I'm the boss because I have a harem of anime characters.

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Lexington's words were agreed upon by everyone. Tier 9 is currently the highest level for ship girls. If even this level cannot protect Qin Shan's safety, then it would be pointless for anyone else to go.

Everyone has a complete grasp of the current situation on Earth, but no one knows what the situation is like in another world. What if they can pull out a star destroyer or turn your place into a mine? Tier 9 is a necessary insurance policy, and it is an absolute guarantee for the admiral.

"Don't worry, I won't take any risks. I need to have a strong bodyguard with me."

At this moment, Qin Shan, who was at the fourth rank, was being protected by a group of ship girls at least at the eighth rank, and they all revolved around him, showing no signs of being a kept man.

"Admiral, we have people coming to our home on Earth."

Beizhai has now become a supercomputer within the Qinshan system. Relying on the system's cross-world connectivity, both Earth and the island base are within her monitoring range. If any unscrupulous person dares to approach, she has at least nine hundred ways to make them disappear silently.

"Are Mom and Dad here?"

Qin Shan's biggest headache lately has been his parents pressuring him to get married. In the eyes of the older generation, Qin Shan has already mastered his supernatural skills and it's time for him to get married and start a family. But Qin Shan is busy saving the world right now. Besides, ship girls are more reliable than any other girl. He has already solved his personal problems through contract marriage with a ship girl, so a certificate is not important at all.

But the parents, born in the 1970s, certainly have a different mindset from Qin Shan. Naturally, they hope to secure the marriage as soon as possible and solidify it with a state contract. But the problem is, Qin Shan really doesn't need that. Besides, are you sure the current marriage law is reliable?

Okay, even if the law is written in a positive and benevolent way, how to rule is up to the judge. If the judge can really enforce the law impartially, how will the problem of the old lady falling be solved?

To get back to the point, Qin Shan's attitude is that we've already moved far away from home, and we have daughters (Xiao Zhai and Xiao Luo), so what more could we ask for? Let's enjoy our retirement life happily.

Seeing that their son insisted on this attitude, the two grandparents didn't throw a tantrum or threaten suicide. They just came to visit from time to time, hugging their granddaughter. As for whether the two of them would go to school, they could just say that they would go to a boarding school in another city, the kind of closed private primary school. As long as Xiaozhai and Xiaoluo could come to see their grandparents on time, everything else was a minor issue.

Shipgirls, tier eight shipgirls, and Xiaozhai and Xiaoluo will grow up too. Ordinary human schools won't help them at all. In terms of knowledge reserves, Xiaozhai can't guarantee a perfect score in humanities exams like Chinese and English, but she can precisely control her math, physics, and chemistry scores down to a few points. What's the point of going to university? I'll be the one to go to university!

"No, Admiral, it's ship girls who have arrived. We have new companions. Look."

Qin Shan looked at the TV in the living room, and the TV screen instantly switched to the surveillance footage from his hometown, showing a familiar figure.

“Sister Richelieu!”

Chapter 30: Ukraine is back in the world of the living this time.

Thinking back to when Sister Li was alive, France had already surrendered...

Cough cough cough, to be honest, it doesn't count as nipple hair, it's just that they were speedrunned during World War II.

The character Li Jie in Kantai Collection R is quite beautiful. The artist has fully incorporated all the advantages of Western girls, such as big, tall, and curvy.

Nice, very nice.

"Admiral, I've finally found you."

It has to be said that Richelieu's enthusiasm is quite high. She immediately gave him a deep French kiss, which successfully aroused the hostility of the other ship girls. After all, Qin Shan is still in an unopened state in this life. The other ship girls have only been touching each other and have not yet had any close-up discussions.

Richelieu's visit is ill-intentioned!

After the warm greetings, Richelieu stood at attention and saluted, saying, "Riccieu, back to the ranks, Admiral."

"Welcome home."

Qin Shan was very happy. His team was growing stronger and stronger, and Richelieu's return had successfully alleviated the current manpower shortage.

After all, Bei Zhai is already in a state where she cannot be moved easily, Yun Meng Fairy's identity needs to be maintained by someone at all times, and someone needs to be responsible for the suppression of the supernatural beings worldwide. So these three people cannot be moved easily. Xiao Zhai and Xiao Luo are considered to be Qin Shan's bound bodyguards. After all, under normal circumstances, no one would think that the two girls are any threat before the two of them take action. This is equivalent to Qin Shan's personal insurance.

Now that Richelieu has joined the force, it means that Qin Shan can now be protected by a ninth-tier force.

However, Richelieu is clearly not a suitable candidate for Qin Shan's personal bodyguard position. There is a first-come, first-served principle. Moreover, this bodyguard is not just a bodyguard; he also needs to provide other services and have comprehensive abilities to handle various situations. Therefore, in conclusion, Lexington is the only suitable candidate.

Richelieu himself had no objection to this.

So, his wife was freed from her work assignment and went with Qin Shan to explore a new world.

Before leaving, everyone held a banquet to welcome the new family members back. Richelieu's French dishes were impressive, mainly because the contrast was very striking. Mapo tofu was served next to French foie gras (humorous).

After completing the preliminary preparations, Qin Shan waved goodbye to the ship girls who remained behind and headed to the new world.

"Why is this area also a forest?"

Qin Shan looked around and felt that this place was quite similar to the forest on the Russian-Ukrainian battlefield.

"Admiral, danger!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Lexington erected its defenses, followed by a barrage of bullets that swept across the area, plunging everything into a hellish scene of war and smoke.

If Qin Shan and his group hadn't been discovered, the attack wouldn't have been aimed at them, but rather at the entire area.

The bombing campaign had just ended when a large number of drones appeared in the sky. These drones looked much more advanced than their counterparts on the Russian-Ukrainian battlefield. The two sharp-eyed kids (Xiao Zhai and Xiao Luo) spotted defensive positions not far away.

"Admiral, there are people over there."

"I...I saw the Soviet flag."

"The Soviet Union?"

Qin Shan immediately looked in the direction the two children were pointing. Good heavens, it really was the Soviet flag! Had he traveled back to the Cold War? And where was this battlefield? Afghanistan? Or somewhere in Africa?

"Let's leave here first and go take a look over there."

Qin Shan pointed in the direction of the Soviet flag. It looked a little more familiar and was close enough to him. Anyway, he would use spatial concealment when he went out, so as long as the other party's technology was not exaggerated to the level of the Three-Body Problem, they would not be able to find him.

"We've entered the position, and those Soviet revisionist bastards are attacking!"

Where are our artillery units?

"I don't know. We can't get in touch with them right now. We might just be going to die here."

"Then kill a few more revisionist lackeys, for the Soviets!"

"Gail, the machine gun is out of ammo, go get some."

"Hold on, you fucking bastard!"

"Get lost! I won't die because of you."

A soldier named Gale immediately went along the trench to move ammunition, but lost consciousness around the corner.

When he woke up again, he saw a man with an Asian face.

"Who are you!?"

Gail instantly snapped back to reality and found herself strapped to a chair.

"Russian, um, hello, may I ask where this place is?"

It's just Russian. Qin Shan used to deal with Russians a lot back then, so he's already fluent in Russian.

Gail stared at the person in front of her with hostility, clearly refusing to answer.

"Damn, we've got a tough guy. Forget it, I'll find someone else."

Then Gale fainted again. When she woke up, the man had disappeared, the restraints on her body were gone, and her weapon was lying next to her. It all seemed like a dream.

"I...wait, ammunition!"

However, by the time Gale returned to the position with machine gun ammunition, the enemy's attack had already been repelled. His former teammates were being bandaged up. Fortunately, only shrapnel had hit their arms, and the wounds weren't very deep, so the bandaging wouldn't affect their combat ability.

"Sukabul! I thought you died on your way to move ammunition."

Gail raised his middle finger, laughed, and retorted, "I'm tougher than you, but I have run into some trouble."

After hearing what Gail said, his comrades' eyebrows immediately furrowed, because the other party's actions left them completely baffled.

You say this was an enemy coming to capture someone as a witness, and he casually released Gale. But if you say this wasn't an enemy, and he casually grabbed Gale for questioning, is this ambiguous, middle-of-the-road behavior something a patient who escaped from Elizabeth Hospital would do?

Although the matter was strange, it still needed to be reported. What if it was an enemy conspiracy? Let the political commissar and brigade commander deal with the rest.

On the other side, Qin Shan had already collected a great deal of information from both sides, and Xiao Zhai had even intercepted a lot of radio communications and public channel information. The conclusion after summarizing was: Russia and Ukraine in this world are fighting again.

"I traveled to the Russia-Ukraine battlefield before, and then to the Russia-Ukraine battlefield after. Did I travel through time for nothing?"

Qin Shan couldn't help but complain. Of course, he was indeed in another world, a parallel world similar to Earth. The current time was 2060, 17 years away from cyberpunk (for sure). The joke ended there. Anyway, Russia and Ukraine were still at war in this world, but the identities of the two were quite ridiculous.

In short: revisionist Soviet Russia versus Soviet orthodoxy in Ukraine.

The Soviet Union and Uzbekistan fought against Soviet revisionism, right? What a mess of timelines.

According to the intelligence gathered so far, the Soviet Union in this world also disappeared on Christmas Day in 1991, also due to repairs. But what is unexpected is that after undergoing shock therapy, the people of the former Soviet Union were no longer satisfied.

This was followed by the second self-revolution and resurgence of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) was destroyed in 1993, and Soviet Ukraine and Soviet Russia were reborn from the ashes and reassembled the Soviet Union before launching a major counter-offensive.

The story that follows for the next fifty years is quite exciting. The reborn Soviet Union embarks on a path of resolute armed revolution, slaughtering traitors, even those who flee abroad, and even using cruise missiles to kill them. They are so ruthless that even when their adversaries hide in the basement of Wall Street, they are sent to their deaths by bunker-buster missiles.

The United States was naturally furious, and then the Soviet Union revealed its nuclear weapons.

Come on, let's have some fun, let's all die together!

The all-nuclear force, coupled with the ruthless act of annihilation without hesitation, terrified the capitalists.

After all, capitalists' talk of mutual destruction is just talk, but the Soviet Union, undergoing a new revolution, was truly willing to perish together.

Immediately afterwards, the Baltic states were subjected to a massive purge, with 97 percent of their population exiled to Siberia. According to subsequent American propaganda, at least 60 percent of these people died in Siberia within their first year. However, the Soviet Union did not acknowledge this, or rather, they argued that the traitors deserved to die, whether it was 60 percent or 1,000 percent; each of them deserved to die a hundred times over.

With the return of the five Central Asian countries, the three Baltic states, and Belarus, and the complete elimination of Chechnya, the Soviet Union, after diligently strengthening its internal capabilities, became more powerful and terrifying than ever before. When the iron torrent truly began to sweep across the land, Germany knelt down without hesitation. France then boldly declared that it could also kneel, hastily embroidering a red flag and completing its own transformation.

By 2050, the newly formed Soviet Union had unified all of Europe, fulfilling a long-held ambition.

Logically, the next step should be a contest with the United States, ushering in an era of exploring the stars and the sea, and the beginning of a glorious tomorrow for mankind.

Unfortunately, things did not go so smoothly. Because the expansion was too rapid and too many countries were under its control, coupled with the huge casualties suffered by the Soviet Communist Party in the process of liberating Europe, resulting in the loss of a number of outstanding cadres and party members, many people took advantage of the power vacuum within the Soviet Union to sit in positions that they should not have been in.

Revisionism has thus returned in a completely new way.

Section 31: Classical Financing (Limited to Caucasian Bandits)

Although the renewed revisionism is unsettling, unlike before, there is still a glimmer of hope persevering in this desperate situation, and this time their strength is enough to struggle and to be powerful enough.

The Soviet orthodox forces, with Ukraine at their core, managed to maintain their base while the bourgeoisie continued to seize power. They also had the strength to engage in a tug-of-war and struggle with the other side. However, this accelerated the internal division of the Soviet Union and ultimately led to the Soviet Civil War.

But compared to the 2022 battle between capitalist oligarchs and governments against international comprador scum, the Soviet Civil War here is at least an improvement.

Of course, it is also more brutal, after all, revisionism is better at deceiving. Before achieving its goals, it is very good at disguising itself, saying one thing and doing another, making many Red Army soldiers think that Ukraine is the traitor.

But the truth this time is that those at the core of Soviet revisionism were the traitors.

So, what's Qin Shan's perspective?

A: Use your eyes to see.

Does it really matter to him who the Soviet revisionists are and who the Soviet Union is?

Having acquired the Abyss Gate, he led his ship girls to explore another world. His goal wasn't to distinguish right from wrong, but rather to acquire the resources he desired. Whether it was people, minerals, equipment, or technology, he wanted it all, the more the better.

In other words, if the Soviet Union could provide these things, he wouldn't mind cooperating with them. At most, after the cooperation ended, he would slap the Soviet Union to death, create a Soviet Union that he liked, and become the mastermind behind the scenes.

"If it's just about plundering resources, imperialism is obviously more efficient, but mutual benefit and win-win cooperation are the only way to achieve long-term results. One must have a strategic vision. But the Soviet Union and Ukraine obviously don't need our help right now. Providing help in times of need is more valuable than adding to someone's success."

Qin Shan knew exactly what cards he held, but he didn't know what cards his enemies held. So he needed to explore this new world more and choose a satisfactory partner.

"Admiral, a large number of mechanized units are approaching this way; they are Soviet Red Army troops."

On the data sandbox deployed by Xiaozhai's ship equipment, a mechanical legion of over 30,000 is charging forward at breakneck speed. What's astonishing is that there are very few flesh-and-blood beings in this army.

It's not that the locals have become physically weak and the machines have advanced, but rather that the proportion of personnel in the army is very low. Most of them are various intelligent mechanical units, while soldiers exist only as command nodes on the battlefield. Furthermore, the traditional squad configuration has been replaced by three-person teams. Three soldiers equipped with exoskeleton armor command a bunch of robots to charge, and they do not directly participate in the attack unless necessary. The distance between enemy and friendly soldiers has become the artillery engagement distance of World War II.

The situation was similar for the defending side, except that they were now operators of various fixed turrets and fire support points on the defensive line, with at least heavy machine guns at their disposal, and their personnel were fully protected, making it a pure test of strength.

"This is the inevitable outcome of future wars: quality wars that small countries simply cannot afford to fight."

In his previous life, Qin Shan had already witnessed the nascent stage of quality warfare. It was in its nascent stage because humanity at that time was no longer able to maintain massive intelligent military production. In other words, even if intelligent factories were to operate at full capacity, the population would not be sufficient to meet the resource needs for humanity to launch a counterattack.

In wars of annihilation, natural resources and productivity are not the most important factors in the end. What matters is having a large enough population to withstand the loss of lives. Otherwise, even if you only deploy a hundred or so people in a war, the enemy can slowly wear you down.

Eight billion people couldn't withstand the war casualty ratio. Is there anything more outrageous than this in the world?

But this is the history in Qinshan's memory, the reality that actually happened.

Artificial intelligence on Earth is still teetering between being awesome and being stupid, but in the alternate world of 2060, highly intelligent robot wars are already underway.

Forget about Gundam or anything like that. Until humanity actually discovers something similar to Minovsky particles, super-large mechs will be the most conspicuous targets on the battlefield. Intelligent combat units are all compromises between endurance, firepower, and armor.

The compromise resulted in a large number of unmanned combat vehicles on the battlefield. These were the most numerous armored units in the opposing Soviet army. They were at least half the size of normal tanks and armored vehicles, and also lower in height. However, they had all the necessary anti-armor and anti-personnel weapons. The space for personnel and the necessary personnel defense were replaced by the defense and firepower of the unmanned units. Therefore, the firepower of a Soviet three-man team was equivalent to that of a conventional infantry company.

However, such a battlefield configuration also places higher demands on the quality of personnel. After all, as a commander, even if you are commanding a group of armored vehicles or remotely commanding them, you need to at least know how to play a computer and play a real-time strategy game. Those who can't even play Red Alert are not qualified to stand here; they will be the cheapest cannon fodder.

Mere flesh and blood are worthless, but people who embody knowledge and wisdom are precious.

"They are all good things."

The four of them had already flown into the air. Qin Shan couldn't fly yet, so his wife was leading the way. Looking at the torrent of steel flowing past below, Qin Shan was so envious that he almost drooled.

If extraordinary technology were combined with these steel torrents, Qin Shan's past life of sweeping across the globe would not be a dream.