Revisiting Azur Lane

"They're all acquaintances."

Yuguro made some distance to allow the Yorktown people to reunite, glanced at the expressionless Ayanami, and looked into the living room. He didn't recognize anyone, but he could see that some of them were not easy to deal with.

He was quite enterprising. He knew who his family members were at a glance. He walked over to Hood and greeted Jarvis, Javelin and others.

"Let me introduce you. They are Zuikaku, Shokaku, and Jinpo. You must know this one, Kaga."

Zhou He looked around and knew that his meeting would probably have to wait for a while, so he came to Haguro and the other man and pointed at them. When it came to the Souzuru, Haguro already knew them, and as for the Kaga, it was even more of a heavyweight. Looking at the entire Sakura Empire Navy system, there was no ship that didn't know the famous "First Carrier".

"Commander is amazing... But is this the impression Kaga gives people?"

Yuguro went over it in her mind and admired how Zhou He managed to keep so many people from different camps together without them fighting, especially Kaga, who didn't even move when she heard the name of Yorktown, and was still talking to Tosa, whose name she knew but didn't recognize.

"The Kaga you know is more aloof, ours is more down to earth."

Zhou He smiled. In the game, Kaga BB also had a somewhat arrogant personality and didn't want to bother the weak, but he had Tosa at home, and Tosa didn't approve of her as a cheap sister who had come from the sky. This led to Kaga BB being unable to get what he wanted, and he kept showing off, even going into the woods to catch foxes. It was quite interesting.

"How can this make a difference?"

Yuguro muttered quietly, Kaga ≠ Kaga? She didn't quite understand, but she wouldn't try to understand. After all, what Kaga was like had nothing to do with her, so she just didn't bother her.

"hehe."

Zhou He smiled without saying anything. He stretched out his hand to beckon Yudachi over and asked his dear secretary, Miss Ship, to help look after Yuguro and Ayanami. He turned around and went to the empty warehouse. He locked the system's task interface with his eyes and received the daily task that increased to 28 home coins. Then he switched to the home mall and found the marked 'winter bedding sets' and bought 24 sets in batches and placed them neatly on the table. He spent another 1 home coin to exchange for a set of 'toothbrush, toothpaste, towel and bucket' sets. He did not keep the last four home coins. After checking the 'size labels' of the four Yorktown players in the dock, he bought four sets of daily private clothes sets.

“Then I start from scratch again.”

After adding supplies to the warehouse, Zhou He breathed a sigh of relief. What made him most fortunate was that his system did not sell "skins". Clothes were sold in sets. One home coin could buy eight sets of clothes for all four seasons, two sets for each season, and there were also a variety of clothing options.

Although no one reported it, Zhou He saw that Yuuri's clothes became tattered every time he returned from a sortie. According to the number of clothes in his own closet, after a few more sorties, Yuuri would have to come to him to ask for clothes to wear. The same was true for the other front-row aircraft. The Bismarck and other battleships were just okay, but for aircraft carriers like Zuikaku, their clothes were the most valuable and could be reused unless they were attacked by enemy planes.

"Thank goodness the system is affordable, otherwise I would have run the port in a mess."

Zhou He now truly realized what it meant to "one does not know how expensive firewood and rice are until he manages the household". Before he traveled through time, he only cared about having enough food to eat, but now there are dozens of people waiting for him to make arrangements, and food, clothing, housing and transportation are all big expenses.

The warehouse was filled to the brim, and Zhou He returned to the living room feeling relaxed both mentally and physically. Among the four new members, Jinqu quietly integrated into the group, Yuguro and Ayanami were still being nagged by Yudachi, and Yorktown had already entered the door, and she thought there was no problem. However, Hammanman was pestering Yorktown and acting coquettishly, while Cleveland was watching and smiling from the side. They became the most lively group among the several camps in the port area.

"Commander, continue."

Seeing that the newcomer had joined and his emotions had stabilized, Hood spoke and looked at Zhou He.

"Well, I'll take up some of your time. Let me tell you about the difficulties the port is facing at this stage."

Zhou He took over the conversation, clapped his hands and stood in the middle of the living room, where all eyes were focused - but in fact he had nothing much to say, so he could only change the way he told the story of the Sirens surrounding the island.

However, considering the emotions of his own ship girl, Zhou He still thought of a way: he did not set a target for his own ship girl yesterday, so everyone was prepared to fight the Sirens to the end as usual, but were forced to retreat by the Sirens.

So today, he set a numerical standard for the three teams to defeat the Siren: the number of members in their own team x 5.

Sinking these Sirens means the mission of the attack is accomplished and we can return home to rest or continue fighting. It is a matter of subsequent team decision-making.

This time, Sakura Empire has the addition of Ayanami and Haguro, and the Javelin and Jarvis who were transferred from there were transferred back to Hood. Shokaku is still responsible for the high altitude of Hood + Bismarck team, but the formation has been transferred back to Zuikaku team. Huten and Jeanbart still assist the White Eagles in the attack.

"The enemy wants to fight a protracted war of attrition with us. That's what they want. The fleet they send here will become a stepping stone for the rise of our port area!"

After adjusting the team members, Zhou He looked at everyone on the scene with a serious expression: "In ten minutes, the battle will begin."

"Yes (I understand)!"

He is always laughing and joking, but in serious meetings, everyone present shows great respect for Zhou He.

"Well, please, Cleveland, bring Nagashima out and tell her, 'When this operation is over, I will purchase and update the electronic equipment in the port area.'"

After the meeting, Zhou He pinched his brows and made a small promise.

This was not something he did on purpose, but sooner or later the port area would move closer to the era he was in. Now that the new dormitory was in place and there were more members in the port area, he would have to spend some time on entertainment. He couldn't let his own ship girls fight and kill every day. They should also play and relax occasionally.

"Really?"

Someone spoke up to confirm.

"of course it's true."

Zhou He thought he hadn't said anything wrong so far, so he wanted to see who was questioning his character. So he turned around and saw Chang Dao squatting at the corner of the stairs and looking out. He curled his lips and said, "You came at the right time. There's no need to trouble Cleveland and the others to make a trip."

"Hey hey hey."

Changdao had a smile on his face. He jumped down the stairs three steps at a time, stood in front of Zhou He, raised his hand and saluted in the Donghuang style: "I promise to complete the task!"

"You."

Zhou He was helpless with this playful girl, so he smiled and encouraged her: "Come on, finish the battle as soon as possible and teach Siren a lesson."

"Understood~"

Changdao blinked, turned his head, bent, accelerated, bypassed Zhou He and went to York City, greeting him with full energy - it was hard to tell that this girl was a real stay-at-home lady who didn't want to go out unless she was forced to.

Facing Nagashima, Zhou He, who used to call himself a stay-at-home, felt that he was just a current star.

"Commander, you won't let me attack today?"

Hermione waited until there was no one around Zhou He before approaching and asking. She stared at Zhou He, quite serious at first, but after a few seconds, she looked away as if she had thought of something.

"…If you want to attack, you can also go with Hood and the others."

Zhou He's eyes twitched, and he held his forehead with one hand and was silent for a few seconds after he finished speaking. He still apologized for "questioning" Hermione's maid professionalism last night and thinking that she tried to touch him.

But he did get touched in the end, and if it happened next time he would still refuse Hermione's bath scrubbing service.

It's not that he dislikes Hermione or doesn't want to do something, but he knows himself too well. Now he seems to be very hardworking, but this is just an appearance, his face-saving work. As long as this skill is broken, he is confident that he can become Long Island's closeted stay-at-home partner within three days.

This is a rare new life, and he doesn't want to repeat the same mistakes.

Chapter 108 Surprise and fright

After Hermione was added to the combat team, the number of people in this attack increased to twenty-five.

When Zhou He looked around, he already felt that the crowd was so dense. After watching them unfold their ship suits, the scene became endless.

"Yorktown, this is your first time attacking in shipgirl form, be careful!"

Before setting off, Zhou He ran along the beach from left to right, instructing Yorktown to stand with Zuikaku and the others, and also instructing Ayanami, Haguro, and Jinshou to obey orders and not rush forward blindly - while the new members were still listening to Zhou He's nagging, the experienced old members had already started to slip away.

Soon after, the entire port area fell into silence, leaving only footprints on the beach that were smoothed by the sea water.

Zhou He, who was left alone, could not see the battle situation near his own port area. The value of his home currency was 0, and there was no ship girl to accompany him. He turned into a lonely old man on the spot, looking at the sky and the sea.

"Ah, I almost forgot."

Scratching his head, Zhou He turned around and walked quickly back to the command building. He picked up a set of bedding from the warehouse and moved from the command building to the new dormitory. He found a room close to the gate where he could even talk to people passing by through the window. He made the bed, cleaned the room, and even searched the wardrobe, but found it empty and had no clothes.

“This is my second room.”

He stood at the window and looked around the room. It was more than 1.5 square meters and housed a bed, a wardrobe and a desk. Nearly half of the area was vacant. The space was 2 to times larger than the room on the third floor, but it gave him a cold feeling and was not as safe as the small room on the third floor.

"Ha, after all, we should let Hermione stay."

After the busy work, Zhou He felt bored again. He climbed out of the new dormitory room through the window as if to feel fresh, and returned to the command building directly on the flooded lawn. During this time, he casually opened the attack map interface and observed the movements of the Sirens in the southeast, northwest, second and third areas.

He looked at it every day, and every time he saw it, there was only the same old Siren fleet moving around in it, and there was nothing new at all.

But this time there was a change, and a big change.

The Sirens in the second area on the southeast, northwest, northeast and southwest sides (the second circle of blocks spreading outward), especially the west and east blocks, are all converging in one direction, that is, the south. The mass production type in the South Area 2 is also moving southward and entering the South Area 3.

"What's going on?"

Zhou He stopped and leaned against the back door of the headquarters, fixing his sight on the South Third District - there was a human port site recognized by the system, but because the patrol of the Executor Siren had not fully explored it, only half of the area including most of the island could be seen.

At this moment, all the executors and mass-produced Sirens within the South Third District were approaching further south where the dark plot was, as if something had attracted them.

"Weird, could it be that there are other human fleets attacking over there?"

Zhou He frowned slightly. He had seen this scene many times. After entering the Siren's mirror sea, the sirens inside would move towards their own people in an arc like zombies preparing for dinner. However, when the battle started on his side, the sirens that were generally tens or hundreds of miles away would not be attracted.

The southern Siren's combat target not only mobilized all the nearby fleets, but even attracted the northern Sirens hundreds of miles away. It was obviously noticed by the Siren's top leaders. What size fleet is this?

I'm afraid I'm taking the blame for him.

"Tsk, if we had known that our island would not be targeted by the Sirens, we would have used suicide planes to conduct reconnaissance to uncover these dark areas."

Unable to see the whole picture, Zhou He was like a cat whose curiosity was aroused. He felt itchy inside, but there was nothing he could do. He stomped his feet outside the door and walked into the house, switched the interface to the dock and locked onto Xianghe's avatar.

However, before starting the video, Zhou He saw Kursk, who was standing at the door of the pet room, looking inside.

"Kursk."

Without thinking too much, he waved and greeted the fox. The fox turned around and nodded in response after seeing him. Zhou He walked closer and glanced at the fox through the window. It was in much better condition than last night, and the rice in the bowl next to it was scratched everywhere - if it started eating, it was almost at the stage of being tamed.

"Kaga is really generous. He just threw it away like this after catching it."

Zhou He complained casually and shifted the topic to Kursk. Considering Kursk's personality, he did not arrange Kursk to participate in combat operations yesterday and today. Now that they met, it would be a good opportunity to ask him.

"If you're just following combat orders, there's no problem."

Kursk also saw the attacking team yesterday, but she came back very late the night before and was caught in the rain. After waking up, she spent some time adjusting her physical condition. When she was looking for Zhou He to communicate, everyone who had gone out came back and it looked like they had lost the battle. She felt it was troublesome, so she did not show up.

"Is that so? Well...if there's a chance, I'll arrange for you to go out and fight with everyone else."

Zhou He wanted to say that the battle had just started today and he could catch up if he went now, but he hesitated and did not say so. There were too many Sirens and adding more fighters on the spot might disrupt the battle rhythm of others, so it would be better to wait for the next official announcement.

"it is good."

After getting a response from Kursk, Zhou He turned around and sat on the sofa, staring at Shokaku's dock avatar and turned on the video call function. He unilaterally connected and saw Miss Shokaku standing on the sea with a serious expression and her hair blowing in the wind.

"The pressure in the air is very high."

Zhou He's eyes moved slightly. Large-scale naval battles and air supremacy, that is, the confrontation between aircraft carriers almost determined the victory of this battle. His family currently had three chief aviators and one light aviator. In terms of quantity, it was already a qualified aircraft carrier formation, but facing the endless army of Sirens, it could only be said to be barely enough.

Taking into account the beyond-visual-range combat capability of aircraft carriers, if we really start to tinker with our own mass-produced fleet, the top priority should be to build a few aircraft carriers for ourselves to provide cover and fight for air supremacy!

It’s a pity that the Sirens are now surrounded, and even if we paralyze the Sirens’ warships, we can’t tow them back and dismantle them.

"commander!?"

Half a minute after he thought, Shokaku finally discovered Zhou He's "projection" when launching a new round of carrier-based aircraft, and couldn't help but let out a slight exclamation.

Zhou He nodded to indicate that he had heard it, and said, "I found that the Siren Fleet is moving towards the south on a large scale. It seems that there are other forces approaching. If you have the energy, you can observe whether there is such a situation on the front battlefield."

"understand!"

Shokaku looked stern as he quickly relayed Zhou He's remarks to the other three. Zuikaku was standing ten meters away from Shokaku, but was unable to come over to speak because he had to operate a carrier-based aircraft to meet the enemy.

Zhou He didn't care about these things. Instead, he used his mind to change the perspective of the video call, wanting to see the actual battle situation. However, Xianghe and his companions were far away from the battlefield, at least seven or eight nautical miles away from the fighting outside. Zhou He could only see the faint flames in the distance, and the rest was just the unchanging, rolling sea.

"..."

Kursk turned his head to look over when Zhou He started talking, but he couldn't see the video projection on his side. He could only see Zhou He himself looking at the front with a focused expression. The strange scene made her cross her arms and tilt her head to admire it.

"If we change it to Bismarck, no, we should be able to see the actual battle."

Zhou He thought to himself that when fighting in the sea outside the port area, he was like a man with a third eye, knowing everything. But near the port area, he became a blind man, unable to give any combat instructions. He was like a real mascot.

We have to find a way to kill all the Sirens here, and we also need to prevent similar island siege situations from happening in the future.

The battle was still going on. Zhou He, who had cut off the video, was always paying attention to the health bar and ammunition status of his own ship girl, replenishing her from time to time, and most of the time he was in a daze.

"Commander, if there's nothing to do, going out for a walk and exercising can help clear your mind."

It was the first time for Kursk to observe Zhou He for such a long time at such a close distance as he "waited" for their return. Except for his sharp eyes occasionally, Zhou He sat motionless most of the time. Although he knew that rest was a good thing, Zhou He's behavior was obviously not about adjusting his physical condition. He was simply waiting for time to pass, like an empty-nest elderly person who came from nowhere and had nothing to do.

So after a long time, Kursk took the initiative to propose going out for a walk, hoping that Zhou He could be more energetic.

"Well, you're right."

Zhou He gathered his spirits, and as he stood up, he glanced at the dock, then quickly switched to the southern third area of ​​the map. His eyes suddenly widened - the Sirens on the map had already blocked this area, but in this dense Siren position, there was an alien individual.

He could clearly see the other person's 3D figure. Simply put, it was a girl with animal ears wearing a black skirt. Although she was a little different from the image in the video, Zhou He recognized that she was Xuefeng.

The Siren fleet was approaching to the south, while Xuefeng was heading north in the Siren fleet. As she moved, the surrounding Sirens' reactions were constantly disappearing. The speed was not fast, but very stable and continuous.

"The wild snow wind in this world? No, the snow wind is not that strong. And the direction she is coming from, could it be where I am?"

Zhou He was very surprised. Tirpitz, Akagi and others he had met before only met him through the mirror sea, but this Xuefeng was not like that. She really existed in this world and seemed to have discovered other members of her family who were fighting and was moving towards this side.

"Could it be that she is..."

As if he had thought of something, Zhou He switched the system interface and entered the 'meta followers' column in the scientific research system. The originally empty interface was filled with character portraits that looked like a dock.

The silver-haired girl in the black frame is Xuefeng.

No, it would be more appropriate to call it Snow Wind.META.

However, under the avatar frame of Xuefeng.meta, there was a line of words that made Zhou He want to vomit blood: Time limit 46:18:20, and the last second hand was still falling backwards.