Azur Lane: I Crossed the Graduation Port Area

Chapter 1451: Shipwreck in the City-State World
"Sister Xiafei, have you not discovered the sampan skeleton beast and the experimental machine fleet yet?"

By noon, Lin Lan had already accompanied the girls to have lunch on the deck.

The two carrier girls, Chaffee and Skyhawk, have been taking turns releasing carrier-based aircraft on the deck to carry out surveillance missions.

But what puzzled Lin Lan was that they had a completely smooth journey.

Not only did they not encounter the sampan monster that Hemu and Portsmouth Adventure had mentioned, but even the Resonance Fleet disappeared without a trace.

Even when they sailed into the routes between city-states, they did not find any merchant ships traveling back and forth.

So much so that after lunch, Southwest Wind and Dragoon were so bored that they took the initiative to talk to Xiafei who was deploying the aircraft carrier equipment.

"No, the surrounding seas are normal."

After receiving the reply from the Angel Lady of the Inquisition, the two little Sardinian girls made disappointed sounds.

"Wouldn't it be better if we didn't have to fight? We should learn to enjoy a peaceful life."

Noticing the disappointment on the faces of the two Sardinian cuties, Lin Lan smiled and got up from the sofa and walked over.

“Commander, it’s not that peace is bad. After all, we finally came to the city-state world, but it turns out that this place is no different from an ordinary ocean.

"Where are the sea monsters? Where are the legends? Not even the Sirens!"

Southwest Wind pouted and said, and the blonde Sardinian little loli dragoon also echoed:

"The games in Ms. D's game console are all very old styles and not fun at all."

Well, it seems that what the dragoon said is the truth.

As the God of Death of the arbitration agency, Ms. D naturally does not have much time to focus on games on weekdays.

Unlike Professional Otaku Cleaner and Purification Pro, the games downloaded by Miss D on her game console are all outdated games with very average gameplay.

For Sardinia and Iris, these games are completely inferior to those developed by other camps in the port area.

It was just that because Miss D had good intentions, Southwest Wind and Dragoon did not say it to her face.

"Otherwise, you can go back to the cabin and take a nap. We will arrive at the city-state in the afternoon, and I will go shopping with you then."

Lin Lan stroked the two little lolis' heads with one hand each and suggested with a smile.

"Yeah! Go shopping!"

Hearing him say this, Xi Nan Feng's little face showed an expectant smile again, and the dragon cavalry also showed anticipation in his eyes.

So under his persuasion, the two little Sardinian girls returned to the cabin together.

"Commander, I always feel that the sea around us is too calm."

After Southwest Wind and the Dragoons left the deck, Xiafei looked at the two sailing girls and Iris' companion who were sparring on the deck of the mass-produced cruiser behind him, and whispered to him:
"The fact that we didn't encounter the Experimental Organ Resonance Fleet and the sampan skeleton beasts can be explained by our good luck.

“But there’s not even a single ship on this route, and I always feel a little uneasy.”

Lin Lan walked up to Xia Fei, and together with the white-haired aircraft carrier girl in monk's attire, they looked at the ship girls who were discussing tactics, and the smile on their faces also faded slightly.

"As expected of you, Grand Inquisitor Iris. It seems you have noticed this as well."

He took off his pirate hat, bathed in the sunshine and sea breeze, listened to the faint roar of the carrier-based aircraft engines in the sky, and said thoughtfully:

"If my guess is correct, the sampan skeleton beast and the remnant fleet... should be actively avoiding us.

"Or to be more precise, I'm hiding from Vesta meta and Memphis meta, as well as Herophant and Miss D."

Hearing what he said, the white-haired girl with twin ponytails turned her face and looked at him in surprise.

Lin Lan did not keep the secret and continued to speak of his judgment:

"Yesterday when we first entered the city-state world, the singularity descended on the sea surface with a huge amount of meta energy.

"When I rescued He Mu and went on an adventure with Portsmouth, those sampan skeletons had already disappeared without a trace... In their words, they fled in panic.

“So I think in the eyes of the sampan skeleton, meta ship girls are existences that cannot be provoked actively.

"As for the Reverberation Fleet... their program may not be able to identify Miss D and Herophant, but they can also sense that their combat power index is definitely not something they can fight against."

Hearing his analysis and judgment, Xia Fei nodded slightly in approval.

As we all know, the combat power of meta ship girls is equivalent to that of walking human nuclear bombs.

If some of the Class V threat pollution sources were not specialized mental erosion, and if they could not crack the immortality of X, the meta-ship girls would have been able to face these high-dimensional monsters head-on. And the strength of the two arbitration agency management machines, Helophont and Miss D, needless to say.

"My only concern now is whether the city-states in the city-state world are still safe."

When Lin Lan said this, he looked in the direction where their three mass-produced light cruisers were heading:

"Hemu said yesterday that the goddess began to spontaneously collapse, and the city-state that lost its protection might be attacked by the landing of the sampan skeleton beast group.

"In order to prevent the city-state world from being further destroyed, we must quickly find out what happened to the experimental facility here."

After he finished speaking, Xiafei suddenly said softly:
"The commander is indeed worthy of our trust."

"Ah? Joffre, what did you say?"

Because a group of carrier-based aircraft was released by Xiafei, Lin Lan could not hear clearly what the girl said in a deliberately low voice.

"Nothing, I said, I approve of your judgment."

Xia Fei's face flushed slightly, she smiled at him calmly, and modified what she had just said.

However, as the two of them stood at the edge of the deck and chatted, suddenly, Xiafei's face became extremely serious:
"Commander, we found four wooden sailing mast ships in the sea ahead of us... These four sailing ships seem to have just been attacked, and three of them have almost had their hulls shattered."

Hearing Xia Fei's sudden report, Lin Lan raised his eyebrows and immediately asked Xia Fei to share the news with all the ship girls using the fleet's short-distance channel.

In fact, even if they were not discovered by Xiafei's carrier-based aircraft, Helophon and Miss D had also detected the situation ahead.

The next second after he finished making arrangements for Xiafei, the two arbitrators walked out of the cabin and quickly came to his side.

"Assistant, assistant! There's a shipwreck ahead! Shipwreck!"

Miss D came up and started yelling at him excitedly. At the same time, the other Iris and Sardinia ship girls who had just been training also deployed their ship uniforms and approached from the sea.

"Well, I already know. Let's get closer to each other first."

Under his command, the girls soon saw black smoke rising from the sea far ahead.

According to what Joffre observed using his carrier-based aircraft, the hulls of the four wooden sailing ships were already engulfed in flames.

The same was true even for the only remaining sailing ship with a relatively intact hull.

Seven or eight sailing ship girls were spreading their tentacle suits and swimming on the sea, anxiously trying to put out the fire in various ways.

But it was obvious that without professional fire extinguishers, their efforts were in vain.

Given the damage to these four sailing ships, sinking in the fire was an inevitable outcome.

"Oh, it's actually a merchant ship from the city-state of Sikanman."

As the distance got closer, Hemu could already see the four burning sailing ships and said to them in a somewhat surprised tone:

"It seems that there are some acquaintances of mine among them. It seems that they suffered heavy losses this time."

After that, the red-haired, black-skirted sailing girl hesitated, and finally whispered to him in a pleading tone:

"Um, Commander, can I trouble you to help rescue the goods they are transporting? Even if I owe you a favor."

"This is not a favor. We were planning to go and rescue them anyway."

Faced with the harmonious plea, Lin Lan and the girls around him all smiled.

He smiled indifferently at the harmony and said:
"It's just a simple favor. I'll trouble you to explain our identities later."

"Ah... leave it to me."

After receiving his affirmative answer, Hemu was stunned for a moment, and then excitedly made a guarantee.

As he watched Hemu call Portsmouth and take control of the ship to rush forward, Miss D suddenly came up to him and smiled evilly:
"This wave of favorability has at least +10, assistant, we are working together well, right~ Hehehe!"

"What do you mean by +10 favorability? Stop tinkering with those games!"

Lin Lan speechlessly pinched the face of the giggling loli arbitrator.

That’s right, many of the games that Miss D downloaded to her game console are old-fashioned text-based development games and galgames.

Otherwise, Sardinia and Iris wouldn't feel so bored.

(End of this chapter)