Elder brother's garrison

Although the super construction device only differs slightly in appearance from the ordinary construction device, perhaps due to psychological suggestion, Xiao Bai always felt that when the super construction device was placed in the construction room, the four ordinary construction devices next to it looked like four little brothers meeting their big brother, radiating a sense of trembling fear.

This is a subtle form of bloodline suppression.

Xiaobai walked up to the super construction device. Instead of opening the hatch, she bent down and carefully inspected the black outer shell of the super construction device.

The outer shell of the construction device gleamed in the sunlight, appearing undamaged enough to affect its functionality.

Xiao Bai had previously heard President Er Gou describe the scene of Iowa's birth.

According to Chairman Er Gou, Iowa was not well-behaved when she was born. The entire construction device seemed to explode and crashed around the yard before finally falling to the ground. Only then did Iowa kick open the hatch from inside.

Xiao Bai didn't know if President Er Gou was exaggerating or not, but since she said so, then at least this super construction device was bound to have its share of bumps and knocks.

The origin of this super-construction device is both mysterious and special. With the current level of human technology, it is completely impossible to replicate it, let alone maintain and repair it.

In other words, each use of this thing reduces its lifespan by a portion; once one breaks, it's gone forever.

Xiaobai was a worldly person; she had already experienced the collapse of two super construction devices and really didn't want to experience it a third time.

after all.

This thing is not only a magical tool for building ship girls, but also a cultural relic of great significance.

It hurts so much to break Xiaobai.

The first super construction device broke down because it had to bravely sacrifice itself to pass on the technology to the next generation of human ship girls. The second one broke down because Xiaobai found out too late and arrived too late, so she missed the last moment. Now that she has this one in her hands, Xiaobai really can't bear to break it no matter what.

I checked it several times.

After confirming that there was no serious damage outside, Xiaobai breathed a sigh of relief and felt somewhat at ease.

Xiao Bai turned around and looked at the reputation behind him.

Reputation was carrying an iron bucket, almost half the size of a person, in each of his left and right hands. The buckets were filled with all sorts of resources and materials.

—Don't be fooled by the size of the two iron buckets in Reputation's hands; in reality, the materials and resources she possesses are only enough to support the construction of one large ship.

I knew being an admiral was expensive, right?

"Reputation, those two resource barrels are very heavy. Don't carry them; just put them on the ground," Xiaobai said to Reputation.

"Yes, sir." Reputation nodded, put down the iron bucket, and calmly stared at the construction device next to Little White.

Although Reputation didn't show it on his expression, Xiaobai had a feeling that Reputation seemed to have something to say.

"Reputation? Do you have something to say?" Xiaobai asked curiously.

Reputation withdrew his gaze and shook his head.

"not at all."

"It's alright, Reputation. Just say whatever you want, don't mind it." Xiaobai smiled at Reputation.

"..." Reputation's gaze softened slightly, and he nodded slightly. "Reputation just feels that preparing only one set of building materials might not be enough for the master."

“Uh…” Xiaobai looked awkwardly at Durian II (IV) and deleted the private reputation.

The word "reputation" is quite euphemistic.

But to put it in plain language...

The meaning of "reputation" is actually quite simple. In gaming terms, it means: "Admiral, you're too unlucky. How about we skip the summoning tickets and do a few ten-pulls instead?"

There is nothing wrong with this.

Xiaobai blushed a little while listening.

After all, his exploit of spending an entire afternoon building a ship in the naval base, squandering the life savings of several ordinary naval bases without being able to ship anything, was witnessed by Renown and Lexington.

"There's also a resource storage room in this building. If the master doesn't mind, Reputation can go next door and bring over some more resources," Reputation said to Little White.

"...Uh, no, it's alright." Xiaobai shook his head awkwardly, then cleared his throat and patted the super construction device next to him. "Ahem! Um, reputation, we really don't need it this time—look at this, I haven't told you about the origin of this construction device before, right?"

"Yes."

"I've seen this construction device before; it's a very rare and special one. Its success rate is one hundred percent!" Xiaobai explained to the reputation. "So you only need to prepare one set of construction materials!"

As Xiaobai finished speaking.

A hint of surprise flashed across her otherwise unassuming face. Her beautiful eyes stared at the large, shiny black shell, and she was somewhat speechless.

The question of whether an admiral can build ship girls remains an eternal dilemma for admirals worldwide.

After all, the high construction costs, coupled with the slim success rate, make the job cost of being an admiral incredibly expensive.

Every year, countless promising young talents who should have soared to great heights fall at the hurdle of not being able to produce enough ship girls. In the end, they cannot improve the strength of their naval bases, waste their time in the lower-level sea areas, and eventually fade into obscurity, ending their lives in obscurity.

No matter how brilliant, mysterious, or unpredictable your tactics are, or how theoretically invincible and self-consistent your training experience is, if you can't create ship girls, it's all for naught.

Therefore, the existence of a 100% ship girl construction machine can be considered a powerful artifact capable of changing the world order in the world where Prestige exists.

then.

This incredible artifact actually appeared in his own construction room one day. His admiral was patting the outer shell of the construction device, completely unaware of how terrifying it was.

"Well, didn't expect that, did you?" Little White looked at Shengwang's unusually speechless expression and couldn't help but reveal a smug smile. "This is very rare, extremely rare, as rare as an antique!"

"..." Reputation didn't speak, but just nodded slowly.

"I'm not lying to you. You'll see when we build it. Even I can definitely build something with this super construction machine!" Little White said to Reputation.

"In that case, could we prepare more materials? That way, we could build more companions, right?" Reputation thought for a while, then looked up at Little White and asked.

“Uh… this…” Xiaobai’s hand, which was touching the outer shell of the construction device, went limp. “This construction device is very old, and its technological level far exceeds what modern society can understand. Human technology cannot replicate or repair this thing… even I dare not use it too frequently now.”

"I understand, Reputation." Reputation nodded.

"But it should be fine to use it only once anyway," Xiaobai smiled at the reputation.

Anyway, Xiaobai just wants to enjoy the thrill of shipping items.

Xiao Bai turned around and opened the hatch of the construction device, checking the situation inside.

The construction device in Iowa is completely intact inside, with no trace of having ever built a ship girl. Its preservation is probably the best among all the super construction devices that Xiaobai has ever seen.

Completely relieved, Xiaobai then summoned his reputation to come forward.

Reputation grabbed two buckets of resources from the ground, walked over, and poured all the resources into the super construction device.

"As for deep-sea metal... since it's a super construction device, let's use this." Xiaobai took out a piece of silver-white deep-sea dean metal from his ship equipment space and said to Reputation.

"What type of large ship does Master want to build?" Reputation nodded, put down the empty iron bucket in her hand, and asked Little White in a low voice.

"Battleship!" Xiaobai answered instantly.

Xiao Bai had had an idea in his mind for a very long time about what kind of ship he wanted to build using the super construction device.

Battleships!

That's definitely a battleship!

Only battleships will do!

If destroyers are the admiral's paradise, then battleships with their massive guns are the admiral's eternal romance!

Of course, Xiaobai also had other ideas.

The ship girls created by the super construction device, not to mention the supply ships that popped up on their own, the other four ships that the newbie knows are Missouri, Wisconsin, Iowa, and the North Carolina which is underpowered.

There are three Iowa-class ship girls!

The chances of getting an Iowa-class ship girl from this construction device are incredibly high!

There were a total of four historical Iowa-class destroyers.

Now, all three ships have arrived at the newbie naval base for various reasons, expanding the newbie naval base's encyclopedia. Now, stuck on the last ship, even if the newbie isn't a perfectionist, it's still very frustrating.

So Xiaobai's plan for using the super construction device this time is twofold: first, to experience the thrill of guaranteed delivery; and second, to take this opportunity to build the last Iowa-class historical ship.

In front of Shengwang, Xiaobai threw the silvery-white Dean's Metal into the super construction device.

Regarding the question of whether the quality of the deep-sea metal used will affect the final construction result, our predecessors over the past five hundred years have summarized the answer through countless experiments.

That is, the quality of deep-sea metal does affect the result, but the degree of influence is negligible. Rather than wasting high-grade deep-sea metal on building ship girls, it is more worthwhile to use high-grade deep-sea metal to exchange for a dozen or twenty more construction opportunities.

However, there is currently no example in the world of using deep-sea metal of the Dean level as a catalyst to build ship girls.

After all, those who have the will usually don't have the ability.

Those with the means are generally reluctant to part with it.

Chapter 1410 Fourth Construction Machine

Among the historical heroes with a long history, the highest quality deep-sea metal ever used to activate the construction device was a piece of deep-sea frigate-grade deep-sea metal.

The time was roughly three or four hundred years ago.

Back then, the combat power of the human-side ship girls was not as strong as it is now. When they encountered a certain purple Abyssal deity who had begun to stir up trouble on the high seas, they could only go around her. It was still an era where they could only bully the weaker Abyssals. Therefore, the escort ship metal at that time was already the highest quality Abyssal metal that humans could obtain.

At that time, there was an admiral who participated in the operation to subdue the newly formed ordinary abyssal dean. Because of the bravery of his ship girls and his own outstanding performance, he was rewarded by the higher-ups and received the highest-level reward in that operation—an abyssal frigate-level abyssal metal.

Don't ask where the Dean of the Deep Sea Institute is.

The answer is that they ran away.

When asked again, the answer was always the same: they had never fought it.

At the time, the admiral might have been drunk at the victory celebration, or he might have wanted to vent his frustrations from the battlefield, or he might simply have wanted to show off. He proposed to provide valuable data for ship girl construction in public, using the rewarded deep-sea frigate metal to build ship girls.

Whether anyone tried to dissuade or supported this admiral is another matter, but the final result was that at a high-level admiral exchange meeting later on, this admiral did indeed publicly demonstrate the construction of ship girls using abyssal metal of the destroyer class.

—And then it failed.

—The magnificent construction failed.

After consuming deep-sea metal of the deep-sea frigate class, the construction machine operated with exceptional power. Its entire metal shell pulsated rapidly under everyone's watchful eyes, as if it were giving birth to something extraordinary.

Finally, with a thud, the construction device opened its hatch to the expectant admirals, spewing out thick black smoke from its smoke generator—the most expensive and unprecedented smoke ever produced.

last of the last.

There are no further records in history regarding the admiral's expression as he stared at the empty construction site, what he said, what he thought, or what he did afterward.

Regarding this action, the historical record only sincerely commented, "We are very grateful to this admiral for providing valuable information on the field of ship girl construction technology."

now.

The record for the highest quality deep-sea metal used in this construction device was broken by the rookie second-generation naval commander four hundred years later.

Although the deep-sea metals in Xiaobai's hands were low-quality Dean metals obtained by taking advantage of the popularity of the sixth chapter event, Dean metals are still Dean metals, and their value is far beyond what a deep-sea frigate can measure.

Xiaobai had many reasons for using the Dean's metal, but in general, it was mainly to go through the motions.

Prestige naturally had no objection to his admiral's extravagant behavior.

Xiao Bai threw the Deep Sea Dean's Metal into the construction device, closed the lid behind him, pressed the start switch, and then took a few steps back with Reputation.

The super construction facility has begun operation.

The entire super-construction device seemed to have received enough power, like an engine that hadn't been started in a long time. With a powerful gurgling sound, it began to pulsate rhythmically, like a breathing steel chestnut.

Glug glug, glug glug.

The super-construction device is beating faster and faster.

"Republic, what kind of welcome message should we use to greet the new ship girl?" Xiaobai tugged at Republic's sleeve and asked with a smile.

"What kind of welcome message would you like, Master?"

"How about just a simple welcome to the newbie naval base?"

"I understand about reputation."

"Before I came to the construction room, I had already left a ship girl's enlistment form at Lexington. We can take the new ship girl back and fill in her name later."

"Ah."

"Oh right, wasn't Washington training a new batch of ship girls recently? Why don't we let this new ship girl go too!"

"As ordered."

"Also, please prepare the daily necessities for the new ship girl, Renown."

"Yes."

"Oh right, right, let's not prepare anything yet. We don't know who this ship girl is. If this new ship girl is from the same family as Missouri and the others, we don't need to prepare any daily necessities, since the sisters will most likely live together. I still have room at my house."

"..."