Azur Lane: I Crossed the Graduation Port Area

Chapter 1282: The Reversed Mode of the Arbitration Authority
Mercury Memorial meta and Miss D boarded the deck. Under the urging of Mercury Memorial meta, Lin Lan chose to let Miss D control the flying spirit tool to take off first.

Watching the Donghuang temporary port area shrouded in the morning sun gradually disappear from his sight, he turned around and continued to discuss the previous topic with the girls.

"Well, you don't have to worry too much."

Mercury Memorial Meta was sitting at the dining table on the deck, enjoying the large black bread that Xiong Meng handed to him.

With a relaxed smile on his face, he comforted him and said:
“Although the source of bad omen was not completely destroyed by you, your ability to rescue Richard has definitely dealt a heavy blow to the source of bad omen.

"If the previous omen was considered a terminal threat, then the current omen is probably even less threatening than the source of pollution you eliminated in Nanzhou - corruption."

Seeing that Mercury Memorial Meta was so calm, Lin Lan breathed a sigh of relief.

It seems that although the source of bad omen has not been completely eliminated, it has become a Class V threat pollution source in the initial stage after losing its strongest host Richard.

But despite this, he still felt a little uneasy.

You know, the source of bad omen is the greatest Category V threat to the ship girls he knows of so far.

Whether it is the nightmare fleet composed of nightmare crystals and nightmare silhouettes, or the pollution field that suppresses the combat effectiveness of the ship girls, or the spiritual erosion of the mind.

The four major camps reunited at the home port have already cooperated with the experimental and arbitration agencies.

However, Iris, Sardinia, and the Northern Alliance ship girls who have not yet reunited with him are potential risks.

He thought the bad omen had been completely eliminated, but who knew that this thing could still play in the resurrection match.

"So, Sister Mercury Memorial Meta, Miss D, do you know the whereabouts of other hosts of the Source of Nightmares?"

The one who asked this question on his behalf was Anshan. The blue-haired guide girl of the Anshan-class lead ship had a serious expression on her face and had already entered working mode.

"I'm sorry, but I don't have any clues."

Mercury Memorial Meta finished eating the black bread, took a sip of black coffee, and smiled brightly:

“But as the God of Death of the Arbitration Agency, I think she must know something.

"After all, the source of bad omen first appeared in the original world, which is what they call Experimental Field α~"

Hearing this, Lin Lan and the girls all looked at Miss D, who had been silent since boarding the ship and seemed to be worried about something.

"There must be something fishy going on when things are out of the ordinary. According to the judgment of our great detective, could it be that the other host of the source of the bad omen comes from your arbitration agency?"

Fushun was just joking to liven up the atmosphere, but as she finished her words, Miss D's face became uglier.

"Ah, I'm just saying, don't make that expression!"

Fushun saw that the atmosphere was becoming increasingly strange, and he shrank his head guiltily.

But Miss D sighed deeply, and finally spoke quietly:
"In fact, Fushun, you are right. The other host of the source of bad omen is a member of the arbitration agency."

After saying this, Miss D gnashed her teeth and looked at the smirking Mercury Memorial Meta angrily and said:

"Why are you pretending to be so ignorant? The action plan you came up with during your previous period of madness was not without her help. Do you really want me to tell you about it?"

After hearing what Miss D said, Lin Lan already knew who the arbitrator who became the host of the bad omen was.

"Herophant, right."

When he said this name, all the Donghuang and Beilian ship girls on the deck, except Bai Qixue, Lang Yuexi and the good man Richard, showed expressions of sudden enlightenment.

"Commander, are you talking about the 'god' that Marco Polo summoned using the Land of Gods at the Sardinia Expo?"

Harbin recalled the incident and Lin Lan nodded and looked at Miss D:

“I remember that Dr. Anjie once thought of letting Helophent communicate with X.

"At that time, we didn't know the difference between X and Category V threat pollution sources, and after Richard was controlled, Helophant also tried to save Richard as soon as possible. "So, if the source of bad omen has another host, the most likely one is Helophant."

After finishing his inference in a calm tone, Lin Lan noticed that the good man Richard lowered his head with great guilt.

So he stood up and gently held the aircraft carrier girl in his arms.

"I'm sorry, teacher, I..."

"This is not your problem, so you don't need to blame yourself. It's all in the past."

He gently comforted Richard for a long time before the aircraft carrier girl finally recovered her composure.

And Miss D finally admitted his speculation:

“Assistant, it seems that you have entered the world of Laplace’s demon many times and have indeed recalled a lot of things.

“The host had actually discovered Helofen’s abnormal condition a long time ago, but Helofen… was, after all, the first arbitrator born in the Arbitration Agency.

"The host used the Herophant data tower as an observation object, allowing Anticus to quickly grasp the essence of the Class V threat pollution source after the destruction of the original world, and based on this, developed a new generation of Arbiter's magic cube weapon system."

After Miss D finished speaking, Mercury Memorial smacked his lips and murmured:
"Aren't you Sirens raising poisonous insects? If the source of bad omen can invade your network system, then everything will be over, right?"

"No, the host developed a reverse mode for the Arbiter based on Helophont."

Miss D did not hold back at all and immediately answered Mercury's question in a serious tone:
“Just like the tarot cards have upright and reversed positions, we who use the tarot cards as models can also switch to reversed mode.

“When in reverse mode, our weapon systems and ship equipment can switch to the Meta Cube as the core energy source, which greatly improves all-round performance, but the cost is that the core data tower is more susceptible to erosion by pollution sources.

"The main responsibility of the Death Bridge switch is to monitor whether the core data tower of each arbitrator is contaminated.

"Once an anomaly is discovered, I will forcibly initiate a conceptual cut with the help of the whale and remove the polluted data from the core data tower of the Anomaly Arbitrator."

After listening to Miss D's explanation, Lin Lan finally understood why Miss D represented the god of death in the Tarot cards.

And he finally understood why in the game's plot, Helophon and Dibel would try every means to have Miss D's "power" of death taken away by their own agent, the Shadow of Death.

As long as Miss D is without the whale and her power is completely controlled by the Shadow of Death, they will be in reverse mode permanently.

It was not difficult for him to understand why Helophon would do this. The "Pope" had already been controlled by the source of bad omen in the original world.

As for Dibel...

Lin Lan thought of the crisis that the little devil girl had caused in Liaozhou, and sighed with a wry smile.

In order to be able to ascend to the Blue Star to see him, Dibelu really took great pains.

"So Miss D, do you remember where she was the last time you used the Bridge of Death to monitor Helophon?"

After he sorted out his thoughts, he asked Miss D.

If Helophon is not in this different world, then they will have no way to deal with him in a short period of time.

But in this way, his ship girls will also be relatively safe.

If Herophant came into this world when good man Richard came, it would be a big problem.

"Herofente... According to the coordinates I recorded before entering this world, she has actually entered this experimental world a long time ago and has been in the SN area."

But Miss D still sighed and told him the answer he least wanted to hear.

Helophon is in the teaching country of Saint Lothalon.

(End of this chapter)