation has its own principles. It is indeed quite difficult to find a very suitable commission!

Even Professor Langley said that all classes have been cancelled for the past month, and the time was freed up to be used to complete this commission for everyone. A huge period of time, one month, is the Naval Academy's judgment on the strength of these novice ship girls.

"It seems that, no matter what, we will have to use the full month this time..."

"We are not qualified to accept offshore commissions near the Naval Academy. We can only choose buoy operations in Alaska or the Caribbean..."

z23 brought back this kind of news, which can be regarded as selecting some relatively acceptable aspects from a large number of commissions.

As for why the Royal Ark was unable to pick up the offshore commission near the Naval Academy?

Didn’t I say before that the abilities of this batch of ship girls enrolled vary?

The commissions near the Naval Academy are much safer and more difficult than those in other places. Therefore, the commissions assigned by the Naval Academy to these places are all given to those ship girls whose strength has not yet caught up.

The offshore buoy inspection operations in relatively remote areas are naturally more dangerous than those in the waters near these prosperous coastal cities, so this is the task that should be left to places like the Royal Ark, which perform relatively well.

However, one thing you can rest assured about is that no matter how dangerous these places are, there is an upper limit, and it basically will not exceed the upper limit of what these novice ship girls can handle.

But to be honest, no matter which kind of commission it is, it is a wartime commission and part of the protracted war between humans and Sirens. Since it is a war, there will always be unexpected things. No matter how many ratings and data are prepared, unexpected things will always happen.

It is impossible for the Naval Academy to be 100% safe...

"The Caribbean Sea..."

"Isn't this the route that Captain Jack took for most of his life? He just happened to take a shorter sea route last time..."

I don't know why, but when I combine the keywords Captain Jack and Caribbean Sea, I can't help but think of the movies I've watched before, and I always think... maybe Captain Jack has some side job, right...

"Ahei! Ahei! Ahei!"

At this time, the captain, who was sailing on the sea, sneezed several times in succession for some reason. After a gust of sea breeze blew towards him, Captain Jack put the matter aside:

It's an illusion, it must be an illusion. I'm just a sailor, who would care about me?

"Or should I take the commission from Alaska?"

In addition to the story of Captain Jack and his companions, Royal Ark also has another impression of the Caribbean Sea, which is the story of the Bermuda Triangle in a book called Unsolved Mysteries of the World that he read when he was a child. The story described that area of ​​sea as magical.

Although many mysteries were basically solved with the development of technology later, the problem was the world where the Royal Ark originally existed.

In this world, that sea area still has such a mysterious legend, but this time, Royal Ark feels that it is not a lie at all. According to Royal Ark's own inner speculation, the incident in that sea area must be related to the Sirens.

Not to mention that idiot Purification, maybe Observer Alpha is waiting for him inside right now!

"Ahei! Ahei! Ahei!"

The "hero" on the side suddenly sneezed several times for some reason. Facing the concerned look of the Royal Ark, Observer Alpha just shook his head to indicate that he was fine. So the Royal Ark began to think again:

The Royal Ark now doesn't have a very good impression of the Sirens. It should be okay to go to Alaska, a remote place where there doesn't seem to be any large Siren base nearby!

Well, the Sirens don’t go there very often, but every time they go, there’s a big scene. That’s why Alaska’s danger rating is relatively high. Unfortunately, the Royal Ark doesn’t know…

"That's settled... Alaska..."

"First, we have to take a train for about three days...from the east coast to the west coast..."

"Does it take so long?"

"I suddenly understand why the academy gave so much time... most of this time will be wasted on the journey..."

……

Volume 191: My chance to show off has come!

"But there's no need to worry so much..."

Looking at everyone's different expressions, Royal Ark was also muttering in his heart:

Although the Royal Ark has always encountered various situations along the way, there can’t be any more situations waiting for her this time!

"Everyone, just think of it as a trip to that part of Alaska. If it's a normal operation, it's fine. We'll make arrangements!"

Ark Royal turned a trusting eye to z23 standing aside. Ark Royal knew that in the days of Iron Blood, no matter which member of the Ship Girls, they needed to experience all kinds of work as a Ship Girl before taking up the post.

The so-called commission for sea buoy operations has been formulated by z23!

Royal Ark was a little confused about the Naval Academy's attitude towards this commission. Even for the most outstanding ones in this batch of ship girls, this was the first time they had undertaken such a commission that required certain operations. However, the Naval Academy did not send anyone to explain it. Instead, it simply printed out some operating procedures into an operating manual and distributed it to each team.

The last time, Teacher Langley explained the task for a while before letting everyone get started. But this time...

What the Royal Ark didn't know was that this was also part of the Naval Academy's test!

Speaking of this, we cannot leave out the senior Saratoga who was sitting next to the Royal Ark and fighting with others for a bun.

The Naval Academy is a place that attaches great importance to practice, and this is reflected in many places in the Naval Academy.

The reason why the second commission is set up like this is that when you are on the battlefield, there is not always a teacher who can tirelessly explain to you what to do in this step and what to do next.

It is already great if the most basic operating manual can be issued to you. The worst case scenario is that you have to rely entirely on yourself to figure it out.

The operation manual has been issued, and now it depends on each team's ability to understand it.

Of course, since this is the second commission for a novice, the Naval Academy has naturally made a backup plan, that is, if the members here really don’t understand the operating procedures, they can apply to the surrounding port areas to send people to help.

But if you do that, the score will naturally be the lowest.

The train was still clanking its way along, and under the regular sound, Rafi and Nicholas fell asleep as expected.

However, the Royal Ark was not very worried about this. First of all, everyone present was their own people, and they all knew the personalities of Rafi and Nicholas.

Besides, the ship girls may be insensitive to kindness due to their own personalities, but they are very sensitive to the malice of others.

But such a situation is impossible to happen today. The Royal Ark has booked this carriage with a wave of its hand. Apart from the train attendant who will come over occasionally - and he comes in with the consent of the people in the carriage, it is impossible for any ignorant person to come.

The carriage became very quiet. It was obvious that Royal Ark was not the only one who was deep in thought. Apart from the regular breathing of Laffite and Nicholas, the sound of Ayanami pressing the game controller, and the sound of Yingyong turning the pages of the book, the carriage was still relatively quiet...

"This time... it's finally my turn to show off..."

Observer Alpha... no, now it's "Hero", who is currently resting his chin on his hand, thinking about something.

Observer Alpha is actually quite familiar with the area of ​​Alaska. After all, during the polar experiment, Observer Alpha had also greeted the guys from the Northern Alliance there.

So far, Observer Alpha still has control over the experimental mainframe.

Observer Alpha has already thought of a perfect script, which will definitely help him to improve his favorability and importance in front of the Royal Ark, and also make up for the loss of the mass-produced units he brought last time which were wiped out in the Mirror Sea.

As one of the big bosses of Siren, it always feels a bit weird to be a lone commander without any subordinates...

The script is actually very simple. When the Royal Ark arrives in Alaska, it will go to the designated location to carry out buoy operations. At that time, a small, fully simulated experimental field will be set up at that location, disguised as a mirror sea.

At that time, a purifier will be simulated to emerge from inside and serve as the biggest boss in this mirror sea.

Then, under the leadership of the evil big boss Purifier, they launched a sneak attack on the Royal Ark that was carrying out buoy operations!