Elder brother's garrison

A spirit of unwavering determination gleamed in the eyes of the Deep Sea Dragon.

Just a second before leaving the window, she glanced down at her phone.

"..."

"Huh? Why did the screen freeze? Waaaaaah, no! I was just getting to the crucial part of the story..."

"Wi-Fi? What is Wi-Fi?"

"...The signal has been lost. It tells me to return to the original location to continue playback?"

"Ugh... Human cell phones are so inconvenient..."

Deep Sea Dragon muttered softly.

He was complaining.

They even looked down on them.

then.

He skillfully retreated back into the room.

"Just...just one more episode..."

"I'll run away after watching this episode..."

Steamed egg custard.

The kind with 5000 words

Chapter 1509 Come in

Xiao Bai and the others were in a medium-sized hotel in this big city.

In order to prevent the still unsettled Deepsea Ryujo from unnecessary contact with passersby, and for some safety reasons, Shiro and the ship girls rented an entire floor of the hotel as their overnight accommodation after arriving here with the still unconscious Deepsea Ryujo.

The hotel receptionist expressed some doubts about Xiaobai and her group's extravagant act of renting an entire floor of the hotel. However, as a business, he was not going to refuse a business that was offered to him. Even though he had some doubts, the receptionist simply regarded Xiaobai and her group as guests with unique requirements and politely vacated an entire floor for them without saying a word.

The hotel rooms are quite expensive.

Even if the guest rooms aren't as luxurious as those in big hotels, renting a reasonably comfortable and well-equipped room can still cost as much as three or four hundred yuan per night. Multiply that by the fact that there are often twenty or thirty rooms on an entire floor, the cost for Xiaobai to create a quiet environment for Shenhai Longxiang tonight is quite extravagant.

Xiaobai and the ship girls' room is next to Shenhai Longxiang's room.

As Xiaobai stepped out of Shenhai Longxiang's room, he yawned and opened the door to his own room.

Xiao Bai was about to go inside.

A series of hurried footsteps caught up with Xiaobai.

"Little Bai! Want to play chess?"

Saratoga excitedly carried the Ludo board, her bright, lively eyes gleaming, and chased after Deepsea Dragon from its room.

Saratoga had received a commendation from White on the battlefield and was currently in a state of extreme excitement, as if she had been injected with adrenaline and was full of energy.

"Saratoga, you really have boundless energy..."

Looking at the energetic Saratoga, Xiaobai smiled at Saratoga with great admiration.

"Mmm!" Saratoga nodded emphatically, her long hair swaying behind her like a cascade of golden waves. "I can still stay up all night!"

"I see..." Xiaobai glanced silently at the Flying Chess board in Saratoga's hand. She thought for a moment, then nodded to Saratoga, "Well... let's play a game then."

Ludo is one of the most popular forms of entertainment among new ship girls in the naval base.

Especially since Saratoga, the MVP of this battle, had invited him, Xiaobai naturally had no reason to refuse.

"yeah!"

Saratoga picked up the Flying Chess board, his face beaming with joy.

"Oh? This... is this Ludo?" Behind Xiaobai and Saratoga, Iowa, pulling the drowsy New Jersey along with Wisconsin, walked out of the room. She looked at Xiaobai and Saratoga standing at the door of Xiaobai's room, a hint of interest in her eyes.

“Yes.” Saratoga raised the chessboard and nodded to Iowa.

“Oh, I see… I’ve heard the older girls around me talking about Ludo, it must be a really fun game… But I’m a little shy, I never had the courage to join in back at the naval base…” Iowa cupped her face in one hand, sighed softly with her cherry lips, and then smiled at Saratoga with feigned nonchalance, “Saratoga, have fun!”

Iowa's voice was incredibly gentle.

It was like a stray kitten on the street, looking pitifully at a girl passing by.

Saratoga felt immense pressure listening to this.

"Uh……"

Saratoga unconsciously tightened her grip on the chessboard, swallowed hard, glanced at the little white figure standing beside her, then looked at Iowa in front of her, and opened her mouth with a sense of pressure, "You...you want to play too?"

"--May I?"

Iowa clasped her hands together in delight, looking at Saratoga with her beautiful eyes filled with a girlish, devout hope.

Saratoga instinctively took a step back upon seeing this.

Do not know why.

Saratoga suddenly felt as if he had been outmaneuvered by Iowa.

"...Sure, the more people there are in Ludo, the more fun it is."

Saratoga nodded and said, forcing a smile.

"Then I won't be polite—thank you, Saratoga!"

Iowa gave Saratoga an innocent smile.

In Iowa's smile, the gratitude was utterly pure.

Saratoga, who felt something was off, breathed a slight sigh of relief.

--never mind.

Although I no longer have time to be alone with Xiaobai, it's still a game of chess... the more people there are, the more lively it will be.

That's the magnanimity of me, Sarah.

Saratoga started to give up entirely.

"Yes, thank me!"

Saratoga, holding the chessboard, puffed out his chest with great enthusiasm.

"Then take me with you!" Wisconsin asked.

"can!"

"Ah... well, I... I want to too..." Changchun, who was at the back of the line, quickly raised his hand.

"Yes, either way is fine!"

Saratoga nodded.

The ship girls who left Abyssal Ryujo's room followed Shiro into Shiro's room in a dense, overwhelming manner.

Xiaobai's room is quite large. A round table is set up near the bed, providing ample space for playing Ludo.

Saratoga also enthusiastically laid out the chessboard and picked up his own pieces.

Although the addition of Iowa, Wisconsin, New Jersey (spectator mode), and Changchun has eliminated my chances to be alone with Shiro, there's nothing I can do about it. As Shiro's first ship girl, I should be more magnanimous.

Moreover, the more people playing chess, the more fun it is.

Saratoga naively thought.

Until an hour later.

……

"Ah. I think I'm in first place." Iowa placed her last chess piece at the finish line according to the number on the dice, and smiled shyly at everyone.

"Damn it, how come Sister Iowa is in first place again!" Wisconsin yelled in frustration from the side.

"It was just a bit of luck, but Saratoga taught me so well." Iowa looked at Wisconsin with a smile. "But Wisconsin, you seem to be quite good at playing Ludo."

"Damn it—I was so confident about this!!" Wisconsin tugged at her hair and shook her head. "I thought I was finally going to beat you, but I always come in second!"

"...You guys are amazing." Changchun, who came in third place, covered his mouth and whispered to Wisconsin and Iowa.

"Sister Changchun, you're very skilled at chess! Do you play often?"

"Um... I play this with Fubuki and the others when I have nothing to do." Changchun nodded shyly, "But it seems I still have a lot of room for improvement."

"As expected of Sister Changchun—it seems I'll be exposed in the next round and surpassed by you all," Iowa laughed.

“zzz…” New Jersey, who had been watching the game while lying on the table, was fast asleep.

"..." Xiaobai, who was in fourth place, scratched her cheek. She turned her head and looked at Saratoga, who was sitting next to her, trembling with fear as she held the chess pieces. Saratoga was ranked last in the Ludo game. "Uh... Saratoga..."

Saratoga gripped the chess piece in her hand with trembling hands, her cheeks puffed out in anger.

Saratoga's mindset underwent some subtle changes.

In this hour of fighting.

The rankings of everyone in chess were surprisingly consistent, with Saratoga consistently coming in last place. As a result, Saratoga's focus had long since shifted from enjoying sweet moments with Xiaobai to escaping last place on the chessboard.

"Ah... Saratoga, well, it's about time for me too..." Little White gently tugged at Saratoga's clothes and whispered.

But Xiaobai's voice did sound a little soft at this moment.

The ship girls have already started the next move in a flurry of activity.

"One more round! This time we definitely won't lose!"

"Then I will do my best!"

"it is good!"

"Go Saratoga!"

"I'll stake my sister's reputation on it—"

……

Under Xiaobai's watchful gaze, the ship girls at the table began to play chess with rising fighting spirit.

"I'm getting sleepy..." Xiaobai muttered helplessly. She looked at Saratoga, who was completely focused on the table, sighed, and whispered in Saratoga's ear, "Well then, Saratoga, I'm going to sleep now... You guys keep playing."

"Yes!" Saratoga nodded emphatically, his eyes burning with fighting spirit. "Leave it to me!"

"..."

Xiao Bai left the table, rolled off the chair onto the bed, and lay flat on the soft mattress.

The sounds of the ship girls playing chess intensely echoed in my ears.

Little White yawned softly.

Today, during the battle with the Deep Sea Dragon, the Deep Sea Will controlled Xiaobai's ship equipment to launch the largest laser cannon ever, which consumed a lot of Xiaobai's mental energy, causing the long-term insomniac Xiaobai to feel extremely sleepy.

It's so rare to feel sleepy.

As Xiaobai listened to the gradually fading sounds of the ship girls playing chess, she crawled into bed and pulled the soft quilt over herself.

Despite the exhaustion that had kept her mentally sharpened, Xiao Bai had persevered for an entire day, and now her body desperately craved sleep.

A gentle tickling sound came from the corner of Xiaobai's blanket.

Xiao Bai opened her closed eyes with some difficulty and looked towards the bedside.

New Jersey climbed down from the table at some point and squatted by Xiaobai's bedside, looking at Xiaobai with a hazy, sleepy expression.

Behind New Jersey, Saratoga stood in his place, engrossed in playing Ludo, completely oblivious to New Jersey's presence.

"New Jersey?" Xiaobai looked at the New Jersey logo that was touching the headboard.

"..." New Jersey blinked sleepily, without saying a word.

New Jersey's expression was like that of a fledgling bird longing to return to its mother's embrace—pure and expectant.

"Oh...I understand."

Xiao Bai scooted back, pulled up the corner of his blanket to just enough space for one person, then forced himself to stay awake and smiled at New Jersey, who was squatting at the head of his bed.

"come in."

Chapter 1510 The Admiral Doesn't Deserve to Sleep