Azur Lane: The Tragic Admiral’s Azur Life

In this special sea area, the enemy ships that seemed very ordinary just now seemed to have been strengthened to a certain extent, and their combat effectiveness has been greatly improved compared to before.

Although Yang Sikang's fleet still coped with it with ease, this change was the first time that the ship girls in the port area encountered it. Fortunately, they could learn how Yang Sikang's fleet responded, so they didn't have to panic.

After re-establishing stable contact with the help of Bai Ze, Yang Sikang confirmed the situation with both sides and then headed straight towards the target.

There were obviously more obstacles on the road, and the interference to him became stronger.

However, due to the Gu Diao's own enhanced defense, as well as Eldridge's interference and Bai Ze's confrontation, this level of interference can no longer have any impact on the Gu Diao's system functions.

The Gu Diao and the ship girls were advancing at a rapid pace, and without encountering any troublesome enemies, they were making rapid progress. At the same time, the Essex team was also making very smooth progress.

However, when they arrived near the target area, Helena's voice sounded in the communication channel with some doubt.

"We found the target, but... Commander, that looks like a cocoon?"

Helena's SG radar has a wide coverage area and is extremely effective in detecting various things.

However, her words made Yang Sikang feel confused. Cocoon?

Soon, the reconnaissance planes of the aircraft carriers flew over the target area. After the reconnaissance and image feedback from the carrier-based aircraft, Yang Sikang finally saw the situation there, and also understood what Helena meant by the cocoon.

At the center of the target area they were heading towards, there was a pillar extending from the seabed in what should have been a deep sea area. The entire area was only about five or six square meters. It was obviously unreasonable to stand in the sea, but there was no sign of shaking at all.

The top of the pillar is covered with white filaments, but unlike those corrosive hyphae, these filaments are like the silk spit out by silkworms when they pupate. Through repeated reconnaissance by carrier-based aircraft, the overall texture is closer to the feeling of artificially cultivated silkworms spitting silk and pupating.

The bottom of the white filaments seems to be hexagonal, with each corner extending upward, and the middle part is an oval sphere made of grayish-white unknown material.

The top of the sphere is a complete mirror image of the bottom. The whole thing is completely symmetrical. Even when photographed from many angles, there is not even a single difference. The six sides look exactly the same.

No wonder Helena called this thing a cocoon. Even Yang Sikang didn’t know how to describe this strange thing for a moment.

It does look a bit like a cocoon in appearance, but overall it looks more like a man-made creation, like some kind of carved ornament.

But this thing was emitting the reaction of the Mind Cube from the inside, and all the commands detected previously came from inside this seemingly dead object.

Judging from the images fed back by the carrier-based aircraft alone, the size of this thing is actually not that big.

The height is about six meters, and this size is easy to clean up for Yang Sikang's ship girls.

Even taking into account factors such as defense, one anti-ship missile should be enough.

But even with this kind of thing, Yang Sikang seemed to be extremely cautious.

The ship girls did not continue to approach this thing, nor did they try to destroy it.

Only carrier-based aircraft were hovering outside a certain range, trying to close the distance little by little.

Suddenly, the closest carrier-based aircraft lost contact without any warning, and then in the images of other carrier-based aircraft, it could be seen that the carrier-based aircraft plummeted down, crashed into the sea and exploded.

Bai Ze immediately calculated the accurate data and sent it to the carrier girls, and then other carrier-based aircraft repeatedly conducted reconnaissance within a safe range.

There are still enemy ships around that will harass us, but their strength is even weaker than before.

Abnormal situation, unusual creation, Yang Sikang frowned. If he still couldn't realize that there was a problem, then he was simply a fool.

"Commander, why don't we just destroy this thing?"

Wichita's voice was heard in the communication channel. She was obviously very wary of this thing, even the sound could be heard.

"I think this thing can confirm..."

Yang Sikang let out a slow breath and began to think.

Judging from the situation of the carrier-based aircraft, it is obviously not a wise move to send the ship girl directly to test from a safe position.

But this safe distance was too far, and he did not have the equipment to directly capture the details of the thing at this distance.

But if he destroyed it directly without checking, he felt intuitively that this was not a good option.

For a moment, Yang Sikang actually hesitated.

"Commander, the number of enemies on the periphery is increasing rapidly. Our long stay here seems to have accelerated their generation rate. But they did not attack us, but went to the periphery."

Yorktown's words made Yang Sikang more alert. If staying here for a long time would increase the pressure from the outside, he would have to make a decision quickly.

After thinking it over again and again, Yang Sikang took a deep breath...

"I'll go over and take a look."

As soon as he finished speaking, the voices of objection from the ship girls filled the entire communication channel. The voices came one after another and intertwined noisily, but the content was the same.

Yang Sikang raised his voice helplessly:

"Quiet!"

The ship girls calmed down temporarily, and Yang Sikang said:

"I want to give it a try because the Gu Diao's current defense level is strong enough, and with Eldridge and Bai Ze in terms of interference, the Gu Diao is the safest to go there. Even in the worst case scenario, I will not be in any safety danger."

"But you saw the reaction of the carrier-based aircraft just now. We don't know the actual lethality of this thing."

York City said calmly:

"I can understand that you insist on seeing it for some reason, but when faced with such unnecessary risky behavior that cannot guarantee your safety, I think you should be more cautious."

The other ship girls also spoke up. Although Yang Sikang had taken many risks in the past, it was obviously not necessary this time.

Although Yang Sikang was very persistent, it was the first time that the ship girls opposed his opinion so strongly.

In desperation, when Yang Sikang was considering whether to give up, Kewei suddenly spoke.

"Commander, as long as there are clear close-up photos, it will be fine, right?"

"Yes."

Yang Sikang confirmed her words, and then Ke Wei continued:

"If that's the case, why don't you let me give it a try? If I succeed, you won't have to take the risk, right?"

Yang Sikang frowned slightly, then continued:

"Don't worry, I will only try it with carrier-based aircraft. After all, I don't want to get hurt in this kind of thing."

Yang Sikang thought about it and reluctantly agreed to the terrible request.