Chapter 573: Test of Courage
The pink-haired girl dressed as Crazy Alice is Javelin, and she's got quite the guts.
Even so, it was still stressful to explore alone. Especially when standing at the entrance of a commercial building, the usually bright square was now dimly lit, scary pumpkin lanterns were everywhere, the sea breeze suddenly blew, the leaves rustled, and the cries of crows and nighthawks sounded at the same time.
Javelin wanted to find some friends to go out with her, and she looked around but didn't know who would be the best person to find.
Somarez and Legion, dressed as African chiefs, were playing in a claw machine. The Halloween claw machine was filled with Gastly and Night Skull dolls.
The magical girl Firefly and the one-eyed Admiral Hipper are in a standoff.
Ma Han, shaking his head, noticed Javelin looking around and asked curiously, "Javelin, what are you looking for?"
It's you. You came to me on your own. Javelin snapped his fingers and said, "Ma Han, have you looked at the activity list? It says there are eight candy jars in the garrison. You can redeem super generous prizes by collecting candies from all eight candy jars."
"And then?" Mahan asked. "You want to collect?"
"You don't want to?" Javelin said, "The first one to collect all eight candy jars will get an extra prize."
"Hmm..." No matter how bad their personalities are, children are still children. Mahan peeked at the square outside the commercial building and still felt a lingering fear. "With so many battleships, battlecruisers, and aircraft carriers... How could our destroyer be the first to collect them all?"
"Who knows?" Z17 nodded. "Anyway, trying may not necessarily lead to success, but not trying will definitely lead to failure."
"Isn't it possible that Mahan doesn't dare to go... that he's so timid?" Javelin challenged him, "That's fake. Didn't you see Missouri leading everyone to set up the garrison during the day? Even if there are any monsters, don't you have Alfred?"
Ma Han hesitated for a long time, thinking that he would not be afraid of anyone as long as Alfred was there, and asked, "The two of us?"
"Call a few more." Javelin said with his arms folded across his chest, "You call two, and I'll call two."
"Cushing," Mahan said. "I'll go get Cushing."
"Amethyst." Javelin said suddenly, "I remember seeing amethyst just now."
"Why are you suddenly smiling so evilly?" Mahan looked at the javelin.
"That's it..." Javelin said, "You know... If you encounter something unclean, you don't have to run very fast to escape, just run faster than others... Amethyst runs the slowest... He sails slowly and runs slowly. And for some reason, he taunts me."
"That's just right," Javelin said, "Other people are hard to fool, but she can't find her way if she brags."
Ma Han nodded thoughtfully.
Amethyst, a Black Swan-class frigate. Unlike destroyers, it is mainly used for minesweeping, escort, and overseas dispatch, and is not prepared to engage in direct combat with enemy ships.
In history, the Amethyst was mainly responsible for escort and anti-submarine missions during the war, and was incorporated into the Far East Fleet after the war. On the eve of the Battle of Crossing the Yangtze River, it once made irrational behavior and was heavily bombarded. Finally, it managed to escape from the Yangtze River estuary with the help of a passenger ship. This is the famous Amethyst incident.
Because historically, she was ignorant of the world, and as a ship girl, she was also ignorant of the world, and was easily deceived. In addition, as a warship, a mere frigate dared to challenge such a great country, isn't it a bit ridiculous and ironic? As a ship girl, it is always easy to become the target of the enemy.
"Then it's settled," Mahan said suddenly. "Those submarines have a slow speed and run slowly, so..."
"Those little guys are the admiral's treasures, and they appear and disappear at will... Forget it." Javelin thought for a while and said, "If you see Sora and Terrible, you can shout. They run fast and fall fast." There is no prejudice against destroyers. Not to mention the British and French, it is common for the United States and Japan to play together.
"Tashkent is not good," Ma Han said. "Hong Kong journalists in Tashkent really run fast and play. They can run fast without falling."
The two people acted separately.
Mahan easily found his heartless but always energetic sister Cushing.
Javelin finds Amethyst, who is dressed gorgeously and wears a dark crown on her head, and she plays the role of the Lord of Darkness.
Just praise it and cooperate with that Chuunibyou... Thinking of this, Javelin came to Amethyst, knelt on one knee in front of Amethyst, raised his hands, and said: "Great Lord of Darkness, we want to go out and explore and need your protection... Please go out with us to find the legendary eight candy jars."
Amethyst was completely lost and had forgotten how afraid of the dark he was.
The javelin did not find fantasy and terror in the end, but the purple quartz was enough.
"Please, great Lord of Darkness, lead us forward." Javelin and Mahan cheered.
Amethyst was at a loss for words. Apart from Cushing who looked stupid, Javelin and Mahan were looking at her with longing. She walked out of the garrison with gritted teeth. The usually bright street lights were exceptionally dim, and the scary pumpkin lanterns were staring at them. She walked unsteadily.
Amethyst was already getting scared, and when everyone passed by those street lights, which suddenly began to flicker and finally went out, he said in a trembling voice, "No, or we should go back."
"Is the great Lord of Darkness afraid?" asked Javelin.
"No, I'm not afraid," Amethyst said, "I'm just worried about you."
"We are not afraid." Mahan and Javelin looked at each other and nodded. Finding the candy jar where it is fun to bully Amethyst.
Only Cushing was not afraid of anything. He completely ignored the street light that suddenly went out, looked at the street light with interest, and muttered why the street light suddenly broke down. Some even ran to the pumpkin lantern next to the street light and looked inside it. It turned out that the pumpkin lantern did not contain a candle, but a small light bulb.
"I'm really not afraid." Amethyst was unwilling to move forward anyway.
"Don't be afraid." Javelin held the back of his head and walked into the darkness. "Whoever is afraid can go back."
"Cushing, do you want to go back?" Amethyst asked Cushing.
"Not afraid." Cushing shook his head and gently shook his brilliant golden hair.
"Ma Han?" Amethyst was unwilling to give up.
"Don't be afraid." Ma Han reached into his pocket and pulled out a piece of toffee, "Javelin, let's go."
Even if she was laughed at, Amethyst wanted to go back. She looked back and saw that they had already walked a long way out of the commercial building. It was impossible for her to go back alone. After hesitating for a moment, she decided not to go back and said pretentiously, "Since you are not afraid, let's keep going."
Several people continued to move forward.
"Where are we going now?" Amethyst held Cushing's hand and looked around as they walked.
Javelin muttered to himself, "The activity sheet only says that there are eight candy jars hidden in the tutelary fort, but it doesn't say where they are."
Javelin crossed his arms and nodded. "It won't be too hard to find... You know... if we hide it so no one can find it, there's no point... I guarantee it's in one of the eight special places in the tutelary fort... Where do you think it is?"
"Shrine?" Ma Han said. The shrine she was referring to was the Hanshan Shrine run by Ise and Hyuga.
"Church," Javelin said to himself, "Admiral's office."
Cushing was being a little foolhardy.
Amethyst was trembling. She was now holding Cushing's arm, and she was shaking with fear at the slightest movement.
" Where are we going?" asked Mahan.
"The admiral's office." Javelin said, "The admiral's office is closer, let's go there first."
Now it was Javelin's turn to lead the way, and everyone headed for the office building. As expected, the dark office building had no response except for the emergency lights installed on the corridor walls. The bulbs that were supposed to light up only when someone approached did not respond. Looking into the corridor, all the doors were closed.
"The admiral's office is upstairs, right?" Javelin muttered as he walked upstairs.
A creaking sound was heard at this time. Amethyst could not walk anymore and said, "Did you hear it?"
"I heard it," Javelin asked. "It was the door that rang, wasn't it?"
"Want to go over and take a look?" Cushing said carelessly. "There's a ringing sound. The phone is ringing. Did you hear it?"
Every office has a landline phone, and landlines are used in fixed departments and will never change.
"Amethyst, do you think we should go take a look?" Javelin asked jokingly.
"Aren't we going to the Admiral's office to look for the candy jar?"
Amethyst paused and said, "I think it would be better not to cause any trouble."
"Yeah," said Javelin.
"According to the plot of the movie, shouldn't we go and see it?" Cushing asked puzzledly.
"You know it's a movie plot," Ma Han complained. "To be honest, I don't understand why those people in horror movies are so curious. When they hear the phone ringing, they have to run to answer it. When they hear something, they have to run to see what's going on. When they see a figure, they have to go find that person... Why do they get into so many troubles?"
"That's not how movies are shot." Javelin laughed, "It's all insanity and hallucinations in the end anyway."
They ignored the sudden sounds of doors opening and closing, and walked straight up the stairs towards the admiral's office. Finally, they walked through the long corridor to the office. They pushed the door open and saw silver moonlight shining into the office from the floor-to-ceiling windows with the curtains drawn. A huge candy jar in the shape of a pumpkin lantern was placed there.
"I said there must be a candy jar in the admiral's office." Javelin said as he found someone squatting next to the candy jar. She was wearing ordinary clothes, chiffon with a long skirt. "Who is there?"
Amethyst hugged Cushing tightly.
"You're here?" A familiar voice sounded, "You don't recognize me."
It looked like a human, not a ghost. Amethyst suddenly felt relieved, and then suddenly remembered how badly he had behaved along the way. He ran to the candy jar and said, "I recognize him, I recognize him..." Who was that familiar person? He looked familiar yet a little strange. Amethyst suddenly couldn't remember.
Amethyst saw it, and the man turned his head, revealing a face without a face.
In a brightly lit commercial building, a company dressed as hell devils in well-tailored suits was coordinating a Halloween event. As the secretary ship, while everyone was having fun, it was her time to work. She saw Rodney with disheveled hair, a mask without facial features tilted on his head, walking into the commercial building with Amethyst in his arms.
"What happened?" Enterprise asked.
Rodney shook her head slightly and explained. She really didn't expect that the little ones who dared to go out to look for the candy jar would be so frightened.
Enterprise curled the corners of his mouth.
Ella had gone a little overboard and the activity seemed too stimulating, so it seemed necessary to readjust. Enterprise found the dressing room and saw CV-16 had just left the dressing room and was walking towards the dark naval base. Enterprise hurriedly chased after her and called out to CV-16.
Enterprise repeated what had just happened and said, "Rodney just scared Amethyst. Mrs. Sixteen, take it easy."
CV-16 turned the flashlight on Enterprise.
Enterprise looked at CV-16 holding a flashlight to her face in the dark. Her face became creepy because of the flashlight, especially when she smiled... As expected, he still couldn't get used to it. That Lengyan Sixteen was unexpectedly a guy who was cold on the outside but warm on the inside, and sometimes behaved like a child.
When we returned to the business building, we saw Z17 and her friends just leaving the business building.
Z17, also known as Dieter von Roeder, was a Type 1936 destroyer that was an enlarged and upgraded version of the Type 1934 and Type 1934A. A total of 6 ships were built.
Historically, she performed escort missions in the Skagerrak with other destroyers, later participated in Operation Weserberg to invade Norway, and was finally sunk in the harbor by depth charges in the Battle of Narvik.
Although she has no record as a battleship, she is surprisingly capable as a ship girl, and her vigilance is excellent. Although she is a destroyer, she has served as the flagship of the battleship many times, leading everyone to launch crazy attacks on the deep-sea flagship. She has several medals, more than many battleships.
In addition, she has a sweet and cute appearance, which makes her deeply loved by the admiral.
In short, because she often attacks with the main fleet, Z17 is a girl with a slightly crazy personality.
Enterprise looked at Z17's back and had a bad feeling for some reason. Someone was going to be in trouble.
The clown was originally a funny, harmless, silly, innocent and sweet character. Why did he suddenly become the spokesperson for evil?
Many suspects wear clown masks to commit real crimes. Clown murders are a very common type of imitation murder in Western countries. In some places, laws are directly used to prohibit people from appearing at night in clown costumes.
Newport News was dressed as a clown, hiding behind the bushes with a chainsaw, waiting for his prey to come.
As no prey appeared, Newport News was bored and put down his chainsaw to play with his mobile phone. Suddenly he heard footsteps and immediately put away his phone. He carefully looked out of the bushes, ready to scare someone, but he didn't see anyone. He scratched his hair, wondering if he had seen it wrong.
Newport News was about to hide behind the bushes to continue playing with her phone, but when she turned around, she suddenly saw a figure standing in front of her. Looking closely, under the dim street light, there was nothing above the figure's neck.
"Sister, have you seen my head?" The figure turned around.
Newport News' heart leapt for air, and then he started shouting.
The hunter is also the prey.
