Revisiting Azur Lane

"I've experienced it, and it's really amazing. But Miss Zuikaku, have you ever thought about this? We are not real ships. How can we resupply ammunition with the sophistication of our equipment?"

Hermione used the towel around Zhou He's neck to gently wipe the sweat off his face and forehead, and asked Zuikaku seriously.

"Of course, yes, uh, take the ship apart?"

Zuikaku subconsciously wanted to answer when asked, but she inherited the memory of the sea behemoth 'Aircraft Carrier Zuikaku', and only had the common sense of normal aircraft carrier supply. She was born with the ability to use the ship's equipment, but if she was really asked how to supply, she knew nothing.

"That's right. It's because Mr. Commander has the special ability to simplify things and can help us quickly complete ammunition preparation and ship equipment maintenance. That's why Mr. Commander is our commander!"

Hermione stated what she believed to be the truth in a serious manner.

After all, Zhou He was able to wake her up here without the help of any external equipment. It is normal for a dreamlike existence to have this level of ability, right?

"So this is ah!"

Zuikaku hammered his right hand with his left hand, and suddenly realized: "No wonder no one explained it to me. I knew the commander was the commander."

"..."

Zhou He, who had come back to his senses, didn't know what to say as he listened to the conversation between the two. He just sighed in his heart that he was still inexperienced and his concentration was too poor. He needed to strengthen his practice in this area in the future.

After waiting for the two to finish talking, he stood up and thanked Hermione and invited her to have dinner together. Then he saw Yudachi sitting by the hot pot, eating beef and breathing in the hot steam. The latter quickly noticed his sight, hurriedly swallowed the meat in his mouth, pointed at the hot pot with his chopsticks, and said to Zhou He and the others, "Don't you want to eat it? It's delicious."

"Eat! This is my first time eating anything."

Zuikaku said this while skillfully using chopsticks and bowls to search for prey in the pot.

"Let's have dinner together."

Seeing this, Zhou He invited Hermione again, and the maid readily agreed. Then the four of them sat around the dining table and enjoyed this late lunch.

Chapter 13: Construction from Paving the Road

After having a good meal and tea, Zhou He casually asked Yuudachi and the other two and concluded that the food exchanged from the home system does have the effect of increasing the satiety of the ship girls.

At least three times, because the amount of food he prepared this time was a little more than when Yudachi was alone, but all three of them were full - the previous food was also prepared by the system, so is this the difference between spending money and not spending money?

"Thank you."

After putting the pots and pans in their proper places, Zhou He turned around and thanked Hermione who was wiping her hands and asked her to help him clean up the dishes.

"Well~ I'm also happy to be able to help the commander."

Hermione's smooth silver hair fell to her shoulders. She touched her hands in front of her body with a faint smile on her face. "It's amazing. I obviously haven't received any similar education, but I can handle housework skillfully. Is it just because I have an interest in this area?"

"Well, maybe."

Zhou He laughed awkwardly. It was hard for him to explain such things. The game didn't explain why the Royal Maid Corps was a maid corps. If it was due to historical reasons, then he had no idea.

The two walked out of the kitchen chatting. Yudachi and Zuikaku, who had just touched their stomachs and said they were full, were nowhere to be seen. Zhou He subconsciously walked outside. The afternoon sun was still very bright. Zhou He, who had changed from short-sleeved shorts to regular military uniform, felt a little hot. He casually unbuttoned his clothes and took two steps when he heard a conversation next to the command center. He walked over and found that Yudachi and Zuikaku were basking in the sun on the quilts that had just been dried in the sun, with their hands on the back of their heads and squinting their eyes, looking very comfortable.

"You two have worked hard. Would you like to lie down for a while?"

Ruihe glanced at Zhou He and the other man, spread his hands and made an invitation in a rather lazily manner.

"Well, Hermione, you've worked hard, take a rest."

Zhou He naturally would not lie down with them, but sat down casually on the grass next to them. The headquarters was higher than the seashore, and from this angle, he could look up and see the beautiful bay with bright lights flashing in the distance. If there were no Sirens but only Ship Girls, it would be a real vacation.

What a pity.

Thinking of this, he hesitated for a moment and asked Hermione, who was sitting on the cushion with her legs hugged, and the two people lying down: "You sank nine Siren ships today. I want to ask if you can tow back the Siren who have lost their combat effectiveness?"

“Want to recycle materials?”

Zuikaku opened his eyes a little and answered casually, "I can try to tow a destroyer, but I probably won't be able to tow a bigger ship."

"Can't tow it? Not enough power?"

Zhou He was quite surprised. Let's not talk about Yudachi and Hermione for now. Zuikaku is equipped as an aircraft carrier? How come an aircraft carrier can't tow a destroyer?

"Yes."

Hermione answered on behalf of Zuikaku: "From a combat perspective, we are not inferior to normal battleships, but the actual tonnage of our ships is far less than that of normal battleships. To match this, we have also lost the horsepower of normal battleships, and our ability to rescue on the battlefield has been greatly reduced."

"That's what's going on."

Zhou He understood. It seemed that the Kanmusuization was not all about strengthening. There might be fatal weakening in places that he usually didn't notice. For example, the ship-mounted ammunition supply that Hermione mentioned before dinner. Without the system, he couldn't figure out how to supply the ship with ammunition. The shells that could change size at will but the power remained the same? It was exaggerated just to think about it.

"So Commander, you need to recruit other people as soon as possible. At least a simple formation is needed to fight at sea."

Zuikaku, with selfish motives, urged Zhou He to work hard to recruit people and quickly get Shokaku as well.

In response to this, Zhou He could only laugh. He wanted to recruit more ship girls, but ship girls could only be built from cubes obtained from missions, and also from cubes dropped from fights with Sirens. This required careful research.

The idea of ​​touching the Siren's corpse is not feasible for the time being, and Zhou He doesn't care too much about it. As long as he kills the Siren, he will get the supply points, and he doesn't need the related materials dropped at this stage. However, their family has increased from 2 people to 4 people, and there is nothing at the command center. He has to think about whether there is anything to do besides fighting to prevent everyone from being bored. They can't just go out to bask in the sun after dinner every day.

"Is there anything I can use to kill time..."

Basking in the sun and feeling the breeze, Zhou He focused his attention on the system's home store and started browsing Taobao. Although he only had 2 home coins now, he would be able to receive 3 coins every day in the future, so he could wait and see between products priced at 1 to 5 home coins.

5 Home Coins can be exchanged for one acre of vegetable land. He really wants to exchange it, but when he thinks about it carefully, he knows that he doesn't know how to grow vegetables at all. Learning this will only waste his personal time. He has to find something that is more team-oriented.

He couldn't find it in the range of 1 to 5, so he looked back a little and found a good thing worth 8 Home Coins: a hot spring.

There are many more things that can be bought with 8 Home Coins, such as a small summer beach vacation kit, and a pavilion for holding tea parties, but none of them are as attractive to him as the hot springs: there are two types of hot springs for 8 Home Coins, namely the winter hot spring surrounded by vegetation and stone street lamps and the single hot spring surrounded by ordinary stones.

"There's no cover. How sensible."

Zhou He rubbed his chin gently. His stubble was a bit prickly. He was no longer a single person and had to pay attention to his appearance.

Putting down his palm, he looked at Zuikaku and Yudachi who seemed to have fallen asleep, then stood up and held out his hand to Hermione: "Hermione, how about walking around the island with me?"

"Very happy to."

Hermione stood up holding Zhou He's hand, smoothed out the wrinkles on her clothes, and followed Zhou He with a smile as she went deeper into the island.

On the side close to the bay, the terrain becomes higher as you go inward, but the distribution is very regular. The area around the headquarters has only lawns but no weeds or trees. Only at the innermost foot of the mountain is there a virgin forest.

"The construction of the port area has not yet begun. Hermione, what do you think we should focus on at this stage? Increasing the number of personnel is not a problem."

Looking down at the perfect lawn where he could fall asleep, Zhou He casually picked a topic and started chatting.

He wanted to build a hot spring, but he also had to consider the ideas of his own ship girl. After all, the so-called port area was a home built by him, the logistics director, for his own ship girl. The needs of the ship girl came first - when he had spare money in the future, he would look for his own happiness.

"Well, that's a difficult question."

Hermione squinted her eyes and thought for a while but still had no idea. She had no experience in infrastructure construction. She looked back at the bare headquarters and then at the high mountains in the distance. "Sure enough, it's a road."

“Starting with paving the road?”

Zhou He was a little surprised. After thinking about it carefully, he found that there was a reason for this. As long as the road was paved, a rough layout could be made around the headquarters. Then, whether it was building pavilions, gardens, hot springs or other things, there would be a rough framework.

He clapped his hands happily and said to Hermione, "It works! It turned out that I was right to ask Hermione."

"It's my honor to help the commander solve his problems."

Hermione smiled faintly. She felt that Zhou He might have misunderstood what she meant, but so what? The road is made step by step. She only needed to point out the direction when Zhou He was confused.

"Pave the road. Let's go over there and take a look."

The more Zhou He thought about it, the more he nodded, and he couldn't wait to take a step forward to survey the best road distribution map.

"Ah."

Hermione followed closely behind, looking at Zhou He's happy expression, with a smile also hidden in her beautiful eyes.

Chapter 14 Basic Training of Commanders

The headquarters was surrounded by a large area of ​​grass with varying heights. Even though Zhou He had never been involved in civil engineering work, he could easily work out a 'reasonable' road layout in his mind.

However, port area development and road construction are closely related to the future port area, so he is not in a hurry to make a decision. He plans to spend time to exchange relevant books from the home store and study them before making a decision.

Before crossing over, he had suffered enough from starting to do things without being well prepared. At least here he would do relatively well.

With a general direction, Zhou He felt more at ease - after all, this was his first time as a commander, and he wanted to experience everything and buy all the buildings, but when it came time to take action he couldn't find a starting point, which was very painful.

The whole afternoon was spent leisurely in this consideration and rest. When the sun outside gradually set, the command center became the only light on the entire island.

"Mr. Commander~How should we handle this?"

In the kitchen, Hermione, who was wearing casual clothes but a white apron, faced the various ingredients that Zhou He had taken out from the refrigerator. She humbly and diligently asked Zhou He for advice. Her well-behaved appearance even made Zhou He, the 'educator', feel healed, and he patiently explained to Hermione using the little cooking knowledge he had.

At the same time, Zhou He also found it very interesting. From Hermione's knife skills and the way she handled ingredients, it can be seen that she can cook, but what she can cook is the famous "royal cuisine". Educating the royal maid to be like Donghuang, is there anything more interesting than this?

“Wow, the atmosphere feels really good.”

Outside the kitchen, Yudachi and Zuikaku leaned against each other and looked at the two people laughing and chatting in the kitchen. Zuikaku asked Yudachi quietly, "I just took a nap. What happened in between?"

"I fell asleep too!"

Yudachi answered confidently: "Compared to this, when can we eat?"

"Are you so hungry already? How nice to have such a good appetite."

Unable to find the reason, Zuikaku was too lazy to delve into it and sat back at the table with his chin in his hands: "When will Sister Shokaku be taken over by the commander? Sister Shokaku's cooking must be full of the taste of happiness."

"Sister Shoukaku can also cook? Is it delicious?"

Speaking of food, Yudachi instantly became interested and sat across from Zuikaku at the table and asked him seriously. Zuikaku smiled proudly and said, "Of course, that's Sister Shokaku. She's definitely not inferior to the commander in terms of cooking!"

"Oh!"

Yuudachi blinked, his voice full of anticipation.

“…I don’t know what you’re talking about, but if you have time, could you help me get the dishes?”

With help, Zhou He's cooking speed actually slowed down. After a busy period, he came out and saw the two people chatting and casually complained.

"Yes~"

As if receiving some signal, Yuudachi jumped off the chair and trotted into the kitchen. When Zhou He and Zuikaku entered the room, they saw Yuudachi sticking out her tongue because she was scalded while eating the finished dish. Hermione was kind enough to bring her a glass of water.

"It looks like he will be a strong competitor of mine."

Ruihe's comment made Zhou He have a question mark in his head, but he didn't take it to heart. Instead, he simply explained a few words and continued to cook. Although the gas stove here was free, the fire was still a little lacking. He planned to build a smaller wood stove next to the headquarters in the future.

After a busy time, everyone enjoyed a delicious dinner while chatting and laughing. After the meal, Yuudachi and Zuikaku went upstairs early, leaving Zhou He and Hermione to clean up the mess.

After finishing overtime, Zhou He stretched and looked at Hermione who had folded her apron into a square and put it away. The girl looked a little unreal under the light, which made him pinch his brows and smile: "You've worked hard today, take a good rest."

"So does Mr. Commander."

Hearing this, Hermione bowed slightly to Zhou He with a faint smile on her face: "Good night."

"See you tomorrow."

Zhou He hummed, waved and left the kitchen first - maybe it was because it was evening, a more relaxing time, his thoughts were also relaxed, so it was better to leave first.

Then, he saw Yudachi humming a little tune while making the bed in the corridor outside his dormitory door. The corner of his eye twitched slightly: "Yudachi? Aren't you going back to your room to sleep today?"

"what."

Yudachi paused, sat on the quilt, turned around and looked up at Zhou He, and said in a cute way: "I forgot."

Zhou He was touched by the cuteness, but he kept it to himself. He rolled up his sleeves and hooked his hand to signal Yuuichi to stand up: "Let me help you clean up. This is not a wooden house, and there are no tatami mats. What if you catch a cold sleeping on the floor?"

Yesterday, there was only Yuudachi, so it didn't matter if he was a little casual. But now that there are more people, he naturally has to be careful. What if other people find out that Yuudachi and he are sleeping on the floor together and want to come over to join in the fun?

He doesn't want a bunch of beautiful girls of all kinds to gather in front of his house for pajama parties all year round. How miserable would it be when he sleeps?

"Ah~"

Yudachi pouted and stood up reluctantly: "What does it matter~ I'm a ship girl, I won't get sick that easily."

"…Even if you are a ship girl, you have to take care of your health."

Zhou He thought he was not a perceptive person, but even he could see from Xili's look that this person really wanted to sleep at the door of his bedroom.

But he wouldn't really let Yudachi be his watchdog. Thinking about it carefully, Yudachi probably slept here out of a desire to protect him or for other reasons. There were many ways to deal with this, so he shook his head: "No, as the commander, I have to be responsible for your health."

As he said that, he squatted down and tidied the quilt for Yuli. Although Yuli was very reluctant, he did not stop Zhou He, but followed him obediently back to his room on the second floor.

Zhou He spread the quilt first, then turned around and looked at Yuli who was looking at him eagerly. He chuckled unconsciously and walked to the table by the window and sat down: "Yuli, the view from your room is really nice. It just so happens that I forgot to prepare something. Do you mind if I work here for a while?"

"what?"

What kind of scenery can you see at night? This completely unrelated conversation made Yuli feel very strange, but she felt at ease to continue to stay with Zhou He, so she agreed without hesitation: "Okay."