How to fall in love with a ship girl?

Looking at the detection base station, which was about the size of a lighthouse, Xu Huan parked the speedboat aside and asked, "According to the plan, one person will stay below and one person will go up to inspect and maintain the detector. Which one do you choose?"

"Inspection and maintenance? That doesn't sound like something I should do. It's a great favor for me to be able to go out to sea and carry out missions with you!"

Elizabeth shook her head.

"Okay, wait down there..."

At this time, a dark cloud floated over the sea where the two were, blocking the rising sun. The warm weather suddenly became a little cold, covering the entire sea with a layer of gloomy tones. In addition, the sea was too quiet, without even a wave, and the seabirds disappeared for unknown reasons.

Between heaven and earth, everywhere as far as the eye could see was blank, as if the ship girl and the young man were the only two people left.

Suddenly, Elizabeth remembered the horror stories that Befa had told her yesterday when they were chatting.

The common points among them are that the companions suddenly separated and walked alone, the weather changed suddenly, and terrifying elements began to accumulate.

When I think about it, why does it feel like it is exactly the same as what I am experiencing now?

At that time, she was listening to Befa's story nonchalantly, but she never expected that this situation would happen to her one day.

Leaving the familiar, safe and warm port area, and meeting Xu Huan for the first time, the girl suddenly felt a chill on her back due to the unfamiliar people and environment, as well as the horror story she heard yesterday. She was not used to it.

You know, she usually keeps the lights on when she goes to bed at night, and this matter is top secret information of the port area, and only a few ship girls in the Royal Maid Corps know about it.

"and many more!"

Elizabeth suddenly spoke.

"Huh? Have you changed your mind? How about you go up and I'll guard here?" Xu Huan, who had already walked to the front of the detection tower, turned around and said.

"My king...Is my king going up?"

The girl glanced at the equally dark interior of the inspection tower, hesitated, and then immediately shook her head: "No, no... What I mean is, how about you go up with me?"

"Why do we have to go up together? According to the latest regulations of the port area, shouldn't someone be keeping watch nearby? After all, inspection and maintenance cannot be completed in a short time..."

After hearing the young man's very reasonable explanation, Elizabeth wanted to say something else, but before she could say anything, she was killed by another sentence from the young man:

"We want to be together... You won't be scared if you stay alone in broad daylight, right?"

Chapter 65 Ah——!

"Who's scared?!"

The girl was annoyed that Xu Huan had hit the nail on the head and said directly, "I would also say such nonsense. You should go in right now, otherwise you are afraid!"

"Tsk..."

Xu Huan was too lazy to care about anything else and simply climbed up the inspection tower, opened the door valve and walked inside.

As Elizabeth watched the young man gradually disappear from her sight, her surging blood began to calm down.

Looking at the calm sea and gloomy weather around her, Elizabeth sat in the co-pilot seat of the speedboat, her eyes uncontrollably looking towards the deep seabed below the speedboat, and her mind began to wander.

It was equally quiet underwater and on the surface of the water, with no moving creatures to be seen. The originally azure blue water seemed to be gradually turning darker as time went by, as if there was some giant monster hiding under the water, which was daunting.

"It seems that the underwater ghost that Befa mentioned yesterday is like this... It has been hiding on the seabed. It is said that it will take advantage of people's inattention to drag people and their boats to the bottom of the sea and eat them."

If Xu Huan was still with Elizabeth at this time, he would definitely wonder if he had heard this description before...

Isn't this a little octopus? They behave exactly the same.

After a while, the atmosphere seemed to become even colder, as if it was covered with a thin layer of ink.

Elizabeth gradually began to regret her stubbornness, but the words had just been spoken and she was too proud to admit it directly or bow her head, so she had to keep dragging it on. Although she had an indifferent expression on her face, her slightly trembling arms showed the girl's inner state at the moment.

You can't tell that she is a battleship girl with the firepower that can easily destroy a mass-produced Siren fleet, but she really looks like a weak little girl.

"...We must remain vigilant. Yes, we must remain vigilant."

The girl curled up in her seat, and suddenly seemed to remember that she was not that weak, so she began to mobilize her mental energy and directly summoned out her own ship equipment, pointing the black muzzle directly at the bottom of the sea.

Whenever there was any movement that she couldn't understand, she planned to let the other party taste the power of the battleship's main guns.

Thinking of this, Elizabeth's heart calmed down a lot, and her slightly trembling arms gradually became calmer.

Sufficient firepower is indeed the best way to cure phobia.

On the other side, after entering the detection tower, Xu Huan quickly came to the instrument - a small vertical tower emitting a dim blue light. It was covered with various sophisticated instruments, and status indicator lights of different colors were flashing all the time, shining on the dim walls.

It's a bit like the mind controller in an old game.

The mind detector in front of him was also designed by Bri, so after Xu Huan took a quick look at it and made sure that he couldn't understand its structure, he gave up the idea of ​​fully understanding it and began to perform simple repairs and maintenance according to the steps provided in the maintenance tool book in the port area.

The maintenance process will not be discussed here. In short, it only took Xu Huan about twenty minutes to complete all the steps.

After making sure that there was no big problem, Xu Huan was about to leave when he suddenly thought of something.

This thing...would you like to try using your own watch to help analyze it?

After all, I have done this many times when I was on missions outside before.

One purpose of the analysis is to help a newbie like me understand the use and functions of the instrument. Another purpose is that if useful data or new technologies that have never been seen before are analyzed, they can also be provided to the Human Union Research Center to help my race improve the technology tree.

But in a sense, this behavior is no different from stealing technology.

However, now that I have cut off my connection with people, the second function is temporarily impossible. All I can do is to better understand the instrument in front of me...

Moreover, given the special relationship between the commander and the ship girl, this kind of thing...can it be called stealing?

I will explain this to Jinbury when I go back. If he has any objections, I will just be more restrained next time.

Unable to resist his curiosity, Xu Huan started the analysis function of his watch.

As time passed, the young man looked at the information provided by the watch and gradually began to understand the structure and functions of the instrument in front of him.

But... there seems to be something wrong?

Looking at the data from one of the instruments, Xu Huan frowned. Just as he was about to take action, he heard slight footsteps outside the detection tower.

Hearing someone approaching, Xu Huan subconsciously activated the armor, wrapping his body and activating the optical camouflage function.

In less than half a second, the young man disappeared into the air.

The footsteps gradually approached, and it was Elizabeth who was waiting outside and was a little scared.

Although she herself had never been on a mission, she had heard the ship girls in the port area talk about the repair and maintenance process in her daily spare time. No matter how slow it was, it would only take thirty minutes.

But now, it has been almost an hour since Xu Huan came in, and during this period, Xu Huan has not made a sound.

This made the girl, who had originally felt somewhat relieved, suddenly start to have wild thoughts again.

He hasn't come back for such a long time. Could he have been killed by the legendary ghost?

Elizabeth carefully observed the dark surroundings and walked towards the direction of the faint blue light emanating from the inside of the detection tower.

"After we return to the port area, we have to increase the budget for the detection tower. At least we have to let them install all the lights..." The girl muttered as she walked slowly, and the muzzle of the ship's gun behind her was always aimed at the position in front of her.

After this period of solitude, when she was alone, nothing could give her a stronger sense of security than her own main gun.

"Xu Huan——I am here to look for you, where are you?!"

In the darkness, Xu Huan, who had activated the optical camouflage and night vision functions, looked at the girl who was walking clumsily in the dim light, and held his forehead with helplessness.

As a ship girl, in this situation, let alone activating her own ship-mounted radar, wouldn't she even use her own night vision equipment?

Elizabeth's fighting consciousness was indeed put to sleep...

He slowly approached Elizabeth and patted her gently on the shoulder.

"ah----!!!!!!"

Chapter 66: The Royal Family Infiltrated?

The girl made a frightened sound, and the muzzle of the ship's gun immediately turned towards where Xu Huan was currently standing.

But when he saw that there was no one in front of him, the original shock immediately turned into a trace of confusion.

Elizabeth immediately thought of the horror story about ghosts that had always lingered in her mind. Her heart trembled, and the dark muzzle immediately flashed with light.

If this shot were fired, not to mention the damage to the equipment in the entire detection tower, at such a close distance, Elizabeth herself would most likely suffer some damage from the explosion.

'I knew it would be like this...'

Fortunately, Xu Huan had anticipated such a situation in advance. With a slight wave of his hand, the muzzle of the gun that was originally flashing with light immediately went out as if it was suppressed by something. Then the entire ship of the girl broke into points of light and disappeared into the air.

"Don't you use your brain before you fire?" The young man removed the optical camouflage on his armor, took a step forward and left the darkness, and said helplessly, "You tried to fire so close to the wall, are you trying to kill yourself?"

"Hey...?!! Why is it you?! Why did you hide and scare me!!"

When Elizabeth saw that the ghost in the legend turned out to be Xu Huan, she first subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief, and then immediately questioned with some shame and anger.

"What do you mean by hiding? I was standing right here, you just didn't see me..."

Xu Huantian lied shamelessly and expressionlessly.

He did want to tease Elizabeth at first, so he asked Befa to lay out some horror stories in advance the day before. But after a short period of contact, he found that Elizabeth was not the kind of arrogant girl who could not communicate at all, so he gave up the idea of ​​teasing her.

As for what he just said...it couldn't be considered a tease, but more of a practical lesson for the girl.

"Don't you know you have night vision equipment? Or ship-mounted radar? Or are you more used to walking in the dark?"

"This--uh..."

The ship girl choked for a moment.

Because she was so well protected in the port area, she really didn't remember that she had these abilities...

But soon Elizabeth found a counterattack base: "It's because you stayed up there for too long... and there was no news at all, otherwise I wouldn't have come up to find you..."

"By the way... Speaking of this, I have a question for you, come with me..."

Xu Huan didn't want to argue too much, and recalled the results of his watch test just now, and spoke.

"Oh? I didn't expect that you also have things you don't understand... Hehehe, if you have any questions, just ask directly. I will definitely teach you humbly!!"

The girl smiled, revealing her two little fangs, and followed Xu Huan to the instrument with some pride. However, when she saw that Xu Huan's position was getting closer and closer to the instrument, the girl suddenly lost her confidence.

If she was asking about the instrument in front of her...she herself really didn't know much.

As the flagship of the faction, this kind of thing is generally not studied too much...

But she couldn't take back the bold words she had just said, so Elizabeth had no choice but to keep calm and follow Xu Huan to the side of the instrument.

"this thing..."

Xu Huan squatted down and, according to the functional components analyzed from the watch just now, found two small signal transmitters similar to USB flash drives fixed on the top of the instrument.

"If I'm not mistaken, these two are small signal transmitters. The detection results will be sent to the port area through these devices at regular intervals..."

"Yes...yes, of course, what's the problem?" Elizabeth nodded immediately.

"My question is... why are there two? According to the regulations in the reference book that Bree gave me, each detection instrument should only be equipped with one signal transmitter..." Xu Huan turned his head and looked at the somewhat confused Elizabeth, and placed the two transmitters on the ground.

"So we have another place in the port area to receive and analyze signals? You should be aware of this, right?"

"Another place to receive and analyze signals..."

Elizabeth frowned and thought carefully for a long time before answering with certainty: "Definitely not! Although I don't really care about these things, if you want to add a new command center, it must have my approval and signature to be effective."

"I am not to the point where I can't even remember what documents I signed or what I promised..."

"Okay, so..."

Seeing Elizabeth was so sure, Xu Huan looked at the two signal transmitters on the ground, and his eyes twitched: "An unknown force or camp has been collecting intelligence on the Royal Mind Detector? And it seems that it has been quite some time."

The signal transmitter is usually located inside the detection instrument, and it is difficult to notice it according to the usual inspection and maintenance procedures. It was only today that Xu Huan suddenly discovered that such a thing was installed on the instrument.

"An unknown force...has been stealing the royal family's intelligence?"

Elizabeth put the two words together, and the images of the Iron Blood ship girls immediately emerged in her mind.

"I know... all of this was done by the Iron Blood group!!"

Xu Huan put away the newly inserted signal transmitter and prepared to take it back to the Royal Port for testing. He was a little surprised when he heard this: "Uh... Are you sure it's Iron Blood?"

At first he was worried that it was the Siren's doing, but he didn't expect Elizabeth to lock on the target so quickly.

The girl crossed her arms across her chest in hatred. "Of course, that tomboy Bismarck didn't give me a good look when I signed the armistice agreement last time. Sure enough, she's been doing something behind my back! Come on, go back to the port with me. I want to ask them for an explanation!!!"

"Wait a minute... before returning to the port, I have to go to other sea areas..."

The young man felt a headache when he thought that the inner world of the royal family might have been penetrated like a sieve:

"By the way, send a message to every ship girl who is on patrol, and ask them to go to the nearest detection tower to take a look... I suspect that all of them are plugged in now..."