Less than half a day after leaving, Li Lan set foot on the land of the town guard mansion again, the only difference is that when he left, he took the power that was enough to destroy the world, and the moment he came back, he became a complete battle scum...... In other words, I don't know if there is still 5 combat power.

Not only his own personal changes, but also because of the previous incident, the admiral, who was aware of all the hidden dangers in the town guard mansion under his control that he had not noticed before, is now completely physically and mentally exhausted. If he could, he even wanted to find a place to "sleep" for tens or hundreds of years, and then come out to clean up the mess after the dust had settled.

However, as early as when he decided to remove the ship girl from the human world, he was destined to be impossible to disconnect from them as long as he remained in this world for a day.

Generally speaking, this is the so-called "cause and effect" -- cutting and cutting, and reasoning and messing up.

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After returning to the town guard mansion, all the ship girls who couldn't wait for her to go out returned, and Li Lan immediately asked Akagi to inform the other girls who were still in the town guard mansion and held another long-lost meeting, because the participants were still Chunyu and others who were still on the boundary of the southern town guard mansion, so it was not an internal meeting.

Speaking of which, if it weren't for the fact that the progress on Chunyu's side was unexpectedly fast, just to be able to continue to maintain the seal on her body, Lilan would not have been able to complete the "deal" with the "world" so easily, and obtain a short stay period at the cost of sealing power and not interfering too much in the world line.

Because of the fear of discovering the abnormality in his body, in addition to deliberately bringing Eugen with him, who could not be hidden, Rilan didn't have time to observe which girls were really involved in this meeting - anyway, Akagi would inform them later, and it wasn't bad.

coughed lightly, originally just to attract attention, but I didn't expect to almost fake it because of the weakness of my body: "cough cough cough cough...... Whew" under the hood gave an apologetic smile to the girl with a worried expression behind her. The relieved Lilan tried his best to calm down and said, "I won't say much about the rest, this time there is only one purpose of the meeting."

Turning to the direction of the secretary ship who was uncertain: "Akagi, let's explain"

"Ah, yes—"

Listening to the girl's panicked tone, the corners of Li Lan's mouth twitched.

It's easy to understand why Akagi became like this, but things got to that point. Even if Rilan was willing to forgive Kaga, he couldn't say anything from the other ship's mother, after all, according to what Eugen saw at the time, it was a real "attack" behavior......

So, so far, Rilan has only handed over Kaga to Akagi to guard, and the original intention was to drag it out like this, and wait until the attention of the other ship's mothers is reduced a little bit, and then turn it into a big thing and a small thing, of course. In order to prevent this from happening again, Rilan will still do something with Kaga's composite structure, but now it seems that ......

If you are not afraid of god-like opponents, you are afraid of ...... The same teammates.

With the panicked state of Akagi at this moment, compared with the secretary ship who was calm no matter what happened in the past, the fool knew that there was a problem, and the problem was naturally related to Kaga, who had just broken through the "big disaster", and he couldn't deliberately ignore it.

For a while, except for a small number of ship girls who still didn't know what was going on, they looked puzzled. She also understood that the girls from the beginning to the end of the incident were all looking at each other.

As a last resort, Lilan had no choice but to continue urging: "Akagi! ”

Somehow. The position of secretary ship for more than a year is not a joke, and under the urging of Lilan, the girl has finally recovered somewhat.

"Yes, I'm sorry...... Forty-two hours ago, the Warden had received a request for help from the Federation, and the information that could be confirmed by that brief communication included two "

There was a pause at the beginning, but in the end, it had returned to its usual calm posture. But it was still serious when it came to these inferences - after all, it was a bit strange how to see this information.

"First, the Crusade forces have been routed on all fronts, and according to the last communication that came a week ago, the number of warriors in the Crusade forces has been replenished to more than 500,000. They were all defeated without even being able to send information......"

At this time, Li Lan seemed to be afraid that the shock of the girls in the field was not enough, and added flatly: "To be more precise, they were defeated within 36 hours, and not only that"

"Yes" Akagi said in a heavy tone: "This time, the information was sent from the direction of the Federation, and it was interrupted halfway through the transmission, and based on the voice from the other side at the time, it is likely that it was forced to be interrupted due to an attack."

When there was silence in the conference hall, at this time, Gaga timidly raised his hand: "That...... Gaga doesn't seem to understand? ”

Lexington, who was beside the girl, smiled slightly and explained: "It means that the Crusade troops and the neutral sea area between the continent have been lost, and the enemy has attacked ......"

Speaking of the back, the aircraft carrier girl couldn't help but have the same sense of absurdity as Lilan, who deduced this information at the beginning: In the face of the Federation that relied on the entire sea, even such a powerful opponent as a deep-sea habitat ship could still stand for 300 years - it completely fell in less than two days?

Even if it does not fall, as long as it is attacked on land, what is the point of vigorously developing the maritime army?

"Maybe it's not that bad," said Lan's low voice: "It may be impossible to construct the battle queen, but the AG battle queen can still support land warfare, and because the supply is relatively simple at sea, it will increase the combat power in disguise, so it should be impossible to fall in such a short time."

After a pause, Rilan continued, "Now, the problem we need to face is—"

Reach out for help?

Sit on one's hands?

Or even a stone?

No matter which choice it is, the ship girls have this position and reason.

The reason for the support couldn't be simpler, whether it's for the resources of the Federation or the "comradeship" at the beginning.

And standing by and watching is even falling into the ground...... The moment the exclusive ship's armor was transformed into a composite structure, they had every reason to do so, but it was only because of that unwarranted "sense of mission" and limited knowledge that they didn't make it a reality.

But under the "independent cultivation" of Rilan for more than a year, although it is not enough to say that he wants to start a war against the Federation, the "good feeling" born from the "sense of mission" has disappeared without a trace, and even the ship girls such as Haruna and Kirishima, who were the most resistant to the Southern Town Guard, have now acquiesced to this reality.

Again, the fork in the road of fate stopped in front of me.

And this time, where should the ship girls go? (To be continued......)