Revisiting Azur Lane

As soon as they started fighting, they were at a disadvantage - but the situation on the battlefield changed rapidly. London, who was seriously injured a minute ago, recovered quickly under the mysterious power, and even she herself was a little dazed. In the sky, more than a hundred carrier-based aircraft flew over the heads of the Royal Ark and Elbe in a goose formation and joined the battlefield.

01 and 02 are combat programs implanted in the system. Although they are not even weak AI, the carrier-based aircraft they released are surprisingly flexible. In less than ten minutes, they eliminated the Siren fleet whose fuel was already in danger. At the same time, they counter-pressured and reinforced the air battlefield ahead. A large number of bombers and torpedo planes broke through the blockade and headed straight for the three Siren aircraft carriers.

The air crisis was resolved, and the Royal Iron Blood Fleet, which had accumulated anger after the air attack, began to advance rapidly. After discovering the Siren fleet gathering together, the Vanguard rushed in like a spike. The mass-produced Siren was obviously not as advanced as 0102. After receiving the observer's order to "spread and surround", it did not spread, but only executed "encirclement", gathering to attack Count London Spee and others.

Facing the tough air attack, even Bismarck and his men, whose numbers had been increased, could only suffer in silence. However, facing the sea enemies within the bombardment range, the terrifying nature of the numbers was reflected. The Siren's vanguard fleet was almost shattered at the first touch. Under the fan-shaped bombardment of the main guns of Bismarck, Hood and Hutten, the Siren warships were like moths to a flame. Once they entered the range and were hit by two shots, they lost most of their combat effectiveness. Their armor was like paper.

The bonfire burning on the sea surface gradually spread as the Royal Iron Blood Fleet advanced. The Siren mass-produced fleet was defeated so quickly that even the observers far away in the Siren Base could not react. The dozen or so observation screens in front of them that were originally lit suddenly turned into snow-white. The last screen showed a core battleship, which had a hole blown in the side by a torpedo. The view gradually tilted, and finally it was killed and completely disappeared.

"These guys."

The observer opened his fists, clenched them, and opened them again. He tilted his head to look at the silent tester sitting in another position in the command room, alert to the other fleet, and said, "The data you brought back from the test is too short-lived."

"Without the insertion of the ominous entity, my test data will also be changed."

It was normal for the tester to have a bad face and fail in executing a new task, but it was the first time for him to fail one after another like this, to the point where even his mass-produced clone didn't know where he died.

She has already confirmed that with the performance of her current mass-produced machines, she is simply unable to complete the data test on Zhou He's ship girl. If she dies this time, she will definitely ask the host to send an elite individual to take over.

"That's true. The purifier who came back from there didn't explain it clearly. According to her, there are four production bases there. Your individuals wouldn't die that quickly just by accumulating numbers."

The observer no longer paid attention to the sunken outer fleet and spoke casually while leaning on his beloved octopus ship.

"The death of that individual was most likely due to following his duty to attack the enemy, which is why he was defeated so quickly."

The tester knows herself quite well. It can be said that she was born to obtain the data of ship girls. Naturally, she will die frequently for this, but the number of deaths is different.

"Hmph~ In other words, you who stayed here chose not to die because you were unable to measure the parameters of these ship girls?"

Playing with the octopus tentacles, the observer asked sharply, but before waiting for the tester's answer, he changed the subject's topic and said with a smile: "After they retreat today, you will have a chance to get their data."

"Are you going to give up this place?"

The tester then turned his head and stared at the observer: "You never participate in combat. If I leave here, you will definitely not stay."

"Haha, that's not important. The things in this base can at least keep them safe until next spring. What's important is what happened to the Purifiers and whether another singularity will appear here."

The observer changed the topic with a flick of his hand.

In fact, her "observation" of this singularity has come to an end: those ship girls whose combat parameters are increasing day by day will always "return late", which means that their cores are in their singularity space, so that they cannot move away, or in other words, they will not let the core that allows them to exist leave that safe area.

Based on this alone, it can be predicted that this singularity will not expand to the extent that it poses a threat to their layout, at least in the next few years. In addition, they seem to know nothing about the situation in the outside world and need to go out fishing on weekdays. The logistics may not be very good. As long as they are fed some "harvest" at the right time, the situation can be controlled.

In summary, it needs attention, but it doesn’t need to be taken that seriously.

When they decide to expand and move away from the core singularity, they will ask the people from the arbitration agency to come and clean them up. It is simple and environmentally friendly. The number of fleets they have lost here in these days is already a considerable number.

The reason why she is still here is because of the changes in the tester and the purifier in recent days. Although these two people were a little afraid of strong enemies in the past, they were not so timid as to not dare to go out to meet the enemy. After coming into contact with the singularity here, their missing emotional systems have been visibly corrected, or improved.

Her curiosity was aroused, so she decided to die for the first time in a long time to see what surprises these new generation of ship girls would bring her.

"..."

The observer did not continue to speak, and the tester also fell into deep thought. It didn't take long for her to come to the conclusion that if these ship girls could break into the base, the result would be the same whether she was there or not. She said calmly, "I'll go there tonight."

"Hmm~Have a safe journey."

The observer smiled and pointed to the observation angle behind the tester. The tester frowned and turned around, and heard a shrill alarm. It turned out that the White Eagles and the Sakura Empire team, which were already in position, had deployed their aircraft carriers, Zuikaku, Shokaku, Nagashima and Yorktown, and released large numbers of carrier-based aircraft to launch an air strike towards the base.

"madness!"

The tester snorted coldly. These ship girls were indeed fierce, but their air power was abnormally weak compared to their naval combat power. She casually swiped in the air next to her, and a blue interface flashed across her fingertips. The aircraft carriers anchored near the base began to attack collectively.

……

The first to strike will win. Adhering to this idea, Zuikaku heard the sound of gunfire from another fleet of his own in the distance and asked his sister for permission to go into battle. Shokaku discussed it with Yorktown, and Yorktown discussed it with New Jersey, and they decided to just do it.

So almost 70% of the aircraft were released to launch air strikes on the patrolling Siren fleet. The huge fleet of aircraft covered the sky and the sun, like a magnet. As soon as they approached the Siren base, they attracted large areas of anti-aircraft fire lines that were formed into lines and networks. The bullets hit the outer boxes of the aircraft, making crackling sounds.

Many planes were hit by concentrated fire and exploded in the air, but they still maintained a diving momentum when falling and crashed into the dense fleet of the Siren, leaving their own traces.

If you zoom out, you can see the epic offensive and defensive battle, but it did not last long. After the aircraft carrier formation in the core area of ​​the Siren Fleet began to attack, the situation instantly became chaotic. Large areas of the sky were occupied by carrier-based aircraft, which shuttled back and forth and exchanged fire with each other in the clouds.

In terms of numbers, the Sirens were massively ahead. In less than half an hour, they pushed the battle line out and away from the base.

"Ah, there are too many enemy aircraft carriers."

Zuikaku frowned, revealing an indescribable expression. She thought she could fight three at once, but the Siren had more than 12 aircraft carriers. There was even an airport on the Siren base where planes were taking off. They were like touching a hornet's nest, attracting countless hornets that were impossible to deal with!

"Don't be distracted, the battle over there is over."

Shokaku scolded her, she didn't have as high a stat as Zuikaku, she was sweating profusely at this point but couldn't show it.

The other side did not disappoint her trust. After the encounter, they launched an air strike on the Siren base, pulling away a considerable number of Siren aircraft and relieving the pressure.

"Is this Siren determined to be a turtle?"

Jean Barguang watched the fight in the sky, and the Siren fleet had no intention of coming out, so he couldn't help but yell and curse.

"It's a little tricky."

After watching the battle, New Jersey had to admit that this enemy force called Siren was very difficult to deal with. With the support of a military base and a large number of fleets, they actually chose to hold on.

They will probably return empty-handed today.

Chapter 172 Disguise and Sneak In

Judging from the number of battle fleets alone, the number of warships near the Siren base is more than five times that of Zhou He’s fleet, including 16 aircraft carriers.

This is an exaggerated number. The two adjacent Siren base islands were surrounded, and the black and red colors of the surrounding warships made this area look like the habitat of some terrible big boss.

However, facing the air attacks from Shokaku and the Royal Ark, they refused to come out and instead formed a purely defensive circular formation with the two islands as the center. Not to mention planes, even a fly wouldn't be able to fly through the anti-aircraft firepower network.

After Zhou He refilled the engine rooms of his own aircraft carriers several times, he had to admit that they did not have the strength to break through this port area. In familiar terms, they were stuck.

"Fuck, this is too much of a turtle."

Zhou He stared at the Siren fleet near the base for a long time. How exaggerated could these guys be? They didn't even move. The icons were stacked together, and he couldn't count how many warships there were. He couldn't see if there were any sirens coming out of the Siren base.

'No, we can't go on like this.'

As the saying goes, the first effort is the best. The second is weaker and the third is exhausted. He had encouraged his own ship girls several times a few days ago, and he must not end it so hastily, otherwise it would greatly affect his ship girls' motivation and enthusiasm to go out. So he set his sights on Yukikaze who was staying outside the two fleets. After thinking about it, he gave up the idea of ​​letting Yukikaze charge: Yukikaze was indeed very strong as a meta ship, but as a commander and as a human being, he could not give the order to let her attack the other party's defense alone.

Since Yukikaze could not charge into the formation and he could not attack from this side, he could only find another way. He directly locked his target on the still rotating mirror sea located in the South Sixth District Islands, and conveyed new instructions to Shokaku, Yorktown, Hood, Bismarck and others.

Of course, he didn't really want his own ship girl to rush to the Mirror Sea, but he was pretending to rush there to see if he could mobilize the Sirens guarding the Siren Base.

……

The order issued by Zhou He was quickly executed. The two fleets corresponding to the north and the south bypassed the Siren Base directly and gathered together on the west side of the base.

After a long period of air combat, the engine rooms of Zhou He's aircraft carriers were still full after replenishment, while the damage to the Siren's carrier-based aircraft could only be replenished through transportation. Therefore, after Shokaku and others gave up the air strike, the testers also stopped the pursuit of carrier-based aircraft.

"Humph, you finally gave up. I thought they had an unlimited number of carrier-based aircraft."

In the empty command room made of metal and computer equipment, the tester looked at the combat records with a grim expression and a hard mouth.

"Wrong, look at their retreat direction, isn't there something wrong?"

The observer reminded the tester in a humorous way that she was extremely serious while commanding the operation, even though she knew that the firepower of these ship girls could not break through the base. If she had not been paying attention to the changes on the battlefield, she would have thought that these ship girls were about to attack just by looking at the tester's expression.

"direction?"

The tester frowned, his eyes passing over the radar, aircraft and other feedback information, and soon discovered that these ship girls were not retreating, but bypassing them and heading towards the mirror sea where the Purifiers were.

"According to the Purifiers, these ship girls have very little information about the outside world, so they will take the initiative to enter the experimental area to find the control center and collect intelligence and technology."

The observer in a black light dress stood up and walked barefoot on the metal floor, approaching and pacing behind the tester. She spoke casually but purposefully, with data-like characters flowing in her golden eyes.

"You should also know the contents of that testing ground."

The observer whispering behind the tester was like a demon that was trying to corrupt him. However, her words calmed the tester, who had already seen through her habits. "What do you want to say?"

"If these ship girls do not enter the experimental area before sunset, they will most likely return to their singularity. According to the time calculation, there are still 3 to 5 hours of controllable time."

The observer never speaks directly. She likes to let the testers make their own guesses. If they guess right, that's fine. If they guess wrong, it has nothing to do with her.

"Arrange a fleet to intercept? Are you sure you can still defend this place after dividing the troops?"

The testers silently compared the value of the test site and this base. If the test site was breached, these ship girls would have no choice but to become stronger again. But if this side was breached, they would lose the key position confronting this singularity, and it would cost a great price to enter this core circle again.

"I'll be back as soon as I go."

The observer let out an unfathomable laugh. She did not look at the tester, nor did she wait for her answer. She just waved her hand and left the empty command room where only two people were.

"You guy..."

The tester reacted and turned back suddenly, looking at the observer's disappearing back, and whispered gloomily: "What are you secretly planning again."

……

The Siren Base in West District 4 is nearly 150 nautical miles away from the archipelago in South District 6. Because it is close to the enemy's combat base, the escorting destroyers, light and heavy cruisers had to slow down and stay in the same area with the aircraft carriers and other main battleships. However, they were originally nearly 80 nautical miles away from the Siren Base, so it only took an hour to approach the mirror waters of the archipelago.

"Will the Siren be fooled?"

Not everyone in the marching team was silent. For example, the impatient Zuikaku couldn't help but ask Shokaku. Even though she was not very fond of thinking, she knew that they could not take over the Mirror Sea because they did not bring any food with them.

The Royal and Iron Blood teams had already annihilated the Siren's large fleet in the north, but they hadn't achieved anything - she didn't have to engage in battle with the fleet at the Siren base, just if some Sirens came out of the Mirror Sea here for her to kill, this expedition wouldn't be considered an air force.

"I don't know. Since the commander has arranged this, there is a possibility that the Siren will come to meet the attack. Zuikaku, have you rested well? Go to the plane and test the limit distance of entering the mirror sea."

Shokaku was not as anxious as Zuikaku. In the warship era, the missions of their ships were counted in months. Now that they have become ship girls, the sea is still the same sea. It is basically impossible to achieve achievements in days. She believes that Zhou He also understands this, so she is not in a hurry.

In fact, everyone who aspires to be the flagship, including Kaga BB, has similar ideas to Shokaku. It's just that Zuikaku, who was the first to join the port, is already accustomed to fighting the Sirens when they go out to attack, and celebrating when they return home after accomplishing their mission. Their thinking has deviated from the original traditional naval battles.

"Yes~"

Zuikaku obediently began to send planes to detect the distance to the mirror sea. Shortly afterwards, the four flagships simultaneously received a notification from Zhou He and quickly informed their team members of the content: a fleet from the Siren base was following them, and the Siren leading the fleet was an observer, who appeared as a silver-haired girl with tentacles and huge guns and ship suits.

"Stop moving forward, stay away from this mirror sea, and beware of the Sirens attacking from both sides!"

Following the order, the team quickly began to adjust and move to the northeast, but did not immediately launch an air strike to prevent the Siren fleet, which had just set out, from being beaten back.

In the port area, Zhou He, who was sitting on the extended platform behind the shop holding a teacup, fixed his eyes on the observer who was leading the attack on the map. Even in the game, he had never seen this person get into a fight many times. There were obviously testers sitting inside the base, but the observer ran out by himself. He didn't know what happened, but he instinctively felt that this matter was not simple.

"call."

As his thoughts turned, he looked up at the calm bay in the distance, trying his best to recall the relevant information about this person in the game: First of all, this person is the IQ person of the experimental agency, and his position is a supervisory type, responsible for communicating between superiors and subordinates and conveying information. His combat ability is unknown, but his camouflage ability is very strong.

In the plot, he seems to have the tendency to be a traitor.

"What a traitor! Is this guy trying to use his camouflage ability to sneak into our fleet and get intelligence while we're at war?"

Zhou He narrowed his eyes. If this was true, he had to admire the observer's skill and courage. There were only a few members in his own fleet, and one more or one less would have a clear sense of incongruity. Moreover, he remembered that Xuefeng said when she was arguing with Yudachi that she could directly see through the observer's disguise.

Isn't this observer here to deliver the message?

Anyway, let’s take a look at the situation first.

He focused his attention on the map and saw two figures roaming outside his main fleet. One was the Yukikaze meta who was responsible for holding the line, and the other was the guerrilla Kursk. The best lurking plan was to transform into one of these two people, or to quietly kill one of his ship girls and replace her.

"It's very dangerous."

Zhou He narrowed his eyes. He had great confidence in the firepower of the experimental apparatus and made a decision in his mind after thinking about it.

He first contacted Kursk and asked her to stay away from the main fleet as a target of guarding the Mirror Sea. He then contacted Xuefeng and asked her to return to the team with the vanguard team to be on guard against the observer's hidden gunfire. Finally, he informed several flagships that if the observer infiltrated the fleet in the identity of Kursk, then he would see how she was going to perform.

After receiving a few orders, he gradually relaxed a lot. His own ship girls were all very smart and he didn't need to worry about anything. What he should do now was to keep a close eye on the observer and inform his own ship girl of her location if there was any problem.

After the arrangements were completed, it was time to wait. This had become the norm for Zhou He. He looked at the mountains, the water, and the sky. His mind gradually became empty to the point where he didn't even know what he was thinking. It wasn't until the waiter Manju came over to help add tea that his voice brought him back to his senses.

"Thank you."

He poured the cold tea directly onto the grass, handed the cup to Manju, and refocused his attention on the attack interface. The observer led the team, and the fleets were deployed and no longer overlapped. He counted them carefully, and before the two sides were about to meet, he conveyed the specific configuration of the Siren to Bismarck and others.

Then, what seemed to him a silent battle broke out.

With the help of the system, he could roughly observe the development of the battlefield: for example, the Shokaku and his companions on the map had stopped, which meant that they were releasing carrier-based aircraft, and Yudachi, as the vanguard, rushed very fast, with a tendency to leave the formation. After Yukikaze caught up, the speed of the two began to slow down, and then gradually formed a formation with the Javelin, Z23 and other destroyers and slowly advanced, which meant that they, as the vanguard, encountered the fire coverage of the Siren.

Seeing this, he skillfully switched to the dock interface, and sure enough, he saw that the durability of the destroyers began to decrease more or less. The durability of Yudachi, who was at the forefront, was only lower than that of Yukikaze. Because their blood was thick enough, their durability decreased slowly.

Just as he was thinking this, Xuefeng's durability bar visibly dropped a small bar, which startled him so much that he immediately switched back to the map and locked the position of the observer - she was right in front of Yudachi and the others.

"What a fierce bombardment."

Zhou He's face darkened. It would be fine for people like Yudachi, Javelin, and Harman, but the numerical growth of Ayanami and Kasin who joined later was still very slight. If they were hit head-on like this, they would most likely be killed by one shot.

He switched to the dock and informed Shokaku of the observer's location. Out of caution, he directly consumed 60 units of re-credit vouchers to complete a full crew repair.