Azur Lane, I really didn’t lose my memory!

"Commander, regarding your new teeth, I have a guess..."

145-Lu Xiuyuan

"What guess?"

"It's just a guess. Commander, the fact that you've grown new teeth is a little unscientific. I can only start from an unscientific perspective."

The female kitchen god sat behind her desk, her hands folded under her chin: "Then next, I will ask the questions, and you answer them, Commander."

Lu Xiuyuan nodded.

"First of all, Commander, have you been having some cowardly thoughts lately?"

"Well... I think normal people should be afraid of death. After all, life is good and comfortable, who would want to die?"

These were some strange questions, but Lu Xiuyuan still answered them truthfully.

"Then let me ask you another question. Commander, have you recently felt envious of the immortality of the shipgirls, or anxious about the short life span of humans?"

"some."

This road is definitely long.

He had just escaped a shipwreck not long ago, and by sheer luck he had traveled to the port area.

After experiencing death, people often lament the preciousness of life.

Besides, now that he has so many ship girl wives by his side, Lu Xiuyuan is living a very happy life, which is an experience he never had in the past.

But at the same time, when the night was quiet, Lu Xiuyuan could not help but think about what the port area and everyone in it would be like a hundred years from now.

Especially after seeing "Knight" today, which reminded him of the dog that had accompanied him for many years and finally died of old age and ran away from home, his anxiety about life span became more serious.

"That's right..." the Kitchen Goddess murmured.

"What matched?" Lu Xiuyuan asked.

"It's just a guess, a rule drawn from observation." The Kitchen Goddess said:

"Because I am the only human doctor in the port area, I have basically come into contact with all the ship girls who have traveled from other worlds to the port area. After my observation, most of them have one common characteristic."

"They were humans or some other species in their own world, but after traveling to this world, for some unknown reason, their bodies underwent major changes..."

"My body is beginning to resemble that of a ship girl, becoming more idealistic..."

"That's why, although their adaptability to ship suits is not as high as normal ship girls, they can still match ship suits. I call them 'acquired ship girls'."

"And your current situation, Commander, is somewhat similar to theirs..."

Lu Xiuyuan was stunned for a moment, and he said, "Goddess of the Kitchen, you mean that I became a ship girl after arriving at the port like Mary Rose and the others? Ah, no, in my case, I should be called a ship man?"

Lu Xiuyuan smiled and thought, “Becoming a ship man is a bit absurd, right?”

However, when the Kitchen Goddess told him seriously that "the possibility of becoming a ship man cannot be ruled out", Lu Xiuyuan became restless.

He carefully pondered the Kitchen Goddess's guess, and then suddenly discovered something.

That is, he did not tell the Goddess of the Hearth one thing - he himself, like Mary Rose and the others, had traveled from another world.

Most of the ship girls who came through the crossover were ordinary people in their own worlds, not ship girls. They became ship girls after traveling through time, or in other words, they had the conditions to become ship girls after traveling through time.

From what the Kitchen Goddess just said, Lu Xiuyuan can roughly conclude that not everyone who puts on a ship uniform can become a natural-born ship girl, otherwise ship girls would have been everywhere long ago.

Even women who can become acquired ship girls can only do so after meeting certain special physical conditions.

Mary Rose and the others did not have this "condition" before they traveled through time, but they did after they traveled through time.

Thinking about it this way, my situation seems to be very similar to that of the collaborative ship girls.

So am I also in the process of traveling through time or...is there any change in my body after traveling through time that satisfies the "conditions"?

The more Lu Xiuyuan thought about it, the more he felt that this possibility was very high.

He suddenly remembered that before he woke up in the hospital, he was rescued from the sea by a kind-hearted person and received artificial respiration and cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

He initially thought it was done by Perseus, who was the first to discover him, but after verification he found that it was not the case, but someone else.

If I think about it this way, if I really became the "ship man" mentioned by the female kitchen god, it would probably be related to the citrus-scented girl who gave me artificial respiration.

"If your conjecture is true, Goddess of the Kitchen, is there any way to test whether I have really become a ship man?"

Lu Xiuyuan's tone was serious and solemn. If this was true, wouldn't he be able to be with his ship girl wife forever?

It doesn’t matter if I’m not a human being, and it doesn’t matter if I become a ship man, as long as I can be with everyone forever.

"It's actually very simple to test it. Commander, wait a moment."

The Kitchen Goddess took out two bottles of black unknown liquid from the freezer.

She placed two bottles of liquid in front of Lu Xiuyuan, pointed at the liquid and asked, "Commander, smell it, which of these two bottles is Coke?"

Rafi, who was sitting in the waiting area, saw the Kitchen Goddess suddenly take out two bottles of Oxygen Coke. His eyes suddenly lit up, and he jumped off the bench and wanted to get the Oxygen Coke.

The little girl took only a few steps before she was stopped by Guanghui, a wife who was good at taking care of her husband and children. She stopped the little girl from touching the experimental equipment and said, "Lafei, you can't disturb the goddess of the kitchen to diagnose the disease."

Lafite, who had rarely been in high spirits, suddenly became listless again.

Although he did not show his joy on his face, Guanghui was more anxious than the person involved, Lu Xiuyuan.

Unlike the unconscious Rafi, Guanghui just listened to the entire conversation between the commander and the other two.

As a ship girl, Glory could tell at a glance that there was something strange about the two bottles of liquid, and she wanted to help the commander make the right choice directly, but if she did that the test would be meaningless.

If... just if, if the Kitchen Goddess's guess is really correct, then it would definitely be a great thing for the port area.

There are many ship girls, but only one commander.

The human lifespan is no more than a hundred years. Even if everyone shares it equally, each person will actually only get a small amount of commander time.

The commander's time is limited. If you take up more time, others will take up less time.

Although it was a bit selfish to say this, even if she was called selfish, she still wanted to occupy the commander's time more greedily.

And if the current guess of the Vesta is true, and the commander can become a ship hero, then theoretically the commander can accompany them forever!

It’s really exciting to think about.

The tense experiment began. Lu Xiuyuan was puzzled as he looked at the two bottles of liquid on the table that were almost identical in both bottle shape and color.

"Can you open the bottle cap?" Lu Xiuyuan couldn't tell with just his eyes.

"Sure." The Kitchen Goddess took out a bottle opener from the drawer and handed it to Lu Xiuyuan.

When I opened the bottle cap, the expected "pop" sound when the carbonated beverage was opened did not come from the bottle cap.

"I can't hear it either. Can I smell it?"

"can."

Lu Xiuyuan bent down and smelled them one by one, but he could not smell anything at all, as if the two bottles in front of him were filled with boiled water.

"Commander... haven't you smelled it yet?" The female kitchen god frowned slightly. Logically, she should have smelled it. After all, the smell was so obvious. Could it be that...

Lu Xiuyuan shook his head. He really didn’t smell it.

"Can I have a drink?"

The female kitchen god thought for a moment and said, "Okay, but Commander, you must spit it out after tasting it. You can't actually drink it."

Lu Xiuyuan nodded, then picked up a bottle of drink and took a sip without swallowing it. Then he put the bottle down and said, "This is it."

The female kitchen god's pupils dilated, and she asked excitedly, "Commander, are you sure it's this bottle?"

"determine."

"Let me confirm again, Commander, have you ever had pica in the past?"

"Definitely not."

"So..."

The female kitchen god kept it a secret for a while, then smiled and said, "Commander, congratulations, you have become the first ship man in history."

"what?"

Lu Xiuyuan was still in a daze. Has he really become a ship hero?

Guanghui walked into the room, unable to hide her happiness on her face. She clapped her hands softly and congratulated him, "Congratulations, Commander. I don't know why, but it must be a good thing to be a ship captain."

"congratulations."

Rafi also read it well, and she walked straight to the desk with a clear goal. The little girl stood on tiptoe to pick up the bottle of liquid that Lu Xiuyuan had not tasted, and then stuttered.

"Burp~Coke tastes really good."

Lafite burped in a very unladylike manner, and the gentle Mrs. Guanghui took out a handkerchief and gently wiped the corners of the little girl's mouth.

"Ah, the bottle of Lafite is also Coke?" Lu Xiuyuan widened his eyes. What's the point of the test if both bottles are Coke?

The Kitchen Goddess smiled and explained, "Indeed, both bottles are Coke, but they are not ordinary Coke, but acid Coke."

"This cola is made from petroleum and is used to provide fuel for ships. Although it looks the same as regular cola, it tastes different to different people."

"If a ship girl drinks it, it will taste just like normal cola. But if a human drinks it,

It has a special taste, but humans can’t drink it either.”

“So that’s how it is.” Lu Xiuyuan suddenly realized. Speaking of which, he seemed to have tasted some of the acid cola brought by Lafite at noon, and he didn’t find anything unusual at the time.

Now think about it, I was really courting death. If I were really an ordinary person and had rashly eaten the food reserved for ship girls, I would probably be in the hospital having my stomach washed now.

"So I have really become a ship-man now... Lu Xiuyuan?"

Happiness came too suddenly, and Lu Xiuyuan was not mentally prepared. Although the female kitchen god, who was a doctor, had given him a diagnosis, Lu Xiuyuan still felt that it was a little unreal.

"Of course, Commander. Since you can identify Oxygen Coke, it means that you do have similar abilities as Mary Rose and the others."

The female kitchen god speculated: "As for the fact that you have grown new teeth, Commander... I guess it has something to do with the Commander's recent anxiety."

"Because you have anxiety about death, Commander, you believe that you will grow old and die, and your body responds accordingly. Normal metabolism continues."

"But on the other hand, the desire for immortality makes the body take actions to reflect immortality, but it cannot stop "metabolism", so the compromise product of growing new teeth appears."

When Lu Xiuyuan mentioned teeth, he felt that his teeth were beginning to hurt: "So what should I do with my teeth now?"

"It's very simple, Commander, you just need to believe that you are immortal and your body doesn't need metabolism."

"Uh...I try to believe it."

Lu Xiuyuan thought that this matter was not that simple.

You have been metabolizing for more than 20 years, and suddenly you tell your body that you don’t need to metabolize anymore, you have immortality, so take a break, little brother.

Lu Xiuyuan cannot fully accept the fact that he has immortality for the time being and needs some time to adapt.

The female kitchen god had taken over many shipgirls from other worlds and had rich experience. She saw what Lu Xiuyuan was thinking and comforted him, "Commander, don't worry too much. It's normal that you can't accept becoming a shipboy for a while. It will take some time to adapt. If your teeth still hurt during this period... I'll prescribe some painkillers for you."

"also."

The female Kitchen Goddess was bent over her desk, the girl's hands writing furiously on the prescription. Although it was a prescription for painkillers for Lu Xiuyuan, what was written on the prescription was vitamin tablets. Anyway, the commander couldn't understand the handwriting on the doctor's prescription, so he just prescribed a vitamin tablet as a comfort therapy.

What's more, this comfort therapy is really useful. As long as the commander firmly believes that she is prescribing painkillers, the vitamin tablets can really play the role of painkillers.

Leaving the Seaside Hospital and walking on the way back to Mrs. Guanghui's house.

On the way back, Lu Xiuyuan was in a good mood, and even his steps were lighter.

"Commander, I'm very happy today."

Guanghui and Lu Xiuyuan held Lafite's hands on the left and right, and little Lafite walked in the middle, like their child.

"Yes, becoming a ship man means I can be with you guys forever, how can I not be happy?" Lu Xiuyuan said, "Speaking of which... now that I'm a ship man, can I also sail on the sea with a ship suit like you guys?"

"It should be no problem. Just ask Akashi and the others to customize a set of ship uniforms."

Guanghui continued, "By the way, if you become a ship-man, what type of ship equipment would you like to carry, Commander?"

Lu Xiuyuan thought for a while and said, "It's definitely a battleship. A large-caliber main gun that can hit the target with one shot is the romance of a man."

Guanghui covered his mouth and chuckled: "It really suits the Commander's style. I remember that the Commander used to be a firm believer in big ships and big guns."

"The truth is only within the range of cannons. Bigger is better, more is beautiful. The stronger the power, the more democratic; the longer the range, the more freedom; the larger the caliber, the more justice; the thicker the armor, the more human rights; the larger the tonnage, the more equality." Lu Xiuyuan talked eloquently.

The outline of Mrs. Guanghui's house gradually emerged in the sight.

In the distance, a purple-haired girl holding a white unicorn stood in the flower bed at the door and waved at them shyly.

Lu Xiuyuan suddenly changed his words and said, “Madam, I suddenly don’t want to be a battleship anymore.