Revisiting Azur Lane

Upon hearing this, Zhou He looked over there and was quite interested in the so-called fruit trees. This island was most likely created for him by the system. Something created by such an old-fashioned system must have a complete ecological cycle inside, and all kinds of things might be related to him.

"climb mountains?"

Zuikaku put his hands on his hips and said, "Do you need a bodyguard?"

"Of course, you all have to go along."

Zhou He glanced at her, smiled, turned around and walked towards the command center: "But you can choose to take the mountain road or the waterway."

Zuikaku and Hermione followed Zhou He together, leaning over his side and saying, "As for me, any route is fine. Commander, you seem to want a ship very much. Can't you use your privilege to build one?"

"I really do."

Zhou He shifted his attention to the system and looked at the remaining 22 Home Coins. Thinking that there would be no new ships joining today, he collected the daily 6 Home Coins. A proper small speedboat was 70 Home Coins each, and if it was an ordinary fishing boat, it should be a little less. He could save money to buy it, but at this stage, the Home Coins were not to be used to find him a vehicle.

With a smile on his face, he closed the system interface and glanced at Zuikaku: "Rather than building a ship with bare hands, I think it would be more convenient for you to tow a Siren destroyer back to me so I can see if I can repair and modify it."

"Ahahaha, the commander is really obsessed with Siren's destroyer."

Zuikaku's eyes dodged for a moment, and he crossed his arms and laughed twice in a pretentious manner, and then comforted Zhou He: "Don't worry, the next time a Siren breaks into our territory, I will definitely tow a boat back for the commander."

It was just Zuikaku's habitual remark, but Zhou He really wanted to touch Siren's body to see what reward he got. He thought it would be good to put some pressure on Zuikaku, so he nodded seriously: "Then I'll wait for you to fulfill your promise, Zuikaku."

"Uh."

Zuikaku was speechless for a moment. She said that, but she might not be able to remember this matter when she was fighting. She opened her mouth several times to withdraw her promise, but Zhou He keenly avoided her sight, leaving Zuikaku no chance to speak. She could only follow behind dejectedly. Hermione next to her couldn't help but smile as she looked at him with narrowed eyes. It was the first time she saw Zhou He doing something bad.

"Ah! Commander, when can you call Sister Shoukaku back? I can't remember all these messed up things."

After entering the room, Zuikaku couldn't hold it in any longer, and gave up and grabbed Zhou He's shoulders from behind and shook them - Hermione was so scared that she hurried over to separate them. Zhou He was also caught off guard, but he couldn't help laughing when he turned around and looked at the noisy Zuikaku. After a while, he spread his hands and said, "I also want to call Shokaku over, but now I don't have the Mind Cube to build new members, so I have to rely on you to fight the Siren. Maybe Shokaku can hear your and my calls, and she will appear next time you sink the Siren."

"Really?"

Zuikaku stopped making a fuss and waited for Hermione to let go before coming to Zhou He: "So Commander, you don't have any materials for construction. I was wondering why you didn't recruit new members."

"I will not hide my weakness when I am clearly at a disadvantage."

Zhou He shrugged. Like most people in Donghuang, he had a fear of insufficient firepower. If he had a mind cube in his hand, he would choose to use it immediately. He really needed the addition of new ship girls, not only to deal with the Sirens, but the addition of new members would inject vitality into the port area and make it more interesting.

He hopes that his port area will be a lively, interesting and laughter-filled place, and even if conflicts arise, he will do his best to resolve them.

This will be his lifelong goal.

……

"Commander, Yudachi and the others are back, and Hood is with them."

Yudachi and Tosa ran very far, and Zuikaku took a shower and rested before they got close to the island. Zuikaku, who was basking in the sun outside, spotted the three people who had returned. She leaned in from the window outside the kitchen, and looking at the chef Zhou He who was sweating profusely due to the fire, she reminded them.

"Ah? Please help me pick them up."

Zhou He was frying food in a clattering wok in response to Zuikaku, but when he finished cooking and put the food on the plate, he found that Zuikaku was still leaning on the window. Thinking she didn't hear him, he could only wipe the sweat from his face with a towel, turned around and asked Hermione to prepare the ingredients for the next dish, and hurried out of the command center.

"What did the commander just say?"

Zuikaku came around and caught up with Zhou He. Her smiling face made people feel very cunning, which was completely inconsistent with her image. Zhou He knew as soon as he heard and saw that this guy deliberately let him go out by himself. He couldn't help but feel helpless: "I'm also very busy over there. Yudachi and Tosa should be hungry too. Can't you help me pick them up?"

"Hehe, I think you don't understand at all, Commander."

Ruihe stood two meters away from Zhou He, reaching out to touch her long hair. If she didn't speak, she would really be an amazing, quiet and beautiful girl.

Unfortunately, there is no if. Zuikaku raised his hand and pointed at himself and then at Yudachi and the others in the distance: "We can have dinner later, but the reconnaissance report you get will be completely different if you go out to greet them in person or not."

"what?"

Zhou He really didn’t understand this time. Why would a mere matter of whether or not he went out to greet him affect the investigation report?

His management is indeed very loose, but the personal qualities of his own ship girls are extremely high. They would not have such kindergarten-level tempers, right?

"What's the matter? It's just a short while. It won't delay you from going back to cook!"

Seeing his silly and cute look, Zuikaku felt that she couldn't explain the reason by herself, so she simply gave up.

"Row."

Since they had already come out, Zhou He naturally would not turn around and go back. Although she did not say it clearly, it seemed that Zuikaku hoped that he could greet every ship girl returning from the attack. Since the ship girl must have proposed the reason and effect, he just wrote it down.

When the dock is built in the future, a security office booth will be built next to it. Whenever there is a ship girl attack schedule, he can sit inside and rest and work at the same time.

During the brainstorming session, Zhou He also came to the beach and met the three people who had landed. Yudachi, as always, had sharp ears and a sharp nose. He could smell the smell from a long distance. After landing, he stepped on the tide and left footprints on the beach. He ran to Zhou He and circled around to smell the smell. Then he crossed his arms and thought for a few seconds, then suddenly opened his eyes: "Today's lunch has meat!"

"..."

Zhou He was waiting for her to speak. When the word meat came out, he couldn't help but reach out and ruffle Xi Li's hair: "Which day will there be no meat for dinner?"

"Hey hey hey."

Yuli's little head shook left and right with Zhou He's palm, and her silly smile made people feel no negative emotions at all.

Tosa, who was a step behind, also came over at this time. She glanced at the cute Yudachi and said, "Commander, Yudachi just ran out of the atmosphere of 90 nautical miles. Did you achieve the reconnaissance goal?"

"We've reached it. Did you encounter any other problems along the way?"

Zhou He let go of Yudachi, hummed, and asked Tosa, "I saw Yudachi seemed to have sunk Siren's submarine on the way. Was he left alone?"

"Yes, Commander, you are amazing. You have discovered this."

Yudachi raised his hand to answer, and even praised Zhou He, while Tosa hummed: "After the submarine was sunk, no Siren fleet approached. I really don't understand the Siren's patrol mechanism and intelligence transmission method."

"Don't dwell on it. We just need to make sure we have an intelligence advantage before each battle with a Sirens group. If we look at Sirens with a fixed mindset, we might end up at a disadvantage."

Zhou He simply comforted Tosa. It was not cost-effective to explore the various rules of the mass-produced Siren, because in the future there would definitely be observers and other intelligent individuals controlling and directing behind the scenes. Now they would attack the enemy based on their intelligence advantage, and in the future they would crush them with absolute firepower.

"I see."

Tosa nodded in response, but there was no expression on his face, making Zhou He wonder if his words really worked.

Compared to Zuikaku's discovery in the west, the east was relatively dull. After a brief exchange, everyone started to walk back. During this time, Zhou He wanted to ask about Hood's discovery near the island, but then found that he had left early.

"Well, you guys came back with Hood, did she say anything?"

Zhou He felt that Hood didn't seem to like being with them, but Hood had kindly invited them to a tea party in the morning. The time he had to communicate with Hood was limited, and just like he couldn't understand Tosa, he also couldn't understand the glory of this royal family.

"Yes, he said he hopes we can all attend the tea party."

Yuli was running and jumping happily beside them. Upon hearing this, he turned around and walked backwards in front to answer.

“An event where people get together to drink tea and eat snacks.”

Tosa's voice was cold. She glanced at Yudachi and said, "It's no different from normal days. Is there any need for it to exist?"

"Uh."

This question stumped Zhou He. He actually didn't know the true meaning of the Royal Tea Party. Before crossing over, he had seen many fan fiction and official works that were just simple drinking tea and chatting. He couldn't see anything special about it. He pondered for a long time before coming up with an explanation: "Perhaps, the orthodox Royal Tea Party is just a means of communication, but we in Hong Kong don't need to communicate with the outside world, so it seems meaningless?"

"The commander is really thinking hard."

Zuikaku couldn't help but make a joke when he saw Zhou He frowning in embarrassment. Tosa shook his head slightly but didn't say anything else. There was no external communication in Minato now, but maybe there would be in the future.

The group chatted intermittently and returned to the headquarters. Zhou He turned his head and saw Hood coming out of the kitchen. He then remembered that he had not finished cooking yet. He greeted him and hurried into the kitchen. Hermione had already started cooking. Although she was wearing a maid outfit, the super control of her physique as a ship girl made Hermione not affected by the outfit at all. Even flipping the pan looked unusually elegant.

"This level has already been achieved."

Zhou He saw it and realized that with his unconventional background, he could not compare to Hermione who had a foundation in orthodox cooking. Although he did not understand Donghuang cuisine at the beginning, after a week of training, Hermione had surpassed her.

It's me who should be helping out!

Zhou He silently ran over to cut the side dishes and ingredients.

Chapter 33: Learning and Applying

For lunch, Zhou He usually prepares rice + stir-fried dishes, soup, and steamed seafood. The first two types of ingredients are produced by the system, so they provide more energy and will not make people eat like gluttons. The latter type is more suitable for people like Yuudachi who simply like to eat.

However, Hermione was in charge of the kitchen today, and there were sandwiches, sausages and fruit salads on the table, making the food selection more diverse.

"Did Hood remind you? Oh, that's good. We should indeed add more elements of dishes from other camps. I didn't think it through."

Because there was a tea party, Zhou He let everyone go after dinner without making any declaration. When he turned around to help Hermione clean up, he chatted with her for a while and suddenly felt that he had touched on his blind spot in thinking.

Ordinary ship girls have never eaten food themselves, so they don’t have high requirements for taste, but sometimes there will be older generation (long lived) ship girls like Hood who want to eat the dishes of their own camp. Zhou He thinks this is a good thing. Each camp has its own characteristics. He who had never been abroad before crossing over can experience foreign customs from his own ship girls.

Well, it’s very profitable.

However, he was disappointed that there was no automatic dishwasher in the kitchen created by the system. There was void energy, but this convenient life machine was omitted. It was indeed an old-fashioned system. He wondered if it was sold in the home store.

While chatting and laughing, the two cleaned the dishes and the kitchen. After finishing, Zhou He took out the utensils for making cakes and cookies from the cupboard and lined them up on the table in the middle of the kitchen.

"Tea party, what time does afternoon tea start from?"

Zhou He was not in a hurry to cook. He was good at cooking, but making snacks by himself - to be honest, he had only seen people making snacks at home in cartoons before he traveled through time. After Hermione came, he did eat them, but that was another matter compared to making them by himself.

"Well, around 20pm, generally speaking it's 30- minutes. Commander, don't worry too much about it. Ms. Hood probably won't consider this tea party as a formal event, probably."

Hermione wiped her palms with a handkerchief, and after answering Zhou He, she rummaged through the cabinets around her for a while and took out a set of exquisite, unused tea sets - the system did give her this kind of thing, is it because Donghuang also has the custom of drinking tea?

Zhou He was relieved after hearing the previous part, but the word "probably" at the end made his eyelids twitch. He tapped his palm on the table and said, "Hermione, you should also take a rest. I will ask Hood for the specific matters."

"Ok."

Hermione did not resist, she responded with a faint smile and walked out of the kitchen. Zhou He was a step slower, and when he went out he found Hermione going upstairs, so he turned around and looked at the clock in the hall. It was already 2:30 in the afternoon, and the tea party at 4 o'clock, including the time for making desserts, was quite tight.

"It should be fine."

Zhou He thought about it and thought that no matter how much KanColle eats, he won't get fat. At worst, he could have dinner a little later. He looked around and walked to the gate. He went down the stairs and squatted on the grass to measure the height with his palm. The grass near the entrance was trampled down to form a path.

“What would it look like if the cement road was directly covered?”

Zhou He stood up and thought. The height of the ground and the stairs was almost the same as he thought. If the cement road covering was not adaptive but a fixed 20cm thick, then the second level of the entrance stairs on this side would be lower than the road surface and there would be a reverse drop. He would have to get some concrete to fill the drop, which would be quite troublesome without the materials.

After thinking about it, Zhou He turned around and walked to a position about ten meters in front of the command center and looked around. This was the expected main road, which would be a crossroads in the future. He could use this as a reference point for experiments, and the system had already leveled the nearby area, so there shouldn't be any height differences when paving the road all the way.

After thinking it over again and again in his mind, Zhou He narrowed his eyes and bought a cement pavement for 1 home coin (27 remaining) from the home system. After entering the browsing interface, he used the virtual shadow to find the angle (with auxiliary lines), and confirmed that it was parallel to the command center before deciding to use it.

A blue light appeared out of nowhere and covered the lawn. After a few seconds, it condensed into a solid concrete road that was higher than the lawn. The cross-section was very flat and the entire road was sunken into the soil. Zhou He squatted down and dug up the edge of the grass with his hands. He found that the foundation below was very deep, and the height above the soil surface was only about ten centimeters, which was different from what he had expected.

"As expected, we still have to see the real thing to be sure."

Zhou He once again confirmed the truth that practice makes perfect. He stepped onto the solid roadside, turned around and bought another 1 Home Coin (26 remaining) of cement road towards the entrance of his headquarters and confirmed its placement.

The light reappeared - solid, the two horizontal and vertical sections were completely connected together, as if they had been poured together from the beginning. Zhou He walked around and inspected them, and only felt relieved after making sure there were no flaws, but he did not proceed with the splicing.

The cement pavement purchased is 1.5 meters wide and 10 meters long. It can be used for the main road, but it is not suitable for the branch road. Zhou He plans to do further research on it.

……

After passing the command center and coming to the back, Zhou He first looked at the road he had paved after digging, and then looked all the way to the planned hot spring site. After the hot spring is placed, it will definitely lay its own foundation like the road surface, that is, this deepened road will be lower than the entrance, and rainwater will not flow into the hot spring area after rain.

His efforts were not in vain. He would later build a few pavilions to cover the road leading to the hot spring pool, and tinker with the ground to give it an ancient charm.

"Well, not bad."

Zhou He touched it with satisfaction. There are many things to consider in civil engineering work. Fortunately, his choice was not wrong.

"What is the commander saying?"

Someone was basking in the sun here, and Zhou He's reclining chair had been occupied by Xi Li. At this time, she was kneeling on it, supporting herself with her hands, observing Zhou He's strange behavior.

"Let's talk about this road. It looks quite satisfactory."

Zuikaku, who was sitting next to him, rolled the road with his toes and found that the quality was indeed very high. He no longer had to worry about getting his shoes dirty when going out.

Zhou He heard the two people's whispering, and then he looked over. Yudachi and Zuikaku were sitting close, while Tosa was a little further away. At this moment, he placed his sword flat on his thigh with his eyes closed, as if he was meditating. The Hood he was looking for was not here.

He waved to Xi Li without leaving in a hurry. The latter's ears perked up on the spot. With a magical kneeling jump, he got off the couch and came in front of Zhou He, looking up at him: "Commander, do you have any instructions?"

"Yes, let me hold you."

Looking at Yuli, Zhou He couldn't help but smile, leaned over and opened his arms. Yuli's eyes suddenly lit up, and he could even be said to be impatient and jumped up and hugged Zhou He's neck with both hands. Zhou He seized the opportunity and put his hands together to hug Yuli's waist and back.

The impact brought by Yuli made Zhou He unable to stand steadily. He subconsciously took two steps back and turned around, then he picked up Yuli steadily. He naturally smelled a mixed scent of hair and a milk-like scent, but his strength was not enough and his neck was a little tight. After a while, he let Yuli down and patted her arm to indicate that she could relax.

"Ugh?"

Zuikaku tilted his head as he looked at the two of them, not knowing what was going on. Yuudachi was also curious, but his happiness overwhelmed his curiosity. After landing, he threw himself into Zhou He's arms and rubbed his chest, squinting his eyes as if he had been healed.

"It's lighter than I thought."

Zhou He gently stroked Yuli's hair, and the doubts in his heart were answered. Yuli was a little heavier than a normal girl of this size, but considering that Yuli had a healthy and plump body, the actual weight difference was not that big, maybe only about ten pounds more.