The Naval Base of the Unnamed Ship Girls

But if you pour another glass of water into one glass of water, no matter how much you claim that the two glasses of water come from two places that are thousands of miles apart, you still can't visually perceive what happened in the resulting large glass of water.

Therefore, the admiral suspected that it was because Aden's mental network had been synchronized with his for too long that he was unaware of it.

After all, there was something the admiral didn't tell Adon: only ship girls or humans who are completely destroyed will be unable to detect the mental network.

Clearly, Adun is still alive and well; she's not a ship girl that has been sunk in battle.

"How about we temporarily suspend the contract and see what happens?" The admiral, who dared to think and act, immediately began to work on severing the mental contract between himself and the first ship girl he had summoned.

"No..." Adun quickly stopped his admiral's actions, and his reason was very convincing: "Aren't you worried that once the contract is terminated, I'll run off to the deep sea?"

"So, Adun, you really want to be a traitor!" Upon hearing Adun's words, the admiral stopped what he was doing and righteously advised Adun, "What's so good about the deep sea? You can't get enough to eat (pointing at wo-chan) or sunbathe, and it's a slave society! That kind of backward civilization will fail sooner or later!"

"Wo?" Seeing that someone had turned their attention to her again, Wo-chan, who had just put the last bit of bread in her mouth, looked up blankly.

"None of your business." After taking out another piece of aluminum bread to calm down Wo-chan, who had replaced Crystal Tower as her second baby, Ayton complained to her admiral in a very strange tone: "Why do you sound so familiar with the Deep Sea? You even know about their social system."

"That's because...because...because I read it in a book." The admiral, who was stumped by Ayton's words, struggled for a long time before finally coming up with a reason that sounded like a perfunctory excuse.

"Oh, I see." Adon didn't press the matter further, but simply told his admiral that he would find a way, but not to break the mental contract.

Perhaps because of the power of the world, as a ship girl personally summoned by the admiral, Adun takes this spiritual contract very seriously.

Furthermore, there's a vague feeling that if the Admiral really terminates the Mind Contract so casually, it will be extremely difficult to renew it. Or rather, for a ship girl like Adon who isn't even from the sea, the difficulty of renewing the Mind Contract is less than that of renewing it.

"How about this, Admiral, could you demonstrate to me what it's like to be an Admiral with the Mind Network?" Seeing that the Admiral was still eager to try to awaken Adon's Mind Network by breaking the contract, Adon offered a suggestion.

"What do you think of the Mind Network as an admiral? What do you want to do, Adun?" This action is not difficult for a qualified admiral; it's simply a matter of reversing the object of the previous action of using the Mind Network to enhance the mind.

"I'll try to simulate this kind of mental network." Adon's honest words earned him a big eye roll from the admiral.

"If it were really that simple, I wouldn't be receiving such a high admiral's allowance every month." Despite his disbelief, the admiral still followed Ayton's advice and imprinted his spirit on Ayton's mental network, allowing Ayton to view the mental network from the admiral's perspective.

The two people conducting the experiment were completely unaware that for a normal admiral and ship girl, this kind of behavior could only be done without reservation when their affection level was at its maximum and they had signed a different kind of contract.

"...How do you feel? Have you finally realized that being an admiral is not easy? Have you decided to dedicate yourself to your admiral until the very end?" The admiral, having withdrawn his mental imprint, said wearily. Even for a top student who became an admiral directly after graduation, using the mental network so many times in such a short period of time was still quite a burden.

“Hmm…” Adon, who did not respond, had the same strange and subtle expression on the admiral’s face not long ago when he tried to use the mind network to help him awaken but failed.

"What's wrong? Wait... Adon, you..." The admiral, sensing the strange atmosphere, had barely uttered her words when she noticed an inexplicable change occurring in Adon.

Sitting quietly opposite him, Adon exuded a fluctuation unique to the Admiral's mental network. No matter how much the Admiral tried to find differences between this fluctuation and the Admiral's mental network he knew, the final conclusion was that the fluctuation emanating from Adon was the authentic Admiral's network.

Moreover, it is of a higher and purer level than itself.

This... If it weren't for the fact that the person sitting opposite him was the Otti Proof that he had summoned with the lowest resources of 3333, the admiral would even think that the person sitting there was an admiral-level admiral. No, this feeling is infinitely close to that of a marshal-level governor.

This feeling left the admiral somewhat bewildered: "Adon, are you perhaps a ship girl reincarnated from some governor?"

The admiral, who had always been a believer in technology, began to ramble incoherently.

"So this is the Mind Network?" After feeling the power of her activation, Adun opened her eyes and saw the Admiral and the deep-sea carrier named Wo-chan both looking at her with the same bewildered expression, as if they wanted to see something amazing on her face. The Admiral's head was even bumped by Wo-chan's ship equipment.

“Governor? How could that be…” Ardon, who did not deny that he was a reincarnation, explained, “It’s just one of my skills.”

"Your special skill?" The admiral knew that the first-generation ships had special skills, but he had never seen a ship girl whose special skill was to have the admiral's mental network.

"Yes, it's one of my special skills."

"Light of Kara"

Chapter 32: Deep Sea Legend - Ship-Mounted Devourer

The society of Abyssal Ship Girls is a society of slavery. The admiral's statement is not wrong, but it is also unreliable to say that it is right.

For those deep-sea ship girls who possess complete self-awareness, the formation of a deep-sea fleet means that the value of most non-intelligent deep-sea girls is roughly the same as that of slaves.

Only those Abyssal girls who have awakened self-awareness, even if only slightly, and who merely know who they are, are accepted as one of their own by the ruling class of the Abyssal Ship Girls.

This shows that there is basically no preschool education in the deep sea, and how one grows up depends entirely on luck.

For conscious deep-sea ship girls, if they choose to work under a certain deep-sea princess, then their relationship with their boss is more like that of a subordinate employee and the boss of a large corporation.

As excellent employees, conscious deep-sea ship girls have the right to refuse some of their boss's capricious orders.

Of course, when choosing to refuse, deep-sea ship girls who are conscious, intelligent, and know how to memorize addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division tables also need to keep one point in mind.

That is, the Deep Sea Princess who can issue certain capricious orders at will, and who can also do whatever she wants, as the person with the most power in the port, to throw all her disobedient subordinates to the sharks.

Major deep-sea companies do not have the concept of "five social insurances and one housing fund," nor are there any labor laws to protect the lives of employees on a deep-sea vessel.

The saying "Serving a ruler is like serving a tiger" is not limited to the feudal era.

Therefore, most of the intelligent deep-sea ship girls in a certain emerging deep-sea princess fleet in the eastern Pacific are not the kind of fools who would ignore their boss's orders.

Just as the order was given for Princess Abyss to personally lead a special operations squadron to search for the missing Colonel Wo, the commander of the port air formation, it was announced that...

All the eligible deep-sea ship girls rushed to the meeting point at breakneck speed.

This includes the deep-sea battleship who touched up her makeup during work hours, as well as the deep-sea heavy cruiser Xiao Bei, whom she dismissed with a glare.

"Wo-chan! I've come to find you!" Although as a heavy cruiser, Kobei has always been confident in her figure, that's only relative to the destroyers and light cruisers under her command.

It wasn't until he stood alongside a group of "large-caliber" deep-sea battleships that Xiao Bei recalled the fear of being dominated by Europeans.

"Hey, why is there a heavy cruiser right in our middle?"

Having met Xiao Bei once before, the deep-sea battleship quietly asked the deep-sea carrier beside it.

"Oh, she's a friend of the colonel, and they have a good relationship, which is why she was summoned here." The deep-sea carrier glanced at Xiao Bei, searching for traces of her existence in her memory, and answered the deep-sea battleship beside her in a tone of someone who had been there before.

"Huh, she seems to have a good relationship with the colonel? Could it be that she used to work in the logistics warehouse?" Deep Sea Battleship recalled that Xiao Bei had indeed come to the airport area to find Wo-chan under the guise of being a friend of the colonel.

"How did you know?" The deep-sea carrier was surprised by the accurate imagination of this battleship, which was considered a newcomer to the air combat team.

"Because I can't imagine who else the colonel would be friends with besides the warehouse manager." Deep Sea Battleship just wants to say, I've seen aircraft carriers that can eat a lot, but no ship can eat as much as the colonel.

The formula that two women equal three hundred ducks also applies to ship girls who are entirely female. The deep-sea ship girls with complete self-awareness can also be included in this formula.

Especially after everyone had gathered, and the Deep Sea Princess still hadn't appeared, the gathering point had already evolved from a place of bustling chatter to a place of constant chatter.

The words spoken by the two older sister-class deep-sea vessels, unaware of the volume of their voices, were also heard by the others, and another discussion about this issue began.

"This mission must have been very dangerous for a heavy cruiser. Even the colonel has gone missing. If the colonel couldn't send back any distress signal, then that human naval base might not be as dilapidated as it looks."

"Another deep-sea carrier under Colonel Wo Jiang's command asked the battlecruiser that appeared as its escort ship."

"Yes, what if it's where those idiot ship girls are testing some new weapon? The captain could be in danger." The deep-sea battlecruiser, who has always been the main force of the deep-sea aircraft carrier's escort, replied with concern. As for Xiao Bei, whom the deep-sea aircraft carrier mentioned, she did not consider her.

"If there is any danger, please protect this heavy cruiser a little. After all, it is the colonel's friend. I would rather be blamed by Lady Suhime than be remembered by the colonel!"

Seeing that its escort ships hadn't grasped the message, the deep-sea aircraft carrier had to put it more bluntly.

"Eh, why do you say that!" The battlecruiser Deepsea, who never expected to one day be reduced to serving as an escort for a deep-sea heavy cruiser, found it hard to accept.

"If you don't want to one day suddenly find that your hidden stash of aluminum has disappeared, then you should listen to me!"

As if recalling something terrible, the deep-sea aircraft carrier, who, like Wo-chan's ship equipment, had a jellyfish head on her head and was leaning on a cane, spoke in a trembling voice.

"But I'm a battlecruiser! There's no aluminum on my payroll."

Looking at the expression on the deep-sea aircraft carrier in front of it, the deep-sea combat cruiser, which was serving as an escort ship for the air fleet, finally realized that the legend circulating in the airport area about a monster that steals aluminum materials was not unfounded.

"In the eyes of a colonel who is starving and in a food-hunting state, everything in the world is either delicious or not delicious; there is no concept of what cannot be eaten!"

The deep-sea aircraft carrier raised its head, staring at its escort ship with its pale blue, cold eyes, and explained in an equally chilling voice.

"I...I will be careful!" the deep-sea battlecruiser replied somewhat flusteredly.

She had seen it clearly: the aircraft carrier's gaze first fell on her ship's rigging, then swept over her body, and finally landed on her face.

This deep-sea battlecruiser isn't stupid; stupid ships can't serve as escorts for air squadrons.

The words hidden in the eyes of the deep-sea aircraft carrier before them made the battlecruiser break out in a cold sweat.

Oh no! My boss is not only a monster who steals aluminum in the airport area, but he's also the protagonist of one of the seven incredible legends in the entire war zone—the ship-equipment devourer!

Lady Suhime, may I request a job transfer?

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I currently have 51 chapters saved up. I was engrossed in playing games yesterday and didn't write anything, so there was no double update (although I rarely update double or multiple times usually, I'm saving up a few for when there's a recommendation and then I'll do a big update). In the novel's QQ group, there might be some people who should be sent to be Lords of Cinder, urging me to write more, so please don't mind them.

Chapter 33 The Deep Sea Found Was Actually a Door God

"Is this how the contract is established between the admiral and the initial ship?"

Adon carefully read the short note on the slip of paper the admiral handed him, and asked incredulously.

If what's written on this note is true, then in the human faction, forming a contract with one's initial ship and becoming a glorious admiral would be a joke.

"It's just a formality. The lines can be changed at will. The important thing is whether the ship girls are willing. If they're not, no matter how formal the ceremony is, it won't work." The admiral waved his hand, signaling Adun to hurry up.

Whether it's ship girls signing contracts with each other or admirals signing contracts with deep-sea admirals, these are all rare occurrences that have never been seen before. How can we allow Adun to waste time, even if Adun is the person involved?

"Have there ever been any instances where a ship girl refused to be a certain admiral's initial ship?" Adon said that she would absolutely not sign such a casual contract if she were asked to; it would be too beneath her dignity.

"It happened before, but it was always those British princesses. To avoid this from happening, at the end of the course, we arrange for some ship girls to be with the prospective admirals to build a good relationship first," the admiral explained to Admiral somewhat impatiently.

"Admiral, is this how you and Kokang got together?" Yaton asked, glancing at Kokang who was adjusting the camera.

"Tsk, a top student like me is highly sought after by ship girls," the admiral said arrogantly, puffing out his chest.

"Just now I felt like I was being raised as a child bride..." Now it feels like I'm being hit by a hydrangea while holding the third-ranking scholar's hand.

"Are you going to sign it or not? Hurry up, I'm still filming!" the admiral said, pointing to the camera that was constantly running in the corner of the room.

"Ahem, alright, let's begin." Having decided to settle the matter of his admiral's innocence, Adon walked up to Wo-chan, who had been staring at him with a strange look ever since he activated his special skill, Light of Kara. He cleared his throat and began:

"Guardian of the Scales... Admiral, could you please change your line?"

"I said you can change it however you want. You can even read the proposal to me. Anyway, I haven't established a military police force yet."

In reality, only the governor-general was qualified to establish a military police force; the admiral was usually under the command of the military police.

"Forget about the proposal speech, I don't want to... Wo-chan, why are you blushing!" Before she could finish her retort, Yaton was startled by Wo-chan's flushed face and lowered head.

“Wo…” Wo-chan responded in a very soft voice.

"I was just joking, just kidding! Don't say things like 'too early,' 'not ready,' or 'give me some time,' which will arouse suspicion. Okay, even though only I can understand it... I didn't say anything."

Ardon had an urge to strike a dejected forward bend, but unfortunately the room, which served as both a conference room, office, and cafeteria, was a bit too small for the tall and imposing Ardon to stretch out.

"It's alright, Adun." The admiral, who had somehow stepped into the frame from off-camera, patted Adun on the shoulder and said earnestly, "Marriages between ship girls are protected by law. I support you!"