Azure World, Port Area.
With the Shi Kong Tong Dao opening again, the Star Sea Alliance began to fulfill the trade and research agreements signed by both sides.
As a reward for the Vanguard Fleet’s assistance in building the world, Earth would regularly provide the port area with corresponding resources such as metals and oil.
Essex, accompanied by dozens of Bu Li, landed at the port, fully loaded with minerals.
Of course, they also brought with them some technical materials copied by Akashi.
“So much stuff?!”
Even from the perspective of Enterprise, a wealthy white eagle aircraft carrier, the resources sent by Lu Chen were incredibly abundant.
It was roughly equivalent to half a year’s worth of consumption for the port area under normal circumstances.
“We further expanded the mining area in the Balkan Peninsula, Earth’s resources are still very rich.”
“Especially now that no one is competing with us, all the oil and rare metals in the world are ours, we can have as much as we want.”
Shirayuki crossed her arms, proudly answering while directing the Bu Li to unload the cargo.
No matter how large the port area was or how many resources it had in stock, it could not compare to an entire Earth.
Bi Lan Shi Jie was an ocean planet, making it extremely difficult to develop resources on the seabed. They often encountered blockades by the Sirens.
On the other hand, Earth’s resource output was completely dependent on the mining speed of the Bu Li and the Manjuu.
A total of a few hundred people, consuming oil like water every day, and using ore for skipping stones, they still wouldn’t run out.
“Wow——”
The welcoming fleet girls showed envious expressions.
They originally thought that the Vanguard Fleet, after arriving in another world, would be going to clear the land.
Unexpectedly, the conditions there were much better than they imagined.
“Besides those, the Commander said he hopes the port area can quickly begin research on the new technologies.”
Essex handed several thick stacks of materials to Enterprise.
“Can the port area quickly manufacture these weapons and equipment and put them into actual combat to assess their usage effects?”
Enterprise curiously flipped through a few pages.
The materials provided by Lu Chen and Akashi were mainly several novel weapons and equipment from the Gundam world, such as plasma cannons, beam sabers, handheld energy shields, thrusters, and so on.
These things were something the fleet girls at the port had never seen before.
“Plasma cannons are fine, but what is this beam saber?! A melee weapon? Do we need to study it?!”
“And what’s this mental induction framework? It allows humans to control mecha using their minds?! Don’t we have the Mind Cube and ship equipment?”
Several fleet girls responsible for research were speechless.
“Doesn’t Ayanami use a ship-cutting sword… After you make the beam saber, you can let Ayanami try it out.”
“Regardless of whether it’s useful or not, it wouldn’t hurt to try every technology, if there’s something powerful, then we’ve gained something, right?”
Essex gently persuaded.
“Alright, we will test all the technologies one by one. Please thank the Commander on my behalf.”
Enterprise finally nodded and agreed.
…
A few days later.
Deep sea.
This was a place deep in the ocean, far from the port area, it was also the domain of the Sirens.
Thousands of oddly shaped unmanned warships covered in red and black shells were cruising on the surface of the sea, they were emitting black mist.
Siren warships were also divided into destroyers, cruisers, battleships, and aircraft carriers according to their tonnage.
However, above the mass-produced warships, each area had high-level Sirens responsible for managing their subordinate fleets.
Located in the center of the Siren fleet was a Siren fleet girl sitting on a shark-shaped ship equipment, she had white hair and yellow eyes, a long ponytail, and was wearing a sailor uniform—Purifier.
“Ahhhh——”
“So boring——”
Purifier was lying on her ship equipment, sunbathing.
The Sirens were unlike the fleet girls, the low-level mass-produced ships were mindless. She was alone, floating in a vast ocean, with barely anyone to talk to.
She could only bully the fleet girls in the port area for fun.
Unfortunately, as the war entered a stalemate, both sides couldn’t do anything to each other, they often just glared at each other from hundreds of nautical miles away.
She was even more bored.
Suddenly, the reconnaissance fleet ahead issued an alert:
“Warning, 177 nautical miles ahead, a fleet of Azure Lane ships detected.”
“A total of 55 people, approaching at 30 knots per hour.”
“?!”
Purifier instantly perked up.
“Hiding in the port area, I was still afraid of you, but you actually dare to come out and cause trouble?”
“Tsk tsk tsk, are those fleet girls taking their medicine wrong?”
She immediately commanded the fleet to prepare for battle.
55 fleet girls, in terms of scale, was a considerably large fleet and could not be underestimated.
124 nautical miles…
87 nautical miles…
55 nautical miles……
On the surface of the sea, one could vaguely see those girls charging toward them on the waves.
“Aircraft carriers, prepare……”
Purifier stopped halfway through her order, suddenly stunned, her outstretched hand paused in mid-air.
She noticed that the opposing fleet girls were different from the ones she had seen before.
To be precise, their equipment was different.
Leading the way was the white eagle flagship, the strongest aircraft carrier, Enterprise.
She had not materialized her ship equipment at all, she was holding a deep red glowing lightsabre about 2 meters long in her left hand and a pale blue energy shield in her right hand.
She charged towards the Siren fleet with a fierce momentum.
The fleet behind her was no different, each person was holding strange beam sabers.
“What the heck is this?!”
“Where are your ship equipments?”
Purifier was completely dumbfounded.
She had been fighting the fleet girls for years, and she had never seen the opposing side use this kind of tactic and weaponry.
It felt like a group of swordsmen and shield-bearers were charging towards her on the surface of the sea.
“Charge!!!”
“Everyone, be careful, this time is to test new weapons, don’t linger in battle!”
Enterprise loudly instructed the other fleet girls.
“Understood!”
Kaka-la-la-la—
The fleet girls rushed into the Siren fleet with their lightsabers and hacked wildly.
They chopped up the small destroyers and escorts into pieces, and the armor of the aircraft carrier and battleship-class ships suffered a lot of damage.
Then, just as the Siren fleet had formed their ranks and prepared to retaliate.
“Retreat!!”
With a command, the destroyer girls set up smoke screens, and everyone immediately retreated in an orderly manner.
They vanished from the surface of the sea in an instant, leaving behind a chaotic battlefield.
As they retreated, several fleet girls were taking out their notebooks to record something:
“First experiment, MA-X200 type beam saber, moderate manufacturing difficulty, low resource consumption.”
“Can effectively penetrate the defenses of Siren ships below the cruiser level, but cannot cut through battleships and high-level Sirens, Ayanami said it’s not as good as her ship-cutting sword…”
“Suggest ways to improve power……”
“……”
Purifier sat on the surface of the sea, looking at the fleet girls who came and went like the wind, she was confused:
“What are they doing?”
“Using me as an experiment?”
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(Pictured: Purifier with big, cute eyes)