Elder brother's garrison

The moment Xiaobai turned her head, Yubari, who was staring at Luming's body, suddenly seemed to have discovered something. The smile on her face vanished in an instant, and she cried out in shock once again.

"No, Admiral! Something's happened!"

"Huh?" Xiaobai turned around and looked at Luming.

Under Xiaobai's gaze, a look of intense pain once again appeared on Luming's face.

A large amount of black smoke once again emerged from her body.

"Why is it deep-sea aura again..." Xiaobai murmured in surprise. She waved her hand at the newly emerging deep-sea aura, and the land-based ship equipment behind her opened its huge mouth and sucked in the emerging deep-sea aura once again.

Lu Ming's body was clean once again.

However, this time, only a few seconds later, a continuous stream of black smoke once again appeared around her...

"Admiral, it's Miss Shikano's body that's automatically producing deep-sea energy," Missouri reminded Shiro.

"Ah..." Xiaobai stared blankly at Luming, momentarily at a loss. "Then, doesn't that mean we'll never run out of this deep-sea energy? What are we going to do..."

“There must be something wrong with Shropshire’s body! Admiral, quickly use your invincible Admiral Network to get inside her and take a look!” The Vessian Goddess hurriedly suggested.

"Oh! Okay...okay!"

It is very impolite to use the Admiral's Network to enter the mental world of a ship girl without her consent, but Xiaobai didn't care about anything for the moment in order to save her life. She quickly activated the Admiral's Network and burrowed into Luming's body.

While unconscious, Lu Ming offered no resistance to Xiao Bai's admiral network.

Xiao Bai easily entered Lu Ming's mental world.

Xiao Bai closed his eyes, sensing the information transmitted back from the Admiral's network.

Although the nerve agent had caused some problems for Lu Ming's body, it still seemed to have some effect. For example, at this moment, Lu Ming's mental world was as if he had just experienced the creation of the world. He was surrounded by boundless chaotic gray mist, within which thick black smoke occasionally swirled.

Xiao Bai's spiritual power coalesced into a human form within Lu Ming's spiritual world.

Just then, the black smoke in Lu Ming's spiritual world seemed to notice the presence of Xiao Bai's spiritual power.

In an instant, the overwhelming black smoke, like a pack of wolves that had caught the scent of their prey, pounced on Xiaobai's mental energy one after another.

Facing the black smoke that surrounded her, Xiaobai, formed from her spiritual energy, showed no fear. With a gentle wave of her hand, a gleaming long-handled military knife appeared in her hand. Then, she swung the knife, and sharp spiritual energy fluctuations instantly spread out from the blade, shattering the black smoke that it touched and turning it into nothingness.

"Although these deep-sea auras aren't strong, they're inexhaustible and impossible to completely eliminate..."

As the spirit form Xiaobai gazed at the black smoke that had gathered around it once again, it couldn't help but frown.

"Hmm... however, it seems I can sense the direction from which these deep-sea auras are generated..."

"We need to hurry..."

The spirit form, Xiaobai, swung its blade once more at the black smoke before it, annihilating it all. Then, taking advantage of the gap in the black smoke's regrouping, it sped towards the source of the deep-sea aura.

The spiritual entity moves at an extremely fast speed.

In the blink of an eye, Xiaobai arrived at the source of the deep-sea aura.

After cleaving away the deep-sea aura that was trying to surround him with a single slash, Xiaobai waved his hand to disperse the thick gray fog around him, and saw the source of the deep-sea aura clearly.

The source of the deep-sea aura is a piece of black land no bigger than the palm of your hand.

The black ground seemed to have nothing to rely on, suspended in mid-air filled with gray mist, continuously releasing the aura of the deep sea in all directions.

This is the only thing that can be considered a physical object in this boundless, chaotic space.

"So this is the source of the deep-sea aura..." the spirit entity Xiaobai murmured, raising the military knife above its head as if to slash down. "Then as long as this is destroyed, Miss Luming should be safe..."

"If you want her dead, then cut her down."

Suddenly, a familiar voice rang in Xiaobai's ear.

"Huh?" The spirit form, Xiaobai, was stunned and looked behind her.

Suddenly, the Deep Sea Will, which had also transformed into a spiritual form, appeared behind the spiritual form of Xiaobai. It crossed its arms and looked with amusement at the palm-sized patch of black land in front of Xiaobai.

"Deep Sea Will?? How did you get here??"

"This is the spiritual world. You've come here, so why can't I?" The will of the deep sea threw Xiaobai's question back at him.

"Uh...that's true..." Xiaobai grinned, put down her military knife, and pondered for a moment, "Hmm...that, the Will of the Deep Sea?"

"Ok?"

"Can't this black soil be cut down?"

“…It can’t be cut.” The Will of the Deep Sea shook her head, pointed to the black earth, and said to Little White, “Haven’t you noticed yet? This black earth is the core of this newly born spiritual world within this body. If you destroy this thing, her spiritual world will collapse instantly.”

"Huh?? This thing is the core of Miss Luming's spiritual world? Why?"

“Nerve serum.” The Deep Sea Will approached the black earth before it, glanced at it twice, and then said, “The main ingredient of the nerve serum is deep-sea blood, you know that, right? Ship girls are different from you humans. They are born to be opposed to the aura of the deep sea, and their relationship with the aura of the deep sea is like fire and water. This characteristic remains even after the ship equipment is dismantled.”

"You mean, Miss Luming's body is rejecting the nerve agent?"

"No, the situation is exactly the opposite." The Deep Sea Will withdrew its gaze and said to Xiaobai, "It's the deep-sea component in the nerve potion that's rejecting this ship girl's body. The general situation is this—the deep-sea component that would have dissipated unexpectedly had an instinctive rejection reaction after discovering that this body was a ship girl's body. Then, it desperately gathered together and successfully contaminated the newly constructed mental core."

"Then, then the situation must be terrible..." Xiaobai was at a loss when she heard this.

"It's not that bad." The Will of the Deep Sea turned its head and looked at Little White with a very peculiar gaze.

"...Deep Sea Will, what's wrong?"

“Sometimes I wonder if there’s some unseen force urging you to carry out your ship-salvaging mission on a causal level.” The Will of the Deep Sea spoke in words that Xiaobai couldn’t understand. When she got to this point, she pointed helplessly to the palm-sized black land in front of her. “This thing is the core of this spiritual world and cannot be destroyed, but you can purify it. The method of purification is not difficult for you.”

"Oh? How do I purify it?" Upon hearing this, Xiaobai quickly stepped forward.

“It’s very simple. You just need to leave your admiral’s mark on this land,” the Deep Sea Will said casually. “Instead of letting the Deep Sea elements continue to occupy the core of this spiritual world, it’s better for you to take over.”

"……that's all?"

"that's it."

"So simple?"

"You're getting a good deal and still acting innocent, aren't you?" The will of the deep sea looked over. "If you delay a few more minutes, the owner of this body will be killed by the aura of the deep sea."

Xiao Bai quickly stepped forward and gently poked the black soil in front of him.

Snapped!

A golden mark appeared on the black earth.

Chapter 2513 Success?

Although the aura of the deep sea can cause great harm to humans, it is as weak as a mouse in front of a cat in front of Xiaobai.

The moment Xiaobai imprinted his spiritual power onto the black earth in front of him, a piercing scorching sound rang out violently from the black ground.

Sizzle sizzle sizzle sizzle —

Squeak s ...

In the center of the dark ground before them, a tiny point of light radiating golden light, like the rising sun in the night, began to shine rapidly.

The golden light grew even brighter.

The ice and snow are melting.

The black smoke that was originally swirling around the black earth dissipated instantly when it got close to the mental energy mark. The remaining part frantically began to avoid Xiaobai's mental energy mark. In just a few blinks, they crowded into the corner of the black earth, seemingly afraid of making any contact with the mental energy mark in the center of the ground.

However, even though the black smoke on the black ground had tried its best to avoid the golden light, the golden spiritual imprint in the center of the black ground was not satisfied at all. It was as if it wanted to fight the black smoke to the death. The golden light grew stronger and stronger over time, spreading inch by inch across the entire black ground.

The golden light quickly reached the black smoke huddled in the corner of the ground.

The intense scorching sound rang out once again.

The black smoke seemed to possess sentience, letting out screams of agony. They fought desperately, trying to gather together to resist this powerful enemy, but under the invincible golden light, all their efforts were in vain. They could only watch helplessly as their "bodies" were disintegrated and devoured inch by inch by the golden light...

Sizzle sizzle sizzle sizzle —

Large amounts of black smoke billowed out of the black ground as if it were free, and finally managed to escape this tiny piece of land before the golden light completely enveloped it.

The black smoke, detached from the black ground, floated in mid-air, watching helplessly as their former territory was taken over by golden light. They were filled with resentment, howled, and raged in a frenzy, boiling wildly in mid-air as if possessed.

The black smoke billowed in mid-air, sometimes making ferocious faces, sometimes coalescing into human shapes and stomping its feet angrily. After a while, it circled the black earth before it, seemingly looking for an opportunity to slip in. But unfortunately, the black earth was now completely enveloped in golden light. Forget about sneaking in; even if the black smoke got even slightly close to the earth, it would be scorched by the golden light and scream in pain.

The black smoke finally realized that they had been driven out of this land forever.

The next second, the black smoke turned around and looked at Little White standing next to the black soil.

“————!!”

"Zzzzzzz—!!"

"Squeak!"

"..."

The black smoke instantly let out a strange cry, and amidst the cry, it coalesced into a giant human figure over ten meters tall, which rushed towards Little White without regard for anything else.

Although Xiaobai couldn't understand the meaning of the black smoke's strange cries, judging from the frenzied aura of the black smoke in front of him, he could roughly guess that what they had just shouted must have been something like "I'll kill you!" "You're the one who drove us out?" "I'll fight you to the death!!"

"You're quite clever to realize that it was me who expelled you from Miss Luming's spiritual core." Xiaobai sighed calmly, looking at the enormous figure before her. "However, clever as you are, it seems you're still a long way from developing wisdom and intellect..."

As he spoke, the giant black smoke giant's enormous hand landed on Little White's head.

The next second, a sharp white light flashed.

Xiao Bai raised his military knife high and lightly slashed at the giant hand that was approaching him.

boom! ! !

One of the black smoke giant's arms fell neatly from its body, grazing Little White's nose as it plunged into the abyss.

"You can't even withstand my spiritual imprint, let alone me..."

Xiao Bai muttered to himself, gripped the military knife in his hand, and slashed vertically at the body of the black smoke giant again.

With a single slash, a massive and sharp shockwave instantly spread from the blade, pulverizing the enormous body of the black smoke giant.

The black smoke giant let out a defiant roar, but it was still annihilated in the sharp blade light, disappearing completely.

Xiao Bai shifted his gaze to the black soil beside him.

Now that the aura of the deep sea has been banished, the land's color has transformed from its former darkness to a brilliant gold. No more black smoke emanates from this land, and there is no sign of the black mist reforming within the gray fog surrounding Xiaobai.

"Phew... As expected, after driving the deep-sea aura away from Miss Luming's spiritual core, the black smoke here isn't endless anymore." Xiaobai let out a long sigh, turned around and smiled at those behind her, "Deep-sea will, thank goodness for you today... Eh??!"

Xiao Bai had only spoken halfway when he suddenly realized that there was no one behind him.

The will of the deep sea has vanished.

"...Really...They came out so suddenly, and they disappeared just as suddenly..." Xiaobai pouted, patted her chest, and muttered a complaint to the air, "...At least let me say thank you before you go back..."

Given the current situation, it's naturally not feasible for Xiaobai to delve into his own mental world to find the will of the deep sea.

Since the will of the deep sea has already returned, there's not much that can be done for the time being.

Xiao Bai, carrying a military knife, sensed the aura within Lu Ming's spiritual world, then slowly flew off in a certain direction.

Lu Ming's spiritual world core has been successfully purified, but a lot of deep-sea aura still remains in her spiritual world. Adhering to the service concept of doing good deeds to the end and seeing things through to the end, Xiao Bai's next task is to clean up all the deep-sea aura remaining in Lu Ming's spiritual world.

Under Xiaobai's powerful mental scan, the deep-sea auras had nowhere to hide.

……

Three minutes later.

In the real world, Xiaobai retracted his admiral network, let out a long sigh, and slowly opened his eyes.

"Ah! The Admiral is awake!"

"Admiral? How is Miss Shikamei?"

As soon as Shiro opened his eyes, he saw Yubari and the female hearth goddess standing in front of him with concerned expressions, looking closely at his face.

"Phew... It's all over now." Xiaobai smiled at the two ship girls in front of her. "As expected, it was because the nerve agent was not compatible with the ship girls' constitutions. Miss Luming was almost possessed by the deep-sea components in the nerve agent. Fortunately, we discovered it in time. I have now completely cleared the deep-sea aura from Miss Luming's body."

"Wow! Admiral, my Superman!" Upon hearing Shiro's words, Yubari immediately raised his arms high, his face full of admiration.

"That's great..." The goddess of the hearth also looked relieved.

"Admiral, Senior Shikaming's condition has finally stabilized."

Just then, Missouri's voice rang out.

Shiro, Yubari, and the goddess of the hearth immediately looked towards Shikame.

Lu Ming, kneeling in the pool of blood, finally calmed down. The pain on her face gradually disappeared, replaced by a strange sense of peace.

Under Xiaobai's mental probing, waves of increasingly bright mental energy began to emanate from Luming's body.