Azur Lane Under the Stars

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"Okay, I understand."

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"Honestly, why does Sarah have to be on duty here?"

Saratoga waved her magic wand, looking displeased.

"Little Sarah has finally come to this new world, and she wants to go out and play!"

Lexington, standing to the side, looked at her younger sister, who was practically throwing a tantrum, and felt a headache coming on.

Little sister, it's precisely because of you that we're worried about you going out to play... If something happens, our plan to quietly make a fortune in the port area will be affected.

"Little Jiajia, don't cry... Here, Lafite."

Seeing Saratoga making a fuss, Laffey, who wanted to sleep, was a little annoyed and had no choice but to take out his treasured Laffey and give it to Saratoga.

Saratoga, be good, you've had a drink and you're not causing trouble anymore.

"I don't want to!" Saratoga pouted. "I want to go out and play!"

"Once the person who takes over the shift arrives, you can go out and play..." Lexington sighed.

“Hmm, okay…” Saratoga’s eyes lit up as she agreed.

Lexington immediately became alert: "Let's make this clear first, I'll be watching you the whole time here. Once it's time for my shift, I'll take you straight to the Commander."

"Don't worry, sister, Saratoga is the best girl," Saratoga assured her.

"I hope so." Lexington felt that an extra layer of insurance was needed, so he decided to have the company come over and keep an eye on Saratoga.

"Speaking of which, how much longer are we going to stay here?"

Bumblebee, with his hands behind his head, asked with a bored expression.

"It will probably take quite a while, but if you miss home, you can go back to the port area."

“Right now, basically, the flagship and the secretary ship are in the port area, and the other is here,” Lexington said.

"I don't want to go back. Home is where my brother-in-law is..."

The bumblebee mumbled something.

"As for the Commander, I estimate that once he's finished with his work these next few days, he'll be traveling between two different worlds. At that point, you can stay here or in the port area as you please."

“In a sense, we’ll soon have a port city as a foothold in this world…” Lexington said.

Bumblebee was puzzled: "Wait a minute, isn't this world supposed to be destroyed sooner or later? Why are we wasting resources building a port here?"

Lexington said irritably, "You think mining these things will be finished in half a month or a month? It'll probably take at least half a year. There are so many sisters in the port, and the Commander can't just live under their noses forever, can he?"

“That’s true…” Bumblebee said.

Lexington suddenly narrowed his eyes and said, "Enterprise is back. Bumblebee, go pick them up."

"Okay~" Bumblebee went off lazily.

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"This world is quite interesting."

The Observer and the Builder also arrived in this world, accompanied by Nagato and Jean Bart, who looked around with a hint of curiosity.

“A broken world, that’s interesting…” the builder said.

The observer chuckled: "Don't you think that when you know the world is about to be destroyed, the ship girls and humans will make some kind of decisions, or have some kind of reactions?"

"It's really something to look forward to."

Nagato frowned as well: "This seems to be a philosophical question, doesn't it?"

"Pretty much. I've observed many worlds, and each world is different from the others, just like there are many snowflakes, but no two are the same."

The observer gently stroked his lower abdomen: "I'm so curious, how will the world react?"

"Stop joking around here, let's find them first. Where are the young master and Strencus?" The Builder was already used to the Observer's occasional eccentricities.

"Let me see... What a coincidence, the young master is in that area of ​​the observation point, Strencus..."

The observer closed one eye, seemingly looking at something, and when she mentioned her colleague from the arbitration body, her gaze became strange.

"Strencus has been kidnapped by Essex to work in the mines..."

Thinking of Strencus's dark skin, and then of what I'm doing now...

The Builder, Nagato, and Jean Bart all wore strange expressions.

“Let’s go to the little master’s side first…” the builder said.

"Wait, let's put on the disguise first..."

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"That's strange, why is that?"

"I'm so curious!"

After the observer arrived, Amagi asked him her question, and the observer pretended to be very troubled, as if he didn't know the answer either.

"Stop playing around, what's going on?" Ren Shuo snapped the observer's head impatiently.

"Is this how you treat me, someone who knows the answer? Believe me or not, I won't tell you anymore." The Observer chuckled.

“Builder, you speak.”

Ren Shuo doesn't tolerate this cunning little girl.

The builder glanced at the observer and thought, "It's because of your carefree attitude, even when it comes to serious matters, that your colleagues in the arbitration body are thinking of putting you in a sack and beating you up every few days."

"Because those research ship girls are not ship girls from this world..."

The builder explained softly.

"Not a ship girl from this world? What do you mean?"

Then the builder pondered for a moment and began a lengthy explanation, using technical terms such as quantum mechanics when in doubt and the interaction between reality and illusion.

Not to mention Ren Shuo, even Tiancheng and Zhenhai were stunned by what he said.

"Wait a minute!" Ren Shuo finally couldn't help but turn pale. "Get to the point."

"To put it simply and plainly," Zhenhai added.

"This is important... Have you read any fantasy novels?" the builder said.

"I've seen it." Ren Shuo nodded.

“That makes things much easier to explain…” the Builder said. “You see, in higher planes, the natives have higher talents, opportunities, and even cultivation levels, right?”

"Then let's compare them. The world we live in is the main plane, and this world is a parallel world, which is the lower plane."

"In this way, even in our world, gold-rarity ship girls are extremely rare, purple rarity is already considered very good, let alone rainbow-rarity ones..."

"Logically speaking, such an unstable world could not possibly give birth to these colorful rarity ship girls or research ship girls. So there is only one possibility: they did not originally belong to this world, but happened to encounter some events at the time of their birth and came here."

"But this is just your speculation. Is there any evidence?" Amagi asked, maintaining a rigorous attitude.

"Because we can locate them. They were originally from our world, but it's probably because those roughnecks in the arbitration body didn't pay attention that they ended up in this world," the builder explained.

"But the timing doesn't add up... They seem to have been in this world for a long time."

Ren Shuo suddenly realized a blind spot: "Doesn't that mean it wasn't the fault of the arbitration body, but a mistake you made when you were conducting experiments before?"

The builder guiltily looked away, while the observer was even more direct: "Heh?"

"You're making the arbitration body take the blame..." Zhenhai also found it amusing.

Spending time with the Sirens revealed that they were genuinely idiots who enjoyed backstabbing each other. If they were in a bad mood, they might twist off a Purifier's head and kick it around like a ball, then put it back on when they felt better...

They are truly united.

"Let's not talk about that. Anyway, you already have the answer you want. My suggestion is that you take all these research ship girls back with you, little master."

"Why?" Ren Shuo was taken aback.

"Anyway, you wouldn't understand the specific principles even if I explained them. After all those research ship girls leave this world, this world can last for several hundred more years," the builder said.

Ren Shuo looked on with suspicion. Was it really that mysterious?

Is this some kind of fantasy novel? These ship girls are some kind of high-ranking beings, and their arrival in a lower plane causes the entire plane to collapse...?

I feel like there's something off about the art style.

But when I think about my own daughter, many of whom have started to believe in theology, and my own mother is also a deity... then it's alright, it's not surprising that anything can happen to a ship girl.

Chapter 576 Women Shopping Are Truly Terrifying

Night fell, and Hu De, dressed comfortably in a silk nightgown, nestled in Ren Shuo's arms reading a book.

Ren Shuo was combing Hu De's hair while admiring his wife's beautiful profile.

"What's wrong? Why are you looking at me like that?"

Hu De smiled and gently touched Ren Shuo's chin with his lips.

"Nothing, just admiring my wife's stunning beauty." Ren Shuo stopped combing his hair and then pinched Hu De's cheek.

It's smooth and soft, and feels great to the touch.

"You're such a tease~" Hu De snorted, but judging from the curve of her lips, she was in a very good mood.

It seems that Ren Shuo's words were quite effective.

“Speaking of which, Commander,” Hood sat up and closed his book, “you’re salvaging the ship now, is it... salvaging the ship to save the world? Don’t you feel the burden on your shoulders has become a little heavier?”

“What’s so heavy about it? It’s not our world, and we didn’t intentionally destroy it. We can only do our best,” Ren Shuo said.

"But salvaging the ship? For the commander, that's a piece of cake, isn't it?" Hood comfortably slumped back into his favorite embrace.

Ren Shuo quietly put his arm around Hu De's slender waist, then chuckled and said, "Don't flatter me. The only ones who actually managed to salvage the ship on their own are Xia Fei, Hai Tian, ​​and Kronstadt. You guys are the main force."

“Almost, so do you need our help?” Hood asked.

"Of course, it's for the sake of this world!" Ren Shuo put on a righteous and awe-inspiring demeanor.

Hu De found it somewhat amusing: "I'll ask them what they think later, and see which of their sisters they'd like to bring over to help you out."

"Ahem... Brest belongs to Iris Liberty. There are no sister ships in the port, but she's kind of a cousin of Dunkirk?"

"As for Binjiang, there's no need to worry. Zhenhai said he can handle it as he sees fit."

Honestly, between the two ship girls, Binjiang is the easiest to deal with.

She feels a connection to the Eastern Huang ship girls, is a forthright martial arts fanatic, and is also quite guileless, seemingly lacking a strong sense of belonging to this world...

It all depends on how Zhenhai handles it.

Hu De chatted with Ren Shuo for a few more minutes, completely unaware that while she was whispering sweet nothings to Ren Shuo, the hem of her nightgown had reached her upper thighs, making Ren Shuo's eyes burn with desire.

She was thinking of continuing to read for a while, hoping to also improve her husband's literary skills.

However, amidst Hu De's exclamation, Ren Shuo picked her up by the waist and carried her to the bed.

"Didn't we agree to read books?"

With a slightly flushed face, Hu De gently tapped Ren Shuo's chest.

"There are beauties like jade in books... Can't I just skip the intermediate steps and look at my jade-like wife?"

Ren Shuo chuckled and then turned off the light.

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For the next two days, Ren Shuo stayed at home and didn't go out, while the other side was getting impatient.

Tiancheng said it was almost time, so Ren Shuo took Zhenhai and Frederick the Great out.

I was originally planning to bring Amagi, but Akagi in the port area started causing trouble again.

However, this also made Ren Shuo think that after he finished dealing with this matter, he would go back and spend time with the girls in the port area.

Moreover, Akashi said that the port area of ​​this world is almost completed, and then we will be able to travel back and forth between the two worlds without any effort.