Daily life with the ship girl

Li Ran thought about it and felt like he had said everything he needed to say. He was about to adjourn the meeting when he thought of the notice. He continued:

"There is one more very important thing I want to inform you all."

"Is it something very important?" It was the first time for Brooklyn and the Raiders to attend such a military meeting. Although many of their friends had gone to see the admiral, they all had bitter faces when talking about routine military meetings. Only Li Ran's military meeting gave them a very strange feeling.

Brooklyn thought about it and decided that since it was an important matter, it would be better for her and the attacker to avoid it, so she said:

"Since the Admiral has something important to do, it would be inconvenient for me and the Raiders to get involved as outsiders."

Li Ran waved his hand and said in a serious tone:

"This matter is related to you. I just received an important notice from the Governor of the Pacific. The White Crane Golden Route from the Pacific Theater to New England has been cut off by a large-scale deep-sea invasion. The registration for combat missions has been issued. I would like to sign up and ask for your opinions. After all, this may be a large-scale battle. I hope to hear your suggestions. Do you want to participate?"

"The White Crane Line has been invaded?" Brooklyn was shocked. She interrupted Li Ran in disbelief and asked anxiously:

"What about the Star Path Islands?"

"I have been unable to contact the Star Path Islands." Li Ran was also a little puzzled. When he and Bai Nuoyan received the notice, they found that they could not contact the Star Path Islands. This was a problem, because to register, one had to provide the personal admiral's personal network soul frequency band to the Admiral's Inspection Station of the Star Path Islands, but now they could not contact them, so registration became the biggest problem.

Brooklyn's face turned pale, and she asked in a trembling voice:

"Does your registration for this operation need to go through the Admiral's Inspection Station in the Xingtu Islands?"

"Yes, how did you know?" Li Ran was a little surprised.

"It's over. This invasion of the White Crane Line is probably not something that can be launched by ordinary deep sea forces. Cutting off the external connections of the Xingtu Islands can paralyze the joint command and combat system of half of the Pacific theater. I think it was the Deep Sea Fortress Princess who took action."

"Deep Sea Fortress Princess?" Lexington's face suddenly changed drastically. She looked at her sister's pale face, and explained to Li Ran who looked confused:

"Commander, I'm afraid we have no choice but to participate in this operation. The Xingtu Islands may be in big trouble."

"Xingtu Islands?" Li Ran's eyes moved to the nautical chart. He had noticed that the atmosphere of the military meeting had become weird. Then he found the location of the Xingtu Islands, which was exactly in the middle of the White Crane Line. It was a large archipelago, close to the outermost edge of the White Crane Line. There happened to be a sea area marked with a black skull symbol. There were seven of these skulls on the entire nautical chart, symbolizing the habitats of the seven deep-sea flagships.

The Xingtu Islands are close to this habitat in order to resist deep-sea invasions in the first place. In addition, because the waters near the Xingtu Islands are densely covered with reefs, special permission is required to enter and exit the islands, otherwise the correct route to the island cannot be found. Relying on this natural barrier, the First Ship Girl Academy can be established in such a dangerous place and can gain a foothold at the outermost edge of the deep-sea habitat.

It can be said that the Star Path Islands provided the entire Pacific theater with first-line intelligence information for early detection of deep-sea invasions, but now such an important location has been isolated, which means that more than half of the deep-sea intelligence collection work has been paralyzed.

"Since something has happened in the Star Path Islands, my sister and I certainly can't sit idly by. Admiral, give the order." Saratoga was anxious. You know, the First Ship Girls Academy is the home of them, the ship girls.

"Jia Jia, how do you talk to the commander!"

"Lexington, it's okay. I understand that Gaga is anxious. After all, your alma mater is in the Star Path Islands. We must help, but the situation is unclear right now. How about this? Tomorrow morning, you and Helena go to the Leiming Garrison. Admiral Leiming may know more than I do."

As soon as Li Ran finished speaking, Bai Nuoyan ran in breathlessly, holding up a telegram in her hand (Bai Nuoyan's ship has radio equipment. The radio equipment in this world should not be equated with the radio equipment in the real world. It can be understood as black technology that can achieve ultra-long-distance communication):

"Li Ran, something terrible has happened. My best friend wrote to me and said that something happened in the Xingtu Islands. The Deep Sea Fortress Princess attacked the First Ship Girl Academy!"

"Sure enough." Brooklyn smiled bitterly. She looked at Lexington and said:

"Senior, this is bad."

Bai Nuoyan waited until her breath was even, then continued:

"Also, during this operation, it was discovered that someone was selling counterfeit transformation cores, which caused serious malfunctions in the ship equipment of many shipgirls on the front line. The first and second elite fleets on the front line were almost wiped out!"

Li Ran was stunned by the sudden bolt of lightning. The situation was really bad.

Bismarck turned pale. She looked at Z24, gritted her teeth and said:

"Admiral, I have important information!"

Chapter 127: Deep Sea Fortress Princess

"Admiral, I have important information."

Bismarck's words surprised everyone. Li Ran was a little confused. He motioned Bai Nuoyan to come in, and then said to Bismarck:

"What information?"

Bismarck glanced at Z24 with a hint of apology, then said:

"Admiral, do you remember the severely damaged counterfeit core we found in the strange underground fortification on the island last night?"

"Remember, didn't Ruo Duoruo say that that thing was a fake transformation core? Wait, Bismarck, is that what you mean?"

Bismarck nodded and said:

"Yes, if I'm not mistaken, we might be able to find some clues in that underground fortification."

"But the timelines of these two events don't match. Didn't Chief Ruo Duoruo say that the transformation core has been rusted for at least a year, and what Bai Nuoyan said happened recently, right?" Li Ran felt that Bismarck's connection between the defective fake transformation core in the underground fortifications and the transformation core counterfeit case mentioned by Bai Nuoyan was inevitably far-fetched in logic.

Bai Nuoyan breathed evenly. She saw Lexington took the initiative to give her a seat. She didn't act pretentiously, but slapped a document she was carrying in front of Li Ran:

"This is the latest intelligence sent by my best friend. It is about the current counterfeiting case. The situation is more complicated than we imagined. The core investigation work of this counterfeiting has been going on for three years."

"Three years?" Li Ran stood up suddenly. He suddenly felt that he seemed to have grasped some key clues, and hurriedly said to Bismarck:

"Please help me notify Chief Ruoduoruo and ask him to ask all the engineering goblins to come here."

Bismarck nodded.

The other ship girls were confused. Li Ran took the report and flipped through it. The content of the report was really shocking, because it recorded some garrisons that had accidents in recent years due to purchasing fake transformation cores. It was shocking.

Because there is a number written behind it. In the past three years, there have been more than a hundred ship girls who have been transformed into deep sea due to the fake transformation core.

Li Ran sighed, then handed the report back to Bai Nuoyan. Seeing that his ship girls were looking at him with confusion or worry, he briefly explained the underground fortifications that the many fairies had discovered on the island, and the fake transformation core that had been severely corroded in the fortifications.

After hearing this, Bai Nuoyan could no longer sit still. She immediately said to Li Ran:

"Then what are we waiting for? I think there must be something wrong with that underground fortification."

Li Ran spread his hands and said:

"Of course I know that the underground fortification is suspicious. Everyone wait a moment, wait for Ruo Duoruo to come over. After all, the goblins are experts in this area. If we want to figure out the relationship between the fake modified core and the damaged core I found in the underground fortification, we must seek help from the engineering goblin."

Bai Nuoyan thought about it and agreed, then sat back in her seat.

The atmosphere became a little depressing, and Li Ran also had a headache. How did a good military meeting turn into such a thing?

However, the ship girls also knew that there was no point in being anxious now. After all, Xiguang Island was still far away from the Xingtu Islands, which was located on the edge of the Pacific theater. If they wanted to get to the Xingtu Islands, it would take Lexington and the others three or four days, and that was to ensure that they did not encounter deep sea on the way.

Li Ran's supplies were not delivered until a week later. This was because on the way from Xingtu Islands to Xiguang Island, there were many empty sea areas without garrisons and he encountered many attacks from deep-sea fleets.

Lexington looked at her sister's nervous face, she walked over to her and said:

"It's okay. Enterprise and the others will be fine. Trust her. With her around, Yorktown and Bumblebee will be fine."

"But sister, the academy needs us now."

"Jia Jia, we are no longer members of the academy."

Li Ran felt a little embarrassed. She understood Saratoga's worries. He felt a little guilty. He said firmly:

"Gaga, and Lexington, I promise you that I will help the First Ship Girl Academy. Don't forget that Quincy is there too. She is also my ship girl."

Lexington understood very well that Li Ran said this to prevent Saratoga from being so embarrassed. After all, what her sister had just said was tantamount to [denying the admiral], which was a behavior that no ship girl was allowed to do after recognizing a certain admiral, similar to being not firm enough.

As a life form born from the condensation of human thoughts, the act of [changing one's heart] will corrode the soul of a ship girl, and in serious cases it will induce deep sea transformation.

So Lexington walked behind her sister and whispered in her ear:

"Jia Jia, you were upset just now. I know you have been worried about your sister, but your sister has a fulfilling life in the port area. You can't always hold on to your prejudice against the admiral, understand?"

Saratoga lowered her head. She was indeed anxious. As someone who had never left the academy since she was a child, she had to muster up a lot of courage to come find her sister. However, the First Ship Girls Academy was a home to her. The three sisters Enterprise, Yorktown and Bumblebee took good care of her and even spent more time with her than her sister. Saratoga knew that her sister had been very busy since she took on the responsibility of [Pioneer of Aviation Tactics]. That was why she hated studying and made trouble in the academy. She just wanted her sister to pay more attention to her.

But knowing that her sister had inexplicably approved the man in front of her to be the admiral, she followed him out of spite, but when she came to Xiguang Island, she was seriously injured by the deep sea. It was still this man who took care of her. She gritted her teeth, then stood up and bowed deeply to Li Ran to apologize:

"Admiral, please forgive Saratoga for her rude words just now."

Brooklyn and the Raiders looked at each other in bewilderment. You know, in their impression, although senior sister Gaga usually hated studying, no one in the entire First Ship Girl Academy could match her in aviation tactics and carrier-based aircraft operating skills. Only the three sisters of Lexington and Yorktown class, who were Saratoga's sisters, could convince this arrogant little princess. But now this arrogant little princess actually apologized.

Li Ran obviously wanted to learn strange, after all, Saratoga's words seemed to him, a modern man, to be nothing more than a slip of the tongue due to worry, although it sounded a little uncomfortable, but it was understandable what the sister-in-law said, but such a formal apology, madam, what did you say to your sister? It was so powerful?

Li Ran was somewhat at a loss, and said quickly:

"It's okay. I know you're worried about your alma mater. If it were me, I'd probably be even more anxious than you."

Saratoga left the place in a depressed mood. Lexington wanted to call her sister, but saw Li Ran waving his hand. She breathed a sigh of relief and said:

"Commander, don't blame Gaga, she just..."

Li Ran interrupted Lexington:

"I know what you're going to say. It was selfish of me to keep you in the harbor. It's normal for her to be a little upset. Leave her alone for a while. Helena, keep an eye on Gaga's movements to prevent her from doing anything stupid."

Helena nodded. She wasn't quite sure why the military meeting had turned out like this, but she had a deep memory of the name of Deep Sea Fortress Princess and what it represented.

Although Brooklyn was also very anxious, it was night time and the Striker, as a light carrier, could not fight at night. Even if he was anxious to rush back to the First KanColle Academy to help, there was nothing he could do now.

As for Richelieu, the man who was in deep thought all the time, with a frown on his face, she silently swore:

Admiral, Richelieu will defend you and the port to the death from now on!

Deep Sea Fortress Princess, what a heavy name, but Richelieu was fearless at this time!

Chapter 128: Consider the present first

More than ten minutes later, when everyone was about to get impatient, Bismarck finally came back with a dozen engineering goblins, including Lan Luo, the chief of the Azure Goblin Clan who had just joined the port,

"Chief Lan Luo, I'm sorry to have you, a bunch of engineering goblins, come here so late."

"You are too polite, Admiral. I have heard your shipgirl's general description of the situation. Since someone dared to imitate the transformation core and threaten the life of the battleship girl, no matter who he is, he will be the enemy of our Azure Fairy Clan in the future."

Lan Luo is an engineering fairy. There is a big difference between the Azure Fairy Clan and the Rhodo Fairy Clan. The Rhodo fairies are more inclined to smelting resources and making some ship equipment, while the Azure Fairies are more inclined to manufacturing transformation cores.

However, this incident happened suddenly, and Li Ran had not had time to fully understand the Azure Fairy. He also learned some information from Lexington during the afternoon chat. He nodded and said to Lan Luo and Ruo Duoruo:

"Without further delay, since the two clan leaders are here, let's go explore the underground fortifications tonight. The destroyers will stay behind to watch over the place, and the others can come with me. Is that okay with everyone?"

"Admiral, Firefly wants to go too."

"Nonsense!" Richelieu and Bismarck are both instructors, but Firefly is not afraid of Bismarck who is from Country G, and respects Richelieu as her older sister more.

Hearing Richelieu's anger, Vauquelin went up to the Firefly and said:

"Let's listen to the admiral. We still have to patrol the coast at night."

"Sister Richelieu, I was wrong." Firefly knew that this was not the time for her to be willful. Although she hadn't been with the admiral for several days, she didn't want to embarrass him, so she said in a depressed mood:

"Then you need to come back soon, Admiral."

Li Ran nodded, walked over to her and ruffled Firefly's golden curly hair, then said:

"I'll spend more time with you when I have time."

Firefly nodded hurriedly, and then she looked at Li Ran who was busy over there reluctantly.

"Fireflies?" Seeing her friend's low mood, Walkerland quickly consoled her:

"Don't blame Sister Richelieu, she's not usually this mean, it's just that the Admiral has a lot on his plate right now, so we can't be willful."

"Well, I know."

……

Li Ran waited until everyone had prepared some lighting equipment, and then the group rushed towards the underground fortification in a mighty manner.

Before leaving, he did not forget to notify Saratoga, who had disappeared, through the admiral's personal network.

Saratoga originally didn't want to pay attention to Li Ran's communication request, but when she thought of her sister, she didn't dare to throw a tantrum anymore. She was most afraid of her gentle sister getting angry.

Li Ran breathed a sigh of relief, watching Saratoga following Lexington obediently. He and Bai Nuoyan walked in front of the team.

Hipper arrived late and saw that his admiral was fine. He and his sister Prince Eugen followed Li Ran and Bai Nuoyan.

Bismarck and Richelieu kept a close eye on the movements in the forest.

As for the sisters Helena and Brooklyn, they and Pinghai were at the end of the team, responsible for protecting the three aircraft carrier girls in the center of the team: Lexington, Saratoga and Ranger.

On Li Ran's shoulders sat two chiefs of the fairy tribe, one on the left and one on the right. As for the other engineering fairies, they sat on the machines unfolded and installed by Richelieu and Bismarck.

More than ten minutes later, everyone arrived at the entrance of the underground fortification.

Li Ran said to Bai Nuoyan:

"This is the underground fortification I discovered yesterday. It should be an air defense fortification built before the island was abandoned. It's a bit dark inside, so watch your step."

"Don't worry." Bai Nuoyan looked at the dark entrance and the vines that seemed a little weird at night. She couldn't help feeling a little nervous and couldn't help but move closer to Li Ran.

Bismarck and Richelieu stopped Li Ran from rushing in first, and Richelieu said:

"Two admirals, please follow us. Although we have explored this place before, in order to prevent wild animals from breaking in, Bismarck and I will go in to investigate first. Please wait until we confirm that it is safe inside before escorting the two admirals in."

"Understood." Lexington nodded. Richelieu's worries were not unreasonable. After all, such fortifications were located inside the forest, where brown bears and wild boars roamed. If a wild beast really broke into the underground fortifications, it would pose a fatal threat to the admiral, who was an ordinary person.