After understanding the basic situation of the harbor district.
Moving forward, they arrived at the beach.
Richelieu was going to show Lu Chen the technology of Azur Lane, and the power of the ship girls.
“Mr. Lu, we are born from the Mind Cube, true war machines.
“Do you know what abilities we have?”
She stood on the surface of the sea, her expression proud and arrogant.
“I’d like to hear more.”
Lu Chen smiled and gestured to the girl on the sea.
He certainly knew that ship girls had some superpowers, but in Richelieu’s eyes, he was still a stranger from another world.
It was better to let her show off her abilities.
Click—
Richelieu waved her hand, and a projection of a rather large battleship’s ship equipment appeared beside her.
Two quadruple 380mm main guns stood on either side, the bridge and command tower were located slightly behind and to the side of her body.
The pure white turrets were engraved with golden Lorraine crosses, a symbol of the free fleur-de-lis, the bottom and top were also outlined with golden patterns, the entire ship equipment was as noble and elegant as its owner.
Richelieu’s hand, at some point, had acquired a long spear, a golden ribbon tied into a beautiful fleur-de-lis on the handle.
“Beautiful.”
Lu Chen praised.
“Beautiful is not an appropriate word for a weapon of war, but I still accept your praise.”
Richelieu nodded.
“Can you project your true forms?”
Lu Chen asked curiously. He had never been on a ship girl before.
Well, he had never been on the real warship form of a ship girl.
“We can, but most of the time we prefer to fight in ship equipment form, it’s more flexible, we rarely use our true forms.”
Richelieu retracted her ship equipment, and waved her hand again.
White light flashed.
On the coast of the harbor, a battleship about 200 meters long appeared on the sea.
At close range, the main guns on the deck were even more intimidating.
The stepped command tower was dozens of meters high, surrounded by countless secondary guns, you had to look up to see the full view of this giant ship.
The lead ship of the Richelieu class battleships—Richelieu.
“Come up, you’re the first person to board her.
“I rarely invite others to board my hull, consider this an exception for you.”
Richelieu invited Lu Chen onto the deck.
“I didn’t think I’d have the opportunity to see this ship.”
Lu Chen marveled.
If you could say the Rooster Army was humiliated by being speedruned in 39 days in World War II.
Then Richelieu was simply the last glory of France.
She fought multiple battles in Europe, North Africa, and the Pacific, fighting alongside Iowa, North Carolina, Glorious, Saratoga, and others, shelling the Japanese homeland, even participating in their surrender ceremony.
“You know a lot.”
Richelieu seemed a bit happy to hear Lu Chen talk about the past.
“Just a bit interested in history.”
“However, your ship is quite modern here?”
Walking into the bridge.
Lu Chen found that, from the facilities and furniture, the Richelieu was not the backward World War II battleship he remembered.
Her outer armor was not the gray-black steel of early battleships, but a silver-white metal, also printed with golden decorations, making it look very luxurious and futuristic.
The command room was also decorated magnificently.
Red carpets, gold-rimmed furniture, combined with European furniture, made him feel like he was in the Palace of Fontainebleau.
And there were advanced electronic devices everywhere, he was sure they were not technology that a World War II ship should have.
“You underestimated me?”
“My name is indeed derived from that battleship, but after the Mind Cube and Harbor District’s modification, I’m not the antique you think I am.”
“Just in terms of sea combat, I should have no problem taking out an IJN or White Eagle Federation carrier battle group alone.”
Richelieu waved her command baton forward.
After adjusting their angles, the two turrets fired at the distant horizon.
Bang, bang, bang—
A huge wave was created.
Both the range, rate of fire, and power were far beyond the level of modern naval guns.
“The Mind Cube can greatly enhance our ship girls’ combat capabilities, both weapon power and hull strength.”
Belfast explained to Lu Chen briefly.
“Hmm…”
Lu Chen pondered for a moment.
“It’s equivalent to a ship girl’s ability amplifier, then?”
Their weapons just looked like antiques.
Such as Richelieu’s 45-caliber 380mm main guns, Belfast’s 533mm torpedoes, the propeller monoplanes on the carrier ship girls, etc.
The Mind Cube greatly enhanced the energy level of their weapons, and the actual destructive power was beyond imagination.
“You can understand it that way, but we are born from the technology of the Mind Cube, ship girls and the Cube are inseparable.”
Belfast thought for a moment and explained.
“Interesting, it’s really a magical route.”
Lu Chen was very interested in this thing that could greatly enhance the combat capabilities of ship girls.
…
The Richelieu sailed outward with Lu Chen and Belfast on board.
This world was an ocean planet, with only a few land masses and islands.
At the same time, it was sparsely populated, apart from the harbor area where ship girls were active, the other islands were either lush forests or ruins.
Thinking about the fact that the Crimson Axis had not yet split from the harbor district at this time, Lu Chen felt that the timeline here seemed to be very early.
After about a few hours.
He felt the surrounding air suddenly drop a few degrees, and on the distant horizon, dark clouds were rolling, forming a stark contrast with the bright harbor.
“Further ahead is the deep sea where the Sirens appear.”
“For safety reasons, we shouldn’t get too close, otherwise it will be troublesome.”
Belfast reminded him.
“Okay.”
Lu Chen leaned on the railing and looked out, a fleet of strangely shaped black warships were cruising on the distant sea.
There seemed to be a Siren ship girl with blue skin and a humanoid form looking in this direction.
It must be the enemy of the ship girls.
“How long have you been fighting the Sirens?”
“I can’t remember, the harbor district has been at war with the Sirens since I was born.”
Richelieu thought for a moment.
“Three years? Five years? Or longer? We have had many brutal battles with each other, wanting to completely eliminate each other.”
“But later we found that we didn’t have enough power to go deep into the deep sea, and they couldn’t break into the harbor, so we were in a stalemate.”
“Are the Sirens very powerful?”
Lu Chen continued to ask.
“Very powerful, we have almost never had the upper hand in large-scale naval battles, they seem to have some unknown technology.”
Richelieu pondered for a moment.
“After our discussion, we believe that the power of this world alone is not enough to defeat the Sirens.”
“So I hope you can bring some more advanced technology from another world, or magic, to help us defeat the enemy.”
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