Elder brother's garrison

"Ah? Big sister, you're awake?" Xiaobai looked at the stall owner beneath her and smiled at her. "Stadium owner, do you remember me? I was one of the people you traded with this morning."

"...A transaction..." The blond stall owner looked at Xiaobai with a puzzled expression.

"Big sister, don't move yet. I'm extracting the deep-sea essence from your stomach. It won't hurt at all. Just give me a kiss, okay?" Little White said to the blonde stall owner, closing her eyes again and cupping the stall owner's face in her hands. "Okay, I'll continue then—"

Little White continued to lean down.

But the next second, what awaited her was not soft lips.

Instead, it is a flat and strong palm.

"Well!"

Xiao Bai only felt the blond stall owner reach out and push his face out.

"Why—why—do I—have to kiss a stranger!" The blond stall owner pressed down on Xiaobai's mouth and forcefully pushed Xiaobai back.

"Hmm? Hmm hmm hmm hmm! (For medical treatment!)" Little White's mouth was being pressed shut as he tried to speak to the blond stall owner, "Hmm hmm hmm hmm! (Trust me!)"

"If you woke up and suddenly found yourself lying in a room you'd never been to before, with a stranger sitting on you, ready to kiss you, do you think anyone would believe a single word that stranger said?" The blond stall owner pushed Xiaobai's mouth away and said to him.

"Ugh..." Xiaobai broke out in a cold sweat.

The blond stall owner seems to have a lot to say.

Ok?

Wait, she seems to have understood everything I said, even though I was stammering.

Xiao Bai stared in surprise at the blond stall owner in front of him.

"Ugh!" Little White moved the blonde stall owner's hand away from her mouth. "But big sister, the deep-sea aura on you is definitely there. Didn't you faint on the pedestrian street this morning because of this stuff..."

"I didn't faint because of the deep-sea smell..." the blond stall owner said to Xiaobai, frowning.

"Hmm? If it's not because of the aura of the deep sea, what else could it be?" Xiaobai asked curiously.

The blond stall owner did not reply immediately.

She looked around the room and only after confirming that there were no dangerous elements did she open her mouth and speak to Xiaobai.

"I……"

"Gurgle gurgle gurgle gurgle————"

Right now.

A strange, elegant sound emanated from the blond stall owner's stomach.

I answered the question for her.

Chapter 1428 Traveling together

The reason why it is said that ship girls can join human society and become normal people once they disassemble their ship equipment is because...

This is because, purely from the perspective of the humanoid structure of ship girls, there is almost no difference between ship girls and humans.

Just like humans, ship girls also need to eat, sleep, and even go through a cycle of metabolism.

Of course, because of the presence of ship equipment, the humanoid form of ship girls often appears much more special than that of ordinary humans.

For example, if the ship girls want to, they can use the power of their ship equipment to fast for a long time, or stay up all night for a long time and still be energetic the next day.

However, these are only short-term substitutes. Even ship girls will feel hungry if they don't eat for a long time, and they will eventually feel tired if they don't sleep for a long time.

in the room.

The rumbling sound coming from the blond stall owner's stomach was incredibly elegant and lingering.

The blond stall owner shut his mouth, lowered his head, and silently covered his stomach with his hand, saying nothing more.

Xiao Bai stared blankly at the blond stall owner.

"Uh... big sister, this morning on the pedestrian street, could it be... that you fainted from hunger?" Xiaobai asked the blonde stall owner cautiously.

"..." The blonde ship girl raised her head, glanced at Xiaobai, and was just about to speak.

There was a loud bang.

The door to the room seemed unable to withstand the pressure from the outside and was forced open with a creak.

"oops!"

"oops!"

"oops!"

The ship girls from Wisconsin, Saratoga, Changchun, and others poured in one by one from outside the door.

Missouri, Iowa, and Luo Lian, the three ship girls, stepped over the three people lying on the ground and entered the room.

"Admiral, it seems your treatment is over?" Missouri looked into the room with a smile.

“Uh… Missouri…” Little White turned to look at Missouri, his face immediately turning embarrassed. “Uh… rather than saying it ended, I’d say it was interrupted…”

"Interrupted?" The ship girls looked up at the blonde ship girl sitting on the bed.

The blonde ship girl was about to talk to Shiro, but when Missouri and the others entered the room and greeted Shiro, the blonde ship girl closed her mouth and looked at Missouri who entered the room with a thoughtful expression.

"What's her name?" the blonde ship girl asked, looking at Xiaobai.

"Her? She's my wedding ship, Missouri." Xiaobai introduced the blonde ship girl without any hesitation. "She's the one who bought the stones from you this morning, do you remember her, big sister?"

“…Missouri…” The blonde ship girl pondered, not answering Xiaobai’s question immediately.

"big sister?"

"Gurgle gurgle gurgle gurgle gurgle gurgle————" Another elegant stomach growl came from the blonde ship girl's belly as she was deep in thought.

With a soft thud, the blonde ship girl collapsed onto the bed.

"Hey? Big sister, what's wrong?" Xiaobai quickly asked.

"I can't take it anymore... I'm so hungry, I can't think straight."

The blonde ship girl muttered softly, her whole body feeling weak and listless.

"……"noob.

"Pfft." Missouri and Iowa covered their mouths and laughed. "This senior (older sister) seems quite interesting. Admiral, since we're in the city and there are plenty of restaurants around, why don't we treat her to something to eat?"

"I don't mind." Xiaobai turned her head to look at the blonde ship girl lying on the bed. "Um, big sister, you..."

"You had something you wanted to ask me..." The blonde ship girl looked up at Xiaobai and said, "Treat me to a meal, and I'll answer you when I have the strength."

“…Hmm, that makes sense.” Xiaobai nimbly got off the bed.

Once a room is booked at a small inn, there's no refund. Xiaobai and her group didn't know when the blonde stall owner would wake up, and they had only booked a room for one day and one night. Even if they canceled the room now, the innkeeper wouldn't give them a refund. So Xiaobai simply left the room there for the remaining day, just in case, and then took the ship girls out.

Although the blonde ship girl did faint from hunger in the morning, as she said, fortunately, even now, her basic mobility is still intact, and she can stagger along behind Xiaobai without getting lost.

Xiaobai turned around and looked at the blonde ship girl.

The ship girls around Xiaobai curiously looked at the blonde ship girl from all sides, their eyes full of curiosity, especially Iowa, who stared at the blonde ship girl with a thoughtful expression.

It seems that their own ship girls don't dislike this blonde ship girl.

That just so happens that I've also been traveling a long way and haven't had a chance to eat.

Xiaobai then led the ship girl to a restaurant that looked fairly upscale, located on the roadside, and they went inside.

Ella's hometown is a well-known tourist area, so the food in the city is not cheap. As soon as Xiaobai and the ship girls sat down, the waiter brought out a menu with a gold border.

Xiao Bai glanced at the menu.

There was a good variety of dishes.

They offer both Eastern and Western cuisine, and the prices are all incredibly high.

"Big sister, what would you like to eat?" Xiaobai turned her head and asked the blonde ship girl sitting next to her.

"casual."

The blonde ship girl lay on the table, her fluffy blonde hair spilling onto the surface, and only mumbled a few words in response.

"Anything is fine..." Xiaobai sighed and scratched the menu.

This is a dreaded question that has stumped countless TV hosts...

"Admiral, if you don't mind, how about I do some of it?" Just as Xiaobai was worrying, Iowa's voice rang out from behind him.

"Huh? Is that okay?" Xiaobai looked up and handed the menu to Iowa. "Then I'll order for you."

"Thank you, Admiral." Iowa smiled and took the menu, then looked down and flipped through a few pages. "This lady's face is more Western-looking, and her modified sailor skirt seems to have a bit of an American naval uniform feel to it. Are you from an American ship?"

“Hmm…” The blonde ship girl turned to look at Iowa and nodded.

“It looks like you haven’t eaten in a long time, sister. How about we get something to replenish your energy? You’re a ship girl, so your body should be able to handle some of that hot food.” Iowa placed the menu flat in front of Shiro and tapped a dish called Cheese Thick-Cut Steak with her slender fingers. “Admiral, order this for this sister.”

"Huh? Is this okay?" Xiaobai asked curiously, looking at the names of the dishes on the menu, which seemed to exude heat and temperature through their names.

"Hmm... considering the ship girl's appetite, it might be a little too little. In that case, Admiral, please give her two more hamburgers."

“…This.” Xiaobai looked at the blonde ship girl in shock.

The blonde ship girl looked at Shiro calmly, her expression as if to say, "She ordered exactly what I like."

"Wow... okay, alright." Little White nodded.

Xiaobai and the ship girls casually ordered a few dishes of stir-fried rice and handed in the order slips.

The radiant waiter accepted the menu and left with a smile. Soon after, a group of waiters came up with steaming hot dishes.

"Customer, here is your order of thick-cut cheese steak, plus a burger set meal for two." A waiter brought over a sizzling steak set meal from a hot plate and placed it in front of the blonde ship girl.

The blond man silently watched the sizzling steak on the hot plate, picked up his knife and fork, quietly cut off a piece of meat, put it in his mouth, and began to chew silently.

"Big sister, what do you think?"

"good to eat."

"Ah...that's good." Xiaobai looked at the steak in front of the blonde ship girl with a sigh.

This steak is huge, topped with a thick layer of cheese sauce. Even as a bystander, I felt a little nauseous just looking at it, but the person eating it seemed to be enjoying it so much…

The blonde ship girl, wielding a knife and fork, ate with incredible speed.

She ate with great gusto, but subtly without compromising her noble air.

The newbie found it quite amazing.

She quickly finished the plate of steak.

The blonde ship girl put down her knife and fork, gently picked up the hamburger, squeezed it hard, and then opened her mouth to take a bite.

While Xiaobai was eating stir-fried dishes with the ship girls, the blonde ship girl finished her last two hamburgers. She silently wiped her mouth and looked at Xiaobai, who was shoveling rice into her mouth.

"Hmm... Big sister, are you full? Would you like another bowl of rice?" Xiaobai said to the blonde ship girl.

"...No need." The blonde ship girl paused slightly, then clasped her hands together in thanks to Shiro. "Thank you."

"No need to be so polite," Xiaobai said with a smile to the blonde ship girl. "Um... speaking of which, big sister, you seem to have been hungry for a long time? Did you encounter any difficulties?"

"..." The blonde ship girl blinked. She looked at Shiro's face and thought for a while, "Difficulty... not really. The reason we're going hungry is simply because we don't have any money."

"That's a pretty straightforward reason..." Xiaobai smiled. "Then why don't you have any money, big sister?"

"Because nobody buys my stones?" the blonde ship girl asked doubtfully.

"That kind of thing is hard to sell in coastal cities..."

"Didn't you already buy them?"

“We bought that for another reason…” Xiaobai hesitated slightly, “Um, big sister, you know that there’s a very, very expensive stone among the stones you put in that stall?”

"Very expensive?"

"Yes, that's Deep Sea Dean's Deep Sea Metal."

"These are stones that fell from deep-sea ships that are obviously extraordinary. They are usually colorful and contain a very high purity of deep-sea energy," Xiaobai said to the blonde ship girl.

"Oh." The blonde ship girl's eyes lit up. "I understand."

"You know?"

"Is it that thing that doesn't taste good at all?"

"...Hmm..." Xiaobai held the bowl and thought for a while. She quickly remembered the teeth marks on the Deep Sea Dean's metal, and her expression became somewhat strange. "What do you mean by 'not tasty'... Could it be that the teeth marks on the Deep Sea Dean's metal were bitten off by you, big sister?!"