Elder brother's garrison

"Hmm... After finishing this, there are three more maps. Once you unlock the high-difficulty mode, you can get the final reward." Xiaobai muttered to himself, looking at the game screen. "Seriously... how is it possible to finish this in two hours? Tirpitz is definitely messing with me again."

“I’ll speak to her for her after she wakes up,” Bismarck said.

"It's alright, it's alright." Xiaobai smiled and looked at Bismarck.

Chao Dahe, standing to the side, looked at the instant noodle buckets piled up in front of the two of them. She silently reached out, picked it up, and started slurping it up with a fork.

It would be such a waste to throw away instant noodles that have already been soaked.

Avoiding waste is a noble virtue.

……

feel sleepy.

Sleepiness enveloped me.

Saratoga was awakened by a suffocating feeling of pressure that made it hard to breathe.

When Saratoga, dragging her heavy body, groggily pulled out her arm, lifted her blindfold with her little finger, and wearily opened her eyes, she felt as if her body had been wrecked by a truck, her limbs tightly bound by two bodies, unable to move.

Saratoga was in a daze.

Memories flooded back like a tide.

She gradually recalled that she seemed to have been dragged by Tirpitz to play a battle game for more than ten hours, and then she lost so badly that she went to sleep.

No wonder I felt so down.

Is it morning now?

Saratoga glanced at the ceiling of the game room.

The game room had no windows and was dimly lit, but the clock on the wall showed that it was three in the morning.

So early...

Saratoga tentatively moved her shoulders, but the left side of her body was held firmly by Enterprise, and the right side of her body was tightly bound by Wisconsin. The two of them were sleeping like four-legged mammals, clinging to her body, and she couldn't shake them off no matter what she did.

Saratoga gave up struggling and lay back down on the bed.

Sleepiness returned at this time, enveloping Saratoga once again.

Just then, Saratoga seemed to hear the faint sounds of a game. With her last bit of strength, she opened her eyes and glanced ahead.

In the darkness, the television screen shone brightly.

Xiaobai and Bismarck were sitting side by side in front of the TV, chatting quietly and playing games together.

Xiaobai occasionally smiled at Bismarck, and Bismarck nodded in return. Tirpitz and Super Yamato, who were already fast asleep, rested their heads on their outer thighs, respectively. The two of them were sleeping in two different directions, creating a strangely harmonious scene.

Seeing this, Saratoga closed his eyes in relief.

Haha, it must be a dream...

How could Xiaobai and Bismarck possibly be playing games in the arcade at this time...?

Saratoga drifted back to sleep.

Chapter 3556 Stay, Bismarck!

After Xiaobai finished leveling up Tirpitz for the limited-time event in this game, and perfected all the in-game event rewards such as map progression rewards, salvage rewards, and points rewards, it was already a full eight hours before Tirpitz went to sleep.

Xiaobai put down the controller, looked at the glittering game medal on the TV screen that symbolized proof of completing the highest difficulty level, and couldn't help but let out a long sigh of relief and stretch.

—Tirpitz really went too far.

—She just said she could finish the game in two hours, but when I tried it myself, it took her more than four times that amount of time…

Keep in mind that Xiaobai doesn't even spend this much time handling guild affairs every day.

Thinking of this, Xiaobai glanced at the clock on the wall of the game room.

It's already 2 a.m., far past Xiaobai's usual time to leave work.

Unexpectedly, my first time working overtime in my life was to help my ship girls play games...

This is a departure from my proper work.

"Have you finished the game?" Bismarck's voice came from beside me.

Xiao Bai turned his head and saw Bismarck looking at him calmly, his scarlet eyes shining like jewels in the dim room.

"Hmm, I think I've finished everything. Let me check." Xiaobai said, picking up the controller and flipping through it again. "Hmm... I've pushed all the event maps to 100%, cleared the high-difficulty event maps, salvaged several limited ships, emptied the shop of materials, exchanged for limited equipment, completed the event achievements, and even pushed a bit on the leaderboard... Except for the First Day Chapter, which has a strict time requirement and I could only get the Doomsday Chapter, as far as I know, I haven't missed anything."

After confirming several times, Xiaobai finally closed the game with satisfaction.

“This game looks really old,” Bismarck said suddenly as he watched Xiaobai close the game.

“Yes, it’s been around for a while.” Xiaobai nodded, then looked at Bismarck with some surprise, “Huh? Bismarck, you know about games?”

“I don’t really understand, but I’ve seen what you guys play,” Bismarck said. “The graphics of the games you’ve been playing lately are really impressive.”

“Yeah…” Xiaobai sighed, “This is probably the game Tirpitz has played the longest… Compared to current games, it’s lacking in both gameplay and appeal…”

"Since the gap is so large, why bother playing?"

“It’s all about nostalgia.” Xiaobai smiled at Bismarck. “In the tide of time, there are certainly many colorful games, but in the end, there will only be one home in the electronic world.”

“…” Bismarck nodded and said nothing more.

Xiao Bai finally turned off the game console and TV screen that had been running for who knows how many days.

Bismarck gently lifted Tirpitz, who was resting her head on his lap, and moved her body to the open ground to the side. He then placed a cup of instant noodles under her head as a pillow.

"Let her make do here for now, let's go," Bismarck said to Little White.

"Huh? Are we just leaving like this?"

"if not."

“I thought you were going to wait until Tirpitz woke up…” Little White looked at Bismarck cautiously.

“…” Bismarck shook her head. “It doesn’t matter if I die this time or not. It’s not like I’ll never see her again.”

“…Uh.” Xiaobai was speechless, then smiled helplessly.

Xiaobai gently nudged Chao Yamato, who was fast asleep hugging its left leg.

The giant rubbed its knees lightly on the ground, its full and pert body twisting twice under the wide black robe. It made a faint sound like a bird begging for food, then rubbed its eyes and sleepily opened its eyelids a little.

"Super Yamato, are you almost asleep? Let's go," Shiro said with a smile to Super Yamato.

"Ah...ah...Good day, Admiral." Chao Yamato rubbed one eye, propped herself up on the floor with one hand, and stared blankly at Shiro's smiling face. After waiting for a while in the post-wake-up sage time, she slowly came back to her senses, her eyes gradually cleared, and she finally got up from the floor.

After settling Tirpitz in, Bismarck left the game room with Shiro and Yamato.

It was already past midnight, and it was time for the ship girls to rest. So when the three of them left the game room, they saw that the once bustling office hall was now covered by the cool, pale blue moonlight. The lights in the entire office hall had been turned off, and it was empty, dim, and deserted.

"Bismarck, should I find you a room in the rest area for the night?" Little White tugged at Bismarck's wrist and asked her.

“No need, just send me back to Chapter Four,” Bismarck replied. “Deep-sea creatures are more active at night, making it easier to steal aluminum.”

Bismarck was always thinking about stealing aluminum, no matter what.

"Alright..." Seeing Bismarck's calm and resolute expression, Xiaobai really couldn't go against her wishes.

"Huh, Admiral, are you finally done?"

suddenly.

Just then, a sweet voice called out from behind Xiaobai.

The three of them paused for a moment, stopped, and looked back.

From a shadowy corner of the hall, where the moonlight couldn't reach, a familiar figure emerged with a smile.

The moonlight shone on the person, illuminating a dignified and beautiful smiling face, as well as large patches of white reflection on their chest.

"Iowa?" Xiaobai exclaimed in surprise.

"I didn't expect to see Sister Bismarck here. I'm truly flattered." Iowa smiled as she approached the group. She stopped a few meters in front of them and bowed slightly. "Sister Bismarck, I apologize for not greeting you sooner."

Did you know I was coming?

“After all, Bismarck is very famous in the naval base. The moment you arrived, someone had already told everyone here about you.” Iowa said with a smile, and then raised her head with an apologetic smile. “I originally wanted to come and say hello, but I heard that Bismarck and the Admiral were with Tirpitz, so I didn’t want to bother you.”

"So you've waited until now?" Bismarck asked, looking at Iowa.

"After all, I am now the secretary ship of the Admiral's Guild. How can I sleep peacefully if the Admiral doesn't rest?" Iowa replied with a smile to everyone.

"Secretary ship?"

The moment Bismarck heard those three words, she paused, and the symbol of a spinning dotted circle began to appear on her forehead again.

Xiao Bai quickly interrupted Bismarck's CPU and hurriedly interjected to explain.

“Bismarck, Iowa is the secretary ship of the Admiral’s Guild, appointed by me on a special basis, but she is not the secretary ship of the naval base,” Xiaobai said.

"……I see."

The circle symbol on Bismarck's head disappeared in a flash.

Bismarck nodded, then looked at Iowa again, first taking in her signature smile, then slowly letting her gaze fall on her full chest, before sliding down to her slender, shapely waist and her jade-like hands and fingers resting at her hips.

Bismarck suddenly raised an eyebrow, his gaze filled with doubt.

Bismarck stepped forward and, amidst Iowa's smile, suddenly reached out and took her hands in his.

Amidst everyone's strange gazes, Bismarck carefully observed Iowa's fingers. She even extended a few fingers and moved Iowa's hand into the moonlight, meticulously stroking and touching Iowa's ring finger.

Iowa's fingers were slender and long, smooth, like a small piece of white lotus root.

“Sister Bismarck, what is the purpose of this?” Iowa asked with a smile.

"Where's your ring?" Bismarck asked.

“…Sister Bismarck is so funny, to make such a joke.” Iowa’s smile paused visibly for a moment, then she continued with a smile, “I joined our naval base as soon as I came out of the construction device, and I haven’t even been in a relationship with anyone yet, let alone gotten a ring.”

“Oh…” Bismarck nodded, put down Iowa’s words, and said slowly, “I thought that people who were secretaries on ships all had rings.”

"..." Iowa.

Bismarck didn't say anything more, but patted Iowa on the shoulder with a touch of emotion.

Iowa maintained his smile, his body trembling as Bismarck patted him.

Xiao Bai smiled awkwardly to the side.

“Bismarck, the idea that a secretary ship must be a marriage ship is a stereotype,” Xiaobai said to Bismarck. “Even Lexington is just my sister-in-law, isn’t she…”

“That makes sense.” Bismarck nodded. “I should return to Chapter Four.”

"Hmm... Is Bismarck leaving?" Iowa suddenly asked at this moment.

“Yes, it’s time to steal aluminum.” Bismarck nodded.

"Oh..." Iowa thought for a moment, then asked Bismarck, "Sister Bismarck, since you came to Chapter Eight, have you not yet seriously explored this place?"

“…?” Bismarck looked at Iowa.

"Don't misunderstand, Sister Bismarck." Iowa smiled, placing one hand on her chest, and said, "I didn't mean anything by it. I just suddenly thought that the bond between you and the Admiral is far beyond that of ordinary ship girls. Perhaps you are the closest to family among us to the Admiral. It's rare for the Admiral to invite you to Chapter 8, so she must want to catch up with you and strengthen our bond. But if you just go back like this, given the Admiral's personality, she probably won't try to stop you, but she might feel disappointed because of your departure."

“…Is that so?” Bismarck looked at Little White after listening to Iowa’s words.

"Huh?" Xiaobai was stunned. She pointed to herself. "Um...me?"

Chapter 3557 Iowa's Fierce Attack

In an instant, the eyes of Super Yamato, Bismarck, and Iowa all focused on Shiro.

"Ah...uh...hmm?" Xiaobai suddenly felt a kind of social pressure. She lowered her head awkwardly and muttered to herself, "Well...I think it would be a good thing if Bismarck could stay in Chapter 8 for a day or two longer...after all, Tirpitz wouldn't overdo it when she's playing games..."

"Oh." Bismarck nodded after hearing what Xiaobai said, her red eyes fixed on Xiaobai, and she said, "Actually, if you want me to stay, you can just say so. If you don't say it, I might not be able to tell."

"Oh... well, I don't really have a very high-sounding reason..." Xiaobai scratched his head, smiling sheepishly, "I can't exactly say something like, 'I want you to stay, so you have to stay,' can I..."

“…For us, your desire to see us as Admiral is the most legitimate reason for us to stay.” Bismarck shook her head and said to Little White, “Then I’ll stay for one day.”

"Speaking of which, I also received some vouchers from sponsoring shops in the city today. There are quite a few kinds of vouchers, including regular places like arcades, cinemas, and restaurants, as well as free tickets to art studios, aquariums, and amusement parks." Iowa suddenly popped up again, smiling as she pulled a thick stack of colorful coupons from her clothes and handed them to Xiaobai, saying, "Admiral, since Bismarck is willing to stay, why don't you all go out and have some fun together tomorrow?"

"Huh? When was this..." Xiaobai looked at the thick stack of coupons in her hand with some surprise.

“After all, we are the Admiral’s Guild. When the shops in this city offer discounts, they always give us free tickets and vouchers for our first blood,” Iowa said with a smile.

"This is the first time I've heard about this..." Xiaobai took the ticket from his hand, looked at Bismarck, and asked with some hope, "So, Bismarck, are you going to go for a look around tomorrow?"

“…” Bismarck looked at Little White with a nervous yet expectant expression, like a child asking her family to take her out to play. She was silent for a moment, then reached out and patted Little White’s head. “…I can do it.”