Shipgirls and Salted Fish Commander, Port Survival Guide

"Then he might wait until the battle is over before giving unified rewards."

"Therefore, I have never lowered the attack intensity in other defense zones. This battle will not end until he comes. This is the time to use the resources I have accumulated over the years!"

"Having a stable home front for development is truly enviable~"

"Since he's coming, we should make some preparations so that our guest can have a good experience and a wonderful memory."

"Hehe, do whatever you want, but my advice is to keep an eye on him. If I see him, I'll tear him to pieces!"

"Oh, I'm afraid you won't want to part ways once we actually meet~"

"Huh? You think I'm like you? So easily attracted to some stinky man?"

"Haha~"

......

"What? Really? An entire defense zone of Sirens has been wiped out?" Jing Su, who had been somewhat dejected, instantly perked up when she heard Hu Teng's report.

"The logistics team has gone over and confirmed that all the Sirens have indeed been wiped out," Hu Teng, leaning back on the sofa reading the battle report, gave Jing Su a positive answer.

"Well, so what should I do with this result?" From Hu Teng's expression, Jing Su could roughly guess that this success was remarkable, but as he said before, Jing Su did not have a clear sense of the strength comparison between the port area and the Sirens. He really did not know whether the result of wiping out a defense area was good or bad.

However, judging from Hu Teng's expression, it must be something serious. After all, under normal circumstances, no matter how the fighting is on the front lines, Hu Teng always remains calm and composed. The only time I saw Hu Teng show signs of being on edge was yesterday, when he was bombarded with phone calls and got fed up with them.

"Since the establishment of the front-line base, this is the only time that all the Sirens in the defense zone have been wiped out in one battle, and that is only with the deployment of a full-strength force. Oh, no, the Yorktown force is not a normal force. There are four destroyers in the front and two aircraft carriers in the back. They will be very short of damage in the later stages of the battle."

Or let me put it this way, it's simply a miracle!

Seeing that Jing Su still looked confused after he had talked for so long, Hu Teng sighed and told Jing Su directly that even with the Sirens' cooperation, Yorktown might not be able to pull off what they had done.

It requires a combination of luck, skill, and battlefield awareness; all three must come together to achieve this.

Upon discovering that the Sirens had ceased support, they quickly changed their strategy, launching a proactive attack despite losing contact with the main force. They used a single fleet to directly confront the entire Sirens fleet in the defense zone. This demonstrates battlefield awareness, or rather, willpower combined with insight.

After all, not everyone dares to determine that something is wrong with the enemy and launch a proactive attack simply by observing the movements of the Sirens, without any support or contact with their rear.

Yorktown and the others stayed in a temporary small fortress. As a reconnaissance force, Yorktown's initial mission was to probe the distribution of the Sirens in the new defense zone. Naturally, there would be no follow-up reinforcements. If any problems arose, they could simply run away.

Due to the shielding capabilities of the Sirens' large-scale gathering, it was impossible to predict what the reconnaissance troops would encounter. By the time they reached an area with a signal and made contact with command, it was already too late.

Therefore, Jing Su granted the reconnaissance unit's flagship the highest authority, and whether to fight or hold them off in any situation depended entirely on the flagship's orders.

Then comes a dazzling amount of luck. After all, even if Yorktown is determined and has considerable insight, the sheer number of ships makes it difficult for four destroyers to wipe out all the Sirens. A salvo from tens of thousands of ships would be enough to give the four of them a headache.

Unexpectedly, the moment they met, a single torpedo from Javelin sank the Siren command ship. Without a leader, no matter how many ships they had, they were nothing more than sitting ducks.

"The battle results are in. Excluding the suicide ships, a total of 11,450 Siren warships gathered in this defense zone, of which about 80% are salvageable Siren cores. An epic victory." Closing the tablet, Jing Su saw disbelief in Hu Teng's eyes.

"What can the core of that Siren do?" Upon hearing a new term, Jing Su quickly asked.

For some reason, the ship girls are very reluctant to talk about going to the battlefield. They avoid mentioning many things related to the front lines, which is why Jing Su still doesn't know much about the battle between the ship girls and the Sirens.

"It's a kind of intelligent core. The Sirens are all intelligent warships that rely on AI to fight. These cores can be disassembled and modified to be used in various devices. Most of the factories in the port area are operating using intelligent cores."

After Hu Teng's explanation, Jing Su realized that the port area was highly productive. Despite living there for so long, he hadn't seen many people working. He had previously thought it was because the Maritime Safety Administration provided basic living supplies, but after learning that the Maritime Safety Administration was actually established with the support of the port area, he became quite curious.

Since the girls basically don't do any work, and those who do are usually in the service industry, such as singing in bars, working as bartenders, or working as maids and cleaners.

How does the port area ensure an ample supply of daily necessities under these circumstances?

Especially the ship maintenance materials, those things can't be manufactured outside, they are all produced in the port area.

The case is now solved; it turns out it was produced on an automated production line.

"Won't there be any problems with the core removed from the Siren ship? After all, since there's such a thing as a command ship, there might be some hidden doors." After learning about the use of the Siren core, Jing Su asked with some concern.

"Don't worry, since we dare to use it, we will naturally conduct a comprehensive inspection. Some cores do have hidden doors, but we have ruled them out. Besides, we usually only use the core's computing power, just like chips in the human world. If there are hidden doors, it doesn't really matter."

After all, we sell the vast majority of core components to the Maritime Safety Administration; the core components used in the port area are all developed in-house. Hu Teng reopened his tablet and pulled up some information, specifically two glowing circular objects.

One emitted a purple light, and the other emitted a blue light.

"The purple one is the original Sirens, while the blue one was developed in the port area," Hu Teng began to explain to Jing Su. "I have to admit, the Sirens' technological prowess is truly formidable. Sometimes, I'm really curious about who created them, what their purpose was, why they destroyed so many worlds, and why they spared us."

What exactly are they trying to do?!

When Hu Teng asked this question, his expression was very serious. As the saying goes, ignorance is bliss. The more the port area studied the Siren core, the more it could feel the opponent's strength.

To put it bluntly, in the early stages of the conflict between the port area and the sirens, if the sirens wanted to, they could crush the port area, and even the entire world, as easily as crushing an ant. The gap was too great.

Before Jing Su unified all the factions, each faction fought the Sirens independently, and the battles were incredibly difficult.

There was one thing Hu Teng remembered particularly clearly: the first time the Ironblood faction faced the Sirens host, the Ironblood warriors fought with everything they had to finally see the Sirens host.

Originally, they thought that after planning for so long, they could finally sink one of the mainframes today. However, to the surprise of the ship girls, before attacking the Siren mainframe, they first had to find a way to break through the mainframe's shield. From the current perspective, that mainframe was not a combat-specific mainframe, but its shield was still a source of despair.

What made the ship girls even more desperate was that just when they had finally exhausted the power of their shields and were able to damage the Sirens' mainframe, the Sirens' firepower made them afraid to confront them head-on!

It was a fear that struck right to the soul!

None of the Predators present, including Ron, dared to say they could withstand a single shot from the Sirens!

That was just one shell.

The ship girls didn't even know if the Sirens had used their full strength.

In the end, the Ironblood faction was defeated in that encirclement and suppression campaign.

No, to be precise, they fled the battlefield like stray dogs. The Predators fought with all their might, running out of ammunition and supplies, only to receive the intelligence that the Sirens were invincible!

This outcome is unacceptable to many ship girls.

Despite their best efforts, they couldn't harm the other side in the slightest. Such a vast disparity meant that the other side could crush them at any moment, meaning that their years of perseverance and struggle had been nothing but a joke, a cat-and-mouse game.

Just when the main ship girl was in despair, Jing Su suddenly appeared. At that time, Hutten was still a soldier under Frederick the Great, following Frederick in his campaigns. Later, Bismarck temporarily retired to develop the second-generation ship equipment, and Frederick the Great temporarily took charge of Ironblood affairs. Hutten thus entered the management team.

It's unclear when exactly, but Frederick the Great suddenly developed a strong interest in a commander from Azur Lane. When the two were alone, Frederick the Great would often talk to her about this commander.

Through a period of investigation, Hutten learned that the commander Frederick the Great was originally the commander of a fleet under Azur Lane, but somehow he gradually developed into a pivotal figure in the entire Azur Lane.

After some time, news came that the commander was recommending the unification of Azur Lane and the Red Axis, saying that all ship girls should unite to establish a unified port area to fight against the Sirens.

Knowing the difference in strength between the ship girls and the Sirens, Hu Teng naturally scoffed at this matter. Although there had been frictions between the various factions over the years, they had generally lived in peace, mainly because the strength of the different factions was roughly the same. However, the operation to besiege the Sirens' mainframe made the Ironblood faction realize the seemingly insurmountable gap in strength between them and the Sirens.

That's a force that could absolutely crush all ship girls. So what's the point of forming an alliance?

Besides, I'm free to do my own thing in my own faction, and I'm quite happy. Why should I merge with other factions?

This was also the feeling of most of the ship girls in the Ironblood faction at the time: despair and numbness.

But Frederick the Great seemed quite interested, and sent several waves of Ironblood ship girls to the commander's side.

What surprised Hu Teng was that when the Ironblood ship girls who were sent abroad returned, almost all of them would show a long period of mental depression, which made her quite unhappy. Surrounded by powerful enemies, how could they still be distracted?

It's one thing to be distracted in private, but on the battlefield, it's a cardinal sin in warfare. What if something goes wrong?

Because of this, she complained to Frederick the Great many times, expressing her dissatisfaction with the merger plan and giving her own opinion—that the commander who wanted to merge all factions was using witchcraft, and every ship girl sent there, whether Predator or ship girls from other factions, came back as if she had gone mad, she must have been bewitched, and suggested that the merger be stopped.

"Pfft~ So that's what you think, Hu Teng. Then you'll lead the team on the next overseas assignment. Go ahead. Hearsay is never as profound as firsthand experience."

"The Dao, hearsay? What does that mean?"

"Haha, it's an idiom from the Eastern Empire, a very interesting little phrase. You can ask the Commander about its specific meaning when you get there~"

Subsequently, Hutten, as the leader of a new batch of liaison officers, went to the so-called port area for exchanges and was personally received by the commander.

"Hello, I'm Jing Su, commander of Dawn Harbor. It's a pleasure to meet you, Miss Hutten. Frederick the Great often talks about you in front of me~"

That was the first time Hu Teng and Jing Su met. Hu Teng remembered clearly what Jing Su said. He simply nodded in response, and the atmosphere at the scene was quite awkward.

This was Hu Teng's silent protest and dissatisfaction with Jing Su. After all, Hu Teng was a cold person by nature, and at that time, he had a preconceived misunderstanding and prejudice against Jing Su. He thought that Jing Su had put a curse on his partner, so it would be strange if he could give Jing Su a nice look.

But the next day, Hutten received an appointment she hadn't expected.

"Become your secretary ship? Who...me?"

"Yes, I believe that Miss Hu Teng will be a great help as the secretary ship. Please help me!"

"You're the officer, I'm the soldier. If you want me to do something, just give the order. As for whether you're pleased with my arrival or indifferent, that's up to you. Of course, I feel the same way." This was Hu Teng's reply, showing no mercy.

"Ha, Ms. Hu Teng, it's wonderful that you're willing to accept! Well then, please take care of me from now on~"

Chapter 313 Hu Teng, who loves to dress up

"So, Hutten, tell me, how should I reward them in Yorktown?"

After gaining a general understanding of what this great victory meant, Jing Su asked Hu Teng.

When Jing Su was in the Donghuang camp, he managed the camp under Yi Xian for a period of time. There was a saying he strongly agreed with: "As a leader, you don't need to worry about the trivial matters; you can delegate them to others. But the two things that matter most are rewards and punishments—they must be fair, timely, and appropriate."

The principle is: 'Reward those who deserve it, punish those who deserve it!'

Only in this way can authority be established and subordinates obey you.

That's why Jing Su is so troubled about how to reward them.

As a ship girl, or rather, as the port has developed to this point, we truly lack nothing except for spiritual pursuits.

With the technology and productivity of the port area, anything that the brain can imagine can basically be made; if it can't be made, it can be made in dreams.

According to rumors, Akashi has developed a dream generator, somewhat similar to those 100% realistic games circulating online, where you can do anything you can imagine.

Given the technological level and living conditions in the port area, Jing Su really couldn't think of anything to give the other party as a reward.

"This is your business, don't expect me to help you~" Hearing Jing Su's question, Hu Teng raised an eyebrow, not wanting to pay attention. Not to mention that Jing Su talking about other ship girls in front of her already made her very unhappy.

Furthermore, can't you see how obvious their request is?

Despite such a great achievement, Yorktown followed the normal procedures, submitting the report to the secretary ship and then transferring it to Jing Su. This was to let everyone know that under her leadership, Yorktown had made a great contribution, so that Jing Su's decision would be seen by the entire port area.

Hu Teng said he didn't want to communicate with Jing Su, and turned around to wash up and put on his jewelry. As one of the top non-mainstream people in the port area, he could skip breakfast, but he had to put on makeup and wear enough jewelry.

Of course, Hu Teng herself has a very good foundation. She can be called a top-tier rich and beautiful woman in Hong Kong. She is really fair-skinned. She is fairer without makeup than with makeup, but she is not pale. She looks very natural. Therefore, Hu Teng's makeup focuses on her eyes. She usually applies heavy eyeshadow. After applying eyeshadow, she focuses on her eyelashes and eyebrows. She has to be careful with her long and straight eyelashes, otherwise they may irritate her eyes.

As a ship girl, the eyes are still one of the more vulnerable parts of the body, and it is very uncomfortable if the eyelashes are not applied properly.

After drawing soft, natural eyebrows with an eyebrow pencil, Hu Teng compared the drawing in the mirror to see how well it was done. As the saying goes, the eyes are the windows to the soul, and the first thing people notice about a person is their eyes. It can be said that how well the eye area is drawn determines the success of the entire makeup look.

Hu Teng's eyes are yellowish-brown, with circles and patterns. When she walks down the street, ship girls often come up to her and ask what kind of contact lenses she wears. After learning that Hu Teng's eyes are natural, the girls often look at her with surprise and envy. These are also the times when Hu Teng is very happy.

Then there are the accessories. Hu Teng's main accessories are concentrated on his ears. When they are doing "that," Jing Su always likes to tuck her earrings in, which makes Hu Teng feel a little shy. Also, wearing earrings while sleeping at night might press on them and make him uncomfortable, so he takes them off. Now it's a bit of a hassle to put them back on.

Aside from her earrings, Hu Teng also has some exposed ornaments, mainly on her navel and chest. On her chest is a claw-like red ornament that, from the outside, seems to be growing on her chest and held between her bridge. From a distance, it is exceptionally alluring.

This claw is actually Hu Teng's ship equipment. Ship equipment is an extension of the ship girl's body. From this perspective, this claw is indeed a part of Hu Teng's body, including the sharp horn on her head and the red protrusion on her waist, which are all part of the ship equipment.

However, Hu Teng disliked the bulge around her waist because it would get in the way of her clothes. When she wore a skirt, the bulge made her look fat, so Hu Teng usually covered up that part of her ship equipment. She would only expose it when she wore a wide skirt or when her waist was exposed and it did not hinder her from wearing clothes.

Today was a formal workday, so I had to wear a suit. Although the suit looked quite tempting to Hu Teng, it wasn't appropriate to show off my bulge when I put my hands on my hips. As for the navel ornament, it was small and didn't matter what I wore, so Hu Teng just kept wearing it.

Of course, these are the more visible accessories, which Hu Teng is more willing to let others see. Accessories on other more private parts are not easily exposed, not even to the best friends in the Iron Blood camp. Those are sights that only Jing Su can appreciate.

'Hmph, annoying guy, what's so interesting about these accessories?' Recalling how Jing Su played with the accessories on her body last night, Hu Teng's pretty face flushed slightly. She quickly seemed to realize that Jing Su might be watching, so she hurriedly lowered her head. But she couldn't help but steal a glance at Jing Su, only to find that Jing Su was just looking down and editing a message. She was immediately furious, and her pretty face turned even redder. She was so angry!

"Hmm? What's wrong?" As if noticing something, Jing Su looked up and met Hu Teng's slightly pouting lips, his face flushed, and his expression of anger. Jing Su was completely stunned.

‘Click~’

This time, Jing Su learned her lesson, or rather, her body has become very mature and she can now take photos on her own.

It turned out that while Jing Su was still in a daze, her hand had instinctively pulled up the camera and snapped a picture of Hu Teng at that moment.

"Delete it!" Hu Teng's eyes sharpened, his aura fierce.

"It's already been automatically saved and uploaded to the album, so I can't delete it~" Jing Su, who had come back to her senses, looked at her phone and then at Hu Teng, and said happily.

"Hehe, is that so? Well then~" Suddenly, Jing Su felt a breeze blowing by his ear. He turned his head and saw a fierce steel giant claw that had appeared by his ear at some point. It was Hu Teng's Spider Claw ship equipment.

Only then did Jing Su realize that her phone had somehow ended up in Hu Teng's hands.

"Is it good?" Hu Teng asked, his fingers moving as he operated Jing Su's phone.

"Yes, yes, it's beautiful, beautiful, very beautiful, I've never seen anything more beautiful~" Jing Su nodded hurriedly, a bad premonition suddenly welling up in her heart.

"Since you like it, then keep looking at it. Once it's set up, I'll give it back to you~" As Hu Teng's lips curled up slightly, Jing Su's phone drew a graceful parabola in the air, hitting Jing Su squarely on the head before falling into his hand.

"Hiss~ Ah this!" Jing Su was stunned when he opened his phone. It turned out that Hu Teng had made the photo from earlier his phone's screen saver. Not only the screen saver, but all the app icons had also been changed to look like the photo. However, the app names hadn't been changed, so it didn't affect the use of the app.

"Hey, why can't I change it!" Seeing this, Jing Su hurriedly started to make changes, but found that no matter how hard she tried, she just couldn't make any changes.

"Hehe, no need to try. Without my command, you can't change it. I heard that there's a saying in Sakura Empire: if you design a picture of your loved one as your screensaver and it remains undiscovered for a hundred days, you'll be together forever. I'm quite interested in that. Commander, would you like to give it a try?" Hu Teng's pretty face was flushed, and she was equally shocked by her own madness just now, but her face remained unchanged as she teased.

"Cough cough, how about we change the photo?" Jing Su's mouth was dry and her hair stood on end.

"Don't you like it?"