Elder brother's garrison

They were furious. The six of them were being threatened with cannons pointed at their heads by the enemy, who said that if they didn't go back, they would be heavily damaged and forced to return, and their admiral would have to pay to repair them.

What can I do then? I can only bow down to the evil forces.

The ship girls were so angry they were almost crying. They kept stomping their feet and muttering to themselves, preparing to go back to the shore to confront their admiral. They were saying, "We're all ship girls, did we steal your resources or what? Why did you have to send us back?"

But to my surprise, what those ship girls said was actually true.

Although the short, white-haired man looked fierce, he did save me.

The ship girls are now filled with both shame and deep gratitude.

"Is that white-haired ship girl fleet the one that saved the Luo Yin family's ship girls?" an admiral asked.

All the admirals turned their attention to those around them.

Luo Yin, standing there, gave a wry smile: "That should be true."

"Whose ship girls are these?" an admiral asked.

"Are you stupid? Don't you know how much attention you've been getting lately?" His friend slapped him on the back of the head.

"Huh? Who is it?" The admiral, who had been slapped on the head, was completely bewildered.

"They're sitting over there," the admirals pointed in the direction of Xiaobai.

The admirals all looked over.

The beautiful white-haired, golden-eyed girl in the distance sensed everyone's gaze and quickly turned her head away, looking nervously at the sea. Under everyone's gaze, she straightened her back, as if her body was about to stiffen.

The admirals turned around.

"She's truly resourceful. To be honest, I used to think she was the kind of person who's pretty on the outside but completely dark inside," one admiral muttered.

"Who wouldn't think that way? She's always stepping on this and that. I thought she was a little princess who came here to experience life."

"Is she sending her own ship girls to rescue our ship girls right now?" someone asked.

"This..." The admirals gathered together and pondered deeply, but they couldn't come up with a solution.

“…Maybe he’s a good person?” one of the admirals asked.

The admirals remained silent.

"She must be a good person..." This sentence was like a spark, instantly igniting the admirals' enthusiasm for the conversation. They all nodded in agreement, "You see, she didn't actually do anything heinous, did she?"

"Yes, we didn't do it."

The admirals nodded, then suddenly seemed to remember something and turned their gaze to Luo Yin's face.

It seems that Luo Yin was scolded by this girl's ship girl a while ago, so saying this in front of him now might not be very friendly to him.

"It's nothing." Luo Yin waved his hand with a wry smile. "No matter what happened, she was the one who saved my ship girl. What happened before was my fault."

All the admirals wore expressions that said, "So that's how it is."

"Hey! Another ship girl is back!" At this moment, some admirals who had been paying close attention to the situation on the sea shouted.

As if they had received a military order, all the admirals swarmed to the beach.

More than a hundred eyes were fixed on the sea, as if trying to stare through the Pacific Ocean.

"Hey! It's mine! It's mine!" the two admirals suddenly exclaimed excitedly. "It's mine!"

The surrounding admirals cast envious glances at them.

Two more ship girls are safe now, and they're genuinely envious.

This group of ship girls is different from the previous group. Although the previous group looked dejected, they didn't have any physical injuries. But this group of ship girls all had a gloomy look on their faces, and their ship equipment was covered in wounds.

The ship girls, as if they were barely holding on, made it ashore and then collapsed onto the beach, looking utterly exhausted.

The admirals surrounded him.

"Whose ship girl is this? Where is she?!" Looking at the pitiful ship girl in front of them, the admirals always felt that their own ship girls might also suffer the same treatment.

"Coming, coming, it's me, it's me!" The admiral ran up and quickly helped the ship girl up from the ground.

"Do you have express repair? Does anyone have express repair? Can you lend me a few?" The admirals asked, looking around.

“No need…” the ship girl reached out and stopped the admiral in front of her, “We’re fine, just a little tired.”

Although the ship girls' equipment was damaged, their human parts were unharmed; the damage to their equipment only weakened their spirits.

The ship girl's admiral looked at his ship girls with concern: "Did you encounter an Abyssal fleet?"

"Yes." The ship girls gave a desolate laugh. "We've encountered them."

All the admirals took a deep breath.

If only Luo Yin's ship girls encountered the fleet, it might be a one in ten thousand chance and not a problem with the sea area. However, if a second fleet of ship girls also encountered the fleet, then it could be said to be a problem with the sea area.

The fate of this group of ship girls clearly demonstrates that there is indeed a problem in the fourth node sea area.

What is the quantity?

"More than thirty," the ship girls said weakly.

"How did you escape?" an admiral asked.

The ship girls were silent at first, and then slowly said, "We encountered ship girls, and they saved us."

"A short, white-haired man?" one of the admirals asked tentatively.

"kindness."

The admirals looked at each other with complicated expressions.

That little princess really is the ship girl who saved everyone.

"Another ship girl is back!" Just then, another admiral shouted.

The admirals looked over and saw another group of ship girls appear on the sea.

Xiaobai watched as the admirals gathered together, welcoming back the ship girls who were either weak or confused.

She picked up the juice Nia handed her and took a sip.

It seems that Veneto's methods are starting to take effect.

It feels great to do good deeds.

Led by these groups of ship girls, every short period of time, another group of ship girls was sent back. As the number of people increased, the beach gradually became lively. Admirals who had good relationships with their ship girls embraced their returning ship girls, filled with the joy of escaping from a desperate situation.

Veneto valued efficiency and preferred directness, which was somewhat similar to Bismarck.

Time passed slowly, and during that time, the Admirals' Guild came by once, asking the admirals on the beach many questions before leaving with solemn expressions.

As the sun gradually set, all the admiral's ship girls on the beach had been brought back.

An incident that should have resulted in devastating losses has surprisingly resulted in no ship girls being harmed.

Veneto and the other seven ship girls led the last group of rescued ship girls back to the beach from the depths of the sea.

The admirals on the beach, seeing Veneto looking like a triumphant general, all raised their hands and cheered.

Veneto is the hero who saved their ship girl!

Who among the people here doesn't thank her?

Veneto and her group walked onto the beach, surrounded by the admirals who had rescued them. Veneto and her group left the admirals and ship girls behind and walked towards Shiro.

"Admiral." Veneto walked up to Little White. "I'm back."

"Thank you for your hard work." Xiaobai handed the seven cans of herbal tea she had prepared to the ship girls in front of her.

"Admiral! Fubuki has also tried her best!" Fubuki called out happily to Shiro while holding a cup of iced tea.

Xiaobai patted Fubuki's head and nodded.

Fubuki did indeed play a significant role. It was the sisters' ability to locate the enemy that enabled Veneto and the others to quickly search for other ship girls in the vast and dark sea. If it weren't for Fubuki and the others, Veneto might not have been able to find those ship girls trapped in enemy territory even after another day of searching.

It goes without saying what will happen to those heavily damaged ship girls whose protection is already starting to fail if they haven't been rescued by a day.

P.S.: I'm back at midnight (with a straight face).

Let me briefly explain something that someone asked me recently.

First, regarding the extra chapters, I definitely won't skip them. All the owed updates will be published. You see, last time I only needed 8 extra chapters, but I kept voluntarily adding them until now. Now, inexplicably, my guaranteed minimum update has increased from 4000 words to 6000 words – that's incredibly generous of the platform! However, the pressure of writing 6000 words a day is different from 9000 words. Three chapters a day requires far more energy, so I took a few days off in between this extra chapters.

Then there's the issue of my novel being expensive. Let me explain: the price of the novel wasn't set by me, but by the bookstore. My novel is more expensive because each chapter has 3000 words, which is more than a 2000-word chapter, so it's a bit more expensive.

Finally, let's address the progress bar issue that you're all concerned about.

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Chapter 285 Alignment Change, Chaos and Goodness

This was a rare day when Xiaobai allowed Veneto to work freely. In response to Xiaobai's expectations, Veneto put in all her effort to protect the ship girls in this sea area.

She and her companions, including Fubuki and Roma, spent most of the day exploring the entire fourth node's sea area, like a long march, running back and forth across the sea. Finally, before Roma was exhausted, they "invited" all the ship girls still in the node back to the beach.

Several groups of ship girls encountered battles along the way. The worst group was completely destroyed when Veneto arrived and was surrounded by the Abyssal fleet, waiting to be killed. Fortunately, Veneto and her team intervened and rescued this group of ship girls from the clutches of the Abyssal fleet.

Fubuki tilted her head back and gulped down the iced tea in her hand.

"Rome," Xiaobai asked Roma, who was standing next to Veneto, "Are you alright?"

Rome and Veneto are no match for them. Training level and equipment are secondary. Rome has only been out of the construction device for a few days and has very little experience in battle. Xiaobai is worried that today's operation will exhaust her.

"It's nothing." Rome opened the glass of iced tea in his hand, ignoring the fact that he was covered in dirt, and gulped it down.

If there were a rating system for torturing women, Veneto's achievements in this area would be world-class.

Even during the tense rescue operation, Veneto did not forget to train Roma, ensuring that she would not hesitate to take on any challenges in battle.

One-on-one, one-on-two, was a pipe dream. Veneto's minimum task for Rome was to rush into the center of the maximum number of enemies she could handle, shout "I'm going to take on ten!" and then get riddled with bullets by a bunch of Abyssal Fleet ships that instinctively retaliated. She completely disregarded how badly Rome would be damaged by those cannonballs.

The quick repair device can heal injuries, but it cannot clean the dust and soot on the ship girls.

That's why Rome was made so dirty by Veneto.

Rome mimicked the way Blizzard chugs, wiping the drink from his hand and then letting out a refreshing sigh: "Ah, delicious."

On that small face, blackened by gunfire, a set of white teeth stood out like a flash of light.

Roma initially resisted being trained by Veneto to look so dirty, because she was, after all, a girl, and girls naturally love to be clean. It was just too uncomfortable to be so dirty all the time.

Rome also protested, but Veneto simply suppressed Rome's resistance with his iron fist.

Then, as the number of training days increased, Roma, who had resigned himself to his fate, could now chat and laugh with Xiaobai while drinking herbal tea, completely unconcerned about being covered in oil stains and dust.

"Rome feels twice as good as it did yesterday!" the dark-skinned Roma said smugly to Little White.

As the ship girl who suffered the most abuse, Rome also gained the most.

The day-long rescue operation exposed Veneto and her team to almost all of the enemies in the fourth node. Through this series of intense battles, Rome's current level is approaching level 60.

"That's great!" Xiaobai said happily.

"Hehehe." Rome scratched his head and laughed.

The Empire, squatting to the side holding a book, looked up at Rome, who was covered in filth: "Sister, you stink."

Rome was taken aback by the cute little sister's words.

She quickly raised her hand and sniffed herself.

"It doesn't smell bad, it's just a bit too much like gunpowder and grease," Rome said.

The Empire raised the book, covering its nose and mouth, and looked at Rome with a resentful expression.

The younger sister's gaze pierced Rome's heart like an arrow.

"Uh." Rome clutched her chest and quickly explained to the Empire, "I don't smell bad! This isn't the smell of sweat. I smell wonderful! It's just that I've been fighting all day. You have to believe me, Empire!"

Rome's efforts to explain were met with nothing but utter skepticism from the empire.

"You must believe your sister!" Rome was heartbroken.

Whether she's the older sister or the younger sister, Rome seems to have it pretty tough.

Xiao Bai sighed with emotion.

The familial bonds between the Italian ship girls are truly profound.

"Alright, Rome, go wash your face at the beach," Veneto said, interrupting Rome's sob story.

Rome nodded dejectedly, then walked to the beach, took off her shoes as if to vent her anger, and ran into the water, splashing around like a little duck.