The Naval Base of the Unnamed Ship Girls

"Move aside if the distance isn't enough." As she spoke, a layer of steel rigging appeared behind Hyperion as if a robot had transformed, and several laser cannons appeared symmetrically on her thruster boots.

"This is my glorious form, be careful," the vanguard said nervously as he was pulled back to the ship's side by Reputation.

"Don't worry, you won't get hurt too much, little girl." After the half-body steel ship armor was installed, a cannon barrel with a diameter similar to that of the Hyperion's head appeared on the shoulder of the star cruiser and was lifted up by the Hyperion as if it were carrying a rocket launcher.

"It's just a deep-sea aircraft carrier, is it really necessary to use the Yamato gun?" After opening his eyes and glancing at the Hyperion's behavior, Adun mentally complained that humans love to show off, and then closed his eyes again to listen to various parody rock videos from Bilibili and AcFun.

"Yamato gun? What does your gun have to do with the strongest battleship, Yamato?" Nelson asked curiously after hearing Hyperion's introduction of the ship-mounted main gun on his shoulder.

"Battleship Yamato? I'm sorry, I've never heard of that warship." A radar display for detection and aiming popped out from the side of the gun barrel and was placed in front of the Hyperion.

Looking at the deep-sea carrier appearing on the screen, sailing at top speed, Hyperion, after answering Nelson's question, said, "Ship girls should fight ship girls..."

A single sentence that could make a ship's mind wander caused the ship girls present to look at the Hyperion with strange eyes and take a few steps back.

Before the ship girls could figure out who was fighting whom between the Hyperion and Adun, a terrifying yet familiar power gathered in the Yamato cannon on the Hyperion's shoulder.

"A nuclear bomb?" Prinz Eugen, who had seen the sun twice in her shipboard memories, was the first to realize what this power was.

"Tactical nuclear weapon? Hey, that's an exaggeration!" Rodney shouted, taking a few steps back, not expecting that Hyperion had been posing for so long as if it was going to drop a nuclear bomb.

"We should still be within the damage radius, right?" Nelson asked nervously. Even if the deep-sea carrier was fast, it wouldn't have been long enough for her to get within the blast radius of a tactical nuclear weapon.

It doesn't matter if the deep-sea carrier is sunk in one hit, but it's the ship girl who's still within the kill radius who will suffer. Ship girls are still very afraid of radiation, just like humans are afraid of catching a cold or fever.

As a result, while the ship girls were pondering whether the Hyperion had used a clean, radiation-free interstellar nuclear weapon, that terrifying force exploded directly inside the Hyperion's cannon barrel.

"Mommy!" Startled, Rodney tried to turn and run away, but slipped and bumped into Prince Eugen, who was also running away with his head in his hands.

"This... how is this possible...?" Nelson, who had just suppressed his urge to run away, witnessed a scene that could only be described as a miracle.

All the energy from the nuclear bomb that all the ship girls present could be certain of was bound by another force inside the main gun in the Hyperion's hands.

The Hyperion, carrying its ship equipment, didn't even budge.

Meanwhile, the deep-sea aircraft carrier, which also felt the power of the nuclear explosion, stopped and turned around to look behind it with a strange expression.

The deep-sea carrier, wanting to see what was happening, only saw a beam of destructive energy enveloped by countless arcs of electricity. Before it could even think, the carrier was swallowed up by this destructive energy.

"Get to work!" He whistled, put away the still-smoking (?) Yamato cannon after finishing his sentence, lit his pipe, and said with a disgruntled expression, "Tch, the power has been reduced too much."

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"Are all starship girls monsters?" After a long silence, the vanguard, who had only heard about the horrors of Adun but had never seen a starship girl in battle, asked.

"It's just that you're inexperienced." The Hyperion, slowly retracting its ship equipment, gave a slight sarcastic remark.

“…That’s a tsunami, isn’t it? This is the first time I’ve ever seen a main gun that can cause a tsunami,” Rodney said, pointing to the approaching waves.

“That was just a relatively high wave, not a tsunami,” Nelson corrected his sister’s mistake.

"Alright, stop bragging." Adun, who had just jumped down from the signal tower, slapped Hyperion so hard he stumbled and said, "Let's go salvage the ship."

"Huh? Salvaging a ship? This shot even... Damn, there really is one." Hyperion was just about to say that the deep-sea carrier should be completely destroyed by a single Yamato cannon shot, but he immediately sensed a faint message appearing at the spot where the carrier was destroyed.

"Salvage the ship?" The ship girl at Naval Base No. 233 was completely bewildered.

Chapter 185 What to do when your comrade becomes your enemy?

It is common knowledge in the world that ship girls who sink in battle will degenerate into deep-sea ship girls, and deep-sea ship girls who sink in battle will transform into ship girls.

However, to be more accurate, a phrase "there is a very small chance" should be added between these two sentences to reflect the correctness of these conclusions.

Furthermore, this very small probability has nothing to do with the combat strength before the ship sank. Even the weakest Abyssal Destroyer, which has almost no self-awareness, may transform into a ship girl after being sunk, while the elite Abyssal Destroyers that sank with her are simply sunk.

To this day, neither the human ship girl faction nor the deep-sea ship girl faction has been able to find the reason or condition for the transformation between them.

At most, they could detect changes in the wreckage of teammates who had already sunk in battle.

"If it's in the deep sea, if they realize that a comrade has transformed into a ship girl, they will usually choose to abandon her," Renown explained to Adun as they headed towards the ship salvage point.

"Wowo" (That's right, that's right) Wo-chan, who had come over after hearing that a deep-sea carrier had sunk and turned into a ship girl, agreed with Renown's statement.

"What about the ship girls?" Yadun asked curiously. Shells don't discriminate, and anything can happen on the battlefield. You never know when a situation with a huge advantage might arise, only for one of your unlucky teammates to be sunk, and then that teammate just happens to meet the conditions to transform into an Abyssal ship girl.

"There are many choices. Some ship girls will bring their teammates who have transformed into Abyssal ship girls back to the naval base, while others will choose to abandon them like the Abyssal ship girls..." Knowing that someone would ask this question, Renown sighed and answered.

"Didn't any ship girls choose to fire a shot at her?" Hyperion thought of his comrades who had been controlled or occupied by the Zerg corruptors or the Protoss Dark Templar.

In the interstellar battlefield, each side has its own method of identifying friend or foe. Once friendly forces are lost due to these circumstances, even if someone wants to back down, the fully automatic tracking artillery will not stop firing.

"Of course... there is." The reputation man replied with a touch of emotion upon hearing Hyperion's question.

“But our 233rd Naval Base will definitely not do that!” the vanguard said righteously from the side.

"So what will you do? Take her back? Or release her?" Adun was very curious about Reputation's next answer, as this answer greatly influenced Adun's feelings about Naval Base 233.

"As for us... it depends on the flagship at the time. If it were me, I would probably choose to let her go," Reputation said hesitantly, showing that she hadn't truly experienced these things.

"Is that so..." Adun glanced at Reputation, then turned his gaze to the area where the deep-sea carrier had been sunk without saying anything more.

In that still turbulent sea, an aircraft carrier ship girl, unaware of what had happened, held a longbow in one hand and an arrow covered in talismans on the bow in the other, remaining on guard as if waiting for something.

"To survive being hit directly by the Yamato cannon... could she be your Protoss carrier?" Hyperion, who had seen the carrier girl from a distance, looked incredulous.

“Theoretically, she shouldn’t be considered a survivor.” Adun, who had kept the phase array radar battlefield module active the whole time, watched as the deep-sea carrier was blown into nothingness by a single Yamato cannon shot from the Hyperion. Then, under the influence of the power of the world, a brand new soul appeared on the spot with a new body.

"Is it an aircraft carrier ship girl? Congratulations, Master." Without the Hyperion and Adun's incredible reconnaissance equipment, Reputation, who had gleaned the information about the two starship girls from their conversation, exclaimed in amazement.

"Congratulations for what?" Adun didn't understand what Reputation was congratulating him for.

"Of course, congratulations on becoming the European Admiral! You got a legitimate ship on your first try!" Vanguard exclaimed, explaining to Reputation.

"First time fishing?" Upon hearing what Qianwei said, Yadun glanced at Wo-chan beside him.

"Wo?" Seeing the strange look in Yaton's eyes, Wo-chan made a confused "wo" sound.

"That shouldn't count as 'losing'..." Rodney, who was hiding behind Nelson with Prinz Eugen, complained. Even now, she still didn't dare to look directly at the starship girl who was playing with nuclear bombs.

“That’s right, then it should be considered as picking it up.” Yaton thought for a moment and realized that his act of picking up Wo-chan on the beach could not be considered as retrieving in the literal sense, since the ship girls’ definition of retrieving was based on the premise of sinking the deep-sea ship girl.

Wo-chan is still a deep-sea ship girl and has not been sunk.

"By the way, which naval base does this ship girl belong to?" Hyperion asked, remembering a crucial question. Although she fired the final shot, strictly speaking, the victory in this battle was achieved through the combined efforts of the ship girls under the two admirals.

"This aircraft carrier should join the command of the Admiral." Renown said, seemingly unaware of any new comrade joining. As Charlotte's secretary ship, which was transferred to her by Charlotte's father, she should be able to sense if Charlotte's admiral network signed a new ship girl.

“That’s right, it’s my ship girl.” Adun acknowledged Reputation’s words. Just now, when the power of the world was shaping this new ship girl on the wreckage of that deep-sea aircraft carrier, she felt that the power of the world had also left a mark on her fake admiral network.

"Wo!" Upon hearing Adun admit that she had acquired an aircraft carrier ship girl, the one with the strongest reaction was Wo-chan, who was worried about not having enough aluminum.

"Don't worry, I told you there's enough aluminum tubing." Adun reassured his ship girl just like any other admiral.

"Wowo" was relieved after hearing Yadun's assurance and asked which aircraft carrier her new comrade-in-arms was.

"Which aircraft carrier? I don't really recognize it, I only know it's from the IJN side." Aside from allowing Adun to identify the former nationalities of these native ship girls, the World Power didn't provide Adun with detailed information on every single ship.

"An IJN aircraft carrier? The First Carrier Division or the Fifth Carrier Division?" Vanguard asked with some curiosity.

"...It looks like this." Adun, whose memory bank contained data on the First and Fifth Carrier Divisions of the Imperial Japanese Navy and other fleets, but not on the ship girls, used his psionic energy to draw the image of the aircraft carrier ship girl in mid-air and said.

Upon seeing the image drawn by Adun, the ship girls of Naval Base No. 233 immediately recognized which Japanese aircraft carrier with a sake bottle hanging at its waist was which one.

"wo" sauce also recognized it.

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After playing around with it, I felt that 76 was quite suitable for a newbie like me. Since I couldn't really get anything out of it, I decided to just play it like a Call of Duty game and play it properly.

(This is what the author said about killing 24 people by using 76 to lean against a pillar in that river)

☆, Chapter 186 My Admiral is a Ship Girl?

When the ship girls on the Forward learned the identity of this IJN aircraft carrier, the IJN aircraft carrier, which had been posing in the calm sea for a long time, was a little confused.

Where are the admirals and ship girls who were supposed to greet me? Why is there nothing around me except the still boiling, scalding seawater when I open my eyes?

With neither enemies nor allies, am I just a wild, untrained ship girl?

No, no, the IJN ship girl, whose arms were getting sore from posing, shook her head and banished the thought from her newly awakened mind.

Even if she's a wild ship girl, she's already taken.

Whether a ship girl has been signed by the admiral or not, the ship girl herself knows best.

This IJN ship girl clearly feels that she has signed a contract with an admiral.

But why, even though I signed the contract, do I have no ship girls by my side? Where are my comrades? Where is my admiral? Where is my naval base?

Sigh, I was all prepared, but I made them wait for so long. Shouldn't we take a break, have a drink or something?

Thinking this, the IJN ship girl quietly relaxed her posture a little and reached for the sake bottle at her waist.

The moment his fingertips touched the wine jug, he recoiled as if electrocuted.

No, no, no! First impressions are very important. What if the admiral is a rigid and meticulous person? If he sees me drinking as soon as he sees me, I'll be stuck on the sidelines for life and never get a chance to attack.

What if, in the future, a successor to the Fifth Carrier Division appears under that admiral's command, and the ship can only stay in the naval base and watch those successors gain merit? Wouldn't that be the saddest thing for the ship?

But... but it's so lonely for a ship to stay here alone. What if the admiral doesn't come to pick me up when it gets dark? What if we encounter the enemy after dark? I'm an aircraft carrier, I can't fight at night.

Thinking this, the IJN aircraft carrier casually touched the wine flask again, then withdrew as if it had touched a hedgehog.

On the deck of the Vanguard, both Adun and Hyperion, which would take some time to arrive at the scene at the Vanguard's speed, witnessed the complicated scene on the IJN aircraft carrier.

"Why don't you teleport over and comfort her first? Look how anxious this little girl is," Hyperion said, taking a sip of the fuel vodka he'd gotten from Kokang.

"Physically speaking, you look more like a little girl than her." Comparing the size of the IJN aircraft carrier and the Hyperion, the Hyperion, which barely exceeds the size of a primary school student, has absolutely no right to call the other a little girl. (Moreover, in terms of service time, the Hyperion is also inferior to this aircraft carrier.)

"Cough cough... Adun, what nonsense are you talking about? A mere seagoing vessel like Cricket dares to compare its size with mine?" Hyperion, who almost choked on a mouthful of vodka, continued, "If you don't go, I will. She'll be following me from now on."

After saying that, the Hyperion, who had just stepped forward and used Warp Jump, tripped and fell with a thud on the deck of the Vanguard.

“I’m telling you the truth, that’s really how you are right now,” Adun said, twirling a strand of hair between her fingers.

"Alright, alright, I admit you're telling the truth, okay... This is the first time I've seen someone use an IFF spatial anchoring field to force someone to do this." Hyperion said angrily as he got up from the ground and rubbed his nose.