Relying on the mimic ship capacity driven by Shimafeng regardless of consumption, and the four shipwives of the Northern Guard, the entire combined fleet rushed to the destination at a rather "unscientific" speed - a resource point 70km away, at the cost of which all the special fuel carried by Shimafeng this time was almost exhausted.

You must know that for this operation, Lan almost gritted his teeth and brought the special fuel that had been accumulated on the Radiance Barrier for a year at one time, but it was consumed in less than two hours......

If you don't get more than 5,000 units of aluminum ore this time, the field fleet can almost be said to be lost.

Almost at the same time as seeing the resource point, the dense reconnaissance aircraft on the aircraft carrier and the fighter jets have already taken off, during which because of the wind direction, some of the carrier-based aircraft in the northern town guard are obviously unable to adapt, and even crash directly into the sea, but the carrier-based aircraft used by the field fleet, which has been transformed by Lilan, has risen into the air safely, the only exception is Zeppelin, who Lilan has been secretly paying attention to......

“…… It looks a little familiar, the appearance of these carrier-based aircraft "squinted, Li Lan looked at the sky and circled outwards of the carrier-based aircraft group, not Saratoga and Lexington's SBD-Dreadnought, nor Akagi and Taiho's Zero, not the most common gale in the northern town guard now, but a certain model in his memory, where he had seen it......

Silently, Lilan recalled in his heart.

The black hollow opened beside Lilan without warning, and a girl's voice suddenly came from inside: "The reconnaissance in the west is normal, but the east is very troublesome poi~ Huh?" What's the problem with POI? ”

The corners of Li Lan's mouth twitched slightly, and he looked at the poi that appeared from the hole in a tangled manner: "...... Don't you know it's scary? ”

“poi？ You can't perceive it-" Halfway through speaking, the POI who realized it later reacted and suddenly said: "Forget that you can't do it anymore POI~"

It's no longer possible...... than sympathy. Why does it feel like there's more schadenfreude in this tone?

After hesitating for a moment, and realizing that he might not be able to defeat this POI who had transformed from a ship girl into a "space elf", Lilan finally gave up the idea of a "Z16-style" attack on her white forehead.

Ignoring Poi's "schadenfreude", Rilan shifted his gaze to the ship's wives below, who were intensively mining and transporting resources.

Unlike previous expeditionary resource acquisition methods, this resource point, located 70 km east of the Northern Castle Guard, is a huge raw ore rather than the "finished product" of the Deep-Sea Habitat Ship, just like the resource point northwest of the Southern Castle Guard. Before letting the ship's girls use it, they must first transport it back to the Radiance Barrier for processing to remove the internal impurities, otherwise it is likely to be "indigestion" if they are directly "eaten" -- the external manifestation is that the parameters of the carrier-based aircraft in all aspects have dropped sharply, and the combat effectiveness has been directly deducted to 5.

And the current resource transportation Lilan can't help much, if the ontology's glorious barrier is here, Lilan can still make some small moves or something, but now...... Huh.

Poi and Chunyu's words are similar to Lilan's situation, because of the loss of the main battleship, although they have become powerful in some super powers, but the unscientific physical strength of the corresponding ship girl has disappeared with the body, and the limit power they can exert under normal circumstances is similar to that of ordinary people. So he could only stand on it and stare dryly like Rilan.

After discovering that it was still difficult to rely on the tools carried on the top of the battleship to collect resources, Li Lan didn't say a word and directly asked the ship's mother below to blast this "aluminum mine...... As for explosives, aren't those on carrier-based aircraft?

Anyway, after this time, the possibility of returning here is very small, and Lilan doesn't need to worry so much, besides, even if he really returns here, it will be the time to restore peace, and at that time, I'm afraid that the aluminum resources will not be able to find a second one in this sea area of Chelsea?

Thereupon. The bomber, which was originally intended to be sacrificed as a "decoy", once again came into use, and began to bomb this "aluminum mine" indiscriminately and on a large scale. Then the "fragments" were salvaged through the tools on the battleship, and the mining and collection speed suddenly increased a lot.

The black pupils reflected the light of the flame explosion, and for no reason, Li Lan suddenly remembered a question: "Spring Rain, this resource point is so close to the Town Guard Mansion, why haven't you developed it before?" ”

The girl's face flushed slightly. I wanted to protest to Lilan and call her by name, but I don't know why I was silent again, and after a while, Chunyu replied in a low voice: "This resource point only appeared recently"

Li Lan was stunned, and his eyes turned to Chunyu's face: "It only appeared recently?" ”

Slightly avoiding the "scorching" gaze of the blue (in fact, it was completely the heat wave set off by the bomber bombing...... ）。 Chunyu explained: "Well, it was discovered a week ago when Zeppelin's reconnaissance plane was on a routine patrol, because I didn't know the news of the deep-sea giant beast at that time, so I didn't pay much attention to it......"

A week ago, in addition to the sudden appearance of the LV100 prototype air carrier, the other air carrier-class ships on the Northern Town Guard Mansion are still staying in the Southern Town Guard Mansion to study, and the demand for aluminum resources in the Northern Town Guard Mansion can be imagined to a certain extent, in line with the idea of "reserve grain storage" (rabbits don't eat the grass next to the nest), Bai Lu, who was a secretary ship at that time, did not attack this piece of aluminum mine that was close at hand, but let the expeditionary force go to the distance to carry a little aluminum resources as Zeppelin's daily consumption.

However, this information deepened Rilan's doubts.

Before the appearance of the deep-sea monster, the Northern Town Guardian Mansion had no abnormality in this sea area for nearly 3 years, but after the appearance of the deep-sea monster, a "aluminum mine" suddenly appeared?

Not to mention how speechless it is that the sea of this world will have resources that can be directly put into use by finished products, just because this aluminum mine will appear out of thin air with Zeppelin, it is very worthy of Lilan's suspicion, it is like a "charcoal in the snow" specially sent.

Coupled with the existence of the deep-sea giant beast that led away several times, in the dark, Li Lan seemed to understand something......

(In short, let's solve the current problem first)

Casting his gaze down again, Lilan thought.

―――――― Split ――――――

After the bombers joined the mining sequence, the mining and collection speed of the ship girls was more than doubled, and the resource collection that would have taken at least half a day took less than two hours, even if it was including the round-trip journey, this sortie would not take more than 8 hours.

"Half the carry, too much will affect the speed," explained to Akagi, and Riran stopped her from continuing to salvage resources with shipborne vehicles.

"If only 70 percent, we'd be okay—"

"Okay, listen to me" sighed in his heart, Rilan pressed Akagi's shoulder, and looked directly at the girl's amber pupils: "Compared to these 20% of resources, your safety is more important than everything!" ”

“…… Hmmm"

At this moment, Chunyu's nervous voice suddenly came: "It's back!" ”

“poi？”

"Deep Sea Behemoth ......" When Lan pronounced the word, it was almost like ** - compared to the previous two times, this time the time interval was less than 5 hours.

(Are you kidding me?) (To be continued.) )