Chapter 344: One-Thousandth

"Commander, how is the data collection going?" Guanghui slid over at this moment, following the fleet members as they approached Qin Ge's command ship.

On the command ship, Qin Ge held a purplish-red wisdom cube in his hand. At this moment, that purplish-red wisdom cube was emitting light, as if it had consciousness.

However, with Guanghui and the others arriving, the purplish-red cube's light gradually faded, as if nothing had just happened.

Qin Ge saw this and smiled slightly, "Hmm, the data from this battle has been collected, but it seems still lacking a lot; if we go by this battle, we at least need data from nearly a thousand battles to be enough to awaken this wisdom cube."

"Over a thousand battles?" Guanghui, Banrenma, and several Royal shipgirls showed surprised expressions; they didn't expect it would take this long.

Especially Guanghui, she had also stayed on the frontline battlefield before, experiencing the longest and most tense battles, but only for a few weeks at most.

But even if you add up those battles one after another, it's only a few dozen battles; yet Qin Ge now says they need over a thousand battles to summon this project shipgirl, which is indeed somewhat surprising.

"Yes." Qin Ge nodded, "After all, we are only in the coastal defense line; the highest corrosion-level sea area here is only level three, so the Siren Fleet's training level is also very low, thus the data we can collect is relatively little."

"Looks like this is also a rather lengthy matter; even if we're anxious, we can't hurry it."

A voice came from the cabin, and standing before Guanghui and the others was a white-haired shipgirl. She was none other than one of the envoys sent by the White Eagle faction, Yue Ke Cheng.

Since the last time they observed Qin Ge's grand fleet exercise at the training field half a month ago, Qin Ge has, after finishing his classes each day, led the grand fleet members in conducting joint exercises at the training field.

The shipgirls from the eight major factions were also regular visitors; as time passed, initially Li Chenming and the others felt curious about the arrival of so many shipgirls.

But later, perhaps after hearing something from their own shipgirls, they no longer felt curious about them. Moreover, they clearly sensed that Qin Ge had no intention of introducing those shipgirls to them, so they didn't pay much attention to the existence of those shipgirls.

As for Koln, he has already begun giving trial lectures, and the response has been fairly good. Obviously, a beautiful shipgirl standing on the podium is more popular than Qin Ge, this big old man.

However, Qin Ge still gives a lecture each week; this lecture is specially for commanders coming from outside to the Academy, as well as second-year students and some first-year students who want to listen to Qin Ge's explanations.

So once everything was on track, Qin Ge finally began his mission work of collecting battle data.

This time he also specially took on an urgent mission, hoping to encounter more Siren fleets to see if they could quickly summon this project shipgirl.

Of course, this time other shipgirls from the eight major factions accompanied them, and Yue Ke Cheng was the shipgirl who went out to sea with Qin Ge this time; after all, all the shipgirls from the eight major factions were dispatched, making the number somewhat too large.

But when his own shipgirl finished battle, he took out the purplish-red wisdom cube to collect battle data, discovering that these battle data could only fill one-thousandth of the wisdom cube.

"Yes, the road is long and far." Qin Ge sighed while looking at the wisdom cube before him.

"Actually, commander, you don't need to rush; isn't the Siren Tide coming up soon? Perhaps then we can collect even more than today," Guanghui comforted Qin Ge, saying.

"Moreover, our later goal is the frontline, where the Siren fleets will be much stronger than here, so the battle data we can collect should be much more; maybe we won't even need more than three years, who knows?"

"That's all we can think." Qin Ge laughed, looking at the wisdom cube before him, feeling somewhat emotional as he said, "I just don't know what kind of strength this wisdom cube will eventually be able to summon a shipgirl of."

"We've spent this much time and effort; I believe she will surely be very formidable then," Guanghui said with a smile.

Qin Ge smiled and nodded, raising the purplish-red wisdom cube in his hand, "I believe she will surely not disappoint our expectations!"

After Qin Ge finished saying that, it seemed as if in response, the purplish-red wisdom cube suddenly flickered with light. This sight made Qin Ge especially delighted, "You must have heard it, right?"

"Hehe, it looks like the shipgirl inside is responding to the commander!" Guanghui naturally also saw this scene and couldn't help but laugh, saying.

"Yes, this project was originally discarded, but now it's in Commander Qin Ge's hands; using his efforts, he gradually materialized her into human form, I think she will surely feel grateful," Yue Ke Cheng also laughed.

"Perhaps." Qin Ge smiled, saying to his own shipgirl, "Then let's head back home; days like this will still be quite long ahead, keep going."

"Mm!"

With the evening sun's glow, the command ship left the combat zone and headed back toward the Academy.

When they returned to the Academy, the sky had already grown dark; Qin Ge took his shipgirl and bade farewell to Yue Ke Cheng, then walked back to his own reception house.

Upon returning to the reception house, indeed everyone was sitting in the lounge waiting for Qin Ge's return.

"Commander, how is it?" Ou Gen Qin Wang was the first to ask Qin Ge.

Qin Ge took out that purplish-red cube and placed it on the table, telling all the shipgirls, "After today's mission and the battle with the Siren Fleet, the battle data I collected amounts to only about one-thousandth."

"One-thousandth, that's so little?" Even the usually unflappable Ou Gen Qin Wang was a bit surprised at this moment, "If we were to collect the full amount of battle data needed for this wisdom cube, even if we had battles every day, we would still need three years."

"Moreover, we can't possibly battle every day, so to summon this shipgirl we would likely need at least four years or more."

"Four years? That's such a long time?" The shipgirls who didn't participate in battles were all astonished; this duration was indeed too long for them.

"In four years, how many shipgirls could we develop? Is it really necessary to expend effort on this wisdom cube?" Hai Lun Na wondered.

"Even without her, we still need to fight; rather than making her a goal, it's better to put her aside and let her become an accessory."

"So don't worry; perhaps someday she will bring us a surprise," Qin Ge smiled.