Chapter 121: The Tester (Part II)

The Tester waited for Agir's answer with a sneer on her face. She knew that the other party had no choice.

As long as she could understand the reason for the current changes in this group of ship girls, it didn't matter whether she went to Yalang City or not.

However, the answer she was waiting for came from the orange main cannon of the silver-haired large cruiser girl dragon ship in front of her.

"Boom!"

The cannonball exploded in front of the subject, causing their eyes to freeze for a moment.

"How could I compromise with you? If I want to know, I will use your machine brain to analyze it myself! Hahaha!"

Agir's golden eyes lit up in the sea breeze.

She laughed maniacally, looking at the subject as if they were an idiot.

"I'm the Commander's proudest Iron Blood Cruiser. How could I possibly reveal anything that threatens the Commander?"

"Is that your answer? What a pity."

The expected response made the subject sneer and snap their fingers.

All the Siren Executors and the Production Type had already aimed their gun holes at Agir.

Just as all the sirens were about to fire together, a bright red spear of light tore through the night, stabbing at the Tester like a mythical spear piercing through death's thorns.

"Agir! Get out of here!"

The unexpected decapitation blow to the Test Subject stunned all the sirens for a moment, and Brunhilde's voice came from behind.

With Brunhilde's voice, dozens of XSB3C-1 bombers, under the attack of Siren fighters, also arrived on the battlefield, braving a dense barrage of anti-aircraft fire to carry out suicide bombing runs on the Siren production fleet and its Executors.

It was Zeppelin's aviation attack.

A large number of Siren Production Types and Executors were shattered by this wave of air raids, but it was still just a drop in the bucket given their sheer numbers.

However, as an opportunity for the evacuation of the three Agirs, all of this was enough.

"Oh, none of you can escape."

The subject pulled out the bright red spear that had pierced her right chest, sneering to herself.

Soon, Agir and Mainzspei, who broke through the encirclement, successfully turned back to Brunhilde and the others.

"We're going to have to retreat; there are too many sirens, and the Testers are there. With our current strength, we can't stop them."

Seeing the state of Agir and the others, Brunhilde calmly issued an order, throwing the spear generated by the ship.

"We can withdraw, but what about these pawns? They are not as fast as we are, and I am afraid they will soon be overtaken by the sirens."

Lutzow looked at the Orlan girls around him.

By this time, Siren shells had fallen around them, and the fleet of Type II Sirens was moving much faster than these Orlan girls.

"I can only give up on them. If we protect them, we will be caught up by the sirens, and it will be difficult to escape."

Just as Brunhilde was pondering, Zeppelin's voice rang out.

"No, they are not pawns we can use at will. These ship girls have commanders."

Brunhilde flatly rejected Zeppelin's offer, and Zeppelin did not continue the dispute.

If you really let the chess pieces with commanders stay and die, it is indeed not the outcome that the Iron-Blooded first aircraft carrier wants to accept.

The Sirens' bombardment was getting closer, and they could even see the Siren explorers chasing them directly.

"Everyone, retreat first!"

In the end, Brunhilde chose not to give up on the Orlan pawn ships and ordered the retreat.

Just as all the Iron Ship Girls were about to turn around and retreat to the port area, Brunhilde was shocked to find that none of these Orlan pawn ship girls turned around.

A light cruiser under Li Banan's former command turned her head sideways to look at Brunhilde while firing in the direction of the Sirens.

She was obviously a chess piece, but this light cruiser girl from the royal camp had a look as if she were seeing death as if it were home.

"We can't leave, so let's cut it off."

Not only did Brunhilde stare at the talking pawn, but even Zeppelin was stunned. 

The reason why a chess piece is called a chess piece is precisely that it only executes commands step by step, and even emotions are simulated by a programmatic system.

And this chess piece turned out to... Will it make this rebellious order, choosing the path of self-sacrifice?

"We have known for a long time that our commanders are indifferent to us."

The light cruiser's guns continued to fire as she spoke to Brunhilde.

"He closed our hearts and let us go through all kinds of nasty research experiments conducted by others."

"But, after all, he's our commander."

There was pathos in the voice of the chess piece girl, and the other chess piece girls who were constantly firing around also had sad looks on their faces.

"Hey, I thought chess pieces don't have real feelings? What's going on?"

Agir was shocked and asked Mainz beside her.

"I don't know, but these chess pieces ship girls... There's definitely something that has changed in them that we don't know about."

The naval commander's knife in Mainz's hand already had a small chip, which was caused by the wear and tear from slashing at the Siren Executor when she had just broken through the encirclement.

She also didn't know what had happened to these Orlan pawn girls.

"So, since we didn't protect our commander, let's guard the city he wanted to protect the most during his lifetime."

The chess piece light cruiser girl from the royal camp, at this time, was like a real ship girl, a sad smile appearing on her face.

"You don't belong in this city, and we are so grateful that you are willing to stand up and fight alongside us."

"Continuing to protect us will only drag you down, so please leave us alone and protect your commander."

"My sisters and I have come to break the queen for you."

After the chess piece light cruiser girl from the royal camp finished speaking, the other chess piece girls forcibly brought the three destroyer little chibi chess piece girls to Brunhilde.

It was none other than the three destroyer ship girls of Luo Tao.

"Your commander is a very good person. You still have a long way to go, so please be sure to become stronger. Don't let him become a person like our commander."

After seriously saying this to the three reluctant and frantically struggling chess piece destroyer ship girls, the light cruiser chess piece girl from the royal camp turned her gaze back to Brunhilde.

"They can barely keep up with you, and I beg you to... take them home."

Amid the constant roar of explosions on the waves and the humming of sirens, the chess piece light cruiser girl solemnly saluted Brunhilde with a standard Orlan Navy military salute.

All the Iron Blood girls froze.

This was the first time they had seen a chess piece ship girl behave in a way that did not conform to the chess piece setting.

But the impending battle with the Sirens made Brunhilde realize that they could not delay any longer.

She nodded solemnly to the chess piece ship girl.

Then she raised her hand to it and returned the iron-blooded military salute.

"Iron Blood Brunhilde, will definitely fulfill your request."

"We will remember what you have done."

At this time, Brunhilde no longer regarded these chess pieces as pawns.

Instead, she treated them as real ship girls.

However, just as Lutzow and Spee dragged the three destroyer chibis away, the cold voice of the Tester suddenly sounded in the ears of each ship girl.

"Today, none of you can escape!"

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