Azur Lane: I Traveled Through Graduation Port

Behind Xiao, the other three little destroyer lolis also came to the torii.

It was the Sixth Destroyer Squadron, the three sisters of Akatsuki:

A lively little loli with gray and silver hair, wearing a red and white navel-baring shrine maiden costume and carrying a huge gray mechanical anchor on her shoulder, the second ship of the Special III-type Akatsuki-class destroyer, Hibiki.

And two little lolis in black stockings wearing the same kimono, with cute faces like twins, ponytails, long hair, and a pair of devil horns on their heads.

However, the colors of the fabrics of their kimonos, their hair, and their eyes are all completely opposite pink and sky blue.

The torpedoes of the third ship of the Special III Akatsuki-class destroyer, and the fourth ship, electric.

Akatsuki Raiden of the Sixth Destroyer Squadron is the main force of this transport fleet.

Following closely behind them was the eldest sister Kashino, who served as a transport ship for the Sakura Empire. She was wearing a white navy uniform and black stockings that went below her knees, with a sword on her waist and a gentle smile on her face.

The transport ship girl with long chestnut hair, small curved horns and bull ears on her head and a tired look on her face slowly controlled the ship to Kaohsiung and said with a wry smile in an apologetic tone:

"We finally made it back before midnight. Oh, I never expected that we would be attacked by monsters on the way back. Fortunately, we have the protection of these four children, otherwise Kashino would be in big trouble."

"Oh, yes, this is the New Year's Eve gift I prepared for you~"

After Kashino finished speaking to Kaohsiung, he reached out and touched Lei and Dian's heads, and then he seemed to remember something.

, he fumbled in the ship's storage space, took out two packaged gift boxes, and handed them to Kaohsiung.

"A New Year's Eve gift? Kashino, that's too polite."

Kaohsiung took the gift box in surprise, and Ibuki also came to her side and took the gift box from Kashino's hand.

After opening the gift box, the two took out the flower vine pendant inside and looked at it carefully in their hands.

"Hehe~ These are just some handmade specialties from Inaba Island. The islanders have been preparing for the celebration just like us these days, so I prepared a gift for everyone~"

Kashino saw the surprised looks on the faces of his two heavy cruiser companions, narrowed his eyes and chuckled.

But as soon as she finished her words, she felt a dazzling white light hitting her face.

"Sister Xiao! It's time to turn off your searchlight!"

"I'm sorry, I was careless just now!"

Xiang noticed where the beam of light came from and immediately spoke to the ninja sister who had not yet turned off the flashlight on her arm.

Xiao also quickly admitted his mistake and turned off the flashlight on his arm in panic.

"Come to think of it, I looked at the list of members of the transport fleet at the dock, and it seemed like there were six of you in total?"

After Kaohsiung put the flower vine pendant given by Kashino into his pocket, he looked at his companions in front of him and suddenly spoke thoughtfully.

"Long time no see, Kaohsiung."

Just as Kaohsiung asked this question, the next second, an emotionless and cold voice came from behind Kashino.

A little bunny-eared girl with black side bangs, wearing a black and red classical kimono and wooden clogs, slowly emerged from behind Kashino.

At the same time as this expressionless little loli came out, several small light balls with fluorescent purple tails, like will-o'-the-wisp, also appeared around her and her ship outfit.

It was the other boss lady of Linlan Port besides Akashi - the second ship of the Kagero-class destroyer, Shiranui.

This Viper's port boss lady, now a little loli who is the supply specialist of the Sakura Empire camp, is a little loli with a low sense of presence but a sharp tongue.

She had just met Kaohsiung and Ibuki on Snow Sakura Island a few days ago, but she was still saying "long time no see" at this time, which was obviously an expression of her dissatisfaction with Kaohsiung's ignoring her just now.

"I'm sorry. It's my negligence. It seems a bit strange to say we haven't seen each other for a long time."

Kaohsiung had experienced Shiranui's sharp tongue many times before, so he immediately expressed his apology.

But while apologizing to Shiranui, Kaohsiung couldn't help but glance at Kashino in front of her.

In fact, it was not her fault, mainly because her attention was completely attracted by Kashino's extremely proud breasts.

At first, the commander liked to set Kashino as a secretary ship, and he would smile foolishly as he repeatedly touched Kashino's pair of weapons that would make any man drool.

And Shiranui had been silent behind Kashino, which led to her making such a serious mistake as she was not paying attention to the radar system.

After receiving Kaohsiung's apology, Shiranui still had a blank expression on her face, but she always looked cold no matter whether she was happy or sad, and Kaohsiung could hardly guess whether Shiranui accepted her apology.

"Kaohsiung, there are monsters in the sea leading to Inaba Island again. We may have to

Please, sisters, go shopping with me."

Fortunately, Shiranui's words showed that she didn't take such a small matter to heart.

But Kaohsiung frowned slightly after hearing the word "monster" again.

"Monster? I get it."

The last time they cleared out the monsters in the surrounding seas, she and Ibuki were one of the main members.

Unexpectedly, not long after that, monsters appeared again in the sea area that had just been cleared.

Although those monsters were no more than larger animals with peculiar means of attack than them, if their numbers were too large, it would waste the oil they consumed in using their ship equipment.

The remaining oil on their island would not last long before the commander returned with Akagi and Musashi.

"On New Year's Eve, let's not discuss these work topics."

At this time, Kashino spoke gently, interrupting the conversation between Shiranui and Kaohsiung with a smile, and then she looked at Kaohsiung expectantly and asked:

"Takao-kun, isn't Toriumi taking care of Lady Shinano? Did she tell you how long it would take for the Commander and Lady Musashi to return?"

After Kashino asked this, the four little lolita girls Akatsuki, Raiden and Shiranui all looked at her expectantly.

Even Ibuki was reminded by Kashino and remembered that it was Kaohsiung's fourth sister Toriumi who had been taking care of Shinano during this period. She also looked at Kaohsiung's face.

"Forehead……"

Kaohsiung is not a ship girl who is good at socializing with others.

She originally wanted to tell the commander that it would take at least ten days for them to return, but then she thought that if she told the truth directly, it would probably disappoint her companions.

Just when Kaohsiung was in a dilemma and didn't know whether he should tell the truth.

Suddenly, a "hissing" sound of electricity came from the fleet channel of their ship, as if a signal was received.

"Sister Xiao, did you turn on the voice on the communication channel again?"

Considering Akatsuki's careless behavior just now, Xiang lifted the huge mechanical anchor on her shoulder to the surface of the sea with one hand and reached out to poke her ninja sister's waist.

The twins, Lei and Dian, also looked at Xiao with dissatisfaction. This kind of mistake was not the first time Xiao made it.

Being stared at and ridiculed by her sisters, Xiao was stunned by what they said even though she didn't remember turning on the voice communication just now.

Could it be that... I really forgot to turn off the voice communication?

After hurriedly checking his ship equipment, the little ninja said with certainty:

"My voice communication is not turned on. This is not my fault!"

Since it wasn't Xiao's mistake, Kaohsiung immediately thought of another possibility:

"Could it be... the Siren's signal interference?"

Since tonight is New Year's Eve, the search fleet that was previously sent out to look for Yuki has returned, and the few members of the transport fleet in front of them are the last batch to return.

The commander and his men will not be back for more than ten days, so there is only one possible source for attempts to access their fleet channel, and that is Siren signal interference.

After confirming this, Kaohsiung said to his companions in front of him with a serious face:

"Everyone, you must enter the holy domain barrier immediately and inform Tosa and Longfeng who are stationed at the dock of this situation."

"Ibuki and I will guard the entrance here and scout the enemy's movements..."

Kaohsiung hadn't even finished her words when, the next second, intermittent voices were heard again in their fleet channel.

However, when they heard the sound in the channel, they all froze in place.

"The escort fleet at the entrance to the sanctuary barrier... received, please reply."

"I repeat, I am Musashi, and I am returning with the commander and the Air Mobile Squadron to the Sakura Empire escort fleet at the entrance to the Sanctuary Boundary. Please reply if you get it."

Chapter 624: Hypothesis on the Civilization Fault (2700 words)

At this time, Lin Lan was standing on the deck of the Sakura Empire destroyer, looking at the sparkling sea in front of him under the moonlight.

The climate of Liaozhou is like two extremes compared to that of Oran. Lin Lan can clearly feel the difference just from the sea breeze blowing in his face.

Except for summer and autumn, if you go sailing at night in the United States of Oran, the sea breeze hitting your face is as sharp as a blade and may even be painful.

At this moment, the warm sea breeze of Liaozhou seemed to have magical power. Even though the mass-produced destroyer under their feet was moving at full speed, the sea breeze was not at all cold. Instead, it felt extremely comfortable blowing on their bodies.

What's more, the climate of the Nine Islands of Liaozhou is the same all year round, and severe extreme weather such as storms rarely occurs.

"As expected of a country that gave birth to so many monsters and has so many subhuman races..."

Lin Lan looked at Taiho, Akagi and Musashi beside him, as well as the Sakura Empire ship girls with their ship gear deployed on the surrounding sea, and felt secretly moved.

Without the Siren Executor paving the way, after he returned to the fleet with Taiho, Azuma and others, he finally saw the normal marine monsters that were born and bred in Liaozhou.

From dusk till now, the storage space of Yukikaze, Shigure and Yudachi's ships has been filled with the corpses of no less than ten monsters that attacked them.

There are many kinds of Liaozhou monsters, some with shells, some with scales, some flying in the sky, some swimming in the sea...

It can be said that this opened the eyes of Lin Lan, who had always stayed in Blue Star and the United States of Oran.

In order to unlock more monster encyclopedias in the hero's skill column and obtain more ecological information about the monsters, Lin Lan also tried his best to let his ship girls beat the monsters until they were only left with one breath, so that he could make the final blow.

Although these sea monsters did not give him many brave skill points, the ecological information of the monsters after they were unlocked was still very valuable.

As he looked at the detailed information unlocked by the monsters he had killed in the monster encyclopedia, he became more convinced that Gu Liaozhou's research on monsters was definitely statistically summarized by a professional team.

After all, if there had not been professional observation of monsters and a large amount of combat experience with these monsters, the people of ancient Liaozhou would never have been able to record the ecological habits and combat methods of so many types of monsters in such detail in the Brave Monster Atlas.

Therefore, this also made Lin Lan more certain that there was a civilizational gap in the nine islands of Liaozhou during the past thousand years.

The reason why he made this judgment is actually very simple.

There are so many ancient Liaozhou prop manufacturing techniques, combat skills, and skills to control elements in his hero skill column, each of which can be regarded as the final product that combines the strengths of thousands of families.

Take the simplest and most basic elemental control skills in the hero's skill column.

By demonstrating elemental skills to the Sakura Empire's ship girls over the past few days, Lin Lan has discovered that his Sakura Empire ship girls are not incapable of controlling elements.

However, if you want to control the combination of such a wide variety of elements to produce the desired effect, you must conduct a large number of rigorous experiments on the element variables, attribute conflicts, mental power ratios, etc., in order to come up with the best method.

This is why the Sakura Fleet Girl

This is why people can quickly master these elemental skills after watching him demonstrate them.

Because the skills in his hero skill column are the optimal solutions obtained after countless trials.

And these are just the most basic elemental skills. Going up the skill tree, there are also those large-scale destructive skills that are combinations of multiple elements that he unlocked later.

Just imagine, if the ancient Liaozhou, which possessed such exaggerated strength, had really passed down these technologies to this day, the incident of the Liaozhou iron ship that was blasted open by Orlan would never have happened.

Especially after he witnessed the power of the Ice Blade Storm with his own eyes, he felt more and more that the overall national strength of the Nine Islands of Liaozhou was too weak.

Although the fleet of the United States of Orlan is powerful, it is ultimately an ordinary warship that does not use Rubik's Cube technology.

Can ordinary warships like these, no matter how many there are, withstand the damage caused by an ice blade storm?

You know, the Liaozhou Nine Islands has nine large main islands with so many races and populations. It is impossible that they can only cultivate one strong man who is good at controlling elements, right?

One Ice Blade Storm is not enough, so what about two? What about three?

So after reasoning, Lin Lan fully believed that the overall strength of Gu Liaozhou was definitely not inferior to that of the current United States of Oran.

Moreover, that was in ancient Liaozhou thousands of years ago. If so many technologies have been passed down to this day, they should have become even more powerful.

But the fact is, ten years ago, the people of Liaozhou were more willing to leave their homes and come to Oran to work, while a hundred years ago, the Nine Islands Alliance had a hard time winning against the invasion of the Oran United States.

Lin Lan once simply believed from Blue Star's perspective that it was normal for the United States of Oran, which had an industrial system, to launch a dimensionality reduction attack on the Nine Islands of Liaozhou, which were still in the small peasant economy.

But only now, after he gradually got to know Liaozhou, did he discover that things were not as simple as he thought.

The unique livable environment of the Nine Islands of Liaozhou can grow high-yield agricultural crops that can be harvested six times a year, and there are also various monsters that are basically endless to kill as a source of meat.

This shows that it is not that the people of Liaozhou are ignorant and have not developed industry, but that the people of Liaozhou do not need to follow the same path as Oran at all.

So what is the reason that so many inheritance and technological gaps in the once powerful ancient Liaozhou have not only not been carried forward by the people of Liaozhou today, but instead have all fallen into the hands of him as a time traveler?

Faintly, Lin Lan seemed to understand why Master Hui'an was so angry and humiliated last year.

According to his reasoning, a hero with a hero skill bar can be said to not be simply strong in his own right.

As long as the brave man is alive, he is the walking inheritor of ancient Liaozhou and the encyclopedia of powerful ancient Liaozhou technology and skills.