Chapter 7: Azur Lane Commander Academy
“Woo… woo…”
With two long whistles, a huge passenger ship docked at the port of Shenhua City. Qin Ge, who was in the cabin, also heard the sound. He had packed his things this morning, nodded and said hello to the passengers in the adjacent berths, picked up his things, followed the flow of passengers, and got off the ship.
After leaving the port, Qin Ge bought a map of Shenhua City at the bookstall at the entrance. Compared with Minghai City, Shenhua City is obviously much larger. It is said to be the largest city on the coast of Donghuang. However, it is understandable because the Azur Lane Commander Academy of Donghuang is in Shenhua City, so this is the place with the most commanders and the safest place on the coast of Donghuang.
Qin Ge opened the map and saw the location of the Azur Lane Commander Academy at a glance. It was hard not to see it because it occupied the largest part of the map near the coast. Qin Ge had learned about the Commander Academy before. Its composition was very complicated. As Xu Xin said, not everyone could be called a commander.
As for those who have lofty ideals but cannot become commanders, the Commander Academy will not abandon them. Therefore, the Azur Lane Commander Academy is not only a place to train commanders, but also a place to train scientific research, logistics, shipbuilding and other personnel related to naval warfare. So that those who cannot become commanders can also fight for their lofty ideals.
Therefore, the Azur Lane Commander Academy is also divided into several areas. The first area is the main school area with the largest area. This is where commanders and ship girls are trained. Because it involves actual combat operations such as exercises and training for ship girls, the area here is the largest and the facilities are the best.
The second major area is the scientific research and technology area, which is for training scientific research and technical talents. A series of complex scientific research results such as communication facilities between commanders, image transmission data systems, sea area coordinates, etc. are all produced here.
The third area is the dock construction area. Although human warships cannot fight against the Sirens, the commander is not a ship girl who can glide on the sea at any time, so he needs a ship to travel. Most of the command ships of Donghuang now come from here. After all commanders complete the graduation test, they will get their first command ship in their commander career from here.
The fourth area is the logistics supply area, which receives oil from land and sea every day, and processes it through special means to turn it into fuel for the ship girls to use. It can be said that this is the busiest area, with 24-hour shifts to ensure that all the ship girls have combat effectiveness.
After confirming the direction of the Azur Lane Commander Academy, Qin Ge waved to stop a taxi at the port entrance and headed towards the academy.
The driver was a very enthusiastic person. After learning where Qin Ge was going, he knew that he was not a local in Shenhua City. So along the way, he introduced to him where things in Shenhua City were fun and delicious, and they were all the most economical and affordable places. This made Qin Ge, who had just arrived in Shenhua City, have a better impression of this place.
However, no matter how far the journey is, there is always an end. Moreover, the Azur Lane Commander Academy is not far from the civilian port area. While chatting with the driver, they had already reached their destination unknowingly. After getting off the car, Qin Ge saw the gate of the Azur Lane Commander Academy for the first time. The huge anchor standing majestically in the square in the middle of the gate made him, a person from Earth, feel a little novel for a moment.
After all, there are many such wonders on Earth, but there is no such ten-story-high anchor at the entrance of the college. With such novelty, Qin Ge crossed the square at the entrance and walked towards the gate.
Because the school had not started yet, the entrance to the academy was very quiet, so he went to the guard booth at the entrance to inquire about admission. Unexpectedly, the person in the guard booth was not the guard on duty as he imagined, but a girl who looked like a junior high school student.
Her sandy brown hair was tied into two ponytails, with a special 102 hairpin pinned to her bangs. She was wearing a white navy suit, and a red five-pointed star was shining on the belt around her waist.
Facing the girl who seemed quite familiar to him, Qin Ge smiled and said to her, "Hello, may I bother you for a moment?"
"Huh? Who are you?" The girl looked at Qin Ge who suddenly appeared in front of her and asked with some confusion.
"Hello, my name is Qin Ge. I came here to become a commander. But I don't know what the specific process is, and the registration time is about to come, so I came here to ask." Qin Ge smiled at the girl.
"Oh, so this is it. My name is Fushun, and I'm from the Fushun, the second ship of the Anshan-class destroyer." The girl, no, Fushun introduced herself to Qin Ge first, and Qin Ge looked at the girl in surprise. How come he didn't know the reputation of the Fushun ship? He didn't expect to meet her when he just arrived at the commander trainee. Does this count as meeting an old acquaintance in a foreign land?
"What's wrong?" Obviously, Fushun also noticed Qin Ge's surprised look, so he asked in confusion.
"Nothing, I've seen an Anshan-class destroyer before, so I was a little surprised." Qin Ge said to Fushun, and finally added silently in his heart, the museum...
"Oh, I see. That's nothing, because there are still many Anshan-class shipgirls in this world. It's not strange to meet them." Fushun said with a smile, "Next, let's talk business."
"Yeah." Qin Ge nodded and listened attentively to Fushun's next words.
"If you want to become a commander, you must first pass the commander and mind cube adaptability test, and then you can sign up to become a trainee commander. And it does not cost anything to sign up to become a commander, and after becoming a commander you can enjoy the due monthly allowances, and finally you can learn and grow in this commander academy. Don't be discouraged if you don't pass, we also have training suitable for scientific research and logistics, and you can also contribute to the commander team of the Donghuang camp." Fushun said very concisely.
"Then I would like to ask, how do you test the adaptability between yourself and the Mind Cube?" Qin Ge asked.
"On the day of registration, come to the school gate, there will be special instruments to check the adaptability rate with the Mind Cube. Only when you have a corresponding adaptability rate with the Mind Cube can you summon your own ship girl from the Mind Cube, but if there is no adaptability rate, then you cannot summon it." Fushun explained to Qin Ge.
"I see..." Qin Ge nodded. He suddenly thought of the letter of introduction Xu Xin gave him, so he asked, "What if I have a letter of introduction written by another commander who has already graduated?"
"Oh, do you have a letter of introduction from another commander?" Fushun looked at Qin Ge in surprise. According to her understanding, people who have letters of introduction from other commanders generally don't ask such simple questions, because the person who gave them the letter of introduction must have explained all the common sense questions to them. And people with letters of introduction usually go to the Maritime Administration first, not the gate of the Command Academy.
"Yes, I have." Qin Ge nodded and took out the letter of introduction given to him by Xu Xin from his shirt pocket and handed it to Fushun.
Fushun looked at the signature at the end of the letter of introduction and read softly, "Xu Xin...what a familiar name."
