Azur Lane: I Crossed the Graduation Port Area

Chapter 1366: Donghuang Beilian Chapter Finale For the Future of Our Ship Girls (3400 words)
"I'm sorry, TB."

It was not until then that Lin Lan finally turned around, looking at the Antiks host that finally stopped hiding from him with eyes full of tenderness and reluctance.

"You've done enough for me, so please take good care of Anticus and everyone in the harbor for me from now on."

After saying that, Lin Lan wanted to reach out and touch TB's head, but just like Miss D wanted to touch him just now, he was completely unable to touch the daughter he had raised countless times in the virtual town.

It was just like he could only act as a high-dimensional witness in his dreams, but could never touch any life.

"So when the Rubik's Cube reaches its extreme adaptability, it will become like this.

"Upgrading dimension...I see."

Lin Lan had never felt his thoughts so clear before, and as an observer, he understood everything.

He looked at the little sword spirit who still had a panicked expression, and said apologetically:

"The so-called hero summoning ceremony is actually you setting up a soul anchor point for me when I died suddenly on Blue Star, allowing me to directly come to this different world as a 'hero'.

"But unlike Lu Yan, I have another identity, that is, the commander of the ship girls and the last recorder of the original world.

"I'm sorry, but I can no longer exist as a 'hero'."

He paused, and continued to talk to himself:
"I have become the concept of Rubik's Cube Energy itself. From now on, as long as Rubik's Cube Energy exists, I... will be immortal.

“But before I become a high-dimensional observer, I still have many, many things to do.

"For the future of my ship girls, I need to keep my consciousness alive for a little while longer."

Lin Lan knew that it would not be long before he could even retain his consciousness and become a true high-dimensional observer like in a dream.

So he moved his mind, and his figure came to the front of Donghuang, Beilian, and Akashi who came with him in the snow below, as well as the ship girls he had just built.

He forced himself not to look back at his beloved ship girls, but instead looked at the three nearly disappeared Type V threat pollution sources in front of him.

“I don’t want you to never be able to enter this other world again.

"I will eliminate all Category V threats from any dimension, any time, and any world."

Accompanied by a judgment-like declaration from his mouth.

A dual-color light ball, a mixture of the golden color of mind awakening and the blue color of magic cube energy, emanated from the fingertips of his right hand and struck into the body of a Class V threat pollution source.

In an instant, the body of the Type V threat pollution source that he touched began to become increasingly transparent.

This is not the only Category V threat pollution source.

Along with all the nightmare fleets and the X incarnations that were eroded and controlled by the Class V threat, all the Class V threat pollution sources in this world began to become increasingly transparent.

And this force is not even affected by the world wall, all the way to the highest sky, covering the subspace of the alien world and tens of thousands of other experimental field worlds where time is also solidified.

Category V threat pollution sources can use the changed world slices to cover the original world for invasion. As a high-dimensional observer, if he wants to do this...

Not difficult.

"I should take advantage of this precious time to say goodbye to my ship girls one by one."

Lin Lan did not stay any longer, but finally turned around and deeply imprinted in his heart the appearance of the ship girls who came to the polar regions with him, fought alongside him, and loved him forever.

The next second, his figure flashed again with his thoughts and appeared in the Beilian temporary port area.

But after his figure disappeared from the polar ice field, a crystal clear tear rolled down the motionless face of Mercury Memorial Meta.

At the temporary base of the Northern Alliance, he met Soviet Belarus and Kirov and others who stayed there one by one.

Then he came to the Donghuang ship girls on the sea.

Just looking at Kimberly meta, whose body was covered with black meta particles due to excessive metamorphosis, his heart felt like it was being cut by a knife.

"Thank you for your hard work, Kimberly meta... I won't let you turn into a monster."

He raised his hand, and all the black meta particles around Kimberly meta were instantly sucked into his body.

When time is restored, the meta of Kimberly can be restored to its lowest level.

He said his reluctant goodbyes to the Donghuang ship girls who were originally going to Beizhou to join him one by one, and was about to go to the next location...

"Don't go, Commander."

Suddenly, Kimberly meta seemed to break the stopped time, and the crying voice of a girl came from behind him.

"I won't leave. I...will always be by your side."

Tears rolled down his eyes, but Lin Lan knew that he couldn't turn back.

Because he was afraid that if he turned back, all his previous efforts would be wasted and his ship girls would be put in danger again.

And he didn't deceive Kimberly meta.

His concept as a Rubik's Cube will always be with his ship girls.

This way, his fellow ship girls won't be unable to accept his departure and fall into meta-ness.

Lin Lan’s next transfer location is the floating fleet coming to Natlan from the home port.

Looking at the familiar faces of the Iron Blood, White Eagle, Royal and Sakura fleets maintaining a fighting stance on the sea, as well as the three arbitrators and the agent fleet, he couldn't help biting his lower lip.

This place is less than one-third of the distance to Natlan.

In order to meet him as soon as possible, Antiks and his fellow ship girls turned the originally planned one-year battle process into several months.

And he also saw Helena meta and Qifeng meta in the floating fleet.

Just like Kimberly's meta, the two extremely meta-classified meta ship girls still seemed to be able to vaguely break through the time pause and sense his arrival.

After Lin Lan curbed the degree of meta for Qifeng meta and Helena meta, he came to his most familiar home port again, although he was reluctant to leave. He met with the ship girls who stayed in the home port, Ariel, Shattered Sky and Dailan, and said goodbye to the three old friends, Purifier, Clearer and Tester. He saw the son of God Nagato, Lu Ling, Shen Lianying and Shen Lianyou under the heavy Sakura Great Sacred Tree.

At this time, Lu Li had already woken up.

His childhood friend in Blue Star no longer had short hair as it used to, but now had waist-length hair.

Lu Ling, wearing Liaozhou costume, together with Shen Lianying and Shen Lianyou, seemed to be kneeling and praying in front of the shrine of the Great Sacred Tree with Nagato.

As for the object of prayer...who else could it be other than him?
Lin Lan looked at Lu Ling's face, which was somewhat androgynous when she was a child, but now looked more sexy and mature, and couldn't help but sigh.

"Come to think of it, if my hero power is gone, wouldn't you become a hero again?"

He finished talking to himself, and then said with a tone of reluctance and regret:
"Now that I think about it, after you traveled through time, you had many opportunities to marry and have children with someone from Liaozhou, but you remained unmarried from beginning to end...

"Your feelings...I seem to understand them a little too late."

After saying that, he looked at the two Yinglong sisters, Shen Lianying and Shen Lianyou.

Especially Shen Lianyou who has only one wing. As a high-dimensional observer, he can clearly feel that Shen Lianyou's soul is exactly a one-winged Yinglong.

It is exactly the same as the body of the Natlan Goddess.

“I don’t know whether the little sword spirit really doesn’t know or is pretending not to know.

"My most valued companions have all completed reincarnation in Liaozhou... Alas."

He left these words lightly, and finally leaned down and hugged the cute fox girl Nagato's petite body in his arms.

Feeling the faint meta aura within Nagato's body, he absorbed the meta energy without hesitation.

"It's better not to use such dangerous power again."

Noticing that his figure was becoming increasingly transparent like those Category V threats, Lin Lan knew that he didn't have much time left.

He reluctantly let go of Nagato and finally looked in the direction of the Teaching Country.

"The Category V threat no longer exists, and the crisis in Iris and Sardinia has been completely resolved.

"Herofente and Marco Polo... should also be back to normal and out of danger."

Lin Lan really wanted to go and see Iris and the Sardinia ship girls, whom he had not been able to reunite with since he traveled through time.

But he knew that the time left was too short for him to say goodbye to Iris, the Sardinian ship girls, and the observers and builders.

Because before his consciousness completely dissipated, he had one last thing to do, and it was also the most important thing.

As he closed his eyes, the next second, he was standing in a luxurious room full of medieval European style.

In the room, there was a strange blonde girl in a white gauze dress sitting on a chair, looking at a chessboard covered with blue paper-cuts in front of her with a sad face.

"I have received your blessing in Oran, so I will say goodbye to this world here."

Lin Lan knew clearly that the girl in front of him whose time had also been stopped was the goddess of the Church of Light of Saint Lothalon.

He strode up to the goddess whose face was filled with sorrow, and put away the chess pieces on the chessboard covered with dark blue paper-cuts, which looked like the chess pieces representing the chaotic fights between different races in a board game.

Then, with the help of his understanding of the interactions between various civilized races, he put the chess pieces back in order in just a few seconds.

As for the dark blue paper-cuts outside the chessboard on the table that seemed to represent something and were staring at him eagerly, he simply raised his hand and erased them out of thin air.

"X, I really can't erase you."

As he did all this, his eyes flashed with coldness and determination.

And his figure finally completely disappeared in this strange world, as if he had never existed.

In contrast, he returned to the bodiless high-dimensional perspective state in his dream.

Looking at the millions of star civilizations all under his observation, Lin Lan understood why the source of pollution in Natlan was so afraid of him.

The reason is simple. The Category V threat pollution source that possesses the ability to modify time is the incarnation of the civilization that attempted to control time and which he personally buried.

At this moment, he saw X's blue army, illuminated by a blue beam of light, rushing towards that strange world like a tide.

Empres led the fleets commanded by all the Arbiters, as well as the Enterprise meta and the Yorktown meta that was not implemented in the game, and fought fiercely with X in various ways to stop X.

No wonder the Anticus network has never been repaired.

Where he couldn't see, Anticus and the meta ship girls were protecting him in their own way.

"Because your existence represents the foundation for maintaining the existence of this dimension.

"However, this does not mean that you can think you are in control of everything."

When his will landed, the endless blue ocean of the attached area suddenly dried up.

Countless mimic beasts and mimic objects, as if receiving some kind of command, began to bite and kill each other, and began to consume themselves madly.

"In this way, X will no longer be a threat to my ship girls."

If he could make a sound, Lin Lan felt that his voice would be full of relief.

He is indeed a high-dimensional observer, but he interferes with reality in this way, and even changes the cognition of X, who also has a high-dimensional will.

But he was more aware that as a commander, he had paved the way for the future for his ship girls, allowing them to return to a relaxed daily life just like in the game.

It's time to get some sleep and have a good rest.

As a scarlet light flashed across his sight, his consciousness slowly disintegrated.

And the time that had been stopped finally began to flow.

(End of this chapter)