Chapter 285 Crazy
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The battle in the maze continues.
The "Royal" fleet with exactly the same composition appeared again and again at similar turns in the waterway, and the Imperial fleet ruthlessly crushed the enemies in front of it time and time again.
Then, after the "Royal" fleet is completely destroyed, the maze will begin a new and thorough round of structural changes.
Every time a Siren pawn is eliminated, the emotions of the ship girls except Torricelli and Veneto will become further intensified.
Veneto was the first to notice something was wrong.
Torricelli emerged from the water and said, "We are fighting like crazy, as if the light of the empire will become brighter every time we destroy our former enemy..."
"Lord Veneto, your feeling is correct. Everyone is too excited... There must be some mechanism in the maze that we haven't discovered yet."
"Do you remember the sirens in mythology? They used their singing to attract travelers, causing them to lose their minds, and finally drove the ships to destruction with their own hands."
"Perhaps the Siren really simulated this characteristic of the Siren in mythology in the maze..."
"You mean mind control...?" Veneto asked.
Torricelli looked at his other companions and said, "It shouldn't be such an exaggerated mechanism. Lord Littorio can talk to others normally, it doesn't look like he has lost his mind."
"It's just that they were too excited and their judgment accuracy dropped significantly..."
"I suspect that the layout of the maze may have some kind of emotional incitement, or that the Siren has set up mechanisms in the walls of these mazes that can affect emotional fluctuations..."
Veneto looked around and carefully felt the changes in himself.
"If that's the case, why are we the only ones not affected?"
Torricelli smiled on his gloomy and malnourished face. "Maybe even the most powerful Siren mechanism can't stir up the emotions of someone like me... Uhuhu..."
"Haha... so my hesitant personality is so serious that even the Siren Mechanism can't change it..."
Veneto didn't know whether this was good or bad.
"but!"
"We can't let this situation go on. We have to find a way to calm Littorio down first...!"
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After the Sardinian fleet sank the "Royal" fleet for the umpteenth time.
The Duke of Abruzzi said: "Lord Veneto, we have once again crushed the 'royal' fleet that appeared before us."
Even the Duke of Abruzzi, who was usually the calmest and most composed, seemed particularly excited.
"I feel like I'm becoming more and more proficient at operating carrier-based aircraft. Soon I'll be able to compete head-on with the ladies of the royal family!"
Tianying was very excited.
She felt she could do it.
"Well... everyone's performance was excellent..." Veneto's mood, which was completely different from everyone else's, attracted everyone's attention.
"Why are you so depressed, Veneto? Are you not satisfied with our achievements?" asked Littorio.
There seemed to be only pride in her words.
"...achievement? Do you mean destroying the Siren's pawn fleet over and over again in the changing maze?"
"Open your eyes and look around, Littorio, you have fallen completely into the Siren's trap!"
Veneto said loudly, opening his arms.
"Huh? What are you talking about? Other than the enemy debris floating around, I don't sense any traps!"
Littorio still hasn't noticed it.
"Now is the glorious time for the empire, and this glory is achieved under the leadership of you and me!"
"Don't you feel it? The empire is on the road to revival under our leadership, Veneto!"
"Can the revival of the empire be achieved by winning a single battle? Can the goal we are pursuing be accomplished so easily?" Veneto asked.
"Of course not! What we need is not one victory, but continuous victories over and over again!"
Littorio was becoming more and more agitated and frantic.
"We tolerated it when the Royal Family restricted our interests in Africa, and we tolerated it when the Iron Blood tried to intervene in the affairs of the Land and Sea. Why?"
"It's because we firmly believe that everything we have lost now will be taken back by our own hands in the near future!"
"Isn't this the best start? The Imperial Navy is no longer what it used to be. The glory of the Empire is being written in our hands!!"
Veneto said with some disappointment: "...You still haven't gotten over your past failures, Littorio."
"What are you talking about? I got over it a long time ago and have already started to move towards a new future, right?" Littorio has not yet realized his problem.
“No, you didn’t come out…”
Veneto continued calmly: "...Maybe I am not qualified to say such things. Including you, me, and every one of us, in fact, the entire empire has not come out."
"All we did was simply turn a blind eye and then start moving towards a new future without authorization..."
"All this time, we haven't even faced up to the problems behind our failures."
"Our so-called reflection is simply to attribute the failure to outdated equipment, insufficient preparation and the shamelessness of the royal family."
"But somewhere in our hearts we all know that this is not the case, at least not that simple."
"Is it not so, Littorio, and the Duke of Abruzzi?"
Veneto looks at the Duke of Abruzzi and Littorio.
Everyone in the fleet was silent.
"I..."
The Duke of Abruzzi was unable to refute and fell silent.
Veneto looked around and continued, "Littorio, you are a little reckless, but you are never blind. As for the Duke of Abruzzi, you are a calm and experienced warrior."
"But even so, we were thrown into unprecedented chaos because of Siren's trick..."
"It presents us with phantoms of the past time and time again, leads us to cathartic victories time and time again, and finally leads us to madness, where we are forever lost in the maze..."
"That's what the Sirens are really doing to us with this maze."
"The Siren accurately grasped our deep-seated weaknesses, and then relied solely on invisible mechanisms to bring the Empire's most elite fleet to the brink of self-destruction."
"...Perhaps the Sirens do not know us at all, but know us too well."
"She is so clear that she will skip the middleman and abandon the basic euphemisms when doing things. That is why we have the illusion that Siren knows nothing."
"Isn't that a really creepy thing to do?"
In the passionate words of Veneto, the people of Sardinia suddenly woke up.
"..."
"I'm sorry, Veneto...I seem to be a little too excited today."
Littorio realized he had fallen into a trap.
"...I have become a little crazy without realizing it...There is no doubt that this is a dereliction of duty on my part." The Duke of Abruzzi said in a deep voice.
Tianying apologized loudly: "I am so sorry, Veneto-sama! I am not mature enough..."
"As a navigator, I actually lost my way... I'm so, so sorry!" Nicoloso Darreco also apologized.
"Ah, I too------"
Veneto interrupted Southwest Wind's words, changed his serious expression and laughed.
"Hahaha, okay."
After seeing such a Sardinian fleet, Veneto felt genuinely happy.
"This isn't a review meeting. There are countless enemies watching us, right?"
"Although the current predicament has not improved, at least everyone should calm down and then think of countermeasures together!"
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