Chapter 3: Treat the symptoms before treating the root cause
As a player, in Su Xia's mind, the ship girl will never harm the admiral, and the so-called proposal is most likely just a joke.
However, think about it, in the real world, even if the admiral and the ship girl have an extraordinary bond, parents will hurt their children in certain circumstances. In any case, I just searched on my phone and found a news report about a ship girl hurting an admiral, which is the best proof.
The initiative may be a joke, but who can guarantee whether anyone really has such an idea? Life cannot be used as a gamble.
I had originally thought about traveling through time and space to become an admiral, owning a huge naval base, so many ship girls, including many marriage ships, and millions of resources that I could spend as I pleased. It would have been the peak of my life and I wouldn't need to work hard at all. Why did I encounter something like this? There was a big crisis right from the start.
When the sun faded, the sea breeze blew, and the cicadas stopped chirping, Su Xia looked at the cute little girl and asked, "What is the temporary solution and what is the permanent solution?"
It seems that the boy is teachable. Xiao Zhai turned around and said, "The only solution is to find the person who posted the proposal. Once we find her, it will be easy to deal with. But she hasn't done anything yet, and we can't be convicted for her words. We can't lock her up, but we just need to keep an eye on her and be careful to avoid her."
Su Xia looked at the proposal in her hand again and asked, "Who posted this proposal?"
"You ask me how I know. Anyway, it wasn't posted by me. It suddenly appeared on the notice board early in the morning." Xiao Zhai said, "Can you see if there is a signature on it?"
“How can there be a signature?”
"Then we'll have to look for it slowly."
“It’s not easy.”
"It's definitely not easy."
Seeing that this was a dead end, Su Xia took a deep breath and said, "The symptomatic solution is to find the person who posted the proposal, but what is the fundamental solution?"
"Treat the root cause, treat the root cause." Xiao Zhai muttered a few words, "I still recommend treating the root cause. Because even if we find out who posted the proposal and be on guard against her, why did she do that? As long as this problem is not solved, the problem cannot be truly solved."
Su Xia waited quietly.
"The fundamental solution is actually very simple." Xiao Zhai said, "As long as you are a qualified admiral."
Su Xia asked: "What does it take to be a qualified admiral?"
"Let me think about it." Xiao Zhai crossed his arms and lowered his head. "I don't want to not see you for a week. The admiral stays in the garrison all day long. We don't ask you to do that. At least show up once a day. At least we know that the admiral is not dead." A look of disgust.
I have been playing the game for so long, several years. There is only so much content in the game, whether it is the level of the ship girl or the equipment, everything is already there, so it doesn't matter if I don't go online for ten days or half a month. There is an event every few months, and there is nothing to do after clearing the game within a day, except for the occasional salvage of the boat, which takes a little time.
It's not my fault, and I don't want to be idle.
Anyway, now that he has traveled through time, he doesn't know if he can go back, and how he should go back. Su Xia is really in no mood. He sighed and said, "Let's not talk about the past. Even if you let me go now, I don't know where to go."
"What's wrong?"
"nothing."
The admiral's face was filled with pain and helplessness. Xiao Zhai thought of countless possibilities at that moment, such as family changes. In the past, the admiral rarely appeared in the garrison. He was either commanding exercises or arranging submarine attacks. Anyway, he did something. Today, he was walking around the garrison with nothing to do, standing on the seaside embankment and looking at the sea.
So, despite being very curious, she just responded without asking any further questions.
"If everyone knew that you would stay in the garrison from now on, they would be so happy." Xiao Zhai said, "And please stop harassing everyone. It's like you specially arranged for Sister Saint George to attack, and you won't let us repair her when she's injured."
To be honest, the portrait of St. George after the transformation is so beautiful and gorgeous, especially the portrait of the big broken one, which is simply irresistible. I just made the same mistake that all admirals in the world would make. Su Xia thought of that sentence, and the corners of her mouth curved up, but soon disappeared, and she said, "I won't do it again in the future."
Games are games, reality is reality, Su Xia is a confident and modest gentleman.
"Can you be nicer to everyone, and not be so utilitarian, and not only like those powerful ship girls? Even if we can't make everyone equal, at least we can achieve general equality." Xiao Zhai said after thinking for a while.
Su Xia said: "I will try my best."
“Don’t try your best, make sure.”
"Okay, I promise."
"Why flirt with those sisters you flirted with if you don't want to marry them? Please give rings to all of them."
Su Xia hesitated for a second, and finally said, "This is up for discussion. If...if I have flirted with so many people, I don't remember how many there are. Even if there are not three hundred, there must be at least two hundred and fifty or sixty. Do you want me to marry all of them?"
Su Xia was thinking. He remembered that when he received the medals after the game activity ended not long ago, he took a look at other medals. The Eternal Oath Medal commemorates the number of ships with a favorability greater than or equal to 100. The progress was more than 200 and approaching 300.
It's obviously the Eternal Vow Medal, which doesn't require the admiral to like one person from beginning to end, but requires the admiral to have as many marriages as possible. Who has the problem?
Xiao Zhai said as a matter of course: "Who made you such a scumbag?"
"Think about it, I was the one who did evil in the past, but now... I think everyone wants a ring of sincerity rather than just an explanation." Su Xia said after a pause, and suddenly felt that she seemed like a scumbag for answering like that, but she also seemed like a scumbag for being perfunctory without any emotion.
"Tsk!" Xiao Zhai hissed, saying with disdain, "You didn't even give me an explanation, and you couldn't even be false, yet you keep saying you're sincere. You deserve to be labeled with a proposal, and then chopped into 180 yuan... If 180 yuan isn't enough, then chopped into 580 yuan, and everyone gets a little and soaks it in formalin as a souvenir."
Ignoring Xiao Zhai's subsequent words, what the other party said seemed to make sense, and Su Xia suddenly didn't know what to do.
Xiao Zhai continued, "It doesn't mean that once ordinary people become admirals, they will become like the characters in those funny animations. Even if a big rock hits their head, they won't die. At most, they will be dizzy for a while and then jump around again. Chopping the admiral into 580 pieces, and then putting them together when you think the admiral has suffered enough punishment, seems pretty good."
Su Xia specifically learned about the origins of the ship girls in this world. Of course, that was just people's summary and experience, and might not be accurate.
KanColle comes from people’s thoughts and wishes, and then the sea responds to people’s thoughts and wishes.
Except for a certain country, the opinion of a certain country is not important, the minority obeys the majority. Generally speaking, the name of a warship in the navy is usually "she", which means female. Then the ship's spirit, the heroic spirit, comes from people's thoughts and wishes to fight against the deep-sea ship, and naturally they are all female.
In people's thoughts and wishes, the Washington, named after the great president, must of course have a Fallen Cherry Axe, and it must be a handsome woman. The image of a lawyer is very suitable, and Washington is such a woman.
Of course, the real name of the USS Washington comes from Washington State, but this also proves that the ship girl comes from people's thoughts and wishes. Most people don't care about the historical prototype at all. They love to play with memes or have no culture.
It is said that when a man becomes an admiral, the sea will give her children to him like a dowry to a son-in-law, and he will also receive blessings from the sea.
Over the years, almost no admiral died from the bombardment of the deep-sea ship girl. They always survived and recovered quickly. In the same way, it is not recommended for ordinary people to work in the garrison. People who are not blessed by the sea stay in the dangerous garrison and don't know when they will die.
There was once an incident that was the best proof that the admiral was blessed by the sea.
At one point, a deep-sea flagship sneaked into the garrison, but the admiral was fine, and the deep-sea flagship duck sat on the ground trembling. Then someone said that he once found that the shadow of the black-haired beautiful admiral under the light was a giant octopus with bared fangs and claws, an indescribable existence.
Similarly, rumors that an indescribable unknown, ancient, huge, terrifying existence created everything are rampant, and they stand behind the deep-sea ship girl on one side and behind the ship girl on the other.
Anyway, it is said that an admiral will only encounter an accident after all his shipgirls have sunk, when he has lost the support of the shipgirls and has been abandoned, and the sea has withdrawn its blessing on him. If not, it would be enough to just execute the decapitation plan, but the deep-sea shipgirls would have to follow the routine and tangle with the shipgirls.
Even though he knew all this, he couldn't risk his life. Su Xia said, "If it's chopped into 580 pieces, anyone will die. Try your best. I will try my best."
"It's good that you know." Xiao Zhai curled his lips and said, "Anyway, it's the admiral's responsibility. The admiral doesn't have the power of a ship girl. The admiral's job... I read in a book that it's like a celebrity's agent, responsible for all the work behind the scenes. In short, no matter what you do, you must make the port full of laughter."
So that's how it is. In fact, Su Xia already knew what the root cause was. He said, "I understand."
"Do you really understand?" Xiao Zhai asked.
"Maybe." He became a little worried again.
"Then you know what to do?" Xiao Zhai said, "This is the fundamental solution."
"knew."
"So do you want to treat the symptoms or the root cause?"
"I want to cure the root cause, but I have to cure the symptoms first. Otherwise, the person who posted the proposal might come to kill me before I can become a qualified admiral. I don't want to die before I can achieve my goal."
Xiao Zhai tilted his head and said, "Then we can treat the root cause while treating the symptoms?"
"Yes." Su Xia said, pausing for a moment, "But I'm a little curious and want to ask Xiao Zhai."
"Um?"
"I'm so annoying, doesn't Xiao Zhai hate me? Why are you helping me?"
"There are no parents who really hate their children."
Su Xia nodded, feeling that something was wrong.
Xiao Zhai opened his arms and said, "My dream is that the port area is filled with everyone's laughter, not only the ship girls', but also the admirals'. I hope that everyone can live in harmony, no matter what method is used."
"I see." Su Xia said, and then she found that Xiao Zhai was reaching out to her, "What?"
Xiao Zhai noticed his gaze and nodded in approval: "I will help you."
The dense canopy of the Banyan tree almost completely blocked out the sunlight, and only a little bit of sunlight shone through the gaps between the trees and fell on the ground. Su Xia looked at the small house, and she stretched out her hand towards him. She was facing away from the light, and there seemed to be circles of halos and beams of light behind her. He couldn't help but stretch out his hand.
Big hands and small hands clenched.
Xiao Zhai said affirmatively: "No problem."
Su Xia said: "I believe in Xiao Zhai."
"Then let's go."
"Where are you going?"
"Go to the activity room. Xiaohua and Xiaoluo are there."
