Shipgirls and Salted Fish Commander, Port Survival Guide

"I won't let go. Tova's body is so comfortable to hold. I haven't had enough of holding him yet!"

"Huh? Are you trying to push your luck?"

“Yes, it is indeed a bit inappropriate.” Jing Su released Tova.

"You..." Tova was furious. You actually let go when I told you to? Why weren't you so obedient when you were arguing with me before? But before she could finish speaking, a warm chest suddenly enveloped her again.

"Indeed, this position is still the most comfortable."

"You... Hmph, this is a one-time exception. Today, I'm being nice, so I'm letting you off easy!"

Chapter 334 A forced marriage doesn't care whether it's sweet or not!

"Boom! Boom boom!"

The deafening explosions continued incessantly.

"Damn it, where did these Sirens come from?"

"Have you made contact with the commander?"

"I've been trying to contact them for the past half hour, but there's been no response."

"Damn it, damn it, damn it, the commander wouldn't..."

"Shut up! Don't say such unlucky things. The Eastern Empire has brought all the main forces they can. The commander will definitely be fine!"

"Stop talking, we've detected the cruise ship where the commander is."

"That's great, let's go there right away."

"Wait, this is...this is impossible!"

"Nimi, what's wrong? What happened?"

"arsenal..."

"What soldiers... wait, you mean, the Siren Armory?"

"The cruise ship's signals indicate that there's an activated Siren factory nearby, and the cruise ship hasn't moved for a long time..."

"That commander, he..."

"Calm down, everyone calm down. Whew~ Javelin, you're the fastest runner among us. Quickly take the coordinates to Yorktown and tell them to come and support us."

Laffey, Ayanami, the three of us will go find the Commander!

"But..."

"No buts. I'm the flagship this time. Listen to me, Javelin, you set off immediately. Laffey and I will help you clear a path later."

please. "

"...good!"

In terms of speed, Laffey is the fastest when using the second-generation ship equipment. However, the combat power of the second-generation ship equipment is also the strongest among the four ships. Using the combat power of three destroyers to fight against an activated arsenal is tantamount to playing with fire.

Z23 requires the combat power of Laffey's second-generation ship equipment.

...

"What...what is this? This strange feeling...my emotional module tells me I should have another bowl!"

"No...have you never eaten before?" Jing Su asked the probing question as she looked at Towa wolfing down his food on the table.

"Food? What's that?"

"Um, you can think of it as eating, or replenishing energy?" Jing Su gestured with his hand. After spending this time together, he could tell that, while he wouldn't say everything, at least in his eyes, Tova was as intelligent as a creator when it came to certain professional knowledge, but as clueless as a child when it came to some common sense about life.

"Replenishing energy? Just charge it directly, it's more efficient. And if energy is constantly being consumed and needs to be replenished, then my suggestion is to plug in a live wire."

I calculated the time you spent preparing the ingredients and processing the food, and compared to the energy gained, the conversion efficiency is extremely low.

"Haha, really? There may be more efficient and faster ways to replenish energy, but don't you feel that the moment you eat these foods, you are filled with a feeling called 'happiness'?"

In this world, not everything has to bow to efficiency. Such a life is too oppressive, lacking any sense of purpose, and will eventually lead to a breakdown.

"Heh, so you humans are so fragile. We Sirens have always maintained the most efficient way of doing things since our birth, and we've never felt any repression," Tova said seriously, putting down his fork.

"That only shows that you were born this way. You have never witnessed what real life is like. The kind of life you described is not life, but completing tasks. In this situation, you have no feelings to speak of, no future to look forward to. It is not an exaggeration to call you a machine."

But you are not machines in the true sense of the word. During the time I've spent with you, I can feel your joys and sorrows. Ask yourself, when you are angry, when you are happy, is your heart, or to put it in your own words, your core, normal?

Moreover, even machines need rest and maintenance. Any machine will have problems. If it keeps running non-stop, problems that are easy to find will be easily overlooked. When small problems accumulate and reach a certain limit, the systemic collapse will be irreversible.

From your perspective, is it easier to troubleshoot the problem or to rebuild a Siren?

Or, would you prefer to be discarded?

"..." Towa fell silent. In fact, she had mostly taken Jing Su's words as a joke, since two completely different life forms were bound to have different views on the same thing.

However, Jing Su's final words, "abandoned," deeply touched her.

She, Arbiter: Tower XVI, affiliated with the Arbitrators, is a world-destroying witch, a tragic director who has destroyed countless worlds and witnessed the struggles of countless ants.

Despite her seemingly high and mighty position, no matter how hard she tries, she cannot change her identity as an AI creation. As a siren created from nothing, she was given a specific mission from the moment she was designed, and was to carry out specific tasks.

As a tool, once it has fulfilled its mission, whether it is scrapped or put into hibernation, this beautiful world has nothing to do with it anymore.

'Ha, a wonderful world? How ridiculous. If someone had told me before today that I would say those words, I would have laughed at them.'

Damn it, why?

Why did I have to witness all of this? Why?!

As Tova said, before today, she had no good feelings towards the world. In a sense, she was created by Zero under a turntable filled with great malice. Therefore, destroying the world was as normal to Tova as eating and drinking.

From the moment she was born, Tova had no good feelings toward the world, or rather, the testing ground. She saw little of the world's beauty, but far too much of the backstabbing and deceit between people.

Tova has seen far too much of the evil in human nature.

But now, she discovers that the world is not as she thought, not entirely worthless; it seems that there are some things worth remembering.

Why you? Why you of all people?!

Tova felt an unimaginable desolation in her heart at this moment. If it weren't for Jing Su, or even the leaders of the worlds she had destroyed, she wouldn't be so distressed.

The leaders of other worlds hate her to the core, but it's not a big deal. They can just drag her into their rooms and give her a couple of beatings and she'll behave. Anyway, she doesn't care whether a forced relationship is sweet or not; as long as it quenches her thirst, that's enough.

But Jing Su, she was truly powerless to help!

Not to mention that Jing Su is a key target of Zero's attention, if Zero were to lay a hand on her, Zero would definitely tear him apart into a pile of parts.

More importantly, she has no way to deal with Jing Su now and can only act like a punching bag. Not only can she not control Jing Su, but Jing Su can also manipulate her at will when she is in a bad mood.

Compared to this, the ship girls under Jing Su's command are secondary. Perhaps the ship girls are very powerful, but because they are confident in their own strength, it is not as difficult as imagined to secretly lure Jing Su out.

'Ha, what right do I have to criticize those ship girls? As the Siren's main unit, my overconfidence led me to be subdued by a human.'

"What's wrong? Is there something you don't like?" Standing next to Tova, Jing Su watched with great interest as the pretty face of this silly girl changed wildly like a magician until there was no more change. Only when there was no more fun to watch did Jing Su take the initiative to ask.

"No...it's nothing, give me another bowl!" Towa's eyes dimmed slightly as he came to his senses, but he quickly cheered up and reached out to Jing Su.

“Before that, I think we should teach you how to use chopsticks first,” Jing Su said with a smile as she served rice to Tova.

"Chopsticks? You mean those two wooden sticks? They're so hard to use!" Towa made no attempt to hide her resentment towards the chopsticks. Jing Su had given her chopsticks at first, but she had absolutely no idea how to use them. After several attempts, she found that her hands were as stiff as rocks when she tried to use them.

'Damn it! I recorded that bastard's instructions and followed them exactly, why can't I get it to work!'

"Haha, it's not that you can't use chopsticks, it's that you've never used cutlery before. It's one thing if you can't use chopsticks, but I've never seen you use a knife and fork very well either~" Jing Su teased, looking at Towa's horizontal grip.

"You..." Tova was furious. "I'm an intelligent life form, I don't need to eat, so what's the impact of using utensils?"

"That won't do. Many of my ship girls didn't know how to use it at first, but they learned it later, didn't they? If you want to join my Jing family, you still need to know some traditions."

I don't expect you to be an expert, but at least your posture should be right~

"You, you, you! Who wants to come into your house?!" Tova's pupils contracted, he was furious and wanted to hit Jing Su on the head with a fork.

"Ah..." At this moment, Jing Su suddenly realized that he seemed to have said something that could easily be misunderstood. What he meant was that, for the ship girls in the port, after all, he was a representative of Donghuang culture and traditional culture, and he wanted to promote and carry forward it.

However, Jing Su does not object to other ship girls developing their own culture. When he arrives at other faction bases, he will respect the culture of different factions. For example, when he was at the Royal Navy base, those ladies were just like Binjiang. They would hold a banquet for almost any reason and drag him to attend. Tea parties were held every day. He didn't say anything about these things. Instead, he happily participated in them.

Respecting different cultures and seeking common ground while reserving differences is Jing Su's philosophy.

However, when it comes to the level of a vow, things can't be done haphazardly. Jing Su doesn't have high expectations for his wife. Anyway, with the technology in the port area, you don't need to do any housework. Mutual respect is enough.

As for Tova's situation, it was no longer a matter of respect or disrespect. She didn't know how to use any cutlery at all. Chopsticks were one thing, but it was also the first time she had ever used a knife and fork. Her posture was a bit annoying to Jing Su.

To put it bluntly, given Tova's condition, he wouldn't even be fit to be served at a table outside!

Therefore, when Jing Su expressed her opinion, she subconsciously excluded Towa. You can't even use a knife and fork, so obviously she didn't include you.

But as the saying goes, what is said without intention may be taken to heart by the listener; special circumstances combined with special words often produce a wonderful chemical reaction.

Towa interpreted Jing Su's words as a gesture to take her into his family!

Realizing she had said the wrong thing, Jing Su was now in a real bind. If she explained the situation clearly, judging from Towa's condition, things might get even worse. But if she went along with it, that would be even more disastrous!

Especially now, Tova is clearly in a state of misunderstanding; she's misunderstood!?

"No way, sister, we've only known each other for a short time..."

Jing Su was stunned. All in all, the two of them hadn't even spent a day together from meeting to actually getting to know each other. Even love at first sight wouldn't happen this quickly!

Not to mention the tense atmosphere between the two when they first met, Jing Su had no doubt that if given the chance, Tova would have dealt with him on the spot.

From her remarks, one can roughly guess that she doesn't know much about Zero's plan and is unclear about what Zero is doing. Even for the Sirens, the Arbitrator Plan is still a highly confidential plan.

According to Tova, the reason they haven't taken action yet is to see why Zero values ​​Jing Su so much.

Now she knows, and it's a little too late, she's already completely trapped!

“Since things have come to this point, I’ll stop pretending. Hehe, indeed, beautiful things should be kept in our own hands.” At this moment, Tova finally understood his own thoughts, or rather, the stirrings of his soul.

'I never expected that I, a dignified arbitrator, would fall in love with a human. But it doesn't matter. If I like someone, I like them. It's not a shameful thing to like a human.'

Although this bastard always makes me angry, being with him is definitely the day with the biggest emotional ups and downs I've experienced in all these years.

After checking so many times, I still haven't found any problems; the emotion module is perfectly fine.

Heh, at this point, deceiving yourself is pointless.

"Um... Miss Tova, I don't think I heard you quite right. Did you just say... you were going to do something to me?" Jing Su panicked and tried to get up to run away, but found she couldn't get up.

It turned out that, at some point, a strange tentacle had fixed itself to the chair.

"Da da da~"

The crisp sound of footsteps rang out, one step at a time!

"Where do you want to go, Commander of Dawn Harbor?" Tova walked up to Jing Su, placed his finger on Jing Su's chin, and whispered.

"What...what are you trying to do?"

"What am I going to do? Heh, isn't it obvious? I'm going to make you mine!"

You'll never win my heart like this!

"Hehe, so what? As long as I have you, that's enough." Then Towa gently stroked Jing Su's ear, "Ah, I misspoke just now, I can't put my finger in, hehe, but it's okay, I'll help you."

I'll leave an indelible mark on you, so that no matter where you go, you'll never escape my control!

"..."

Chapter 335 Return

"Laffey, the detector shows that the Donghuang cruise ship is just ahead. What's the situation on your end? Have you seen the ship?"

"Yes, I've seen it. It's been floating on the sea."

"What about the Siren warships? I'm seeing no enemies on my end."

"I didn't see Lafite either."

"How could this be? There were Siren warships blocking our way the whole time, so why are there no enemies now that we've gotten closer?" Z23 asked, puzzled. "Ayanami, what's the situation on your end? Are there any enemies?"

"No, the most recent encounter was half an hour ago. After entering the fog area, we didn't encounter a single Siren warship."

"Could it be..." Z23's voice trembled as a terrifying thought surfaced in her mind.

"No, Z23, the Commander and the others will be fine!" Z23 was interrupted by Ayanami before she could finish speaking. "I see the cruise ship. Laffey, where are you? Let's meet up and get on the ship together."

"I'm already on the ship."