Revisiting Azur Lane

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"Tsk, system, are you any good at this? The port and dock that were separated from you can't even obey my instructions."

After separating from Bismarck, Zhou He thought that since he was already here, he took a detour and found the workshop where the Builder's ship equipment was being disassembled and studied. He was going to ask Mingshi and Lingmin about the progress of their project research, but was turned away.

He was turned away in his own port area.

This was the first time he was rejected in this port area, and it was about discussing serious matters.

Logically he should be angry, but his curiosity far outweighs his anger. Either Akashi or Lingmin is a genius, and now these two geniuses are working together on research and development - what kind of research and development, what kind of design are they doing?

The more Zhou He thought about it, the more itchy he became. However, the production workshop was locked from the inside by two people and he could not get in. He also had no way to control the materialized port. He could only complain that the system was too rigid and left the building complex.

At this moment, there were many planes circling in the sky above the bay, and the sounds of large and small artillery fire were heard one after another. Zhou He only took a glance and saw at least ten figures wandering around the newly built training track, which seemed quite popular.

"commander!"

From a distance, Zhou He heard Yuli's voice. He looked around and realized something. He turned to look towards the pier. He felt a gust of wind blowing by. Yuli was already standing in front of him. Her hair was blown by the wind and had not yet fallen down, making the smiling Yuli even more adorable. He was just feeling sullen and stretched out his hand to press Yuli's cheek and rub it. His mood soon became comfortable. He held Yuli's cheek, looked down at her and smiled, "Why are you looking for me? Why don't you accompany them to play over there?"

"Well, the training is too simple and boring."

Yuudachi's cheeks were flushed from being rubbed. When asked this question, she squinted her eyes and raised the corners of her mouth, looking very proud.

"Really? Yudachi is amazing."

Zhou He believed it. The training track was very difficult for heavy cruisers, battlecruisers and battleships, but starting from light cruisers, the pressure of turning was not so great, and they had more experience in air defense. The situation for destroyers like Yudachi was even more exaggerated. The turn was too short, and they ran out in more than half a minute or even less than half a minute. Instead, the aircraft carriers responsible for the attack were under greater pressure.

"Hey hey hey."

Yuudachi stood on tiptoe, wagging his tail, as happy as a dog.

After a brief encounter, Zhou He let go of Yuudachi, and the latter in turn hugged his arm and rubbed it, thinking happily that Zhou He had finished his work for the day and no one would disturb them.

"Hey~ What are those people doing over there? Don't you know it's very noisy?"

The two passed by the command building. Hamanman stood at the door and called out loudly. Zhou He hooked his hand at her. Hamanman looked at him suspiciously and walked towards him step by step.

"Special training is going on over there."

Zhou He said: "If you feel it's noisy, you can try closing the door. Don't be fooled by its appearance, it has a pretty good sound insulation effect."

"Special training?"

Hamanman glanced at the crowd strolling on the sea, curled her lips and said nothing more, trotted back to the hall and really closed the door, which made Zhou He laugh.

After walking two more steps, Zhou He tilted his head and asked Xi Li: "Have you seen Xuefeng? I haven't seen her go out today."

"I saw him resting in the dormitory."

Yudachi pointed to the new dormitory behind the headquarters: "I saw it when I came out of dinner."

"It's good to get more rest."

Zhou He nodded, and stood with Xili on the edge of the cement road in front of the restaurant. Previously, Zhou He had limited funds, so he simply connected the command building and the restaurant. Now he wanted to connect it with the royal manor.

At his command, Yuudachi happily began to help survey the distance. Ship girls have a natural keen sense of distance. Zhou He first spent five home coins to extend the cement road by 50 meters, extending the road to a position level with the road on the Iron Blood side.

After a brief pause, Zhou He spent another fifteen home coins to connect the road to the entrance of the royal residence.

"I didn't notice it just now, but it's actually so far away."

Zhou He looked at the open iron gate of the manor in amazement, while Xili leaned against the iron gate and looked inside: "This place looks so strange."

"That's not true. Places like this usually look plain on the outside, but they have a different kind of scenery inside."

Zhou He started the conversation. He personally guessed that when the door of this building was opened, one would be able to see the magnificent golden splendor that only appeared in anime and novels, with a red carpet all the way to the door and the chandeliers on the ceiling all plated with gold.

"Oh, I don't quite understand."

Yudachi winked and pointed to the building inside: "Commander, do you want to go in and take a look?"

Although Ms. Hood was very kind to her, she always felt an inexplicable sense of oppression behind her kindness, so she rarely took the initiative to get along with Hood.

"No, we have more important things to do."

Zhou He took a look at the remaining 121 Home Coins, reached out and took Xili's hand, left the Royal Manor and returned to the position where they had stopped before, which was parallel to the road in front of the Iron Blood Mansion. Facing the sea, he opened the Home Store, searched the mall, locked onto a shop on the first floor priced at 70, and made a purchase.

After careful consideration, Zhou He gave up on the large shopping mall that cost more than 100 Home Coins. The reason was simple. Such a large shopping mall was not suitable to be located on the seaside. It should be located deeper in the port area as the core of the port area. If it only sold clothes, a few hundred square meters would be enough.

'Browse.'

Zhou He projected the shop he bought, and a rectangular bungalow appeared in front of him. The overall design was a bit fancy, and the color of the wall was similar to the color of wood. The side facing Zhou He had normal walls + floor-to-ceiling display windows + sliding transparent doors, while the side facing the sea had large floor-to-ceiling windows and a platform extending outward - this was the reason why Zhou He chose this shop. It was close to the reserved beach entertainment area, and when the weather was hot, the ship girls could just change into their swimsuits here and then go into the sea to play.

Very convenient.

'Sure.'

A blue light spot appeared at this moment and solidified the entire shop within tens of seconds. The entire shop with the roof was about four meters high, and the floor area was the size of Home Coin x 10, about seven hundred square meters. The space inside was neither too big nor too small, just right.

"what?"

While in the physical shop, Zhou He did not pay attention, but directly started looking for clothes to purchase. However, Yuuri beside him was surprised to find a familiar biological probe inside.

"What's wrong? Huh?"

Zhou He asked casually and took a look inside the shop. His eyes suddenly widened. Through the display window and the door, he saw five timid barbarians?

He had been thinking about how to increase the number of these magical creatures, but he just bought a shop and got five of them for free? Their value was much higher than the shop itself!

Without thinking, he walked forward and pushed the door open, squatted down and waved to the five strange barbarians, smiling: "Hello, I am the manager of this port area. Are you the barbarians responsible for operating this shop?"

These five wild birds were not divided by their clothes like in the restaurant. They were all yellow and furry. When they saw Zhou He being so polite, they immediately became active as if relieved. One of them ran to the back, took out a piece of paper and a pen, and started writing on it: "Yes".

"Very good, you will be the store manager here from now on."

Zhou He admired the capable Manju. He raised his hand to point at the Manju that responded, then looked at the other four and said, "You are the shop assistants."

'Chirp, chirp.'

The five barbarians nodded repeatedly. Their birth mission was to run this shop. The store manager and the clerks just had different positions, and there was no difference to them.

"Well, now you guys divide the area here. I plan to use 7% of the area for clothing storage, and the remaining 3% for selling daily necessities, snacks and drinks."

Zhou He was very good at commanding the five barbarians. With a wave of his hand, the five barbarians immediately entered the work mode in a hurry, holding different record forms to clean up the various shelves in the store. During this time, Zhou He started to purchase goods, and Xi Li found it very interesting to watch from the side, so he volunteered to help the barbarians push and place the shelves. It took a while to tidy up the place: after entering the door, there is the cashier counter, near the cashier counter are shelves for snacks and drinks, and all the places deeper are used to store clothes.

'Fortunately, the clothes are cheap.'

Seeing that the scene had been cleaned up, Zhou He spread his hands and waved to the side, and no less than forty clothing packages were stacked together.

In the system, one home coin can buy eight sets of clothes, two sets for each season of spring, summer, autumn and winter (lining + outer coat is a set). Taking into account that the ship girls in his own family are all graceful ladies, there is no need for extra-large sizes. Therefore, twenty of the forty sets are for the big sisters on aircraft carriers and battleships, fifteen are for young girls like Yudachi, and there are five smaller sets. He referred to the elementary school students of Sakura Empire. It is not useful now, but may be useful in the future.

Although the sizes were generally chosen, Zhou He was very attentive to the styles of the clothes. For the first batch of goods, he did not buy special uniforms that increased attack speed. Most of them were home-style casual clothes, mixed in with a few packs of camouflage clothes and tights for exercise.

"Hemorrhage."

Zhou He took a look at the remaining 11 home coins, took a deep breath with some heartache, and quickly called on Xili and Manjiu to help separate the clothes and sort them out.

"What are you doing?"

They were busy inside. Xuefeng, who had just taken a nap, yawned and went out for a walk. She saw the two new buildings. When she got closer, she found Zhou He and Yudachi busy at work. The variety of clothes made her eyes widen a lot: "Where did the clothes come from?"

"Ah, Yukikaze, you've been in Minato for so long, you must have been borrowing Yudachi's clothes, I didn't notice it, sorry."

Zhou He responded, and suddenly remembered something, picked out a white dress from his clothes, handed it to Xuefeng and apologized: "As an apology, you can accept this dress. I will keep restocking here in the future, and you can take back any clothes you want to wear."

"Goo."

Xuefeng glanced at Zhou He, then looked down at the clothes he handed over. It was a beautiful dress. After hesitating for a moment, she took it with both hands and whispered, "Thank you."

"It's too foreign."

Zhou He smiled. He felt that it was not entirely his fault, because the Yukikaze in the game was obviously smaller than Yudachi, but the Yukikaze meta in front of him looked not loose at all wearing Yudachi's clothes, so he did not notice it.

It seems that the meta has brought a lot of high-quality evolutions to Xuefeng.

"..."

Xuefeng instinctively realized that Zhou He seemed to be thinking about something impolite, but considering that he gave her beautiful clothes, she decided to pretend she didn't know. After a brief silence, she put the clothes on the shelf next to her: "I'll help too."

Chapter 166 My Neck Starts to Hurt

"The angle here is better than I thought."

After sorting and hanging up the clothes in the shop, Zhou He took off his hat to let his hair breathe, then stood on the platform extending from the shop facing the sea and looked out at the bay which had returned to calm.

The wind was a bit noisy today, and the sky was covered with clouds even at noon. Without the sun, it was not very comfortable even though we were enjoying the sea breeze and the beautiful scenery.

"Yes, you probably built this store specifically for this location, right?"

Xuefeng walked out of the store at the back and looked in the direction he was looking. Standing here, he could see the nearby beach, the bay, the distant pier and other areas at a glance. The view was very wide, and it was a great place to stay after playing.

"You could say that, but not quite."

Zhou He rubbed his hair in circles with his fingers, and the stinging sensation made him grimaced. Ever since he came to this port area, he realized that wearing a hat put so much pressure on the hair and scalp. Whether from the perspective of image or scalp pain, he should trim his hair.

So he tilted his head and asked, "Xuefeng, can you cut hair?"

"Ah? No."

Xuefeng was stunned for a moment, then quickly answered, and then rolled up a circle of white hair with his fingers and complained rather unhappily: "Since it was developed, I have never trimmed my hair, and I have never seen how it grows, just like my body."

Zhou He was silent in his heart. KanColle was a kind of black technology. Apart from the subsequent major transformation from the basics, there would be no natural growth at all.

There are even some that won't change much even after the transformation, such as Kaga BB and Kaga, whose appearance has not changed much except for their ship outfits and personalities - his ship girls cannot be used as a reference, but from the Yukikaze and the ship girls of the First Carrier Battle and White Eagle that they encountered before, it can be seen that even after several years or even more than ten years, there will be no traces of time left on them.

This is a race that has almost eternal life.

But he soon realized: "That's not right."

Zhou He lowered his head and glanced at Xuefeng's front deck, which was of a fairly high standard: "During the meta process, Xuefeng, you have grown up, right?"

"..."

Xuefeng had a tic-tac-toe bulge on his forehead, his eyes narrowed, one hand clenched into a fist and showed Zhou He a warm smile: "I don't quite understand your point of speech, Your Highness Zhou He, can you explain it in detail?"

Her intuition when she entered the room just now was indeed correct. This guy in front of her had a huge prejudice against her figure?

"Ahem, sorry, it's probably just my illusion."

Zhou He had no resistance to the smile of his own ship girl, so he quickly raised his hands in surrender, coughed lightly, turned around and walked into the store as if nothing had happened, and looked at Yudachi who was choosing pajamas: "Have you chosen? It's time to go eat."

"Ahh, I've chosen it!"

As soon as he heard about eating, Yudachi, who was originally having trouble making a choice, immediately chose the latter from the long-sleeved pajamas and the suspender skirt pajamas. Zhou He took a deep breath and tried to stop her, but someone was faster than him. Xuefeng took a step forward and approached from behind him, grabbed Yudachi's arm and stretched it to the ordinary pajamas next to him, with a serious expression: "This one is more comfortable to wear."

"Really?"

Yuli didn't quite believe it. When she went to play in Jean Bar and others' rooms before, she saw suspender nightgowns in their closets, but there were none in her own room, which made her very curious.

"..."

Xuefeng had never worn such fancy pajamas, and didn't know why she came over to stop Yudachi. Anyway, she cast her eyes on Zhou He, who hesitated for a moment, walked over, looked at him and said, "Let's not talk about the feeling of the clothes. Winter is coming soon. I still hope that you can wear warm clothes."

"Then take this set."

Yuli immediately changed her mind and took the long-sleeved pajamas and hugged them happily: "Commander, you should also dress warmly."

"Ah."

Zhou He smiled. He didn't mean what he said. When playing games, he also liked those "must-buy" skins, but he liked the clothes that looked warm more, such as Prince Heinrich's kimono and Belfast's kimono.

He didn't know what was going on with his preferences. He had no resistance to the kimonos of the Sakura Empire. It was probably because he watched too many anime, or maybe it was because the kimono could soften the femininity, giving it a kind of vague and soft beauty.

During the casual conversation, Zhou He left the shop with Xuefeng and Yuli, who were each holding a set of clothes. The five barbarians in charge of the operation were now stacking up at the door and hammering nails to hang up signs. The five furry creatures were almost as tall as Yuli and the others, which was very interesting to watch.

……

After lunch, Zhou He coaxed Xili to take a nap, said goodbye to Xuefeng and found Hermione, hoping that she could help him trim his hair.

"Haircut?"

Because of yesterday's competition and the morning's visit to the royal estate, Hermione's daily cleaning time was very tight. When Zhou He found her, she was cleaning the dust on the desk and bookshelf in the office. She hesitated for a moment when she heard Zhou He's sudden remarks.

"Cut it shorter."

Zhou He took off his hat and put it on the desk. He stretched his hair with his hands and drew a line above his eyebrows: "It's about time to cut it here."