"Okay, next, please follow me to the CIC (Combat Intelligence Center)" With this leading voice, Inoue Self-Defense Officer led everyone down the passage to the mock CIC - according to the schedule, they were about to visit the air combat exercise.

"What's wrong?" It seems that he noticed that something was wrong with Ayumi beside him, Conan asked.

"It feels, just us people are following them, a little empty......" Ayumi looked at the empty passage behind her with some concern. Not very adaptable. ”

There were forty or fifty passengers on board, and since the CIC was not designed with observation in mind, the interior space was not large, and in the end only more than twenty people were allowed to go to the CIC - most of them were children who did not occupy much space, and among the people Chiwa knew, it seemed that the only people over fifteen years old were Moriran, Suzuki Sonoko, and the white-haired woman who came with Suzuki Sonoko.

"I didn't expect Hotaru Senpai to give you the qualifications to be drawn," and at the same time, a little at the front of the line, Mao Lilan was also saying this to Suzuki Sonoko. "I thought he was going to come with Fujiwara and be there for him."

"yes, it's a rare experience, it's much more exciting than sitting in a restaurant and watching a projector." The garden was also apparently quite surprised that it had been given such a qualification.

"I'm surprised if you're referring to those two children," the white-haired woman nodded as she pulled out a folding fan out of nowhere. "That little brother actually gave me the ticket."

"Prepare for open exercises combat training!" Suddenly the alarm bell sounded in the passage, and the command sound with a slight electronic sound flavor continued to echo in everyone's ears through the loudspeakers in the passage.

"It's about to begin." Qian Yu was obviously a little uncomfortable with such an extremely loud battle alarm, and said this after frowning.

"All in place, this ship is about to engage in an air battle, all personnel please be in position as soon as possible." Such a call sign sounded immediately.

"Will we not be able to catch up?" The white-haired woman asked with a slightly worried expression.

"It's okay, the front is not really important, our current pace is in line with the plan," said Inoue, pointing ahead. "We're going to be at CIC in a moment."

……

At the same time, in the restaurant, the people who were not selected were sitting in their seats, looking at the large projector in front of them - the lights had been turned off, so the projector projected a fairly clear picture: it was the perspective of a camera above the CIC.

In the back row of the restaurant, Hotaru and Fujiwara sit in places with rather poor views – and seemingly deliberately, as there are plenty of empty seats in front of them, while everyone else sits in the front row with the best views.

"You don't want me to see it," Fujiwara said, looking at the curtain in the distance. "I obviously drew it just now, but you have to hand it over to someone else, and I have to hand it over if it hurts."

"Because I just want to hang out with you, not with the Order's spies," Hotaru said, leaning lightly on the table. "If you are really put in, then the joke will be too big - anyway, your eyesight should be able to see the excitement from the screen that the layman in front of you can understand, and you will not be allowed to endanger national information security."

"What kind of attitude do you have towards me," Fujiwara sighed, looking at Hotaru with some curiosity. "Bringing me here and not letting me be there, is that an appetite for me?"

"Whet your appetite?" Hotaru suddenly showed a mischievous expression. "Do you know what it means to whet your appetite?"

Fujiwara hadn't reacted to Hotaru's meaning at first, but he immediately felt Hotaru's hand sneak out from under the table, gently playing with something. "You ......"

"Don't worry, when I say hang your appetite, I will definitely just hang your appetite and won't let you ...... Ahh "Gifts are still exchanged!"

Of course, they wasted such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to do these things, not really because the desire was so strong, but really just because the exercise was too boring—noisy and boring.

……

"I regret wasting my time here," Qian Yu sighed, standing in the front row. "Really, I regret it......"

"Did you know that was going to be the case?" Gray Plains is quite calm.

"I thought they would be a little more sincere," Chiba shrugged. "I didn't expect them to invite us to watch such a boring play."

"Maybe for them, this is a very open behavior for the people." The white-haired woman was still holding the open folding fan in her left hand, and at some point she was holding a quartz watch with a light dial in her right hand, and she was talking as she watched the busy members of the ship's Self-Defense Force in front of her.

In such an atmosphere that was somewhat embarrassing to Chiba, the air combat drill ended like this.

"Okay, that's the end of this air combat exercise, and the next thing is—" Inoue said this, but the members of the Self-Defense Forces who were watching a certain equipment behind him suddenly shouted loudly.

"Sonar reaction detected, nationality unknown!"

"Start probing the target α!"

"α target, 5 degrees in azimuth, 8000 in distance, approaching in the direction of our ship!"

“？” Chiba was taken aback by the sudden movement - in the previous drills, the Self-Defense Forces members used to speak at the volume of their voices, but now these words seem to be really frightened by something and shouted out.

Next to him, Gray Yuan Ai also felt that something was wrong, and looked at him with a somewhat subtle look.

While they were a little confused, the ship's radio sounded again.

"I'm Captain Tateishi," the same voice that had given the order to begin the exercise sounded again. "All radars are fully turned on to search for the enemy, and I will go to the CIC immediately!"

[Do you really need the captain to participate in the exercise?] 】

While Chiba was thinking like this, the members of the CIC's Self-Defense Forces continued to communicate.

"α target, same direction and same speed, speed force 10, distance 7800!"

"Roger, keep an eye out for potential temporary steer shifting operations to get ready!"

"Keep an eye on the target for potential attacks!"

"No response to the identification signal or foe!"

"The reflection results show large irregular objects, excluding living and natural objects! Consider non-friendly submersibles! ”

At the same time, behind Chiba, beside Suzuki Sonoko, the white-haired woman remained motionless as if she were a wood carving, just holding the watch and playing the folding fan, as if none of this had anything to do with her.

On the inside of the folding fan, the five colors of red, blue, white, orange and green are evenly distributed on the fan surface.