It is Kokang and Changchun

　"No, we have more than a dozen comrades." Yixian replied, "We are just representatives. The other comrades have their own daily work or temporary tasks to complete. I'm sorry that we can't be there to greet you."

　Everyone chatted for a while, and after a while, Algeria got on the special car prepared for him by the Chinese side and was safely taken to the French Consulate General in Shanghai.

　Along the way, Algeria got a glimpse of China's level of development, the highly developed roads and railways in the Yangtze River Delta region, and the high-rise buildings in the urban areas, which all shocked her.

　"China has developed to this point. France, as a long-established power, has a solid foundation. In this respect, it can only be stronger than China. How can it be weaker than China?"

　Algerians habitually imagine that after returning home, they will definitely see taller buildings, a denser transportation network, more traffic, and faster high-speed trains in Paris.

　She casually asked the French ambassador next to her, "China's current infrastructure is truly dazzling. As a long-established power, we must be no less capable than them in this regard, right?"

　"Well..." The French ambassador hesitated for a moment, then decided to let Algeria see for herself. So he took out his phone and showed Algeria some photos of Paris.

　The ambassador showed Algeria the photos and explained, "Leaving aside the density of the transportation network, we are really no match for China in terms of tall buildings and clean streets."

　"Ah...there really hasn't been any change in these 80 years..." Algeria was surprised and disappointed when he saw that there was no obvious change from the bird's-eye view of Paris today.

　Suddenly, Algeria noticed something wrong with the picture. "Wait a minute, is this Notre Dame Cathedral? Why is there so much scaffolding? And there seem to be three or four cranes? Does maintenance require such a large effort?"

　"Well... actually, there was a fire at Notre Dame Cathedral five years ago. The fire burned the entire building beyond recognition... But it's almost repaired now, and it is expected to reopen by the end of the year." The French ambassador began to sweat profusely and had to make a good ending.

　"..." Algeria was stunned when he heard this. To use the language of anime, he was petrified and couldn't speak for a long time.

　The ambassador then began to introduce France's history after World War II, such as joining the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, having the atomic bomb, France's tough president Charles de Gaulle, confronting the United States and NATO, and creating the European Community. Only then did Algeria almost come to its senses.

　Foch sighed, "It seems like this is a blessing in disguise. France fell completely during World War II, but it still managed to maintain such a high international status after the war. I am content with that."

　The two heavy cruisers listened to the historical stories, immersed in them. Before they knew it, the car arrived at its destination. At the driver's reminder, the ambassador and the two ship girls got off the car one by one and went to rest under the guidance of the embassy reception staff.

　Chapter 425 Mogador: What is this painting?

　After a day's rest at the consulate, Foch and Algeria boarded an Air France Airbus plane that was specially sent to pick up the two ships and return home early the next morning.

　A320, flew back to France.

　After several twists and turns, Foch and Algeria joined the Atlantic Fleet under the arrangement of the French Naval General Staff, and the port of Brest was designated as the home port of Foch and Algeria.

　When the two of them first saw the French ship girl stationed here, their eyes couldn't help but linger on Suffren for a few seconds.

　Fuxi looked up and down at Suffren's style of clothing and said to the other French shipgirls, "Wait a minute, why is there a shipgirl from Central and West Asia here?"

　"..." The corner of Suffren's mouth twitched slightly. She stared at Fuxi and explained with a tired look:

　"I am the first Suffren-class guided missile frigate - the Suffren, hull number D602, a native French ship!

　A few months ago, Mogador and Volta came here to talk about it, and today you came here to talk about it too. I...ah."

　(PS: In fact, the Suffren is an air defense frigate, which is also the positioning in the ship R. However, the French call the Suffren a missile frigate. If the author describes it in the tone of Suffren, he can only write it this way.)

　Suffren rolled his eyes, pointed at his large white headscarf, and explained, "This isn't some Arab headscarf. It's a reflection of my original body's radar shield in clothing. It just looks a bit familiar, but they're completely unrelated. Remember that?"

　"I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I offended you." Fuxi was not expecting Suffren's reaction, and she apologized quickly.

　However, Suffren's introduction caught Fuxi's attention. She wanted to make up for her earlier abruptness and decided to make a friendly gesture. "Your name is quite nice. It reminds me of my eldest sister."

　"It's an honor to inherit the name of a heavy cruiser predecessor. It's a pity that if I had changed a little later, I would have become a famous ship that was inherited." Suffren made a self-deprecating joke.

　"Hmm? Are there new juniors?" Fuxi asked.

　Suffren replied, "Yes, it's the latest attack nuclear submarine that was recently commissioned. After I showed up, the name of this class of submarines was changed back to the Barracuda class. Anyway, it was originally called the Barracuda class, so there's nothing wrong with changing it back."

　Fuxi nodded in agreement.

　Algeria, standing nearby, pointed to a massive warship under construction in a distant military dock and asked, "Is that battleship being built, Monsieur Richelieu?"

　"Of course," Mogador answered before Suffren could. "This is all thanks to Mr. Macron for resisting pressure from all sides and prioritizing the construction of General Richelieu. Otherwise, the construction progress would certainly not have been so fast."

　Volta added: "Based on the current progress and construction speed, the ship is expected to be launched by the end of this year or early next year at the earliest."

　Speaking of Richelieu, Foch suddenly remembered another important person (ship). "If Monsieur Richelieu is under construction, where is Jeanne (Joan of Arc)?"

　"Oh, Senior Jeanne built it a long time ago, and she has been stationed in the port of Cherbourg." Suffren said.

　Fuxi wanted to ask why Joan of Arc was stationed in such a place, but before she opened her mouth, she suddenly realized it and couldn't help laughing. "What a good arrangement! It's a good idea to give the northern island nation some eye drops."

　Mogador wanted to ask Fuxi and the others about what they had seen and heard in China: "How was it? How do you feel about China?"

　"The time was too short. I only went to the consulate and then from the consulate to the airport. I can only say that the city is very prosperous, has a large population, and has good infrastructure. Paris is far behind." Algeria sighed.

　Fuxi is more interested in the microscopic aspects. "There's a kind of bread in China that's amazing. It's steamed, not baked, and doesn't contain any oil, salt, or sugar. It tastes much better than a baguette," he said.

　"That's not called bread, that's called steamed bun. In China, bread and steamed bun are two different things." Volta often uses TikTok, so he knows China better than his compatriots.

　"Speaking of food, I'm hungry. How about we go eat together?" Suffren suggested.

　Volta had no objection. "Yeah, let's eat early and go home early. My sister and I still have to go back."

　"Go back? Aren't you in the port area now?" Fu Xi was puzzled.

　Mogador explained: "Volta and I are originally from Toulon. We just came to Brest today to do some business and will be leaving soon."

　"Oh, I see. Okay then, let's all go eat together. It would be bad if we delay Mogador and Volta's return..."

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　The next morning, the port of Toulon

　"Crack!"

　In a dormitory, with the sound of a handle, the door opened and Mogador came in from outside, walking straight towards the quilt on the bed that had shrunk even tighter.

　Mogador grabbed a corner of the quilt, threw it open, and shouted, "Vicious, get up!"

　"Oh...no~" The evil girl in pajamas lay on the bed, buried her face in the pillow, her tone full of reluctance.

　"It's your fault for making such a stupid mistake in the last drill. Extra training on the weekend is your punishment. This is an order from our superiors!" Mogador grabbed the vicious fake rabbit ears and lifted her head from the pillow.

　A sleepy protest was written all over the vicious face. "Just five more minutes of sleep will be fine... I must..."

　"What I, Mogador, hate most is people who have no sense of time.

　Or a boat. I'll count to three... No, forget it. Mogador thought for a moment, not wanting to waste time talking to Vicious. She simply grabbed Vicious's arm and dragged her out of the room.

　Compared with the Utopia-class boiler, the Mogador-class boiler has a more compact design and more efficient output, reaching a terrifying 12 horsepower, which is about a quarter more powerful than the Utopia-class.

　Therefore, Vicious has no advantage at all in a wrestling match with Mogador, which is why it was Mogador who came knocking on the door this time instead of Fantasy (Mogador came knocking on Vicious's door on Fantasy's behalf).

　Vicious could only mutter and throw a tantrum while struggling feebly as Mogador ruthlessly dragged him to the training ground.

　……

　After Mogador threw Vicious to the training ground and handed her over to Kongxiang and the other ships, she returned to her dormitory to deal with her own affairs, such as hobbies and entertainment.

　She pulled out her phone and scrolled through the messages. She saw that the official Kanb had released a summary of the seventh anniversary livestream. Clicking on it, she saw that the seventh anniversary was a major event for the magic team, and Mogador instantly piqued her interest.

　"Okay, okay, let me see what ships there are."

　As Mogador clicked on the new ship illustrations one by one, her relaxed brows gradually tightened, until she saw the illustration of her own ship B, and she completely froze.

　"No... what the hell is this drawing? I couldn't even notice where the ship equipment was at first glance. If you didn't know, you might think it was a character from some ancient fantasy game." Mogador stared at these portraits and complained with the expression of an old man on the subway looking at his phone.

　"Ship B drew me as a big sister with a huge body, which is fine, I even support it. But what kind of idiotic design is that with the torpedo launchers in front of the main guns? It takes ten years of brain hemorrhage to come up with that kind of design.

　The most obvious signature feature of our class of destroyers—the massive gunnery clock atop the bridge—is completely absent from Ship B. "I don't understand what Manchu is trying to do by not even drawing the most obvious signature feature," another complaint.

　Then Mogador gave an overall review: "Although it looks very impressive, the entire picture is supported by various decorations that have nothing to do with the original ship.

　The ship's equipment appears so small and inconspicuous among these decorations. It is not difficult to find in the overall composition that the ship's equipment is placed at the edge. There is even reason to suspect that the ship's equipment is deliberately obscured by the decorations in the Arthas one. Isn't this putting the cart before the horse?

　And I don't know since when, Ship B always likes to add some inexplicable things into the screen space that should be used to display the elements of the prototype ship. This new ship is a vivid example.

　Moreover, the situation where these background objects and decorations seriously occupy the screen and rely on them to maintain the appearance, hindering the display of prototype ship elements, tends to expand.

　This time, the characters might get full marks, but the ship equipment can only be given a failing grade. After the German Z23 visited the Manchu headquarters, Manchu did have a period of improvement in ship equipment... but it seems that within less than a year, it has returned to its original state.

　"If you evaluate Azur Lane as a general second-person game, it's excellent. But if you evaluate it as a military anthropomorphic second-person game, it's unsatisfactory."

　At this moment, Mogador suddenly remembered a Chinese proverb: "If you don't fight for three days, the tiles will fall off the roof."

　Just like the Kancolle fan fiction, the real-life Kancolles all firmly stand on the side of military otaku and the party of ship outfit research when it comes to ship outfits and research.

　There's nothing wrong with using changes in the player base as an excuse for Huang Ji's "decline" in this regard. However, the purpose of this explanation isn't to linger, or to affirm the status quo; it's to negate the negation, to criticize the status quo, and to push things toward a positive direction.

　Mogador was also puzzled and complained, "If some people find it troublesome to research, don't there exist KanColles in real life? If you have any research questions, just send a private message or email to our social media account."

　Although Huang Ji is about to be born, I have never received any message from Huang Ji asking me for information on historical military research. It is obvious that I have an attitude problem because I don't know how to make use of such a convenient source of information.

　Or does Huangji think that my image comes from the neighboring KanR, and that KanR and KanB have a feud, so he's afraid that asking me will be criticized? Come on, Huangji, if you can even downplay the opinions of the KanRist fans, why should you care about those extreme players with mental problems?

　The real-life KanColles also know about the group battles between KanColle and KanColle in the early years, but they don’t care, or they think that such fights between players are meaningless.

　This kind of exaggeration has happened many times in history. Some people not only have not learned any lessons, but have taken pleasure in it, which is quite extreme.

　Mogador shook his head, sighed, put down his phone, leaned back in his comfortable ergonomic chair, and thought:

　"If Huang Ji feels the deadline is tight, he can contact Miss Tirpitz from Germany. She's also a master painter, and her illustrations are impressive even for a ship like Ship B. She's also happy to help with Ship B or Ship R, and her production efficiency is high. It all depends on whether you mind the criticisms of extreme players.

　Some shipbuilders have privately messaged us, asking when we'll launch a counterattack against the Yellow Chicken headquarters with naval gunfire. They'll lead the charge. While this was just a joke, the comedy is inherently tragic, reflecting the difficult situation facing shipbuilders today.

　Our support has given the shipbuilding party more confidence to fight against various wrong thoughts.

　"But we can't directly influence the yellow chickens. Besides giving our opinions to the authorities, we can only complain in updates or videos. What else can we do? There's nothing we can do."

　It is worth mentioning that after the French event was broadcast, some radical members of the ship suit party who sent private messages to real-life ship girls even hoped to cooperate with real-life ship girls to create an "Azur Lane R".

　Then they used extremely excellent historical and ship equipment research to dethrone the legitimacy of "Azur Lane", just like the players of Girls' Frontline 1 declared "Girls' Frontline 2: Rerelease" as heresy.

　"Everything else can be said to be Girls' Frontline, but the only thing that is not Girls' Frontline is Chase and Release" - Girls' Frontline 1 player.

　As for the copyright issue, these radical members of the ship suit party said that as long as we do not commercialize it, distribute it for free in the name of secondary creation, and do not enable in-app purchases, there will be no problem.

　The imaginations of these people shocked the real-life shipgirls. Even they found it difficult to remain calm and tried to persuade these irritable guys to calm down.

　Chapter 426: Read more good books and don’t read bad books.

　Continuing from the last time, if the radical factions of the Kanpei Party really follow their approach and create "Azur Lane R", the label of "Freemasonry" that the Azur extremists have put on Kanpei R will be confirmed.

　The so-called "Second-Gate Freemasonry" refers to a few Azur Lane extremists who believe that whenever there's any kind of rumbling or sharp criticism in Azur Lane, they're convinced that "Banion" is behind it. It's like the Israelis constantly accusing their opponents of being Hamas.

　In the eyes of these people, the "Bananlings" are all-powerful and like an unfathomable existence, controlling everything behind the scenes and messing up Azur Lane, so they are described as "Second-level Freemasons".

　Of course, we are not seriously denying the existence of "Bananlings", as extremists exist in every game; but can some individuals use their brains to think about it? If "Bananlings" really have such power and strength, would the popularity of KanColle be so lukewarm today?

　Brains are good things, but unfortunately some people don't have them.

　All in all, the seventh anniversary event of the Yellow Chicken has disappointed and even angered many people who love ship equipment. Some people who love ship equipment are even unwilling to pay any currency for this event. To put it bluntly, they are boycotting krypton.

　Lao Zhan from Hainan, yes, he is the boyfriend (wei) friend (hun) (fu) of Comrade Changchun. As an old man who has been in the military for 8 years, he is naturally a seasoned soldier of the ship equipment party. He is naturally quite dissatisfied with the ship equipment of the seventh anniversary of Azure.

　To express his resolve, he announced in his group chat that he had decided to go on a payout boycott. Everyone was shocked by his words.

　As a legal game, Azur Lane may not be the best in terms of erotica, but it is definitely one of the best.

　Many male gamers simply can't control their desire to spend money and flock to it. Those who don't spend money are considered oddities, and even suspected of being eunuchs or homosexuals.

　Therefore, LeBron James' decision to boycott spending money was considered incredible by his group friends, who couldn't help but wonder if he was just trying to get some dirty pictures.

　Less than ten seconds after LeBron James finished speaking, a stubborn group member (Group Member A) forwarded a chat record, which was a picture of St. Louis's swimsuit leather. St. Louis's leather drum was sticking out directly at you, only covered by water-soaked, gauze-thin fabric.

　Group members in the chat history pointed out that after increasing the contrast of Saint Aunt's skin, it can be found that the area between the two thighs that makes men most distracted is obviously the seam!

　"The painter's craftsmanship is indeed ingenious, but the difference between humans and animals lies in rationality, in the fact that the eldest can control the second." Lao Zhan snorted contemptuously, indicating that he was serious about boycotting krypton.

　The stubborn group member continued to instigate, as if he wanted to change James's mind: "Don't you think it's too big?"

　Then she released the portrait of the ship B Arthas and the swimsuit skin of the ship B Mogador. The original skin portrait of this Arthas alone is enough to attract attention.

　The thin blue belt passed through the equator of the breasts, leaving no other unnecessary cover. In addition, there was another vertical blue collar ribbon that passed through the valley between the two mountains, lowered down and passed under the blue belt on the equator, and the length reached to the crotch.

　The composition of the entire picture is so stunning that almost everyone who sees it can't help but pull on the tie.

　"Oh, so you're using this to test a future Communist Party member?" Old Zhan tilted his head back slightly and chuckled calmly. Then he saved all the erotic pictures he had just posted.

　It's important to clarify here that not spending money on the game is not spending money on the game, and looking at erotic images is looking at erotic images; these are two different things. LeBron James's collection of erotic images doesn't affect his strike against spending money, and it can actually help him maintain his commitment to the strike, so why not?

　The criticism is about the ship suits, not the beautiful girls. The krypton boycott is a protest against Huang Ji's messing with the ship suits, not against beautiful girls. The two cannot be conflated to expand the scope of the attack. We must have a clear mind. This is dialectical thinking, not betrayal of the revolution.

　At this time, another group member (Group Member B) in the group gave Lao Zhan a helping hand: "I don't care about things like astringency. I personally appreciate the well-rounded image of women, that is, the unity of outer and inner beauty."

　"Good, you are worthy of being a cultured person!" Lao Zhan gave a thumbs up in his heart and liked the speech of this group member.

　"But KanB is a boring game (dog head), and KanR has also become boring (dog head)." said group member A.