Azur Lane: I Crossed the Graduation Port Area

Chapter 1339 Aurora tells a story (2800 words)
"The fleet alert system is operating normally, the drone is operating normally, and it will take another 5 hours to arrive at the coordinates."

Following Miss D's report, Lin Lan looked at the map displayed on the screen and signaled to the girls in the command room of the floating battleship that they could go to the lounge with him first.

After all, with Miss D from the Arbitration Agency staying here to serve as the fleet's command AI system, they don't have to worry about being ambushed.

Three floating battleships, four cruiser strike frigates, seven destroyer frigates, and four field repair ships.

These were all the Council's airships he could use in this battle.

As mass-produced models, although the firepower of these floating warships cannot match that of his ship girls, they can serve as excellent armed means of transportation and air combat platforms.

"I never thought that my first combat experience aboard a floating battleship would be in Natlan."

Although the interior lounge of the large battleship is dominated by the simple style of the White Eagle, it is spacious and functional enough.

After Lin Lan walked into the lounge, he looked at the projection of the outside world's ice sea connected to the projection screen and couldn't help but sigh.

The Donghuang and Beilian ship girls also began to look around the lounge curiously.

Fushun and Changchun, in particular, are just like Langyue Creek, touching and looking here and there, constantly exclaiming, just like "Grandma Liu visiting the Grand View Garden".

After all, before today, they had never actually entered the interior of a floating battleship.

Except for Princeton Meta, Lingmin and Nasimov who already knew the internal structure, this batch of floating fleet was originally expected to be officially launched a week later.

To be honest, if Lin Lan hadn't trusted the industrial technology of his Northern Alliance Ship Girl, he wouldn't have pulled out these floating warships and put them into actual combat without testing their performance.

"Comrade Commander, why don't you take this opportunity to share with Comrade Nakhimov the data of the floating battleship and how to fight against Category V threats."

The Soviet Alliance holding the Ice Crystal Scepter heard his sigh and made a suggestion.

Lin Lan nodded. This was what he was planning to do.

Due to the hasty departure, he had not yet shared a lot of experience on how to fight Category V threats and the data of the air fleet with the ship girls.

So he explained in detail to the Northern Alliance ship girls the nature of the Type V threat and how to kill it efficiently, and asked Princeton meta, Mercury Memorial meta, Harbin and Anshan to share their combat methods.

At the same time, he also asked Nasimov and Lingmin to summarize the performance data of these new floating battleships and compile easy-to-understand instructions for use to distribute to everyone.

Time flies by so quickly.

Fortunately, the learning and comprehension abilities of the ship girls are far beyond those of ordinary people.

With their efforts, it only took more than three hours for all the ship girls in the lounge to master this new knowledge.

There was still more than an hour left to the polar base, so Lin Lan suggested that everyone go to the restaurant to have breakfast first.

At this time, the compressed biscuits and canned food stored in the ships of Changchun and Taiyuan in the Donghuang temporary port also came in handy and became breakfast for everyone.

While eating, Lin Lan also observed the girls' moods.

Although there will definitely be a severe battle ahead.

But as long as they are by his side, his ship girls always seem to be full of confidence and high morale, talking and laughing, and they are no different from their usual attacks.

Even the weak-willed destroyer girl Kiev, after noticing that he had seen her, gave him a sweet, healing smile.

As explorers and breaker Antiks, their combat effectiveness will not be affected by pressure under any circumstances.

But when he looked at Bai Qixue, he noticed that this transformed little white tiger, who was always very active in eating, was in a negative mood and absent-minded.

No matter how Lang Yuexi, who was sitting next to Bai Qixue, tried to comfort her, Bai Qixue was still not interested.

He captured this scene and realized something.

After swallowing the compressed biscuits with the canned orange soup, he stood up and walked to Aurora. After giving her a few words of instruction, he and Aurora came to Bai Qixue.

Without saying anything more, he nodded to Lang Yuexi, and the girl in the realm of asking for the way took the initiative to make way for them.

He and Aurora sat next to Bai Qixue. Looking at the depressed little Lolita, he asked gently:

"What's wrong, Xuexue? It's rare to see you showing no interest in eating. Are you afraid of the upcoming battle?"

"No, no..."

The little white-haired girl shook her head, raised her head and looked at him, and said softly: "Xuexue is not afraid of fighting, nor is she afraid of the Class V threat mentioned by the commander."

Aurora smiled gently, looked at Bai Qixue and spoke softly:
"Comrade Commander, you are joking. If we are not mistaken, you are probably worried about the safety of your biological parents and tribe members, right?"

When Aurora said the word "tribe members", Lin Lan, who raised his hand to touch Bai Qixue's head, clearly felt the body of the transformed little white tiger tremble.

However, Bai Qixue did not answer directly, but lowered her head deeply.

Lin Lan and Aurora looked at each other and both showed an expression of "as expected".

Just as he guessed.

Although Bai Qixue knew that his parents did not deliberately abandon him in Nanzhou, after learning from his transformation, he became dissatisfied with the harsh clan rules passed down by the White Tiger Clan since ancient times.

This made Bai Qixue have complicated feelings towards her own people, so much so that she didn't know how to reunite with her parents and tribesmen.

Even if he became the first white tiger demon in Natlan to complete his transformation without receiving innate inheritance, his bloodline was tempered to the extreme by elixirs and mind cubes, and he also had a ship outfit that was more powerful than a Nascent Soul strongman's full-strength attack...

But in Bai Qixue's own eyes, she is still an "outsider" who has been abandoned by the clan and is not recognized.

It is also for this reason that Bai Qixue is worried about the safety of her clansmen and parents, and is afraid to meet them.

"Xuexue, do you know how the Northern Alliance was established?"

Just when Lin Lan was thinking about how to help Bai Qixue get over her emotional knot, Aurora suddenly spoke in a gentle voice.

Seeing that Bai Qixue did not answer, Aurora took off her cotton hat and continued to narrate:
“In the land of Rossiya, the former empire established countless corrupt and absurd rules to exploit and enslave thousands of suffering people.

“These people have been nailed to their social class since birth, and no matter how hard they try, they cannot obtain the human rights and freedoms they deserve.

“The scariest thing is that once this stereotype is ingrained in people’s minds, they will think that this is what they deserve.

“Giving up resistance and accepting their fate, generations of victims, even when they were taken to the battlefield to die, still did not dare to fight against the system and rules with weapons in hand.”

Bai Qixue slowly raised her head and looked at Aurora, as if she was drawn into the story Aurora told.

“But in fact, these so-called systems and rules are nothing more than chains and shackles created by the emperor and nobles of the empire for power.

"Countless oppressed people united together, twisted what was scattered into a rope, and launched a massive war against the Rossiya Empire.

"And when the capital is captured, the empire is overthrown, the emperor and the nobles are put on trial, and a new just order will be rewritten by the victorious sufferers."

Aurora was obviously a beautiful girl, but at this moment her tone was like that of an old man reminiscing about his glorious past, which made Lin Lan feel a little moved.

During this period of time, he almost forgot that Aurora was the ship girl who used her main gun to open the prelude to the great era of the Northern Union.

When Aurora said this, she stretched out her hand and gently pinched Bai Qixue's cheek, who was already stunned, and finally said with a smile:
“So comrades, when faced with irrational rules and systems that are corrupt and vulnerable, do not be afraid or confused, and do not feel inferior or accept it.

“When you have the courage to look directly at them and have the strong conviction to overturn and rewrite them, these rotten rules and systems will sooner or later be swept into the dustbin of history.

"As for the indestructible power brought by unity and friendship..."

Aurora looked at Lin Lan, and then at the other ship girls who all cast concerned glances at her when they heard her story. A sweet smile appeared on the girl's face:

"You already have it, comrade."

As Aurora's story ended, Bai Qixue took a deep breath, clenched her fists, and a look of determination and relief appeared on her little face.

"Thank you, Sister Aurora... and thank you, Commander."

The little white tiger thanked Aurora very solemnly, then turned his head to look at Lin Lan and thanked her in the same solemn manner:

“Xuexue already knows what to do.

"Among the five major demon clans, only the White Tiger Clan has such unreasonable clan rules, so clan rules are not important. What is important is that Xuexue wants to let the clan members know that this clan rule should be abolished.

"Xue Xue cannot let the tragedy that happened to her happen again in the tribe. Xue Xue wants to prove to all the tribe members that even without the innate inheritance, Xue Xue can still become a great demon."

Seeing Bai Qixue speaking these words to him in a sonorous tone, Lin Lan nodded with satisfaction and smiled:

"I feel relieved to see that you can come out. I will go to meet your people and parents in person when the time comes."

(End of this chapter)