Revisit Azur Lane

Kirov, along with Kursk and the Purifiers, arrived at the rendezvous point and immediately pushed out the Purifier. Bismarck looked surprised, not expecting Zhou He to act so quickly.

"I knew you were hiding information. Now that there's still time, tell me."

New Jersey waved her hand dismissively. Since Zhou He had already taught her a lesson, there was no need for her to put on a bad face anymore; pretending to be a bad person was quite tiring.

"I'll only say this once, so you'd better remember it."

The Purifier did not resist and explained the situation of the Agent and Arbitrator, and told them about the core of this test site—located in the center of the test site, which led to the shortest distance from any base.

Unlike Zhou He's brief explanation, this time the Purifier gave a detailed explanation of the physical characteristics and abilities of each Agent. Everyone present looked thoughtful after listening. The strength of the Agent's firepower was not important; what mattered most was their special abilities. After comparing them side by side, they found that the most dangerous one was actually the first Agent they encountered.

The electromagnetic interference that caused the ship's equipment to briefly lose control was truly deadly.

After some thought, Bismarck Hood and the others huddled together and exchanged ideas before finally spreading out to surround the Purifier. New Jersey waved to her, saying, "If any Agents attack later, give us a heads-up."

"give it to me!"

Purification felt like he had entered the inner circle, and proudly gave a thumbs up, acting like one of their own.

"...The commander is really amazing. How did he manage to train this guy to be so obedient?"

New Jersey clicked his tongue in amazement and jogged over to Kirov to ask him a question.

"Commander Comrade has an upright and honest character."

Kirov glanced at her and smiled: "Of course, we should appeal to their emotions and reason with them."

"really?"

The silly rabbit didn't quite believe it.

……

Chapter 194 Board of Directors

"Teacher, this is delicious!"

After a busy morning, Zhou He had lunch with Anchorage. Listening to the girl's cheerful and satisfied comments, Zhou He smiled slightly, then his gaze fell on Jarvis, who was feeding Anchorage: Even if Anchorage's mental age is low, she doesn't need to be taken care of like this, does she?

Now he's truly become Anbao.

"Commander, please rely on your own efforts."

Jarvis gave Zhou He a clear answer to his gaze, to which the latter scoffed dismissively. It was just feeding him; Hermione would definitely agree if he asked! Yuudachi would probably be willing to share his food with him too, right?

However, with the nurse's care, Zhou He no longer needed to constantly pay attention to what Anchorage was doing or what he wanted to do. He could even take the initiative to guide him. So, after eating a couple of bites of rice, he suggested to the two people in front of him, "I have some interesting storybooks stored in my office. During lunch break, Jarvis, why don't you take Anchorage to see if there are any that he likes?"

"Great!"

Anchorage's eyes lit up, and she clapped happily. Jarvis glanced at Zhou He and nodded in agreement. She knew that Zhou He was very concerned about the troops fighting outside. Although she had lectured Zhou He that morning, she thought his worries were normal.

If one day Zhou He becomes indifferent to their lives or deaths, that would be a truly serious problem.

After a simple lunch, Jarvis led Anchorage away first, while Zhou He stayed in the restaurant, ordered a coffee, and gazed at the greenery outside the window, the distant sea, and the sales booth that came into view. He was lost in thought for a while when he came to his senses and noticed two figures he hadn't seen in a long time approaching the restaurant with great excitement. He was quite surprised, but then he thought there was nothing surprising about it. Researchers also need to eat. However, these two usually have their biological clocks reversed, so it was quite rare for them to come to lunch on time today.

Zhou He didn't know what kind of research these two guys were doing behind his back, but since they didn't want to tell him now, there was no need for him to ask. However, after resolving this Mirror Sea incident, he would most likely be able to obtain a lot of modification data for Type II ship girls from the Purifiers. He didn't know if the system would include this data to help with the modification. If not, he would still have to rely on the two of them for help.

"Ah, Commander, it's been a long time. This expedition has been going on for quite a while. Is everything alright?"

Lingmin, upon entering the room, greeted Zhou He warmly as usual without flinching. In contrast, Ming Shi seemed somewhat timid, as if he had done something wrong and dared not meet Zhou He's gaze.

"The situation is relatively stable at present, but whether we can return safely depends on the progress of subsequent operations."

Zhou He took a sip from his cup: "Have you been studying the Builder's body these past few days?"

"Yes, hehe, once the relevant products are successfully developed and debugged, I'll definitely give you a big surprise, Commander!"

Lingmin reached out and patted Mingshi on the back, making the kitten straighten up as well. She meowed a few words: "The more you study the Builder's body functions, the more profound they become. Many basic designs are combined to form new functions, so both the modification of the body's shape and the adjustment of its performance are very complicated, meow."

"Yeah."

Zhou He didn't quite understand, but in short, Lingmin and Mingshi were using the Builder's body to conduct their own research and development!

No matter the industry, doing research and development on your own is always the most difficult. Asking about the progress rashly might affect their thinking. So he put down his cup and smiled, "Keep up the good work. We can handle things outside the port area. But there might be other technical things brought back later. We'll have to trouble you with those."

"Order!"

Lingmin saluted and responded quite seriously. Akashi also perked up, patting his chest confidently and promising, "Commander, bring as many as you like, meow! There must be connections between the various technologies of the Sirens. We will find out these connections and find ways to deal with the seemingly magical and unsolvable performance of the Sirens' meow!"

"Oh! Please help me."

Zhou He nodded with great anticipation. Although his family's low-to-mid-range technology foundation (high-end technology was in the system) was very poor, it was because his family had only been established for a short time. He believed that in another three to five years, Ming Shi and Ling Min would definitely be able to come up with those strange gadgets that were defined as black technology.

After dealing with Zhou He, Lingmin and Mingshi went to order food, occasionally whispering among themselves. Zhou He glanced at them and then looked away, opening the system interface to take a look at the dock. During this period, his fleet had fought several battles. Judging from the durability, a total of thirteen people were injured, both in the front and rear ranks. The most serious consumption was ammunition, with almost everyone using more than half of it. Only a few aircraft carriers still had sufficient stock.

"Without the system's supply vouchers, which are practically free, the cost of ammunition alone would be astronomical."

Zhou He was secretly alarmed. He quickly used 40 supply tokens to fully replenish everyone's supplies before switching to another interface to check. The daily combat mission had been completed, and after claiming the rewards, he could see that his Rubik's Cube storage had reached an astonishing 25.

Looking at this alarmingly large number, Zhou He felt for the first time that having too many resources was also a bit of a problem: the later the ship girls joined, the greater the gap between them and the first tier, and there weren't many Sirens left to practice on and upgrade. Now, he was even having a hard time finding two mass-produced types for Anchorage to practice on.

Now, facing the upgraded Type II and Type III Executors and the even stronger Agents, even if he replaced all these cubes with ship girls, he might not be able to gain a huge advantage, and there might even be an unexpectedly high casualty rate.

'We need to figure out a way to create a dedicated area for grinding experience points.'

Zhou He tapped his fingers lightly on the table. If there was a place that could continuously produce Sirens for his ship girls to level up, then the Mirror Sea would be the only place that could meet this requirement. And there just happened to be one such place in his field of vision.

Switching to the open world map, Zhou He's gaze was fixed on the Siren base in the west. Taking this place would be equivalent to taking over a Siren production line, not only for mass production, but also for producing Type I and Type III Executors, which could be used to set up different levels of 'training grounds' for his own ship girls.

"Looks like I'm going to have to fight this place to the death."

Zhou He chuckled and looked at the Agent XIV, whose avatar overlapped with the tester's, who had already arrived at the base. He wondered how to take this place with minimal damage and destruction. Maybe he should ask Purification to trip up the tester and mobilize the defensive forces here.

As he was thinking, he saw the Executor XIV begin to move, followed by a long line of Type III purple Executors. From their direction of movement, it was clear that they were heading towards his port.

"interesting."

Zhou He stared intently. As the Agent XIV walked further and further away, there were no more individual Executors to be seen in the base. They had all been brought out by this Agent.

He felt a pang of regret, knowing that the Siren base must be at its weakest point at this time, but unfortunately he didn't have a strong enough fleet to raid it.

"..."

Suddenly, he thought of another outsider on the map. Upon checking, he discovered that the blue warship fleet was also approaching his location. At this rate, these two fleets were very likely to meet and fight right at his doorstep!

This is a good opportunity to test whether the Blue Dots are hostile to the Sirens, but the Blue Fleet is small, consisting of only one large warship and two escort ships. It is no match for the XIV, which is launching a full-scale attack. Not to mention that the XIV has electromagnetic interference capabilities, which is a god-tier skill in modern warfare.

"Sensitive".

He suddenly looked at Lingmin, who was helping Manjiu serve the dishes. Lingmin jumped up and stood up straight, looking at him: "Commander, is there something you need?"

Do you have any drones that are conspicuous on electronic radar and can be used to transmit information?

Zhou He gestured with his hand.

"what?"

Lingmin understood, but not completely. After thinking for a moment, she shook her head: "Drones are not very big, and their main purpose is to hide. There is none of the kind you want, Commander. Even if you install a signal tower, it can't afford it."

"Hmm, I was overthinking it."

Zhou He nodded silently, put his empty cup on the table, got up and walked out of the restaurant. As he walked, he selected his fishing speedboat No. 1 from the dock and remotely controlled it to start, moving quickly towards the blue warship.

He never imagined that these speedboats could also be used as long-distance communication devices.

……

A two-way journey is always the shortest distance. The speedboat Zhou He sent out was fast, and it met the blue warship in less than half an hour. However, what puzzled him was that he lost control of the speedboat shortly after they met. It wasn't so much control as he said that he could no longer move the speedboat. In addition, the speedboat did not have a video template, so he could only communicate by communication. Therefore, he unilaterally opened the contact and waited for someone on the other side to notice.

He didn't have to wait long. Soon, footsteps came from the other end of the speedboat. They were very crisp, and the person seemed to be wearing high heels or something similar. Judging from the footsteps, there was only one person.

"Friends on the other side, nice to meet you. We are an exploration team from the Fourth Task Force of the Council. Are you survivors who escaped the ANTI-X test site?"

The voice was female, with a cool and slightly low tone, giving off a businesslike feel.

“ANTI-X? I call them sirens here. I come from another world. You can think of me as someone who escaped from another testing ground.”

Zhou He heard a term that seemed mysterious in the game, but fortunately he already knew from the Purifier that this so-called Antix was actually the original name of the Sirens created in the primordial world, so he smoothly continued the conversation.

"I see. The poor spatial stability of this sea area must be caused by you. We came here to investigate the expeditionary fleet that went missing here. The last coordinates they were on before they disappeared are here. Have you found any traces of them?"

After a brief summary, the female member of the exploration team explained her purpose: "That fleet has left behind the coordinates of one of our council's bases. If ANTI-X were to obtain them, it would have extremely serious consequences."

"A coordinate device that went missing nearby?"

Zhou He frowned and pondered for a while. Suddenly, he remembered that when he fought with Akagi and Kaga before, a Siren team had retrieved a strange object nearby. He didn't take it; Akagi took it away directly.

Could that thing be the coordinate device these people are looking for?

He thought for a moment and then told the truth: "I have never come into contact with your so-called coordinate device, but not long ago, we destroyed a Siren testing ground in the waters near your fleet. On the way, a ship girl team from another world obtained a special device that had been salvaged by the Sirens and then returned to their world."

The person on the other end remained silent for a moment before replying, "Another world's uncontaminated ship girl fleet, I understand."

"Instead of this, the Sirens Agent XIV are approaching this way, and you will run into them if you don't turn back."

Zhou He offered a reminder, explaining that this was the fundamental reason he had made contact with this side. If this side were allies, he could try to win them over, as it might bring him unknown benefits.

If he fails to secure it, he will lose a speedboat, which is essentially a risk-free investment.

"So they really did catch up with us. Thank you for reminding me."

After she finished speaking, Zhou He heard her walk a few steps away and start talking to others. The fleet of three ships on the large map began to turn back, which made him breathe a sigh of relief. Then he suddenly remembered something, stared at the 3D avatar of the warship, and confirmed that it was indeed a warship.

Normally, this kind of display, which resembles a mini-boss, is applied to humanoid creatures, but this display shows a warship. This is enough to show that the Council's technology has already been able to mass-produce powerful warships on par with the Sirens Agents.

Meanwhile, he's still figuring out even the most basic mass-produced fleet. How realistic, how vast the gap!

He was so envious!

"Sorry to keep you waiting. Let me introduce myself again. I am Colorado from the Exploration Team of the Fourth Task Force of the Council, formerly part of the White Eagle Fleet."

The woman opposite him spoke again, but what she said greatly surprised Zhou He. However, after thinking about it carefully, he realized that the council here was originally a huge force built around Meta ship girls as the core and ordinary ship girls as assistants. It was not surprising that the people holding positions were ship girls. So he nodded and said, "I am Zhou He from Donghuang, the current commander of this port. I am fighting against the Sirens in this area, which you call ANTI-X, for my own safety and the safety of those around me."

"Donghuang... Hmm, I understand."

Colorado seemed surprised as well, but quickly recovered: "Thank you for your help. Since you have your own independent space, you certainly don't want to go back with us. For the purpose of communication, we will take this ship back."

"The boat is fine."

Zhou He thought to himself, "No wonder the speedboat couldn't move anymore; it's been caught."

But judging from Colorado's words, they seemed to be planning to slip away like that, which wouldn't do. He wasn't taking the initiative for the sake of future communication that might be of unknown use. So after thinking it over, he said, "At present, our main fleet in the port area is trapped in a distant test range. After Agent XIV's exploration here has yielded no results, it may go to join the battle. I hope that your fleet can help me reduce the defensive fleet of the nearby Siren base after it leaves. The testers of the experimental agency are stationed there."

"It seems you are quite favored by ANTI-X. As for the experimental apparatus, we can help with that."

Colorado initially thought Zhou He wanted them to help deal with the test site, but it turned out he wanted them to help launch a surprise attack on the base while the main force of ANTI-X was out in force. Zhou He helped them avoid the battle with Agent XIV, so they naturally had no problem helping with this small favor.