I, a ship girl, am the savior of civilization.

With a look of grief and indignation, she stuffed the cake into her mouth, her small hand holding the silver fork trembling slightly, and a few tears glistening in Laura's eyes.

"Sister Mami, and Sister Merkel..."

"They're all idiots, idiots, idiots!"

Pacific Rim (1-25)

1. Ship Girls of the Civilization Mothership

The hands that were in sight were delicate and small. Looking down, one could see the feet stepping on the silvery floor without any obstruction. In the corner of one's eye, various ship equipment with unknown functions came into view.

Looking up at the holographic projection in the central command room, a 1.5-meter-tall little girl, clad in blue and silver ship equipment, stared at her with a blank expression.

Staring blankly at her current body, Laura knew that everything before had lost its meaning when she inherited the name of the Dawn-class civilization mothership and Olivega Laura Loresia.

Imagine what it would feel like if an intelligent controller named "Noah" arrived beside you with a mothership and entrusted you with the task of continuing the flame of human civilization.

Countless human civilizations are on the verge of extinction, and only by becoming the spirit of a mothership can everything be saved... Thinking about it carefully, it does feel quite exhilarating.

Hmm, as good as it is, putting aside the fact that it's called a ship spirit but written as a ship girl, just the challenges she faces after taking on the mission to continue the flame are enough to make Laura break down.

Natural disasters, extraterrestrial life, and even the self-loss of civilized order...

These are all formidable challenges for Laura, a newly recruited ship girl. Moreover, the mothership beneath Laura's feet is not as powerful as she imagined.

In fact, even without Noah's explanation, the ship girls' inherent perception of the mothership was enough for Laura to clearly understand the specific situation of the mothership.

"Noah, you're telling me to save civilization with a ship like this?"

Laura's face darkened as she sensed the various devices on the mothership.

If her ship girl senses weren't false, then she had to accept one fact—she needed to use this mothership, equipped with the most advanced technology of the 21st century, to travel across the world and save human civilizations in different dimensions.

Nuclear-powered atomic boilers, 460mm battleship main guns, Type 1130 close-in weapon systems, and even 40 F-22s... These devices are indeed impressive, but Laura thinks they're not enough to fight an enemy capable of destroying civilization.

"And why would a mothership have carrier-based aircraft and battleship main guns?"

"Ahem, the mothership is a comprehensive ship, possessing some of the cutting-edge technologies from the original world. Don't be surprised. If you were born in the 17th century, the main program might have given you a sailing battleship with a wooden deck."

Noah coughed twice, then pulled the tech tree in front of Laura: "The Civilization Seed Project is naturally not a beginner's task. Laura, during your initial period as a mothership spirit, your main task is to unlock the tech tree and improve the mothership's capabilities."

"At the beginning, Noah will choose worlds of moderate difficulty for the trials. The civilizations in these worlds face difficulties that are enough to threaten them, but not fatal. Your task is to help the civilization overcome these difficulties. In return, the main program will activate civilization commands and unlock higher technologies after the mission is completed."

After confirming that she wouldn't be facing hellish difficulty from the start, Laura breathed a sigh of relief. This was the normal progression for a newly recruited ship girl.

"A secondary task, which means I can just sit back and do nothing. Looks like I don't need to work too hard."

"Don't even think about slacking off." Noah Morde said emotionally, as if sensing Laura's thoughts. "The level of unlocking civilization commands is positively correlated with the level of participation. If there are not enough commands, the mothership will remain in its current hull."

Σ(⊙▽⊙"a!

Imagining herself using this mothership to fight against invaders in starships in the future, Laura couldn't help but shudder. Finally, she nodded helplessly and said weakly:

"I know, I know……"

I understand: sweat more now, bleed less later.

She also secretly glanced at the technology tree, and the advanced technologies at the top made Laura extremely envious.

Field generation, nanotechnology, antimatter energy... and even more advanced technologies are all available. Even with only half of the technology unlocked, Laura felt that her mothership could become a neutron star.

Whether it's for better survival in future wars or for a cooler ship, Laura has no reason to act idly.

Imagining herself piloting a neutron star, rampaging through the universe, crushing all enemies, and ultimately saving human civilization from peril, Laura's heart burned with fierce fighting spirit.

"Noah, I'm ready. When shall we set off?"

The previous confusion vanished as if severed by the White Tower Sword. Laura took the initiative to ask Noah, "Let's begin. What exactly is my trial world?"

Noah was somewhat taken aback, unable to fathom Laura's sudden surge of fighting spirit, and couldn't help but mutter to himself that human nature is unpredictable. However, this wasn't necessarily a bad thing, and without much thought, Noah directly loaded the mission information into the mothership's system.

Because of their shared origins, the mission was also etched into Laura's mind.

[New Player Trial World: Pacific Rim]

Main Quest: Cut through the Pacific Wormhole

[Task Difficulty: ★]

[Current Timeline: 146:24:09 remaining until the first Kaiju, "Axehead," invades]

[Main Quest Rewards: Three Civilization Commands, unlock multi-task mode, one random mothership matching technology, and select a long-term mission world]

[Optional Missions: 1. Obtain the Neural Bridge Drift System; 2. Obtain an Ion Weapon; 3. Hunt down a Kaiju (repeatable)]

[PS: Completing each optional technology-related task will earn you one Civilization Command; for hunting-related tasks, the level of the target determines the reward.]

"????"

When Laura saw the panel that Noah had described as a transitional mission, she was stunned for a few seconds.

Is the world Noah spoke of simply a collection of these fantastical worlds?

While we know that the direction of the world line is indeed an advantage, there are still quite a few difficulties.

Needless to say, acquiring technology is a challenge. For Laura, an undocumented immigrant who suddenly appeared in the world, even legally integrating into the world is a problem, let alone acquiring the core technology for humanity's future fight against monsters.

Hunting Kaijus is no easy task; even the earliest, cannon fodder-class Kaijus required nuclear weapons to kill. Kaijus possess extremely high resistance to thermal explosives, and before the advent of plasma weapons, they were difficult to inflict significant damage unless high-powered kinetic weapons were used.

Although it is unknown whether the US government used armor-piercing rounds comparable to 460mm when the Kaiju first appeared in San Francisco, Laura estimated that even if 460mm could penetrate its armor, it would still take a lot of effort to kill it given its size.

If we don't come up with a solution, we'll probably have to lie low until the very end this time.

Then, with a mind full of "basic needs" in mind, Noah initiated the mothership's shuttle program. When Laura stood on the deck, the scene before her was already a vast blue ocean.

A gentle sea breeze brushed against her cheeks, and a few strands of hair swayed gracefully in the wind. At that moment, Laura knew.

We've arrived at the Pacific Rim.

2. I, Laura, am online begging to be robbed.

Standing on the deck, Laura took a deep breath, feeling the refreshing scent of dimethyl sulfide in the sea breeze.

Although she has become a ship girl, Laura feels no different from before. In fact, Noah promised that becoming a ship girl wouldn't affect her original human senses in normal life. Furthermore, Laura will have contributions positively correlated with the mothership. As for the proportion, although Noah didn't specify, Laura estimates it won't be too low.

In the experiment, Noah's words were confirmed.

The mothership, which Laura called "Dawn," carried a limited number of individual weapons. To test her abilities, Laura attacked herself with various weapons, from tactical daggers to RPGs, but none could penetrate her defenses. Apart from covering her blue-silver ship armor in dust, Laura felt no pain whatsoever.

"Moreover, I didn't expect that pain could work within the normal range."

Laura pinched her fair left arm, a strange look on her face. She hadn't used much force, yet her skin was stretched to an angle that even an assault rifle couldn't penetrate. The slight pain wasn't intense, but it was a sensation that even a knife stab couldn't cause.

Sure, that's so Kantai Collection!

Without spending too much time on herself, Laura leaned against the outer wall of the bridge, hugged her legs, and slowly sat down, closing her eyes to feel her own body.

With a circular planar surface 600 meters in diameter, its size is so enormous that even the USS Ford aircraft carrier cannot compare. Three 460mm main guns are spaced 120° apart, complemented by numerous missile launch channels and a flight deck for aircraft carriers…

It must be said that the design of this multi-purpose mothership is quite peculiar. From the outside, the Azur doesn't resemble a conventional warship at all; it looks more like a fortress. Historically, only the Novgorod battleship bears any resemblance to the Azur.

Similarly, the non-arrow-shaped design also made the Dawn's speed abysmal, but considering that carrier-based aircraft and carrier-based missiles are the main means of attack at present, Laura is not too concerned about the speed of the main body.

Leaving aside the combat radius and attack range of fighter jets and missiles, the 460mm maximum range of 42 kilometers alone is enough to ensure the safety of the Dawn. Even to ensure firing accuracy, the Dawn, equipped with a modern fire control system, can easily defeat the first invading Kaiju from 15 kilometers away.

When the Kaiju invaded Earth, the timeline was only at the 2013 level. Unless devastating weapons were used, humanity had no chance of sinking Laura's physical body.

Technology in 2013 was advanced. Thanks to its stealth coating and its location in the open ocean, the Dawn was difficult for human satellites to detect. After all, satellites cannot continuously track objects, and discovering Laura's blue-silver body out of thin air was no easy task. As long as she was lucky, Laura didn't think she would be discovered in advance.

However, this only applies to the deep ocean; the closer to the coastline, the higher the chance of being detected. Therefore, to avoid trouble, Laura did not snipe Axehead in San Francisco beforehand.

When the Axeheads land and San Francisco's defenses are severely weakened, that's when Laura will reap the rewards.

Before that, Laura could scout out San Francisco. As the ship spirit of the Dawn, Laura could remotely control the main body and communicate with Noah without hindrance, so there was no need for her to stay stuck in the central room.

Using a military-grade computer set, Laura successfully connected to the outside network. After attaching the navigation, Laura jumped off the deck. The ocean engine, like a high-heeled shoe, ran at high speed, allowing Laura to stand steadily on the sea surface.

"It's like instinct..."

Using the Dawn ship's equipment without any hindrance, Laura marveled as she streaked across the distance, speeding towards San Francisco. The power output from the nuclear engine, combined with Laura's agile body, allowed her to reach speeds unimaginable even for a destroyer.

If we only consider speed, the ship girl Laura is actually faster than the original ship.

The Dawn was located approximately 250 nautical miles from San Francisco, outside its exclusive economic zone. After sailing spiritedly for 30 hours, a medium-sized fishing vessel came into Laura's view.

"This is the limit. Let's dive through."

Less than three kilometers from the fishing boat, after a moment's thought, Laura held her breath and performed a three-kilometer dive on the spot. After all, breathing isn't essential for ship girls.

It can be deleted, but there's no need. However, Laura won't hesitate to delete it when it's not needed for the time being.

Silently avoiding everyone's sight, Laura secretly slipped into the fishing boat. After secretly confirming the return time, Laura breathed a sigh of relief.

Two days later, the ship will return to the San Francisco coast.

The ship's equipment had already been stowed away. Laura found a cabin to hide in, her heart filled with a mixture of confusion and excitement as she pondered the unpredictable future and quietly waited for the fishing boat to return.

—Two days later—

Just as she had boarded the ship silently before, Laura also left the fishing boat where she had been waiting for two days without a sound. Thanks to her superhuman abilities as a ship girl, Laura successfully arrived in one of the most bustling cities in America.

In the distance, the iconic red bridge stands tall.

As a landmark of San Francisco, the Golden Gate Bridge holds a correspondingly high status, and in Laura's memory, it suffers as much as it does in movies. According to incomplete statistics, the Golden Gate Bridge has been destroyed at least a hundred times.

The world collided in 2012, the Earth's core was destroyed... even the Golden Gate Bridge could not escape its fate of destruction.

Laura made a frame with her hands and took a screenshot of the Golden Gate Bridge in mid-air, as a final record before its destruction. In five days at most, the Golden Gate Bridge would completely collapse under the attack of the axe-wielding beasts, and even San Francisco would be widely contaminated by Kaiju blood.

Laura wasn't in a hurry to deal with her immigration status. The United States doesn't have a household registration system like China's; identification mainly relies on passports and birth certificates. If you randomly picked someone off the street, they might not even be able to prove they're a citizen.

Currently, Laura appears to be just a child, pitiful, weak, and helpless. Given the devastation of San Francisco and the countless deaths, verifying a child's birth certificate would be virtually impossible. There's no need to actively seek a reason; after compiling casualty statistics, the authorities would naturally categorize Laura as an orphan with both parents deceased.

At that time, they will be sent to other foster families or orphanages.

Before that, special methods will probably be needed.

"At least, hopefully San Francisco's crime rate tonight will be at the level of GTA."