Azur Lane: I Traveled Through Graduation Port

The ship was intact, the cargo was not lost, and there was plenty of food and water on board, as well as everyone's belongings and clothing.

It was as if all the crew members on the ship suddenly evaporated.

How did this unmanned ship get here, and why did the crew leave this apparently intact ship?

While other ghost ships may be fictitious legends, the Mary Celeste is a real and unsolved ghost ship mystery.

Lin Lan clearly remembered seeing this on the science and education channel on TV when he was a child and had nightmares for several days in a row.

So much so that he once thought that compared with the raging storms and sea monsters in the deep sea, this kind of creepy and strange mystery was the most terrifying aspect of the ocean.

Perhaps it is precisely because of this legendary experience that Mary Celeste, after becoming a ship girl, has the unique ability to control ghosts, summon ghost ships, and transform into a shadow.

"It seems that the Hurricane Camp has almost certainly arrived in Liaozhou. When we meet the pirates later, we will have to ask them carefully."

After listening to what Shiranui said, Lin Lan made his decision.

After all, compared to the Pirate Code of Royal Wealth, the fighting posture of Mary described by the Liaozhou people is so iconic.

If the appearance of any one of them in Liaozhou is just a coincidence, then the appearance of both of them in Liaozhou at the same time can hardly be described as a coincidence.

What's more, Lin Lan understood one thing very well.

Compared to ordinary ship girls who need a large amount of oil supply to summon ship equipment for combat, the oil consumed by the sailing ship girls of the Hurricane Camp can be said to be negligible.

This means that the sailing ships can continue to fight at a high intensity until now, even without replenishing the oil they took away from the port.

Lin Lan even seriously suspected that Royal Fortune and the others didn't need oil at all to summon their ships, and that the game programmers were lazy and forced to add oil consumption.

After all, its main body is a sailing ship that relies on wind power to sail.

It's impossible that the oil consumed is used to drive the hair dryers installed on the ships to blow up the sails, right?

Chapter 735: The Layout of Tiancheng

There was no point in thinking more about the Hurricane Camp now. They would have to wait until they met the pirates from Liaozhou to get the answer.

Therefore, after saying goodbye to Yubari, Lin Lan also sent Musashi, Akashi and Shiranui back to their respective dormitories.

Of course, they also asked Lin Lan to go to Xueying Town with him tomorrow.

Musashi even planned to call Shinano along.

Speaking of Shinano, Lin Lan also remembered that he had indeed not seen the big fox in the past two days.

Through brief inquiries with Musashi, he learned that Shinano had been recuperating in a separate dormitory mansion for the past few days.

A few days ago, Shinano and Frederick the Great, who was still in the port area, established a connection in a dream, which resulted in a large consumption of the power of this giant fox girl.

However, Musashi told Lin Lan not to worry too much, as Shinano's strength had almost recovered, and he even woke up and had lunch at noon.

Shiranui has also contacted Kashino, saying that the transport fleet will go to Xueying Town with him tomorrow to carry out procurement work.

After thinking about their request to attack, Lin Lan nodded in agreement.

To be honest, he knew too much about the armed forces of Tianou Group.

In fact, he doesn't need Musashi and Shinano at all. He only needs to bring Shiranui and Kashino, as well as a transport fleet composed of destroyers, which is enough to destroy the mecha army of Tianou Group.

With the commander's equipment, the brave skill bar and the power of invisible breath, even if the Siren wants to launch a sneak attack on him, he will have to think twice.

Besides, Xueying Town is not far from Xueying Island.

So Lin Lan agreed to let Musashi and Shinano join, or to be more precise, to take them out to relax.

He also wanted to see what the real Liaozhou culture was like.

After saying goodnight to Musashi and the two profiteers, Lin Lan, Amagi, and Jiang Feng returned to Nagato's residence.

But to his surprise, the two battleship loli sisters, Nagato and Mutsu, had not returned yet.

"It seems that Nagato, Mutsu and the Great Sage have not yet finished their investigation inside the sacred tree. My Lord, don't worry. If there is any emergency, Amagi and Jiangfeng will know about it."

After the three of them entered the living room of the Changmen mansion, Tiancheng smiled and said to Lin Lan, Jiang Feng also nodded slightly, looked at Lin Lan and said seriously:

"Nagato-sama and Mutsu-sama should want to remove the sacred tree barrier as soon as possible. I will meet them at the shrine entrance later."

Hearing Jiang Feng's words, Lin Lan nodded and yawned loudly.

If he didn't get up early tomorrow, he actually wanted to go to the shrine with Jiang Feng to wait for Nagato and the others to return.

He got up early today and was busy all day, so he was a little sleepy now.

"Hmm? My Lord, Falcon has sent the latest information. The armies of the Tianou Group and the Inaba family left Awazu Castle two hours ago."

"Based on the marching speed, as Tiancheng expected, this army will arrive outside Xueying Town in the morning."

"They also discovered that Inabajima's general agent Jiang Jianmu and Inaba family head Inaba Rong were among them."

Just when Lin Lan was planning to go to the bathhouse to take a bath and accompany Jiang Feng for a walk, Tiancheng received the latest news from the fleet channel.

It can be said that everything is proceeding according to Tiancheng's calculations.

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Lin Lan was not surprised that the Tianou Group would take joint action with the head of the Inaba family.

After all, Chikuma claimed to be a siren in front of that group of adventurers, and the people of Inaba Island regarded the Sakura Empire's ship girls as gods.

In addition, the adventurer team witnessed the Demon King's army attacking Xueying Town from the sea, and it is very likely that they linked the Sirens and the Demon King's army together when passing on the message.

After learning of such a horrific situation, if the Tianou Group still cannot unite with the Inaba family, Lin Lan will really look down on them.

It now seems that the elderly general agent of Tianou Group is still very capable.

According to the information provided to him by Jian Qianou, Jiang Jianmu was already a senior general agent of a consortium when he was in the United States of Oran.

The head of the Inaba family, Inaba Rong of the Rabbit Ear Clan, was basically the heir of the Inaba family who was cultivated and supported by Jiang Jianmu.

This also makes Inabajima the most stable rear base of Tianou Group in Liaozhou.

He was not sure whether Jiang Jianmu had retired before, but since Hayabusa already knew his name, it seemed that even though Jiang Jianmu was almost seventy years old, he was still the general agent of Inabajima.

Since Jiang Jianmu chose to personally call Dao Yerong to accompany the army to Xueying Town, there is no doubt that he intends to go all out and defeat the "Siren" and "Demon King's Army" of Xueying Town before they can become powerful.

"I understand. Let Feiying and Shunying keep an eye on the troop movements of the Tianou Group and the Inaba family. Let them rest for a few more days after tomorrow."

"And Amagi, since Nagato hasn't come back yet, I'll ask you to help me decide who will accompany us to Xueying Town tomorrow."

After pondering for a moment, Lin Lan gave instructions to the top strategist of Sakura Empire.

Tiancheng naturally agreed to the task assigned by Lin Lan with a smile. The fox tail behind him kept shaking, and he seemed very happy.

After seeing Lin Lan and Jiang Feng off, Tian Cheng looked at Lin Lan's back and couldn't help but chuckle.

What Lin Lan didn't know was that this kind of work was often done by secretary ships in the port area.

Although he did not arrange Tiancheng as a secretary ship at this time, subconsciously, he had already instinctively gotten used to letting Tiancheng handle these things for him.

What this means is self-evident.

Tiancheng returned to the bedroom, picked up the paper and pen she had placed on the table, and began to write down the people who would accompany Lin Lan to attack tomorrow.

As well as predicting and deducing various emergencies that may occur tomorrow based on the latest intelligence currently available.

There has never been any truly perfect plan in the world. The basis of all strategies comes from absolute ways of obtaining intelligence.

When Tiancheng finished writing the last word, he picked up the list, stood up and walked to the wooden window of her bedroom.

Facing the empty courtyard outside the window in the night, Tiancheng handed out the list:

"Kuroshio, contact the companions on the list and ask them to gather at the port pier tomorrow morning."

"As you command, Lord Amagi."

A loli voice full of respect sounded from outside the window.

The petite figure of the little Sakura Empire ninja whom Lin Lan had met before, the Kagero-class third-flight ship Kuroshio, slowly emerged from the shadows of the bushes on the ground and took the list written by Amagi.

At this time, Kuroshio was wearing his usual Fuma ninja armor and a long black and red scarf around his neck.

After carefully reading the list with the help of starlight, Kuroshio looked up at Amagi and asked calmly:

"Lord Tiancheng, after this, do you need me and Xiao to go to Xueying Town to conduct reconnaissance for the Lord?"

"...Alright, thank you for your hard work."

After getting Amagi's consent, the destroyer loli ninja with black hair and double braids put the list away and blended into the night again.

After the black tide left, Amagi still stood by the window.

She raised her head and looked at the stars in the sky, her purple eyes reflecting a deep gaze.

"If the master wants to collect all the Time Key fragments, he must conquer all the ancient ruins on the main island of Liaozhou."

"Let's not even talk about the four Tianou Islands. The Nine Islands Alliance and the Great Master Hui'an will definitely not allow the Sakura Empire fleet to land easily."

"According to Yubari, Takaten Island, Weiguang Island and Changyuan Island all have their own natural defenses. Kakuki Island is the most mysterious, and Shushu Island has the most stringent defenses."

"If the Lord is kind-hearted and does not like to kill innocent people and does not want to resolve the issue by force, then we need to use our wits to do it."

Tiancheng whispered softly, and a huge plan slowly took shape as Tiancheng thought about it.

"No venture, no gain... Perhaps, before the Lord and the Sakura Empire fleet go to the Five Islands of the Nine Islands Alliance, we can ask the people of the Five Islands to explore the ancient island core ruins for the Lord first."

"Adventurer's Guild... hehe, hehe."

A refreshing night breeze blew, carrying Amagi's confident chuckle, and slowly dissipated in the quiet Yukinojima port area.

Chapter 736: The Guardian of Xueying Town (2800 words)

In the early morning hours in Xueying Town, most of the residents had already gone to bed.

Apart from the militiamen on night patrol and the mayor's personal guards, there were basically no people on the deserted streets.

The occasional barking of dogs or cries of livestock from farms on the outskirts of town did not attract anyone's attention.

The crisis of the Demon King's army's attack last night did not affect the residents of Xueying Town's daily routines.

In other words, before the gods came, they had experienced many crisis situations where monsters invaded the streets of the town.

Ever since the Adventurer's Association raised the minimum commission and withdrew its branch from Xueying Town, Xueying Town, without resident adventurers, has been forced to pay expensive protection taxes every month and ask the Tianou Group to send mecha troops to repel monsters.

However, Xueying Town is geographically remote, and most of the young and strong labor force in the town has followed the Tianou Group's fleet to Oran to work.

This means that even if everyone in the town works hard to grow crops and fish, the town's finances cannot afford the high protection money.

If Fang Jin had not been born in Xueying Town, he would have gone to other main islands as an adventurer and returned a year ago to take over the position of mayor from the old mayor.

I'm afraid that Xueying Town has already lost its population and become a deserted town like many other towns due to the continuous invasions of monsters.

Fang Jin trained a group of soldiers for the mayor, and on more than one occasion he personally led the team to fight to the death with the monsters that attacked Xueying Town.

It was because the townspeople saw Fang Jin’s efforts that Xueying Town recovered from the brink of collapse and regained its vitality.

But just a few months ago, Fang Jin's old injury relapsed while fighting against monsters that invaded the town, and he was severely injured by the monsters.

At that critical moment, the gods arrived.

Those gods who apparently looked small and adorable were able to summon artillery of unspeakable power to inflict divine punishment, and unleash unspeakably powerful swordsmanship to tear open the hard shells of monsters.

The god easily defeated the terrifying monster.

Not only that, they also completely cured Mayor Fang Jin's old injuries, allowing the mayor to finally recover his full strength.

After that, they would often come to the town and exchange extremely precious monster materials for cheap handicrafts and food from the townspeople, so that the townspeople of Xueying Town would no longer have to worry about the invasion of monsters.

Even the Tianou Group's mecha troops that came to Xueying Town and ordered Fang Jin to pay protection tax were driven away by the gods.

It can be said that in the eyes of all the residents of Xueying Town, it doesn’t matter whether those gods are the sirens as outsiders say, or something else.

But they really protected Xueying Town from the monsters and the Tianou Group.

They will fight to the death with anyone who wants to be the enemy of the gods, no matter whether the opponent is the Demon King's army or the island owner.

This is the truest thought of every simple resident of Xueying Town.

At this moment in Xueying Town, there are actually four ignorant adventurers who dare to go against the will of God.

In the underground prison of the mayor's mansion in Xueying Town, Yu Fengchen and his three teammates were locked in cells.

They all had black and blue shackles on their hands. These shackles were made of a mineral called "Shenyan Stone" produced in Yanrong Island.

Refining can make any skills of Liaozhou people ineffective.