Chapter 619: Reaching a Consensus
"Did Admiral Su attend the Holy Day a few days ago?" Nina asked.
For all the admirals, no matter how they talk, they cannot avoid the Holy Founding Day which is closely related to them, just like when two players chat, they cannot avoid talking about the recent major events in the gaming industry.
"Of course." Su Xia drank the remaining wine in his glass, looked at Qu Qi's empty glass, picked up the bottle and poured her a glass, then looked at Nina, who didn't even have a glass. She stood up from her seat and waved towards the bar, "Boss, bring me a glass."
"Are you going to drink this?" Nina picked up the bottle and took a look. Wine with an alcohol content of less than 10% is not considered wine at all, but just a drink. She stood up and said, "Vodka, bring a bottle of vodka over here. And two glasses."
Even if I am looked down upon, showing off will only bring trouble upon myself. Su Xia reminded me, "I can't drink too much."
"So I just asked for a bottle of vodka," Nina said matter-of-factly.
"I really can't drink." Su Xia said. He looked at Nina and thought to himself. He had just heard Qu Qi introduce her. She belonged to the Russian ethnic group, which means she was a little girl. Is drinking a racial talent?
"A man can't say no," said Nina.
"No means no." Su Xia said helplessly. He would not be provoked so easily.
"One cup," said Nina.
"No." Su Xia said.
Nina bargained: "Half a cup."
Su Xia thought about it. He didn't like drinking, but he could still drink a little if he had to. He often drank with the Prince of Wales, King George V and others in the garrison. Although it was red wine, he couldn't drink as much as Su Xia, who could finish a bottle of vodka in one gulp. Half a glass of wine was no problem. He said, "Okay, okay."
Nina nodded contentedly, then turned to Qu Qi and said, "A cup of cookies."
"No." Qu Qi paused and emphasized, "Not even half a cup."
Nina stared at Qu Qi and said, "Qu Qi is not giving me face, right?"
"It's just not giving face." Qu Qi said.
"Okay." Nina surrendered. She knew Qu Qi was a determined person. What he said was what he meant. Once he made up his mind, no matter how much he begged, pleaded, provoked or threatened, it would be useless. "If you don't want to drink, then don't drink... Admiral Su, let's drink. Don't pay attention to that person who doesn't know how to consider the occasion."
"Can I change my mind and not drink it?" Su Xia asked with a smile.
"No." Nina refused without hesitation. The waiter brought a new glass of vodka over. She took the vodka and a new glass to help Su Xia pour the wine. Surprisingly, she didn't pour too much. "Half a glass is half a glass. Whatever you say is what it is." Then she poured herself a full glass of wine. Then she raised the glass and gestured to Su Xia, "Whatever you want, just be as you please."
"Whatever you want." Su Xia held up the vodka.
Nina didn't drink much either, just pointed at it, then looked at Su Xia, who had only drunk a little, and asked, "Where were we just talking about?"
"Holy Day." Su Xia said.
"Yes, Holy Day." Nina said, "Admiral Su, have you built it on Holy Day? What are the results?"
This is really a sudden turn of events. Su Xia was just about to open his mouth to show off his newly built G3-class battlecruiser Invincible, but Qu Qi interrupted him again.
"You guys chat, I'm tired of sitting so I'll go out for a walk."
"Cookie, don't do this." Nina said, "Let's not talk about it. Let's not talk about construction."
Qu Qi sat down again.
Su Xia's face was full of disappointment.
Nina saw Su Xia's disappointed expression and spread her hands, "I don't want to do that either, but Qu Qi doesn't want to hear us talk about the construction, so I can't do anything about it."
"It doesn't matter." Su Xia said. He really had no interest in drying the boat. He just wanted to do it for the sake of convenience. He didn't feel too disappointed about it.
"It's mine. It's mine." Nina raised the glass towards Su Xia and drank most of the vodka in one breath.
Su Xia just took a sip.
"You are Qu Qi's friend, which means you are my friend." Nina patted her chest. She was wearing quite revealing clothes, but her breasts were just average. "If you have any problems in the future, feel free to come to me. As long as I can help."
"Okay." Su Xia said with a smile, "I'll remember it."
"I promised Admiral Su that if Admiral Su encounters any deep-sea ship girl that he can't deal with, or any difficult deep-sea ship girl, I will send my ship girl to attack... I'm not bragging, I'm not saying it's 100%, deep-sea flagships don't count, there is no deep-sea ship girl that I can't deal with." Nina blinked at Su Xia, "So, Admiral Su, will you drink with me?"
Su Xia could only raise her glass, clink it with Nina's, and said, "Thank you in advance, Admiral Nina."
“Okay, okay.” Nina drank the remaining vodka in the glass. Not satisfied yet, she poured another glass and drank half of it. “Also, I’m not Admiral Nina. Nina is my name… Nina, you and Cookie can call me Nina.”
"Okay." Su Xia nodded.
Nina was obviously a bit of a talkative girl. She kept talking about her family's experience of moving to the country, how she became the admiral , and how she met Qu Qi, Shang Chu and others. She drank while talking. One bottle of vodka was not enough for her, so she ordered two more bottles of vodka.
Another bottle of vodka was opened, and Nina talked about her naval base, what kind of ship girls were in her naval base, and there were quite a few capital ships. This time, Qu Qi did not walk away with a mouthful of words, because Nina was not deliberately showing off.
"I graduated together with Chuchu and Cookie. Their tutelary forts combined are probably not as big as mine." Nina suddenly laughed.
"No way." Qu Qi also poured some vodka and sipped it. "I have bad luck. I can only be an African admiral, not a European admiral."
Nina glanced at Qu Qi. Qu Qi could not be considered an African admiral in any case. Her garrison was just okay, otherwise she would not be here today. Even so, she could not be called a European. She could only be said to be an average Asian. The same was true for Shang Chu. It was mainly because there were too many African admirals that made them stand out.
She was undoubtedly European, and had graduated from school and become an admiral. In just a few years, she already owned several battleships. She was not as good as those admirals with a deep background, but she was still a supernova without any water. Everyone was in different classes, and sometimes it was difficult to talk to each other. What she thought was sparse and ordinary was just a seal landing in their eyes.
Nina turned her wine glass and looked at Su Xia, thinking that Qu Qi had just said that his garrison was quite powerful. Qu Qi didn't like to brag. Looking at his age, it was no more than Shang Chu's age. He looked like a European. They should have topics to talk about and be able to chat. She should be able to understand him.
"Admiral Su, how do you think one can become a European admiral?" Nina suddenly asked, "Is it just luck?"
"No way." Su Xia said, "But if you want to become the admiral of Europe, you definitely can't do it without luck."
"Indeed, it won't work without luck. If you are really unlucky, it is possible that you will fail in ten construction attempts." Nina said, "But luck alone is not enough. Even if you can build a ship girl every time, what can you do if you don't have so many resources? Construction is very resource-intensive."
Nina held her chin and said, "Are there really such people who are destined to succeed? Every construction brings rewards, and every attack brings rewards. Everyone's luck is just like that. It may be better than others, but it is far from enough to create such a big gap."
"Many people always think that European Admiral is just lucky, but they don't know how many times they built it. They only see the moment when European Admiral built the ship, and feel that European Admiral is lucky, but they don't know how hard European Admiral worked behind the scenes." Nina paused, "It's like people only know that Edison invented many things and he is a genius, but they don't know how hard Edison worked throughout his life and how many experiments he conducted just to invent the light bulb."
Nina took a sip of the wine glass. Her face was a little red because she had drunk a lot of wine. She looked particularly beautiful under the dim light. She said, "Perhaps it's because people can only see others but not themselves, so they always fail to recognize themselves."
"Others can go to college because they have strong learning ability. I can't go to college because my learning ability is poor. Anyway, it's not because I don't work hard enough. Others can find girlfriends because they are tall and handsome. I don't have those conditions, so of course I can't find a girlfriend. Little do you know that many people are not tall or handsome, but they have one girlfriend after another." Nina leaned back in her chair and laughed.
"I know what you want to say." Qu Qi said, "Are you trying to say that you became the European admiral entirely because of your hard work?"
Qu Qi sneered and said, "You think you can get into university as long as you work hard, but you don't know that many people can't get good grades even if they stay up late at night to study, and they can't remember English words. In many schools, only a few people in a class can get into a second-tier university. Are those few people working hard? Don't others work hard?"
"It's easy for tall and handsome guys to find girlfriends," Qu Qi said. "Even if they have a bad personality and are a scumbag, there are still a lot of girls rushing to get close to them, thinking they can definitely win their hearts."
"You are the only one working hard to run the garrison, but we are not working hard to run the garrison?" Qu Qi said, "Is it so hard to admit that you are lucky? Is it so hard to admit that you are better at studying than others? Is it so hard to know yourself... I don't know why some people insist on denying that they are blessed by nature, smart, good-looking, and have a good family background. They think that everything they have is the result of hard work."
Nina was silent for a while, then said, "Have you ever seen the sun at four in the morning?"
"Who hasn't seen it?" Qu Qi raised her beautiful eyebrows.
"Have you ever tried to shoulder all the work by yourself?" Nina said, "The garrison had just been established and there was nothing. I had to manage the entire garrison by myself, handle the work, arrange the work, be both an admiral and a cook, and also be a part-time teacher who stayed up late to read books and trained ship girls the next day. In my spare time, I built the garrison and saved a little bit of resources to go on the attack and build it."
"Who didn't come here that way?" Qu Qi said.
Perhaps because of the alcohol, the calm Qu Qi also became impulsive and said, "Nina, you are really a little arrogant. You have been the European admiral for too long. You are high above and don't care about worldly things. You think that you work hard, but others don't work hard."
"Yes." Qu Qi said, "Most people are not at the stage where they can compete with talent, but most people don't want to become great scientists, so talent is not necessary. Talent not only determines the upper limit, but also determines learning efficiency. Some people just know how to study, and they can get good grades just by studying casually, while some people can't compare to others even if they work hard."
Nina looked at Qu Qi, who refused to be outdone.
"Admiral Su." Nina suddenly called out, "What do you think?"
Su Xia didn't want to offend anyone, so she said hesitantly, "Talent is important, luck is important, but hard work is also important."
"Admiral Su is able to appear here. Cookie also said that Admiral Su's tutelary fort is very powerful. It must be extraordinary," Nina asked. "To have such a powerful tutelary fort, is luck more important or is hard work more important?"
"Uh..." Su Xia hesitated, "They are all important."
"How many ship girls are there in Admiral Su's naval base?" Nina asked.
"Um..." Su Xia hesitated.
"Go ahead." Nina said, "Just ask how many ship girls you have without any difficulty."
"It's not difficult." Su Xia said hesitantly, "Several hundred."
"Several hundred?" Nina thought she had misheard. "Maybe you got the wrong unit."
"Just several hundred." Su Xia said.
"All destroyers?" Nina asked. There were admirals who had a lot of shipgirls, but all of them were destroyers. You know, there were nearly 200 Fletcher-class destroyers alone. "How many capital ships are there?"
"I don't know if there are a hundred." Su Xia said.
"Are you kidding?" No one would believe such a ridiculous statement if they hadn't seen it with their own eyes. Nina asked, "How long have you been the admiral?"
"Probably several years." Su Xia calculated the time. Anyway, he has been addicted to games for quite some time.
Nina actually laughed.
Su Xia was too lazy to explain, believe it or not.
"Forget it, let's not talk about this." Nina raised her glass, "Drink, drink, talking too much will hurt feelings."
No one talked about talent, luck, hard work or anything like that anymore, and started talking about other things, such as deep-sea ship girls and deep-sea flagships. No one could refuse fortress girls.
"I noticed someone was staring at us." Nina said suddenly.
"I noticed it too," said Qu Qi.
"Me too." Su Xia looked towards the corner of the bar and felt that the two people sitting there were very familiar.
Su Xia stood up from his seat and walked to the corner. When he got closer, he finally recognized two people. The woman with a ponytail and a sports cap was Missouri, and the woman wearing sunglasses was Richelieu. Her long golden hair was tied up and hidden in the cap. The two people were in disguise. He exhaled and said, "I want to ask, why are you two here?"
Missouri said righteously: "Protect the admiral quietly."
"I think you are worried about me, so you are following me secretly." Su Xia said.
Missouri didn't feel embarrassed at all and said, "Some things are better known between you and me. If we reveal it, it will be embarrassing for everyone."
Nina and Qu Qi came over.
"Know him?" Nina asked.
"My ship girl." Su Xia said with a headache , introducing the two people, "Missouri. Richelieu. She was worried about me and followed me quietly."
"Richelieu, one of the Three Musketeers of Europe, and the Iowa-class battleship Missouri?" Nina asked.
"Now it's a guided missile battleship," Missouri said.
"Just the two of you?" Su Xia said, "Where are the others?"
"The bluefin tuna and the archerfish were still watching the horror movie, huddled together and shivering. North Carolina turned into a little girl to watch it with them. Veneto went to sleep. And then Hu Teng..." Missouri said, "Only Richelieu and I ran out to protect the admiral."
"Still protecting the admiral..." Su Xia walked back, "You guys continue to protect the admiral."
"No, I want to drink with the admiral." Missouri caught up with Suxia.
Nina and Qu Qi stood together and nodded, "Missouri, Richelieu... hundreds of shipgirls... less than a hundred battleships... served as admiral for several years..."
“I think luck is more important.”
