Elder brother's garrison

A complete intersection of roads.

Under the traffic lights, several young people who knew each other were discussing current trends.

But none of the young people discussing this noticed that right above them, on a tall billboard by the roadside, a beautiful golden figure was crouching and gazing into the distance.

A gentle breeze blew, and her golden hair fluttered in the wind.

Saratoga squinted, resting one hand on his forehead, watching the distant traffic.

"Big truck... big truck... very big truck... oh, no."

Saratoga glanced at the cars at the intersection, then shook his head regretfully, got up, and jumped to the side.

High in the sky, Saratoga's agile figure leaped onto another, even taller billboard with a few bounds, and then easily climbed to the roof of a nearby high-rise building by stepping on water pipes.

The wind is even stronger on high-rise buildings.

Saratoga summoned her ship's equipment and launched several carrier-based aircraft. Then she squatted on the edge of a tall building, propping her chin on her hand and looking at the surrounding scenery.

"Hmm...it still feels...hard to find..."

Saratoga was a little troubled, but she patted her cheeks to cheer herself up.

"No! Xiaobai already said he's leaving it to me! I have to give it my all!"

Saratoga regained her confidence, glanced at the map on her phone, then found a direction and leaped toward the roof of a building on one side.

……

The troops were divided into three groups.

While Saratoga was busy walking along the bustling streets.

Meanwhile, in a sparsely populated warehouse district of Yuncheng, atop a tall tower, an invisible wave of spiritual energy spread out like electromagnetic waves, extending in all directions.

An invisible network of spiritual energy almost completely encompasses this entire area.

After about half a minute, the spreading spiritual energy slowly writhed like the tail of a giant snake, then retracted faster and faster, condensing towards the top of the tower.

The vast, ocean-like spiritual power was finally completely absorbed into a petite white figure atop the tower.

Atop the tower hundreds of meters high, a white figure leaped gracefully down, then crashed into a nearby haystack with a thud.

There was a crash.

Little White, with straw stalks and withered leaves on its head, emerged from the haystack and dusted itself off.

Xiaobai looked puzzled. She lowered her head, rested her chin on her hand, and stood there thinking for a long time as if she had encountered a difficult problem.

"My lord?" Akagi from the deep sea approached from beside the haystack. "Have you found anything?"

"..." Xiaobai looked up at Shenhai Chicheng who was walking up, and nodded. "Hmm... I found something."

"There was actually a discovery?" Akagi was taken aback.

“Yeah, I find it strange too…” Xiaobai scratched his head and frowned, “…Logically speaking, it shouldn’t be possible to find anything…”

Five minutes ago, when Xiaobai arrived at the area she was in charge of with Deep Sea Akagi and Deep Sea Kaga, she felt a sense of despair as she faced the hundreds, thousands, and even tens of thousands of large warehouses in the area.

Thousands upon thousands of large warehouses!

These are all enterprise-level material warehouses!

This is not as simple as just looking at a car on the street and checking the passengers inside. Putting aside the question of how to break into these large warehouses with private locks and guards, even if these warehouses were completely open to Xiaobai and her group, allowing them to come and go as they pleased, by the time Xiaobai had toured all these thousands of warehouses, it would probably be evening.

Xiaobai doesn't have that much time to waste here.

This is absolutely devastating for a novice who is racing against time.

Therefore, in his dilemma, Xiaobai inexplicably ran to the tallest power tower in the area and tentatively released the Admiral's Network—logically speaking, while Xiaobai's Admiral's Network's search capabilities were undoubtedly powerful, it should have been completely ineffective against humans without mental power. Releasing the Admiral's Network in such an area should have yielded nothing. The reason Xiaobai still gritted his teeth and used the Admiral's Network to search again was simply to give up on this method.

but……

When Xiaobai released the Admiral Network in this area, the outcome was beyond Xiaobai's expectations.

After rapidly covering the warehouse building area, Xiaobai's admiral network discovered an area with ship girl equipment reactions!

In other words, there are actually ship girls in this area in front of me?

When Xiaobai realized this, she was more surprised than delighted.

In a metropolis as modern as Cloud City, it's unlikely that ship girls would appear... Although Cloud City isn't entirely an inland city, the surrounding seas are 100% safe, with no threat of invasion from the Deep Sea Commander, and naturally, no civilian ship girl organizations like mercenary groups linger here.

Could it be... that I've stumbled upon a ship girl who's come to Cloud City for a vacation and is enjoying life?

As Akagi approached Shiro, Shiro shared the information she had found through her online search as an admiral.

Upon learning that Xiaobai had detected the presence of ship girls in this area, Akagi and Kaga were taken aback and exchanged glances.

"My lord, are the ship girls' auras far from here?" Akagi asked.

"Hmm...it's not far." Xiaobai squinted and thought for a while, then shook her head.

"Shall we go take a look?" Akagi said. "There are so many large warehouses here. If we search them one by one, we'll be completely lost. But since we've detected the presence of ship girls here, why don't we start our search from where the ship girls' presence is?"

"Hmm... that's fine too." Xiaobai stroked her chin and thought for a while before nodding. "Anyway, we have to find it."

Xiaobai led Akagi and Kaga towards the direction where the aura of the ship girls had appeared.

The location where the ship girl aura appeared was an ordinary large warehouse.

The iron gate outside the warehouse was tightly closed. In the nearby police booth, a man in a security guard uniform was watching the figures walking by outside with a blank expression.

It's not unusual for a company's dedicated material warehouse to be guarded by designated personnel.

The three people, including Xiaobai, who arrived nearby, tried to avoid the man at the door and looked towards the warehouse.

The warehouse doors and windows were tightly shut, and it was pitch black, not a breath of wind could get in.

Xiao Bai stroked his chin, gazing at the warehouse and the man in the police booth outside. He looked around thoughtfully, then suddenly his eyes widened in surprise.

"what?"

Xiao Bai's gaze lingered on a van near the warehouse.

It was a yellow minivan, painted and decorated exactly like a regular bus. In fact, the minivan even had a sign on its window indicating bus number "134".

...A government vehicle?

Xiao Bai stared at the bus thoughtfully, his brows furrowed.

That van... seems to have enough capacity for more than twenty people.

"My lord, have you spotted any of your carrier-based aircraft?" asked Akagi from the side.

"Hmm...we haven't found anything directly...but...we've come up with a few suspicious points." Xiaobai pointed to the bus outside the door. "This bus...if it were on the main street, it would be an ordinary vehicle, and no one would notice it...but why would the bus deviate from its route and go to this sparsely populated warehouse area?"

"My lord, you mean..."

"Hmm, something seems off." Xiaobai nodded to Shenhai Chicheng.

Chapter 2436 The Source of the Aura!

Lu Ming's stylist team has a total of sixteen girls, which is quite a lot.

In other words, after the criminal organization ambushed and captured them, it would be impossible to use ordinary cars with a capacity of only four or five people to transport them all at once. Even if they were transported in batches, at least several small vans with a capacity of six or seven people would be needed.

However, the bus that appeared in front of Xiaobai at this moment was a large vehicle with a passenger capacity of 30 to 40 people, and could even carry 50 to 60 people at once if you included standing tickets.

In a sense, this is indeed an ideal vehicle for transporting hostages.

Xiao Bai stared at the empty bus, pondered for a while, and then observed the wall outside the warehouse.

The large warehouse is completely surrounded by thick cement walls, which are about five or six meters high. Some simple anti-climbing measures have been taken, which make the already smooth wall surface densely embedded with glass shards, making it impossible for anyone who wants to climb up to get started.

Under the sunlight, the shards of glass covering the wall gleamed with a sharp light, like a vast sea of ​​stars.

“These glass shards seem to have been painted on recently.” Akagi Shinkai approached the wall, gently poked one of the glass shards with her finger, and then looked at the red mark on her fingertip. “It seems the owner of this warehouse doesn’t really want others to know what’s hidden inside.”

"Suspected?" Upon hearing this, Kaga Shinmi looked at Shiro.

"It's hard to say... but it's worth a look." Xiaobai nodded, and said to the two Deep Sea Deans in front of her, "Deep Sea Akagi, you two wait here for me."

The two directors of the Deep Sea Institute nodded obediently.

Under the watchful eyes of the Deans of the Deep Sea Academy, Xiaobai walked to the wall and reached out to touch the wall covered with shards of glass.

This kind of low-level anti-theft measure is very effective against those naughty kids who like to climb on roofs and remove tiles, but frankly speaking, it can only slightly deter their climbing desires. For example, if they encounter an adult who is determined to climb over the wall, it's just a piece of broken glass, and there are plenty of ways to get over it.

The sharp glass shards on the wall touched Xiaobai's palm, and Xiaobai's fingers gently tapped on the protruding glass fragments.

The sharp glass shards not only failed to cut Xiaobai's skin, but instead became footholds for Xiaobai to climb, allowing him to easily climb the wall and jump to the top.

Standing atop the wall, Xiaobai was finally able to see the entire warehouse in front of him.

What appeared before Xiaobai was a large warehouse with three floors. The walls outside the warehouse were covered with layers of iron shells, and even the doors and windows seemed to have perfect explosion-proof measures.

All the doors and windows in the warehouse were tightly closed from top to bottom.

Xiaobai released the Admiral's Network to search for the precise location of the ship girl's aura. Then, following the guidance of the Admiral's Network, she went around the wall to an inconspicuous window on the second floor of the warehouse.

"The aura of the ship girl seems to be coming from here... Hmm..." Xiaobai looked thoughtfully at the window three or four meters away from her. She first looked down at the large lawn below the wall, then looked around at the surrounding space, then took a deep breath and gently jumped towards the window.

In a gentle breeze, Little White floated lightly onto the outer wall of the warehouse, then swayed gently as it approached the second-floor window.

At first glance, the windows on the second floor were all covered by a layer of curtains. But when Xiaobai approached the window and continued to observe through the gap in the curtains, she was surprised to find that in addition to the curtains, a thick wooden board had been nailed to the inside of the window, blocking the view.

And after getting closer to the window, Xiao Bai pricked up his ears and listened carefully. He was even able to hear some faint "uh-uh" and "hmm" sounds that girls make when they are struggling.

A girl's voice?

Ok?

Could it be...?

Xiao Bai's eyes lit up when she heard this. She quickly raised her hand, wanting to punch the tightly sealed window in front of her.

But Xiaobai's hand stopped halfway up in the air.

Xiao Bai stared out the window, lost in thought.

With Xiaobai's strength, breaking a mere window with his fist, or even blasting through a wall with his ship's equipment, wouldn't be a problem. However, doing so would inevitably produce a huge explosion, and it's hard to guarantee that the people in the room wouldn't be frightened. Moreover, if there were enemies nearby, they might be attracted by the loud noise...

this is not good.

Very bad.

You should be more cautious in your actions.

So let's choose a quieter way to break a window!

As Xiaobai's idea came to fruition, a white light appeared behind him.

A crystal beast head burning with blue flames emerged from mid-air. The beast head opened its huge mouth burning with blue flames and slowly spat out a military knife inch by inch.

Xiao Bai grabbed the handle of the military knife and pulled out the blade.

"brush"

The silver blade sliced ​​through the air, emitting a faint hum, as if it were cheering excitedly at seeing the light of day again.

After spitting out the military knife, the crystal beast head turned into a streak of white light and disappeared.

Xiao Bai used his military knife to gently slice around the outside of the window. The blade cut through the wall as easily as cutting tofu, without making a sound, and then cut the entire window off the warehouse wall.

Xiaobai stored the cut-off window directly into her ship equipment space, then sat on the gap that was more than a meter high and drew back the curtains.

Sure enough, there was a wooden board behind the curtains.

Xiao Bai lightly swung his knife, and the wooden planks were silently cut into pieces, all of which were stored in Xiao Bai's ship equipment space.

"What a sharp and precious sword..." Xiaobai couldn't help but glance at the gleaming military knife in his hand, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

"Om-"

Seemingly sensing Xiaobai's praise, the military knife in Xiaobai's hand trembled slightly, emitting a soft, pleasant sound.

Xiao Bai smiled, patted the blade, then gripped the military knife and walked into the room, holding onto the windowsill.

Each window on the second floor seems to correspond to a small room, which is not large, only a dozen square meters in size.

The room was very empty, with only a few empty cardboard boxes on the floor and nothing else.

Xiao Bai ignored the room's furnishings, gripping his military knife and staring intently ahead.

At the very end of Xiaobai's gaze, in the right corner of the room, a girl with her head down was struggling in a cardboard box. Her eyes were wrapped with strips of cloth, her mouth was stuffed with a rag, her hands were tied behind her back with rope, and even her legs were tightly bound together with loops of rope, making it impossible for her to move.

Xiao Bai stared blankly at the girl inside the cardboard box.