Elder brother's garrison

"What evidence?" Xiaobai asked curiously upon hearing this.

"The evidence is..." President Er Gou had just opened her mouth to explain when she suddenly seemed to remember something. She looked down at the hilt of the knife in her hand for a while, then raised her chin at Xiao Bai, "...Anyway, Xiao Bai, give me a piece of deep-sea metal first."

"Oh, oh." Xiaobai reached into the ship's equipment space and pulled out a piece of whitish deep-sea metal.

"Little White Sister, is this piece of deep-sea metal you gave me from an ordinary deep-sea creature?" President Er Gou reached out and took it.

"This is the deep-sea metal from the Deep Sea Dean in Chapter Six," Xiaobai replied.

During the recent Chapter 6 Deepsea Dean event, the newbie naval base farmed a lot of Deepsea Dean metal. Most of the lower-quality Deepsea Dean metal was handed over to the Admiral Guild in exchange for tons of mission points to solidify the newbie naval base's world number one ranking. The other part of the high-quality Deepsea metal was placed in the newbie's ship equipment space so that the newbie could take out a piece to chew on from time to time.

"So that means this thing is harder than ordinary deep-sea metal, right?" President Er Gou asked rhetorically.

"Hmm... if we're talking about hardness, it should be like this." Xiaobai nodded.

Deep-sea metal is, in a sense, part of deep-sea ship equipment. It is one of the strongest metals in the world today. Only attacks from ship girls can destroy it. Ordinary cold weapons, even if they break the blade, cannot leave any mark on it.

"Alright, little white sister, you'd better watch carefully." Guild Master Er Gou narrowed his eyes, gave Little White a smug smile, and then gently tossed the Deep Sea Dean's metal into the air.

Xiao Bai stared as the Deep Sea Dean's metal flew up from President Er Gou's hand and hovered in the air.

President Er Gou very stylishly raised his military knife and used all his strength to slash at the falling Deep Sea Dean's metal.

Snapped!

when!

"oops!"

President Er Gou's attempt to show off failed, and he missed his target.

The blade of the broken military knife slammed into the Deep Sea Dean Metal like a baseball bat. The Deep Sea Dean Metal transformed into a high-speed spinning baseball and flew towards Xiaobai's forehead, slamming into Xiaobai's head.

There was a flash of fire.

The Deep Sea Dean's metal shot out in a perfect arc on Xiaobai's head, spitting out a string of sparks, before hitting the ceiling and embedding itself deeply into the wall with a thud.

Xiao Bai covered his head and took two shaky steps back.

"President sister, you..."

"Uh..." President Er Gou, holding a military knife, looked embarrassed. "Um... I was just trying to show off... Are you alright?"

"President Sister... let's not do this again next time..." Xiaobai looked at President Ergou with a helpless expression. "I'm fine... but if it were an ordinary person, it might not work."

President Er Gou's strength is also at the ship girl level. Under that kind of kinetic energy, the deep-sea metal that was ejected was practically a small cannonball. Fortunately, Xiao Bai had ship equipment to protect her. Otherwise, if an ordinary person had been hit hard on the head by this metal lump, they would probably have been sent directly to the ICU with an oxygen tube.

"Cough cough cough... I'll reflect on my actions, I'll reflect on my actions." President Er Gou bowed his head to Xiao Bai. "Then let's try to be normal."

"What do you mean by 'normal'?"

President Er Gou picked Bai Ying up from the bed, then used the blade of his military knife to pry open the deep-sea metal embedded in the wall.

President Er Gou placed the Deep Sea Dean Metal on the bedside table, then picked up the broken military knife in his hand and lightly sliced ​​the Deep Sea Metal with the blade.

brush.

It's like cutting tofu.

The sturdy deep-sea metal was sliced ​​in two by the blade of the saber, the cut surface was perfectly smooth, without any burrs.

"Huh?!" Xiaobai exclaimed in surprise, "It's sliced ​​so smoothly?"

"See, I didn't lie to you, did I?" Guild Master Er Gou said smugly to Xiao Bai. "Only ship girls can damage deep-sea ship equipment, and this knife was made from the ship equipment of dozens of top retired ship girls, so it can easily slice through the torso of deep-sea creatures."

"I see... Eh?" Xiaobai nodded. She wasn't unfamiliar with the attributes of Baiying's sword, but she was surprised that Guild Master Ergou could tell her the origin of the sword. "So, what you just said, Guild Master, is that the sword my brother left me was also made from the ship girl's ship equipment?"

"What do you mean 'also'? It's this one," said President Er Gou. "Do you know how unorthodox and wasteful it is to use the ship equipment of retired ship girls to make a personal blade? How could those old fogies allow someone to use precious ship girl equipment to make a blade? No one in history has ever succeeded, and no one has ever tried it. So even if your brother was the world's number one admiral back then, he absolutely did not have this right."

"Ah... then, how did it finally come about?"

"Hey, isn't it because his wife is here?" Guild Master Er Gou bit his tongue and winked at Xiao Bai. "I sent a letter to my sister, asking her to put pressure on the higher-ups on behalf of the whole family. I also asked that brat Mu Yu to help us navigate between the old fogies. Then your brother used his connections in the Admiral circle. In the end, we went through a lot of trouble. Only because your brother is the world's number one Admiral, and the number one Admiral in history, did those old fogies finally grant your brother the right to forge swords after he paid a heavy price for serving the Admiral Guild for a year."

"So, it's this difficult..."

"So, Xiaobai, you understand now, right? This knife is a true world-class treasure. Even your brother struggled to make one back then, how could there possibly be a second one in the world?" President Er Gou turned the broken military knife around and handed it to Xiaobai. "Remember, this knife is called Deep Sea Killer."

“Deep Sea Killer…” Xiao Bai grasped the hilt of the knife that Guild Master Er Gou handed him, looking at the blade full of teeth marks and chips with a strange expression, “…Could it really be this one…”

"One hundred percent... no, ten thousand percent, one hundred million percent is this one!" President Er Gou was very certain.

"Then why is it in Miss Bai Ying's hands?" Xiao Bai asked, puzzled.

"Yeah, why? That's what I was going to ask you too." President Er Gou put one hand on his hip. "I remember this knife should be in that brat Mu Yu's hands."

"Mu Yu?" Xiao Bai was taken aback.

"Yes."

"Ah... could it be..." Xiaobai's eyes narrowed slightly.

Xiao Bai remembered that before she went to Chapter Six, Mu Yu, who had traveled a long way to give her instructions, asked her casually if she had seen his military knife. It was only after Mu Yu asked that question that she encountered Bai Ying again in Chapter Six, and Bai Ying was holding the knife in her hands at that time.

Could it be that... these two knives are one?

That's it!

"I understand." Xiaobai nodded, her eyes suddenly brightening.

"What do you understand?" asked President Er Gou.

"This knife must have been taken from Mu Yu by Miss Bai Ying," Xiao Bai explained to President Er Gou.

"Good grief, are you just going to steal it?"

"Well... sort of..." Xiaobai gave a wry smile, then looked thoughtfully at Bai Ying in Er Gou's arms. After gazing at Bai Ying's sweet and innocent sleeping face for a while, she slowly said, "Hmm... but it shouldn't be entirely true. Our newbie naval base has never had a ship girl retire since its establishment, so the dozens of ship girl ship equipment used as the main material for this sword definitely didn't come from our naval base. Miss Bai Ying once told me that this sword has a connection with her ship girls... and her naval base no longer exists, so the main material for this sword should have been provided by Miss Bai Ying's naval base after its disbandment."

"Oh wow." Guild Master Er Gou was taken aback. "She was an admiral?"

"Yes."

"But doesn't she have ship equipment?"

"We have that too."

"Hiss... Oh, what you said actually makes a damn sense." President Er Gou suddenly realized, then gritted his teeth, "That brat Mu Yu can't even keep an eye on a knife. I'll pay him a visit to the Pacific Ocean one day and teach him a lesson."

"Good luck, President Sister..." Xiaobai chuckled dryly, then asked curiously, "But speaking of which, why is this knife in Mu Yu's hands?"

"Well... according to your brother, he was afraid of losing it if he carried it with him, so he asked Mu Yu to keep it for him."

"Hey... what's there to be afraid of if you're the world's number one admiral?" Xiao Bai couldn't help but smile.

Chapter 2138 Missouri is Busy

"This Deep Sea Killer... logically speaking, after you took over the Rookie Town Guard, that brat Mu Yu should have handed it over to you." Guild Master Er Gou shrugged.

"Then why has it been delayed until now?"

"Do you think he put in a lot of effort to make you, a nobody who couldn't even pass the admiral exam, the world's number one admiral in one fell swoop?" After hearing Xiaobai's words, President Er Gou chuckled and poked Xiaobai's forehead. "Every day he's either having a bromance with this old geezer or playing tai chi with that stinky old man. To make you qualified to be an admiral, he single-handedly suppressed all the objections from the higher-ups. Do you believe that he's still cleaning up your messes even now? Just making you an admiral was enough to give him a hard time. How could he have time to deal with the handover procedures for the Deep Sea Assassins?"

"Huh? There's a procedure for handing over this knife?"

"What do you think? The equipment of dozens of top-tier ship girls was used to build this. Each of them is a war goddess. Logically, their equipment should be sent to a naval museum for future generations to admire, or to a ship equipment research center for in-depth research. The cost alone is beyond what money and numbers can measure." President Er Gou tapped the hilt of the Deep Sea Killer's knife. "Generally speaking, I can only describe this thing with two words: national treasure."

“National…national treasure…” Xiao Bai looked at the Deep Sea Killer in his hand, and his hand holding the hilt of the knife gradually began to tremble.

This knife is actually a national treasure!

At this moment, Xiao Bai's heart was not filled with joy at obtaining the national treasure, but rather with intense shock and panic.

As for why I panicked...

Xiao Bai looked at the teeth marks all over the blades of the deep-sea assassins.

...Those were all earned by biting them out one bite at a time!

Those teeth marks are irrefutable evidence!

I can't believe I bit this national treasure like this!

Xiao Bai remembered a news story he'd read before, about a mischievous kid at a museum who accidentally knocked over an antique vase, and suddenly his family was burdened with debts they could never repay in several lifetimes. The vase might not even be worth as much as the tip of a deep-sea assassin's knife. If he took a few bites like that, wouldn't he be arrested and sentenced...?

Just as Xiaobai was panicking, Er Gou's words came through Xiaobai's spine.

"But you're right, how did Bai Ying turn the Deep Sea Killer into this? There are even teeth marks all over him."

"Goo!"

Xiao Bai swallowed hard, turned his head, and met the gaze of President Er Gou, who was pinching his chin with a puzzled expression.

Just then, President Er Gou and Xiao Bai looked at each other.

Xiao Bai looked embarrassed.

"Um... President Sister."

"Hmm? What's up?"

"Actually... Miss Bai Ying didn't make the Deep Sea Assassin look like this..."

"Oh?"

"I did it..." Xiaobai's voice trailed off.

"..." President Er Gou.

Bai Ying's room instantly became incredibly quiet, so quiet that nothing could be heard except for the sound of Bai Ying's deep breathing as she slept.

"...You, you did this?" President Er Gou looked completely bewildered.

"It was...it was me." Xiaobai didn't dare to meet Er Gou's eyes.

President Er Gou lowered his head, pinched the Deep Sea Killer's blade between his fingertips, examined the teeth marks on the blade, then raised his eyebrows and stared at Xiao Bai's mouth for a while.

It's been a while.

President Er Gou finally let out a helpless voice.

"Well, it's you." President Er Gou shook his head.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry..." Xiao Bai was extremely regretful, so much so that he wished he could travel back in time to the time when he was preparing to devour the Deep Sea Killer, and punch himself twice in remorse.

"Hey, it's okay. Anyway, this knife is yours, so just let it be." President Er Gou didn't blame Xiao Bai at all.

"But, but he's still my brother..."

"Don't worry, your brother told me back when you were just a little kid that this knife was made for you. You can do whatever you want with it. In fact, if you actually ate it, that would be pretty awesome. I'd only have respect for you." Guild Master Er Gou shrugged.

"This……"

"By eating this thing, you've become one with it in a sense, haven't you?"

"Uh……"

"This is much better than letting it gather dust in the Admiral's office." Guild Master Er Gou patted Xiao Bai's head with a smile. Seeing that Xiao Bai still looked guilty, he seemed to remember something and changed the subject, asking, "Oh, by the way, is this stuff tasty?"

"Uh... the taste, the taste is alright..."

How does it compare to other things you've eaten?

"...But Yamato's horns taste better."

"Hahahaha!" Guild Master Er Gou slapped his thigh and laughed out loud. Then he picked up the broken Deep Sea Killer and said to Xiao Bai, "I've never seen anyone else eat this thing before. Show me how."

"Ah? This isn't good..."

"You've already eaten so many bites, what's one more bite?"

"No, I think we should wait until Miss Bai Ying is fully awake before asking for her opinion..."

"Enough with the nonsense, take this!" Guild Master Er Gou held the back of the Deep Sea Assassin's blade and pushed it against Xiao Bai's lips.

"Mmm! Hmm..." As soon as Xiaobai's mouth touched the Deep Sea Killer, it couldn't help but move on its own, taking a bite of the few still intact blades, and then crunching away.

"Holy crap, it really tastes like biting into a cookie." President Er Gou exclaimed in surprise.

"Um..." Xiaobai was too embarrassed to look at President Ergou.

"what about the taste?"

“It’s… it’s okay…”

"Want another bite?" President Er Gou asked curiously.

"Never mind, never mind..." Xiao Bai quickly waved her hand. After learning about the origins of the Deep Sea Assassin, she really didn't want to eat a single bite of the Deep Sea Assassin anymore. "This knife... well, let's leave it with Miss Bai Ying for now. I'll come back to talk to her about the knife after she wakes up."

"Sigh, what a pity." President Er Gou nodded and lay back on the bed.