More than ten minutes later, when everyone was about to sit still, Bismarck finally returned with more than a dozen engineering goblins, including Lan Luo, the patriarch of the blue goblin clan who had newly joined the port area.

"Patriarch Lan Luo, I'm sorry to let you engineering goblins come over so late. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info”

"Lord Admiral, I heard your ship's mother say the general situation, since someone dares to imitate the core of the transformation to threaten the life of the battleship girl, then no matter who he is, he will be the enemy of our blue goblin clan in the future. ”

Lan Luo is an engineering goblin, the difference between the blue elves and the Ruoduo elves is quite big, the Ruoduo elves are more inclined to resource smelting and the production of some ship equipment, while the azure elves are more inclined to make transformation cores.

It's just that this time the incident happened suddenly, and Li Ran didn't have time to fully understand the Azure Fairy, and he also learned some information from Lexington in the afternoon chat, he nodded and said to Lan Luo and Ruo Duoruo:

"Without further ado, since the two patriarchs have arrived, we will go overnight to explore the underground fortifications, the destroyers will stay to watch the house, and the others will come with me, everyone has no opinion. ”

"Admiral, the fireflies want to go too. ”

"Nonsense!" Richelieu and Bismarck are usually instructors, and Firefly is not very afraid of Bismarck, who was born in Country G, and respects Richelieu's big sister more.

Hearing that Richelieu was angry, Wakelan went up to the firefly and said:

"Let's listen to the Admiral, we're going to be in charge of patrolling the coastal waters at night. ”

"Sister Richelieu, I was wrong. Firefly also knew that now was not the time to be willful, although she hadn't gotten along with the Admiral for several days, but she didn't want the Admiral to be embarrassed, and said in a low mood:

"Then Admiral, you need to come back early. ”

Li Ran nodded, walked up to her and rubbed the firefly's golden curls, and then said:

"I'll stay with you when I'm free. ”

The firefly nodded busily, and then she reluctantly watched Li Ran busy over there.

"Fireflies?" Seeing that her little friend was not in a good mood at this time, she hurriedly comforted her:

"Don't blame Sister Richelieu, she's not usually so fierce, but the Admiral has a lot of things going on now, so we can't be willful. ”

"yes, I see. ”

……

Li Ran waited until everyone had prepared some lighting equipment, and then the group rushed towards the underground fortification.

Before leaving, he did not forget to inform Saratoga, who did not know where to go, through the Admiral's personal network.

Saratoga originally didn't want to pay attention to Li Ran's communication request when she heard it, but when she thought of her sister, she didn't dare to play a little temper anymore, she was most afraid that her gentle sister would be angry.

Li Ran breathed a sigh of relief, watching Saratoga obediently follow Lexington's side, and he and Bai Nuoyan walked in front of the team.

And Hipper, who was late, saw that his admiral was fine, and followed behind Li Ran and Bai Nuoyan with his sister Prince Eugen.

Bismarck and Richelieu, on the other hand, closely watched the movements in the forest.

As for the two sisters, Helena and Brooklyn, Pinghai are at the back of the team, responsible for protecting the three carrier mothers in the center of the team: Lexington, Saratoga, and Raider.

On Li Ran's shoulders sat the two chiefs of the elf tribe on the left and right, while the other engineering goblins sat on the Richelieu and Bismarck's unfolding and installation.

More than ten minutes later, everyone came to the entrance of the underground fortifications.

Li Ran said to Bai Nuoyan:

"This is the underground fortification I found yesterday, it should be the anti-aircraft fortification built before the island was abandoned, it's a little dark inside, you pay attention to your feet. ”

"Ah. Bai Nuoyan looked at the dark entrance, seeing that those vines were a little weird at night, he couldn't help but feel a little nervous, and couldn't help but get closer to Li Ran.

Bismarck and Richelieu stopped Li Ran from being the first to rush in, only to hear Richelieu say:

"Two admirals, please follow us, although this place has been explored before, but in order to prevent any wild beasts from breaking in, Bismarck and I will go first to investigate, you must wait until we confirm the internal security before escorting the two admirals in. ”

"Understood. Lexington nodded, Richelieu's worries were not unreasonable, after all, such a fortification was located in the interior of the forest, and there were brown bears and wild boars infested here, and if a wild beast really broke into the underground fortifications, it would be enough to pose a mortal threat to the Admiral as an ordinary person.

And any factors that threaten the Admiral must be clear at the first time, this is the consensus of all the ship's ladies.

Li Ran naturally had no objections, he had already understood some of the styles of the ship girls, and once it came to their own safety, they were extremely serious, which made him feel a little hurt in his self-esteem as a man.

However, Bai Nuoyan experienced for the first time what it was like to be a commander, and she said to Li Ran with some envy:

"I'm only now understanding why so many people want to be admirals. ”

"Tell me about it. Li Ran watched as the figures of Richelieu and Bismarck disappeared into the depths of the passage, and the light of the flashlight disappeared, before he turned his head to look at Bai Nuoyan.

"Because I am an admiral, I have ship girls to protect me anytime and anywhere, and I have no problem going wherever I want to venture in the future, so that I can go anywhere I want. ”

"That's why you're a Commander?"

"No, anyway, thanks to you this time, I have experienced the correct way to open a commander. ”

"You won. ”

"But, then again, have you ever found out that this fortification was built to military standards......"

"I was a soldier, so I can naturally see that this building cannot be built without huge financial and material resources. ”

"That's right. Bai Nuoyan pondered for a while, then thought for a moment and said to Hipper:

"Heexi, did I hand over the newspaper you brought?"

When Hipper heard Bai Nuoyan's words, he hurriedly walked over, took out a somewhat yellowed newspaper, handed it to Bai Nuoyan, and said:

"Brought. ”

Bai Nuoyan took the yellowed newspaper, flipped through it, and then said:

"Li Ran, take a look at this news report from the Admiral World News Agency. ”

Li Ran was a little curious, then took the newspaper and said to Bai Nuoyan:

"Help me light it. ”

Bai Nuoyan adjusted the brightness of the flashlight, and then provided lighting for Li Ran, who saw the date of the newspaper on December 25, 2013, that is, more than three years ago.

One of the stories of this news story was found on a small, abandoned island on a fringe island in the Atlantic Theater of Operations, which was found to be a black workshop that produced fake transformation cores and carried out the dismemberment of some deep-sea ship wives.

"Dismemberment of the deep-sea ship mother?" Li Ran gasped, who dared to do such a heartbreaking thing, he said with some disbelief:

"Is this report really fake?"

"It's true, let's tell you the truth, this newspaper was urgently recalled immediately after it was issued, so my dad is a weird collector, just kept such a copy, I didn't apply for the Admiral College at that time, he threw some records of a lot of things related to the Admiral, the ship's mother, I found this newspaper by chance, only to find this news. ”

"But the dismemberment of the deep-sea mother, isn't this too crazy?" Li Ran was attacked by a deep-sea destroyer once, and he could feel the danger when he saw those deep-sea destroyers from a distance, but this report actually said that someone had carried out the dismemberment of the deep-sea ship mother, and he was a little puzzled:

"And why do the fabrication of the fake transformation core and the dismemberment of the deep-sea ship mother appear in the same report, how do you think that the two are not necessarily related, right?"

"That's right, I've been running a lot of business in the past few years, so I don't have time to care about this, but after listening to Lexington's words, I can become the Admiral of Heexi, and now that something so big has happened, I wondered if I could find some clues, and it just so happened that I remember that this newspaper has been carried by me, because this newspaper also has a photo of our entrance ceremony to the Admiral Academy, but I didn't expect it to really make me find something strange. ”

"What do you mean?"

"Do you remember when I told you that in the past century, there have been several times in which the Combined Fleet of the Seven Theaters has launched exploration operations in uncharted waters. ”

"Hmm. ”

"I speculate that the discovery of these islands on the edge may have been inadvertently discovered by many adventurers who wanted to understand the group of adventurers who mysteriously disappeared after entering the uncharted waters, and as for the disposal work after the discovery, it was not announced to the public, I thought about it, since the fake transformation core is now appearing on a large scale, then there will be a very large fake core circulation network in the seven major war zones, I am in business, and I always feel that there are not enough interests behind it, and no one will do this kind of thing. ”

Li Ran listened to Bai Nuoyan's analysis, and seemed to make some sense, but no matter what, he couldn't take care of these things for the time being, he shrugged his shoulders and said:

"I can hear your reasoning in the clouds, anyway, no matter what, what we can do now is to explore this underground fortification, as for the old things you said, let's wait until the end of this White Crane Line combat operation, let's take care of the present first. ”

"Yes. Bainuoyan nodded, and then carefully put away the newspaper, and at this time, Richelieu and Bismarck also came out of the passage of the underground fortifications.