Elder brother's garrison

But for the ship girls present, it was enough for them to hear.

"Hey! Has the Admiral returned?!"

Upon hearing the voice of the first destroyer, the other two destroyers quickly looked over.

Upon seeing Nia, along with her companion Shiro and the entire fleet of ship girls, the destroyers present were momentarily stunned, before their faces lit up with surprise.

"Ah! And Admiral Xiaobai is here too!"

The destroyers quickly dropped what they were carrying and skipped and hopped towards Xiaobai and Nia.

"Javelin, Ayanami, and Laffey, I'm back." Nia smiled and waved to the ship girls who ran towards her.

"Admiral! Admiral Shiro!" Javelin, who had run over, stared at Shiro with her big, bright eyes. "Wow! It really is Admiral Shiro!"

"Javelin, long time no see," Little White said with a smile.

As Xiaobai was greeting people, she suddenly felt a warmth in her stomach.

Xiao Bai looked down and saw Raffi squinting and hugging his belly, his chubby little face pressed against his chest without any shyness.

"So soft..." Raffi squinted comfortably and spoke softly.

"Laffey is the same as before." Xiaobai touched Laffey's fluffy white pigtails and couldn't help but smile.

"A familiar taste..." Lafite rubbed against Little White's belly.

Xiao Bai stroked Lafite's head, his gaze falling on Ling Bo.

Lingbo initially stood respectfully in front of Xiaobai, looking at him with curious eyes. The moment she felt Xiaobai's gaze, Lingbo trembled and quickly bowed to Xiaobai in greeting.

"Admiral Shiro! Nice to meet you, I'm Ayanami!"

"A completely unfamiliar face," Xiaobai said with a smile. "Do you recognize me too?"

"I've heard so much about you!" Lingbo blinked, then stood there somewhat at a loss, cautiously observing Xiaobai.

"All the ship girls in our naval base know Admiral Shiro!" Javelin raised her arm high, jumping and making a huge gesture towards Shiro. "Admiral Shiro's reputation in our naval base is... well, that's how big it is!"

Javelin's short skirt fluttered up and down with her movements.

"They still like you as much as before, Xiaobai." Nia watched Xiaobai getting along well with the destroyers and couldn't help but smile with a mixture of relief and envy.

"Are they familiar faces?" Xiaobai smiled as he approached the destroyers. "Seeing familiar faces as soon as I came in makes me feel like I'm home. It's very touching."

Chapter 2578 The Hereditary Phenomenon Between the Admiral and the Ship Girl

The fact that Xiaobai could feel a sense of home in Nia's yard was somewhat surprising to Xiaobai herself.

After entering the courtyard, Nia didn't stop.

After briefly greeting the destroyers playing soccer, Nia pulled Shiro down to the ship girl dormitory building. She called down the ship girls one by one and introduced them to Shiro.

In front of the ship girls' dormitory building, a fan meeting for Shiro suddenly unfolded.

……

"Admiral Lu Lin, it's been a long time!" A black-haired ship girl dressed in a white sailor uniform, with a saber at her waist and long legs covered by black stockings, bowed earnestly to Xiaobai.

"Kaohsiung, long time no see! How have you been?" Xiaobai smiled.

"Admiral Lu Lin, do you still remember Atago?" Another ship girl, who looked and dressed very similarly to Takao but was much more charming, greeted Xiaobai.

“It’s Atago, of course I remember… You’ve gotten a lot stronger since the second chapter.” Shiro nodded.

"Admiral Lu Lin, it's a pleasure to see you again!" The blue-clad, blue-haired ship girl bowed politely.

"Helena—"

"Admiral Bai! Wuhu!"

"Wichita—"

"So this is the legendary Admiral Shiro?" A red-clad ship girl with black hair and red eyes, revealing slender shoulders and a full chest, bit her index finger and greeted Shiro with a playful yet seductive smile. "So this is what you look like~ No wonder the Commander always talks about you. But Taihou won't lose to you. The Commander is destined to be Taihou's person~"

As the ship girl named Taihou spoke, Shiro and the ship girls behind her subconsciously turned around to look at the rookie naval ship girl in the group.

"Ugh... No, no, don't look at me! Please, please don't look at me!" The pure and innocent pink-haired twin-tailed girl, Taihou, from the Shiro family blushed deeply and squatted down, covering her eyes.

"Haha..." Xiaobai chuckled and shifted her gaze back to Nia's Taihou. "Such a similar name, yet their demeanor can be completely different sometimes..."

After seeing Taihou off, another ship girl in a white dress greeted Shiro.

"Admiral Bai, greetings. The Illustrious-class carrier reporting for duty." As the ship girl in the white dress bowed, the impressive curves of her chest drew the attention of everyone present.

"Glory...? Hello, nice to meet you." Little White nodded enviously.

"Hi~ Sorry to keep you waiting~ Admiral White, nice to meet you. Cruiser Bremerton reporting for duty!" Another pink-haired ship girl with an impressive bust and a delicate, girlish face greeted White.

“Bremerton…”

"Greetings, Admiral Bai. The Royal Maid Sirius has come to pay a visit." The white-haired ship girl, dressed in a revealing maid dress, bowed respectfully to Xiaobai as she spoke, her snow-white cleavage making it hard to look away. "You are a close friend of my proud master, and from now on, you will also be a close friend of our maid corps."

"Hmm..." Little White stared blankly at Sirius's chest.

"I see. You exude a captivating aura, and your soul must be incredibly sweet—please remember my name well, Duke of York, Royal Navy." The pink-haired, large-breasted ship girl with elf ears smiled and extended her hand to Xiaobai.

"Hmm...?" Xiaobai tilted her head, beginning to sense that something was wrong.

"Nice to meet you, Admiral Shiro. I am the third ship of the Illustrious-class, Formidable. I have often heard the Commander mention you. I look forward to your guidance from now on." A cute-looking ship girl with an exceptionally outstanding figure lifted the hem of her skirt and gave Shiro an elegant bow.

"Wait a minute..." Xiaobai turned her head to look at Nia.

"Are you Admiral Xiaobai? Greetings, I am just a maid named Belfast. It is an honor to meet you."

"No, no, no, no!!" Xiaobai didn't even have time to greet the ship girl before turning around and grabbing Nia's shoulders tightly. "Nia! You...you...isn't your ship girl a little strange...?"

"Hmm? What's wrong with Xiaobai?" Nia asked curiously.

"Why...why are they all..." Xiaobai looked at the ship girls lining up to greet her, speechless for a moment. Then she leaned close to Nia's ear and whispered, "Why are all of them...having such big chests..."

"Huh...?" Nia was stunned, then looked at her ship girls.

Just as Xiaobai said.

All the Nia ship girls that appeared in front of Xiaobai had a surprisingly "heavy" and "precarious" feel.

Ship girls are special beings modeled after humans, but with appearances superior to humans. Whether it's looks or figure, they far surpass most ordinary humans.

Therefore, it is not surprising that ship girls have good figures and beautiful appearances.

For example, it's normal for ship girls to have an average bust size higher than the human standard and occasionally have some impressively large busts.

But the ship girls in Nia's family are clearly different.

The ship girls in her collection are no longer a matter of probability.

The situation in Nia's family is that every one of her ship girls, except for a few destroyers, basically possesses a rather impressive size—note that the impressive size here is not compared to humans, but means that even in the world of ship girls, it can be considered impressive. Each of these ship girls individually may not be so eye-catching, but when hundreds of ship girls of this size appear together, the strange sense of incongruity, as if they have accidentally entered a "large-breasted universe," is really shocking to Xiaobai.

“That’s true…” Nia looked at the ship girls in front of her, seemingly realizing this for the first time as well. “My ship girls seem to be developing very well…”

It's not just good, it's absolutely fantastic!

Seeing this scene makes even a newbie want to be reborn into Nia's family immediately and become a super-sized older sister ship girl!

Why is this happening?

Xiaobai, standing to the side, was completely puzzled. She silently watched Nia, who was also deep in thought, her gaze sweeping over Nia's chest.

Looking at Nia's ample chest, which could barely be encircled by her two arms, Xiaobai's thoughts were interrupted, and he fell silent.

In a sense.

Perhaps this is what they mean by "birds of a feather flock together."

……

The "fan meeting" that opened Xiaobai's eyes to a whole new world has come to an end.

It seemed that because Nia often told her ship girls stories about Shiro, the ship girls in Nia's group had a very good impression of Shiro. After greeting Shiro and introducing themselves, the ship girls in Nia's group quickly surrounded Shiro's ship girls. The two groups of ship girls were like students having an exchange meeting between schools, chatting and laughing, getting along very well.

Admirals Xiaobai and Nia sat on the steps not far away, watching the ship girls in the square.

"What an amazing group of ship girls." Xiaobai murmured to herself, looking at the ship girls of Nia's family with a look of admiration.

"Xiaobai, do you like them?" Nia asked Xiaobai as soon as she heard his words.

"Hmm... I like them." Xiaobai nodded and smiled at Nia. "After all, they are Nia's ship girls, so they are my friends!"

"That's great!" Nia smiled happily upon hearing Xiaobai's admission, but halfway through her smile, she lowered her head shyly and said cautiously to Xiaobai, "Then... Xiaobai, since you like them so much... for this Chapter 8 event, would you like to stay with us again, like before..."

"Huh?" Xiaobai was taken aback. "You live here?"

"Yes, yes!" Nia nodded quickly, her face full of hope. "I... I knew I would meet you here, so I bought a really, really big address. If you like it, you can stay here! I'll make sure you and your ship girls are settled in! I can provide rooms and everything!"

After Nia finished speaking, she waited anxiously for Xiaobai's reply.

"Xiaobai...how about it...why don't you want to consider it?"

"Hmm..." Xiaobai turned back to look at the residential building in the courtyard, then at the high walls around her, seemingly lost in thought. "...Can I really live here?"

“Of course! Or rather… I’d like you to stay here!” Nia nodded quickly. “You know about the meeting we just had; my ship girls will definitely welcome you!”

"So that's why you had me greet so many ship girls... Nia. Thank you." Xiaobai looked at Nia with a grateful smile. "Well... if you don't mind, please let me stay here for a while."

"That's...that's great!"

Nia hugged Little White tightly and rubbed against it relentlessly.

"Nia...it's itchy..." Xiaobai chuckled, patted Nia's back, and smiled at her. "Oh right, speaking of which, I don't think I saw Cleveland at the meeting just now? Wasn't she with you?"

“As for Cleveland… oh, she’s over there at sea.” Nia nodded.

"Sea area?"

"um, yes!"

What is she doing going to the sea alone?

“She has things that interest her over there, so she likes to go there often,” Nia nodded, then said to Xiaobai, “Xiaobai, do you want to see her? I can call Cleveland back!”

"Ah, then that won't be necessary." Xiaobai quickly shook his head, smiled at Nia, and asked, "Is Cleveland 8-1?"

"Eh? How do you know?"

"Just a guess," Xiaobai muttered, gently patting his knee as he stood up from the steps. He then smiled at Nia and said, "There's no need to call Cleveland back. Let's go to 8-1 to find her. I've been wanting to check out that area of ​​the sea anyway."

Chapter 2579 Scientific Research Construction Machine

After the newbie garrison successfully cleared Chapter 8, in order to more accurately formulate the ship girl leveling and upgrade route, the deep-sea combat power measurement team hired by the Admiral Headquarters had come here as early as when the city was being built. After a series of complex and professional in-depth assessments on the sea surface, they finally divided the deep-sea distribution area in Chapter 8 into five node sea areas in a very detailed manner, in order from weakest to strongest.

This explains the origin of the eight sections, from the 8-1 sea area to the 8-5 sea area.

According to the rules set by the Admiral Headquarters, the order of conquering these five deep-sea nodes is fixed. All admirals participating in the main storyline of Chapter 8 can only start conquering from Sea Area 8-1. Only after reaching the deepest part of the node sea area, defeating a sufficient number of deep-sea enemies, and accumulating a sufficient amount of high-quality deep-sea metal, will admirals be qualified to challenge the next node.

The eighth chapter's sea area is currently only open to the public for one month. For the admirals who come to challenge it, the eighth chapter is still a mysterious and challenging deep-sea area.

The Admiral Guild did release some data on the abilities of the deep-sea enemies online, but this amount of information is far from sufficient for admirals who are eager to explore Chapter 8.

The battle between humanity and the deep sea is, to some extent, an information war.

The reason why the admirals were able to consistently dominate the Abyss in the first seven main story chapters wasn't because humans were significantly stronger than the Abyss. The main reason was that the admirals were extremely familiar with the maps of the first seven chapters. After more than five hundred years of refinement, generations of admirals had long ago summarized countless ways to clear the first seven main story chapters, such as low-configuration manual map clearing and high-configuration auto-play strategies. There were countless guides available online for admirals.

But clearly, Chapter 8 is different.

Chapter 2580 is a newly opened main story chapter, which is a brand new and unfamiliar map for the admirals.

The enemy's lineup on the sea is unknown.

The strength of the enemy at sea is unknown.

The routes leading to the deep sea and the distribution of ocean currents are also unknown.

Most admirals faced a confusing and difficult early game environment. As a result, even a month after the opening of Chapter 8, most of the naval bases they came to challenge were still only at stage 8-1. Even if a small number of admirals who worked hard and spent a lot of time or effort or had a strong enough ship girl team managed to obtain the qualification to go to the 8-2 area, these admirals would often not choose to start the second node area early game as soon as possible, but would still stay in the 8-1 area.

If you were to ask why most admirals choose to stay in the 8-1 area...

There are probably two answers.

One reason is quite simple: according to statistics released by the Admiral Headquarters, the rewards from expeditions to the 8-1 sea area are actually much higher than those from the first seven chapters. After clearing the 8-1 sea area, instead of immediately embarking on the next, more challenging sea area exploration operation, the Admirals felt it was better to stay in the already familiar 8-1 sea area to recover and catch their breath.

The other reason... is more straightforward.

Because one of the three grand prizes of this event, the construction device for research ship girls, is located in the 8-1 sea area.

……

Xiaobai and Nia left the portable garrison and arrived at the beach in the 8-1 sea area.