The Admiral of Hogwarts

Enterprise said this because she was an aircraft carrier ship girl, so when she had carrier-based aircraft as a means of transportation, she could greatly increase everyone's radius of action. According to her, within the range of her carrier-based aircraft's one-hour flight, there was a place that, theoretically, should be able to summon many ship girls.

What surprised Hugo a little was that Enterprise could make her carrier-based aircraft take off and land vertically and be invisible to human radar and vision. So they quickly boarded two F6F fighters on this path and flew towards the northeast.

"Where are we going?" Watching the fighter plane rise to a height of about 1,000 meters, Hugo curiously inquired through the plane's radio to Enterprise, who was sitting in the cockpit of the plane next to him, "I see we are flying northeast. Are we going to a port later?"

"Almost. We are going to the Hingham Shipyard of Bethlehem Shipbuilding Company later," Enterprise's voice came from the headset. "My fighter can fly at a maximum speed of 936 kilometers per hour for the entire journey, so if there are no accidents, we can get there in just over 20 minutes."

"936 kilometers per hour!" Hugo looked at the plane he was riding in disbelief. If he remembered correctly, he was riding in an F6F fighter plane, and such a propeller could definitely not fly at this speed. "This is clearly an F6F fighter plane. How did you do it?"

"Of course, it's because of the equipment you gave me before," Enterprise said with a smile in her tone. "When using those equipment, we can choose whether the appearance of the equipment remains the same or directly adopts the appearance of the new equipment that has been replaced. However, it is more popular among ship girls to maintain the original appearance of their equipment. For example, the plane we are riding in now is a Sea Vixen fighter with the appearance of an F6F fighter plane."

"This is really—" Hugo originally wanted to say that this was really unscientific, but then he thought that since ship girls, such unscientific creatures, could exist, then what was so strange about a simple weapon appearance change? At least compared to a warship that is hundreds of meters long and tens of thousands of tons heavy turning into a girl, simply changing the appearance of a weapon is completely acceptable.

More than 20 minutes later, they appeared over a bay. There were many factories, docks, and cranes lined up on the edge of the bay, which showed that this used to be an important shipbuilding base. However, judging from the lights of the buildings now, this shipyard, like most shipyards in the United States, is in a semi-abandoned state due to the increasingly powerful shipbuilding industries of Japan and South Korea. Only a part of the factories are still lit.

"We've arrived," Enterprise's voice came from the radio. "Look, below is one of the important birthplaces of our American ship girls, the Hingham Shipyard under the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Company. For example, Tai Tai and Nevada were both born here back then."

At this time, the plane had arrived above the surface of the bay and turned off the engine, and then landed straight down. During this process, Hugo's sight was immediately attracted by a giant warship docked at the pier. The exhibition panels and plants arranged next to it indicated that this ship was a museum ship.

"That ship is the Salem." Since he was in Enterprise's carrier-based aircraft, he naturally knew what Hugo was doing now. "We can summon her later. As a ship girl who inherited this name, she should have special skills in magic like Illustrious."

When the plane landed at a height of about one meter above the water, Enterprise first jumped off the plane and landed steadily on the water, then walked to the side of Hugo's plane and hugged him out of the cockpit. Then, she waved her hand and put all two planes back into her ship equipment space.

"Haha, the admiral is so small now." Since deciding to stay by the admiral's side recently, Enterprise's mood relaxed all of a sudden, so she naturally revealed the girlish side of the ship girls. "It feels so great to hug the admiral like this—"

As they were talking, they had successfully docked on the side of a pier. However, Enterprise might have been too excited because she touched the admiral for the first time, so even after going ashore, she didn't put Hugo down. She still held him in her arms like before.

"Okay, hurry up and put me down." Hugo felt too embarrassed to be held by Enterprise in a baby-holding position, so he quickly said, "Didn't you hear that Hood and the others are protesting in the admiral network that they came first, but most people haven't hugged me yet."

"Oh, oh—" After being told this by Hugo, Enterprise's cheeks suddenly turned red, and then she quickly and flusteredly put him down. Then, guided by Enterprise's radar, the three of them bypassed the only one or two guards and touched the location of the shipyard's dock.

"Huh, that's a bit strange." Hugo summoned the mobile phone map and looked at it, then asked in confusion, "I remember that there should be many ships born here. Why is the number on the map obviously not enough?"

"The reason is very simple." After hearing Hugo's question, Victory floated from his shoulder to his face and said. "I said that in addition to a series of items related to warships, there are also some places that are very important to those ship girls in the warship era that can summon ship girls."

"These locations can be the place where they were built, the place where they sank, the place of a certain important battle, or the place where they were dismantled." Victory very seriously told Hugo the details, "In short, the items needed to summon ship girls are diverse, but there is also a certain randomness. What we can be sure of is that except for the warship itself or something closely related to the warship, nothing can guarantee that a ship girl can be summoned 100%."

"Oh, that's good." Hugo nodded with a look of understanding. He thought that there was something wrong with the summoning, but now it seems that everything is normal and there are no unexpected situations.

Next was the routine summoning work. After running to several docks and the heavy cruiser outside, he successfully summoned seven ship girls.

The largest of these seven ship girls were the Wasp aircraft carrier and the Massachusetts battleship, and the remaining five ship girls were four heavy cruiser ship girls, namely Des Moines, Salem, Quincy, and Baltimore. The last ship girl was a light cruiser ship girl, San Juan.

"Welcome, welcome to your arrival." After confirming that all the ship girls had arrived, Hugo saluted them and said, "With your joining, I think our strength is even stronger now."