I, Azure Commander!

But no, the reason why he suddenly had this idea was simply because Lin Xiao felt that life was too boring.

Since there is no money at home, I just stop thinking about it and lie on the sofa, continuing to read the book casually.

I'll think of something later, get a few hundred million and buy a few cruise ships...

After Sheffield finished cleaning the room, he came out and made a cup of coffee and placed it in front of him. Perhaps because there were more and more ship girls in the house, his contact with the naughty maid became much less, and gradually he could no longer feel her naughtiness.

Of course, occasional sarcasm is inevitable.

However, today Sheffield didn't even seem to be in the mood to be sarcastic. He just hurriedly put the coffee on the table, turned around and left with the tray. For some reason, his back looked a little lonely, which made Lin Xiao confused for a moment.

What happened to this scumbag maid? Did she encounter any unpleasant things?

Unable to figure it out, Lin Xiao did not ask, because based on his understanding of the despicable maid, she would not tell him even if he asked her. Instead, she might become even more unhappy and hide in the room alone, feeling depressed.

Anyway, we all live together, and there is a long time to come. We will know in the future. Maybe she is just being upset because she went out with her left foot today, which is different from her usual right foot?

Commander Lin Xiao was not aware of his forgetfulness at all, and did not connect Sheffield's unhappiness with what happened yesterday...

After all, there was no way the poor maid would bring up such a thing herself - that was obviously not in line with the maid's code of conduct and not in accordance with the rules.

I don't know when that stupid commander will remember that obviously important thing... At least to her, it is extremely, extremely important...

Several days passed in boring life. Although the newcomer to the port, Horrible, was missed when the rooms were allocated, it was not a big problem. She could sleep directly in the commander's room - provided that the commander was resting that night and there was no one else in his room.

So although many children envied such treatment, in reality, in a week, Horror usually only lived in the same room with the commander for one or two nights. Most of the time, he slept with Tianying, Noshiro, or Sheffield.

Everyone in the port area knew what was going on, but they all pretended not to know. There was no need to make such things public, and those who understood would naturally understand.

What surprised everyone was that the eldest brother, who was also a married woman and a grown-up girl, was not at all worried about the situation. She still ate and drank as usual every day, looking very heartless.

But when I thought about the fact that he was a big shot after all, and with such a cheerful and straightforward personality, it wouldn't be surprising what he did, so I felt relieved.

Just when Lin Xiao thought that these ordinary days would continue like this, and he was so bored that he began to consider whether to relax the policy towards Long Island and let her play games with him -

Wales suddenly came to the door...

Chapter 84: Who doesn’t like to get something for free?

"Oh! Isn't this the dean? I am sorry for not welcoming you in person, I am sorry for not welcoming you in person..."

That afternoon, Lin Xiao was at home as usual, enjoying Noshiro's knee pillow massage while studying the college courses on his own, when there was a knock on the door.

Sheffield opened the door, and unexpectedly, the person who appeared at the door was the president of the naval academy - the Prince of Wales.

So, Lin Xiao immediately raised his head from Noshiro's thigh, stood up and walked forward to greet him.

"Mr. Dean, please take a seat, sit wherever you want..."

As Lin Xiao spoke, he asked Sheffield to make tea.

"No need to do that, I'll be leaving soon."

As Wales said this, he looked around with a guilty look on his face.

"Don't worry, Big Brother should be in the cafeteria at this time. Um... Duke of York was also dragged away by her. She said she wanted to help taste the food."

"That's it..."

Wales' expression was somewhat complicated, but he was also obviously relieved.

"So, the dean came to visit in person today. Is there something important?"

"It's not a big deal..."

Wales took the tea from Sheffield, thanked him, and then took a sip of the tea and said, "It's just that the school has been open for more than a month now, and you...well, the commander and the ship girls have been studying in the academy for a while. According to convention, the academy plans to hold an exercise exclusively for freshmen. On the one hand, it can allow freshmen to strengthen their communication with each other, and on the other hand, it can also test your current achievements."

There was another reason, which the Prince of Wales did not mention, and that was to prepare early for the "Friendship" exercises of several major colleges next spring and to start selecting suitable players.

"uh-huh?"

Lin Xiao raised his eyebrows to show that he was listening.

"The competition system is very simple. Newcomers send their shipgirls to participate in one-on-one exercises. Ships of the same type will only practice with ships of the same type. In the end, the winners of their respective ship types will draw lots for a decisive battle to determine the final winner... In theory, as long as they are new shipgirls, they can participate in the battle. The maximum number of quotas is four, but..."

Wales paused and looked at Lin Xiao, his meaning was very clear.

She spread her hands and said, "I came to you because I want to ask... no, I want to ask you for a favor... It's not easy for newcomers either, you can't bully them, right?"

"What are you talking about, Dean?"

Lin Xiao smiled. So that's what was happening.

"I'm also a newbie in the academy, a pure newbie!"

“You…”

If it weren't for Noshiro sitting on the sofa opposite and the maid standing beside him watching, Wales really wanted to go up and grab this guy by the neck and slap him twice.

How dare you say you're a newcomer?

Newbie, does it mean that the ship girl at home is now teaching other people's ship girls?

"Forget it. Anyway... among the four participating lists, Skyhawk and Sirius cannot participate. You have to choose four shipgirls with the lowest training level."

"Can we just pick the four with the lowest training levels?"

"Well, this is the same with Tang Xiaojiu. I talked to her this morning and hope that you two can give the other newcomers some room to grow."

Wales was really having a headache. It was certainly a good thing to have a genius commander in the academy, but the existence of these two people had somewhat dampened the enthusiasm of other newcomers. There was no way, the gap was just too big, especially for that freak Lin Xiao, who had so many strong ship girls under his command, and she was even a top student. That was why she agreed without much hesitation that he could skip classes and study at home. The appearance of Tang Xiaojiu in the classroom could be said to have played a certain motivating role. Having this guy hanging around in front of the newcomers every day was not a motivation, but a pure blow.

"Okay, no problem! By the way, what's the reward for winning this time?"

“A chance to build.”

Wales waved his hand. "It shouldn't matter to you, right?"

This is indeed the truth. The money Lin Xiao has is enough for him to build it a few times, but the Rubik's Cube is not something you can buy whenever you want. Most of the time, there is no demand for it. And how can a free thing be the same as buying it with your own money?

Lin Xiao was not very willing to spend tens of millions to build one. After all, the construction was still a long way to go... and for him, there was a high probability of failure. After all, the more ship girls he had, the harder it would be to ship them if the construction was to be repeated. Even though Lin Xiao considered himself a European emperor, he was not sure of success every time.

But if it's a free chance, it's different...

So, Lin Xiao agreed with a smile on the surface, looking magnanimous, but in fact, as soon as Wales left, he immediately cheered up, dragged Atlanta and Long Island out of the room, and started a meeting.

Among the four ship girls with the lowest training level in the family, two of them are naturally Shimakaze and Kaguya, and the other two, Atlanta is definitely one of them. Then there are several ship girls at level 100. Lin Xiao thought about it and finally decided to let Changdao, the "fat house" who doesn't like sports, exercise.

The content of the meeting was very simple. Apart from introducing the mechanism and methods of the exercise, it was nothing more than four words - must win!

For this purpose, Lin Xiao even borrowed equipment from the Royal Ark for Changdao, and Atlanta also used Noshiro's equipment. Everyone in the port area felt that there was no need for this, and Lin Xiao actually thought so too. However, after all, he was not clear about the specific situation on Tang Xiaojiu's side, so it was better to be safe.

What? You said that besides Atlanta, the Gridley sisters are also at a low level?

That can't be said. Are they in the academy? No, so it doesn't count...

In the evening, after Shimakaze and Kebo returned home, Lin Xiao talked about the matter with the two little ones again and encouraged them. However, they did not need any pressure anymore and just played with all their strength without any psychological burden. If they lost, sister Changdao would take the blame for them.

Of course, there will be rewards for the winners in their port area, and they can choose what they want, but of course they have to get the commander's consent.

Nagashima's original request to resume the right to play games was naturally rejected, but he finally managed to get a week off and had the opportunity to play games as he pleased during that week.

As for Atlanta, she originally wanted to ask the commander to give Juno a ring, but then she felt that this didn't seem like a good idea, as Juno didn't want such a ring, so she changed it to asking her to date Juno for a day if she won.

Of course Lin Xiao readily agreed, and even offered Atlanta himself an extra day on a date, which made the girl blush.

As for the other two little ones, they basically asked for food or toys...

Chapter 85: Master Lin is filled with hatred

At first, Horrible actually wanted to bring back Triumph and Vicious, but he also knew that this was not something the Commander could do just by wanting it, so he did not bring it up to cause trouble, and just asked for some food.

The children’s wish was so simple that there was no need to wait for the exercise to be won. Lin Xiao asked Sirius to help them buy what they wanted on the spot.

Shimakaze was naturally cheering with joy, and walked forward to hug the commander, rubbing his belly with his little face, and letting Lin Xiao touch his head. Ke'er was relatively calm. After all, she didn't really want the food, so she just thanked him politely.

I have to say that this exercise is indeed a very good diversion from the boring life. Lin Xiao, who had been lifeless, finally perked up today. It's a pity that the exercise will not officially start until three days later, and the other ship girls and commanders will be notified tomorrow during class.

Lin Xiao had been waiting for a long time during these few days. Fortunately, Nodai and Sheffield were with him every day. He could have tea or coffee whenever he wanted. When he was tired, someone would give him a massage. When he was sleepy, he could just hug his fragrant and soft wife to sleep. Maybe he could even add some hypnotic "adjustment" before going to bed. In short, his life was still very comfortable.

In this way, Master Lin spent another three days of comfortable days. On this day, it was finally time for the freshman exercise to begin...

That morning, everyone got up early. Lin Xiao also got up a little earlier on purpose. Then, he took a lot of effort to wake up the sleepy Ke Horror next to him.

When this girl stays in bed, it seems that he is the only one who can wake her up, and he won't bother to pay attention to other people who come over.

Of course, if she could find her little sister, Kaixuan would probably be able to successfully wake her up. As for viciousness... Lin Xiao temporarily believed that it was impossible for viciousness to be called horrible. That lazy guy must have refused to get up even when the sun was shining on his butt.

After breakfast, everything was ready. Lin Xiao picked up Shimafeng on his back with a whoosh, holding Kebo's hand with his right hand and Changdao's hand with his left hand, and walked beside Atlanta. The girls participating in the competition today were obviously given quite obvious preferential treatment.

This also made them full of motivation, and each of them put in their best efforts, determined to win today's exercise.

So...the atmosphere between them, especially between Atlanta and Long Island, became a little weird.

Obviously, they did not think that the ship girls outside their own port area would become their opponents. Even though Lin Xiao had reminded them many times not to underestimate the enemy, it only worked for the two little guys - which was almost equivalent to having no effect at all.

As a newcomer, even a confident ship girl like Shimakaze obviously would not be so careless as to underestimate the enemy.

But after Lin Xiao thought about it, it seemed that there was no problem. Their level was indeed a dimensionality reduction attack on the ship girls of these new commanders. Even compared with the instructors of the academy, excluding those from their own family, they could still give them a try.

What we need to pay attention to are only the ship girls in Tang Xiaojiu's family. I wonder who are the four ship girls with the lowest training level in her family?

Prince Eugen, who was built on the same day as Shimakaze a while ago, must be one of them. There is currently no information about the other three.

Never mind, no need to worry, just trust your own ship girls, and you can deal with it as it comes.

After a while, they arrived at the venue for the exercise, which was actually the training ground that the ship girls used to train on weekdays. Today, the ground was specially cleared to hold this exercise among the freshmen.

Looking around, perhaps because they were nervous, most of the contestants arrived a little early and were already sitting around the venue, chatting with each other.

When everyone saw Lin Xiaochang, they were shocked and started talking immediately. They obviously knew that if the other party really took out their more powerful ship girls... they would have no chance at all.

After all, this guy has several ship girls who are instructors in the Naval Academy under his command. God knows how well they are trained!

The newbies don’t know much about these things, but since she can be an instructor, she must be at least level 70 or 80, and most likely a very powerful ship girl, right?

Compared with those ship girls under their command who have only reached level 10 or 10 and have never made a breakthrough, they are not on the same level at all.

Such discussions were expected a long time ago, so Lin Xiao was not surprised at all. He calmly led the ship girls into the venue, and then helped Shimakaze and Kaguya to register their competition information.

When everyone saw that he did not help those instructors register for the competition, they immediately felt relieved and were no longer so worried.

Even if this guy is a European emperor, it is impossible that all his subordinates have such powerful ship girls, right?

The most important thing is, they watched that Shimakaze being built, and there was another child, the blonde ship girl wearing a white hat, who seemed to have been fished out not long ago, and her training level was very low, which they could see in their usual exercises.

If we take these two as a reference, even though there is still little hope, at least we are not completely in the same dimension as others, right?

Lin Xiao was always too lazy to participate in these topics, because it was obviously very boring for him to talk to those real newcomers about which ship girl's level might be above level 15 or even 20, or which ship girl's commander was a rich man who had already broken through once. So, the participants saw a scene that was quite excessive and inhumane.

Lin Xiao brought a large group of ship girls from his family who were not participating in the competition to the stands, occupied about 20 seats, and then lay down on the chairs. A few seats away, there sat the Sky Eagle instructor from the Naval Academy, who gently placed his head on her thighs and stroked his hair.

On a plate, Sheffield was busy peeling grapes. She peeled the skin and seeds of the fresh grapes, leaving only the sweet and sour flesh. She brought it to her mouth with her slender, white and tender hands. She only needed to open her mouth slightly to swallow the grapes.

Too much, absolutely too much!

Such a scene naturally quickly aroused public indignation, and countless envious and jealous eyes looked over. I don’t know how many new commanders gritted their teeth, looking at the empty seats next to them, and wanted to cry but had no tears.

In just a moment, Lin Xiao's hatred reached its peak, causing the Prince of Wales, who happened to arrive at this moment, to roll his eyes repeatedly. For a moment, he felt that all his previous efforts seemed to be in vain...

Chapter 86: Terrible Battle

Forget it, that's fine... At least this won't bring setbacks to the newcomers, but envy and jealousy, which can become their motivation to work hard... Although they may find out after years of hard work that without talent and luck, no matter how hard they try, they will never be able to make up for the gap between them and the European emperor.

Wales knew that even if she went over now and asked him to restrain himself, it would not have any effect. Instead, she would be glared at by George V, which would only make her uncomfortable.

Regardless of how indignant the commanders are at this moment, and regardless of how happy and comfortable Master Lin is now, the competition among the ship girls must go on.

The players are already in place, and according to the previously announced rules, the first competition will be between the ship girls of the same type. Although the venue is large enough, for the sake of viewing, they are also afraid that the ship girls in the exercise will be too dense and may affect other players. So after some consideration, such exercises are generally only two groups of four ship girls conducting exercises at the same time, on the east and west sides of the training ground, and each has a one-on-one match.

Anyway, there are not many new recruits who can enter the Naval Academy and become trainee commanders, and new recruits generally only have one ship girl, so there is no need to worry about the game progressing too slowly and resulting in not enough time in a day.

The contestants were naturally equipped with paint bullets specially used for the exercise. The referee would make the assessment of injuries, and any contestant who was judged to be seriously injured would be deemed to have lost the game.

The first to conduct the exercise is naturally the destroyer group with the largest number of people.

The four little girls stood in pairs on either side of the training ground, facing each other.

Lin Xiao paid a quick look at the list of participants. Among the four destroyers, three were white and only one was blue, and their training levels were not high. The highest was an Aulik, whose current training level was thirteen. The training levels of the other few ship girls were basically around level ten.

The difference in training level between levels two and three is not that big, the difference between the ship girls' ship equipment is also small, and the blue skin's ship equipment is only slightly stronger than the white skin. When the level is low, there is basically not much difference, so these two games can be said to be evenly matched, and it is more about testing the ship girls' combat skills, and of course, the commanders' command and assistance.

Acting exercises are not just the job of the ship girls. The commanders can also help. After all, the purpose of this rookie exercise is not only to evaluate the ship girls. The commanders are also within the scope of the evaluation. The cooperation and tacit understanding between the commanders and the ship girls is also one of the key factors in determining victory or defeat.

When they graduate and really have to fight the Sirens, the battlefield changes rapidly. No one can predict what will happen, and no one can ensure that the enemy they encounter is within their ability to deal with. When encountering an unpredictable crisis, the higher the tacit understanding between the commander and the ship girl, the more likely it is to successfully evacuate. On the contrary, if the commander is too panicked and cannot command calmly, or the ship girl is too anxious and cannot follow the arrangements in time, it is possible that the already critical situation will become worse.

So, Master Lin opened his eyes and looked solemnly at the two games in front of him... er, a fight between two weaklings?

Less than a minute after the show officially began, Lin Xiao felt that there was no need to watch any further.