The Naval Base of the Unnamed Ship Girls

"Did you just go to the wrong place during the reporting and become an admiral?" Of course I've heard of it. But I didn't dare to say that out loud. I nodded and admitted, "I've heard Kogan mention it."

"Did Kogan tell you that because I wasted too much time on my admiral training and missed the best period for ship equipment fusion, I can't become a ship girl?"

Seeing the usually goofy admiral with a hole in his head looking serious for the first time, Adon, who also became serious, nodded to indicate that Kogan had told her the same thing.

"But in reality, the only difference between this admiral and the ship girls is that I don't have ship equipment for offense and defense. Although the ship equipment space is not fully developed, it is still ship equipment space, which means..."

The admiral paused here before slowly stating his conclusion: "In essence, I am still a ship girl."

"..." Are they ship girls who essentially use PGs as weapons?

"How about that? Surprised?" Seeing Admiral Adon's shocked expression, the admiral, who had snapped out of his serious demeanor and returned to his usual goofy self, said with a smile.

“…Hmm.” After thinking for a moment, Adon walked up to the admiral without saying anything, touched the admiral’s forehead with his hand, and then touched his own forehead.

"What are you doing?" the admiral asked curiously, not understanding what Adun was doing.

"Strange, he doesn't have a fever," Adun muttered to himself, somewhat puzzled, as he returned to his seat.

"Hey, hey, this admiral is very serious. What's that saying again? Don't underestimate a ship girl who has no combat power!" The admiral, who had instantly gone berserk because of Adun's behavior, said angrily.

"I didn't disregard ship girls who have no combat capability." Adun replied to the enraged admiral in a nonchalant tone:

"The problem is, let alone those medical ships, supply ships, repair ships, and food supply ships, even cruise ship girls have their own unique ship equipment. Admiral, if you start talking nonsense because you're too eager to become a ship girl, I'll give you some antidepressants." Does Protoss technology have pharmacy? It should, right? Adun felt a little unsure.

"Alright, I'm the one who should apologize." The admiral, his figure already reeling from yet another blow from Adun's sarcastic remark, continued to explain in a somber tone:

"Indeed, according to current textbooks, the distinction between ship girls and human descendants who possess and awaken the ship girl bloodline is based on whether or not they have ship equipment in their ship equipment space."

After reciting the script, the admiral recovered from the silence brought on by Aydon's吐槽 (tu cao, a Chinese internet slang term for sarcastic remarks) and said, "Actually, these things are just to distinguish between ship girls with combat capabilities and those without, and between active and non-active duty ship girls."

"Oh..." So what? Adon didn't think there was anything wrong with this way of distinguishing them. Those who were treated as non-ship girls because they didn't have ship equipment should be able to stay away from the war.

"But..." Sure enough, after explaining the basics, the admiral immediately added a "but."

"Admiral, are you trying to say that this is not a real reason to distinguish ship girls? The real way to determine whether your ship girl bloodline has become apparent is to see if you have awakened your ship equipment space?"

Before the admiral could even show off, Adon delivered the entire message he wanted to say, and finally couldn't resist adding a sarcastic remark at the end: "Well said, but it's all for naught."

No matter how much you revise textbooks or pretend to be a ship girl, you can't change the gap in combat power between yourself and real ship girls. If revising history textbooks and writing diaries were useful, what would be the point of having an admiral's office?

"I feel like having you as my ship girl will shorten my lifespan by at least thirty years." The admiral clutched his chest, looking like he was having angina.

"For ship girls, a lifespan of thirty years is nothing, right?" Adun felt that the admiral's argument about lifespan was not very convincing.

For ship girls, whose life forms are of uncertain origin (whether they are carbon-based, silicon-based, or even iron-based), their lifespan is much longer than that of pure-blooded humans, who are carbon-based life forms.

In the hundreds of years since their emergence, no first-generation ship girl has ever died due to old age. Most ship girls died because they were sunk in battle or because their bodies disintegrated due to poor maintenance of their ship equipment.

Even the next-generation ship girls who possess some human blood have a theoretical lifespan of over two hundred years.

However, given that sinking in battle and physical disintegration are the most common ends faced by next-generation ship girls, there are currently no examples of next-generation ship girls dying from old age.

Especially for the second-generation ship girls, the chance of their bodies disintegrating due to equipment failure is much greater than that of the first-generation ship girls.

Therefore, the lifespan estimate of the next-generation ship girls is only based on the fact that the appearance changes of the next-generation ship girls are much slower than those of humans.

"Why are you thinking so far ahead? I was just saying." The admiral, startled by Adon's thoughts that had wandered off into the distance, waved his hand, bringing his Otti Proof back to reality.

"Well, I was just thinking about it casually." It's not like you, Admiral, are the only one who uses the Mind Network as a starting point to make wild guesses.

"Getting back to the point, after all I've said, you must understand what I'm trying to say, right?" The admiral steered the conversation back to the main topic.

"I understand..." No matter how much he joked and teased, Ayton finally figured out what the admiral wanted to tell him.

The admiral repeatedly stated that his initial motivation for being a ship girl was to prove to Admiral Adon that ship girls could become admirals.

Indeed, the admiral is right. To determine whether a human with ship girl blood is a ship girl, we don't look at her ship equipment or combat power. The main thing is whether she has awakened special abilities that belong to the unscientific creatures that are ship girls. For example, the ability to walk on water, the ability to carry ship equipment in space, and even the characteristics of being able to obtain energy by absorbing resources and to bathe in the repair channel to restore the body should all be considered as ship girls.

An admiral with these characteristics is essentially a ship girl, and at the same time, she is also an admiral. She can use the construction tool, sign contracts with ship girls, and use the mental network to generate ideas for trains.

Admiral = Ship Girl, Admiral = Admiral; these two correct formulas lead to another correct formula.

Ship girls can become admirals.

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Chapter 30 But what's the price?

What is an admiral?

The Admiral is the ruler of the battlefield, guarding the forefront of humanity's defenses against the deep sea.

Their lofty status and the right to legally open crystal palaces masked the fact that the casualties were mostly tragic.

Countless soft (?) girls with looks exceeding 90 points are devoted to him, making countless males who aspire to be admirals but cannot achieve it incredibly envious and jealous.

After all, there are always those gentlemen who, even at the risk of being hit by a ship girl's cannon or being caught by the military police and made a pie, still shout that elementary school students are good gentlemen.

Of course, there are also those lucky people who enjoy fine wine and beautiful women every day, casually throw some resources into the builder, and can create a golden rare ship girl without any fixed formula.

In contrast, there are those who use spears and blowguns instead of guns and swords as their main weapons, excel in all kinds of religious dance courses, fail in their massive construction efforts despite selling everything they own, and finally have to jump out of the naval base window to apologize to the starving ship girls.

These are all admirals, or rather, these are the impressions that other people have of the admirals of the human ship girl faction's naval garrison.

As for what a real admiral was like, there are many different opinions, making it difficult to give a complete conclusion.

However, anyone who wants to make becoming an admiral their life goal must face one fact.

The total number of humans who own half of this planet as territory is approximately one billion (since a detailed census is not possible, this is just an approximation), of which at least one hundred million want to become admirals (again, there is no census; the idea is represented by collecting samples of 1000 people to find that one in ten people have this idea).

Of these hundreds of millions of people, fewer than 100,000 are allowed to receive education on how to become an admiral each year (this number is absolutely true, and the various academies have official statistics).

It's not because of deliberate control by the ruling class; in reality, no human being would obstruct a qualified person from becoming an admiral in order to maintain their own status.

These selfish and self-serving individuals are basically used as raw materials for land reclamation and island building (the military police are not only used to arrest gentlemen; if patrolling ship girls discover that humans qualified to become admirals are not receiving the admiral education they deserve for various reasons, the military police's shells will be used to bombard relevant departments).

Because every human with the potential to become an admiral can be considered a treasure of humanity. (With such a small number of people, everyone is a treasure.)

If they could, the human faction, which has been fighting the deep sea for hundreds of years, would love for every single person on their side to be qualified to become an admiral. (That way, they could easily crush them.)

Unfortunately, since it is called a treasure, it inherits the value of a treasure as well as its rarity.

With a population base of over one billion, the number of qualified individuals who can be found each year is less than 100,000.

Moreover, these 100,000 people are only qualified to become admirals; no more than 2,000 people can truly become qualified admirals each year.

Furthermore, at least two-thirds of these two thousand people can only use their own black and white photos to attend the class reunion the following year.

So even if the admiral is the kind of despicable guy who can build a vast harem, those who can't become admirals are merely envious and jealous, and by no means hateful.

This truly exemplifies the old saying: "If you can do it, you do it; if you can't, you don't."

It can awaken the Admiral's mental network without losing its sanity and becoming a madman, and it can also summon ship girls from an unknown world through the builder.

The grades for courses such as strategy, naval tactics, arms development, war psychology, and political science are just an added bonus.

"In other words, as long as I can awaken and skillfully use the Admiral's Mind Network, I can become an Admiral, or at least an Admiral in some way?"

Alton, who had already sat down on the other side of the table and was resting his chin on his hands, repeated what the admiral had just explained, and then took out another piece of bread and handed it to the hungry Wo-chan.

"That's how it is in theory. As for another way of representing the admiral, we don't have the right tools to test it right now." The admiral shrugged, indicating that the construction device had been swept into the trash heap because of Adun's birth.

"Furthermore, I'm not too optimistic about whether you can use the builder, Admiral."

"Why do you say that?" Compared to the Awakening Mind Network, which seems to be of little use to him, Ayton really hopes that he can build a large-scale test of his bloodline.

"It seems that due to some conflict between ship equipment and the ship girls summoned by the admiral, or because the summoned ship girls do not recognize the ship girls who also have ship equipment as their admiral, no independent ship girl has successfully summoned a ship girl using the construction tool so far."

The admiral explained to Adon why he was not optimistic: "Even if some ship girls summoned ship girls with the approval of their admirals, those original ship girls would skip the ship girls who summoned them and recognize the admiral who gave the order as their admiral."

"..." Is this malice from the power of the world?

"We haven't been able to find any reasonable explanation yet. It's not that we don't want to know, it's just that we don't know yet." Faced with Admiral Ayton's strange expression, the admiral shrugged, indicating that no one knew why this was happening.

It seems that it was indeed the malice of the world's forces. As for the admiral's explanation, Adon could only say that he didn't care.

Even if you become an admiral, you can't verify your bloodline in one shot. If you can't become an admiral, you might as well not be one at all.

“Then, I will do what my mentor did to me, wrapping your mind in a mental network so that you have a chance to awaken it.” The admiral paused here and said, “If you feel that you are losing control of your mind, you must call for a stop in advance.”

"Will there be any serious consequences?" Adon asked, signaling that he was prepared.

"The best-case scenario of forcing yourself to awaken your mental network when there is no possibility of awakening is mental derangement or some kind of cognitive impairment." The admiral still remembered the words of his mentor's warning.

"What about the consequences of a less severe outcome?" If even cognitive impairment can turn into a positive result, one can imagine how terrible the less severe outcome would be.

"It's terrifying..." He simply said one word, it seemed the admiral didn't want to explain the matter further: "But don't worry, even if you want to do something stupid, as your admiral, I can still stop you."

"..." Then why were you speaking so righteously just now? Admiral can restrict his ship girls in certain ways, and Yadon knows that this restriction is especially effective against the first-generation ship girls summoned by the admiral himself.

Knowing that the admiral was definitely hiding something, Adun looked at his admiral suspiciously and said:

"I'm ready, and I can start anytime."

"Here we come!"

Chapter 31 I Have a Special Admiral Network

"..." The admiral withdrew the mental network enhancement he had placed on Adun, looking at his Otti Proof with a strange expression until Adun felt extremely uncomfortable before speaking:

"Let's study how to deal with this deep-sea aircraft carrier now."

"Wo?" Upon hearing the topic turn to her, Wo-chan looked up from her diligently munching on aluminum bread and asked curiously.

"What's going on?" Having never sensed any changes in the mental network she maintained with the admiral as a ship girl, Aydon was puzzled as to why the admiral was reacting this way.

"I take back what I said before, that ship girls can become admirals. It seems that this is a special case for this admiral who is unprecedented and will never be repeated." At the end, the admiral actually got excited on his own.

"Am I not qualified to awaken the Mind Network?" That's why, as Admiral Yaton said, he was used to the admiral's confident but reneging behavior.

"Rather than saying you're not qualified to awaken the Mind Network," the admiral said in a strange tone, recalling the results he had perceived when he used the Mind Network to enhance Adon's mind. "It's more accurate to say that I didn't sense the Mind Network in you at all."

"But the problem is that I'm still on your mental network." As a ship girl personally summoned by the admiral, Adun has always maintained a very high position on the admiral's mental network.

"That's why I find it strange, like you're standing right in front of me, but I can't see you at all," the admiral said, pouting as he rested his head on his hands.

But for me, Admiral, your presence is extremely strong.

"That's such a pity." Although he said that, when faced with the fact that he couldn't awaken the Admiral's Mind Network and become an Admiral, Adon didn't feel anything.

"Wait a minute," the admiral suddenly thought of something and speculated, "Is it because you've been connected to my mental network since you were born, so I can't detect your mental network?"

Pour a cup of ink into a cup of water, and you can easily see the entire process of how the ink turns a cup of water into a cup of ink.