Revisiting Azur Lane

"Huh? I didn't expect you, Zuikaku, to look down on me. I'm a little sad."

Zhou He raised his eyebrows, never expecting that there would be a day when Ruihe would teach him a lesson.

"It's you, Commander, who always underestimates me, right?"

Ruihe was very dissatisfied. Zhou He had clearly relied on her before, but now he was always used as a negative example.

"Have it?"

Zhou He decided to reserve his opinion on this question: "You are overthinking it. The combination of you and Shokaku is an important part of the combat power of the Minato District."

"..."

When Shokaku was mentioned, Zuikaku looked at Zhou He with a subtle look. In her eyes, Zhou He did not hide his affection for her elder sister. Although Shokaku had this kind of charm, she always felt a little uncomfortable.

"Well, anyway, don't think too much."

Zhou He was not very good at being stared at, so he stiffly changed the subject, turned around and walked out the door with a smile.

Zuikaku did not chase after him, but continued to eat the melon. The melon was delicious!

The atmosphere in the living room was very harmonious. Zhou He heard a few conversations when he passed by, including praises for the fruit cake, discussions about where to go for fun, and stories about their wonderful performances in battle, etc.

'We are still too poor.'

Zhou He secretly sighed that his own ship girls were really a group of angels, but the accumulation of home coins was too slow. 29 coins a day seemed like a lot, but the time cost was huge. If he wanted to increase the daily income, he would need to increase the number of ship girls in the port. With the increase in personnel, expenses would increase as well, and it would still be impossible to effectively develop the port in the short term.

A little troublesome.

Feeling worried, Zhou He returned to the kitchen, put down the plate, and turned to leave.

"?"

Yuli, who was eating cake, noticed something unusual, jumped off the stool and followed, but when he turned his head and went out, he saw Hermione who was already following Zhou He, and his eyes couldn't help but widen a little.

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"The port's development funds... Commander, don't worry too much. The port's development speed is already very fast, and it won't be a problem if it slows down a bit."

Hermione followed Zhou He from the living room and went out the back door for a walk. After asking, she listened to Zhou He's troubles and comforted him in a gentle voice.

"Ah."

Zhou He also knew that his port area was actually developing rapidly, but now he wanted the port area to develop even faster, which was essentially a useless worry caused by forcing himself.

But I just can't help thinking about this question.

There was no frequent communication. Zhou He took Hermione for a walk along the paved road. When they came to the new dormitory, the restaurant and the Iron Blood Mansion, they pointed to the open space and said, "I plan to build a mall here and put some items that are rare or even unavailable on the island. Hermione, help me think about what kind of things can make you happy."

"understood."

Hermione actually only understood the general idea, but it was enough.

The two walked around here and when they turned back, they unexpectedly ran into Hu Teng who was coming out of the hot spring in black casual clothes - a person's clothing really affects his or her temperament. Hu Teng in formal clothes gave people a cold and aloof look, while Hu Teng in casual T-shirt with steam coming out of his or her body looked like a naughty girl next door. Not to mention anything else, the difficulty of striking up a conversation with her was reduced a lot.

"You've worked hard on today's attack. What did you gain, Hu Teng?"

After meeting, Zhou He greeted him naturally, while Hu Teng pulled his collar with his fingers: "Not bad, just barely."

"Yeah, don't worry. In my opinion, you are just not used to the ship suit. Once you get used to using your ship suit, you will become very powerful all of a sudden."

Zhou He has high hopes for Hu Teng. Although he would not compare her with the mate ship, as a colorful ship in the game, Hu Teng has hard parameters comparable to the Iowa class. No matter from which angle, Hu Teng will be the backbone of the port area in the future.

"..."

"Commander, are you like this to everyone?"

Hu Teng listened to Zhou He's words, looked at him calmly, and observed his reaction.

"It should be like this, but I am not qualified as a commander and cannot do things to that extent."

Zhou He thought for a while, touched his hat and smiled, "In the end, it can only be like this, meeting by chance and then preaching."

"Indeed, I can see that you are not an efficient person."

Hu Teng's gaze towards Zhou He became more restrained. She had learned all the information about Zhou He from Xili, and naturally knew that he was also a latecomer. However, she was skeptical about Zhou He's choice to become a commander, as it was not a good job.

"Well, that's true, but I'm also doing my job well!"

Zhou He was amazed at how powerful his own ship girl was, as she was able to figure out his background in just a few days. Could it be that everyone else already knew that he actually did nothing and mostly spent his working time in a daze?

"This is your own decision, I won't praise you."

Hu Teng was not interested in whether Zhou He completed the work or not. Someone would do it anyway... She glanced at Hermione. She looked like an ordinary maid, but she had been with Zhou He for so long that she was almost equivalent to half a secretary ship.

"Ah."

Zhou He smiled. He could already feel how difficult it was to get in touch with Hu Teng. He was similar to Kursk and Tosa, but even more difficult to communicate with than them. Hu Teng was quite easy to talk to when he was first built (?), but now he couldn't find a way to get in touch with him.

"If there's nothing else, I'll go back and rest."

Hu Teng looked at Zhou He's speechless expression, retracted his gaze, turned around and walked into the command building.

"Commander, this Ms. Hutten has a bad personality."

Hermione murmured softly after the person walked away.

"It can't be said to be bad. She is just trying to protect herself."

Zhou He unilaterally believed that the nature of the ship girls was "good", and remembering Hu Teng's personality, it seemed that if she didn't trust you, she would never trust you, but once she trusted you, she would give up everything and follow you.

Interesting.

"Really?"

Hermione didn't quite believe it. It was the first time she saw Zhou He being left speechless.

"Just believe me!"

Zhou He won Hermione's approval with his cheerful tone, and then he had a video call with Kursk - Kursk was in his room, he had changed his clothes, and even his hair was still half dry, obviously he had just taken a shower.

"Kursk, I want to dismantle the towed ship. Could you please take me there?"

Zhou He expressed his thoughts, and Kursk on the opposite side glanced at Hermione and nodded: "I understand, now?"

"The sooner the better."

Zhou He replied.

Ten minutes later, Kursk, wearing a silver-gray windbreaker, appeared on the coast, met Zhou He who had been waiting for a long time, jumped off the dock and unfolded his ship suit.

"Well, Kursk, your ship's equipment specifications are larger than they appear."

With Hermione's help, Zhou He climbed onto the Kursk's ship and sat beside the frosty bridge. He grabbed the cold protrusion with his hand and was a little amazed.

He had only been on Tosa's ship. Compared with Kursk's ship, Tosa's design was obviously very compact, while Kursk's was more complete. When stretched out to the left and right, it was more than five meters long. This was the first time Zhou He discovered this.

"No, it should be said to be complete."

Before Kursk could respond, Zhou He changed his words again. Hermione next to him could no longer hold back and reminded him, "Miss Kursk, let's go. Commander, please hold on tight."

"I've got a firm hold, let's go."

Zhou He pursed his lips. He was now on Kursk's left hand side. The distance between them was less than half a meter. At that height, Kursk only needed to raise his head to see him, and the two could touch each other by stretching out their hands.

"Ah."

Kursk took action upon hearing this. Zhou He squinted his eyes to prepare for the baptism of the sea breeze, but he soon opened his eyes. Today's sea breeze was surprisingly gentle, just like the feeling of riding an electric bike on a normal day.

"The commander was at a different altitude and was exposed to a different wind speed range."

Kursk seemed to notice his confusion and explained it aloud.

"Is that so? That's great."

Zhou He glanced sideways and observed Kursk's sharp horns up close for the first time - the ears and tails of Xuefeng and Yudachi were still normal, but Kursk's sharp horns looked like they were made of metal, and the pure black surface even reflected light.

"This stab will go straight through."

As he thought about this, the line of sight moved down a little, and he saw Kursk's smooth neck faintly visible under his silver-gray hair, which was very tempting.

"..."

Zhou He didn't really understand his XP, but sometimes he felt inexplicably poked. He could only look up at the sea in the distance reflecting the sunlight: "Kursk, you are attacking with everyone today, don't you feel uncomfortable?"

"Ah."

Kursk's voice is powerful, or recognizable. She said: "In this operation, everyone in the team knew what they should do, and there was not much communication between them."

"Is that right?"

Zhou He frowned slightly, feeling that things were not simple, he raised his head and raised his voice: "Hermione, do you feel the same way?"

"Commander... I was assigned to the logistics team, and I didn't have any special information exchanges with the others."

Hermione's voice reached Zhou He's ears from behind, making him believe it a little more.

Chapter 123 Different Levels

The so-called logistics team is the tugboat team. Because of the existence of Xuefeng, its comprehensive combat effectiveness is probably the strongest among all teams. If this trump card is not deployed, it means that the combat situation is indeed ridiculously easy.

The possibility that Shentong would assign a separate mission to Kursk is even lower.

In this way, as Zhou He continued to chat awkwardly, the three of them left the bay and turned left. When they arrived at the east side of the island, Zhou He saw the smoking black warship anchored at the edge of the island from a distance.

"Hermione, how many boats did you tow back?"

After retracting his gaze, Zhou He looked at Hermione, who had run in front of Kursk and him, making it easier to talk.

Shentong had not told him how much he had gained before, probably because he wanted to leave it to Xuefeng to take credit for it. However, Xuefeng had no intention of doing so, so he was unaware of the situation.

"Yes! There are seven in total, including three light cruisers, two heavy cruisers, a battleship and an aircraft carrier."

Hermione turned sideways and maintained her forward trajectory in a very superb posture, while reporting the situation to Zhou He, her eyes falling on him.

"So many? What a big catch... Hermione, turn back first and don't fall."

Zhou He was a little surprised. He didn't expect the recycling efficiency to be so high. Then he began to wonder how many resources were needed to build an aircraft carrier and how many aircraft carriers could be built with these seven ships.

With two experiences on the Tosa, Zhou He has become completely accustomed to going out to see the sea on his own ship girl's ship. However, he wanted to touch the warship himself, so he finally approached and climbed to the edge of Kursk's ship, thus avoiding a collision between Kursk and these Siren ships.

The towed ships were arranged from small to large. Zhou He touched the smallest light cruiser first. With the help of the system, in less than ten seconds the ship turned into blue stardust all over the sky, leaving a beautiful scene on the sea.

The same scene appeared again, among which the dismantling of aircraft carriers and battleships was the most shocking. The dense stardust of more than 200 meters could not even be seen at a glance.

During the dismantling process, Zhou He discovered that even if they were of the same type, the amount of materials decomposed was not exactly the same. After dismantling all seven ships, the number of resources stored in his warehouse became a very large number:

75700 tons of steel, 10800 tons of ammunition, 10660 tons of aluminum alloys, 10620 tons of copper, 1980 tons of electronic components and 2050 tons of rubber.

The materials used to develop warships and ship equipment have also been updated, namely:

Aircraft carrier blueprint x4, battleship blueprint x1, light cruiser blueprint x4, heavy cruiser blueprint x2, destroyer blueprint x1, optional research and development blueprint x10.

Main gun parts x32, anti-aircraft gun parts x118, torpedo parts x8, carrier-based aircraft parts x10, general parts x2, optional ship equipment parts x12.

"I don't know how many aircraft carriers we can build. Let's study it when we get home."

Zhou He was not very concerned about these things, because as long as the warship was dismantled, a large number of numerical changes would appear. As long as the number could meet his needs, everything would be fine. If not, he would continue to dismantle it.

"The material conversion technology that Xuefeng mentioned should be similar to the technology that the commander is using now?"

Hermione watched seven fireworks displays and approached Zhou He who was leaning on the Kursk ship and asked in a low voice.

"It should be similar, but the main focus is different."

Zhou He hummed, then used his hands and feet to crawl back to his original seat. He left the warehouse and took another look at the attack map. It can be seen that the testers, cleaners and purifiers who were originally in the West Fourth District were respectively entrenched in the second district on the west, south and north sides of the port area, and the observers were still stationed in the port base of the West Fourth District.

In addition, the last person in the experimental organization, the Builder, also appeared in the base.

"Are you all here now?"

Zhou He curled his lips. The regular personnel in the game were testers and purifiers. Observers appeared relatively frequently, while cleaners and builders appeared the least. There had never been a scene where five people appeared on the same stage.

Now he saw that five small bosses were surrounding him, the new commander who had been in office for only a month.

Bah, you don’t even have any shame!

But now, his chances of capturing the Siren base were reduced again.

"We have to find a way to reduce their numbers."

After coming to the conclusion in his mind, Zhou He called Kursk and Hermione to return to the port.

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