In the early morning, a glimmer of hope shone through the glass windows into the dilapidated cottage.

The girl's eyes opened slightly, and her white face was full of satisfaction. Last night was the most comfortable night she had ever slept on, and although she was not accompanied by the Admiral, it was probably the most beautiful thing to fall asleep to smell the reassuring smell.

"Admiral, where are you?" Wales got up slightly, didn't find Jiqi's figure, and was a little anxious.

"I'm making breakfast." A figure leaned out of the kitchen, still holding a shovel in his hand. "Wales, you're awake, breakfast will be ready soon, you wait a little longer."

"Well, I see, Admiral." The girl smiled with satisfaction like a crescent moon. She felt at the moment that having such an admiral might be the best gift God had given her, gentle to people, with a gentlemanly character, and most importantly, perfect marks for cooking, although sometimes as clumsy as wood, but it did not affect his rating in her mind in the slightest. It would be nice if I married the Admiral in the future. Every morning, when I got up, the Admiral carefully made breakfast for himself was brought to the front, and the Admiral fed himself by hand. It's exciting to think about that kind of life! The girl looked at the busy figure in the kitchen, and kept thinking about the better life in the future.

Jiqi walked out with steaming porridge. The whole room was filled with the smell of meat, and the girl sniffled, her eyes full of longing.

"Is this porridge?" The girl asked curiously, the invisible tail behind her seemed to be wagging constantly.

"I read the book that battleship girls like steel the most, so I wondered if I should make porridge made of fuel rice and steel for breakfast. Try it and see how it tastes. Ji Qi hopefully delivered the steaming breakfast in his hand to the girl, like a perfect deacon for the service of the eldest lady, and thoughtfulness and meticulousness were synonymous with him.

"Hmm." The girl ate the porridge and said vaguely, "It's delicious, I've never had such a delicious breakfast before." ”

"Where were you before?" Ever since the establishment of Wales, I've been hearing her say about the past, but I don't know what life was like in Wales before.

"Before, I was asleep in the dark, not a deep sleep, but a conscious sleep, even though you knew that there were other people around you, but you couldn't greet them. Knowing that I felt the call of your Admiral, I fled from that darkness. Wales said.

"Then would you be afraid?"

"It's okay, I didn't want to be like now, with a lot of human emotions, such as fear and sadness." The girl explained.

"Then all the emotions you have are learned later?" Jiqi is a little curious, it stands to reason that emotional learning is the most complex process, and it is also a long-term process, and it is by no means a goal that can be achieved in the short term. But Wales now looks no different from normal girls emotionally. Is it because of the rarity, the higher the rarity, the higher the richness of the ship's emotions?

"I don't know, anyway, after staying by the Admiral's side, I feel like there are some strange things in my body, and then I naturally learn the same emotions as humans." Wales replied, "I don't know what it is, but I can clearly feel it." ”

"Is that so?" Jiqi seems to have a deeper understanding of the ship's mother, but problems follow. Why did the ship girl exist in the darkness when it was not built, according to Wales, she was not the only one in that world, and it seemed that all the ship girls were sleeping there. In the education and books of the academy, there is very little description of the origin of the ship's mother.,It's just that the ship's mother came into being after the birth of the deep sea.。 So how did humans know that builders could build ships? Who invented those mysterious construction machines? There is still no answer to these questions, and Jiqi feels that it is not as simple as imagined, and there seems to be some kind of force behind it that is manipulating all this.

Jiqi doesn't know what kind of power it is, it can create a powerful and beautiful existence like the ship girl, and it can also create a terrifying monster like the deep sea. He just felt inexplicably that there was a chill behind him.

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Corporate Academy

Countless graduating admirals crowded in front of the notice board at the door, checking on the town guard mansion to which they had been assigned. This time of year is the most crowded time of the academy, and it is also the time of the great change of admirals. Due to the strong offensive of the deep sea, the more and more admirals who guarded the mansion had just taken office, they were besieged by the ant colony of the deep sea and burped. So, the first thing every newly graduated Admiral did was pray that he wouldn't be assigned to the Castle Guard, which was on the front line, an area known as the Death Zone, and that no one wanted to go.

However, Jiqi was not afraid. With one of the strongest battleships, the Prince of Wales and his own military theory, Jiqi felt that as long as it wasn't that kind of death-bound situation. You can still develop it obscenely.

"Admiral, do you think they've been watching us?" Wales asked in a whisper, and she looked around at the new graduates who looked around like wolves, and her heart palpitated.

It's not nonsense, most of these newly graduated cadets don't have their own ship girls, and even if most of them are expelling schoolgirls and ordinary battleship ladies, how can they compare with their own Wales. Jiqi took the girl's hand and stood on his toes, "They are just envious, envious that I have such a powerful ship girl." He hit the nail on the head.

"I see!" Wales nodded understandingly. She didn't know what to envy about this, especially those admirals who already had ship mothers. obviously already has her own ship, and she still looks at other people's shipwives shamelessly, what a scumbag. The girl couldn't help but scold in her heart, she felt that these people were like inattentive scumbags, the more she looked at it, the more disgusting she became, it was better to be her own admiral, and other people's ships didn't even look at it, this is a good admiral. Thinking of this, the girl's hand became tighter as she held Jiqi.

Jiqi cleared the crowd and led Wales to the front, searching for his name on the bulletin board. At the top, the first thing that appeared was his name, perhaps ranked according to graduation grades. Ji Qi said.

He followed the name and looked back, Gelst Town Guard, isn't that the area near the western Pacific Ocean? Relying on his strong memory ability, Jiqi compared the world map in his mind and instantly found the area where his town guard mansion was located. It's not safe to say it's safe, and it's not so scary to say it's dangerous, so it's a good place to fight monsters and upgrade. Jiqi gave a conclusion.

Immediately, he pulled the girl out of the crowd and prepared to go to the pier to take the ferry to his town guard's mansion. As for the luggage and some necessities, Wales had already packed them into his ship's space, and the most speechless thing was that Wales wanted to take the old single bed with him, because it smelled of himself. Girl, you like to sleep in the bed I slept in so much? In the end, Wales finally gave up the idea of taking the bed away, and on the condition that he had to agree to her one request, as for what, Wales had not mentioned it for the time being.

Recalling her sly smile when she agreed to the girl's request, Jiqi felt that this request might not be so easy.

However, the thought of having his own town guard mansion soon made his heart burn. After so many years of long-cherished wishes, today is about to come true, Jiqi clenched his fists. Like a soldier about to go on an expedition, ready to go to battle.

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Ferry No. 303

At the pier, he boarded the ferry to the Western Pacific according to the code on the notice board. There were few people on this medium-sized ship, except for the bearded captain and a deputy who didn't like to talk, except for the unknown enthusiastic alumnus who was somewhat familiar and his ship's wife, Z23, a cute little girl with short brownish hair. Wearing a strict German uniform, showing her fair calves, she is a destroyer girl with a rarity of four stars. It has flexible maneuverability and good torpedoes, but the only drawback is that the air defense is too weak.

The energetic little girl was as enthusiastic as her admiral, and as soon as she got on the boat, she took Wales and ran her around, and the two had a great time on board.

However, Jiqi has no impression of this enthusiastic alumnus, it can be said that he has no impression of everyone in the academy, even Aurora, who was named the school flower, a beautiful girl from Russia, has only seen a few glances from a distance. Such a popular figure was only known when Jiqi heard the heated discussions of the people around him while eating in the cafeteria, so you can imagine how weak his presence in the academy is.

But this enthusiastic alumnus who is the same as the school flower thinks otherwise. As soon as he boarded the ship with Wales, he was as enthusiastic as if he had seen a friend he hadn't seen in years. But who are you? Like a torrential rain, the flame of Alexander's enthusiasm was instantly poured into the flames of not even a spark.

But Alexander didn't seem to admit defeat, and continued to talk to Jiqi with a dead face.

"Dear Jiqi, did you know that after you built the Prince of Wales, you became the most important person in the school?" Alexander looked adoring, "I've been in the academy for so many years, and I've never seen someone like you who became famous in one day." ”

"So many years? You repeated a grade at the academy. Jiqi looked at the young man with a thick beard next to him now, and was a little curious.

"I'm almost 25 now, and you said I had a few levels left." Alexander had a bitter expression on his face. Normally, a Governor who graduated in a normal school year is eighteen years old, but because Jiqi entered the school late, he was one year older than the others, so he graduated at the age of nineteen. And Alexander is already 25 years old after graduation, a full six years older than Jiqi, and according to normal speaking, he was left in the seventh grade to graduate.

Ji Qi looked at the older young man who was freed from the cage, showed a sympathetic expression, and then made up for it with a fierce knife. "No wonder you look like a Russian uncle, when I first saw you and your ship's wife, I thought it was father and daughter."

For a moment, Alexander was speechless, he didn't know what to say to keep the conversation going. He really wanted to say to Jiqi, don't you know that you will have no friends if you talk like this?

But it's also true, Alexander has a beard and curly hair that is not very well groomed, the bridge of the nose is high, and the eyes are deep, and he seems to have the style of a handsome uncle. But Jiqi has a clean and delicate face with eyebrow-length bangs, like a young star who came out of a movie, no wonder Jiqi thinks so.

"Comrade Jiqi, you can't say that, I'm just graduating late, how can I be like an uncle, how can I hook up with a girl in the future! People still think I'm a scumbag who came out to bubble up with a child! Alexander screamed in pain, this is the first time he has been called uncle, in the past, others said that he was mature, but when he came to Jiqi, he directly became a thirty or forty-year-old father, how could this not make him crazy.

"Isn't it? Uncle Alexander? Jiqi shrugged, and this was the case.

The conversation between Wales and Z23 on the side made the uncle instantly feel like he had been hit by an arrow in his knee and fell to the ground, feeling that life was so gloomy.

"No wonder it looks so old, it turns out to be an uncle!" Wales covered his mouth, looking incredulous.

"Originally, I called him Uncle Admiral at first, and he was not happy, but now it seems that my original opinion was very correct!" Z23 nodded, giving Alexander a conclusion.

Looking at the loveless older youth, Jiqi felt a joy that he had never felt before, something he hadn't felt in the academy for four years, this should be the so-called friend, right? He thought to himself.

The midday sun was shining, and the laughter and laughter were full of hope for the future life. It shouldn't be bad to have such a guy as a neighbor. He whispered in his heart.