They dug day and night until everyone lost the ability to control their bodies, leaving only the crazy Dafeng who was still digging hard as if her life depended on it.
"...There should be other ways. Let's...rest for a while first." Yuanchou tried to persuade.
But Dafeng turned a deaf ear to him. She held the peach pit in one hand, grasped the carrier-based aircraft whose skin had long been blurred and stained with the shell, and hit it with all her strength.
"commander…"
"Lord Commander..."
"Commander, commander ...
Finally, the red-hot carrier-based aircraft turned into scrap metal. Dafeng took it directly as if she didn't feel any pain, but the cold peach core was still well protected in her arms.
The calls, which were warmer than the cracks, echoed in the ears of every confused ship girl like a different kind of prayer.
The skin and flesh were burned until they curled up and turned black, the nerves were completely necrotic, and the bones were vaguely visible. Dafeng could no longer clench her fists.
She could only rely on her still intact wrist and forearm, swinging her maimed hands and hitting the crack again and again.
In vain, still in vain.
Unable to continue moving, Dafeng knelt on the ground, her unconscious hands supported in the crack, gradually losing strength.
Finally, her arms slipped down, and she flew towards the high temperature like an ugly moth covered in black.
"Commander...Sir..."
"Pyr-
A puff of white mist rose from the feverish fissure, and a slender, red hand pierced through the darkness and rested on the forehead of the conscious Dafeng.
"...Well, I heard you, Taiho, you did a great job."
The peach pit in Dafeng's arms slipped to the ground, but she no longer held it tightly as stubbornly as before. Instead, she relaxed completely.
"hehe……"
"Commander, Sir..."
"Dafeng...is...back..."
Chapter 1074 Fusion
Inside the magnificent palace, the considerate alarm clock service is operating non-stop.
Cheshire, who had transformed into an expert in disturbing people's sweet dreams, grasped the armrest of the throne and leaned forward, staring at the white-haired girl curled up on the seat and muttering to herself.
"Long hair is so beautiful... and white. I want it too. Then I can be a couple with my dear~"
“Is the black one a Rubik’s Cube? I have never been able to figure it out… But it doesn’t matter, Kewei Sister can’t play it either, so it’s not that we are stupid~”
"Why are you sleeping here? It feels hard to the touch, and your butt must be painful..."
"You can come to my house? I'll lend you my room. There are lots of teddy bears there. As for me... I'll just keep squeezing in with my dear~"
The little cat girl's mouth opened and closed, and the way she called people to wake up changed from loud repetition at first to boredom and reduced volume later.
In the end, he even treated the other person as a rag doll, and all kinds of strange thoughts and experiences that didn't sound so interesting popped up one after another.
Su Xin, who was busy tinkering with her things, let her talk nonsense. After all, judging from the black cube in the arms of Queen Elizabeth, harassment attacks were still very effective.
The original time-limited challenge, an unsolvable puzzle where moving one part would change other parts, has now become a simple trial and error game.
Pull horizontally and move vertically. If you can't get through one end, go back to the previous step and change direction. It's similar to the color block puzzle in the computer room, and there's no tension at all.
Su Xin had a good memory. She memorized all the energy blocks on the spot, spent some time rehearsing them in her mind, and then began to manipulate the energy threads to solve the problem.
Faintly lit data symbols flowed across the pure black surface of the pupils, and the fixed shape of the [META energy] was rapidly deconstructed and rearranged.
Slowly, the surface of the small space changes from the original turbulent flow to a stable and smooth mirror.
When Su Xin put the last small piece of energy on the first side back into place, the deep color faded away in the blink of an eye and turned into pure white.
"Wow... That's amazing, is it magic?"
Cheshire stretched his neck to take a few looks, and his curiosity, which had been lost while he was talking to himself, was instantly restored. He raised his hand to touch the smooth "mirror".
Before she could touch it, the back of her white and tender hand was hit lightly.
"oops?!"
"If you don't want to turn into a roasted chicken foot, don't touch it, okay?"
Su Xin said as she pulled a strand of hair and threw it down from above the cube. The moment it touched the mirror, the hair quickly disappeared along with the smoke, leaving only a slight stench.
Cheshire silently retracted his claws and took two steps back, "Is it okay for me to stand here and talk?"
"Hmm~" Su Xin controlled the cube to turn over, "Come on, there are still five questions to go, and it will be over once you finish them."
"Okay... Sister Elizabeth, does your hand hurt?"
"I...I'm going to wear a ring in the future, so I can't make my hands look ugly. I'm sorry I can't help you..."
"But my dear is already taking the test. She's super super smart, right? She'll definitely get 100 points! You'll wake up soon."
"Come to my house when the time comes. I can already bake cakes, so I can make an extra one for you!"
The little cat girl stood beside the throne with her hands behind her back and kept chattering, while Su Xin squatted in front of the throne and defused the bomb with her lips pursed.
She deconstructed and rearranged it as quickly as possible, restoring the unstable plane to a stable state of pure white, then turned it over and continued.
Only when the black color of the entire cube faded away did she let out a long sigh and waved at Cheshire, who had nothing to say and was just making onomatopoeias like "umm and ah".
The kitten was overjoyed, licked her dry lips, and came over to me.
"Honey, are you done with the exam? Can I stop talking to you?"
"What's wrong? Don't you usually have endless things to talk about? Why are you tired after just a short while today?"
Su Xin handed over a bottle of juice and said, "I'll unscrew it for you. This side will catch fire later. Go drink it over there. Otherwise, your skirt will burn."
"Hmph~ If it's burned, ask my dear to buy another one! Um...then sister, be careful, okay?"
"Ah."
The little guy took a look at Queen Elizabeth, then jumped to the pile of metal armor, picked up a helmet and put it under his butt to sit on.
Seeing that she had chosen a good position, Su Xin turned her attention back to the pure white cube.
There are two methods now. You can either directly disassemble the entire side, or cut off one side and open the lid to check like opening a box.
Or drill a small hole and see if you can get a passage out near the phoenix.
The former has a greater impact on the people in the small world. If the cut side happens to be the surface of the earth, the ship girls who have shrunk by who knows how many times will probably fall straight down.
The hot cube will drive the airflow around it, and if the invisible tiny particles are blown to the edge, it will be very difficult to survive the burns.
The latter has less impact on people in the small world and is also not very efficient.
Unless you find the exact location of Dafeng, if you just poke holes to find it, the opportunity will be lost.
Su Xin, who was overly straightforward under special circumstances, actually wanted to choose the former, but her limited rationality forced her to choose the latter.
Unlike a schizophrenic patient, she is still herself at this moment, just with a different way of thinking.
It is difficult for a person to reach a reconciliation with himself. This sentence also applies to Su Xin.
Now she thinks that giving the cube acupuncture is stupid, but her subconscious mind tells her that for the sake of Dafeng, she should minimize the risk.
The silent conflict in her mind lasted less than a minute, and the character that used to be suppressed by [META] finally poked its head out.
Su Xin, whose central idea has never changed, is always reassuring when facing the problems of the ship girls.
She rubbed her forehead, endured the discomfort brought about by the mixture of two thoughts, took a deep breath and waited patiently.
There is no doubt that Dafeng is paranoid and pathological, so Su Xin firmly believes that he will not stay in a place without her.
As long as there is any movement inside, causing the data flow connecting Dafeng to change, she can follow the clues, find the other party's location, punch a hole and bring the person out.
Su Xin opened her eyes as wide as she could, staring at the cube that she had taken out and then slowly turned over.
Until a very tiny ripple suddenly appeared at a certain point on a certain surface. Her movements were faster than her thoughts, and she drove the energy to melt a hole at that location.
After connecting the holes with a channel to enlarge the crack, she reached her hand inside.
The heat ignited her sleeves, and her skin surface was stinging and red, but her hand clearly touched something.
"Commander...Sir..."
The voice was weak but unique to the guy who seduced her regardless of the occasion. It was indeed Dafeng.
Su Xin endured the pain, used her other hand to tear open the crack, and hugged the broken body in her arms.
"...I heard you, Taiho, you did a great job."
Chapter 1075: Denounce, Understand, Become
"Oh... my waist is sore~"
"Well... then shall I give you a waist massage?"
"My legs hurt too~"
"..What about the hammer kick?"
"My chest is uncomfortable too... Come on, Commander, please help me massage it~●
Su Xin had no choice but to push away the aircraft carrier who was always climbing up the ladder. After she was released from the state, she looked a lot gentler, and even when she was refusing, she still made a good impression.
This made the ship girls who were still in a weak and uneasy state after escaping from the dream relax a lot.
There is no doubt that a lifesaver who is polite and law-abiding is always better than a shameless person with no bottom line.
Especially when they saw the coat covering Her Majesty the Queen, their impression of Commander Su improved a little.
However, at present, everyone is in an awkward situation of being leaderless. Even if they receive favors, they cannot give equal rewards.
So they thanked her earnestly in unison, then sat stiffly around Queen Elizabeth and began to stare at each other.
Su Xin, who was at a distance from them, knew that it would be best for her not to disturb them, so as not to cause tension among the ship girls.
Besides, she is a competent portable power bank.
As soon as Su Xin received the call from Dafeng, she handed over the small wrench. The powerful repair device wiped out the other party's pain.
The remaining energy was evenly distributed to each of the burned and exhausted ship girls, and could heal them to a large extent.
After making sure that they had no other discomfort besides the burning sensation, she took back the drained metal piece and put it in her pocket to charge it.
It takes some time for the little wrench to go from empty to full.
Logically speaking, Su Xin should open a portal to take everyone to the Siren Base, where the equipment is complete and the technology is advanced, which will help the ship girls recover.
However, several people, including Yuanchou, declined the proposal, probably because they were still not very confident in her.
Commander Su didn't care much about it. He took the lively Dafeng, who had recovered from her injuries, to the side to give them some space to talk.
"... Jarvis, is Her Majesty the Queen okay?" Aurora tilted her head and looked at the nurse, "It turns out that she left because she was afraid that she couldn't control herself..."
Jarvis did some tests and found that Queen Elizabeth was surprisingly healthy, but he didn't know why she hadn't woken up.
She couldn't make up her mind, and it was not easy to draw conclusions, so she told the truth: "There is nothing wrong with my body, but as for the rest... I'm not sure either."
The vampire was exhausted both physically and mentally after what he had just experienced, and was almost about to fall asleep.
It was only because there were two strangers at the scene that she tensed up and tried not to show any signs of fatigue, and tried to keep her eyes open to discuss business.
"Hmm... her stuff was quite effective. I'll go ask her later if I can lend it to Her Majesty the Queen... haha..."
"Senior Vampire, please get some sleep first." Albion withdrew his gaze from the girl and patted his thigh. "Get enough rest so that you can take charge of the situation."
"..Hmm? No, if she looks down on me, it will be difficult to seek help.
Without waiting for the vampire to show off, Yuanchou sat up straight and turned to the three people who were laughing not far away and made a request.
"Respected Commander, can your piece of healing metal be used on Her Majesty the Queen?"
The vampire was stunned, and by the time his slow mind reacted a beat too late, it was too late to stop it.
She could only prick up her ears with trepidation, hoping that the other party would be generous enough to help them awaken their sleeping leader.
On the other side, Su Xin already had this idea and naturally would not refuse.
In fact, waiting for the Royal Ship Girls to speak up is a more cost-effective option. At least it is more trustworthy than actively showing courtesy.
