The slightly weird commander's ship girl tour

We set off at noon and drove along the highway, arriving in Rossham around five o'clock.

It was already dark. It was winter after all. Huang Chen drove the car and, following the directions given by passersby, drove into a fairly busy street. He then said to the side, "This is nearby, Baltimore. Let's see where the post office and telegraph office are."

"Okay, I'll take a look."

The girl nodded and sat in the passenger seat, staring carefully outside.

Huang Chen looked back again and said, "Magdeburg, stop reading comics and look at the street on the left to see if there is a post office or telegraph office."

The girl hurriedly hid the comics and held her head high in defense, "Who reads comics? You're talking nonsense."

"I don't know how you can see in such darkness. Look to the left to see if there is a post office or telegraph office." Huang Chen said again.

Magdeburg stopped arguing and leaned against the window to look to the right.

"Left, left, can't you tell left from right?"

"I'm just taking a look over here first, why are you in such a hurry?" Magdeburg muttered, squeezed to the left window again, and looked out of the car window.

Although it was only at the edge of Rossham, the streets were already quite spacious, with many shops on the roadside with lights on and people coming and going.

"It looks more lively than Rhodes."

Magdeburg looked at it for a while and said in surprise.

Huang Chen just glanced at the girl through the rearview mirror in the car and didn't say anything.

Walked slowly around the street for a while.

Soon, Baltimore said happily, "I see it. It's in the alley on the right."

"Okay, I saw that too."

Huang Chen nodded, drove over, parked the car in the parking lot next to him, got out and stretched, "This car is still a bit difficult to drive."

Although he took over the steering wheel halfway, this small car without power steering still requires a lot of arm strength. After driving for a total of two hours, his hands were actually a little sore.

Magdeburg also got out of the car, looked around curiously, and then showed a look of regret, "Is this the place? Where is the magician? Where is the magician?"

"There aren't any magicians in the first place." Huang Chen reached out and pressed the girl's head. "As for the telegram, let's talk about it after we find them."

Magdeburg held his head with a depressed look on his face, seemingly unhappy.

Huang Chen felt a little amused and couldn't help asking, "No way, do you really believe there are magicians?"

Magdeburg said nothing.

Baltimore said with amusement, "Let's go find Kronstadt and the others first. They should be nearby."

"Well, let's go ask first."

Huang Chen nodded and walked forward.

This post office and telegraph office is where the girls send telegrams in the morning.

Although the telegram did not say where they lived now, it was easy to find out with such a large group of ship girls in this inland city.

There weren't many people in the telegraph office, and its style was completely different from that of the Kancolle organization.

Huang Chen walked to the counter, greeted the clerk, and then got straight to the point, "Hello, I want to ask, do you still remember the ship girl who came to send a telegram this morning?"

"Kanmusume? That was Kanmusume this morning."

The girl behind the counter said in surprise.

She is petite and looks young, has freckles, and wears neatly styled twin ponytails.

From a human perspective, they are certainly cute, but pale in comparison to the Kancolles. However, their youthful vitality is not much different.

"Well, I'm their commander. I came from Rhodes and just arrived." Huang Chen smiled and took out his commander's ID from his pocket.

The little girl suddenly showed a look of surprise, "Huang Chen, General, General."

"It's okay." Huang Chen smiled implicitly.

She blinked and touched the outside of the certificate curiously, not as if she was judging its authenticity, but rather as if she was seeing a strange toy.

"How about it, is it true?" Huang Chen asked jokingly.

"Ah, this..." The little girl was stunned for a moment, then smiled shyly, "Actually, this is the first time I've seen a commander's ID, too."

"Are there few commanders and ship girls coming here? It feels like this place is quite close to Rhodes."

"Not many, but some people do go to Berea College. My former neighbor went there to become a commander, but he hasn't been back since."

The little girl shook her head, handed the certificate back, and blinked at the two people behind Huang Chen, "Then you are the ship girls, so beautiful."

Magdeburg was probably still depressed and didn't say anything.

Baltimore nodded gently, "Thank you, you're cute too."

"Hmm." The little girl was a little embarrassed for a moment, and finally reacted. She asked curiously and puzzledly, "Well, what does this commander want to do?"

"Ask about the news about the ship girl this morning." Huang Chen said simply.

If we were in another place, such as some places in Rhodes, those people would definitely ask with a smile, "Are you trying to salvage the boat?"

But the shop assistant had no such idea at all. After thinking for a moment, she nodded and said, "They went to the outskirts of the city to find a magician."

Magdeburg immediately became excited and hurriedly approached and asked, "Magician."

"Yeah, yeah." The little girl retreated tactically, then explained, "There's a magician in that forest in the southwest suburbs of the city."

"Oh, I knew magicians still exist." Magdeburg looked excited and was about to ask something.

Huang Chen directly pressed the girl's head with one hand to push her down, staring at the shop assistant seriously and seriously, "There really is a magician? Have you seen one?"

"...Almost?" The shop girl hesitated for a moment, then continued, "I used to live in a town nearby and have seen magic, but never a magician in person."

"Magic? What magic?" Huang Chen's face looked a little strange, and Baltimore didn't say anything.

Magdeburg struggled to raise his head and stared at the young clerk with a serious and focused look.

"It's just... a very powerful and amazing magic. I can't explain it in just a few words."

"Then let's make a long story short."

"It's like in a novel, where they live deep in the forest, with strange sounds and smells around their homes, and herbs growing around them."

The shop girl said seriously.

Magdeburg seemed a little disappointed. "That's it? No magic like suddenly releasing a huge fireball, or summoning hail with just a wave of the hand?"

The shop girl was stunned for a moment, blinked, and then suddenly seemed to think of something and said, "There's another thing. There was a brother in the town who once went to the forest to look for a magician."

"Then what?" Huang Chen asked.

"Then he disappeared and never came back."

Chapter 1217 Outside the Birch Forest

Someone went to look for him, and then he disappeared.

Huang Chen was stunned, feeling that things had suddenly become out of control.

What magician, what magic, it can all be said to be a joke, but now that someone is missing, the situation is completely different.

Huang Chen pursed his lips and asked seriously, "Missing? Didn't you try to look for him?"

"Go look for them, and then more people disappear?" the shop girl asked, then pursed her lips. "I don't know the details, I was still a kid at the time. But I think they called the police."

"What did they say?"

"It seems to be telling us not to go into the forest again."

"That's it?" Huang Chen blinked, frowning, and then asked, "What about those ship girls this morning? Did you tell them about the magician's situation?"

"No, they knew," the shop girl explained, "but they still asked me some questions."

"what is the problem."

"It's pretty much the same as what you just asked."

That means nothing was asked.

Huang Chen shook his head, exchanged glances with Baltimore, and then said, "Well, thank you for the news."

"You're welcome." The little girl nodded.

Huang Chen smiled. Although the so-called magician was indeed a bit confusing and bewildering, this little girl was quite cute.

The three of them walked out to the parking lot and it was already dark.

Magdeburg leaned against the car window, stroking his chin and muttering to himself, "I feel like that's not a magician, but a perverted murderer."

Although she is a little immature, she is not stupid. In fact, she is quite smart most of the time.

The abnormality in the incident was noticed at a glance.

Huang Chen shook his head, disagreeing, "It's not that exaggerated, otherwise the police wouldn't just ignore it."

"What should we do now?" asked Magdeburg.

"Now, let's go find Langshita and the others first?" Huang Chen suggested, "Isn't there a small village on the southwest outskirts of the city? Langshita and the others should be over there."

"Let's go there first. If we can't find it, we can rest there for the night."

Baltimore nodded, without much suggestion.

Magdeburg shrank his neck, looking hesitant. "But, a perverted murderer..."

"You, a ship girl, are afraid of a perverted murderer, let alone you are just guessing." Huang Chen glared at the girl, then looked at the sky, shook his head and said, "Let's find a place to eat first."

Magdeburg immediately put the perverted murderer behind him.

After dinner, everyone drove to the town the waitress mentioned.

It was almost eight o'clock, the sky had gone completely dark, the moonlight was clear, and the street lamps cast a dim light.

Huang Chen stopped the car in the open space beside the road, rolled down the window, pointed at the dense birch forest not far away and said, "Is it in there?"

The woods are tall and dense, and from a distance they appear dark, spreading along the ground in the night like a black tide.

It hasn't snowed in Rossham for a while.

But there was still a lot of snow inside and outside the woods, reflecting a faint light in the moonlight, making it look even more eerie.

"That should be it." Baltimore nodded.

Magdeburg also rolled down the car window, exhaled a breath of hot air, and said with emotion, "To be able to live alone in such a cold place, he really deserves to be a magician."

"Now you don't call him a perverted murderer anymore?" Huang Chen asked with a smile.

Magdeburg grinned, rolled up the window and said nothing.

Huang Chen smiled and planned to continue looking for Langstad and the others.

It was known that there was a problem with their car. According to Belarus and her friends, three cars were driven out when they left.

Of course, three small cars are not enough to bring Louis IX and the others back. I guess the convoy should have some more people, but I don’t know how many there are.

All in all, it should be a pretty large convoy.

There was a problem with one of the cars, maybe one or two.

So now they should be somewhere near a shop that can repair cars.

With this as a clue, Huang Chen drove around the town and stopped at every car repair shop to ask, but he found nothing.

Finally, he asked passers-by directly about the news of a large number of ship girls, but still got no news at all.

"Damn it, I guessed wrong."

Outside the town, on a small road, Huang Chen said with a little embarrassment.

I thought it would be easy to get her after arriving at the town, but the end result was that the girl had never been to this town.

Whether asking passers-by or shop owners, no one has heard of any ship girls coming today.

"Let's find a place to stay for the night. We'll go look for it in the city tomorrow. If we can't find it, we'll go back."

"It's okay, just think of it as a trip." Baltimore was quite open-minded, leaning back in the passenger seat looking a little lazy.

The girl is extremely capable most of the time, and this lazy look actually creates a subtle contrast.

Huang Chen smiled and wanted to say something, but he heard Magdeburg's carefree voice again, "Why don't we go find a magician? It's okay anyway."