The Naval Base of the Unnamed Ship Girls

☆, Chapter 194 Wanting to Modify the Avant-garde Style (Revised)

Head Maid is the leading British ship girl in Naval Base 233, a fact acknowledged by both veteran British ship girls like Prince of Wales and Warspite, and newer ship girls like Vanguard.

However, while they acknowledge this, it doesn't mean that these British battleship girls consider Renown an insurmountable peak.

In terms of ship type, the majority of battleship girls in Naval Base 233 are much better than Renown, who is just a battlecruiser.

They all believed that as long as they worked hard, they would one day surpass their reputation.

Then, this hope of the vanguard was shattered by the cannon shot fired by Renown standing beside him a few days ago, leaving the deck covered in rubble.

Phase-disrupting cannon? What the hell is that? Antimatter projectiles? Am I sleepwalking from watching too much "Kantai Collection"?

How can a single shot annihilate a deep-sea ship girl whose combat power is almost on par with the Princess-class? Although the range is a bit short, I've never seen such power in my life.

The head maid's reputation was so exhausted after firing two shots that it was selectively ignored by the vanguard. The vanguard, who had witnessed the power of the Immortal Phase Interference Cannon right next to her, kept thinking that if she could ever get her hands on such a shot, she would have no regrets in life.

Later, when the Vanguard had some free time, he asked the Nelson and Rodney sisters why the main gun of the Prestige had become so powerful. After learning what had happened, the Vanguard fell into a deep dilemma.

The avant-garde had been agonizing over this for several days, but in the end, this impulse overcame his awe of Governor Aden and came to him seeking reform.

“Actually, the phase jamming cannon isn’t that powerful,” Adun said after hearing what Vanguard said.

"But I saw it with my own eyes!" These days, whenever Vanguard closes his eyes, his mind is filled with slow-motion replays of Reputation taking down Deep Sea enemies one by one.

There were no loud cannon shots, nor were there any huge shells. Just a flash of blue light, and in an instant, the deep-sea battleship that had been targeted was reduced to its lower half.

"The fact that the Phase Jammer cannon can be used to that extent is largely due to Reputation's own abilities," Adun said, glancing at Reputation who was cleaning the deck.

Seemingly noticing Adun's gaze, the reputation lord who was cleaning up the area that had just been repaired looked up at Adun and gave him a slight bow.

"Reputation based on your own abilities?" the vanguard, clinging to his signal tower, asked somewhat strangely.

"Yes, it seems that this ability, which involves a certain sacrifice for greater destructive power, has been retained even after the modification," Adun said to Vanguard, nodding in return to Reputation.

"A desperate battle? So Reputation Sister has that kind of ability?" Vanguard seemed to know what skill Adun was referring to.

"Oh, you know that too?" Adon asked, somewhat curious about Avant-garde's reaction.

"Well, I'd say every ship girl knows that, but very few ship girls are willing to have that skill," Vanguard said in a somewhat somber tone.

"Is it a choice that determines fate, or fate that determines the choice?" After looking at the forward, Adun basically understood what kind of ability was meant by fighting with one's back to the wall.

In fact, this ability is quite common in this world. As long as you are willing to train, every ship girl can learn it, but the depth of understanding after learning it will vary from ship to ship.

Some ship girls can only increase their speed to the theoretical limit by overhauling their power system.

Some ship girls can go a step further and load their main guns with high-damage shells that may damage the ship's equipment itself.

However, the ability of a ship girl to go all out, burning her own ship equipment and even her ship equipment space, to gain the power to directly confront a Protoss Doomsday Ark is not something that just any ship girl can do.

Especially now that the world has entered a relatively peaceful era, even some veteran ship girls have put away their ability to fight to the last man, not to mention some new ship girls who spend most of their time in the training field.

Noticing the Vanguard's somewhat disappointed expression upon hearing the news, Adun smiled and said, "But even without the amplification of that ability, the Phase Interference Cannon is more useful than those decorations you're wearing. Want me to give you one?"

"Huh? Really?" Upon hearing what Aden said, the vanguard immediately recovered from his disappointment and asked with great interest.

"Of course, but it will require a lot of resources." Ardon still remembered that when he was upgrading Renown, he used a lot of resources that he had scavenged from Charlotte and those ship girls from Naval Base No. 233.

"I have supplies, but I don't know if it's enough." The well-prepared vanguard rattled off a list of various supplies, including canned goods.

"You're quite wealthy, but why would a battleship girl like you need to collect so much aluminum?" Ardon was surprised that the Vanguard, who liked to eat canned resources, had so much resources, which was more than Charlotte's pocket money.

"Actually, there's a reason." Avant-garde, somewhat embarrassed by Ayton's question, revealed why he collected these aluminum materials.

For reasons unknown, the current admiral of Naval Base 233, Charlotte's father, the battleship fanatic Admiral Xia Yuantang, only exchanged rings with Helena, and judging from Admiral Xia's appearance, it seems that he intends to defy common sense and spend his life on the same ship as Helena.

Over the decades, the other ship girls, having finally discovered that this fortress of love was too difficult to breach, turned their attention to Charlotte, the offspring of Admiral Xia and Helena.

Unbeknownst to Charlotte, the veteran ship girls of Naval Base No. 233 had already fought thousands of times over who would rank them.

As a vanguard joining Naval Base 233 with a brand-new battleship, she naturally couldn't let go of the possibility of becoming Charlotte's main wife. In fact, she felt that as a new member of the naval base, she had a greater advantage than those veteran ship owners with rusty rudders.

So, Qianwei, who dreamed of becoming the main wife from the very beginning, worked hard to accumulate a dowry. Then, cruel reality taught Qianwei how naive and simple-minded he was.

"Are you sure you want to use all your dowry for renovations?" Ardon asked hesitantly.

"Yes! I think saving up a lot of dowry is not as useful as making yourself stronger." The avant-garde proved with his words and actions that ship girls don't give up so easily.

"Not bad." Seeing the forward-thinking Adun smile as he took off his headphones, he stood up, kicked Hyperion beside him, and said, "Let's get to work."

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It should be quite fun to play Tankery with Kantai Collection girls.

A bunch of Soviet ship girls, driving various Soviet tanks and singing Katyusha, launched an iron torrent towards German ship girls.

Perhaps they will complain that the tank gun caliber is too small.

☆, Chapter 195 The Fear of the Avant-garde...

"You like her, so why are you helping her with the renovations, and why are you dragging me along?" Hyperion was very unhappy that she had to involve Ardon in her work.

"I just feel that your human technology and the technology of this world have a lot in common, so it would be much simpler for you to design the modification plan than for me to design it."

Ardon spread out several stereo projectors on the table, which was used as an interrogation table/dining table/conference table, etc., and said.

"My design? I can't design ships!" Despite this, Hyperion still slapped out his mechanical detection eye, had the Vanguard pose for a few photos, and then tossed it to Adun.

“I don’t know either, but I still think you’re more suitable for the overall renovation layout than I am.” Ardon reached out and took the mechanical eye, looked at the empty eye socket of Hyperion, and threw the mechanical eye into the middle of the 3D projectors.

With a whoosh, the 3D projector, which had collected data from the mechanical detector, projected various sizes of avant-garde images into the room.

There are humanoid forms, cauldron-shaped ship-equipped forms, and glorious forms photographed from various angles.

"This is me?" Having seen this kind of sci-fi landscape at least once, the avant-garde didn't seem too surprised.

“That’s just the surface of you.” Hyperion picked up the mechanical eye from the table, blew on it, wiped it, and put it back in its left eye socket. He complained to Adun, “Be gentle next time. This thing is hard to fix.”

“If you need it, I can make you a more convenient one,” Ardon said, not thinking the mechanical detector was particularly valuable.

"Forget it, I don't want to be biased. Your short-range warp drive has already given me enough trouble," Hyperion said politely.

"What do you mean by 'just the surface of me'?" Avant-garde asked after looking at the projections for a long time and not seeing any difference between himself and them.

“Because it hasn’t undergone detailed testing.” As Hyperion spoke, it pulled the Avant-garde Glory form projection from mid-air, and then waved its hand, creating a virtual ocean of data on the bottom of the projection’s ship.

Seeing Hyperion's actions, Adun also projected the deep-sea fleet he had encountered not long ago into this ocean of data.

Then, with expressions of fascination like watching a movie, these virtual projections replayed the battle from a few days earlier.

However, there were no projections of Nelson Rodney or the Vanguard, nor was there a projection of the Hyperion that fired a Yamato Cannon. It only showed what the Vanguard did by shooting down planes in his Glory form and being bombarded.

"Have you collected any data?" Adun asked Hyperion, who was intently watching the battle.

"Let me watch it again," Hyperion said, while simultaneously replaying the video on the projector.

"What are you doing? Is this a battle simulation?" Vanguard asked curiously. Even if it's just a battle simulation, it shouldn't only project the events that happened to Vanguard's ship.

“We’re just testing your structural strength and calculating your material composition,” Hyperion replied, nodding as he watched the replay.

"Structural strength? I can just tell you those things..." Every ship girl is basically clear about her own structural strength, and they will carry out a full-scale inspection and maintenance every once in a while. These things are all written in her health insurance card.

The biggest reason for ship girls sinking, besides being sunk in battle, is the lack of timely maintenance, which causes the ship equipment to disintegrate.

“The units are different, and conversion is too troublesome. Direct calculation is very simple.” Hyperion didn’t need the vanguard to provide the data and then asked Adun, “Can you replicate the power of these shells?”

“It’s very simple.” As Adun spoke, he condensed a ball of psionic energy in his palm and, with a “poof,” slammed it into Hyperion’s face like a snowball, leaving Hyperion covered in dust.

"You could have demonstrated it to me in a different way, cough cough." A beam of psionic energy wouldn't harm the Hyperion, but it caused the unsuspecting Hyperion to stumble and almost fall to the ground.

“That’s more direct and saves us the trouble of conversion,” Adun replied, using the same reasoning that Hyperion had given him earlier.

"Tsk, I'm quitting if this keeps up." Hyperion was only trying to help out as a friend, but he didn't expect to be teased by Adun. He declared that he was going on strike.

“I see you’re quite interested.” Ardon didn’t think the Hyperion would really go on strike.

"I am somewhat interested, though." Hyperion, whose thoughts had been seen through by Adun, smiled awkwardly and asked, "By the way, Adun, what's your reason for thinking I'm more suitable for the overall renovation and layout?"

"Because the technology level is relatively low, I can handle any compatibility issues that arise," Adun replied frankly.

"I'm really quitting!" Hyperion was almost driven half to death with anger.

That being said, in practice, Hyperion still dutifully listed all the vanguard's data and pointed to the dense array of data in front of the three ships, saying:

"Your ship is well maintained. Apart from the uneven surface deck defense and a few anti-aircraft guns that need maintenance, everything else is fine."

"Oh, really? That's great." Not understanding what the constantly changing data in front of him meant, Qianwei responded somewhat awkwardly.

"Well, but even the best maintenance is useless." Compared to these well-maintained ships, the Hyperion prefers to modify those sinking scrap metal.

Firstly, it's easier to modify, since it's going to be melted down anyway, so there aren't as many restrictions. Secondly, the sense of accomplishment from modifying scrap metal is much greater than modifying a well-maintained ship like the Avant-garde.

"Tell me what you want to modify? Defense? Speed? Main gun firepower? Anti-aircraft capabilities? Stealth performance?" After listing a bunch of basic modification options, Hyperion added, "As for flight engines, your materials probably won't be enough for high-end models."

"Fly...fly?" Zhen...oh no, God the Father, Vanguard never imagined that he would one day have the opportunity to become a flying battleship.

"You want to fly? Didn't I tell you your flight engine doesn't need anything too high-end?" Hyperion, who thought the avant-garde man wanted to fly, thought for a moment and said, "How about I get you a few turbofans that can take off and land vertically? Although they won't work once you're out of the atmosphere, at least you can fly."

"A turbo engine? Like the Banshee's?" Adun asked after Hyperion mentioned a turbo engine.

"Hmm, I still admire the Banshee's designers. They managed to turn back time (can that even be blocked?) and still produce combat power. It's unbelievable." It seems that Hyperion is also surprised that turbine aircraft can appear in the interstellar era.

“If it’s useful, then it’s useful,” Adon said, offering no comment on Hyperion’s remarks about reversing the course of history.

"Flying is unnecessary, I..." The vanguard, seeing that he might actually be transformed into a flying warship, quickly said, "I... I'm a little afraid of heights."

"..."

Do ship girls also have a fear of heights? At least Hyperion and Adun, two ship girls who frequently fly in space, have never experienced the feeling of being afraid of heights.

No wonder he was clinging to his own glorious ship's hull, looking shaky and about to fall off at any moment.

So it's because you're afraid of heights.

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Apple and pear trees are in full bloom, and a thick mist is drifting across the river.

Katyusha went out and walked to the riverbank, to that high and steep riverbank.