The commander seemed very scared, always looking around, and didn't even eat his meal properly. Eldridge felt that if that thing touched the commander, she would probably jump onto the table.
But except for the new... flaming destroyer, no one else seemed to be able to see the thing. However, judging from the looks of them, they all seemed to know about it, so Eldridge didn't care.
Just as I thought of this, I heard Kisaragi continue to complain: "Xiang and Xiao are out looking for thunder and lightning again... Javelin and Lafei have to accompany Z23 on the exercise... Ah, speaking of which, it seems that we will start classes soon..."
Little Ruyue gently shook Eldridge in her arms again, "Ruyue is so boring... Don't sleep anymore, get up and play with Ruyue for a while... Lift me up? Lift me up——"
Eldridge pretended to be dead for a long time, and when Ruyue was about to give up in frustration, he suddenly moved his body helplessly and sat up, then took out a bag of iron sand in Ruyue's expectant eyes.
"Ah, Ruyue likes to play this." Ruyue looked at the iron sand gradually rising from the bag and gathering in the air, and was obviously looking forward to it. "Can you turn it into a rabbit this time?"
As she wished, Eldridge gathered the iron sand into a palm-sized rabbit, which moved in the air, bouncing, and standing. Every movement was so vivid.
“It really seems like…”
Ruyue was very curious and wanted to reach out to touch it. The moment she was about to touch it, the iron sand instantly deformed, and with Ruyue's slight exclamation, it circled around her hand several times before finally reuniting in the palm of her hand.
"Ah... so cute..." Ruyue carefully used her other hand to poke the rabbit transformed from iron sand, and even interacted with it.
This is also the reason why Ruyue likes to be with Eldridge so much. After all, it is difficult to find such a versatile and good partner who can make her happy.
"Can it become a kitten?"
Eldridge yawned, helped Ruyue change the shape of the iron sand, then lay back on the bed and began to be lazy openly.
I thought I would be able to live a peaceful life after coaxing the little cat girl, but I didn't expect Yubari to suddenly come to me and ask Eldridge to do her a favor.
"I'm sorry... I've tried really hard, but I just can't find it..." Yubari sighed and rubbed his sore eyes, "So can you help me find that part? Otherwise, that piece of equipment can't be used..."
Eldridge paused for a moment before getting up from the bed. After taking back the iron sand, he took Ruyue's hand, who was still reluctant to leave, and nodded to Xi Zhang.
Yubari breathed a sigh of relief, "Thank you so much, I'll treat you guys to ice cream later, okay?"
"Well... Kisaragi didn't help, but... can she still eat?"
"of course."
Yubari looked at Kisaragi who was much happier and explained, "This time I lost a very small piece of flakes. I didn't dare to use a vacuum cleaner for fear of damaging it. Brooms and other things were not very reliable either. I had no choice but to come to find
You helped.”
Eldridge nodded to show that he understood, and followed Yubari to the studio. After opening the door, he saw metal parts and casings all over the floor, covering the entire room in a mess.
"Ahahaha... yes... it's a bit messy... but these are relatively large, don't worry about them. The lost one is probably only the size of a quarter of a fingernail."
Eldridge nodded, then summoned the ship suit and took two steps forward. Blue-green arcs began to dance on her body, and the metal parts piled on the ground seemed to be pulled and floated up lightly.
Eldridge put aside all the parts that were larger than the original size and only looked at the small objects that were affected by electromagnetic waves. After a while, he returned the missing small parts to Yubari.
"Ah, this is it. Thank you so much!" Yubari gently held the part and took out a few ice creams from the space. "This is a thank you gift. I originally ate it when I stayed up late, but I'm giving it to you."
Ruyue happily accepted the reward from Eldridge, and then pulled Eldridge out the door, "Let's go find Evil, shall we? She will definitely like to eat these."
Eldridge had no objection. She knew that she probably wouldn't be able to rest today, so she followed Ruyue back to the dormitory with a calm expression and knocked on Vicious's door again.
[The door is not locked...you guys come in...I'm too lazy to get out of bed...]
Kisaragi happily opened the door upon hearing that, "Vicious, I...we brought you ice cream..."
"Oh...thank you." Vicious looked up from the sofa and took a look. "I want vanilla flavor.
Ruyue, who was holding the vanilla ice cream, was stunned for a moment. After hesitating for a moment, she handed it over and kept the chocolate ice cream that she originally wanted to give to Evil for herself.
Evil thanked him lazily and just as he was about to reach out to take it, the vanilla ice cream was taken away by Eldridge. Ju Gaogao took the chocolate ice cream from Ruyue's hand while Ruyue was distracted and stuffed it into Evil's hand.
The vicious words continued, and after a mouthful, he complained weakly, "It's a bit bitter..."
Ruyue looked at the white ice cream in her hand, then glanced at Eldridge who was standing with his eyes closed as if dozing off, smiled softly, and then licked the honey-flavored ice cream.
"good to eat."
After the three of them finished eating, Ruyue still didn't want to go home, so she suggested: "How about we... play hide-and-seek together?"
Evil immediately agreed, "Okay! I'll be the ghost, you guys go hide first, I'll come find you in five minutes, anywhere in the harbor area doesn't matter, I'll be able to find you in no time anyway."
Ruyue was very happy to hear that. She pulled Eldridge out of the door and even closed the door carefully. Then they went downstairs together and said to Eldridge, "I'll go to the left and you go to the right. Otherwise, we'll
We will be arrested together..."
Eldridge looked at Ruyue's back as she ran away, paused silently for a while, glanced at the dormitory door behind him, slowly turned a corner, and walked to the grass next to him.
She knew very well that Evil would probably not come out to find them all day, so there was no point in hiding. She might as well find a place to sleep. As for why she didn't go back to the room to sleep... Ruyue would come to find her.
So Eldridge walked around the dormitory and went to the side of the building, trying to find a suitable piece of grass to catch up on her sleep. As a result, she accidentally caught a glimpse of a familiar figure. She thought about it and decided to go and say hello.
"...Sister Helena...Sister?"
"Hmm? How did you avoid the radar? Oh, it's Eldridge." Helena with red eyes smiled, "The Philadelphia Experiment (Note 1)... It's amazing."
PS: Note 1: [Philadelphia Experiment: The US military once installed a large number of electronic experimental equipment on the USS Eldridge, hoping to distort the light and radio waves around the ship through the effect of electromagnetic equipment to achieve "invisibility" on radar.
"Purpose. Rumor has it that in the experiment, the Eldridge gradually became invisible and almost transparent after a burst of green light, and slowly recovered until the equipment was cut off. The crew members who boarded the ship subsequently experienced a series of adverse reactions, and even
He was also seriously affected psychologically and was forced to retire. This should be the origin of the "Rainbow Project", but whether it is true or not is a matter of opinion.
Chapter 361 Helena?
"Eldridge, good boy... are you here to find a place to sleep?" Helena smiled, squatted slightly and looked at the little destroyer of the White Eagle, "Next time in the port area, don't always use electromagnetic coverage on your body, okay?"
Eldridge neither nodded nor shook his head. He just stared at Helena in front of him for a long time, without saying a word. He looked quite cautious.
Helena tilted her head, as if she was a little confused. "What's wrong with you suddenly looking at me like this?"
Eldridge paused, "...grown taller..."
Helena was stunned when she heard this. "Me? No, I just changed a pair of shoes today. I bought new ones. Do they look good?"
Hearing this, Eldridge looked down at Helena's pair of blue and black gradient high heels. It seemed that he had never seen her wear them before, and the heels were indeed quite high.
But Eldridge, who was originally very natural and even relied on two treasure-hunting iron rods to find the commander, now seems to have become a lot more mature.
Although she didn't have a keen sense of smell like the Sakura Empire's shipgirls, her electromagnetic ability could play a similar role to a certain extent. Therefore, Eldridge controlled the power and touched Helena's body without leaving a trace.
a bit.
"..."
"...It's 'Helena'..."
Eldridge let down his guard a little and looked at Helena, whose dressing style was a little different from before. He was a little curious about why she was staying in such a remote place.
Helena touched Eldridge's head gently, as if she hadn't noticed anything. "If you want to sleep, you can go to your sister's room. You might catch a cold outside."
Hearing this extremely natural statement, Eldridge completely let down his guard, then shook his head and declined. After thinking for a while, he asked again: "...Why...?"
"Are you asking why I'm here? Um... Actually, I'm waiting for Cleveland. She said she wanted to take me out to play, but she didn't want to be discovered by her sister, so she asked me to wait here for her."
Eldridge thought of the impetuous Phoenix and felt a certain degree of understanding in his heart, so he nodded and stopped asking any more questions.
Since Helena was waiting for someone here, it would be inconvenient for Eldridge to stay here any longer, so she planned to change direction to find a place to catch up on her sleep, but Helena stopped her unexpectedly.
"Eldridge, wait a minute." Helena smiled gently, "We still want to take Susu out to play, but she never comes out... Do you have any good ideas?"
After thinking it over, Eldridge told Helena about the unidentified floating object guarding outside the small command gate and asked her to think of a solution from that aspect. Then he left under her slightly grateful gaze.
When Eldridge was no longer in sight, the gentle smile on Helena's face suddenly stopped, and then she opened her red eyes and looked in a certain direction of the dormitory building.
"It's true that ordinary radar can't see it... So it's because of this thing blocking it that I've been waiting here in vain... I was really careless..."
"Sleep 4 times, eat 7 times, relieve oneself 13 times...during this period, I didn't even leave the house once...was it because of fear?" Helena narrowed her eyes and was silent for a while, "...It's a little different..."
"Forget it, let me verify it..."
Helena raised her gentle smile again, her red eyes still glowing slightly under the strong light of the day, and she walked around and entered through the dormitory door.
She knew exactly who lived in every room in the dormitory. When she stepped onto the stairs and reached her floor, Helena walked with ease and passed her own room without hesitation.
The sound of high heels hitting the floor was unusually crisp, "click," "click," echoing in the quiet corridor, as regular as a pendulum, until Helena stopped and stood beside a door.
She did not choose to knock on the door immediately, but first looked up in front of her, chuckled, and then reached out and grabbed something at a speed that was impossible to react.
The white hand formed an arc shape, and the slender fingers seemed to be clasping something, with the fingertips slightly white, and it seemed as if they were exerting force on something.
Helena stretched out her hand to maintain the movement, then pulled her empty hand in front of her and whispered to her palm:
"Who...are you? You've been staying here...coveting someone you can't have? Heh...don't overestimate your abilities..."
"Don't let me meet you a second time before I'm sure of everything."
After she finished speaking, Helena loosened her palm, then raised her right leg slightly and kicked at an invisible object. An inexplicable muffled sound was heard in the air.
After doing all this, Helena straightened her hair and then knocked on the door lightly.
"knocking"
"Susu? I came to see you."
[…Sister Helena?]
"Well, won't you open the door?"
Helena waited quietly with a smile on her face. After a while, there was a slight "click" sound from the door in front of her. Then a small white hand stretched out from the crack of the door, waved twice in the air, and then retracted.
"Hmm... the temperature is normal, weird... "Where did she go suddenly?" the black-haired girl muttered softly as she opened the door carefully.
After the door was fully opened, Commander Su, who had been hiding for a long time, raised his head slightly and looked at the person who was knocking on the door in front of him, but he soon realized something was wrong.
She looked at Helena in front of her with a little hesitation, and quietly stood on tiptoe, "...Sister Helena?"
"Hmm?" Helena smiled even more. "What's wrong? Isn't Sheffield here today?"
"Well...she went to get me lunch...Sister, you suddenly came to me...is there something wrong?"
"Ah... it's like this, Cleveland asked me out today, but it seems a little... inappropriate to go alone?" Helena seemed a little hesitant, "So I wanted to ask you... if you can go with me?"
"Is that so..." Commander Su nodded as if he had no doubts at all, then turned and walked into the inner room, "Sister, can you wait a moment? When Sister Sheffield comes back, I'll tell her and go.
Helena smiled and was about to follow in when she saw the little conductor suddenly reach out and throw something at her. When she raised her hand to wave it away, the quick-moving little kid had already rushed to the window.
Helena's expression paused, and after summoning the ship suit, she swung her hand and threw it towards Commander Su Xiao, instantly hitting the commander who had not activated the ship girl status.
This throw was so powerful that an ordinary person would not be able to stand up. However, Commander Su cried out in pain, stepped firmly on the wall to relieve the force, and jumped back to the ground.
Commander Su Xiao didn't dare to expose his abilities at will, so he could only face Helena in human form. So he covered his back with his hands and pretended to be injured. Just as he was about to speak, he heard Helena on the opposite side chuckle twice and asked:
"How did you know that?"
"...Sister Helena wouldn't be so straightforward about Sister Cleveland." Commander Su paused. "And your eye color is different. You are taller than Sister Helena. Who are you?"
Helena raised her eyebrows, and fragments of particles peeled off from her long blue hair and disappeared into the air. In their place were darker hair like blue crystals. Several light bands were generated from her back, constantly generating particles.
Then eliminate
She raised her hand slightly, and the particles that had disappeared into thin air suddenly appeared and gathered at an extremely fast speed, wrapping the two of them inside, forming an independent space that was isolated from all things.
Commander Su was stunned for a moment, then slowly removed his hand that was covering his lower back to pretend weakness, stood up straight without saying a word, and assumed a guarded posture.
Helena on the opposite side approached step by step. Even though she was exposed, her mood did not seem to be affected, and she even felt better.
"Yes... that's right... you are indeed different..." Helena smiled tenderly and lingeringly, whispering like a lover, "It's really like you..."
"As you can see... I am not the cowardly and timid one in your family, but I am indeed 'Helena'. Of course, for the sake of convenience..."
She walked in front of the commander, not minding Su Xin's defensive posture at all, and bent down slightly and moved closer, breathing sweetly:
"You can call me Nana..."
Chapter 362 Nana?
In the closed space, the light is dim and the color is bluish. The surface is like a charcoal fire that is about to go out. There is a faint blue light that lights up and then fades away.
Su Xin stood on tiptoe, looking at the ship girl who called herself "Helena" who was only five meters away from her, with extremely focused attention.
She can block space, change her appearance, and has a better understanding of what's going on in the port area. In addition, her words vaguely reveal a sense of separation that is different from other ship girls.
"Why, doesn't it make sense?" Red-eyed Helena raised her eyebrows casually, "Let's forget about this unnecessary tacit understanding."
"...Understanding? With whom?"
[Helena] seemed to be a little happy, but she didn't show it very obviously. She just said "hmm" lightly, nodded, and stopped talking. Instead, she raised her foot and continued to move closer to Su Xin.
Commander Su Xiao didn't think it would be a good thing to let this unknown ship girl get close to him, so he used his legs to jump back a step. Unexpectedly, the moment he landed, a small cannonball hit the ground next to his feet.
"!"
