Hestia also said that recently because of the opening of the new store, she didn’t spend much time with Blue Star. She has already prepared the snacks in the store tonight. Bell will help close the store when the time comes or if it is sold out in advance. She happens to accompany Blue Star to try it out. try;

Although Niya was undecided, Baihu also expressed that he was also very curious after sighing silently for his young lady.

Others are easy to talk about, but Nia and Baihu don’t know about the ‘Gate of Destiny’—————

When Lan Xing was silent, everyone looked at Lan Xing expectantly, and Nia’s expression was the most serious. After all, unlike the others, she was eager to become a member of the firm.

Not only because here she can get a long-lost sense of security, but also because it gives her a sense of ‘home’.

Perhaps it was because of her lack of self-confidence that Nia was the most nervous. Facing the silent Lan Xing, she gradually became a little bit lost.

‘After all I’m not…’

“Crack~”

But at this moment, a hand suddenly rested on her head.

“Niya, you and Baihu have been here for a while, and it’s time to tell you some things. It just so happens that this is a good opportunity. Do you want to go and have a look together?”

Feeling the somewhat rough but warm palms on top of her head, Nia realized that the choices she would face next might determine the rest of her life.

But she didn’t hesitate at all, after all… Isn’t this what she expected?

“Of course!”

Looking at the smiling Nia, Lan Xing couldn’t help being very happy. Although he had already sensed Nia’s intentions and thought that the other party would not refuse his invitation, he really let go when the other party really agreed. Take a breath.

“Very well, since that’s the case, let’s go! Go to the ‘United Fleet’ exercise area!”

According to Blue Star’s understanding, the world’s oceans are occupied by enemies called ‘Sirens’, and countries around the world have relied on ‘ship girls’ to regain the offshore areas and then began to try to advance towards the deep sea area.

The forces in the deep sea area of ​​the ‘Siren’ are stronger than imagined, and the fleets of any country alone cannot defeat them. Therefore, the fleets of various countries have to start cooperating, and finally established the ‘Joint Fleet’.

As for the strategy, it adopts tactics of advancing layer by layer.

The vanguard will establish a supply point, and then the ship girls will use this as a base to continuously clean up the surrounding ‘Siren troops’, and the port area where Blue Star is currently located is the port closest to the ‘Siren controlled area’ one.

Usually, the port exercise area is very lively even at night, after all, there are also ship girls who specialize in field battles among the ship girls.

But because the ‘expedition’ had just ended, apart from the security forces, most of the other ship girls also chose to take a good rest.

However, Lan Xing, who was following Elizabeth, couldn’t help but feel a little strange looking at the Royal Ark aiming around.

“What are you looking for?”

“Of course it’s those little cuties~”

Looking at the Ark Royal, who is holding Eve and generally making no secret of his “fraternity”, Lan Xing really wants to complain about the other party. Doesn’t it feel like a “scumbag” in his current appearance?

But the other party’s confident expression made Lanxing know that it was meaningless to complain.

On the contrary, Tiyayu who was on the side couldn’t help asking questions strangely.

“Why deportation? I remember before saying that deportees are generally responsible for investigation?”

In Ti Yayou’s cognition, the caliber is basically proportional to the strength, and the expulsors who basically don’t have large-caliber guns should obviously only play as assistants.

But what I didn’t expect was that Elizabeth couldn’t help puffing out her chest proudly after hearing her words.

“Every ship girl in the Royal Fleet is extremely important! At night, the waves are big, the vision is not good, and the hit rate of the shelling is also low. On the contrary, the close-range lightning strikes of the destroyers pose a greater threat to the enemy, so the expedition at night Only a small part of the expulsors continue to investigate, but a large part stays on guard near the fleet…”

Elizabeth said that she was very happy, but for some reason she suddenly felt a bit disappointed…

Chapter 12 Yes/No to waive treatment

Elizabeth’s emotional ups and downs were obvious, and Ark Royal, who knew her old friend very well, couldn’t help but sigh silently in her heart.

Even though the opponent has never participated in the expedition since the end of the offshore recapture operation, the opponent still has not given up on learning and commanding. It’s a pity…

Thinking of her other friends, she didn’t know what to say.

But fortunately, the topic came to an end soon, because everyone had already arrived at the equipment management office near the exercise ground.

“Her Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth!”

The two members of the gendarmerie standing guard at the gate saw Elizabeth walking towards them and saluted decisively, but then their expressions became a little subtle.

The other party naturally didn’t know Lan Xing and the others. After all, even though Lan Xing’s reputation in the port area could be described as “famous”, it didn’t show up very often after all. Except for the gendarmerie members who participated in the arrest plan that time, most people were very interested in Lan Xing. All the stars are ‘only hear their names, but never see their people’.

What really made their expressions subtle was the Royal Ark walking at the forefront of the team.

At this time, the thought of “No wonder the Z team who was in charge of today’s duty just left in a hurry” appeared in the minds of the two of them unconsciously.

Obviously, compared to Blue Star, Ark Royal is really known to everyone.

Facing the two members of the gendarmerie saluting to her, Elizabeth nodded reservedly and said that she needed to use the ‘equipment management station’, and the two members of the gendarmerie did not express any opinion on this.

Although there are a lot of “special ship equipment” here, it is actually not an important place. After all, the special weapon “ship equipment” cannot be used by ordinary people, and the ship girls themselves have the ability to use the “mental core” to summon The capabilities of the ship’s equipment, so these ‘exercise-specific ship’s equipment’ is not too important.

But after all, it involves weapons, so it is generally managed by the ship maid who is in charge of the exercise field, but in fact, it is ordinary members of the gendarmerie who are guarding it.

As the titular supreme commander of the Royal Fleet, Elizabeth said that she needed to use the equipment here for exercises and they would naturally not refuse.

After entering the ‘Equipment Management Office’, both Ark Royal and Elizabeth seemed very calm, after all, they were too familiar with this place.

But Blue Star and the others couldn’t help but walk through the various display stands with a look of curiosity.

The Royal Ark directly began to introduce various equipment to Blue Star and let Blue Star choose equipment to participate in the exercise.

That’s right, everyone must use the same batch of performance equipment during the exercise, in order to be more equitable in terms of weaponry.

Of course, even if the weapons and equipment are the same, the strengths displayed by the ship girls are different due to experience and other reasons.

What Blue Star needs to do is to choose the weapons and armors he intends to use before the ‘exercise’ starts and try to get familiar with these new equipments.

So first of all, we need to give Blue Star a ‘positioning’.

“Blue Star, which ship’s equipment do you plan to see first?”

“What are there? Can you tell me about them?”

“Of course, let me introduce the ‘aircraft carrier’ equipment that I am most familiar with first?”

While talking, Royal Ark took Blue Star directly to the last piece of the equipment display area.

“Generally speaking, the number of weapons that a ship can carry is not fixed, but during the exercise, everyone uses at most three types of carrier-based aircraft and two types of equipment. In my case, I usually carry two sets of ‘Swordfish torpedo aircraft’ and one set of ‘Thieves’.” Bomber Gull, I am not very good at participating in air combat, so I usually mainly attack surface ships. As for the equipment, I usually use the “hydraulic catapult device” to enhance the launch and flight speed of torpedo planes and bombers. Occasionally carry a ‘steering gear’ to enhance the speed…”

I have to say that although Ark Royal is not very serious when encountering expulsion, as a veteran who has experienced many battles, she has a good understanding of all kinds of equipment, even the equipment of expulsion, battle line, and cruiser. .

Of course, apart from the aircraft carrier, what he knows best is expulsion, but after listening to the other party’s explanation, Blue Star didn’t make a decision immediately. Instead, he asked another question that he cared about.

“Who are the members of Her Majesty Elizabeth participating in the exercise this time?”

“Are you a member? Elizabeth Sauce is tentatively, War Weariness, I still have you Blue Star.”

After Royal Ark finished speaking, he didn’t notice that Lan Xing’s expression became very subtle.

Because Ark Royal mentioned war exhaustion more than once when introducing the battleship’s equipment before, according to her, the opponent is one of the best battleships in the Huang family fleet.

Leaving aside Blue Star whose naval battle strength is unknown, just looking at the team strength Elizabeth’s team strength is beyond doubt.

The Royal Navy’s strongest battleship ‘War-weary’, the guardian ‘Ark Royal’ who has sheltered countless expulsion growth after a long battle, plus the ‘Elizabeth’ who has rich experience in exercises and can strengthen the Royal Fleet.

Their strength ranks at the forefront of the entire Royal Fleet.

But the problem is – it seems like they are all in the back row?

In fact, there is no real front row and rear row in normal naval battles. After all, once the enemy forces surround and attack, the original rear row of ships will also become the front row.

Blue Star called them the back row because they were less mobile.

Compared with the caliber of the main guns used by battleships, the caliber of destroyers and cruisers is much smaller, but they also have strong mobility. It is difficult to hit them with a single shot, and they usually use barrage fire.

During the battle, these high-mobility ships, that is, the front row ships mentioned by Blue Star, not only need to patrol and guard, but also need to intercept fish, submarines and other enemy ships.

As for the present situation—————

‘It is said to be a choice, but in fact it is not a choice…’

Blue Star couldn’t help sighing, unless Blue Star and the others gave up the treatment directly, he would also use aircraft carrier equipment and directly come to a full back row lineup.

But compared to this lineup that gave up treatment, Lan Xing felt that he could still save it.

“I still choose the cruiser’s equipment.”

In the end, Blue Star made a decision.

But when the Ark Royal took Blue Star to look for equipment, something unexpected happened to Elizabeth on the other side.

Because Tiayou is more interested in ship equipment, she kept asking questions when she was a tour guide in Elizabeth and introduced them to various equipment.

Although she looks young, since Elizabeth is committed to participating in the expedition, she also has a good understanding of the ship equipment of various ships. When they introduced the destroyer equipment, Eve directly used one of them after getting Elizabeth’s permission. A sample was taken and fiddled with.

There is no ammunition in the exercise-specific ships in these display areas, and Elizabeth is not worried about accidents, not to mention that not everyone can use…

“Tiyayu! Tiyayu!! Sauce~!!”

At this moment, Elizabeth, who was walking in the front, was stunned by a call, and her eyes widened unconsciously when she turned around, because at this time Eve had already changed into the expulsion weapon. equipment……

Chapter 13 Seniors who have been fighting on the front line to protect the deportees

When Blue Star and Ark Royal joined Elizabeth and the others, they were also taken aback by the scene in front of them.

Because at this time, Eve was wearing a special destroyer suit, holding her hands high as if she was imitating something.

Then Blue Star almost instinctively glanced at the Royal Ark beside him.

Lan Xing didn’t forget the behavior that Royal Ark started rubbing her face when she saw Eve before. Will seeing Eve put on the expulsion equipment now make her more excited?

But to Lan Xing’s surprise, when he looked at the Royal Ark, the other party didn’t show that weird smile, but only showed a faint smile, but I don’t know if it’s Lan Xing’s illusion, I always feel that there is something in this smile Full of vicissitudes and sadness.

Maybe it was because Lan Xing’s line of sight was too direct, Ark Royal couldn’t help turning his head to look at Lan Xing strangely.

“What’s wrong?”

“No, it just feels like I’ve only really gotten to know you, Ark Royal now.”

Faced with Lan Xing’s complaints, Ark Royal couldn’t help being stunned for a moment.

The name of Ark Royal’s “Destroyer” is known to everyone in the port area, but the attitudes of humans and ship mothers towards her are different.

Most human beings are awed and puzzled by the Royal Ark. The awe is because of the record of the Royal Ark, and the incomprehension is because of her character that is very different from other ship girls;

But most of the ship girls expressed helplessness, but no one hated her. Even if the Destroyers had cooperated with each other, at least they wouldn’t hate her… Of course, the premise is that the Royal Ark doesn’t go berserk.

The relationship between people is often mutual, and the friends of Royal Ark are basically the ship girl, this is because few people can understand her except the ship girl, as for Lan Xing before this, it can only be regarded as a “relationship comparison” Good people’, because Blue Star at least doesn’t repel her.

But this is not surprising, after all, except for a very small number of people who will hit it off at first sight, it often takes a long time for most people to get to know each other and get used to each other if they want to become friends.

But at this moment, Ark Royal felt that the distance between the two seemed to be drawn closer at this moment.

Because she actually saw ‘understanding’ in Lan Xing’s eyes, not only that, she even felt as if she had been seen through by the other party.

“Why do you say that?”

I don’t know if it’s pure puzzlement, or because I want to dispel that strange feeling, Ark Royal couldn’t help but ask back.

But what she didn’t expect was that the moment she opened her mouth, Lan Xing unconsciously showed a helpless expression.

“Because I seem to understand the meaning of the phrase ‘I like expulsion most’ you usually say.”

Royal Ark has never concealed its “expulsion charges” and is even proud of it. When Blue Star was cheated by the other party and went to the gendarmerie, the company also told Blue Star about the other party’s affairs, so Blue Star knew the other party very well. Not really a bad guy, just a more aggressive way of expressing his emotions.

Coupled with the other party’s voluntary apology, this also made the relationship between the two people who were not happy when they met for the first time become a lot closer.

But Blue Star has never been able to understand the fanatical emotions of the other party. After all, he himself has a good impression of any weak creature, whether it is a child, a small animal or other creatures.

But just now, the vicissitudes and sorrows that were completely different from the usual vicissitudes and sadness were revealed in the faint smile of the Royal Ark, but it made Blue Star truly see the shadow of “the seniors who have been fighting on the front line to protect the expulsions” in the mouth of the company.

This also makes Blue Star feel that the distance between the two seems to have shortened a lot.

Perhaps it was because of being understood by humans for the first time, or because of the subtle smile on Lan Xing’s face, Ark Royal was a little embarrassed, and she raised her head pretending to be proud.

“Of course! I will always be the destroyer’s favorite ship girl!”

Because Blue Star and the others directly skipped the expelled equipment at the front and headed to the back, the two sides almost met in the middle of the equipment storage room, and the voice of the Royal Ark unconsciously became higher because of its pride, which attracted the other side of the Royal Ark. their attention.

Especially Eve trotted all the way to Lan Xing.

“Blue Star!! Sauce~!!”

At this time, Eve imitated the strange sound effects, and showed Lan Xing the ship suit on her body while posing in some strange poses.

He wears a strange radar headband on his head, a small fish launcher like a backpack on his back, and gloves with a small launcher on his hands.