The Naval Base of the Unnamed Ship Girls

While Tidu was calling Adun for help because of the Kogan incident, Tirpitz, who had just sent the ship girls who almost caused trouble to the port and restricted their movement, was also dragging her somewhat tired body in another secret base, reporting her recent work to her master, Charlotte's father, Admiral Xia Yuantang.

“Oh, I see…” Xia Yuantang, who showed little interest in Tirpitz’s report about the trivial matters concerning Adun and Charlotte, asked, “Have you found out who did the last intrusion?”

"There were no clues whatsoever. The intruder didn't even use the ventilation ducts. He just appeared out of nowhere in that secret base and disappeared just as abruptly." Looking at the bandage on Master Xia Yuantang's forehead, Tirpitz answered, wanting to laugh but not daring to.

“Sudden appearance? Sudden disappearance?” Xia Yuantang repeated, noticing Tirpitz’s choice of words.

“Yes, if I weren’t a… I was once a ship girl embodying the pinnacle of German technology, I would have almost thought it was haunted!” Tirpitz checked the surveillance footage afterward and found no signs of infiltration anywhere.

Either the infiltrator's abilities are so advanced that Tirpitz and all the advanced technologies he has developed cannot detect them, or the infiltrator used methods even more mysterious than the ability to walk through walls to get in.

If Tirpitz hadn't found the crushed nanobot, she would have thought the alarm was just a glitch in the defense system.

“Haunted…” Xia Yuantang remained silent for a moment after Tirpitz’s analysis, then asked, “What about that contact point?”

"Destroyed. You can rest assured, sir, I'll make sure those bitches of the military police won't find a single clue." Even so, Tirpitz still felt a pang of regret. Even though she had held military and political power in this fortified city for more than ten years, each of these safe house-like secret rooms had cost her a lot of effort.

After all, the leader of the Pacific Military Police is that ship, and the captain of the military police in this fortress city is that ship girl's confidant. You can't be too careful.

However, just as Tirpitz finished speaking, before General Xia Yuantang could even offer his praise...

A flash of blue light appeared behind the retired ship girl who was squatting on the chair with her legs crossed. Adun, along with her own ship girl and the captured cultivation ship girl Deutschland, appeared behind Tirpitz.

"Ugh..." As expected, Deutschland, riding this Arden-brand drop roller coaster for the first time, clutched her stomach like the other ship girls, looking like she was about to vomit up all the steel she had left overnight.

Kaga and WoSex-chan, having already experienced this before, didn't lose much of their composure, though their pale faces were inevitable.

"Adun, what did you bring us here for?" Hyperion, completely unfazed, glanced around before focusing his gaze on the bewildered Tirpitz and the bearded gorilla on the screen, and asked Adun.

“We need supplies…” Ardon replied calmly.

"You...you...you...how did you get in?" Tirpitz, who almost fell off her chair, pretended to cover the large screen behind her, but finding it useless, she saw the German message transmitted by Adun and immediately said angrily:

"Germany?! Did you bring them here? Do you military police have nothing better to do than pry into other people's privacy all day long?"

"Ugh..." Just as the German woman being questioned by Tirpitz was about to declare that she had been captured, an overwhelming feeling of nausea made her clutch her stomach and kneel on the ground once again.

Looking at Deutsche's reaction, Yadun realized that her behavior was not an act. He could only sigh that this was the first time he had seen a ship girl with such an allergic short-range warp ability.

"No matter what that bitch from the military police says to you, don't believe it," Tirpitz said to Ardon in a tone of someone who had been through it all, seeing that the Germans didn't respond.

“…Oh, I brought her here, not the other way around,” Adun said after hearing Tirpitz’s words.

"Huh...?" Tirpitz froze on the spot, speechless after being silenced by Adun's words.

"Hello, you must be Charlotte's father?" Adun greeted the gorilla admiral on the screen. Although he used a question, anyone could tell that Adun was implying that he already knew the other party's identity.

"Hmm, so you were the one who infiltrated the contact point earlier?" With his reputation for being able to betray anyone at any time, Xia Yuantang naturally knew the identity of the ship girl in front of him who did not regard him as a high-ranking admiral.

"I'm just curious why she deliberately avoided my senses." Ardon pointed to Tirpitz, who was still petrified, and explained his reason for following her earlier.

"Hehe, actually Tirpitz isn't avoiding you, but rather avoiding other people." Xia Yuantang explained to Admiral Admiral Tirpitz, who had probably already regarded her as his future daughter-in-law, without any formality.

"Avoiding others?" Yaton looked at Xia Yuantang with some curiosity, then followed the other's gaze to Deutsche, who had just recovered from his shock.

"Navy... ugh... Naval regulations... ugh... stipulate that retired ship girls who go to civilian life are... ugh... not allowed to have contact with their former admirals..." Deutschland said, covering his mouth as he suppressed his nausea.

“Oh…” So Tirpitz was avoiding the military police. Adon, who understood, nodded to indicate that he understood.

This regulation is understandable to Yaton. If the frontline troops and local governments are entangled, it is easy for something like a warlord to emerge.

Although from some perspectives, there is not much difference between the admiral who guards a garrison and a warlord, this regulation is probably to prevent these warlords from becoming separatist forces.

"It was all that old lady on the Enterprise who made these rules on a whim..." Tirpitz, having regained her senses, seemed quite displeased with the naval regulation.

Seeing Tirpitz's reaction, Adun felt that the gossip her admiral had told about the retired ship girl having an affair with Charlotte's father was not unfounded.

"How dare you insult Captain Enterprise!" Upon hearing Tirpitz's words, the German felt no pain in his back, legs, or stomach cramps.

"Is this an insult? You Chekas are really good at making wild guesses! But so what if I insulted you! Let that old woman Enterprise come to me herself!!" Tirpitz said to Deutsche with a sense of impunity, relying on certain connections.

"You...you actually mocked our military police!" the German said angrily, knowing what Tirpitz meant by "Cheka".

If it weren't for the fact that Tirpitz in front of him was a retired ship girl, Deutsche would have had the urge to pull out his own 238mm triple main gun and blast her with a super-heavy shell.

"Given the usual conduct of your military police, calling you Cheka is too lenient; to be serious, you are a bunch of Gestapo!"

As for whether the Cheka or the Gestapo, as Tirpitz referred to them, was more serious, that's a matter of opinion.

"You...you were clearly a German ship girl before! How can you say that!" It seems that the words Gestapo are a very serious matter for a German ship girl like Deutsche.

“You said it yourself, it was in the past. Besides, even when I was still a ship girl, I didn’t have a good impression of the so-called German system…” Tirpitz raised her head and glanced at Germany out of the corner of her eye.

If we were to choose the least patriotic ship girl among all ship girls, then the German ship girl Tirpitz would definitely win by a wide margin.

Similarly, if we were to choose the most patriotic nation, Germany, whose name is the same as its country's name, would definitely be a finalist.

Seeing Tirpitz and the Germans bickering so openly, Ardon probably understood why Tirpitz had to keep her communications with her former admiral secret, like an underground organization.

General Xia Yuantang, on the other side of the screen, was also very embarrassed by this.

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I've got York and Zeppelin, so I now have all four event-limited ships. So I selected a few destroyers around level 30, equipped them with a bunch of Abyssal Droppers, and started fishing in E2. As of the time of writing, I haven't had U81 or U47 join the naval base yet.

☆, Chapter 251 Do you dare to understand?

When the feud between Tirpitz and Germany escalated to the point of insulting each other's entire families, Ardon, feeling things had gone a bit too far, sighed and greeted them, "Hyperion..."

"Leave it to me, Your Honor." Upon hearing Adun address him, Hyperion immediately gave a Ranger salute, and then, true to his commander Leishen's character of taking action rather than beating around the bush, he tied up Tirpitz and a retired and active German ship girl, gagged them, and packed them into a sack.

Why would a Hyperion star cruiser carry so many sacks?

"Just in case, you see, this is quite useful, isn't it?" Hyperion said awkwardly when he heard Adun's question.

“…for unforeseen circumstances.” After thinking for a long time, Adun couldn’t figure out when a Teren Empire behemoth-class battlecruiser would need sacks.

After eliminating the source of the noise, Adun sat down in the chair that Tirpitz had been sitting in and began to discuss the resources needed to build the temporary teleportation hub with General Xia Yuantang on the screen, bypassing Tirpitz.

"You can build hyperspace portals?" Xia Yuantang asked in surprise after hearing why Adun had come to him.

"It's a little different from the hyperspace portal mechanism in your world, but the effect should be the same."

And it won't take a long time to repair after just one use. Seeing the gorilla admiral lying on the sofa on the screen, Adun also crossed his legs and said, "I will do the same."

"Hmm, are there any restrictions?" The veteran admiral Xia Yuantang immediately realized the strategic significance of Yaton's words.

As the admiral in charge of the area, the No. 233 Naval Base not only possesses an old and dilapidated hyperspace teleporter, but this hyperspace teleporter, which has been in disrepair for many years and can only be barely operated by the ability of the eighth-level fitter Veneto, is also a diffuse teleporter that does not use fixed-point teleportation.

Ship girls can be deployed to any location within a certain range of sea areas without the need for a second teleporter.

Although each teleportation requires repairing the teleporter, and it cannot transport large armies, with a teleportation error radius of over 100 kilometers (potentially sending them into the deep sea), this is enough to demonstrate the formidable strength of a great admiral.

"Restrictions? There are quite a few..." For example, Adun needs to go there in person to determine the coordinates. "But the biggest problem is that the teleportation consumes a lot of resources."

Given the limited resources in this world and the abysmal conversion rate between Adun and Hyperion resources, activating the teleportation hub is extremely resource-intensive.

“Resources are not a problem. If you can share your technology, the entire war situation in the Pacific will change. I believe you can understand that, Governor Adun?”

Xia Yuantang referred to Adon as Governor Adon in a very subtle tone.

"Of course I understand, but are you sure you can understand?" Yaton said, almost laughing out loud at Xia Yuantang's words.

"?" Adun's reaction was somewhat unexpected for General Xia. The frontier general carefully considered his tone before asking, "Understand?"

“Yes, I understand.” Adun repeated the word “understands” before continuing, “If you really need it, I will follow the teachings of the Daw and make some civilian Protoss technology public to you, including the complete Void Portal and Warp Gate technologies, but…”

"But we need to pay a price?" Although he didn't understand what Yaton meant by the Dau doctrine, Xia Yuantang believed that there was no such thing as a free lunch in the world.

"But are you really prepared to accept Protoss technology?" Adun asked in a very calm tone, stating the price to be paid.

"Is that so?" Xia Yuantang fell into deep thought upon hearing what Yaton said. This admiral, who looked to be only in his forties or fifties but was actually over a hundred years old, naturally understood what Yaton meant.

If Adun were to share technology, the result could be that the technological development of the entire world would fall into contradictions and conflicts. Whether the native technology tree ultimately prevails or the technology from this ship girl's home planet gains the upper hand, it would not be a good thing for the civilization itself.

"At least, one plus one should still equal two, right?" Xia Yuantang said after a period of contemplation.

What he meant was simple: since the two technologies are completely incompatible, they at least have something in common. As long as you grasp the common ground, even if you only learn a little bit, you will benefit immensely.

"Hehe, Hyperion, what do you think?" Knowing what the gorilla admiral in front of him was talking about, Adun did not answer the question directly, but instead called out to the human warcruiser beside him.

"Uncle, don't bother with that. Instead of learning technology from these mute Protoss, you'd be better off coming to me. At least to some extent, our technologies share the same origin. If Adun were to teach you, your physicists would be hanging themselves the very next day."

Standing next to Adun, Hyperion said with a grin that he had actually seen General Xia Yuantang's reaction before.

I remember when the Protoss first appeared in the eyes of the Terran people in the Terren Federation, many Terran scientists wanted to figure out what the Protoss technology was all about.

As a result, countless physicists, mathematicians, astronomers, and even biologists at the forefront of technological development have committed suicide by shooting themselves or hanging themselves because they could not extricate themselves from the conflict of values.

On the contrary, those pragmatic scholars who only seek to know what is happening, but not why it is happening, are still doing very well.

Even now, Hyperion doesn't know how the warp drive installed in Adun's body works, how the energy system is converted, let alone understand how Adun managed to stuff an artificial star into his belly as an energy source.

In the eyes of scientists in the Terren Empire, the Dyson sphere was still science fiction, not technology.

Hearing what Hyperion said, Xia Yuantang realized he had made assumptions and sighed with some disappointment, asking how many materials Adun would need to build a hyperspace portal using her technology.

After Adun explained the equivalent amount of resources in this world required to build a temporary warp nexus, Xia Yuantang finally understood why Adun had said the resources were a bit too much.

These resources are not much compared to the assets of a general like Xia Yuantang, or the reserves of a fortified city, but it is indeed a bit extravagant to build a one-time hyperspace portal.

However, Xia Yuantang, who knew some of the regulations, knew that the materials needed to build a hyperspace portal were a minor issue. The key point was that, regardless of the war zone, naval regulations did not allow frontline naval bases to place the anchor point of the hyperspace portal in the hinterland.

It's probably to prevent deep-sea ship girls from using this thing to infiltrate the heart of human territory.

"Can't even a temporary portal be allowed?" Adun was prepared to secretly open one even if it wasn't permitted.

“It’s not that it’s impossible…” General Xia Yuantang spoke slowly, glancing at the sack next to Yadun.

"Hyperion" Adun felt he was becoming more and more adept at giving orders to the Hyperion; with just a shout, the battlecruiser seemed to know exactly what Adun wanted to do.

"What do you want me to do now?" Hyperion was instantly proven wrong.

"Cough cough..." It seems that this kind of telepathic connection needs to be recharged regularly.

"Just kidding, just kidding." With the air raid siren blaring in his mind, Hyperion quickly released Tirpitz from the sack and removed the gag from the retired ship girl.

“Building a temporary teleportation portal is possible, but it must be done in the designated sea area… otherwise the military police will gossip.” Tirpitz said to Adun and General Xia, rubbing his sore lips from having half a ball stuffed in them.

As a result, the head of the military police in this fortified city was also released.

Of course, Ardon did not intend to seek the opinion of the military police chief; he was just informing her of his release.

According to Yaton's plan, this cultivation warship needs to be closely guarded to prevent its escape.

Out of moral considerations, Adun abandoned the idea of ​​sinking the ship to silence them from the beginning, so he could only keep the ship with him for the time being.