Chapter 464: The Exam Begins
The reason why Su Xia chose Helena was simple.
Compared to Indiana, Wichita, King Kong and others who were waiting in front of the office building to chase him, he was used to not choosing any of the multiple-choice questions. Helena's strategy was to actively apply to join the secretary ship exam question-setting team. He was worried that no one would help him, so he naturally would not refuse.
Among them, Indiana, Wichita, King Kong and others saw that Helena adopted a roundabout strategy, so they naturally followed suit. However, compared to Helena's intelligence analysis, no one in the naval base could match her. Neither the Victory nor Moltke was her opponent. They did not have any outstanding abilities and it was difficult for them to join the question-setting group.
It is better to be outstanding in one thing than to be mediocre in all aspects.
Next, after working overtime together at night, they naturally got together.
It has to be said that although Helena is a light cruiser, its size is not inferior to those battleships. Of course, it cannot be compared with the Des Moines class, which is an outboard class, and it has a perfect teardrop shape that no one has.
In short, on the morning of the day before the secretary ship exam, Su Xia woke up at around nine o'clock as usual, and when he was ready and rushed to the office, it was almost ten o'clock. Unlike usual, he went to the office with Helena this time.
Su Xia learned from her mistakes and now knew to interrupt. Without waiting for Shengli to tease her, she said, "I know what you want to say, Shengli. I don't want to say it either. So let's just leave it at that... pour me a cup of black tea, and then we'll get ready to work. What did we discuss last night?"
Victory kept his words to himself with an unpleasant expression.
Helena was shaking with laughter.
Moltke had naturally arrived at the office a long time ago, and her expression was cold.
And L20 was late today as usual.
Su Xia attached great importance to this secretary ship examination. No matter who the Victory disliked today, the inconsiderate admiral, the coquettish Helena, or the unromantic German barbarian Moltke, she just drank a sip of black tea and started working.
"We prepared all the essay questions for the written test yesterday, and this morning we discussed how to respond to the leaderless group discussion in the interview."
Su Xia thought about it and said worriedly, "The topic should be about how to make this port area full of laughter. It should be fine. I think you all have no objection."
Helena crossed her arms and said, "Why did you choose this as the topic? Aren't our garrison and our port area already filled with everyone's laughter?"
Victory stared at Helena, who was wearing a T-shirt and jeans today. Her face was radiant and bright at the expense of someone's unsteady steps. She said sarcastically, "You must have laughed, but it's hard to say about the laughter of others."
She also wants to be ten years younger.
"No problem. Why not?" Helena said with a playful smile. "What do you think, Moltke? Is our port area already filled with everyone's laughter?"
As a German, Moltke was not good at joking, and said seriously: "I think it's still a little short."
Helena shrugged.
"Okay, let's stop talking nonsense." Su Xia said. He cared a lot about the leaderless group discussion which was entirely set by him.
"The purpose of the garrison, in addition to suppressing the deep-sea ship girls and protecting humans, is to allow the ship girls to live a happy life." Su Xia paused, "It is too difficult to completely suppress the deep-sea ship girls. All the garrisons must work together. Even that is difficult. It is obviously much easier to fill this port with everyone's laughter. This is really the most appropriate topic for the secretary ship exam."
"I agree," said Helena.
"Flatterer." Victory muttered in a low voice. Even the old lady is a girl.
Su Xia finished her tea, put down her teacup, and picked up a piece of dessert. It was a scone brought by the Victory. As for the mooncakes prepared by Yixian for the Mid-Autumn Festival, they had been eaten long ago.
Su Xia said, "Our original plan was not to have a referee, but to let them rate each other, remove the highest score, remove the lowest score, and finally calculate the average score... Plans can't keep up with changes, and now I'm afraid we can't do that."
"Why don't you want a referee?" Helena asked curiously.
Victory snorted coldly, "You are so good, why don't you be the referee and help everyone to score? Do you have the guts to give low scores to Washington and Lexington?"
Helena thought about it carefully. Apart from the admiral, even the admiral would not do it. After all, they were all wives. Who would dare to give low scores to those heavyweights of the garrison? Wouldn't they be afraid of being retaliated against later? However, she would not lose the battle: "Why not."
"Then go ahead."
"Go ahead." Helena said unconvinced, "Who do you think Washington and Lexington are? Are they mean-spirited people? They are taking revenge for such a small matter... Unless you have something to hide and are targeting them because of their low scores, why would they take revenge on you?"
"No, everyone is very reasonable..." Victory said, "Then it's settled. We don't want to have no referee. There must be a referee, and the referee is Helena."
"You are not the admiral, how can you decide?" Helena said unconvinced. Obviously, the Victory had no prestige as an assistant, but although Helena was a light cruiser, she had fought countless times and had many achievements, so she was not an unknown person.
"I'm not the admiral, but I'm the admiral's assistant," said Victory.
"Just an assistant." Helena sneered, staring at the Victory. "You noticed that Victory was targeting me today. You must be angry."
"Alright, alright." Su Xia had no choice but to step out and smooth things over. "Stop arguing."
"Helena, you have to understand. We really considered that plan," Su Xia explained. "It's not because no one can give you low scores... It's mainly because who is qualified to help you score. Who among you dares to say that it is better than Missouri, Washington, Lexington, Joe Five, Enterprise... is qualified to help them score."
"I understand." Helena nodded. It was the admiral who spoke.
Helena asked: "Why doesn't the Admiral plan to do that again? No plan can keep up with changes."
"That is to say," Su Xia pondered for a moment, "I didn't expect that everyone would form cliques so strongly... Forget about that, I heard that there are also threats and inducements. As long as you help me, I will definitely support you when I become a secretary ship in the future. If you don't help me, I will be embarrassed when I become a secretary ship..."
"This is already known... It's just hearsay. Without evidence, it's difficult for you to disqualify her from the competition. Who knows if it's a false accusation... There may be many unknowns." Su Xia rubbed her temples, feeling a little headache. "In this situation, if you do something to make them rate each other, I'm really worried that something unexpected will happen."
"That's right." Victory said, "So what's the Admiral's idea?"
"I don't have any idea." Su Xia said, "I'm here to discuss this with you guys."
"I've thought about it." Su Xia had an idea. "Just like covering the names in an exam, we can separate everyone and randomly assign a little Lolita as the spokesperson. Then no one knows who is who, and that can prevent them from colluding. Because no one except us knows which little Lolita represents who."
"It's too much trouble." Helena said, feeling troubled just by listening to it.
"It's really troublesome." Su Xia said, "but I really have no idea."
We discussed the matter for a whole morning and discussed many methods. However, no matter which method we used, there were problems. They were either too troublesome or had more loopholes. In the end, after much discussion, we decided to keep things as they were.
In the afternoon, the afternoon work is to roughly confirm how many people are preparing to take the secretary ship examination, so as to prepare the test papers and the examination room.
The task of typesetting and printing the test paper was given to Victory. As an old lady, Victory didn't know much about computers, so she had to ask for reputation. There was nothing in the world that could stump the head maid. Su Xia and Helena prepared the examination room. There was really nothing to prepare. They could just use the children's classrooms.
Moltke collected the list of candidates for the secretary ship examination.
Su Xia leaned back in her chair and looked at the list of candidates.
"Lexington is participating, Saratoga is not participating, and Constellation is not participating."
"There's not a single participant from the Jiaozi class... Jiaozi's personality definitely makes her unsuitable for being a secretary ship. Ticonderoga is a bit of a middle schooler, but Shirokuta and Hancock can give it a try."
"I remember that Yorktown originally said that she would participate, but I didn't see her name. There was only the name of Enterprise... Enterprise, Enterprise should be a strong contender for the secretary ship."
"Are all the four Iowa sisters participating... Iowa, Missouri, and Wisconsin are fine, but will New Jersey also participate? Why is she participating as well... But even if she did, she would probably just join in the fun."
"No one from the Colorado class participated?"
“Washington and South Dakota?”
“Massachusetts didn’t participate, but Atlanta did.”
"Hood... I don't know how to say it..." Su Xia smiled, thinking that as the flagship of the Royal Navy, Hood is absolutely excellent in terms of capabilities, but he often fails at critical moments... It seems that he also has his moments?
"Is it really okay for a proud Lion to be a secretary ship... The eldest brother is King George V of England, and the eldest brother is the Prince of Wales..." Su Xia bit her finger subconsciously, "The King George V class is made up of three sisters, right? Why does it feel like someone is missing... Compared to the two sisters, does the Duke of York have less screen time?"
"St. George isn't going to participate?"
"glory?"
"I know Akagi... Kongo didn't even participate. Was she stopped by her sister?"
"...I thought No. 13 wasn't going to participate."
"Taiho and Zuikaku actually participated. They actually joined in the fun."
"I'm not saying that Bismarck is really not a good option... Zeppelin still has some potential... Blücher is really fearless." Su Xia thought of Zeppelin's enchanting figure again.
"Richelieu feels like I haven't seen him for a long time."
"Veneto..."
When Su Xia saw the name of the Soviet Union, she recalled the experience of being chased everywhere by the Soviet Union.
Su Xia laughed: "What's going on with Sukhbaatar?"
Su Xia put down the list of candidates and said, "The number of people taking the secretary ship exam is less than I thought."
"I remember that a lot of people came here to learn about the secretary ship exam." Su Xia held the back of her head with both hands, "and many people in the group vowed to take the exam... although I knew they were just talking nonsense."
Helena took the list of candidates from Su Xia's hand and said, "It's probably because of those two reports and the rumors flying around."
"Probably." Su Xia looked up at the ceiling.
By the time Victory and Reputation brought all the test papers over, all matters concerning the secretary ship test would have been settled.
"That's it." As the admiral, Su Xia put away all the things. In fact, he just placed them casually in the office. The thought of whether anyone would come over to peek at the test papers never occurred to him. "It was completed so smoothly. It was really hard work for everyone... Victory, Moltke, Helena and Reputation."
"Me, me, me, I've worked hard too." L20 interrupted. This was her last day in the office, and starting tomorrow she would no longer be a secretary ship.
Su Xia squinted her eyes at L20 and said, "What are you working so hard for?"
"I served tea and water to everyone." L20 said as a matter of course.
Su Xia waved her hand: "Go away."
Su Xia thought for a moment and nodded: "What does Victory want...as long as I can do it."
Victory wanted to ask for it, but then she thought how could a girl be so proactive, being too proactive would make people look down on her, and everyone looked at her and said, "I don't need it... I'm the admiral's assistant, that's what I should do."
"What about reputation?" Su Xia looked at the reputation, "What does my eternal maid want."
"I just helped print the test papers."
"Where's Helena?" Su Xia looked at Helena again.
"I haven't decided what I want yet." Helena said, "Can I keep it for now?"
"no."
Helena was standing behind the office chair. She hugged Su Xia from behind and said, "I think it's okay."
Su Xia took a breath and said, "Okay, okay... Can you let me go?"
"Excuse me for refusing." Helena whispered in his ear, her breath sweet as orchid.
Victory was watching from the side, turned his head away, and cursed inwardly, "Slut, vixen, and little goblin."
"Moltke?" Su Xia shouted.
Moltke looked at Suxia, and when Suxia seemed a little concerned, he said, "As long as I can do it... I am your most loyal partner, Moltke. Next, it's your turn..."
Victory's eyes widened.
Su Xia stayed in Moltke's room that night.
Then, the day finally arrived and the secretary ship exam began.
