The last stop of their tour of the Azure World was their research area.
At Lu Chen's request, Befa and Richelieu took him to see the Mind Cube.
They passed through the main building, to a corner of the harbor district, inside a small shop.
A green-furred, beast-eared ship girl greeted Lu Chen enthusiastically.
“Commander, are you buying a box, meow?”
She wore a naval uniform that was a bit too big for her, her ship outfit resembling a giant crane, with large sleeves concealing pliers, wrenches, tweezers, and other assorted tools.
One of the few repair ships in the harbor district—Akashi.
She had little fighting ability, her main job being to repair other ship girls and oversee the harbor district's research work.
In her spare time, she would also sell painted boxes.
Turning blue equipment boxes into purple ones, purple ones into golden ones.
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“He's a guest of the harbor district, not a commander yet.”
Befa reminded her.
“As long as you buy something, Akashi can call you Commander, meow.”
This repair ship seemed to have a strange habit, and a slight suspicion of being a merchant.
“Oh, what are you selling? Painted boxes?”
Lu Chen took a look at the counter.
“Warship fuel, coolant, and cannons, planes, torpedoes, all sorts of equipment, meow.”
Akashi pulled out a bunch of stuff, mostly for ship girls.
Even if you bought a fighter jet back, for anyone other than a ship girl, it would just be a World War II weapon, useless.
“Do you have a Mind Cube?”
Lu Chen got straight to the point.
“Mind Cube? That's for research, it's not for sale, meow.”
Akashi looked at Richelieu and Befa, scratching her ears, and thought for a moment.
“If the Commander wants to see it, you can, but don't touch it! The Mind Cube is very precious, meow.”
She opened the secret door behind the shop, leading them through a maze of corridors, arriving at a place that looked like a laboratory.
In the room, about 300 square meters, various strange devices were piled up, some looking like laser cutters, others like X-ray machines.
There were also some materials piled on the table.
Lu Chen flipped through them casually, most of them were experimental data on military equipment.
Azure World's technology tree was terribly skewed, almost entirely focused on military technology.
After all, there were only about 500 ship girls, and no need for agriculture or light industry.
Akashi crouched down in front of a safe, after a series of operations, the safe clicked open, revealing a black box inside.
She took out a key, opened the box, and gently placed a translucent blue cube on the table with both hands.
“This is the Mind Cube, meow.”
“Making a Mind Cube is very troublesome, it takes a lot of resources and time, the harbor district doesn't build new Cubes anymore, this is the last one, meow.”
“So what did you use the Cube for before?”
Lu Chen asked curiously.
“Building Bri.”
Richelieu answered for Akashi.
“Ordinary ship girls can't be summoned directly by the Mind Cube, they must have real warships in the real world.”
“But Bri needs very few resources and Cubes to build, we built a lot of Bri to build the harbor district.”
“But now there are enough Bri, and resources are scarce, so we don't build Cubes anymore.”
“Oh.”
Lu Chen understood.
“According to my research, the Mind Cube is a kind of infinite energy perpetual motion machine, it can power the ship girls' outfits, and materialize human cognition about a certain thing.”
“It also greatly enhances the ship girls' physical strength, isn't it awesome?”
Akashi boasted with her hands on her hips.
“If the Commander wants to buy it, I can give you a friendly price, 30 million yen, or an equivalent amount of crude oil exchange is also okay!”
“……”
Befa and Richelieu looked like they had seen a ghost: “Is this thing that expensive?”
“……”
Lu Chen didn't answer, he stared at the Mind Cube, feeling as if it contained vast energy.
The last Mind Cube, also the crystallization of Azure Lane's technology.
Just from Akashi's preciousness towards it, you could tell it was valuable.
He reached out and picked it up without thinking, playing with it.
The cube felt cool to the touch, emitting a faint light in his hand.
“Don't break it, meow!”
Akashi hurriedly reminded him.
Suddenly.
Swoosh——
The Mind Cube in his hand emitted a burst of intense light, dissolving into Lu Chen's palm like liquid.
A surge of power spread throughout his body.
Under the impact of the immense energy, he suddenly felt his vision go black.
“???”
Before losing consciousness, Lu Chen suddenly remembered that when he was thrown into the Stone Age because of a system bug, what was the compensation the system gave him?
Greatly enhance spiritual power and body compatibility?
That is, it can be compatible with and master most special powers in the world, whether it's the Mind Cube, Honkai Energy, Command Seals, Originium Arts, or even magnetic fields, spiral forces, and other crazy things?!
This compensation had been unconsciously ignored by him before, so, now it's working?
I'm going to become a ship girl, no, a ship dad?!
Akashi saw the Cube suddenly disappear, meowed out loud, and pounced on the unconscious Lu Chen:
“Wow, I knew I shouldn't have let you see it, give me back the Cube!!!”
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