Elder brother's garrison

“Here are 500,000 merits, a small token of the Admiral’s Guild’s gratitude for your contributions,” Barbatos said.

"Five hundred thousand!" Nia, who was standing next to Xiaobai, was startled.

Nia had never seen how many credits Xiaobai had on his credit card, but she thought he must have a lot, at least several hundred thousand.

Nia was right beside Luo Yin when they exchanged money before, and those large transactions made her feel uneasy.

She was thinking that it was a real loss to exchange all those merits for money, and she even gave Xiaobai advice on this, but Xiaobai said at the time that he didn't mind.

—Perhaps Xiaobai will accumulate merits very quickly, Nia thought to herself.

But I didn't expect it to come so quickly.

That's a whopping 500,000 merits!

"Admiral Nia, do you think it's too little? I'm very sorry, but this reward is indeed less than one-tenth of the number of ship girls you rescued. However, this is the limit that our guild can offer." Barbatos said to Xiaobai with his head down.

The Admiral's Guild is wealthy, but in Chapter One, even if the Admiral's Guild is rich, it can't be that rich, since it only exploits a group of rookie admirals.

Five hundred thousand is the amount Barbatos has withdrawn from his entire year's worth of freely disposable funds to open up commission reward admirals.

Nia turned to look at Xiaobai. Even she, who didn't value money much, was being overwhelmed by the enormous sum and was starting to become a money-grubber.

Five hundred thousand is a number that could drive any admiral here crazy.

It's enough to arm the ship girls to the teeth and then head straight for high-level sea areas.

Barbatos and Little White met at the entrance of the Admiral's Guild, and were seen by both those inside and outside the guild.

The Admiral Guild included many Admirals from the Fourth Node who had been saved by Xiaobai. They looked at the ten black cards in front of Xiaobai without feeling the slightest bit of jealousy.

The lives of ship girls cannot be measured by money or merit. They represent the future of humanity.

These achievements are well-deserved.

Xiao Bai glanced at Veneto beside him.

Veneto nodded.

“Take it back.” Veneto walked up to Little White and looked at Barbatos.

Veneto's words shocked everyone in the room.

The hall was filled with gasps of shock.

Xie Yun's hands, which were holding the plate, trembled slightly, and she looked at Xiao Bai with confusion in her eyes.

"Are you dissatisfied with the compensation?" Barbatos asked as well.

“No.” Veneto shook his head. “You’ve put in a lot of effort to earn so many merits in the first chapter of the sea, but we didn’t do this in the first place for the sake of merits. Take them back.”

Everyone around was stunned.

It's one thing to do good deeds anonymously, but now they don't even want the reward money.

The key point is that this reward is not just a symbolic one or two hundred yuan; it's a real huge sum of 500,000 yuan. These girls just gave it up as if it were something vulgar.

Wow, is that so noble? If you don't want it, you can give it to us!

Barbatos couldn't keep up with Iniesta and Veneto's thinking either.

You get paid according to the value of your work; this is the unspoken rule of being an admiral. Only in this way can other admirals be motivated, and only in this way can the reputation of the Admiral Guild be upheld.

Although Barbatos previously said that the rewards he offered were not much, that was just a social term.

As a reward afterward, Barbatos knew that even for the world's number one admiral, 500,000 merits was not an amount she would be too lazy to even pick up.

But you just refused like that?

Looking at Veneto's enigmatic smile standing before him, Barbatos felt a strange sense of being manipulated.

Then his stomach started to hurt involuntarily.

Chapter 287 Xiaobai is truly a woman full of sins [Third Update]

Xiaobai and Veneto were adamant; if they said no, they meant no.

Despite Xiaobai and Veneto's strong refusal, Barbatos had no choice but to let Xie Yun take the plate containing the ten black cards away, amidst the envious and incomprehensible gazes of all the onlookers inside and outside the Admiral's Guild.

Barbatos finally started to panic.

The type of person who doesn't want anything is the one Barbatos finds most difficult to deal with.

“Dear Admiral Lu, may I ask…” Barbatos asked, “Do you have any special requests?”

“Yes,” Veneto said. “We’ve been fighting all day and we’re out of ammunition. Could you help us resupply? There’s more.”

Veneto turned around and beckoned Rome over.

Rome, in a fit of despair, ran into the sea. Now, although his face is clean, he's still covered in oil stains and is soaking wet, with salt crystals from the dried seawater on his skin.

"While you're at it, give this beggar a wash too."

"I, I'm not a beggar!" Rome argued.

After hearing Veneto's request, Barbatos murmured, "Is that all?"

“Yes,” Veneto said.

Barbatos was almost in tears.

Admirals must be paid for their work; this is the rule, the foundation of the Admirals' Guild, and the rule that ensures the Admirals' Guild's position at the pinnacle of the sea cities. Only in this way can the enthusiasm of other admirals be encouraged.

Xiaobai and Veneto are happy that they're not accepting the rewards, but it's putting the Admiral's Guild in a difficult position. It's really going to be a huge problem for Barbatos.

Did Barbatos have to beg these people to accept those honors?

"Come with me to the second floor first." Barbatos, on the verge of tears, led everyone to the second floor.

The admirals on the first floor watched the group of young girls walk up the stairs, and then sat back down in their chairs as if they had just finished a dream.

Once on the second floor, Barbatos led the ship girls who needed supplies away.

Little Whiteia, Pachina, and the Empire found a table and sat down together.

"Xiaobai, why don't you accept that merit?" Nia finally found a moment to ask Xiaobai, unable to contain her question.

Xiaobai and Veneto exchanged a glance, and then they seemed to suddenly understand something, directly refusing Barbatos's reward.

Nia really didn't understand.

"Well," Xiaobai said with a smile to Nia, noticing that Xie Yun was quite far away from her and Nia, "first of all, that money really isn't of any use to me."

“But even if it’s useless, it’s still money. It’s something you can get with just a reach,” Nia said. “Is Xiaobai worried that taking the money will make her motives impure?”

"No." Xiaobai waved her hand.

She doesn't care about that. Although it's nice to be praised for doing good deeds, Xiaobai isn't the kind of person who would do anything to do good.

"Why is that?" Nia asked, puzzled.

Seeing Nia's regretful expression, as if to say, "Little Bai, you've really lost out," Little Bai couldn't help but smile.

"Nia, what kind of person is Mr. Barbatos?" Xiaobai asked.

“Mr. Barbatos? A bit stingy, isn’t he?” Nia said.

"Yes, there is more."

"He's... a little chubby?" Nia pondered for a moment, then lowered her voice and spoke cautiously, as if afraid of being overheard.

That makes sense.

But that's not what Xiaobai asked.

“Nia, Barbatos is a very calculating person,” Xiaobai said.

"Huh? Is that so?" Nia was taken aback.

“Yes.” Xiaobai nodded and explained, “Mr. Barbatos always measures relationships and things in terms of self-interest.”

Nia nodded thoughtfully.

Now that Xiaobai says it, it seems to make sense.

When Xiaobai caused trouble at the Admiral's Guild, Barbatos not only helped her resolve everything, but also gave her 10,000 merit points, and then gave himself a month-long vacation.

"Then why don't you accept the payment Mr. Barbatos is offering you?" Nia was even more confused when she heard Xiaobai say that.

If Mr. Barbatos is such a person who values ​​returns, wouldn't it be very upsetting for him if Xiaobai didn't accept his payment?

“Oh, I see. That’s because I talked to Veneto before,” Xiaobai said, looking at Nia. “We’ve decided we don’t want this.”

Xiao Bai looked up at Nia halfway through his sentence.

Nia still had a confused expression on her face.

The bright lights on the second floor shone on Nia's body, making her clothes appear snow-white.

Nia's appearance reminded Xiaobai of when she first came to the Admiral's Guild, dressed in a neat chef's uniform.

“Nia, the fact that I don’t want Barbatos’s payment will make Barbatos very upset,” Little White said.

"Hmm, why is that?"

"Nia, if you were Barbatos, what would you do?" Little White didn't answer Nia's question, but continued to ask.

“Please accept the payment,” Nia said.

“But Veneto has already declined the payment for me.”

"Hmm." Nia couldn't think of anything else.

Nia is not Barbatos after all, and cannot fully empathize with the character of Barbatos.

Xiaobai didn't make things difficult for Nia, but continued, "Mr. Barbatos will be very worried, because I am the admiral who saved the fourth node, and I must be rewarded."

"Oh……"

"So even if Barbatos can't give me merit, he'll think of something else to compensate me," Xiaobai said.

Nia looked at Little White and finally nodded in realization.

"Nanya, what do you think Barbatos will give me?" Xiaobai asked. "I don't lack money, I have ship girls, I have equipment, and I don't need fame."

This really stumped Nia.

Nia thought for a long time but still couldn't find an answer.

Nia shook her head: "I don't know."

Nia looked at Xiaobai sitting calmly in front of her and felt a deep sense of emotion for some reason.

Is Xiaobai really this smart?

Nia had always thought Xiaobai was naive and innocent, but she never expected that Xiaobai could so easily guess what other people were thinking.

awesome.

“Nia, I wasn’t the one who saved the Fourth Node,” Xiaobai said.

“Yes, it’s your ship girl,” Nia said.

Hearing this, Xiaobai waved his hand: "That's not what I meant. What I meant was that the people who save the fourth node are me and you."

Little White pointed at Nia and said with a slight pout, "Since you can't satisfy me, then I'll satisfy you. As long as Mr. Barbatos' team gets paid, his goal is achieved."

Nia frowned as she looked at the finger that Little White was pointing at her.

“You can’t give me the same reward either. Since you said you didn’t want those merits, I can’t accept those material rewards either. What can Mr. Barbatos give me…” Nia was halfway through her sentence when she suddenly seemed to remember something, and her eyes widened in surprise.

She covered her mouth and looked at Xiaobai.

Yes, there is something I really need.

That's why Xiaobai refused the reward Barbatos offered her.

“Yes, Nia,” Xiaobai said, smiling at Nia.

Nia's eyes reddened, just like when they met at the Admiral's Guild before, when Xiaobai told Nia that she had done nothing wrong.

Nia quickly covered her eyes and tried to rub them vigorously.

“…Thank you, Xiaobai,” Nia said, bowing her head.

"Okay." Xiaobai nodded.

There is only one reward that satisfies both Xiaobai and Nia, and it does not conflict with any of the above conditions.