Azur Lane: I Traveled Through Graduation Port

Lin Lan's words made everyone fall into thought and silence.

Because if this is true, it means that X has never stopped eroding Liaozhou in the past thousand years.

The fact that X-corrosion objects exist in the ancient ruins of the island core of Inaba Island is enough to prove that the brave Yuki who defeated Kamirei Sakura and sealed the Abyss Demon Cave did not completely eradicate the threat of X.

After that great war, some unusual changes must have occurred in ancient Liaozhou, which caused all the central urban areas of the island core to fall into ruin and become ancient ruins.

"Well, this is just my guess. We won't know the exact reason until we enter the ancient altar of the island core on Inaba Island."

Seeing that the atmosphere was somewhat depressed, Lin Lan smiled and encouraged everyone:

"Maybe when we are deep in the ruins, we can find some records or clues left by the local residents."

Tiancheng nodded at this time and said to everyone:

"My Lord, you are absolutely right. Before we find actual evidence, we cannot be sure that X has really eroded Liaozhou for a thousand years."

After the Sakura Empire's top strategist finished speaking, Musashi also added to Kamirei Sakura and Kamirei You:

"In order to prevent you from being affected by the self-explosion, we will take care of these island core guardians from now on."

Of course, the Kamisei Sakura sisters understood that Musashi's suggestion was for their protection, so they nodded in agreement.

At this moment, both of them were eager to know what happened in Liaozhou after they were sealed by Yuji.

Why did Gu Liaozhou, which was still strong even after experiencing the attack of the Demon King's army, fall to such a state today?

The answer can only be revealed after they, Lin Lan and the Sakura Empire ship girls enter the deepest part of the ancient ruins together.

So after Yunxian removed the barrier, everyone once again set out on the journey to conquer the ruins.

On the way thereafter, in addition to killing a large number of relic monsters along the way, they also encountered several island core guardians of the wind element.

However, the experienced Sakura Empire ship girls have discussed with Lin Lan an efficient way to deal with the situation.

That is, after the carrier-based aircraft formation of the Twin Eagle sisters completed the search for the enemy from high altitude, Musashi, Mikasa and others, together with Kii and other battleship girls, directly used naval guns to carry out long-range artillery attacks on these nuclear guardians of the Wind Element Island.

Although these powerful naval gun explosions are physical damage.

But thanks to Yubari's module upgrade, the various elemental damage attached to the shells they fired were enough to prevent the island core guardians from getting close to them, and they were attacked by artillery fire and exploded.

In order to get a general idea of ​​their attack progress and observe the striking effects of the elemental equipment of the Sakura Empire's ship girls, Lin Lan also unfolded his commander's outfit.

Through the images provided by the weapon system, Lin Lan could clearly see on the map that they were gradually approaching the depths of the ruins, and were constantly clearing out the invading island core guardians and ruins monsters.

For some reason, this made him feel as if he was pushing a map in a game activity.

The little lolis including Shimakaze and Yukikaze were also not idle, collecting spoils along the way.

In the words of the small profiteer Akashi, these are all very valuable treasures that can be used by Yubari as a reference to create new upgrade modules.

Well, in short, in Akashi's eyes, basically everything has value.

Lin Lan looked at Akashi and Shiranui, the two young proprietresses from the port area, who were busy registering the information of the spoils and sorting them quickly and seriously, and felt that it was a very correct decision to bring them here on this trip.

All of the classified monster corpse materials, ancient Liaozhou props looted from the ruins, and many precious flowers and medicinal herbs were given to Kashino.

As the ship girl of the Sakura Empire's transport ship, Kashino's ship storage space is as big as her heart that looks down on the entire port area.

Even if Shimakaze and the others continuously brought new loot items, Kashino could easily store them all in the ship's storage space by himself.

In this way, with the orderly advancement of the entire Sakura Empire fleet, at noon, they finally arrived at the depths of the ancient ruins.

Chapter 760: The Island Core Capital Abandoned

"Boom!"

Along with the gusts of air created by another round of main gun salvo firing from Owari, another Wind Element Island Nuclear Guardian on the path ahead of the crowd was hit and exploded.

The environment around Lin Lan and everyone else also changed at this time.

The elemental flowers that originally appeared colorful at first glance have almost turned into dark blue wind element petals here.

This also makes the landscape tone of the entire ruins appear to gradually turn into cool tones.

"Sister Owari! The sound of your artillery fire scared away the monster we were trying to trap!"

"That's right, it almost fell into the trap!"

Just as this tall, dark-skinned, hot Sakura sister with a pair of curved antlers on her head was clapping her hands and was about to report to Lin Lan with a smile that she had hit the target accurately, the dissatisfied voices of Shimakaze and Shigure were heard.

At the same time, her sister Suruga also said to her in a helpless tone:

"What a pity. That monster rabbit is quite cute. If we had fired a few seconds later, we could have captured it alive."

It turned out that these little destroyer girls were already a little tired of the treasure hunt game.

While everyone was resting and having lunch here, they, under the guidance of Shen Lianyou, used the previous materials to make several elemental traps to lure and capture alive the small-scale ruins monsters around them.

This interesting activity naturally attracted Lin Lan, Yunxian, Suruga, Maya and Shimanto to join.

Just now, a group of them were looking forward to watching the white rabbit-like monster about to step into the trap, but the rabbit monster was scared away by the noise of Owari's cannon firing.

"Well, you found such an interesting activity but didn't invite me to join you, Commander, you are too much~"

When Owari saw that she herself was the villain, she shook the two long gray-yellow pigtails hanging beside her cheeks and acted like a spoiled child towards Lin Lan in anger.

"Who told Owari-ni to draw lots to be the escort during lunch? I asked you to ask Xuefeng to draw lots for you but you refused to listen. You can't blame me for this."

Facing Owari's "accountability", Lin Lan spread his hands and said with a smile.

When the commander mentioned her, the little silver-haired cat-eared loli in the cute Liaozhou adventurer skirt immediately puffed out her chest with pride and smiled proudly:

"That's right, Sister Owari, you must listen to the commander next time and ask the super popular lucky ship Yukikaze-sama to draw the lottery for you!"

Owari was immediately amused by the smug little loli.

However, she rolled her eyes, as if she had thought of something interesting. With a sly smile on her face, she walked over to Xuefeng, squatted down, and reached out to pinch Xuefeng's face directly:

"Okay, okay~ Master Xuefeng, you must help me draw the one with the Commander tonight..."

"Absolutely not!"

However, Owari's little plan was immediately discovered and seen through by Akagi, Taiho, and Hayateka. They looked at her in unison and shouted at her.

Mikasa, Musashi, Shinano and Amagi sat on a stool nearby and sipped scented tea.

Seeing Owari and Yukikaze retreating in fear, the senior couldn't help but smile kindly and happily:

"With the commander here, the juniors are always full of energy, haha.

what. "

"Hehe, what the senior said is very true... Shinano, the flower tea in your hand is about to fall over."

Before Musashi could finish her words of emotion, she noticed that Shinano, who was sitting next to her, was shaking with the cup in his hand because of sleepiness.

"Ha~ Sorry, I'm usually resting at this time..."

Shinano's lazy words while yawning made all of them smile in relief.

It's rare for Shinano to go out and walk such a long distance.

It can be seen that even this sleepy big fox is full of motivation because of the commander's company.

After a while, Kii, Kaga, Atago and Izumo had prepared a sumptuous lunch.

Thanks to the relic monsters they hunted along the way and the edible wild vegetables they collected, this lunch was a very sumptuous one.

Kaga and Atago are both Sakura Empire shipgirls with superb cooking skills. With these fresh and delicious ingredients, the delicious dishes they made even shocked Kamishiro Sakura.

After lunch and cleaning up the surroundings, Lin Lan led everyone to move forward.

As they officially entered the deepest urban area of ​​the ancient ruins of the island core, he also discovered that many of the collapsed building debris and broken walls around them were larger than those on the periphery.

This means that a thousand years ago, this place must have been a very prosperous city core area.

According to Kamirei Sakura's introduction, this is indeed the case.

For example, the base of the collapsed elemental tower, which was previously far away, can be seen here almost every few steps.

The number of attacks from the ruins monsters has also become less frequent than before when they were on the outskirts.

However, the strength of the ruins monsters that came to attack them was much stronger than the monsters outside.

Lin Lan even saw a monster that was even larger than the island core guardian, a blue porcupine that was as tall as a hill and could summon dozens of small tornadoes.

However, Yunxian was playing with the smooth green spikes on the back of the Conglan Beast, whose new illustration he had unlocked.

Its huge body had already been cut into two halves by Takao's ultimate sword energy using the Iai Slash, and was completely packed up and stored in Kashino's ship storage space.

This was only because Kaohsiung specifically instructed the Double Eagle sisters not to use the bomber formation for an air attack and to demonstrate the power of swordsmanship to Lin Lan, that the Conglan Beast was able to reach them alive.

Otherwise, such a large live target would have been blown to pieces by aerial bombs long ago.

What took up the most time along the way were the small barriers that still existed.

Since the previous teleportation barrier had long since failed, Lin Lan and the Sakura Empire fleet had no choice but to advance through the ruins on foot.

After encountering these ancient Liaozhou barriers, Shen Lianying originally planned to take action to deal with them.

However, in order to save time, after discussion between Lin Lan, Yunxian, Mikasa and others, everyone finally decided to directly use naval guns to destroy these small barriers blocking the road.

In response to this, in the aftermath of the artillery explosion, Kamiya Sakura, whose long hair was blown into a mess, could only silently express that the powerful Rubik's Cube Technology can really do whatever it wants.

On the other hand, Lin Lan, the brave warrior who should have overcome the difficulties, did not need to do anything at this time. The Sakura Empire ship girls had already helped him solve the problem.

Cut the worries.

Even Lin Lan himself, when he was coaxing Yudachi and Xuefeng who were acting coquettishly towards him, was complaining in his heart that he might be the coolest hero in history.

However, Lin Lan didn't feel that there was anything wrong.

Who says his main job is not a hero but a port commander?

Joining the Blue Star team was the best decision he ever made in his life.

Although Lin Lan complained in his heart, he did not relax at all.

Because he had noticed a crucial situation when everyone was about to reach the deepest part of the Inabashima Nuclear Ancient Ruins.

"Amagi, did you notice that?"

After Tiancheng took action personally and used the ship's main gun to detonate the nuclear guardian of an island in the distance, Lin Lan called Shen Lianying and Tiancheng to his side.

Lin Lan spoke to the Sakura strategist in a serious tone, and Tiancheng smiled at him as if he knew what he was going to say:

"Master, have you also discovered it? As expected, the Master has made great progress, hehe~"

Facing the riddles of Lin Lan and Tian Cheng, Shen Lianying asked in great confusion:

"Commander, Master Amagi, what did you notice?"

Lin Lan did not intend to keep the secret, but instead focused his attention on Shen Lianying and told the former leader of the Ten Islands about the irregularities he had discovered:

"Since we entered the depths of the ruins, have we not found even a single skeleton of a Liaozhou person?"

Seeing Shen Lianying suddenly staring at him with eyes wide open, Lin Lan continued:

"On the outskirts of the ruins, we can occasionally see a lot of skeletons, but those skeletons are often accompanied by wilderness survival props."

"This means that those skeletons are all adventurers who came to explore the ruins and met with misfortune."

"But since we came to the depths of the ruins, we haven't seen even a single bone of the Liaozhou people..."

Lin Lan said this with a low voice, and gave his judgment:

"Perhaps, my previous guess was correct."

"Combined with the X-corrosion in the bodies of those island core guardians, this ancient island core altar on Inabashima Island, called the City of Flowers, really did undergo some kind of abnormality due to the erosion of X."

"And judging from various signs, the residents of Guliaozhou who live here may have voluntarily chosen to abandon this place and evacuate the city that they built and protected with their own hands in an orderly manner."

Chapter 761: The remains of the Siren next to the island core altar?

Lin Lan actually hadn't said a word yet, because he wasn't quite sure at the moment.

That was the Liaozhou civilization fault that he had suspected before, which was probably directly related to the abandonment of the central urban areas of the island core by the Liaozhou people.

But before obtaining conclusive evidence, he planned to enter the ancient altar of the island core first.

As the crowd continued to advance in the ruins, finally, after four o'clock in the afternoon, they finally arrived at the deepest part of the urban ruins.

This is a hill that is relatively high in the entire Inaba Island.