Azur Lane: I Traveled Through Graduation Port

Fuso looked at the two halves of the game console in Longxiong's hands and said in a self-blaming tone.

The usually lively Shancheng had even let the cat's tail droop behind him. He blamed himself guiltily and felt very depressed.

Lin Lan noticed the change in Fuso and Shancheng's mood and couldn't help but frown.

It was just an accident caused by a mistake, and he didn't believe it had anything to do with luck.

Of course, rather than explaining directly to Fuso and Yamashiro, the more important thing right now is to coax Longxiong first.

So he squatted down, reached out and touched Longxiong's head, and said to the dragon-horned loli aircraft carrier who was still trying hard not to drop the little pearl:

"Longxiong, you want this

If you think so, the old must go before the new can come. If you fall, it means you will have peace for the rest of your life. I will give you a new game console."

"But, but, Shiranui's store no longer sells game consoles, and my save files..."

Long Xiong raised his head with tears in his eyes and looked at him and said with a sense of grievance.

Two tears also slid down from Longxiong's emerald green eyes. Her pitiful appearance made the four Xiyun-level little lolis beside Lin Lan lower their heads in self-blame.

Longxiong was right. When they left the port, they were worried about the commander and didn't put much thought into preparing entertainment equipment such as game consoles.

It has been out of stock in Shiranui's store for a long time.

After hearing Long Xiang's words, Lin Lan smiled and wiped away the tears from Long Xiang's face, and said gently:

"Longxiong, have you forgotten where your commander just came from?"

"White...Eagle?"

Longxiong answered instinctively and suddenly opened his eyes wide, as if he realized something.

"That's right. You know how many game consoles the White Eagle camp has. Akashi must have restocked there."

"And it's not just this same model of game console. I believe Akashi has also purchased many more fun game consoles in the country where White Eagle is. If you don't believe me, ask Shiranui."

While Lin Lan continued to comfort Longxiong, he noticed that Shiranui had quietly walked up behind him.

After hearing his words, the expressionless rabbit-eared lady boss nodded to Longxiong as he expected, and said in a cold tone:

"The stupid commander is right. Akashi did bring back more than ten of the same game consoles this time."

"Can't you just remove the prefix 'idiot'?"

Lin Lan finished complaining to the venomous Shiranui in silence, then looked at Longxiong again and said gently:

"As for the game saves, even though the original ones are gone, I am still a gaming expert after all. I will open a new save with you and play it together."

"And me, I will also accompany Sister Longxiong."

Juanbo made a solemn promise to Longxiong at this time, and her three sisters also told Longxiong that they would join them.

"Lord, lord... woooo!"

Hearing his words, a smile finally returned to Longxiong's face, and he threw himself into his arms with tears of joy in his eyes.

Seeing this, the other Sakura Empire ship girls finally put their minds at ease and looked at Lin Lan with a smile as she patted Ryujo on the back.

This accident was successfully resolved by Lin Lan. The two unfortunate ships, Fuso and Yamashiro, looked at each other and smiled with relief.

Although the commander did not comfort them directly, he proved one thing to them with his actions:

That is, even if you really encounter unfortunate accidents in life, you can rely on trustworthy partners to work together to find ways to overcome them.

The best way to overcome misfortune is to maintain an optimistic heart and dare to face it.

Chapter 642: The Shrine Maidens and Ship Girls of the Sakura Empire

However, no one, including Lin Lan, noticed that Shiranui's lips moved, as if he wanted to say something but hesitated.

The rabbit-eared proprietress, whose expression remained calm from beginning to end, seemed to want to complain about something, but in the end she said nothing.

The game save files in the game console are stored separately in dedicated hardware, and there is no such thing as a broken device, so it’s better not to say it out loud and ruin the atmosphere.

After asking Longxiong to wait for Akashi to come back and take her to pick up the new game console, Lin Lan and a group of Sakura Empire ship girls walked towards the entrance of the shrine.

When passing by the un-arranged stalls on the street, Lin Lan also noticed many handicrafts that were not of the Sakura style and various foods he had never seen before placed on the wooden carts.

There are jewelry made of colorful shells, necklaces made of large snail shells that look like horns, and dozens of white pearls.

As for the food, there are a wide variety of them, including "coconuts" as big as watermelons, and fruits that are pineapple-shaped but green in color...

He slowed down his pace slightly and asked Shiranui curiously:

"Are these the goods you purchased from Inaba Island?"

“Rather than purchasing, it’s more like a gift that the Liaozhou people insisted on giving.”

Shiranui replied with a cold expression, the proprietress seemed to have no emotional fluctuations about anything.

Walking beside Shiranui, the only one among the four Yukumo-class members who looked like a girl, with a long, fluffy black and white tail swaying behind her like an enlarged squirrel, smiled and gave Lin Lan a detailed explanation:

"Commander, the corpses of the monsters we hunt seem to be sold at prices that they cannot afford in the town of Inaba Island, so Shiranui always exchanges their currency at the lowest price."

"So most of our supplies were given to us for free by those residents, and they were very willing to do so."

After hearing Changbo's explanation, Lin Lan nodded thoughtfully and touched the head of this lovely girl.

It seems that the sea monsters killed by the Sakura Empire's ship girls are likely to be species that are difficult for the Liaozhou people to hunt.

As the saying goes, things are rare and expensive.

Although the Siren does not put as much pressure on Liaozhou as the United States of Oran, it must have sporadic executors or mass-produced models to monitor various sea areas.

For the Liaozhou people who go out to sea to hunt, not to mention that the marine monsters are often huge in size and can escape into the deep sea at will, they are very difficult to kill.

If they collide with the Siren fleet on standby, they will be dead for sure.

As a Siren executor and mass-produced type without self-awareness, it will kill any stranger approaching when it is on alert.

No wonder Shiranui would use hunger marketing tactics.

After listening to Changbo's words, he could roughly guess that even if Shiranui only brought a small number of monster corpses to Inaba Island each time, the people of Liaozhou in the town would not be able to come up with equivalent currency to trade, and they would owe Shiranui a favor every time and give her various commonly used products for free.

But it’s actually okay this way. For the people of Liaozhou, the corpses of monsters are full of treasures. Exchanging them for food and handicrafts is definitely a huge profit.

For the Sakura Empire shipgirls, except for the meat, the other things of these monster corpses are basically useless.

It's tattered and of no use.

As Lin Lan thought about it, he resisted the urge to ask the names of these fruits one by one, and finally arrived at the main gate of the shrine.

Anyway, he will have plenty of time to come and see it after the New Year's Festival is over, so he should finish the preparations for the festival with Nagato and the others first.

The main entrance to this shrine is more of a torii gate made of red-painted wood than a gate.

After saying goodbye to the four destroyers of the Ryujo, Shiranui and Yugumo classes who were still setting up stalls on the street, Lin Lan and his party also walked into the torii gate and came to the spacious square of the shrine.

Unlike the bustle of last night, the shrine is now deserted, revealing its original tranquility, elegance and peaceful atmosphere.

The lanterns on the stone pillars surrounding the shrine have not yet been extinguished, and the cherry trees planted in the shrine are rustling in the morning breeze, with clusters of blooming pink flowers and the imperial coins hanging on the branches making a rustling sound.

On the flat ground, there were already many petals that had fallen overnight and needed to be cleaned.

However, Lin Lan's eyes fell on two little shrine maidens who just walked out of the shrine hall. They were holding brooms and wearing the same shrine maiden costumes, but in red and blue colors.

The two cute little witches who look like sisters at first glance both have long, smooth hair, and big red and blue bows on their heads that match the colors of their clothes.

After seeing them, the two little girls were stunned at first, then they smiled happily and came forward with brooms in their hands.

"Your Highness, and everyone, Happy New Year~"

The cute little loli with brown twin ponytails and wearing a red witch costume came to Lin Lan and wanted to say hello to him, but she stuttered for a long time because of excitement and shyness before she could say the words.

The little shrine maiden who walked with her and tied her long indigo hair into a long ponytail didn't say anything, but just bowed slightly to Lin Lan, Nagato and others, looking like a cold shrine maiden.

But after bowing, her blue eyes looked straight at Lin Lan, and the corners of her mouth curled up slightly.

"Spring Moon, Xiao Moon, Happy New Year."

Lin Lan smiled at the two cute little feather-eared priestesses and also said their names.

These two cute little lolis, whose clothes are almost exactly the same as those of traditional shrine maidens, are Akizuki-class destroyers.

When he was in the White Eagle camp, in order to avoid the embarrassment of not being able to remember the names of his own ship girls when he met them in the future, he took time out to go to the Star Sea Base and carefully memorized the files of the ship girls of each camp.

He had a deeper impression of the ship girls of large ships, so he didn't need to look at them specifically. However, he needed to study the names of the ship girls of the largest number of destroyers and submarines in detail.

Due to the censorship of the names of the Sakura Empire's shipgirls in the game, he specifically reviewed the names of all the Sakura Empire's shipgirls.

The destroyers of the Sakura Empire are named according to weather, wind, tides, seasons and natural phenomena.

Just like the two little priestesses in front of me whose names contain "Moon", both of them belong to the Akizuki level.

Fengyun, Changbo and the others who were outside the shrine just now were all at the Xiyun level.

After mastering this rule, Lin Lan was finally able to memorize the names of the Sakura Empire's ship girls after he swore an oath, and no longer had to worry about embarrassing situations.

He remembered that Haruzuki was a cute little shrine maiden who always stuttered, and her sister Yozuki, who looked cold but was actually very warm-hearted.

The two little witches were very happy to hear Lin Lan calling out their names.

At this time, Mutsu walked out from behind Amagi and asked Haruzuki curiously:

"Are you the only ones helping in the shrine now? Where are the others?"

Hearing Mutsu's question, Haruzuki replied with a smile:

"Just now, Sister Shimanto and, and..."

"Just now, Sister Shimanto brought Sister Ibuki, Sister Yura, Sister Mikuma, Sister Shouho, Sister Chitose, and Sister Chiyoda into the inner hall. They are going to perform Kagura dance for the commander at the New Year's Festival."

Seeing that her sister hadn't finished a complete sentence for a long time, Xiaoyue decisively interrupted Chunyue and answered for her.

Chapter 643 The Latest News from the Northern Alliance

"Kagura dance, I see. It seems the Commander has never seen it before. You can finally perform in front of the Commander, hehe~"

After hearing what Xiaoyue said, Mutsu smiled brightly, and Nagato thought for a moment, then turned to Fuso and Yamashiro and said seriously:

"Since there will be a Kagura dance performance at the New Year's Festival today, you two should take Haruzuki and Yozuki to help them rehearse. We will take care of the cleaning here."

The two cat girls, Fuso and Yamashiro, naturally smiled and nodded in agreement to the arrangement made by the Son of God.

At the same time, Shancheng also vowed to Lin Lan that he would definitely give him a surprise after the New Year's Day festival began.

However, seeing that the Sakura Empire ship girls seemed very familiar with this performance, Lin Lan himself was a little confused.

After all, he was not from Sakura Empire, so he didn't know much about Kagura dance, which sounded like a traditional performance.

He was clear that the several Sakura Empire shipgirls that Xiaoyue mentioned were all Sakura Empire shipgirls who served as Sakura Empire shrine maidens.

But to be honest, Kagura Dance, he really didn't know what type of dance it was.

After watching Fuso take Yamashiro and the two little destroyer miko to say goodbye to them and enter the inner hall, Lin Lan also humbly asked Tiancheng for advice.

It turns out that the so-called Kagura dance is just as its name suggests, a dance performed to please the gods.

The shrine maidens wear shrine maiden costumes and hold decorations such as kagura bells and fans in their hands, and perform a graceful and sacred dance to the accompaniment of instrumental music such as taiko drums and flutes.

"But my Lord, as far as Amagi knows, they have never performed the Kagura dance in public, and have only practiced it in private. This is the first time they have organized a performance, hehe~"

After Tiancheng explained the origin of Kagura dance to Lin Lan, he showed a gentle smile and added this sentence to Lin Lan with deep meaning at the end.

Lin Lan was stunned at first, but then he understood the hidden meaning of Tiancheng's words.

Kagura dance is a dance performed to please the gods, and Shimanto and her friends have never performed it in Minato Ward before. This is their first time performing it, and the reason is self-evident.

"Ahem, let's first figure out how to clean this place. Jiang Feng, give me the broom that Chun Yue gave you just now."

Lin Lan coughed dryly, and chose to change the subject somewhat shamefully, looking at Jiang Feng who had been silently protecting them all the way and said.

Amagi's health had just begun to improve, and as Nagato and Mutsu were noble sisters of God, he naturally could not let them sweep the floor.

However, after hearing Lin Lan's words, Changmen walked up to him and said to him:

"You don't need to do things like sweeping the floor. I have already contacted two other guards to come and help. You just need to stay here with them."

After Nagato finished speaking, Jiang Feng had already walked to his side and nodded to him:

"Lord Nagato is right. Commander, you don't need to clean up by yourself. You just need to stay here with Lord Amagi and catch up with the other companions who have arrived."

"Ah this..."