Elder brother's garrison

There is a long way to go...

Although the ship girls seemed carefree, their organizational skills were far from lacking, having come from the rookie naval base. After Shiro spoke, the ship girls who received the order shouted and then formed a line, surrounding Shiro as they left the road and stepped into the dry, frosty forest. They forged their way through the thickets and headed towards Chapter 8.

The Dry Forest is a natural jungle completely untouched by human intervention, a natural barrier used by nature to isolate humans from the deep-sea area of ​​Chapter 8. Therefore, the forest is extremely vast and the terrain is very difficult. Even though the ship girls have a large amount of supplies in their ship equipment space and do not have to worry about food and water, they still managed to overcome all obstacles such as mountains, rapids, swamps, and quicksand with superhuman physical abilities. They simply traversed the forest, and including the time spent resting, it took them three days in total.

Including the week spent traveling in the truck, Xiaobai hasn't even seen Chapter Eight yet, and nearly ten days have already passed. In the past, ten days would have been enough for Xiaobai to handle a small deep-sea activity all by himself.

As Xiaobai and the ship girls traversed the jungle and stood at its edge, gazing at the finally leveled road in the distance, Xiaobai, exhausted after three days of toil (mentally and physically, mainly from being tired of the jungle scenery) and almost unable to hold on (referring to the bold idea of ​​blasting the jungle through with a cannon), felt relieved. At the same time, she also deeply realized once again the importance of transportation and how precious and rare it was to have previously traveled so easily to other chapters' sea areas by car…

Beyond the jungle, Xiaobai looked into the distance, but still couldn't see any water; all that lay before him was a vast, strange wilderness.

It seems we still have a long way to go before reaching the sea area in Chapter Eight.

Xiao Bai has begun to gradually admire Admiral Hao Ding.

Xiaobai, thanks to the land-based ship equipment, possesses a physique comparable to that of a ship girl. Even when she tries to come with the ship girls, she still feels strained. Admiral Haoding, on the other hand, is only human, yet he moves in and out of Chapter 8 so freely, without showing any signs of strain... Just how powerful must he be?

After passing through the jungle, the journey continued endlessly.

However, unlike before, this journey was much easier.

The terrain in this wilderness is relatively flat, with a large number of wooden stumps scattered on the ground. The soil on the ground is soft and flat, as if it had been turned over. The surrounding view is also quite open. Although there are many weeds and other things, there are not many large coverings. Therefore, this road is much smoother than the road in the previous few days, and even gives Xiaobai and the ship girls a feeling of being flattered.

After traveling for about half a day through the wilderness behind the jungle, Xiaobai and the ship girls finally saw a familiar turquoise blue on the distant horizon as the sun began to slant and sink into the distance.

"Ah! Admiral, it's the sea!" The ship girls spotted the distant azure blue and excitedly raised their hands, shouting to Xiaobai, "Admiral! It's right ahead! Wow! We can finally see the sea! We've reached our destination!"

Chapter 1799 A Group of Groundhog Ship Girls

Although the ship girls are not girls who can't take a beating, these three days in the dry jungle have really been tough. Now that they see the coastline rising on the horizon, the ship girls are as excited as if they have returned to their hometown.

"Sigh... We've finally arrived..." Xiaobai looked at the distant sea and let out a deep breath.

The journey to Chapter Eight, even with the information provided by Admiral Haoding, was far more difficult than Xiaobai had imagined.

"We should be at Chapter 8 by now. Shall we take a break?" Xiaobai turned around and asked the excited ship girls behind her.

"Reporting, Admiral! No need for a rest!" The ship girls snapped to attention and eagerly reported to Shiro, "We're in excellent condition!"

"Does the Admiral want to rest?" Missouri, who was standing next to Xiaobai, asked him.

"I don't need to, and I'm not tired." Xiaobai shook her head, then smiled at the ship girls, "Then let's hurry to the beach."

"Understood!" the ship girls responded, their footsteps becoming even more forceful.

Although the horizon is almost in sight, it will still be a short while before Xiaobai and the ship girls arrive there.

Xiaobai and the ship girls are traveling towards the horizon in the wilderness.

suddenly.

Just as they were about to reach the sea and passed a piece of land, Missouri seemed to be attracted by something, turning her head to look in the direction they had just passed for a while.

"Missouri?" Little White called out to Missouri. "What's wrong? Did you find something?"

“Ah…yes, Admiral…look at that.” Missouri snapped out of her reverie, nodded to Little White, and then pointed to the land they had just passed.

Xiaobai looked in the direction Missouri was pointing.

The place Missouri pointed out was an unexpectedly large area with no weeds and the soil on the ground seemed to have been turned over extensively. The area was quite large; from Xiaobai's perspective, it was about the size of a football field.

“Oh… that piece of land is a bit different… what’s wrong with it?” Little White had more or less noticed the abnormality of the terrain, and she asked Missouri curiously.

“Admiral, that’s not land.” Missouri pursed his lips slightly and gave Xiaobai a subtle smile. “That’s a field.”

"Huh? Tian?" Xiaobai was taken aback.

“That’s a piece of land that has been carefully cultivated and can be used to grow crops, that is, a field.” Missouri said this to Xiaobai, and worried that Xiaobai might not understand, so she gave him a special example: “It’s the place that farmers use to grow rice.”

"Ah... I understand, I understand..." The young man blushed.

“That field must have been cleared a few months ago. It’s winter now, which is obviously not suitable for crops to grow, but judging from the condition of the soil, some wood ash should have been applied as fertilizer to prepare for next year’s spring planting.” Missouri said to Xiaobai, gesturing with his chin. “In other words, Admiral, someone tried to cultivate the land in this wasteland.”

"Uh..." Xiaobai blinked.

"Who does the Admiral think it is?" Missouri asked with a smile, looking at Xiaobai.

“This…” Xiaobai looked at Missouri and gave a helpless smile, “Who else could this be…”

Chapter 1800 This place is deserted. Before Xiaobai came, only Admiral Haoding and his ship girls had been here. In other words, only Admiral Haoding and his group had the opportunity to cultivate this land.

Admiral Haoding is even more free than Xiaobai imagined...

How does he still have time to farm and play?

"The Haoding Garrison is truly a pleasant surprise in every sense of the word..." Xiaobai said to Missouri with a wry smile.

“Yes.” Missouri seemed to agree with Xiaobai’s idea. She looked around at the wilderness and said to Xiaobai, “And Admiral, Missouri has had some strange feelings ever since we left the jungle.”

"How does it feel?"

“This wilderness beneath our feet shouldn’t have originally looked like this. For example, this flat land doesn’t look like the wilderness at all…” Missouri said to Little White, pointing to the logs along the path ahead, “and those neatly felled logs, judging from the grain on the trunks, should belong to the vegetation from the jungle area we just passed through, and they’re quite old…”

"Eh? Is that so?"

“If Missouri is not mistaken, that’s it.” Missouri nodded, looking around at the flat wilderness. “Missouri thinks… this wilderness was very likely part of the jungle area we just passed through not long ago. The reason it became like this is because someone recently cut down trees, turned over the soil, and filled in the ditches.”

"Uh..." Xiaobai was stunned when she heard this, and she subconsciously looked around.

The wilderness beneath Xiaobai and the ship girls' feet, though smaller than the dry jungle they had traversed for three days and three nights, was still quite large. In terms of area alone, it wouldn't be an exaggeration to consider it a small city.

Could it be that Admiral Haoding... dug up a small area of ​​jungle the size of a city?

Xiao Bai suddenly realized.

Then Xiaobai was stunned again.

If Xiaobai remembers correctly, it seems that Admiral Haoding only recently accepted the exploration mission for Chapter 8, right? It's only been a few months.

Even if he wasted time clearing the sea in those few months, focusing instead on reclaiming land, the fact that he managed to dig out a wasteland the size of a small city in those few months is just... too much digging ability...

Are all the ship girls in Admiral Haoding's household groundhogs?

"Wow... then, this..." Xiaobai looked at Missouri in surprise.

"These are all just Missouri's speculations... Whether the truth is true or not, we'll have to wait until we get there and ask Admiral Haoding."

Missouri smiled at Little White.

“…Okay, I’ll ask him then.” Xiaobai nodded, but she had already made up her mind about seventy or eighty percent.

After all, this eighth chapter is desolate and uninhabited. The only place with the conditions to reclaim land is the garrison of Admiral Haoding. Even if this achievement is too exaggerated, under the process of elimination, only Admiral Haoding has the possibility of carrying it out.

After all, it can't be that this land has come to life and has nothing better to do than cultivate itself...

That's pretty awesome.

"I wonder how Admiral Haoding is doing in Chapter Eight..." Xiaobai cast his gaze towards the distant horizon. "When he shared this mission with me before, he told me that he would have a hard time handling the situation in this sea area by himself..."

In Xiaobai's imagination.

After reading the information left by Admiral Haoding, Xiaobai has fixed Admiral Haoding's image in Chapter 8 as someone who leads his ship girls to hold the coast with great difficulty and fight against countless deep-sea ships. In the face of the enemy's powerful combat force, he stubbornly and tragically resists wave after wave of enemy attacks.

However, looking at the boundless wilderness beneath his feet and the fields he had just left, Xiao Bai felt that the state of Admiral Haoding in Chapter 8 might be somewhat different from what he had imagined.

Xiaobai and the ship girls continued their journey towards the distant horizon.

As the crowd drew closer.

Gradually, what they hadn't seen when looking from afar became visible when they were right in front of them. Xiaobai and the ship girls observed a faint, dark aura on the distant horizon, like ink from a calligraphy brush. This aura was thick and heavy, lingering in the sky and not dissipating, like countless translucent black wings constantly waving their arms.

Upon seeing the black gas in the sky, the ship girls behind Xiaobai couldn't help but frown.

"Such a strong abyssal scent!" Some of the ship girls covered their mouths, while others frowned, their words tinged with a hint of disgust. "It's even stronger than when we went deep into Chapter Six during the previous abyssal activity!"

Compared to the ship girls' disgust, the Deep Sea Deans, led by Deep Sea Yamato, looked much more relaxed. They even showed some comfort as they looked at the deep sea atmosphere filling the sky.

As for the supply ships...

In terms of their composition, as supply ships, they are neither ship girls nor deep-sea creatures. They don't have any special feeling about deep-sea aura, treating it as something like air.

Just as everyone's attention was drawn to the deep-sea aura in the sky, suddenly, someone exclaimed in surprise, pointing towards the horizon.

"Hey? Look down there!"

The crowd, who were looking up at the sky, were drawn by the sound and subconsciously looked down to look ahead.

This look.

Everyone was stunned.

By this time, Xiaobai and the ship girls had crossed the wilderness and were less than ten minutes away from the sea. Almost the entire sea surface was now exposed to their view. Following the direction given by one of the ship girls, they looked towards the sea and discovered that on the beach not far from the ocean, there were rows and rows of large buildings! These large buildings were built tall and shimmered with a strange white glow under the sun. Their modern and elegant decorations made them look like a small village.

Large building!

This thing itself isn't strange at all. After all, Xiaobai is a modern person, and he's used to seeing large buildings in the city.

Large buildings are not unusual in themselves, but it is strange that they appear here!

This is Chapter Eight!

Chapter 1801 Where did this large building come from in the deserted place?

With questions in their hearts, Xiaobai and the ship girls stared intently into the distance.

Beneath that large building, rows of ship girls wearing yellow helmets and carrying large wooden stakes were constantly going in and out.

Absolutely!

Those are Admiral Haoding's ship girls!

Chapter 1802 Fan girl +1

What exactly did Admiral Haoding and his ship girls do in the waters of Chapter 8...?

Looking at the various buildings standing along the edge of the beach in the distance, and the large number of yellow-hatted ship girls carrying various building materials back and forth in the buildings, Xiaobai recalled the large fields that had been cultivated when she passed through the wilderness before, and couldn't help but feel a little hazy for a moment.

Good guy.

This posture.

The group led by Admiral Haoding doesn't seem to be here to conquer the deep sea at all; they seem more like they've come to the countryside to farm...

However, despite her doubts, Xiao Bai felt quite good to finally see living people after three days of arduous travel. She could ask about her doubts later.

Now that it's confirmed that the ship girl over there belongs to Admiral Haoding, Xiaobai, whatever her reasons, should go and meet her first.

Xiaobai and the ship girls quickened their pace and hurried towards the cluster of buildings in the distance.

Edge of the beach.

The yellow-hatted ship girls were still working hard under the sun.

Under the command of a black-haired ship girl standing on a high place, the yellow-hatted ship girls were divided into more than a dozen orderly lines, carrying basic building materials such as logs, stones, and lime, and transporting them to various construction areas in a very enthusiastic manner. They built the structures with great coordination and speed, adding bricks and tiles to the already sizable building complex.

The black-haired ship girl in charge of command held a simple wooden megaphone, wore a yellow and white fitted dress, and had her black hair neatly styled. She exuded a leader's aura and aristocratic air that emanated from her very being.

Like the other ship girls, she wore a small yellow helmet, but for some reason, she had an extra small crown on her helmet.

The black-haired ship girl was focused on giving instructions when, perhaps because of her high position, she noticed out of the corner of her eye the group of rookie naval ship girls approaching her from a distance.

Upon noticing Xiaobai and the others, the black-haired ship girl was visibly stunned for a moment, a look of surprise appearing in her eyes. However, her expression quickly returned to seriousness. She raised her megaphone and called to the ship girls working below to put down the materials they were carrying. Then, she jumped down from the high place and, within a few breaths, gathered the surrounding ship girls, forming a long line, and headed towards Xiaobai.

"Those coming from over there, please stop! We are the Haoding Naval Base, one of the top ten in the world!" The black-haired ship girl led the others to a stop a few dozen meters away from Xiaobai. She first raised her hand to signal Xiaobai not to proceed, then called out seriously, "Regardless of how you arrived here or what information you received, I regret to inform you that this place has been temporarily requisitioned by the Admiral's Headquarters, and the waters behind it are extremely dangerous. If you are from an ordinary naval base, I suggest you retreat immediately. If you have received a special mission and come here, please step forward and show the corresponding proof! Thank you very much for your cooperation!"

"Huh? That ship girl looks like..."

When Xiaobai saw the black-haired ship girl in the distance, her eyes lit up slightly. Xiaobai remembered that she had seen this leading ship girl once before, when she was with Admiral Haoding.

Xiaobai gestured for the ship girls behind her to stay where they were, and then walked alone towards the yellow-hatted ship girls in the distance.

"Elizabeth!" Little White waved excitedly at the black-haired ship girl.

"Huh?" The black-haired ship girl was taken aback. She looked at Xiaobai, who was walking towards her, with surprise. "Excuse me, who are you...?"

Perhaps because she had just called out the black-haired ship girl's name, Xiaobai walked up to her without any hindrance. She smiled and took out her admiral's certificate, handing it over while introducing herself to the black-haired ship girl.

"Hello, Miss Elizabeth, I am the admiral who was invited by your admiral to come to Chapter 8 to support his rookie naval base. This is my admiral's certificate. Your admiral has mentioned me to you, hasn't he?"

The ship girl named Elizabeth took Xiaobai's admiral's certificate. She first looked down and observed it for a while. After a few seconds, Elizabeth's expression relaxed. She breathed a slight sigh of relief, handed Xiaobai's admiral's certificate back to Xiaobai with both hands, and finally gave Xiaobai a kind smile.

"Thank you for your cooperation, Admiral Lu Lin." Elizabeth thanked Xiaobai, then quickly apologized, "I'm very sorry about taking care of you all earlier. This is the pioneering area of ​​Chapter Eight. Although it is remote and it is unlikely that we will encounter outsiders... we still handled it carefully to avoid any unrelated personnel getting involved and causing accidents... I apologize for taking up your time."

"It's alright, it's alright." Xiaobai waved his hand dismissively and smiled at Elizabeth, saying, "It's always better to be careful than to be careless. Admiral Haoding is usually so generous that he certainly wouldn't care about these things, so these matters must have taken a lot of your time, Miss Elizabeth."

“Yes…” Elizabeth gave a wry smile, but then, as if remembering something, she looked down at Xiaobai with some confusion, “Um… Admiral Lu Lin. May I ask, has my admiral introduced me to you? Why did you only just now call me by my name…”

"Hmm? Because we've met before," Xiaobai replied.