Chapter 312

After the celebration banquet ended, all the shipgirls and Qin Ge also rested early.

After all, today there were five consecutive exercises, which left most of the shipgirls somewhat fatigued. Qin Ge himself was the same; having finally completed the mission, he relaxed his tightly tensed nerves completely and also felt a bit of fatigue.

The night passed in silence. When the dawn of the second day arrived, Xianghe and Zuikaku came to the hotel. They had come this time upon Zhang Men's orders, inviting the high-ranking members of the Donghuang faction to attend the Nine Major Factions' meeting.

However, the invitation list unexpectedly included Qin Ge as well.

Qin Ge said to Xianghe, "Why is it my turn to be invited to this Nine Major Factions meeting this time? Doesn't the Donghuang side have Anshan and Changchun going instead?"

"Because Commander Zhang Men said that the Donghuang side is the victor of this exercise, so when inviting Anshan and Changchun, they also invited Commander Qin Ge." Xianghe said with a smile.

Qin Ge nodded. Since it was Commander Zhang Men's order, he had no choice but to go.

"In that case, I'll go with you all." Qin Ge nodded.

"Commander, let me go with you too; that way I can look out for you." Guanghui said as she walked up to Qin Ge's side.

"Don't worry, after Commander Qin Ge gets there, he'll still have Donghuang people around him. Moreover, this is a gathering of the Nine Major Factions, where they will discuss some relatively confidential matters, so you shouldn't go—the more people who go, the worse it is." Xianghe said to Guanghui and the others.

Upon hearing this, Qin Ge nodded. Indeed, when discussing some confidential matters, they definitely wouldn't let too many people linger there.

Moreover, he is likely going this time because those matters concern him, so having more people go would actually be bad.

"Guanghui, you all just wait in the hotel. I believe that under the protection of the Dean and Lord Anshan, I will surely be fine."

"When I return, we can discuss things together." Qin Ge said to his shipgirls.

Beside him, Anshan also nodded, saying, "Rest assured, since Commander Qin Ge is representing our Donghuang faction in these exercises, naturally there will be no problem with his safety."

"Alright, then Commander, please pay attention and contact us promptly if anything happens." Seeing that things had come to this, Guanghui and the others could not insist further, so they had to give up.

Thus, Qin Ge followed Anshan and the Prince of Wales together to the venue of the Nine Major Factions' gathering.

When they arrived, they found that the others here had already arrived, and all of them were the main-force high-ranking members; among them, Anshan and Changchun were the only two destroyers.

The venue was set up in a grand hall, with a large round table; there were nine chairs around the table, and behind each chair there were a few scattered chairs.

And eight of those chairs already had people seated: respectively, the Sakura Empire's Akagi, the White Eagle's Washington, the Northern Union's Soviet Russia, the Royal's George V, the Sardinian Empire's Littorio, the Free Iris's Saint Zhende, the Vichy Tribunal's Algeria, and the Iron Blood's Ou Gen Qin Wang.

When the Donghuang group arrived, several factions' members looked over and then nodded, greeting them. Afterwards, Anshan sat in the seat ahead of Donghuang, while Qin Ge and the others sat behind.

"Now that Donghuang has arrived, our agreement meeting among the Nine Major Factions will now formally begin." Akagi, seeing the Donghuang group sit down, said to everyone.

"Through the commander's exercise drills earlier, we have already determined the attribution of the ship exercise data, and now this is the mental unit, as well as that mysterious Wisdom Cube."

"But before that, I want to ask the Northern Union: in the intelligence you previously gave us, you mentioned that illusory city—what exactly is it like?"

Everyone's gaze turned to the Northern Union's Soviet Russia, which took out a device from its Ship Equipment Space, opened it, and placed it in the middle of the round table.

In an instant, a phantom emitting blue light appeared on the round table, and that phantom was clearly the image of a city.

"This is the image of that city we discovered in the 'secret room'." Soviet Russia said to everyone.

Everyone was stunned, looking at the blue-light city in the image, for it does not belong to this world; this world has no such complex architecture.

Qin Ge also looked at that phantom city and shook his head; this is not the appearance of his original world, perhaps it is related to the Sirens.

"And it is in this city that we found the things we previously told you about." Soviet Russia said.

"Who knows whether you're hiding something?" Ou Gen Qin Wang smiled slightly.

Soviet Russia's eyes flashed, saying, "Our Northern Union is not like your Iron Blood; whenever we prepare to make something public, we will not hold back."

"Cough, let's get back to the main topic." George V, seeing the two factions beginning to argue, hurriedly coughed and said to everyone.

"I have a question now, concerning that mysterious Wisdom Cube." Algeria said, "Just whose Wisdom Cube is it, or what can be summoned from it—is it the Sirens, the shipgirls, or something else?"

When Algeria finished asking the question, the rest of the factions also nodded, because they still knew nothing about that mysterious Cube.

«The data we found there shows that this is something like a Project Ship, » said Russia.

«You also know that each of us shipgirls has our own establishment, that is, the memory attached at the time of Awakening. This memory represents our service experience and past and present lives, so we each have a prototype ship, one that can be traced in history. »

But before we were born, there had been many plans, many other Projects. However, these Projects were all rejected for some reasons. So now, since we shipgirls can exist in the world, can these Projects also exist in the world?

Russia said this, and the senior leaders of the major factions frowned. George V said to Russia, «In other words, the shipgirls born from these Wisdom Cubes could be the Project Ships we previously discarded? »

«It's not just possible; it's exactly like that. » said Russia, «In fact, at the very beginning, we had already summoned Mingshi to personally appraise this kind of Wisdom Cube, and the result was exactly what I just said. »

«Project Ship? If that's the case, then it's interesting. » Ou Gen Qin Wang said quietly, «Then who exactly is the Project Ship in your hand? »

Russia paused, then slowly opened her mouth…