Revisiting Azur Lane

Kursk nodded slightly: "There are enemies in the south, I'll go there first."

After saying that, she turned a corner and went away with her ship. Only then did Yudachi open his eyes wide: "Commander, that person's oppression is so strong, it's a bit scary."

"Alas~ There are also people in our Yudachi family who are afraid."

Zhou He was actually a little scared, but he would never say it out loud. Instead, he teased Yuuri and made her angry with just a few words. She said that she was not afraid of Kursk, but was just hungry today and not in a good condition. Her cute appearance made Zhou He want to touch her even through the screen.

"call."

After spending some time coaxing Yuli, Zhou He let out a sigh, recalled Kursk's speech and image, and couldn't help shaking his head.

He didn't expect that he would meet a tough guy so soon. He personally thought that cold-hearted ship girls were the most difficult to get along with, but they were still a great fighting force, which was a good thing.

“Okay, time to build.”

Putting aside the matter of Kursk for the time being, Zhou He brushed off the dust on his body, switched to the system interface and received the mission reward (a Rubik's Cube) of "Defeat the Siren Fleet with a heavy cruiser or light cruiser as the flagship".

The mission is refreshed again: 'Fleet attack, defeat the Siren fleet with battleship or Zhenghang as flagship' mission reward (a magic cube).

"Tsk, this mission, if we're unlucky, we won't be able to complete it in a year, right?"

Zhou He was well prepared, but still felt uncomfortable when he saw this task.

If Yudachi hadn't been lucky enough to rescue Zuikaku and Kursk, he would only have two ships now and would have been unable to complete the mission.

"Forget it. Our fighting power is already sufficient. All we have to do next is to deal with the Sirens that come near us, salvage more ships, and develop the port area, and we will be able to enter a positive cycle."

After getting rid of the unreasonable tasks from the system, Zhou He switched to the construction interface. He looked around and saw that there was no door. He wanted to see how the system would scare him, so he clicked the construction button.

Bang!

Two alloy doors collided on the interface, and golden words appeared: The ship has been built, please receive it in person.

"Hey, nothing's making any noise now."

Zhou He raised the corner of his mouth, and then he heard the rustling sound of footsteps that could not be covered by the sound of the tide. He turned around suddenly and saw a woman with two frizzles on her head, silver-gray hair to her ears, and a thin ponytail walking slowly towards him on the beach in wooden clogs. Her clothes were very strange, similar to the student clothes of the ancient Sakura Empire, but the revealing design was very modern. The blue long skirt was slit to the base of the thigh, and a samurai sword with a blue engraved handle was tied around her waist.

As she walked, one could clearly see multiple fluffy tails swaying back and forth behind her, and the blue fox mask tied on her head further exposed her identity.

"What a good guy."

Tosa walked three steps in front of Zhou He and stopped, staring at him calmly with his pale golden eyes: "What on earth are you thinking of letting me show up like this?"

"Um…"

Zhou He complained in his heart, why is there another cold person here, but since he is here, he can't let the system return it. After staring at Tosa for a few seconds, he said: "In order to realize my ambition, I need your strength."

"Ambition? Each and every one of them is so willful."

Tosa snorted, looked at Zhou He carefully and then retracted his gaze: "Then let me see how much effort I can put into your support."

"It will not let you down."

After the weird talk time was over, Zhou He breathed a sigh of relief and introduced himself to Tosa: "Tosa, welcome to join us."

"Ah."

Tosa glanced at him and said, "Try to find me something fun to while away the time."

Chapter 20: Drawing Cakes

"Well, without further ado, there are quite a few Sirens wandering around our port area right now. Miss Tosa, would you like to go out and warm up? The next time we attack, it might be a little late."

After greeting each other, Zhou He spread his hands and asked Tosa, who was born in the form of a battleship. Aircraft carriers occupy a strategic position in naval battles, while battleships and battlecruisers are the backbone of the fleet and have a strong influence in face-to-face encounters.

"Is the lack of combat power so severe?"

Tosa narrowed his eyes and tilted his head to look at Zhou He: "Why are you speaking honorifics to me?"

"unconsciously."

Zhou He laughed. Before he traveled through time, he would keep his distance from cold and aloof people. Now, he really didn’t know how to deal with them.

"You laid back fellow, just call me Tosa."

Seeing that Zhou He could still laugh naturally, Tosa understood that her commander had great courage. She nodded slightly and stepped forward. Surrounded by the starlight, she summoned out the huge ship equipment that protected her body tightly and was full of safety and deterrence. Zhou He stood behind and looked at it. He had not noticed the ship equipment illustration of Kursk before he crossed over, but Tosa had been his 'marriage ship' in the game. Occasionally, he would go in to admire the dock when he checked it, so he had a deep impression of it.

Tosa's ship equipment illustration in the game is not huge at all. I don't know if the artist was lazy, but the height of Tosa is just barely exceeded by the raised guns. At this time, Tosa in front of him is in super transformation form. The metal bracket extending from the bottom of the ship equipment is close to the water surface. The hull on the side is three meters high. There are five main guns, 20 secondary guns, and 4 anti-aircraft guns on both sides. The turrets are very dense, but because of the layered design, it does not appear bloated. The gaps between the layers are very small, and it is matched with decorative (?) parts such as chains, anchors, radars, etc., which looks really cool.

"I struck out."

Leaving behind these words which Zhou He didn't know whether he could hear, Tosa stepped onto the sea and began to move. The surrounding sea water was squeezed away due to contact with the ship's equipment, forming dense ripples that spread out.

"So powerful! A ship with this kind of equipment should also be very powerful."

Zhou He whistled as he looked at the traces left by Tosa's passage. The ship equipment of Yudachi, Hermione and even Zuikaku were all light, while the ship equipment of the heavy cruiser Kursk and the battleship Tosa were really heavy, which gave people a full sense of security.

……

The destruction of the heavy cruiser fleet in the north doomed the Siren to be defeated in the other three areas.

The MVP member of this battle which took half a day was Zuikaku. On the way back, she found and reunited with Tosa. She was attracted by her appearance and asked about her. She was surprised to find that this person was actually the sister of "that Kaga". She asked about Kaga's situation with great interest.

But she asked the wrong person. The only memory that Miss Tosa inherited was the busy life on "Tosa" as an unfinished ship. The memory of Kaga, the glorious elder sister, was pitifully small, almost equivalent to only knowing that such a person existed.

"Ahahaha, everyone is having a hard time because of them."

Zuikaku smiled after learning the cause and effect, and comforted Tosa: "It's okay, there will definitely be a senior named Kaga joining Minato in the future, and we will go visit her together then, she will be surprised to see you."

Tosa did not respond. She could not tell whether Zuikaku was purely cheerful or just a natural black, so she did not dare to accept Zuikaku's invitation.

During the conversation, the two stood together, and Hermione joined them and entered the port bay, where they saw another ship girl standing and talking with Zhou He on the beach.

"I go first."

Kursk also detected the presence of the four people, ended his conversation with Zhou He and walked towards the island: "Notify me if there is a mission."

Zhou He looked at Kursk's back, or more precisely, at her mechanical tail that stretched out from the side of her skirt and rested on the ground, and raised his voice: "Remember to go back to the headquarters to rest at night. We will prepare an extra dinner for you."

Kursk waved his hand behind his back, as if to say that he understood.

"Well, as expected of a ship girl from the Northern Alliance, she's easier to get along with than I thought."

Zhou He's lips curled up into a smile, he was in a very good mood. Kursk came back earlier than the others in order to tell him "his own operating instructions". This woman who claimed to be a hunter from the snowfield - let's not complain about why the ship girl on the sea would be a hunter. She was good at hunting techniques such as hiding, ambush, reconnaissance and counter-reconnaissance, which were special attack techniques against Sirens, so she liked to act alone, and hoped that Zhou He would arrange a separate task for her when formulating tactics in the future.

And in Zhou He's opinion, her self-narration was very suitable to be a "surprise weapon", a very operational position.

"The commander seems to be in a good mood. What did the ship girl named Kursk say to the commander?"

The four people of Zuikaku who landed later came to Zhou He. Zuikaku squinted his eyes and looked at Kursk who was walking away. They hadn't even said a word yet, so why did he leave?

"It's just a minor adjustment to the attack tactics in the future. It's not a big deal."

Zhou He cut to the chase, restrained his smile and looked at the four shipgirls with different temperaments in front of him: "Thank you for your hard work in this battle. It's the first stop in our counterattack against the Sirens, especially Zuikaku, who deserves praise."

"With me here, victory is inevitable."

Zuikaku, who was singled out for praise, smiled proudly, with no intention of being modest at all.

"Yudachi, Hermione-Tosa, you guys have worked hard too."

Zhou He praised them all and spread his hands to face the four people. "Since everyone is here, I have a choice question for you. Is the first development project in our port area to be a 'seaside resort' or an 'island hot spring pool'?"

"spa?"

“We have hot springs on our island?”

The four people including Tosa were all moved. Taking a bath at home was also comfortable, but it was not as good as a hot spring.

"Yes, it seems that everyone likes hot springs more."

Zhou He remained calm, as this was what he had just thought of. His own ship girls would be fighting outside for half a day or a whole day, and they would need to have a good rest after returning to relieve their physical fatigue. Hot springs were the best choice for relaxation.

Including tomorrow, I will have 20 Home Coins, enough to buy a big hot spring.

As for why there is a choice between the two, it is simply to make everyone feel more involved and expectant. Otherwise, whatever he says will be the final word, which will definitely affect everyone's enthusiasm in the future.

"I want to take a hot spring bath!"

Xili raised both hands to vote. Zhou He looked at her with satisfaction, then his eyes dropped down to her waist and he opened his eyes slightly. The bag of beef jerky was gone.

"Hey, I accidentally dropped the dry food that the commander prepared."

Yudachi touched his head and stuck out his tongue cutely: "I ran too fast during the fight, and the ropes loosened before I could even eat a few of them."

“…I’ll cook in a minute.”

It was just a bag of beef jerky. Zhou He forgave Yudachi because she was so cute. He then talked to others about the hot spring development project, which was passed unanimously. The way back to the headquarters was filled with laughter and discussion.

Chapter 21 Assignment of Work

Having already decided to take pictures of the hot spring pool, Zhou He went out to look for a suitable location after a busy dinner at 4 o'clock while the sun was still out.

According to the previously planned route, there is a three-way intersection outside the command center. Going forward leads directly to the bay, and to the left and right is a straight line with branches. Zhou He habitually moved to the left after going out the door, and stood at the place where he usually dried clothes to look into the island - there was a clear upper and lower stratification, and the nearest upper area was a hundred meters away.

"Is it too far?"

Zhou He touched his chin. The higher the hot spring is, the more scenery you can see. But he changed his mind and thought that the hot springs here were just overused in the early stage. They were just for everyone to relax after the war. There was no need to make it so exquisite.

With the idea of ​​compromise in mind, Zhou He walked to the branch point 20 meters away and turned. He walked to the lawn about meters away from the main road and looked left and right at the side and rear of the command center: the ground here is quite flat. Even though it is close to the sea, he believes that the system must have processed it so that the house built on it will not collapse or become damp and flooded.

"Here, let me see... 15 Homeland Coins can be exchanged for a large hot spring pool, which is expensive. How many people can this accommodate?"

After determining the location, Zhou He looked around in the Home Store. The large hot spring was rectangular in shape and looked larger than an ordinary pool. It was decorated only with stones, and even the water outlet was a stone lion head.

However, Zhou He suddenly thought of the extra hot spring pool that appeared during the game activities, which could accommodate all the foxes of the Sakura Empire. Using that as a comparison, this large hot spring pool could accommodate at least ten people taking a bath together.

If there are more than ten people, they can all swim in it, right?

"That's it."

After figuring out what was going on, Zhou He walked on the grass, found a place to squat, and tore off a piece of grass as a mark. He clapped his hands and walked towards the island for a while. When he reached a higher position, he looked around - but could not find Kursk.

"Hunter, hunter, Kursk isn't going to go hunting on his own, is he?"

There was no one in the open space, so Zhou He could only cast his sights towards the deepest forest. Zuikaku said that there were wild boars in this forest, so there must be a large number of other wild animals. Someone like him who doesn't know how to survive in the wild would definitely have no chance of survival if he went in. But Kursk should be fine, right?

"Let Kursk tell us about the situation inside. This island is so big that it will have to be developed sooner or later."

This was an unexpected gain. Zhou He waited for a while but still didn't see Kursk appear, so he turned around and went in through the back door of the command center.

Soon, the sky turned from bright to dark, and the originally quiet grassland was filled with the faint sounds of insects. It was not until late at night that a figure walked out of the dark forest. The long silver hair and clothes were quite conspicuous even in the night.

……

Bright light spilled from the window into the office on the third floor of the headquarters. Zhou He sat inside, looking down and calculating the materials needed to build a hot spring house. The door that was not closed tightly was pushed open with a bang, and Yudachi poked his head out from the side and walked out: "Commander, what mission do we have today?"

"Task?"

Zhou He had played too many games, so he instinctively looked up to respond when he heard this word. He reacted after seeing Yudachi and rubbed his chin with his knuckles: "You had a fight with the Sirens yesterday, so you should rest at home today. If you can't sit still, how about going to Zuikaku to bring back some fish with a fishing net?"

"Catching fish?"

Yuli tilted her head and three question marks appeared on it. It was obvious that she didn't know how to catch fish.

"Zuihe knows. Just ask her."

Zhou He smiled at her and said, "Food that you have worked hard for will taste better."

"! Even though I don't quite understand it, I understand now!"

Yudachi's question mark turned into an exclamation mark. He nodded seriously and ran out of the office. Less than five minutes later, someone else came to the outside of the office. Yudachi did not close the door. Zhou He heard the footsteps and looked up to see Tosa, who was wearing a black lining and a black and white jacket, with a knife on her waist and a dull expression like a bad girl.

"I heard from Zuikaku and the others that they couldn't attack a few days ago because there were too many Sirens. They cleared them out yesterday. Shouldn't they take the opportunity to go out and scout the enemy today?"

Tosa, who walked in, obviously knew that Zhou He asked Yudachi and Zuikaku to go fishing. His eyes casually swept across the clean office and finally locked on Zhou He.

"It stands to reason that we should go out for reconnaissance, but before that, we also need to pay attention to logistics."