The Naval Base of the Unnamed Ship Girls

"Oh, there's such a saying?" Adon was somewhat surprised by this new idea. There was no explanation of this in her memories given by the power of the world. Before Reputation mentioned these things, her memories only contained the first generation of ship girls and the second generation of ship girls who inherited the ship equipment of the first generation of ship girls.

Yaton hadn't expected there to be so much to learn about ship equipment inheritance.

"Besides directly inheriting the ship equipment from the first generation of ship girls, where did the other ship equipment come from?" Since there was a human-shaped encyclopedia in front of her, it would be a waste not to make use of it, so she was determined to get to the bottom of it.

"They are all ship girls who retired or were deregistered for various reasons." As for how they were left behind, Reputation did not elaborate, and Reputation also concealed from Adun a possibility that had not been verified.

Even when sinking deep sea ships, the deep-sea ship girls themselves did not transform into ship girls, but rather their ship equipment transformed into ship equipment used by ship girls.

However, since she hadn't seen it with her own eyes, she didn't say anything.

"I see." Having immediately guessed what the lack of detailed explanation about retirement or expulsion from the ranks meant, Adun didn't dwell on the question any longer and continued to ask:

What will the original ship girls become after they retire? Will they become human?

"Yes, just like Lady Tidu now, except for the lack of ship equipment, everything else has been retained. There are several instructors at the Central Academy who are original ship girls who voluntarily chose to retire." Renown glanced at the door of the room called the lounge, which was actually a milk storage room, and said.

"Understood, thank you for your explanation." Adun, having finished dressing, summoned the arm armor on his arm again and said.

"This is nothing to worry about, Master." Seeing Adun's action, Reputation immediately bowed and stepped aside to make way for the lounge.

"Well, you should get ready to clean the lounge," Adun said abruptly.

Then, after entering the lounge, the British ship girls of Naval Base No. 233, whether they were daydreaming or playing ball, finally recalled the fear of being crushed by Adun.

"Milk! I want milk!! Give me a ton of milk!!" Seeing Adton deliberately swaying as he walked, Nelson slammed his cue stick down and rushed to the milk counter.

"Do you have milk that tastes like pure fuel? Give me 100 bottles!" The Prince of Wales finally realized what Tidu's subtle look was, and disregarding the ladylike demeanor of the British ship girl, she directly reached out and asked for it.

"Sister...I...I...I want milk too." Rodney, who was the slowest to react, threw himself at his sister's side, hugging Nelson's leg with snot and tears streaming down his face.

"Well done." Tidu gave Adon a thumbs up with satisfaction!

"..." Adun sighed slightly. In order to carry out his admiral's orders, he had really thrown away all the honor of the Great Eldar.

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☆, Chapter 97: She's already a ship girl!

While Adun was helping the world's fuel milk company boost market growth, Adun's two deep-sea ship girls were preparing a midnight snack in the kitchen, following their admiral's orders.

"Wo..." Wo-chan, munching contentedly on aluminum flakes, lay sprawled on a cafeteria chair, looking as if she could die happy with her aluminum meal.

"Hey, hey, hey! That aluminum strip was just cut open and hasn't been cooked yet. Wo-chan, why are you sneaking a bite?" Xiao Bei, wearing a chef's hat and apron, shouted loudly, holding an iron wok and a spatula in her hand!

"wowo" (I love eating raw aluminum strips, they taste amazing!) Although both aluminum bread and raw aluminum strips are made of aluminum, compared to the bulky and dark-colored Mao-style food aluminum bread, wo-chan still prefers raw aluminum strips.

Especially their admiral's admiral, that half-ship girl named Tidu, prepared special and exquisite supplies with unique flavors in her own naval base. For example, the aluminum bars in Wo-chan's hand were pickled and made into spicy aluminum bars suitable for stir-frying.

Enjoying the ultimate happiness brought by spicy aluminum strips, Wo-chan suddenly felt very grateful to the ship girl who sank the supply ship. It was because the supply ship was sunk that she was so hungry that she came out to find food. And it was because she came out to find food that she was picked up by Adun and became her ship girl, enjoying this life where aluminum is plentiful.

Even if this life with aluminum pipes doesn't last long, I still feel it's been worth it.

Similarly, another deep-sea submarine, tied up like a salted fish because there was nowhere to put it, was also wondering if its life was worthwhile.

Is it going to be eaten up? It turns out the cozy atmosphere in the bathhouse was all an act.

What truly lies before us is a terrifying future where we are about to be sliced, braised, or stir-fried.

The legendary thief Nautilus twisted her body in fear at the thought that she was about to become a supply for these terrifying ship girls.

"Hey, don't move! I'm talking to you! Don't move! Your butt is going to be used as frying ammunition!" Upon seeing the deep-sea submarine's movements, Xiao Bei's sense of honor as a chef immediately overshadowed his fear of the Qi Ji Deep Sea.

"If you move again, you might get blown away!"

Steel is a delicacy for battleship girls, aluminum blocks are an indispensable supply for aircraft carrier girls, and ammunition is what Xiao Bei, a heavy cruiser, loves most.

I grilled tons of bouncy fried skewers and oil-fried skewers at the beach.

Although most of it was eaten by Wo-chan next to her, sigh, bad luck with the ship. Xiao Bei, who was lost in thought, saw that Wo-chan had finished the spicy aluminum strips that she had just cut and felt that she couldn't let her friend continue to ruin the side dishes. So she secretly took out a few pieces of deep-sea aluminum from her ship equipment space.

"Wo!" Upon smelling the familiar scent, Wo-chan cheered and rushed to Xiao Bei's side, hugging Xiao Bei and giving her a skewer of Wowo.

"I know you like this stuff, but you'd better eat it sparingly. I don't know when we'll be able to get this again." Realizing that he had already betrayed the Deep Sea faction and that it would be difficult to get these resources with the scent of his hometown in the future, Xiao Bei sighed deeply.

"I know, I know," she said, but her chewing speed on the deep-sea aluminum block didn't slow down at all. In just a few bites, Xiao Bei's allowance for several months was gone.

"Wo" (Is there any more?) It seems Wo-chan really likes the taste of her hometown. She tugged at Xiao Bei's arm, interrupting her work on making late-night snacks.

"No, no, this is several months' salary of mine. I told you to eat slowly, now it's all gone." Actually, Xiao Bei still had some left, but knowing Wo Jiang's personality of forgetting everything when she's holding a block of aluminum, Xiao Bei decided to steel herself.

"Wo," Wo-chan said with a hint of disappointment, seemingly unsatisfied with the small amount of deep-sea aluminum material Xiao Bei had just received.

"Hey!! I'm just a deep-sea heavy cruiser! Not even a high-ranking commander. So what if my allowance is only this much? Do you think I'm some kind of deep-sea princess who can just do nothing and have a bunch of subordinates contribute all the resources?"

Upon hearing Wo-chan complain about her low salary, Xiao Bei immediately broke free from Wo-chan's embrace in a huff.

"Wowowo!" Realizing she had said something wrong, Wo-chan quickly waved her hands and feet... her tentacles dancing as she apologized.

"Forget it, let's think about how to become ship girls in the future. We probably can't go back to the Abyss. As long as the admiral isn't petty and sends us to be spies, that's fine." Hearing Wo-chan comfort her with the words that she would become a ship girl someday, Xiao Bei sighed deeply again.

Being sent to the deep-sea ship girls' controlled area as a expendable spy is fine if you don't get discovered, but if you do, it's not just about having your ship equipment removed and being fed to sharks.

No matter how unwilling Xiao Bei was, the mark from the Admiral Network forced her to accept that she was now a member of the human ship girl faction.

Fortunately, Xiao Bei's original ideal was to capture a human admiral and make him her own admiral to enjoy the feeling of having an admiral. Now it's just the other way around. She can still accept it even if she has to force herself. If it were those deep-sea ship girls who see human ship girls as enemies, she might really have perished together with Adun...

Judging from their previous fighting strength, the chances of them dying together don't seem very high.

Adun smiled as he overheard Xiao Bei's thoughts through his fake admiral network. Although his admiral network was a fake, it could still fool quite a few ship girls.

"Adon, why are you smiling so strangely? You're making my skin crawl." Tidu, feeling a little uncomfortable because of Adon's inexplicable smile, shifted her body to avoid seeing it.

"I was thinking, maybe we could send Wo-chan and Xiao Bei to the deep sea as spies?" Yaton said, squinting as he voiced Xiao Bei's concerns.

"Hey! How can an admiral let his ship girls do such dangerous work!" Tidu immediately said with dissatisfaction.

"I was just saying, don't take it seriously, don't take it seriously." Besides, isn't it dangerous to engage in a direct confrontation with deep-sea cannons? For ship girls who take pride in the strongest weapons wielded by humanity, this kind of order should be considered an honor, right?

However, even if we send Xiaobei and Wo-chan as spies, the Deep Sea Princess, who already knows that some of her subordinates have defected, will probably treat Wo-chan and Xiaobei well and treat them as liaison ambassadors.

Thinking of this, Adun gave his admiral an even more subtle look, which sent a chill down the spine of the admiral of the 666th temporary naval base, causing him to sneeze several times in a row.

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Spring sleep is so sweet, I don't even notice the dawn... everywhere... in short, I woke up late.

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Chapter 98 I...I am the Princess of the Deep Sea!

"Wait a minute, although I'm not a Deep Sea Princess, but..." But there is a Deep Sea Princess in this kitchen, and Xiao Bei's IQ suddenly spiked to its limit after being criticized by Wo-chan for having too low a salary.

"wowo" (Oh right, the admiral has captured a deep-sea princess). Upon hearing Xiaobei's prompt, wo-chan turned her gaze back to the deep-sea salted fish princess, her face full of undisguised ill intent.

"What...what do you want to do? I...I may be a Princess, but I'm just a wandering Princess. I have nothing."

The deep-sea submarine Nautilus, bound like a salted fish and stacked on a pile of ammunition originally intended as food, writhed as if begging for mercy.

"Don't be afraid, we don't intend to cook you. We're just asking if you have any extra supplies. As a prisoner, hand them all over," Xiao Bei said, tapping the wok with a spatula.

"Wowo" (Hand it over, hand it over, hand over all the aluminum) In order to cooperate with her girlfriend's exploitation, Wo-chan manipulated her jellyfish tentacles, making them dance wildly.

"If I had the resources, would I need to be a thief?" The Nautilus lied, putting on a pitiful act.

She definitely has the resources. After all, she's been a legendary thief for so many years. Even though she spent a lot of the things she stole each time, the scraps she kept were enough for Nautilus to become a wealthy ship girl.

Moreover, the Nautilus, accustomed to hardship, had a good habit of saving resources. But no matter how much resources she had, she couldn't just hand them over so easily. If she could exchange them for her freedom, that would be fine, but after observing her, the Nautilus realized that Ardon seemed quite interested in her and wouldn't let her go so easily.

"It's not just aluminum, Wo-chan. We need ammunition, steel, and fuel. No admiral would complain about having too many resources." Xiao Bei quickly stopped her when she heard that Wo-chan only wanted aluminum.

"wowowo" (Yes, yes, yes, ammunition, steel, fuel, aluminum, and aluminum materials all need to be handed over!) Unfortunately, wo-chan, true to her nature, repeated the word "aluminum materials" once.

"..." It's not just the human faction's ship girls who can't understand the Wo language; not every deep-sea ship girl in the deep-sea faction can understand it either. It's a special language that's only passed down among deep-sea carriers, and even now, there aren't many deep-sea carriers that can understand it.

Despite being a legendary thief, it's clear that the Nautilus didn't spend time studying the language of deep-sea aircraft carriers.

Seeing the bewildered look on the Salted Fish Princess's face, Xiao Bei knew that his idea of ​​squeezing resources out of her was probably going to fall through. After all, other ship girls couldn't open the ship equipment space, and even if it sank in battle, it would only perish along with the ship girl.

"So you're supposed to be the Deep Sea Princess! You can't even produce something this simple! How shameful!" Xiao Bei mocked her with a goading tactic.

In her memory, the Deep Sea Princesses, who were at the top of the Deep Sea faction, never lacked resources. Xiao Bei, who had served as the logistics warehouse manager of the Deep Sea Fleet for a long time, had a deep understanding of this.

"I just..." Wait, I'm still the Deep Sea Princess, right? Provoked by Xiao Bei's words, and remembering that although I'm a thief, I'm still a Princess, the Nautilus, my eyes immediately sharpened.

Because in the Abyssal Ship Girls, the suppression of rank is not only reflected in one's own combat power. As a Princess, one can forcibly remove the Princess mark from another Abyssal Ship Girl and turn the other into one's own Abyssal Ship Girl when the other Princess is not prepared.

This ability is also the most important distinguishing feature between ordinary deep-sea ship girls and deep-sea princess ship girls, which is one of the reasons why the relationship between deep-sea princesses has never been good.

Although the Nautilus did not intend to build its own fleet, it still used this skill a few times, such as when it was discovered that it was trying to plunder the territory of a powerful anti-submarine ship or a ship whose special skill was just a counter to its own.

The Nautilus would use this skill to temporarily remove the Princess Mark from the Abyssal Ship Girls who were chasing it, and then remove its own mark, leaving behind a bunch of ownerless Abyssal Ship Girls before escaping.

The current situation seems to be a good fit for this skill. He glanced at the kitchen and found that only the two deep-sea ship girls in front of him were with him. There was no sign of that terrifying space battleship or the group of battleship girls that could sink him with a single shot.

Nautilus made up her mind to use the special skills belonging to the Deep Sea Princess to forcibly strip Wo-chan and Kobei of their Princess marks... cough, maybe it's the Admiral's online contract or something.

I have never seen the Nautilus, which is a deep-sea ship girl and a human faction admiral who signed a contract. I can only regard Admiral Network of Admiral as the mark of the deep-sea princess.

After all, time was of the essence, and there was not much time for the Nautilus to hesitate. Taking advantage of the opportunity to leave its mark on Wo-chan and Kobe, it was the last resort to order them to create chaos in this terrible naval base to create an opportunity for her to escape.

Nautilus, who was determined to get to work, pretended to be provoked by Xiao Bei: "Who said I don't have any resources? I am a Deep Sea Princess after all. Since becoming a Princess, my appetite has increased so much. I will definitely store some to ensure that I don't starve to death."

"It's alright, it's alright. We'll leave you some so you won't starve. We in Hong Kong... um, our naval base treats prisoners of war very well." Xiao Bei, who hadn't expected the provocation to work so well, quickly leaned over and said.

"...Is being tied up a perk?" Nautilus muttered to himself.

"Who told you to try to run away? The admiral already untied you before," Xiao Bei said somewhat awkwardly to the Deep Sea Princess, who looked like a lazy bum.

"Wowo," Wo-chan, who was also in a happy state, agreed with Xiao Bei's words. This deep-sea aircraft carrier, which would disappear as long as it wasn't fed aluminum, completely forgot that it had also tied up the other party before.

“But I can’t take it out right now.” To prove the credibility of her words, the Nautilus twisted her body again and said, “However, I can open my ship equipment space, and you can take it yourselves, but remember to leave some for yourselves.”

"Of course, of course." Before Xiao Bei could finish speaking, Wo Jiang had already dashed to Nautilus's side like a gust of wind.

A perfect opportunity! Seeing that the other party seemed completely unprepared, Nautilus unleashed all of its special abilities as a Deep Sea Princess, dumping its mark into Wo-chan's mental network.

"Wo?" Wo-chan, who hadn't reacted at all, was a little confused as to why the Nautilus had suddenly closed its eyes. What happened to the promise of being able to freely take resources from its ship equipment space?

Little did he know that this legendary thief, who risked everything for freedom, was about to face the greatest crisis of his life.

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Did I miss updating a chapter? Hmm, well, don't worry about the details, don't worry about the details.