Shipgirls and Salted Fish Commander, Port Survival Guide

"Um, Yixian, let me explain." Binjiang stammered, and when he saw Yixian turn around and widen her eyes, he didn't know how to start speaking.

'I feel like I've done something unforgivable, but... but, as a ship girl, what's wrong with wanting to be with the Commander? Besides, I still have my ring. Yeah, that's the point.'

Binjiang brainstormed, frantically searching for reasons to comfort himself. Now he's comforted himself, but how to appease Yixian has become a major problem.

After all, from any perspective, she did indeed steal Yi Xian's wedding. Yi Xian brought her back, but she was the one who slept in the bed.

“I’ve thought about everyone, but I never doubted you.” After a long silence, Yi Xian broke the silence first and said, “I trusted you so much, but you… sigh, tell me, when did you find out?”

"Ah, what did you find out?" When Binjiang heard Yixian's first few words, she felt conflicted. She didn't want her best friend to turn against her. But after hearing what she said next, Binjiang was stunned. The topic had changed a bit too much.

"I asked you when you discovered the Commander had returned, even though I specifically told Changchun and the others not to reveal it." Seeing Binjiang's puzzled expression, Yixian added helplessly.

"Ah, well, it was a coincidence, I suppose," Binjiang said, scratching his head as he recounted Yixian's experience talking to Haitian.

"Sigh, so that's why Hai Tian's tone was so strange back then. So you were there. I was so stupid, really." Yi Xian lowered her head, her aggrieved voice ringing out again.

"Hiss, Yixian, you forgive me?" Although Yixian's voice sounded pitiful, Binjiang, who was with her day and night, could tell that there was no longer any resentment in Yixian's voice.

"What's the point of talking about forgiveness? What's done is done. What's the point of me pursuing it further? But it's fortunate that you were the one who did this. If it were anyone else, I definitely wouldn't be happy about it." Yi Xian rolled her eyes at Bin Jiang.

"Ah, hehe, I knew you were the best, Yixian." Binjiang said, then rushed forward, grabbed Yixian's arm, and shook it back and forth.

"Okay, okay, don't try that on me, it's giving me goosebumps. By the way, take that thing out." Yi Xian broke free, her expression changing.

"Wh-what is it? Yixian, explain yourself clearly." Binjiang felt a chill in his heart and knew something was wrong.

That silly girl, I'm angry, but I haven't lost my mind. Now that the sea breeze is blowing, I've calmed down a bit, and my anger has subsided. Naturally, it's time to settle the score!

"Hmph, don't think I don't know. You don't know what kind of person the Commander is, but I do. You wouldn't have gotten him into bed without using some special methods, would you?" Yi Xian glared at Bin Jiang.

The reason she dared to let Jing Su return to the camp first was that, through spending time together, she had a general understanding of what kind of person Jing Su was.

Therefore, apart from instructing Changchun not to disclose the information to the port area, Yixian basically did not take any other confidentiality measures. Knowing Jingsu's personality, she naturally did not worry about the news being exposed.

Knowing that Jing Su wouldn't do anything, Yi Xian was so angry when she found out that Jing Su had run away with someone and even slept with him. She ran all the way from the ship to the camp, not just to catch them in the act, but more so to clean up the mess.

"Sigh, I can't hide it from you after all, I've already used it all up." Binjiang chuckled awkwardly in response.

"Hmm?" Yi Xian's expression darkened, clearly disbelieving.

"It's really all used up. The commander is really fierce. I made him drink three jugs of wine, and he was like nothing happened. In his haste, he just put it all in."

"You even forced the commander to drink? Well done, Binjiang, you've really made something of yourself." Yixian nearly fainted from shock after hearing this.

"No, calm down, let's talk this out. Let's put away the ship equipment first." Binjiang raised his hands in surrender.

"You've really gotten yourself into big trouble." Yi Xian's chest heaved, and she really wanted to blast him with a cannon.

"Huh!?" Binjiang scratched his head, somewhat puzzled.

"Remember to say that the Commander slept with you willingly in the future. You must never let anyone know about the drug use." Without explaining, Yi Xian pulled Bin Jiang aside and said seriously.

"This, this, this." Binjiang's eyes flickered. She was in a hurry last night and didn't think much about the consequences. Now that she had calmed down and was reminded by Yixian, she obviously realized how terrible a hole she had opened.

If others knew that a few simple drugs could bring the commander to his bedside, the port would never have a moment of peace.

"Don't tell me that word has gotten out that you drugged me!?" Binjiang's reaction sent a chill down Yixian's spine.

"No, absolutely not." Binjiang hurriedly denied it; how could he possibly reveal such a shameful thing?

"That's good."

"But, but..." Binjiang stammered.

"What is it? Speak quickly, stop dawdling, are you even behaving yourself?" Yi Xian said impatiently.

"Sigh, you know this kind of medicine, our camp definitely doesn't have it. If you want to get it, you can only buy it outside. I bought it from Ming Shi. That girl, you know, is a big shrew. And the uses of this medicine are very extreme. I really haven't told anyone, but I can't guarantee that Ming Shi will guess it." Binjiang said awkwardly.

"You, you actually went to Akashi, you! Well, Binjiang, you've gone astray! You, you, you!" Yixian was furious, her face flushed.

"I won't do it again, I'll never do it again."

Binjiang clasped his hands together and bowed in apology.

"you!"

"It was intentional, absolutely intentional!" Yi Xian thought. "Is it okay to fire a shot at this bastard now? Absolutely no problem!"

"Cough cough, an accident, an accident." Binjiang hurriedly grabbed her coat. In her haste to come out, she didn't even have proper clothes or shoes. She had run barefoot for a long time, and even though she was a ship girl, her little feet were a bit sore.

"Sigh, you jerk, whatever." Yi Xian sighed. On one side was her best friend, and on the other was her lover. Now that her best friend and lover were together, what could she do?

Should I forgive her? I'm unwilling, but I'm helpless. What can I do? I have no moral compass.

After spending this time together, and with Binjiang pulling this stunt now, Yixian finally understands where the sense of distance she felt when interacting with Jingsu came from.

Whatever the reason, I've lost this time, and getting angry won't help.

"Hehe." Binjiang chuckled foolishly. She knew that when Yixian showed this expression, it meant that her anger had truly subsided.

"Oh, right, that thing." Yi Xian blushed immediately and stammered, "That thing, it's about you two, at night, in the morning, oh, how did it feel? Was it comfortable?"

"Oh, you mean this?" Binjiang had initially thought Yixian was hesitant and was about to say something, but it turned out to be about matters of pleasure between men and women. He immediately said casually, "Actually, apart from the first time being a little painful, it's quite comfortable afterwards."

"Boom!"

'That damn thing, might as well just unleash a devastating attack!'

Who will it be in Chapter Thirty-Five?

"Commander, what are you doing?"

Beside a hand-cranked water pump, Jing Su rolled up her trouser leg and rubbed something on her leg, only to be caught red-handed by Chang Chun, who had come to wash up.

"You got up so early today?" Jing Su raised her eyebrows and teased after hearing the voice clearly.

Normally, Changchun wouldn't get up until the sun was high in the sky, and even that was only after Ninghai and Pinghai had to get her to sleep.

It's about eight o'clock in the morning now, and it's really unexpected for Jing Su that Changchun can get up so early.

"I can't sleep," came Changchun's plaintive voice.

"Um...Are you feeling unwell?"

"No, that's not it." Changchun gave Jingsu a resentful look.

Last night, after drinking that strangely flavored beverage, Changchun felt dizzy and disoriented. She originally planned to go to Jingsu for a hug, but unexpectedly, she heard a voice that could transform her into a steam princess.

The girl was both shy and eager to listen. She wanted to leave but couldn't bear to. So she stayed by the door for two hours, listening intently. When she returned to her room, she wanted to sleep, but her mind was filled with the strange sounds she had heard. She tossed and turned, unable to fall asleep at all.

"I'm washing my legs here. I got something on them that I can't get off." Since Changchun was squatting on the ground, Su couldn't see his expression, so she answered her initial question.

"Hey, let me see." Changchun got excited when he heard this, and skipped over to Jing Su's side. He bent down and looked at it. "Hey, this pattern, I feel like I've seen it somewhere before."

"Hmm? Changchun, do you recognize this?"

It turned out that while getting dressed, Jing Su noticed a ring of yellowish stuff on her right calf. At first, Jing Su thought she had accidentally gotten some paint on it the night before, so she found a water pump and started cleaning it.

As she washed, the pattern on her legs began to change, but Jing Su didn't care. Instead, she became certain that she had been exposed to fuel and silently wondered when she had come across it.

Now, Changchun says the pattern on his leg looks very familiar, which arouses Jingsu's curiosity.

"Hmm, if I remember correctly, I saw it on Sister Binjiang's leg at a beach party once. It was a very beautiful dragon." Changchun tapped his chin, pondered for a moment, and said.

"Huh?" Jing Su was stunned. She looked closely at the pattern on her leg. What was originally a blob of yellow paint was now slowly emerging in a specific shape. Upon closer inspection, it did indeed look a bit like a dragon.

Binjiang's swimsuit skin does indeed have a dragon pattern on the calf. Jing Su really liked that skin, so much so that she was willing to give it to him as a ring. Now, unexpectedly, Binjiang also has one on her leg in this world.

The prototypes of ship girls are derived from historical warships, whether they were built or not, or even if they still exist in the design drawings. Ships will have some paint on them, which will be reflected on the ship girls as patterns similar to tattoos.

Due to some special reasons, the number of ship girls with these patterns is actually not very large, and some ship girls with second-generation ships will have their patterns disappear.

Even in Binjiang, it's rare to see dragon patterns on wedding dresses, so Jing Su didn't realize what the pattern was at first, let alone that it was just a pile of yellow paint.

"Did Binjiang give me a tattoo? But it doesn't hurt at all!" Faced with Changchun's explanation, Jing Su was bewildered.

"Hehe, Commander, Binjiang is so good to you." Changchun said with a grin, poking the pattern on her calf with her little hand.

"Um, is there any special meaning behind this?" Jing Su asked, puzzled.

"I know this." Changchun touched the pattern with her small hand, and a wave of heat emanated from it. Soon, the excess paint slowly disappeared, revealing the full picture of the golden dragon. Upon closer inspection, it looked quite beautiful.

"Hehe, Commander, you don't need to worry about what this thing is. Anyway, Sister Binjiang won't hurt you. Besides, I added something in too, hehe." Without explaining anything, Changchun urged Jingsu to put on her pants and get ready to go eat.

If you don't sleep well and don't eat breakfast properly, Changchun is really going to collapse.

"Okay." After confirming several times that she felt nothing, Jing Su nodded, stood up, pulled down her pants, and, led by Chang Chun, walked towards the cafeteria.

. . .

"Binjiang, I didn't feel it before, but I noticed it now. Why are you so tired? Didn't you say that kind of thing is nourishing?" Yixian scratched Binjiang's back a few times, as a simple form of revenge.

"Haha, stop messing around. That kind of thing, it feels good, but it also gets tiring, okay?" Binjiang struggled a few times, but didn't dare to use too much force, so he let Yixian continue. "Besides, I left a tracking aura on the Commander first."

"Oh, you left a mark?" Yi Xian raised an eyebrow, finally understanding why Binjiang felt tired.

"Yes, the Commander mysteriously disappeared once, and now that we've finally met, we definitely have to do something to prevent him from disappearing again and causing us to live in fear. Don't tell me you didn't do anything, Yixian. I sensed at least three location information on the Commander."

Binjiang rolled her eyes at Yixian, knowing full well what she was asking.

"Alas, I am but a lowly woman with little ability to conceal myself. I never expected to be discovered so quickly, sob~" Yi Xian pretended to cry, which gave Bin Jiang goosebumps all over.

However, she was also happy inside, because Yixian was willing to act like this in front of her, which meant that he had forgiven her.

Just as she said, basically every ship girl capable of leaving a tracking aura will leave her aura on Jing Su after seeing him. Those with higher strength will be more accurate in locating him, while those with lower strength can only know a general direction.

This is why Hu Teng was so comfortable letting Jing Su leave. She is a colored ship girl, and her strength is ranked not by faction, but by port. If it weren't for the short time they had together, Hu Teng would have been able to pinpoint Jing Su's exact location.

Binjiang is a research ship of the Donghuang faction, and its combat power is naturally among the top in the faction. Therefore, when it was leaving its breath, it did a fancy trick, which can be regarded as a declaration of its sovereignty.

The fatigue that Yixian saw was actually because he had drawn a pattern while holding his breath. Binjiang only found out last night that drawing was such a strenuous task.

What intrigued Binjiang was that there were three auras lingering on Jing Su's body, one of which came from Yi Xian. Binjiang knew this because they had spent so much time together and knew each other inside and out. Just as Yi Xian could tell what aura she left behind, Binjiang could also feel the aura from her best friend when she was intimate with Jing Su.

But who left the other two strands is something Binjiang needs to ponder.

First of all, Ningping and Shuanghai don't have the strength. Changchun is quirky and clever, but sometimes he's also a bit dull. He won't do this kind of thing unless someone points it out to him. In other words, at least two of their auras are unfamiliar.

Who gave you this aura?

'Could it be that, besides Hutten, the Commander has met anyone else in the port area?'

Chapter Thirty-Six: The So-Called Brat

Mysterious Space

Voice 1: Found him, he's back.

Voice 2: They're back? Who's back?

Voice 1: 'Hope'

Voice 2: What hope? Wait, you mean the commander is back? Are you sure? Is the news reliable? Where is he now? I'm going to find him now.

Voice 1: The message came from a program modeled after me. The message is reliable, and we have already met.

Voice 2: Based on you? Who knows about that? You have so many models. Never mind, since you've already seen it, quickly give me the spatial coordinates, and I'll personally go and bring it back.

Voice 1: ... ...

Voice 2: Speak up, I'm so anxious!

Voice 1: I can't control it, I can't know the whole picture. Although the program is based on me, it is precisely because it is based on me that the feelings of 'hope' are the same, so I can't know the specific coordinates.

Voice 2: You...you...you! Ugh, whatever, I'm busy now anyway. That bastard with the baton, he's infuriating! I finally caught him off guard, I'm going to beat him to a pulp. I'm off now. Keep an eye on the commander. If anything happens to him, I won't care who you are, you'll be finished too!

Voice 2: ...

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Eastern Huang Camp Base

"Waaah, I won't do it again, I'll never do it again, please forgive me, Sister Yixian."

Led by Changchun, Jingsu arrived at an ancient-style building. Before she could even go inside, she heard pleading sounds coming from within.

"That voice...it's Feiyun!" Changchun exclaimed. "Looks like she's playing another prank. Let's go, Commander, let's go see what's going on."

Helpless, Jing Su was dragged inside by Chang Chun, who loved watching the excitement. It has to be said that this girl was really strong. Despite looking small, she could pull people around so hard that Jing Su didn't even have the strength to resist.

Upon entering the room, one could see Feiyun crouching with her head in her hands, trembling with fear. Beside her was a leaky kettle that emitted a strange smell.

Jing Su has a very keen sense of smell. It wasn't obvious outside the house, but once inside, the scent that filled the room made her frown. She felt that the smell was familiar, as if she had smelled it somewhere before.