Daily life with the ship girl

"Now?" Pinghai nodded. They all knew that Li Ran had been reluctant to give up the large-scale construction for two whole months. That was because the admiral did not want to waste extra resources. Now that the four resources were in surplus, the admiral would think of the large-scale construction sooner or later, so she was not surprised.

"The master should have made this decision earlier." Reputation finally breathed a sigh of relief. Although they were very happy that their training level could be improved so quickly, there were still too few people in the port area. If it wasn't for the sisters, they would not feel at ease. So she had actually been waiting for Li Ran to make the decision to build a large-scale project.

"Then I'll go out with Pinghai, and I'll leave the reputation home to you."

Reputation nodded, and when Pinghai passed by her, she whispered in a serious tone:

"Pinghai, you must protect the safety of the master. The radar must be turned on at all times. Now that the sisters are out on a mission, we must take on the responsibility of protecting the master and not let the assassination happen again."

After listening to this, Pinghai nodded heavily, and went out with Li Ran, heading towards the construction device.

Chapter 237: Yixian's Tenderness

Li Ran and Ping Hai came to the place where the construction device was located. A three-story building had been built here, and usually no one was allowed to enter this building.

Because this is where the research department is located, Li Ran handed over everything in the department to the fairies to manage, and the department heads are jointly held by Fairy Chief Ruoduo and Fairy Chief Azure.

As the Hong Kong area has been busy with affairs in the past two months, Li Ran was still shocked when he arrived at the research department today.

"Pinghai, how long have we not been here?"

"Well, it's been more than two months since the admiral returned from Qiyun City."

"Do you remember how we lived on the island?"

"I remember. I was very happy then, and I am still very happy now."

Pinghai said, then looked at the stars in the sky, hugged Li Ran's arm and said:

"But Admiral, you can't forget your dream of becoming a navy."

"How could I forget, Ping Hai, did your third experimental transformation go smoothly?"

"Well, my sisters said that in another week, I will be able to have my official transformation."

"Thank you for your hard work. Although this is not my hometown, it has become my home."

"Admiral, are you homesick again?"

"How can I not miss it? Looking at the moon makes me miss my hometown. This is a longing engraved in my heart that cannot be erased."

"Well, it would be great if the admiral could bring Sister Yixian back."

"Maybe I can meet Yixian this time."

When Li Ran heard Pinghai say this, he really wanted to meet Yixian. It was a great pity that he was unable to build Yixian before he retired.

"Admiral, I have a feeling that Sister Yixian is coming."

Ping Hai was indeed a little lonely. Although she was the first ship girl to undergo transformation in the port area, she was still the only ship girl from Country C in the port area.

Kokang and she get along very well, but Kokang is now sent to Island C to carry out a mission, so there are fewer people with whom he can talk in private.

It’s not that there will be barriers between the ship girls because of historical memories, but between women, some things are always little secrets. Although the ship girls call each other sisters when they find the same admiral, they will always keep some distance when they get along with each other.

After all, ship girls also need private space and more private friends, rather than exposing everything to the group. This is also the humanity given to ship girls after their appearance.

This is also the reason why the ship girls are called weapons by people other than the admiral, but are doubly cared for by the admiral.

Because the admiral understands the ship girls and spends every day with them, he can realize that the ship girls also have their own ideas.

However, those ordinary people who failed to become admirals, on the one hand, envied the admirals for having beautiful ship girls by their side, and on the other hand, they were afraid of the powerful military force of the ship girls.

Jealousy and fear have caused ordinary people to be wary of ship girls, and even have twisted resentment towards them.

So it is not surprising that the ship girls are contemptuously called weapons.

Li Ran knew that Ping Hai was indeed under a lot of pressure. She was the light cruiser girl who was second only to Helena and was given high hopes by everyone.

Pinghai is meticulous in his work, and even Helena praised his ability to handle expedition missions. What's more valuable is that Pinghai's diligence is obvious to all.

"Then I hope that I can meet Yixian during this major construction."

Li Ran said this, and then he and Ping Hai walked into the door of the research department.

"Admiral, you came just in time. I was just about to look for you."

When Elder Li saw that the door of the research building was actually opened, she was wondering who was so bold as to disobey orders. But when she saw that it was Li Ran, she was relieved.

Then she thought of what Chief Ruo Duoruo had told her, and she stopped Li Ran.

Li Ran stopped, squatted down, stretched out his hand for Elder Li to jump up, and asked:

"Why, what's the problem?"

"It's like this. The research on night vision radar has reached a bottleneck. If we want the carrier girls to be able to operate and launch carrier-based aircraft at night, the night vision radar requires a lot of precision components, but the current equipment in the port is too simple. If the project is to go forward, I'm afraid the admiral will have to find the high-end nanomaterials needed to make precision components as soon as possible."

"Okay, I understand. If the project hits a bottleneck, let's stop it for now. I came here today to do some major construction. How is your research on the construction equipment going?"

"That device is very strange. We, the Ruoduo Fairy Tribe, have obtained some deep-sea technologies before. However, the progress of cracking this device is slow. It seems that there are some unknown obstacles."

"Unknown obstacles?" Li Ran somehow remembered what Pachina said.

What does it mean that the unknown is the most terrifying?

"Have you all invested your transformation cores into the restoration of the equipment?"

Li Ran suddenly realized that in order to restore the data analysis function and the calculation function (maybe he remembered it wrong) of that crappy construction device, it would require consuming 100 of each of the five types of transformation cores: battleship, cruiser, destroyer, submarine, and aircraft carrier.

"Admiral, how did you know that?" A trace of surprise flashed across Elder Li's face, and then he admitted it.

"That's true." Li Ran sighed. Never mind. The construction equipment would have to be repaired sooner or later anyway. Moreover, even if the fairies were very powerful, the difficulty of manufacturing ship equipment that was not included in the game settings would undoubtedly increase exponentially.

Therefore, Li Ran was somewhat fortunate that the transformation core was not wasted on an experiment that might fail.

"Well, but through that construction device, we fairies have learned a lot of knowledge, especially the deconstruction of ship suits. We can now make colorful ship suits."

"Colorful ship uniforms?" Li Ran was shocked. He knew there were colorful ship uniforms in the game, but except for certain ship girls, he had never seen them on anyone else.

Pinghai heard Li Ran's question and said:

"Admiral, have you forgotten? Hindenburg's ship uniform is colorful."

"Hindenburg, if you hadn't told me, I would have forgotten. She disappeared after Bismarck and I came back. Where did she go?"

"I don't know. It seems he went out to practice."

"Forget it. Nuremberg and the others aren't worried, so I won't worry either. It's just that he's been gone for more than two months, so he should be back by now."

Li Ran sighed. Since there were more ship girls in the port area, he sometimes ignored some ship girls with weaker presence, such as Walkerlan and Sigsby, whom he hadn't seen for almost two months.

"Admiral, excuse me for bothering you. I have one more thing to report." Elder Li heard Li Ran and Ping Hai say this, and then suddenly spoke.

Li Ran nodded, then walked towards the room where the construction equipment was stored and said:

"whats the matter?"

"Regarding the underground air defense facility, our tribe members have made many interesting discoveries. There are also secretly excavated tunnels under the underground facility. According to analysis, they can be traced back to thirty years ago."

"Tunnel?" Li Ran was stunned. His Xiguang Island seemed much more complicated than he had imagined.

"Well, it should be said that this is where some kind of research was conducted thirty years ago. Unfortunately, the equipment inside has long been moved out, and only a pile of scrap metal is left. If the admiral has time, you can go and take a look."

"I understand, Elder Li, I'm grateful to you for all these days."

"It's okay, Admiral. The construction equipment is in this room. You have permission to enter. I have something else to do. Admiral, please let me down first."

"Well, thank you for your hard work." Li Ran nodded, then put Elder Li on the ground. He and Pinghai walked to the alloy door, then took a deep breath and walked forward.

However, he was dumbfounded immediately and forgot to ask Elder Li how the door was opened.

Unexpectedly, just when Li Ran was about to call Elder Li, the alloy door opened automatically.

Pinghai looked at Li Ran with a puzzled look on her face. She smiled gently and then explained:

"This is the admiral's authority. Everything on this island is recognized as the admiral's private property by the admiral's global network. The fairies have also taken this into consideration, so the admiral has the highest authority over all facilities on the island."

Li Ran sighed, looking confused. It turned out that this world was so unreasonable when it was unscientific.

However, Li Ran still walked into the room and found that the decoration in the room was very simple, with a black and white checkered floor. There were not many high-tech equipment around. The construction equipment was still the same as before, but this time he greeted Li Ran from a distance:

"Admiral, welcome back. The first intelligent robot princess is at your service."

"Can you talk?"

"A certain degree of computing power has been restored. After the autonomous computing power is improved, your information can be processed simply." The Initial Intelligent Mechanical Girl said so, and the mechanical synthesized voice was a bit harsh.

Li Ran was not surprised to see such a sci-fi scene. He was here for Dajian. He thought about it and said:

"I want to build ships."

"You can perform construction twice if your authority permits. The construction cooldown will be reset after each use."

"Or twice a week?" Li Ran asked.

"Yes."

"OK then."

"Please enter the construction formula?"

"4 The first construction sequence, 400 units of fuel, 80 units of bullets, 650 steel, 130 aluminum."

"Sorry, construction failed!"

Li Ran was stunned when he heard this. He finally failed in the construction. But when he thought about it, it made sense. This world was not a game after all, and Lexington also said that there was a possibility of failure in the construction. He sighed, then looked at Ping Hai nervously, smiled bitterly and said:

"It seems that I am not very lucky today."

"Admiral, why don't we go back?"

"It's okay. It's just a waste of resources. It's normal to be unlucky sometimes."

Li Ran said this, but he felt very painful in his heart. Even though he now had more than 30,000 resources in his port, the expeditions and daily training of the ship girls all required resources to be consumed. In addition, the mining of oil, aluminum and iron ore on the island had almost drained out the island's mineral reserves. Therefore, he couldn't help but feel painful to lose so many resources at once.

Li Ran took a deep breath and thought for a while. The standard battle array formula failed just now, so he could only try the small boat. So he was silent for a while, and then said:

"200 units of oil, 30 units of bullets, 200 units of steel, and 100 units of aluminum."

"The new formula record is successful, and you will be rewarded with a quick completion opportunity. Do you want to use it?"

The Initial Intelligent Mechanical Girl said this, but Li Ran did not use it. After pulling down the joystick, he saw the construction number and excitedly hugged Ping Hai.

"Pinghai, it's 25 minutes, 25 minutes!"

"Admiral, what's wrong with you?"

"Didn't you just say you wanted to see Yixian?" Li Ran was so excited that he quickly said to the Initial Intelligent Mechanical Ji:

"Use now and get it done quickly!"

"Construction work has been completed, the construction hatch is open, and it is expected that the ship girl will be fully awake in ten seconds!"

“10、9、8、7……3、2、1，建造完成！”

After the Initial Intelligent Mechanical Girl finished speaking, the hatch opened. After the white mist dissipated, the figure in the red cheongsam came slowly, with an elegant gait and dignified manners.

Then, Pinghai's tears fell.

Yixian looked at Pinghai, who was crying, with a watery gaze, then looked at Li Ran, then bowed solemnly and said:

"My name is Yixian. This is a warship designed by Country C. Please let me know if you need anything!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Pinghai couldn't help but rushed over and burst into tears in Yixian's arms.

A hint of tenderness flashed across Li Ran's face:

"Welcome, my name is Li Ran, I will be your admiral from now on, please give me your guidance."

Yixian touched Pinghai's hair, then stroked it gently and said to Li Ran:

"It's Pinghai who's causing the Admiral a lot of trouble."

Ping Hai felt the tenderness of this big sister from Country C. She stopped crying, and then looked at her admiral with a dazed look in her eyes. She said angrily:

"Admiral, you're such a pervert!"

"Pinghai, don't talk nonsense, it's just because your sister Yixian is so beautiful."

Li Ran's straightforward praise made Yixian's cheeks flush, but she was an elegant woman after all, and she said softly:

"Admiral, thank you for your praise. I am not talented enough. I hope you can give me more guidance in the future!"

Pinghai pouted, then looked at his sister Yixian, then looked at his admiral, and said:

"Okay, you two keep being polite. Hey, are you hungry, Sister Yixian? I want to have a midnight snack."

When Li Ran heard Ping Hai say this, he couldn't help but complain: