Elder brother's garrison

"Why not hide?"

Barbarossa asked Little White.

Chapter 2078 You're so good! Absolutely amazing!

"Why didn't you dodge?" Barbarossa asked, seeing that Little White hadn't reacted for a while. She jumped off her ship's rigging and came up to Little White, "Aren't you scared?"

"Ah..." Little White snapped out of her daze, squatting down as she looked at Barbarossa who had walked up to her. "I... this..."

Barbarossa, the director of the Deep Sea Academy, found Xiaobai's behavior somewhat incomprehensible.

Faced with a possible attack, Xiaobai not only failed to summon its ship equipment for defense immediately, but also failed to take even the most basic evasive action.

Their alertness is too low.

It was not the reaction one would expect from a battle-hardened deep-sea creature.

Faced with Barbarossa's question, Xiaobai stammered for a moment after regaining his senses, then looked up at Barbarossa with an awkward smile, and asked somewhat hesitantly, "Maybe... I don't think Miss Barbarossa will hit me?"

"..."

Barbarossa's eyes widened slightly. She nodded silently and looked away, taking it as an admission of Xiaobai's statement.

Since a battle-hardened deep-sea creature did not adopt any effective defensive stance when faced with an attack, it can indeed be interpreted as her having complete trust in the attacker...

Barbarossa raised his hand and touched the cannon barrel standing next to Little White, without saying a word.

“Um, Miss Barbarossa?” Little White looked at Barbarossa cautiously, “What you were doing just now…”

"It's a secret." Barbarossa patted the two cannon barrels standing next to Little White and said, "I'm showing it to you as agreed."

"A secret?" Little White looked at Barbarossa's cannon barrel with suspicion. "This one?"

"Ah."

"Something's wrong with this main cannon... Huh?" Little White muttered to herself as she examined the giant cannon beside her. Suddenly, she seemed to notice something, jumped up from the ground, walked over to the giant cannon, and stared intently at it. "Wait... the size of this giant cannon... seems unusually large?"

Because Barbarossa's display of force when he pulled out the cannons was so "impressive" that Xiaobai didn't immediately take a look at the two giant cannons.

Now, after Barbarossa's reminder, Xiaobai suddenly realized that the caliber of Barbarossa's two main guns seemed a bit excessively large.

Xiao Bai walked to the dark muzzle of the cannon, reached into the barrel and gestured, then withdrew his hand with shining eyes, staring at the cannon platform with his mouth slightly open.

That's right!

Ridiculously big!

Barbarossa's main gun is even bigger than the Super Yamato's!

"Miss Barbarossa, you, you, you... what is the caliber of your main gun?" Little White turned his head and asked Barbarossa excitedly.

“533,” Barbarossa replied.

“533… Wow…” Xiaobai covered her mouth, peering curiously inside the gun barrel again. “There are actually battleship main guns with such a large caliber in this world… It’s really… amazing.”

Xiaobai's words came from the bottom of his heart.

The 460mm Yamato cannon, which is used as a family heirloom by the novice naval base, is already considered a treasure-level weapon in human society. The 510mm main cannon provided to the novice after the Super Yamato appeared can be described as a dream-level divine weapon. However, these two top-level cannons have been reduced to inferior equipment in front of the two 533mm main cannons of Barbarossa.

That's incredible...

Even if Barbarossa's base ship stats are poor, its equipment is top-notch. With such powerful equipment, what enemy wouldn't be one-shotted by a single shot?

The mystery of Barbarossa's ability to fight Savoy to a standstill has been solved.

"Is it that amazing?" Compared to Xiaobai's excitement, Barbarossa's expression was much calmer.

“Yes!” Xiaobai nodded, then stepped forward and asked, “Are these two 533 main guns your initial main guns, Miss Barbarossa?”

"……Yes."

"This is amazing... This is a treasure bestowed upon you by the heavens. I've never even heard of a main gun of this size before. I never thought there was one in the world."

“Because I am a planned ship,” Barbarossa said.

"Eh? Miss Barbarossa, you're also a planned ship?" Xiaobai was taken aback, turning his gaze away from the main gun caliber and looking at Barbarossa.

Barbarossa silently stared at his main gun, his gaze traveling upwards from the exaggerated gun barrel, finally settling on the fortress-like battleship rigging behind him.

"I never felt that these two main guns were a gift." Barbarossa looked at his ship equipment and said calmly, "My ship equipment is the way it is now in order to bear the power of these two main guns."

Barbarossa poked his main gun turret.

“Bulky. Sluggish. Insufficient firepower. Thin armor.” Barbarossa muttered to himself, his gaze calmly fixed on Little White. “These are the prices for having these two main guns. I actually wish I had never had them, then maybe I would have gotten healthy ship equipment.”

Xiaobai and Barbarossa exchanged glances, then looked away, their eyes fixed on the menacing, sky-covering "Fortress" ship behind Barbarossa.

indeed.

The cost of using the 510mm main guns of the Super Yamato is only bearable by land-based ship-based equipment like the Shiro. The cost of using the 533mm main guns of the Barbarossa, which are even more powerful, is naturally even more staggering.

I guess only a massive ship like the Barbarossa could drive a main gun of that size...

No wonder the combat power meter showed Barbarossa's mobility attribute as 1. It would be strange if such a large ship had a high mobility value.

"...Is it too late to take it down now?" Little White asked Barbarossa.

“My ship equipment has been like this since it was born, and even if I lose the turrets now, I cannot change the form of my ship equipment,” Barbarossa said.

"Oh..." Xiaobai nodded in response and fell silent.

Barbarossa glanced at Little White, then gently waved upwards. The two main cannons immediately rose into the sky, and a bright red light shone from their barrels.

Boom!

The sound was powerful and resounding.

Two fireballs, laden with raging flames, shot straight into the sky from the cannon barrels. A ring of sound waves spread out from the barrels, causing the water beneath Little White and Barbarossa's feet to vibrate incessantly. The water surface shattered like glass, then merged back together, only to shatter again in an endless cycle.

The shells blasted away a small patch of the thick clouds in the sky, and sunlight streamed unhindered into the city through the opening, adding a few bright spots to the dark, ruined urban landscape.

“This is my secret,” Barbarossa said to Little White, lowering his hand.

"Hmm..." Xiaobai nodded with mixed feelings, "Hmm... I received it."

The black light shone again from behind Barbarossa, and the massive ship rigging gradually sank into the black light and disappeared.

Soon, the massive ship equipment, which resembled a mountain peak, disappeared without a trace, and the water returned to calm, leaving only Little White and Barbarossa.

"So this is... the secret Miss Barbarossa wanted to tell me this time..." Little White looked around at the restored surroundings, subconsciously letting out a sigh of relief, and said to Barbarossa with a wry smile, "To be honest... it really scared me a little..."

Xiao Bai had never imagined that Barbarossa possessed a main cannon that surpassed the size and specifications of the super-large cannon.

The most powerful main gun in history was the 460mm Yamato gun of the Deep Sea Yamato... but now the 510mm and 533mm main guns are making their presence felt, and it feels like the Yamato gun's prestige has dropped considerably.

possible……

That's the capriciousness of a planned ship, isn't it?

Xiao Bai felt a surge of emotion.

Seeing Xiaobai exhale with relief, a faint ripple appeared on Barbarossa's usually calm face.

“…I’m sorry,” Barbarossa said to Little White.

"Huh?" Xiaobai asked curiously, then seemed to realize something. "Oh... Miss Barbarossa, are you talking about how your action of summoning the main cannon scared me just now? It's okay, you didn't do anything to me in the end."

“No. That’s not what I wanted to apologize for.” Barbarossa shook his head.

"Which one is that?"

"I'm very sorry to have shown you ship equipment as ugly as my own body," Barbarossa said in a low voice.

"Huh? Ugly?" Xiaobai was taken aback, looking at Barbarossa with a blank expression. "What's ugly? The ship's equipment? The body?"

Xiao Bai felt that Barbarossa had just misunderstood something.

While Barbarossa's ship equipment was indeed rather large and aggressive, in Xiaobai's eyes, it wasn't an ugly feature. On the contrary, Xiaobai, who came from a land-based background, even felt that Barbarossa's ship equipment had a certain majesty and friendliness—ugliness had absolutely nothing to do with Barbarossa's ship equipment.

As for the body...

Barbarossa has a beautiful face, a curvaceous figure, and snow-white, unblemished skin... If such a body can be called ugly, then there are probably no beautiful bodies in the world.

“Miss Barbarossa, I think there is a deep misunderstanding between us.”

"No need for comforting, I know myself..."

"No, no, no, you don't know, you have absolutely no idea!" Xiaobai shook his head, walked up to Barbarossa, took Barbarossa's hand, and said to Barbarossa earnestly, "Miss Barbarossa, you are very beautiful! Your body is also very beautiful! Although your ship equipment is different in style from ordinary battleship ship equipment, it has nothing to do with being ugly. In fact, your ship equipment is very cool, and I like it very much!"

"But……"

"No buts!"

"...Then why didn't you want to see my body when you were playing cards before?"

"That was because..."

Just as Xiaobai was about to explain, he suddenly noticed that Barbarossa was cautiously staring at him, her eyes flashing with a mixture of expectation and sorrow.

"Prove it."

Barbarossa murmured, slowly squatted down in front of Little White, took Little White's hand, and moved it to the button on her chest.

"……"noob.

Absolutely!

Xiaobai understood.

So Barbarossa was just being stubborn!

Chapter 2079 Xiaobai's Favorite ( )

"Miss Barbarossa...are you sure you want to do this now..." Little White stared wide-eyed as his hand was pulled to Barbarossa's chest, and couldn't help but swallow hard.

“That’s right, just to prove it.” Barbarossa held Little White’s hand and moved it to the button on his chest, speaking calmly.

"..."

Xiao Bai was speechless for a moment.

Little White raised his head and carefully observed Barbarossa's expression.

Then a wonderful sense of enlightenment blossomed in Xiaobai's heart.

Xiao Bai understood.

Barbarossa is likely the type who is "very self-conscious about being too tall"!

What Xiaobai considers to be a very imposing and powerful battleship rigging might not actually be that cool in Barbarossa's own eyes. Instead, it might have caused her to feel inferior, thinking that "her rigging is not streamlined or beautiful enough." This inferiority complex even gradually spread from the rigging to her physical body over time.

Therefore.

Barbarossa was so bothered by Xiaobai's refusal to observe her body as a bargaining chip for losing, which is why she held Xiaobai's hand and anxiously sought his confirmation when he explained his point of view.

Thinking of this, Xiao Bai couldn't help but smile bitterly.

—Even Dean Shenhai has girls like this.

Before Xiaobai dropped out of school to become an admiral, he had seen some similar examples in his class.

Some of the girls in the class have developed quite well because of their parents' good genes and the rich nutrition they received during their growth period. Not only are they a head taller than other girls their age, but they also have graceful figures. When they run 800 meters in PE class, their long legs give them a significant lead. This makes Xiaobai, who is the same age but whose height has always been below average, very envious.

Being tall is certainly something to be envied.

Among the tall girls Xiaobai has met, a considerable number are proud of their physical attributes. However, inevitably, a small number of tall girls are very concerned about their height. As they are noticed by others more often, they gradually become self-conscious about their height, feeling that their bodies are too large and lack femininity. Instead, they begin to envy short girls like Xiaobai.

When Xiaobai was in school, several tall female classmates seriously asked her how to achieve developmental delays like Xiaobai.

Xiaobai said that these things really made her angry just thinking about them.

What's wrong with being an older sister?

Isn't being tall and having long legs appealing?

This group of people.

One by one.

What exactly are they complaining about?

Little White wished he could get a growth hormone injection so that when he woke up the next day, he would be taller than Missouri!

Ugh.

Xiao Bai sorted out his somewhat off-topic thoughts and turned his attention back to Barbarossa.

Perhaps because he was recalling some unpleasant memories, Xiaobai's gaze as he looked at Barbarossa was inexplicably filled with a sense of suppressed anger.