Chapter 575: Lone Wolf Zhang Yaowu

Qin Ge never imagined what a human and his own shipgirl would become after living on an island for one or two years.

However, upon entering the cave, he saw the reality.

A middle-aged man in slightly wrinkled clothes and over twenty shipgirls wearing Ship Equipment sat on the ground talking, while these shipgirls surrounded him as if he were their reliance at that moment.

"A Donghuang commander? And shipgirls?!!"

After Qin Ge and his group entered the cave entrance, the middle-aged man quickly reacted, immediately recognizing the training camouflage uniform Qin Ge wore and the Bisimai accompanying him.

Qin Ge nodded, glanced at the situation before him, and said, "I am Qin Ge, commander of the Star Sea Grand Fleet belonging to Donghuang. May I ask who you are?"

The man immediately stood up, straightened his slightly wrinkled clothes, and gave Qin Ge a standard military salute.

"Front Line Commander Zhang Yaowu, a lone wolf."

"So it's you." Guanghui, standing beside Qin Ge, realized and exclaimed in surprise, whereupon Qin Ge and Zhang Yaowu both oddly looked at Guanghui.

"Do you know him?"

"Do you know me?"

Facing the two's questions, Guanghui smiled and said, though naturally the main subject was Qin Ge.

"Do you still remember me telling you about my past experiences? Commander Zhang Yaowu should be considered a very good commander who has roamed the Front Line, his shipgirls' levels and training are relatively high, and his ship equipment facilities are complete, not inferior at all to elite figures in some grand fleets."

"I also heard about him from the Free Shipgirls who accompanied me on several missions, so I have some memory of him."

Qin Ge nodded and smiled, saying, "So that's how it is."

"Are you a Free Shipgirl? No, you already call him commander, so you mean you were previously a Free Shipgirl under Qin Ge's command?" Zhang Yaowu asked in surprise.

He was somewhat surprised that, on this desolate little island, the first people he encountered actually knew his identity.

"Yes, three years ago I left the Front Line, and afterwards became the commander's shipgirl." Guanghui said happily.

"I see, so you also ended up near this island after being blown by a storm during this mission?" Zhang Yaowu asked.

Qin Ge shook his head, "No, Guandao is our target and will be our future base. We sailed to the vicinity of this harbor, saw a rusted command ship nearby, and inferred that there must be someone on this island."

"So this island is called Guandao." Zhang Yaowu said somewhat embarrassedly.

"Yes, could you explain why you came to this island? Moreover, your shipgirls seem to have lost their combat ability?" Qin Ge asked.

Zhang Yaowu glanced at his own shipgirls, feeling somewhat self-reproachful, and said, "More than a year ago, on the Front Line I received a mission: to go south from the Ryukyu Islands, pass through the middle-level four-zone and five-zone seas, and reach the sea area south of level six of the Philippine Sea to search for Siren executors."

But unexpectedly, upon reaching the target we encountered a tremendous storm; we could not oppose the forces of nature, and moreover the command ship's power system malfunctioned, so we could only drift with the storm.

That great storm lasted a long time; I thought we wouldn't survive, but unexpectedly we didn't encounter any Siren fleet along the way, and simply drifted with the ocean currents all the way to the vicinity of Guandao.

At that time we also couldn't determine our exact position, so we searched nearby for an island where we could anchor. Thus we found this island, and also discovered its natural concealed harbor.

Afterwards, my shipgirls and I towed the command ship into the harbor; since the command ship had power problems and we had received no supplies for so long, we could only wait on the island, hoping that if a commander passed nearby we could detect our radar signal.

However, after waiting a full year, the radar could no longer be activated, and still no one came. Fortunately, at that time my shipgirls were by my side; otherwise I would have truly gone mad.

Moreover, because the shipgirls had not received energy replenishment for a long time, and the remaining fuel was exhausted, they are now hardly different from ordinary girls.

This is also why we previously fled immediately upon hearing the engine noise of carrier aircraft, because Siren carrier aircraft often pass over this island, and we were once discovered and nearly killed.

Qin Ge rubbed his nose, "Commander Zhang Yaowu, I sympathize with your ordeal, but it's fine now. If you'd like, come with us to our temporary base, where we can replenish fuel for your shipgirls and provide them with special shipgirl food."

"Let your fleet regain its combat power, and when we leave this island we will take you back."

"Really?" Zhang Yaowu said excitedly, "You really want to help me?"

Qin Ge smiled, "Isn't that natural? However, I should mention beforehand that we need to stay on this island for one or two months before returning, so I hope you won't be impatient."

Zhang Yaowu quickly shook his head, "I've already waited over a year; I don't mind waiting another one or two months."

Qin Ge smiled, "Then that's best; let's leave this place first."

"Okay."

During the conversation, everyone left the forest and returned to the beach. Just as they saw groups of Manjuu busily constructing in the harbor, Zhang Yaowu's face filled with surprise.

"Commander Qin Ge, are you directly under Zhi hui bu?" Zhang Yaowu asked, "Can you even get these Manjuu?"

"Do you know those little guys?" Qin Ge asked in surprise, after all Guanghui didn't know them before, and I didn't expect Zhang Yaowu to recognize them.

"Yes, I went to the sixth-level sea area to hunt Siren executors for their core remnants; and as far as I know, those core remnants are used to build these little guys."

Qin Ge nodded, "That's right, the core remnants are indeed for building these Manjuu. However, I am not a grand fleet directly under the Command Department; this is merely a deal between me and the Commander-in-Chief."

"Ah?" Zhang Yaowu became even more surprised; he naturally knew who the Donghuang Commander-in-Chief was, and that being able to strike a deal with the Commander-in-Chief, and mobilizing the Command Department's logistics personnel, absolutely would not be an ordinary person.

However, he had never heard of the Star Sea Grand Fleet; perhaps it was a grand fleet that suddenly rose after his disappearance? Zhang Yaowu didn't know, and he also didn't know what the current situation in Donghuang was.

Thus, Zhang Yaowu, who had a bellyful of questions he wanted to ask, was about to speak when he saw a few shipgirls quickly walking over from afar.

"Commander, it seems you've made a discovery; are they the owners of that command ship?" Weineituo said to Qin Ge.

"Yes." Qin Ge smiled and introduced, "Around is Commander Zhang Yaowu, who drifted here accidentally a year ago..."