Chapter 516: Shipping
After watching everyone reluctantly leave the resource warehouse, Su Xia straightened his back and bent down.
Su Xia wanted to start building immediately, but after taking another look at Shengwang - no matter whether Shengwang was a bunny girl at night, Shengwang during the day was always dressed in a tightly wrapped maid outfit. The problem was that the pair of heterochromatic eyes that looked like cat's eyes were too tempting - she decided to wait and see.
Su Xia stretched out her hands and clapped them towards Shengwang, then opened them and said, "Shengwang, come here and stand in front of me."
"Master, what is it that you are calling me for?" Shengyu walked up to Su Xia with confusion.
"Come closer." Su Xia said.
Reputation took a step forward, she already knew what her master wanted to do and she would not refuse.
Su Xia looked up at the reputation. He was too lazy to stand up, so he said, "Squat down."
Reputation squatted gracefully on the ground in a kneeling position and said, "I'm squatting down."
Su Xia hugged Reputation with her open arms and buried her head in her chest, which was so soft and warm. She said, "It's been a long time since I hugged Reputation like this. I'll replenish Reputation elements... I'm just about to build, so I'll replenish Luck at the same time."
The historic ship survived the war, being the only one of the three British battlecruisers to do so.
In this way, even if the luck in reputation is not among the best, it is at least among the excellent ones.
"Really?" Reputation gently hugged Su Xia, "Is your reputation full?"
"Just a little bit more." Su Xia said, as if he really needed to replenish the reputation element.
Su Xia took a deep breath, released the hand holding the reputation, and said, "It's almost done."
I just wanted to improve my reputation suddenly, and I was satisfied after I improved it. The main task now was construction, and Su Xia didn't have any more unnecessary actions.
It's just that the construction failed once, there's nothing to say, the next time it will succeed. Su Xia walked towards the resources that everyone had prepared, and stretched out his hand to touch the steel. Since he had done it the first time, he could get into the state smoothly this time.
Su Xia found that he had turned into a sailor, running around on the deck.
He wanted to see which ship he was on. After so much study, he could recognize many warships by their length, guns, bridges, etc. Unfortunately, he had no way to control his perspective and his mind was not so clear. It was as if he was in a state where he knew he was dreaming but had no way of thinking properly.
Su Xia saw that from the deck, a huge aircraft carrier was floating on the sea not far away, emitting thick smoke, and it looked like the aircraft carrier was about to sink. He recognized the aircraft carrier, and there was no black circle on the chimney. It was the Lexington.
It felt like a long time had passed, but it also seemed like just a moment. Su Xia opened his eyes and gasped for breath.
He knew that he had failed again this time, but it was only his second construction, so let it fail.
Since fast construction was used - if it was not used, there would be no way to build several times in one afternoon - no matter how long he looked at the history during the construction, only a very short time had passed in reality, mainly the time spent entering the state, as if he needed to close his eyes before falling into real sleep. Su Xia did not delay and started building again.
It was a dark night.
He was an officer. The warship he was on began to turn after receiving the light signal, as if the original order was cancelled and they were preparing to retreat. The foolish teammate made a wrong left turn, and the bow of the warship was bent by the warship of his teammate, and seawater poured into the middle deck from the opening. After a series of intensive repairs, the warship was able to resume sailing with a speed of more than ten knots...
Su Xia opened her eyes.
As expected, the construction failed again.
"There is no rush to build. I suggest that you drink a cup of black tea first." Construction consumes a lot of energy, and you need to replenish your energy at this time. Renown had already prepared black tea and snacks. "Take another piece of candy to replenish your energy and sugar. Be careful of hypoglycemia."
Su Xia was anxious to build it, but he believed in the reputation of his head maid, who would never do anything useless, so he decided to build it slowly first.
Su Xia finished her tea and the candy, which was a piece of chocolate, and started a new round of construction.
Su Xia saw a huge battlecruiser. It was not a Kongo-class, Renown-class, Hood-class, or Valiant-class. None of them matched, and she had no impression of them at all. That battlecruiser was cutting through the waves of the sea, that battlecruiser was fighting the enemy, and she and her teammates easily defeated the enemy Kongo fleet...
Su Xia woke up and recalled the scene she had just seen. She had a vague impression of it and laughed at that time. Then she looked at Shengwang and said, "Shengwang, guess what I just saw."
"See what?" Reputation asked, knowing his master was eager to share.
"I saw it... I don't know how to say it, and I can't remember too much." Su Xia said affirmatively, "It's a very fake history, it's really too fake. A warship sailed on the sea and killed everyone. A single shot was enough to achieve a victory."
"What the admiral saw was probably the picture imagined by people in history." Reputation said, "There are many blueprint ships in history, and they can only remain on the blueprints and in people's imagination. So the ship girls come from people's thoughts and wishes - people now, people in the past, everyone's memories and imagination."
Su Xia thought for a moment and nodded, saying, "Well, what I saw was not a memory, but a picture imagined by people. That battleship was a blueprint ship that never appeared from beginning to end... Unfortunately, I can't remember what that battleship looked like, and I don't know what blueprint ship it was."
Su Xia suddenly shook her head, thinking that now was not the time to care about so many things.
"Let's not talk about that anymore, let's continue building." Su Xia started to move again.
This is the fourth build today.
Fifth construction.
Sixth construction.
…
Tenth construction.
After the twelfth construction, Su Xia was not in a hurry to build. He really felt a little tired. He sat on the chair that Renown had prepared early, leaned his back on it, put his head on it, looked at the ceiling of the resource warehouse with his eyes narrowed, and said: "No, no, it is completely impossible to build it."
"Black tea." Reputation placed the cup of black tea on the table in front of Su Xia. "It has only been built a dozen times. I don't believe the master will be discouraged so quickly."
Su Xia didn't take the cup of black tea. Of course, he wasn't so discouraged. He was just talking. Besides, he had planned everything. It didn't matter what the result was. He originally planned to build ten times to try his hand, but he still needed more. It would be best if he could build a new ship girl. If he couldn't build anything, he would have a reason to join the African Club.
"Reputation elements." Su Xia said, "I need more reputation elements. The original ones have been used up."
"I really can't do anything with you, my spoiled master." Reputation said, bending down and kissing him on the lips, "Okay, all the reputation elements are given to you."
"It's full." Su Xia jumped up, "I feel full of power now."
Prestige smiles.
Suxia started building again.
I don't know how many times it was built.
Su Xia did not see the battleship this time, but was busy drawing a blueprint as a designer. The blueprint showed a battleship. The layout of that battleship looked very similar to the Richelieu-class battleship, but it was not a Richelieu-class battleship.
As a designer, Su Xia had been drawing blueprints for a long time. He only knew that he had three plans in his mind. All the plans were based on a C series plan, with the main gun turret and three triple-mounted 152mm secondary guns in the center line as the basic configuration.
Among the three typical plans, Plan 1 is actually an enlarged version of Plan C3, 4 meters longer and 2 meters wider. Plan 2 is even simpler, simply replacing the 380mm main gun with a 406mm main gun and increasing the total thrust by 20,000 horsepower. Plan 3 returns to the quadruple 380mm main gun, but is equipped with as many as 3, and the total length is increased to 265 meters.
Su Xia prefers the third option for a simple reason - bigger is better, more is beautiful.
As a designer, he drew blueprints. As a designer, he discussed the layout of the battleship. As an officer, he discussed the needs of the military. The enemy's plan was revealed, and they must not fall behind. They must have cutting-edge battleships... Su Xia didn't know how many roles he had changed, but he never saw a battleship from beginning to end, or a real battleship sailing on the sea. He only saw a number of blueprints, but in the end, they didn't even start construction. It was really a pity.
Su Xia woke up and felt that the construction was taking an unusually long time for some reason. He took out his cell phone to check the time and it clearly didn't take much time.
Why do I feel tears flowing? Su Xia blinked her eyes, reached out to wipe away her tears, and tried to recall what she saw when she was building it just now, but she remembered nothing.
Reputation also noticed tears flashing in Su Xia's eyes: "What did the admiral see when he was building it? Why are you crying?"
"I don't know." Su Xia shook her head, "I don't know what I saw."
"I can't remember anything at all." Su Xia paused and continued, "It seems like I saw something very regrettable... It was so close, but I couldn't do anything."
Su Xia said this as she squatted down on the ground. She didn't know why she felt very sad and her heart ached.
Su Xia narrowed his eyes and stood up to look at the pile of resources. He thought he had built it, but he didn't see anything, so was it an illusion?
It shouldn't be that easy. Thinking of this, Su Xia shook his head and stood up, saying: "No, I really can't remember it, never mind, continue to build...reputation, how many times have we built it now."
"Twenty-four times," Reputation replied.
"It's already the 24th time so soon... 24 times and nothing gained." Su Xia said. He already knew that no matter how easy it was to obtain resources in the game, it was not easy to obtain resources here. For many admirals, it took nearly a year to accumulate so many buildings, which was really not easy.
"Let's just leave it at that." Su Xia said suddenly.
"Why," asked Renown, "the Admiral doesn't want to continue construction."
"It feels like such a waste. Twenty-four times is a lot. It's really not good that we haven't built a single new ship girl." Su Xia said with a sad face, "Think about how many ship girls we have in the garrison, what's the use of one more... Look at the Royal Ark and Conqueror joining the garrison, they can't help the garrison at all, and the garrison needs to spend resources to help them... Of course, they will be useful in the future."
"To be honest, I have so many resources. Why don't I do something?" Su Xia hesitated, thinking that the resources seemed to be of little use. "I feel that I am losing a lot. I have built so many times now. If I stop now, I will get nothing... Otherwise, I will grit my teeth and build a random ship girl before stopping."
"I don't expect to build any powerful battleships... it would be nice if we could build a Montana-class battleship." Su Xia laughed, thinking that he was overthinking. "I don't ask for too much either, just a destroyer... if possible, a Fletcher-class destroyer."
Fletcher will improve his combat effectiveness according to the number of Fletcher-class destroyers. If he can have more Fletcher-class destroyers, Fletcher's combat effectiveness will be stronger. It's just hard for Fletcher. Now he has so many sisters. He is worried about his hair turning white every day. In the future, it will be more difficult to take care of more sisters.
Having said that, Su Xia still wanted some powerful battleships. Although reality is not like a game, unlike a game where more shipgirls appear with the update of the version. Speaking of the game, it is early October now, and he traveled through time in early August. The game must have a holy building event during this period, and new shipgirls will definitely appear. And there must be a finale, either a battleship, a battlecruiser, or an aircraft carrier or an armored carrier.
“Is this what is called a sunk cost?” Su Xia said with emotion, “When people decide whether to do something, they not only look at whether it is good for them, but also whether they have already invested in it in the past.”
"Five times." Su Xia gritted his teeth and said, "If we build it five more times and still get nothing, then let it be."
"What do you think of your reputation?" Su Xia asked.
"Master, you have an idea, why are you asking me what to do?" said Shengyu. She was sure that the admiral was not hesitant and hoped to get her help, but had already made a plan in mind and wanted to get her approval to make up his mind.
Su Xia smiled, because Shengming was right. He had a plan from the beginning. After thinking for a while, he said, "As long as Shengming says 'no', I will stop right now."
"I support the master." Renown said, "Reputation always supports the master and does what he wants to do."
"That's it," Su Xia said, "I love you so much, Renwen, my head maid."
Reputation is noncommittal.
Su Xia went to build, frowning subconsciously as she walked on the road. Sheng looked at the hands collecting the resources that had lost their power, walked around the pile of resources, and when he got behind the pile of resources, he suddenly saw a woman with long pink hair sitting next to the pile of resources.
Didn’t the admiral build a ship girl?
Thinking of this, Reputation reached out and pushed the other person.
The woman opened her eyes.
"Are you my general?"
"no."
