Chapter 690: The Shrinking Hindenburg
I spent an afternoon in the British residential area yesterday, enjoying delicious afternoon tea with everyone, and even stayed overnight in Nelson's room. As an admiral, I cannot favor one over the other. Today, Su Xia plans to visit the German area.
The library, gymnasium, activity building, and commercial building all have bars, cafes, and arcades for all the shipgirls in the garrison. Each department also has its own entertainment venue. After all, the residential areas are quite far from those places. There is strong sun in the summer and cold wind in the winter. It is quite troublesome to run around every day.
The German residential building was very large. Even if the Germans were not one of the top three in the garrison, their fourth position was as solid as a rock . Even if there were really a lot of people, they would not be able to use up all the rooms. They picked a few of the vacant rooms and connected them to build a small bar, a few pool tables, bookshelves in the corners, and of course tables and chairs for people to rest. This was a club for everyone to relax and have fun.
Su Xia came to the club and looked around.
Cologne was sitting behind the bar, not fulfilling his duties as a bartender, but instead leaning on the bar to play with his phone.
Deutschland was wearing a cute maid outfit, with her long golden hair tied into a ponytail, and was working as a waitress in the club.
Moltke and Hutten were playing chess seriously. Judging from their expressions, they seemed to be discussing military and national affairs.
Su Xia walked to the table near the fireplace and put one hand on the head of the round-faced blonde loli.
"Is Spey drinking again?" Su Xia said viciously, "I told you that children shouldn't drink so much."
"Beer." Spee held the big cup.
"Beer is also alcohol, you are not allowed to drink it." Su Xia sat next to Spey and hugged her, "Spey must be punished."
Schell was sitting opposite to Spey. She noticed that Su Xia was staring at her while bullying Spey. She immediately took out the thing in her mouth and showed it to Su Xia, saying, "This is not a cigarette, not a cigar, but candy. It just looks like a candy."
"If it's sugar, that's fine." Su Xia has Spey now and doesn't care about Sher.
Su Xia rubbed Si Pei's cute round face, squeezing and rolling it into a round shape until Si Pei became impatient.
Su Xia came to the pool table and saw Hindenburg playing pool. Her opponent was a girl wearing glasses.
That's the condor.
Condor, the first ship of the Japanese Navy's Condor-class light aircraft carrier.
In history, after completing its training, the Condor was incorporated into the 1st Maritime Escort Squadron for anti-submarine escort purposes. After that, it was put into the escort mission of the oil fleet on the Singapore route. During this period, it claimed to have discovered and sunk submarines several times, but there were no corresponding reports of sinking of American submarines. Finally, it was sunk by a submarine torpedo.
As for the Condor in the game, it has no modifications and no skills. It has made no achievements in history, nor is it a powerful light aircraft carrier. It is not even too difficult to obtain. It is a complete passerby.
Su Xia felt very strange about the Condor appearing in the German club, but after thinking about it, it seemed that there was nothing wrong. The reason was simple. The Condor in history belonged to the German luxury cruise ship Scharnhorst, which was stranded in the East due to the outbreak of the war. In the middle of the war, the navy, which lacked aircraft carriers, took a fancy to it, bought it through diplomatic channels and converted it into an aircraft carrier.
When Su Xia came to the pool table, there were only a few balls left. When he was stunned, all the balls on the table were hit into the holes, including the white ball.
"It's over, I won." Hindenburg was proud.
"Still playing?" Hindenburg leaned on the pool table.
Shenying saw Su Xia and asked, "Do you want to fight, Admiral?"
"No." Su Xia said, "I don't know how to play billiards. You continue playing."
"I'm tired of fighting." said Condor.
"Go ahead, Admiral," Hindenburg said. "If you don't know how, I can teach you."
Su Xia thought about it and decided that there was nothing wrong with learning more, so she said, "Okay."
The condor took all the balls out of the bag.
Hindenburg leaned on the pool cue and said to himself, "Where should I start teaching?"
When Condor used the triangle frame to arrange all the balls into a standard triangle, Hindenburg came up with an idea and said, "I'll know once I play Admiral."
Hindenburg grabbed the pool cue and struck a pose.
"Admiral, please pay attention to my playing posture... First, use your right hand to hold the cue as required, stand upright facing the direction of the main ball on the table, hold the cue flat, and point the cue head toward the main ball..."
"Grip the club like this... Our thumb and index finger should hold the club lightly at the base of the thumb... The other three fingers should hold it loosely..."
"Handstand. Place your hand flat on the table, with your wrist against the table, and your four fingers spread out and flat. Then place your thumb on your index finger to steer the pole..."
Hindenburg talked about a lot of things, from body posture, grip, hand rack to aiming, trying out the club, and hitting the ball.
In Su Xia's impression, although Hindenburg is of German descent, he is quite unreliable, just a Tirpitz to some extent. As for how much of this is due to Missouri's interference and the misunderstanding caused by her distorted operation, it is unknown. Today, her impression of Hindenburg has changed a lot.
Hindenburg was ready to play.
"I remember there are several ways to play billiards." Su Xia knew something about it, "What are you going to play?"
"Snooker," Hindenburg said. "Does the Admiral know about snooker?"
"I know." Su Xia said, "But I don't know why it's called Snooker."
"Snooker means obstruction and obstacle, so snooker is also called obstacle billiards." Condor explained.
"What are the rules of snooker?" Su Xia asked again.
Shenying thought for a moment and replied: "The rule of snooker is to hit a red ball and a colored ball until all the red balls are pocketed, and then all the colored balls are removed from the table in order of their scores from low to high. In the end, the one with the highest score wins."
"Why bother?" Hindenburg interrupted. "Just scoring a goal is enough."
Hindenburg took the opening shot, and with one stroke the white ball hit the edge of the red balls, and the red balls that had been neatly arranged by the Condor were suddenly scattered.
"My tee shot was great, all the balls were scattered... I remember the black ball has the highest score, so I'll start with the black ball... I still have to see which ball is easier to score..." Hindenburg said as he got ready to hit the ball. The white ball, black ball and the hole were in a straight line, so he scored easily.
Hindenburg scored several goals in a row and her skills looked pretty good.
"This ball is a little difficult, but it's a piece of cake for me." Hindenburg chose the pink ball, which has six points, second only to the black ball. "Admiral, pay attention."
"Yeah." Shenying stood beside Su Xia, "Admiral, you really need to pay attention."
Hindenburg hit the ball, and the white ball hit the pink ball, which bounced off the edge of the pool table and landed directly into the pocket.
"Did the Admiral see anything?" asked Condor.
Su Xia hesitated and said, "Nice goal."
"Keep watching," said the Condor, "pay attention."
"Admiral, I'm awesome, right? Let me show you another one." Hindenburg said as he hit the ball again.
This time, Su Xia saw that the ball had gone in. The problem was that the club did not simply hit the white ball. The club hit the white ball and brushed past it at the same time.
Even a novice like Su Xia Tie knew that it was a foul for the cue to rub against the white ball, but Condor did not say anything. Hindenburg was immersed in her beautiful goal and he did not dare to speak.
"The highest I ever scored was a hundred," Hindenburg said, and continued to hit the ball.
Su Xia opened his eyes wide and swore he saw that Hindenburg's club not only hit the white ball, but also the black ball at the same time. He used the club to knock the black ball into the hole.
Su Xia looked towards the Condor.
Condor shrugged in response.
"I'll hit another great one for you, Admiral." Hindenburg was very confident after scoring several goals in a row. "First of all, Admiral, please pay attention to my posture... My hand is here... I will hit the ball like this, just hit the side of the ball..."
Su Xia really saw it. The white ball and the yellow ball were very close to each other. It was more like Hindenburg's cue hit the yellow ball directly rather than the white ball, and then scored a goal.
"Admiral, I'm awesome, aren't I?" Seeing another goal scored, and a very difficult one, Hindenburg used his five fingers as a comb to comb his hair back, "Is this trick of mine useful?"
"It must have been very useful before I had hands." Su Xia nodded.
"I told you it would work." Hindenburg paid no attention to Su Xia's words.
Su Xia found that Hindenburg didn't understand what he said at all, and said, "Hindenburg, did you notice that you just committed a foul?"
"What foul?" Hindenburg said, "How could I have committed a foul? You must have seen it wrong."
Su Xia didn't know whether Hindenburg really didn't know she was breaking the rules or was just playing tricks on him, so he said patiently, "It's really a foul."
"There aren't that many fouls," Hindenburg said unconvincedly, "as long as we score a goal, that's victory."
Su Xia looked at Shenying and finally understood why Shenying didn't want to play anymore.
"Okay, as long as we score a goal." Su Xia picked up a club from the wall. He was ready to teach Hindenburg a lesson by committing a foul.
Crouching Dragon and Phoenix Chick has begun.
Hindenburg is not hypocritical. For example, she commits fouls but does not allow Su Xia to commit fouls as well. She does not care how Su Xia commits fouls. Of course, Su Xia will not make any obvious fouls. He is just embarrassed and as long as the goal is scored, it is fine.
After all, Su Xia is a novice, even if she committed a foul, she is still a novice. In comparison, Hindenburg has rich experience in committing fouls, and in the end she won easily.
"Not possible, Admiral," said Hindenburg.
"Can I find a helper?" Su Xia asked.
"Who is the admiral going to see?" Hindenburg asked.
Su Xia took out her cell phone and nodded thoughtfully: "Anyone can do it?"
"Anyone can do it," Hindenburg said, "but you have to know that I am very strong and not everyone can be my opponent."
"Missouri." Su Xia said suddenly.
"Who?" Hindenburg didn't hear clearly.
"Missouri." Su Xia spoke word by word.
"Can I change it?"
Hindenburg was scared for the first time. She only remembered that she had lost all her weapons and armor and was defeated with the cooperation of the admiral and Missouri, and it still had a psychological impact on her.
