Azur Lane Mobile Front.

At this hour, the cafeteria probably won't have much food left, so asking someone to cook for me would be a bit of a hassle.

"Just grab some bread or something and make do!"

However, when Rob returned to his room, the scene before him truly surprised him.

Thick black smoke was billowing through the door and into the corridor.

The door had been opened, and a group of ships, including Zhenhai and Harbin, were busy inside.

"Cough cough cough~ Quickly open the window."

"Haha~ cough cough cough, little girl, what you made is really... cough cough, awesome!"

"what happened?"

Rob covered his mouth and nose and rushed into the room, wanting to see what had happened while he was away.

After a flurry of activity, the smoke in the room finally dissipated to a considerable degree.

Fortunately, only the kitchen in Rob's room was messed up; the bedroom, although still smelling a bit, was still passable enough for sleeping.

...

"So, you wanted to cook dinner for me, and this is how it turned out?"

Rob looked at the kitchen in his room, then at his Oathship ship, with a mixture of amusement and exasperation.

This isn't cooking; even if she went to war, she wouldn't make this much noise.

"Haha, Commander, your Oathship ships are really interesting."

Harbin sat to one side, carefully observing the kitchen, which looked as if it had just been through a major battle, and kept clicking his tongue in amazement.

"Hey, can I ask you, who did you learn your cooking skills from?"

"The goddess of the hearth..."

Knowing they had caused trouble, the company lowered its head, like a child waiting to be scolded.

"I've heard about that lady before..."

The head maid looked like she knew it, and whispered a few words in Rob's ear. Rob immediately put on a look that was both funny and exasperated.

The goddess of the hearth is a woman who can turn the kitchen into a battlefield.

It's true that a great teacher produces outstanding students.

Looking at the indescribable "spoils" of the company on the table, Rob made up his mind that from now on, he would never let the company into the kitchen.

"Belfa, take care of this."

Just by looking at this pile of stuff, you can tell it's deadly if you eat it.

Rob wouldn't be foolish enough to gamble with his life like those male protagonists in anime.

"But speaking of which, Commander, you haven't eaten yet, have you?"

Harbin walked over and put his arm around Luo Bo's shoulder.

"Come on, I'll treat you to some delicious food and drinks!"

Without saying a word, Harbin dragged Luo Bo out the door.

Chapter 148: Deep Echo

After several days, Rob finally figured out what trouble the Northern Union had encountered.

Following the Tunguska event, the Northern Union launched a series of expeditions in the polar seas.

Then, just as the information said, they discovered that peculiar mineral.

Then, the Northern Union secretly conducted research on this ore.

Then, in one incident, all personnel and equipment, including a Northern Union base that had been seized from the Sirens, along with the experimental submarine and the icebreaker Mikoyan, disappeared.

The Northern Union's polar strategy suffered a huge blow as a result of this incident.

The Sirens seemed to have wiped out decades of Northern Union efforts overnight.

This is also why the Northern Combined Fleet has been entrenched in the polar seas, because they simply don't have the energy to go out.

Following the incident, Northern Union launched several rescue operations for the missing persons, but all were unsuccessful.

Ultimately, after several failed attempts, the Northern Union had to abandon its rescue plan.

However, some time after the rescue operation, Northern Union received a peculiar distress signal.

However, because this signal used an old-fashioned transmission method, Northern Union ultimately defined it as clutter. They simply recorded the signal in their documentation.

However, things took a turn for the better.

Recently, intelligence agents from the Northern Union have provided information.

The Mikoyan icebreaker appeared in a mirror-like area of ​​the sea near Ironblood.

Following the intelligence, Aurora and Mercury Memorial headed to the target location and actually managed to successfully recover the Mikoyan icebreaker.

This suddenly reminded the Soviet Union of the previous incident.

After contacting the crew members who were initially missing from the submarine, she suspected that there was still a possibility that they might still be alive.

The Soviet Union immediately submitted an application to the Supreme Council for another rescue operation.

However, this application went unanswered.

The Supreme Council believed that too much time had passed and that the rescue plan would only waste the already strained resources of the Northern Union, and therefore did not approve it.

Finally, with no other options left, the Soviet Union turned to Rob.

This is the Northern Union's mission: to rescue the crew of the submarine, who may still have a sliver of hope.

"This is really a difficult problem..."

Rob rubbed his forehead.

Rescue is not something that can be solved by sheer force.

Rob felt that his own girls were better at eliminating sirens than anything else.

...

"This is what the Northern Union is asking for?"

Inside Rob's room, the ships from the Eastern Empire sat in a circle, listening to Rob recount the details of the mission.

After listening to Luo Bo's story, Zhenhai was also at his wit's end.

To rescue a submarine that had been missing for many years, not to mention how the crew survived for so long.

Even if they were still alive, searching the vast ocean with just a submarine would be a headache enough.

Moreover, it's highly likely that the target is located in the deep sea.

We don't have that kind of capability ourselves.

"Hmm... if you want to go underwater, I have some ways to do that."

Anshan pondered for a moment and then said that he had a solution.

"It's just a water-repelling spell, nothing too sophisticated. I know it."

Seeing Luo Bo's doubtful look, Anshan nodded emphatically and offered his solution.

Rob doesn't understand this kind of unscientific stuff.

It's not a big problem, we'll find out when we get a chance to try it.

The main problem now is, in the vast ocean, where can we find the missing submarine?

"Let's go find the people from the Northern Union first. This time, it's not something we can do alone."

...

Just as Robb and the Northern Union were discussing the rescue plan.

Seabed somewhere in the Arctic Ocean.

A submarine is silently resting on the seabed.

Inside the dimly lit submarine, a tall, silver-haired woman with twin ponytails lay on a recliner equipped with a strange device, her eyes tightly closed.

A fur-trimmed coat was casually placed under him as a cushion.

The black and white short dress on her upper body was stretched open by her full chest, revealing a bit of her black lace bra.

Her lower body was completely covered by a pair of black stockings, which covered her two full and slender legs.

It must be said that the ships are all incredibly beautiful.

However, the expression on the ship's face now looked quite ominous.

Around her lay several other ships, all of which, judging from their clothing, belonged to the Northern Union.

For reasons unknown, all of these ships, without exception, fell into a deep coma.

Throughout the entire submarine, only the occasional beeping of instruments and a still-lit screen indicated that this ship was not a ghost ship.

Kronstadt had lost count of how many times he had entered this dream.

When I woke up earlier, my companions around me were able to send me warm greetings.

However, when he woke up the last time, his companions were nowhere to be seen on the submarine.

Could it be, as the mysterious ship said, that I have been abandoned?

Thinking of this, the light in Kronstadt's eyes dimmed even more.

Ah~ this familiar scenery again~

Before me, the sky is blue, the clouds are white, and the sun is shining brightly. This place looks like a great vacation spot.

"Huh? Kronstadt, what's going on?"

Beside them, a ship with light blue hair, holding a long sword, and dressed almost entirely in white, asked Kronstadt a question.

"Heh~ At least in my dreams, my companions are still here."

Kronstadt whispered something to himself so that no one else could hear it, then raised his head and looked into the distance.

"I don't know. But why are you here?"

Kronstadt had lost count of how many times he had repeated this conversation.

She tried to change things, but ultimately the course of events remained unchanged.

So she continued to repeat the dialogue she remembered, a dialogue that had been repeated countless times.

However, she has no intention of admitting defeat.

She still has tasks to complete.

She cannot collapse before the mission is completed.

Even though her companions had already abandoned her.

"Volga, use your carrier-based aircraft to search; there should be an island nearby."

"Huh? How do you know about Kronstadt?"

The ship called Volga is a ship with long, reddish-brown hair reaching its waist.

She looked exceptionally slender in a snow-white long dress paired with a black and red inner top.

The exposed upper half of the bridge adds a touch of allure to the ship.

Behind the menacing ship's rigging, a huge snowflake-shaped ice crystal floated in the air, emitting a faint glow.

This is an aircraft carrier.

No one in the world knew that the Northern Union actually had an aircraft carrier.

Shortly after, the Volga received a message from its carrier-based aircraft.

"Huh? There really is an island, Kronstadt, how did you know?"

Without answering the question, and without even asking for the island's exact location, Kronstadt began heading towards it on his own.

"Let's head towards that island. I believe there's an amazing secret hidden there."