Elder brother's garrison

"Yes! So, not only did I see your embarrassing behavior, Admiral, but Admiral Lu Lin also saw it!" Elizabeth grabbed Xiaobai's hand and angrily ran towards Admiral Haoding.

Elizabeth approached Admiral Haoding, and the ship girls surrounding Admiral Haoding quickly dispersed to make room for Elizabeth and Xiaobai.

Elizabeth stormed up to the stunned Admiral Haoding, grabbed his hoe with a snap, shoved it aside, and began to berate him.

"Admiral! Admiral Lu Lin clearly said yesterday that you need to rest and recuperate in your current physical condition, and absolutely cannot engage in strenuous physical labor, right?!"

"Uh..." Admiral Haoding lowered his head awkwardly.

"Admiral, you're not a willful person. You were just staying home obediently for a week. Why did you sneak out?"

"Uh..." Admiral Haoding lowered his head even further.

“Admiral Lu Lin went to such great lengths to save you. Even if it's just for Admiral Lu Lin's sake, you should respect her advice. In human society, following medical advice is something an adult should do!”

"..." Admiral Haoding's head almost fell to the ground from Elizabeth's three deadly questions. "I...I'm sorry, Elizabeth..."

"You shouldn't apologize to me! You should apologize to Admiral Lu Lin!" Elizabeth said angrily to Admiral Hao Ding, clutching her chest.

Admiral Haoding furtively raised his head and glanced at Xiaobai next to Elizabeth.

Xiao Bai smiled sheepishly at Admiral Hao Ding.

"When we passed by just now, we saw Admiral Haoding being chased by a group of ship girls and we came over out of curiosity..." Xiaobai explained to Admiral Haoding why she came.

"I see..." Admiral Haoding sighed deeply, then bowed his head apologetically to Xiaobai, "I'm so sorry, Admiral Lu Lin... I've disappointed you..."

"...Rather than apologizing, I'd like to hear something else..." Xiaobai waved her hand, indicating that this matter wasn't so serious. She slowly asked Admiral Haoding, "Hmm...In my memory, Admiral Haoding, you shouldn't be the type to joke around with your own life...I'm a little curious, Admiral Haoding, what would make you do something like risking your life and hiding it from your ship girls to come to the farm to do farm work?"

"Ah... well..." Upon hearing this, Admiral Haoding's face quickly showed a hint of embarrassment. "The reason... well, it's really because I lack self-control..."

"Self-control?" Xiaobai was taken aback.

"Hmm..." Admiral Haoding nodded, his brows furrowing in a somewhat conflicted manner, as if he were also considering whether or not he should be honest with Xiaobai.

"Admiral, Admiral Lu Lin's current identity is that of a doctor. As a patient, you should open your heart to your doctor," Elizabeth whispered to Admiral Hao Ding.

“…Yes, Elizabeth, you’re right.” Admiral Haoding nodded in agreement. He calmed himself down, thought for a moment, and then said to Xiaobai, “Actually… I did take Admiral Lu Lin’s advice to stay home as much as possible seriously, but…”

"But?" Xiaobai asked curiously.

"...However, Admiral Lu Lin, you don't know this." Admiral Hao Ding rubbed his shoulder, a look of unbearable discomfort creeping onto his dark face. "Long before you reached Chapter Eight, after my body was first invaded by the abyssal energy, whenever I had free time, I felt a constant chill and itching in all my joints, as if countless tiny insects were crawling inside my bones. This unbearable pain could only be relieved by strenuous physical labor... When you told me to recuperate, I was determined to stay home obediently for a week, even if it meant enduring this excruciating pain... But... things didn't go as planned. I underestimated the severity of this condition. This time, the pain is a hundred times greater than before. I feel like thousands of tiny insects are gnawing at my body all the time... I endured it from last night until this morning, but I couldn't take it anymore... That's why I ran away when the ship girls weren't looking..."

As Admiral Haoding finished speaking, he bowed his head apologetically to Xiaobai.

Admiral Haoding's explanation surprised Xiaobai and the ship girls. They looked at Admiral Haoding's dark body and exchanged glances.

—So, Admiral Haoding is under this kind of debuff?

"A cold, itchy feeling all over your body..." Xiaobai murmured, recalling Admiral Haoding's words. She stepped forward and unabashedly grabbed Admiral Haoding's arm, pressing her hands against his dark arm and gently tapping his elbow with her fingertips. "Hmm... I see..."

Xiao Bai lowered Hao Ding's arm.

“I understand,” Xiaobai said to Admiral Haoding.

"Admiral Lu Lin?" Admiral Hao Ding was taken aback.

"This was something I didn't consider carefully," Xiaobai explained apologetically to Admiral Haoding. "My ship girls have also experienced symptoms of deep-sea energy entering their bodies a few times before, so my treatment of you, Admiral Haoding, was based on the treatment I used to treat my ship girls... During the treatment, I focused on combining the symptoms of the two of you, but I neglected the fact that your constitution is different from that of a ship girl, as a human."

"What do you mean by different physical constitutions?" the ship girls around Admiral Haoding asked curiously.

"The difference in constitution means that compared to the resilient physique of the ship girls, Admiral Haoding, being human, has very low resistance to deep-sea aura. Even the presence of deep-sea aura in his body will cause him great discomfort." Xiaobai sighed and said to Admiral Haoding, "Although I have controlled all the deep-sea aura to a level that will not pose a life-threatening danger to Admiral Haoding, even so, because this deep-sea aura still remains in his body, Admiral Haoding will still experience discomfort... And the amount of deep-sea aura this time is completely incomparable to the last time, so it is normal for Admiral Haoding to feel a hundred times more pain than before."

Chapter 1870 So Many Correct Characters

Xiaobai finished speaking.

The ship girls present were all stunned and stood there in place.

It's clear that, both this time and last time, Admiral Haoding didn't tell these ship girls about his illness.

Elizabeth, surrounded by ship girls, remained silent for a while before pursing her lips and looking at Admiral Haoding: "...Admiral, why didn't you tell us about this before..."

“After all, it’s not a big deal…” Admiral Haoding scratched his head and gave Elizabeth a bright smile.

"..." Elizabeth's gaze was complicated.

"Admiral Haoding is probably worried that telling you these things will affect your morale for the expedition," Xiaobai said to Elizabeth.

"...Then, Admiral Lu Lin, is there any way to alleviate the Admiral's current condition?" Elizabeth hurriedly asked Xiaobai.

"Hmm... as for ways to alleviate it..." Xiaobai thought for a while and said to Elizabeth, "Actually, just like what Admiral Haoding just said, the deep sea aura is cold and yin, and the painful symptoms caused by this cold and yin attribute can be offset by the heat generated in the body after labor."

"So, Admiral Lu Lin, you agree to let me hoe the ground?" Admiral Hao Ding asked Xiao Bai excitedly upon hearing this.

Xiao Bai looked at Admiral Hao Ding. She didn't say anything, but just gave him a faint smile.

“Then I’ll go now…” Admiral Haoding made a move to take the hoe from Elizabeth’s hand.

"Of course not," Xiaobai said, refusing with a smile.

"Uh." Admiral Haoding's hand froze in mid-air as he looked at Xiaobai in confusion.

“As I said before, Admiral Haoding, the reason you're out of danger is entirely due to the rune on your forehead. Your physical abilities are among the best in the human world, but even compared to the weakest destroyers and submarines, you're more than a hundred times weaker. Even I'm not sure how many seconds your body could withstand the corrosive effects of the deep-sea aura if the rune on your forehead were damaged,” Xiaobai said to Admiral Haoding. “Therefore, no matter what, we must minimize any possibility of damage to that rune on your forehead… In comparison, the pain caused by the deep-sea aura, while torturous, is not life-threatening, so please endure it for a few more days.”

"..." Admiral Haoding stared blankly at Xiaobai.

"Admiral...look." The ship girls around Admiral Haoding crowded around. After learning of Admiral Haoding's predicament, although they were no longer as domineering as before, they still quietly insisted on their own ideas and gently reminded Admiral Haoding, "...Admiral Lu Lin has already said so, why don't you go back sooner rather than later..."

"..." Admiral Haoding lowered his head, his mood plummeting and he became extremely depressed.

"However," Xiaobai suddenly spoke up again, seeing Admiral Haoding's dejected appearance. She smiled and said to Admiral Haoding, "Although I don't recommend that you do physical labor, I do have another way to help you relieve your pain."

"Hmm? Is there another way?" Admiral Haoding suddenly raised his head and looked at Xiaobai in surprise.

"There's always a way..."

Xiao Bai nodded, then reached under her skirt and, without batting an eye, pulled out a square lunchbox and a long calligraphy brush in full view of everyone.

"Admiral Lu Lin, I've wanted to ask you this ever since last time, why do you have this thing under your skirt..." Elizabeth and the ship girls looked at Xiaobai in surprise.

"This? Hmm... I guess it's just a personal hobby." Xiaobai smiled at Elizabeth and handed the lunchbox towards her. "Miss Elizabeth, could you do me a favor and put this away?"

Xiaobai's skirt bottom was, of course, clean; there was no so-called four-dimensional pocket.

The reason Xiaobai took something from under her skirt was simply because she couldn't open her ship equipment space in front of everyone, so she had to use this flamboyant way of taking things to attract the attention of the ship girls and prevent them from associating it with her ship equipment space.

This is a trick Eugen taught to beginners.

It's really useful.

"Oh... okay." Elizabeth quickly raised her hands, opened them, and put them back together.

Xiaobai placed the lunchbox flat on Elizabeth's hand, then opened the lid, revealing the ink inside. This ink was ground by Elizabeth yesterday. Xiaobai originally only wanted Elizabeth to grind a little bit, but due to a miscommunication, Elizabeth dissolved most of the ink, so Xiaobai had to take the lunchbox and the ink with her.

Xiao Bai picked up the brush, dipped it in the ink, and then smiled at Admiral Hao Ding, holding the dripping brush.

"Admiral Haoding, take off your clothes."

"Eh? Admiral Lu Lin, isn't this inappropriate..." Upon hearing this, the ship girls blushed and quickly said to Xiaobai.

"It's alright, you don't need to take your clothes off completely." Xiao Bai held the calligraphy brush without changing his expression. "It'll only take a moment, it'll be over soon."

"Ah, this..." The ship girls looked awkwardly at Admiral Haoding.

"In that case, I'll trouble Admiral Lu Lin." Admiral Hao Ding wasn't embarrassed at all. He quickly unbuttoned his shirt, revealing his dark, muscular physique. "Admiral Lu Lin, is this alright?"

"Hmm...that's about it. Admiral Haoding, could you point out the few places that are bothering you?"

"Oh? Hmm, sure." Admiral Haoding pointed to his elbows, shoulders, and knees, "Here, here, here, and here..."

“Okay…” Xiaobai bent down, picked up the brush and quickly drew small tally marks in the places pointed out by Admiral Haoding. Then he activated the Admiral Network to activate these rune characters.

quickly.

As Xiaobai moved nimbly, several joints all over Admiral Haoding's body shimmered with a golden light, just like his forehead.

As each rune was activated, Admiral Haoding seemed to sense some change and looked around his body in surprise.

"Admiral Haoding, how are you feeling now?" Xiaobai put away his brush and asked Admiral Haoding.

"Truly a miracle!" Admiral Haoding exclaimed in delight. "The moment Admiral Lu Lin put pen to paper, those troubling sores from before have already subsided!"

"After all, it's just deep-sea energy... As long as you use these runes to write on the corresponding joints to dispel it, the pain will naturally disappear... But to put it bluntly, it just slightly transfers these pains to parts that won't cause you too much trouble. These pains won't disappear until the deep-sea energy is completely cleared away," Xiaobai explained to Admiral Haoding.

"This result is good enough. Thank you very much, Admiral Lu Lin." Admiral Hao Ding breathed a deep sigh of relief and smiled with a sense of liberation.

"Well, after that, try to reduce a lot of physical labor, rest at home, and get some sunshine. Getting more sunshine can reduce some of the symptoms, I guess." Xiaobai put the brush back under her skirt, then walked up to Elizabeth, closed Elizabeth's lunchbox, put it in her bosom, and smiled at Admiral Haoding, "Admiral Haoding, don't sneak off to work in the fields next time, okay? Elizabeth will worry about you."

Admiral Haoding scratched his head and gave Xiaobai an awkward smile.

"Alright, Admiral, hurry up and put your clothes on!" The ship girls behind Admiral Haoding quickly covered his head with his shirt.

After resolving the matter with Admiral Haoding, Xiaobai checked the time and realized it was about time to return to the villa and enjoy the giant crabs prepared by Akagi.

Elizabeth stayed by Admiral Haoding's side and first gave him a series of serious instructions, such as not to go out casually, to be sure to notify the ship girls if she went out, and to always pay attention to the rune font on her body. Only then did Elizabeth bid farewell to Admiral Haoding with peace of mind and return to Xiaobai's side, leaving the farmland with Xiaobai.

"I've troubled Admiral Lu Lin again today... Thank you so much." On the way back, Elizabeth whispered her thanks to Xiaobai.

"It's alright. This was my oversight. Consider it compensation for Admiral Haoding," Xiaobai said with a smile to Elizabeth.

"..." Elizabeth pursed her lips and glanced at Xiaobai a few times. "Speaking of which, it seems that Admiral Lu Lin mentioned before that your own ship girls had a similar situation?"

"Yes."

"Even ship girls can be corrupted by the aura of the deep sea?"

"Her situation is rather special. She became like that because she accidentally ate a piece of deep-sea metal at the level of a deep-sea dean." Xiaobai said calmly, smiling helplessly. "To be honest, we had no experience at the time, so it took a lot of effort to treat her."

"..." Elizabeth stared blankly at Xiaobai, whose expression remained unchanged. "He ate a piece of Deep Sea Dean Metal?"

"Yes."

"...Don't you feel sorry for me?"

"Of course I feel sorry for her, after all, she's my ship girl... I can't bear to see her suffering from pain every day..."

"..." Elizabeth looked away and looked down at her feet.

Return to the villa where the newbie garrison is located.

As soon as Xiaobai and Elizabeth entered the villa, they smelled an unusually strong aroma of seafood.

"Admiral, you're back!" Akagi and a large group of ship girls gathered around a round table. Upon seeing Elizabeth and Shiro return, she called out to them, "We've been waiting for you for so long!"

A bright red, steamed crab is placed in the center of a round table. Next to the crab shell are several thick crab legs that have been carefully split open, as well as various condiments such as soy sauce, ginger, and mustard. It looks just like a seafood model from a TV series, which is extremely exaggerated.

"Admiral, come and try some crab legs!" As Xiaobai sat down, the ship girls around her rushed forward, shoving thick crab legs into Xiaobai's mouth. "This is a particularly precious king crab! There aren't many crabs in the world that taste better than this! Admiral, come and try some!"

"Waaaaah..." Little White was quickly swallowed up by the sea of ​​ship girls.

Elizabeth sat down opposite Little White.

"Senior Elizabeth." A gentle voice called out beside Elizabeth. Elizabeth turned around and saw Missouri smiling as she handed her a split crab leg. "The ingredients you brought this time are truly a delightful surprise."

"Thank you." Elizabeth took the crab leg and smiled gently at Missouri.

"What did you and the Admiral do when you went out?" Missouri asked casually as she brought Elizabeth some condiments.

"Um... I just went out and took a walk," Elizabeth replied.

“I see… The scenery in the valley is quite nice; we should explore it more.” Missouri smiled and handed the condiments to Elizabeth.

"..." Elizabeth accepted the condiments from Missouri, thanked them softly, breathed a sigh of relief, and absentmindedly took a bite of crab leg meat.

High-end ingredients often require only the simplest cooking methods.

Even when simply steamed, the delicious flavor of crab is enough to delight the soul.

Elizabeth chewed on crab meat, looking up at the scene of Shiro being surrounded by ship girls, but her mind was still on what Shiro had said to her by the roadside earlier.

Previously... was there also a ship girl in the newbie naval base who was corrupted by the abyssal aura...?

Ok……

Who is it...

As Elizabeth was speaking, a sound suddenly came from beside her.

"Hey! New Jersey, that's mine!"

Elizabeth turned her head.

A flat-chested ship girl was angrily shouting at a blonde ship girl with large breasts. The flat-chested ship girl was holding an empty crab shell in her hand, which seemed to indicate that she had just lost her beloved.

"Delicious." The blonde ship girl ate a long piece of crab meat with a blank expression, and even poked the flat-chested ship girl's angry face.

"Hey! That's too much! You stole my crab leg and... mmm..." The flat-chested ship girl was about to shout loudly when her face was gently cupped by the blonde ship girl. She couldn't speak for a moment and could only glare angrily with muffled sounds.