The Naval Base of the Unnamed Ship Girls

“A loss is a loss. The Black Forest Chapter never makes excuses after a defeat.” Bismarck shook her head, ignoring the advice of Scharnhorst and the Gneisenau sisters, and continued, “Everyone, take a rest. Don’t worry the Admiral.”

Then, without saying a word, he turned and walked towards the solitary confinement cell.

"Lord Bismarck?" Scharnhorst watched as Bismarck walked into the confinement room alone on his ship and closed the door, unsure of what to say.

Just as all the ship girls in the Black Forest Squad were worried that their captain might be having psychological problems, a familiar roar came from the supposedly soundproof and lightproof confinement room:

I'm so angry!

Upon hearing this, the ship girls in the entertainment room, who knew that their captain had only suffered a bit of a blow and hadn't actually developed any psychological problems, all breathed a sigh of relief.

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After a day of fierce fighting, this admiral successfully defeated the E7 BOSS, Deep Sea Bismarck.

The configuration for eliminating the fleet is:

Flagship: LV79 Bismarck

Position 2: LV15 Wichita

Position 3: LV51 Prince Eugen

Position 4: LV20 Large Bluefin

Position 5: LV94 Saratoga

Position 6: LV95 Lexington

The kill cost nearly 100 quick repairs, 5 elite damage control units, and countless resources.

The final blow was delivered by a level 20 mackerel. It was the last hit during the night battle. Once the favorability rating is high enough, I'll definitely reward it with a ring!

After defeating E7, I, the admiral, passed by the boss of E8 and saw that all of them had three-digit health points.

This admiral thinks... I should just stay a couch potato.

This health increase is way too OP! The E7 Deep Sea Bismarck only has a little over 100 HP, how come the E8 Deep Sea Tirpitz has almost 400 HP?

Can I put a tall cabinet on every B-25 bomber on an aircraft carrier?

So... it's still too salty.

Chapter 230 Third Party

Unlike the Black Forest team, which was immediately kicked out of the game room after their defeat, the team that remained in the room was given ten minutes of celebration time by the system.

But clearly, the members of this team, known as the Cabbage Team, had no intention of celebrating this incredibly easy victory.

This is not simply because the system detected that these nineteen vehicles had not participated in the battle and labeled each of them as an "amateur slacker".

The main reason is that the Vulture, a CV33+T54 modified vehicle controlled by Hyperion and Adun, performed too ridiculously well.

"Is this... over?" Lei, the vice-captain of the Cabbage Squad, asked Captain Z1, unsure of how to phrase his question.

"It's probably over." Z1, the commander, was a little confused. Just as Z1 was feeling lost and at a loss, Lei, remembering something, jumped off his tank, grabbed a crowbar, and started working on the tank's tracks.

"Lei, what are you doing?" Z1 asked curiously, his thoughts interrupted by Lei's actions.

"I'll try again to see if I can dismantle this tank and build a new one." Although Lei tried his best, the tank didn't budge.

In the real world, a destroyer like Lei could easily lift a tank weighing tens of tons with one hand. However, in the game world, Lei, whose physique has been weakened to the same level as a normal human, is helpless against this steel monster.

"Is there any point in doing this?" Z1 felt that even if he dismantled all 19 tanks around him, he still wouldn't be able to put together a warship.

"At least it proves that what those two ship girls did was meaningful," Lei said after struggling for a while and finally giving up.

"Them?" Z1, finally remembering what he should do because of Ray's words, hurriedly shouted into the carriage: "Z16, contact those two ship girls, I have something I want to ask them."

“It’s no use. The other party hasn’t even completed the newbie quests yet. We can’t contact them without joining the communication channel.” Z16 didn’t think it was worth doing this.

“They didn’t finish before, but now they’ve all finished,” Z1 said seriously.

"Huh? Are you serious? I didn't know that. Let me try." Z16 didn't know why her top ship was so sure that the other party had completed the newbie mission. She adjusted the communicator in front of her, trying to contact the two unfamiliar ship girls.

"..." Z16's expression froze for a moment.

"What's wrong?" Z1 asked curiously.

"Um, the other party did join the communication channel," Z16 said weakly, "but... but they've already gone offline."

"Logged offline?" "Huh? Did they show off and then run away?" "Or are they worried about being found out about some shady business they used?"

The entire crew, composed of Z-series destroyers, spoke up upon hearing Z16's words.

"Offline? Forced offline?" Z1 asked, noticing that Z16's tone wasn't very clear when talking about the two ship girls going offline.

"Yes, they were forcibly kicked offline by the game system for using third-party software." Z16 said that since the two unfamiliar ship girls had been kicked offline, they could no longer be contacted.

"Sure enough, I knew it was amazing. So it was using third-party software," Z31 said with an air of realization.

"Is it really third-party software? I remember that the third-party prompts for this game often malfunction." Z28 tugged at Z31's sleeve, signaling her not to jump to conclusions so quickly.

"A third party?" Z1, who had once been a victim of third-party notifications, muttered to himself with a strange expression.

"Big Sister, after this is over, let Z17 and Z18 review the battle. That will tell us whether the other side used third-party software or not," Z16 advised, seeing her captain Z1 still hesitant.

“Regardless of whether the other party used third-party software or not, I’ve seen that kind of operating technique before,” Z1 said seriously.

"Huh? That kind of operating technique? Is it really possible for a ship to do that?" The Z-series crew, including the steady Z16, were all astonished.

“That’s right, I remember, that kind of technique is indeed possible.” Z1 said emphatically after recalling for a moment.

"Huh? Could those two ship girls on the other side be Hero-class? Do Hero-class big sisters really play games?" Z28 asked curiously, adjusting her glasses.

“Of course, there are hero-level older sisters who can play these games.” Z1 continued earnestly to her younger sisters, “But even hero-level older sisters may not be able to achieve the same level of skill as those who just played.”

"Even a hero-level older sister can't do it, could it be..." When the Z-sisters heard their leader say this, they all thought of a certain legend from the Pacific Theater.

The supreme ruler of the Taipingzhang war zone, the Enterprise, a leader-class ship, is a shut-in ship girl who is addicted to games.

"..." The entire crew fell silent for a moment.

All the members of the Cabbage Battle Group who had overheard these conversations also fell into an eerie silence.

Especially because the secret was so explosive, the team members responsible for broadcasting the live stream forgot to turn it off, plunging the audience, who had already reached over 100,000, into silence.

Meanwhile, the two starship girls, who were the culprits behind all this, were staring blankly as they returned to the boundary of the virtual world, the so-called virtual login interface.

And that line of text that keeps floating above the login screen:

"The system has detected abnormal data in your account, and the connection between you and the server will be disconnected for a period of time. Using illegal third-party software or engaging in other unethical gaming activities will result in severe account bans."

"Adun, what does this mean?" Hyperion asked curiously, still reminiscing about the scene of the vulture chariot's unparalleled performance.

"Hmm, I guess the system thinks we're using cheats," Adun said, pulling up some data from the game client.

"I know... I'm asking why the system judged us to be using cheats. The Vulture's drift is also part of the tanking process. If you don't like it, don't play." Hyperion was very unhappy that his brilliant performance was judged by the game system as cheating.

"..." Just as Ayton was about to say that the Vulture Cart's drift shouldn't belong to the tank road of this world, he noticed that someone had broken into the entertainment room.

"Whoa, what are you two doing?" Tirpitz asked, knocking on the virtual pod as if he had discovered something extraordinary.

"What's wrong?" Adon asked, having somehow appeared beside Tirpitz.

"Wow? You scared me! Weren't you just inside?" Tirpitz was startled by Adun's sudden appearance.

"I came out as soon as I saw you come in. Is there a problem?" Adun seemed to be taking a liking to this kind of Dark Templar-style intimidation.

“No problem, I just wanted to ask what your two alien ships are doing? Why is playing games attracting the attention of game companies, who even called to ask if I'm working on some new toy?” Tirpitz got straight to the point.

"This crappy game actually calls us a third party, how ignorant!" Hyperion said angrily as he jumped out of his virtual pod.

"Huh, a third party?" Tirpitz, who had an ambiguous relationship with the game company, naturally knew what the game's "third party" message meant. Any gameplay method that the game company couldn't identify but was extremely powerful would be temporarily banned from the game by the game company under the guise of a third party.

"How did you guys manage to create a third party?" Tirpitz asked, somewhat puzzled.

Chapter 231 Why don't you guys play some other games first?

"How did you guys manage to create a third party?" Tirpitz was genuinely baffled.

Just as she was agonizing over who had infiltrated the secret base without doing anything, a phone call from Thunder World Games left her even more bewildered.

The game company manager told the retired ship girl that some users were using her IP address to log into the game using unconventional methods, and that these unconventional methods were having a wide impact. So he asked Tirpitz if she had come up with some strange new gameplay.

As for why the game company would specifically call Tirpitz, well, if any company encounters a public relations crisis that requires resolution and doesn't notify its shareholders, the CEO will be replaced by an angry board of directors the next day.

After Adun and Hyperion recounted what had just happened in the game, Tirpitz finally understood why these two starship girls had been classified as third parties by the game in their very first game.

"I remember the interactive repair and modification function for playing games using virtual pods shouldn't be available yet." As one of the game company's shareholders, Tirpitz knew that Adun and Hyperion's actions were indeed part of the game and not some kind of cheat.

However, she also knew that because the ship girls' manual dexterity was sometimes too abnormal, the game company had been holding back on releasing this feature.

“We used a special method to activate that feature ahead of time,” Adun said.

Does using features that are already present in the game but not yet enabled count as third-party functionality? That's a question.

If we consider the game agreements like "Dear Player, I am your father" that were signed before the initial battle, then Adun and Hyperion's gaming behavior was indeed irregular.

The problem is, which game company would dare to sign such a contract with players these days?

If they really use these unfair terms to bully players, the game company might be bombarded with gunfire from all directions the next day.

“Well, okay, you guys didn’t really do anything wrong. I’ll handle this.” Tirpitz felt that if she went into detail, she would end up blaming the game company for not being careful enough when designing the virtual pod client, so as a shareholder, she decided to step in and help.

"What are you going to do?" Ardon and Hyperion asked curiously, not understanding what Tirpitz was going to do.

"To prevent your accounts from being banned for 8760, oh, you don't understand, I mean I'll go talk to the game company and tell those idiot programmers not to ban your accounts for ten years."

Of all people to mess with, Tirpitz had to provoke these two starship girls. He knew that if they got angry, his investment might be wasted.

"They dare!" Hyperion, who still wanted to experience the Vulture's drift a few more times, said angrily when he heard that he might be banned for ten years because of this indefensible issue.

"So I'll handle it. Don't worry, those engineers and programmers may be a bit slow, but they listen to me." Tirpitz said, trying to prevent his investment from being ruined.

"Oh?" Hyperion looked at Tirpitz with some disbelief.

"What kind of look is that? I'm the mayor of this fortress city, don't they even give me this much face? Besides, I pay part of their salaries!" Tirpitz practically patted his chest to assure them.

"So you're in cahoots with that game company!" Hyperion was very dissatisfied with the game company that inexplicably kicked her out of the game and then slapped a third-party label on her.

After all, she had finally experienced the thrill of being the center of attention by using the advanced technique of drifting with the Vulture car.

Since arriving in this world, Hyperion has been oppressed and bullied by Adun at every turn, and it has been a long time since he has experienced this feeling.