Wang Yu nodded upon hearing this, expressing his sincere gratitude to Pennsylvania.
Watching the Ship Girls of the garrison fleet leave Flower Port with laughter and chatter, Wang Yu understood that the port area now completely belonged to him.
Looking at Glorious and York, who suddenly became excited now that there were no outsiders around, Wang Yu clapped his hands with a smile; “Let’s go, let’s grab something to eat first. Then we’ll go to the Command Center to activate the signal device, officially take over the port area, and take a good look at our new home!”
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After everything was ready, the group arrived at the Command Center building, passed through the hall on the 1st floor and the Commander's office on the 2nd floor, and went straight to the Command Center located on the 3rd floor.
The empty Command Center was densely packed with various high-tech instruments. In the center of the room was a circular projection device. At this time, none of the equipment was activated, and the chairs in front of the control panels of various devices were empty, as if waiting for their new owner. The empty room looked particularly desolate.
“Is this the ritual connecting the world? In the end, it cannot escape our control.”
Wang Yu gave York a speechless look. When Pennsylvania was here before, weren’t you still well-behaved? How come as soon as she left, you started acting silly again?
Wang Yu began to doubt whether York was truly silly.
As everyone knows, chuunibyou is just a language disorder; in fact, their way of thinking is no different from normal people.
This is fundamentally different from mental illness, so every chuunibyou is actually a natural actor. Their every word and action is actually playing another completely different personality. Chuunibyou is more like a persona they have created.
Wang Yu knew very well that the Royal had an unusual number of actors, such as the glory of Royal actors, the disdain of actors, and so on; he still remembered them vividly.
Considering this line of thinking.
Wang Yu recalled York's obedient demeanor today and felt that he instantly understood something extraordinary.
So, you were trying to maintain my Commander's dignity in front of the other Ship Girls today! That's why you were so well-behaved before. Now that it's just us, you're starting to get lively again.
I don't know whether to say you're sensible or a drama queen.
Glorious affectionately stroked York's head. He always felt that Unicorn was about to have another adopted sister. Glorious had been more attentive to York recently than to him, the Commander, which made him feel a little jealous.
Forget it, I can’t be jealous of my own Ship Girls.
All the instruments began to slowly restart, lights flickered in the Command Center, screen after screen lit up again, and accompanied by the slight sound of the instruments starting, the entire Command Center seemed to come back to life.
“Commander, as long as the signal emitter is reactivated, the port area should be completely under our control.”
Wang Yu nodded.
The procedure for taking over the port area was not complicated. His information had already been recorded in the Commander System. Now he only needed to activate the signal emitter, reconnect the port area, and rename it.
These were basically all the steps to reconnect the port area. Now that everything was ready, Wang Yu recalled the precautions mentioned in “Beginner’s Guide to Contracted Port Areas,” confirmed that he had not missed anything, walked to the control panel, and confirmed the button to start the signal device.
“Signal device restarting, estimated time 5 minutes.” A cold, mechanical female voice echoed in the empty control room.
Everyone's eyes were fixed on the virtual projection main screen of the Command Center. As the progress bar on the main projection screen advanced bit by bit, everyone's hearts beat along with it.
98%. 99%. 100%......
“Signal device activated. Welcome, Commander, to the port area. Siren attacks may come at any time. Commander, please prepare port area defense deployments.”
Well, the entire activation process was calm and uneventful. The progress bar advanced at a steady pace and successfully completed all progress after 5 minutes.
Above the roof of the Command Center, the external signal amplifier and emitter emitted a dazzling light, and invisible ripples spread rapidly outwards from the Command Center as the origin.
The signal waves contacted and merged with several other signal waves of the same frequency in the surrounding sea area, finally forming an entire complete signal zone.
A sound like an electrical short circuit echoed in the communication network, and the control screen suspended in the air changed, finally forming a complete 3D projection of the surrounding sea area.
The entire 3D projection was centered on the island where the port area was located, with the endless sea stretching further out. And on the back of the port island, the outline of a new land mass was also fully displayed on the 3D projection.
Although Wang Yu had not yet been to Xianhua City, he now clearly saw the outline of the city from another angle.
Wang Yu nodded lightly. It seemed that the port area's detection radar was integrated with the signal emitter.
Because the coverage area was very large, it could only roughly detect the situation in the sea area during normal times, and individual enemies who activated shielding devices and sneaked in might not be discovered.
However, large-scale fleet movements or battles would still be easily detected. Moreover, when determining the location of enemy-occupied sea areas, the monitoring mode could also be changed to conduct more in-depth detection of small areas, and the sensitivity of this monitoring would be much stronger.
Wang Yu fumbled at the control panel for a while, and after a long time, changed the radar detection monitoring method to sea area safety monitoring mode. At this time, the sea area on the 3D projection was divided into one circular area after another by different colors, with the distance from the port area as the boundary.
Wang Yu pointed to the innermost green circular area of the sea; “Although the Headquarters’ fleet will help us share the defense work of the sea area within the next six months, and most of the matters should not require too much worry from us, we still need to do our most basic defense work. Glorious, I’ll trouble you to use carrier-based aircraft to monitor the safe sea area around the port and be careful not to let any Siren, humans, or Ship Girls sneak into the port area.”
“Commander, don’t worry, leave these matters to me. I will definitely ensure the safety of the port area.”
“Hmm, you’ll have to work hard for a while. After I build other companions, we can take turns performing defense missions, so you won’t have to do it all alone.”
Wang Yu nodded. It was unavoidable to have Glorious send out carrier-based aircraft to patrol day and night. In the port area, other things didn't matter, but all kinds of devices were extremely valuable.
He had previously checked the price list of devices in the system and clearly knew the specific value of this batch of devices in the entire port area, which might be resources that an ordinary Commander could not earn in a lifetime of hard work.
Even if the Headquarters might have special technology to reduce costs, it was definitely not a small sum.
He used to think that he was very wealthy, but now it seemed that he was just so-so. Compared to an individual, he might indeed have a lot of resources, but compared to the vast entity of Azure Lane, he still lacked their kind of deep foundation.
At the naval base, the construction devices he saw were guarded by many Ship Girls. His own port area was severely understaffed now, and there was no way to arrange guards around the rooms of these important buildings.
Therefore, prohibiting anyone from landing on the island was the best solution. Glorious's carrier-based aircraft could detect most enemies on the sea surface, but if the enemies were submarines, Glorious would probably only discover them when they landed on the island.
However, the possibility of enemy submarines landing on the island was too low. Even if submarines did come, they should only circle in the surrounding sea area, observing silently, and would never dare to expose themselves easily.
However, although the Siren would discover that this port area had been reactivated after the signal device was started, they should not come knocking so quickly. It should only attract some scattered mass-produced units wandering on the sea.
At least there was still the Headquarters'garrison fleet to help clear the sea area, so there should be no problems in the short term.