I, Azure Commander!

Fortunately, the president of Washington College was obviously not very good at speaking and did not say much. He hurriedly introduced the rules, spoke some clichés, then waved his hand and ran away.

The competition naturally began in earnest. Due to the large number of participants, the scheduled competition time was only three days, which was quite tight, so there was no time to waste.

The first day is all individual competitions, and the team competition will not begin until the afternoon of the second day. Hundreds of ship girls will compete in one-on-one matches in a training ground divided into many small areas. The goal of the first day is to determine the best of each ship type.

Lin Xiao glanced at the other students around him. At this moment, most of them looked very nervous and focused, preparing to provide assistance to their own ship girls at the critical moment.

Just as Washington said just now - "The competition is not just about the training and combat skills of the ship girls. The commander's ability, including calm analysis and guidance of the battle situation, as well as the assistance he can provide to the ship girls, is also the key to determining victory or defeat."

If two ship girls with the same training level and combat experience, if one fights alone while the other has an excellent commander to assist her, the final result may even be one-sided.

but……

Lin Xiao shrugged helplessly. To be honest, he really wanted to help his own ship girls, but it was obvious that he didn't seem to have the opportunity at all.

With my wife's training level and practical experience, even if Lin Xiao, out of consideration for not bullying, directly asked my wife to replace all her equipment with white quality equipment and not use any skills...even if she just stood there and got beaten, it is estimated that the opponent would not be able to wear her down.

In this regard, Lin Xiao could only say helplessly: "I can't do anything..."

With the assistance and coordination of the staff, the contestants soon stood in the corresponding sea areas according to the order of the list. Although the training ground is not small, it still has to be made larger to ensure that the ship girls have enough room to fight and to avoid accidental injuries between different rounds. Therefore, the number of ship girls competing at the same time is still relatively limited.

According to the previous grouping, each type of ship basically has more than a dozen groups of opponents, which means a total of more than 30 ship girls. With so many types of ships, there are more than 100 ship girls in total. However, there are only four or five groups and a dozen ship girls conducting exercises on the field now.

The first competition was naturally between destroyers, so it seemed to have nothing to do with Lin Xiao. Lin Xiao was hugging a little Tiancheng on his left and a Xuefeng in his right hand. He opened his mouth to catch the dumpling handed over by his good daughter Xiao Tiancheng and watched the show leisurely.

At the beginning, Lady Yukikaze seemed to be somewhat interested in the game off the field. She blinked and watched for a while. However, as expected, after just a short while, she began to feel bored. After all, the exercises of the ship girls whose average training level was only 20 to 30 levels were basically like children's fights in the eyes of the mature Lady Yukikaze.

Well, nothing seems to be wrong...

Chapter 19: Loli is still the cutest at home

The destroyers' competition may be the longest one in the entire competition, with the most participating ship girls.

Facts have proved that even for these commanders who were carefully selected by their respective academies, the ship girls under their command might be of good rarity, but most of them are still vanguard ships, and destroyers are especially numerous among them. Many commanders can only show off that one purple-skinned destroyer.

Of course, because of their rarity, the battles between destroyers were actually quite good. Although the gold content was not very high, at least even laymen could see that these destroyers were not newcomers who knew nothing. They would consciously use some strategies. In addition, the strength of their ship equipment was not low. Occasionally, you could even see destroyers with gold skins, which were very dazzling on the field...

Although there are few European emperors, there are always some every year. With so many naval academies in the world, it is not surprising that there are two or three golden skins expelled on the field. No one will be surprised by this.

Of course, the destroyers' games might be exciting, but for Lin Xiao, the highlights of these games are obviously not the brilliant operations of these destroyers that have been trained for a period of time or the unexpected strategies they have adopted in cooperation with their commanders to win, but the cute little girls sweating on the field and looking very serious in the game.

Let me make it clear in advance that he is not a lolita complex. Commander Lin Xiao's heart is pure and innocent. He is simply feeling the cuteness of these children. Apart from that, he does not have any weird thoughts. He is a serious person!

Of course, after looking around at so many little girls on the field, my own children are still the cutest.

Holding the cat girl in his arms, and the well-behaved little Tiancheng beside him, he would share his snacks with his master from time to time, raise his arm to his mouth, and take the opportunity to lick the white and tender fingers. Little Tiancheng noticed it, showing a surprised expression, feeling the slightly moist feeling on his fingers, and then showing a bright smile, putting the finger in front of him, and licking it with his tongue.

Ah, so cute, just like an angel!

Lin Xiao rubbed Xiao Tiancheng's head. The soft hair felt very good, just like the fluff on a big tail.

Even if other people's little Lolita is cute, it's okay to look at it, but can you do this? So Lolita, it's really better to have your own.

As the game went on, it was quite interesting to watch at first, but after a while, it became boring as I couldn't understand anything. So Lin Xiao simply took out two decks of playing cards from his bag and started playing mahjong with the girl at home.

Lin Xiao hugged Xuefeng tightly in his arms and let her draw the cards. Sure enough, all the cards she drew were good ones. In addition, her opponent was the senior Mikasa. The most outrageous thing was that after both of them had played all their cards, the other two families still had enough cards in their hands.

In the end, Lin Xiao's "despicable" behavior was punished. Senior Mikasa changed camp, and the one sitting opposite him became Sky Eagle. This girl's luck was obviously not very good. Even though Lin Xiao had the Xuefeng cheating device, the other side also had a BUG-level existence like Senior Mikasa. In the second round of the game, it was obvious that they were at a disadvantage...

After two rounds of playing cards, the destroyer competition finally came to an end. The final winner was, as expected, a little golden-skinned girl from the Akizuki-class destroyer Suzutsuki from a naval academy in Area A.

Liang Yue... is indeed a very powerful destroyer, and its ship equipment is very impressive. If I remember correctly, at least before Lin Xiao traveled through time, it was one of the top destroyers.

Liangyue, Tongzhijiang, and Beifeng, the once glorious Gouzi, has completely lost the strength of his ship equipment after a few years. I just heard that there seems to be a modified girl coming out, but I don’t know whether it has been implemented after he traveled through time.

Having said that, how should the KanColle be transformed?

It is naturally easy for the ship girls who already have a plan. Just collect all the resources and do as the plan says. At most, they can ask the Brie sisters for help.

But what about the shipgirls who don't have a transformation plan? What should they do... After all, who develops and formulates the transformation plan?

I don't know. Who would care about the plot when playing games before? Not to mention such a trivial setting. Moreover, even if they care, the settings in the game are not necessarily the same as in reality. For example, in the game, to break through the ship girl, you need to eat Purple Berry or the ship girl with the same name. If it were put into reality, this would be a horror story no matter how you think about it...

Forget it. There is no need to worry too much about something that has no way to find the answer for the time being. Worrying about it is useless and will only make things difficult for yourself. Lin Xiao is a master at being lazy and will naturally not cause trouble for himself.

The destroyer competition is over, and next is the showdown between light cruisers.

It is worth mentioning that Lin Xiao only now discovered that the presidents of various naval academies had gathered together at some point and sat in a row on the special stands at the highest point, watching the game and drinking tea.

"Washington, you hid it well enough to actually build the Ryotsuki... There is almost no rival for it among destroyers."

"Hmph~ What do you mean by hiding?"

Washington spread his hands, his face full of joy, "You didn't ask me in advance, the kids from our academy worked hard and won the game fairly."

That being said, everyone present could see that if this girl were a Sakura Empire shipgirl, her tail would have been up in the sky.

"It's just that there is a powerful destroyer. Don't forget that as the game progresses, destroyers will not be able to deal with light cruisers or heavy cruisers, let alone battleships."

This may not sound nice, but it is indeed stating the facts. In comparison, the destroyer's ship equipment is indeed too weak. Although it has highly lethal weapons such as torpedoes, it is not so easy to use them well. Besides, if the level is similar, other ship girls will not give you the opportunity to hit you with a large number of torpedoes at close range.

If you dare to get close, I will immediately fire a few rounds at you. Even a single hit would be too much to handle...

Even for a highly maneuverable destroyer, it is difficult to dodge the enemy's fire when the distance is close.

If they kept their distance, the destroyers would have no chance at all. They were inferior to the others in terms of ship equipment durability and armor thickness, and their firepower was almost crushed. There was no chance of fighting...

Chapter 20: The open and covert confrontation between the deans

"So what? Winning is winning, winning one game is also winning. Being able to defeat all the destroyers proves that our academy's Liang Yue is the strongest destroyer of this year... Besides, you have light cruisers, heavy cruisers, and battleships. Don't we have any of them?"

Washington was obviously not the type of person who would admit defeat verbally. This group of guys were still stubborn even after losing, so she naturally refused to give in and immediately fought back. The atmosphere at the scene suddenly became even more tense.

They were obviously a group of highly respected deans, but at this moment they were like children, arguing over which college's newcomers were the best. Moreover, this was a regular feature of every college competition. For some reason, these old seniors seemed to be particularly obsessed with this, and they would always argue until they were red in the face. The final winner would hold his head high, as if he was prouder than having sunk an Observer alone. As for the colleges with poor results, their deans would be listless and lack energy, and would definitely have to give the next batch of freshmen some "extra training" in a few months.

Washington was one of the teams with the worst performance last year. Overall, it was the second to last. It has been holding its anger for a whole year, and now that things are going well, it naturally wants to be proud of itself.

Furthermore, she was indeed quite confident this year. Their academy had a European Emperor this year, and this Qiuyue was her ship girl. And it was far more than that. Under this European Emperor, there were many powerful ship girls, and now all of them were still hiding...

She even had the confidence to directly win both the individual and team championships and set a record. This way, her colleagues would never be able to raise their heads in front of her again. She would truly be the strongest dean!

Moreover, she had made more preparations than that...

This time, she came with the intention of beating everyone in all aspects. She was determined to regroup and avenge her previous shame!

The deans of other colleges also know that this guy had poor grades last year. If he receives a talented student this year, he will definitely show off. He may say and curse, but he looks indignant. In fact, it is not surprising at all. Anyone who makes a comeback will definitely do the same.

But why is the person who was ranked last last year so calm now?

Everyone's attention was quickly drawn to the Prince of Wales, who looked like a Buddha in meditation and showed no reaction to the crowd's quarrel.

They have been friends for many years and are all very clear about Wales' character. They have also seen many scenes of this girl getting anxious. Given her personality, the Barbarossa Naval Academy was ranked last last last year. Shouldn't she make some preparations this year?

But looking at the competition between the destroyers just now, it seems that the ship girls of the Barbarossa Academy did not have any eye-catching performances... Well, that's not to say. It can be seen that those destroyers are actually well trained, and most of them have worked hard on their guidance. The instructors who teach them are definitely well trained, but not rare. There are no powerful ship girls because of the real gap in ship equipment. After all, this is an exercise rather than actual combat, and there are too few variable factors. Facing those gold-skinned and purple-skinned girls with powerful ship equipment, even if they try their best, they are still no match.

If it were a normal situation, with poor results last year and a year of hard work, this year was still a failure. Plus, with Washington showing off on the side, Wales would not be able to tolerate it no matter what. Not beating people up directly was considered calm. How could he be so indifferent?

Something is wrong... This is definitely not right!

This B, isn't it hiding something big?

The deans who discovered the anomaly frowned and began to recall some possible key information.

Oh, yes!

All of them are deans of the Naval Academy and are well-informed. However, they just glance at many things and pass them by without thinking about them and do not pay much attention to them. However, if they think about it carefully, they can still remember some key information.

For example, as early as last year when the new students were being recruited, there were rumors that a super European emperor who was causing a lot of noise in Area C at that time had entered the Barbarossa Naval Academy, and it seemed that she was a girl.

I heard that that person had snatched away an instructor in the academy before he officially entered the academy... So that's how it is. Is this guy Wales' confidence coming from here?

Although she was originally an instructor at the Naval Academy, since she was picked up by the cadet, she is considered the cadet's ship girl. According to the rules, she can of course participate in this competition. And according to normal circumstances, if a serious rookie academy is allowed to fight with a former instructor, the result is naturally obvious.

So that's how Wales felt. But if she really thought so, she was oversimplifying things...

Some people are extremely angry and helpless, while others pretend to be crazy and stupid but are actually hiding their incompetence. There are many twists and turns in the open and covert struggles involved.

Wales, Wales, you are too young after all! And Washington, looking at her smug look, she is not afraid of being slapped in the face later, and she probably has a backup plan.

At this point, the progress of the matter is like touching a blind box, it depends on who hides deeper and has more tricks up their sleeves...

Lin Xiao didn't know about the "open and secret fights" in the stands high above, which were like children's quarrels, nor did he care. He only cared that the destroyer competition was over and it would be the turn of the light cruiser next. Unlike the destroyer competition, this one needed a little more attention.

It’s not that I think there will be any troublesome opponents, but Tang Xiaojiu’s family has a light cruiser ship girl participating in the competition, the Birmingham, Cleveland-class ship girl, it seems that it should be Sixth Uncle?

Although they didn't interact much with each other, because Tang Xiaojiu was really cute, Lin Xiao still had a deep impression of this classmate who always called him "Brother Lin Xiao", and naturally he would pay some attention to things related to her.

Moreover, in addition to this, there is another old friend who is also going to fight at this moment.

Fang Kang, the brother he met at the beginning of his journey, and his San Juan are also players to take part.

Although he is not a European emperor and still has only one ship girl, Fang Kang seems to be working very hard, and so is San Juan. It is said that he is very hardworking during training, and he has started practicing the cooperation between the ship girl and the commander very early. The effect seems to be very good. I think he has a very good relationship with his ship girl...

It might be an exaggeration to say that they are ready to get married, but the favorability level is at least around 80, which is far beyond the average level of freshmen.

Chapter 21 Wales with a "Nuclear Bomb"

The battle between light cruisers was obviously more intense than that between destroyers just now. The increase in firepower meant that the viewing experience of the competition had also been improved to a certain extent. In addition, Tang Xiaojiu and old friend Fang Kang were both participating in the competition, so Lin Xiao naturally had to pay attention to the battle situation on his friends' side.

Fang Kang's performance was pretty decent. It was obvious that he had a high degree of compatibility with the ship girl, and the two of them cooperated very well. In addition, San Juan had always been hardworking in training and his level of training was not low. However, due to the natural disadvantage of the blue skin in ship equipment, his performance in such a relatively high-end battlefield was naturally not very impressive.

If they encounter a light cruiser girl with the same blue skin, they can naturally deal with it easily. Even if they encounter a purple-skinned ship girl, because they have certain advantages in training and combat experience, they can fight back and forth, and even find the right opportunity to seize the opponent's mistakes to successfully win the game. But unfortunately, anyone can see that they won't get too far like this.

The final result was not unexpected, stopping at the top ten, but this result was already quite good for Fang Kang, a blue-skinned ship girl. You know, there were more than a dozen purple-skinned light cruiser ship girls participating in the competition.

Fang Kang and San Juan barely made it into the top ten, which fully proved their strength and told everyone that this was not a competition that simply looked at rarity.

If you don't have enough combat experience or are not well trained, or if you become complacent because the enemy's ship equipment is not as powerful as yours, you will most likely end up in failure.

Fang Kang himself seemed to be quite satisfied with the result. After all, if hard work could change everything, then what was the point of talent? Accepting one's own shortcomings was not something to be ashamed of. As long as he did the best he could, there would be no regrets for him.

When San Juan walked down from the ring, he stood up and walked down from the viewing platform, all the way to the bottom to greet his girl. Regardless of the colorful paint on her body, he gave her a big hug.

Countless ship girls and commanders watched this scene, and a faint feeling of being moved quietly arose without words.

The relationship between ship girls and commanders is often so pure and beautiful. Even the most unlucky one, who keeps saying that he wants ship girls of higher rarity, will never show any dissatisfaction with his own white destroyers when facing them. The rarity is not anyone's fault. Any ship girl... at least should be treated relatively equally in terms of feelings. No one's efforts deserve only a cold shoulder. No matter how insignificant the sincerity is, it should not be ignored, let alone trampled upon and tarnished.

Somehow, the commanders present, especially those who had just participated in the destroyer competition, all hugged the children beside them, gently touched their heads, and said words of comfort or praise... Of course, this also made the gendarmerie on the scene busy. Their sharp eyes began to observe the commanders present, trying to detect possible perverted lolita control.

For example, that guy who is hugging girls on both sides...they are hugging two little lolis from Japan. There seems to be something wrong with him. He should be listed as a key observation target and his every move should be monitored carefully. If there is anything wrong, we should strike hard immediately and let him see what the gendarmerie prison looks like.

Lin Xiaoke didn't know that he had been targeted by the gendarmerie's ship girl without realizing it. Of course, even if he knew, it wouldn't matter, he wasn't afraid.

He is not the Royal Ark. He only has feelings of love and pity for the destroyers, as if he were treating his own daughter or sister. Any weird thoughts... are impossible, non-existent, and he would not admit them even if they exist.

Let's get back to the topic. Compared with Fang Kang's side, Tang Xiaojiu's side is obviously in much better situation. First of all, her Birmingham is a purple-skinned ship girl, and it is also the famous "Cleveland" class. The ship equipment of the Cleveland-class ship girl is quite powerful. Any commander knows this.

Moreover, Birmingham was not a ship girl built by Tang Xiaojiu, but one she got. As a ship girl who has been working alone for a long time, her own training level is not low, and her combat experience is also very rich. In addition, Tang Xiaojiu is not short of money, and the equipment she gave is very good, basically purple equipment, and even the main gun is gold equipment, and it is an enhanced gold equipment. With the dual advantages of training level and equipment, even a super rare gold-skinned ship girl will be eliminated when she meets her.

Commander Tang Xiaojiu basically did nothing. He fought alone in Birmingham, and without even using any skills, he pushed forward all the way and squeezed into the top four.

However, the higher the ranking, the more skilled the players are, and the following competitions may not be so easy.

Birmingham seemed to know this as well. In fact, when she was competing just now, she had paid a little attention to the other masters in the field, and the one she was facing now was the one she thought was the most difficult one.

"The Royal Quejie? It's a very impressive name. It's an honor to fight against you!"

"Eh? Ah, um..."

Unlike Birmingham, who was very open-minded, the girl on the opposite side, Dejie, was obviously not so open-minded. She was a ship girl with a somewhat introverted personality. When Birmingham took the initiative to greet her, she felt like she didn't know how to respond for a moment.

"It's about to begin."

Birmingham looked at the other party very seriously. Her training level was as high as level 50. Logically speaking, if she was facing a newly constructed ship girl, she should be basically invincible. However, based on her observation just now, this Que Jie's training level and combat skills were definitely not like a newcomer, but a ship girl who was born a long time ago and was rescued like her.

If the advantages in training level and combat experience no longer exist... the gap in ship equipment performance between purple skin and gold skin will definitely make this a tough battle.

However, the Sea Knights have no fear at all. No matter what, they will fight to the end with dignity!

When the battle between the two sides started, almost all the commanders and ship girls on the scene noticed the difference in this battle. Whether it was Birmingham or Quejie, their fighting style and training level were obviously too outstanding.

In comparison, the battle of another group of the top four seemed a little dull. Although they were also the best among the light cruisers, the training level of the new ship girls was not very high after all, and they had basically no experience in actual combat. Compared with these ship girls who had been born for a long time and had many head-on confrontations with the Sirens, the gap was real.

"Forehead……"

Lin Xiao was naturally also paying attention to the battle situation. He could see that these two ship girls seemed to be different from the other ship girls. They were stronger, but he didn't know how strong they were.

"Noshiro, what do you think of those two ship girls?"

As the saying goes, every profession has its own expertise. For matters like this, it would be most appropriate to ask Noshiro, who is also a light cruiser.

"This one……"

Noshiro did not expect to be asked this question suddenly by the commander. She looked a little embarrassed and took a long time to think of her words.

How was it? In her opinion, it was naturally Fella's fault, and there was nothing worth watching in the whole battle.

It's not that Noshiro is proud or complacent, but the level she is at is indeed several levels higher than those two ship girls. Noshiro can almost be said to be one of the strongest light cruisers with the most powerful ship equipment. In addition, her training level is terrifyingly high, and she has experienced countless battles. She has almost sunk countless times.