It is Kokang and Changchun

　After the elevator reached the first floor, zyts's father hurried to the parking space reported by zyts. However, when he saw the car, he was stunned.

　"You kid! You don't like the Lexus I bought you, so you bought a Volkswagen Santana 2000?!" His father was shocked and started to scold him.

　"Hey, Dad, how can you say that? This thing is a magical car that is as famous as Wuling Hongguang. It is a witness to the friendship between China and Germany and carries the vicissitudes and memories of your generation. The most important thing is that this car is cheap now, so why not buy it?" zyts explained for himself.

　Chapter 388 Daily Life of Chinese People (2)

　"This car wasn't cheap back then. If you calculate it by purchasing power, its price back then was much higher than the Lexus I'm going to buy you now. I have no objection to you buying a new Santana, but how desperate are you to buy a Santana 2000?"

　Zyts's father never understood why his son was unwilling to buy a Lexus and insisted on buying this old car that was once everywhere.

　"It wasn't cheap back then, but it's cheaper now," Zyts explained. "Besides, a car is just a means of transportation. We're not playing Horizon to pursue the ultimate performance of the car. Besides, mine is 70% new, and the whole car cost less than 30,000 yuan."

　My father sighed and said, "Alright, alright, as long as you're happy. I'm just worried if you can find a girlfriend with this car. It's not just that the car is old, but more importantly, the cartoon characters on the car..."

　Zyts's father looked at the stickers on the left side of the car. On the rear door was a high-definition illustration of Ningguang—yes, it was Ningguang from Genshin Impact. On the front door was a quote from the character: "Earning one more Mora, what's the harm in that?"

　"What if my girlfriend only likes this car?" Zyts curled his lips unwillingly. You know, Z23 drives a Volkswagen Passat B2 (the prototype of the Santana in China).

　Due to historical and economic and industrial reasons, it is not difficult to buy old cars in Europe and the United States. Otherwise, old cars would not appear on the streets from time to time in American blockbusters. Such a street scene with old cars running around is very rare in China.

　However, the Soviet Union and Eastern European countries are an exception, because the private car industry in these countries is really not good compared with that in the West and Japan.

　From the 50s to the 80s, some Eastern European cars were exported to China. Due to their simple structure, high fuel consumption, low reliability and comfort, they were called the "Four Broken Things in Eastern Europe" by the Chinese people, which can be used to judge the difference.

　Since these cars were despised by ordinary Chinese people at that time, one can imagine what their quality was like.

　As a spiritual East German with a passion for old cars, Niemi couldn't stand the two crappy cars, Satellite and Skoda, so she had to choose Volkswagen; after all, the brand name Volkswagen can also be very popular (VW is the abbreviation of the word "people's car" in German), which suits Niemi's taste.

　Zyts's father saw through his son's true thoughts at a glance and pointed out directly: "You've said so much, but you're actually talking about that German girl from before, right? Daddy can tell you, inter-provincial long-distance relationships rarely have a good ending, let alone international long-distance relationships. You have to think it over carefully."

　"..." zyts was speechless for a moment. He knew that what his father said was true. What's more, Nimi-chan was a German military personnel. It was impossible for this to lead to a happy love relationship.

　But he just likes the feeling when Z23 chats with him, likes to see Z23's serious and cute little adult look, likes her ambition and learning ability, even though Nimi-chan's personality has brought some troubles to zyts - such as major revisions to the novel.

　As long as Nimi can chat with him more and teach him more knowledge in a day, from a subjective point of view, it is equivalent to being in love for a day. Even if Z23 reduces communication due to objective reasons in the end, I still think it is worth it.

　If she can't be my wife, I can still be my girlfriend. And if she can't be my girlfriend in the future, I can still be my friend, right? At least that's what Zyts said he thought.

　If this were a second-generation game, such a plot arrangement would definitely be criticized to death by players, and keywords such as "hardcore and not otaku-friendly", "turtle man", and "self-green" would follow one after another in the game comment area.

　But Zyts is a person who understands reality. In his view, girls in reality are independent, living people who have their own lives. He should never force others to do things according to his own subjective likes and dislikes.

　Zyts said to his father, "Dad, I have my own thoughts and discretion, so don't worry about it. I want to try the car again, do you want to take a ride?"

　"No, you can drive it yourself." The father showed no interest in his son's car. "I saw and rode this car a lot when I was young. Only young people today, who have never ridden in it or have ridden in it very rarely, feel nostalgic for old cars that only exist in their childhood memories."

　"By the way, be careful when you go out driving. It's better to give up a minute than to rush for a second." Before going upstairs, the father left zyts a safety reminder.

　"I know, it's okay." After watching his father go upstairs, zyts put on his sunglasses again, opened the car door, sat back in the driver's seat, and turned the key to start the engine.

　"Cough cough cough cough - boom!" The unique sound of a fuel vehicle igniting was heard.

　At the same time, a very old-fashioned electronic female voice sounded: "Let driving become a pleasure - owning a Santana, you are not afraid to travel around the world. Shanghai Volkswagen once again wishes you a safe journey~"

　As soon as the voice fell, it was replaced by the sound of a song from the FM music station: "Let the gold flow drunkenly, the night is just beginning, how chicken liver is pressed here (people gradually get drunk, the night is getting deeper, at this moment how close) ~" (Guess which song this is?)

　"Wow, it starts with a hit song from the 90s, quite fitting for the occasion." Zyts smiled. He had heard this song played by his parents when he was a child, so he was quite familiar with it.

　"But this is Jiangsu and Zhejiang, it would be better if it were Wu dialect songs." As a Huzhou native, he still hopes to get Wu dialect songs randomly, but unfortunately such things are very rare.

　zyts once again examined the interior of the car, which gave it a sense of historical weight and corresponding sentimentality, especially the pendant with Chairman Mao's portrait hanging on the center rearview mirror, with the words "Safe Entry and Exit" written on the back.

　The car has a sense of age, but not entirely. A small Z23 figurine sits in the center of the horizontal platform below the windshield, and combined with the pain stickers on the car, it doesn't quite fit in with the late 90s style of the car.

　This might seem like a negative assessment, but it's not. Rather, this contrasting visual impact is a unique kind of art and enjoyment. Just like how some people's playlists have the passionate "Internationale" on the top and the nerdy "Love Cycle" on the next.

　"Okay, let's drive out for a spin now. We won't have many opportunities to drive in the future." Zyts bought the car mainly for long-distance travel or to entertain guests when necessary. He still rides an electric scooter for normal commuting.

　As he spoke, Zyts released the parking brake and shifted the car into R gear. After confirming that there were no cars or people behind him, he lightly stepped on the accelerator and turned the steering wheel, driving the car out of the parking space. Then he drove along the inner road of the community to the gate and went out for a drive.

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　Haikou, Hainan

　Lao Zhan was using the Chalk software to practice civil service exam questions. After finishing 20 questions in the verbal comprehension exercise, he clicked the "Submit" button and the system showed that he had answered 16 of them correctly.

　When he reviewed the wrong questions, he found that one of them was wrong. Lao Zhan was very confused, "Is there something wrong with this question? Why is it wrong?"

　Lao Zhan looked at the comment section of the question and found that this question was indeed controversial. The question asked what title was suitable for the article in the question stem, and two of the options contained elements that the original title contained.

　Simply put, the original title of the question was forcibly split into two parts and placed in the options. Even more amusing, this question was a single-choice question. Mr. Zhan actually chose the option that appeared in the original title, but unfortunately, it was wrong. The other option was correct.

　"What a stupid question! Is this something a human could do?! I'm not going to do it anymore! I've already done 120 questions today! Let me play a game and relax!" LeBron James was so angry that he threw his phone away and turned on the computer.

　After turning on the computer, Steam started automatically. He opened the MuMu simulator, logged into ship R and ship B to complete the daily tasks, then turned off the simulator and brought up the Steam interface.

　LeBron James glanced at his friend list and saw a player named "Decisive and Brave Four Seasons Changchun" was offline. He felt a little disappointed. "Looks like Changchun should be back training with the team. I was thinking of playing with him."

　LeBron James had no choice but to open Battlefield 1 and continue his journey of catching fries and being caught. The first game was a very favorable one, as the enemy's reinforcements had all been lost, while we had only lost a little more than half of our reinforcements.

　"666, a good start!" Lao Zhan excitedly watched the results of the game leaderboard and the Mosin-Nagant rifle which had been upgraded by another star.

　They say that when you feel the game, you play more and more excitedly. This small test made LeBron James regain his touch after years of not practicing, and he entered the next game without hesitation.

　The next game was also one side going smoothly while the other was jailed, but James' team was the one that went to jail. Especially when James saw that he could be shot in the head by the opponent from 300 meters away no matter how he turned left and right, jumped up and down, he couldn't hold it anymore.

　"Fuck, is this a cheater? Or is this the account of some ship girl? Could it be Deep Sea?" Lao Zhan wrote down the person's ID and prepared to pick up his phone to open the battlefield assistant to check the player's detailed information and identify the possibility of cheating.

　Just as Lao Zhan picked up his phone to unlock it, a message popped up on the top of the screen saying that someone had @ed him on QQ. Lao Zhan always clicked on it immediately when he saw someone tagging him, and he clicked on it without hesitation.

　In a chat group, a member nicknamed "Po" (actually zyts's QQ number) sent a message: "The first step in the second dimension is to make a painful car (pictured)."

　The picture below is taken a closer look by Lao Zhan. Wow, it is Ningguang from the original God and the line "What's wrong with earning one more Mora?" If it were an ordinary person, it would not matter if he posted Ningguang and this line, but zyts is a social worker. Although he is not a regular employee, he also

　Is it really okay to work alongside grassroots government organizations?

　Thinking of this, Lao Zhan immediately typed: "You are a social worker, are this role and this line suitable for you? (dog head) What if you enter the system in the future and are pointed out by the Discipline Inspection Commission? (dog head)" After clicking send, he waited for zyts's response.

　A few minutes later, seeing that zyts hadn't replied for a while, Lao Zhan stopped waiting, quit QQ and opened the Battlefield Assistant applet in WeChat to check the player who was suspected of cheating.

　"Damn, he often plays infantry, has a KD ratio of 6.1, and a 70% headshot rate. I think it's probably cheating. I don't believe I'm so lucky that I can run into a giant boss's alt or a ship girl or a deep-sea fry?"

　Chapter 389: New Ship Arrives in the First Month

　After asking around in the Battlefield 1 related online communities about the ID of the suspected cheating player, Lao Zhan found that no one knew this person.

　According to some bigwigs in the community, the Battlefield IDs of some of the ship girls who are Battlefield players are at least well-known in the Battlefield circle, but no one has seen the ID posted by Lao Zhan.

　As James continued to scroll through Tieba, waiting for a reply, a pop-up window popped up on QQ from zyts. Clicking on it, he saw the following reply: "I don't need a car for my commute, and I saw someone in the police station with K-ON! posters plastered all over their faces."

　"Uh... maybe he didn't understand what I meant." Lao Zhan wanted to make his words clearer and typed: "This character is a big capitalist, and the lines are suspected of being materialistic (dog head)"

　Zyts was speechless for a moment, and only sent a "scratching head panda man" emoji pack instead. After half a minute, he stammered: "Ningguang's light constellation is not wealth but prosperity (bald head)"

　"Tsk tsk tsk, you can tell you're at a loss for words." Looking at Zyts who didn't answer the question, James showed the same playful smile as when Zhuge Liang debated with the scholars.

　Then another group member complained: "He is a capitalist but also an important national figure, and he is not a vampire capitalist. Moreover, the world's currency is minted in his own country."

　When Lao Zhan saw this reply, he couldn't help but laugh. "There are so many flaws in this paragraph, I really don't know where to start. It's obvious that this person's theoretical level of social science knowledge needs to be improved."

　LeBron James wasn't angry, but he wanted to jokingly argue with her (not to the point of exaggerating things), so he typed out a quick reply: "Arguing, huh? (dog head)

　Isn't this state monopoly capitalism? Private capital and state power are so tightly integrated that the state doesn't even represent the entire bourgeoisie, but rather represents the interests of a small group of oligarchs within the bourgeoisie and acts as a tool for expansion.

　Ningguang is even more awesome than Rockefeller and Morgan, because we have generally only seen monopoly capitalists supporting agents, but have never seen monopoly capitalists directly serving as leaders.

　Ningguang is able to be rich and powerful because this is a two-dimensional world (dog head). Furthermore, Ningguang is only kind to the public, but has the opposite attitude towards her peers. Peers are like enemies, isn't this one of the hallmarks of capitalist competition?

　Seeing this, the group member was speechless and said with shame, holding his forehead: "So, using the second dimension to explain reality is not reliable in the first place. There are so many young people in the new era who are taking civil service exams playing with the second dimension. If you really want to make a big deal out of it, it would be worse than a literary inquisition."

　"The result of insisting on arguing (dog head)" LeBron James saw the other side's reaction and replied jokingly.

　The discussion in the group ended here, but Lao Zhan did not stop thinking. If Ningguang, as a monopoly capitalist, can still be rich and powerful, it is because of the two-dimensional world. Then what are the personalities and values ​​of the real-life KanColles?

　Not only that, what Lao Zhan wants to figure out more is the cause and effect relationship between the ship girls in the game and in reality, but now it seems that this is a very complicated topic and not that simple.

　Because there are already many shipgirls that have appeared in real life that were not in the game before, and they are not even satellites. Instead, they appeared for a while before being implemented in the game later.

　For example, six months ago, in order to verify this causal relationship, the German Navy specifically selected a submarine, the U552, which was not implemented in other KanColle games, such as KanColle R and KanColle B, to build to see if it would produce a KanColle. (PS: I don't know whether the U552 was sunk or dismantled in reality, but in this dimension, I will assume it was dismantled, as the circle's setting requires it.)

　After all, among all ships, early submarines have the lowest trial and error costs, low cost and fast construction time, unless those patrol ships and torpedo artillery boats also have ship girls...

　As an aside, if those combat boats weighing less than a thousand tons or even less than a hundred tons had ship girls, then the destroyer girls would definitely be very happy, feeling lucky that they are finally not the weakest type of ship.

　Back when War Thunder naval battles were still dominated by bathtub battles and small boat duels, the top ship type in the tech tree was the destroyer. Driving a destroyer into battle was undeniably the most impressive thing in the room, like the endgame boss in a single-player game.

　Only torpedo boats can rely on blocking and positioning, looking for an opportunity to get close enough to launch a wave of torpedoes to be effective. In open waters, destroyers' onboard machine guns and anti-aircraft guns will teach any small boat that dares approach a destroyer a lesson. (The anti-aircraft guns of torpedo boats can be used to target the sea and are also manually operated.)

　If the enemy destroyer is of normal player level and knows not to sail into narrow waters, then except for the enemy destroyer

　Like the planes that rely on game respawn points, almost nothing can do anything to the destroyer.

　Just like how elementary school students, no matter how weak they are, can still kill in kindergarten? When Changchun encounters high-pressure situations in War Thunder, she often sneaks to the spawn point near the small boat and goes on a killing spree. According to Changchun, this allows her to experience the feeling of being a dreadnought, which is simply awesome.

　But now, back to U552. Six months later, on the second day of the Lunar New Year in 2024, the submarine was launched. After several hours of silent waiting, the crew members finally arrived at the iconic Dajian event: a flash of blue light, the ship vanished, and the girl, in full uniform, emerged from the water.

　Tall, heroic, and sharp-eyed are the three best words to describe U552. However, these are not the most eye-catching things. In comparison, the elf-like pointed ears on her temples are more interesting.

　But considering U552's overall attire and character style, it's more accurate to say they're demonic ears rather than elf ears. The mechanical horns on the peaked cap and the chain and anchor dangling from the rear, resembling a demon's tail, speak for themselves.

　This experiment proved the German Navy's conjecture correct. The traditional naval powers were delighted and dug out their old ship blueprints, intending to build replicas of their warships.

　However, an embarrassing fact is that although these traditional naval powers have many blueprints, their wallets are empty... In the current international economic environment, whoever dares to build on a large scale will be caught in the mass movement.

　So, without money, everything is useless.

　The news that Germany had built the U552 quickly spread around the world through the Internet. Manchu and Huanmeng were not very fast in keeping up with current affairs.

　After taking a look at the photos of U552's real-life online pictures, Linglan and President Lin both felt that the devil shape was more in line with the style of KanB, but because its ship outfit was realistic without dragons or sharks, they did not give the yellow chicken to their own disciples, but gave it to Huanmeng.

　A week later, Huanmeng sought U552's consent on Twitter and began looking for an artist to draw U552's portrait for an upcoming event. Furthermore, U552 expressed his willingness to voice the character if needed.

　Speaking of which, there's a welcome yet curious phenomenon: all of the KanColles, even the more introverted ones, are open to appearing in-game. Some proactive and capable ones even offer their own scripts or voice acting to the game makers.

　For example, at the beginning of last year, Bei Zhai repainted her pre-launch portrait in KanColle. She then contacted Huanmeng on Twitter and suggested replacing the old pre-launch portrait in the game with her high-quality repaint, offering a 40% discount (based on the average price in the relevant Chinese market).

　At that time, Linglan Miao was so excited that she directly replied to Bei Zhai to buy the portrait she drew. Later, in the next update, the old portrait was replaced, which made a group of Kanjuu R players ecstatic.

　On January 19, 2024, the Chinese ship girls who had been training since the New Year's Day holiday welcomed their first holiday out of camp after 15 days of non-stop training.

　The Naval Museum is one of the most frequented places for Chinese warship girls, especially the Four King Kongs, besides the Guzhenkou Naval Port in Jinan. This is because the Naval Museum needs to display their real bodies to attract tourists.

　Although the Naval Museum is now offering free admission by appointment, and visitor numbers have nothing to do with the museum's revenue, a museum with a significant drop in visitors certainly wouldn't be a good place to be. If all the boats from Changchun and Jinan were pulled away, there would be almost no boats to see at the Naval Museum's dock.

　The remaining nuclear submarines and Yangtze River gunboats require additional reservations, while the latter are small and replicas, not the originals, making them unappealing. This inevitably leads to a significant decrease in museum visitor numbers.

　Oh yes, I almost forgot about Yingtan. But compared to the more famous Four King Kongs and Jinan, which has the largest number of surface ships in its museum, Yingtan seems like a supporting role and certainly cannot compare with them in terms of tourist attraction.

　Taking this into consideration, the Navy made certain compromises with the museum. When the ship girl goes out on vacation, the main body can temporarily return to the original berth in the museum according to the ship girl's wishes, but the relevant active and cutting-edge equipment must be covered with something, and attention must be paid to the surrounding conditions of these equipment at all times to prevent damage.

　Now the Four King Kongs and Jinan's Upstream/Sea Eagle have long been replaced with Eagle Strike-83 and Eagle Strike-12A, and the ship's electrical equipment has also been modernized. Therefore, before leaving the military port and heading to Haibo, the girls have to cover these key equipment with waterproof cloth before going to Haibo Wharf.

　Now, having just returned to Jinan at the Museum Pier, she was browsing the news on her phone. Suddenly, as if she had discovered something, she excitedly called out to Changchun next to her:

　"Hey, Changchun, big news! I just checked the news on my phone. Two weeks ago, the Germans released the U552, a ship girl that's not in the game. Combined with the French Suffren and the Italian Unfear, does this mean I'll get to see my sisters someday?"

　"Hmm... I think it's possible." Changchun was happy for Jinan and said, "The last of your Type 051s was retired within the past four years, and many of them are still in existence. Who knows, they might show up one day."

　"If possible, I hope to show up today. I can't wait. I miss my sisters so much!" Jinan

　She took out a photo of the 107 Yinchuan ship from her body. This is her oldest sister currently alive.

　Jinan found a step to put the photos up, clasped her hands together and bowed three times to the photo of 107 Yinchuan, muttering, "Hurry up and become a human, Yinchuan, I miss you so much..."

　After simply clasping his hands together and bowing slightly, Jinan put the photo back and sighed, "If only we could sense and communicate with each other like in some fan fiction, there wouldn't be so many sad stories... Even if Yinchuan and the other sisters didn't become shipgirls, I could still feel their feelings."

　Anshan came up and touched Jinan's shoulders and back, comforting him, "We all exist, and Yinchuan and the others will one day have one too. Even if they don't, they can still feel the love and care in your words. Didn't you visit Yinchuan last year?"

　"That's true, but one-sided communication is really uncomfortable. I'm sure Yinchuan must have had a lot to say to me at that time." Jinan looked at Anshan, lowered his head slightly and sighed:

　"Just like back when I hadn't changed, you and Changchun would come to me every now and then to talk. At that time, I also had a lot of things to say to you, but I couldn't... I think when I talked to Yinchuan last year, she must have felt deeply melancholy and regretful that no words could express..."

　At this point, two tears welled up in Jinan's eyes. She wiped her eyes and said seriously, "Anshan, you are right. It will appear eventually. As long as my sisters and I are still here, I will wait for them until I turn into rust."

　Just as the words fell, these brave women who defended the Republic's maritime borders suddenly heard someone in the crowd shouting loudly. They all turned around to see what was going on.

　The scene before them was unnatural, but the girls seemed accustomed to it. Fushun couldn't help but chuckle and tease, "Jinan... my sister didn't wait for me, but my bestie did. This is called... 'good fortune's will, right?"

　The Type 053K Yingtan, No. 531, next to the Jinan, was seen engulfed in blue light. Since the appearance of Changchun, the "Number Zero Ship Girl," this scene has become commonplace, and everyone knows what it means.

　It was just the first time for some tourists to see this scene in person, so they couldn't help but exclaim loudly.