Revisiting Azur Lane

As he was walking, Zhou He saw a figure emerging from the command center. He turned his head and found that it was Akashi, whose clothes were loose from sleeping and who was even yawning while walking. Even before he traveled through time, he was not as lazy as Akashi.

"Is this a cat? I'm so envious."

Zhou He actually envied Mingshi's personality of being able to rest so much that he didn't care about anything. Before he traveled through time, he would think about doing some part-time job to supplement his life as soon as he opened his eyes every day. Now, he has to think about today's schedule before getting up every day. Obviously, there are smart and capable people like Bismarck and Hood around him, so why does he feel like he is the only one making decisions?

"Is it the secretary ship's problem?"

He squinted towards the sun. When he was playing games, he would occasionally trigger the plot of the secretary ship. The secretary ship in the game seemed to do everything, just like an acting commander.

Why not give Yudachi's secretary ship position to someone else?

Zhou He briefly brought the situation into the story, replacing Yu Liping, who was always around him, with Hood, Bismarck, Tosa and others. His brows immediately furrowed, thinking that kind of life was really a bit difficult for him.

"What are you thinking, Commander?"

Yawning, Mingshi spotted Zhou He in the mask of pain and approached him with a few leisurely steps. However, because the clothes were too untidy, Zhou He instinctively reached out to help tidy them up, then poked Mingshi's smooth and elastic face with his fingers, instantly feeling healed and smiled, "I was thinking about how to be lazy."

"Meow? That won't do. If the commander doesn't work, we can't be lazy, meow."

Mingshi opened his eyes wide when he heard this, and waved his sleeves in a serious attempt to stop Zhou He's lazy thoughts: "Commander promised to take care of me, meow, you can't break your promise, meow."

"Haha~"

Looking at Akashi's cute appearance, Zhou He couldn't help but chuckle twice. When playing games, he didn't particularly care about the little guy like the destroyer, but when it came to reality, it was indeed easier to get along with the little guy without any scheming.

Well, people like Zuikaku and Cleveland are pretty easy to get along with.

It's mainly high-end intellectuals like Hood. When he's with them, he feels like a husky among wolves. If he's not careful, his true colors will be revealed. Although he has already been exposed, he just feels that he can't communicate with them normally.

Forget it, there's no point in thinking so much.

Zhou He collected his thoughts and pointed to the restaurant next to him: "Of course I won't break my promise. Mingshi, are you hungry? I asked Manju to reserve your lunch. It just so happens that everyone is back now."

"It's just so-so, meow."

Akashi touched her stomach. She had eaten a lot of dried fish before taking a nap. It might be said that it was because she was full that she could not escape the attraction of the quilt!

"Well, that's great. Come climb the mountain with me."

Since Mingshi didn't need to eat, Zhou He thought about it for a moment and set his sights on the high peaks on both sides of the bay in the distance. The terrain of his port area was very good, but in the current state of complete undefendedness, no matter how good the terrain was, it was useless.

The rewards from yesterday's mission included a number of research and development blueprints of my choice. I can go up the mountain to investigate and put the air defense position on the agenda.

"Meow?"

Mingshi perked up. She had just advised Zhou He only because with Zhou He's words as a shield she could slack off and make jokes anytime and anywhere. She had no intention of cheering Zhou He up at all. Why did she suddenly want to climb the mountain?

"In fact, I haven't conducted any on-site exploration of the terrain around our port area. I don't think there will be any opportunities to attack recently. I want to take a proper walk and have a look."

Zhou He is well-known for his honesty. He believes that as long as he explains the reasons, there is more than 80% chance that his own ship girls will agree with his opinion.

"Is this kind of thing a commander's job, meow?"

Akashi scratched his hair: "Shouldn't this be the job of the exploration team, meow?"

But she soon realized that when she returned, there was not a single living creature in her own port area, let alone the exploration team, there was not even anyone guarding the house.

Seeing her in a daze while talking, Zhou He knew that she had figured it out, so he walked out of the open space between the command center and the restaurant without explaining, and looked around for a hilltop. When he was looking at the hills behind the forest before, he also simply memorized some things, such as these mountains looked very steep when looked up from below, but in fact there were resting places at every certain height, and the tops of the mountains were even flatter, even if there were trees growing, they could be used as green plants to cover the positions.

After all, this is something created by the system. All the necessary systems are included, and what shouldn't be there - we haven't discovered what shouldn't be there yet.

"Commander~ For something as important as this, it's better to call on others. Akashi is a maintenance ship and has no combat capability."

Behind Zhou He, Mingshi followed and said this in a soft voice. It was not that she wanted to be lazy, but a sincere reminder that all she got were memories and knowledge related to maintenance and auxiliary ship combat. Not to mention encountering sirens, even if she encountered large carnivores such as lions and tigers on land, she would not dare to be the first to step forward.

"Don't worry, I'll call Kursk, she's very familiar with the mountains and forests."

After a little consideration, Zhou He chose the hill close to the ship port platform. The reason was simple: it was very close and the ship port was part of the port area, so the hill was right at his doorstep.

"?"

Akashi tilted her head and said nothing. In fact, she had not yet memorized all the people in the port area. It seemed that someone mentioned the name Kursk yesterday, but she had never seen the real person, and she could not imagine how a ship girl could be familiar with mountains and forests.

Zhou He did what he said. He glanced at the angle of the sun, opened the dock and locked the icon of Kursk. After hesitating for a moment, he sent a command of "I have something to discuss", and then walked to the door of the headquarters before turning on the video function.

The scene in front of him flashed, and Zhou He saw Kursk's figure. At this time, she was sitting in front of the desk in the room wearing a windbreaker, wiping and maintaining her claw-like glove armor. This made Zhou He glance at the sharp horns on her head. This thing cannot be removed. If you meet someone taller than Kursk plus the horns, it would be a serious accident if you are accidentally poked during communication.

"what's the matter?"

Kursk tilted his eyes slightly, and after noticing Zhou He's fluctuations in his eyes, he reached out and touched the sharp horns on his head and said, "This pair of horns is also a kind of weapon. Commander should know this, right?"

"knew."

Zhou He naturally understood this. He often watched Ultraman and knew that in addition to physical damage, these metal horns were also very likely to cause scientific and magical damage. For example, the two horns could glow at the same time, lowering the surrounding temperature or condensing icicles to fly into the sky and stab people.

Why did he think so? Because Azur Lane has another nickname, the Magic Lane.

Although everything seems to be normal with his own ship girl now, it is hard to say what will happen in the future - after all, he is compatible with the meta series, and those guys are all very powerful. If others can do it, there is no reason why his own ship girl can't.

Zhou He didn't like to discuss too much about the physical characteristics of his own ship girl, so he got back to the point: "I'm going to find a mountain top to plan a defensive position. Are you free?"

"Hold on."

Kursk responded, put the claw on her palm and twisted it to try it out. After making sure there was nothing wrong, she took it off and put it on the table. She stood up and took off her windbreaker. The screen next to her turned off immediately. She glanced at it and took out the camouflage clothes for hunting out from the closet.

On the other side, Akashi, who had seen Zhou He paving the road and building a shipyard with his bare hands, was not at all surprised that Zhou He was talking to Kursk through the air. However, when Zhou He's eyes were fixed on a certain place, she stared into his eyes in return, and saw the light that appeared in the depths of his eyes.

"Commander, can I check your body, meow?"

Waiting for Zhou He to calm down, Mingshi couldn't wait to ask. She reached out and touched Zhou He's palm, and after confirming that it was the normal temperature for a human, she even wanted to lift up Zhou He's clothes to see if he was a purebred human.

"Of course you can, but we have to wait until the port area has the corresponding equipment."

Grabbing Mingshi's hand that was trying to lift her clothes, Zhou He rubbed her cat head in return.

Even if Akashi didn't say it, he would ask Akashi to help him check his body thoroughly in the future to see whether this system was a black technology program implanted in his body, or a virtual creation bound to his mind and soul.

"Meow meow meow."

Because he often practiced his skills with Yuuri, Zhou He's technique of patting the head has reached perfection. Akashi was obviously unable to resist and became confused after a while, so Zhou He took the opportunity to pinch her ears. The feeling of his touch had reached the level that could heal the heart.

Although in the eyes of others it looked like Zhou He was bullying the children.

……

"Commander, Kursk, and Akashi, where are you planning to go dressed like that?"

Everyone eats at a different speed. Yuli, who was used to eating meat in big mouthfuls, was full after a while. He walked out of the restaurant door with a bone in his mouth and gritted his teeth to look for Zhou He. He soon found Zhou He and Kursk, who was wearing camouflage clothes, walking from the command center to the newly emerged buildings.

"Who?"

The newly joined members were all unfamiliar with Kursk's appearance. When they heard Yudachi's words, they stopped eating and either looked out the window or went directly to the gate to observe.

"He is indeed a strange guy."

Harman took one look and turned away, but he couldn't resist his curiosity. He turned around and walked two steps to the door. He leaned against the door and asked Yudachi, "Those two people seem to have a good relationship, but why are they avoiding us? They are obviously companions from the same port, but they don't even meet and talk."

"do not know."

Yuli bit the bone. Kursk didn't leave a good impression on her when they first met. She didn't hate him, but she didn't like him either.

"Eh~ Yudachi doesn't know either?"

Javelin was also eavesdropping, and was surprised by Yuudachi's answer, as it was clearly the initial ship.

"Hey, it's not that mysterious. Just think of Kursk as this guy with social phobia."

Zuikaku was almost full as well, and was shaking a goblet filled with juice in his hand, listening to the destroyers' whispered conversation. He spoke up, took over the conversation, and raised his glass to signal in Tosa's direction.

"Social phobia? Ah, so you're just not good at communicating with people."

Zuikaku's words made Javelin, Haman and even the Avatar look towards Tosa, who had a calm expression but his eyebrows were trembling violently: "I really hope you can think before you speak next time."

"Next time, for sure. Tosa, you've met her before with the commander. What was it like?"

Zuikaku smiled and snapped his fingers, even interviewing Tosa.

"You're really curious. Why don't you chase after her now? The commander is here too. I don't think she will leave right away."

Tosa didn't bother to pay attention to Zuikaku. He picked up the napkin and wiped his mouth. After putting it down, he stood up, put the sword leaning beside him back on his waist, and walked out of the restaurant.

Everyone was interested in her proposal, but Harman and Javelin looked at each other and returned to their tables. After all, the fact that Zhou He did not introduce Kursk spoke volumes, and if they insisted on following him, it would only cause trouble for Zhou He or Kursk.

Even Harman wouldn't be stupid enough to do such a thing.

"Hmm~"

Yudachi looked at Tosa's back, bit the bone into pieces, jumped two steps onto the lawn, and happily followed Tosa's footsteps.

Chapter 63 The idea is simple

"Speaking of fortifications, there are ready-made machine tools and materials here. Akashi, can you design some coastal defense weapons on your own?"

The three people traveling together are Akashi, Zhou He and Kursk from left to right, each one taller than the other. They are walking in the ship port close to the modern industrial base. Zhou He looked around and casually asked Akashi about it.

The weapons he developed using the system also required the consumption of research and development drawings and related parts. For example, a coastal defense gun required one main gun component and one research and development drawing of corresponding specifications, and the same was true for anti-aircraft guns.

If the research and development is done once, no blueprints will be needed afterwards, and it doesn't matter if Zhou He does it by hand. However, judging from the fact that the patrol boat on the shore was not retained after research and development, this system inherits the tradition in the game that materials must be submitted for each research and development.

It doesn't matter if he gets a lot of parts for dismantling the ship, but he only gets one general research and development blueprint for each ship. There should be at least 20 or 30 anti-aircraft guns in each defensive position, right? How many sirens corpses would he have to touch?

"Well, designing one from scratch is a little tricky-nyan."

Akashi put his hands in his sleeves, thought for a moment and tilted his head to look at Zhou He: "If the commander can give me a design drawing or actual sample for reference, I can give it a try, meow."

"That's no problem... Well, there's still a little problem. We'll talk about it in detail later."

Zhou He was quite surprised when listening to Mingshi's words. He was ready to agree immediately, but suddenly he remembered that the various cannons in his system were installed on ships. It might not be ideal to move them directly to land, and he needed to make some fine adjustments.

Before traveling through time, as a sluggish writer, he did look up a lot of random information in order to write novels, but the more popular novels on the market were still those with a fantasy-style power system such as magic, so he also tried his best in that direction, and he didn't understand the parameters of hardcore guns and artillery at all.

Who could have imagined that time travel really existed in the world? It's really hard to understand.

"..."

Kursk had no intention of joining the conversation. What concerned her more was that there seemed to be something behind them staring at her, so when passing a green area, she lowered her head and took off a leaf with her hand, and glanced back: about twenty meters away, Tosa was staring at her intently. This feeling was very familiar, just like when she found a highly vigilant creature in the forest, she would concentrate on observing to avoid losing it.

However, how can one track prey if he can’t even hide his own breath?

"Commander, someone is following us. Can I leave for a while?"

Feeling that Tosa seemed to want to play the game of hunter and prey with her, Kursk thought for a moment and reminded and asked Zhou He for instructions.

"Hmm? There's no need to avoid it, right?"

When Zhou He heard this, he turned around and saw Tosa striding over and Yudachi bullying the flowers and plants beside him. He didn't get a response after he finished speaking, so he looked at Kursk again and found that the expression on his face had changed slightly. He said thoughtfully: "Don't leave too far."

After receiving the answer, Kursk's lips curled up slightly. He turned around, took advantage of the small trees in the green area, and disappeared into the alley next to him.

"So fast meow!"

Akashi observed from the side. She could also do these movements, but they were troublesome and tiring. It would be better to walk slowly so that she could better feel where the sunlight was most comfortable and most suitable for rest.

"Kursk told me she was a hunter, but she was not the same hunter I had in mind."

Zhou He was used to it. If he had the same physical ability as Kursk, he would definitely do the same thing as suddenly hiding and letting others find and chase him.

As for why Kursk was walking so fast, it was probably because of Tosa behind him. Zhou He looked back and saw that Tosa had indeed disappeared. Yudachi was left at a loss, but when he noticed Zhou He's gaze, he immediately ran over slyly: "Commander~ where are you going?"

"Go there and have a look."

Zhou He raised his hand and pointed at the high mountains in the distance, then reached out and pressed the shoulder of Xili who was running over, and earnestly warned: "Don't run like this right after eating, it's not good for your stomach."

"Yes~"

Yuli didn't understand what Zhou He was talking about, but she just agreed. After she finished, she blinked and looked at Akashi next to her: "Akashi also likes hiking?"

"I don't like it, meow."

Akashi shook his head very honestly, raised his hand and shook his sleeves, pointing with his white fingers at the bench on the roadside next to him: "I like basking in the sun, it looks very comfortable there meow."

"Hey? I like basking in the sun too. It's warm and good for sleeping."

Hearing such remarks from the same kind, Yuudachi instantly forgot that her purpose of following here was to prevent Zhou He from falling in love with the cat-like ship girl. She quickly ran to the bench and sat down. She squinted her eyes and called Zhou He and Akashi to come over and bask in the sun together.