The Naval Base of the Unnamed Ship Girls

☆, Chapter Sixty-Four: The Ship Girl with Negative Affection Rating

“Alright, even if you’re a colonel, I can still protect you, young master.” The Prince of Wales wanted to cover her face, because she felt the deep malice of the world.

Although the combat power of deep-sea ships varies depending on the combat power of the deep-sea fleet they belong to, the gatekeeper under the Northern Princess, that ship that any ship would find daunting, whether it was an aircraft carrier, a torpedo cruiser, or a battleship, was far more powerful than other captains under the Northern Princess.

The average deep-sea gatekeeper, Prince of Wales, could probably hold her own against the current fleet of ship girls if they all ganged up on her. But against that captain, even if the number of ship girls increased several times, it would be a complete wipeout.

But no matter what, each Deepsea Princess is at least equivalent to the combat power of a leader-class ship girl on the human side. To become the commander-in-chief of a fleet under a leader-class ship girl, it must be a genuine hero-class ship.

As a near-hero-class ship girl, Prince of Wales was somewhat unsure whether she could get the better of a genuine hero-class Abyssal.

Fortunately, Wo-chan has not shown any hostility towards them so far, and her constant use of "wo" has reduced her intimidation factor to some extent.

Admiral, when will the reinforcements arrive? I'm starting to feel like I can't handle this anymore.

Especially after the young master returned from studying at the Central Academy for a few years, why has his curiosity become so strong? Well, the young master was always very curious, but now the other party is a Senior Captain of the Deep Sea! The admiral and the ship girl's lifelong enemy! What do you mean by going up there and touching her ship equipment!

"It's so soft and feels so good to touch. What's this thing used for?" Charlotte, who was very curious about why a deep-sea aircraft carrier would have a jellyfish as its ship equipment, touched the tentacles extending from Wo-chan's ship equipment after being given permission and asked.

"wo" seems to really enjoy having others touch the tentacles of her ship equipment, even if the other party is a human admiral (trainee), wo-chan still shows a look of enjoyment.

"Is wo-chan talking to me?" Charlotte almost foolishly used "wo" as an interjection before realizing for a while that wo-chan was answering her question. Unfortunately, not everyone could understand wo-chan's "wo" language, so Charlotte could only look at Adun questioningly.

"Idiot... idiot human! This is Wo-chan's ship-mounted radar, take your filthy hands off it!" Xiao Bei said unhappily, having been forced to sign a contract with Adun under the guise of Wo-chan's half-buy, half-giveaway arrangement. In her heart, how could she let that despicable human touch Wo-chan's body, even though, even though this human looked so handsome.

"Oh, sorry, sorry, I thought it was some kind of decoration (or arm or something)." Seeing Xiao Bei's big reaction, Charlotte quickly released the tentacle hanging down from wo-chan's ship rigging, replacing her previous curiosity with an apologetic expression.

"No, don't apologize to me! Apologize to Wo-chan! Yes, apologize to Wo-chan!" Xiao Bei, who was staring directly at Charlotte, noticed that this human admiral's handsomeness was off the charts.

"Wo? Wo!" (Xiao Bei, what's wrong? Why is your face so dark? Oh, Xiao Bei, why are you bleeding from your nose?) Seeing a trail of black blood flowing from Xiao Bei's nose, Wo-chan, thinking something had happened to her, hugged her and shook her with a worried expression.

"Stop...stop shaking me, I'm going to throw up, I'm going to throw up!" Xiao Bei, who was pulled back from the brink of a fangirl state by Wo-chan's violent shaking, spat at Charlotte and said, "You foolish human, you actually think you can defeat me this way? Xiao Bei will absolutely not let you succeed."

After saying that, he turned his head away and refused to look at the handsome Charlotte the second generation. But, Xiao Bei, if you don't want to look, then don't look. Why do you keep glancing at Charlotte out of the corner of your eye?

"Did I...did I do something wrong?" Charlotte asked awkwardly, not understanding what had happened, while Ardon's expression was also somewhat conflicted.

"You're not wrong, the world is wrong." And maybe your parents are wrong too, Yaton silently added in his mind.

However, if she had met Charlotte's father, the Admiral of Naval Base No. 233, whose ancient giant ape-like wisdom would have prompted her to revise her guesses.

To be able to grow a face that could seduce the deep sea despite such terrible genes, Charlotte, did you offend the power of the world, or did the power of the world take a liking to you?

"Sigh..." Charlotte, who didn't understand what Adun was saying at all, had no choice but to shift her attention from the ship rigging on Wo-chan's head to the cane that Wo-chan was holding and asked, "Is this also Wo-chan's ship rigging?"

"This is an important piece of equipment used by deep-sea aircraft carriers to command their carrier-based aircraft. If this thing can be destroyed, a deep-sea aircraft carrier can lose direct control over its carrier-based aircraft."

Even the Prince of Wales, who had been worried about the young master's safety being threatened by his close proximity to the deep sea, couldn't stand it any longer. After explaining on behalf of Adun, the Prince of Wales sighed and continued:

"These are key points that both admirals and ship girls learn at the Central Academy. Young master, you're making the admiral and Lady Helena worry."

"Ah, so it's a knowledge point. I remember now, this question has appeared on the exam papers at the beginning of several semesters. Prince of Wales, you know so much."

As for Charlotte's exam results, given that she didn't even know this important point, her extremely embarrassed expression revealed everything.

"These are just basics..." The Prince of Wales sighed again at his son's academic performance, praising him for knowing so much when he was told that it was something everyone should know, only slightly more difficult than 1+1=2.

Even Rodney knows this basic theory, but he rarely uses it. Deep-sea carriers rarely operate alone; instead of trying to shatter the opponent's scepter, it's better to take care of the escort ships around her first.

Most importantly, the loss of control over a deep-sea carrier only means the loss of control over its carrier-based aircraft. It does not mean that the carrier-based aircraft will fall into the water like dumplings after losing control of the deep sea. The attack on the enemy will not stop.

"Is this your command center?" Adun, who had always thought that the hat on Wo-chan's head was the control center, raised an eyebrow and asked.

“Wo!” Wo-chan responded confidently, and waved her cane, indicating that the cane could be used as a personal weapon in addition to being a cane.

"Let me see it." After staring at the cane that Wo-chan was waving around for a while, Adon suddenly reached out and asked for it, without any sense of embarrassment.

"Wo?" It seems that this cane has a special meaning to Wo-chan. Yadun's words made Wo-chan hesitate for a moment, but she carefully handed over the cane in her hand because Yadun was her admiral.

Why were you swinging so hard just now when you were being so careful? You almost hit my second ship girl! Adun glanced at the Deep Sea Heavy Cruiser Xiao Bei, whom she had registered on the pirated version of the Admiral Network Kara's Light, and sighed inwardly.

If a general admiral needs 50 affinity points to sign a contract with a ship girl, then Wo-chan, who has enough aluminum tubes to sign a contract with Adun, needs at least 90 affinity points. However, this deep-sea heavy cruiser's affinity points with Adun... Adun can only be thankful that affinity points don't have a negative value.

After receiving the ship equipment from Wo-chan, Adun immersed himself in it with psionic energy, scanned it back and forth, and then said with an "I see" expression:

"Is that so? So, there are some interesting things about this world."

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Before I knew it, I'd already reached chapter 65. I've only written up to chapter 81 so far, hmm...

☆, Chapter Sixty-Five: The Significance of Ship Equipment

No wonder Wo-chan introduces herself as "chan" when introducing herself to others, and the ship equipment on her head is "wo".

Through the cane in Wo-chan's hand, Adun sensed something and learned some things.

It turns out that the ship equipment of the Deepsea Ship Girl is, in essence, part of the soul of the Deepsea Ship Girl, and not just an externally mounted weapon as Yadun previously thought.

To be precise, Adun's previous speculation that the ship's equipment was an external weapon was not entirely wrong. The cane that Wo-chan treasured was not a part torn from her soul, but rather a soul that, in form, resembled an external weapon, but was actually another soul carried within her soul.

If the Protoss hadn't mastered the art of manipulating the soul, Adun might not have been able to find any slight difference between the ship-mounted souls attached to Wo-chan's soul and Wo-chan's original soul.

However, unlike what Adon had imagined, this difference did not cause the soul to weaken due to conflict. Wo-chan's ship equipment, which possessed a soul, coexisted with Wo-chan in a state that Adon could not understand.

So, are the ship girls on the human side the same as the deep-sea ship girls? Adun, holding Wo-chan's cane, raised her eyes to look at Renown. Seemingly noticing Adun's gaze, Renown, who was still dressed in a maid outfit even after becoming a Protoss Immortal from a British battlecruiser, nodded to Adun in greeting.

If they are the same, then any modification to one's reputation, from the inside out, cannot be considered a modification at all.

Because the way Adun modified Reputation was equivalent to extracting Reputation's soul separately, discarding his former body and ship equipment, and replacing it with the ship equipment of an Immortal.

Under this modification, the current Immortal Ship Gear of Renown is not a symbiotic soul like the ship gear of Wo-chan, but just a pure tool. No matter how useful a tool is, it is completely different from a symbiotic soul.

Unfortunately, by the time the renovation of Reputation began, Reputation's ship equipment had been completely burned away, and even her own soul was on the verge of collapse. Adun had no idea whether there was any trace of her soul left on Reputation's ship equipment.

Forget it, let's talk about it when we have concrete evidence later. As a serious and earnest Protoss ship girl, Adun admits that she often speculates about the rules and theories of this world, but she will never treat those speculations without evidence as real things.

Since I'm now a ship girl on the human side, I'll definitely have many opportunities to research ship girl souls under normal conditions in the future.

With wartime damage control and maintenance capabilities, Adun believed that he could easily take on the role of a hospital ship as well.

As for Adun herself, she did not sense anything like a symbiotic soul on her ship equipment, but she had a lot of souls inside her. After all, a complete Templar Legion and the Protoss Templar Fleet at its peak were still sleeping inside Adun's body.

Ardon was prepared to find that when he summoned these underlings, they had been transformed into strange forms by the power of the world. For example, the reputation that had been transformed into an immortal was directly corrected by the power of the world into the immortal-class ship girl, the Renown.

But no matter what form they take, there is no doubt that these henchmen and thugs within Adun possess their own independent souls.

"Did you find something?" Charlotte, who had never been sure whether to treat Adun as a ship girl or an admiral, asked curiously when she saw Adun fall silent after taking Wo-chan's cane and ship equipment.

"What did you find? Oh, I did find something interesting, but that's not the point." Adon didn't intend to tell anyone about her discovery regarding the souls of the deep-sea ship girls, at least not Charlotte and the others.

Firstly, Yaton felt that the local ship girl admirals might not understand if she explained it, and secondly, these things were also considered secrets of the deep-sea ship girls.

The trust that Wo-chan placed in Adun when she handed him this cane was not for Adun to use to betray secrets. After all, the mainstream ideology of this world is still eating, sleeping, and fighting the Abyss.

Although Charlotte was his admiral's underling, Adun still wouldn't tell him this secret, betting that Charlotte wouldn't let it slip to anyone else.

Even now, I still don't understand how the scientists of this world managed to condense a ten-ton mass into a chocolate-sized piece of Adun. I don't really have any sense of looking down on this world.

"I'm just thinking about how to modify Wo-chan's ship equipment." Now that there's a successful prototype (Reputation is now a prototype), the idea of ​​trying to modify Wo-chan into a Protoss ship girl is not bad.

If the modification is successful, the situation of everyone hating you and you getting attacked yourself will no longer occur. At most, you will just be criticized for strange ship equipment.

In this world, ship girl equipment reflects the appearance of the original ship to a certain extent. For example, Nelson Rodney's main guns are all arranged on one side of the equipment.

What would Wo-chan look like if she were transformed into a Protoss carrier? Adun recalled the Protoss carrier's oval, club-like body... But forget it, the jellyfish-like hull is quite nice, at least better than the Protoss carrier.

For the first time, Adun realized how bizarre the aesthetic sense of the Protoss engineers of the Kalley class was; at least the aesthetic sense of the Kalley engineers who designed aircraft carriers was definitely different from that of other Protoss.

"Wow, can it be modified to be really powerful? Can you teach me?" Although she didn't know how much stronger her reputation and combat power had become after being modified by Adun, the skill of stopping time sounded so overpowered that Charlotte asked with sparkling eyes, as if she wanted Adun to teach her.

"I modify ship girls using my own special skills, which you wouldn't understand even if I explained it to you," Adun replied, dismissing the foolish question from the delusional man.

"You make it sound so real. Do you really think modification is that simple? Ship girls without hero-level strength have a chance of failure. If they fail... fail... I didn't say anything, you didn't hear anything!"

Upon hearing that Adun didn't take the ship girl modification seriously, Rodney immediately expressed her dissatisfaction. However, after realizing a certain key point, she shut up on her own without her sister's intervention.

Because Wo-chan is a senior colonel, the commander-in-chief of the fleet under the command of the Deep Sea Princess, and the commander-in-chief of a leader-class ship girl.

It's a foregone conclusion that it will be a Hero-level character.

It's certainly embarrassing to try to slap someone else in the face but end up slapping yourself instead. Rodney had already lowered his head to look at his boots.

"Wait a minute..." Upon hearing Adun bring up the matter of modification again, the Prince of Wales suddenly said as if he remembered something, "When you modify ship girls, don't you need to modify their cores?"

"What is that?" Ardon asked, not knowing what the Prince of Wales was talking about.

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Hmm, it seems we've forgotten about everyone at Naval Base 666.

Chapter 66 The Significance of the Transformation

When the deep-sea ghost first appeared on this world, the five most powerful nations on the planet were passionately discussing the division of territorial ownership for a lunar colony, and also envisioning future plans for a Martian colony.

And then... and then that was it. Under the sudden attack of the deep-sea ship girls, the old United Nations system collapsed at an unexpected speed. After losing four-fifths of its territory and more than ninety percent of its population, the new Human Federation was rebuilt on the ruins with the help of its new companions—ship girls.

Regardless of any other feelings one might have towards these beautiful angels, there was always an inexplicable sense of unease among the human forces when they interacted with these anthropomorphic warships that seemed to have stepped out of a historical painting.

Humanity ushered in the era of large ships and giant cannons, and it was also humanity that used aircraft carriers to send these large ships and giant cannons to the dustbin of history. These maritime overlords gradually withdrew from the historical stage with the space-based weapons, laser weapons, and electromagnetic weapons invented by humankind later.

Having a group of humans with advanced intralunar navigation technology work with these warship girls who are still using firepower from the World War II era does feel a bit... strangely inexplicable.

Thus, from the very beginning, humanity recalled the various technological modifications they made to the prototypes of these warship girls in the later stages of the era of naval supremacy.

Modernization through the addition of advanced radar, electronic fire control systems, and nuclear-powered engines; modernization through the addition of ship-to-ship missiles, electromagnetic equipment, and laser weapons; and even by relying on the unscientific anthropomorphic characteristics of the ship girls themselves, various future weapons that are still in the planning stages can be created.

These are what the Prince of Wales previously referred to as modernization, modernization, and even sci-fi-level transformations. Sometimes, for simplicity, they are also referred to as continuing with the first, second, third, and fourth transformations.

However, when humans first tried to modify ship girls using their own methods, they discovered that adding new equipment to ship girls was not as simple as adding new equipment to warships.

Even though these ship girls were completely obedient to human orders, the results of the modifications still did not satisfy human scientists.

Because these equipment could not be integrated into the ship girls' equipment space, they had to be miniaturized. The modifications at that time were more like turning the ship girls into super soldiers with customized weapons.

Just like the admiral of Admiral Adon, the one named Tidu, who would often pull out a PG from his ship equipment space and slap his ship girl in the face until she was covered in dust, the earliest ship girl modifications looked like this.

While using the modern weapons on their own ship to fire at the deep sea, they also seized the opportunity to pull out the weapons assigned to them and unleash a super electromagnetic cannon on the deep sea.

This initial act, which was less a modification and more a matter of equipping ship girls with weapons, did not give humanity an overall advantage in the battle against the deep sea.

In addition, at that time, humanity, having lost more than half of its population and territory, also lost many seemingly advanced technologies, and much of the equipment given to ship girls was experimental.