Revisit Azur Lane

Chapter 198 Yukikaze-class Demolition Ship (3)

"hiss."

When Zhou He saw Xue Feng kill four agents in less than half an hour, he couldn't help but gasp.

He already knew Xuefeng was fierce, but he didn't expect her to be this fierce. He had underestimated Xuefeng. Maybe she really could single-handedly charge into a fully-equipped Siren base and wipe out all the Sirens inside, leaving him with the base to claim.

"Eight of the ten agents are already gone, and the remaining two are on the run. Should we take down Tova in one fell swoop?"

Looking at the favorable battlefield situation, Zhou He glanced at the location of the Great World Octopus Executor XIV. In about an hour, these executors would enter the test site. In terms of time, it was already too late, but if he gave Xuefeng the order, she would definitely be able to take down Towa and defeat these foreign enemies.

Zhou He frowned. In fact, the reasons he often didn't let Yukikaze go into battle were, besides being too shy to ask and wanting his ship girls to grow together, he was also worried that he would rely too much on Yukikaze's strength, and he didn't know how to reward Yukikaze after she made a contribution.

However, the current situation is already very clear. All of Towa's external spires have been removed, and under Yukikaze's pursuit, the remaining two agents will definitely be taken down as well. This is the best time to end this test site. As long as Towa and the executors brought by the octopus agents are eliminated, then after the test site is closed, our own ship girls can immediately join forces with the Colorado Council fleet to launch a general attack on the base where the testers are located.

There was really no choice left. Zhou He glanced at the sun, which had already set halfway down the mountain. In this season of autumn and winter, it would get dark around 5 or 6 p.m. Would his fleet be able to return to port tonight?

After resupplying at the dock, he opened Xuefeng's video call. The screen flickered, and he saw Xuefeng leaning over the white wolf, her hands gripping the wolf's fur. The girl's silver hair fluttered in the wind, her expression was cold, and her wide orange eyes faintly radiated golden light. She rode the wolf with a heroic and dashing air, looking like she was having a killing spree.

"Snow Wind".

Zhou He stared at her, then called out without further ado: "I need you to follow these two agents all the way to Towa's core base and take care of her."

"it is good."

Xuefeng said nothing more than a single word. She turned her head to look at Zhou He in the video, then turned her head away again in the next instant. She pinched her cheek and looked at Zhou He again. Her expression softened a lot. She pouted and complained unhappily, "I said before that I could shut down this test site by myself."

"Haha, it's my fault, but isn't it good to let everyone experience what it's like to fight against the Sirens' high-end combat power?"

Zhou He licked his lips and admitted his mistake with a smile.

From Xuefeng's perspective, he did go through a lot of trouble, but in the end, she still managed to clear the test site all by herself.

"That's right."

Yukikaze snorted twice. She was quite surprised that Yuudachi's side could actually defeat Agent VI. After all, although VI was a submarine mother and her surface combat power was slightly weaker, she was still strong enough to annihilate an ordinary fleet by herself. The others in 'their family' were not as weak as she had imagined.

"Ahem, in the upcoming battle, there might be more agents and executors breaking in. Should I remind you like this, or should I send you a message?"

Zhou He quickly changed the subject, but Xuefeng disagreed: "It doesn't matter how many of these grunts come. The main thing is Towa. Even if she's a replica, she still has the memories and abilities of the Arbitrator. I wonder what kind of tactics she will use."

"I don't know, wait...did she come out on her own?"

The video projection was displayed separately, so Zhou He could talk to his ship girls while looking at the map. One second he saw Yuudachi and her group approach the Eagle Union base and meet with the people there, and the next second he saw a large red dot emerge from the fog area in the center of the map.

Arbitrator Tova, in the system's 3D avatar, is a woman radiating a bluish light, rendered as if she were not of this world. Her eyes, flashing with data, show no emotion. From this avatar alone, one can tell that she is a powerful figure.

"Perfect, let me experience what it's like to fight against the arbitrator."

Xuefeng's eyes instantly turned sharp, prompting Zhou He to pay attention to the distance and movements between Tova and her. Even she felt uneasy about Tova's ability to digitize people. She wasn't afraid of being digitized, but the other powers that this ability could develop and extend into would probably be very troublesome.

"Ah."

Zhou He breathed a sigh of relief. The core area of ​​the test site was the closest to the five ship girl bases. The previous battle was actually dozens of miles away from the White Eagle Base. Xuefeng had been chasing the two fleeing builders for so long, but in reality, the distance between the two sides was only a little over a hundred nautical miles. He kept an eye on Towa's position and would give a notification every time the two approached within five nautical miles.

When one is highly focused, the passage of time becomes less important. After twelve reports, the distance between the two sides had closed to fifty nautical miles, and was still approaching.

Suddenly, Zhou He saw Towa accelerate, and it was an exaggerated acceleration, almost five times its original speed. He immediately said, "Xuefeng, Towa seems to have used some kind of ability. Be careful to avoid the attack."

"understood."

Yukikaze noticed it too; a high-energy signal in her radar was hurtling straight toward her. It was incredible; the speed had exceeded 100 knots. In just three minutes, the enemy appeared right in front of her.

Suddenly, a huge black stone circle with inscriptions appeared in mid-air, flashing with cyan light. A ship-like creature resembling a whale leaped out from within and charged directly at Yukikaze. Yukikaze's wolf reacted quickly and jumped to the side, avoiding the collision.

After leaving a huge splash, the whale-shaped vessel swam underwater and then surfaced, opening its mouth to reveal a girl with a crown floating on her head. She sat sideways on an extended seat inside the whale's mouth. As the whale emitted a bluish light, the girl's entire body also shone with a bluish light. Under this light, her clothing locked several joints of the girl, and from the front, she looked like a rough-hewn humanoid robot.

"So it was Totoro. He was following those dim-witted chess pieces the whole time, but you managed to fool him."

Towa looked down at Xuefeng, propping his cheek with one hand and waving his other hand forward as he spoke.

"!!"

Xuefeng instinctively sensed danger and spurred the white wolf to quickly leave the spot. The next second, the sea surface where she had just stood was as if it had been sliced ​​open. The entire seawater turned into data points and floated into the air. Even the seawater that surged up afterward turned into data, resulting in a sinkhole that was more than 30 meters long, more than 4 meters wide, and more than 10 meters deep that could not be filled.

"What kind of attack is this?"

The stunning visual effects caused Zhou He and Xuefeng to break out in a cold sweat. They finally realized what Tovana's data control capabilities meant. The test site they were in was a world built entirely of data, and Tovana's ability to manage data meant that she controlled the entire world.

"The Purifiers of the Experimental Agency would rather surrender to you than let me leave this world, probably because they are afraid that I will affect the mainframe. Fools are always self-righteous."

Tova's gaze shifted, and sensing danger, Yukikaze jumped away again. However, the attack did not stop. Countless invisible attacks followed Yukikaze. Wherever she went, the sea was ravaged, as if sliced ​​open like a cake.

"It seems that this Tova in front of me cannot directly erase the data related to me. He can only eliminate my existence by attacking the space I am in and taking advantage of the characteristics of the space."

While dodging, Xuefeng guessed the limit of Towa's ability. After all, this guy was just a replica. If he were the real Arbitrator, he would have been eliminated in the first move.

In other words, Tova's seemingly mysterious attack has a limited range—it's highly unusual that he launched a large-scale attack yet still left room for evasion.

"What an agile Totoro! Let me see your attack."

Seeing that he couldn't hit Yukikaze, Tova stopped wasting his energy and, with a simple movement, calmed the sea that had been cut open, quietly watching Yukikaze.

"What an arrogant fellow."

Xuefeng frowned. The two were dozens of meters apart, but Towa's voice was clearly audible. After thinking for a moment, he glanced at Zhou He and said, "I need to focus on the battle. I'll contact you again when it's over."

"Well, be careful."

Zhou He didn't think much of it, gave his instructions, and then cut off the communication.

After cutting off the video, Yukikaze gently patted the side of his white wolf. Without a word, the white wolf started running: it did not step into the area that Towa had touched, but instead leaped rapidly through the gaps to approach Towa, who quietly waited for Yukikaze to launch an attack.

However, Yukikaze had no intention of firing the cannon at all. After a running start and a jump, White Wolf pounced directly on Towa.

"You're planning to use my artillery resonance to open an external passage to this testing ground, aren't you? Idiot! How could I possibly let you out!"

Yukikaze taunted loudly from mid-air. Towa, whose plan had been exposed, frowned. The whale-shaped armor closed its mouth to block the white wolf's attack. However, this was exactly the effect Yukikaze wanted. The white wolf smashed the whale's outer armor with one claw, then opened its mouth and bit the metal layer inside, digging into the whale-shaped armor like a dog digging in the dirt!

Most of the ship girls' abilities come from their ship equipment, and the Siren is no exception. Towa can eliminate the data life in the test field, and she can also eliminate her own existence, but she is not yet able to cut her own ship equipment so precisely.

Therefore, after being attacked at close range by Yukikaze, a very muffled sound wave was emitted from inside the whale. The sound wave made Yukikaze feel a tightness in her chest. When she came to her senses, she found that a large number of fish-shaped floating cannons had appeared around her and were launching beam attacks at her.

The beam of light pierced through Yukikaze's protective layer, but not her body. However, the pain from being burned by the high-temperature beam was still unbearable. With multiple parts of her body burned by the beam, Yukikaze gritted her teeth and thought of Yuudachi's usual fighting style. Her eyes turned gloomy: "Damn it, I didn't want to use this move."

The white wolf let out a howl, then its two main cannons aimed at the whale-like armor layer that was almost within reach—

boom!

A deafening explosion rang out, and the whale, which was tens of meters long, was instantly knocked down by this blast. Its huge body crashed into the sea, and its head emitted a huge plume of black smoke. Upon closer inspection, its head was almost completely blown apart. Through the large hole, Xuefeng, who was confronting Tova, could be seen, completely unharmed.

"The repair was completed within seconds of the damage being done. Is that damage control technology?"

Towa looked at Yukikaze with a strange smile on her lips and the unharmed white wolf beneath her, realizing that her calculations had gone wrong. She hadn't anticipated Yukikaze's ferocity. The point-blank artillery fire didn't allow enough time for spatial resonance, and even if it had, with her ship equipment destroyed, she wouldn't have had the strength to guide that force to break through the world barrier.

"Bye-Bye."

Yukikaze wanted to mock Tova, but she knew that Sirens at the Arbitrator level recovered very quickly, and every extra word she uttered would increase the risk of a counterattack.

Instead of firing the cannon, the White Wolf stepped forward and slapped Tova to the ground, finally executing him with a cannon shot at point-blank range.

Boom boom boom!

The massive whale-shaped ship was damaged from the inside. After its head was pierced, its tail was also pierced. Yukikaze, dressed in tattered clothes, rode a white wolf out from the tail and smashed the black circle that Towa had brought with him into several pieces.

"Thinking you can control everything is truly foolish."

Xuefeng left with a single sentence and headed straight for the core base of the test site in the distance. She needed to check if Towa had left any backups.

Inside the port area, Zhou He was stunned as he watched Towa being killed in less than ten minutes: "Did Yukikaze just self-destruct twice? The power was so great?"

But for such a huge boss, not a single ship was lost; that's incredibly stingy.

Watching Yukikaze rush towards the central area, Zhou He turned and sent a message to Bismarck, asking her to take a few people to 'escort' the Purifiers to the core base.

After completing the operation, he simply looked up at the sky.

Yukikaze is truly amazing; he has become deeply infatuated with her, especially her strength.

……

Shortly after Yukikaze killed Towa, the outside agent XIV successfully entered the testing ground.

As a backup plan, Zhou He used a speedboat to loudly attract Colorado's attention, informing her that they could proceed.

So, the test subject, who had just received support from Agent XIV and hadn't even had time to celebrate that the pressure was finally off her, heard a barrage of alarms and explosions. When she checked the surveillance footage, she realized that the Council's combat-use space carrier had come knocking on her door.

The countless unmanned combat aircraft with astonishing combat power flying in the sky and the two gunboats strafing the ground completely wiped out the defensive fleet she left behind, leaving them no room to maneuver.

"What happened?"

The testers racked their brains trying to figure out why the council members dared to be so arrogant on their territory. What was the arbitration body doing?

Could it be that the ship girls here have already made contact with the council, and that the council fleet that infiltrated here is here to pick them up?

Before she could think further, several figures fell from the space carrier and directly infiltrated the base.

Commander Zhou He of the Spring Water was unaware of all this. He only knew that shortly after the Council's warships approached the Siren base, the test subjects in the base suddenly appeared.

He wondered if this guy thought the other ship was easy to bully because it had fewer ships, so he took the initiative to attack? The other ship was a super warship.

He could only say it seemed so.

Chapter 199 Post-War Cleanup

"Commander, must this testing ground be shut down?"

After everything settled down, Zhou He contacted New Jersey, but her first question left him speechless.

Zhou He looked at the hint of reluctance on New Jersey's face, which was completely obscured by her, as if she had found a corner. He understood that she had empathized with the remaining ship girls in this test site—but he had never tried not to close the test site.

He glanced at the mission interface, and mission ④, Exploring the Mirror Sea, was already completed. Although it was late, the mission said to 'discover and explore a Mirror Sea, and you can get rewards based on your encounters and the completion of the exploration,' and it did not say that you had to close the Mirror Sea of ​​the destruction test site.

However, there is still a problem: the core management authority of this test site is in the hands of the Purifiers. It is useless for them to make promises; we must first win over the Purifiers.

After thinking for a moment, Zhou He nodded to New Jersey: "I'll try my best. You can stay in New Jersey tonight and come back tomorrow."

The Siren base outside, including the testers, is already destroyed. The Colorado fleet seems to have used a kind of shuttle technology, disappearing directly out of his sight. The Council's warship technology is truly outrageously advanced.

"Yes, good luck, Commander!"

New Jersey smiled and then stepped aside, allowing Zhou He to see her surroundings. It was a blue, high-tech restaurant without particularly fancy decorations. The most eye-catching feature was the robot that carried a tray on its head and moved back and forth, its body floating in mid-air. Its overall shape resembled a blue can, but there were cursor lines on what appeared to be its neck and waist, and large eyes replaced by fluorescent lights, making it look rather cute.