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“Hmm!” Sukhbaatar nodded happily, revealing the answer, “Besides their own will, there is another reason for the assembly of deep-sea amphibious ships: the command of their superiors.”

This is the only explanation for the deep-sea clusters, given that they resemble wooden stakes.

"Superior?" Xiaobai was taken aback.

“Yes,” Sukhbaatar said. “How long have you been an admiral?”

Xiao Bai subconsciously glanced at Nia beside him.

Xiaobai has been an admiral for more than three months, which is even less than the time Nia has been an admiral.

In order not to hurt Nia, Xiaobai could only give a vague answer.

“It’s been quite a while,” Xiaobai said.

Three months is actually quite a long time; add a few more weeks and it's almost a semester.

“Then you must have encountered this situation before,” Sukhbaatar said. “Scattered deep-sea amphibious ships, under certain conditions, are organized like an army, each performing its own duties.”

"I've encountered that before," Xiaobai nodded.

Not only have I encountered them, but I've also witnessed them up close.

I saw Xiaobai on the sea near Yuxiu the night he received his ship equipment.

The orange-clad Dean of the Deep Sea led a large number of Deep Sea Aquatic Ships to attack Yuxiu. The large number of Deep Sea Aquatic Ships were precisely categorized and attacked in an orderly manner, causing Hu De and her team a lot of trouble.

"Does Lord Su mean that the Dean of the Deep Sea has appeared at the fourth node?" Xiaobai asked.

“Yes.” Sukhbaatar nodded.

As deep-sea creatures live longer, they gradually become stronger, and even consciousness slowly develops in their empty skulls. When a deep-sea creature develops to a certain level, and there are no other deep-sea deans in the surrounding waters, it will be chosen by the deep-sea resentment beneath its feet and promoted to the position of deep-sea dean.

At that time, the lowly deep-sea ship equipment will be upgraded to the advanced deep-sea dean-class ship equipment. The girl's body will also begin to develop fully and slowly separate from the ship equipment. Her hazy consciousness will be transformed into independent rationality and wisdom. Her spiritual power to rule the lower-level deep-seas will also gradually fill up. The newly born deep-seas who ascend to the throne of the dean will be like a new king holding a scepter and reins, taking over the ocean beneath their feet.

Such cases of new Deans occur frequently in the Chapter Seas, but the Chapter Seas are, after all, just the Chapter Seas. The admirals' long-term cleanup leaves the deep-sea resentment within the Chapter Seas with no spare capacity to cultivate deep-sea Deans. Whenever a deep-sea Dean begins to advance, before the deep-sea Dean has fully advanced and is closer to the level of an ordinary deep-sea flagship than a deep-sea Dean, they will be found by the admirals and sunk.

The admirals' sweeping efforts were so intense that the weak deep-sea resentment from the previous chapters couldn't even give birth to a deep-sea flagship.

—But it still happened.

As the guardian of the First Chapter Sea, Sukhbaatar knows more about the First Chapter Sea than anyone else, and her words carry great credibility.

That is, the appearance of the Deep Sea Dean in the First Sea Area.

Only the Deep Sea Commander can make the scattered and unconscious Deep Sea Abyssal Ships move in an orderly manner.

"Isn't that a very serious problem?" Xiaobai said.

"Yes, it's very serious. The First Sea Region clearly can't produce a Deep Sea Dean at all. It can't even produce a Deep Sea Flagship." Sukhbaatar crossed his arms and pondered, "But don't worry, this Deep Sea Dean should only have just appeared."

"How did Lord Su find out?"

“Because the accident happened today!” Sukhbaatar made a peace sign. “How about that, super simple reasoning, right?”

“Yeah, you’re right,” Xiaobai nodded.

After answering Xiaobai's question, Sukhbaatar's gaze returned to the popsicle box in front of him, his previously intelligent and bright eyes instantly blinded by the allure of capitalist money.

"Sigh, I'll take it back and deal with it." Sukhbaatar stood up, picked up the popsicle box, and prepared to walk back.

"Lord Su, aren't you going to deal with this? After all, this is the first anomaly in the sea area." Xiao Bai asked curiously, seeing that Sukhbaatar seemed to have no intention of getting involved.

“I won’t do anything,” Sukhbaatar said. “I’m just managing the first chapter of the sea area so that it’s not affected by the outside world. What happens inside has nothing to do with me. So whether it’s the Deep Sea Cluster or the Deep Sea Dean, it’s all your own business. Just think of it as a game that’s been dormant for a long time suddenly having an event and you can play it.”

Sukhbaatar turned to look at Little White: "And didn't I say before that you humans should handle your own affairs?"

Sukhbaatar carried the ice cream box and walked toward the shop behind the beach.

Watching Sukhbaatar's retreating figure, Xiaobai fell into silence.

Nia, sitting next to her, couldn't keep up with the conversation between Xiaobai and Sukhbaatar at all.

However, Nia was already used to it. Xiaobai was of noble status, so it was understandable that he would use more code words and jargon when speaking.

Nia patted Xiaobai on the shoulder: "Xiaobai."

"kindness?"

Are you worried about the situation at sea?

“…No, I think the popsicles we ate before might really have been secondhand.” Xiaobai sighed helplessly as he watched Sukhbaatar walk into the shop carrying the popsicle box.

She decided she would never buy Sukhbaatar popsicles again.

Xiao Bai compiled the information Sukhbaatar had given him and then transmitted it to Veneto again through the admiral network.

After receiving the message from Veneto, Xiaobai disconnected from the admiral's network and continued sunbathing on the beach.

Sukhbaatar is right. There's no point in getting anxious on the beach. It's better to enjoy some leisure time for your health.

I've already done my best.

Xiao Bai reached out and touched Pachina's hair on her leg, a habit she had developed from helping the Empire heal over the past few days.

Time passed slowly.

Soon, the anomaly in the fourth node will also reach the Admiral's Guild. Although the Admiral's Guild is a public facility that focuses on trading 90% of the time, it is also an organization that monitors the sea area. If there is a problem with the fourth node, the Admiral's Guild will react immediately.

Unlike the easygoing Xiaobai, the other admirals on the beach were not so relaxed.

The admirals and ship girls who had come to the fourth node had been persuaded to go back, but there were still twenty-seven or twenty-eight fleets that had set off earlier. These nearly fifty admirals gathered together with anxious expressions on their faces.

The sight of Xiaobai and Nia sitting so leisurely on one side of the beach was incredibly obvious to the anxious admirals.

"Little White, have you noticed that we're attracting a bit of attention?" Nia asked.

"Huh?" Little White looked at Nia. "Really?"

“Look at those admirals.” Nia tugged at Xiaobai’s sleeve.

Xiaobai looked towards the admirals in the center of the beach.

Sure enough, things were fine before, but now most of the admirals are frequently looking in Xiaobai's direction.

"It seems so," Xiaobai said.

If we were to say what the biggest impact of being an admiral was on Xiaobai, it would probably be his mindset.

Xiao Bai used to be afraid of being surrounded by people, but ever since he became the admiral, he has been surrounded by people every day, especially since Yu Xiu, and now he is here.

These past few days, being with Nia has meant that people are watching her everywhere, and Xiaobai has slowly become numb to the feeling of being stared at.

If Nia hadn't reminded Xiaobai, Xiaobai wouldn't have even realized it yet.

It seems a bit inappropriate for me to maintain such a relaxed demeanor when others are so anxious.

Xiao Bai quickly straightened up, looking at the sea with some embarrassment.

The admirals watching Xiaobai and Nia looked on, but none of them dared to come over and speak to them.

"There's a ship girl!" Suddenly, one of the admirals on the beach shouted.

A group of people appeared on the sea.

Upon receiving the news, the admirals cheered and flocked to the beach.

In the past, they would pray that their ship girls wouldn't return in the middle of the day, but now they wished that the returning ship girls were their own.

The ship girls approached the beach.

"Ah! It's ours! It's ours!" Three admirals cheered and hugged each other, jumping up and down excitedly.

The ship girls went ashore.

The surrounding admirals gathered around, offering their warm greetings and inquiries.

"Are you hurt?"

"How's it going in the sea?"

"Relax and drink plenty of water."

"Go back and get some rest, don't overwork yourself."

The ship girls were all stunned. Usually when they came back at noon, these admirals would all have mocking expressions on their faces, saying that their ship girls were not as good as the admirals. But for some reason, they received such a warm welcome when they came back at noon today.

The ship girls were not used to this group of enthusiastic unfamiliar admirals for a while, and they frantically searched for their admirals in the crowd.

"Admiral..."

The surrounding admirals understood the ship girls' needs and immediately shouted angrily at the three admirals, "What are you standing there for? Come here now!"

The three admirals who had been hugging each other came over this time and stood in front of their ship girls.

"Admiral, we're back." The ship girls were relieved to see their admiral and said apologetically.

I came back at noon, and today's harvest wasn't good. I've caused trouble for the Admiral, and the ship girls feel really sorry for him.

"Oh, oh, it's good that you're alright, it's good that you're alright." The admirals were flushed with excitement. "Would you like something to eat? How about taking a few days off? How about I go shopping with you tomorrow? Do you want to go to the naval base?"

The admiral's overly enthusiastic and friendly manner made the ship girls feel embarrassed.

"Admiral, what's wrong with you all...?"

"Didn't you know? There's a deep-sea fleet cluster in the node area. Luo Yin's ship girls almost got caught in it," the admirals next to them said.

"Huh?!" The ship girls were startled. "Really?"

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The admirals all nodded in agreement.

The ship girls patted their chests, their faces showing a mixture of confusion and relief at surviving the ordeal.

Although the admirals on the beach usually like to compare their ship girls, saying that yours is not as good as mine, or that mine is worse than yours, when it comes to the safety of their ship girls, these people are all of one mind.

"Haven't you ever experienced combat?" The admirals asked, looking at the ship girls' puzzled expressions.

"Yes, but we haven't encountered any enemies today," the ship girls replied. "We hadn't thought about it in detail, but now it seems like we were just lucky. If we had encountered any, it would have been a whole group of enemies."

Now that they think about it this way, the ship girls all feel incredibly lucky.

"Then how did you get back?" the admirals asked.

"We encountered a group of ship girls," the ship girls replied. "The one with white hair and red eyes who's in the lead is short."

The admirals, gathered together, nodded thoughtfully.

Ship girls with these three characteristics are quite rare.

However, there has indeed been a ship girl like this recently.

Many admirals subconsciously glanced at the girls on the distant beach.

"What happened when you met them?" The ship girl's admiral couldn't help but ask as soon as he heard that his ship girl was related to that big devil who punched Ian and kicked the guild.

"Yes, they told us to come back. They said the sea is dangerous." The ship girls looked at each other and said slowly, "At first we didn't agree because we hadn't made any progress today, and we had been at the fourth node for a long time, so we didn't feel it was very dangerous."

The ship girls' voices grew softer and softer as they spoke.

"Next time we encounter this situation, let's come back first. It doesn't matter if we get less loot; safety comes first," the admirals said one after another.

"Correct!"

"I think it's okay."

"There's no need to take the risk."

The admirals all spoke up.

The ship girls nodded, moved.

"But you didn't want to come back at the time, how did they convince you?" some admirals asked curiously.

The ship girls' ears turned red at the mention of this.

"They didn't convince us."

The admirals looked at the ship girls strangely, waiting for their next words.

"They subdued us instantly; we couldn't beat them," the ship girls said meekly. "That white-haired ship girl said that if she saw us again in the sea today, she would beat us to a pulp. We realized we couldn't beat them either, so we had no choice but to come back obediently."

"Well done!" many admirals cheered.

They now think Veneto's method is absolutely brilliant—it saves time and is incredibly persuasive.

The ship girls lowered their heads in embarrassment.