I, Azure Commander!

Chapter 18 Group Number Read the End of This Chapter

On the coast of a coastal town in District J, a luxurious cruise ship suddenly docked at the port, immediately attracting a lot of attention.

Such a luxurious cruise ship will attract attention no matter where it appears.

Lin Xiao was not surprised by this. He just stood handsomely at the bow with his hands behind his back, looking at the coast in front of him like a leader coming to inspect.

Actually?

In fact, his waist was sore and it felt a little better if he stood up straight.

No matter how healthy you are, your kidneys have their limits. There is no good way to deal with this. You can only strengthen your exercise. With more exercise, your muscle groups will gradually get used to it, and things will get much better.

But exercise is something that needs to be done slowly. Don’t rush it, otherwise it will be bad for your health…

"Commander, why did you come out again? It's winter now, not summer. It's windy outside. It would be bad if you catch a cold. Come, follow me into the house~"

St. Louis walked out from the cabin behind him, with a gentle smile on his face. He took Lin Xiao's arm and tried to drag him into the cabin.

"No, no, no, I think I'm in good health and won't get sick that easily."

Lin Xiao shook his head like the propeller of a helicopter about to take off, "Besides, we have already reached our destination..."

"What's that?"

St. Louis said nonchalantly, "There's no rush. Commander, you worked hard last night. Come, Helena and I will give you a massage to relax you."

Lin Xiao looked desperate, and even hoped that the people watching the show at the port could save him from the fire and water. However, this seemed impossible. Unable to resist the strength of the ship girl, he was pulled into the cabin by St. Louis without any suspense, and then...

Then she and Helena really gave him a very careful full body massage.

Lin Xiao breathed a sigh of relief, and slowly fell asleep with the ship girls' gentle massaging hands, making up for his severely lack of sleep.

About an hour later, when I opened my eyes again, St. Louis and Helena were in the room drinking tea. Amagi and Sirius were also there. They seemed to be finalizing the itinerary.

The plan on how to find people in Area J had been carefully studied since they were still at home, and they had discussed it intermittently for a long time on the way, but they finally came to a simple conclusion.

First of all, the scope of the search must be temporarily set in Kyushu area. If we only search in this area, we can search relatively carefully. After searching once, we can also exclude this area and avoid repeating useless work in the future.

Then comes the specific planning - in fact, it is just to finalize a route, starting from the current city, and touring the entire Kyushu area. Every time you arrive in a city, you will ask around for some local rumors and information about the ship girls, analyze these intelligence clues, find possible clues, and then conduct further investigations.

The workload is actually not small, and we need to divide into groups, St. Louis and Helena in one group, and Sirius Xiao Tiancheng and Lin Xiao in another group.

It was still early, so we simply got off the boat and had lunch locally. We found a decent-looking hotel to stay in temporarily, and then started our formal operation.

Well, although in fact, I just went to various teahouses and coffee shops near the port to sit and listen to the fishermen or commanders bragging on the beach. Occasionally, I could see the ship girls. Some were alone and silent, some were talking and laughing with a few girls, and some followed the commander with a happy silly smile on their faces...

These places are actually the easiest places to find out news or gossip about KanColle. Of course, in addition to these, official news is also very important.

Lin Xiao sat in a cafe, drinking coffee while searching for information with his mobile phone. There was some useful information on the local official ship girl website. Of course, there was no need to read the news about the free ship girls who were eager to join the port. The main focus was on the free ship girls who were unemployed and looking for jobs, or the free ship girls who were in seclusion... Although due to the latter's wishes, information about them was rarely revealed on the official website.

Originally, according to Lin Xiao's idea, this method could be more or less effective. However, it turned out that she seemed to have thought things were a little too simple...

"is not?"

Looking at Helena and St. Louis who returned to the hotel with frustrated faces, Lin Xiao felt a headache.

He heard a lot of rumors, but he also overlooked an important issue - rumors are often exaggerated.

For example, when the fishermen were chatting, they mentioned a super powerful beast girl who could kill a large number of sirens with a wave of her hand. It sounded like a hermit master, which made Lin Xiao excited for a while, thinking that this might be his own ship girl. What was the result? After finally finding out the news, he went to see that Ise, who had just reached level 30, didn't know him at all. In addition, Ise's personality was relatively straightforward, so he was kicked out after just a few words.

If Lin Xiao hadn't stopped her, the honest maid Sirius would have pinned the other person to the ground and hit her on the head to let her know the consequences of disrespecting her master.

If someone is rude to the host, she won't care who is right, she will roll up her sleeves and beat the person half to death.

Fortunately, although this girl is straightforward, she is also very obedient. She does what you say and is easy to persuade.

It's normal for others to be unhappy when you go to disturb their freedom ship girls. Since they are not your own ship girls, at most you will just be unfriendly to each other, but hitting others is a bit too much.

However, similar things have happened no less than ten times in the past two days, and finally made Lin Xiao realize a fact that cannot be ignored - the fishermen, including those new commanders who linger in the port, although they know a lot of gossip, they don't know anything about ship girls, or their understanding is too limited. They think it's awesome to see ship girls of level 30 or 40 taking action. The ship girls in many jokes are described as if they were gods descended from heaven. If you didn't know, you would think they were level 100 bosses, but it turns out that their training level is generally less than level 50.

There is no other way. It is a waste of time to continue searching like this, and the information is unreliable... Lin Xiao spent two days to simply confirm the feasibility of this method, but the result was still somewhat disappointing.

Of course, this was just one method in the plan. Lin Xiao just wanted to determine the most efficient way to find someone in the first city. Obviously, this method didn't work, so he could only shamelessly borrow the title of Peter Strasser, the director of the Maritime Affairs Bureau of Lombard City...

Chapter 19: White Hair, Red Eyes, Big

There are still many ways to find people. This time, as the first attempt, I can try various methods and find a few that are more efficient and continue to use them in the future.

Unfortunately, the several methods that Lin Xiao originally thought would be very useful eventually faced problems to varying degrees, and the results of actual use were obviously not satisfactory.

But it wasn't a big problem. After all, he still had a final backup plan. Since other methods didn't work, he could only shamelessly borrow the title of Peter Strasser, the director of the Lombardy Maritime Bureau...

Before coming, Lin Xiao specially wrote a letter and sent it to Peter Strasser, the Director of the Maritime Administration, telling her about his trip and also to inform her that he wanted to find his own ship girl and might need her name.

As for why I wrote a letter instead of talking to her in person...the reason is obvious.

I'll go to the Maritime Administration to discuss this matter with her in person. But what if she disagrees?

Although Peter Strasser knew the situation of their port, she had asked the Maritime Administration to allocate funds because Lin Xiao had no money when the port was built. She did not owe Lin Xiao any favor now. If she rashly used someone else's name to act, she, as the director of the Maritime Administration, would have to take the blame if something went wrong. Therefore, the other party would most likely not be happy about it. If she really shook her head in person, things would be really difficult to handle.

But writing a letter is different. That's not a discussion, it's just a simple notification... Even if you don't agree, so what? You can reply or have someone notify you. Lin Xiao has already slipped away, and the ship girl at home can't contact the commander. Hey... What can you do to me?

At worst, he could let her nag him a few times and then owe her a favor. What else could he do? Fight? Or use his title as the director of the Maritime Affairs Bureau to make things difficult for him?

Firstly, as a veteran among the ship girls, Peter Strasser would not bother to do so. Secondly, if she really did so, the girl from Lin Xiao's family would definitely come to the office to block the door the next day.

As more and more ship girls return to the port, the ship girls in the port are now feeling more and more confident. What about you from the Naval Academy and Maritime Administration? How many divisions do you have?

If they really find all the ship girls at home, they can fight against the entire Siren camp alone. It's hard to say whether they can compete with all the other ship girls. They can even set up their own camp and share the world with the ship girls Siren...

Of course, as a commander, Lin Xiao did not have such an idea, nor was he too lazy to bother with it. He just wanted to find all the girls at home and live a peaceful life.

What Siren, what Maritime Administration? They seem to care about it, but in fact they don’t really care about it in their hearts.

We are all people who have been reborn once, and sometimes we look at things from a different perspective...

If the commander is like this, the ship girls will naturally always follow the commander's will. If the commander is belligerent in the port area, the ship girls will also be belligerent. If the commander is lazy in the port area, the ship girls will not want to attack and will just stay in the port area as a parasite.

By the way, when it comes to being a parasite, Nagashima is an absolute master. As a true veteran in the port area and one of the ship girls who has been slacking off for the longest time in the port area, she has quite a lot of experience in this regard.

In short, after two days of fruitless efforts, Lin Xiao finally launched the final plan - going directly to the local Maritime Bureau.

The Maritime Administration does have some records of intelligence about the Freedom Ship Girls. For example, Peter Strasser has occasionally dropped intelligence about nearby Freedom Ship Girls recently, helping Lin Xiao to screen possible targets.

Of course, a large maritime bureau like the Lombard City Maritime Bureau has a wide range of responsibilities, and there are too many records about the Freedom Ship Girls to read through them all in a short time. Peter Strasser also has his own work to do, and the progress so far is less than a quarter.

However, in comparison, it is not so troublesome to search for information from relatively small maritime bureaus - provided that they are willing to help you find it.

In principle, the Maritime Administration will never leak any information about the Freedom Ship Girls, especially not to the commanders, because many Freedom Ship Girls do not want to find a commander and just want to live their lives in peace. If the commanders know their news, especially if it is accidentally spread, it will definitely affect their lives.

Allowing the ship girls to freely choose the life they want is one of the jobs and meanings of the Maritime Administration. Therefore, no matter where the director of the Maritime Administration is, he will never disclose this information easily.

Lin Xiao couldn't just tell the story of his port every time he met a maritime director. Firstly, it was too troublesome, and these things couldn't be told to others casually. Secondly, even if you didn't mind the trouble and told them, it was still a question whether others would believe it or not.

Peter Strasser had seen how powerful his own shipgirl was, to a completely unreasonable degree, but what about the others, who were still directors? He couldn't just fire two shots on the spot to show his power...

So...

"Please register. I would like to meet the Director of the Maritime Administration here."

Lin Xiao came to the door of the Maritime Administration, took out his trainee commander certificate, and spoke to the girl at the door.

"Forehead……"

When the girl saw the trainee commander certificate in Lin Xiao's hand, she hesitated for a moment. A trainee commander... even a formal commander cannot meet the director of the Maritime Administration whenever he wants. An appointment must be made in advance. But when she saw the four ship girls beside Lin Xiao, Helena, St. Louis, Sirius and Amagi, two of whom looked like battleships, she understood that the trainee commander in front of her was probably not simple. So she did not refuse immediately, but nodded, asked Lin Xiao to wait for a moment, and ran to the front desk to ask for instructions.

After a while, the little girl came running over and led them in.

This was going more smoothly than Lin Xiao had expected. He had originally thought that he would have to get Peter Strasser to talk to him just for this step.

However, he soon understood why things went so smoothly...

"Halo! Friends from afar~"

When I pushed open the door of the Maritime Director's office, I saw a big sister with white hair and red eyes "jumping" up from her seat. Her hair was so long that it almost dragged on the ground, and it was braided into a very complicated braid.

The girl with a nice figure showed an interested look on her face, and she seemed to have a cheerful personality. It is worth mentioning that she was wearing a ship suit at this time. The red and black ship suit with iron-blooded characteristics gave people a very strong sense of oppression. Of course, perhaps because of the friendliness of its owner, it was not to the extent of being scary...

PS: Guess who it is?

Chapter 20: Prince Heinrich the Innocent

"Halo! Friends from afar~"

The white-haired sister in front of him seemed very enthusiastic. She waved to Lin Xiao and others who walked into the office. She looked like a very cheerful person.

White hair and big red eyes are really fatal attributes to some people... Fortunately, Lin Xiao is just a simple LSP, so no matter what the attributes are, they are the same to him.

It is equally good, and there is nothing special about it. To put it bluntly, it does not have any particularly obvious XP. If the XP feels right, it is not because of any particularly obvious attributes, but simply because the feeling is right.

For example, Noshiro is like this, and so are Little Amagi, Vicious, Tashkent, and Horrible...

This feeling may be the so-called love at first sight, this is called true love!

Back to the topic, the enthusiastic ship girl in front of him really caught Lin Xiao off guard.

"Um, hello?"

He tried to say hello, and the girl in front of him still had an innocent smile on her face. She warmly invited them to sit down. Lin Xiao picked up the hot water on the coffee table, took a sip, and finally expressed his doubts.

"Well... Normally speaking, it wouldn't be that easy for a trainee commander like me to meet the director of the Maritime Administration, right?"

"Hey, is there any?"

As a result, the other party was stunned, frowned slightly and seemed to think seriously, "Oh, I can't remember those things. Besides, it's boring to stay in the office alone. It's not easy for someone to come to play with me. How can I turn him away?"

"..."

So this was the reason why they were let in without hesitation?

This Maritime Director, whom I met for the first time, is really generous.

Lin Xiao was also a little helpless, but this was not a bad thing for them, as it saved them some unnecessary trouble.

but……

"I'm sorry, but we're not here to have fun with you, Miss Director."

"Just call me Prince Heinrich." Although she exuded a kind of "silliness" that was almost like an idiot, the other party was obviously not a real stupid ship girl like Firefly, and she easily saw Lin Xiao's embarrassment.

"Prince Heinrich?"

Lin Xiao thought about it for a moment and remembered this ship.

If I remember correctly, it was released in the same event as Peter, and it seemed to be called [Negative Quadrant Operation]. He completely missed this event at that time, so naturally there was no Prince Heinrich.

If I think about it this way, this cheerful older sister in front of me is indeed very much in line with the image of Prince Heinrich...

Lin Xiao's gaze couldn't help but look at the huge ship equipment behind the other party. If he remembered correctly, it seemed to be called [Xiao Tie]?

As if it had noticed Lin Xiao's gaze, the ship equipment that looked like some kind of giant shark also moved, making a real mechanical collision sound.

So handsome!

Lin Xiao's heartbeat couldn't help but accelerate. As expected, the ship uniforms of the Iron Blood ship girls were more handsome than each other. The Emperor's ship uniform was also pretty good, and Ron's was also pretty good. Peter and Prince Heinrich's were even more handsome. Even Eugen, who was the first ship girl, had a very handsome ship uniform. There was no Iron Blood ship girl whose ship uniform was not handsome... well, except for Bismarck.

"Ah, Xiaotie, you can't do this. We have guests here..."

Prince Heinrich seemed a little flustered, but Xiaotie didn't seem to listen to her at all. He rushed over here and started to nibble on the corner of Lin Xiao's clothes.

Sirius subconsciously wanted to flatten this "stupid fish" with one punch, and Xiao Tiancheng directly unfolded his ship equipment and was about to fire, with a rare serious look on his face.

Fortunately, Lin Xiao stopped them in time. He could still feel that the big guy in front of him had no ill intentions. Although such behavior was indeed a little scary, but...

"Ah, Xiao Tie, didn't I tell you? You can't bite the commander's clothes!"

Prince Heinrich ran over in a hurry and finally pulled Xiaotie back, but then his expression froze.

Because I didn't know the other person's name, and the situation was urgent, I accidentally blurted out the word "Commander". Now I realize that this is not the right way to call him!

When communicating with commanders, the Liberty Ship Girls often use pronouns, such as "you", "you", etc., or add the other person's name before the word "Commander", which can be regarded as a respectful title. However, if they do not add the name and directly shout out the three words "Commander", it can easily cause misunderstanding.

Many ship girls, especially those who are not very frank, are too embarrassed to say embarrassing words like "I join the port from now on" or "Please give me your guidance for the rest of my life" when recognizing the commander, so they simply call him commander. Everyone knows what is going on, and the relationship is established.

Over time, when a ship girl directly calls a commander "Commander", it definitely means that she wants to join the other party's port.

"Um, just now I..."

Even Prince Heinrich, who was known for his open and honest personality, couldn't help but panic at this moment. He waved his hands repeatedly, as if he wanted to explain something.

What she didn't know was that Master Lin didn't know about these so-called "unspoken rules". He just thought that the other party wanted to apologize for what the ship had just done, so he waved his hand and said, "It's okay, Miss Heinrich, anyway, it has already happened. It's completely fine on my side, you don't have to worry..."

"!"

This actually meant that he didn't care about the sneak attack from the ship, but for Prince Heinrich, whose mind was completely focused on the word "Commander" just now, this was not the meaning.

In her ears, the other party seemed to be saying: "It's okay. Although this is a misunderstanding, since it has already happened, my port area welcomes you very much."