Shipgirls and Salted Fish Commander, Port Survival Guide

Before the magnificently decorated gate, a young girl took a breath and knocked on the door, saying, "Your Majesty, it's urgent!"

"You are permitted to enter!"

The door slowly opened, and the girl straightened her clothes slightly before quickly walking inside.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty Queen Elizabeth, please forgive me for interrupting your afternoon tea. An urgent message has arrived from the communications department."

In the room, a petite girl with golden hair sat gracefully in the center, holding a steaming cup of black tea and slowly enjoying it.

"It's alright, Sirius. Handling urgent matters is my duty. Tell me, what's so urgent?" Queen Elizabeth said with a relaxed expression, setting down her tea.

It wasn't that Queen Elizabeth was lax or didn't care about anything; it was just that Sirius had a rather impulsive personality, and any little thing would make her panic. Of all the royal maids, Belfast was the one Queen Elizabeth trusted the most, but unfortunately, Belfast had been sent to the front lines to take care of that idiot, Enterprise.

'Hmph~ A complete idiot who only knows how to fight and has no sense of romance whatsoever. He knows nothing but fighting and can't even take care of himself. If it weren't for needing the White Eagle's strength on the front lines, I wouldn't have sent Belfast there.'

Sirius was clearly exhausted and was taking deep breaths to calm himself down. During this break, Queen Elizabeth was lost in thought.

"Your Majesty, the navigator TB has been activated."

After organizing his thoughts, Sirius shouted.

"Clang~"

The sound of a glass hitting the ground rang out, followed by Queen Elizabeth standing up abruptly.

"What? Say that again?" Ignoring the red tea spilled on her dress, Queen Elizabeth rushed to the table in the room, rummaging through drawers and cabinets, searching for something.

“Your Majesty, Miss Radiance has confirmed it three times. TB was indeed restarted about half an hour ago.”

"Found it!" After rummaging through drawers, Queen Elizabeth pulled out a tablet from a corner of a drawer. "Phew, it still has power. Account, password..."

"Your Majesty~"

Seeing Queen Elizabeth covered in dirt and now intently typing a string of code into a piece of paper, Sirius spoke with some concern.

"Ah, I'm fine. It's just that this matter is too important, and I need to confirm it myself." Hearing Sirius's voice, Queen Elizabeth remembered that there was another person in the room. Her face flushed slightly, and she said seriously, "This information is confirmed to be what Glorious told you, right?"

“Yes, Your Majesty…” Sirius nodded.

"And what about Qianwei? Where is she now?" After successfully entering her account and password, Queen Elizabeth breathed a sigh of relief as she watched the system spinning around. She then continued with her question.

There are four secretary ships in the port area, two of which are in the Royal Navy, namely Illustrious and Vanguard. Since the commander went missing, the navigator TB has become increasingly difficult to communicate with and to activate. Initially, authorization from one secretary ship was sufficient, but later it required two or three. Now, to activate TB, not only is authorization from all four secretary ships required at the same time, but they must all be in the port area for identity verification, which is extremely troublesome.

At this moment, Glorious is not at the Royal Base. She has been dispatched to another location to carry out a mission. So theoretically, she should be in the port to handle the matter of restarting TB. However, Vanguard, as the top combat force of the Royal camp, is still at the base. At least for the time being, I have not assigned her any missions.

“Miss Vanguard? I ran into her at the maid cafe on my way here. She seems to be taking a nap right now. Should I go and wake her up?” Sirius said after a moment’s thought.

"No need, just confirm that she's at the base."

Once the system finished loading, Elizabeth felt a chill run down her spine as she looked at the conspicuous red exclamation mark on the screen. Navigator TB had indeed been restarted. At other times, she would have found this mark annoying, as it meant another meeting. As the head of the royal family, she had to attend every meeting, and the activity was too boring for her. She would rather spend that time back at her residence managing her own territory.

But now, everything is different.

"Your Majesty, are you alright?" Sirius asked with concern as he saw his queen with her head bowed and her body trembling.

"Haha, I'm fine, I'm just too happy, I... boohoo~"

Elizabeth started laughing and joking, her eyes welling up with tears, her little hands constantly rubbing her eyes, before finally bursting into loud sobs.

"Your Majesty!" Sirius panicked; it was the first time she had ever seen her queen like this.

"He's back! He's back! He's really back! That's wonderful! Sirius, our commander, he's back!" Queen Elizabeth's voice was hoarse, but her excitement was palpable.

"Wh-what!" Sirius was struck dumb, staggered back a few steps, and fell to the ground with a thud, his hands on the ground in front of him and his legs spread wide apart.

At this moment, even she, slow to react, finally realized that with the Vanguard at the base, it was impossible to gather all four secretary ships in the port area. Without complete authorization, let alone the ship girls, even TB herself couldn't activate herself. She herself had deliberately shut herself down because the commander wasn't there. Her earlier hasty rush to deliver the message was purely because Illustrious said the news was extremely important and needed to be conveyed to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth immediately, which was why she rushed over without considering why the news was important at all.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, Commander, where is he now?" Sirius hurriedly asked the most crucial question after figuring it out.

"According to the signal, TB said it was activated in the port area, and the commander should still be in the port area," Queen Elizabeth replied.

"Then I'll go to the port area now. I need to take care of him." Sirius turned to leave after learning about Jing Su's situation.

"Wait, it's at least three days' journey from here to the port. By the time you're ready, it will be too late." Queen Elizabeth quickly stopped her, having already calmed down and begun to analyze the situation.

"But..." Sirius wanted to say something more. She was a member of the Royal Maid Corps. She took care of Jing Su and talked about the meaning and pride of the maid corps' existence. If you were to ask which organization in the port was the most pained and confused after Jing Su's disappearance, it would be none other than their Royal Maid Corps. Their own meaning of existence suddenly disappeared. Is there any torment in the world that is more excessive than this?

"There are other ship girls with the commander. Damn it, they beat me to it. This signal is from that guy Changchun. Looks like I have to go to the Donghuang base." Navigator TB was restarted, or rather, completely restarted. All the functions she originally had were now available. As the head of the Royal Navy, Queen Elizabeth naturally had high authority and easily found out who the closest ship girl was when TB woke up.

"Sirius, inform Warspite and Plymouth that our strategy needs to be accelerated."

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

Chapter Sixteen is too unfair, that expression...

front.

"Wow~"

The door was quickly pulled open, and a white-haired mature woman wearing a short skirt that revealed her fair shoulders and a beret walked in.

"Enterprise, you're back. You're back early today." In the center of the room sat another elegant, white-haired woman with a haughty figure, wearing a choker around her neck and a lace headband.

"Haha, really? Isn't that great? The sirens' offensive desire is low today, there are few enemies, so I can leave work early. What, my lovely little maid, don't you want me to leave work early?" Enterprise wrapped her arms around the painter's neck, rested her head on her shoulder, and smiled.

"Did something good happen? Enterprise, I haven't seen you this happy in a long time. But there's something I need to clarify: I'm Royal Maid Belfast, and I belong only to the Commander." The artist rolled her eyes at Enterprise, but didn't seem to mind her actions.

As the head maid who takes care of the company full-time, no one knows better than her what kind of burden and pressure the company is under since the commander went missing.

For the past three years, the company has barely eaten anything, let alone laughed. It's not that the company doesn't eat, but it has a particular fondness for fast food. Often, to save time, it will fill its stomach with energy bars, forcing Belfast to personally supervise the company's meals every time it's time to eat.

"Hehe, what's the difference? You're the Commander's cute little maid, and I'm the Commander's beloved first wife. What's the difference between belonging to me and belonging to the Commander? I belong to the Commander myself~" Enterprise said, but still left Belfast.

The company is still quite endearing; that's just how it is. If someone expresses dislike, even without explicit objection, the company won't continue.

Belfast smiled sweetly and, following the company's lead, said, "I still need to clarify that the Commander first gave the ring to Miss Illusion. According to the Commander, Illusion is his first wife."

Playing around is fine, but we still need to fight for the recognition we deserve.

"Tch, what a buzzkill. It happened so long ago, who could remember it so clearly?" the company said weakly.

As she said, the question of who was the first to receive the ring is a long time ago. Enterprise and Illustrious are considered veterans of the port, having joined the port almost simultaneously. Both of them have made indelible contributions to the development of the port, and their relationship with the Commander is beyond question.

This is why Enterprise and Glorious hold an almost unchallenged position in the port. In the early stages of the Commander's disappearance, it was Glorious who made every effort to maintain the stability of the port, so Enterprise also respects and acknowledges Glorious.

Unlike Glorious, who has been quietly and diligently managing the rear of the port, the company is indeed lacking in management. She is better at shining on the battlefield. After the port split, the White Eagle faction acquired its early resources under the company's leadership.

"Heh~" Belfast smiled knowingly at the company's low point. The two of them were like sisters and knew each other inside and out. After the Commander went missing, only in front of her would the company show such a relaxed expression. If outsiders knew that the Valkyrie who gallops across the battlefield actually had such a cute side in private, they would probably be shocked.

"Belfa, this drawing is... it's the Commander! His face! You drew the Commander's face on it!?" After teasing him, Enterprise turned its attention to Belfa's work, which she was engrossed in creating.

Belfast is perfect in taking care of people; she is the perfect head maid no matter how you look at it. In addition to taking care of people, Belfast is also very talented in art. When she has time in her private life, Belfast will paint in this room. As for what she paints, well, she can paint anything!

However, although Belfast's technique is excellent, and she draws the figures and expressions very lifelike, before today, the commanders Belfast drew were all without faces. According to Belfast, it wasn't that she didn't want to draw them, but that no matter how many times she tried, she couldn't do it.

Belfast, or rather, the consensus among the ship girls in the port, seems to have forgotten what the commander looks like.

When this incident was exposed, the port was immediately plunged into a huge panic. The ship girls searched frantically, but the results were unbelievable. Not only was the commander missing, but there was no trace of his existence in the entire port. There was no record of where the commander had been or what he had left behind. There was nothing at all.

Because of this incident, the ship girls were plunged into despair and it took them a lot of effort to recover.

"Yes, it's the Commander's face. I remember now, the Commander's appearance. I remember the days I spent with the Commander, all those little things, I remember them all. The Commander's favorite foods, the Commander's little habits, those memories, they are not fake at all, they are all my precious memories." As she spoke, crystal tears slid down Belfast's cheeks.

"Yes, you're right. I've remembered it too. The moments I fought alongside the commander, the joy of victory, the commander's frustration when I was wounded—why couldn't I remember any of these things before?"

Haha, never mind all that, just remembering it is good. Let me see, that nose, those eyes, no wonder you're my commander, so handsome.

Reminded by Belfast, the company pondered for a moment, recalled the past, entered a state of reminiscence, and began to reminisce.

"So, what's the good news you want to tell Enterprise? Look how happy you are. It's been so long since I've seen you wear this outfit. Let me smell it. Hmm~ You even took a bath. You're all dressed up so beautifully. Who are you trying to impress?" Belfast stretched and tickled Enterprise's backside as she finished her drawing, finally creating a work she was satisfied with.

"Hey, haha, stop it, Belfast. Oh right, I almost forgot because you're teasing me. News from the rear: Commander, it seems... he's been found."

"Clang~"

"Boom!"

"What, say it again!?"

"Hey, it was just finished drawing, and you just shoved it all the way up to the ceiling like that." The company said with a smile, seeing the expected result.

"Company~"

"Haha, let me tell you the story slowly."

. . . . . .

Port area, at the roundabout.

"Is this...is this all there is to it?" Jing Su stammered as she pressed the send button and sent out the command she had written.

"That's enough. Sigh, Commander, I never expected you to have forgotten so thoroughly that you don't even know how to write and send commands." Hu Teng crossed his arms, his cold voice devoid of emotion, but upon closer inspection, one could see that Hu Teng's eyebrows were curved and the corners of his mouth were slightly upturned, clearly indicating that he was in a pleasant mood.

"This, this means I don't remember anything!" Jing Su blushed, trying to defend herself, but her words were rather weak.

"Actually, Changchun also knows how to use the system. If the commander has any questions, he can ask Changchun." At this moment, Changchun suddenly raised his hand and shouted.

"Kids, get out of here. The mission panel isn't something you can just mess with. As the assistant commander, I, the secretary ship, can handle that," Hu Teng said calmly, glancing at Changchun.

"Oh my, Sister Hu Teng is so scary." Changchun exclaimed, then crawled behind Jing Su like an octopus, rubbing her face against her.

"Hu Teng, Changchun is still a child, don't scare her." Jing Su, who was shocked by Changchun's actions, immediately said.

Changchun's little head peeked out from behind Jing Su and made a face at Hu Teng.

"Tch, that's why kids are such a hassle." Hu Teng turned his head, rolled his eyes at Jing Su, and thought to himself, 'A lolicon!'

"Haha, this is what makes life feel real, Hu Teng. You too, smile more. You're so pretty, but you always have such a sad face. It'll scare the kids." Jing Su said, picking up Changchun and twirling him in the air.

"Then forget it. This kind of thing is too boring. Why should I care what others think of me?"

"But I hope you can be happy, Hu Teng. Just now, I made a promise with Xiao Changchun to make the port area full of laughter again." Jing Su put down Changchun, faced Hu Teng, pinched the hole that Hu Teng had poked in her that morning, and said with a smile.

"Since you've said that, I... I'll try my best," Hu Teng said, turning his head away, his face slightly flushed.

'That's unfair! I've never noticed that expression before. So this is what he looks like when he's happy. It's so good, Commander, you're really back. From now on, I will never let you disappear again. No matter where you run off to, I will chase you down and bring you back.'

Chapter Seventeen Enemy Attack

'Eastern District Resource Point Mining Plan'

'Frontline troop deployment plan'

'Resource Scheduling and Management Regulations'

"Ugh, what is all this stuff?! It's giving me a headache."

In the room, Jing Su slammed a stack of documents on the table, rubbed her throbbing head, and groaned.

A day has passed since the time travel, and Jing Su is now sitting on a cruise ship heading towards the Donghuang base.

Just as Jing Su finished sending the instructions as Hu Teng had suggested, before they could even exchange a few more words, Yi Xian rushed over. After getting a general understanding of the situation, Jing Su was terrified by Yi Xian's resentful expression, and for a moment thought she had done something wrong.

Afterwards, Yi Xian and Hu Teng had a private conversation, and the two seemed to have reached some kind of consensus.

Hu Teng said, "Yi Xian said that you have already agreed to visit the Donghuang base, Commander. Since you have already agreed, then go and take a look. Let's set up the next stop in my Ironblood camp. I will be at the base, looking forward to your arrival, Commander. I believe it will definitely give you an experience beyond your imagination."

"Heh, an experience is just an experience, no matter how good it is elsewhere. True comfort comes from being in your own cultural environment where you know it inside and out." Yi Xian retorted sharply, her slightly narrowed eyes making Jing Su feel a chill run down her spine.

"Then let's wait and see." Hu Teng smiled gently. The smile of the ice queen was visually striking, at least in Jing Su's opinion.

"However, although it's a bit inappropriate, now that the Commander is back, there are some things that you should be involved in." Seeing Yi Xian's sullen expression, Hu Teng changed the subject, pulled out a stack of documents from somewhere, and tossed them to Jing Su.

Jing Su: "!?"

in the room

Jing Su looked up at the sky and sighed, "I don't understand. Is it too hasty for me to make decisions about these things?"

It turns out that after they parted ways yesterday, Hu Teng handed Jing Su a pile of documents, saying that Jing Su should handle them in order to prepare for taking over the daily affairs of the port area in the future.

Upon hearing this, Jing Su exclaimed that this would not work. She had no memory of it at all, and knew nothing about management. If she messed it up, it would be disastrous.

At this moment, Yi Xian ignored Jing Su's pleading look and expressed her agreement with Hu Teng's suggestion: "No problem, Commander. The port area was completely empty on the spot. Didn't you build it up little by little, Commander? Even if you mess it up, is it going to be harder than when you had nothing? Besides, you still need us. We will help you. Don't underestimate us."

"Alright then." Seeing the hopeful looks in their eyes, Jing Su had no choice but to reluctantly agree.

So Jing Su stayed in the room staring at a pile of documents for the entire morning.

Most of these documents are about logistics. For the port area at present, the biggest problem is resources. Ship girl operations require resources, and the construction and maintenance of ship girls also require resources.

Unfortunately, most of the world's resources are controlled by the Maritime Bureau. To be precise, most of the relatively easy-to-mine resources are located on land, making it virtually impossible to bypass the Maritime Bureau to mine them.

However, that was all in the past. When they discovered that the Maritime Safety Administration was trying to blackmail them with resources, they began to look for solutions.