Azur Lane: I Crossed the Graduation Port Area

Chapter 255 Ship Equipment Fair, Start! (3400 words)
There are many rows of seats on the second floor of the building, and in the center of the entire hall is a spacious stage.

At this time, many people were already sitting on the seats, and the floor-to-ceiling windows of the surrounding buildings could clearly see the violent wind and rain hitting the glass.

But most of the people here are the commanders and ship mothers of the Ministry of the Navy, and they are used to this kind of wind and rain.

In addition, this is indoors, and the wind and rain outside cannot affect the lively atmosphere of the trade fair at all.

Soon, under the leadership of Qi Yue and the other three, Lin Lan took Sui Qiong and the ship girls to the seats facing the back row.

"I heard that the ship equipment for this trade fair is not simple. The high-level officials of the Ministry of the Navy have dispatched important figures, and I don't know who will come."

Naturally, Lin Lan sat next to Qi Yue and the others, and Sui Qiong, Nimi and others sat on Lin Lan's right hand.

Hearing the words of one of the commanders of Yalang City County Port District, Qi Yue's face changed slightly.

"It may be some general."

Qi Yue said in a far-fetched tone, as if he was not very interested in this topic.

"Well, I think so. I heard from my classmates who work in the base of the Admiralty that General Li Hongjun seemed to be absent from the meeting last night."

After the commander finished speaking, another county commander in Yalang City was aroused:
"General Li Hongjun? Really? He's the spiritual leader of our Admiralty. It's impossible for him to come to Yunhai City in person, right?"

"Then why is it impossible? Yunhai City is only a day's drive away from the base fortress. If he set off yesterday morning, he might really be able to catch up today."

Listening to the conversation between the two, Lin Lan noticed that Qi Yue's face was getting uglier.

"It seems that Qi Yue has some ulterior relationship with this General Li Hongjun, but it won't be a good thing for Qi Yue."

Lin Lan secretly speculated in his heart.

Who is Li Hongjun? He is the highest authority in the Navy Department of the Western Continent, nicknamed Iron Blood General.

Even though the old general was basically wiped out in Oran's old navy's battle against the Sirens, he still relied on iron and blood to prevent the Tian'ou Group and Tomahawk Military Industry from controlling the Admiralty.

Whether it is the people in charge of the Admiralty in the Eastern Continent or the Western Continent, they resisted to the death against the Candle Sea Chamber of Commerce at the beginning without any compromise. This is why the Admiralty, which is not controlled by the Chamber of Commerce today, is retained.

If Qi Yue has a good relationship with Li Hongjun, he should be assigned to work in the top ranks of the Ministry of the Navy.

Instead of being a county-level port commander like now.

Of course, all this is just Lin Lan's own speculation, and it has nothing to do with him anyway.

However, General Li Hongjun was also one of the senior officials of the Western Continent Navy Department who had connections with Bismarck and Frederick.

Although he was not controlled by August, Li Hongjun also admired the iron-blooded camp very much, and basically satisfied the various requirements put forward by the iron-blooded camp unconditionally.

It is not difficult to persuade Li Hongjun to let the Western Continent Navy Department cooperate with the Tian'ou Group. After all, Lin Lan can assure Li Hongjun that the Tian'ou Group will not act recklessly as before.

At this time, Lin Lan felt Nimi beside him gently tug on his sleeve.

He looked at Nimi, only to see little Lolita pointing to him in another direction.

Looking in the direction Nimi pointed, it turned out that Hutten, Earl Zeppelin and the others had also entered the second floor of the building and were sitting in the seats behind them.

Seeing Lin Lan's gaze, the three wolves all smiled and waved to him.

Lin Lan smiled slightly, as long as they came in.

"The time is coming, let's see what treasures the West Continent Academy of Science and Technology has produced this time."

A few minutes later, as all the seats were filled, Sun Dewang had already stepped onto the central stage, and the noisy people around gradually quieted down.

Seeing a cylindrical object covered by a red cloth slowly rising from the ground beside Sun Dewang on the stage, Qi Yue whispered beside Lin Lan.

Wearing a blue suit and walking onto the stage, Sun Dewang looked around the crowd and showed a bright smile on his face:

"Cough, cough, port commanders of the Ministry of the Navy, executives of various companies in Oran, good morning, everyone, and welcome to the annual shipbuilding product fair!"

"Although many people know me, I still want to introduce myself. I am Sun Dewang, the current acting director of Tianou Group, and the host of this fair!"

Lin Lan was a little surprised when he heard the plump Sun Dewang introducing himself.

Unexpectedly, Sun Dewang officially became the acting director of Tian'ou Group. It seems that Jian Qianou is planning to focus on training Sun Dewang.

This is of course a good thing. Sun Dewang used to be a high-ranking Tianou who was close to the Admiralty, and many port commanders had a good relationship with Sun Dewang.

After Sun Dewang was exiled to Lihu County, many port commanders had no one to issue commissions, and life was very difficult.

At this time, when they heard that Sun Dewang was not only reinstated, but even became the acting director of Tianou Group, they all smiled and applauded him.

"Then first, I would like to grandly introduce the heavyweight guests of this fair—"

"General Li Hongjun from the Navy Department of the Western Continent! Please give general applause to General Li Hongjun!"

Taking advantage of the applause, Sun Dewang raised his hand towards the escalator on the second floor of the building while talking.

After his words fell, all the people present looked in the direction of the escalator.

I saw a white-haired old man wearing a white Oran navy uniform, standing straight, with his hands behind his back, slowly climbing up the second floor of the building from the escalator.

Although he is old, everyone can feel a strong military temperament from this old man, which is a chilling temperament forged from the accumulation of years of war.

"brush!"

All the commanders of the port area of ​​the Admiralty present stood up from their seats and saluted the Oran Navy to the old man.

And Lin Lan naturally did the same.

Not to mention that he still regards himself as the commander of the port area of ​​​​the Admiralty.

After he traveled to Oran, he was also taken care of by the teachers of the Navy Department at the Red Leaf Naval Academy, so he thought it was reasonable for him to salute.

As for the iron-blooded ship girls and Shattered Qiong, they ignored them at all, and the other chess piece ship girls just stood up without saluting.

In addition to the commander of the port area, the executives of the Tianou Group subsidiary in the hall also gave applause for the arrival of the veteran general.

All those present were thinking about one thing.

Sun Dewang on the stage was a senior executive of Tianou Group who was inclined to cooperate with the Ministry of the Navy. Now he has been promoted to the acting director of Tianou Group.

And Li Hongjun, as the person in charge of the Navy Department of the Western Continent, actually came to participate in the Tianou Group's naval equipment trade fair hosted by Sun Dewang.

In addition, the headquarters of the Tomahawk military industry has now been attacked by an unknown person. Although the big boss Ye Zhanke has publicized that his life and death are unknown, everyone with a discerning eye knows that Ye Zhanke is probably close to death.

Without Ye Zhanke, the general agents of Tomahawk Military Industry will be defeated one by one and eaten away by Tian'ou Group.

These two people appearing at the same time at this time, what they represent is very intriguing.

Whether it is the commander of the port area of ​​​​the Admiralty Department or the executives of the subsidiaries of Tianou Group, they all vaguely understand one thing at this moment.

The Western Continent, I'm afraid the sky is about to change—and it's still on the bright side!
"Everyone, I'm just here to participate in this trade fair, there is no need to be polite, please sit down."

Li Hongjun walked slowly through the seating area with his hands behind his back, turned around when he came to the bottom of the stage, looked at the commanders of the Admiralty Port Area who were saluting to him around the hall, and spoke slowly.

Lin Lan was keenly aware that General Li Hongjun looked in his direction a few more times.

She was not looking at him, but at Qi Yue beside him.

At this moment, Qi Yue's face was pale and ugly.

After Li Hongjun's voice fell, all the commanders of the port area sat down one after another, and Li Hongjun also sat in the front seat under the stage.

"Forget the polite words, Sun Dewang, what exactly did your West Continent Institute of Science and Technology produce this time, let me wait and see."

Li Hongjun stared at Sun Dewang on the stage in front of him with eyes like eagle eyes, and said in a flat tone.

"Hehe, General Li, don't be in a hurry. Before that, I have to introduce the rules of this trade fair to everyone."

Fatty Sun Dewang faced Li Hongjun without any fear, and smiled.

After all, at this time, he represents the face of Tian'ou Group, and he must not appear weak.

"Presumably everyone here has already downloaded the software when they entered the venue, and this fair is also relying on this software."

"Please open the software, can you see the lucky draw wheel?"

"The detailed rules have been written next to the turntable, so I won't go into too much detail, but I have to remind everyone in advance that in addition to money, it is also feasible to pay with petroleum in exchange for lucky draw opportunities."

"Among the prizes on the turntable, the blue boxes can randomly reveal the ship girls' ship equipment. As for the quality of the equipment drawn out, they are all random, and it all depends on luck."

After Sun Dewang finished speaking, a mysterious smile appeared on his face:

"As for the highlight of this fair, it's... this!"

Sun Dewang, holding the microphone with one hand, raised his fat arm, and tore off the red cloth beside him, revealing the cylindrical fuel filter.

And as it officially displayed the fuel filter in front of everyone, a magnified image of an illusory translucent blue three-dimensional fuel filter full of technological sense also appeared in the center of the stage.

Everyone could clearly see the appearance of this piece of naval equipment.

"This piece of equipment is called the fuel filter, and it is the latest cutting-edge naval equipment manufactured through the Mind Rubik's Cube technology. It can greatly improve the durability and maneuverability of the ship girls!"

"Before this, all the ship-mounted equipment was related to weapons. This is the first non-offensive ship-mounted equipment of the United States of Oran, and it will not occupy the space of the ship-mounted weapons at all!"

"This is bound to be epoch-making ship equipment!"

Lin Lan, who was sitting in the seat, was dumbfounded when Sun Dewang, who was blushing on the stage, introduced the fuel filter in such a high-pitched tone.

Just a broken fuel filter was said by Sun Dewang, and it turned out to be the same as a limited color outfit.

If the fuel filter hadn't been taken out of his warehouse, he would have thought that the fuel filter was a magic weapon.

"Pfft!"

Lin Lan suddenly heard an uncontrollable chuckle from beside him.

He looked sideways, and sure enough, the two iron-blooded scientific research ships Egil and August had already covered their mouths and trembled.

Egil, in particular, laughed with tears in his eyes.

As for the green-haired profiteer Akashi, he covered his face with his hands, curled up on the seat into a cat ball, trembling all over, and tried his best to hold back his laughter.

"Brother Lin Lan, what's wrong with your girls?"

Qi Yue, who had finally adjusted his mentality, also noticed the behavior of Lin Lan's girls at this time, and couldn't help asking Lin Lan with concern.

"Well... don't mind, senior, they may have never seen such powerful equipment, so they were a little shocked."

As Lin Lan lied without blushing, not only did the three of them tremble more violently, even Nimi, who was as calm as Nimi, couldn't help but look sideways at Sui Qiong, and his body began to tremble.

For the first time, the four ship girls discovered how difficult it is to forcefully hold back their laughter.

(End of this chapter)