Daily life with the ship girl

Any factors that threaten the admiral must be eliminated immediately. This is the consensus of all the ship girls.

Li Ran naturally had no objection. He had already understood some of the ship girls' styles of behavior. Once their own safety was involved, they would become extremely serious. This made him, as a man, feel a little hurt in his self-esteem.

However, Bai Nuoyan experienced for the first time what it was like to be an admiral. She said to Li Ran with some envy:

"Now I understand why so many people want to be admiral."

"Tell me something." Li Ran watched Richelieu and Bismarck disappear into the depths of the passage. The light of the flashlight also disappeared. He turned around and looked at Bai Nuoyan.

"Because I'm an admiral, I have the ship girls protecting me anytime and anywhere. I can go on adventures wherever I want in the future. This way, I can go wherever I want."

"Is this why you became an admiral?"

"No, anyway, thanks to you, I have experienced the correct way to be an admiral this time."

"you win."

"But, by the way, did you notice that this fortification was built according to military standards..."

"I was a soldier, so I can see that this building cannot be built without huge financial and material resources, and it will take two to three years."

"That's right." Bai Nuoyan pondered for a while, then thought about it and said to Hipper:

"Xixi, did you bring the newspaper I asked you to bring?"

When Hipper heard Bai Nuoyan's words, he hurried over, took out a slightly yellowed newspaper, handed it to Bai Nuoyan, and said:

"Brought it."

Bai Nuoyan took the yellowed newspaper, flipped through it, and then said:

"Li Ran, take a look at this news report from the Admiral World News Agency."

Li Ran was a little curious, then took the newspaper and said to Bai Nuoyan:

"Give me some light."

Bai Nuoyan adjusted the brightness of the flashlight and provided lighting for Li Ran. Li Ran saw the date of the newspaper: December 2013, 12 in the Ocean Calendar, which was more than three years ago.

This news report reported a small abandoned island found on the edge of an Atlantic war zone. After investigation, it was found to be a black workshop that produced fake transformation cores and performed some deep-sea ship girl dismemberment work.

"Dismemberment of the Deep Sea Ship Girl?" Li Ran took a breath of cold air. Who would dare to do such a cruel thing? He said in disbelief:

“Is this report true or false?”

"It's absolutely true. To tell you the truth, this newspaper was urgently recalled immediately after it was published. Fortunately, my father is a weird collector and happened to keep this copy. I applied for the Admiral Academy at that time, so he threw all the things related to admirals and ship girls to me. I accidentally found this newspaper and discovered this news."

"But dismembering a deep-sea destroyer, isn't that too crazy?" Li Ran was attacked by a deep-sea destroyer once. He could sense the danger from afar, but this report actually said that someone had dismembered a deep-sea destroyer. He was a little confused:

"And why would the creation of a fake transformation core and the dismemberment of a deep-sea ship girl appear in the same report? There is no necessary connection between the two, right?"

"That's right. I've been doing business a lot in the past few years and have no time to take care of this. But it was because of Lexington's words that I became Xixi's admiral. Now that such a big thing has happened, I was thinking about whether I could find some clues. It just so happened that I remembered that I always carried this newspaper with me because it also contained a photo of my entrance ceremony to the Admiral Academy. I didn't expect that I would really discover something strange."

"what do you mean?"

"You still remember what I told you, that in the past century, there have been several times when the combined fleets of the seven war zones have launched exploration missions into unknown waters."

"Ah."

"I speculate that the discovery of these islands on the edge may have been accidentally discovered by many adventurers who wanted to learn about the United Fleet that mysteriously disappeared after entering the unknown sea. As for the disposal work after the discovery, it has not been announced to the public. I thought about it. Since the counterfeit transformation cores are now appearing on a large scale, will there be a huge counterfeit core circulation network in the seven war zones? I am a businessman, and I always feel that there is not enough profit behind it. No one will do such a thing."

Li Ran listened to Bai Nuoyan's analysis, which seemed to make sense, but no matter what, he couldn't take care of these things for the time being. He shrugged and said:

"I am confused by your reasoning. Anyway, what we can do now is to explore this underground fortification. As for those old events you mentioned, let's wait until the White Crane Line operation is over before discussing them. Let's focus on the present first."

"That's right." Bai Nuoyan nodded, then carefully put away the newspaper. At this time, Richelieu and Bismarck also came out of the passage of the underground fortifications.

Chapter 129: Mysterious Tentacles

"How is it?" Li Ran and Bai Nuoyan stopped talking, and he walked up to Richelieu and asked.

"No wild animals have broken in, so it's safe inside. Admiral, you can go in now."

After Richelieu finished speaking to Li Ran, he stepped back again.

"Then let's go."

As admirals, Li Ran and Bai Nuoyan walked into the entrance side by side.

Everyone walked down the concrete steps and arrived at the underground fortification.

Li Ran looked at the locked rooms and felt vaguely strange.

"What's wrong?" Bai Nuoyan looked at Li Ran staring blankly in one direction. She shone her flashlight and found nothing there, which was a bit strange:

"what have you found?"

"It's okay." Li Ran shook his head, and then watched Bismarck and Richelieu put the engineering goblins on the ground. He said to the two goblin chiefs sitting on his shoulders:

"Do you have any way to break through these doors?"

Ruo Duoruo tilted her head, thought for a moment and then said:

"Admiral, these gates can be easily broken open by your ship girls using their strength."

Li Ran was stunned for a moment when he heard what Ruo Duoruo said, and then he realized that although these locked doors looked tightly welded, he had seen the strength of the ship girls before, such as Bismarck lifting a 300-kilogram brown bear with one hand. However, he couldn't help feeling a little nervous:

"Bismarck, can you break down these gates?"

Bismarck nodded:

"No problem, leave it to me and Richelieu."

Richelieu also nodded, and then Li Ran stepped back.

Bismarck and Richelieu walked to the welded door, and the two battleship girls worked together, and then they heard the alloy door making a creaking sound.

With a loud "bang", the alloy door fell down.

Li Ran covered his nose; the smell of the dust was too bad.

After the dust that had been accumulated for too long had settled, he took a flashlight and shone it around the room. This was Room No. 1, the room closest to the entrance.

"Let's go in and take a look."

Li Ran covered his mouth and nose, and then, accompanied by Bismarck and Richelieu, took the lead in walking into Room No. 1.

Bai Nuoyan witnessed the power of the battleship girl for the first time. It was too exaggerated. She looked at the alloy door that was blown open and fell to the ground, and hurriedly followed.

There weren't many things in Room No. 1, just a few emptied boxes. Li Ran was a little disappointed.

He and Bismarck and others carefully checked the boxes and found that there was nothing in them.

When Li Ran and others finished looking at the 20th room and walked into the 21st room, they shone the flashlight and found that there were still only a few abandoned boxes in the room.

This time, Li Ran looked through the boxes as usual and actually made a discovery.

"Look, what is this?"

Li Ran took out a strange object. It was black and soft to the touch, but it was made of metal inside.

Bismarck and Richelieu hurried over. As a girl, Bai Nuoyan was not as strong as Li Ran and was resting outside. When she heard Li Ran's shouting in the underground fortifications, she hurriedly ran to room 21 with Hipper.

The other ship girls escorted the engineering fairies to Room 36 for investigation. Lexington and the Raider felt uncomfortable after staying in the Qinglianyu mine for a while. Finding that the other sisters were the same, they asked Pinghai to bring the fake and defective transformation core that was squeezed and deformed, then talked to the fairies and went up through the mine tunnel.

As soon as they came out of room 36, they heard their admiral's shout, and the three of them hurried over.

The two sisters Helena and Brooklyn, who had been looking at the entrance, also stopped talking. They were responsible for ensuring that the two admirals would not be threatened by some intruders in the forest during the survey. At this time, the two looked at each other.

"Sister, if you want to go and see, leave it to me." Although Helena was curious about what her admiral had discovered, her duty was to ensure that everyone was notified as soon as possible when any situation occurred at the entrance to the passage.

She was touched to see her sister accompanying her, but she still said this to Brooklyn. After all, although they were sisters, they were not from the same port. Helena felt that there was no need for Brooklyn to accompany her like this.

Brooklyn thought about it and said to his sister Helena:

"Then I'll go take a look, and I'll be right back with you."

"It's okay." Helena smiled. She had just chatted with Brooklyn and knew that her sister was very worried about the First Ship Girl Academy. This investigation was also to find out whether this underground fortification was related to the Transformation Core Fraud case. After all, these situations were related to the attack on the Deep Sea Fortress Princess.

As an intelligence expert, Helena understood that when the situation was bad, the more intelligence collected, the better.

Brooklyn nodded and ran towards room 21.

Li Ran took the strange thing and looked at it. He found it very strange. It was obviously made of some metal inside, but the surface was elastic. He looked at Bismarck and Richelieu with some curiosity, and then handed the thing to them:

"You guys take a look too, there seem to be a few more of these things in this box."

Li Ran handed the things to Richelieu and Bismarck, then continued to bury his head in the box and took out the remaining three such things. This thing felt very strange to hold.

Li Ran always felt a little uncomfortable in his heart. He studied with Bismarck and Richelieu for a while, but found that there was no clue. There was nothing else in this room except these four things. Li Ran thought it would be better to take the things out first. Just as he was about to leave, he heard hurried footsteps.

Then he saw the arrival of Bainoyan and Hipper, as well as Lexington, Raider, Pinghai, and finally Brooklyn. Except for Helena, everyone was there. He paused, then said to Bismarck and Richelieu:

"They came just in time to show the things to Lexington and Brooklyn."

Bismarck and Richelieu stepped forward and handed four strange things to the people who had arrived.

After a few minutes, everyone had roughly looked at the four strange things, but still felt they could not recognize them.

Pinghai thought about it, and suddenly she remembered the grilled octopus she had at noon, and said in a somewhat strange way:

"Admiral, do you think this thing looks like an octopus tentacle?"

Li Ran immediately knew where the uncomfortable feeling came from, and quickly took one to examine it, and then found that it really looked like the tentacles of some octopuses, but it did not have the suction cups like the tentacles of octopuses. No wonder he did not recognize it just now. He pondered for a while and said:

"This thing looks like an octopus tentacle, but it doesn't have a suction cup and there's a strange metal substance inside. It looks like a part of some object."

Brooklyn heard what Li Ran said. She happened to be holding a strange tentacle, and then she touched the metal. She shone a flashlight and gently dug the place where the tentacle and the metal touched. She found a shocking fact. She shouted in horror:

"This is a part of the ship suit dismembered from the deep-sea ship girl. You can break open the outer layer of soft tissue. The metal inside has surpassed the quality and strength of the ship suits we use. This can only be done by the highly intelligent deep-sea."

These words were like a bomb, making everyone feel incredible.

Chapter 130: Mystery of the Deep Sea

"You said this thing is the remnant of the ship's suit from the Deep Sea Ship Girl?"

Lexington attended some lectures on deep-sea shipgirl research at the First Shipgirl Academy. Some of the more radical shipgirls, or the hawks among the shipgirls, were based on capturing some deep-sea shipgirls to conduct research on ship equipment, and most of the processes were cruel. She asked:

"Senior Lexington, you should have attended the courses taught by those hawkish lecturers. Do you remember what the Atlantic Governor said?"

"Governor Wang An?" Lexington frowned. He was the governor with the tougher hand among the seven governors. However, thanks to the iron fist of this governor, the Atlantic theater of war was able to suppress the offensive of the deep-sea habitats in the smallest sea area among the seven theaters of war. However, it was rumored that this governor had conducted some experiments on dissecting deep-sea ship girls, and he has always been disliked by many admirals.

As ship girls, although they are enemies of the deep sea, the act of dissecting the deep sea is considered by the ship girls to be a blasphemy to the defeated deep sea. After all, most of the captured deep sea have the opportunity to exit deep sea transformation, but this experiment cuts off this possibility, which is equivalent to ruining the chance of a deep sea to transform into a ship girl.

"That's right. Although Governor Wang An has a bad reputation, I still remember that the admiral brought similar tentacles to the lecture a year ago. This thing was obtained by dissecting the body of Deep Sea Deep Sea. It seems that this underground fortification has indeed left some clues."

Li Ran frowned. Dissecting the deep sea made him feel a little uncomfortable. The deep-sea ship girl became a deep-sea ship girl. In a sense, dissecting the deep sea was equivalent to dissecting the ship girl. He pondered for a while and said:

"There are still a dozen rooms left. Let's split up and collect any findings we find. Then we can go back to the garrison and make a long-term plan."

"Well, then I will act together with the admiral." Richelieu was worried about Li Ran acting alone, so she spoke immediately.

Bismarck saw Richelieu taking the lead, she felt a little disappointed, but it was the duty of a soldier to obey orders, she immediately said:

"Then I will act together with Pinghai."

"I'm operating with the Raiders."

"Admiral, follow me." Hipper certainly wanted to protect his admiral.

Li Ran hesitated for a while. As an aircraft carrier, Lexington had no combat capability at night. Although there would be no accidents here, he still notified Helena through the exclusive channel, and then said to Lexington:

"Lexington, you and Helena move together. We will divide our forces into five groups and fight quickly and decisively."

"I understand, Admiral." Lexington nodded.

Helena arrived at Room 21 after a few minutes, and then everyone saw that everyone was there and started to take action.

An hour later, at the exit of the underground fortification, everyone had gained something. Under Li Ran's instructions, Ruo Duoruo and Lan Luo began to analyze the various items they had found.

Ten minutes later, Ruo Duoruo, Lan Luo and others completed the inspection.

"How is it?" Li Ran squatted down, let Ruo Duoruo and Lan Luo sit on his shoulders, and then asked:

"What did you find?"

Lan Luo was silent for a while. The irritable Azure Fairy Clan leader spoke in a serious tone:

"Admiral, among these things, there are a total of sixteen, including the defective fake transformation core found in the Qinglianyu Mine Cave. Among them, there are six fake battleship transformation cores, two fake cruiser transformation cores, four fake destroyer transformation cores, and four submarine transformation cores. Unfortunately, the internal core components have been taken away. These fake transformation cores are all abandoned failures."

"A failed product among fakes?" Li Ran felt a little bad. Ever since he got along with the ship girls, he would read some books when he had time. He learned about the importance of the transformation core to the ship girls. It can be said that when a ship girl's training reaches a certain level, she can be transformed through special equipment. The transformation not only enhances the strength of the ship girls, but also enables them to grow. This growth is most obvious in many destroyers.

If the transformation fails, the lighter consequence is that the ship girl's training level will decline, and even her abilities such as speed will be weakened. In serious cases, the modified ship girl may even be deprived of her awakening abilities, that is, skills, and even become a deep-sea girl.