Chapter 56: Akashi Grocery Store
The two chatted all the way to the cafeteria. With smiles on their faces, they got their meals and sat at the same table, chatting while eating.
"By the way, Qin Ge, you still had a lot of mind cubes and supplies left after the construction, right?" Li Chenming asked.
"Yes, there are still 9 mind cubes left, and 6,900 supplies." Qin Ge nodded and said.
"Ah!" Li Chenming said in confusion, "Didn't you say you used three Mind Cubes? How come there are still nine Mind Cubes left?"
Qin Ge smiled and told Li Chenming in front of him about the promise that the Prince of Wales had made to him.
After hearing Qin Ge's story, Li Chenming opened his mouth wide, and after a long while he finally said, "European dog!"
Qin Ge smiled and shook his head, "I can't help it, maybe it's just because of good luck."
Li Chenming clicked his tongue, then said seriously, "Then your current shipgirl outfit should not be complete, right?"
Qin Ge nodded, "Yes, although I borrowed two fighter planes and an anti-aircraft gun from Anshan, the training ground, with the approval of the dean, Prince of Wales, my ship's equipment is empty except for the main weapons."
"Are you interested in visiting the grocery store later? I heard that Mingshi Grocery Store is open." Li Chenming said.
"Oh, I didn't notice that. It turns out that the Akashi grocery store is already open." Qin Ge said with some surprise.
Akashi Grocery Store, he had been longing to go there for a long time. He heard that there would be a lot of ship uniforms and other equipment suitable for ship girls, and even clothes specially made for ship girls.
Although ship girls can wear ordinary clothes, ordinary clothes are not suitable for combat, so they still have to change back into their original ship uniforms during combat.
However , the clothes bought from the Akashi grocery store do not have this disadvantage. The ship girls can wear those clothes and go to sea to fight at any time without any problems.
And the most important thing is that the opening of the Akashi General Store means that his Centaur and Noshiro can make their first breakthrough. And every time a ship girl breaks through, her strength will bring a qualitative leap.
"Commander." Sure enough, the Centaur and Noshiro turned to Qin Ge and looked at him expectantly.
"Haha, don't worry, let's finish our meal and then go to the Akashi grocery store together." Qin Ge said to them with a smile.
"Good!" Centaur and Noshiro said with some joy. The breakthrough was of great help to their strength growth, so they ate a lot faster afterwards.
Qin Ge turned his head and looked at Li Chenming opposite him. "From your looks, are you going to go later?"
"Of course." Li Chenming nodded, "I plan to use the oil to exchange for some supplies to upgrade the ship equipment of my Z1."
"Oh, I see." Qin Ge nodded.
In the Commander Academy, oil can be exchanged for supplies, but the ratio is not too high, which can be considered a help to new commanders.
Usually the ratio of oil to goods is 1:5, that is, one unit of oil can be exchanged for five units of goods.
However, this is also more popular among new commanders in the early stage, because at this time the ship girl needs to form combat effectiveness, so the support of ship equipment is necessary.
By the end of the second year of school, the usefulness of oil became apparent.
Whether it was a commission or an attack, each ship needed the support of oil to have full combat effectiveness. So at that time, oil was the most scarce resource, and few people would exchange oil for supplies.
"I plan to exchange 100 units of oil, and then see what I can buy with 500 supplies. At least I need to equip Z1 with a blue-quality main gun or torpedo," said Li Chenming.
"Let's go over and take a look together when the time comes. If there are any supplies left after I help them break through, we'll see if we can buy anything good." Qin Ge said.
"Wait, breakthrough?" Li Chenming asked Qin Ge puzzledly.
"Yes, my Centaur and Noshiro can already make their first breakthrough, so we need to go to Akashi Grocery Store to make a breakthrough." Qin Ge said to Li Chenming.
"How long have your two ship girls been built?" Li Chenming asked puzzledly.
"A little more than a week. I had just arrived at the college at that time." Qin Ge said.
"Is it possible to break through so quickly?" Li Chenming said in surprise.
"Yeah." Qin Ge nodded, "Isn't it?"
Li Chenming shook his head. "I have asked many second-year commanders before. Their first ship girl usually takes more than half a month to make the first breakthrough. For you, it takes more than a week. It's really too fast."
"Haha, maybe they train harder." Qin Ge said with a smile.
"Yes, after building a ship girl, many commanders will first cultivate feelings with the ship girl. Only after they have a certain foundation will they go for special training. This wastes some time." Li Chenming said.
Qin Ge smiled, looked at the Centaurs and Noshiro who were eating and said, "I didn't pay attention to these things deliberately, but I faced them with my truest self. I think it's not bad like this."
"Well, I think this is not bad. If you deliberately try to cultivate the favorability of the ship girl, it would be a bit too calculating." Li Chenming said.
"I agree." Qin Ge smiled. At this time, the Centaurs had finished their meals. They looked at Qin Ge expectantly.
So Qin Ge said to Li Chenming who had already finished eating, "Let's go to Akashi Grocery Store together now."
"Yeah." Li Chenming nodded, took Z1 who was drinking carbon cola, and left the school cafeteria with Qin Ge.
The distance between Akashi Grocery Store and the cafeteria is not very far. Follow the main road in front of the cafeteria and pass a fork in the road to reach Akashi Grocery Store.
Although it is lunch time, there are still some people here at the Akashi Grocery Store.
As Qin Ge and Li Chenming walked into the grocery store with their ship girl, someone turned around from the counter and said to them, "Hi, welcome~!"
The two turned around and saw a ship girl with rabbit ears sitting next to the counter, staring at them expressionlessly. The words "welcome" just now were said by her.
Looking at this strange yet familiar figure, Qin Ge immediately realized that this ship girl was the Sakura Empire destroyer, Shiranui, that appeared in the Ship Girl Encyclopedia.
Just when Qin Ge wanted to say hello , a ship girl with green hair and cat ears turned around from the shelf and said to the two of them, "Hello, commanders, welcome to the Akashi Grocery Store, meow! I am the boss here, Akashi meow!"
Seeing this ship girl who called herself Akashi, Qin Ge suddenly shuddered for some reason...
