Azur Lane: I Crossed the Graduation Port Area

Chapter 1262: Undersea Walk with Long Wu
He looked at the time on the way here with Long Wu. It was already around ten o'clock in the evening.

After realizing this, he smiled and said to the tall, red-haired Suzaku demon:

“It’s a bit late now, so they take a rest first.

"It's rare that you are willing to wait here, so let's go out for a walk. You don't have to bother with the pick-up, and you can rest early later."

Hearing him say this, Ji Ju looked at Long Wu who was being led by him a few more times.

"Well, I won't disturb the commander's pleasure.

"This Dragon Palace is not as prosperous as the human cities, so Commander, you can bring this token and enter and exit the formation outside the Dragon Palace at will without being affected by the turbulent ocean currents."

Ji Ju respectfully handed him a dark blue token with a dragon pattern.

Lin Lan had seen this Hong Lan Ling in Harbin. He smiled and shook his head at Ji Ju:

"We don't need this item when we enter and exit the formation. Speaking of which, I have to return this to you."

As he spoke, he took out the frozen sapling of the Fire God Tree from the Sumeru Ring.

And when he saw the deep red sapling sealed by ice crystals appear before his eyes, Ji Ju knelt on the ground without hesitation, his flaming eyes filled with endless excitement, his whole body trembling, and he couldn't utter a word for a long time.

"Well, I promised to rebuild the sacred tree for your clan. I didn't break my promise, did I?"

Lin Lan's chuckled words finally brought Ji Ju back to his senses. He kowtowed three times to him and Long Wu in a very solemn manner.

When the big demon raised his head, there were traces of tears on his face.

"Commander, I don't know how I and the Suzaku Clan can ever repay you for rebuilding our clan's lifeline!"

Seeing that the surrounding Dragon Palace Siren guards were looking at them in surprise, Lin Lan and Long Wu hurriedly helped Ji Ju up from the ground.

"No need to be so polite, it's just a small favor, nothing to worry about."

After Lin Lan finished speaking to Ji Ju, he added:

"This ice crystal won't be able to suppress the Lihuo Sacred Tree for long. You'd better keep it safe to prevent the Lihuo from leaking out and affecting the Dragon Palace's formation."

"Uh-huh!"

After Ji Ju's initial excitement, he was reminded by his words and quickly raised his hands to form seals, controlling his innate flame technique to wrap the ice crystals outside the Fire God Tree.

As the ice crystals melted before his and Long Wu's eyes, the sapling of the Fire God Tree gradually turned into a shadow and disappeared, as if it had been absorbed by Ji Ju.

"I will use the clan's secret method to take care of the sacred tree. The Suzaku clan will never forget this kindness."

After doing all this, Ji Ju wanted to salute him and Long Wu again, but was stopped by him in the end.

"Alright, alright, it's getting awkward to be so polite. You know my personality. I should have stopped you from kowtowing just now."

After Lin Lan finished joking, he saw that Ji Ju finally remembered that he smashed the seal of the king in front of the human and monster tribes of Nanzhou on the bank of Duanzhou River, so he smiled and said goodbye to him.

He picked up Long Wu, who was still somewhat dazed, and carried him like a princess, then mobilized the power of elements and flew out of the Dragon Palace.

Ji Ju stood there for a long time as he watched the two people gradually disappear from his sight.

"Sister, stop looking. There is no hope for you and the commander."

After an unknown amount of time, Ji Rong's groaning voice was heard, and Ji Ju realized that her brother had come to her side without her noticing.

"The commander is a great hero. If we want to repay his kindness, what we can do is to help the clan recover as soon as possible and always lend a helping hand to the commander whenever he needs it."

Ji Rong looked in the direction where Lin Lan left and said in a firm tone.

This also made Ji Ju seem to have found the direction of his future struggle again, and a smile appeared on his face again.

"I didn't realize, Rong'er, that during the time that my cultivation level regressed, your character has grown to this extent."

Although she is his younger sister, Ji Rong seems to have long been accustomed to this elder sister-like tone.

"After meeting the Commander, I finally understood what a true hero is and what it means to take it as one's duty to liberate the people of the world."

……

Lin Lan, who had already left the Dragon Palace, had no idea that the Suzaku clan's young patriarch and his sister had reached the point of blindly worshipping him.

Of course, even if he knew, he would just laugh it off.

"Although I know the Commander can fly, it still feels so magical."

Long Wu nestled in his arms. The girl looked at the schools of fish swimming around and the outer buildings of the Dragon Palace below, and said to him in a gentle tone. "I never thought that I would be like this one day, but it's not bad anyway."

After just a few words, Lin Lan carried Long Wu down and arrived at the beach outside the Dragon Palace.

He didn't know if it was his illusion, but he felt that the light around him was much dimmer than when they came.

But this also caused many nocturnal animals to appear on the beach.

The most popular among them are the small crabs that emit a light purple light.

In this dark blue environment, the small crabs that usually hide in the beach sand crawled out, as gorgeous as stars sprinkled on a plate.

"Wow! Commander, look, it's so beautiful!"

Not to mention that Lin Lan was shocked by this beautiful scene, Long Wu, who stepped on the ground from his arms, ran towards the crabs excitedly.

Startled by Little Dragon Lady's footsteps, the crabs scattered one after another, and Lin Lan watched Long Wu chasing the crabs with a smile.

"Don't run too far. I don't know if there will be any large monsters coming out on this beach at night."

"I will protect the commander~"

Long Wu excitedly gave him a bright smile and raised his hands to make a cute muscle-flexing gesture.

Although the petite girl's lively words seemed unconvincing, Lin Lan knew that Long Wu was still a destroyer girl and her firepower was definitely not to be underestimated.

If some short-sighted monster really came out to attack them, they would be in real trouble.

However, in order not to disturb his date with Long Wu, he transformed his ultimate power into spiritual awareness and spread it out, shocking the predatory monsters hiding in the sand on the seabed so that they dared not move.

He gained this ability after the invisible breath merged with his torso and he mastered the vast world origin within the Natlan veins.

Just like the radar systems of the ship girls, by releasing his spiritual sense, he can completely grasp all the movements around him, and pass on messages and deterrence to spiritual targets like an Extreme Man.

If it were the old him, he would have been ecstatic to obtain these abilities like those of immortal cultivators.

But now he not only has commander's equipment, brave skill bar and invisible breath ability, but also has the ship girls accompanying him at all times.

Therefore, among these newly acquired abilities, except for using spiritual sense to release precise pressure to disperse those who get in the way, the others are too useless to him.

As for using extreme strength to practice and comprehend the Natlan technique, there is no need for that.

The skills in the hero's skill column are enough to last a lifetime.

"Commander, look at that reef over there. It's glowing! Uwaa ...

"That's a monster, hahaha."

"Hmm~ Hey, Commander, let me pick up some shells and make a necklace for you."

Holding Long Wu's hand and walking on this dreamy underwater beach, Lin Lan looked at the little dragon girl who was as active as a curious baby, and the smile on her face never disappeared.

At this time, Long Wu had finally completely let go of the burden of worrying about the trivial matters of the camp in his daily life, and completely revealed his innocent heart in front of him.

Seeing Long Wu lowering his head and carefully picking out the luminous shells left on the beach for him, he couldn't help but smile and said:

"The way you look for shells reminds me of the time when I gave you this outfit and we cleaned up marine debris around the port area together."

"Ah, Commander, you still remember."

When he mentioned the past, Long Wu raised his head and looked at him, with a happy smile of memories on his face:

“In the past, I was always busy in the kitchen in the port area, doing nothing but cooking.

“If the commander hadn’t invited me, I don’t know how long I would have to wait to see so many beautiful moments.

"It's the same even now."

Long Wu's tone became gentler, and he looked at him tenderly with loving eyes:
"Commander, you are the most important thing to me. As long as Long Wu can stay by your side, he will always take good care of you."

The girl gently stroked the ring on her left ring finger, closed her eyes and stood on tiptoe, as if waiting for something.

Lin Lan knew what Long Wu was thinking. He smiled and bent down on one knee.

So on this quiet and gorgeous underwater beach, the two lovers kissed each other tightly.

It seemed as if even time had stopped at this moment.

(End of this chapter)