Azur Lane: The Azure Life of the Tragic Admiral

Yang Sikang sneered and calmly took out a thin metal tube from his chest pocket.

A portable voice recorder.

Yang Sikang opened the drawer of the coffee table and took out a portable terminal.

He skillfully connected the recorder to the terminal, opened files, pulled audio files, processed noise, played the progress bar, and slowed down the speed.

With Yang Sikang's audio adjustments, those subtle sounds were amplified nearly ten times and slowly played out.

Footsteps, pushes, trigger pulls, gunshots.

Seeing Memphis's face becoming quite ugly, Yang Sikang roughly pulled the recorder off and threw it at her feet.

"Oh, by the way, Miss Memphis. As for your comment about me being disrespectful, you may be a forgetful person, but it doesn't matter. I can remind you."

Yang Sikang was still just sitting there, but his body was slightly leaning forward and his eyes had turned cold.

“When I didn’t want to be the commander, you used Cleveland to blackmail me.

Although I was the one who decided to become the commander in the end, isn't it you who caused the current situation? What's more, it's not me who is in trouble, it's you."

"Let's not do those clichéd and boring scenes. Otherwise, when the royal people come, I might just happen to build some sensitive ship girls?"

"I should think that you are threatening us, right?"

Memphis responded bluntly, but Yang Sikang just smiled, then silently took out two mind cubes and placed them on the table.

"Alright, alright~ What happened in Cleveland was not caused by Memphis. It was actually an accident. I apologize to Commander Yang on behalf of our headquarters. Can we stop here? Memphis, it's not good to be too aggressive."

Lexington spoke up and acted as a peacemaker at the right time. Although Memphis looked a little dissatisfied, he did not refute Lexington's words.

Looking at the kind lady with long pink hair in front of him, Yang Sikang was a little dazed for a moment.

Even though he had closed his eyes and tried to calm his mind, even though he knew it was not the same person, Lexington's appearance still caused some ripples in his heart.

But only slightly, and he knew full well that this lady was not the one he knew.

"Since it's Lady Lex who's speaking, what else can I say?"

Yang Sikang spread his hands in a helpless manner, but his attitude was also revealed in his words.

Memphis's face became even more sullen because of this, but Lexington looked at Yang Sikang with interest.

As for Enterprise and the Kitchen Goddess, the two of them had been watching the show from the beginning, which even made Yang Sikang almost suspect whether Enterprise was Cleveland in disguise.

The name Lady Lex is quite familiar to Lexington, but it is very interesting when it comes from Yang Sikang's mouth.

Because this name was one of the nicknames given by the White Eagle crew to her prototype ship, the real ship, the Lexington.

It’s not that she can’t be called by this nickname, but almost no one cares about such things.

Especially those commanders who are only interested in ship girls.

"So, Commander Yang Sikang, what do you think about this? For example, going to the Royal Palace for fun?"

"Lexington!"

"It's okay, Memphis. If he wants to go to the Royal Family, we can't stop him. And the Royal Family won't let us stop him, right?"

"But maybe I don't really want to go to the Royal Family, it's just that some people's expectations are annoying me."

As Yang Sikang spoke, he turned his head and gestured to Belfast.

Belfast bowed slightly, then turned around and walked around the living room towards the stairs.

Everyone present stopped talking tacitly. After more than a minute, Belfast's footsteps were heard coming from the stairs.

There was a small file bag in her hand, with only two pieces of paper and a small envelope visible inside.

"I expected that someone from the headquarters would come to me. After all, Enterprise gave me the command in this battle. This is unavoidable anyway, but to be honest, I didn't expect that you would be the ones to come."

The file bag was placed in front of Memphis. She picked it up with a frown, but before she could open it, Yang Sikang spoke.

"Belfast, please send them away. These people probably don't have time to chat with us anymore."

Memphis looked up in dissatisfaction, but the next second she detected several intruders coming towards her within her radar range.

She looked at Yang Sikang seriously, but the latter just smiled and there was no sign of abnormality on his face.

There was no other way, so Memphis said to the curious Lexington next to him:

“The WBI people are here.”

Lexington understood and nodded. But at the same time, she was also curious, so she stood up and asked:

"Commander Yang Sikang, aren't you worried that the WBI people are coming for you?"

"They were coming for me in the first place, but there are tall people to hold up the sky if it collapses. The decision of my fate does not lie with me but with everyone in Azur Lane, so why should I worry?"

Lexington looked at Yang Sikang with deep interest, and without saying anything else, he led the way out.

Qiye was the last one to walk in, and before leaving, he looked at Yang Sikang helplessly.

The door closed, Yang Sikang interlaced his fingers and raised the corners of his mouth slightly.

"Javelin, do me a favor and time their exchange."

Chapter 28 Taking risks

Diplomacy was easy for Memphis and Lexington.

It was obvious that WBI could not get any benefits from them, but after they solved the problem, they did not return to Yang Sikang.

The attitude was very vague, but Yang Sikang was very satisfied with it.

The negotiations between the two parties lasted less than ten minutes, which can be said to be quite fast.

Of course Yang Sikang himself could not appear in such an occasion, but he went out and took a peek.

It is said that Lexington was smiling when he left, but Memphis did not look very happy.

“This is not surprising. Memphis is a secretary. The fact that WBI came to her house was a provocation in her eyes.

After all, the struggle between Azur Lane and the White Eagle Navy is ultimately an internal one, and both sides are essentially supported by the White Eagle Government."

"White Eagle is really troublesome..."

Javelin exclaimed:

"I wonder if the Royal Family will be like this as well..."

"Do you care?"

Yang Sikang looked at Javelin, who quickly shook his head, but he just smiled and reached out to touch Javelin's head:

"If you care, then go find out. We will inevitably have to deal with various factions in the future. You are also the Royal Navy's ship girls. It is understandable that you would like to know the current situation of your own faction."

"Master, I have a question, can you answer it for me?"

Belfast suddenly asked, Yang Sikang turned around and looked at him, then smiled:

"You want to ask if I was the one who spread the news?"

"Yes. It seems to me that you have never done anything to leak information to the outside world, so..."

"Haha. I'm relieved that you didn't find out about Belfast either."

He smiled, waved for Belfast to sit next to him, and then said:

“In theory, this is one of the White Eagle’s home ports, and I’m receiving a certain amount of attention.

So if I want to send a message to the Royal Family, it will definitely be discovered, but... to deliver the message, I don’t need to deliver it in person, nor do I need to deliver it directly to the Royal Family.”

He smiled slightly, but Belfast still looked confused.

"Rumors."

"Rumors?"

Belfast looked at Yang Sikang in surprise and asked doubtfully:

"But even if that's the case, how can the rumors here reach the royal family?"

"Think about it, who do I usually interact with the most?"

"If we talk the most, it's probably the children of ordinary people..."

Belfast suddenly realized, and Yang Sikang nodded with a smile.

"Yes, those kids. They may not know Kanmusu, but they don't need to.

Whether it's Javelin who always follows me or you who occasionally come over, when their parents come to pick them up and when they go home to share their happiness with their parents, the adults can easily know your presence. "

“And the ordinary people living here, especially those who need to go in and out of the port area, most of them are businessmen or people working in related industries.

They see and hear it, and then these things become topics of conversation before and after meals.

A commander surrounded by royal ship girls appeared in the port area of ​​White Eagle. This rare event did not need to be deliberately publicized.

All I have to do is give them a little push and let time take care of the rest.”

Belfast took a breath and bowed sincerely to Yang Sikang.

"Master, you are truly... impressive."

"Nothing impressive, just some unpresentable tricks.

It took half a year to arouse the interest of the royal side, which is enough to prove how inefficient this trick is.

Moreover, if someone notices it, a little effort can easily make this little trick go to waste.”

Belfast shook his head slightly. Even though Yang Sikang said it so badly, it was not as easy as talking for him to do these things in his situation.

Relationships with those children, connections with their parents and appropriate 'behavior'.

Without any one of these links, the Javelin and her two ship girls would most likely be ignored or forgotten by the hurried passers-by.

In this situation, Yang Sikang had to start preparing at least before she was built, so that the news could be passed to the royal side recently and receive a certain amount of attention.

However, it was easy once you got the royal attention.

With the Royal Family's ability, it is easy to verify and confirm the accuracy of the news. It is obvious what the Royal Family will do next.

No faction would give up the existence of such a commander without trying anything!

"But Commander, what if the Royal Family wants to take you away by force?"

Javelin asked, somewhat worriedly.

Yang Sikang was stunned for a moment, then shook his head with a smile.

Belfast on the side also smiled and answered for Yang Sikang:

"Even if the commander wants to, White Eagle will never allow this to happen easily, Javelin."

"Yes."

Nodding, Yang Sikang took the initiative to take over the conversation:

"No matter how harmonious the Azur Lane is, it is useless in this matter, because the ship girls also need the support of the government. The White Eagle Government... after all, it is the White Eagle Government.

The free will they claim is a perfect excuse, but in this case the choice will fall into my hands. So in order to prevent me from making the decision to go to the Royal Family, the White Eagle government will definitely put pressure on the White Eagle ship girls and give them a sum of money..."

"Hush money!"

"But, but doing such a big thing just for hush money is a bit..."

Javelin felt more and more uneasy. After learning the true story, she clearly realized what her commander had done. He was deliberately trying to sow discord between the White Eagles and the Royal Family!

"Originally, there is no need to take such a risk, but the QX-306 port area and several surrounding ports need to be disarmed."

Yang Sikang sighed helplessly.

"During the previous frequent Sirens attacks, all ordinary people around the QX-306 port area were evacuated, and the port area itself was reduced to half ruins during the battle.

I originally thought that the defense line there was just temporarily retracted and the area was left idle as a buffer zone, but judging from the documents I saw in Belfast, it is very likely that a large-scale evacuation of personnel was underway in that area.

The White Eagle government is probably planning to abandon several ports in that sea area."

"Give up?! But, but this kind of thing..."

Javelin's eyes widened, disbelief written all over his face.

The Siren's offensive was indeed fierce, but the White Eagle's industrial level was well known to the world.

Moreover, White Eagle has a large number of commanders. With such a huge mass-produced fleet, even if they cannot counterattack, they should have no problem defending themselves!