However, this peaceful atmosphere did not last long and gradually dissipated. Everyone in the room was smiling at first, but gradually, they could no longer smile.
The air was once again filled with a low and depressing atmosphere.
"I hope those seniors who are retiring..." the commander whispered, but before he finished speaking, he fell silent.
There are indeed many retired seniors in Area C14. Although they have many powerful ship girls under their command, they are willing to go to a remote place to serve as a garrison.
Such a commander can be said to be almost half out of the system of the ship girl headquarters. After all, he is retired and does not care about worldly affairs. He does not care much about anything in the outside world. Otherwise, why would he go to the safe sea to retire?
It's probably been a while since their shipgirls have launched high-intensity sorties or engaged in combat. It's unclear how much combat power they still have. Furthermore, their locations are generally quite remote, making them a tough target for the enemy. It's unclear how long it will take for them to arrive.
In short, everyone's faces looked a little ugly.
Snapped--
The door suddenly opened, and a ship girl with long red hair strode in. She walked with a brisk pace. Although she was just entering the room, she walked like a general returning victoriously, with great momentum.
Even the negative atmosphere among the people in the room was invisibly broken.
"Minister, what is the current situation?" asked the commander on the side.
The minister smiled gently, "Everything is on track. Just now, our support force has set off. It is a combined fleet of nearly two hundred shipgirls."
Hearing this number, the commanders' expressions finally brightened up visibly, and some even joked, "A combined fleet of two hundred ship girls, if only my fleet could be this powerful."
Everyone smiled sporadically, and although they were no longer so depressed, they were not lively for the time being.
The minister with long red hair pursed his lips and continued, "The commanders in the port area and the tutelary fort have also been called up. They will be sent directly to the battlefield and won't be much slower. Other areas are also providing strong support, and the first batch of large-scale reinforcements is on the way."
"This is truly great news." A commander stood up calmly and bowed to the minister. "Thank you for your dedication to the people along the coast."
The Ship Girl Director looked over. She knew this commander - although it was a bit unkind to say so, the Ship Girl Director did not know every commander in the area.
This commander is quite impressive. Due to a shortage of shipgirls upon graduation, he could only stay in safe waters. However, he actively accumulated resources, accepted missions and commissions, and even worked part-time like an ordinary person in his free time.
You should know that many commanders are unwilling to engage in purely human social activities anymore. It’s not that they think such behavior is cheap. Of course, there may be such reasons, but the biggest reason is that after spending a long time with those simple and honest ship girls, they are unwilling to return to the human society full of intrigue.
After all, birds of a feather flock together. If you spend a long time with simple people, you will naturally become simple yourself.
This is why the simple words from the Ship Girl Minister just now were able to comfort these commanders. After all, she is the Ship Girl Minister, so what she says should be more reliable, right?
Only this commander saw the truth of the matter through her vague words. The KanColle headquarters could only try their best to drag the case to other areas for support.
The minister spoke a few more words to comfort the panicked commanders, and finally arranged for some ship girls to provide some cold meals and snacks, as well as some magazines and entertainment items. After calming the commanders down, he left the hall.
She hurried towards her office, but before she was halfway there, she saw a ship girl rushing towards her with documents in her hand.
"Minister, a large number of ship girls just attacked from the dock, about forty or fifty in number, and they were not recorded."
"On the dock? Are they tourists passing by? What's their level? Could it be that those shipgirls with a level below 20 have sneaked away?" The minister frowned. This kind of thing has happened in history. Shipgirls with lower battlefield levels were unwilling to hide behind their companions and attacked quietly.
The consequences... were heavy losses.
"It's unclear at the moment," said the reporting shipgirl. "They don't seem to have obeyed the call for assembly. They're not from the headquarters. They seem to be passing through."
"The ship girl on that big ship?" The minister suddenly thought of something. The big ship naturally referred to was the Windward.
Such large ships rarely dock at the dock of the KanColle headquarters. The commander's ship is always very small, and passenger cruise ships usually only dock at the docks in the city. Cargo or other things will dock at another special dock at the KanColle headquarters.
Therefore, although the Windward has only been docked at the dock for a short time, it has already attracted a lot of attention.
The captain, the ship's captain, had naturally noticed the large ship, and now, after hearing his subordinates' reports, he asked with some confusion, "I remember the port entry permit for that large ship was in the name of Commander Huang Chen. Do you know this commander?"
"Huang Chen? Hmm..." The reporting ship girl frowned, "There doesn't seem to be a high-ranking commander named Huang Chen right now. If those forty or fifty ship girls are really under the command of that commander, it's impossible that they don't know anything about him."
The Ship Girl Minister shook her head and said, "I haven't heard of it either...but the name Huang Chen seems to have appeared in some book."
"Maybe. This name is quite common, and it's normal to have the same name."
"That's true." The captain nodded and turned to look at the ship girl who was reporting. "Well... send someone to the dock to investigate the situation of those forty or fifty ship girls, and also go to that big ship to take a look."
The reporting ship girl nodded, turned around and left.
The captain of the ship girl looked at the sparse rain outside through the window and was still a little confused. I must have seen the name Huang Chen in that book.
……
"Milk tea, does anyone need milk tea? Commander, does he need it?" Olik, who had a short pink bob haircut, was walking around the cab holding a large plate with many large glasses of milk tea on it.
"No, thank you, Orico." Huang Chen shook his head. Immediately, a girl with short golden hair beside him raised her hand and said, "I, I, I want, I want more Oreos!"
Olik glared at her with his mouth puffed out, then ran away with his milk tea dripping out. The girl with short golden hair didn't seem to care. She blew a bubble and shrank back beside Huang Chen, resting her head on his arm. "Don't worry, Commander."
"I'm not in a hurry." Huang Chen shook his head and reached out to touch the girl's head. "And don't bully Olick."
The latter chuckled.
Huang Chen didn't care and looked at Princeton beside him, "Have they arrived at the battlefield?"
Chapter 311 It seems my carrier-based aircraft was shot down
"No!" Princeton huddled in a chair nearby, rolled his eyes, and said helplessly, "Commander, you asked this question just half a minute ago. At that time, I said they would take at least an hour to reach the battlefield."
"Oh, so that's it!" Huang Chen nodded silently, then silently moved his gaze to the side to look at the lively and noisy scene in the cab.
The heavy rain outside was still violent, and the crackling sound of it falling on the deck and window sills was not small, but surprisingly loud, as if someone was bombing with a machine gun.
Looking into the distance, one could only see the sky line blurred by the rain. There were few people on the road, only the spreading water flow, which had gathered together unconsciously and formed small ponds in some low-lying corners.
If this rain initially took away the summer heat, now it had already brought with it the bitter chill of winter. Even looking out the window, one could feel a chill creeping over one's body.
However, the room was warm and filled with a cheerful atmosphere.
Jifeng and Hazelwood ran in circles around the room, with Xuefeng and Xiao following behind them. From time to time, the little ones would fall to the ground, and then they would roll together, playfully fighting with each other for a while, and then chase each other again.
Stephen Porter, who was lying next to Huang Chen, also seemed to find it interesting and jumped up and started playing around. Then another guy suddenly squeezed in next to Huang Chen and comfortably lay on his arm.
Kimberly and Oyasumi were reading in the corner of the room, while Bai Xue and Pu Bo were standing around them, mumbling something to themselves.
Yang Yan stood at his desk, gesturing at a map on it. The map had originally been hanging on the wall, but had been taken down by the kids. Chang Bo and Luo Li stood nearby, not saying anything, but seemingly discussing a battle plan.
Bush and Qingbo were whispering elsewhere, while Nobunaga and Teikoku were huddled in the corner of the sofa, sound asleep. The girl who had just leaned on Huang Chen's shoulder was her. The room was packed with girls, and it seemed that those who hadn't left the room had all gone inside. Even Toricelli, who usually hid in the bathtub, appeared, but she was hiding in the corner, her head buried in her knees.
Huang Chen originally came to the cab alone in silence. After being stunned for a while, he remembered that the company said that he could go to Princeton. However, before he went to look for him, groups of little ones came running in unknowingly. If you didn't know, you would think they were holding some event in the cab.
All in all, it did alleviate Huang Chen's depressed mood. Everyone was so cheerful that he couldn't be depressed alone.
Huang Chen watched silently for a while, then couldn't help but look at Princeton, "That..."
"Commander!" Princeton puffed up his face, walked aside angrily, and no longer stayed with Huang Chen.
Huang Chen smiled helplessly, was silent for a moment, and then pushed the Empire on his shoulder. Although the Empire was an aircraft carrier with great potential, and she herself thought that she was a very great Empire, her current training level was not enough, so she still did not attack.
In fact, given the Empire's current laziness, Huang Chen doubted that this person would ever become a successful person. After all, once the port was established, the Empire wouldn't need her to attack or fight if she didn't want to. Without that pressure, there would naturally be no motivation.
"Huh?" Empire opened his sleepy eyes. Whenever he saw this guy, he always looked like he hadn't woken up yet. The same was true for Nobifune next to him. If it weren't for the vicious attack, these guys would probably occupy all the seats on the sofa, leaving no space for Huang Chen.
"Empire, Empire, wake up."
"Hmm?" Empire yawned and rubbed his face with his hand. "What is the commander looking for the great Empire about? The Empire is very busy right now."
"Empire, have you released the carrier-based aircraft? Where is your sister now?" Huang Chen asked.
"Hmm..." Empire climbed up somewhat hesitantly, still looking at Huang Chen in confusion, "But didn't Princeton just say that there was still nearly an hour left?"
"Did you hear that? No, I mean, as a great empire, the Empire must be more powerful than Princeton, right?" Huang Chen said softly.
Suddenly, the Empire's eyes lit up, and the next moment he raised his chin, revealing his slender swan neck, and said proudly, "Of course, the Empire is a powerful empire. Commander, please wait a moment!"
As he said that, he ran to the bed in the cab and summoned the carrier-based aircraft to drive it towards the war zone.
As the girl left, Xinanfeng, who had been paying attention to this place, found the empty space next to Huang Chen's sofa and ran over. At this time, Huang Chen certainly couldn't let anyone else take the seat of that sleepy guy.
However, looking at Xinanfeng's short silver-blue hair and blue eyes, Huang Chen still didn't want to make the little girl sad. After thinking about it, he picked up the little girl and placed her on the side closer to Yefeng.
Anyway, Ye Feng was also sleeping and was almost completely unaware of anything happening in the outside world.
Empire quickly ran back, still quite proudly saying, "Commander, please wait a moment. The carrier-based aircraft are very fast and will catch up with them soon."
Huang Chen nodded. In the game, it takes a long time to launch carrier-based aircraft, but the reality is not like that after all. The ship girls in this world do not say that you have to wait for a certain time to launch carrier-based aircraft or fire artillery.
Similarly, those magical skills in the game have become blurred in this world. There is indeed a saying that if a ship girl keeps practicing in a certain aspect, she will eventually gain incredible abilities.
For example, Enterprise's Big E is naturally a very abnormal skill in the game, with a 70% chance of double damage.
But in reality, there's no such thing as probability. All we can say is that Enterprise, as a seasoned shipgirl, is often able to manipulate her carrier-based aircraft in ways that are difficult for ordinary shipgirls to understand, achieving damage that is difficult for ordinary shipgirls to achieve.
This manifests itself in the fact that Enterprise can always cleverly strike at the enemy's weaknesses and often inflict critical damage.
Huang Chen nodded and waited for news from the empire.
Empire sat obediently beside her. Perhaps because she was operating the carrier-based aircraft, the girl did not look sleepy for the first time in a long time.
She closed her eyes, but after ten minutes, she nodded and said, "We've caught up with my sisters. Let me go check the position of the front line."
After a few minutes, Duli continued, "Okay, we've seen the front line. We still have about forty minutes left, right? But I've seen a lot of carrier-based aircraft launching sorties."
Huang Chen suddenly broke into a sweat.
However, the next moment, the girl's eyes suddenly widened, and then she scratched her head a little embarrassedly, "Commander, it seems that my carrier-based aircraft was shot down."
Chapter 312 How bad are you?
“…” Huang Chen looked at the guy in front of him speechlessly.
The latter chuckled, as if he was also trying to feel embarrassed. He ran to the window and released another carrier-based aircraft. Then he returned to Huang Chen and said with a smile, "Don't worry, Commander. It's normal for carrier-based aircraft to be damaged. I will be more careful this time."
Huang Chen nodded silently, just looking at the carrier-based aircraft released by the little girl in the sky. For some reason, he always felt that it was a little shaky.
Diguo shrank back to Huang Chen's side, lying peacefully on his arms. For some reason, he said smugly, "We'll be there soon, probably in ten minutes."
After a while, this guy became quite proud again.
"We're here already. I see my sister and the others again."
The girl said quietly with her eyes closed. I have to say, this guy looks quite cute with his eyes closed.
Huang Chen couldn't help but smooth the girl's hair to make her bangs neater. The light pink hair looked messy, but it was unexpectedly smooth. Huang Chen felt it was as smooth as silk and as if he had eaten Dove chocolate.
"Hmm? Commander?" Empire opened his emerald green eyes and looked at Huang Chen, motionless.
The latter pretended not to see it and smoothed the girl's hair again.
"Commander, is your hair interesting?"
"Not bad." Huang Chen nodded, and smoothed the girl's hair a little more, tidying it up. "It's quite interesting."
Empire puffed out his lips, looking like a bun, but didn't say anything else.
After a few minutes, the girl said silently, "We've already arrived at the battlefield. My sister and the others won't start fighting for about half an hour, right?"
"Be careful, don't get shot down again." Huang Chen warned.
The Empire suddenly became complacent again. "That's impossible. The Empire is a powerful, great Empire. It's impossible for them to have two carrier-based aircraft crash in one battle."
"And I was only at the edge of the battlefield this time. The Siren planes were completely suppressed, so there was no problem at all."
Being only on the edge of the battlefield isn't something to be proud of, right?
Huang Chen thought silently, and suddenly saw the girl's face change and become suddenly stiff, as stiff as the stone statues in Mogao Grottoes.
Huang Chen's heart skipped a beat and he had some guesses.
Sure enough, the expression on Empire's face suddenly became uglier than crying. After struggling for a while, he finally put on a half-smile and said with a dry laugh, "Commander, it seems there's been another accident."
"It's normal to have accidents." Huang Chen wanted to laugh, but seeing the girl's embarrassment, he decided to give her some face. So he forced himself to calm down.
However, Empire puffed up his face and seemed even angrier. Once again, he actually wanted to run to the window to release the carrier-based aircraft.
However, a small voice suddenly came from the side, "Commander, I can help you take a look."
"The destroyers ahead are almost at the battlefield, and Enterprise and the others behind are still a long way off. However, the carrier-based aircraft have already taken off en masse to suppress the Sirens."
Huang Chen turned his head and the first thing he saw was a small gray balloon-like object floating strangely in the air. He then realized that this was the death of small businesses.
Then he saw the little guy standing nearby, with a serious expression on his face, continuing, "The aircraft carriers have already started the battle. The destroyers will probably arrive in about ten minutes. The battleships will also start soon. I see their guns are already warming up."
Huang Chen nodded immediately, and reached out to rub the little girl's head approvingly. The latter immediately closed her eyes with joy.
Suddenly, another little fellow jumped out from the side, raised his hands and danced, saying, "Servant, servant, I saw it too, I saw it too!"
"Good, good! That's awesome!" Huang Chen immediately smiled and rubbed little Chicheng's head. He had to admit, although this guy always kept saying "servant" or something, he was actually quite cute.
Like now, with its eyes squinting and its little head swaying with Huang Chen's big hand, and the little tails behind it swaying like scattered branches, it looks so cute that people want to hold it in their arms and pet it like a cat.
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