Elder brother's garrison

"Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!" Surrounded by hundreds of ship girls, the admiral walked out. He looked at the top ten admirals in front of him, a look of surprise first appearing in his eyes, then he let out a hearty laugh. "Top ten admirals, what a coincidence, you're here too!"

The top ten admirals blinked at this admiral.

Admiral Lian approached Xiaobai.

"Sweetie, let me tell you, you should stay away from this kind of person."

"Uh……"

Xiao Bai smiled awkwardly after hearing what Admiral Lian said.

"Who is this admiral?"

Xiao Bai turned his head and asked Admiral Lian curiously.

"I don't know, it looks familiar, it might be ranked quite high, but I don't really remember it."

Admiral Lian shook his head.

"Admiral Lu Lin, do you need this?"

Before Admiral Lian could speak, Ning Lu ran up to Xiao Bai with a smile and handed him a document.

Xiao Bai took the documents and glanced at them.

The document Ning Lu handed to Xiao Bai turned out to be a registrar's resume.

Xiao Bai glanced at the personal photo on the resume and realized that the admiral on the resume was the same admiral in front of him who had led hundreds of ship girls in one go.

Xiao Bai looked at Ning Lu in surprise.

Ning Lu winked at Xiao Bai.

Xiao Bai smiled gently, then lowered her head and picked up the document to read it carefully.

"Oh... this admiral is named Shen Yu, currently ranked thirty-second in the world... oh, that's quite a high world ranking." Xiao Bai murmured, continuing to read, "Let's skip the naval base data and admiral resume for now. In short, the overall evaluation says that although this admiral is a bit carefree in personality, he doesn't have any major issues with his behavior, and he's considered one of the more outstanding admirals. It's worth mentioning that Shen Yu is very fond of constructing ship girls. He usually throws most of the expedition supplies into the construction machine, and his combat style is known for prioritizing quantity over quality. The number of ship girls in his naval base is among the top in the world—before the construction ship girls were introduced, he was one of the strong contenders for the title. Unfortunately, after the construction ship girls were introduced, his resolve crumbled, and he never recovered, locking himself in his room until the day before yesterday."

Xiao Bai put down the file, returned it to Ning Lu, and thanked her knowingly.

"I understand, thank you, Miss Ning Lu."

"It is my honor to share the burdens and difficulties of Admiral Lu Lin!"

Ning Lu took the documents and left.

"Admiral Lian, this person is..." Xiao Bai introduced to Admiral Lian.

"No need to say anything, I heard you muttering to yourself just now." Admiral Lian smiled at Xiaobai.

Just as Xiaobai was talking to Admiral Lian, Admiral Shen Yu, who had emerged from the group of ship girls, walked confidently to Admiral Haoding.

"Admiral Haoding! It's a great honor to meet you!" Shen Yu smiled confidently at Haoding. "Are you here to challenge a special ship girl?"

“Exactly!” Admiral Haoding nodded.

"In that case, could you let me go first in line?" Shen Yu said confidently.

When Shen Yu said this, the admirals present were immediately stunned.

"Holy crap, you dare to ask one of the top ten admirals to give up his position!"

"Old Shen, have you gone mad!"

"Mind your place!"

"..."

Those among the surrounding admirals who recognized Shen Yu immediately shouted out.

Despite Shen Yu's offense, Admiral Haoding was not angry. Looking at Shen Yu's confident eyes and expression, a smile immediately appeared on his face.

"Hahahaha!" Admiral Haoding laughed loudly, "Comrade, you seem to be very confident!"

"Yes, I am absolutely confident that I can take down and salvage the ship girls!" Shen Yu said confidently.

"Oh?" Admiral Haoding looked at the ship girl next to Shen Yu and then said, "...Comrade, do you know that, based on the performance of salvaged ship girls, it seems that the more ship girls there are, the more advantageous it is for her in battle? Someone once sent out as many as twenty ship girls at once, but they were still quickly defeated by the salvaged ship girls."

"Haha, thank you for your trouble! I already know about this!" Shen Yu immediately burst into laughter, hands on her hips, upon hearing Hao Ding's words. "But please rest assured, the ship girls I'm sending out this time aren't just twenty, they're two hundred!!!"

Shen Yu practically shouted out the last three words.

Two hundred!

Two hundred!

Two hundred!

Shen Yu's shout silenced the entire beach for a moment.

The onlookers behind Shen Yu were almost dumbfounded as they stared at him.

"I believe in the power of unity. Do you know the overwhelming force of a crowd?" Shen Yu turned around with confidence and said to the crowd, "Two hundred ship girls, each firing their cannons, together they are like mountains and rivers. Each step they take, together they are like an earthquake, a tremor! The power of an individual will eventually be eroded by the group. Perhaps a high-quality individual can indeed crush a part of the group, but that is not because of the group itself, but because the group is not large enough! In this world, only quantity is eternal!"

Shen Yu's voice was deafening.

At this point, Shen Yu clasped his hands together and bowed to Hao Ding.

"Admiral Haoding! Let me go!"

Admiral Haoding looked at Shen Yu, listened to Shen Yu's words with great interest, and then burst into laughter.

"Good! Very energetic!"

Hao Ding patted Shen Yu on the shoulder.

"Thank you very much, Admiral Haoding!"

Shen Yu smiled and then led the ship girls behind her, rushing towards the registration area.

Shen Yu brought a full two hundred highly trained and heavily armed ship girls, which is quite a feat in the entire eighth chapter.

The admirals watching couldn't help but start discussing among themselves as they looked at Shen Yu and the ship girls' dark silhouettes.

"Although Shen Yu's strength is only ranked in the thirties in the world, he is actually held back by the mechanism of the Admiral Ranking Tournament."

"Oh? What do you say?"

"The Admiral Ranking Tournament, to put it simply, is just each side bringing out three teams of ship girls to practice combat against each other. It's a best-of-three competition, and at most, it requires eighteen powerful ship girls."

"correct."

"Shen Yu's method of training ship girls focuses on quantity. Although he doesn't have many truly top-tier ship girls, he actually has several hundred ship girls that he can take out to participate in the Admiral Ranking Tournament, and he can take them out at the same time! Do you understand what I mean? In other words, he even has more than two hundred sets of top-tier equipment!"

"Good guy."

"That's why his world ranking has never broken into the teens... But if you're talking about team battles, I estimate that apart from the top ten admirals, no one can beat his foundation."

"His two hundred-plus ship girls are truly outstanding in their hard work and unity... Maybe this salvage ship girl will fall into this kid's hands today!"

The voices of the onlookers reached the ears of the top ten admirals.

Admiral Haoding returned to the group.

"Hey, Haoding, why did you let him cut in line?" Admiral Lian asked.

"Hahaha! This young man's laughter is so youthful, it really makes me like him more, I just can't help it!" Admiral Haoding laughed heartily.

"Aren't you afraid he'll agree to salvage the ship girls?"

"Since everyone is competing based on their own abilities, as long as it's within the rules, what's there to be afraid of!"

Admiral Haoding continued to laugh heartily, seemingly oblivious to everything else.

Chapter 2970 First-rate ship girls, top-tier ship girls, and newbie-level ship girls

Hearing Admiral Haoding's laughter, Admirals Lian and Ling could only shake their heads helplessly.

"Haoding, I really don't know whether to call you magnanimous or an idiot." Admiral Lian sighed helplessly, then pouted and launched another scathing critique of Admiral Haoding, "You really don't care that someone else beats you to it when it comes to salvaging ship girls..."

"Hahaha! If the salvaged ship girls can be retrieved by someone, even if it's not me, but someone else, it will be a huge improvement for the overall strength of our human admirals!" Admiral Haoding crossed his arms and laughed heartily at everyone. "If the overall strength of the admiral faction can increase, it means we can better protect human society and keep the enemy at bay! This is definitely something to celebrate! Hahahaha!"

Admiral Haoding threw his head back and laughed loudly.

As he said this, everyone seemed to see a slowly rising sun behind Admiral Haoding's dark bald head.

It's so dazzling.

"Alright, then forget I said anything." Admiral Lian couldn't bear to look at Admiral Haoding's bald head and raised her hands in surrender.

"If anyone else said that, I would think they were being hypocritical. I guess only Admiral Haoding could say something like that and I can feel that he really thinks it." Admiral Ling sighed helplessly from the side.

"Haha! Can I take this as a compliment from you all?"

"Alright, alright, let's get back to that admiral from earlier." Admiral Lian looked at the sea and said to Admiral Haoding, "I know you don't care, but did you notice the overall quality of the ship girls following that admiral?"

"Hmm, I've observed that the admiral has clearly put in a lot of effort in training and developing them." Admiral Haoding nodded and said to Admiral Lian, "Based on my general feeling and rough observation, the ship girl army that admiral was following behind was of astonishingly high overall quality. Although they did lack some key top-tier ship girl warriors, most of them had reached the first-class level of Chapter 8."

"No wonder this admiral is so confident in team battles," Admiral Ling interjected. "There aren't many admirals in Chapter 8 who can pull out two hundred ship girls in one go, but there are quite a few. However, if you can guarantee that the two hundred ship girls you bring out are all top-notch or above, like that admiral just now, then the threshold is a bit high."

"At least I can't do it." Admiral Lian shrugged and spread her hands. "My naval base can only produce about a hundred top-tier ship girls at a time."

"Haha, after all, everyone's training method tends to first allocate resources to cultivate a group of top-notch ship girl warriors, and then slowly train other ship girls," Admiral Haoding said with a smile from the side.

"Admiral Haoding, can you produce two hundred top-tier ship girls?"

"Hmm... I probably can't do it." Admiral Haoding thought for a while and shook his head.

"Oh? You can't do it either?"

"Yes, because there are quite a few top-tier ship girls in my naval base," Admiral Haoding said with a smile. "If we exclude those top-tier ship girl warriors, it's really difficult to gather two hundred first-class ship girls left."

"Good heavens, you're too much like Versailles." Admiral Lian exclaimed to the air after hearing Admiral Haoding's words, "Are you trying to make me incredibly envious of you?"

"Haha, that's absolutely true. If it were Admiral Lu Lin's naval base, her naval base would be even stronger than mine," Admiral Hao Ding said with a laugh. "After all, any ship girl from a rookie naval base could easily crush top-tier ship girl warriors."

"Oh...that's true."

As the top ten admirals chatted, they all looked at Xiaobai and nodded with deep feeling.

"Um... what do you mean by 'first-class ship girls' and 'top-tier ship girls'?" Xiaobai blinked and asked the group.

"First-class and top-tier are terms used within our high-ranking admiral circle. I don't know when they started using them, and there's really no actual basis for the distinction." Admiral Lian turned around and smiled at Xiaobai after hearing her words. "You see, we're all admirals who operate in high-level seas. As we encounter more and more deep-sea enemies and ship girls, our experience gradually accumulates, and we gain more and more knowledge. Then, we slowly begin to vaguely sense the strength level of some ship girls. The so-called first-class and top-tier are just our vague perceptions of these ship girls."

"Because the main ship girls in Chapter 8 are basically all at max level. But even among max-level ship girls, there are differences in strength, even among the same ship type or even the same ship name."

Admiral Ling held up one finger to Xiaobai and patiently explained.

"The so-called first-class ship girls refer to those powerful ship girls with excellent ship equipment rank, maxed-out training levels, and rich combat experience, capable of handling most combat situations. As we all know, training ship girls is not something that can be finished in just a few days. Maxing out their training levels is just the beginning. After that, there will be hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of battles to go!"

Generally speaking, in a high-level naval base in Chapter 8, there are at most two or three squads of first-rate ship girls. As for top-tier ship girls, their numbers are even fewer. They are often the ace ship girls of each naval base, and even in naval bases ranked in the top ten of the world, there are no more than two or three of them.

These ship girls often represent a significant investment of time and resources by their admirals. They have experienced battles that ordinary ship girls cannot match, accumulating unparalleled combat experience. Therefore, they handle all battle situations with ease and can always complete difficult tasks swiftly and efficiently. As an admiral, deploying top-tier ship girls means you don't need to worry too much about the outcome of the battle, because their very presence is reassuring.

"Oh... I see." Xiaobai nodded with a smile. "My ship girls are indeed very reassuring."

"That's it."

"Are all the ship girls in my collection top-tier ship girls?" Xiaobai asked again.

"Little cutie, what are you saying?" Admiral Lian was both amused and exasperated upon hearing Xiao Bai's words.

"what happened?"

“First-class and top-tier are terms used to describe the ship girls of us ordinary admirals.” Admiral Lian raised her hand and placed it on Xiaobai’s head, sighing helplessly as she said to her, “To put it bluntly, those are just terms we admirals use to evaluate our ship girls. The ship girls in the newbie naval base are not something we can evaluate.”

"Hahaha! After all, ship girls in this world can be completely divided into two types." Admiral Haoding chimed in from the side, "That is, the ship girls in the newbie naval base, and the ship girls outside the newbie naval base!"

"Uh……"

Hearing the top ten admirals praise the newbie naval base's strength, Xiaobai was unsure whether to be happy or embarrassed, and stood there awkwardly for a while.

Duan Shuiliu stepped forward, put his arm around Xiaobai's shoulder, and gently covered her ears.

“That admiral was almost in contact with the salvage ship girl,” Duan Shuiliu said to the group.

"Huh?! So fast? Weren't they saying there was still half an hour to wait in line?"

Admiral Lian and Admiral Ling were surprised and quickly turned to look at the sea.

really.

Under everyone's watchful eyes, a dark mass of ship girls slowly sailed into the area where the ship girls were being salvaged.

"Reporting to all admirals, although the proper queue takes about half an hour, when the ship girl teams on the sea saw someone challenging the salvage ship girls with two hundred ship girls, all their admirals unanimously chose to let Admiral Shen Yu challenge first!" Just as everyone was puzzled, Ning Lu emerged from the top ten admirals and said to everyone with a smile, "I guess everyone wants to see how the salvage ship girls will perform when facing two hundred first-class ship girls."

"Huh? Miss Ning Lu, she hasn't left our side at all, how did you manage to find out?"

"How about that? Pretty impressive, huh?" Miss Ning Lu puffed out her chest and raised her head. "I'm not fighting alone; my spies are all over Chapter Eight!"