Azur Lane: I Crossed the Graduation Port Area

Chapter 1125: My mother-in-law asked me to help her in the resurrection match (3000 words)
"Tick...tick..."

Lin Lan was in a trance, vaguely feeling the cool dew with the breath of morning light dripping on his face.

The clear chirping of birds and the gurgling sound of the stream echoed in his ears. The breeze gently blew on his face, bringing the fragrant scent of flowers to his nostrils.

"I am..."

He slowly opened his eyes, and what he saw was not the familiar ceiling of the Shenxingzhou room.

Instead, it was a deep blue sky that seemed to be at dawn.

Sitting up from the green shade covered with white flowers, he began to look around.

The tranquil and peaceful scenery that made people feel relaxed and happy proved that this was not the X-attachment area where his consciousness was previously immersed.

"Dream?"

Lin Lan stood up and found that he was wearing a white commander's uniform.

He vaguely guessed something and reached into his pocket.

Sure enough, the metallic texture of the reality lens came from my fingertips.

Since there was only the reality lens in his pocket, there was no doubt that this was the dream he hadn't had for a long, long time.

"I can't remember how long it's been since I last had a dream."

While sighing, Lin Lan walked to the stream not far away and scooped up a handful of clear stream water to splash on his face.

The refreshed feeling made his mind work quickly, and he soon figured out why he was dreaming again.

“It seems that after X took me to the attachment area last time to awaken my memory, the memory fragments that prevented me from dreaming also disappeared.

After making sure he was not in danger, he began to focus on his surroundings.

At the same time, he began to walk aimlessly along the stream.

"This shouldn't be the environment I remember. Could it be somewhere in the original world?"

"No, assistant, this is the resting place of the dead. Welcome to the kingdom of death."

Just as he was admiring the beautiful scenery here and wondering to himself where this dream came from, a sinister female voice sounded faintly from behind him.

This eerie voice came almost right next to his ear from behind him, causing his hair to stand on end instantly, and he jumped three feet high on the spot.

"Oh my god, what the hell?!"

However, the person who came quietly behind him made a more panicked sound than him:

"Calm down! Assistant, don't move too much, or you'll wake up from your dream!"

"Who do you think scared me into moving so much?!"

When Lin Lan turned around angrily and saw the appearance of the person who came, he gasped and the expression on his face suddenly froze.

He didn't know when a short woman appeared behind him. She was wearing a black vest, beige cropped pants, and a wrinkled white coat casually draped over her shoulders.

The other person wore a pair of simple red-framed glasses on his face, and his long side bangs of white and brown were the same length as the side ponytail.

What is most noticeable is the woman's dark circles and the different styles of slippers on each foot that seem to be worn incorrectly.

If he didn't know the other person's identity, he would just think that she was just a nerd cosplaying as a scientific researcher.

But it's not a coincidence.

Perhaps no one in the world could know the identity of the woman in front of him with a smile of success on her face better than he did.

"An-Angie?!"

With a trembling voice and an expression as if he had seen a ghost, he called out the other person's name in disbelief.

That’s right, the slender woman who suddenly appeared in his dream was the leader of the Oceanic Federation Mind Cube Research Team in the original world, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the initiator of the Glimmer Project, the developer of the Mind Cube, and the creator of the Ship Girls…

Dr. Angie!

"I thought your assistant would call me mother-in-law when he saw me. Is it really okay to call her by her name?"

Hearing him call out her name, Anjie teased him in a teasing tone:
"I never thought that I would invite a wolf into the house by recruiting you into the research and development project team. You have abducted all the ships."

"Cough cough..."

Lin Lan didn't expect that when he met Anjie for the first time, she would actually bring up such a thing, and his face suddenly looked a little embarrassed.

However, facing his mother-in-law, he still said with some guilt:
"Actually, I was talking to Antix today... Well, doesn't that mean Osta is inviting a wolf into the house?"

"what?!"

After a brief moment of stagnation, Anjie's face was instantly filled with an expression of disappointment, and she pointed at his nose and said angrily:

"You, you, you... I knew that when I was put in solitary confinement, Osta would definitely use ANTI-X to lure you to poach my people!

"Assistant, assistant, what did you promise me? How could you fail to withstand the test? You were taken down by Osta's daughters just like that?!"

In response to this, Lin Lan replied somewhat helplessly:
"I can't help it. If you want to blame someone, blame me and Osta for being obsessed with white hair..."

After a brief moment of silence as their eyes met, the two of them could no longer hold back and burst out laughing.

Although Lin Lan still had many doubts in his mind, he always felt an inexplicable sense of relief when talking to Anjie.

This made it difficult for him to bring up serious topics.

But at this moment, Dr. Angel frowned and said to him in a serious tone:
“Anyway, since Osta chose to give you administrator privileges, he must have been mentally prepared.

"But assistant, you must remember that no matter what happens in the future, you must not neglect any ship. Remember?" Hearing Dr. Angel's instructions, Lin Lan restrained his smile and nodded solemnly.

"So……"

Just when he thought that Dr. Angel was going to tell him something very important and then disappear from his dream, he chose to listen carefully.

"Assistant, are you tired of eating potato chips?"

"?"

Lin Lan looked at Anjie who was asking him questions very seriously, with a bewildered look on his face.

"Hey, stop staring blankly, answer me now!"

Being urged by Anjie, he could only answer blankly:
"No, no..."

"What about comics? What about games? How many have you experienced?"

"I……"

Lin Lan was speechless for a moment. He seemed to understand where some of his "bad habits" of the ship girls came from.

Seeing him look embarrassed and hesitant for a long time without being able to respond, Anjie sighed helplessly.

"Assistant, I realized that you were serious about that joke."

This time, Lin Lan finally found an opportunity and asked Anjie:

"Which joke?"

"I have too many ideals for you to handle."

"..."

Hearing Anjie's answer, Lin Lan felt a deep sadness in his heart.

Of course he still remembered that these were Dr. Angel's last words to him during their last conversation in the game plot.

And Anjie didn't say anything else, just stared at him with reluctant eyes.

In the end, it was Lin Lan who took the initiative to break the silence:

"So, you and Osta, you really have..."

This time it was Anjie who interrupted him:
"Assistant, you have looked so grim since just now. You didn't think I was dead, did you?"

There was contempt in his words, and then he took out a small silver metal instrument from his large researcher coat and pressed it.

"Ding……"

A familiar sound of wind chimes floated by, causing Lin Lan's eyes to widen suddenly.

In the game, this wind chime sound will be heard in every plot related to him as the commander, as long as it involves the original world.

"I have confirmed it many times, and the wave records prove that you are no longer a fragment, otherwise I would not have taken the initiative to show up to find you.

"Besides, you should have used the reality lens to see the recording and broadcasting program I left in the cracks of the Anchorage kid's mind cube network, right?"

When Angel mentioned the recording and broadcasting procedure, Lin Lan finally realized what Angel meant by confirming his frequency band.

That was during the warm-up event before the game's directional folding event. With the help of the White Eagle ship girls, he used the original version of the reality lens to enter Anchorage's mind.

In Anbao's mind, before he entered the virtual original world created by Helena meta using Tova's ship suit, he was brought into a strange space by Anbao.

There, he saw the recording program left by Anjie.

It was only because Dibel subsequently invaded using a Category V threat that caused the recording program to self-destruct, so he did not get much valuable intelligence.

In fact, if Angel hadn't mentioned this matter, coupled with the familiar sound of wind chimes, he would have completely forgotten about it.

Seeing Lin Lan's expression of sudden enlightenment, Anjie spread her hands helplessly:
"Osta has chosen to end it all, but the problem is, I'm still waiting for you to help me in the resurrection match!"

"Re-Escalation match?"

Seeing him repeat it in an unbelievable tone, Anjie scratched her cheek awkwardly and avoided his gaze somewhat guiltily:
“Maybe it’s because I did a little experiment on myself with the Rubik’s Cube when I was on the Long Island Line.

“In short, although I am indeed ready to die, you have seen me in this form now.

"Is it a dimensional upgrade? Or becoming a god? Alas, without the equipment to test, I really can't give you a professional answer, assistant. Anyway, I'll leave the resurrection match to you!"

After that, Anjie seemed to realize something and continued to speak to Lin Lan, whose brain was already seriously overloaded:

"And assistant, there are more than one person waiting for you to help in the resurrection match. You can handle it yourself later. Don't take it too seriously. It's good for me to be lazy for a while.

"Anyway, whether it's the kids or ANTI-X, I feel relieved to have you as my assistant, so let me take a little more time off."

"???????"

Before Lin Lan could ask questions with a head full of question marks, the figure of this unreliable "mother-in-law" and the surrounding environment began to slowly dissipate.

It was obvious that he was finally waking up from this bizarre dream.

“Oh, by the way, assistant, next time I will help you connect your dreams with other children who are good at this field.

"Let me see... Phew, is it the legend of the Sakura Empire? Assistant, I suggest you take some supplements after you wake up today..."

What he heard at the last moment of the dream was Anjie's vague reminder while she was holding back her laughter.

(End of this chapter)