The Naval Base of the Unnamed Ship Girls

Let me figure out how to cook this salted fish of mine to make it taste better.

Chapter 55: I Return to the Battlefield (Third Update This Weekend)

Although Adun claimed that her act of compressing and converting resources was a magic trick, the ship girls at Naval Base 233 saw it as pure magic.

What is magic? Magic is mystery, and mystery means incomprehensible and inexplicable.

The ship girls at Naval Base 233 are looking at Adun like someone who has been guided by scientific materialism since childhood is seeing someone making a giant fireball in broad daylight.

A world where technology has remained largely unchanged for centuries and controlled nuclear fusion is only half-developed naturally cannot comprehend the concept of using information as a medium to transform one substance into another.

Watching Adun transform steel into energy crystals and fuel into high-energy gas, which he then channeled into the body of the reputation man lying on the deck.

Whether it was the Prince of Wales, the Nelson and Rodney sisters, who were just feeling sorry for their hoarded resources, or Charlotte the second generation who was extremely concerned about her reputation status, they were all describing the word "bewildered" with their expressions.

In short, what exactly is this strange ship girl doing?

What about building canals? What about modifying the core? What about all the modification equipment? Do you think you can just throw resources into the reputation's body and it'll be finished? Is this some kind of modification project or farming?!

Fortunately, Adun's work was not interrupted by the confusion of these native ship girls. The renovation project of Renown went very smoothly. It seemed that with the help of the world's power, although some things were changed beyond recognition, nothing went wrong.

It seems that the consequences of being washed by the restraint force, besides making Adun curse a few times, are that all the abilities Adun can use are now labeled with a tag from this world.

However, this kind of manufacturing ability is really tiring for the ship. After waking up the dormant reputation consciousness, Adun found that he was a little sore in the back and legs and had cramps. It was a huge loss to waive the registration fee.

"Young Master, it seems there's some movement in Reputation?" The Prince was the first to notice the growing presence of Reputation and interrupted Charlotte the Second's bewildered state.

"Ah, oh, is that all?" It took Charlotte several seconds to come to her senses before she realized that Adun had gone to the ship's side to greet the patrolling Wo-chan Xiao Bei, without intending to say anything more to them. After all, talking about future technology with a bunch of rusty steel plate heads would drive the ship crazy.

"The deep-sea reaction has completely disappeared, and Renown has truly been saved, but..." But why does this aura not feel like that of a ship girl? Before Prince of Wales could finish speaking, Charlotte interrupted him:

"It's good that you're back, it's good that you're back." As an admiral, even a trainee admiral, Charlotte's perception of the abyssal atmosphere is not much worse than that of the ship girls.

Most importantly, the reputation marker that was previously attached to his admiral network and almost disappeared has reappeared vividly. Although the color has changed from the golden yellow that represented rare ship girls to a strange blue with a golden glow, Charlotte is still very happy.

At least the ship girl who cost him so much resources wasn't lying; she really does have the ability to revive Renown.

As for Adun's claim that he could restore reputation and combat power, Charlotte had already forgotten about it. Such a strategic ability, even if it existed, would not be used so easily.

Charlotte heard that Renown had burned away her ship equipment space. If the ship equipment space that represents a ship girl's identity is burned away, even if she survives, she will just be an ordinary person.

It doesn't matter if she's an ordinary person. Even if she loses all her power, her years of experience in naval warfare and her training of so many battleship girls in Naval Base 233 are enough to guarantee her position in the base.

Besides, having served as the secretary and head maid in the naval base for so many years based on her reputation, which other ship girl would dare to treat her like an ordinary person?

Unlike Charlotte, who was bubbling with happiness upon learning that Reputation was alright, Nelson and Rodney noticed a subtle change in Reputation the moment the Prince of Wales said "nothing."

"Sister? This feeling is..." Rodney asked his sister beside him, only knowing that the head maid's reputation had changed, but not knowing what this change meant.

“At least it’s not the scent of the deep sea.” Nelson, who also didn’t know what had happened, could only give the best news. There was one thing Nelson didn’t say: that she and the Prince of Wales had the same feeling.

The resurrected Renown possessed neither the aura of a deep-sea ship girl nor the aura of a ship girl.

To be precise, Prince of Wales and Nelson could sense that Renown was still a ship girl, but one that was fundamentally different from themselves.

After exchanging and confirming each other's assessments, the Prince of Wales and Nelson's expressions both darkened slightly.

Unfortunately, even if his eyes weren't on the back of his head, Adun, with his phase array system, could still see the expressions on these ship girls' faces clearly.

"That's why I said, talking about technical issues with a bunch of rusty steel plate heads is just asking for trouble. How could they possibly understand the technological achievements of my great Protoss race?"

Adun communicated with her ship girl, Wo-chan, using the psionic network attached to the Light of Kara.

"Wo?" (Admiral, what did you do?) Unfortunately, Wo-chan's performance wasn't much better than the Prince of Wales and the others. The scene just now made Wo-chan, who had never seen Adun do such a thing before, very curious.

"..." Hearing her ship girl's question, Adon remembered that Wo-chan, as a native ship girl, even if she was from the Deep Sea, her technological level wouldn't be much higher than that of the native ship girls. However, since Wo-chan was her ship girl and her initial ship, Adon decided to explain to Wo-chan what she was doing.

"It's nothing serious. I just took the head maid's dead body and some ship equipment wreckage, added a little something, and transformed it into the body of an immortal. Then I threw her soul in, and that was it. Speaking of which, the fact that a ship girl's soul can still think independently after leaving her body is really worth studying."

According to Ardon's understanding, when the soul leaves the body, it falls into a chaotic and divergent state. Rather than having thoughts, it is more accurate to say that the soul outside the body is an information entity that is constantly sending out information.

But the fact that the souls of the ship girls in this world can think independently after separating from their bodies is just too... too unscientific.

"wowowowo?" (Wo-chan knows the meaning of each word you say, Admiral, but not when they are put together.) Colonel Abyss, who couldn't understand what Adun was saying, looked on with a puzzled but impressed expression.

"Simply put, from now on, this maid captain shouldn't be called the battlecruiser ship girl Renown anymore, but should be renamed the Immortal Ship Girl Renown." Seeing that he couldn't explain it clearly in a short time, Adun could only state the result directly.

Just as the Admiral's words fell in the Kara's Light knock-off admiral's online chat, the voice of the head maid, Reputation, who had been transformed into an immortal ship girl, came from the deck of the warship:

"Immortal-class warship, prestige here, I have returned to the battlefield."

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Salty Fish: Third update this weekend

Chapter 56: Master Adon (Fourth update this weekend)

"Immortal-class warship, prestige here, I have returned to the battlefield."

One sentence plunged the Prince of Wales's Glory Formation deck into a deathly silence once again.

"Adon!! What did you do to Renown? Give me back my Renown!!" Charlotte said angrily, blaming Adon for all the changes in Renown. As a result, the Nelson and Rodney sisters re-deployed their ship equipment and aimed it at Adon.

"Isn't Reputation perfectly fine?" Adun, leaning against the deck railing, turned around, seemingly unconcerned about being riddled with 16-inch guns. (16-inch gun)

"But...but I don't remember Reputation Sister looking like this. What did you do to her?" The same appearance, the same figure, the same clothes, even the same expression as the Reputation Sister he usually saw, but for some reason, Charlotte felt that Reputation Sister had changed a lot, so much so that he could hardly recognize her.

"Hey, you bastard, what did you do to Reputation? If you don't confess, I'm going to fire!" Rodney used the clanging sound of a cannon being chambered to demonstrate the threat of his warning.

Rodney, who nearly caused a war between Naval Base 666 and Naval Base 233, was naturally stopped by someone/ship. However, what stopped her was neither the carrier-based aircraft of Captain Wo-chan, a ship girl under Adun's command, nor the warning from her sister, the admonition from her young master, nor the order from the prince.

Instead, it comes from the source of the dispute, and she no longer resembles a ship girl, but rather the head maid of the Immortal-class battleship, Renown.

"Rodney, stow your ship's equipment. Don't be disrespectful to this lord. And Nelson, you too. Your Highness, please turn your main guns back as well." The head maid, Renown, displayed the authority befitting a head maid and secretary ship.

Unfortunately, Reputation's words had no effect. This reaction made Rodney think that Adun had really done something to Reputation, and he said angrily, "What kind of bewitching potion did you secretly give Reputation, you bastard?"

Moreover, half of her dowry was among the ingredients for this love potion. The more Rodney thought about it, the stronger his anger became. If he hadn't been considering that the young master might be accidentally injured while he was around, he would have already pelted Hu Yaton with a super-heavy bullet.

In fact, the instigator, Adun, was also very surprised that Reputation didn't immediately fire at her after opening its eyes. She had prepared a whole bunch of materials to dispel Reputation's misunderstanding, such as this clause in the unequal treaty signed by the trainee admiral Charlotte.

So that's how it is? No wonder. After a moment of stunned silence, Adun, who had figured out why the reputation lord addressed him as "sir," gave a strange smile and looked at the scene on the deck without saying a word.

"Reputation Sister?" Charlotte's eyes welled up with tears when she heard Reputation give the order in that familiar tone.

"It's me, young master, I'm back." Upon hearing the young master's greeting, Shengwang's expression changed slightly, but in the end, it returned to the respectful smile most commonly seen on the head maid.

"It's good to be back. Renown, you almost scared me to death just now. I thought I would never see you again." Charlotte was frightened when the ship girl mark on the head maid Renown faded.

"Renown also thought he would never see you again, young master. Fortunately, with the help of that lord, I was pulled back from the brink of falling into the abyss." Renown turned slightly to the side, drawing everyone's attention back to Adun as he spoke.

"So you were conscious at the time?" Seeing that Reputation had drawn everyone's attention to him, Adun walked over to Reputation and looked down at Reputation, who was a head shorter than him, and asked.

“I have never been asleep. I could even feel the polluted aura of the deep sea gradually eroding me.” Reputation lowered his head and spoke to Adun with the same respect he would show to a young master.

"What do you know?" Once a conscious soul is freed from the constraints of its body, its thought speed is almost as fast as the speed of light. Adun, who had temporarily placed the soul of the Reputation into the Light of Kara psionic network to accommodate it, was now very curious about what this head maid knew.

After all, the Protoss used the Kel'Thuzad crystals to create the Light of the Khala psychic network for the purpose of sharing information and knowledge. Apart from some matters involving the privacy of individual ships, Adun also put everything he knew into the psychic network.

"I know a lot, but compared to what you know, sir, it's just a drop in the ocean." The respectful demeanor of the speaker seemed completely different from his previous aggressive attitude towards Adun.

"That's true. After all, those things are too much for a single soul. It's good to acquire knowledge, but it's too much to overwhelm the soul."

What Adun knows, understands, and possesses is what the Protoss knew, understood, and possessed during their most glorious era. Simply put, Adun, who can also serve as the Doomsday Archives member, knows everything about the Protoss.

All of this is the result of countless Protoss people's pursuit and understanding of all things in the world throughout their long lives, and it was eventually uploaded to the Protoss Network of the Light of Khala and preserved there.

The original version of the Light of Khala only recorded everything about the Khalai Protoss who followed the Khala doctrine, but it also recorded that the Purifier, the Taldarim, and the Dark Protoss Adun uploaded these materials after the Light of Khala was activated.

It's no exaggeration to say that the Light of Kara that Adun possesses contains more and more comprehensive knowledge than the original version.

Regardless of what those conservative Protoss Archons of Khali think, in the end, the Taldarim, the Dark Templar, and the Purifiers are all part of the Protoss race.

As a member of the Protoss Ark, Adun naturally knew these things.

"Hey, what are you guys talking about? Young master, you need to be careful of this unknown ship girl!" Rodney, still looking confused and worried, didn't put away the ship equipment in his hands.

Although she didn't pay much attention to what Rodney said, Charlotte, the second generation of Tigress, asked Reputation a similar question: "Reputation, why do you call Adun 'Lord Adun'? Is it because Adun is the Admiral?"

"Is the Instructor also an Admiral? She's such a powerful ship girl, but that makes sense." Reputation, who had just taken a bath in the Light of Kara in pure soul form, quickly realized why the young master called Admiral.

In the understanding of reputation, it is not difficult for Adun, who has the form of Kara's Light, which is similar to or even more advanced than the Admiral Network, to sign a contract with ship girls and become a nominal Admiral.

However, Reputation knew that although Adun's Kara Light looked very similar to the Admiral's Mind Network of this world, they were not the same thing in essence. For example, Adun's Kara Protoss Network could not have the special power of Admiral's blessing; at most, it was just a simulation.

Therefore, Renown knows that Adun is only nominally an admiral. At this moment, Renown still regards Adun as a powerful ship girl, rather than an admiral who can test his lineage through construction.

"Master? Why do you call Adun that, Reputation Sister?" Charlotte was puzzled as to why Reputation would use such an unfamiliar title to address Adun. What puzzled this second-generation Tigris even more was that Adun accepted the name without any pressure whatsoever.

"I address the Patriarch this way simply to distinguish him from the one in Europe." Reputation made no attempt to hide anything from his young master.

"The one from Europe? You mean... Renown, you mean Archbishop Richelieu?" Charlotte was starting to get confused. In her memory, the first Richelieu in Europe, who had the title of archbishop, truly became the archbishop of the church by relying on the combat power of her leader-class ship girl, not just in the sense of a title of honor.

If the first Richelieu hadn't consistently refused, she might have become the longest-reigning representative of God on earth in history.

Based on the description given by the reputation, could it be that Adun is also an archbishop of some religion? And it's an inherent attribute of the ship girl. Charlotte knows that Adun, the ship girl whom the big sister calls the "Proof of Otti," has only been out of the construction machine for a few days.

...Why does this ship girl, who is also an archbishop, not seem like a religious person at all? Could she be part of some cult?

Charlotte couldn't help but feel annoyed when she thought about how little pocket money she had been given.

Sensing Charlotte's inner turmoil from her changing expression, and understanding what she was thinking, Adun subtly made a gesture, indicating that Charlotte shouldn't forget the unequal treaty they had just signed. Charlotte instantly understood Adun's meaning and immediately put all her speculations aside. Whether Adun was a cult leader or not, in the face of the boss's intimidation, any cult was nothing but trash.

How dare you call the Kara doctrine a cult? Be careful, or I'll burn your planet to a glass ball! Even if I didn't say it out loud, just thinking about it is an unforgivable crime. Although the Protoss civilization has developed to an extremely high level, its core is still religion.

Even though the Kalai Protoss, who pride themselves on being moral exemplars, respect the freedom of belief of other civilizations, they will not tolerate anyone who insults their own civilization's beliefs.

Ardon was almost moved by his own noble act of not shouting "I'll teach myself a lesson" before drawing his psionic blade to teach Charlotte a lesson.

But we can't let it go like this. You brat, just wait until your wallet is bleeding out. I'm not the Protoss High Priest if I don't squeeze you dry.

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Does having drafts in reserve mean anything to a lazy bum like me? Does it mean anything? Does it mean anything? I'm saying it three times because it's important.

Chapter 57 What exactly has reputation become?

Finally, with explanations from both Renown and Charlotte, who believed in Renown, and with the Prince of Wales leading the way, asking many private questions that only British ship girls would know, they had no choice but to believe that the ship girl in front of them, who had Renown's appearance but felt completely different from their head maid, was Renown, who had been saved by Adun.

Unable to find a reason to refute it, and having no choice but to accept the conclusion, Rodney and Nelson could only reluctantly put away their ship equipment, because they really couldn't think of anyone other than Renown who knew exactly how much sugar each of their ship girls needed in their black tea.

In the end, the Prince of Wales also removed the main gun target from Wo-chan and Xiao Bei in the Glory Form. Although she had raised the objection that Adun might have only retained the memories of Renown and not the Renown ship status, unfortunately, before the two admirals, Adun and Charlotte, could express their opinions, Renown had already taken care of the Prince of Wales.