Azur Lane: I Crossed the Graduation Port Area

Chapter 40 The Girl Who Overcame Fate
"This is a secret passage that only I, Bismarck and Frederick know about. Commander must follow me closely."

After Eugen gave him a sexy wink expression, he took the lead into the secret passage.

"Don't go in such a hurry, walk slowly in this dark."

Being held by Eugen, Lin Lan also followed closely into the dark passageway.

In this narrow secret passage, there are continuous steps going down, carrying a bit of chill.

In the long darkness, except for the footsteps of the two, Lin Lan's other senses seemed to be shielded, and he couldn't feel anything.

The only thing he can trust is this hand that holds him tightly.

He didn't know how many steps he had walked, and he gradually became tired.

The darkness around him made him feel a little anxious.

As if sensing Lin Lan's emotions, Eugen's voice came from the darkness ahead.

"Commander, don't be afraid, we will be there soon."

Feeling the warmth from his hand, Lin Lan's original anxiety caused by the darkness gradually calmed down following Eugen's words.

It seems to go for 10 minutes, or it seems to go for 5 minutes.

Just when Lin Lan was about to ask, a dark blue color finally appeared in front of his eyes.

The export has arrived.

"Commander, we are here, please get ready and don't blink~"

Eugene's playful voice came.

Lin Lan felt happy, isn't it the seaside? It's not like he hasn't visited before, so he exaggerated.

The moment he walked out of the tunnel, his field of vision suddenly became empty, and the magnificent scenery made him gasp.

The stars are like the lights of thousands of houses.

On the blue and deep night sky, twinkling and twinkling stars are like countless pearls, filling the entire night sky.

The tranquil ocean with slightly rising waves is connected with the distant sky full of stars, just like a peerless oil painting in the hands of a top artist.

"So beautiful……"

Looking at the night scene where the sea and sky are uniform, Lin Lan felt the refreshing sea breeze slapping on his face, and couldn't help but express his sincere amazement.

From the seemingly endless dark corridor to suddenly come under the starry sky, the strong impact brought him made him never realize that the ocean and starry sky are so beautiful.

Looking back, Lin Lan saw that their current position had reached the periphery of the Iron-Blooded Fortress, above the seawall.

The sea tide beat against the outside of the tall iron-blooded black-red seawall, making rustling waves.

"Hehehe, Commander, how's it going, isn't it pretty?"

Eugen's voice pulled Lin Lan back from the daze of marveling at such a beautiful scenery.

"Honestly, I never thought the stars and ocean could be so beautiful."

Standing on the seawall and looking at the night view of the sea and sky in the distance, Lin Lan told the truth.

The iron-blooded girl let out a chuckle, took Lin Lan's hand, and the two took a leisurely walk on the seawall.

"Obviously we have sworn to you for so long, but this is the first time we can go out for a walk and look at the sea together."

The sea breeze blew Eugen's long silver hair, and there was a touch of blush on her seductive cheeks. Under the falling starlight, Eugen's seductive profile made Lin Lan stunned.

"Um, actually I..."

Lin Lan just wanted to find an excuse to cover up why he wasn't able to accompany her before, but Eugen put his index finger on the corner of his mouth, signaling that he didn't need to speak.

"Honey, don't lie and cover up, Eugen doesn't want to hear your lies, but he won't get to the bottom of it either."

"It's good that you're back, it's good that you're back."

The two stopped, and Lin Lan suddenly noticed that two pearl-like teardrops were slipping down Eugen's face.

"Eugen, you..."

Feeling guilty, Lin Lan reached out his hand to wipe the tears off Eugen's face, but the silver-haired girl in front of him leaned gently in his arms.

Eugen's figure is the complete opposite of her elder sister's, a perfect figure of Yujie's level.

Lin Lan gently hugged Eugen in his arms, and did not continue talking.

He understands that the hug at this moment is the greatest comfort to Eugen.

Under the blue stars, Lin Lan felt as if time had stopped at this moment.

After a long time, Eugen's voice sounded softly:

"Many people think that I am a lucky ship."

Lin Lan naturally knew what this meant.

Historically, the Jagged Fleet was basically wiped out during World War II. When it surrendered, only one surface ship, Prince Eugen, remained.

Luckily escaped from danger time and time again, and miraculously survived to the end of the war, Eugen was called the "Undead Ship" by the world.

"But I hate the word 'lucky' so much, Lucky Ship? Hehehe."

"That's just a trick of fate."

Eugen said in a self-deprecating manner, sticking close to Lin Lan.

"The first thing I saw in my memory was the blue cornflowers in the mountains of Kiel, my hometown."

"After I served, I created a miraculous victory in the Rhine exercise where I fought side by side with Lord Bismarck."

"I thought I could return with honor, but at that time, I saw the cruelty and ruthlessness of fate for the first time."

"As I witnessed Master Bismarck sinking into the icy ocean, the mockery of fate began."

Leaning on Lin Lan's chest, the silver-haired girl whispered about her past that she had never told anyone.

"During Operation Cerbrus Thunder, Sister Shane and I were ordered to cross the heavily guarded Royal Channel to carry out a mission like sending us to death."

"I can't forget the cruel scenes of being hunted down that day. The rain of artillery fire and the ubiquitous torpedo planes are still fresh in my memory."

"Commander, fate is choking me by the throat, wanting me to meet the fate of sinking again and again. The only thing I can do is to constantly resist, constantly resist..."

Lin Lan felt Eugen's trembling in his arms, and the silver-haired girl seemed to have returned to the suffocation brought about by the continuous pursuit after crossing the strait.

Eugen at this time was the real Eugen under that cynical and casual disguise.

When it was just the two of them, the silver-haired girl finally told her experience that she had never told anyone.

"In that mission, in the end, I was the only one who returned to the devastated motherland uninjured."

"But in order to completely defeat me, how can fate give up?"

"A sneak attack by a submarine, a blockade by an enemy, and even a collision with a companion in the fog."

"It wants me to accept my fate time and time again, but I have sworn in iron and blood that I will never bow to fate."

"I can't succumb to this damned fate, not only because I am an iron-blooded warship, but also because I don't want to be a slave of fate."

Eugen's tone became more and more firm. At this moment, she was like a proud warrior. Although she faced death several times, she still would not lower her head.

Lin Lan remembered Eugene's resolute look during the exercise.

The girl who had just entered the battlefield, driven by fate, became a resolute warrior.

"It wasn't until... I looked back that I realized that, before I knew it, my motherland was gone, and my family and companions were all gone too."

"All my hard work has been for naught."

"I became the last battleship of Iron Blood."

It was clearly just a declarative sentence, but Lin Lan heard deep pain from Eugen's tone.

"At the end of the war, I became a prisoner of the enemy and was forced to serve the former enemy."

"I was taken to a strange sea thousands of miles away from my hometown. Since then, I have never returned to my hometown."

"What greeted me there was the explosion that seemed to destroy the world."

Lin Lan's embrace of the silver-haired girl in his arms suddenly increased slightly, and he knew exactly what Eugen meant by the explosion.

Bikini Atoll, Operation Crossroads.

Nuclear explosion test.

(End of this chapter)