The Admiral of Hogwarts

The car slowly drove through the city streets and headed towards the suburbs. Through the clear car window, Hugo saw the bustling crowds outside, appearing quite prosperous.

"Is this really northern Mexico, near the US border?" Hugo asked with some surprise, looking at the prosperous scene outside the car window.

After all, the chaos in northern Mexico had been present since the 1980s, so the appearance of such a thriving small town here seemed somewhat out of place.

"Of course, this is the US-Mexico border! As long as your fists are big enough and you have enough money, you can do anything." Hearing her admiral ask this, Repulse excitedly replied while driving.

"Compared to the local warlords, our fists are much bigger than theirs, and we also have much more money than them, so we have smoothly controlled a large area."

"Won't we arouse unnecessary suspicion?" After being a ship girl for so long, Hermione had also learned about many things, so she asked a key question.

"Of course not. California and Oklahoma are in charge here, but on the surface, ordinary Americans come here to invest. This is not uncommon in various regions along the US-Mexico border."

"More importantly, after stabilizing the local security, whether it's seaside tourism, the gambling industry, or the export of various tequilas, it's all very profitable, so it won't arouse too much suspicion."

During the rest of the journey, Repulse talked about the struggles of the American ship girls here. It must be said that, apart from the Soviet Union, the biggest commotion was caused by this group of American ship girls.

For this group of American ship girls who were originally responsible for the Pacific region, their names destined them to be very suitable for this environment, which resembled the American West in the 19th century.

According to Repulse, the ship girls had a falling out with the local snakes within two weeks of arriving here, and then there was a violent confrontation that lasted for half a year.

The local snakes' violence gradually escalated from pistols and knives, eventually even using large-caliber machine guns and IEDs containing more than 20kg of TNT.

The ship girls' retaliatory measures also escalated accordingly, from Chicago typewriters and M1 carbines all the way up to 127mm high-angle dual-purpose secondary guns.

It must be said that the local snakes' armed forces, wearing heavy body armor and driving self-made armored vehicles, were much stronger than the local official forces. But these things were worthless when facing M2 heavy machine guns and 40mm Bofors.

And when the ship girls easily used 30 rounds of 127mm secondary guns to blow up the local snakes and their fortress-like strongholds in the final battle, this large area immediately became quiet.

After stabilizing the security, the ship girls began the real construction. Compared to violent warfare, the development brought about by this construction completely destroyed the foundation for the survival of the local outlaws.

All of this has created a unique prosperity in this area, and the peace paved with thousands of corpses in half a year has also prevented the outlaws in other areas from crossing the line after the ship girls demarcated their sphere of influence.

"So, our area is the safest place in the entire Mexico region. Last year, even National Geographic magazine specifically listed this area as the most suitable place for travelers to visit in the United States and its surrounding areas."

As Repulse spoke, she drove into a seaside beach along with the surging traffic. Judging from the surrounding car license plates, there were many travelers from the United States, including many families traveling together.

This also showed that what Repulse said was true, because if it wasn't a truly safe place, travelers would mainly be adults and wouldn't bring children.

"Are you sure the base entrance is here?" Hugo asked with some surprise after the car parked in the seaside beach parking lot.

He had always thought that this kind of secret base would be placed in some remote wilderness, but he didn't expect it to be in this tourist attraction full of people.

"Actually, we also wanted to set it up in some remote wilderness before, but if we did, it would be difficult for the blanks or even ordinary people who work for us to come here to work."

Repulse said through the admiral network while leading Hugo and the others through the crowd.

"So, we have set up entrances and exits in several densely populated places, and even given those workers other professional reputations in these companies, so it is very convenient for them to work."

The entrance to the secret base was located inside that office building. After entering an office, Repulse swiped a card she carried with her on a machine in a drawer, and then a door disguised as a cabinet opened.

Behind the cabinet was a secret room with an elevator.

"Next, we are going to the underground base 370m below the surface. Next, you will see one of our most technologically advanced research projects in this world," Repulse said, pressing the button.

A little over a minute later, the elevator dinged and stopped. As the elevator door opened, Hugo saw two guards in full power armor standing at the door.

"Power armor!" Hugo exclaimed softly, then turned to look at Repulse. "Is this the result of your research, combat-ready power armor?"

These two sets of power armor did surprise Hugo a bit, but nothing was beyond his expectations. After all, the difficulties in creating this kind of thing mainly focus on energy and control systems, which can be completely compensated by magic.

"This is indeed one of the results of our research, but it is only a very small part of the results." After saluting the two guards, Repulse led Hugo and the others towards the depths of the tunnel, saying at the same time.

"Accurately speaking, we are currently conducting a research, the goal is to combine magic and the most advanced technology as much as possible, and then create some unprecedented miracles."

This underground base was much larger than the one located in the Western Balkans, so Hugo and the others quickly got into an electric car and moved downwards along the tunnel.

As the electric car moved forward in the tunnel, Hugo noticed that there were branches appearing on both sides of the road, and some personnel, vehicles, and even special robots were walking back and forth along the tunnel.

"These tunnels lead to various areas, including residential areas, factories, ecological domes, and even large-scale planting areas," Repulse proudly introduced everyone's construction achievements to Hugo and the others.

"In other words, we are now building an underground ecosystem. This is partly to maintain as much secrecy as possible, and partly to experiment for our ultimate goal."

"Artificial ecosystem!" Hermione suddenly widened her eyes, because it was also in 1991 that the famous Biosphere 2 experiment began to operate, and by 1994 this experiment could be said to be a complete failure.

Also because of this reason, scientists inferred that an ecosystem with too little space cannot be maintained for a long time, so Hermione was surprised by the artificial ecosystem that Repulse said.

"Yes, an artificial ecosystem." Repulse nodded, "With the current level of technology, of course, this cannot be completed, but if magic is added, the work will become particularly simple."