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"Understood." The ship girl attendant bowed to Xiaobai again, then asked, "Should we inform Steward Luo about your visit to the Admiral's Guild?"

"Steward Luo, who is that?"

"Manager Luo Yingying."

"Oh... Miss Yingying." Xiaobai smiled. "When you suddenly mentioned Steward Luo, I thought you were a boy."

"..." The ship girl attendants looked at each other.

"There's no need to tell Miss Yingying," Xiaobai added.

"Understood!" The ship girl attendants nodded and then dispersed.

After sending the ship girl attendants away with their gazes, Xiaobai and his group finally began to examine the building's floors.

Compared to yesterday's packed crowd, there were significantly fewer people building floors today.

"Hmm... is it because it's morning? It feels a bit chilly than yesterday," Xiaobai said.

“Who knows…” Nia shook her head.

"Forget it, let's just build ours." Xiaobai looked at the company next to him.

After arriving at the construction floor, the company representative kept pointing to his lips with his finger, looking around with great interest.

Although the construction floor was much quieter than yesterday, there were still many people. Throughout the entire construction floor, the sounds of admirals activating construction devices and shouting frantically could be heard all the time.

"This time, we absolutely have to win!"

"Building ship girls? I'm determined to do it today!"

"Pfft————"

"Damn it, the construction failed again!!!"

"..."

The mournful cries of the admirals lingered in my ears, and they felt so familiar.

"Enterprise, what's the atmosphere like here?" Xiaobai asked Enterprise.

"Yeah! It's super lively!" The company smiled and nodded at Xiaobai after hearing his words.

"Let's choose a construction machine..." Xiaobai said, glancing around at the surroundings. "Oh... although there are fewer people in line, it seems like regular construction machines won't be available anytime soon..."

In Xiaobai's eyes, the construction machines that build floors still had a queue, except for the "African construction machine" that she had used yesterday, which had no queue.

And for some reason, bright red warning tape was put up around this African construction machine.

"Huh? Is it broken?" Xiaobai walked curiously to the African construction machine and touched the warning strip.

"It's not broken!" Just then, a kind-hearted admiral nearby saw Xiaobai and his group approaching the African construction machine and quickly advised, "This is an African construction machine. Take my advice, if you can't handle it, don't touch it!"

"Thanks for reminding me... But if it's not broken, why put on the warning strip?" Xiaobai smiled at the admiral who had kindly reminded him, and then asked curiously.

"Sigh... Didn't you hear the rumors from yesterday?" the kind-hearted admiral sighed.

"Uh, the rumors from yesterday...?"

"Yesterday, two admirals, I don't know what kind of luck they had, managed to get a shipment from these two African construction machines. Goodness, this shipment alarmed everyone on the floor, and a whole bunch of people came to try their luck at this construction machine." The kind admiral said, a helpless expression on his face. "Guess what? This construction machine then built for ten thousand times in a row! Not a single shipment was produced! The admiral's guild sent people over to check, but they really couldn't find anything wrong with it. But ten thousand times without producing a shipment is just too outrageous, so they just put a warning strip on this cursed construction machine and are preparing to dismantle it and replace it with a new one in a couple of days."

"Ah..." Upon hearing this, Xiaobai exchanged a glance with Nia and Luo Lian.

"He doesn't seem to recognize us..." Nia whispered.

"Not all admirals will spend every day building floors. Most people will only come and build for a day or two, and then go back to running for resources," Luo Lian reminded her.

"I see." Xiaobai nodded, then smiled slightly at the admiral who had kindly reminded her, "Thank you for the reminder, uncle!"

"Hiss... Who are you calling uncle! How old are you?!" The admiral, who was called uncle, glared at him and stormed off.

Xiaobai watched the admiral leave, then lifted the warning strip and entered the area of ​​the construction device.

"Xiaobai, will we be okay walking in like this?" Nia asked worriedly.

"It's alright, it's alright. Didn't that uncle just say the construction machine isn't broken?" Xiaobai said with a smile. "Anyway, it's not me building today, it's the company and you building it. As long as it's not broken, it's enough!"

“Oh…” Nia blinked, also agreeing that what Xiaobai said made a lot of sense.

Seeing Xiaobai and his group cross the cordon and arrive in front of the African construction machine, the admirals inside the construction floor were also attracted.

"Huh? Why is someone going to build those machines in Africa?"

"Isn't anyone going to try and stop them?"

"Someone advised against it. I just saw a guy chatting with these girls for a while... Is he just stubborn as a fairy?"

The admirals, as if they had stumbled upon some juicy gossip, all crowded around.

Xiao Bai glanced around at the admirals outside the cordon—these admirals were definitely not the same people from yesterday, no wonder none of them recognized him and Nia.

"Why do I feel like we're the center of attention again..." Nia murmured softly, looking at the people around her.

“After all, it’s this machine…” Luo Lian said, “but there’s nothing we can do about it since this is the only machine on the building that doesn’t require queuing.”

"Oh my, it's so lively, so lively!" Enterprise couldn't help but laugh as she looked at the admirals around her. "Admirals! It seems like so many people are giving us their blessings!"

"...Are you sure those people were offering blessings...?"

Xiao Bai smiled as he looked at the company's smiling faces.

That's it.

In the eyes of top-tier European companies, the world may indeed be this wonderful.

“Enterprise, let’s begin construction,” Xiaobai said.

"Alright! I'm ready!" Enterprise pouted and stretched her arms. "Admiral, tell me, who should we build!"

Chapter 2652 It Exploded!

Hearing the tone of the company's voice, the surrounding admirals all wore expressions that were both amused and exasperated.

"My God, how can someone be so confident?"

"They're using African construction machines, right? If other people heard that, they'd think it was some kind of 100% successful construction machine!"

"It feels like a clueless kid taking ten dollars to a lottery station, buying a ticket while discussing with his friends how he would spend it if he won five million..."

All the admirals present have been in the admiral circle for many years and hold high positions as admirals of Chapter 8. They have experienced countless constructions and must have a clear understanding of construction probabilities. To them, the company's statement is, in a sense, a denial of their hard-earned construction experience over the years, which naturally aroused a lot of ridicule.

Perhaps due to the crowd effect, these admirals did not deliberately suppress their voices while mocking the company's statement.

These sounds naturally reached the ears of Xiaobai and the others.

"Xiaobai, these people are so mean." Nia frowned and approached Xiaobai, whispering to her.

"Ha...haha..." Xiaobai just laughed, without much reaction from him.

After all, the company made such confident statements in front of so many people...

Laugh.

Let's all have a smile.

After all, if we don't seize this opportunity to have a laugh now, these people might not be able to laugh later.

"Enterprise, you can fill in the construction formula yourself." With that thought, Xiaobai turned to Enterprise and said with a smile, "I believe you can build amazing ship girls."

"Huh? Is that okay?!" Enterprise's eyes lit up when she heard that Shiro allowed her to fill in the construction formula herself. "But Admiral, I don't understand those formulas at all. Can I just fill in anything?"

"Sure," Xiaobai nodded.

"Wow—that's great! I've always wanted to try filling in the construction formula myself!" Enterprise arrived at the construction machine's control panel with a face full of surprise. She touched the buttons on the construction device while excitedly looking at Shiro. "Then, Admiral, I really filled it in! I really just filled it in randomly!"

"Fill it out, fill it out," Xiaobai smiled.

With Xiaobai's permission, the company bit its lip and started clicking the buttons to input resources.

The construction device doesn't actually have a button for setting construction formulas. The so-called construction formula is simply the resource ratio and quantity entered into the construction device. The company kept pressing the resource input button, and the values ​​of the four resources displayed on the construction device kept increasing with the company's input.

The admirals watching from the sidelines observed the resource display in the construction device from a distance.

"Hmm... the fuel tank was filled to 400 in one go... are you planning to build a battleship?"

"The price of steel has also reached 650, it seems I was right."

"Wait a minute, she brought in another 600 units of ammunition and 400 units of aluminum! She's going to build an aircraft carrier!"

"As we all know, among all ship types, destroyers and cruisers have the highest probability of being delivered, while aircraft carriers have the lowest probability of being delivered... To make such a bold statement under the noses of so many people, if the construction fails, one will be ridiculed severely. Yet, one still bites the bullet and proceeds to build the aircraft carrier with the lowest probability. It has to be said that one has great courage."

"Yes, you deserve some praise for that kind of courage."

The admirals around were discussing and commenting on the company's construction formula.

However, a few seconds later, as the company continued its work, the data on the construction formula on the construction machine continued to change.

"Huh? Wait, why is this ship girl still inputting resources?"

"Oil has been pushed down to 500! Aluminum to 700! Ammunition... what about ammunition...?"

"She's still typing! She's still typing!"

Under the stunned gazes of the surrounding admirals, the company kept pressing the resource input button, the clicking sound echoing in the quiet air.

Another few minutes passed.

The company finally released the resource input button and looked with satisfaction at the four strings of data on the screen.

999:999:999:999

The company has pushed all four resources to their maximum limits!

"Huh? No!"

"The construction formula isn't about maximizing resources! If all four resource stats are set too high, construction will definitely fail!"

"Could this ship girl be completely clueless about construction formulas??"

"Goodness, raising all four resources to 999 is something only a complete newbie who doesn't know anything about construction formulas could do... Even someone who has taken two years of construction courses at the Naval Academy shouldn't be so clueless about this."

"Could it be that she saw so many of us watching her, so she started to slack off and avoid embarrassment when the construction fails?"

The onlookers all wore strange expressions.

If the admirals' gazes were previously tinged with suspicion and curiosity, after seeing the Enterprise's "beginner-level" construction formula, their eyes now held a pure sense of amusement as they looked at the newbies and their group.

Most of the admirals who came to watch simply shook their heads and left the scene.

They felt that watching any longer was a waste of time. Rather than spending their precious time on this meaningless clown show, they would rather go back to their construction equipment and do some more building.

The reactions of the surrounding admirals, of course, did not affect Xiaobai and his group in front of the construction device.

"Admiral, I've finished filling it out!" After completing the construction formula, Enterprise turned around and smiled at Xiaobai behind him.

"Then let's begin construction." Xiaobai smiled at the company, then took out a palm-sized piece of deep-sea metal from his pocket and handed it to the company.

"Alright, Admiral!" Enterprise took the deep-sea metal from Shiro, placed it on the groove in the center of the construction device, and then pressed the start construction button with a snap.

The button to start construction was pressed.

A buzzing roar instantly filled the air.

This sound indicates that the construction device is breaking down the resources within the cabin and converting them into special energy that forms the ship girl's body.

Perhaps because so many resources were injected this time, the roar of the construction machine in front of the company was exceptionally loud and prolonged.

The number of admirals watching Xiaobai and his group build the machine had dwindled by half, and the remaining admirals had shifted from simply joining in the fun to wanting to see Xiaobai and his group make a fool of themselves. Most of these people, watching the incessantly buzzing construction machine, took out umbrellas from behind them and opened them to hold in front of them.

"Huh? Why are you guys holding up umbrellas?" The other admirals watching looked at their companions with curiosity.

"Don't you know? When construction fails, the amount and concentration of black smoke emitted from the cabin are directly related to the amount of resources input!" The admirals with umbrellas kindly reminded them. "The black smoke from a failed destroyer construction is significantly thinner than that from a failed aircraft carrier construction, and the resources loaded into this construction device are from a beginner-level construction formula with all four resource stats maxed out! The black smoke emitted after a failure... it could almost engulf half of the construction building!"

"Oh my god, so that's how it is!" The admirals, who had been reminded, were also startled and quickly hid behind their umbrellas.

Umbrellas were opened and stacked on the ground, their smooth surfaces reflecting dappled sunlight, instantly making everything around Xiaobai and his group sparkle.

Xiao Bai turned his head and looked around.

It seems these people have completely accepted that the company will fail...

makes sense.

After all, it uses a construction formula of 999x4...

Such a crude and meaningless construction formula has no reason to succeed. Even if a regular company were to build it themselves, it would be impossible to ship the goods.

Thinking of this, Xiaobai suddenly covered her mouth, and her lips under her palm couldn't help but curl up a little.