Elder brother's garrison

My own commentary was so effective?

I thought I was just planting seeds of suspicion, but did these few words actually turn Nia to the side?

“In that case, Admiral Nia… no, Miss Nia, my door is always open for you, if you are interested…” Admiral Ke Yuan said hurriedly.

"I understand now, you're an idiot!" Nia said seriously, pointing at Ke Yuan before he could finish speaking.

“…Huh?” Ke Yuan was stunned.

"You're a self-righteous, hopeless, and utterly stupid idiot!" Nia shouted, her gaze burning with intense seriousness and even a hint of anger. "Someone like you will never understand Xiaobai in this lifetime!"

"Admiral Nia? What happened to you..."

"Didn't you get thoroughly humiliated by Xiaobai yesterday?! Xiaobai doesn't even care about you, and you still come out looking for trouble! Didn't you lose face enough on the beach?! You have to come out and act like some kind of behind-the-scenes boss, it's utterly ridiculous! Utterly childish!" Nia pointed at Admiral Ke Yuan and shouted a series of insults, "Someone like you, even if you were a hundred times, a thousand times, ten thousand times more powerful, you wouldn't be worth a single hair on Xiaobai's head!! And now you're still talking badly about Xiaobai behind her back, wanting me to leave her, you're dreaming! You don't even have a shred of manliness!"

Nia's sudden outburst of curses shocked everyone present.

Admiral Ke Yuan trembled all over, his face turning red and blue.

"Wow, Commander, I had no idea you were such a good swearer!" Veneto said to Nia, both surprised and delighted.

“I didn’t want to swear… but he spoke ill of Xiaobai!” Nia gasped angrily, her eyes still blazing with fury. “That kind of person is utterly wicked! Veneto, let’s go!”

"Haha, Commander, you're so funny! Let's go!" Veneto laughed.

Admiral Ke Yuan stared at Nia, trembling all over, barely able to contain the rage in his eyes.

"You won't listen to reason... so you'll have to suffer the consequences!" Admiral Ke Yuan clenched his fist. "Don't forget, you're not even a top ten admiral yet!"

"Oh!" Nia made a face at Ke Yuan.

Chapter 2784 The First Sign of Wind

After making a face, Nia didn't even want to look at Admiral Ke Yuan again, and left with Veneto without any hesitation.

Left alone, Admiral Ke Yuan trembled and his breathing became disordered. He stared wide-eyed and gritted his teeth as he watched Nia's figure recede into the distance, waves of frantic anger rising within him.

what happened……

what happened……

what is going on!

Admiral Ke Yuan clenched his fist and stomped his foot hard.

Yesterday it was Fang Jie, and today it's Nia—why aren't these people acting according to their plans?! I've clearly laid out the benefits and reasons before them. According to human nature's tendency to seek advantage and avoid harm, they should simply follow my plan. But why? Why do my plans fail time and time again? Why do my words fail repeatedly? What's wrong with them?!

Admiral Ke Yuan was usually very fond of manipulating people's hearts, and he naturally knew how others would react once the seeds of suspicion were sown in their hearts.

However, judging from Nia's current behavior, Admiral Ke Yuan can confirm that the "seed" he had just planted in her heart has been completely uprooted and thrown aside by her.

No way, this can't be...

As an admiral, how could she accept that the ship girls she had painstakingly trained got along so well with other admirals? Didn't she feel even a trace of jealousy? As a human being with normal emotional needs, how could she tolerate being looked down upon as a follower by her companions even after rising through the ranks? And as a highly intelligent animal, how could she ignore her friends repeatedly taking away the benefits that should rightfully belong to her?

Why doesn't she care at all?

If she has even the slightest complaint about this matter, my words will inevitably have an effect on her!

I don't understand, I just don't understand...

Why have my plans been repeatedly thwarted lately?

Why is my luck so bad!

Admiral Ke Yuan gritted his teeth. Under the influence of a huge sense of frustration and absurdity, his eyes gradually became bloodshot, and his gaze toward Nia slowly turned cold.

"Admiral, what do we do now? Should we stop them?" The two ship girls beside Admiral Ke Yuan stared at Nia and Veneto's backs, seeking Ke Yuan's next instructions.

"..." Hearing the words of the ship girls around him, Admiral Ke Yuan's expression changed, but after a short while, he took a deep breath and slowly exhaled, "...Never mind."

"Should we just give up?" the ship girl asked.

"The Admiral's Guild forbids private fights. You just used your aura to intimidate others, which was already the limit within the rules," Admiral Ke Yuan said with his eyes closed. "Moreover, the top ten naval districts have been guaranteeing the security of Zhangjie City recently, so the situation is very tense. Even we can't go against the grain. Besides, the target this time is a future top ten naval district. If we take action now, it will be a complete falling out. In the future, when she becomes stronger, we will inevitably be irreconcilable enemies."

"Oh..." The two ship girls nodded thoughtfully.

"Hehe... Don't worry, although the plan against Nia failed, I have plenty of other methods." Admiral Ke Yuan opened his eyes, his expression calm again. He smiled and said to the ship girls beside him, "Do you know why I chose to meet Admiral Nia here?"

"...I don't know." Both ship girls shook their heads.

"Because there are no surveillance cameras on this street, but there are surveillance cameras on the only way to get to this street."

"...?" The two ship girls still didn't understand.

"Later, find an opportunity to deliver this letter to Admiral Nia's residence." Admiral Ke Yuan took out a snow-white envelope from his clothes and handed it to the two admirals beside him. "Remember to deliver it in front of the ship girls of Admiral Lu Lin or Admiral Luo Lian, so that they will notice it, and try to do it as secretly as possible."

"Admiral, what is this?" The two ship girls held Admiral Ke Yuan's envelope, looking completely bewildered.

"It's nothing, just some empty words like 'I had a pleasant chat with Admiral Nia today,' and 'Looking forward to meeting again.'" Admiral Ke Yuan's lips curled up, a hint of glee flashing in his eyes. "Anyway, no one knows what Admiral Nia and I actually talked about. As for the content of the chat, if Admiral Nia wants to explain it to her two good friends, then let her explain it. As for whether those two admirals listen or not... hehe, that's their own business."

The two ship girls, holding the envelopes, finally understood what was going on.

“Since I can’t plant the seed in Admiral Nia’s heart, then I’ll plant the seed in the other two,” Admiral Ke Yuan murmured. “Anyway, as long as the relationship between the three of them falls apart in the future, I can achieve the same result. But if I do that, there will always be a rift between me and Admiral Nia. At best, we can only be strangers who meet by chance.”

"Won't Admiral Nia be angry...? Admiral, why did you do this?" The two ship girls swallowed hard.

"What did I do? I just chatted with her," Admiral Ke Yuan said, turning around. "As for this letter, I didn't write anything substantial in my mind, so of course they can't find fault with me. Even if this matter has caused a rift in their relationship, it's just that their feelings for each other weren't sincere enough."

"Uh……"

The two ship girls exchanged a glance, and both saw a hint of fear in each other's eyes.

“Admiral Nia…Admiral Nia, please don’t blame me.” Admiral Ke Yuan shook his head, turned around, and smiled. “Yesterday’s humiliation is the humiliation of my life…I can’t leave it unpunished. Since you’re unwilling to help me, then you can only become a sacrifice…Hehe, after severing ties with my two friends, I hope our relationship can be mended as soon as possible.”

The two admirals silently accepted the letter.

Admiral Ke Yuan took a deep look at the street where Nia and Veneto had disappeared, then turned and left.

Snapped!

However, the moment Admiral Ke Yuan turned around, his body suddenly lost its balance as if he had been kicked. Before he could even turn around, his eyes glazed over, and he fell to the hard ground with a thud.

"Ouch! Admiral, you've fallen again!"

"How many times has this happened today!"

As soon as the two ship girls saw Ke Yuan fall to the ground, they rushed over and helped the admiral up.

While helping her up, the two ship girls also spoke up.

"Oh no, oh no! It must be because you framed Admiral Nia that her special ship girl is now using some kind of unseen lucky power to influence you!"

"Falling four or five times a day, always landing face down, who could stand that!"

The hidden path was more uneven than the rest of the city in Chapter Eight, with hard ground and gravel everywhere, so the consequences of a fall here were much more serious.

Admiral Ke Yuan, who was helped up by the ship girls, was covered in blood and had a ferocious expression.

"Special ship girl... special ship girl, I will definitely get my revenge on you!!!"

Admiral Ke Yuan clenched his fists like a vicious dog, his face covered in blood as he howled at the sky.

Just as Admiral Ke Yuan was howling at the sky, not far from him, under a blade of grass swaying in the wind, a few small pebbles of sand quietly bounced twice in the direction Nia had left.

……

Nia and Veneto left the secluded alley and returned to the main street, which was gradually becoming more crowded.

"Phew...it seems Admiral Ke Yuan didn't catch up." Veneto looked back at the long path and breathed a sigh of relief. "What a bad day...I even stepped in dog poop while walking. Commander, are you alright?"

Veneto looked at Nia.

Nia lowered her head, her hands clenched tightly in a look of guilt.

"Huh? Commander? What's wrong? You look like you've done something wrong?"

“Veneto…I’m so sorry…I was too impulsive just now.” Nia said dejectedly, “Because Admiral Ke Yuan said bad things about Xiao Bai, I couldn’t help but curse him…But now that I think about it, if I had accidentally angered him and made him attack us, wouldn’t we have been in great danger…”

"Uh...no, it's alright, Commander..." Veneto's expression was stiff, but she still smiled. "No matter what, he won't really do anything...and he did say bad things about Admiral Lu Lin! Even if you don't scold him, I'll scold him for Admiral Lu Lin! Okay, okay, Commander, let's not think about such unlucky things, let's go home quickly!"

"Sigh... um."

Nia and Veneto nodded to each other and headed towards the temporary garrison.

"Candied hawthorn, candied hawthorn, icy cold, sweet and sour candied hawthorn!" At a roadside stall, a vendor picked a skewer of candied hawthorn and waved it enthusiastically to Nia and Veneto as they passed by. "Hey! Ladies! Want a skewer of candied hawthorn? Freshly made, only fifteen yuan, super delicious!"

Nia and Veneto glanced at the candied hawthorns on the vendor's stall.

The candied hawthorns on the stall were big and round, bright red, and the sugar coating shimmered with a sweet light like crystal.

Normally, Nia and Veneto might have bought some things on their way home, but they had no interest in shopping at the moment, so they shook their heads and left.

The vendors at the stall watched Nia and Veneto's departing figures and shrugged regretfully.

But just as the vendor was about to put the candied hawthorn back into the paper holder, he was surprised to find that the candied hawthorn that was originally in his hand had disappeared.

"Huh?! Where's my candied hawthorn?"

The vendor stared blankly at his hands, then looked back at his stall in bewilderment.

Two banknotes had been placed on the stall at some point.

A ten-yuan note.

A five-yuan note.

Chapter 2785 Veneto's Promise

"Little White, I'm back!"

Nia and Veneto finally returned to the temporary garrison. When they arrived at Xiaobai's dormitory and saw Xiaobai and Luo Lian making their beds, they breathed a deep sigh of relief, as if they were seeing family.

"Oh? Nia, you're back!" Little White put the pillow aside, smiled, and waved to Nia. "Have you bought all the groceries?"

"Um... I've bought everything. A truck will be coming from the wholesale market in a little while." Nia walked up to Xiaobai, nodded timidly, and then lowered her head and clenched her hands in a hesitant manner, "Um... Xiaobai."

"Ok?"

"On my way back, I ran into Admiral Ke Yuan."

"Admiral Ke Yuan?"

"Um...yes, he stopped me and said a lot of bad things to me."

"This guy is so persistent," Xiaobai sighed. She said to Nia, "If you haven't been caught by the evil spirits, what are you going to do to him?"

"Hmm...he wouldn't dare hit me."

"That's good." Xiaobai smiled.

Seeing Xiaobai's healing smile, Nia pouted, then took a horse stance, opened her arms and hugged Xiaobai tightly, burying her head in Xiaobai's belly and rubbing against it.

Even though it had only been less than two hours since Nia last saw Xiaobai, she felt as if she and Xiaobai had been living in two different worlds for many years.

It feels so good to be with Xiaobai.

I never want to leave her in this lifetime.

Nia felt Xiaobai's incredibly soft waist while also inhaling the faint fragrance emanating from Xiaobai's belly.

"Why has Nia become like a kitten, always rubbing against people..." Xiaobai gently stroked Nia's head and smiled at her.

"Mmm...uh..." Nia knelt on the ground, rubbing against Little White's belly, then looked up at Little White with a pitiful expression, opening her mouth, "Meow..."

Xiaobai and Nia get along very well.

Veneto, standing at the door, breathed a sigh of relief. She looked at Xiaobai and Nia, a hint of relief flashing in her eyes, but this relief froze and was followed by a touch of loneliness.

Veneto lowered his head and quietly left Xiaobai's dormitory.

After leaving Xiaobai's dormitory, Veneto sighed and went downstairs alone.

Veneto found himself at the training grounds of the temporary garrison, almost as if by magic.

At the edge of the training ground, several ship girls were standing.

"No... I can't take it anymore, Big Sister, I really can't, I... I don't have a single drop (of strength) left..." Completely soaked, the rookie naval commander, Roma, lay sprawled on the ground, panting heavily, crying out to the people standing beside her, "If... if we keep training like this, it'll really... it'll kill us..."

"What's going on, Roma? Your training stats have been plummeting lately." Veneto, the rookie garrison commander, stood with his hands on his hips and said calmly, "You used to be able to practice with me five hundred times a day, right? How come you can't even keep up with a hundred practice sessions a day these past two days?"

"This kind of question... you should ask yourselves, Big Sister!" Rome on the ground let out a series of meaningless howls. "Ever since you brought me here, Big Sister, it's been like you've been through something traumatic. During the exercises, you've been more than ten times more ruthless than usual—"

……

Veneto of Nia's family stood not far away, silently watching Veneto and Rome of the rookie garrison.

Just as she was about to teach Rome a lesson, Little Veneto sensed the presence of others and turned her head to look in the direction of Big Veneto.