Revisiting Azur Lane

"Yes."

Bismarck unnoticeably smoothed the wet clothes with his hand and organized his words a little: "After unfolding the ship suit, we will enter a state synchronized with the ship suit. All aspects of our physical fitness will be improved to varying degrees. Even if we are hit head-on by the enemy's shells, our bodies will not be penetrated and exploded. At most, we will be seriously injured and fall to the ground."

"?"

This was the first time Zhou He had heard of such an important matter. No wonder Xuefeng was able to escape from the sirens pile without getting hurt.

But if you calculate it this way, as long as his ship girl improves the stats, she might even be able to take on the main gun head-on without any damage in the future?

The level suppression in the game is actually like this in the real world.

Chapter 145 Zhou is a Siren (?)

Zhou He was quite interested in the 'dismantling' work of the builders, and followed Akashi's crawler forklift all the way to another empty workshop that had not yet been put into use.

It is said to be empty because there are no large machines piled up here, but the basic robotic arms and construction platforms are there. Moreover, in the middle of the workshop, you can see a lot of mechanical parts piled up. Some are semi-finished products with rough appearance, and some are pure circuit boards. There are also many circuit diagrams and design drawings on the wall.

"Is this a sensitive working area?"

Zhou He glanced at Mingshi who jumped off the forklift to study how to place the Builder's body, and went to the area where parts were piled up in a polygon formed by tables of different heights. At a glance, he saw a product abandoned under the table. It was the same product with 80% imaging as the drone sent by Lingmin. It seemed that the wings had been modified to make it more portable.

"Yes, this is my research institute. How about it? Doesn't it feel great?"

A voice filled with pride and vitality came from the entrance, causing Zhou He, who was about to go in to try out the new drone, to pause. He turned around and saw Lingmin himself, wearing huge goggles and a white windbreaker. The latter walked over and waved at Zhou He with a smile on his face, "Commander, welcome to my workshop. I plan to make some mechanical toys myself and sell them in the port area. Commander, if you have any good ideas, please remember to let me know."

"Yeah, how about an aircraft carrier that can fly in the sky?"

Zhou He personally didn't know much about mechanical structures, but there were many things he could talk about without him having to do anything. He immediately said a few things: "Or a pitching machine that can put tennis balls in it and automatically shoot them out according to the set time, or a mechanical animal that can move."

"Hey, hey, hey, stop, let me remember it!"

Lingmin didn't expect Zhou He to start proposing without thinking. She rushed over and jumped into the table. She took out a small blue notebook and began to record the projects Zhou He just mentioned. After finishing, she put the pen behind the flying aircraft carrier and looked up at Zhou He: "Commander, I just checked the two aircraft carriers. There is basically no damage on the outside, but some small parts on the island are faulty. I have ruled it out. The bigger problem is inside the engine room. The number of carrier-based aircraft on the two aircraft carriers is less than half, and they need to be replenished."

"Really, please."

Zhou He nodded. He did not do much management for these boats he built. He had not even maintained the patrol boat at the beginning. It was not because he was lazy. One reason was that he did not know how to maintain it. More importantly, he could not handle all those things by himself. He had the idea of ​​"tear down and rebuild if it is old or broken".

However, as for the problem of replenishing carrier-based aircraft, he can replenish them through the system's dock supply vouchers, but - normally, the carrier-based aircraft of the ship girl should have higher technical content than the normal carrier-based aircraft of the aircraft carrier, but the system's judgment seems to not take technical content into account at all. When the two aircraft carriers 0102 were replenished, the replenishment vouchers consumed were five times that of Shokaku and others. Shokaku and others used up half of their carrier-based aircraft, which required about 5 replenishment vouchers, while No. 01 needed nearly 25, which is twenty-five lives of Sirens.

He thought the cost-effectiveness was too poor, so he did not provide full supplies to the two aircraft carriers for the time being. It would not be too late to supply them later when they were needed.

"Compared to this, how is your research in that area going?"

Leaving aside the topic of aircraft carrier supplies, Zhou He found an empty space on the table, leaned one hand on it, and asked Lingmin in a mysterious tone, so much so that Hermione, who followed over, looked suspicious and listened attentively.

"Ha! Commander, don't worry. Akashi and I have already figured out the solution to that problem, and we'll be able to enter the testing phase soon."

Ling Min also understood very well. She leaned close to Zhou He and lowered her voice deliberately. During this time, her long golden hair combed into a ponytail fluttered in front of Zhou He, making him have the urge to grab it and touch it. He suppressed it and smiled: "Please, you are right."

"Of course, this little problem is easy to solve."

He half-squinted his sensitive eyes and glanced at Zhou He: "If you have any needs in the future, Commander, just tell me and I will ensure that it is completed."

"Lingmin, Commander, what are you talking about meow, Lingmin, help me control the robotic arm meow, and separate the 'person' from it first meow."

Mingshi studied the builder alone for a long time, but finally he was exhausted and couldn't do it without help. He came back and interrupted Zhou He and the others' funny cooperation, pointing at the builder's body and said.

"This thing is made of top-quality materials. The data stored in the ship's equipment belongs to you, and the rest belongs to me. Is that ok?"

Lingmin took a quick look and did not agree directly, but discussed it with Akashi.

In response, Akashi shook his head, his tone and expression very serious: "I also need the materials and weapons from her machine for research, meow. Give me the data, and then split the whole thing in half, meow."

"make a deal!"

Lingmin agreed. She made an 'watch it' expression to Zhou He and followed Mingshi to tinker with the Builder machine. Zhou He took the opportunity to pick up Lingmin's notebook and open it to see what designs there were. As a result, when he opened it, he saw Beilian characters all over the place. The handwriting was very beautiful, but he couldn't understand a single word. He retreated tactically, closed the notebook silently and put it back in its place.

"Commander? What is the research you were discussing just now?"

Watching Zhou He fiddling with the mechanical items on the sensitive table with great interest, Hermione hesitated for a moment and then walked over and asked in a low voice.

Based on rational thinking, she understood that the research Zhou He was doing would definitely not be anything dangerous, but she just couldn't help but want to know out of curiosity.

"It is a semi-automatic search and interception system for land-based armed forces."

Zhou He picked up a 20-centimeter-long black cylindrical lever, held it in the middle and shook it, then answered Hermione with a smile: "At first, my idea was to rely on land forces to make up for our lack of numbers, but I didn't expect the Sirens to be unable to find our port area. However, this technology can be used later to produce land forces after the establishment of the second port area to help guard against the invasion of the Sirens, so I didn't stop it."

"I see. I am being presumptuous."

Hermione suddenly realized that she knew about this research project - but with Zhou He's mysterious look, she really couldn't guess that it was this project.

Facing Hermione, who puffed up her cheeks and didn't even realize she was angry, Zhou He thought for a moment, put down the little thing in his hand, and stepped closer to Hermione's ear: "This way of communicating is a little fun for me. Next time, I will take the initiative to explain the situation to you, Hermione."

"Well."

Hermione was a little caught off guard, but she just blinked and adjusted herself. She didn't even distance herself from Zhou He, and smiled and admitted her mistake face to face with him, "Hermione was rude. It is the responsibility of a personal maid to satisfy the master's personal interests. Please punish me, Commander."

The maid was fearless, but Zhou He couldn't stand it anymore. He stepped back half a step, stood up straight and coughed softly: "There's no need to punish you. Just call me master a few more times and I'll forgive you."

"The Commander is as gentle as ever."

Hermione was smiling while speaking, but Zhou He felt something was wrong. However, before he could figure it out, he heard Hermione's soft words. When he looked up, he saw the girl looking at him with gentle and tolerant eyes: "Master~"

"Because it's not a common name, the words are a little unfamiliar. How do you feel, Master?"

Hermione looked at Zhou He who seemed to be hit by the petrification debuff, and couldn't help but smile.

"Uh, it's hard to describe. Just call me Commander for now."

Zhou He narrowed his eyes, turned around and covered his heart with his hands. Just these two sounds made his heart's ability to withstand stress increase again, and on the spiritual level it was like opening the door to a new world.

'I can't stand it'

He screamed in his heart, if Hermione had called him "Master" twice when she was helping him take a bath, he might have just gone soft and got in by himself without any help.

This way of shouting is too exciting and too immoral. It is too dangerous whether it is done publicly or privately, and it is life-threatening.

"..."

Hermione looked at Zhou He's slightly flustered back and felt happy. It turned out that it was not because she was not charming enough, nor was it because Zhou He was not interested in her, but because his method was not used correctly.

"Ahem! Please do your flirting in private. Commander, come over here and see how this is handled."

While the two were struggling here, Lingmin and Akashi had already fixed the Builder's body upright on the work platform with a mechanical arm. However, the hearing of the ship girl was very amazing. The whispered communication between Zhou He and the others was equivalent to a loud conspiracy within ten meters, which made her a little uncomfortable.

"Deal with what?"

Zhou He quickly approached the two people as if he had been saved. After being pointed at by them, he quickly understood that she was talking about the honeycomb shield that protected the Builder's body. After thinking for a while, he said, "Leave enough for research, break the rest, get the people inside out first, and slowly disassemble the rest for research. You should be more professional than me in this."

"That's the point, Akashi, can you break this thing?"

After confirming Zhou He's idea, Lingmin asked Mingshi that her cutting equipment could be used on ordinary materials, but she probably couldn't handle the thing in front of her.

"Of course, meow."

A proud smile appeared on Akashi's small face. He reached into his large sleeves and pulled out a metal device that looked like a pistol. It had no magazine, a long gun body, and was silver-gray with red lines.

"This is the laser cutting gun that I took out from the warehouse of the Siren Base. I found it in the database, meow."

The little cat took the initiative and asked Zhou He and others to help carry a table over. She stood on tiptoe so that she could barely reach the upper shield of the Builder, and then started the cutting gun. A multi-colored beam of light nearly half a meter long hissed out from the muzzle. It was so bright and dazzling that the specific color could not be distinguished. Zhou He and Hermione squinted and looked away, and put on goggles swiftly. Mingshi above also put on a mask and began to cut according to the intersection area of ​​the honeycomb shield.

The cutting process was not smooth. The Builder's honeycomb shield of unknown origin took several minutes to be penetrated under the burning of the laser. It took nearly half an hour just to cut out a hole that could accommodate a 1-5 meter tall girl. During this period, sparks and lightning crackled. Zhou He was worried at first that the Builder would be injured, but thinking about what Bismarck said, as long as the ship was installed and the synchronized people were also very strong, he took Hermione out for a walk without worry, strolled around the dock, and at the same time confirmed that Shokaku and the others who were out did not fight with the driving team sent by the Siren, but turned back early and were on their way back.

Most importantly, Zhou He asked Xianghe whether they had sunk Siren's aircraft carrier, and the answer was no.

"The Siren's shell is really hard. The density of anti-aircraft guns near the aircraft carrier is ridiculous. Aircraft can't dive or get close at all."

This was what Zuikaku said after he discovered the video call and came over to curse.

They failed to sink the Siren aircraft carrier, but sank nearly ten escort ships, including two heavy cruisers. Therefore, Zhou He took a look at the progress of the scientific research ship. The number of kills required by Anchorage changed from 0/100 to 2/100. If 98 heavy cruisers were sunk, it would be able to get the position of heavy cruiser scientific research ship.

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After a hole was cut in the honeycomb shield, Akashi climbed in and pushed the builder out. He sat inside and checked it out happily. Facing the builder lying in front of him, Zhou He frowned at first, then touched her arm. It was cold, just like ice in winter. The only difference was that it felt very soft. It didn't feel hard like a dead person, nor did it have the metallic touch of a robot.

"Do you think she is useful?"

After Zhou He stopped, he asked Mingshi and Lingmin. He felt good seeing the builder sitting in the ship suit, but after taking her out, he felt a little uncomfortable. Not to mention collecting her, he felt very weird just looking at her.

"That depends on what you think, Commander. The body composition of these Siren cadres is similar to ours, but they are cheaper. If you want to collect them, I suggest you capture two more alive."

Lingmin also touched it twice, and gave his own answer after thinking and analyzing.

“…Then how should we deal with this?”

Zhou He's expression tensed. How did Lingmin know that he had thought about collecting something?

"Dig a hole, cremate the body, throw the entire boat into the sea, and return it to the Siren."

Lingmin gave four solutions, all of which are reasonable.

"Let's carry it on a raft and send it to the Siren base."

Zhou He frowned. Given four choices, he certainly didn't want to let the Builders bury his own port area, and it wouldn't be reliable to send it to the Siren. Sending it for a while was already very ethical.

I was quite looking forward to it, but now I lost all interest. Maybe he is what is called "Ye Gong loves dragons more than Ye Gong loves dragons"?

Chapter 146 Thunder

It seemed that the decomposition research of the Builder's ship equipment would not be completed in a short time. After watching for a while, Zhou He took Hermione out of the production workshop and returned to the command building. They went around to the side and found several tree trunks with black bark due to rain, which seemed to be growing mushrooms.

"Let's make a simple raft out of this. The Siren should be able to help collect the bodies."

Zhou He looked at the tree trunks that he had dragged back with his own hands. There was no use keeping them here, so it would be better to let them return to nature.

After making up his mind, he went back to the warehouse in the house and found the rope in the corner. As a result, when he was leaving, Yuli, who was lying on the sofa, woke up, stretched lazily and made a comfortable sound, rubbed his eyes and sat up, just in time to see Zhou He, who was testing the toughness of his hands and pulling the rope against each other, and blinked his clear eyes.

"Eat and then sleep, be careful not to gain weight."

Zhou He muttered something casually, turned around and moved closer to the door: "Come and help me when you wake up."

"Ah, okay~"

Yudachi scratched his head, put on his shoes, and trotted after Zhou He with a smile on his face: "I thought the commander was here to kidnap me."

"You didn't do anything wrong, why would I tie you up?"

Zhou He raised the corners of his mouth. Even if Xili made a mistake, he would at most put a circle around Xili's neck to let everyone else know that Xili was domesticated. They should at least give him some face and not make things difficult for Xili.

"Then what kind of toy is the commander going to make with the rope?"

Yuli smiled, and as if she knew the destination, she ran to the place where the tree trunks were piled before Zhou He and waited. Zhou He did not hide it from her, and pointed at the trees and began to give instructions: "Yuli, you and Hermione, arrange these woods, I'm going to put together a raft."

"A raft?"

Yuli didn't know why Zhou He was doing this, but he obediently ran over to twist his arms. After Hermione arrived, the two of them lifted the pile of trees from under the eaves to the paved road and sorted them according to length. They also followed Zhou He's instructions to help him lift them when ropes were needed, and they were busy for a while.

The collective activities of the three here also attracted the attention of many passers-by, such as Ms. Hood, who had just finished afternoon tea in the Iron Blood Mansion and went out for a walk - don’t ask why they were in the Iron Blood compound, the reason is that there is a garden pavilion there, which is more elegant than other places.

In fact, there are still no Iron Blood members living in the Iron Blood mansion. Instead, Hood is very fond of this place. Therefore, Jinqu and Jarvis will come here to clean and trim the courtyard when they are free, so that this place remains fresh and elegant.

"The body of the Builder? Commander, you like it so much, I thought you would keep it."

Hood was quite surprised to learn Zhou He's purpose of doing this, while the latter squatted on the ground with a subtle expression: "Is it possible that the one I like might also be the Builder's body?"

"Besides, is that something that can be collected? It would be weird just to leave it there!"

Zhou He couldn't help muttering. He found that his own ship girl had a strange understanding of his preferences, although he did think about collecting them.

"Haha, it is a high-level Siren after all, and is worth collecting as a trophy."

Hood and Jinqu stood two steps away, not hindering Zhou He and the others from working. They touched their lips with their white-gloved fingers and smiled: "Besides, since the commander allowed us to join the port in this way, it may not be impossible to bring Siren under his command after research and development."

"..."

Zhou He's movements paused for a moment, then immediately returned to normal.

He had this idea, but his system was based on the player's perspective in the game, and there had never been a case of Sirens joining the player's dock in the game. He had tried it here - after he reached a joint cooperation with Akagi Kaga, the two sisters immediately entered his dock as temporary workers, but after reaching a cooperation agreement with the Purifier the day before yesterday, the Purifier had never appeared in his dock.

Comparing the two, it is clear that the Sirens are not within the scope of the system's "containment approval", but if you really want the Sirens to be obedient, there is a way: find out the location of their host, rewrite the data inside, and make them loyal to you.

But obviously, this is not something he can do at this stage, so he just passes it and does not consider it.

In this casual communication, Zhou He barely completed the "raft that looked not very solid". Apart from the rough binding, the raft that was supposed to be a rectangle was made into a parallelogram with burrs, but it was definitely no problem for a person to lie on it.

"It's the first time I've done this, it's almost done... Can Jinqu lend a hand?"

Zhou He stood up and clapped his hands. His eyes passed from Hood to Jinqi behind her. However, just as Jinqi was about to answer, Ms. Hood beat him to the punch. She smiled and pinched his wrist with both hands, "Commander, you can't exclude me from the labor selection just because I am regarded as the 'glory of the royal family' and usually act like a lady."