Daily life with the ship girl

Li Ran felt somewhat unconfident when he said this.

Ruo Duoruo nodded:

"But before that, Admiral, have you thought about how to deal with these Qinglian jades? This kind of jade should have a certain value after being processed."

"What is the value of Qinglian Jade?" Li Ran was stunned for a moment. He was unfamiliar with everything in this world and asked quickly:

"Isn't this jade corroded iron ore? How can it still be valuable?"

"Well, although Qinglian jade will cause iron products to rust if placed around them for a long time, this kind of jade still has medicinal value."

"Medicinal value?" Li Ran felt that it was not impossible, but he still wanted to know more about it. After all, his current garrison had just had a falling out with the maritime merchants. Although he did not care much, after all, he was an admiral and he could not be really isolated. However, if he could have more commodities, his port area would have more sources of income in the future.

"Yes, to be specific, this jade ore has a strong insect repellent effect. Aren't you surprised that such a large place doesn't even have a mountain rat or cockroach?"

"Yes, you mean that it is because this underground fortification was built near the Qinglianyu mine that the mosquitoes, rats and ants here have disappeared?"

"Yes, this is the magic of Qinglian Jade. However, before we went into seclusion, this kind of jade was very rare and seemed to be quite expensive. I wonder what it is like now."

Li Ran was silent for a while, then said:

"Okay, I understand. When I go back tonight, I will buy you some equipment as soon as possible. But let's put this iron mine aside for now. We can work on this underground fortification when we have more equipment and more energy."

"Well, the admiral is right. Let's pack up and go back first." Ruo Duoruo thought about it and it made sense. After all, due to the limitations of equipment, it is impossible to mine more minerals. He also agreed with Li Ran's opinion and would come back to have a look when he has the ability.

Just as Li Ran and others were about to leave the underground mine, they heard Jilin suddenly shout:

"Admiral, I found a lot of strange things."

Chapter 119: The Maozi-blooded Kogan

Jilin's cry attracted everyone's attention. Li Ran walked forward and shone the wolf-eye flashlight at Jilin's location. He was a little surprised:

"What did you find?"

"This is a damaged transformation core, Admiral, this is a damaged transformation core."

Keeling was holding a device that looked very complicated, but it was badly rusted, and she was a little excited.

"A damaged transformation core?" Li Ran took the thing. This was the first time he saw a transformation core. He had never known what this thing was. Now it seemed more like some kind of high-tech product. From the appearance, it was a small rectangular block with many gears and conducting parts inside. However, it seemed that the metal shell of the transformation core had been severely rusted, and the conducting parts inside were extremely fragile. When Li Ran touched them, the parts fell apart.

"Chief Ruoduoruo, is this thing a transformation core?"

Li Ran couldn't figure out what was going on, so he decided to ask the fairies. After all, fairies were the ones who knew how to create and transform the cores.

"That's right, but this is not a transformation core. It is at most a fake, that is, a replica transformation core. It cannot be used by the Warship Girls for formal transformation. Because the real transformation core has a corrosion-resistant alloy metal shell, and the internal parts are also highly corrosion-resistant. This transformation core is too rough. It should be a failed product developed by the humans here."

Ruo Duoruo watched Li Ran put the severely rusted "transformation core" on the ground, then walked around it and continued:

"Besides, this thing shouldn't be placed here. The Qinglian Jade Ore is extremely corrosive to metal substances. But why is this thing placed here? It's very strange."

Li Ran nodded, and then shouted to Jilin who was still looking around:

"This thing may have been placed here by accident. It's useless. Let's go back."

"Oh." Keelin searched for a long time but really didn't find anything new and interesting.

Li Ran took Jilin's hand and thought about it. This discarded thing seemed useless. Just as he was about to throw it away, he heard Z24 say:

"Um, can you let me see this thing?"

"Huh?" Li Ran looked at Z24 in surprise, then handed the item to her:

"Just look at it, it seems to be useless."

Li Ran handed the things to Z24, then took Jilin's hand and walked outside, while the fairies sat on the shoulders of Li Ran and Jilin.

Z24 was a little nervous. She took the box and said to Bismarck softly:

"Sister Meow, I've seen this thing."

Bismarck was paying close attention to the safety of the surroundings. When she heard Z24 calling her, she looked at Li Ran who was walking away and was about to speak, but she heard Z24 say nervously:

"Sister Miao, don't shout. This thing is very dangerous."

"Danger?" Bismarck took the tattered box with some curiosity, and was a little puzzled:

"But Ruo Duoruo has already said that this thing is a failed replica of the transformation core, and it is so broken, what danger can it have?"

Z24 was nervous. She pushed her glasses up and said softly:

"Sister Miao, squat down and I will tell you in secret."

Bismarck looked at Z24, frowned at the serious look on her little face, but she still squatted down.

Z24 leaned close to Bismarck's ear and told him some of the things he had learned from Nuremberg.

Bismarck was shocked after hearing this:

"Are you telling the truth?"

"That's right. Someone forged it, which caused many shipgirl transformations to fail. The culprit was this fake transformation core."

"How dare someone do this?" Bismarck found it incredible. You know, the transformation core is the key to whether every ship girl can undergo modernization. If the transformation core is sufficient, the ship girl only needs to reach a certain level of training and go to a specific place to undergo transformation. But now Z24 actually said that someone was making a profit by selling fake transformation cores. She felt very angry:

"Are you sure this has something to do with what Nuremberg said?"

"Yes, the merchant ship we escorted this time was heading to the Nile Port in New England. On the way, we happened to hear the crew members talking about the recent uproar."

"What's the matter?" Bismarck frowned. It was still inconvenient for her port area to communicate with the outside world, and it was inevitable that some information was blocked. However, now that she had discovered such a serious matter, she had to take it seriously.

"The crew members told us that about a month ago, an admiral bought more than a hundred transformation cores of various types for only 500,000 ocean coins. Sister Nuremberg said that the cheapest destroyer transformation core now costs 10,000 ocean coins and is out of stock. But the crew members swore that it was true, and Sister Nuremberg didn't want to argue, so she recorded it."

"that is it?"

"Not only that, the point is what those crew members said, that admiral who bought hundreds of transformation cores used those transformation cores on his own ship girl and something went wrong."

"what's up?"

"The transformation failed, and some of the ship girls turned into deep sea on the spot."

"Deep sea transformation!" Bismarck was shocked. She could not help but squeeze the imitation transformation core hard until it was deformed. Then she said angrily:

"and after?"

"Later, the crew members told us that the Military Police Headquarters and the seven governors were paying close attention to this matter. They were investigating the source of these imitation transformation cores."

When Bismarck heard Z24 say this, she suddenly felt something was wrong. If this was a matter that had already attracted the attention of the seven governors and the gendarmerie headquarters, then why didn't the admiral receive the news?

Bismarck thought of this and felt that she seemed to be too negligent as the admiral's ship girl. It was not enough to only focus on the admiral's personal safety. She also had to pay close attention to all changes in the outside world to prevent emergencies from causing harm to the admiral. She made up her mind that when Helena, the intelligence expert, came back, the port's foreign intelligence investigation work must be put on the agenda. However, the authenticity of this matter could not be confirmed yet, so she thought it would be better to hide it from Li Ran first, so she crushed the thing into pieces and threw it away:

"Let's go. I'll look into this matter."

"Sister Meow, please don't tell your admiral."

"Don't worry, I know." Bismarck nodded, and then heard Li Ran's shout, she said to Z24:

"Let's go back. I won't tell the Admiral about this for now."

"Yes," Z24 nodded. She didn't know why she was afraid that Li Ran would find out about this.

Li Ran stood at the door of Room 24, and then watched Bismarck and Z finally come out. He joked:

"What are you whispering about? Why are you staying in there for so long?"

"It's okay, Admiral, let's go." Bismarck looked at the somewhat nervous Z24, her tone calm.

Li Ran nodded and didn't care too much.

Everyone left the underground air-raid shelter, and Li Ran and Bismarck sent the fairies back to the resting area near the lake on the island. It would be too troublesome for the fairies to go back to the boat house every day, so they built small settlements in some hidden areas of the lake on the island.

This was also the first time that Li Ran entered the fairies' residence. It was surrounded by barbed wire, but the outside was well hidden by vines. And because it was located in the least noticeable place in the lake on the island, Jilin and the others seldom came here.

In addition, Li Ran had always wanted to prevent the fairies from being disturbed by the outside world. When he saw this small camp, a hint of admiration flashed across his face:

"This place is quite secluded, but are there any snakes or insects?"

"Please rest assured, Admiral. These vines are cultivated by our fairy tribe. They emit some pheromones that are suspected to be insecticides. These pheromones are the most hated and detested by snakes, rats, mosquitoes and insects, so it is actually very safe here." Elder Lin is a relatively knowledgeable fairy scholar, otherwise she would not have entered the Fairy Elders' Hall. She said with some pride at this time:

"These vines were cultivated by our ancestors of many fairies."

Li Ran nodded. He just took a look at the small camp, and then seeing that it was getting late, he said goodbye to the many goblins.

However, when returning, Li Ran found that Bismarck was frowning and Z24 was also unhappy.

But Jilin kept on chattering, and Li Ran had no way to ask Bismarck, so everyone returned to the garrison without noticing.

Li Ran entered the garrison and found Kokang drunk. Z28 was trying to help Kokang to a chair helplessly.

Li Ran's forehead was bulging with blue veins, and he looked very courageous. You really have inherited the Russians' habit of liking to drink.

Chapter 120: Random Thoughts

"Sister Meow, you're back." Z28 seemed to have seen a savior. She supported the drunk Kogan and felt miserable. Although the ship girls could use powerful forces like hydraulic robotic arms, she was afraid of hurting Kogan, so she let Kogan hold her, mainly because she was afraid that she would fall.

Although the Ship Girls usually don't get hurt, they may be seriously injured if they fall on flat ground. Z28 has heard that there is a destroyer called Utopia in the First Ship Girl Academy. It is the fastest destroyer, but it was also the first destroyer to fall and be damaged. She is very afraid of what to do if Kogan gets drunk and falls.

Just as Kokang finished speaking, in the destroyer repair room of the First Ship Girl Academy, Sora sneezed.

"Kou Xiang? Are you okay? Is the fall serious? There are some other destroyers in the repair room, but the difference is that the other destroyers entered the repair room because of the deep sea battle, while only Ku Xiang fell because he ran too fast. This time he hit the buoy and broke it, which gave the captain a headache.

The one who asked Kongxiang was Lei who had just returned from the expedition. This time, only Xiao was injured among the four sisters. In order to protect her sisters, Xiao stayed behind to cover the rear, buying precious time for the sisters to reload their ammunition. However, she also paid the price of being severely damaged by a deep-sea heavy cruiser. She looked at Kongxiang with a bit of depression at this time and asked:

"What happened to you?"

"Xiao, do you think I'm very fast?"

Xiao thought about it and realized that there were indeed only a handful of ship girls who could be faster than Sou-chan. She nodded.

"Then why are they so slow? Isn't it important to fight quickly and decisively? You have to be able to race against high-speed torpedoes so that you won't be caught up by the deep sea. But why do they always accuse me of making trouble?"

"This?" Xiao didn't know how to answer. At this time, the door of the repair room was pushed open, and the teacher who led the team walked in. She had no expression on her face:

"Kongxiang, you should go and explain to the dean yourself this time. You have used four quick-repair barrels this week. Don't you know that it is not easy for me to make money?"

"Woo." Kong Xiang quickly buried her head in the pool. Bubbles gurgled around her and she said something indistinctly.

The one who is responsible for leading the team is also the guardian of Utopia - Joan of Arc.

She looked at Kong Xiang pretending to be an ostrich, feeling somewhat helpless, and then said:

"Come to me right after you finish entering the channel. Tonight is your favorite speed training class. I want you to demonstrate high-speed evasion to those heavy cruisers. Don't fall again this time."

"Speed ​​training class?" Kong Xiang stood up suddenly and was about to leave the repair pool, but was pushed back by Joan of Arc.

"You better stay in the channel. We still have fifteen minutes to finish the channel. Don't waste it. The speed training course will start at 9:15 pm at the training ground in the west district. Don't be late.

"Got it, Sister Jeanne."

Joan of Arc had a headache. She muttered:

"Richelieu, where are you? I really can't afford to support you anymore."

……

Similarly, the ship of Sihai Trading Company arrived at the dock of Island C. Richelieu was helping to move the supplies to the temporary warehouse built on the island when he suddenly sneezed.

Walkerland on the side was a little worried:

"Sister Richelieu, are you okay?"

"It's okay." Richelieu felt that the sneeze was too strange, but she had a lot of things to do, so she didn't care.

Prince Eugen on the side said timidly:

"Well, I seem to have heard that when someone misses you, they will sneeze."

"Miss you?" Richelieu looked at Prince Eugen at this moment, and could not relate to the Deep Sea Eugen's appearance. She smiled softly and said:

"Maybe the Admiral missed us."

Vauquelin said innocently:

"But if the Admiral missed us, why didn't I sneeze?"

Richelieu had a headache. Vauquelin was very well-behaved, but she was also a little girl who liked to ask all kinds of questions. Some of the questions often made Richelieu feel at a loss as to where to start.

However, Lexington's shout interrupted their conversation, and Richelieu secretly breathed a sigh of relief and changed the subject:

"The evening military meeting is about to begin. Let's go over there."

"Yeah." Prince Eugen put the last barrel of oil away and covered it with oilcloth to prevent moisture.

She followed Richelieu.