Elder brother's garrison

At that time, Nia made a fundamental mistake that an admiral should not have made, and her admiral certificate was revoked by the admiral guild. She had no other means of survival and could only stay in the guild to make a living by doing odd jobs. At that time, her only ship girl, Cleveland, wanted to help her out of her predicament. In desperation, she applied to Xiaobai to form a team. Unexpectedly, she just casually asked for help and ended up sticking with the world's number one admiral.

More than a year and a half has passed without me even realizing it...

Nia was already a girl nearing the end of puberty, and two short years was enough for her delayed physical development to progress significantly.

Both in terms of height and feminine features, Nia in Chapter 8 is much more mature than when Xiaobai last met her.

This made Xiaobai both sigh with admiration and incredibly envious.

"Xiaobai, so you know Luo Yingying too," Nia said with a smile to Xiaobai.

"Yes, I met Miss Yingying in Chapter Six." Xiaobai nodded with a smile. "Do you know Nia too?"

“Hehe, Miss Luo Yingying is quite famous in Chapter Eight,” Nia explained with a smile. “She’s the governor’s assistant. Although she doesn’t hold a specific position in the Admirals’ Guild, she’s practically the unofficial second-in-command. Plus, she’s beautiful, straightforward, tall and slender, and efficient and capable when it comes to serious matters. Many male admirals in Chapter Eight consider her their dream girl.”

"Wow, that's amazing..."

“Yeah, hehe… I also think she’s very reliable.” Nia smiled, but then she added somewhat strangely, “But then again, I always feel like Miss Luo Yingying’s appearance is familiar, like I’ve seen her somewhere before, but I can’t quite remember…”

"Pfft." Just then, a soft laugh rang out.

Xiaobai and Nia stopped and looked back.

Missouri lightly covered the corner of her mouth, revealing a slight smile.

"Missouri? What's wrong?" Xiaobai asked curiously.

"It's alright, Missouri was just thinking about something interesting." Missouri put down her hand, smiled and nodded at Nia and Xiaobai. "Senior Nia and Admiral, please don't mind Missouri."

"Oh……"

Xiaobai and Nia exchanged a glance.

"Ah! Right." After Missouri's reminder, Nia seemed to remember something, quickly letting go of Xiaobai's hand and bowing to the ship girls behind Xiaobai. "I... I was so happy to see Xiaobai that I forgot to greet the ship girls! Hello, Xiaobai's ship girl companions, my name is Nia, and I was selflessly helped by your admiral during the first and second chapters..."

"Hello, Miss Nia."

"Admiral Nia, do you remember me? It's nice to see you again."

"Nice to meet you, please take care of me..."

In the interactions between admirals within the same circle, they often ignore each other's ship girls. However, Nia did not seem to underestimate any of the ship girls. She bowed and greeted each of them earnestly, as if she treated Xiaobai's ship girls as friendly beings of equal rank.

Such polite behavior naturally increased the ship girls' favorability towards her.

"You recognize some of the ship girls here, right?" Xiaobai said to Nia with a smile.

"Hmm... like Missouri, and the adorable Fubuki-chan... they're still as beautiful as ever." Nia nodded, then looked around and asked Shiro with concern, "Um... speaking of which, Veneto, Rome, the Empire, and the others..."

"They didn't come out with me this time; they stayed at the naval base," Xiaobai said with a smile. "If I had known you would be here, I would have brought them with me no matter what."

"Veneto is so good, Xiaobai, aren't you going to take her with you to the game?"

"Well... I originally just wanted to wander around here, I didn't intend to start exploring the main storyline." Xiaobai smiled sheepishly.

"I see……"

"Speaking of which, I really didn't expect that you, Nia, are already an admiral who can conquer Chapter 8." Xiaobai said to Nia with a look of admiration, "A year ago you were still in Chapter 2, this speed is amazing!"

"It's all because of your help, Xiaobai!" Upon hearing Xiaobai's praise, Nia quickly stood up and shook her head at him. "My achievements are one hundred percent due to your help, Xiaobai! I couldn't have done anything on my own!"

"I just helped you build some ship girl companions..."

"I will be forever grateful to Xiaobai!" Nia hugged Xiaobai's arm tightly. "I will never forget your kindness in this lifetime!"

At this point, Nia became somewhat agitated, so much so that she tightened her grip on Xiaobai's arm.

For a moment, Xiao Bai felt his arm sinking deep into a soft crevice, surrounded by the fragrance of a young girl.

The gazes of the ship girls behind him gradually sharpened.

"Ahem..." Xiaobai coughed quickly, then said to Nia, "Speaking of which, Nia, I haven't seen your ship girls. Where are your ship girls?"

"Ah! Hehe, it's because I heard about you, Xiaobai, that I immediately dropped what I was doing and rushed over..." Nia smiled shyly at Xiaobai, "So none of my ship girls came with me..."

"Haha, I see. How's Cleveland?"

"Yes! Cleveland is great! She'd love to see you again!"

"What about Kaohsiung Atago, and Raffaele Rei?"

“They’re all here too.” Nia held Little White’s hand and said earnestly, “When they see me bringing you back, Little White, they’ll be overjoyed!”

"It's not as dramatic as it sounds..." Xiaobai scratched his cheek sheepishly. "Speaking of which, Nia, you must have acquired quite a few ship girls this year to become the admiral who can challenge Chapter 8, right?"

"Ok!"

How many ship girls do you have now?

“Me?” Nia blinked, then thought for a moment. “Hmm… I don’t have many ship girls, but if I remember correctly, there are 176…”

"..." Xiaobai stopped in her tracks.

"Little White? What's wrong?" Nia asked curiously when she saw Little White stop walking.

“…One hundred…seventy-six…” Xiaobai blinked and looked at Nia, “So many?”

"Not many, right..." Nia bit her lip, giving a helpless look that said, "Don't tease me, Xiaobai." "Xiaobai, doesn't your naval base have over a thousand ship girls?"

"……"noob.

A newbie naval base has a four-figure number of ship girls, which is based on the hard work of the previous admiral over the past ten years and the frenzied ship-farming of the current admiral.

Nia's more than one hundred ship girls were acquired in just one year...

OMG!

What exactly did Nia go through?!

"Nia, were you entrusted to the garrison by some reclusive master?" Xiaobai asked Nia.

"What kind of reclusive master?" Nia asked curiously, then replied matter-of-factly, "I built all my ship girls myself."

"……"noob.

Chapter 2577 Nia's Ship Girl

Xiao Bai lowered her head and looked at her white hands.

Xiao Bai's ten fingers are slender, and her nails are clean and shiny.

As she watched, tears welled up in Xiaobai's eyes.

"Hey?? Little White?? What's wrong?!" Nia, seeing Little White burst into tears, immediately panicked. "W-what happened? Did I say something wrong? I'm so sorry, so sorry, so sorry—"

"No... I'm fine..." Xiaobai sniffed, quickly suppressing the expression on her face. Then she pitifully looked up at Nia, "Nia, you're so amazing..."

"Eh……"

Xiao Bai was just a little aggrieved.

Especially when she heard that Nia had built more than 170 ship girls in just one year with her own hands, Xiaobai's excellent memory immediately reminded her of the consequences of every time she touched the construction machine during the same year.

failure.

failure.

failure.

Endless failures.

Xiaobai's attempts to build have never succeeded.

I am a complete and utterly unlucky person when it comes to building things!

Originally, Xiaobai could rationally accept the fact that he was unlucky in construction, but as the saying goes, "I could have endured the darkness if I had never seen the light." The newbie naval base wasn't lacking in ship girls, and Xiaobai's construction activities were mostly for fun. Putting aside any vested interests, Xiaobai felt that even being unlucky in construction wasn't such a devastating thing.

However... Nia managed to build over 170 ship girls in just one year. If you average it out, she would get a ship girl every two or three days!

This construction speed completely surpasses what a novice can comprehend!

What's going on? Has Nia's construction machine encountered some strange bug, causing her construction success rate to increase by hundreds of times?

No... Only Luo Lian could create a construction machine with such a high output rate.

If we calm down and think about it a bit, the answer to this question should be that Nia is essentially a construction tycoon just as terrifyingly lucky as Xiaobai's brother...

When did she become so European?!

She wasn't like this a year ago...

Xiao Bai was overwhelmed with mixed feelings. Under the influence of various emotions, Xiao Bai couldn't control her tragic mood for a moment.

But it's okay.

Xiao Bai's tears came quickly and went quickly.

Before long, Xiaobai's emotions stabilized.

"Xiaobai, are you really alright..." Nia looked at Xiaobai, still with a worried expression.

"It's nothing, it's nothing. I was just a little scared at first..." Xiaobai gave Nia a wry smile. "Nia, speaking of which, did you bring all of your hundred-plus ship girls?"

"Ah."

"The place to live needs to be very big, right?"

“Yes, I rented a large courtyard house in Chapter Eight.” Nia nodded and said expectantly to Xiaobai, “Although the rent is a bit expensive, the location is very convenient and it’s a great place to live. I’m just about to take you there, Xiaobai.”

As she spoke the last sentence, Nia blushed, carefully took Xiaobai's hand, and looked at Xiaobai with a strange gaze that was both shy and excited.

"Um... Shiro, my other ship girl companions will be very happy to have you too..."

"Is that so? Then I guess I need to dress up nicely so as not to embarrass you." Xiaobai smiled at Nia.

"How could that be! Xiaobai, you're the prettiest!" Nia quickly shook her head, held Xiaobai's hand tightly, and said very seriously.

Behind Xiaobai.

The ship girls watched Nia and Shiro's interaction and whispered among themselves.

"Hey, Missouri," Wisconsin whispered as she approached Missouri.

"Hmm? What's wrong, Wisconsin?" Missouri smiled and looked at Wisconsin.

"Isn't this Admiral Nia a little too enthusiastic towards the Admiral...?" Wisconsin said, looking puzzled. "Could it be that she... actually has feelings for the Admiral..."

“Senior Nia must be truly grateful to the Admiral from the bottom of her heart,” Missouri said with a smile.

"You know that's not what I meant!" Wisconsin pouted and stomped her foot. "Speaking of which, you're a married ship after all! What if another rival pops up? I feel like you're becoming more and more indifferent to these things lately! It's not a big deal if the admiral gets stolen away!"

"Hehehe." Missouri didn't say anything, but simply raised her hand and patted Wisconsin's head, her smile widening.

……

Like other chapter cities in the world, although there are many ship girl hotels in the city, if there are admirals who have too many ship girls to stay in hotels, or who have a special affection for traditional houses like courtyard houses, then the eighth chapter city also provides a variety of housing rental services for these types of people.

Of course.

The rented space and courtyard in this way are certainly not cheap, but if spending just a little more merit points can greatly improve the ship girls' quality of life, there are still many admirals in the world willing to pay the price.

For example, the courtyard that Nia rented was located in a prime location in the Chapter 8 residential area.

Rather than a courtyard, it's more like a small but fully-equipped naval base. High walls surround the base, providing a great sense of privacy and security. Two exclusive residential buildings stand in the spacious courtyard, and in front of them is a green plaza about the size of a football field. The plaza is equipped with a fountain, an essential comfort-enhancing feature for any naval base. In addition, it has all the necessary functional facilities such as an "open-air repair pool," a "canteen," and a "resource warehouse."

When Nia led Xiaobai and the others back to the courtyard, several destroyers were playing soccer on the lawn facing the courtyard gate.

The reason for using the word "playing" football instead of "kicking" football is that these destroyers were just running around on the grass with the football in their hands, and only occasionally tossing the football between each other like a sandbag.

"Little Rei! Take this!"

A spirited purple-haired destroyer swiftly tossed the soccer ball she was holding toward the destroyer in front of her.

"Lingbo, catch it with all your might!"

A destroyer wearing a red mechanical ear on her head and a white sailor uniform with exposed midriff caught the football steadily and then gently tossed it to the third destroyer.

The third destroyer was a little girl dressed as a bunny with super long white twin tails who looked a bit sleepy. When Lingbo threw the soccer ball at her, she just swayed twice without dodging. The soccer ball lightly bounced off her head and flew to the grass on the side.

"Ah—Little Laffey! You need to be more serious when playing dodgeball!" The first destroyer to lose the ball raised her slender arm and kept shouting at Laffey.

"...Lafite is trapped..."

"You've slept all day! If you keep sleeping, you'll become a cripple! I'm punishing you by making you fetch the ball!" the first destroyer shouted, bouncing around.

“…” Laffey rubbed her eyes and slowly picked up the soccer ball that had fallen to her feet. Just as she was about to turn around, she saw Xiaobai and his group at the gate in front of her. “…Ah. Admiral.”

Lafite's voice was very soft.