Revisiting Azur Lane

Zhou He prepared to do a simple experiment.

"The Sirens are quite good at using their advantages, but with such a large fleet, the resources consumed are countless. It is difficult to judge whether they have only occupied and developed the marine resources or occupied the mineral resources on land as well."

Faced with the Sirens' numerical offensive, both Bismarck and Hood found it difficult to deal with.

It's true that they are good at fighting, but they are facing a camp of monsters that don't care about battle losses at all. According to conservative estimates, the number of sirens they have sunk during this period is enough to destroy most of the countries in the world. If you take into account the subsequent additions and those that have not come, even the Royal Navy, the Sakura Empire, and even the White Eagles, which are both major maritime powers, may not be able to withstand it.

After all, a country's production efficiency has its limits. In a protracted war, the side with stronger resource background will definitely win.

"The commander once said that there is a human port in the South Third District. There may be some historical data left there."

Hood still followed the idea of ​​finding land and then fighting the Sirens with the help of the land.

"I hope so. The next large-scale operation will be aimed there."

This was a decision Zhou He had made long ago. Take over that port area and use it as a stepping stone to advance to the Siren Base in West District 4.

But there are too many mass-produced Sirens outside now, and they can't get out without fighting a battle first. This is a big problem.

After some discussion, they stood still and came to the conclusion of waiting for the opportunity. Zhou He didn't mind, but other people at the scene did care, which made the scene seem a little serious.

But soon, the serious atmosphere was dispersed by Yudachi who jumped down from the second floor, and the Javelin and Z23 destroyers who seemed much more civilized than Yudachi. The last one to walk was Zuikaku. She was wearing a coat and slim jeans, holding a cloth bag on her shoulders and a knife on her waist, like a wanderer in modern society. After going downstairs, she scanned the scene and focused her eyes on Zhou He: "Have you rested well? We can set off now."

"Let's go then."

Zhou He quickly responded, clapped his hands to end the topic, walked quickly to the gate, turned around and said loudly to everyone present: "The first round of outings and camping activities in the port area has officially begun!"

"Oh!"

Yuudachi was very supportive, and the other silent people also followed her to cheer, and the scene suddenly became lively. Bismarck and Hood stood up after looking at each other, and Tosa put one hand on the hilt of the sword and followed the crowd who were going out.

Chapter 95: Picking and Hunting (?)

Zhou He once climbed to the halfway point of the forest behind the headquarters with Tosa and Kursk, but there were only high mountain rocks there and no passage leading to the back of the mountain. This time, led by Zuikaku, she chose another way - entering from the right side of the forest.

"Hey! Don't run around. I won't be responsible if you get lost."

On the right side of the forest is a sunken area between two mountains. There are relatively few trees, but they are all large trees of considerable age. They absorb nutrients from the soil, leaving no excess nutrients for weeds in the surrounding area. However, their drooping branches and roots entwined on the ground still hinder the passage of pedestrians.

However, for the destroyers with superhuman physical fitness, these obstacles are more like a playground where they can burn off energy and play freely. There is no need to say much about Yudachi. Even girls who are usually calm and steady like Javelin and Z23 showed considerable playfulness when faced with such roadblocks. They were so much more playful that they were weaving around in front, while Zuikaku followed behind. Rather than being a tour guide, she acted more like a babysitter, catching destroyers everywhere.

“It’s quite interesting here.”

Zhou He was hanging at the back of the team. Faced with tree roots that were more than half a meter or even nearly one meter long and slightly moist, he had no way to cross them as easily as his fellow ship girls. He could only climb up or take a detour. Because of this, his spirits were quite high. This level of roadblock was just right for him!

"If the commander likes, he can design an obstacle course next to the port area."

Today, Hermione changed into light clothes for the outing and followed Zhou He, always paying attention to the surrounding situation.

Tosa and Bismarck followed closely. The former jumped and pushed on the uneven obstacles with swift movements, while Bismarck observed the surrounding environment with her feet firmly on the ground. She kicked away the piled leaves in her long boots and looked down at the soil surface which was extremely humid and had many small holes. She frowned slightly and said, "It's very humid here, and because of the location and environmental factors, it doesn't get sunlight all year round, so it's easy to breed poisons. Commander, be careful and don't get hurt."

"Understood~"

Zhou He responded and continued to walk slowly through the obstruction. With Tosa and Bismarck following him, he was not worried at all that he would be bitten by strange creatures. However, the military uniform he was wearing seemed to be different from Donghuang's adaptive military uniform. It was fine for him to walk slowly at home and do small exercises, but it would be a bit of a hindrance when he needed to exercise vigorously and frequently.

Although the forested areas were fun, he still hoped that there wouldn't be too many of them.

About half an hour later, Zhou He walked out of the tall forests on the branches that were cut by Ruihe to form a road, and came to a sloping open space covered with weeds. The sun fell from the sky, and with his open vision, Zhou He found himself halfway up the mountain. The road here was mostly made of stones embedded in the soil, and weeds grew densely between the cracks in the stones, as if they were squeezed out by the big trees next door.

"Phew, this island is bigger than I thought."

Zhou He wiped the sweat from his forehead with his clothes, then stood on a rock and looked ahead. From the map drawn by Changdao, the end of the sight should be a slope leading directly to the sea. However, he couldn't see the so-called slope at all from where he was standing. He could only see the mountainous terrain with a huge height difference and a lot of green plants. If there was anything eye-catching, it was that he saw a large lake, which tilted to the right and seemed to flow into the sea in the form of a waterfall or a stepped slope.

"That is, if you move from the right side of the perimeter, you can see the waterfall."

Zhou He counted with his fingers and marked a point in his mind, so he could go there when he had time.

"Commander, can you still walk?"

Ruihe, who was walking in front, was sweating profusely after being tormented by the little cuties. He finally came to an open space without danger. He looked back and saw that Zhou He was motionless, so he called out to him from about ten meters away.

"Hermione, look, this guy is really thinking about me and wants to see me in such a mess."

Zhou He raised his hand and gave her a thumbs up in response, then tilted his head to complain to Hermione, who smiled delicately: "It may be that Miss Zuikaku is worried that you are tired, Commander."

"Ignore her. She just has such a stupid way of expressing herself."

Tosa passed by and responded casually. Zuikaku often said some strange words and remarks around her. Compared with Zhou He's well-reasoned nonsense, Zuikaku's remarks were really meaningless.

"Yeah, too."

Zhou He smiled. He admired Ruihe's straightforward character because he could tell at a glance what bad things she wanted to do.

After stopping to rest for a while, Zhou He continued to climb and soon caught up with the main group. Ruihe was standing on a protruding rock and observing the route.

"It's best to choose a camping spot upstream of the river tonight."

Shokaku and Jinto were giving advice to Tiruikaku, while Cleveland and Montpellier were still moving up the mountain. The remaining Yudachi and others were scattered around, seemingly looking for something.

"Then, let's go over there."

Ruihe thought for a moment and pointed in a direction. Zhou He, who had just arrived, looked in the direction and saw a very conspicuous white rock area. Next to it was a forked stream about half a meter wide flowing down from the mountain. The rock area was divided into several levels, some steep and some flat, and one could cross it by walking in the shallow water area.

It looks close, but in fact one has to go around a long circle. By the time Zhou He gets there, it will be almost dark.

"Then we'll set up camp over there today. Zuikaku, you guys go over there and check out the situation first. If conditions permit, pick up some branches to pile up for a fire, and also see if you can catch any fish."

Zhou He took a fancy to that place and temporarily seized the right to speak from the tour guide Ruihe, thus completing the assessment.

"Did you bring your fishing net?"

When Zuikaku heard about catching fish, he subconsciously thought of casting a net. Then he opened his eyes wide and turned his head slightly to avoid Shokaku's line of sight.

Zhou He found it a little funny and pointed at the knife on her waist: "Use this, or cut a few sticks to make spears and poke them directly into the water."

"Spear and knife? Can these catch fish?"

Zuikaku was skeptical when he heard this, and even the young military advisor Shentong looked thoughtful - what they got was the regular common sense of fire-making, and they did not get these unconventional life tricks.

"You will know if you try it. Remember to cut a few more and let everyone participate."

Zhou He raised his eyebrows. He had never caught fish by himself before he traveled through time, but he saw other people catching fish this way when watching videos. The fish here had not been beaten by the fishermen, and coupled with the natural aiming skills of his own ship girl, there should be no problem.

He heard that if the gallbladder of the fish caught in this way was broken, it would taste terrible, so this was about experiencing a different life and really eating it, and he had to choose carefully.

"That's fine, but Commander, have you seen Kaga? I haven't seen her since we came out. Could she have gotten lost in the mountains?"

Ruihe knew that he couldn't win the argument with Zhou He, so he turned his head to ask Zhou He, and also asked the Tosa guys who had been following him as bodyguards.

"I don't know what she saw, so she left the team and chased after it. Don't worry about her, someone will find her."

Tosa had been following Zhou He and fell behind the team, so she also saw the movements of her adopted sister, but because the big tree blocked her view, she couldn't see what attracted Kaga's attention.

Since even Tosa said so, Zhou He and Zuikaku naturally had no intention of objecting, but began to gather the team and prepare to set off.

"commander!"

The scattered crowd came back, some had strangely shaped stones in their hands, some pulled up some grass to make grass circles, and some, like Yudachi and Bush, ran back from a higher position, both holding something with dense and small purple spherical fruits in their hands. Zhou He reached out to take it and took a look. Wow, it was actually wild grapes?

"Can this be eaten?"

Yuli asked expectantly. Zhou He pondered for a moment, looking at the wild grapes in front of him which were a little smaller than the ordinary grapes in the market. He picked one, peeled it a little and put it in his mouth. The sweet and sour juice overflowed from it. The flesh was already very soft. It might go bad in a while, or even a few days.

"Theoretically, you can eat it, but eat less to avoid getting an upset stomach."

Zhou He licked his lips. The system really left him a lot of good things. If he planted these grapes himself, he didn't know how much effort he would have to put into growing them. But if they were wild grapes, he wouldn't have to take care of them. They would bear fruit next year after being exposed to wind and sun.

There are not many birds on their island. It is estimated that these fruits are native to the island and there are no foreign birds, so these fruits can be preserved intact.

As for rats - he had never eaten rat meat.

"Great!"

Yuli cheered and said a lot more things, then turned around and ran back to pick the grapes. Zhou He followed him and saw that there were grape vines everywhere in the bushes. Some of the grapes were rotten, and those that fell to the ground were eaten, but there were still many left, which could be said to be a bumper harvest.

"Commander, you are really brave to eat it. Aren't you afraid it might be poisonous?"

Cleveland said this and ate one herself. The sweet and sour taste made her squint her eyes: "It's really delicious."

"…From what I know, nothing edible on this island should be poisonous."

Zhou He also picked some for himself. Their family only had tea but no drinks. He couldn't eat dessert unless he spent the home currency to buy goods. This was free, so it would be a shame not to eat it.

"As confident as ever."

It is difficult for Cleveland to understand the source of Zhou He's confidence, but it doesn't matter, as long as everything goes well.

"necessary."

Zhou He was tasting grapes and walking around. Suddenly, he saw a white figure jumping out of the woods at the foot of the mountain. He looked closer and found it was Kaga. She looked a little embarrassed, as if she had been through a hard battle. The clothes in her arms were wrapped with something that looked like a long strip. The exposed tail was black and yellow, and it looked like...

A red fox?

Did Kaga leave the team to catch a fox?

Zhou He couldn't understand it, and she really caught it.

Chapter 96: Setting Up Camp

"That's amazing, how did you catch this?"

At Zhou He's call, other people also noticed Kaga's appearance, and she became the focus of the crowd in an instant. Zhou He followed the crowd and approached. He first glanced at Kaga, whose face, clothes, pants, hair and arms all had scratches. Then he bent down and fixed his eyes on the red fox, who was wrapped into a cylinder by her, struggling and swinging its hind legs constantly, baring its teeth and looking ferocious, but with fear flashing in its eyes.

"I saw it, chased it, and caught it by the clothes."

Kaga raised the corners of his mouth and smiled calmly as he explained his three-step strategy.

This exaggerated statement made Zhou He marvel. He thought he had overestimated the physical fitness of the ship girl, but he never thought that she could catch up with and catch a wild fox in the forest if she gave it her all.

"What do we do after we catch it? It smells so weird. Do we take it home and raise it ourselves?"

U556 was closest to Bush. He reached out and poked the fat-looking red fox's body. Then he frowned and jumped away because of the strange smell and asked.

"Ah, this is what I planned. Before Akagi joins the port area, I will let it replace Akagi's position."

Kaga's words made everyone present who knew Akagi's name show a subtle expression, but Kaga didn't care. She looked at Zhou He: "Commander should have a way, a cage or something."

In her opinion, if Zhou He could make such a big house by hand, then making a cage or something like that would be easy for him as well.

"and many more."

To be honest, Zhou He actually wanted to keep a fox as a pet at home. Before crossing over, he was often fascinated by the foxes in the cute pet section. Now that he had the chance, he naturally couldn't let it go. After saying that, he directly activated the system and searched through the Home Mall. He found a textbook-like iron cage among the products worth 1 Home Coin, and it also came with a few bags of food. It was really thoughtful.

After choosing to buy, Zhou He raised his hand to signal others to disperse. He pressed the ground lightly, and blue light spots gathered to form a huge iron cage that was more than two meters long, nearly one meter wide, and half a meter high. There was a gap of about 2 to 3 centimeters between the supporting columns. There was a door on the front with a lock with a key.

It can be seen that the system also knows that as a commander, he would not use this kind of cage to keep small pets such as cats.

The space in this iron cage is more than enough to hold a Siren experimenter.

‘Bang! ’

Kaga threw Akagi, who was in fox form, into a cage along with his coat and started eating prison food.

"This cage looks pretty heavy. Is it just left here?"

Zhou He was relieved now. He squatted outside the cage and observed the red fox. He wondered if it was storing fat for the winter. The fox looked fat, with large patches of light yellow fur. The hair on its back was brown, and it was white from its chin to its belly. Its four legs were black. It was so scared that its fur stood on end, so the smell was a bit irritating.

"Hmm? Let's have Shokaku and the others send them back to the headquarters via the air using carrier-based aircraft."

Kaga dusted himself off and turned his head to look at Shokaku who was walking over. The latter frowned slightly and said, "I'm sorry, I don't have the skills to control carrier-based aircraft like Akagi and Kaga. If we use air transport, I'm afraid it will be difficult for this fox to survive and get home."

"Hmm? That's all I can do. I'll just go back by myself. I need to tame it in this state."

Kaga didn't blame Shokaku after hearing that. Instead, he patted the cage with his hand and smiled. "Akagi is always thinking about the little foxes around Nagato. There are no red foxes on the main island. This time, I think she can get what she wants."

"Are you talking about Akagi-senpai in battlecruiser form?"

Shokaku was quite surprised. Before becoming an aircraft carrier, Akagi was the type who liked small animals?

"Yes."

Kaga closed his eyes and recalled the summer when he and Akagi had bickered. He suddenly opened his eyes and said, "If she knew that my future self was actually working with Siren, she would definitely be furious and want to beat up the aircraft carrier Akagi."

"I don't know what she and I experienced in the future, but I think it was just some trivial things that actually don't matter. Just like that, I'm going back first. You guys should make sure to protect the commander. There might be bears in this mountain unexpectedly."

Having said this, Kaga asked others to help lift the iron cage above his head, and then he walked down the mountain step by step.