Revisiting Azur Lane

Jarvis nodded with satisfaction and continued sweeping the floor, while Zhou He sat on the steps at the door, staring into the distance in a daze, quietly waiting for light to appear in the sky before standing up, turning on the system and switching to the scientific research ship column. The scientific research progress of Anchorage had reached 100%, and he only needed to click 'Complete Construction', and the first scientific research ship in the port would appear.

And what Zhou He had to do was just this. As the sun rose, he clicked to complete the construction. The golden chain extended from the outside of the system interface to cover most of the screen, and then broke into pieces, leaving only four large golden words: Construction Completed.

A sudden gust of wind made Zhou He instinctively tilt his head and squint his eyes. When he opened his eyes again, at the end of his sight was the sparkling sea surface reflecting the sunlight. In the middle of the picture stood a young girl, who seemed unreal to him. He took the initiative to step closer and gradually took the girl's figure into his sight.

The girl was wearing a thin white coat, but the clothes only covered half of her body. Her slender white legs under the black shorts were fascinating. Her light brown hair fell to her ankles. Her tender and beautiful face had a pair of beautiful rosy eyes. She was 1.8 meters tall and had a figure that all women envied, but her temperament was so innocent. When Zhou He looked at her, it was as if he accidentally saw children running around inside an elementary school when he passed by. He felt a sense of nostalgia for the past and a sense of spiritual purification.

The girl seemed confused by her sudden appearance here. She blinked and looked around, finally fixing her eyes on Zhou He. Suddenly her eyebrows curved into a bright smile. She walked quickly to Zhou He and opened her mouth as if ready to speak, but was stuck again. After a while, she called out in a low and tentative voice: "Commander, teacher?"

"It's me. Good morning, Anchorage."

Zhou He smiled faintly and extended his hand to her: "Welcome to my port."

"Uh-huh!"

Anchorage stretched out his hands and held Zhou He's hands: "Good morning, teacher!"

"hiss…"

This clear and innocent cry and appearance really made Zhou He's body tremble. He underestimated Anchorage's lethality. Even if this girl didn't have an explosive body, and was just an ordinary innocent girl looking at him with clear eyes and calling him teacher, he probably couldn't bear it.

He thought to himself that this was bad, maybe he shouldn't have released Anchorage at this time.

But since the person was in front of him, it was useless to think about it. He tried to take his hand back from Anchorage, but it didn't work. He took a deep breath and smiled calmly: "Next, I will take you to visit the port area. Before that, let's go have breakfast first."

"Hurrah."

Anchorage still had no intention of letting go. She seemed to have found a safe area. She followed Zhou He and looked at the various buildings in the port area, as well as Jarvis who walked out of the command building with a surprised look on his face. She asked curiously, "Teacher, is that sister also a teacher?"

"..."

"Her name is Jarvis. You can call her Sister Jarvis or Doctor."

Zhou He tilted his head to look at Jarvis and introduced Anchorage to him. The latter suddenly understood, but still did not let go of Zhou He - although being close to girls is a good thing, Zhou He is really not worthy of Anchorage's affection. The game seems to say that Anchorage is still a "child" who reads princess and prince storybooks. He really didn't expect the system to give it to him as it is.

However, he also understood the situation of the research ship: unlike ordinary ships that obtained ship memories - Kaga from another world - and Tosa which had never appeared in the world but had some memories, the research ship was a complete blank slate. They had no memories of the past, only their own affairs and his existence as the commander, and everything else needed to be supplemented later.

"I remember that among all the research ships, Anchorage's mental age is relatively young. Although its learning ability is not as good as that of an adult, its ability to accept things should be stronger than that of an adult."

Taking Anchorage to the restaurant, Zhou He ordered a cup of slightly sweet coffee and a cup of milk tea for Anchorage. Then, while observing the innocent girl who was curious about everything and even wanted to hug and touch the passing Manju, he opened the system to look at the map. From the bird's-eye view, he could see that his own people had already started moving. After a little thought, he gave Bismarck the order to "explore the royal base" and also told her the location of the surrounding Siren fleet.

"First explore the Royal Base and have the Purifiers check if there is any equipment that can be used. After resting, go find the surviving ship girls to cooperate."

This was Zhou He’s idea. He still wanted to find friendly forces and then defeat the Siren together.

Soon, Manju brought up the coffee and milk tea. Anchorage held the warm cup, looked at it and smelled it, and then took a sip like Zhou He. His eyes suddenly lit up, and he looked at Zhou He while holding the milk tea: "Teacher, this is so sweet and delicious."

"This is milk tea, a drink. If you want to drink it in the future, you can come here and let the barbarians make it for you."

Zhou He put down the coffee and explained the situation in a gentle voice. Then he saw Anchorage picked up the Manju who brought the tea and praised him as "so awesome". The Manju felt embarrassed. After being put down, he walked dizzy and almost bumped into the table leg next to him. Zhou He smiled when he saw this, switched the interface and opened the file of Anchorage at the dock.

In terms of parameters, as a scientific research ship, Anchorage is stronger than heavy cruisers such as Ashigara and Kursk. Its armament is also average, with nothing particularly outstanding.

But at the bottom of the file, he saw a line of red text: A new type of heavy cruiser constructed with the Sirens as the imaginary enemy. When fighting against the Sirens, its combat effectiveness will increase by 5-25% depending on the attack status.

"Damn, the Siren's enemy!"

Zhou He’s eyes widened. This system wiped out all the skills, but retained one skill for the scientific research ship!

The initial attributes exceed those of ordinary ship girls of the same type, and she also has skills with percentage-increasing properties. With subsequent growth, she will be given a ring, and her values ​​will directly crush ordinary ship girls. Although it is not possible for one to beat ten, it is definitely no problem for one to beat three. The ten magic cubes needed for scientific research, carefully considering the growth and actual combat conversion rate, the cost-effectiveness is actually quite good?

With Hu Teng and New Jersey as two blank slates, his expectations for the scientific research ship were lowered a lot. The skill retention of the Siren's enemy really gave him a big surprise.

"The teacher smiled happily."

Anchorage on the opposite side looked at Zhou He's uncontrollable smile and started laughing. Zhou He simply stopped suppressing himself and happily opened the system map, moved the map of the test field aside, and prepared to find two Sirens on the big map to give Anchorage some experience.

But as soon as he took a look, his smile disappeared: two very strange creatures appeared on the map.

The first one is a 3D avatar that looks like an octopus. This thing is very similar to the agent that Shokaku mentioned yesterday that used electromagnetic interference and sonic attacks.

The second one looked like a warship, but the model was completely different from the Siren warship he had seen before. This warship also had a 3D avatar, but it was not red, which symbolized the enemy, but blue?

"What do you mean, friendly forces?"

Where do the friendly forces come from?

This time Zhou He has no way to deal with it.

……

Chapter 190 Like an Adventure

Unlike the test field that the monk was exploring, the map of the main world was very bright and comfortable, and the suddenly appearing red dot of the agent and the blue dot of the new warship seemed to be coming from the north, one in front and the other behind, the blue dot in front and the red dot behind. The one in front had inadvertently arrived at the abandoned port area of ​​Siren in the north, while the octopus agent was leaning towards the double island Siren base in the west, and the two were completely separated.

"Will the Siren Agent in the main world be stronger than the Agent created by Arbitrator Towa based on the memory data in the test field?"

Zhou He turned his head away from the blue-dot warship and looked at the red dot of the traveler, thinking in his heart.

According to the Purifier, Tova in the test site was not actually connected to the host, but suddenly awakened the memory of his original body. This statement was just like Tirpitz and others he first met, who spent countless years in the test site and gradually developed real will.

——Speaking of Tirpitz and the others, Zhou He was full of doubts. According to the Purifiers, their previous speculation that 'the mirror sea was intercepted from a parallel world, so the ship girls inside could not come to this world' was completely wrong. Most of the test sites here were designed and built based on the main world. The worldview inside might deviate from that of the main world, but those chess piece ship girls were ordinary life forms. It was impossible for them to be sent to other worlds, right?

"Is it the system that's playing tricks on me?"

Zhou He drank his coffee and his mood gradually calmed down. Neither the sudden appearance of friendly forces nor the agents were particularly important to him. With the existence of the system, they could not discover his port area, and he had enough time to prepare for the response.

As for Tirpitz and the others, after thinking for a moment he thought of a possibility, that is, the test site he encountered at the beginning did exist in reality, and Tirpitz and the others were real ship girls. The reason why they were sent to other worlds was because the existence of the system and the port area caused spatial chaos and overlap in the nearby test sites. His ship girls had their own system positioning anchor points so they could travel back and forth normally, but Tirpitz and the other experimental creations did not belong to any world themselves, so they directly overlapped to a world that was more suitable for them?

"Even though Yukikaze has become a permanent port, it seems the bond is still not enough."

Zhou He was so depressed that he couldn't think of any other possibilities except this. Next time if he encountered a mirror world with ship girls, he would definitely use the projection to meet them in person and communicate with them. If he could make their stay permanent in one go, he would probably be able to keep them.

"teacher?"

Anchorage's crisp call brought Zhou He back to his senses. He closed the system interface in the blink of an eye and looked at the girl opposite with a faint smile: "Sorry, I'm thinking about something, what's wrong?"

"Well, is there no one else here besides us and the doctor sister?"

Anchorage looked around and asked curiously.

"Yes, but everyone is out working. They are not at home now. You will see them in Anchorage in a few days."

Zhou He patiently answered and explained. He happened to see a few barbarians coming over with plates. He stretched out his hand and beckoned to them: "Let's have breakfast first. These barbarians are good at cooking."

"Okay."

Anchorage didn't realize that he was trying to change the subject, but answered directly. Zhou He was a little dazed by her obedient look. He wondered if he taught Anchorage some strange knowledge, would Anchorage grow up to have a pure and lustful character?

'What a shame, I'm a decent person.'

Zhou He shook his head slightly. It was enough to just think about this kind of thing. There would be no shortage of charming women in the future port area. What he needed was a capable assistant who could help him share the pressure of running the port area. He would have to find a suitable teacher for Anchorage later.

Seeing Anchorage happily picking up chopsticks to imitate himself, Zhou He began to give instructions with a smile.

……

While Zhou He was instructing Anchorage, the people in the test site had gradually approached the 'Royal Base'. After a night of settling down, a considerable number of executor teams gathered nearby, and a conflict occurred between the two sides.

The Zhou He family’s fleet is not currently considered Xuefeng. The average combat power is at the level of a Type 3 Executor. A Type 2 Executor can struggle against them, but that’s all.

On the sea with smoke rising everywhere, Bismarck shuttled between the wreckage of many Executors that were sinking into the sea, with a thoughtful look on his face. He asked Hu Teng to continue checking for any survivors and then turned around and drove towards the Purification Parent hiding in the back. Z23 looked around and chose to follow Bismarck.

"I'm here! Any questions?"

Purification saw Bismarck running towards her and approached her enthusiastically to be on guard. She looked full of energy and didn't look like she hadn't slept all night. Bismarck didn't want to join her in the fun and directly expressed his guess: "There aren't many Siren fleets in this test site?"

"Eh, as for this... I don't know if it's a lot or a little for you guys."

The Purifier's ship suit looks like a hammerhead shark, with two small sharks floating in the air on both sides. It's very high-tech. She scratched her head and said, "If it's based on the proportions when we fight outside, there definitely won't be that many."

In fact, there are not many executors inside this test site, because the core goal of the experiment is to use Towa as a sparring partner to promote the growth of the ship girls here, and it does not need to be strong enough to annihilate the combat effectiveness of all the ship girl forces.

These executors who fought against them were all teams created by Tova later. After awakening their memories, Tova even directly destroyed the Siren fleets that were originally used as sparring partners to prevent them from having command conflicts when attacking the ship girls.

"The current number of Executor fleets in the entire test site is approximately between 300 and 500. The exact number depends on how many the remaining shipgirls destroy."

Purification snapped his fingers and said, "You have killed nearly one-fifth of the Executor Fleet in the past two days. This is a loss rate that Tova's production capacity cannot keep up with. She will definitely launch an attack against you in the short term."

Bismarck narrowed his eyes and stared at the Purifier: "If we don't ask, you won't tell us this information?"

"Haha, how do you know you need this information if you don't ask me?"

Jinghuaqin touched his hair and smiled brightly, without any sense of being a traitor.

"I hope that after closing this test site, your sincerity will satisfy the commander."

Bismarck said this coldly, then turned and left. The number of fleets currently available to the Siren was important information that could influence their itinerary objectives. If they had known that the number of Sirens here was so small, they would not have had to hide like that, and should have even taken the initiative to fight back.

Reducing the number of executors is equivalent to reducing Tova's total combat power. Taking the opportunity to eliminate the agents is equivalent to clipping Tova's wings, and their chances of winning will be greatly increased.

She directly informed the others of the news. Hood and Nagato were relatively calm, but New Jersey was more radical and wanted to give the Purifier a severe beating.

"Don't touch her for now. This is their testing ground. The Purifiers must be able to use the facilities in the Royal Base. Maybe they can directly contact the White Eagle Base."

Bismarck advised that if the Purifier was not still useful, the practice of hiding key information alone should be executed. She decided to wait for Zhou He to call her via video and then severely criticize the Purifier. Next time, even if there is a similar cooperation again, she must squeeze out the value of the Purifier before agreeing.

"makes sense."

New Jersey is as fierce as she talks. Without Zhou He's order, she will not take action against the Purifier.

"Then enter the port."

Hood spoke.

Currently, the ship girls of several camps are divided into small teams, and are counting the executors in various directions of the Royal Base to see if all the executors have died. After the discussion, the four teams landed at different locations based on their own reconnaissance of the internal aircraft carriers.

The royal base was located on an island, which was larger than Zhou He's island. In addition to the port, other areas had also been developed considerably. A modern city had even been formed on the island. However, this city had now fallen into ruins, with most of the buildings destroyed and some houses still on fire, with black smoke rising into the sky.

New Jersey chose the landing dock in a conventional way, Hood chose a location close to the city, Bismarck found a destroyed military base, and Nagato and others landed from the seaside amusement park at the suggestion of Shentong.

Exploring separately is a very dangerous thing, but it is also the most efficient option.

"Hey~ There really are a lot of resources left here for trading."

New Jersey landed at the dock. The place had been beaten to pieces, but cargo boxes and warehouses could still be found in the ruins. New Jersey walked in front and searched left and right as if he was going home. In the end, he didn't find what he wanted after running through all the warehouses. He looked at Yorktown in confusion: "I remember that the research and development of missiles had already begun during that war. This place belongs to the 'future', but there is no research in this area?"

“…I don’t know.”

The smile on Yorktown's face seemed a little forced. She knew very little history, and because the Yorktown sank too early, she did not live to see the day when the White Eagle Fleet gained absolute advantage.

Seeing this, Harmanman complained to New Jersey: "Hey! Don't ask York City sister such complicated questions. We are different from you. We don't know what the future will be like."

Cleveland and his friends respect New Jersey very much, but Harman doesn't care. What she cares about most is York City. Even if Zhou He makes excessive demands on York City, she will refute it in the same way.

"Ah, sorry."

New Jersey was stunned for a moment, then he apologized in a low voice and explained, "In the subsequent wars, a new aircraft carrier inherited your name, Yorktown. I thought you had her memories."

"is that so."

York City was stunned for a moment when he heard this, then smiled and said, "I don't have any memory of her. If we can meet one day, I will thank her."

Although the new Yorktown is not her, someone has inherited the name, just like the newborn her is accompanying the Enterprise, which is excellent.

"Hmm... it's an unimaginable scene."

New Jersey poked her forehead with her finger. Although they were both Yorktown, she really couldn't imagine what the Essex-class Yorktown would look like. Would it be very similar to the Yorktown in front of her?

"That's true, but the commander can make this unimaginable thing become reality."

York City smiled faintly and spoke in a gentle voice. Although she had not had much communication with Zhou He, she had an unspeakable trust in Zhou He.

She doesn't like fighting, but there is a chance that a ship girl will drop when defeating the Sirens under Zhou He, which means that she might reunite with Enterprise and Bumblebee unexpectedly during the battle. Therefore, she now fights with a little expectation, looking forward to the drop of new members.

"?"

A question mark suddenly popped up in Harman’s head. That wasn’t right. She had always been with Yorktown, and Yorktown had very little communication with Zhou He. Why was he so optimistic about that guy?

"Yes."

New Jersey also nodded, turned his head left and right, opened his arms and showed a bright smile: "I never thought that I would come to such a beautiful world."

In the world in memory, the era of big ships and big guns has faded away. Although this world also relies on the power of aircraft carriers, their strength as battleships is also indispensable. She, who has the title of the strongest battleship, vows to become the real strongest battleship in this world.

“So passionate!”

Cleveland and his companions came back from exploring the surrounding area. Listening to their conversation, he smiled and said, "But now it seems we should look for the headquarters of this port area?"

"Ah! I almost forgot, let's go over there, it looks like there might be equipment hidden there."

New Jersey clapped his hands and pointed to a tall building that looked like a small palace in the distance. It was located outside the port area, with white exterior walls. Some areas were decorated with other colors, but the majority were white and gold. Even after being bombarded, the decoration was still luxurious, and it was obvious that it was the residence of aristocrats.