"Battleship, Nagato" On the Ninghai ship, there were two triangular objects pinned to her head like ornaments, and a young woman with a cold expression stretched out her hand to Li Lan, and said in a serious tone: "It's a pleasure to meet you, the admiral from the Seventh Town Guard." ”

The time was ten minutes after the defeat of the fleets of the two deep-sea habitat ships, the wheel-shaped formation of the northern "friendly forces" dispersed, and the two warships located close to the front approached Lilan's side, and Ning Hai did not refuse the other party's move to board the ship under Lilan's signal.

In the end, the one who appeared in front of Rilan as a "friendly representative" was the ship's mother, who looked to be about twenty years old, the battleship "Nagato".

"Lilan" stretched out his right hand, and Lilan showed a kind smile to the other party: "Thank you very much for your support, otherwise I am afraid I would not have survived today"

This is not modesty, but the truest words.

Once the Boundary Armament is activated, maybe Ning Hai and the others will be able to find another town guard mansion in the vast sea, but Li Lan will definitely not survive for three minutes.

For Li Lan's thanks, the ship's mother named Nagato didn't say anything, but after politely shaking hands, she asked straightforwardly: "May I ask if the admiral of the Seventh Town Guard Mansion is going to return next?" ”

Li Lan was stunned, this is not a normal inquiry process......

"If you can, I think it's better to avoid it for the time being, as you can see, the fleet I have at the moment can't stop those deep-sea habitat ships at all."

The angle behind Li Lan was invisible, and the hands held by Ning Hai were slightly white.

"So" It seemed that Rilan's answer had been predicted from the beginning, and Nagato invited directly without hesitation: "Please follow behind, next our fleet will return to the Sixth Town Guard, if you don't mind, the Admiral can go to the Sixth Town Guard with your fleet to repair"

“…… Then I'll be disrespectful."

Looking at Nagato and another similar-looking shipwreck returning to his ship, Rilan's brows furrowed slightly.

No matter how you look at it, it's too abnormal.

Ning Hai looked at Li Lan suspiciously: "Lord Admiral? ”

"It's a little strange" If it was a chance encounter, then why was Nagato so sure of his identity? And what do you mean by the Seventh Town Guard and the Sixth Town Guard? The strangest thing is - why did you invite yourself to the Sixth Town Guard?

But......

If there was really any malicious intent, wouldn't it be more straightforward to do it just now? Thinking of this, Lilan also gave up guessing the other party's idea: "It's okay, it's probably my delusion"

Tilting his head, Ning Hai was a little troubled by Li Lan's complicated mental activities: "Yes...... Is it? ”

"Hmm" Lilan nodded affirmatively: "Nothing!" ”

Five minutes later, the fleet set off again, with the difference that there were three more "schoolboys" playing soy sauce and a temporary "pseudo-admiral" in the back.

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A communication request came from the radio in his ear, and Nagato pressed the answer button with a blank face.

A lively voice came out: "Nagato, is it for them that Lord Admiral let us brave the storm to go on an expedition?" ”

"If nothing else, it's them"

Another voice that seemed more calm sounded: "This is too strange, obviously it is just the child of two destroyers and a light cruiser......"

The third voice interjected: "If you want me to say, the strangest thing is the admiral of the Seventh Town Guard, I remember that the Seventh Town Guard Mansion obviously completely fell in the outbreak of events 30 years ago"

It seemed to be a little out of touch with the third voice, and the fourth voice decisively mocked: "What's so strange about this, the 'builder' is not such a fragile thing~"

"The point of the conversation is wrong!"

"And what's the point?"

"That ......" a timid voice suddenly interjected, "Gaga thinks the name of the Admiral...... Weird? ”

“……”

“……”

“……”

“……”

Sighing helplessly, Nagato emphasized in a serious tone: "Be vigilant, there may be a patrol force of deep-sea habitat ships in this area at any time, we just need to complete the order of the Admiral, other things are not what we need to worry about"

In the rear, half of the fleet of the Seventh Town Guard.

"Has Ning Hai ever heard of anything like the Seventh Town Guard Mansion and the Sixth Town Guard Mansion?"

"I'm sorry, Lord Admiral, Ning Hai doesn't have any memories of this."

"Hmm...... Can Ning Hai ask the next ring? ”

Nodding slightly, Ning Hai immediately made a series of complex gestures towards the sound of the ship 500 meters away to the right, and he could barely see it clearly from the afterglow reflected in the ocean to the west.

The corner of his eyes jumped, and Li Lan sensibly gave up the idea of finding a time to learn this kind of sign language action, not to mention anything else, just to ask this sentence, Ning Hai did no less than twenty actions just now.

"Admiral, Hibiki-chan said she didn't know"

"Really......"

Since it is not even clear that it is not even clear as a prototype ship, then the Z16 is even more impossible, however, reality always likes to slap the face in some inadvertent things.

"Lord Admiral, Z16-chan said she had heard of it"

“…… Ha? ”

Ning Hai didn't seem to feel the abnormality in Lilan's tone, and relayed Z16's explanation to him.

"It seems that something serious happened 30 years ago, and the original town guard office has changed a lot, so in order to facilitate management and prevent the same thing from happening next time, I changed the name of the town guard house to a certain order."

"That's why it's called the Sixth Town Keeper and the Seventh Town Guard......

Thinking about the meaning of the title, Lilan fell into deep thought.

How can I say that this sort of order is inevitably too much of a joke, what happened to make the Federation give such a self-defeating name? It's almost as if you could cut a few from it at any given moment.

"Woo......"

"Huh?" I don't know when, Ning Hai has already stuck to Li Lan's side, and after noticing Li Lan's gaze, Ning Hai's face flushed strangely, but the corner of his clothes that he grabbed did not have any intention of letting go.

Only then did Lilan realize that it was already nighttime......

"I'm sorry, Ning Hai, for some reason I can't emit those lights for the time being," Li Lan explained to Ning Hai with a wry smile, the sequelae of the forced suspension of the armed disarmament were not so simple to pass.

To Lilan's surprise, Ning Hai just leaned closer: "That...... Ning Hai only needs to stay by the Admiral's side...... You won't be afraid."

Li Lan was stunned, and then suddenly said: "I don't care...... Then stay with me for the time being."

“…… Stupid"

"Did Ning Hai say anything just now?"

"Hmm~ Ning Hai didn't say anything"