Revisiting Azur Lane

"Purifier you ***!!!"

These were the last words spoken by the subject after being backstabbed.

Chapter 141 Convenient New Features

At the moment when the tester was chased and shot down by Xuefeng, the mirror world quickly collapsed. Zhou He in the port area did not feel much, but the senses of those who were attacking outside were very strong, especially Xuefeng. She was in the midst of war in the last second, and the surroundings became calm in the next second. Such a contrast made her a little dazed.

In comparison, the aircraft carriers that only saw a large number of Sirens disappear had the weakest visual impact and soon realized that the mirror sea had been lifted. Compared to this, what they cared more about was what happened to the Snow Wind Expedition testers.

"Sister Xianghe, do you think there will be conflicts among the Sirens?"

Zuikaku asked Shokaku in a low voice, when they were fighting with the testers just now, the fleet led by the Purifiers also launched an attack on the fleet led by the testers, so that the battle that was originally going to be very difficult became as easy as a formality.

But will the Sirens also have a civil war?

"Not sure. The question now is, the Purifier didn't attack us. Should we let her go?"

Xianghe also frowned slightly. Her carrier-based aircraft had already arrived above the Purifier in the East Fourth District. Since there were no Sirens nearby, even in the evening, it was still easy to find the fleeing Purifier.

"Well, you'll have to ask the commander that question."

Zuikaku touched his hair, not sure what to do. Normally, when faced with such a situation where there were differences of opinion, Zhou He's instructions would have been passed on immediately. This time, there were no precise instructions. Perhaps he had agreed to let the Purifier go?

——In fact, Zhou He's current attention is not on the Purifiers. The moment the mirror sea collapsed, the system's attack map changed back to the grid-by-grid state of the big world. When he entered the overall map interface, he suddenly discovered that Bismarck and his party were actually in the South Third District, only a few nautical miles away from the "Human Port Area" he had been thinking about for a long time. There were not even any sirens around, and it was very safe.

So after a brief consideration, he ordered Bismarck to 'march and explore'. When he saw the little people they symbolized approaching the wild port area, he remembered that there were other people waiting for orders. He switched his attention to Yukikaze, and after discovering that there were no sirens, he asked her to 'return'. At the same time, he gave Shokaku the order to 'send aircraft to explore the southern third area'.

"I don't know what the Purifier is up to, but let's let her go for now."

After completing the order, Zhou He had time to recall how the Purifier helped Xuefeng beat the tester, but he didn't think too deeply about it. In the future, he would have to deal with the Purifier many times, and if the other party had any special ideas, he would know it clearly when she put them forward.

"As for this builder, if Akashi determines that her body has no research value, should he just buy a petri dish or a sleeping chamber for her to preserve as a collection?"

Zhou He came to the Builder's body for the Nth time, looking at the intact Builder's body. He had never experienced adding Siren to the 'collection' in the game, but now he could experience it for himself. This was definitely a VIP paid gameplay, right?

It would be nice if it was alive.

He was a little greedy, but he also knew that this was impossible, so after fantasizing about it in his mind, he shifted his attention to the South Third District. During the few minutes he was thinking, Bismarck and others had arrived near the Wild Port Area and landed on the island under his gaze.

Jingle bell bell~

The familiar yet unfamiliar sound of wind chimes rang in Zhou He's ears, and he instantly realized that the system had activated a new function. At the same time, he saw that the port icon of the wild port area had turned blue, and the black area in the South Third Area that had not been explored was instantly lit up, which was very relaxing.

'It seems that this place is the system's preferred second port area choice.'

Zhou He was amazed and skillfully focused his attention on the port icon. Five seconds later, three options popped up: "Map", "Development" and "Projection".

As he had plenty of time, he looked at them one by one and clicked on the map option. The interface directly switched to an electronic map. In the center was a long island running from north to south. Its topography could be clearly seen from the map. In addition to this island, there were other islands displayed to its north, northwest and south. There was only one isolated island in the north, two adjacent islands of different sizes in the northwest, and an island cluster formed by many small islands in the south.

"This map, could it be..."

Zhou He first took a cursory look, and when he took a closer look the second time, an idea suddenly occurred to him, and he came to a conclusion based on the distances between several islands: the two islands to the northwest might be the West Fourth District occupied by the Sirens and built into a regular combat base. The island to the north was farther away than the island to the northwest, and was most likely the simple "Siren Base" he had discovered before.

From South District 3 to North District 2, there is a distance of nearly 150 nautical miles. The islands in the south are even farther away. By comparison, it can be judged that they are 200 nautical miles away. This is actually a map of a sea area with a diameter of nearly 500 nautical miles! There are also many reefs and trench areas marked on it.

Found a treasure!

Zhou He was so happy that he planned to take some time to hand-draw the map for his own ship girls to refer to, and then closed the map and entered the "Development" option. The interface was directly switched to the ruins of the destroyed port area of ​​the island. Just like the home in the game, he could use the options to directly place the buildings and equipment purchased in the home mall here.

Very practical function.

After a brief study, Zhou He exited the development interface and selected the final 'Projection' option. A warning popped up directly: 'Are you sure you want to perform mental projection? During the projection, the subject will enter an unconscious state. Please be prepared for protection to avoid injury.'

"Hiss, this projection, isn't it the function I imagined?"

This time Zhou He was really shocked. He looked around and finally lay down on the bench by the dock. He closed his eyes, selected projection again, and selected OK under the warning entry.

……

Unlike the perfect terrain of Zhou He's family, the wild port area was built on a relatively flat area next to a towering cliff. Unlike the rough plan of Zhou He's family, this is a very well-planned wartime military port. However, at this time, only broken walls are left in this port area, which is much worse than the Siren Base in the North Second District. Not even a wall higher than three meters is left. Weeds are growing among the rubble, and even human skeletons in tattered military uniforms can be seen under the collapsed walls.

"How tragic! The garrison in this port must have chosen to evacuate after a difficult resistance."

Everyone who had set foot in this port area could not help but frown at the tragic scene. Cleveland, who was bold and careful, walked to a skeleton and squatted down to identify the clothes on his body. After a long time, he stood up and said solemnly: "The military uniform is similar to the White Eagle uniform I remember, but there are some differences. I can't be sure."

"So we are near America?"

Hood was still thinking about finding the mainland. Cleveland's speech made her eyes light up slightly. She walked closer and observed the extremely worn military uniform. It was a pity that she could not find any patterns or symbols representing the camp on it.

"Keep looking inside, maybe you'll find more."

Bismarck just took a glance and then looked away. This was not their Iron Blood design style. It was now 2051 in the Eastern Huang calendar, and a full years had passed since the Bismarck sank. However, she was confident that no matter how much time passed, the Iron Blood design style would not become so bad.

Soon, the crowd began to disperse and explore the ruins of the port area. Among the several camps, the people of the Sakura Empire were the least nervous. Yuudachi ran around and jumped around like he was playing. In contrast, Ayanami was much quieter and followed the main group.

"It's been destroyed so thoroughly this time that I'm afraid it will be hard to find anything useful for us."

The area of ​​this port area is not small. After walking for a while, Shentong, who was following Kaga and Tosa, looked up at the sky which was gradually getting darker. Now was also not a suitable time for exploration.

"Yuudachi! Don't run so far alone!"

In front of the team, Ashigara looked at Yuudachi who seemed to have discovered something and started running straight into the depths of the port area, and hurriedly called out, but Yuudachi seemed not to have heard him and continued to go deeper.

"Troublesome guy."

Tosa, who had been doing nothing, looked at Yudachi upon hearing that, sighed, took two steps forward, said "I'll go look after her", then lowered his body, sped up, and shuttled through the ruins. In the blink of an eye, he and Yudachi disappeared.

"As expected of my sister."

Seeing this, Kaga was not anxious at all. Instead, he chuckled as if he understood it and praised Tosa, so much so that Shentong's eyes twitched next to him.

-

"Where have you been?"

After running with Yuudachi for a while, Tosa found that she had lost him. She had no choice but to find a collapsed cone-shaped wall nearby and jumped up to look around. Only then did she spot Yuudachi, but what attracted her attention more was Zhou He who was patting Yuudachi's head.

"what?"

Tosa rubbed her eyes, and after confirming that it was Zhou He, her eyes instantly turned cold. She turned her eyes to find the best approach route and leaped, turning into a silver-gray shadow and crossing the obstacle of more than 20 meters. With the flashing of silver light and the fluttering of dust, she put the drawn knife on Zhou He's neck, and with her other hand directly grabbed Yudachi's collar and pulled her over, staring at Zhou He coldly: "You actually disguised yourself like this, who are you?"

"..."

Zhou He only felt his eyes blurred, and Yudachi was grabbed away, with a knife on his neck. He immediately raised his hands in panic: "Don't do it, don't do it, I am the real me. This is my new special technology. I can project myself into the port area occupied by you."

"? You're pretending pretty well...? Sorry, I was just too anxious."

Tosa responded coldly and wanted to mock him, but he received a direct "instruction" from Zhou He. The content was exactly the same as the explanation of the person in front of him. His expression instantly restrained. He let go of Yudachi, sheathed the knife, and bowed his head to apologize to Zhou He.

"It's okay. This is my first time trying this technique too. It's understandable that you don't know."

Zhou He wiped the cold sweat from his head and forgave Tosa with a smile - but this sudden check also made Zhou He realize Tosa's vigilance. He was as reliable as he looked.

"Commander, since you have come here in person, you should be able to see that this port area does not mean much to us."

Tosa glanced sideways and moved to Zhou He's side. She had just looked from a high place and saw that there was indeed no complete equipment left here. If she had to say something, the current situation of this port area had sounded the alarm for her. Facing the defeat of the Sirens, this would be the only fate waiting for them.

"Not now, but there will be some in the future."

Zhou He smiled. The sea map alone was already a huge gain. From the map, there would not be a second Siren military base within at least three hundred nautical miles. This place was very close to the Siren base. After breaking through that place, they could use this place as a temporary stronghold and gradually explore the base.

Tosa didn't respond. What mattered to her was only the present. Words like "later" were too empty and she didn't like them.

"I've roughly looked around here. It's getting late. You should return home."

Zhou He didn't say much. After taking a look at the sky, he stroked Xili's ear, called out the system and exited the projection state.

In the sight of Tosa and the other man, Zhou He turned into a point of light and floated away.

"The commander is getting more and more powerful!"

Yudachi's cheeks were flushed, and her eyes were full of admiration for Zhou He. Tosa mercilessly raised his hand and poked her forehead, frowning and saying seriously: "Even if you recognized the commander, you shouldn't leave the team alone like this. If the commander just now was a Siren in disguise, wouldn't you be walking into a trap alone? Now you are not just living for yourself, even for the commander, you must always be vigilant. If something happens to you, how can we go back to see the commander with dignity? Can the commander accept the fact that you are dead?"

"Goo, sorry."

Yudachi's eyebrows were furrowed by what Tosa said. She hated being lectured the most, but she had to admit that what Tosa said was right. She had no room for rebuttal and apologized honestly.

"That's good to know. The commander is home alone. We should go back."

Tosa knew when to stop, withdrew his palm and led the way back, while Yudachi followed behind with his hands covering his forehead. Soon the two of them joined Haguro, Ashigara and others who had approached, and conveyed Zhou He's order to "return home".

"What did you just find?"

On the way back, Ashigara asked Yudachi curiously, and the latter pouted and told the truth: "I found the commander."

"..."

Ashigara touched his hair and asked tentatively, "Are there ghosts here that can let people see their close ones?"

"It's the commander's projection."

Tosa put on a stern face and ended the topic of the supernatural phenomenon directly.

"Hey, is it the commander himself who is here?"

Ashigara opened her eyes wide. She didn't mention Yudachi, but Tosa would definitely not lie, so she couldn't help but praise him: "You can even do such a thing. You are worthy of being the commander."

"..."

Shentong and Kaga were silent, and the latter approached and asked quietly, "Really?"

"real."

Tosa's eyes twitched and he gave up thinking.

Chapter 142: Troubles That Aren’t Troubles

When the ship girls returned to the port, it was already very dark, but there were still people standing guard and waiting under the lighthouse.

"It's fine to operate near home, but if you want to expand outward, you still have to rely on strongholds."

Looking at the girls galloping on the sea under the moonlight, Zhou He thought secretly.

As early as when Bismarck and others just started to return, Shokaku and others near the port area had already returned home. Now that they have expanded outward to the third and fourth areas, each outward exploration will spend a lot of time on the road.

"Forget it, let's talk about it later."

Seeing that Yuli, who was eager to go home, had reached the shore, Zhou He put aside his questions and walked forward to greet him with a smile.

In this "bad omen event", Zhou He completed the emergency mission and the mirror sea exploration mission. Including the daily combat mission, he obtained nine mind cubes alone. With the previous reserves, the total number reached a terrifying seventeen.

Next are three self-selected furniture boxes and several design drawings. Not to mention the invisible reward of upping the attractiveness of the meta ship, the most important thing is to unconditionally unlock the material progress of a scientific research ship. Zhou He actually doesn't quite understand the term unlocking material progress, but this term only applies to materials. Therefore, he considered the difficulty of obtaining and the current situation of the camp in his own port, and chose the heavy cruiser 'Anchorage' from White Eagle to unlock from the light cruiser, heavy cruiser and super cruiser.

It's not that he didn't want to choose other people, but the main reason was that although his White Eagle camp seemed to have a lot of people, in fact, except for destroyers and light cruisers, they jumped directly to aircraft carriers. There were no backbones such as heavy cruisers and battleships. Even if they wanted to form their own team, the firepower would be slightly insufficient. Therefore, compared with the Royal Cheshire, the Sakura Empire's Azuma, and the Iron-Blooded Hindenburg, choosing Anchorage was more in line with the needs of the camp.

Of course, the most important thing is that Anbao is very obedient and easier to arrange.

After completing the selection, he knew the purpose of this reward: ten magic cubes and the required ship parts and design drawings were waived, leaving the only condition for Anchorage to appear in the world was to "sink 100 heavy cruisers."

In addition to the mission rewards, the Bad Omen also dealt with all the Siren fleets that followed into the Mirror Sea. There was not a single Siren to be seen within a hundred miles of Zhou Hejia Port, and the Siren blockade on them was also lifted.

Adding on the gain of 'Builder', Zhou He could only say that he made a lot of money, and hoped that Siren would do the same next time.

……

"cheers!"

Under the moonlight, the Manju Restaurant, which had reopened after two days, was brightly lit and bustling with activity. More than 30 ship girls plus Zhou He gathered there to raise their glasses (to juice) to celebrate. There was no sound of cups clinking, only laughter and conversation that followed.

The failure of the Siren blockade plan, the failure of the Mirror Sea plan and the defeat of the ominous entity, these three consecutive victories became the hottest topics at this moment. For example, Yudachi held a piece of juice and naturally showed off how many Sirens and ominous entities she had defeated in front of Yukikaze, Ayanami, and Haguro. She was very proud and happy. Haguro clapped very cooperatively, and Ayanami also followed suit. As later members, they were indeed not as brave and good at fighting as Yudachi.

Only Xuefeng just glanced at her and then quietly held the cup to drink juice and enjoy the food.

Compared to the open-minded Sakura Empire camp, members of other camps were much more reserved. For example, Ms. Hood did not publicize her achievements too much, but calmly asked Jinqu to record the battle afterwards. Compared with the previous ones, this battle could barely be called a difficult one and was worthy of being included in her resume.

There were not many people in the Iron Blood group. Bismarck, Spee and others were very quiet. Only U556 ran to Zhou He to protest why there was only juice. She wanted to be a mature adult and drink beer!

After being denied by Zhou He who smiled and touched his head, he said, "We are just getting started. If we start drinking now, how can we upgrade the experience of the celebration party in the future?"

"What a shame."

Because she had not participated in many battles, Zuikaku wisely stayed away from the lively crowd and sat opposite Zhou He by the window, supporting her chin with one hand: "In such a fierce battle, no new ship girl was born."

"Yes, but I heard that the ominous entities disappeared immediately after being defeated, without even leaving any remains of their bodies. It is really hard to imagine that new life can be born from their death."

Zhou He had no regrets, as he had too many Rubik's Cubes in his hands. Even if no ships were dropped on him, he could quickly replenish his combat power. His next goal was to capture the Siren Base in the West Fourth District that continuously produced Siren warships. Tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, he would prepare to build a round to try.

He looked at Zuikaku, whose temperament had slightly improved under the bright lights, then tilted his head to look at the bustling crowd and smiled: "It's hard to imagine that not long ago, there were only a few people in our port area."