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"Okay, Sister HuaQ!"
"You little brat!" The pursuer gripped his wrist, making a gesture as if to flick Chuixue's forehead.
Fubuki covered her head and let out a series of laughs, running back from the pursuer's arms to Shiro's back.
The pursuer crossed her arms and looked helplessly at Fubuki, who then looked up and met Shiro's gaze.
"Hey Admiral, why did you bring Fubuki along?" the pursuer asked.
"Ah, that's right, Fubuki will be going on the expedition with us tonight," Shiro said with a smile.
"Huh?!" Upon hearing this, the pursuer frowned immediately, her face wary. "Admiral, you're not really going to kick me out of the team, are you? Why are you even bringing over your next anti-submarine ally?!"
"No, I just called Fubuki to help you relieve some of the pressure of frying fish." Xiaobai waved her hand with a smile, "After all, it hurts me to see you frying fish for so long every day."
"Um, I'm sorry for you, I'm sorry for you..." Upon hearing this, the pursuer was clearly surprised. Then, her fair face suddenly flushed red, and she quickly turned to the side and cleared her throat. "Ahem... Well, alright then... Since the Admiral has said so... I won't pursue the matter of the Admiral's indecisiveness..."
The pursuers actually believed Xiaobai's words.
She's actually a ship girl who's easy to handle.
Although Xiaobai wasn't lying.
……
After checking the Admiral's Guild's documents and confirming that everything was in order after their departure, Xiaobai led Fubuki and the Chaser to the anchor point room, where they summoned Chaoda to pick up the three of them and take them to the deep-sea city.
The development of the deep-sea city has been rapid in the past few days. The Deep-Sea Phoenix Decoration Team has repaired one high-rise building after another in just a few days. The city center, which was once destroyed by the will of the deep sea and turned into a sea of ruins and garbage, has now been rebuilt into a large area of high-rise buildings. At a glance, the steel and concrete are shining brightly, and there is a brand-new technological atmosphere everywhere.
This was Fubuki's first time visiting a deep-sea city, and along the way, she naturally showed the same expression that her pursuers had when they first arrived here.
"Ah! So many Little Red Sisters! More than the Little Red Sisters in the naval base!"
"Wow, Admiral, what a tall building!"
"There are so many bridges floating in the air!"
"Admiral, Admiral, there are so many buildings here, how many people live here!"
"Once this place is finished, can I bring Bai Xue and Chang Chun here to play?"
"..."
Fubuki kept asking questions like a little lark the whole way.
Xiaobai patiently answered all of Fubuki's questions.
The three quickly left the deep-sea city and arrived at the 8-2 sea area, where there was thunder, lightning, torrential rain, and strong winds.
On the way to the 8-2 sea area, Xiaobai told Fubuki everything about the submarine, including its characteristics, how it appeared, and their work for the night, without missing a single detail.
So when the three of them arrived at their destination, there was no need for further explanation. They exchanged glances and immediately began to select a sea area and start blasting fish.
Fubuki, this little girl, usually seems full of energy and always looking to stir up trouble, like she's always up to something. But the moment she sets foot in the deep sea, she seems to grow several years older and becomes much calmer.
Shiro stood guard beside Fubuki and the Chaser, watching as the two of them found the surface of the deep-sea submarine and worked together to blast fish on the surface. Shiro nodded slightly, her eyes full of admiration.
This speed... is much faster than when the pursuer is frying fish all by himself.
As expected of an anti-submarine ship girl from a newbie naval base, their teamwork is flawless.
As Xiaobai pondered, she looked at the dark area not far away, raised her hand and gently waved her palm, activating her mental power to disperse the deep-sea ships that had come after smelling the ship girl aura on Fubuki.
Just after Fubuki and the pursuers had blasted the deep-sea submarines in the surrounding waters to pieces, Fubuki, who was in the middle of blasting fish, suddenly seemed to sense something. She and Shiro raised their heads almost at the same time and looked in a direction in the distance.
"Admiral, isn't that the submarine enemy you mentioned over there?" Fubuki pointed to the distant water and called out to Shiro.
"Oh, yes."
Xiao Bai nodded and raised his hand to summon the land-based ship equipment.
Fubuki is a destroyer, and as an anti-submarine ship girl, her ability to detect enemies is far better than that of a light carrier like Shiro. Therefore, it is quite normal for her to detect the approach of the submarine enemy at about the same time as Shiro.
The massive land-based warship landed on the water with a loud bang.
The pursuer quickly packed up his ship equipment and, carrying Fubuki, slipped onto Shiro's ship equipment.
The deep-sea submarine's aura swayed underwater, slowly approaching Xiaobai's land-based ship equipment like a little goldfish, and began to circle around it.
Lightning flashed and thunder roared on the sea surface, while submarines lurked menacingly beneath the water.
"Oh... so this is the super powerful submarine enemy the Admiral was talking about." Fubuki lay on the edge of the land-based ship's equipment, making a telescope gesture with her hand, looking underwater, and muttered to herself.
"Admiral, the enemy has appeared on the submarine! Why aren't you transforming yet?" The pursuer, who had been crouching nearby, was ready for Xiaobai to transform, but seeing that Xiaobai was still motionless, she was a little confused and curious. She couldn't help but ask, "If you don't transform, the submarine might get away!"
"Ah... about this..." Xiaobai smiled sheepishly upon hearing this, scratching her cheek as she spoke, "Actually... I'm planning to find a different way to handle this submarine matter..."
Chapter 3624 Xiaobai's Thoughts
"Hmm? Another method?" The pursuer looked confused, clearly not understanding Xiaobai's meaning. "Wasn't the transformation move from before quite good?"
"Well..." Xiaobai didn't know where to begin explaining to the pursuer, so she could only smile sheepishly and slowly say, "Actually, when I was fighting the enemy submarine yesterday, I discovered that she seems to have learned how to counter the moves I used before. Now, as soon as I show any sign of using that move, she will immediately sense it no matter how far away she is, and then quickly disappear."
"...Is it that sensitive?"
"Yes, it's very sensitive." Xiaobai nodded sincerely.
"Well... it seems we really need to think of another way." The pursuer sighed and looked at the water.
The pursuers had no doubts about what Xiaobai had just said.
Ship girls have an innate, instinctive trust in their admirals. Since Shiro says she can't use her transformation anymore, then the situation must be that she can't use it.
"Admiral, since you can't use your transformation, have you thought of any other ways to deal with this submarine enemy?"
"Uh... not yet."
"..." the pursuers.
The sound of the waves on the sea remains unchanged at night.
Once the land-based ship was installed, a brief, awkward silence fell between Xiaobai and his pursuers.
"So, Admiral, what are your plans for this voyage?" the pursuer asked again.
"My plan... well... things will work themselves out in the end?" Xiao Bai turned his head and asked the pursuer with a hint of guilt.
"..." The pursuers fell silent again.
Ok.
It seems that even my own admiral isn't reliable 24/7...
The pursuers sighed again.
Just then, behind Xiaobai and the pursuers, Fubuki's voice suddenly rose in volume.
"Admiral! Admiral! Can I blast that fish underwater?"
Xiaobai and the pursuers looked back and saw Fubuki raising her hand high, jumping around in place, looking excited and expectant.
"It's possible... but I don't think it will be very effective." Xiaobai nodded to Fubuki and said, "Let me tell you, this enemy has an extremely high evasion rate and particularly strong defensive capabilities. Even your Chaser sister's anti-submarine bombs are like tickling it."
“Admiral, there’s no need to bring me up at this point.” The pursuer stood by, looking embarrassed.
Xiao Bai smiled at the pursuers.
On Fubuki's side, she was undeniably a vibrant destroyer. Her high spirits remained undiminished by Shiro and the pursuer's reminders. She continued to bounce around, saying, "It's okay, it's okay! Actually, I just wanted to try it out! I heard from Sister Hana Q that the submarine enemy this time is particularly powerful, and I've never seen one before!"
Fubuki's big eyes shone even in the darkness.
“I’m not called Sister Flower Q, I’m called Sister Chaser,” Chaser said.
"Do whatever you want with Fubuki." Shiro nodded with a smile and said to Fubuki, "Anyway, I don't have any way to deal with this submarine for the time being, so you can just play with her for now."
"Whoosh, great!" Upon hearing the sound, Fubuki immediately smiled happily. She quickly summoned her ship equipment and went to the edge of the land-based ship equipment. She couldn't wait to take out two depth charges from the ship equipment and start looking for traces of submarines underwater. "This is the first time I've ever used the Admiral's land-based ship equipment to blast fish. It feels so novel!"
As Fubuki spoke, she spotted the submarine lurking underwater and threw down the two depth charges in her hand.
boom!
A dull thud immediately came from underwater.
Unsurprisingly, Fubuki's anti-submarine attack produced a dull thud underwater, and many bubbles rose to the surface. However, the submarine's trail beneath the surface suddenly accelerated like a nimble little yellow fish just before the bomb exploded, darting past the edge of the blast radius into nearby safe waters.
After dodging a wave of anti-submarine attacks, the submarine seemed quite angry. The three people on the surface felt that the submarine's speed in circling the land-based ship's equipment had increased by three points.
"Wow! It really dodged it!" Fubuki exclaimed in amazement, lying on the edge of the land-based ship's equipment and staring at the water.
"That's right, this level of anti-submarine attack isn't enough to deal with the guy underwater," the pursuer said to Fubuki, arms crossed, as if he were an experienced person.
“We think we’ve angered her,” Fubuki said.
"Let them be angry, anyway, a submarine can't do anything to a land-based ship," the pursuer said. "Didn't get hit, huh? Keep fishing in peace."
"hey-hey."
Fubuki was not discouraged by the failed anti-submarine attack at all. Before coming to the 8-2 sea area, she had already been mentally prepared by her pursuers for a period of time, so the current situation was only expected.
Fubuki continued to pull out depth charges, anticipating the direction the enemy submarine would evade, and dropped several more depth charges.
Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
A series of muffled explosions suddenly rang out from beneath the water.
The enemy submarines narrowly escaped the explosions, seemingly unaffected.
"What amazing dodging skills!" Fubuki exclaimed while frying fish. "How did you manage to hit her, Flower Q-neechan?"
"Just throw enough depth charges, and you just keep trying to increase the hit rate." The pursuer explained, then paused for a moment, and exclaimed, "Oh, right, I also used my ship equipment skill to interfere with it... Do you want me to open it for you too?"
"Thank you, Sister HuaQ!"
"You're welcome... Also, I'm not called Sister Flower Q, you should call me Sister Chaser."
As the pursuer spoke, a faint ripple spread outwards, and the submarine lurking beneath the surface of the sea instantly seemed to be weighed down by several heavy sandbags, its speed and reaction slowing down slightly.
This perspective also shows just how monstrous the enemy submarine was this time.
The Chaser's ship equipment skills are not very useful for other ship types, but they are specifically designed to beat up deep-sea submarines. Such a narrow application range means that once the effect is confirmed, it will be extremely powerful. Therefore, her skills are incredibly effective against ordinary deep-sea submarines. In the past, as soon as she activated the area of this skill, any deep-sea submarine within her skill range would be as if their legs had been forcibly broken, and their speed would be reduced to that of a tortoise, making them easy prey.
But even such a powerful skill, which can be said to be specifically designed to target deep-sea submarines, could only slow down her movements and reactions by an extremely slight amount when used against this mysterious submarine enemy.
Just a little bit...
If her pursuer hadn't been observing so intently, she wouldn't have even noticed the change.
As for how much this so-called slight slowdown actually is, based on the pursuer's own perception, she felt it was probably less than one percent.
What an outrageous submarine enemy.
The pursuer said he was almost laughing in anger.
"Fubuki, you can keep bombing her, I'm going to chat with the Admiral." The Chaser said to Fubuki, "I'll keep my skills on, you can keep bombing."
"Okay! Thank you, Sister Flower Q!" Fubuki nodded with a smile, holding the two newly pulled-out depth charges. "Sister Flower Q, won't you join me for some fishing?"
"Forget it... I don't want to fight this submarine again, it's too discouraging." The Chaser shook her head. "Also, I'm not called Sister Flower Q, you should call me Sister Chaser. I'm going to find the Admiral now."
The pursuer abandoned Fubuki and moved towards Shiro on the other side.
Xiao Bai was squatting at the other end of the land-based ship rig, hugging his knees and looking at the surging sea, pondering ways to deal with the submarine.
When Xiaobai saw the pursuers return, she looked up and smiled at them.
"Has Fubuki already started exploding?"
"Yeah, this little girl is pretty stubborn," the pursuer said, squatting down next to Little White. "But it's perfect, since this submarine keeps circling around us anyway, she won't be lonely with someone to play with, right?"
"I just hope that Fubuki won't also cause your Dao Heart to collapse from the explosion," Xiaobai said.
"Don't worry, Fubuki won't have this problem. She's full of energy." The pursuer said, then suddenly sighed, "Ah, destroyers are great."
"...You like destroyers too?"
"What do you like?" the pursuer asked, looking at Xiaobai.
"Oh, it's nothing." Xiaobai shook her head, looking thoughtfully at the water's surface. "Actually... I was just thinking, maybe I could dive down to the surface myself and find the enemy submarine."
"……what?"
“Look, my ship’s weapons are mostly designed to deal with enemies on the surface. As for submarines, I really lack the capability to counter them,” Xiaobai said. “But then again, I do have a rather unconventional weapon, right?”
"Unconventional weapon? What is it?" the pursuer asked.
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