Revisiting Azur Lane

Revisiting Azur Lane

Author: Floating World

Summary:

On a sunny day, Zhou He accidentally traveled to an island. The only options before him were to die alone or become a ship commander.

It was a simple multiple-choice question, and he chose the latter.

All in all, this is a simple and clear story about a young man named Zhou He who becomes a commander and then opens up wasteland and builds a port area on the sea.

Volume One

Chapter 1 Taking Office as Commander

Wow…

The sound of the sea water washing the beach was much louder than expected, causing Zhou He to frown as he stood on the beach which was soaked by the tide and had a slightly darker color.

This handsome young man, who looks to be in his early twenties, has just arrived here not long ago. To put it simply, he has "traveled through time".

"Is that really the case? I've never seen such a thing before."

Zhou He lowered his head and used his slippers to leave irregular marks on the wet beach. He had a rough idea of ​​his current situation.

——Like many time-travel novels, he traveled through time inexplicably while logging into the game after a long absence, and something called a system appeared in his brain or body.

By the way, the game he was playing was called "Azur Lane", a development game with anthropomorphic ships as its selling point. At this moment, as long as he half-closed his eyes, a rectangular system interface like a mobile phone screen would appear in his vision that was weakened by the blocked light.

There is only one line of text in this interface, which can also be called a command task:

Go to the headquarters to take up your post.

"Headquarters."

Zhou He shifted his gaze from the beach at his feet and looked into the distance. The beach sloped upward, and about ten meters away was a flat ground. Behind the flat ground was another uphill slope, on which stood a white building that was high in the middle and low on both sides. The overall building was a modern and neat quadrilateral style, with three floors in the middle and one floor lower on the left and right sides. From a distance, it seemed to occupy a large area.

"..."

Zhou He looked at it for a while, not knowing how to complain, but he just took a step towards that direction. After walking for about ten minutes, he finally arrived at the entrance of the command center which covered an area of ​​about a thousand square meters.

While walking, he looked around at the surroundings of the headquarters. The headquarters faced a bay with a large internal area but a relatively narrow entrance. The other three directions were surrounded by high mountains in the distance. Even a half-baked "Azure player" like him could see that this terrain was a perfect location for a military port.

"What's going on here?"

Zhou He touched his chin. He didn't get many prompts from the system. When he activated the system just now, he realized that this was the game system of Azur Lane. There were even subtle cutscene reminders such as "Pay attention to self-protection, arrange game time reasonably, and enjoy a healthy life", making him feel like he was playing a game.

Unable to figure it out, he gave up thinking, reached out, pushed open the door of the building and walked in. The entrance hall was very empty. Perhaps because there were no people, the temperature inside was a little low, causing Zhou He, who was wearing a short-sleeved shirt, to rub his arms unconsciously.

After entering the unfamiliar building, Zhou He instinctively explored and visited it. Unfortunately, most of the rooms were empty. The only useful things on the first floor were the kitchen, canteen and a large bathhouse. There were a lot of prepared vegetables and meat in the kitchen refrigerator. As for the bathhouse, it could also use hot water. Zhou He felt a little relieved that he didn't have to worry about living problems for the time being.

Judging from the furniture such as 'long table', 'chairs', 'bed' and 'wardrobe', the rooms on the second floor of the building are roughly the bedroom and meeting room areas.

After wasting a lot of time, Zhou He came to the third floor. There were three rooms on the third floor, namely "dormitory", "office" and "reception room".

"This is it."

Zhou He pushed open the door of the office and saw the empty bookshelves on the left and right sides of the wall and the desk at the back. The highlight was the white navy hat with gold embellishments on the desk.

Without any hesitation, Zhou He walked up, picked up the navy cap, put it on his head and adjusted the direction. It felt very fitting and comfortable.

Before he could walk to the glass behind the desk to admire his handsomeness, the system interface was projected directly onto the glass, and the words "Mission Accomplished" were crossed out in front of "Go to the Command Center to take up your post."

The next second the system interface split into two, giving two options for the initial ship:

On the left is the manual selection of one of the traditional three starter ships, namely Laffey, Javelin, Z23 and Ayanami, as the starting ship.

On the right, a destroyer from many camps is randomly selected as the initial ship.

“Self-selected and random?”

Zhou He stopped stroking his bangs, squinted his eyes and looked through the window at the distant mountains and the dense forests at the foot of the mountain.

In Azur Lane, ships are divided into multiple levels from white to color. The differences in stats and skills cannot be said to be huge, but there is some flavor to it.

But games are games, he is sure that he is now in reality, and the strength and role of the ship girls, at least the destroyers, will not be too different, so what he should consider is whether the personality of the ship girls can complement his.

He is not good at speaking, and Laffey and Lingbo, who need him to take the initiative, are obviously not suitable to be his initial ships. Z23 and Javelin can be considered... but given the serious personalities of these two, he is not sure whether his level of commander, which is not even half-baked, can handle them.

As he was thinking, his eyes drifted to the 'Random' column.

The four-choice option is very cost-effective, but if it is reduced to two-choice option, and then compared with the randomness of wireless possibilities, it seems a bit weak.

With his thoughts scattered and unable to suppress his urge to take risks, Zhou He, who randomly chose the right side, suddenly realized: as long as he made a decision, he would be able to communicate face to face with the ship girls whom he could only communicate through the screen before. His mood instantly became subtle.

"Do you really want to do this?"

Zhou He calmed down and pulled out a chair and sat down, clasping his hands together and resting his chin with his fingers crossed, his eyes flickering.

In the game, he made a promise to Laffi and Ling Bo. These two could be said to be the two ships that had accompanied him in his gaming life for the longest time. He should have a deeper understanding of these two.

After pondering for a long time, Zhou He felt that he was somewhat sick. When he played Azure, he just pulled the KanColle Frame into the team to attack, and made a vow when the favor was high. He couldn't even remember a few words of the vow voice. He still had the nerve to talk about his deep understanding. He had no shame at all.

What he knew about the ship girls was nothing more than their portraits and names, and not many of them knew their background and historical stories.

"Sure enough, I'm not even half-baked."

After determining his own symptoms, Zhou He's gaze fell on the randomly selected initial ship on the right. The port location and the command center prepared for him by the game system were very consistent with his needs, so he should also understand what kind of initial ship he needed.

“I choose random draw.”

Zhou He said so.

boom!

The open office door suddenly closed. The loud crash scared Zhou He and he looked up subconsciously.

Boom!

Immediately followed by the second sound, the door was pushed open forcefully, and a beautiful figure appeared at the door and walked in with a lovely smile. Zhou He was stunned and glanced at the system screen. The candidate for the initial ship had already been determined, and she was no different from the girl who appeared in front of him.

"I am the fourth ship of the Shiratsuyu class, Yudachi!"

Dressed similarly to the one in the game and radiating vitality, Yudachi walked to the desk, resting his hands on it while speaking, then folded his arms together, half leaned against the edge of the desk, tilted his head and stared at Zhou He with shining eyes: "I don't know what secretary ship means, but if you want to fight, leave it to me, I'm very strong!"

"Well, I see."

Zhou He was so numbed by Yuli's stare that he didn't realize that he could understand Ying Yu at all. He raised his hand and pushed the non-existent frame and nodded again: "I understand."

"?"

Yudachi blinked and nodded in agreement: "Yeah."

...

Two idiots.

Chapter 2: A New Life and a Game

Looking at Yuli who was looking around in the office like a curious baby, Zhou He felt unspeakable emotions in his heart.

It only took him about an hour from traveling through time to taking office as the 'commander', which made him feel unreal. However, whether it was the girl in front of him, the comfortable chair under his buttocks, the desk at the perfect height, or the sunlight shining in, he could not find any flaws.

"Is it all I can do?"

Zhou He rubbed the hair on his cheeks with his fingers, let out an inaudible sigh, then put his hands on the table and stood up.

"!"

His standing up caught Yudachi's attention. The girl, who looked like a cute puppy, immediately stopped sharpening her claws on the corner of the bookshelf, put her hands behind her back, and faced Zhou He seriously: "Commander, do you have any orders?"

"Hmm? I guess so."

Zhou He was surprised by Xi Li's reaction speed. He could only pretend to stand beside the table. He pressed his right hand on the table and said, "To be honest, I just arrived at this headquarters not long ago. I don't know much about the marine terrain around the port site and the dangerous situation at sea..."

As he spoke, he glanced at the system that changed into a game-like interface again after selecting the initial ship, locked on the attack option and continued: "In short, I hope that you, Yudachi, will go out to sea to conduct a preliminary survey around the island. It would be best if you could survey the ocean conditions around the port area. The specific scope will be controlled by you, Yudachi, is that okay?"

To be honest, this was the first time in his twenty years of life that he gave orders to others, let alone in a field he was completely unfamiliar with. He had a hard time choosing words.

"It's just to scout the terrain, right? Got it!"

Zhou He's words were easy to understand, and Xi Li even gave a summary. She then walked to the door and turned back to wave at Zhou He with full energy: "I'm leaving!"

Infected by the girl's positive attitude, Zhou He smiled and nodded at her: "Go, be careful."

With the sound of footsteps, Yuli left the office, leaving Zhou He in deep thought.

Before crossing over, Zhou He was an ordinary person from an ordinary rural family. He dropped out of school after high school and entered society. Due to his personality, he was not very adaptable to the factory environment and system, so after accumulating some savings, he chose the career of "novel writer" and began to study it. Although he has not made any achievements yet, he has also accumulated a lot of knowledge and habits that he does not need at all - such as pretending to be a "serious ship girl commander" as if nothing had happened.

"Well, the system assigned Yudachi to me as the starting ship for a reason. Did it think that I, a half-baked person, needed to be polished? Or was it that the ship girl who was more suitable for me was not a destroyer, so it gave me a simple and obedient destroyer?"

Zhou He understood time travel, and while thinking, he focused his attention on the system panel: it was similar to the original game, but without the supply bar, activity box and secretary ship portrait, leaving seven functions: "dock", "warehouse", "home", "scientific research", "mission", "construction" and "attack".

He is an old player, and he looked at the function items one by one. There was only Yudachi's portrait in the dock, and there was nothing in the warehouse. The home seemed to be integrated with the living area in the game, where one can use "home coins" to buy daily necessities, food, fruits, clothes, house decorations and furniture, all kinds of messy facilities, and even directly buy overall house kits of different styles.

“…This system is more powerful than I thought.”

Zhou He silently flipped through the various items in the home store, ranging from needles and thread to castles. The prices - he didn't know the source of the home coins so he didn't comment for now.

However, considering the level of black technology in the game Azur Lane, this level is reasonable.

Switching to the scientific research interface, he saw the option of scientific research ship. It was a scientific research ship that was both unfamiliar and familiar to him, but the development conditions had changed. In the game, a scientific research ship could be developed with experience + magic cubes + gold coins and some blueprints, but here it became 'After choosing to develop, the fleet needs to defeat 100 sirens of the same type + 10 magic cubes + required component configurations + research and development blueprints'.

Zhou He, who was penniless, looked at the monarch, the emperor, and then at his wife and the research ship he had promised to meet in the game, and his mood became even more complicated.

He now only has the destroyer Yudachi, and it is too difficult for him to jump to the next level and challenge heavy cruisers and battleships.

"We'll see when we meet the enemy next time."

Zhou He thought so and took another look at the ship equipment development, which he didn't quite understand. Finally, he focused on the "META Follower" option which even he found outrageous.

Yes, this is a ship development project of the 'Black' series, also known as the Embers series, but here it is also different from the game. It is not that you name a meta ship and then hit her madly to drop points and then get it, but a 'passive skill'.

'After turning on the META Follower function, you can radiate attraction according to the prosperity of the port area, so that ships trapped in other worlds who are about to fall into despair can see the existence of this place, giving them the desire to live and come here on their own.'

This is the prompt after turning on follower mode.

“…Awesome.”

Zhou He read it over and over again. What this meant was that as long as he managed the port well enough, the more attraction it would exude, the more meta ship girls would be able to see it, and the greater his chance of getting a meta ship.

But it also has nothing to do with now.

He lowered his head and pinched his brows. After calming down, he opened the task options, and three tasks popped up:

① Fleet attacks, defeats the Siren flagship from the sea, reward: Mind Cube x1

②Healthy life Every day, for every ship in the port area, you can receive the corresponding number of home coins on the mission day - you can receive

③ Explore this mysterious ocean, discover and occupy a Siren base, rewards: random research and development drawings + random ship parts

The random corresponding icon is '? '.

"Yeah, yeah, I understand how to play this game."

After seeing the mission, Zhou He completely understood it and nodded with a sunny smile.

This system exudes an aura of being in a hurry, whether it is the various functions or tasks. Whether it is the development of the port area or the increase of the ship girls, it will take a lot of time to advance.

And now that he has traveled to this world, the thing he has the most is time!

"Even if I achieve all the ships in the game, I'll only get a few compliments at best. I don't know if I can achieve all the ships in the real world in my lifetime~"

Zhou He clasped his hands together, suppressed his impetuous mood, took a deep breath, and set a small goal for himself.

Not until he thought he had completely calmed down did he half-squinted his eyes and cast his gaze towards the final attack option. The screen instantly completed the stretched switch, and he saw a gray map that was divided into countless pieces like the big world in the game. There was only a bright building object in the center with an anchor symbol on its head, and almost overlapping with the building was the 3D figurine of Yudachi.

“This map…”

Zhou He grinned. Although he knew that this was not the big world in the game, he still couldn't help but pray in his heart: Please don't have any Sirens of level 100 or above invading blocks near his home.