Elder brother's garrison

Henry followed Little White's finger and looked out to sea, where he could only see the distant horizon, indistinguishable from the surrounding black sea shrouded in thick fog.

"I haven't thought about it," Henry shook his head, answering decisively.

"Never thought about it even once?" Xiaobai asked curiously, taken aback.

"Um……"

“Your sense of territory is quite strong…” Xiaobai said.

"Hehe." Henry gave Xiaobai a completely unguarded smile, seemingly mistaking Xiaobai's words for a compliment.

Little White touched Henry's helmet, trying to lift it up.

When Henry lifted his helmet to eat the energy bar, the helmet seemed to be able to be lifted up a little bit. Xiaobai thought that if the helmet could be taken off directly, it might be easier to observe the strange soft tissue floating on Henry's head—or even just take it off.

Although Henry sensed that Little White was taking off her helmet, and some doubt appeared in her big purple eyes, she did not resist because of the boxes of energy bars.

Seeing that Henry didn't resist, Xiaobai breathed a sigh of relief. She was about to take off the transparent helmet, but just as the helmet was raised above the gap under Henry's chin, Xiaobai suddenly saw the clump of soft tissue suspended inside the helmet begin to wriggle quite unstablely!

The soft tissue writhed and swelled, stretching out tiny octopus tentacles in all directions.

The changes in the soft tissue caused Henry, who was sitting in Little White's lap, to suddenly tremble and shrink his limbs.

Xiao Bai quickly fastened the transparent helmet, which had been slightly ajar, back on.

The moment the helmet was fastened back on, the seemingly riotous soft tissue calmed down; it shrank, it contracted, and returned to its previous state.

Henry's body returned to normal. Her tense body relaxed, and she slowly lowered her raised feet, her bare, milky-white soles gently stepping on the tips of Xiaobai's shoes.

Henry raised his head, looking blankly at Xiaobai.

Those big, bright eyes seemed to be asking Xiaobai why she had just been made to feel so cold and have her limbs clenched up.

Xiaobai could only smile at Henry and hand her another energy bar.

Henry, having accepted the energy bar, continued to lie comfortably in Little White's arms.

Xiao Bai silently exchanged a glance with the pursuer beside him, and the two exchanged a look.

It seems that removing the helmet and exposing that soft tissue is also a violation of the "rules". Fortunately, Xiaobai did not remove the helmet very quickly and put it back on immediately upon discovering it, so as not to directly activate the octopus tentacles.

"Henry, is that thing on your head part of your body?" Little White asked.

"On my head?"

“This is it.” Little White pointed to the top of Henry’s head.

“I don’t know.” Henry shook his head. “It’s always been there.”

"What did it do to you?" Xiaobai asked.

“When someone tried to capture me before, it would carry me away,” Henry said.

"Oh..." Xiaobai murmured and nodded.

As they spoke, the land-based ship carrying the four people slowly arrived at the boundary of the 8-2 sea area.

This time, Xiaobai did not urge the land-based ship equipment to rush across the boundary line in one go. When the land-based ship equipment was about to reach the boundary area, Xiaobai slowly stood up from the land-based ship equipment.

Considering that Henry's disappearance yesterday had stunned Fubuki for a whole night, Shiro first had Fubuki and the pursuers take a few steps back to get away from her and Henry before she used the land-based ship equipment to move little by little towards the central sea area.

Chapter 3635 The Caged Bird

Xiaobai's control over the ship's equipment is definitely not as precise as that of his own ship girls.

Even though Xiaobai tried her best to make her operation look subtle, under her careful control, the land-based ship equipment moved forward more than ten meters each time, just like an overloaded minivan.

Fortunately, the sea surface was larger, and each movement of a dozen meters or so was enough for Xiaobai to observe Henry's changes before reaching the boundary line.

Yesterday, Xiaobai moved the land-based ship equipment very quickly, giving Henry no time to react. But this time, Xiaobai approached slowly, so Henry's expression changed much more noticeably today than yesterday.

In Xiaobai's observation, the boundary line of the 8-2 sea area was close at hand. Every time she drove the land-based ship equipment toward the boundary line, Henry's face seemed to become more uncomfortable, and the soft tissue floating on her head would writhe more rapidly and violently as if it had been heated.

Having witnessed all of this, Xiaobai suddenly understood.

Finally, Xiaobai stopped the land-based ship equipment.

"Hmm?" Henry noticed that the land-based ship equipment was completely stationary on the sea surface, and the boundary line was clearly in front of them but they hadn't crossed it. She looked at Xiaobai with some confusion, "Aren't you going?"

"Let's not leave today," Xiaobai said softly, touching Henry's transparent helmet.

"Didn't we agree to go to your house to play?"

"I just remembered I have something to do at home today, so it's not convenient to receive anyone. Let's do it another time," Xiaobai said.

"I won't give this back to you." Upon hearing this, Henry quickly pulled away from Xiaobai's arms and lay down on the ground to hug the box containing the energy bars tightly.

"It's alright, I'll bring something else next time." Xiaobai smiled. "You can eat without worry, these are for you."

"...Oh, oh..." Henry looked at Little White and was finally relieved.

Seeing that the two had settled down beside them, the pursuers and Fubuki also approached one after the other.

"Admiral, as expected, Henry can't..." The pursuer looked worried.

“Hmm.” Xiaobai nodded. She glanced at Henry, who was carefree and enjoying the energy bar, and then gestured for silence to the pursuers. “Let’s keep our voices down. Henry doesn’t know about this herself.”

"oh oh……"

The pursuer nodded quickly, then looked at Henry with sympathy.

So...as expected...is Henry a ship girl imprisoned in this sea area?

Given this, the pursuers began to sympathize with Henry.

She pitied Henry's situation, but at the same time, she pitied her for not even understanding her own situation. She was like a little bird that had been raised in a cage by something since birth, carefree and powerless, because the world she was in was only so big when she opened her eyes, so she had completely lost the instinct to fly and pursue freedom.

So what is the power that imprisoned her... or the organization that imprisoned her?

Upon realizing this, the pursuer immediately cast a curious glance at Little White.

Xiaobai shook her head. She knew very little about Henry, who herself was like a blank sheet of paper, perhaps knowing even less about herself than Xiaobai did. So Xiaobai had no idea where these so-called rules that imprisoned her came from.

Hey……

Ship equipment is, after all, a foreign import.

There are so many unsolved mysteries surrounding this ship girl...

Xiao Bai sighed and spoke to the pursuers.

"In short, as soon as we leave the 8-2 sea area, Henry will be pulled away by the tentacles and then suffer a rollback," Xiaobai said in a low voice to the pursuers and Fubuki. "If I use too much power in front of Henry, it will also trigger Henry's tentacles, but fortunately, if it's just that, it won't cause a rollback..."

"Um... Admiral, Henry is so pitiful, can we help her?" Upon hearing this, Fubuki was immediately moved and said pitifully to Shiro.

"I'll help, I promise you." Xiaobai reached out and patted Chuixue's head.

Perhaps because he had been touching Henry's helmet, Xiaobai felt that the furry head felt much better when he touched it again.

"As for how to save Henry... I don't know the details right now. Let's not go back today, let's stay with Henry on the sea for a while." Xiaobai continued, "Fubuki, you and Henry seem to get along well, you two should chat more."

Fubuki nodded immediately, then ran over and squatted down next to Henry.

Submarines and destroyers... in most cases, they can actually fight each other.

After all, in terms of physique, apart from a few exceptionally developed individuals, most submarines and destroyers are of similar age and look like petite children.

Although Fubuki had just personally blasted Henry up, Henry had already been bribed by Shiro's energy bar, and she didn't hold a grudge.

Therefore, Fubuki and Henry quickly became friends.

“Henry, our garrison is this—big! We have many gardens in our garrison, Mrs. Lexington is especially welcome, and Changchun…she should meet you too!”

Fubuki raised her hands high, gesturing with her little hands in front of Henry, her eyes sparkling as she talked incessantly.

Henry, meanwhile, listened intently as Fubuki recounted the events at the naval base, his eyes wide open, while he ate an energy bar.

The pursuers, arms crossed, watched the destroyer and submarine chatting.

"Speaking of which, when the Admiral first asked me to come out with him to fish and find the culprit behind the submarine incident in the 8-2 area... I never imagined things would turn out like this." The pursuer turned to Little White and said, "Admiral, do you have some kind of special luck? How come no matter what happens, it suddenly turns into a ship salvage incident?"

"Well... I don't know either."

Xiao Bai scratched his cheek awkwardly.

The pursuer looked at Xiaobai, who shrugged.

It seems that the 8-2 submarine incident is going to turn into a long-term event, and the pursuers are mentally prepared not to be able to return to their dormitories at the naval base for a while.

"Hmm...hmm?" The pursuer suddenly tilted his head, as if remembering something, and said to Little White, "Oh right, Admiral!"

"What is it?"

"I think my TV is still on!"

"...It's been so many days since we left, and you're only now remembering?"

"Oh dear, you didn't even let me finish speaking before carrying me away!" the pursuer said with a pained expression. "I've been out for so many days, which means my TV has wasted several days' worth of electricity, and I just made dinner and opened a bottle of Coke..."

The pursuers weren't so poor that they would be short of electricity and food.

Rather than saying that the ship girls in the new naval base are actually quite wealthy from the perspective of human society, they are quite well-off in terms of money.

The reason why the pursuer felt heartbroken was ultimately because, in addition to being a beautiful and wealthy young woman, she was also a hardworking and thrifty live streamer.

"It's alright. Actually, after we left, I had the little red guys at the naval base help tidy up your house," Xiaobai said to the pursuers.

"Oh? Really? Then is the TV off?"

"It's definitely turned off. Xiaohong and the others even finished your dinner for you. By the way, that bottle of Coke is beyond saving; it's been sitting for a long time and is completely flat. But Xiaohong and the others made you a hot Coke, so you can try drinking it when you get home."

"Oh...that's good." The pursuer finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Xiaobai smiled at the pursuers, and the two turned their attention back to Fubuki and Henry.

With Fubuki around, Shiro never has to worry about awkward silences. Besides having endless energy, Fubuki can talk non-stop all night long as Shiro gives her permission. She can talk about everything from the naval base to the sister ships, and then to anime and games, without repeating herself.

Most of what Fubuki said was rather uninteresting, but Henry seemed to enjoy it quite a bit. She listened to Fubuki while eating an energy bar, and the two of them were kind of in sync.

unconsciously.

Several hours passed on the sea surface.

Xiao Bai would occasionally use her mental power to drive away the approaching deep-sea ships, and over time, she saw the dark sky gradually brighten.

As Xiaobai was gazing at the sky, she suddenly heard a gasp of surprise coming from Chuixue's direction.

Xiao Bai looked down and saw that as the sky gradually brightened, the peaceful, writhing soft tissue inside Henry's transparent helmet suddenly burst open with a snap, slowly extending out of the helmet and coiling towards Henry's body.

Is dawn... also a condition for triggering the tentacles?

Xiao Bai looked at Henry, surprised.

However, the tentacles that appeared at dawn were different from the previous ones in terms of speed and other aspects. This time, although the tentacles crushed the helmet, they did not release any shockwaves, and even the speed at which the tentacles wrapped around Henry's body was very slow.

As the tentacles wrapped around Henry's body, a sleepy expression clearly appeared on Henry's face. She raised her arm to rub her eyes and yawned.

Henry had previously said that she would go to sleep when it got light.

In retrospect, this should be considered a normal disappearance process.

It seems that Henry's time with them today will have to end here; they'll have to wait until tomorrow to see her again...

Xiaobai was thinking when suddenly she saw Fubuki, who was closest to Henry, reach out and grab the tip of the tentacle tightly!

"You're not allowed to take Henry away!" Fubuki shouted angrily, pulling on the tentacle.

Ah!

broken!

In an instant, those two words flashed through Xiaobai's mind.

"Fubuki, no..."

Xiao Bai raised his hand, about to speak.

The result was exactly the moment Xiaobai opened his mouth.

Buzz!

Henry's tentacles instantly went berserk!

The slow-moving snail tentacles were stimulated and instantly transformed into electric motors that could rotate at tens of thousands of revolutions per second!

A massive shockwave of mental energy erupted from the tentacles!

Almost instantly, Fubuki was thrown off the land-based ship rig by the massive mental shockwave. The violent shockwave even slammed the pursuers next to Shiro onto the floor of the land-based ship rig in the blink of an eye. Immediately afterward, Henry's figure was also lifted up and then violently and quickly pulled into the transparent vortex by the ferocious tentacles, disappearing in an instant.