Revisiting Azur Lane

This seemingly simple operation, when Zhou He first started, felt that it was more difficult than when he was manually operating the game. The reason was simple. He had to react quickly, be familiar with the attributes of his own ship girl, observe the position and formation of his own ship girl and the Sirens when they were exchanging fire during combat, judge and assess whether there would be heavy casualties if the battle continued like this, at what intervals supply should be switched, and inform his own ship girl of the position and number of the enemy's important battleships at critical moments to be alert to whether there were any foreign reinforcements.

Therefore, when his family was on the way, he could only wait in a daze to avoid being unable to react in time when a battle suddenly broke out. Basically, the ship girls were out, and he, as a commander, could only lie down at home and do nothing, and could not do high-intensity and continuous work.

He often feels ashamed of this and thinks he is similar to the mascot, so he is always active when it comes to doing construction work that is within his ability.

Buying a ring for Yuli was the only expense he had made for himself so far.

There is even a sense of immorality in using public funds to pick up girls…

Well, back to the battle, because the observer's cannon was too fierce, Zhou He's switching frequency also increased. What made him feel gratified was that every time he switched back, he could see that the number of Sirens had decreased by a few.

The observers gradually disappeared in the battle and no longer launched powerful attacks.

From Zhou He's God's perspective, the observer circled behind the Siren fleet and left the battlefield, then made a big circle, changing its appearance several times along the way (the system will mark it), and finally locked onto the Kursk's appearance, starting with shelling the Siren from the side, gradually closing the distance with the fleet.

“This is so silky.”

Zhou He saw the entire process of the observer lurking and was amazed.

So, let’s take a look at the purpose of this person falling into the trap.

Chapter 173 The Observer Who Walked Into a Trap

"How dare you sneak in here?"

As other people in the port area became increasingly powerful, Yukikaze's combat pressure was already very small. After helping Yudachi and others to withstand a few shots from the Observer, she was wondering why the Observer did not continue to attack. Halfway through the encounter, she suddenly understood.

When the battle was at its most intense, a strange thing appeared on her radar and moved sideways towards the fleet.

Xuefeng can see through the Builder's camouflage ability. This is not empty talk, but she has done similar things in other worlds.

Unlike other experimental agency cadres, observers like to trip people up secretly and their whereabouts are erratic. Sometimes when the Siren fleet attacks and you go to fight back, the observers will disguise themselves as you and enter their own core base area to do something.

The camouflage that no one can see through and the powerful information technology that the Siren has built in are enough to allow observers to come and go freely in the most heavily guarded military bases.

This was the case with an observer at a certain testing ground. No one knew what she wanted to do, but she ran into the core area of ​​Sakura Empire and happened to run into Yukikaze who was passing by that world. She was discovered, which subsequently caused quite a stir.

Faced with this double-scoring situation, Xuefeng frowned. The order Zhou He gave before the battle was that if the observer sneaked in as Kursk, she should stay as she is and find out her purpose after the battle is over.

This made her feel a little uncomfortable. After all, the radar kept showing that a powerful enemy was nearby, but she couldn't kill him with one shot. She could only hold her breath and ignore the observers, and continue to follow the team to eliminate the remaining Siren fleet that was still fighting bravely.

The observers brought a total of 68 warships to intercept, including five aircraft carriers, eight battleships, twelve heavy cruisers, light cruisers, destroyers, and several submarines. The battle took a total of two and a half hours to end. The bustling sea returned to silence, leaving only the wreckage of warships that exploded from time to time and the dark black fog, proving that a great battle had just taken place here.

"Huh! This Siren is really stupid. It actually chased us out and destroyed five aircraft carriers in one go. We won't have to worry about being crushed by numbers when we come again tomorrow."

After the battle, Zuikaku looked a little tired, but his spirit was unusually high. He approached from a distance, moving back and forth between the wreckage of the Siren, observing his masterpiece!

"Tsk, it turns out that battleships and aircraft carriers can't leave behind any recyclable wreckage."

Kaga BB followed along, wandering around the Siren graveyard, and discovered that almost all of the aircraft carriers and battleships were sunk by capsizing, all of them were soaked in water, and coupled with their mountain-like size, she couldn't drag them back even if she wanted to. She pouted in dissatisfaction: "It seems that if we want to recycle them, we still have to break through the Siren base and be self-sufficient."

"Don't let your guard down. Pay attention to finishing off the enemy. Beware of the possibility that these sirens will attack again."

Bismarck was urging Z23 and the others to patrol back and forth, but they were still no match for Yuudachi's strong security. The reason was that when Yuudachi saw a ship that was not taking in water, he would make a hole in it to ensure that all the ships here would sink into the sea.

Xuefeng, on the other hand, was on guard against Kursk who had infiltrated the team, and asked Tosa, who seemed to be familiar with Kursk, for help: "This is the commander's order, please be sure to guide her to the central area of ​​the team."

"Kursk?"

Tosa didn't know that the Kursk in the team was fake. She and Shokaku didn't join the last-hit group, but were on guard outside with New Jersey Yorktown and others. When she heard Yukikaze's order, she frowned slightly: "This guy doesn't listen to me. Why doesn't the commander give the order himself?"

"Who knows, maybe that guy has something special in mind?"

Xuefeng curled her lips. She guessed that Zhou He wanted to use other people's video communication methods to communicate closely with the observer. If everyone knew the observer's disguise, she would definitely notice it.

"Well, Tosa-senpai, you should go there. Maybe you will know when you go there."

Shokaku echoed from the side. The soft and light words made Tosa tilt his head and glance at Shokaku from a distance of ten meters: "I am different from Kaga. Don't call me senior, and don't use honorifics."

"excuse me."

Shokaku was just giving it a try, and when Tosa denied it, he smiled and remembered her advice.

"…I want to see what you guys are up to."

Tosa was very sensitive to the abnormality. Zhou He seemed to be hiding something from her, but she told Xuefeng and Shokaku, and the three of them worked together to fool her.

She didn't want to waste time talking here, and after the communication ended, she ran directly towards Kursk who was approaching from the side. Based on her understanding of Kursk, trying to use long-distance communication to get her closer to the crowd was completely ineffective, so she had to go there in person.

But soon, she noticed something unusual - in the past, when she tried to get close to Kursk, Kursk would disappear from her sight inexplicably, but today's 'Kursk' not only did not move away, but instead moved closer to her.

"what happened?"

Tosa felt something was wrong. Could it be that today was an important day for her? But no matter how hard she thought, it didn't make sense. According to the calendar provided by Purification, it was the anniversary of her cheap sister Kaga's launch in history.

It's impossible that these people are going through so much trouble to tell me to remember to help Kaga's biological child? Would Kursk cooperate with such a stupid thing?

"..."

In Tosa's whimsical thoughts, she and 'Kursk' completed a two-way run: looking at the ship's outfit and 'Kursk' without a trace of war on her body, Tosa nodded slightly: "Your lurking ability is getting stronger and stronger."

"?"

This opening remark almost made the observer think that Tosa in front of him was also disguised and lurking in, but he quickly realized that the ship girl she was disguised as often left the group to fight in the wild, perhaps because of her strong lurking ability - training lurking skills in such a modern naval war is really unique.

So she reacted as an outlier would and simply said "hmm".

"The commander asked me to inform you to rendezvous over there and stay with me."

Tosa didn't waste any words. She ran a semicircle and started walking back with the observer. The observer was shocked when she heard that. She began to follow and observe Tosa, but did not notice anything unusual. This ship girl didn't know that she was in disguise.

The observer speculated that they might have been discovered, but then ruled out this possibility. The bases of these ship girls existed in other spaces, and they had no base stations built externally. Communications across different time and space would definitely be interfered with, unless they had a very high level of technological development. However, in all previous contacts, there had been no such manifestation. Even normal warships only had two aircraft carriers, and the industrial production capacity was likely to remain in the range of World War II and modern times.

As for the ship girl technology, they handed over the ship girl technology to the human camps in all large-scale test sites. It can be said that this singularity has ship girls but other low production capacity, which is exactly the same as the situation in the large-scale test sites under their control. As for why it escaped their control and became a singularity, each world has different possibilities. Perhaps the ship girl team in front of them also grasps the "future possibilities" that they have never seen or heard of.

It’s a pity that they can’t use it and can only be destroyed.

Tosa and Kursk gradually entered the core position of the fleet without speaking to each other. Bismarck, Yudachi and others who were on patrol also returned. Kursk participated in many large-scale attacks in the past few days. Her mystery has been reduced in the port area, but there are still people who think that seeing her is a reflection of their good luck today. For example, Nagashima and Javelin clapped their hands and prayed to her.

"..."

The observers did not understand this religious behavior and even hesitated whether to worship back: Kursk was a Northern Alliance heavy cruiser that had never appeared in history and was extremely rare in the Siren database. Even if it was occasionally seen, it could not become the focus of Siren's observation. Therefore, she could only rely on the amount of information collected in these days to disguise herself.

When she decided to remain silent, the crowd gradually gathered. New Jersey raised his hand next to York City and said, "Everyone look this way."

"Anything else? It's getting dark, we should probably head back."

Changdao asked beside him, and New Jersey rubbed his wrist and smiled: "It's time to return, but before that..."

New Jersey paused and pointed at Kursk: "May I ask, this Siren lady sneaked in disguised as Kursk, does she want to go home with us?"

"!?!"

Her casual remark startled the other people around her who were unaware of the situation and they subconsciously took a few steps back. It was obvious that only a few people who knew the inside story in advance were still standing there. Xuefeng lowered her head and stroked the white wolf's soft fur with her palm, wondering if Zhou He often touched Yuli's hair, and maybe he liked the feel of it.

"It's really like him, exactly like the real person, even the expression and temperament are the same."

Shokaku held his chin with one hand, his tone was quite amazed, and when he was done, he asked Tosa with a smile: "Did you find anything unusual?"

“…I have the right to remain silent.”

Tosa pursed her lips and began to look at Kursk, who was disguised as an observer, with sharp eyes. Her expression did not look very good - she really could not see any flaws. The person in front of her was no different from the Kursk she saw every day.

Is the Siren's camouflage ability so terrifying?

"real or fake…"

Zuikaku also found it a little hard to imagine, but her hand had already grasped the sword at her waist, ready to make a move. Last time the Purifier raised the white flag of surrender, she was unable to use her martial arts. Would she have a chance this time?

The same thing happened to the others after they realized what was happening. The observer stood in the crowd and looked around from left to right with a calm gaze. Hood Bismarck, New Jersey Xuefeng and others had already blocked her way. It was obvious that she was exposed very early, very early, most likely when she started the infiltration operation.

She underestimated the communication technology of this singularity and the vigilance of these ship girls.

After a moment, the observer no longer maintained his disguise. Under everyone's gaze, Kursk's appearance gradually collapsed, and he eventually turned into a 1.6-meter-tall little girl with mechanical ears, white hair, and golden eyes. She rode on the tentacles, smiled, raised her hands and clapped, "No wonder the testers were killed by you again and again. It's really beyond my expectations."

Surrounded by people, the observer did not show any fear, but looked at Xuefeng generously: "Is it you, the intruder from another test site?"

"Humph, such a poor disguise has already been seen through by me in other worlds."

Xuefeng sneered. She had been holding back for so long, and now she finally had the chance to speak: "From the moment your shell hit me, I realized your purpose, but I didn't expect that your infiltration process would be so hilarious."

"Heh, you are indeed a meta ship girl who can withstand energy erosion. I underestimated you."

The observer still remembers Xuefeng's state when she first came to this world. At that time, she and others judged that Xuefeng had gone berserk and there was no hope for her. They never thought that it was just a temporary berserk state and she regained her sanity after being defeated.

"Stop talking nonsense. Tell me your purpose. Maybe I can give you a decent death."

Xuefeng didn't want to talk to the observer. Although this guy looked harmless, he was actually much more threatening than the testers.

"Purpose?"

The observer actually had no purpose, he just wanted to come and observe these ship girls in front of him with his own eyes, but from Tosa's speech just now, there was a "commander" above them. This was a very normal class division. Without a leader, the people below would be in chaos when doing things. If the leader is not good, the people under him would not be able to do things efficiently.

Obviously, the commanders of these ship girls are not simple.

Thinking of this, she said, "I want to talk to your commander."

"Do you think we can allow this?"

New Jersey narrowed his eyes. How could he allow his commander to communicate with the enemy's combat cadres?

Then, she realized that no one else was helping her, so she looked at Bismarck and the others with a bad feeling: "Hey, you guys, are you kidding?"

"..."

Hood avoided her sight. Bismarck pressed down his military cap. As far as common sense was concerned, New Jersey's statement was correct. However, with the surrender of the Purifiers, they who had cooperated with the Sirens could not say such righteous words.

"Oh, it seems your companions have other ideas. Let me guess, when you eliminated the bad omen before, did the Purifier give you a lot of benefits?"

There was a gleam in the observer's eyes. She had guessed right. The Purifier had hidden a lot of information from her and the tester. She had noticed at the time that the location where the Purifier appeared when the mirror sea was lifted was very close to the fleets of these ship girls. If it was just a pure cooperation to eliminate the bad omen, it would no longer be effective after the bad omen was eliminated.

However, the Purifiers managed to escape from these ship girls who even had to finish off the mass-produced types. Isn't this abnormal no matter how you think about it?

"Yes, the Purifiers gave us many gifts."

Suddenly, the observer heard a slightly noisy sound. She turned her head and saw that a light screen projection had appeared on the right hand side of Xuefeng who was sitting on the white wolf. There was a deliberately obscured gray figure in it. Her clothes and appearance could not be seen clearly, but judging by her body shape, it was most likely a male.

After a brief pause, the gray figure continued: "Observer, what do you want to talk to me about?"

Chapter 174: One for One

When Zhou He saw the observer take off her disguise in the crowd, he knew that she had been exposed by her own family, so he quietly opened a video call with Xuefeng. While eavesdropping, he could also ask Xuefeng to kill her at any time.

"Observer, what do you want to talk to me about?"

After saying this, Zhou He looked at the Observer with interest. In terms of appearance, the image of the Observer, a little loli with mechanical ears, was the one that most boosted his XP in the experimental organization. It was a pity that even the meta ship girls of the Embers series were added to the port area in the game, but there was no way to obtain these Sirens.

I don’t know if there will be a way to obtain it a few years after he travels through time.

"Since this is a negotiation, isn't it rude to hide your true identity?"

The observer asked back with a normal expression. This was not just a mere mumble but her serious thoughts. The two parties were talking face to face, but she could not see the other person's true face, so she had no way to observe the other person's thoughts and emotional changes from their expressions, which had a huge impact on her.

"I'm really sorry, but unfortunately, I can't agree to this condition."

Zhou He's eyes moved slightly. Last time, the Purifier couldn't see his appearance clearly, and now the Observer was the same. The system was consciously concealing his image in the eyes of the Siren.

He could take advantage of this and use his speech to mislead the Sirens about him as much as possible.

"..."

The observer felt very bad. The current situation was far from what she had expected. Moreover, after she had only said a few words, the ship girls next to her started gossiping, as if they were ready to kill her at any time.

This feeling of being out of control is scary, but not enough to affect their emotional systems.

The tester and the purifier showed different levels of emotional system correction, among which the tester's was relatively mild, while the purifier's was extremely obvious. The difference between the two was that the tester died in the mirror sea invaded by the ominous omen, while the purifier returned safely.

The deeper difference was that the Purifier had come into contact with the people of this port area, and had talked with the man in front of her who was called the "Commander" - she couldn't observe the other party's appearance and expression, so she couldn't judge whether his words were true, but considering that the other party let the Purifier return after the battle, it meant that this person at least kept his promise, and his words were more credible.

Data characters flashed in the observer's golden eyes. It took only a few seconds for her to sort out the next action plan. She raised her head slightly and looked up at the gray figure: "The singularity you are in is not a complete world, but an independent space created based on your own research that is connected to this world. Its existence has caused disorder in the space of this sea area. If you cannot stabilize this spreading fluctuation, it will continue to exist and attract the space from other test sites into a superposition state. The bad omen will continue to befall this place."

As soon as she opened her mouth, Zhou He's head started buzzing, just like when his teacher was lecturing in school. He heard it in one ear and out the other, but not completely.

However, he had been baptized by all kinds of information after all, and he quickly understood what the observer meant. It was probably saying that the system placed its own port area here, which directly affected the nearby space. The previous superposition of the mirror sea was all the system's fault.

But since it was the system's fault, what did it have to do with him? He wished there were more Mirror Seas and Omens to give him experience, boxes, and materials.

So he snorted and laughed, not taking it seriously at all: "Miss Observer, please don't worry about this. As long as you are willing to evacuate this sea area, we can handle these things ourselves."

"Is that right?"

The observer also smiled and turned his gaze to the other people at the scene: "According to the retained data, most of these ship girls who obey your orders are built with the resources obtained from sinking our fleet. If we withdraw from this sea area and take away all the data and resources, can you still develop so quickly?"