Elder brother's garrison

"Haha, I feel a kind of satisfaction, like a demon has finally found its way!"

"..."

The gossip of the admirals reached Xiaobai and Nia without any attempt to conceal it.

Xiaobai coughed twice, choked by the black smoke. She waved her hand forward, dispersing the black smoke surrounding her and Nia.

"Nia, are you alright?" Xiaobai asked Nia with concern.

"Hmm, it seems we failed." Nia's expression was very calm, and she sighed softly.

"It's alright, it's just a construction failure, we'll use another construction machine..." Xiaobai shook her head nonchalantly and spoke to Nia, but before she could finish her sentence, she saw Nia reach out to the construction machine again and quickly allocate four resources on it. "...Eh? Nia, are you still going to build it?"

"Huh? Of course." Nia was taken aback, turning to look at Little White. "Isn't this the first time?"

"Uh...yeah, that's right..." Xiaobai came to his senses, scratched his head and smiled.

Normally, when a high-ranking admiral comes to build a house, he will build it at least dozens, or even hundreds of times, before leaving.

Nia had only failed once; this match was nothing special for her.

"Nia, how many times do you usually build a house before it's ready to ship?" Xiaobai asked, watching Nia take the deep-sea metal from Cleveland and smoothly drop it into the construction device.

"Hmm... let's not talk about this here." Nia glanced at the admirals staring at her nearby, blinked, and smiled apologetically at Xiaobai.

—Nia's drop rate has become so terrifying that even she knows she can't just casually mention it in the construction room...

"Well... alright then." Looking at Nia's smile, Xiaobai couldn't help but swallow.

Xiaobai watched as Nia, just like before, mixed the resources and deep-sea metals, and then pressed the button to start construction.

The construction machine, which had just finished emitting black smoke, began a new round of operation.

"Hey! This little girl failed once, but she's started building again!"

"I won't shed tears until I see the Yellow River, and I won't turn back until I hit a brick wall."

"Didn't you hear? These two girls are very rich. They came prepared to build this house."

"Even if we came prepared, we shouldn't have wasted it like this..."

"Forget it, all gamblers are like this. Let's wait until this girl loses a hundred or two times in a row before we try to persuade her."

The admirals continued their gossip, their unrestrained voices reaching the ears of Xiaobai and the ship girls.

“…These people are really annoying.” Veneto listened to the voices around her, her delicate eyebrows furrowing slightly. She flicked her long, silver, wavy hair behind her back, a look of unhappiness and frustration on her face. “These people are talking as if they’d love to see the Commander fail to build it.”

“Being in the spotlight inevitably brings criticism.” Littorio looked at the slowly operating construction device, closed her eyes, and said softly, “What the commander does is naturally beyond the comprehension of ordinary people.”

“But even so, it is really too impolite for so many people to expose themselves and criticize a lady…” Veneto muttered to himself.

Littorio opened his eyes and looked at Veneto. After seeing the concerned yet angry expression on Veneto's face, the corners of Littorio's mouth curled up slightly.

“Veneto,” Littorio interrupted Veneto, calling out to her.

"what happened?"

"Are you ready to welcome our little sister?"

"Eh?"

Upon hearing Littorio's words, Veneto's beautiful silver-grey eyes widened instantly.

Then, as if to confirm Littorio's words.

The next second, as if a microwave oven had finished heating, a crisp "ding" sound, audible throughout the entire construction building, came from the operating construction equipment.

The entire building fell silent.

The admirals who had been gossiping fell silent, staring in shock at Nia and the construction device in front of her.

All eyes were instantly drawn to the construction device.

"Ding! Construction successful."

"Add a rapid construction device and end construction?"

A very comfortable dialog box popped up on the screen of the construction device in front of Nia.

"It's...it's really been successfully built!!!"

"Holy crap—it was built on the second try! And using an African construction machine!!!"

Chapter 2620 The Construction Formula Is Not Such an Inconvenient Thing

The power of a lucky person is terrifying!

This is a legendary construction machine with a zero drop rate since Chapter 8 was built!

This is an ultimate African construction machine that has been reported by admirals hundreds of times for malfunctions, and has been inspected by the admiral guild's maintenance staff time and time again. However, the inspection results show that it is operating normally, but they still cannot find out why the construction probability is always zero!

Today... the myth has been shattered!!!

The admirals watching the spectacle stared wide-eyed at the red-haired girl standing in front of the construction machine, their mouths agape as if they wanted to scream out loud.

"Wow! Nia!" Little White exclaimed excitedly, clasping her hands together. "You actually built it!"

"Yes, it seems the so-called African construction machine is just a rumor." Nia smiled and turned to Little White, saying, "Little White, you can build with peace of mind now!"

"Nia, quick, use the rapid construction device!" Xiaobai took two steps forward, tiptoed, and leaned over behind Nia, staring expectantly at the pop-up on the screen. "I can't wait to see which ship girl you'll build, Nia!"

“Okay.” Nia smiled, reached out her hand, and pressed the use button.

The gurgling sound came from the delivery pipes above the construction machine again, and then a dialog box popped up on the construction device's screen.

"Rapid construction device deployed and in operation..."

"Please wait a moment, construction is expected to be completed within five minutes."

Seeing the word "waiting" displayed on the screen, Nia smiled.

"Okay, that's fine then," Nia said with a smile to Xiaobai.

"Nia, let me see what construction formula you used?" Xiaobai said, looking curiously at the display panel for the four resources. "Hmm... let me see the resource ratio is... 400, 80, 650, 130... Huh? This is a large battleship formula? Nia, do you want to bombard the ship girls?"

“Yes.” Nia nodded, smiling at Little White, and said, “Because I think today is a very special day.”

"Is it special?" Xiaobai withdrew her gaze and looked at Nia curiously.

“Yes, the first time I stepped into the Admiral's Guild's construction room was back in the first chapter,” Nia said with a smile to Xiaobai. “You were the one who led me there back then, Xiaobai, do you remember?”

"Ah...I do remember..."

“Back then, I watched with my own eyes as you created Rome and the Empire.” Nia said, a nostalgic and happy expression on her face. “To me, Rome and the Empire are like witnesses to our meeting. They are very important and very special to me. And now, after our reunion in Chapter Eight, Xiaobai has once again taken me into the building room.”

Nia reached out and took Xiaobai's hand, her face full of anticipation.

"Little White, what a romantic and memorable thing this is! So now I also want to build Rome and the Empire! This time, I want my Rome or the Admiral to be the witness to our reunion!"

“So that’s how it is…” Xiaobai murmured, her gaze unconsciously drifting to Nia’s Veneto and Littorio. “Perfect, Nia, your family is also missing these two ship girls…”

and so……

Nia used the battleship formula, which means she chose to build the Roman ship over the Empire, right...?

After a moment's thought, Xiaobai's eyes revealed a hint of understanding.

It turned out to be the case.

The reason why ships can become ship girls is mainly because ship girls are all magical beings born from human history.

Generally speaking, the stronger and deeper the historical concept that a ship girl carries, the more obvious and powerful her characteristics as a ship girl become.

Conversely, ships like the Empire, which have never actually been launched in human history, have too weak a historical concept to support their existence as ship girls. Even the Empire of the White House only came into existence through the special method of being a companion ship girl, thanks to its older sister, Rome.

It seems even Nia isn't confident she can conjure an empire out of thin air...

Compared to empires, Rome, with its actual historical existence, is easier to invoke.

—But then again, what the heck is this "name-based construction" thing...?

Xiao Bai couldn't help but smile wryly.

With battleship formulas capable of creating thousands of ship girls, to precisely select Rome from so many possibilities... well, is this really Nia's style? She truly possesses the effortless skill of a lucky player...

While Xiaobai was talking to Nia, the five-minute wait time quickly passed.

"Little White, look! It's finished!" Nia said happily, pointing to the timer on the construction device screen that had reached zero.

"Wow... impressive, impressive!" Little White clapped her hands, then smiled and urged Nia, "Nia, hurry up and activate the construction device!"

"Okay!" Nia nodded, pressing the button to activate the construction device with a look of anticipation.

Pfft—

The construction device was activated under the watchful eyes of all the construction building admirals, and with a deafening roar, a large amount of white steam gushed out of the hatch.

"Quickly, quickly, absorb good luck! Absorb good luck!"

"I inhale, I inhale, I inhale hard!"

The admirals who were watching nearby quickly poked their heads out and took deep breaths of the white steam filling the room.

The white vapor dissipated quickly.

The admirals sighed regretfully, then turned their gaze to the open construction hatch.

Under everyone's watchful eyes, the hatch was wide open, and inside lay a ship girl resting with her eyes closed.

The first thing that caught everyone's eye was a head of slightly messy, long, light brown hair and a peaceful, serene sleeping face.

The ship girl inside the hatch was wearing a sleeveless naval jacket that exposed her armpits and a short white skirt that barely reached her hips. Her long, white legs were exposed to the air, pressed tightly together against the hatch. The outfit was originally a little revealing, but it was covered by a wide cloak with a green lining, which instead gave it a unique, conservative charm.

"Is this... Nia's Rome?" Xiaobai stared curiously at the ship girl inside the hatch, lost in thought. "Or is it another ship girl..."

Just then, the ship girl inside the hatch twitched her brows, slowly opened her emerald green eyes, and lazily glanced outside the hatch.

In the ship girls' understanding, the person standing outside the cabin should be their admiral.

The area outside the cabin was packed with people.

A large number of admirals and ship girls stared silently, as if they were looking at some kind of monster.

"..." Ship girl.

Looking at the dense crowd outside the cabin, the ship girls inside remained silent.

A few seconds later, the ship girl in the cabin closed her eyes, pulled her large cloak up and covered herself with it like a blanket, then lay back down comfortably in the construction device.

"Hey! Why are you lying back down again!"

"Come out and walk around for a bit!"

When the crowd outside saw the ship girl retract into the construction device, they immediately shouted anxiously.

No matter how urgently the people outside called out, the ship girl inside the cabin remained peacefully asleep, as if she were completely isolated from the world. After a short while, a steady, faint snoring sound came from inside the cabin amidst the noisy environment.

"Good heavens, he's asleep!"

"How can anyone sleep in this environment? How many sleeping pills did they take?"

"What a ruthless ship girl! Doesn't she even come out to check on us?!"

"Could it be that the construction machine itself is faulty, and the ship girls have caught some kind of disease from it...?"

The admirals were once again abuzz with discussion.

Xiaobai listened to the admirals' sharp comments and looked at Nia helplessly.

"Uh... I, I'll go get the ship girl..." Nia blushed slightly. She quickly took two steps forward to the hatch, peeked inside, and gently patted the sleeping ship girl's waist. "Hello, are you still awake? I'm your admiral... It's nice to meet you..."

"..." The sleeping ship girl was quiet and peaceful.

"Well, um, it's about time to get up..."

"..." Still quiet.

"Um... Rome, is it Rome?" Nia called out, blushing.

at last.

After Nia uttered the word "Rome," the ship girls inside the cabin finally reacted.

The ship girl moved slightly, then propped herself up and sat up, rubbing her eyes and looking at Nia with a dazed gaze.

"Ah! There's a response!" Nia quickly put her hands together and smiled warmly. "Are you Rome? Hello, I'm your admiral, it's a pleasure to meet you!"

The ship girl lowered her hand. She didn't reply to Nia, but simply stared at Nia quietly with her emerald green eyes, as if she were memorizing Nia's appearance.