Chapter 2: The Prince of Wales

Jiqi never dreamed that there would be such a day, standing on a high platform and being admired by thousands of people. Although he was not treated well by the rich children, it was now he who stood on the podium and was the first to perform the construction ceremony. Whether they admit it or not, those people can only look up at him now, and they can't look down as they used to. Maybe that's why a lot of people like to be great. Ji Qi said in his heart, he didn't have any desire for this feeling, just a little revenge, don't you look down on me, a student from the slums? Now you're just standing behind me and watching me build.

Like an immature child, Jiqi's heart is full of satisfaction at the moment, not the kind of satisfaction that comes from being in the limelight, just to prove himself.

"Jiqi students, I admire your excellent performance." The old man took out the medal symbolizing the status of the Admiral from the award box, and the navy blue embroidered iron anchor pattern was in the center of the medal, and the double spiral wave stripes were wrapped around it. The old man solemnly put the medal on Jiqi's somewhat yellowed uniform, and his expression was solemn.

"From the moment you put on the medal, you are an official admiral, and it also symbolizes that you can already be on your own. Men are destined to go to the battlefield and conquer the stars and seas. The old man seemed to be boosting the morale of the soldiers who were about to go to battle, and his tone was low.

"Well, I'll remember." Jiqi raised his head slightly and replied in the affirmative. He is the kind of person who will do what he says, and if he says he will remember what others say, he will never forget it.

"Okay, when people are old, there is no other problem, but they talk a lot." The old man smiled awkwardly, "It's time for the construction ceremony, and Rystan brought the builder over. ”

A sturdy middle-aged man, nodding slightly, pushed out the huge machine placed behind the ceremonial stage. I have seen the builder Jiqi, and those students who repeat the grade often go to the construction area in groups to play the so-called gambling boat game, and Jiqi has also heard of it. But gambling on a boat requires more resources than a poor man like him can afford. Therefore, although Jiqi knew that such a existence existed, he never tried it. And today he can finally get what he wants and carry out a so-called construction.

The builder is a large and complex machine, consisting of a portal and a slot, and the rest is a large cube that cannot be disassembled behind the slot. The whole building exudes a quaint atmosphere, which seems to have the taste of time.

"Now it's time to test your luck, and sometimes luck is part of your strength." The old man patted Jiqi on the shoulder heavily, "Now it's time to show your luck." ”

"Is that unlimited?"

"There is only one time, but the maximum amount of resources you invest is only four 999, and the proportion of ammunition, fuel, steel, and aluminum input is different, and the results are different."

"In other words, is there a formula for this construction?"

"Of course, otherwise how can it be called a gambling ship, but the first shot is still you decide what kind of ship you want, but there may be nothing, after all, there is a great failure rate in construction."

Jiqi took a deep breath, he knew that this was the fateful moment, this seemed to be his only chance, if he hadn't built the ship Niang this time, he probably wouldn't have the next chance to build, and he wouldn't have the chance to have the town guard's mansion. How can an admiral who doesn't even have a ship's mother fight on the front line, he can only be thrown in the rear to do logistics. This is not the result he wants, what he wants is the madness of rushing to the front line and proving his glory, he doesn't want to live up to his mother's expectations, he wants to be a person who can help everyone, and the most effective way for all this is to become a veritable admiral, a admiral with a ship's mother. He remembered that his mother once told him that if he had the opportunity, he should become an admiral, the admiral is an admirable existence, and you can live happily with your shipwive, without worrying about food and clothing, without worrying about cold and warmth. Even death is glory, and your name will be forever engraved on the monument. At the time, he couldn't do it, but now he has the opportunity to do it.

Jiqi took a deep breath, stretched out his hand, pressed it on the handle next to the input, shook down the number 999 in all four items, and began to build. Since he had never gambled on ships, he didn't know what the so-called expulsion, aircraft carriers and battle formulas were, but simply felt that the more resources he invested, the better the ship girl would get, and he invested everything he had now in exchange for a slim hope.

After receiving the command, the builder trembled slightly, and the displayed time was beating wildly, like garbled characters. In the end, the time stayed at 4 hours and 50 minutes, and Jiqi knew that he had succeeded, because only when the construction was successful would there be a time display, and if it failed, there would be nothing.

"Four hours and fifty minutes, this should be an extremely rare shipwive, I remember that it seems to be the time of the battleship of the Prince of Wales." The old man looked at the builder with a happy expression, and every time he built a powerful ship, it meant that the human race had the upper hand in the battle with the deep sea, and there was more hope.

"The Prince of Wales battleship, a famous British battleship, has powerful main guns and good speed, and is a very strong ship." Jiqi still remembers the evaluation of the Prince of Wales in the atlas, which is a five-star rarity ship lady with few owners, which can almost be said to be a rare existence, which is the so-called European proof.

"Boy, is it good," said the old man, very pleased, "are you using the Quick Build now, or are you waiting here to finish?" ”

"Is there any difference between the two?"

"The difference is that the use of fast-built ship mothers, the favorability of the admiral is not so high, and the ship girls who are waiting to be built, because they feel the sincerity of the admiral, the favorability will be higher, this is the only difference between the two."

"I want to wait for the construction to be completed, but what about the rest of the people, will they wait with me?" Jiqi wanted to choose the latter, but there were still so many admirals waiting to use the builder in the audience.

"It doesn't matter, even if they wait, they have to wait, it's the privilege of the first place." The old man smiled reassuringly, "Besides, there is more than one builder in our academy, and there are so many machines in the construction room that are not decorations. ”

"Then why was this one taken out separately?" Ji Qi was a little curious, and he had the impression that this machine had been visited behind the ceremonial stage, and it seemed to be a different existence from other machines.

"This one is different, this is the oldest construction machine, and it has a bonus of luck. Building on this machine, there will either be a ship of extreme rarity, or nothing. Therefore, this construction machine was also used as a prize for first place. The first place winner of each class has the right to build on this machine once for free, while the rest of the students can only go to the construction room to build. "So don't worry, all you have to do now is wait here slowly, I'm going to take the other students to the construction room." ”

The old man waved his hand, and Rystan led the rest of the students to the construction room. When each student passed by the ceremony, they all showed a look of envy and jealousy towards Jiqi. In fact, Jiqi used to envy them very much, with a noble identity, not worried about eating and drinking, wearing gorgeous clothes, and having the resources to gamble on the ship, of course, the most envious are those students who have a ship girl, they walk by with their own ship girls every time, the only thing he can do is to look at those angel-like existences enviously from a distance, and sometimes he will unrealistically fantasize about how good it would be if he could have a ship girl, even if it is a ship mother with a rarity of only one star, without any combat ability. It's like a crazy person who has always been lonely, longing for someone's company.

Finally, four years have passed, Jiqi has worked hard in these four years, every study is like an opportunity for him to have a ship mother, and he will go all out to take every exam seriously, because he remembers the opening words of a senior admiral when he first entered the academy, the first place has a special gift, he doesn't know what the gift is, but for these pampered students, I am afraid that the only one who can be called special is the ship mother.

Today, he finally knows what this special gift is, it is a free build, and it is built on a builder with a bonus luck. And the goddess of luck seems to be full of favor for him, this time, gave him great luck, and built a five-star rarity battleline, which is an existence that everyone else dreams of having, but it appeared in his hands and became his first shipwive.

Ji Qi looked at the digital builder that kept beating in front of him, he quietly wept, he wanted to say to his deceased mother, I finally won, finally fulfilled what you expected of me at that time, became a veritable admiral, and was about to have his first ship girl. Maybe the whole process is hard, but the ending is like a rainbow after the rain, beautiful and gorgeous.

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Time seemed to pass very quickly, four hours and fifty minutes, 17,400 seconds, and in the countdown of one second to the second of the prayer, time finally cleared. The portal began to tremble, and a dazzling light came from the dark crack in the door. Like an angel descending from earth, a girl with long blond hair appeared in front of Jiqi in a gorgeous red dress, a pair of slender legs under a black knee-length skirt and white over-the-knee socks complemented each other, and behind her was two quadruple and a two-mounted main gun 14-inch giant main gun, next to dozens of secondary guns and countless anti-aircraft guns. Jiqi has never seen such a powerful firepower, and there is no ship's mother in the entire academy who has such perverted firepower like the Prince of Wales, with powerful firepower and almost no dead end air defense, perhaps this is one of the reasons why the Prince of Wales is rated as a five-star rarity.

"Well, are you the Prince of Wales?" Jiqi was a little nervous, this was the first time he had faced the ship's mother up close, and it was also his own ship's mother.

"Yes, Commander, Prince of Wales, report to you." The girl pointed to the ground with the ornately decorated command knife in her hand, and bowed her head slightly to Jiqi as a sign of respect.

At this moment, the breeze seemed to calm down, and it could not bear to disturb this solemn ceremony. Jiqi was a little overwhelmed, looking at the heroic girl in front of him slightly stunned and at a loss.

Just like the sentence in "The Peony Pavilion", I don't know what to do, and I go deep. Maybe this is the heartbeat, Jiqi felt his hot face, and said to himself silently in his heart.