Free Web NovelChapter 927: Chapter 538: Shipgirls on Watch
However, there are far too many types of shipgirls in the Shipgirl World.
Aircraft carriers, light aircraft carriers, battleships, battlecruisers, heavy cruisers, light cruisers, destroyers, submarines....
These are just the names Shen Sui knows, and now in this world a thousand years later, God knows how many more types of ships have emerged that he doesn’t know.
The operational logic of each type of shipgirl provides different strengths; Alice deemed it essential to analyze and examine these shipgirls to fully understand the rules of this world.
In the fleet of Purple Moon, while the variety of shipgirls cannot be considered abundant, it is nonetheless a very standard conventional fleet.
Battleship Purple Moon, heavy cruiser Man Yue, heavy cruiser Blue Moon, light cruiser Zhu Yue, destroyer Zhu Yue, and destroyer Li Yue; if we include the missing Li Yue, it forms a very standard six-shipgirl ordinary fleet.
According to Purple Moon, the commander actually has two other standard fleets, but the shipgirls in them were loaned from different commanders. After the commander encountered an incident, those fleets were disbanded, and everyone returned to their own Guardian Mansions, leaving only Purple Moon’s fleet wholly abandoned by him.
Loaning shipgirls is very common in this world.
Shipgirls exemplify the saying "When it rains, it pours"—many graduates end their days with only one initial ship, while some commanders have countless shipgirls under their command.
When there are many shipgirls on hand, problems arise.
These are real-world shipgirls; even when docked at ports, they need food. Shipgirls have voracious appetites, and if the Guardian Mansion’s supplies can’t meet the demand, it can easily lead to supply shortages. To alleviate the supply pressure, commanders often loan out some non-core shipgirls, allowing them to dine at other Guardian Mansions.
Moreover, some malicious commanders intentionally loan shipgirls with enormous appetites and weak powers to disliked commanders, intending to eat their rivals out of house and home.
With Alice’s insistence and Zhu Yue’s guarantee, Purple Moon reluctantly allowed Alice to perform routine physical examinations on the shipgirls.
To Purple Moon’s relief, Alice behaved perfectly normally throughout, not like a pervert using physical examinations as a pretext for mischief.
In the following days, Alice had Zhu Yue and Purple Moon lead the fleet on a voyage to self-sustain and solve supply issues, while she searched online for the thousand-year-old history Shen Sui had mentioned.
Having spent some time in the Magical Girl World, Alice had already mastered the skills to use various modern internet devices.
Unfortunately, the investigation results were not ideal.
A thousand years ago, it seems some great disaster occurred in this world, and the history before that cannot be traced. Alice could only find records of the establishment process of the Azure Federation.
Alice found an article specifically describing that era.
[In the era ruled by the Deep Sea, the desperate Azure Ancestors found refuge at a Guardian Mansion under the protection of a group of powerful shipgirls.]
[They stood obstinately and resolutely like the only lighthouse on the ocean amidst a stormy night, sheltering the escaping ancestors.]
[They were exceedingly powerful, repeatedly repelling even the most terrifying Deep Sea Flagship.]
[Even when they ran out of ammunition and supplies, they refused to abandon their already dilapidated Guardian Mansion. According to their leader, Lexington, if they left, the commander would have no home to return to.]
[With their assistance, the Azure Ancestors began training their shipgirls and, with help from research shipgirl Xizhang, started developing and producing their own Ship Armor.]
[This generation’s developed Ship Armor is called Ancient Ship Armor in our era and remains a formidable and terrifying presence, serving as the main equipment for the Azure Federation against the Deep Sea.]
The article further briefly mentions the outcome of that powerful Guardian Mansion.
After the Azure Ancestors settled down, it seems conflicts arose among the shipgirls of the Guardian Mansion, leading to division.
One faction, led by Lexington, stayed behind to continue watching over.
Meanwhile, another faction led by Enterprise formed a fleet to take proactive action. Their intention seemed to be to search for their missing commander, but objectively, they led the Azure shipgirls in reclaiming their lands.
[Azure shipgirls followed these strong predecessors, traversing almost every sea where the predecessors had fought.]
[Though they did not find their commander, they had pioneered a vast domain for the Azure Federation.]
Upon reading this passage, Shen Sui fell into prolonged silence.
Alice later found recorded information about these shipgirls. They were considered founding heroes of the Azure Federation, permanently inscribed in its history, including... the times of their deaths and even the recovery dates of their Ship Armors by Lexington.
After all, the Shipgirl World is not a world of immortality; a millennium is indeed too long a time for shipgirls.
Before coming, Shen Sui had actually prepared himself mentally.
Yet, when he saw the familiar names presented before him as historical records, he couldn’t help but feel sorrowful.
