Hmm, it must be like this!
"Ahem, I apologize, I was a bit too hasty. Those matters can wait for later, wait for later. For now, let's hurry up and build some infrastructure and create our home."
"Build… our home. Alright, Commander! Yixian will work hard!"
Yixian showed a smile like an angel.
Jack, like a demon in the shadows, felt his murky soul being purified.
So dazzling, I really want to… dye her black and make her fall.
...
Half an hour later.
Jack and the Shipgirls arrived at a village.
The village was built along the river, with fields and houses arranged in an orderly fashion. The residents and animals lived in harmony, giving it the feel of an idyllic paradise.
For visual experience, apart from the small yellow chickens in the Azure Lane save, Jack had applied the Skyrim Villagers texture pack to all current saves.
So these Villagers were not the renewable brothers from vanilla MC who only made strange "Hmm♦↓" noises, but rather normal-looking humans.
"Great Divine Lord, welcome."
A thin middle-aged man walked towards the four people entering the village. He was the only librarian in the village, and only he, having encountered the magical concept of enchanted books, could realize how great a being the person before him truly was.
"You are… Wilco, right?"
Jack said, staring at the name above the Villager's head.
Wilco replied, "Yes, Divine Lord, do you have any commands?"
"Not a command, just wanted to see the treasure chests in your home."
"Treasure chests? Oh, you mean those Divine Boxes!"
Wilco suddenly understood, and humbly said, "Everything in this village was created by the Divine Lord. Let alone the Divine Boxes, even my daughter, if the Divine Lord desires her, can be offered to you."
"You have a daughter? Tell me more."
"Ugh, cough!—"
Yixian glared at Jack.
Jack's attitude immediately became righteous.
"Villager, what kind of person do you take this Creator to be? I said I would only take your treasure chests, and I will only take treasure chests. You should put your daughter back!"
"Yes! I, I'm sorry, Divine Lord! Please calm your anger!"
Librarian Wilco immediately knelt down, feeling ashamed of his selfish thoughts.
Jack ignored him and, leading his three wives, began acting like a bandit.
"Pumpkin seeds, tomato seeds… take them all."
"Bread, baked potatoes… we'll take those too, reluctantly."
After some picking and choosing, Jack squeezed the entire village dry, leaving nothing behind, like a goose losing feathers and a beast shedding skin.
Yet, even so, at the very last moment before they left the village, a group of Villagers gathered together and respectfully watched them depart.
Ning Hai was very puzzled by this.
"Those people are so strange. We took so many things from them, but they still thanked us."
"That's rich, aren't you two the same? I also demand a lot from you, but you also enjoy it."
"This… this isn't the same!"
"What's different?"
Jack's rhetorical question instantly left Ning Hai speechless.
Putting aside the Oath Ring factor, the Commander is the being for Shipgirls who, even when he takes things, makes them happy.
And here, the almost desireless Villagers also showed endless respect for being able to dedicate things to their God.
Thus, there was indeed no difference between the two.
"Little dummy, you weren't led astray by me, were you?"
Seeing Ning Hai genuinely thinking hard, Jack pinched the girl's cheek and examined her closely.
"Led astray, what do you mean?"
Ning Hai said with her mouth open, a slight nasal tone making her sound endearing and cute.
"The Creator and Villagers are naturally master and servant, while Shipgirls and Commander are destined to be… husband and wife! The two seem similar, but there's a fundamental difference."
Boom!
Ning Hai's mind was opened.
Husband and wife… husband and wife…
That's right! I am Commander's wife! I am a Shipgirl who exchanged an Oath Ring!
I no longer have to silently watch Commander's back in the port as I once did, but can stand at the forefront, openly and honorably exercising my rights as a wife, and also making demands of Commander.
"I understand, Commander! So this was your profound meaning! I understand everything!"
Everything he said in front of others about bringing Shipgirls to the small world to rekindle their feelings was a facade!
The true purpose was to make the Shipgirls realize their role as "wives" and then engage in a honeymoon of wholehearted communication!
Jack looked at Ning Hai, whose eyes suddenly lit up, and was curious about what she had imagined. After a brief probe, a strange expression appeared on his face.
"Uh… you're right, it's good that you understand."
"Hehe, mua~"
Ning Hai suddenly became bold, leaned in, and actively kissed Jack.
Then the girl happily ran off, pulling her sister Pinghai to go whisper somewhere else.
Jack watched their receding figures.
He had an ominous premonition.
His sweet romance with his classical Eastern beauties was probably going to be ruined.
...
Eastern Radiance, a country in the Azure Lane game modeled after China.
Therefore, in the history of Eastern Radiance, there was also a First Emperor who unified the land, and what he established was a centralized agricultural society.
The ideology of a small-scale peasant economy continued for over two thousand years in that land.
This also caused even the Shipgirls born there to have the memory of farming etched into their bones.
By a pastoral river.
Houses made of wood, stone, and tiles rose from the ground, and next to the houses were large expanses of farmland.
As for Jack himself.
He had already passed the entrepreneurial period of diligently planting wheat to exchange for world coin, and had entered the phase of being his own boss, creating parallel worlds to obtain more valuable currency—the Power of Existence.
But the time he spent farming today, dragged along by Ning Hai and the others, made him recall the past. Unknowingly, dusk fell, and he had worked in the fields for a whole afternoon.
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