Elder brother's garrison

"Okay, I need your help with something." Xiaobai nodded. "I'll need your assistance later."

"Oh!" Chao Da nodded.

Xiao Bai turned her head to look at Nia's Veneto and smiled slightly at her.

“Veneto, Nia told me there’s an ice cellar at the very bottom of the cafeteria, is that true?”

“Yes, that’s right.” Nia’s Veneto nodded.

"Can you take me to see it?"

“The ice cellar…?” Nia’s Veneto paused slightly, but seeing Xiaobai’s smiling expression, she nodded. “Yes… the ice cellar is only used for storing ordinary ingredients, but if you want to see it, Admiral Lu Lin, you can.”

"sorry to bother you."

"The commander instructed us that even if Admiral Lu Lin is not here, we must prioritize fulfilling her request," Nia's Veneto said with a brisk smile.

Nia's family canteen has to cater to the daily needs of hundreds of people, so it occupies a considerable area.

Correspondingly, the cellar, which serves as a food storage area, is also over a hundred square meters in size.

Veneto from Nia's family led Xiaobai and the other two to the entrance of the canteen's cellar. Veneto then asked Xiaobai with some curiosity, "Speaking of which, Admiral Lu Lin, why did you specifically come to take a look at the cellar?"

"I'm here to pick up a friend." Xiaobai looked at the tightly closed door in front of her and nodded with a smile.

"……friend?"

Nia's Veneto froze, looking at the cellar in front of her with a strange expression, then at Little White, lingering for a few seconds on Little White's confident expression.

Veneto wondered, "My admiral doesn't usually keep people locked in the cellar, does he?"

What does it mean to come to the cellar to pick up a friend?

Chapter 2592 Teleportation Base

Nia's Veneto couldn't immediately grasp the meaning behind Xiaobai's words.

Running into someone's food cellar and saying he was going to pick up a friend or something... If this were said by someone else, Veneto would sincerely suggest that person go see a psychiatrist.

but……

Since it was Admiral Lu Lin who said it, there must be a deeper meaning behind it.

Moreover, their own commander had said that all the ship girls in the naval base should try their best to meet all of Shiro's requests.

Since Admiral Lu Lin wants to play, I'll have to play along no matter what...

Let alone a mere canteen cellar, even if Admiral Lu Lin had the wild idea of ​​writing "I was here" in the Commander's bed, Veneto, as a loyal ship girl, could only respectfully push Admiral Lu Lin's buttocks and watch her slowly crawl into the Commander's bed.

"In that case, would you like me to show Admiral Lu Lin and the others around the cellar?" After a brief moment of distraction, Veneto quickly regained his composure and then eagerly sought Xiaobai's opinion.

"Oh, that won't be necessary. My friend is quite shy." Xiaobai shook her head at Nia's Veneto and smiled gently.

Seeing Xiaobai's serious expression, Nia's Veneto smiled awkwardly.

Acting alongside Admiral Lu Lin was quite an awkward experience...

"Oh, I see... Well, then I'll wait for you here."

"No need to be so polite, Veneto, you can go about your business." Xiaobai patted his chest and said earnestly to Veneto, Nia's sister.

“That won’t do. My commander once said that whatever you do, you must see it through to the end. Since I was the one who brought you here in the first place, I must also take responsibility to lead you away.” Nia’s Veneto shook her head very seriously. Her neatly combed silver hair fell over her shoulders and full breasts, and the silvery-white ends swayed slightly with her movements.

It seems that Nia's Veneto won't leave until she's resolved her own issue.

“Alright then…” Xiaobai thought for a moment and nodded to Nia’s Veneto. “But Veneto, no matter what happens in the cellar later, don’t open the door.”

"clear."

Nia's Veneto smiled and nodded.

Whitey, Super Yamato, and Saratoga opened the cellar door and went inside.

Upon entering the cellar, a wave of cold air hit us.

Xiao Bai subconsciously rubbed his arms and looked around.

Nia's cellar is a rectangular building with an interior area of ​​about 100 square meters. The walls are made of metal that gleams with a blue light, and each wall is filled with a large amount of rice, flour, vegetables, meat, eggs, dairy products, and seasonings. The cold air is filled with the fresh aroma of the ingredients.

"If Akagi saw this cellar, he would be very happy..." Xiaobai sighed.

"Deep Sea Akagi?" Saratoga asked curiously from the side.

"It's the ship girl Akagi," Xiaobai corrected Saratoga with a smile.

"Oh..." Saratoga casually picked up a juicy cucumber, took a bite, and chewed it with his cheeks puffed out like a hamster. "Mmm...delicious."

Xiao Bai looked at Saratoga with a wry smile.

"Admiral." Just then, Chao Da cautiously approached Xiao Bai.

"Huh? What's wrong?"

"Did the Admiral bring me here to use my teleportation ability?" Super Yamato asked Shiro.

"Yeah, that's right." Xiaobai smiled at Chaodahe. "You guessed it?"

"...After all, what the Admiral just said seemed to imply that..." Super-Big and Little Muttered to themselves, but then looked at Little White with some worry, "But Admiral, using teleportation in the city will expose our deep-sea presence... There are many powerful admirals and ship girls in this city..."

“Yes.” Xiaobai nodded with deep feeling, then said to Chaoda earnestly, “That’s why I brought you here.”

"Here...?" Chao Da looked around in confusion.

Nia's cellar, although it is indeed a closed environment, is still just an ordinary house.

Even the most impenetrable and indestructible wall is still just an ordinary object and cannot withstand the penetration of deep-sea waves.

“Normally when I borrow your Deep Sea Dean’s power, I either make arrangements with the friends around me beforehand or deliberately stay away from the people nearby.” Xiaobai said, while smiling slightly at Saratoga. “But in Chapter 8, the surrounding area is full of unfamiliar admiral naval bases, and the city area is huge. If I really want to find a remote place to use your teleportation power, I don’t know how far I would have to go.”

Seeing the little white's smile, Saratoga immediately understood, picked up the cucumber, opened her ship equipment space with both hands, and tilted slightly towards the ground.

Hua Hua Hua——

As Saratoga's ship equipment space tilted, pieces of silver-white tiles fell off, quickly piling up into a small mountain taller than a person in front of Saratoga.

"So, although I didn't bring many ship girls with me this time, I did consider that there might be some surprises during this Chapter 8 trip, so I specially came up with a way to use your teleportation ability in front of everyone in Chapter 8." Xiaobai bent down and picked up one of the white tiles, smiled at Chaoda and Weiwei, "Here, touch it."

“Admiral… this is…” Chao Yamato reached out and touched the white tile. The moment her fingertips touched the tile, her gaze faltered slightly. “Ah…”

"It looks familiar, doesn't it?" Xiaobai smiled.

"Hmm..." Chao Dahe gently raised his hand, his gaze falling on the ring on his ring finger. "It seems to be made of the same material as this ring?"

“Yes,” Xiaobai said with a sigh, “but that’s not entirely true. The amount of special metals used in this tile is much, much lower than the ring on your hand… and it’s precisely because it’s so much lower that this tile doesn’t have the effect of suppressing deep-sea power; it can only separate deep-sea auras from each other.”

As Xiaobai finished speaking, he handed the tile in his hand to Saratoga, who was standing next to him.

Saratoga caught it with both hands.

“Actually, I’ve been thinking about how to conveniently use your power for a long time,” Xiaobai explained to Chao Yamato. “Then I discussed this with many people, and the conclusion I came to was that all I need to do is set up a teleportation base in a place I frequent.”

"A teleportation base station?" Chao Dahe looked around.

“I’ve decided to turn Nia’s cellar into a teleportation base for Chapter 8,” Xiaobai said. “As long as these tiles are perfectly attached to the cellar walls, we can transform it into a safe house that can isolate the deep-sea atmosphere and waves. In this room, you can use your teleportation ability at will.”

"Ah..." Chao Dahe suddenly realized and nodded to Xiao Bai, "I see!"

"Isn't my idea amazing?" Xiaobai asked with a smile.

"Very impressive!" Chao Da nodded seriously.

"Then, let's begin."

"start?"

"Laying tiles, huh?" Xiaobai pulled out a bunch of tools from her ship equipment space and said to Chaoda with a smile, "I'm not kidding, tiling a small room of over 100 square meters is a super troublesome and tiring process, Chaoda, are you ready?"

"Uh...uh..."

……

Half an hour had passed since Xiaobai and his group entered the cellar.

Nia's Veneto leaned against the wall behind her, looking up at the bright sky. A gentle breeze blew, and Veneto's long silver hair danced in the wind.

"Admiral Lu Lin... has spent quite a bit of time in the cellar."

Nia's Veneto murmured softly.

Just now.

dong dong dong...

Suddenly, a faint knocking sound came from behind Veneto.

"Huh?" Nia's Veneto was taken aback. She quickly turned around and looked at the outer wall of the cellar. "Was that sound coming from inside the cellar?"

Nia's Veneto cautiously approached the wall and whispered in her ear.

Sure enough, a faint knocking sound reached Veneto's ears through the metal building.

"...What is Admiral Lu Lin doing?" Veneto withdrew his ear and looked at the cellar door with a complicated expression.

If it weren't for Xiaobai's prior instructions that Veneto should not enter the cellar no matter what noise he heard, Veneto would definitely have been unable to resist his curiosity and quietly opened the door.

“Admiral Lu Lin is really a strange person…” Veneto looked at the sky with a helpless expression.

"Hey? Veneto, what are you doing at the cellar entrance?" Two ship girls passing by noticed Veneto in the distance. "Are you in some trouble and need help?"

"It's nothing, I... I'm just passing the time here!" Veneto quickly smiled and waved. "Ryuho, and Chokai, thank you."

"Like This……"

"Watch your step." Veneto smiled as she watched the two ship girls leave, then sighed and looked helplessly at the closed cellar door.

"...We can't let anyone else know that Admiral Lu Lin went to play in the cellar..."

"Admiral Lu Lin, you'd better hurry up and come up..."

Veneto muttered softly, his voice quickly dissipating into the air.

……

at the same time.

In the cellar.

"Oh right, Admiral." Super Yamato picked up a tile, then looked at Shiro as if he had suddenly remembered something.

"Huh? What's wrong?" Xiao Bai, who was grinding cement, stopped what he was doing.

"I remember that materials that can shield against the aura of the deep sea are quite rare, right?" Chao Da asked worriedly. "Won't these tiles be very expensive?"

"Well..." Xiaobai scratched his cheek and smiled, "From a certain perspective, it is indeed quite precious..."

Chapter 2593 Meeting Luo Lian

The special metal that can shield the aura of the deep sea can only be obtained from special supply ships like the Sukhbaatar.

In order to gather enough special metals, the three supply ships Sukhbaatar, Odin, and Vestal in the newbie naval base made outstanding contributions. In those short three months, the three of them were harvested by the newbies one after another like leeks.

Basically, as soon as Sukhbaatar and the others' ship equipment was restored, before they could even take a few steps to ease their tense feelings from being wrecked, Xiaobai would push them back into the ship equipment dismantling center for another round of special metal harvesting.

Of course.

Xiaobai isn't some kind of demon.

During the extraction of special metals, the novice naval base ensures that no supply ships are damaged.

Xiaobai will still pay for Sukhbaatar and the others' special metal.

When the supply ships are in a bad mood, Shiro will give them a two-day break.

"So these were all taken from those supply ships..." Chao Yahe looked at the silver tiles in her hand and suddenly felt a heavy weight pressing down on her, making it hard to lift her hand.

"This is for everyone's convenience," Xiaobai said with a smile. "Alright, let's hurry up and put up the tiles. We still need to finish the cellar renovation before Nia comes back."

Chao Dahe nodded, and she carefully placed the tile on the wall that had been coated with cement. Then she picked up a rubber mallet and gently tapped the four small corners of the tile.

The ship girls work incredibly fast.

The process of tiling took two hours, and soon the walls of the cellar were covered with a layer of shimmering silver metallic tiles.

Xiao Bai put down his tools, wiped the non-existent sweat from his forehead, looked around at the new look of the cellar with satisfaction, and couldn't help but nod.

"Hmm... After the tiles were replaced, the atmosphere of the cellar feels much more upscale."

"Can simply laying down a ring of tiles completely isolate the aura and waves of the deep sea?" Chao Yamato asked, still somewhat uneasy.