Zhou He's expression was a little subtle. Could it be that night vision was still a characteristic of the ship type? As an aircraft carrier, the Zuikaku's reconnaissance capability was sharply reduced at night. If it were brought into the main body, would it just be able to see in the dark like an ordinary person like him?

Thinking of this, he tried to verify it: "Yudachi, is it possible that Zuikaku is afraid of the dark?"

"Well, Zuikaku-nee said she's not afraid of the dark, she just can't see clearly and she's worried about hurting other people."

Yudachi pulled Zhou He, and the distance between them was very close so Zhou He could barely see her expression and reaction. This little cutie actually believed Zuikaku's face-saving lies - he clearly said that he was not afraid of the dark, but Yudachi didn't believe it at all.

Zhou He didn't know how to complain about this kind of differential treatment. No wonder Zuikaku couldn't come down to guard the road. However, Z23 would definitely not be as easy to talk to as Yuudachi, and would probably be brought over with Zuikaku. He didn't care too much and was led left and right in the passage by Yuudachi.

There are many independent rooms in the basement, some of which have glass windows that allow you to see inside from the corridor, while some do not. However, the iron doors are all closed, as if they were automated.

"Commander, this way."

After turning another corner, Zhou He caught up with the main force. The power supply room with the skylight opened also had its door opened. Cleveland, waving in the sunlight, was sparkling and dazzling.

"Thanks to Yudachi for leading the way. What's the situation inside?"

After praising Xili with a smile, Zhou He came to the light of Anxin and looked into the power supply room. The creations of his system were all supplied by infinite energy from the void. He wondered what energy the Siren, which was a piece of black technology, used to power it.

"I don't quite understand. Hermione is investigating."

Cleveland glanced at Zhou He, but she couldn't tell that Zhou He had any special interest in her. Maybe she was overthinking it. No - it was probably because her behavior was too boyish and she didn't look like a girl at all, so Zhou He evaluated her from a male perspective.

Damn it, she actually knew about this, but just didn't want to admit it.

While Cleveland was reflecting on himself and Yudachi discovered that his palms were black, Zhou He went into the power supply room and found Hermione seemed to be thinking about a solution in front of a block of broken lines that had been blown apart. Bismarck and Hood were watching from the side, and Tosa turned sideways and nodded to Zhou He.

"commander."

Hermione naturally heard the noise outside, so she stood up and looked at Zhou He, saying in a measured tone: "The wiring arrangement here is simple and clear. If we can get some repair tools and supplementary materials, the repair can be completed quickly."

"Really? That's easy."

Zhou He remembered that Kursk was also stumped by the maintenance equipment, but this was not a problem for him. After asking about the tools needed, Zhou He opened the Home Mall and found a matching toolbox for one Home Coin, which was of good quality and low price.

After several rounds of explanation, his people also understood his specialness, so he didn't mean to hide it anymore. He made a grabbing motion with his right hand in the air, and a square toolbox appeared in his hand. After handing the box to Hermione, he took out 0.01 units (tons) of copper and fluororubber from the warehouse and threw them on the ground: "Anything else you need? Like a generator or something?"

“These need to be measured to know.”

Hermione took the toolbox with both hands, placed it on the ground and opened the lid. There was a rustling sound. It turned out that there was a three-layer structure inside the box. The various equipment that were originally stacked had space to collide because the box was opened.

"No matter how many times I look at it, the Commander looks more like a collection of cutting-edge technology than we do."

Hood was impressed by Zhou He's performance of taking things out of thin air, to which Zhou He just smiled and said, "So, I am very similar to you, except that I have the 'Navy Port' ship suit, which has a slightly larger range of capabilities than you."

After a short pause, Zhou He suddenly remembered that the system seemed to have reminded him before that "the builder can be placed in the real world for construction", so the other functions should be similar?

Although it feels awesome to have such great power in one person, it does not seem like something a human can do. If the system's capabilities can be mechanized and materialized into reality, made automatic, or used in conjunction with his own ship girls, would he not have to explain it so frequently?

'May I? ’

Zhou He pondered and opened the system interface. After making sure there was no '?' hidden in the corner, he focused his attention on the 'Build' function bar. In just ten seconds, the system interface popped up two options: 'Construct equipment to reality' and 'Build directly'.

After selecting "direct construction" again, he began to stare at several other functional items, and then made an unexpected discovery. The two options of "dock" and "warehouse" could actually be realized in reality, but the four options of "home", "scientific research", "mission" and "attack" did not respond.

"Dock, warehouse...wait, is this the correct way to open it?"

Zhou He suddenly remembered his plan to build a dock. Wouldn't it be a complete port if he added a cement road and an elevated base to get a dock + a shipyard + a warehouse?

'No, no, no, is that really the case?'

Because it was too smooth, Zhou He felt that it was not normal. But after careful thinking, even if something went wrong, he seemed to be able to take back the dock and warehouse?

Damn it! He had never thought of this before because it was convenient.

Fortunately, he discovered it early. If he had waited until he had exchanged his home coins for real warehouses and docks before discovering it, wouldn’t he have lost a lot of money?

"…Commander, what happened?"

Cleveland walked in and saw Hermione doing maintenance and Zhou He with a thoughtful expression. He asked Tosa quietly, and the latter shook his head slightly: "Who knows, he must be thinking about something, he often daydreams when he is at home."

Time passed by every second, and Zhou He finally came to the conclusion of "trying at home". Thanks to the complete tools and materials, Hermione made a simple repair to the damaged circuit. When all the broken circuits were connected, the copper wires wrapped in fluororubber were covered with a faint blue light.

At the same time, the lights in the basement that had been extinguished all lit up with a click.

Chapter 50: Testing Grounds and Chess Pieces

“Ah, it’s lit.”

In the dark passage, Zuikaku pretended to be calm and followed Z23 forward in the dark. His eyes were dazzled by the sudden light. After adapting, he immediately became active again. He walked to the fork in the road, looked around, and then turned to discuss with Z23: "Since the power system is still repaired, let's go directly to the command room."

Z23 thought about it for a moment and nodded: "Okay."

On the other side, Zhou He, who had left the power room, discussed with others about splitting up, and then took Yuli to explore separately with the others.

There are many branching roads in this basement, and there are rooms at regular intervals. They are all closed when there is no electricity, and will open automatically when there is energy supply and they sense humanoid creatures. Yuudachi is lively and active, and he can't help but see fun things like automatic doors. When he sees an iron door, he goes over and stands waiting for it to open, having a lot of fun.

"Ah! Commander, look here, it looks like a bedroom."

Of course, opening the door and observing is itself part of the exploration. Hearing Yuudachi's call, Zhou He stepped closer. Just one glance made his eyes twitch: there was nothing else in this room except the iron bed. It was more like a detention room than a bedroom.

After making sure there was no water-producing equipment inside, Zhou He did not stop and continued exploring. Occasionally, when he saw a room with glass windows, he would turn his head to take a look. Most of these rooms were filled with long tables and other furniture, as well as various closets integrated into the walls. There was a sense of futuristic technological beauty, a pure doomsday base style.

"If the future is full of constant war, this design style makes sense."

Although the concept was unclear, Zhou He also remembered that a big black fox monster appeared in the Shinano event. At that time, it was quite a hot topic in the game group. The monster seemed to be the common enemy of KanColle and Sirens at that time. If Sirens were also fighting against that kind of thing later, it would be reasonable to make a mass-produced base that could be abandoned at any time.

Ok?

Zhou He seemed to have thought of the reason why this base was destroyed, but if a monster of that magnitude really attacked, there would be nothing left here - there was only one possibility, that this place was bombarded by a passing human or a fleet of ship girls, and then driven away at the speed of light by the Siren defenders.

…It’s really annoying to be completely in the dark about the outside world.

Zhou He didn't like this kind of groundless speculation without any information at all, and he was even annoyed by it, because the plot in Azur Lane when playing the game was just to make you guess.

Now that he has traveled to the real world of Kancolle, he still has to guess, and the similarity in this regard is 100%.

While he was staring at her, Yuli ran to the front corner of the passage and looked around. He turned around and waved to Zhou He excitedly: "Commander, there is a very large door here!"

"Oh?"

Zhou He gathered his thoughts and walked over quickly. When he turned the corner, he saw a huge iron door that was four meters wide slowly opening. Through the gap in the door, he saw the huge screen inside, as well as the computer and other electronic equipment under the screen.

"We are so lucky."

Raising his hand to high-five Yudachi's equally dark little hand, Zhou He smiled as he walked through the door and looked at the huge fan-shaped equipment room that covered at least two hundred square meters. The machines in it seemed to have restarted due to the reconnection of the power supply. Various screens on the equipment were flashing meaningless images and lights, and the huge screen on the wall was divided into dozens of small blocks, observing a sea area with a dim hue.

"Sure enough, this place monitors what's happening inside the Mirror Sea."

Zhou He opened his eyes wide and looked at the block surveillance. He was very familiar with this scene. This kind of background picture often appeared in the plot of the game. He tried to find more information from it, and he did find it. There were five split screens showing the scene of fleet fighting. Although the camera was far away, he could still see that there were sirens in the form of battleships on both sides of the battle, as well as relatively small figures close to human form.

"To generate KanColle chess pieces and let them lead the Siren fleet to fight each other? What's the point?"

Zhou He found the animals fighting each other interesting, but the appearance of humanoid creatures was another feeling. He frowned and told Hermione and others the location of the control room. At the same time, he walked to a computer with text flashing non-stop. After only three seconds, he retreated and turned to wave at Yudachi: "Yudachi, can you understand Eagle Language? I'm not very familiar with it."

"Let me see. Hey, why is the Siren using Eagle script?"

Xili, who was touching here and there, came to Zhou He and stood on tiptoe to look at the text symbols displayed on the computer. He felt very strange.

"Because the origin of the Siren is in White Eagle."

Zhou He knew it, but would not say it out loud. In the eyes of his own ship girl, the Sirens were pure enemies. He did not want his own ship girl to doubt the meaning of his existence because of the saying that "the enemy and I are of the same origin".

"Maybe it's because it works better. Isn't White Eagle very advanced in this area?"

He made up a random excuse and Yuuri believed it. He squinted his eyes to carefully identify the meaning of the text and conveyed it to Zhou He: This machine is reporting an error because the information received from the internal system of the Mirror Sea is inconsistent with the progress of the scheduled experiments in the plan library. Moreover, because there is no administrator to correct it, the error will become larger as time goes by.

The system is requesting to restart the experiment because the opposing black and white chess pieces in the experiment have shown a large number of 'awakening' reactions. Continuing the experiment will cause the war situation to become uncontrollable.

"Commander, what does this mean?"

Yuli tilted her head to ask for help from Zhou He who was frowning. She could understand the Eagle characters with her own translator, but she couldn't understand them when they were put together.

"It's hard to say. It should be saying that the KanColle chess piece has become too strong and uncontrollable."

Zhou He was actually even more confused, because he could only listen to Yudachi's translation, but through the common knowledge of the game he knew, he could piece it together and get a general idea:

This is a testing ground somewhere in Siren, where unknown experiments are being conducted using replicas of KanColle chess pieces, but half a year ago this place was attacked and abandoned (forgotten?) by Siren, but the experiment is still going on, because no one has repaired the progress of the experiment according to the feedback given by the system, causing the KanColle chess pieces inside to show awakening reactions.

"What is the awakening reaction? It shouldn't be meta. If meta ships can be mass-produced so easily, there wouldn't be so few in the game."

He asked Yuudachi to use the computer to look up what awakening reaction was, but Yuudachi didn't know how to use the computer, so the duo, one big and one small, could only stare at each other.

However, the deadlock was soon broken. Footsteps were heard outside the door, and other people also gathered in this room. As soon as Zuikaku entered the room, he exclaimed: "This is really spectacular. This is the most useful place in this base."

"Commander, what's the situation here?"

Hood looked around and walked closer to ask Zhou He about the situation. Zhou He shrugged and pointed to the computer behind him: "The information is all in here. Who among you can operate it?"

He can use the computer, but if he is asked to use a computer that is full of Eagle Code to work, I can only say that he might as well go to bed.

"..."

Hood stopped smoothly after hearing this, and looked up to watch the screen on the wall. Her sight quickly locked onto several areas where fighting was going on. The figures inside made her eyes fluctuate: "Where is this being monitored?"

"There really are ship girls other than us. I have mixed feelings."

The others also paid attention to the battle scenes. Zuikaku said this, but her eyes were shining. She was very interested in both fighting with the Sirens and competing with other ship girls.

As for Zhou He's speech, in the end only Hermione and Cleveland came over. After the two discussed it, Cleveland took over the investigation. Following the text instructions, he called up the search item and entered the awakening reaction information that Zhou He wanted to know.

"Awakening reaction refers to the memory, emotion, thinking and behavior of the experimental chess piece (mold) gradually approaching the consciousness of the ship girl's body, and a high-intensity synchronization occurs, and eventually it can become an individual that is completely consistent with the body."

Cleveland read out the results, a trace of horror flashed in his eyes. After searching the keywords, he took several steps back and looked at the figure of the ship girl fighting with the Siren in the monitoring: "These people are different from us. They are experimental individuals created by the Siren using us as a template."

"!!?"

Her words stunned everyone at the scene. It was unheard of that Siren could do such a thing. Several people directly looked at Zhou He.

"I know this is very shocking, but as far as I know, this is only the most basic technical capability of the Siren. Cleveland, search the Mirror Sea for information about the location and entrances of the experimental field."

Zhou He acted very calm, because he already knew these things a long time ago, and it was difficult for him to pretend to be shocked, so he just went straight to the point.

"Mirror Sea?"

Cleveland obediently went forward to make inquiries. There was no relevant information, but the search for the test site was quickly responded to. The location displayed by the system surprised her. She looked at the others and said, "This test site is less than five nautical miles west of this island. It can be directly entered from this base. Previously, this island suffered an unknown attack, which caused a malfunction and caused part of the Siren Fleet to escape. It has now been repaired by itself."

"Is that right?"

Zhou He was also surprised. Could it be that the only aircraft carrier fleet he fought actually escaped from the mirror sea?

No wonder a group of them stayed around here. The most likely reason they received orders was to follow the orders of the 'chess pieces' and fight each other. They could not receive any orders after leaving the test site, so they stayed on standby, which created conditions for him to defeat the enemy with fewer troops.

Things gradually became clear. Hood looked at Zhou He sideways and said, "Commander mentioned before that the anomaly found in Kursk was this test site, right?"

"Ah."

Zhou He nodded and glanced at the others: "In fact, I discovered the abnormality here when you were fighting with the Siren aircraft carrier, but Bismarck happened to be in that area at that time and nothing special happened, so I didn't tell you. This time I followed here to actually figure out this problem."

"Bismarck? I see."

Hood's frown relaxed. She looked at Bismarck and found that he was still staring at the screen on the wall. He followed her line of sight and his pupils shrank slightly. "Commander, can you adjust the position of the surveillance camera?"

"Can it be done?"

Zhou He turned around and asked Cleveland, who nodded and performed a query operation. Dozens of screens on the entire wall switched perspectives at the same moment, fully displaying the several areas where the battle took place.

The appearances of those 'chess pieces' were also presented in front of everyone. Zhou He looked up and saw that they were all familiar faces.

"Although I can't tell who is who, but these are all the ship girls from the Royal and Iron Blood, right?"

Zuikaku narrowed her eyes. She was not guessing blindly. The Royal Navy's ship girls were judged by their clothes, while the Iron Blood's ship girls were judged by their ship uniforms. One had gorgeous clothes while the other had a ship uniform, like raising a pet.

"It's really bad fun."

Tosa sighed. Although Bismarck was cautious and taciturn, she knew roughly about the conflict between the two camps, the Royal and Iron Blood, from their occasional conversations. Combining the two key words "experiment" and "conflict", she could guess what Siren was up to.

"Commander, is she Tirpitz?"

Suddenly, Bismarck spoke. She looked at the silver-haired woman who appeared on the screen with a calm expression in the face of the war and holding a flag similar to hers. Although she had never met her before, she could feel that the existence of this ship girl had special meaning to her.

"Yes."

Zhou He took a look and said, "She is Tirpitz."

"commander."

Z23, who was following Bismarck, raised her hand first and asked, "Cleveland just said that these people will be exactly the same as their original bodies after their awakening reaction. So should they be considered sirens, or ship girls like us?"

"Well, this question deserves further discussion, but titles like 'Siren' and 'Kanmusume' don't really matter."

Zhou He nodded at her and simply stated his opinion: "We only need to distinguish between the concepts of 'enemy' and 'friendly forces'. If we encounter other fleets at sea and the other party attacks without hesitation, then even if they have the appearance and ideology of ship girls, they are still our enemies."

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