The Naval Base of the Unnamed Ship Girls

Not long ago, although Adon's attempt to suppress the power of the ship girl within her was unsuccessful due to the interference of the world's power, it did lead Adon to discover something interesting.

Regarding the identification of ship girls and deep-sea ship girls, and the differences between special ship girls and ordinary home-based ship girls.

If the power of the world hadn't influenced Adun's will in such an obvious way, Adun might not have even been able to sense it.

"You ask me about hostility? Well, yes, there is a bit of it. To be honest, if you hadn't told me before, I almost pulled out the Yamato Cannon just now."

When Adun asked about his feelings for Omega Yuriko, Hyperion recalled for a moment and said...

"What about you?" Adon asked Charlotte and Omega Yuriko beside him.

“I also feel an uncontrollable hostility towards Lord Hyperion, but the warriors of the Empire possess sufficient self-control,” Omega Yuriko, kneeling in her chair, replied directly.

"Hmm, that's good. Hyperion, you've also seen the Swarm's Corruptors. Did you sense any similarities?" For some reason, Adun suddenly brought up the Queen of Blades.

"The Polluter, Adun, why did you bring up such disgusting things? And what's with all this talk about similarities... wait, are you talking about subconscious implantation?" Hyperion asked with a strange expression, recalling Adun's mention of the Polluter's abilities.

"If you have to say that this innate hostility is mind control, I remember that your Protoss Dark Archons know this trick."

“It’s not quite the same. If it were to act directly on the soul, there would be no reason why I wouldn’t know. This method of implanting hostility through subconscious implantation is, in a sense, very primitive.” Adun described the World Power’s cramming method.

Unlike the Protoss Dark Archon's mind control, which directly affects the soul, the Zerg in the Koprulu Sector achieve mind control by injecting biological enzymes to alter the subconscious signals of the organism.

As Adun and Hyperion understood, an innate sense of hostility lay hidden within the knowledge forcibly instilled by the power of the world.

"There was no gift given for no reason? So that's why I feel this inexplicable hostility towards you two." Omega Yuriko said, stroking her samurai sword rigging.

“Yes, from the moment we receive that knowledge, our subconscious has been locked into this inexplicable sense of hostility, but that’s not something that can’t be changed,” Adun said, placing his hand on Hyperion’s shoulder.

“I will strengthen my mental discipline to prevent similar situations from happening again,” Omega Yuriko said, taking a deep breath and looking at Adon with a determined gaze.

“Cultivating one’s willpower is one aspect, but there is a way to avoid this problem altogether,” Ardon said after carefully considering his tone.

"I'm not sure if the hostility between us, and between you and the Hyperion, is a unique individual factor, or a collective effect like the relationship between ship girls and deep-sea ship girls."

After all, the only known special ship girls are Adun, Hyperion, and Omega Yuriko.

"If you are not prepared, it is difficult to control yourself when you first encounter this subconscious impulse, even if you have a strong mental discipline."

Adun wasn't sure if Omega Yuriko's willpower was strong, but he knew at least that his willpower was basically unshaken by external things; otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to bear such a special ability as the Light of Kara.

Even so, when faced with this inexplicable hostility for the first time, Ardon found it difficult to control his behavior.

"Adon, are you saying you have a way to prevent those special ship girls who are meeting you for the first time from feeling hostile?" Tidu asked, almost confused by Adon's words.

"Hmm, a small discovery. I need to do some testing to see if my theory is correct." Adon gradually increased the pressure on Hyperion's shoulder.

"Hey, hey, my shoulder's going to break! It's going to break!" Hyperion shouted, unaware of what Adun was doing.

"Do you feel anything unusual?" Adon asked as he began to tamper with Hyperion's body.

"I feel like my shoulder is going to break! Wait, what are you doing, Adun? My Yamato cannon is offline! Hey, stop, stop! Don't move there!" Hyperion shouted, finally realizing what had happened to him.

"So that was your operating system, cough cough, wait, let me change my position." Realizing that he had almost dismantled the Hyperion's ship equipment, Adun quickly changed his suppression method.

"That scared me to death." Hyperion patted his chest again as he felt his Yamato Cannon and Gracchus re-enter the game.

Unlike Hyperion, who only noticed that Adun almost dismantled her ship, Omega Yuriko, who had been trying to suppress her hostile impulses with Charlotte's help, widened her eyes in surprise and exclaimed, "Disappeared?"

"Omega, what did you say? What disappeared?" Charlotte, who had been focused on her ship girl, asked hurriedly.

“The hostility has disappeared, no, it hasn’t disappeared, it has been reduced to an almost imperceptible level,” Omega Yuriko said, expressing her feelings.

"Huh? Adun, you've resolved the inherent hostility between special ship girls?" Tidu said with some surprise upon seeing this scene.

"It's not completely resolved. Just like I can't completely suppress the power of my ship girls for the time being, I can only suppress it to a certain extent. To put it another way, it's like turning the hostility of wanting to kill the other party into a feeling of dislike."

As soon as Ardon released her grip, Omega Yuriko felt the almost suppressed hostility return instantly.

Seeing Omega Yuriko frown, Adun patted Hyperion on the shoulder and said, "Remember how it felt just now? Try it yourself."

“…How can I understand what it feels like to be a mouthless race… Uh, I’ll try, I’ll try.” Seeing Adun shake his fist, Hyperion immediately tried to suppress those things.

"It feels just like when you shoved the short-range warp engine into my head back then," Hyperion said, trying to suppress his emotions.

"Oh, tell me what it felt like back then." Adun was very curious about Hyperion's feelings at the time, because even though the Behemoth-class battlecruisers of the Terren Empire had considered various expansion interfaces during their design, they would never have imagined that one day a Protoss Ark would install short-range warp engines on the Behemoth-class battlecruisers.

"I felt suffocated," Hyperion perfectly summed up his initial feeling in three words.

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Chapter 146 The Real Experiment

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Although the Hyperion is inferior to the Protoss Ark Adun in both size and technology, it is still a meritorious and heroic ship.

After analyzing it for a while, he imitated what Adon had just done to her almost exactly. In Omega Yuriko's words, although her hostility towards the Hyperion had decreased as immediately as Adon's actions, it was indeed decreasing.

Yuriko Omega thought this ability was quite useful and wanted to try learning it, so Arden taught her without holding back.

As a result, this versatile war fortress ship girl from the Rising Sun Empire was even less adept at utilizing this ability than the Hyperion.

"Is it because they're spaceship girls?" Charlotte asked, concerned about her own ship girl.

"No, no, no, it's probably a matter of mindset. If I hadn't spent some time with those... I've spent some time with the Protoss, I would have had a hard time doing this too." Hyperion waved his hand to indicate that it wasn't the reason.

"So it's purely a matter of worldview?" Tidu glanced at Adon, trying to find out why her values ​​didn't align with those of a typical ship girl.

“Hyperion is right and wrong, and even if I explained it to you, you might not understand,” Adun said without arguing with Hyperion.

"Then what's the use of this ability?" Tidu, feeling that she probably wouldn't understand, skipped the process and asked about the result.

"I guess when I meet special ship girls in the future, I won't get hit in the face with a plasma beam cannon, or some other kind of cannon or something."

Having experienced it firsthand, Adun knew that even a special ship girl like herself would find it difficult to control her behavior if she hadn't come into contact with this power.

"I don't understand what's going on with you special ship girls." Tidu thought for a moment and decided it was best not to express any opinion.

"Actually, this is just a byproduct of my research. In my opinion, the best result of this research should be something else," said Yaton, who had somehow walked up behind Wo-chan.

"Another research finding?" Tidu asked curiously.

"Yes, regarding the inherent antagonism between ship girls and deep-sea ship girls," Adun said, revealing the real takeaway from this research trip.

"What did you discover?" Tidu, who considered herself a ship girl, was quite concerned about this question. Perhaps because she didn't have any ship equipment, Tidu only felt a little uncomfortable when facing Wo-chan and Xiao Bei, who were being suppressed by Admiral Kara's network in Admiral Adon.

However, she could clearly sense that whether it was the ship girls from Naval Base No. 233 or the brave ones, they all seemed very uncomfortable when facing the three deep-sea ship girls under Adun's command.

“I’ve found something interesting, but I need a few other people to help me verify it.” As he spoke, Adun looked at the closed hall doors and said, “Come in, everyone.”

The group of ship girls who were eavesdropping outside the door fell to the ground with a "whoosh!" as Adun used her psionic power to open the door from a distance, forming a humanoid ship girl formation.

"Ricelius, your chest is pressing on me!" Because he was the shortest, Veneto, who was squeezed to the front to peek, unfortunately became the base of the Arhat formation.

"It's soft enough, what are you complaining about! Avant-garde, take your pot back!"

Because of her good relationship with Veneto, Richelieu, who was standing behind Veneto, was not in a much better situation. Apart from Veneto being at the bottom, all the other ship girls were pressing down on Richelieu in various ways.

Especially the vanguard who had been crowding around her, the young battleship who insisted on firing a shot no matter what happened, summoned her four pot-shaped ship rigging in a panic.

"Eugen!!" The only one who didn't join the Arhat ship girl formation was Prinz Eugen. As a heavy cruiser ship girl, and one that mainly focused on defense, it was too much to ask her to compete for a spot with a group of battleship ship girls.

Prinz Eugen, who had gone from an unfortunate situation to a stroke of good fortune, was overjoyed but at least didn't forget to rescue the ship girls who were stuck by the Vanguard's cannons.

"I twisted my back, I twisted my back!" Rodney shouted, trapped between the two pots.

“My whiskey…” Looking at the whiskey spilled all over Qianwei’s body, the Prince of Wales stood up and took out another glass from his ship’s equipment space.

"Sis! Sis, what's wrong? Sis, don't scare me!" Rodney quickly shook Nelson when he saw that Nelson was not responding.

"Stop shaking, I hit my head on the cannon barrel, I'm dizzy." Nelson swayed as he stood up, clutching his forehead.

"Uh, um, sorry, how about you disassemble and reassemble my ship again?" Vanguard said somewhat awkwardly, realizing he had made a mistake.

“We have absolutely no interest in those old lady dentures you’re wearing,” Nelson and Rodney said simultaneously.

"Grandma? The seniors will be angry if they hear you say that!!" Vanguard knew what Nelson and Rodney were talking about. Historically, because the construction time was wrong, the design of Vanguard was modified many times. The main guns on his body were actually taken from several senior members of the British Royal Navy.

For example, HMS Glorious, HMS Warspite, and HMS Queen Elizabeth; that's why the Vanguard was jokingly called "a new battleship fitted with a bunch of old ladies' dentures."

"Huh? When did you guys arrive?" Charlotte asked in surprise, clearly unaware that she hadn't noticed her own ship girl.

“I came here after hearing from the reputation that you were conducting experiments,” the Prince of Wales said frankly.

"Where's Noblewoman?" Charlotte asked curiously, not seeing her head maid among the group of ship girls.

"The head maid was summoned by Lord Ardon to handle some other matters," Vanguard answered hastily, as if to make up for his mistake.

"Other things?" Charlotte and Tidus both turned their curious gazes to Adun.

"Ahem, it's nothing." He couldn't very well say that he had put his reputation with that nearby Abyssal Princess, could he? Even if he guaranteed it, those ship girls would probably still explode.

Ardon, who had no intention of answering the question, said, "You're here just in time. You can do an experiment with me."

"Regarding the experiment on how to turn deep-sea ship girls into ship girls."

"Huh?" Adon's words silenced the entire room.

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In the next chapter, with the help, or rather, the control, of Adun, Wo-chan will return to her former self before the battle.

Actually, it's quite easy to guess which one it is.

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☆, Chapter 147 The Former Wo-chan

"Turning deep-sea ship girls into ship girls? What weird stuff are you doing, Adun?" Tidu exclaimed in shock.

"To be precise, it's not about turning the Abyssal Ship Girls into ship girls, but about making them look more like ship girls, rather than Abyssal," Yadun corrected his wording.

"Is there a difference?" Tidu asked, not understanding the difference between the two.

"The difference is quite significant. For example, the former seems wonderful, but I can't do it." Ardon said that it has already touched on the essence of the soul, and it is too difficult to change.

"As for the latter, it's just a deceptive effect, which is quite easy to do." As Adun spoke, he placed his hand on the shoulder of Wo-chan, who was chewing on an aluminum block, just like he had placed his hand on Hyperion's shoulder earlier. (Adun, who almost got his arm bumped: Wo-chan, your ship equipment is so big, it's getting in the way.)

"A deceptive effect? ​​What are you trying to do, Adun?" Seeing Adun's actions, Tidu turned her gaze to Wo-chan and asked, seemingly understanding something.

"Perhaps it would allow the deep-sea ship girls to better integrate into the world of ship girls," Adun thought for a moment and came up with a reason that sounded pretty good.

“It sounds so much like what those fallen people say,” Veneto said, exchanging a surprised glance with Richelieu beside him.