owlsbooks Chapter 857: The Plan Ship with Extraordinary Combat Power
Chapter 857: The Plan Ship with Extraordinary Combat Power
The arrival of Neptune is a huge piece of good news for the ship girls in charge of the research. Although Yang Sikang has always been very confident and they also believe in Yang Sikang's ideas, it is still a different feeling to see a ship girl who only existed in the plan in history and was not actually built appear in their fleet.
Although Tosa was also an unfinished ship in history, that was due to objective factors, and Tosa's hull was at least completed. Although Kaga became an aircraft carrier, it at least still existed.
Neptune is different. She is the 'Plan Y' that existed as an improved version of the Edinburgh class, and historically remained at the plan that was not built.
With great excitement, several ship girls in charge of the research wished they could complete all the content they wanted to understand and test within one day. Fortunately, Yang Sikang had made some instructions in advance and Neptune was very cooperative, so they did not have to neglect food and sleep.
Testing is a big problem. Although the main buildings in the development area are now in the hands of Yang Sikang, the construction team is still working on this island and it is inevitable that they will be seen.
However, Yang Sikang had already made a plan for this.
First of all, Neptune would be fine even if someone saw it.
After all, it is impossible for other people to know exactly which ship girls are in Yang Sikang's fleet like the ship girls in the home port, and there are many maids in Yang Sikang's fleet. Neptune's clothing does not seem to be unique. Except for the eye-catching long sea-blue hair, other aspects are relatively familiar.
Therefore, even if outsiders saw Neptune, they would not think it was a big deal.
The development dock can go directly to the port. Neptune’s testing and training locations are all arranged on the previous island, so it is very safe.
Moreover, even without this convenience, Neptune can still go directly to the port by developing the dock and enter the place leading to the underwater port.
There, Bluefin and the others can take Neptune out directly without deploying its ship suit!
He had made multiple preparations from the very beginning. No matter whether the first ship in the plan was Neptune or anyone else, he could ensure that they could easily leave here out of the sight of the construction team and conduct normal tests and activities.
However, since the first planned ship is Neptune, these troubles can be omitted. Her maid outfit itself is a perfect concealment.
"It's unbelievable. Although it's a design ship, I knew it would be very powerful from the beginning, but this is really..."
Ingraham looked at the data in his hand and didn't know how to choose the words to more accurately describe his thoughts.
Yang Sikang smiled and said:
"After all, it is a design ship. Although it is based on a historical design, it is not completely the original design. Haha, since it is a ship that has never been built in history, isn't it reasonable to make some modern upgrades?"
"You are making a sophistry. Although the strength of a ship does not depend on the combat power of the prototype ship, it will still have some influence in various aspects. Moreover, this gap in combat power is already unreasonable. Take a good look at it. Neptune's test data has already surpassed that of a heavy cruiser!"
Yang Sikang shrugged, still not caring too much.
From his point of view, it would be strange if Neptune, as a project ship, did not have this level of combat power. And as far as he was concerned, the current situation was still not enough.
Ultimately, the other ship girls themselves were restricted by certain factors, and the only solution he could think of was to make a breakthrough, but Akashi had not yet achieved any results in transforming the equipment into modules and ships.
Yang Sikang could see that there must have been some unexpected circumstances that Mingshi could not understand. After all, Mingshi's reactions were very strange when the topic was brought up several times, with an obvious sense of ambiguity.
However, this was not something that could be rushed, so Yang Sikang did not rush it.
"Don't worry too much. Neptune is a project ship, so she may be different from you in some aspects, such as lacking some special restrictions."
As soon as Yang Sikang finished speaking, Ingraham's eyes lit up.
"Special restrictions, such as the breakthrough you mentioned earlier?"
"Maybe, but whether it is feasible or not depends on Akashi's results."
"…But Akashi is now completely focused on Neptune."
Ingraham suddenly felt helpless. Akashi refused to go back to do her own experiment. Testing Neptune was obviously her job, but now she could hardly get involved. She could only watch Akashi busy himself and she would help!
"You should take over the experiment, and don't worry about Akashi."
"Ok."
Ingraham nodded reluctantly, then asked:
"Commander, if we can find that...special limitation and solve it, can we become as strong as Neptune?"
Yang Sikang shook his head. Ingraham just felt a little disappointed when he heard him say:
"It's not about becoming as strong as her, but you are the same as her and will become stronger and stronger."
Ingraham raised her head and saw Yang Sikang looking at her with a smile, his hands crossed in front of him, covering half of his face.
"I will make you stronger until you can easily fight against all threats."
Her heart was slightly touched, but then Ingraham realized something. But before her intuitive thoughts could materialize, Yang Sikang said:
"Besides, the current tests cannot show what is truly special about Neptune. Haha, after your basic tests are finished, let Neptune go out to fight with Belfast and the others. Then you and Yubari can go with them to collect data."
"Okay, I understand, Commander."
The biggest difference between the project ships in the game is that they all have a special skill without exception: Siren Enemy.
As a design ship developed to fight against the Sirens, they can only show their true strength when fighting against the Sirens.
Based on this point, Yang Sikang knew that his enemies now were not just the Sirens. Would he do nothing?
Of course not!
Therefore, if the current Neptune were put into the game, she should have a special skill that has not yet been formed in addition to the skill of Siren's Enemy.
A skill that exists to fight against real monsters!
The plan ship itself does have its own special features, which are reflected in the game in that the plan ship does not need a breakthrough, but relies on the blueprints obtained from scientific research for upgrades, and can be upgraded when the scientific research level is reached; and the plan ship can ignore the restrictions of mind awakening and directly upgrade to level 125 if the star level is not enough.
When all of this is materialized into reality, it is foreseeable that Neptune will show a smoother and faster improvement, and it is very likely that he will not encounter the problem of reaching a bottleneck in his strength improvement and being unable to continue improving!
On the other hand, by studying how to improve the proposed ships, perhaps it would also help to figure out how to awaken the minds of ordinary ship girls?
After all, Yang Sikang is not the ruthless man in the β experimental field who can awaken the mind of the ship girl just by maintaining contact. He can only find alternative ways to break the deadlock from an objective perspective.