The Naval Base of the Unnamed Ship Girls

It became classified as food in the same category as the "mysterious meat" in the Central University's public canteen. Although potatoes held a higher status than the mysterious meat, because the former made people feel that it would be better to starve than to eat that...

"Ah, I found it, it's here, it's here." Just as the conversation about potatoes was about to turn into an exploration of the meaning of life, Kogan finally found what he was looking for in a pile of junk in his ship's equipment space.

"Kokang, why are you stuffing so many strange things into your ship's equipment space?" the admiral asked curiously, picking up a wooden-handled grenade with a five-pointed star on it.

"Hey, that's...that's what Kokang thought the initial ship and secretary ship should use." Seeing the mess in the dining room, Kokang hurriedly stuffed the things back into his ship equipment space.

"What about this one?" Adon asked curiously, picking up a game console with the "PSX+1" logo.

"Hey, isn't this my game console? No wonder I couldn't find it!" Tidu screamed when she saw what Adon was holding.

"I...I was afraid the Admiral would become distracted by frivolous pursuits...so...so I secretly put them away." Guo Gan appeared very serious and responsible.

"Aaaaaah, no wonder I couldn't find it! My save file from all these years!!" Tidu looked utterly dejected, as if the Deep Sea Princess had completely taken over his life.

"Didn't we find it?" Adun was a little puzzled by the admiral's reaction.

"I thought those scumbags at school had secretly taken it to play with. To prevent them from ruining my save file, I applied for a remote format." Tidu felt a darkness engulf her.

"Then I'll take it." It wouldn't hurt to see how the game was developing in this world, so Admiral Adon nonchalantly put away his game console.

"Forget it, I've been a world champion for ten years anyway, it's time to retire." If you added some powerful background music, Tidu's current expression would perfectly mimic the "I have no regrets in my life" attitude.

"Oh? You're that mysterious ten-year champion?" Rodney couldn't help but exclaim in surprise upon hearing Tidu's words. Then, under the gaze of the Prince of Wales and his older sister, Rodney explained somewhat embarrassedly, "I play it in my spare time."

“Honorable friend, could you help us clean the dorm when we get back?” Nelson emphasized the word “clean” to prevent his sister from becoming a shut-in like Tirpitz.

"No, sister, dear sister, my wise and powerful sister! At least look at Bismarck, how much he dotes on his sister! You can't disgrace the British Royal Navy in this regard!" Upon hearing Nelson's words, Rodney immediately grabbed his sister's leg, knelt down, and cried out.

“Precisely because I am your older sister, I cannot let you sink deeper and deeper into the path of a recluse,” Nelson said unmoved, leaving Rodney there to wallow in self-pity, utterly heartbroken.

If you have ears as sharp as Adun's, you can even hear Rodney saying things like, "I won't be able to team up to play when I go back this time," "I'm really going to have to AFK now," and "I'm sorry, North Carolina."

"So, Kokang, what exactly are you looking for?" Regardless of what those British ship girls were saying, the "big shots" and such were meaningless to the admiral whose save file had been destroyed, so Tidu asked his initial ship about the matter at hand.

"Let's verify if Xiao Bei is something belonging to the Northern Princess." With that, Kogan pulled out a toy-like small airplane and said, "This is it!"

“If I’m not mistaken, this should be…” After carefully examining the small plane in Kokang’s hand, Tidu used his knowledge to identify it and asked, “This is the Reppu fighter jet used by IJN aircraft carriers, right?”

"Yes, it cost me several months' worth of allowance to buy it," Kokang nodded and said.

"Why would you collect this stuff with a destroyer? Oh right, that's your hobby, I almost forgot." Ti, who was about to complain that Kokang's small destroyer had no flight deck and that collecting Reppu fighters was completely useless except for playing around, suddenly remembered that her own initial ship did indeed have this hobby.

"But why did you bring this out?" Tidu was completely baffled, unable to figure out why Kogan had brought out the Gale.

“If that’s the case, perhaps it can really be verified.” The Prince of Wales seemed to remember something, looking at the Gale in Guo Gan’s hand, a glint of light flashing in his single eye.

"What are you talking about? Wait a minute..." Reminded by the Prince of Wales, Tidu remembered a piece of gossip: "You're talking about the rumor that the Northern Princess can't move when she sees a fierce wind?"

“That’s not a rumor, it’s true…” the Prince of Wales said, followed by the head maid, Renown, who added, “Back then, there was indeed a record of the Northern Princess Fleet letting an entire fleet go for the sake of a single Reppu, but the incident was so bizarre that it wasn’t recorded.”

There are some things that only ship girls who personally experienced that battle can know.

"Oh... I understand." After understanding what Renown had said, all the ship girls in the restaurant turned their attention to the deep-sea heavy cruiser Xiao Bei, who resembled the Northern Princess.

"Wo??!" Little Bei's guardian angel, Wo-chan, was completely dumbfounded.

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Chapter 104 A Courageous Method (Second Update)

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The Gale fighter jet used to verify Xiao Bei's true identity was placed in front of the deep-sea heavy cruiser. Not understanding why these ship girls all seemed so expectant, Xiao Bei, sitting in her chair, said somewhat unhappily:

"What are you doing? Why are you showing me a fighter jet?"

"...Don't you feel anything special?" Adun, who had been assigned as a temporary interrogator, relayed the message to the group of British ship girls.

"Why would I have any special feelings? If I'm not mistaken, this aircraft should be the Reppu fighter. Why would a heavy cruiser like me be interested in a fighter that poses absolutely no threat to me? Even if there were, it should be a bomber or a torpedo bomber!"

Fortunately, it was Adun who asked. If it were any other ship girl, including Adun's admiral, Xiao Bei would only give a dismissive answer.

It was only through Yaton's relationship with Wo-chan that Xiao Bei was able to calm down a little.

Of course, it's also possible that Xiao Bei witnessed Yadun's incredible fighting power, which is why he's so timid.

"Well, it's clear that Little North isn't the Northern Princess at all." Noticing that all the ship girls had seen Little North's impatient look, Adun, who was swinging the Gale around in her hand, spoke to the ship girls.

"Could it be a disguise?" Nelson was the first to raise the question.

“Not quite like it…” The Prince of Wales kept watching Xiao Bei’s reaction with his one eye, but he couldn’t see a trace of pretense in Xiao Bei’s expression.

"Maybe after all these years, the Northern Princess no longer likes Gale?" Rodney wondered, letting his imagination run wild.

"That's also possible... Wait, I'm looking for something." The more the Prince of Wales thought about it, the more reasonable it seemed. After saying that, he immediately began searching in his ship's equipment space.

"What are you looking for? How about a modified Reifeng? That thing is much rarer than Reifeng." It's also much more expensive. Tidu originally wanted to say that, but then she thought that the Prince of Wales in front of her was a well-established near-hero-class ship girl, so she probably wouldn't be short of money.

"Found it, it's here." Clearly, the items in the Prince of Wales' ship equipment space were arranged very meticulously. It only took him about ten seconds to find what he was looking for. After taking it out of his chest and placing it on the table, the ship girls realized that what the Prince of Wales had taken out was also an aircraft.

"Zero fighter?" And a very famous one at that, otherwise Tidu wouldn't have recognized it at first glance.

"Yes, that's right, it's the Zero fighter, the plane that those IJN carriers love to use the most." The Prince of Wales's lips twitched as he spoke of the aircraft.

When Nelson saw that the Prince of Wales had pulled out an airplane, and one that was actually a carrier-based aircraft from the Imperial Japanese Navy, he hesitated for a moment, but still touched the Prince of Wales's forehead with his hand.

"Nelson, what are you doing?" The Prince of Wales was somewhat puzzled by Nelson's actions.

“Nelson probably wants to check if His Highness the Prince has a fever.” The head maid, Renown, knew Nelson’s thoughts immediately, because she had the same impulse.

"Hey, Prince, weren't you sunk by those IJN ship crews with planes? Didn't you always hate planes? Why do you have a Zero fighter in your collection?" Rodney bluntly voiced his sister's and Renown's thoughts.

"This... this is just a hobby, I'm not one of the original ship girls." As if something had been exposed, the Prince of Wales blushed with embarrassment.

"Wow, no way, Prince of Wales, do you want to modernize it?" Tidus, whose way of thinking is different from that of the ship girls, suddenly asked loudly.

“Modernization? You mean, Prince of Wales… I see.” Startled by Titus’s sudden remark, Nelson took a moment to understand what Titus was talking about, but she immediately raised her own question:

"But isn't the success rate of modernizing the Prince of Wales-class ship girls into aircraft carriers very low?"

The low success rate is largely due to the fact that the original HMS Prince of Wales was sunk by a bunch of small planes. The sinking of HMS Prince of Wales by IJN naval aircraft, to some extent, represents the formal exit of the era of battleships with massive guns from the historical stage.

Therefore, most of the Princes of Wales, after undergoing modernization, have a very low chance of successfully undergoing further reforms.

"So that's why I'm working on it." It seems that the Prince of Wales' habit of carrying Zero fighters with him is in order to successfully upgrade them and transform them into an aluminum-consuming aircraft carrier in the future.

"Yes, Your Highness, keep up the good work... Keep it up." Whether the head maid was kicking him while he was down or genuinely encouraging him, there was no hint of encouragement in her tone.

After a brief interlude, the Reppu and the Zero fighter that Kogan had collected and used to train himself were neatly placed in front of Xiao Bei. Xiao Bei looked at the plane in front of her with a confused look, and then looked at the group of ship girls who were still looking expectant.

Xiao Bei said, somewhat bewildered, "Hey, are you trying to turn me into an aircraft carrier? I'm an Abyssal Ship Girl! The evolution of Abyssal Ship Girls is completely different from the modification of your ship girls!"

"Hmm..." Without commenting on Xiao Bei's reaction, Ya Dun turned around and glanced at the ship girls of Naval Base No. 233, who were looking at each other in bewilderment.

"It seems it really isn't..." The worry in the head maid's eyes gradually disappeared.

“Even Zero Fighter was useless. Even if she really is the Northern Princess, she's not the Northern Princess she used to be.” Nelson said in a tongue-twisting manner, dispelling his doubts.

"Yes, it seems that's indeed the case. I'm truly sorry for our abruptness," the Prince of Wales said apologetically as he stuffed the Zero fighter back into its shipboard storage space.

"What have you been talking about all this time?" Xiao Bei was completely bewildered, having been suspected and then cleared of suspicion for no apparent reason.

“Wowowo,” Wo-chan explained to Xiao Bei in her own wo language.

"Huh? You suspect I'm the Northern Princess? If I were the Northern Princess, I would have... I would have... cough cough, I just happen to be from the North, I don't even know if I was born in the Northern Fleet."

Xiao Bei glanced at his admiral, Yaton, and swallowed the words that should have been blasted flat.

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When will Lao Ju update Dark Souls 3 Episode 15? He's addicted to drugs and can't stop.

Please don't take the various strange references and jokes that appear in this book, such as tentacle monsters, tentacle monsters, and more tentacle monsters, seriously, please don't take them seriously!!

(Wo-chan waves her tentacles, indicating she doesn't understand what everyone is saying)

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Chapter 105: Suspicion Cleared? (Third Update)

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Somewhat surprisingly, Xiao Bei's unintentional remark, "I was just born in the North," which was almost a self-inflicted revelation, did not arouse any suspicion from the ship girls of Naval Base No. 233. Even Tidu, upon hearing this, seemed to remember something, and her gaze towards Xiao Bei changed.

It turned into a feeling of regret, a sense of lament, and the impermanence of life, which puzzled Yaton, who was prepared to defend his own to the end.

"It's understandable that the Chief Instructor is a newly summoned first-generation ship girl and doesn't know this." Hearing Adun's question, the head maid, Renown, replied in a tone that she had expected someone to ask this: "Although we don't know the reason, all the observation records show that there is no breeding ground for deep-sea ship girls in the Northern Hemisphere."

"What do you mean?" Adun was even more puzzled by Reputation's reply.

"The meaning of 'prestige' is that naturally occurring deep-sea ship girls cannot be born in the Northern Hemisphere; they can only be born in the Southern Hemisphere. It's a question that's always on the exam every year," Tidu said, waving his hand.

"Hmm... what you mean is..." Ardon, who seemed to have grasped a bit of the answer to the question, glanced at Xiao Bei, who was looking completely clueless.

"The absence of a deep-sea breeding ground suitable for the birth of deep-sea ship girls does not mean that it is impossible for them to be born," Renown continued to explain.

At this moment, Yaton realized why his suspicion of Xiaobei changed immediately when she said she was from the North.

In this world, ship girls are not only summoned through the construction device and inherit ship equipment, but there is also a certain chance that after sinking a deep-sea ship girl, the deep-sea aura on the sunken ship girl fades away, and the original deep-sea ship girl transforms into a new ship girl.

Similarly, besides the inexplicable deep-sea hotbed, another possibility for the origin of deep-sea ship girls is that sunk ship girls, after being contaminated by the aura of the deep sea, transformed into new deep-sea ship girls.

Although the northern hemisphere of this planet does not have the deep-sea breeding grounds to create deep-sea ship girls, decades ago a very arrogant deep-sea fleet established a Northern Fleet in the northern part of the Pacific theater.

During the battle against this Northern Abyssal Fleet, countless ship girls perished, admirals sacrificed themselves, and naval bases were destroyed. Naturally, some ship girls, after sinking in battle, were corrupted by the abyssal aura brought by that abyssal fleet and transformed into new abyssal ship girls.

In other words, if Xiao Bei is not lying, she was very likely born in the north and was a ship girl in her previous life. She might even have been a high-ranking ship girl who fought bravely against the Northern Fleet and eventually sank due to exhaustion.

This is because only ship girls with higher combat power or deep-sea ship girls have a greater chance of transforming into enemies after being sunk in battle.

Unfortunately, too many ship girls emerged during the decades-long Northern Fleet offensive, and many perished, with many even going unrecorded. In history books, they are only mentioned in a few words such as "On a certain day of a certain month of a certain year, the admiral of a certain naval base led his ship girls in a fierce battle against the Northern Deep Sea Fleet, and all of them were sunk in battle."

Therefore, for a time, even the well-informed Prince of Wales and the Head Maid, Renown, were unable to ascertain the true identity of the Deepsea Heavy Cruiser, Xiao Beishang.

As veteran ship girls, the naval girls of Naval Base No. 233 have witnessed many ship girls become Abyssal ship girls, and have developed the habit of not holding back even if they know for sure that an enemy Abyssal was once a certain ship girl.

However, given that the deep-sea heavy cruiser Xiao Bei has now signed a contract with Ya Dun, which means she has one foot in the ship girl camp, and considering her previously unknown identity, these British ship girls can't help but feel a little sentimental.

War is the easiest thing to create heroes, but it is also the easiest thing to bring sorrow. This is especially true for ship girls and deep-sea ship girls, who are like two sides of the same coin.

It wasn't just the ship girls at Naval Base 233 who were feeling sorry for the ship girls; even the elite-class deep-sea heavy cruiser Xiao Bei looked like she couldn't accept it when she learned that she might have once been a ship girl.

"Wo-chan, did you sink me before?" Xiao Bei, somewhat confused about her own identity, asked, tugging at Wo-chan's tentacles.