The Naval Base of the Unnamed Ship Girls

Countless memories buried deep within his soul surged up as Kaga observed, until finally, Kaga's hands trembled as he struggled to grip the control stick of the fighter jet.

"Kaga?" Adon, noticing something was wrong with the ship girl, asked, "What's wrong? Is she having trouble flying?"

"No, no, I just..." Kaga stammered.

At that moment, mission briefings from the game system rang out on the communicators of all the fighter jets:

"Newbie mission: Battle of Midway, first priority objective: sink the enemy aircraft carrier Kaga."

"Aaaaaah!" A heart-wrenching scream rang out from the dive bomber piloted by the ship girl Kaga, a scream that brought tears to the eyes of all who heard it!

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After being fed a whole bucket of food by North Carolina with 400 HP countless times, I decided to grind to create a high-level artillery team!

Fight! The power of the salted fish!

Chapter 235 Kaga Wants Some Peace and Quiet

Perhaps it was because of the aircraft carrier ship girl, or perhaps it was because of the full escort provided by Adun and Hyperion.

Wo-chan and Kaga not only completed their beginner missions perfectly, but also received a bunch of item rewards for their outstanding performance.

But receiving a reward doesn't necessarily mean you'll be happy.

Unlike Wo-chan, who carefree indulged in aluminum taiyaki as soon as she came out, Kaga, who dropped the bombshell and was rated the MVP of the entire game by the system, climbed out of his own virtual game pod.

A first-generation aircraft carrier girl, born from the remains of a deep-sea ship girl, is so weak for some reason that she can't even stand up.

"I'm telling you, you don't have to be so dramatic. Games are all fictional." Hyperion, who vaguely knew why Kaga was acting this way, unusually offered some words of comfort to the native ship girl, and also handed her a freshly opened bottle of fuel cola.

Having suffered a severe blow to her life, Kaga didn't care about maintaining the proper demeanor of a Yamato Nadeshiko. She sniffled, took the fuel cola handed to her by Hyperion, and gulped it down in one go.

Kaga, who had let out several burps, seemed to feel it wasn't enough, so she took off the sake bottle from her belt and drank all the sake inside at once.

"Wo?" (What's wrong with her?) Wo asked curiously, unaware of what had happened to Kaga.

"Perhaps it's because I'm personally experiencing my own past battles again." Having learned about the fate of the Kaga aircraft carrier, its original form, from the memories bestowed upon him by the power of the world, Adun said with a hint of a smile.

If it weren't for the fact that Thunder Fighter's game system is just a regular program that doesn't even qualify as a VI, Ardon would really want to give a thumbs up to the game system's perverse sense of humor.

In particular, when Kaga was piloting that Dauntless dive bomber to drop bombs on the aircraft carrier Kaga, his accuracy was absolutely phenomenal!

The first shot detonated the bombs on the deck of the aircraft carrier Kaga in the game.

The Kaga, which was supposed to sink a few hours later in history, was blown in two on the spot.

Only someone as intimately familiar with the situation of that IJN aircraft carrier at the time could achieve such accuracy.

"Wo?" Wo-chan seemed to understand what Yaton was saying, yet also seemed not to understand at all, tilting her head as she stared at Kaga, who was trying her best to get drunk.

"Relax, relax, it's nothing. It's just history repeating itself in a virtual game world. Don't be sad, don't be sad. Do you want more?" Hyperion comforted Kaga while taking out the vodka that Kogan had given him and asking.

"No (sobbing) Thank you (several sobs) I feel much better now." As Kaga spoke, he pushed away the vodka offered by Hyperion and staggered back into his virtual reality pod.

“…Young lady, life on a ship is still long. You can’t give up on yourself so easily.” Hyperion smiled and tapped on the closed hatch of the virtual pod, thinking that Kaga hadn’t yet recovered from the trauma of blowing herself up.

"It's nothing, I just want some peace and quiet." The voice coming from the virtual reality pod sounded muffled.

"...Who is Jingjing?" Hyperion, unsure if his words of comfort had any effect, glanced at Adon.

After a moment of silence, Adun said to Hyperion, "I think I know who Quiet is."

"Huh?" Hyperion was stunned for a moment, not expecting such an answer from what he had just asked as a joke.

"You'll understand once you're connected to the virtual game world," Adun said with a cryptic smile.

Unable to wirelessly connect to the virtual pod like Adun, Hyperion hesitated for a moment before climbing back into his own virtual pod.

Then, as soon as I entered the game world, I saw that my friend with the name "Kaga (Kantai Collection)" had already entered the game.

For some reason, Kaga started playing the game on his own ship. Hyperion subconsciously clicked "spectator." From the perspective of the spectator players, Hyperion saw a bomber covered in bombs fearlessly crashing into an aircraft carrier that was already smoking.

"Boom!" "Player Kaga (ship girl) has crashed!"

"Uh..." A few minutes after Kaga's bomber crashed into the aircraft carrier in a suicide attack, the still-stunned Hyperion only saw another bomber flying in from afar, crashing into the aircraft carrier once again in the same posture but at a different angle.

Along with the system message "Enemy aircraft carrier Enterprise has been sunk," came the seemingly repetitive announcement, "Player Kaga (ship girl) has crashed."

"This Jingjing too..." Knowing how quiet Kaga was, Hyperion left the virtual world and was about to tell Adun to keep an eye on her ship girl and not let her go crazy playing games when she saw her best friend chatting on the phone with her admiral.

"...How did you know we played Thunder Chariots?" Adon was a little puzzled as to why Tidu, who was far away at Temporary Garrison No. 666, also knew that she had played Thunder Chariots.

"Hehe, the video of you and that ship girl you summoned driving a newbie car and crushing the Black Forest team is all over the world. I was also a viewer when it was broadcast live. Adun, you're a famous ship now!" Tidu said on the phone with an envious and jealous tone.

"Live broadcast?" Adun asked, puzzled. "Were we broadcast live back then?"

"Yeah, I was waiting in the live stream for the duel between two famous gaming teams from the Thunder Chariots world. But instead of seeing the exciting battle, I saw your two alien ships utterly crushing the local ships, and then being shut down by a third-party game company because you were too strong."

Tidu explained in detail why the battle between Adun and Hyperion was broadcast live, and how these two starship girls became famous ships.

"I see. So... Admiral, are you here to hold someone accountable?" Adon said calmly. If Tidu also thought that she and Hyperion had used unconventional game methods, which was why they were targeted by a third party, he might actually come and complain.

"Oh, how could that be? I'm so proud of you now! How could I hold you accountable! I'm fed up with that game client always throwing innocent third parties at me," Tidu said, sounding like she knew it was impossible.

"So, Admiral, what brings you here in your busy schedule?" In their brief interaction, Adun already knew that her admiral was not the type to cause trouble for no reason; if she called, there must be something on her mind.

"Can't I just congratulate you? After all, you're my secretary ship, uh, my official secretary ship." Tidu's voice sounded a little awkward.

"Thank you, Admiral. I'll hang up now..." Adon said earnestly.

"Wait, wait, I have something to do, of course I have something to do." Tidu, realizing that her plot had been discovered, quickly said, "I just want to ask you for a favor."

"Help me? Do you need me to go back?" When he heard that Ti wanted to help, Adon frowned and asked.

"It's not about helping in real life, I just hope you and your ship girl can help Kokang play a game in Thunder Chariot." Tidu finally revealed his thoughts.

"..." Yaton began to doubt the possibility of the temporary garrison at No. 666 becoming a permanent garrison.

Chapter 236 Ula

The commander of a key military unit on the human faction's territorial border is playing games during official hours. Is this a systemic problem or an environmental issue? Please tune in to the next episode...

"Hey, what do you mean by a systemic problem or a problem with the environment? I'm the admiral of the naval base, and I'm saying it's game time, so it is game time."

Tidu's roar came through the phone, echoing a narrator's rant about Adon.

“Alright, alright, since it’s your order, Admiral, I’ll comply.” Adon replied while giving Hyperion a look. Hyperion, understanding Adon’s meaning, immediately returned to the virtual game pod.

"It's settled then. Log in to the game right now, and I'll add you as a friend and team up with you." Tidus happily hung up the phone after hearing what Adon said.

"Are our accounts unbanned?" Hyperion asked in the virtual pod, having changed the game to Thunder Chariot.

"It's been over an hour, if that retired ship girl wasn't lying to us." Adun slowly floated back into her game pod, letting the crystal that replaced the virtual reality helmet stick to her forehead.

“By the way,” Adun said to Hyperion, who was about to close his eyes, “we’ll follow the rules this time, no need for anything weird.”

“I know, I know.” Hyperion fastened the useless seatbelt in the virtual reality pod to his body and then asked, “You don’t actually think that human woman is your commander, do you?”

“Since you can accept me as your commander, I can naturally accept a human as my admiral.” Adun rolled his eyes as he heard Hyperion ask this kind of question again.

“…Hmm, I see.” Since Adun has already put it this way, what can Hyperion do? Should he tell Adun that he doesn’t actually consider him a commander? Saying that would likely get him a beating from Adun as he bursts out of the virtual pod.

However, just as Adun said before, Tidus cannot be considered human, so the Hyperion reluctantly put aside the fact that the Protoss Ark actually regarded humans as commanders.

"A friend request has been received." As soon as Adon entered the virtual reality interface of the game login screen, he heard a game system voice.

"Accept." After accepting his admiral's friend's request, Ayton noticed that Tidu's name was quite simple: "Tidu (Admiral)."

Unlike other players whose names are in various colors, the Admiral player's character name is a bright gold.

Like a VIP account, it's actually a kind of alternative VIP model.

Because of the close relationship between ship girls and admirals, an admiral player's popularity in the game is no less than that of those skilled players, even if that admiral is just a very cute newbie.

"Your friend 'Tidu (Admiral)' invites you to join the party." After confirming Tidu's friend request, a new system notification immediately appeared in front of Adon.

"Hmm, this combination of physical sensation and mind control is quite impressive." Although it's virtual, given time, this kind of futuristic technology could be developed in the real world through the Admiral's Mind Network.

"Hurrah!" Just as Adon accepted Tidu's invitation to join a squad, he heard a chorus of "Hurrah!" sounds.

Interspersed among these were nonsensical comments such as, "Wow, that's a true master!" "Best of the year... no... should be the greatest gunner of all time!" and "The legendary master who blew up the Rat Lord with the CV33 is here, you all better hurry up and welcome him!"

"Let's include your ship girl... that one called Hugh... something, in the team too." As soon as Tidu spoke, the noisy team chat channel immediately quieted down.

Ardon, who was surprised that his admiral held such authority in this squad, paused for a moment before saying, "Her name is Hyperion."

"Oh right, Hyperion, you should bring Hyperion into the group." Ti said as if forgetting the ship girl's name was no mistake.

When Hyperion accepted Adun's invitation to join the team's channel, another round of cheers erupted, along with a flood of praise for Driver of the Year and CV33 of Akina Mountain.

Upon hearing these compliments, Hyperion almost instantly switched into character, using an artistic approach to boast about his past experiences to these unfamiliar players he was meeting for the first time.

“You have a completely different personality from me, Adon,” Tidu whispered to Adon.

"What?" Adon paused for a moment before realizing that Tidu was referring to Hyperion. He smiled and replied, "After all, their living environments are different, so it's understandable that their personalities are different."

The most important thing is the difference in race. How could humans and Protoss have the same values?

"Okay, okay, is everyone here? I'm going into the room now." As soon as Tidu finished speaking, Adun and Hyperion were pulled into a snowy landscape.

A dozen or so tanks, painted white in the snow, were neatly arranged in front of me.

"We shouldn't lose on home soil, right?" Tidu said with some worry.

"Operation on home soil?" Adun caught a snowflake with his finger and watched the glistening snowflake melt into a water droplet in his palm before speaking.

"Yes, the battle group that Kokang used to be in when he was in school was bullied by another battle group, so the old members remembered us and asked us to stand up for them."

There was no sign of Tidu around the tanks, but Tidu's whispers rang directly in their ears.

"If they're only looking for you and Kokang, why are they calling us?" Putting aside his curiosity about the snowflakes that appeared in the virtual world, Adon asked curiously.

"The capable should do more," Tidu said awkwardly.

"By the way, where are you now, Admiral?" Adon asked after searching around without finding Tidu.

"At the garrison headquarters? What's wrong?" Tidu was a little puzzled as to why Adon would ask this.

"Oh, so you didn't use the virtual gaming pod." Ardon realized why he hadn't seen Tidu.

"Nonsense, when I graduated, these virtual gaming pods weren't even on the market yet. I was just creating a concept. Since you're passing through that fortress city this time, why don't you bring back a few virtual pods for me?"

Tidu spoke in a tone that suggested he didn't care about using public office for private gain.