The relay station, as the name suggests, is the last staging station before the long line of defense against deep-sea habitat ships, to the north is the peaceful and prosperous northern continent, and to the south is the town guard house where steel and blue waves dance together, or the smoke and blood coexist.

28 hours, 17 minutes, and 55 seconds later, an hour before the fuel was about to run out completely, Lilan, who had turned on the water elemental horizon, finally saw the only piece of land he had seen in 28 hours from the horizon.

"Hold on......" His voice was hoarse from lack of water, and Lilan said to the communicator that had returned to normal, "We will be at our destination in half an hour at most"

Licking his chapped lips, Li Lan asked in a hoarse voice, "Island Wind, how is the situation of the First Fleet?" ”

"Mostly fine, but the eagle is starting to get into the water again......"

Biting the tip of his tongue hard, the faint fishy smell shocked Lilan's spirit: "I'll go over immediately." ”

As the most severely damaged person before the nuclear explosion, although he retreated to the second attack sequence under the forced order of Rilan and was not destroyed by the nuclear explosion on the spot, the powerful impact still put the ancient eagle in a desperate situation.

By the time Saratoga and Akagi pulled her up, almost half of the ship's hull had sunk into the sea, and the ship's mother was still in a coma, unable to cooperate with the control of her own warship.

In this case, Lilan had to "return to his old business".

"Any metal plates left?"

"Hmm"

The dim blade of light poked out, estimating the area of the gap: "53cmX66cm...... Smaller ones are fine."

During the 28-hour "expedition", when most of the warships were broken or even broken, and the ship's mother was unconscious, Lilan relied on this "three indiscriminate" emergency repair technology to bring a total of 29 ships here.

The only thing to be thankful for is that he didn't encounter any fleet of deep-sea habitat ships along the way, most of them should have been destroyed in the nuclear explosion at the crossroads, after all, except for the five fleets on the frontal battlefield, I don't know how many miles of land are hidden behind.

Coupled with the second nuclear explosion on the Sixth Town Guard, it is estimated that this blockade circle will be useless in a short period of time.

In this case, this large combined fleet, which consisted of "remnants of the defeated army" and could be said to be "vulnerable", arrived at the relay station 29 hours later.

"No one?"

It was noon when we set off, so it was already close to night the next day, but there was no light to be seen from the island.

"It's really here" Akagi, who saw this scene, seemed to have expected it, and said with a flat expression: "It's just that they were all evacuated 22 years ago."

“…… Are you kidding?! ”

Anger overpowered reason, and the burning emotion brought the last shred of strength to Rilan's depleted body.

Holding Akagi's collar, his pale blue pupils were full of hideousness: "It took us 29 hours to run to this kind of place?!" ”

"Or do you really think I can't tear you down?!"

A dim blade of light poked out and slashed down the girl's throat.

"Please—please stop!"

The moment before the hit, with an anxious cry, the waved left hand was blocked.

Li Lan was stunned, and the cold touch made his reason rebound slightly, and he subconsciously looked over.

"Sister Chi and Sister Akagi are doing this for everyone's good! So、So ......"

Saratoga......

Half ringing.

“…… Sorry, I'm getting a little impulsive."

Release your right hand, and the dim blade of light will dissipate into particles and dissipate into the air.

"If that calms you down, Akagi doesn't mind."

“…… Is there any restoration facility that can be used in this place? ”

"Sorry, all the things that could be moved were taken with them by the time they left, and most of the things that couldn't be taken were destroyed on the spot."

After the burst of impulses, reason returned to him.

After a few moments, Lilan turned on the communicator: "Pull all the ships up......"

"Lord Admiral" Ning Hai's voice was hesitant: "Once we run aground, we can't make any resistance if we encounter an attack by a deep-sea habitat ship......

"It's okay" stared at the endless darkness of the south, and his mentality on the verge of collapse slowly reorganized - as an existence that could barely be called an immortal, he may not be as strong and strong as he imagined, but this level of self-adjustment ability is still possessed.

"As long as it does not sink, there is hope, as for the deep-sea habitat ship......"

"Until you recover, I won't let them touch a finger of you!"

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With the high tide of the night, all the ships that were broken and broken, including the four shipwives of the Seventh Town Guard, were towed to the beach.

The only remaining ships that could move on the sea were the small broken Shimakaze, and the Akagi and Saratoga that arrived later.

"Why are they still unconscious?"

Gently put down the last ship girl, Li Lan pressed her pulse, and after a while, she still chose to give up - if according to the human endurance, the strong heart activity rate of the ship mother will definitely overload all the organs, and she will die of organ failure half an hour later.

In terms of treatment, ship mothers and humans are not a system at all.

"Because of radiation" gently wiped the beads of sweat from his face, and Akagi's eyes showed sadness: "Although it is not as deadly as humans, nuclear radiation is also very threatening to the ship's mother"

Rilan was stunned and looked in the direction of Akagi.

"Yes, Gaga and I have also been affected" Akagi pulled back his cuffs, and on that fair skin, a faint red spot emerged, and under the water elemental vision, Rilan could even calculate the speed of its spread.

“…… That's why you're reluctant to go directly to another Warden's House? ”

Shaking his head slightly, Akagi pulled the cuffs back: "It's not just this...... To the north of the Sixth Town Guard Mansion is the Fifth Town Guard, but it was attacked and sunk by a deep-sea habitat ship 30 years ago, and the Fourth Town Guard Mansion is too far away to support them for that long......

So, the relay station is the only option.

Exhaling a breath, Lilan calmed down: "Okay, you can already tell me what to do next"

Relying on the self-purification ability of this world, the nuclear radiation contaminated by the ship mother will decay to a harmless level after 80~100 years, but no one has ever reached this theoretical value.

Once the ship girl affected by nuclear radiation falls into this coma-like state, the body of the battleship will also be extremely fragile, not to mention the expedition, even the slightly stronger waves will not be able to withstand it.

And this kind of radiation will also infect, and it is basically impossible for other town guards to accept a source of infection into their own garrison range, even if there is really such a "stupid" existence, who will specifically contain the radiation-infected ship girl, and wait for the last 100 years, during which it will be used as a replacement for corroded components, and the resources needed to maintain the survival of the ship mother are definitely not something he can afford.