Elder brother's garrison

"Let's run! You've taken down more than fifty people in this hall, but there are still thousands outside the villa!" Xiaobai said earnestly to Anna.

"..." Anna sighed as she looked at Xiaobai's serious expression. "No need."

"Isn't it enough? The people outside will be here soon..."

“Really, there’s no need.” Anna shook her head. She glanced at the door outside the hall and said, “I’ve already notified the main force. The riot police will be here soon to suppress the cult members outside. Until then, staying here is the safest option for us… Don’t worry, I’ve locked all the doors and windows of the villa. The villa has excellent security measures, and people outside won’t be able to get in anytime soon.”

At this point, Anna glanced at Xiaobai's expression.

Seeing Xiaobai staring at her with her beautiful big eyes, looking like she was listening attentively, Anna couldn't help but add another sentence to her.

"Actually, I am not a member of a cult."

“See, I see.” Xiaobai nodded.

“Anyway, the operation is over, so I’ll tell you.” Anna said, carefully choosing her words. “Actually, I’m an undercover agent.”

"From the police station?"

"Ah."

"Wow, that's amazing... This is the first time I've ever seen anything like it..." Xiaobai exclaimed in amazement, "She's such a beautiful older sister!"

"..." Anna looked at Xiaobai speechlessly.

"So the police had been keeping an eye on this cult all along?" Xiaobai asked again.

“Yes.” Anna nodded, glancing involuntarily at Deep Sea Akagi, inhaling her scent, and slowly said, “My undercover mission this time is to trace the source of a new type of drug.”

"Poison...poison what?" Xiaobai was stunned.

“It’s the Shroud of the Dead,” Anna said to Xiaobai. “It’s a new type of drug with unknown ingredients. Although there is no direct evidence that it is harmful to the human body, nor is there any evidence that it is physiologically addictive, most people who have come into contact with it have expressed unexplained psychological dependence. This cult has expanded rapidly precisely because of this. In order to avoid potential negative impacts in the future, we do not want to see it spread.”

"Oh..." Xiaobai turned her head and glanced at Deep Sea Akagi behind her.

“Unfortunately, I’ve been undercover here for a week, but I still haven’t been able to trace the source of the goods.” Anna sighed with her eyes closed. “You attacked the Pope, didn’t you? Since you’ve already ruined this place like this, we have no choice but to close the net ahead of schedule.”

"Uh... I'm sorry..." Xiaobai said awkwardly.

"Let's not talk about apologizing for now." Anna shook her head and pointed at Xiaobai. "Anyway, after the riot police arrive, you and your friend need to come with us to the police station to give a statement. We need to understand what happened and also report your itinerary during this period."

“Ah…this…” Xiaobai stammered.

Xiaobai was quite familiar with the police station's statement-taking process, and she was certainly willing to cooperate with the police officers.

But I have a deep-sea dean on my back...

If the police ask her where she came from, where she's going, and what her name is, how is she supposed to answer? And then there's the issue of Akagi's body odor. She's just come out of the tunnel; she can barely fool the undercover agent, but if she's at the police station giving a statement and maintains that strong fragrance the whole time, it'll be hard for her not to give herself away…

Thinking about this, Xiaobai suddenly had second thoughts.

"Um, Miss Undercover, could you let me go back first..."

Thinking of this, Xiaobai looked up and spoke to the nun in front of her.

But at that moment, Xiaobai's gaze passed over the nun's shoulder and happened to fall on the black-clad believers lying haphazardly on the floor of the hall.

Xiao Bai discovered something.

The high priest who had fallen first was now slowly getting up from the crowd.

His face was covered in blood, and his bloodshot eyes stared in this direction.

"So it was you... lowly commoners and evil demons... Our gods will punish you, I will, in your stead, deliver divine punishment!!!" The high priest stood swaying on the crowd, screaming and wailing, then reached into his clothes and pulled out a pistol.

Sister Anna was alerted by the sound behind her. Her expression changed instantly, and she jumped up from her chair and turned around.

But it was all too late.

boom! ! !

Flame jet.

The high priest laughed wildly as the recoil of the pistol knocked him to the ground, and a bullet flew straight toward Anna and Little White.

Anna felt as if she had fallen into an ice cave; her body was ice-cold.

In that instant, she seemed to see her own reflection in a time machine.

Oh no… I forgot to check the enemy's status… He's carrying a gun! I've always been very careful when I'm on missions before, so why did I relax so much this time, especially as the mission was nearing its end… Was it because of the scent of the Shroud of Remains?

There wasn't enough time. Anna barely had that one thought in her mind before the bullet was already in front of her.

But at this moment.

A petite, snow-white figure, like a ghost, teleported in front of Anna.

Boom! ! !

A sound like striking a steel plate rang out.

Chapter 2390 I'm coming clean.

The crisp sound of steel plates colliding echoed through the hall.

The next moment.

Xiao Bai staggered a couple of steps and slowly collapsed into Anna's arms.

“You—” Anna’s eyes widened instantly. She gasped first, then her eyes filled with fierce anger.

Anna grabbed a crowbar from beside her and hurled it like a spear towards the high priest.

After firing that shot, the high priest was knocked down by the recoil of the pistol and was temporarily unable to move. Anna threw the crowbar with perfect force and angle. The crowbar landed on the high priest's thigh with a whoosh and thud, embedding itself deeply into the flesh.

Blood splattered.

The high priest, who had fallen to the floor, let out a series of screams.

"Aaaaaah, my leg, my leg!!! You vile sow, how dare you—I'm going to kill you, I'm going to kill you, aaaaaah!" The high priest clutched his leg and rolled on the floor, the crowbar stuck in his thigh striking the floor repeatedly with his movements, making a clanging sound in the hall.

"Still dare to resist!!!" Anna shouted angrily. She put down Little White and rushed to the high priest who was still cursing. She raised her foot and kicked him hard in the chin.

With a powerful kick, the high priest lost consciousness, his neck lolling to the side as he passed out.

Anna, panting heavily after kicking him, stared at the figure on the ground. She quickly squatted down and began to grope the high priest, who was covered in blood.

Soon, Anna pulled a blood-stained silver pistol from the high priest.

The moment Anna gripped the pistol, she felt its heavy weight, her arm trembled, and her heart skipped a beat.

……broken.

This pistol... is a Desert Eagle.

Anna looked down at the blood-stained pistol and felt a chill run through her.

The Desert Eagle is a renowned semi-automatic pistol, renowned for its immense power. A single shot to the human body is virtually fatal; even standard bulletproof vests offer little protection against its bullets. A bullet from this pistol hitting the brain is like being smashed into a watermelon with a brick. Even a shot to the leg or hand, relatively safer areas, can cause horrific injuries equivalent to amputation!

Anna clearly remembered that the white-haired girl had run right in front of the bullet to shield her, taking the bullet head-on into her chest...

Anna closed her eyes, gritting her teeth and gripping the pistol tightly in her hand.

Anna hadn't had a chance to check the white-haired girl's injuries yet, but since the weapon that shot her was a Desert Eagle, there was probably no need to check her injuries... Based on Anna's guess, the girl's chest should have been blasted open by the Desert Eagle bullet, and her breathing should have stopped for a moment.

The high priest had just been aiming at himself.

He should have been the one to bear the bullets...

It was that girl... who saved me.

After figuring out what had just happened, Anna was not filled with the relief of escaping death, but rather with intense self-blame and regret.

Anna quickly disassembled the Desert Eagle in her hand into parts, then turned around with a somber expression and walked towards the white-haired girl.

　"At least... let me apologize to the corpse..."

Anna staggered back to Xiaobai, squatted down, and looked at Xiaobai's chest with some reluctance.

But next second.

Anna suddenly froze, her expression instantly shifting from regret to astonishment, and then to shock.

Huh?

what happened?

When Anna began to examine the white-haired girl's chest, she noticed something: the girl who had shielded her from the Desert Eagle bullet was still experiencing slight rises and falls in her chest!

Is she still alive?

Anna quickly bent down and reached out to Xiaobai's chest.

Xiao Bai's shirt had been burned to a crisp during the shooting. Anna gently touched Xiao Bai's chest with her fingers, and the charred fabric turned to powder like burnt paper, revealing a small patch of soft, translucent, snow-white skin underneath.

Anna fumbled around for a while, then pulled a deformed bullet out of Xiaobai's chest.

It was a metal projectile, its tip shrunken and its overall shape distorted, yet still radiating intense heat. Judging from its shape, it looked as if the bullet had struck some indestructible solid during flight, resulting in high-temperature deformation under the immense kinetic energy.

This...this is a Desert Eagle...

Is this child's body made of steel plates?

Anna stared blankly at the bullet in her hand, her mouth agape.

It was clear that the bullet in front of her was beyond Anna's comprehension.

Just as Anna was facing the biggest test of her career, the white-haired girl beneath her finally let out a slow cry of survival.

"hiss……"

Little White squinted, lay on the ground, took a deep breath, and then slowly got up.

"It hurts...it hurts so much..."

Xiao Bai rubbed his chest, looking around in confusion, and finally saw the nun kneeling beside him, clutching a bullet, staring blankly at him.

"Oh, Sister Sister, are you alright?" Little White gave Anna a cute smile. "That was close! You almost got hit."

"Who...who exactly are you?" Anna stared wide-eyed, pointing at Xiaobai's chest. "How...how did you do that?"

"Huh? Oh..." Xiaobai followed Anna's gaze and looked down, noticing the condition of her chest. "You mean this... this is..."

Xiao Bai patted his chest and pondered for a while.

"Hmm... things have come to this... it seems that continuing to hide is no longer an option." Xiaobai sighed, then looked at Anna and said with a profound expression, "Sister, actually... I'm also an undercover agent."

"Undercover...?"

"Yes, that's right."

"Impossible! I didn't know anything about this!"

“It’s normal that you don’t know, Sister Sister…” Xiaobai waved her hand at the nun, smiled slightly, tilted her head and thought for a while, then slowly explained, “Actually… I’m not an undercover agent from the police station, I’m an undercover agent sent by the Governor’s Mansion, you know the Governor’s Mansion, right?”

"The Governor's Mansion...?" Anna was stunned. "Is it that ship girl organization?"

"Yes."

"You are... a ship girl?"

Chapter 2391 In short, the admiral is omnipotent.

Anna certainly knew about the Governor's Mansion.

The Governor's Office... to put it simply, is an organization that has a lot of ship girls.

Ship girls... Although it's unclear how powerful they are, it's said that each of them is a terrifying being capable of hand-to-hand combat with sea monsters. If they are ship girls, then the fact that this white-haired girl can withstand bullets with her bare hands makes sense.

Thinking of this, a hint of realization flashed across Anna's eyes.

"So you're a ship girl."

"No, I'm human."

But the next second, Xiaobai's answer left Anna confused once again.

"You...you're human?" Anna was stunned. She looked down at Little White's chest and stammered, "But you...you just now...how could a human do that..."

"We owe all of this to Kantai Collection Technology." Xiaobai clasped her hands together, looking devout.

"Shipgirls...technology?" Anna asked, puzzled.

"Look," Xiaobai pointed behind him, "you see."

Anna followed Xiaobai's finger and looked behind her. Not far behind Xiaobai, a beautiful woman with black hair and red eyes was lying on the ground.

This beautiful woman with black hair and red eyes is none other than Akagi Fukami.