Elder brother's garrison

"Humans can also have this body type; not everyone can be like a ship girl!"

Baltimore, standing nearby, hurriedly tried to defend Xiaobai.

“Exactly, exactly.” York crossed his arms and nodded seriously.

"……"noob.

“That makes sense.” The blonde woman listened to York and Baltimore’s words. Her gaze towards Xiaobai softened slightly, but she still spoke to Xiaobai with some indifference, “If you were a man, you would never forgive me for using the Admiral’s Network to investigate me. But since you and I are both women, and your ship girl even defeated me, I can pretend this never happened as long as you sincerely apologize to me.”

"I'm so sorry!" Xiaobai raised his hands and then plopped down on the ground.

Xiaobai's apology was quite sincere.

The blonde woman silently looked at Little White lying on the ground and thought for a while.

"...It won't happen again."

The blonde woman dusted herself off, glanced at York for a moment, and then turned to go back to the alley not far away.

"Hey! Wait a minute, ship girl, please wait!"

Just as the blonde woman was about to leave, Xiaobai's voice came from behind her.

The blonde woman stopped and looked back.

Xiao Bai quickly stood up from the ground, hurriedly put on a mask, and then smiled at himself.

"Miss Ship Girl, what's your name?"

"Salt Lake City," the blonde ship girl said after a slight hesitation.

"So you're Miss Salt Lake City. It's a pleasure to meet you. Um...may I ask where you work at the naval base?" Xiaobai asked with a smile.

“…No comment.” Salt Lake City looked down at Little White. “You have access to the Admiral Network, which means you’re an officially appointed Admiral, right? I don’t know which naval base you’re from, but I know this won’t do you any good. Is everything alright? If not, I’m going back.”

"Hey! Miss Salt Lake City, wait a minute!" Little White quickly raised his hand.

"What are you doing now?" Salt Lake City frowned, his expression no longer very polite.

"Um... then I won't ask where you're from." Little White pursed her lips and asked Salt Lake City, "Um... I just wanted to ask you for a favor, could you please take us into that attic?"

"The attic? Are you looking for the person inside?" Salt Lake City looked at Little White.

"Yes, you must have been hired to protect him, right?" Xiaobai nodded. "I won't hurt him, but I want to see him, that's all."

"...You came here because of news about Dean Deepsea?" Salt Lake City asked after a moment of silence.

"Mm." Xiaobai nodded.

"..." Salt Lake City was silent for a moment, her gaze sweeping over the two ship girls beside her. "The Deep Sea Dean is not so easy to find. Even if you do find him, you can't fight him alone unless you have the combat power of a top ten naval base."

"Well..." Xiaobai smiled at Salt Lake City.

"Hmph...you're courting death." Salt Lake City snorted coldly, glanced at Little White, and turned to continue walking down the alley. "Follow me."

"Thank you, Miss Salt Lake City!" Little White breathed a sigh of relief and quickly followed Salt Lake City's footsteps.

Salt Lake City led the three of them, including Little White, back into her alley.

The alley was dark and secluded, more than two hundred meters away from the other end of the attic, and it did not attract the attention of the travelers who were focused on the attic.

When Xiaobai and his two companions entered the alley, they saw a large black trench coat spread out on the ground.

Salt Lake City bent down, picked up the trench coat from the floor, opened her ship equipment space, and stuffed it all inside.

"What is this trench coat...?" York asked Salt Lake City.

"It's for guard duty. We don't want to reveal our ship girl identities, at least not in front of the general public." Salt Lake City said as she squatted down in front of the drainage ditch and removed the railing. "After all, our intention is to make this place safe. If the ship girls get too close to the public, it will only cause more trouble."

"Oh, I see." Xiaobai nodded. "Then this drainage ditch is..."

"The entrance to the attic."

"Oh... um?" Little White was about to nod when she suddenly froze. "Huh? What, the entrance?"

“The attic is now surrounded by tourists 24 hours a day. There are layers upon layers of people outside, making it impossible to get in or out by ordinary means.” Salt Lake City sighed and said, “So we came up with a solution: when we need to replenish resources or purchase daily necessities, we choose to enter and exit the attic from here.”

"Climb...climb the drainage ditch?" Xiaobai covered her mouth, staring blankly at the drainage ditch.

"What, you think it's dirty?" Salt Lake City jumped into the drainage ditch, found a manhole cover in it, and gave Little White a mocking smile. "You just told me you were looking for Dean Deep Sea, but you can't even handle this kind of environment? You can still give up now."

After saying that, Salt Lake City removed the manhole cover, gently pushed off the ground with his palm, and jumped into the sewer.

"Admiral, how about I carry you down?" York looked at the dark sewer entrance and quickly turned to Little White, saying, "Close your eyes and cover your nose, I'll put you in there soon."

"No need, thank you York, I can do it myself." Little White took a deep breath, patted York's arm, smiled gratefully at her, then walked to the sewer entrance, mustered her courage, and jumped in.

Little White leaped into the darkness in a flash.

The feeling of landing was sudden and brief.

Almost instantly, in less than a few seconds, Xiaobai felt himself land on the ground.

The expected sour smell from the sewers didn't reach Xiaobai's nostrils; instead, the air was filled with a pleasant fragrance.

"Huh?" Xiaobai opened his eyes and saw that he was surrounded by a silver-white iron plate.

The space under the manhole cover is not a real sewer, but a secret passage.

"You've got guts." Salt Lake City leaned against the silver-white iron plate next to Xiaobai, looking at him with a hint of admiration. "I thought you'd take at least a few minutes to think before coming down."

"Miss Salt Lake City, where is this...?"

"A passageway."

"But you said..."

“What? I haven’t said a single thing about the environment here,” Salt Lake City said. “I also didn’t say this place was a sewer; you’ve just made that up in your head.”

"Uh……"

Boom!Boom!

Two more sounds of things hitting the ground.

York and Baltimore jumped down and landed next to Little White.

"Huh? Why is this place so clean?" York, who had landed in the passage, stared wide-eyed at his surroundings. "Eh? Wasn't this supposed to be a sewer?"

“With the ship girls’ dexterity, digging a tunnel in half a day is not a difficult task.” Salt Lake City said, walking to the entrance of the tunnel and moving the manhole cover outside to the entrance. “We are not afraid of getting dirty, but that doesn’t mean we like it. If we are to stay here for a long time, it would be really disappointing to have to climb from the sewer into the attic every day.”

"I knew it..." Xiaobai patted his chest and sighed.

“Let’s go.” Salt Lake City walked towards the end of the passage. “There’s only one road. It’s just over two hundred meters long.”

The three of them followed Salt Lake City's footsteps and headed towards the end of the passage.

"I see." Baltimore remarked as he walked.

"What's wrong?" Xiaobai tilted her head and looked at Baltimore.

“I was just wondering how Miss Salt Lake City managed to get past so many people outside the attic and get to us without us even noticing,” Baltimore said to Little White with a smile. “So there’s a secret passage. That makes all the difference.”

"But can secret tunnels be dug up just like that? What if you dig up a water pipe, a gas pipeline, or a fiber optic cable? Wouldn't that be a big problem?" York asked curiously. "On another note, most naval bases don't have that much authority to dig tunnels in civilian areas, do they? Isn't that illegal?"

“We avoided these things when digging the tunnel,” Salt Lake City replied, listening to York’s words. “As for the permission issue, we obtained the relevant permits from the relevant departments before digging.”

"Incredible."

York and Baltimore, hearing this, approached Little White.

Little White stared at Salt Lake City's retreating figure, nodding thoughtfully.

It seems... the naval base where this Salt Lake City lady resides wields quite a bit of power. No wonder when I asked her about her naval base earlier, she said it wasn't information someone as insignificant as herself could possibly know.

The 200-meter underground route was reached quickly during the quiet journey.

At the end of the underground passage was a staircase leading upwards. Salt Lake City stood beside the staircase, pointed upwards at Xiaobai and the other two.

“This is the exit. Climb out and you’ll be inside the attic,” Salt Lake City said. “I’ll climb up first, and you can follow me.”

"Oh well!"

Salt Lake City climbed the stairs and went upwards.

Little White followed behind Salt Lake City, climbing the stairs while looking up at the sky.

Xiaobai wanted to see what the passageways looked like.

But when Xiaobai looked up, the first thing she saw was Salt Lake City's gray dress, and the view inside the dress.

A pair of shapely, snow-white thighs formed a striking and beautiful space within the circular area of ​​the gray dress, and the muscle lines of the legs rubbed together tightly with each step.

"Oh……"

Xiao Bai blinked, and couldn't help but glance at Salt Lake City several more times with a sense of wonder.

"...Don't look around."

Salt Lake City seemed to sense Xiaobai's gaze. She freed one hand to press down on her skirt to cover her buttocks, and a hint of impoliteness emerged in her voice.

Chapter 2327 The person in charge in the study

Upon hearing the sound, Xiaobai immediately lowered its head and obediently climbed the ladder.

The ladder leading to the exit is five or six meters high, and at the top is a tightly closed metal door.

Salt Lake City led the three of them, including Little White, to the iron gate. She withdrew her hand from her skirt and tapped rhythmically on the outer shell of the iron gate.

"Bang, bang, bang, bang."

As if confirming a secret code, the knocking was three soft knocks followed by one loud one.

About two or three seconds passed.

"Creak—"

The heavy iron gate was pulled open from the other end.

"This is it."

Salt Lake City turned around and said something to the three people behind him, then lightly jumped up the ladder and nimbly leaped onto the other side of the iron gate.

The three of them quickly followed Salt Lake City's footsteps.

On the other side of the iron gate was a rather spacious hall.

At this moment, Xiaobai and the other two should be inside the attic. The attic hall is decorated in an antique style and occupies an enormous area. There are more than a dozen ship girls in the hall. They are wearing the same uniforms as the black-clad bodyguards outside the attic, with their wide hoods turned up to reveal their fair and beautiful faces.

These ship girls had gentle and serene expressions, holding hot water cups or vegetarian bread in their hands. They exuded a completely different leisurely aura from the black-clad bodyguards outside the attic, and seemed to be taking a break during their shift change.

One of the ship girls with green hair was the one who opened the iron gates of Salt Lake City.

"Salt Lake City, you're back! You just ran off without even saying goodbye, giving us quite a fright. Hmm..." Seeing Salt Lake City return, the green-haired ship girl who opened the door breathed a sigh of relief. She was only halfway through her welcome when she noticed the three people, including Xiaobai, emerging from behind the iron gate. A hint of confusion appeared in her beautiful eyes. "Salt Lake City, who are these three behind you...?"

"A fellow traveler," Salt Lake City said, brushing the dust off his clothes.

"Companions... do you mean the admiral and the ship girls?"

"They want to see the Dean of the Deep Sea, so they want to see their protector," Salt Lake City explained briefly to the Green Ship Girl. "There are too many people outside, so I brought them in because they are colleagues."

"Eh... I ran into a fellow ship girl just by going out..." The green-haired ship girl was a little surprised.

"Lure them out?"

"Ahem!" Xiaobai coughed twice to attract the attention of the green-haired ship girl, then smiled politely at her, "Hello, ship girl sister."

"Hello there." The green-haired ship girl smiled at Xiaobai. "I didn't expect to meet a fellow ship girl here."

"We didn't know there were military ship girls guarding this place before we came," Xiaobai asked the green-clad ship girl. "Were you entrusted by the owner of this attic to protect him?"

"Hmm... half right." The green-clad ship girl thought for a moment and shook her head at Xiaobai.

"In terms of the outcome, while we are indeed protecting the owner of this attic, we have not received any commission from him." Salt Lake City walked to the iron gate, squatted down, and closed the heavy iron gate. "Or rather, it's more accurate to say that we are protectively detaining him rather than protecting the owner of this attic."

"Protective...house arrest?"

"If you want to ask more questions, go upstairs to the study. The person in charge of this operation is there."

"Uh...actually, we just wanted to meet the person who filmed the video...as for the others..."

“The steps are the same. If you want to see him, you also need to go to the study in advance to get the person in charge’s permission.” Salt Lake City said, putting one hand on his waist. “Don’t worry, although she is the person in charge, she is easier to talk to than I am.”

Xiao Bai looked at Salt Lake City's serious expression and gave a wry smile.

"OK then."

"To find the study, go up the stairs here and you'll see it on the third floor," the green-haired ship girl said enthusiastically. "If you can't find it, you can ask a nearby ship girl for help. There are quite a few of our companions in this attic."