Azur Lane: The Azure Life of the Tragic Admiral

"Are you so resistant to becoming a commander?"

After all, I still have to talk about this.

Yang Sikang felt a little helpless.

More than two months have passed, and now Cleveland is the only one still asking this question. It's not like the world will stop turning without him.

Others would at most ask him two or three times because of his high affinity with the Rubik's Cube, and then they would give up.

He didn't know why Cleveland was so insistent on making him the commander, but he wasn't going to give a shit about the man who had saved him from the sea.

But before he could answer, Cleveland said:

"I don't know what the consequences will be if this matter is not handled properly. Let's just keep it as a secret between the two of us. I hope you can tell me the truest answer in your heart."

Cleveland looked into Yang Sikang's eyes, she was very serious.

Yang Sikang also restrained his expression, looked at the distant coastline, and fell into deep thought.

Why don't you want to be a commander?

He asked himself this question in his mind.

He had traveled through time once before, and had experienced a life full of ups and downs but little happiness. Perhaps it was because he wanted to escape from the battles and those uncertain factors?

Maybe not. Even after experiencing such decades, he still retains enough tenderness in his heart.

Since he first came to this world, he still wanted to do something. It seems a little far-fetched to say that he was escaping.

To say that he understood something, even though he only knew it from the games in his previous life, he was definitely not completely ignorant.

He can't be said to be a prophet, but at least he knows much more than the people in this world.

From this perspective, he has a great advantage as a commander and it seems unlikely that he will mess things up.

Besides, the commanders in this world are not as busy as the commanders in the β test field. Generally speaking, most of them are leisurely.

So why has he always refused to be the commander?

Yang Sikang himself was actually a little confused for a moment.

But Cleveland mistook his silence for an unwillingness to lie, and with a sigh, he said

"Every year, even every month, there are countless people who want to become commanders. Most of them don't even have an affinity for the Mind Cube, and they want to become commanders for all sorts of reasons."

"Even among those who are already commanders, there are still many who become commanders for the power of the ship girls or the improvement of their status. There are even some who come here purely for the ship girls."

Cleveland smiled self-deprecatingly, sighed helplessly and continued

“All of us shipgirls were born from the Mind Cube. We don’t age or get sick easily. Even if we get injured, we can recover with the Mind Cube in our bodies.

Those people said that we were more beautiful and more charming than ordinary human women, so they wanted to become commanders out of pure desire. "

"Honestly, I think it's terrible, especially when someone comes up to you and starts a conversation, you can tell what's going on in his mind from a distance, and I really want to punch him."

Cleveland looked at Yang Sikang, hesitated for a moment and said

"Actually, I have my own selfish reasons for wanting you to be the commander. I rescued you with great difficulty, and I don't want you to be taken away by the navy and used as a guinea pig.

But unless you become the commander, I won’t be able to convince others to protect you.”

“I don’t know why you would appear in a place like that, drifting in dangerous waters and still be unharmed.

But I know that since I saved you, there must be a certain element of fate involved.

I can't bear to see the people I saved fall into the abyss."

Yang Sikang looked at Cleveland in a daze, and he remembered why he refused to become the commander.

Before Cleveland could continue, he suddenly said

"What about responsibility?"

Yes, responsibility.

If it is a game, responsibility doesn't matter. What players want is happiness and relaxation.

This is the meaning of the game, so you don't have to think about so many things in the game. Relax after work and do whatever you like.

But if the game becomes reality, it will be different.

Being a commander means more than just being able to build loyal ship girls and being surrounded by all kinds of beauties.

The ship girls are also living individuals, and the Sirens that the commander has to fight against are also real enemies.

It is okay to lose one's ambition by playing games, but if one does not have the corresponding strength when facing danger, the consequences one faces will be something that the game will not have.

Ships will not sink and disappear in the game, but this is not the case in reality.

Cleveland was stunned. She looked at Yang Sikang, somewhat unable to believe what the man had just said.

He said, responsibility?

Who talks about responsibility with the ship girl?

Only a small number of people who want to become commanders do so to fight against the Sirens and make achievements. The vast majority of the rest come for all sorts of strange reasons.

Even most of them have the idea of ​​turning the ship girls they built into wives and establishing a harem.

It’s just that after a ship girl is built, she will not leave her commander on her own unless she is extremely disappointed, so no one criticizes this idea.

After all, we are going to resist the Sirens.

But when it comes to responsibility, how can there be such a thing as responsibility?

Yang Sikang looked at Cleveland and said seriously

"Emotionally and physiologically, the Ship Girls are not much different from humans before they deploy their ship suits, right? But the Ship Girls are not born by themselves, but are awakened from the Mind Cube by the Commander."

"Then, as the commander who awakened the ship girl, shouldn't it be natural for you to be responsible for the ship girl you built? I don't think I have the ability and tolerance to take responsibility for the freedom and life of others, and I have witnessed too many companions dying in front of me in my previous world. I... can't be a commander."

Yang Sikang shook his head and gave his answer very sincerely.

But this time, Cleveland didn't give up.

She looked at Yang Sikang and raised her questions

"But you haven't tried it, how do you know you can't do it?"

Cleveland looked at Yang Sikang seriously. She was now very sure that her judgment must be correct.

"Although I don't know what you've experienced before, how can you know the result if you haven't tried it? And since you came to this world and happened to come to our camp, maybe everything is God's will, isn't it?"

Yang Sikang was stunned for a moment, then saw Cleveland unfold her ship suit and take out a transparent box from it.

Inside the box were eight fixed mind cubes, neatly arranged in two rows.

"Give it a try. If you really can't be a commander, it's just a waste of a few cubes, right?"

Yang Sikang turned his eyes away from the Rubik's Cube, looked into Cleveland's eyes, and asked:

"Is this what you mean, or what you all mean?"

"It's my decision."

Cleveland responded:

"These Rubik's Cubes are my personal belongings. Just think of it as a way to make me give up. Why don't you give it a try?"

Yang Sikang let out a long sigh.

The Mind Cube is also a very precious resource for the KanColle. Although there are only eight cubes, it is a considerable sum of money for Cleveland.

Unlike the situation in the game, the ship girls in this world are not unique, and the number of commanders is also very large.

The huge number brings about even greater consumption. Simply put, the mind cubes in this world are in a state of scarcity.

This is also one of the basic reasons why the relationship between the navy and the ship girls is very bad. The ship girls need mind cubes and also need more potential commanders to build powerful ship girls.

But the Navy also wanted the Mind Cube, and wanted to use it for basic research.

However, this precious resource is not enough for both parties to share. In order to ensure that the existing interests do not regress and that humans do not lose the ability to resist the Sirens, all the Mind Cubes were allocated to the Ship Girls.

The standard configuration for a new commander's initial build is just two cubes.

"If I fail to build it, will you give up?"

"Yes."

Cleveland responded frankly:

"As long as you can't build a ship girl, I won't persuade you anymore. And I will help you solve the trouble you got into this time. How about that? It's a good deal, right?"

Cleveland pushed the box forward a little further. Yang Sikang hesitated for a moment and took the heavy box.

"it is good."

So Cleveland took Yang Sikang directly to the construction room.

In order to increase the success rate, the construction process is uniformly completed in the construction room, and construction machines will be used.

Although I don't know whether this method is really effective, but looking at the commanders who go in and out of the construction room in strange clothes and try to perform metaphysical construction, I know that it is better to believe it than not.

Yang Sikang, who seemed reluctant, became an outlier in such an environment. When he entered the construction room, at least half of the people in this construction room, which was almost the size of three football fields, looked at him.

Cleveland's reputation here is obviously very good, and the people she brought personally are obviously more eye-catching.

Probably because the matter between him and Cleveland was no secret, Yang Sikang heard some people whispering about whether he had secretly tricked Cleveland into his hands.

But he really had no interest in this, and even felt very uneasy.

As he told Cleveland, he did not consider himself a commander.

The construction process is very simple and can even be simplified into just three steps: put the Rubik's Cube into the construction machine, start the machine, and wait for the construction results.

The construction machine was very large. After taking a few glances at it, Yang Sikang roughly guessed its purpose.

To activate the machine, the commander needs to keep his hand on the machine the whole time, which probably amplifies the "communication" process between the commander and the mind cube.

Chapter 7 Construction Failure

"Newcomers are generally not allowed to carry out special construction. What do you think?"

Light, heavy and special machines are the same type as the construction pool in the game, but I don’t know what the pool is like.

Yang Sikang took a quick glance and pointed to the one on the left.

"Just light."

"Lightweight? That's fine."

Cleveland nodded and walked over to talk to the staff next to the light construction machine.

Those people were very considerate of her, and the light construction machines that were originally used by a few people around were immediately freed up.

Obviously, Cleveland didn't want to give Yang Sikang time to find excuses to give up.

"Come on, give it a try."

Cleveland said as he made way for Yang Sikang.

Yang Sikang walked over, sighed slightly, and then took out two mind cubes.

Although Cleveland offered eight, he didn't really plan to use them all.

After two attempts at construction, if it had failed, Cleveland would have given up.

A Rubik's Cube was placed into the machine interface, and then Yang Sikang followed what others had done and put his hands on the machine and closed his eyes.

Driven by the Rubik's Cube, the machine started to work quickly. There was no noise as expected, and a ball of blue light suddenly appeared from the center of the machine, soft and dazzling but not glaring.

It looks like a deep blue sphere, with several darker rings surrounding it like star rings.

Yang Sikang's gaze was involuntarily attracted there. He felt as if he had passed through the star ring, through the blue light, through the energy of the mind cube, and saw the white light in the center.

That spot of white light was so brilliant and dazzling that he subconsciously wanted to walk over and take a closer look...

Suddenly! As if he had been electrocuted, Yang Sikang abruptly pulled his hand back from the machine, stepped back several steps in embarrassment, lost his balance and sat on the ground.

Fine beads of sweat appeared on his forehead and neck, his chest kept rising and falling violently, and his pupils kept expanding and shrinking in a fast rhythm.

At the same time, on the second floor of the construction room, in the room facing the construction machine, Qiye frowned, his eyes fixed on Yang Sikang.

There is no doubt that this was a failed construction, and the degree of failure was unprecedented.

The biggest advantage of the construction machine is that it can minimize the impact of the failed construction on the commander when the construction fails. All the impacts caused by the Mind Cube will be constrained by the construction machine.