Azur Lane: I Crossed the Graduation Port Area

Chapter 1452 The sampan skeleton is X? !
In the city-state world of the Age of Discovery, even the sailing ship girls had no effective means to deal with the fire of sailing ships.

Fortunately, both the Iris and Sardinia ship girls always have Rubik's Cube fire extinguishers in their ship storage spaces.

With everyone's concerted efforts to put out the fire, the fire on the four distressed sailing ships was quickly brought under control.

The only sailing cargo ship with a relatively intact hull also survived.

After about half an hour, all the goods were transferred smoothly.

Hemu and Portsmouth also returned to Lin Lan with these eight sailing ship girls from the city-state of Skanman.

"Goddess of the Sea, thank you very much, Commander of the Hurricane Fleet, for lending us a helping hand."

The ship uniforms of these eight sailing ship girls with different appearances are all tentacle styles.

However, Lin Lan noticed that the wooden ships of these eight sailing ship girls did not have any equipment such as naval guns, but only carried melee weapons.

From this he judged that these sailing girls should be just ship girls born with the concept of merchant ships, and they were different from the well-known pirate ships such as the Harmony and Royal Fortune in the history of Blue Star.

When Lin Lan heard the black-haired sailing girl in the lead thanking him, he knew that the other party had roughly learned about their identities from Hemu.

"No need to be so polite. But you guys, no casualties, right?"

Seeing that these sailing girls were all injured to varying degrees, Lin Lan asked them with concern.

At the same time, he signaled the female kitchen goddess meta to prepare medical supplies for these girls.

When the sailing ship girl saw him ask his companions to bring bandages and disinfectants, she looked at him with gratitude, then sighed, smiled bitterly, and replied:
"Fortunately, thanks to the timely arrival of the Commander, no one suffered any serious injuries.

"But this batch of supplies ordered by the Goddess Church, even with your and everyone's timely rescue, we can still only save 30%... This business is really a loss."

Hemu took over the words of the sailing merchant girl and explained to him in detail:
"The city-state of Skanman is famous for its abundant grape production, and the neutral city-state of Omirogha Island is the wine production site of the Goddess Church."

Lin Lan nodded thoughtfully. He had seen this kind of maritime trade many times in the other world.

"So, what kind of enemy attacked you just now?"

"It's a herd of sampan carcasses. There are so many of them that you can't see the end of them, Commander."

With the help of Tartu and Mistral, the black-haired merchant girl, who had bandaged her arm wound, showed a hint of fear on her face and told him and the other ship girls on the deck what had just happened.

It turned out that about an hour ago, this group of sailing ship girls were suddenly attacked by a group of sampan skeletons coming from all directions.

Those terrible ghost sea monsters were like endless tides, and their artillery fire hit the sailing ships that were transporting their cargo one after another, making them extremely desperate.

But just when they were about to be torn into pieces by the sampan skeletons that had boarded the deck, these monsters suddenly panicked and fled in all directions for some unknown reason.

"The perception range of these monsters is so far... It's wider than the range of the Arbitration Agency's radar and carrier-based aircraft?"

After listening to the words of several sailing merchant ship girls who had received treatment, Lin Lan fell into deep thought.

"How about this, Hemu, let your friends go to our third ship to rest first.

"As for the merchant ship whose hull is still intact, let's drag it to Omiroga Island for repairs."

Hearing his arrangements, Hemu nodded to him gratefully, and the ship girls in distress all bowed and saluted him to express their gratitude.

"You are worthy of being the commander who led the Hurricane Fleet to defeat the Resonance Fleet and discovered the Fountain of Youth. We will never forget this kindness!"

At first, Lin Lan didn't quite understand why these sailing ship girls were so grateful to him. But after Portsmouth took the risk to explain it to him, he understood the reason.

The maritime trade in the city-state world is actually not safe, and pirate sailors often loot these ships and mount merchant ships without cannons.

For these sailing ship girls, being able to get shelter from the Hurricane Fleet is like finding a protective umbrella.

Whenever they encounter pirates in the future, they can tell them about this incident to minimize their losses.

"Well, I really haven't thought about this, but it doesn't matter. Let them do as they please."

Lin Lan took an indifferent attitude towards this.

There are so many city-states and sailing ship girls in the city-state world. It is a fate to meet them by chance. Anyway, it is no loss for him.

After Hemu led the sailing ship girls off the deck to tow the sailing ship, everyone quickly continued on their way.

Lin Lan asked Xiafei and Tianying to continue the carrier-based aircraft alert work, and then took Marco Polo, Flandre, Helophon, Miss D, Memphis meta and Vesta meta back to the office in the flagship cabin.

The decoration style of the mass-produced light cruiser's office is also arranged in the style of a captain in the Age of Discovery.

The tables and walls are filled with decorative items such as paintings and ceramics, and the slowly burning incense fills the room with a subtle fragrance.

"Commander, this is the test report we conducted on the nearby seawater while we were putting out the fire."

Without him having to speak, Memphis meta took the initiative to hand the tablet to him.

As a powerful meta ship girl and arbitration agency, how can we let the enemy escape from under our noses again and again?

"There's good news and bad news."

Memphis meta took a deep breath and said to him seriously:
"The good news is that we didn't detect any signals from experimental institutions in the surrounding area, which means that the sampan skeleton beast has no direct connection with the local experimental institutions.

"As for the bad news..."

The pink-haired meta cruiser girl hesitated for a moment, but finally told him the results of her analysis in a deep voice:

"The remains of the sampan skeleton. I compared all the databases with the two arbitrators and found the only similar sample...

"It's the X-Mimic."

Obviously, this is just a very common noun, but after Memphis meta said this word, Lin Lan clearly felt that the atmosphere among the girls in the room dropped to freezing point.

"X?"

Lin Lan looked at the data marked in red on the tablet computer in his hand, and a look of sudden enlightenment appeared on his face.

No wonder those monsters could avoid them at such a long distance, even the meta ship girls and the arbitration agency couldn't detect them.

He should have thought of it earlier. Only a mysterious enemy in a higher dimension named X could do this.

But the result in front of him still made him feel incredible.

X actually exists in the city-state world.

And according to Harmony and Portsmouth Adventure, these Xs may have been dormant in the city-state world a long, long time ago.

How did the city-state world survive for so long without being destroyed by X?
(End of this chapter)