Elder brother's garrison

"Yes, she's amazing. It's because Dr. Yubari's paper contained many viewpoints and technologies that are very beneficial to the current ship girl technology that she was promoted to her current position by the higher-ups. We should also consult and learn from Dr. Yubari more often."

"How strong is Dr. Zhang as a ship girl?"

"Uh... well... actually, I don't know either. Dr. Yubari has worked here for so many years, always focusing on her research projects. She has never used ship equipment in front of us, and we have never seen her combat data... I guess... maybe... she might not be very good at combat."

"Ah... then Dr. Yubari is in grave danger during this exercise..."

"That's right... if someone of Dr. Yubari's stature were to get injured during an exercise, it would be a huge loss for our ship equipment research center... Sigh, Dr. Yubari has always been so calm before, why has she suddenly become so impulsive this time..."

"..."

Having overheard this, the ship girl's lips curled up slightly, and she glanced at Yubari not far away with a hint of disdain.

—So she really is a science-oriented ship girl through and through.

I get it now. I was worried before that she was scheming something by practicing with me. But now I see that this light cruiser girl is probably not good at combat at all and doesn't understand the desperate gap between battleships and light cruisers. Plus, she's been a keyboard warrior for years, and if no one teaches her a lesson, she'll really think she's very capable.

Since that's the case, and considering that we're destined to meet, I'll take responsibility and give you a good wake-up call in front of everyone, so you'll realize the difference in combat power between ship types!

Thinking of this, the ship girl's heart was filled with a surge of fighting spirit.

Five minutes passed in the blink of an eye.

Under the watchful eyes of the researchers, Yubari and the ship girl sailed along the port to the spacious lake, entered the center of the lake, and faced each other from afar.

The artificial lake has a very wide surface area.

Although this place cannot compare to the real sea, at least the ship girls will not feel restricted when conducting exercises.

"The exercise is about to start, aren't you going to take off that white lab coat you're wearing?" The ship girl looked at Yubari in the distance and gave her a smug smile.

"This?" Yubari lowered his head, glanced at his white coat, and said with utter calmness, "I don't need it to deal with you."

"...Hmph, while you still have the strength, you'd better say all the harsh words you can think of right now." The ship girl was speechless after being retorted by Yubari, and stood there stunned for a long time before her face turned red with anger. "Otherwise, when the battle starts and you can't even withstand a few of my shots before you collapse, then you won't have a chance!"

"so rude."

Yubari gently tossed his head.

"On the battlefield, seniority doesn't matter! Even if you have more seniority than me, I am still more senior than you..."

"If you utter another word, your entire naval base will explode."

"You—" The ship girl glared at him angrily.

"Be careful. Based on your next actions, you might lose your admiral in a linguistic sense," Yubari said earnestly to the ship girl.

"...I won't stoop to your level."

The ship girl's shoulders trembled with anger.

However, after taking a deep breath, the ship girl finally gave up on continuing the pointless verbal argument with Yubari. She gradually calmed down and silently stared at Yubari in the distance with an angry look.

The whistle for the exercise was placed in the hand of a researcher on land.

Shortly after Yubari and the ship girls finished their first round of trash talk, the researchers on land, after a three-second delay, finally slowly blew the whistle to signal the start of the exercise, following the two ship girls raising their hands.

“戾”

A loud whistle, like a bird taking flight, rose from the ground and instantly filled the entire lake.

Upon hearing the whistle, before Yubari on the other side could even make a move, the ship girl on this side stomped her foot hard on the water.

Water splashed up, and a burst of white light flashed.

A massive battleship rigging appeared behind the ship girl, gleaming with metallic luster in the sunlight.

"Let me show you the range and destructive power of a battleship!" After summoning her battleship equipment at the first moment, the ship girl quickly turned the gun barrel, aimed at Yubari who had just begun to move in the distance, and fired a fierce shot.

boom! ! !

The roar of artillery shells spread across the lake, causing ripples on the water.

The fiery red cannonball shot high into the air and crashed down on the area where Yubari was located.

The biggest gap in combat power between battleships and light cruisers, besides the most basic "armor value" and "attack power", is the range of their artillery fire. This is a huge and desperate chasm between light cruisers and battleships.

Before the light cruiser shipgirls get close to the battleship shipgirls, the battleships can rely on their gun range, which is far greater than that of the light cruisers, to hit the light cruiser shipgirls who are trying to get close to them like target practice, and defeat the light cruiser shipgirls on their way to them.

In fact, this is indeed the case.

Just as Yubari moved closer to the ship girl, the ship girl fired a main gun shell. A fiery red shell with billowing smoke was falling from the sky and was about to hit Yubari.

boom! !

Just as the shell was about to hit Yubari, at that very moment...

Yubari dodged the whistling shell with a ghostly sidestep.

The shells crashed into the water, sending up high splashes.

Yubari swung her arm, breaking through the water. With a gentle wave of her hand, she summoned her light cruiser rigging and then, like a fiery red lightning bolt, headed straight towards the direction where the ship girl was.

"Tsk...didn't hit you..." The ship girl in the distance frowned as she watched Yubari barely dodge her shelling. "Hmph...but I had plenty of time to aim at you before I entered your attack range...besides, you're just a light cruiser, so what if you get close? You're not a destroyer...wait, what???"

The ship girl, who was talking to herself, was halfway through her sentence when she stared at the ship equipment summoned by Yubari. Her expression suddenly froze, and then she was shocked.

"Huh? That's not right!!"

"Why does your ship have four weapon slots?!"

Chapter 1652 This bowl... this bowl is high-tech!

Right in the ship girl's sight.

Yubari, riding on tall, thin jet-powered mechanical legs and wielding a large black submachine gun-like mechanical gun, charged straight toward the ship girl amidst a burst of sparks and lightning.

Yubari's ship equipment has a significantly different art style from that of ordinary ship girls.

Compared to other conventional ship girls who honestly carry ship equipment and remotely control giant cannons to fight, Yubari's fighting style, which transforms her ship equipment into a dark and shiny mechanical exoskeleton and then transforms her into a mechanical Gundam wielding a machine gun, is as hardcore as a mudslide in a moe anime.

—But even so, even if Yubari transforms into a Gundam using her ship equipment, it shouldn't surprise the ship girls fighting against her too much.

After all, the world is too big, and strange things happen all the time. A light cruiser ship girl with a slightly strange art style is not something that is particularly unbelievable. Even if the art style of a light cruiser ship girl is strange, is it still the light cruiser ship girl that is wrong?

That's what the ship girls initially thought when they were doing exercises with Yubari.

But soon.

When the ship girls began to examine Yubari's ship equipment, they discovered some clues on it, and a sense of disbelief and shock immediately overwhelmed them.

—She actually saw four torpedo launchers radiating colorful light on the large machine gun rig that Yubari was holding!

Four?

There are four!

Why are there four?!

The moment this ship girl saw Yubari's ship equipment, her worldview was completely shaken.

This ship girl is named Yubari...

Her ship equipment has four weapon slots!

impossible!

Isn't this a privilege only for large warships? Why does a light cruiser have four weapon slots on her ship equipment? She...

For ship girls, the limitation of weapon slots is as solid as the pillar that maintains their worldview as ship girls, and it is also the pride of large ships compared to small and medium-sized ships. Now that this privilege that only large ships have is appearing on someone else, this ship girl can hardly suppress her surprise and doubt.

"You... what kind of ship are you?! How come your ship equipment has four weapon slots that only large ships have?! You... who are you?!"

The ship girl frantically shouted at Yubari on the sea.

The shouts carried on the waves in the center of the lake.

Despite the ship girl's loud shouts, Yubari, who was rushing towards her, just smiled slightly and gripped the machine gun handle tightly.

"Haha! Things in this world... are far more complicated than you imagine, young man!" Yubari shouted at the ship girl, his entire body accelerating into a bright red light under the jet flames of his ship equipment, closing a large distance with the ship girl in the blink of an eye.

"You...you're just playing tricks!" The ship girl's formation had clearly been disrupted by Yubari's ship rigging. She retreated rapidly, trying to delay Yubari from closing the distance as much as possible. Then, she raised the battleship rigging behind her, and the sound of gunfire rang out continuously. One after another, fiery iron balls spewed from the ship rigging's gun barrels and rained down from the sky, bombarding Yubari's path of advance.

For ship girls, the four equipment slots bring more than just the ability to use one more weapon at the same time.

In fact, after a ship girl's equipment is connected to her ship equipment, it can amplify the ship equipment's attributes to some extent. A ship girl equipped with four pieces of equipment not only has more attack methods than a ship girl equipped with only three pieces of equipment, but also has a certain degree of increased attack power.

Logically speaking, even if a light cruiser with three equipment slots gets close to a battleship, it would be difficult for her weak guns and low-powered torpedoes to cause significant damage. In fact, because of the close proximity, she might barely scratch the battleship before being blasted into a major state by a counter-attack from the battleship.

This is a difference in basic attributes.

But at the moment.

When Yubari displayed her ship rigging equipped with four colored torpedoes, the battleship girl sensed a strong aura of danger emanating from it. This was a battlefield intuition she had instinctively developed through long battles and countless bloody struggles.

A light cruiser with four torpedo slots not only means that the number of waves of torpedoes she can launch simultaneously is increased by 1, but also that the damage of each wave of torpedoes is increased. The total burst damage value accumulated from these two increases is more than double that of a ship girl with only three torpedo launchers installed!

If that terrifying thing gets close... if it hits you... even for a battleship... even for a battleship like myself, the consequences would be far more severe than being tickled by an ordinary light cruiser!

We absolutely must not let her get close!

Absolutely not!

boom!

The last shells from that volley of fire exploded on the sea surface, creating a dazzling spray.

Yubari's ghostly figure seemed to have a cheat code, moving with incredible agility among the shells, perfectly dodging all attacks, and relying on its high speed, it quickly approached the battleship girl.

The battleship girl looked towards Yubari, who had broken through the waterline.

For a moment.

His gaze then fixed on Yubari's eyes, which were staring in his direction.

Those were pink eyes, shimmering with an unusual radiance and unwavering determination.

It was also a pair of eyes... like those of a hunter in the grass, watching its prey fall into a trap.

She is a hunter.

I am... the prey.

Am I... the prey?

The battleship girl stood frozen for a moment.

"Alas!"

at this moment.

Amidst a chilling shiver, the battleship girl felt every cell in her body tremble. She took a few quick breaths and watched as Yubari accelerated toward her as if she had a cheat code. A sense of panic flashed across her eyes. She focused all her attention, controlled her ship equipment, and began to bombard Yubari's direction in a frantic manner.

"How could I... how could I be... by a ship girl like you..."

Boom boom boom boom boom————

A barrage of shells rained down from the sky, perfectly blocking Yubari's advance.

But just a second ago, Yubari was charging forward recklessly. The next second, the jet exoskeleton on her legs shuddered violently, and a large amount of jets instantly turned around. Then, Yubari made an extremely awkward right-angle turn on the sea surface, bypassing the battleship girl's bombing zone.

It only took a few seconds.

Yubari's figure, like an ever-approaching red flash, finally drew near to the battleship girl's danger zone.

"Hiss—" The battleship girl looked at the mechanical machine gun in Yubari's hand, her pupils shrinking involuntarily, and a sense of fear, as if she were being approached by a destroyer in night battle, rose in her heart.

The battleship girl instinctively raised her gun turret and fired at Yubari.

But just like the previous shelling.

Even after getting close and the shelling distance was effectively shortened, Yubari seemed to have perfectly calculated all of the battleship girl's shells, dodging all the shells with the most nerve-wracking grazing technique.

"Why...why were you able to dodge them all?!"

"No way! How could you..."

The battleship girls' mentality has been completely shattered by Yubari's relaxed and carefree attitude.

Another wave of shots.

Yubari's figure was already close at hand, and the four torpedo launchers on the mechanical machine gun in her hand were also emitting a dazzling light...

"You! Don't come any closer!!!"

The battleship girl was completely thrown into disarray, and she instinctively turned around and tried to run away.

But the instant she turned around, a figure appeared behind her like a ghost.