Elder brother's garrison

"Never mind, I don't really care about that lady's apology..." Xiaobai shook her head and said to Li Yan, "I want to ask you something else about the Li Huo Mercenary Group."

"..." Li Yan was stunned, then nodded hurriedly as if grasping at a straw, "I'll tell you everything I know, I'll tell you everything I know!!!"

"Your ship girl who got lost in Kyoto is named Mutsu, right?" Shiro asked.

"..." Li Yan was taken aback. He seemed not to have expected Xiao Bai to ask this question. "Yes...yes."

"Do you still remember the ship girl Shropshire?" Xiaobai asked again.

"..." Li Yan was stunned again, a look of confusion appearing in his eyes. "Shropshire... what's that? A small boat? There are too many people in our mercenary group, I can't remember... Ahhh, yes, yes, yes, yes!!!"

Seeing Xiaobai's increasingly unhappy expression, Li Yan quickly changed his mind and nodded.

"Shropshire was badly damaged in your mercenary group for a long time without receiving treatment, which caused her to be injured when she went into battle in heavy damage, and her ship equipment was also completely destroyed. Do you have any clues about this matter?" Xiaobai asked.

“…” Li Yan immediately lowered his head, “I…our mercenary group…”

“If you’re lying, I won’t let you off the hook,” Xiaobai said to Li Yan. “I have a way to detect lies; you can try it.”

"!!!" Li Yan trembled. He hurriedly said, "In our mercenary group, the strong will get more resources, as for the other ship girls... the other ship girls... the resources..."

Li Yan's voice trailed off towards the end.

Even if he didn't say it, Xiaobai already knew what was going on.

Xiao Bai raised her hand and slapped Li Yan hard across the face.

Snapped! A sound.

Li Yan's body flew backward, traveling more than ten meters before finally stopping after hitting the wall of the hall.

Li Yan's white teeth had all been knocked out, his mouth was full of blood, his neck was crooked as he fell to the ground, unable to stand up, and his eyes were bloodshot.

Even so, Li Yan still smiled obsequiously at Xiao Bai, lying on his side with his hands clasped together in gratitude.

Li Yan opened his mouth, which was full of blood, and a crescent moon appeared in his grin.

"Hehe... Thank you... Thank you for sparing my life... Thank you..."

"You can no longer be the leader of the mercenary group," Xiaobai said to Li Yan. "The police will be here soon, and every single one of your ship girls will be sent to the military police for reformation. As for you, you've been involved in rioting, setting wildfires, instigating ship girl fights, kidnapping, abduction, and violating the Ship Girl Protection Law. You won't escape any of these charges. You'll be going to jail. Don't let me find out you've escaped. I have plenty of ways to bring you back."

Li Yan nodded quickly, his face beaming with smiles.

Xiao Bai took out a handkerchief to wipe her hands, then turned and left the hall.

Changchun, Chao Dahe, and Hancock followed behind Xiaobai, glancing at Li Yan.

Li Yan's smile never faded.

Only after Xiaobai and his group had left did Li Yan dejectedly lower his hands, staring venomously at the door of the hall.

"Hehe...I survived...I survived..."

"There's still a chance, there will be more opportunities in the future..."

Li Yan murmured softly, blood still flowing from his mouth.

However, at that moment, the sound of staggering footsteps rang out.

Li Yan looked up and saw that the woman in red who had just fainted had woken up at some point. She staggered over to him, her tear-streaked face filled with infatuated love.

"Husband...it's over...it's all over..."

"Haha... Honey... Will you leave me like my ex-husband did?"

"No... Honey, you're mine... How could those ship girls take you away?"

"Honey...you just said I'm not as good as the ship girls, you were lying to me, weren't you?"

"Honey...we must always be loving and affectionate..."

Li Yan looked at the woman and suddenly his eyes widened.

The woman knelt down with love in her eyes, and with a smile, she picked up a loose piece of building stone and, under Li Yan's horrified gaze, smashed it down hard on Li Yan's head.

Snapped!

boom!

Phew!

"Honey...you love me so much, don't you?"

"Honey...I love you so much too...I really love you so much...You're all I have..."

"Honey... say something..."

The woman started smashing it again and again.

Li Yan's body convulsed and stiffened.

The ship girls lying around could only stare in panic at the blood flowing on the ground.

This scene will likely remain a lifelong shadow in the hearts of the ship girls present.

Chapter 3432 News

After leaving the hall of the Fire Mercenary Group, Xiaobai stopped on the steps in front of the hall and looked down at the ruins below.

The already dilapidated factory area was now a mess after Xiaobai's antics tonight. The factory area was littered with ruins, bricks and tiles were flying everywhere, molten iron was flowing everywhere, and smoke was billowing in the air. From the entrance of the factory area in the distance to the road where the four of them were located, which was only a few minutes long, there were a lot of ship girls lying haphazardly or lying on the ground with their clothes torn and their consciousness blurred. Their bodies were surrounded by badly damaged protective energy shields. In addition to these defeated ship girls, there were many more ship girls lying limply on the ground in the ruins along the roadside, looking like they had lost their souls in shock.

A handkerchief was handed to Xiaobai from behind.

Xiao Bai looked back.

Changchun looked at him with a sweet smile, holding a handkerchief in both hands.

"You've worked hard tonight."

"Thank you, Changchun." Xiaobai smiled at Changchun and took his handkerchief to wipe her cheek.

"What should we do with these ship girls?" Changchun asked from the side.

"Let's just leave them here. The police should be here soon," Xiaobai said, wiping her cheek. "These ship girls can't move for a while, so we don't need to worry about them running away."

"Oh……"

"More important than this, let's hurry up and go," Xiaobai said with a smile to the three people behind her. "The matter of the Blazing Fire Mercenary Group has been resolved satisfactorily. Let's go back to Pure White Wings and see how things are going."

"Oh!"

Changchun responded immediately.

Xiao Bai and his three companions traversed the charred road and swiftly left the abandoned factory area.

Shortly after Xiaobai and her three companions left the factory area, faint sounds of a woman's frantic cries and a muffled thud like a stone smashing a watermelon could be heard from the hall where they had just stood.

In a while.

Amidst bursts of blinding red light, military vehicles arrived at the outskirts of the factory area.

A large number of fully armed police officers rushed out of their vehicles, carrying riot shields and weapons, and entered the factory ruins.

The police finally arrived at the scene.

……

The four of them, including Xiaobai, were already on the bus back to Kyoto.

Bumpy journey

When Xiaobai and his companions returned to the bustling streets of Kyoto, the streets were brightly lit, pedestrians were coming and going, and vendors on the street were shouting their wares with all their might, creating a lively night market atmosphere.

Hancock looked around in a daze, and for some reason, she felt a sense of déjà vu.

A lot happened to Hancock in just one night...

As Hancock was thinking, she suddenly felt a pair of eyes staring intently at her. She subconsciously looked down and saw Little White looking at her with a smile.

"Hancock, would you like something to eat?" Little White asked.

"..." Hancock looked at Little White, her gaze shifting several times. She shook her head. "I'm not hungry."

"Okay, then let's head straight back to the Pure White Wings mercenary group's base," Xiaobai said.

"..." Hancock nodded slightly, silently looking at Little White's profile, lost in thought.

Xiao Bai and his companions returned along the same route, eventually arriving back at the five-story building of the Pure White Wings Mercenary Group.

As soon as Xiaobai and his companions entered the building, they saw the ship girls still standing in neat rows in the lobby, each raising one arm, conducting a heated pre-battle mobilization.

"The Pure White Wings Mercenary Group will never back down!"

"Fight the Blazing Fire Mercenary Group to the death!"

"The Pure White Wings Mercenary Group will never back down!"

"Follow the Blazing Fire Mercenary Group..."

"..."

The ship girls shouted their slogans loudly and powerfully, as if they could pierce through the ceiling.

Xiao Bai and her three companions stood at the door and observed for a while. Suddenly, several sets of footsteps sounded hurriedly around them.

"Hancock, so this is you! We've been looking for you for ages!"

The ship girls' calls came through, and several ship girls from the Pure White Wings mercenary group who had been to the repair pool that afternoon ran out with worried expressions. They quickly took Hancock's hand and turned to look at Xiaobai and the other two.

"Hancock, where did you just go?"

"Yeah, other people said you took those three ship girl friends to take refuge, but you've been gone for way too long!"

"You scared us to death! We thought you'd run off to the Blazing Fire Mercenary Group!"

"Don't do anything foolish! The leader of the Blazing Fire Mercenary Group is up to no good!"

"..."

The ship girls spoke one after another, their faces filled with undisguised concern and worry.

Hancock opened her mouth to the ship girls, wanting to say that she and Xiaobai had indeed gone to the Fire Mercenary Group, and that Xiaobai had single-handedly wiped out the entire Fire Mercenary Group. But Hancock opened her mouth halfway and found herself unable to say anything.

Even Hancock himself felt a deep sense of unreality when trying to describe this kind of thing in words...

If Hancock hadn't witnessed it all with her own eyes, she wouldn't have believed that such a thing could happen right before her eyes...

Hancock closed his mouth, but in the end, he looked at his friends with a complicated expression and shook his head at them.

"It's okay now."

"Oh, it's alright, it's alright." The ship girls breathed a sigh of relief and then patiently gave instructions, "We're in the midst of pre-battle mobilization, so Hancock, you don't need to come. Why are these three friends still here? Hurry up and settle them in... The Blazing Fire Mercenary Group is after these three. They were targeted by the Blazing Fire Mercenary Group because of us, so we have to protect them well."

"..." Hancock silently rolled his eyes and looked at the three people beside him.

The little white girl smiled innocently, while Changchun stood obediently in the background behind her, with a huge, absent-minded expression.

If it weren't for what I saw before my eyes, who would have known that the seemingly most harmless child among these three was actually the most terrifying one?

"How is your commander doing now?" Xiaobai asked the ship girls with a smile at this moment.

"Acting commander? Sigh... He's been locking himself in his office, probably thinking of a solution," the ship girls replied.

"Is he available to meet people now?" Xiaobai asked again.

"Well..." The ship girls were momentarily speechless, their expressions troubled.

“…I’ll take you to see him,” Hancock interjected.

After bidding farewell to the ship girls present, Hancock led Shiro and the other two up the stairs.

At this time, almost all the ship girls in the building had gone to the lobby for pre-battle mobilization. Every floor from the second floor upwards was already deserted. Hancock silently led Xiaobai and the other two to the top floor and returned to the familiar office of Commander Lin.

The office was quiet.

It seems like no one is here.

Hancock raised his hand and pushed open the office door.

After the office door opened, Xiao Bai and his group saw Commander Lin standing by the window, one hand behind his back and the other holding a cigarette, looking at the moon outside and puffing out smoke.

Commander Lin turned around, seemingly hearing the door open.

Upon seeing the four returning members of the White Army, Commander Lin paused for a moment before speaking.

"Ah...you're back." Commander Lin said, stubbing out his cigarette and waving away the smoke in the office. He added somewhat apologetically, "It smells a bit like smoke, sorry, sorry..."

"I heard from my men that Commander Lin, shouldn't you be working on pre-battle plans right now?" Xiao Bai stepped out from behind Hancock and asked Commander Lin curiously.