I, Azure Commander!

Fortunately, he is a professional host after all, and his professional ability is pretty good. Even in such a situation, he still managed to liven up the atmosphere.

As for Lin Xiao, it looked like he was participating in an event, but in fact, as he started to move, his eyes started to move around, trying to find his own ship girl.

However, there were too many people at the event venue, and at a glance, all you could see were faces. Even though the young and beautiful ship girls stood out from the crowd, don't forget that this event was also attended by many free ship girls and even port ship girls led by commanders. Sometimes you finally saw a ship girl and just when you were about to get excited, you took a closer look and found that you didn't recognize her at all. There was also an unprepossessing commander standing next to her, and the ship girl would then take his arm, making others envious.

This was really frustrating. After watching for a long time, he didn't find anything. The warm-up session at the beginning of the event ended quickly, and then it was basically the same process as before. However, because it was not a signing event, there were not so many things to do. He just had to take the ship girls to show up at some activities from time to time, or just participate in the fun.

These things don't take much time, but because there are so many people, it's really hard to find someone at once, which is a bit annoying. Although the staff are also helping to observe, they will pay a little attention if there are any ship girls like them. If there is no commander nearby, they will take a photo and send it to the backstage. Lin Xiao will go over from time to time to recognize and see if there is one of his girls.

However, after looking at dozens of photos, he still didn't see the girl from his family. This made Lin Xiao, who already felt that the situation was not good, even more troubled.

I feel like if things continue like this, we'll really be out of luck today...

However, there is no way around it. Finding someone is difficult in itself, and they are not sure whether the person they are looking for is in the whole place. This is a bit too difficult.

The most troublesome thing is that the remaining ship girls do not seem to be as concentrated as Dido and Shabai before. More than a dozen ship girls live together. Although they will not drift away separately, two or three or three or four ship girls living together and more than a dozen ship girls living together, the degree of conspicuousness and the difficulty of information collection are obviously not on the same level.

Therefore, although a lot of potentially useful information was collected during the event, it would take at least a week to confirm each one afterwards.

Things seem to be a bit troublesome...

Not really. Perhaps it should be said that this is the difficulty that should be encountered in finding someone. It's just that the previous few times were too smooth. However, luck seems to be unable to favor one person. Now, the situation seems to be at a stalemate.

After attending several events, Lin Xiao took a few ship girls back to the backstage to take a short break. During this period of time, they could discuss and see if there were any good ideas.

"If it really doesn't work, wait until the event is over and try one by one according to the current clues. Otherwise, there is no other way."

Lin Xiao shrugged helplessly. Who says that everything is difficult at the beginning? Sometimes it is just a little short of success. It is very frustrating to run to the mountain and die. It feels better to have a difficult beginning...

Of course, if you are a person with really bad luck, you don’t have to worry about this problem - do you think it will be easy after it is difficult at the beginning? Wrong, it will only be more difficult afterwards.

Sometimes you don't believe in the existence of luck and refuse to admit that you are not lucky, but what is the reality? The lucky ones will always use cruel facts to teach you how to be a good person and make you realize the dangers and unfairness of this world.

"But if that's the case, it would be a waste of time... Besides, if we still can't find the person after eliminating them one by one, then all that time would be wasted in vain."

"There's really nothing we can do about it... just go to other cities along the route and continue looking."

It's not that Lin Xiao hasn't thought about the situation that Xiaobingjian mentioned, but finding someone is so difficult for him sometimes. No matter how difficult it is, he has to find someone. Even if there is a slight possibility, no matter how much time he spends, he cannot miss any girl from that family.

This is a matter of principle. No matter how troublesome or difficult it is, it must be done. This is what Lin Xiao decided when he made up his mind to find all the ship girls shortly after he came to this world.

"Woo~ Dido is so useless. She can't help the master at all. If Dido could be more capable, maybe the master wouldn't be so troubled."

Dido wailed and began to blame herself.

Lin Xiao immediately showed a helpless look, rubbed the girl's hair, and without saying anything meaningless, he walked up to her and gave her a big hug.

The hug didn't last long, it could be said that it separated in an instant, but it was obviously a great encouragement to Dido. She quickly cheered up and the uneasiness in her heart was suddenly reduced a lot.

Since the master is willing to embrace her, he must like her... or at least he doesn't hate Dido. In this case, the useless maid Dido would not be thrown away by the master...

——This silly girl’s thinking is so simple and innocent. Sometimes Lin Xiao really wonders, if it weren’t for the fact that the ship girls are ship girls, with keen perception and strategic weapon-level military power, if they were ordinary human girls as naive as them, they would have been fooled into oblivion.

After being negative for a while, and resting for a while, he simply summarized the current information. After confirming that he had not seen his own ship girl, the event had to continue, and he should not give up the search so early. Lin Xiao stood up, cheered up again, adjusted his state, resumed his seemingly cool appearance, left the backstage lounge, and walked towards the venue of the event...

Chapter 43: A ray of hope

Although there has been no particularly obvious gain in such a long time, the event is still going on, and even up to now, people are still coming in one after another. There is still hope, and passive resistance is not a good choice, so after a short rest, Lin Xiao quickly returned to the venue of the event.

On the one hand, he continued to participate in activities, and on the other hand, he was still persevering in trying to find his own ship girl. At the same time, he would occasionally pay attention to the "star map" in his mind, carefully sensing whether there was the same feeling as before that there were ship girls related to him nearby.

However, today seemed destined to be a bit unlucky. After a long time, until the event was nearing its end, there was still no useful discovery. Instead, a lot of rumors and information were collected, and there were many more places to travel to.

Although you know that many of them are a bit unreliable, you have to try them, which is the most annoying part.

"Forget it, it looks like today is mostly rotten."

As the event was coming to an end, the guests at the venue had already started to leave one after another. Although Lin Xiao was unwilling, he had no choice but to give up. He returned to the lounge with the equally tired ship girls, slumped in a chair, and said nothing.

It's not that painful. It's completely understandable that there was no result. As I said, this is the normal situation. Things that go as smoothly as before are always rare. This is not a novel. It's impossible to be so lucky every time.

But to say that I don't care at all would be a bit too hypocritical. It's more or less painful to work hard for nothing.

But there was nothing he could do, so he sat on a chair and rested for a while. When most people at the venue had left, the staff began to clean up the mess. Lin Xiao talked to the employees at the company, informed them, and left with the ship girls.

No matter how things went wrong, after being busy all morning, it was already past twelve o'clock and lunch was needed. Lin Xiao walked out of the venue and looked around. There happened to be a large shopping mall nearby, which must have a lot of delicious food. He decided to go in and have a quick meal.

There's no other way. Not to mention that there's no cook now and we have to make do with it. Even if there was a cook, it's already this late. If I go back to start cooking, it will probably be almost two o'clock by the time we eat. It's not comfortable to be hungry for such a long time. It's better to just find a restaurant and have a quick meal.

However, he was obviously not the only one who thought so. People who had just come out of the venue were also hungry. Some of them chose to go home and cook for themselves, while those with more money chose to order takeout and wait for lunch to be delivered to their door. However, more people still chose to eat nearby, so a shopping mall obviously became a very good choice.

They didn't notice it at first, but as they got closer to the mall, the surroundings became obviously crowded. Looking from afar, they saw that the entrance of the mall was packed with people, and there were even more people coming and going inside. At a glance, there were nothing but people everywhere. It felt hot just thinking about it, and even air conditioning might not be of any use.

"How about... let's forget it?"

Lin Xiao began to back off. Just by looking at the number of people, he could imagine how crowded the restaurant in the mall would be. Even if he finally squeezed in, there would most likely be no seats left in the restaurant for a while, and he wouldn't be able to eat right away.

Anyway, you don’t have to eat here. If you walk a few more steps and stay a little further away, you might be able to get a hot lunch earlier.

"I was just about to say that. There are too many people here. Let's go for a walk nearby. Yesterday, when I was looking up information about this city online, I seemed to have seen a food street nearby. It's a very famous one. There are snacks and restaurants there. It's just a little far away... It's definitely not convenient to drive there now. We have to walk."

Hao followed up with another statement.

"The farther, the better..."

Lin Xiao nodded immediately and said, "You also said that the place is a famous food street. If it's not far away, there might not be much fewer people there than here. Let's walk over there. By the time we get there, it will be past dinner time and there will probably be even fewer people."

The other ship girls naturally had no objections. After the hug just now, Dido's brain was completely empty and she listened to her master in everything... well, although she seemed to be like this all the time.

There is no need to mention Newcastle. The former head maid was extremely dedicated and most of the time she maintained the same perfect image of a maid as Belfast.

The cat head was even more direct. While Lin Xiao wasn't paying attention, he came up to hug her arms, rubbed her cheeks, and said with blinking eyes: "Wherever my dear goes, Cheshire will go there~"

"Wow, it's hot, don't come close to me like this..."

Lin Xiao complained helplessly, feeling both pain and happiness at the same time.

In this way, a consensus was reached, and everyone followed Hao's instructions and walked towards the food street she mentioned.

At the beginning, there were too many people and it felt a bit difficult to move forward. However, after moving a little further away from that area, the situation immediately got much better. After walking a little further forward, there were gradually fewer people.

However, the so-called "not so many people" is obviously just a relative term. The streets are indeed not that crowded, but if compared with the past, the passenger flow in this area has at least increased several times today.

As he walked, Lin Xiao thought about what to eat, so he took out his cell phone and started searching for delicious food in the food court. However, after all, it was in District E. Although there were restaurants from other areas, District E obviously had the largest number of local restaurants. At a glance, they were all places he didn't want to go to at all. Finding a good-looking restaurant among them was, to use a slightly inappropriate term, a bit like "digging for gold in shit."

Flipping from top to bottom, Lin Xiao marked a few that looked good, including a Free Iris restaurant, a Donghuang restaurant, a White Eagle hamburger shop, and even an "Iron Blood Kitchen", which also looked pretty good.

Although Tiexue's dishes are mostly rough and not so delicate, they still taste very good. At least its reputation is completely on a different level from the so-called royal cuisine.

As for which specific restaurant to go to, it is better to wait until you have an on-site inspection and take a look on the spot. Maybe you will go in to eat at a good restaurant you see, or you may take a look at each one and choose one with a relatively better environment, so that you will feel more comfortable eating there.

It turned out that what Hao said was far was indeed not that close. It took them nearly half an hour to finally reach their destination.

The most frightening thing is that even after arriving here, they can still vaguely feel that people are constantly gathering here from the direction they came from. Although it is not so exaggerated due to the far distance, there are definitely a lot of people on this food street.

Fortunately, the number of people was obviously far from the point where one had to queue up for a seat to eat, so a few people stepped onto the street and began to patrol left and right.

Soon I saw the Tiexue restaurant I had seen before. The decoration looked very Tiexue style. There was a beer bottle on the sign at the door of the store. It was called a restaurant, but it was probably half a bar. It sold food and beer. Tiexue's beer was indeed quite famous and delicious, with its own characteristics.

Of course, Lin Xiao doesn’t like drinking very much, so after seeing this store, he didn’t have much desire to go in and take a look.

I skipped a store and continued walking down the street. It was already this late and I was too hungry to feel uncomfortable. I might as well be more selective and eat something a little better...

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"Speaking of which, aren't there a lot of guests today..."

"Really?... Well, now that you put it that way, it seems to be true."

The girl with beautiful ivory-white long hair looked at the situation in the store after hearing this, was slightly stunned, and then changed her words.

"Is it because of the weekend? No, that's not right. Today is a weekday, and there don't seem to be so many customers on weekends..."

"It feels like there are more people on the street, right? So naturally there are more customers coming in."

The blonde girl at the side took over the conversation. She supported her chin with her hands and lazily leaned in front of the bar, with her huge breasts resting on the bar. Fortunately, there was a partition in front of the bar, so it could not be seen from the front, otherwise it would definitely attract everyone's attention.

"So why are there suddenly so many people today?"

"I'm not sure, it seems like there was a super large event at the stadium, and a lot of people went there."

"Gymnasium? That's quite far from here, right? Why are there so many people here for the event held there?"

"Why else would you say it's a super~big event?"

The blonde ship girl stretched out her hands, gestured, opened her arms, and gestured in a very exaggerated manner.

"Okay, okay, I get it. The customers are waiting to order, so stop chatting..."

"Ah? Oh... Excuse me, what can I do for you? Um, a cup of black tea and a cappuccino-flavored cake, right? Please wait a moment, it will be here soon..."

The blonde shipgirl wrote down the order information, and then called out to the kitchen: "Sister Guanghui, there's an order..."

"Okay, I understand...Unicorn, help your sister get some eggs from the refrigerator. We are running out of eggs here."

"Okay, okay..." A soft and cute voice sounded, and the purple-haired girl hurriedly opened the refrigerator in the back kitchen and quickly handed the eggs over.

Inside the store, another capable-looking girl with short light purple hair and wearing a maid outfit was carrying a tray and delivering snacks to the customers.

Her movements were quick and decisive, and she looked very capable, like a very cool girl. All the customers in the store, both male and female, looked at her with some surprise in their eyes. She was an example of a girl that appealed to both men and women.

However, the maid apparently ignored those gazes. After serving the meal, she turned around and left coldly, returning to the kitchen.

"Speaking of which, what kind of event was that and why are there so many people participating?"

After a short break, the blonde ship girl started chatting again.

"Hmm... I'm not really sure. I just heard that it seems to be related to some novel. I haven't paid much attention to it, but it seems to be very popular recently. It seems to be a novel about KanColle."

"Oh? Then you can buy one and read it later. It's just a book anyway, and it's not expensive."

"Then go buy it yourself, and remember to lend it to me after you finish reading it."

A girl nicknamed "Fat Dinosaur" was obviously not as elegant as she looked. She stood quite straight and looked like a royal lady, but the words she said were very different from her appearance.

"Eh? Why is that... Your personality hasn't changed at all, what if the commander sees this? He might even regret it, regret it! Take the ring back!"

"Humph, if he really wanted to take it back, why not show up now? I don't know where the person ran off to, and he just left her aside after making the oath, tsk..."

Kewei said this very unhappily, obviously he was very dissatisfied with someone.

"So even if the ring is really taken back, you don't mind?"

Shengli looked at his sister in front of him with interest and said jokingly.

"That... that's of course not possible. How can he take back something he sent out himself?"

"Hmm? It seems that Kowei really likes the Commander... Ah, my little sister has finally grown up..."

"Sister Shengli, stop teasing me. Order, the customers are waiting for their orders."

"Oh, sorry, sorry... um, there's more. So is it a cappuccino with a piece of tiramisu cake? Okay, please sit down and wait for a moment."

Shengli placed another order and handed the printed note to the kitchen through the window. He wanted to continue teasing his sister, but when he looked up and his eyes swept across the store entrance, he saw a familiar figure passing by with several beautiful girls, and soon disappeared from his sight.

Shengli was stunned on the spot. He stood there for more than ten seconds. He suddenly patted Kewei's shoulder and said in shock and astonishment: "Kewei, I just saw the commander."

"what?"

Kewei turned his head with a confused look on his face, his eyes twitched, and then he showed a helpless expression, "So, Sister Shengli, please stop teasing me..."

However, after she finished speaking, she realized that there was something wrong with Shengli's expression. It didn't look like he was joking with her.

"…You're not serious, are you?"

"Why not?"

The two sisters stared at each other for a while, then rushed out almost at the same time, smashed open the door, and chased forward...

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"How about we go to this Donghuang Restaurant?"

After walking around the street for a long time, I found that there were no other restaurants to choose from except the ones I had my eyes on before. I skipped the Royal Restaurant. Even the fish and chips tasted delicious at first, but if you eat too much, it will gradually become boring. Lin Xiaoke has eaten this kind of thing a lot recently, and now he feels a little sick of it.

After much thought, although he didn't know the quality of the restaurant or whether it was authentic, Donghuang's dishes were indeed the most diverse and most to his liking.

So after going around in circles for a while, Lin Xiao finally decided to go to Donghuang Restaurant to solve today's lunch problem.

However, just as I walked to the door of the restaurant and was about to push it open, I heard a "huge" noise behind me. The crowded crowd almost dodged in fear, as if the vibration sound like an earthquake continued to come in a very regular manner.

At the edge of the sight, two "huge" figures slowly appeared, like armored tanks, rushing towards this side.

"Hey, this is not a joke!"

Lin Xiao was a little uneasy. If he was just a kid, it wouldn't matter if he caught it by standing still. At most his stomach would hurt a little. But he didn't want to be hit by the ancient Tyrannosaurus Rex-like posture.

So Lin hid directly behind Dido, using the poor maid as a meat shield, and looked at the two people who were approaching as if they were facing a great enemy.