Azur Lane: I Crossed the Graduation Port Area

Chapter 1449: The Sampan Beast and the Goddess Church

To be honest, it has been a long time since Lin Lan has been traveling leisurely with the ship girls on the vast ocean.

The climate of the city-state world can be described as very pleasant. To sum it up with the word "harmonious", it is in the subtropical marine climate almost all year round.

As long as there is no extreme weather such as storms, this world almost entirely occupied by oceans is the perfect paradise for ship girls to live in.

While enjoying breakfast with the girls in the flagship's restaurant which was decorated like a bar, Lin Lan also found out why Hemu and Portsmouth kept yawning.

Last night, the two new sailing girls who joined the group made many constructive suggestions on everyone's attire and the style of mass-produced ship modifications.

As experienced treasure hunters, Hemu and Portsmouth are well-informed in the city-state world, and have arranged perfect and suitable identities for each ship girl and the two arbitrators.

For example, his Iris Ship Girls, almost all of them transformed into monks and sea guards of the Goddess Church.

The Sardinian ship girls are merchants traveling between the city-state world and the New World.

In this world of sailing ship girls, pirates are not a shameful identity. On the contrary, they are quite popular and sought after in some city-states.

After all, a sailing ship girl who can call herself a pirate must have extraordinary strength and means.

Big pirates like Royal Fortune, who became famous with the battle of the Fountain of Youth, have become stars in the eyes of the sailing ship girls in various city-states in recent years.

At the same time, during breakfast, Lin Lan also learned a lot of specific information about the city-state world through harmonious explanations with the ship girls.

To be precise, the city-state world is divided into two major regions.

City-states were established on many archipelagos separated by the ocean, a city-state world that worshipped the goddess of the sea, and a new world whose shipping routes were only opened in recent years.

The New World is not an independent world, but an adjective given by the sailing ship girls to the entire uninhabited continent, just like the name of America during the Age of Exploration on the Blue Planet.

According to Portsmouth, the New World has endless treasures and rare resources, but it is also full of dangers.

In addition to the Reverberation Fleet, all kinds of incredible legends surround the New World waters, including strange weather changes, sea monsters in the deep sea, endless herds of sampan skeletons and ghost fleets.

"Come to think of it, I remember Vida and Gary going on adventures and living in the New World Ocean."

While enjoying the egg custard that Xia Fei fed him, Lin Lan listened to the information the two sailing girls said and thought about it.

The last time he came to the city-state world, he and Royal Wealth started from scratch and ventured into the Hurricane Fleet with Saint Martin, Golden Deer, Mary, Vida and Gary.

He vaguely remembered that the sea area where Vida and Gary adventured was already around the New World.

It seems that his sailing ships and ship girls have made an indelible contribution to the various bizarre rumors and stories in the New World.

"We already knew about the Remnant Fleet, but what are the sampan skeleton beasts? Can you tell us more about them?"

Seeing that the two sailing girls were so busy talking that they didn't even eat breakfast, Lin Lan asked Northwest Wind to pour a cup of hot milk for Hemu and Portsmouth.

"Thanks……"

After thanking him and the northwest wind, Hemu drank the milk and explained:

"Speaking of the sampan skeleton beast, we have to talk about the collapse of the goddess statue and the legend of the resurrection of the dead a few days ago." The goddess of the sea has always provided shelter for various city-states.

"For thousands of years, as long as there is a statue of the goddess in the port, various marine threats, even storms, will not disturb the residents."

When the red-haired sailing ship girl said this, Portsmouth also put down his empty cup and continued to speak to Lin Lan and the ship girls in the restaurant who were all listening attentively:

"The sampan skeleton is an undead monster that roams the deep sea, with its body made up of sunken ships. It is hard to see one in many years, and I only occasionally heard bards talk about it in taverns.

"As the goddess statue collapsed for unknown reasons recently, sampan skeletons suddenly began to appear in groups. Some small city-states were even destroyed because of the landing of sampan skeletons!
"Before you arrived, Hemu and I were being chased by a large number of sampan skeletons... Wow, that was the first time we saw so many investigation subjects come to us on their own initiative."

Hearing the account of Portsmouth’s adventure, Lin Lan stroked his chin and frowned slightly.

Not only him, Miss D, Herophant, Memphis meta and Vesta meta also had their pupils shrink as if they heard something unbelievable.

"You mean, before I came, you were being chased by a group of sampan skeleton beasts?"

"That's right, but those monsters seemed to be frightened by the noise you made when you arrived, and they all ran away."

Hemu noticed the change in his tone and said with great certainty.

"It was able to completely evade the Arbitration Agency, the meta radar system, and the invisible breath perception... The origin of this sampan skeleton beast is not simple."

Lin Lan muttered to himself in a low voice, and then thought of the "investigation object" mentioned at the end of Portsmouth Adventure, and asked curiously:
"So what's this investigation you just mentioned? Aren't you treasure hunters?"

"Oh, I forgot to tell you."

Portsmouth took the risk of patting his head, puffing out his chest and laughing:
"Recently, the Goddess Church and various major forces have issued a series of investigation commissions regarding the Undead Fleet - the sampan skeleton herd.

"The power that can revive the dead must be accompanied by unimaginable treasures. Hemu and I planned to go back to the secret base to get supplies in order to investigate this matter, but we didn't expect to be chased and blocked by the subject of our investigation halfway!"

Well, he almost forgot that there really is a church in the city-state world that believes in the goddess of the sea.

With the precedent of the four goddesses in another world, what if there really is a goddess in charge of the ocean in the city-state world?

But after yesterday's discussion with the meta ship girls, he felt that the so-called Ocean Goddess was most likely an experimental agency from the "pre-era".

If this is true, then Anticus is what the Church of the Goddess worships.

"I see. It seems that if it's convenient, we should also go to the Goddess Church to investigate."

Although at the Fountain of Youth, the test subject Tista, who claimed to be the leader of the "Gray Wolf Group", attacked him and the Hurricane Group.

But it is an indisputable fact that the goddess statue provides shelter to the city-states of countless sailing ship girls. Even the senior Antiks of the experimental agency has never actually appeared in all these years.

At least in this regard, the experimental agency in the city-state world that was disconnected from the main engine did not seem to be as crazy as the one that entered the Judge Plan mode.

Since the Goddess Church believes in the Goddess of the Sea, it is undoubtedly the organization that knows the Goddess of the Sea best.

If you want to get more relevant information, it seems that starting from the Goddess Church is a good choice.

(End of this chapter)