The Naval Base of the Unnamed Ship Girls

Avoiding the topic of their previous struggles, Tidu took a helmet from Charlotte, put it on, and asked...

"The progress is okay so far. Fortunately, Omega and Arden burned down the forest yesterday, which saved a lot of time in clearing the forest," Charlotte said, glancing at the design drawings in her hand and then at the house frames erected with metal materials on the land that was once a forest but is now a ruin.

"That's good. How long will it take to finish?" Following Charlotte's gaze, Tiffany, who was wearing goggles and carrying a high-pressure fuel tank, said with satisfaction.

As expected, the most suitable thing for ship girls is not to fight with deep-sea ship girls on the surface of the sea, but to do things like this, relying on their superhuman physical abilities and innate understanding of engineering construction, to complete in just half a day the work that a pre-war engineering team would take several days or even a month to complete.

What's particularly outrageous are the German ship girls. They can mold raw materials like clay with their hands and create high-precision parts that can only be cut by high-precision machine tools. They can even mold hundreds of them without much error.

This is why, after the ship girls fully integrated into human society, the original industrial system of human society underwent a major reshuffle no less than that of the Industrial Revolution. The ship girls who performed these high-precision operations truly demonstrated what it means for a handmade workshop to crush a large factory.

Didn't you see that before, Kokang took the resources thrown out by Tidu and used them to build a super-large caliber railway gun? They also built a four-track parallel railway around the garrison, specifically for the operation of that railway gun.

Not to mention that even Tidu herself, a half-baked ship girl, could create a small to medium-sized ballistic missile launcher that requires advanced technology.

Although none of it is of any practical use, this indirectly demonstrates that the ship girls' construction capabilities are far beyond what humans could have imagined in the past.

"It will probably take a little more time." Hearing the boss's question, Charlotte's heart skipped a beat, unsure how to answer.

"Huh, it sounds like it'll take quite a while? Are you short of resources?" Tidu, who hadn't been kept in the dark, asked with some surprise.

“We’ve encountered a small obstacle,” Charlotte said, shifting her gaze from the already constructed ground-level building to the other side.

All that could be seen was the Prince of Wales squatting on the shore, glancing at his watch from time to time, as if waiting for something.

Before Tidu could ask Charlotte what the Prince of Wales was doing, they saw the deep-sea heavy cruiser Xiao Bei and Renown, dressed in a diving suit, surface from the sea.

"Settlement complete, Your Highness," Reputation said, giving the Prince of Wales a thumbs-up as he removed his diving helmet.

"What are you doing?" Tidu asked Charlotte, somewhat puzzled, but before he could finish speaking, he saw Charlotte cover her ears.

Before Tidu could react, she saw the Prince of Wales press something in his hand. Tidu felt a slight tremor on the ground beneath her feet, followed by a huge explosion and a wave crashing onto the sea.

Tidu, who was unprepared, was soaked to the bone. Of course, Charlotte, who was next to her, was not much better off, as she was only covering her ears and not wearing a raincoat or holding an umbrella.

"Ptooey, cough cough, can you tell me what they're doing?" Tidu asked, looking completely bewildered, as she brushed a dead crab off her head and wiped her face.

"According to the design, the water depth here is not suitable for building a dock. It's fine for building a small port, but as you said, it would be difficult to build a port that can accommodate four Prince of Wales ships in their Glory Mode at the same time."

The saying that a leader can make a snap decision and his subordinates will run themselves ragged is not an exaggeration at all; at least that's exactly the situation Charlotte is facing now.

Although the terrain of the area chosen by Tidu was very suitable for building a port, due to the water depth issue, Renown had to work with Xiaobei to install explosives underwater to forcibly increase the water depth.

"But please rest assured, boss. The Prince of Wales has carefully calculated the placement of each explosive to ensure that while increasing the water depth, it will not cause permanent damage to the geological structure of that area."

One thing Charlotte didn't say was that because of the battle between Adun and Omega Yuriko, the terrain in this area has actually been changed a lot, and a considerable amount of time has been spent re-exploring the structure below the waterline.

Perhaps noticing that Sister Tidu was still in a daze and hadn't reacted yet, Charlotte quickly held up the design drawings that had been revised many times and declared the professionalism of the No. 233 Naval Base Construction Team.

"I understand everything you're saying." After all, Tidu was a top student, and she already knew what these ship girls were doing through Charlotte's explanation.

Seeing the Prince of Wales also holding a design drawing, pointing and gesturing while talking to Xiao Bei and Shengwang, Tidus said somewhat speechlessly:

"I mean, is it really necessary to make it so complicated?"

"This is already the fastest way! Luckily, we have Xiao Bei, the ship girl from Yadun. As a deep-sea ship girl, she is most suitable for this kind of underwater operation. Otherwise, the construction period would have been extended by a few days."

Charlotte really wanted to express her disapproval of her boss's unreasonable attitude, but due to her long-standing authority, she dared not do so.

"Your Omega is so powerful, just have her summon her Glory form, transform, and fire a few shots at the designated spot." Tidus said, seeing Renown and Little North submerged underwater again under the Prince of Wales' command.

Charlotte fell into an eerie silence.

"What's wrong? Is there something wrong with what I said?" Tidu asked, somewhat puzzled.

“Big Sister, that’s the method you suggested at first, that’s what I thought too,” Charlotte said carefully. “But Omega said she no longer has the ability to summon the Glory Ship Armor.”

"Huh? There's a temporary version of the Hero's Proof?" Tidus was somewhat incredulous.

“Omega said that those skills can only be used when fighting Adun. If we really need to use them, we can just call Adun over for another fight,” Charlotte said, somewhat conflicted.

"Let's forget about it." Tidu indicated that she didn't want her garrison to sink so soon, even if it was only temporary.

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Chapter 113 The So-Called Deep-Sea Style

Seeing his young master and Tiffany, both wearing helmets, walk over, the Prince of Wales, who had just given the order, gave a British naval salute and reported:

"The blasting project is 70% complete. Four more directional blasts will complete the cleanup."

"Okay, good luck. Do you need Nelson and Rodney's help?" Charlotte returned a military salute and asked.

"No need. As ship girls, we are not good at underwater work. If it weren't for the fact that the standards for deep-sea ship girls are different from ours, Xiao Bei could handle these things with just one ship."

The Prince of Wales shook his head and said that due to the different living environments, there are big differences in the living habits between ship girls and deep-sea ship girls. The biggest difference is that ship girls hate diving, while deep-sea ship girls like to stay at the bottom of the sea.

Similarly, compared to ship girls who are used to being on land, deep-sea ship girls who have been away from the sea for a long time and ventured deep into the land will not experience a decrease in combat power due to maladjustment.

Therefore, the Prince of Wales, knowing this, was not jealous that even a deep-sea heavy cruiser like the Cricket was more capable than himself.

“That’s fine.” After glancing at the design in her hand, Charlotte gave the order to the Nelson and Rodney sisters who were following behind her:

"Nelson, you help Kokang speed up the construction of the ground buildings. Rodney, you are in charge of the preliminary construction preparations for the following port and shipyard."

"Ugh, I hate mud." Rodney looked reluctant as soon as he heard that his order was to deal with high-strength cement. "Can I switch jobs with my sister? I have a lot of experience building houses."

"The kind of house where you can do anything but live in it? Listen to me." Charlotte said, completely unmoved.

"Should we add a touch of style when building a house?" Nelson was not dissatisfied with his appointment and even offered his opinion.

"Besides British-style landscaping, what else can you British ship girls do?" Tidu retorted from the side.

“I also know a little bit about American country style and German minimalist style,” Nelson said confidently.

“Yes, Nelson and Rodney both minored in house design at the naval base, so it’s not surprising that she would do so.” Charlotte confirmed Nelson’s words. Of course, in the end, only Nelson actually learned something; her sister Rodney always had the passive attribute of being a poor student.

Despite being a poor student, this ship actually ran a short- to medium-term English training class in Naval Base No. 233, specifically to teach foreign ship girls who were not familiar with English some English vocabulary used by the British Navy.

To support his sister, Nelson attended several of Rodney's English training classes, and the results were, of course, predictable.

When asked about his sister's English teaching ability, Nelson thought for a long time and could only describe it as having a "genuine London suburban accent," a very euphemistic way of putting it.

Rodney was overjoyed when he first heard his sister's evaluation, but after realizing the truth, he immediately pulled out his military knife and rushed into the dormitory to cut Nelson's bamboo mat, for which he was severely beaten by Nelson.

"Actually, I don't really care about the style, as long as it's normal." Seeing that her underling Charlotte was vouching for Nelson, Tiffany nodded with satisfaction and continued, "Just don't let Kokang erect the Lenin statue."

As Tidu uttered those words, Kokang, who had already completed the basic framework of the house and deliberately piled up the remaining scraps to one side, sneezed loudly.

"Huh, is the Admiral thinking about Kogan? Kogan has always been very hardworking." Kogan glanced around, rubbed his nose, and said with a puzzled look.

"Wowowo!" Upon hearing Tidu and Charlotte mention the style issue, Wo-chan, who was secretly eating aluminum next to Tidu, quickly waved the tentacles on the jellyfish ship and said.

Then, Wo-chan forgot that the ship girls and Tidus present couldn't understand her. The only two who could translate her were one who was installing bombs underwater and the other who had wandered off somewhere.

"Here, this will be your standard equipment from now on." Tidu took out a black-covered notebook from her ship equipment space and handed it to Wo-chan, along with a pen.

"Wo?" Wo-chan, holding the pen in a completely incorrect posture, looked utterly bewildered.

"You don't know how to use a pen, do you? Didn't you ever issue any military orders when you were in the Deep Sea?" Tidu found Wo-chan's reaction unbelievable. After all, she was a Senior Colonel in the Deep Sea and the highest commander of the fleet under the command of the Deep Sea Princess. Surely she couldn't not even know how to use a pen.

"Wo!!" Hearing that Tidu actually questioned her, Wo-chan once again manipulated the few tentacles hanging down from the ship's equipment and shook them.

“I think she means that she usually uses these tentacles to write,” Charlotte said, guessing what Wo-chan was talking about.

“Wo!” Wo-chan gave a very affirmative answer, at least in terms of her tone.

"The books you guys are using are really big." Tidu glanced at the thickness of the tentacles on Wo-chan's ship armor, and then at the black-covered notebook that Wo-chan was holding in her hand. Tidu's sarcastic spirit was burning brightly.

Finally, amidst everyone's amusement-like gazes, wo-chan used her ship-mounted tentacles to write a string of characters mixed with "wo" on her notebook.

Putting aside the tools and the inexplicable "wo" characters that severely hinder readability, compared to the scribbles of Tidu and Charlotte, wo-chan's slightly thin and strange handwriting is quite pleasing to the eye.

"Deep-sea style? Wo-chan, do you mean to add a deep-sea style to the interior design of the port buildings?" Ti asked, having only read one sentence clearly.

“Wo!” (That’s it!) Wo-chan closed her eyes and happily said “Wo” when she saw that her meaning had been accepted.

“Deep-sea style…” Ti thought for a moment but couldn’t think of anything attractive about the deep-sea style. The various deep-sea ship girls in the pictures she saw in school books were all the same as Wo-chan and Xiao Bei: dark, sharp, cold, and pale.

“There are indeed some deep-sea style buildings,” Nelson said at this moment.

"Nelson, you studied this?" Charlotte felt a chill. What reason could Nelson have for studying the style of deep-sea architecture?

"I've only read a little bit of the records on this topic. Actually, there have been similar styles to the deep-sea style in history," Nelson recalled.

That style is called dark gothic style.

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☆, Chapter 114 The Port in the Wrong Location

To Tidus and Charlotte's surprise, it was Nelson's sister Rodney who had in-depth knowledge of the so-called Deep Sea style, also known as Dark Gothic architecture.

Even Nelson admitted that his sister was very interested in this unconventional architectural style, and that Rodney would be more suitable than him if it came to building a dark gothic deep-sea style building.

"How about we go with a deep-sea style?" After thinking about it, I realized that since we're going to build a large fleet with ship girls from all different countries anyway, there will always be some ship girls who like it and some who don't.

To demonstrate his impartiality as admiral, Tidu decided to build a deep-sea gothic-style dock. This would not only reflect his impartiality as admiral but also showcase the unique character of the 666th temporary naval base. Why not?

"Big Sister... did you think that no matter what you did, you couldn't satisfy all the ship girls, so you made something that would displease all the ship girls?" Charlotte said speechlessly after hearing Big Sister Tidu's explanation.

"No one will think you're mute if you don't speak!" Tidu, exposed and embarrassed, said angrily, "What do you mean that all the ship girls are dissatisfied? Look at Wo-chan, she's very satisfied. Although Wo-chan isn't my ship girl, her admiral is my ship girl, so she's considered my ship girl too!"

"Wowowo!" Hearing that Tidu really wanted to make the port look like a deep-sea theme, and hearing Tidu's attitude of "whatever makes me happy," I happily wowowo.

“Well, boss, to be honest,” Charlotte glanced at Tidu, then at Rodney, and continued, “if we really let Rodney do whatever he wants, it might become uninhabitable.”

"Hey, why do you say that?" Tid asked curiously when Charlotte said that. "A house is just a house, it's just a port building, there's no need to make it so exaggerated."

“That’s because of Rodney…” Nelson continued his young master’s words, “Rodney always likes to use his imagination in strange places.”

"Sis!!" Seeing that Nelson was about to expose his past, Rodney shook her little pink fist and said angrily, "That's not some strange imagination, it's just adding a little something suitable for everyday entertainment."

“If those inexplicable mechanisms, hidden partitions, and secret passages count as everyday entertainment,” Charlotte added, who also knew Rodney’s tastes in building houses.

Compared to his sister Nelson's conventional house designs, Rodney's house designs were less like houses and more like a dragon's lair in a tale of a hero fighting a dragon.

It's enough to be used as an amusement park or a haunted house. But if you want to live there, the residents need to have incredibly thick nerves. At least in Naval Base No. 233, the mansion that Rodney built brick by brick was used by those Japanese ship girls as a holiday adventure and entertainment venue.

"Wow, that's amazing! I'll leave it to you then!" Tidu said with shining eyes after hearing about Rodney's glorious deeds.

"I knew the boss would do this." Charlotte sighed, covering her forehead as she rolled up the design that was about to be revised again.

“Then I will go and take charge of some coastal defense works.” Knowing that the decision to have Rodney design and build the port buildings had been made, Nelson readily took over Rodney’s former work.