Elder brother's garrison

“I’m fine…” Xiaobai murmured, shifting her gaze from 1913 and Illinois to the short man they had just trampled underfoot. “But him… I’m a little worried about his life…”

"Don't worry, Admiral, we're holding back." Illinois got off the short man, put one hand on her hip, and looked back at the short man lying on the ground. "This guy actually dared to lay a hand on our Admiral. As the Admiral's ship girl, we have to teach him a lesson."

"So you two really did sneak over here?" Xiaobai said, looking at 1913 and Illinois.

“After all, the Admiral just looked like he was about to do something really interesting,” Illinois said with a smile. “Even if the other sisters don’t care, I do care a lot.”

"Is 1913 for the same reason?" Xiaobai asked, looking at 1913 beside her.

"Admiral, it's late and the wind is biting. I've brought you some clothes to keep you warm, so you won't catch a cold." 1913 shook her head, stepped forward, and gently hooked her fingers around the scarf on her chest. Then she tied the scarf, which still carried her body heat and scent, around Xiaobai's neck.

Xixisuosuo.

When tying the scarf around Little White in 1913, all was quiet.

When 1913 tied the scarf for Xiaobai, she leaned forward slightly, revealing her mature and full figure to Xiaobai. In particular, the valley that was especially eye-catching due to her leaning forward swayed slightly with the movement of her arm, almost filling Xiaobai's entire field of vision.

This scarf was just bought today, 1913, but after wearing it for a day, a wonderful warmth has permeated it.

Although Xiaobai is currently immune to the cold, with 1913's scarf tied around her neck, Xiaobai felt the scarf rubbing against her face and the warm touch of 1913's fingers. Thinking about the angle of 1913's figure that she had just seen, she also clearly felt a wonderful warmth.

Xiaobai silently let 1913 tie the scarf around her neck, her face unconsciously turning red.

how to say……

This angle is quite stunning.

After seeing this scene, I felt that I couldn't bring myself to question why 1913 was there in front of me.

"1913, thank you."

"Admiral, you're too kind." 1913 smiled slightly, her golden, gentle eyes radiating a doting, sisterly glow.

"Sigh... Anyway, besides you, did anyone else come along?" Xiaobai took a deep breath, composed herself, and asked Illinois and 1913 again.

“Admiral, it’s just us this time.” Illinois stepped forward and said, “After all, we came along not because we don’t believe in your abilities, but just to join in the fun and broaden our horizons. The other sisters believe you can handle everything, so they’re just going home to wait.”

“Okay…” Xiaobai scratched her cheek and looked down at the short man lying silently on the ground.

Xiao Bai squatted down and checked the short man's condition.

As Illinois said, when she and 1913 came out together, she did hold back; the two of them together only managed to knock the man unconscious.

Xiao Bai reached into the man's clothes and pulled out a bunch of small items from the pockets on both sides.

There was a key, a crumpled piece of paper, a half-smoked cigarette pack, a telephone, and a small piece of white cloth.

Xiao Bai put the phone aside and then held the piece of cloth in her hands.

Xiao Bai raised an eyebrow.

This piece of fabric... the material looks familiar... this should be the fabric from a hospital pillow or bedding. If you smell it carefully, it even has a fresh disinfectant smell.

The edges of this piece of fabric are very neat, as if it was cut off with scissors.

Xiao Bai spread out the piece of cloth, looked at the inside of the cloth, and remained silent for a while.

Inside this piece of cloth is a phone number written in dried bloodstains.

The handwriting was childish and crooked, and the bloodstains were intermittent, with varying thicknesses, indicating that it was not written in a single day.

If I'm not mistaken, this was probably written by Miao Yan.

Thinking of this, Xiao Bai looked at the man lying silently on the ground.

Xiao Bai reached into her ship's equipment space, took out a bottle of mineral water, and then looked at Illinois next to her.

“Illinois, help me, turn him over.”

"Alright." Illinois lightly jumped on her toes, and the man lying on the ground rolled over, revealing his face with his eyes rolled back and his mouth wide open.

Xiaobai unscrewed the mineral water bottle and poured it onto the man's face.

Blah blah blah...

The man's face was hit by the icy water, which blocked his mouth and nose. He quickly opened his eyes wide, regained consciousness, and then began to cough violently.

"Cough cough cough cough cough ah ah ugh ...

The man coughed, clutching his stomach in pain and groaning on the ground for a while. Then, as if recalling the series of events that had just occurred, he raised his water-soaked face and looked at Xiaobai and the two ship girls beside her in shock.

"You...you...you're not human??" the man asked, his voice trembling with fear.

"How dare you speak to my admiral like that?" Illinois retorted.

"Admiral???" The man looked at 1913, his eyes filled with even greater shock.

"It's this one." 1913 gently glanced at Xiaobai.

"You...you're the Admiral??" The man finally saw Xiaobai, and he was shocked and terrified beyond words.

Chapter 3693 Little White is Thinking

"Admiral" is truly a magical word.

The moment he realized Xiaobai's identity, the short man lying in front of Xiaobai trembled three times. He didn't even have time to wonder why the admiral was here. Then, fear and a look of giving up involuntarily welled up in his eyes.

"Admiral, Admiral, please spare me!!!"

The short man lay on the ground and immediately began to pitifully beg for mercy from Little White.

"My lord, I was forced into this! You are a man of great virtue, please spare my life!"

"I won't do it again, I'll never do it again!"

"I admit my mistake, I admit my mistake, please take me back. I'll cooperate with you, I'll do whatever you say!"

The short man cried and wailed, raising his hands above his head and kowtowing to Little White without any regard for his dignity.

Boom!Boom!Boom!

With each thud, the short man's forehead slammed against the cold park floor tiles, and in just a few moments, it visibly swelled up.

This scene caused Illinois and 1913 to widen their eyes slightly, their gazes shifting to Little White, their eyes filled with astonishment.

Feeling the gazes of the two ship girls and hearing the pleas for mercy from the short man kneeling before her, who had completely given up struggling, Xiaobai scratched her cheek somewhat awkwardly.

Admiral... well...

This term is indeed extremely damaging to inhabitants of human society, especially those who commit evil.

The inhabitants of human society, after all, have been exposed to knowledge about ship girls since childhood.

Aside from their beauty, just how much stronger are ship girls compared to ordinary humans...? This is something that no one needs to specifically tell the residents of human society.

They had already experienced this in all sorts of textbooks, courses, video materials, and creative works.

As for the admiral...

Although the admiral does not possess the same formidable fighting power as the ship girls, he is, after all, the one who commands them, so the ship girls' power can naturally be attributed to the admiral.

In the minds of many inhabitants of human society, especially the vast majority of criminals, compared to the powerful but pure-hearted and kind-hearted ship girls who rarely harm others, the admiral, as a person, usually possesses top-notch intelligence and decisiveness. Moreover, he is often surrounded by a large group of ship girl warriors who are willing to submit to him. When the ship girls act independently, their overly kind nature may prevent them from doing anything too cruel. However, once they are by the admiral's side, they will resolutely carry out any order given by their admiral, no matter how kind they are.

If ship girls are humanoid weapons, then their kindness is the lock that binds these weapons, and the admiral is precisely the one who holds the key to unlock these locks.

For this reason, from some perspectives, the admiral is actually more terrifying than the ship girls.

The short man, who was a criminal, didn't seem to be any big shot in the underworld. When he learned that the person he was facing was the admiral, he would indeed give up all resistance and no longer have any hope of getting away with it.

In this world, even the lowest-ranking soldiers are all after a little money.

But even if you have money, you need to be alive to enjoy it.

"Alright, alright, stop crying." Xiaobai slowly bent down to the short man and said, "And don't kowtow anymore. If you knock yourself unconscious, it will be difficult for me to ask you questions."

"Yes, yes! I won't kowtow anymore, I won't kowtow anymore!" Upon hearing Xiaobai's words, the short man immediately began to wag his tail and beg for mercy. He raised his face, which was red and swollen with snot and tears streaming down his face, and hurriedly said to Xiaobai, "Admiral... oh no, Admiral's wife! My name is Gao Yang, I am thirty-two years old, and I live in Tufang County with three people in my family..."

“I’m not interested in what’s going on with you.” Little White interrupted the short man, shaking his head. “Stop talking first. I’ll ask you a question, and you answer it.”

"Alright, alright!" The short man immediately lay down on the ground.

"..." Xiaobai looked down, took out the piece of cloth that she had taken from the short man, and showed him the phone number on it. "When you were on the phone just now, you seemed to have mentioned this. Tell me, what is this?"

"This, this is..." The short man was stunned for a moment, and he subconsciously shook his head, "I don't know either."

"It seems you're unaware of the Admiral's methods," Xiaobai sighed, standing up.

"No, no, no!!! Grandma Admiral, I really didn't know!" The short man was so frightened by Xiaobai's words that he was about to cry again. "I really don't know! I only know that this was left behind by the little girl who stayed in the ward before. Just now, my older brother asked me to clean the ward, and when I was tidying up the bedding, I found that she had secretly written this in her bedding sometime during the night. Although I don't know what this thing is, I figured it couldn't be anything good, so I cut it off with scissors and took it out. I'm telling you the truth, Grandma Admiral, please believe me—"

The short man was so terrified that he spoke at breakneck speed, like a machine gun.

Although the admiral network on Xiaobai's side is not very useful for humans, it is still capable of simple lie detection. Through the admiral network, she could indeed see that the short man did not have the emotion of lying when he spoke, so she nodded slightly.

“Alright, let’s put this matter aside for now.” Xiaobai stuffed the piece of cloth into her clothes, then asked the short man, “Now I have more important questions to ask: What is your relationship with Miss Miao Yan? Who are you people? Why did you take Miao Yan out of the hospital in the middle of the night? Where is your older brother now?”

Xiaobai asked several questions in one go.

The short man, who was in a state of heightened emotion, paused, his mouth opening and closing, unsure of which answer to give first.

It wasn't until a dozen seconds after Xiaobai closed his mouth that the short man finally recovered. He looked timid and stammered as he spoke.

"I...we are...kidnappers."

"Kidnapping?" Illinois asked, puzzled. "What's a kidnapping?"

“…In your words, he’s a human trafficker.” The short man lowered his head and said in a low voice.

After the short man uttered those words, a distinct silence fell over the surroundings.

The two ship girls remained silent, their gazes fixed on the short man on the ground, filled with a chilling intensity. Xiaobai's eyes were also obscured by her bangs, making it impossible to discern her expression.

Only the silent wind and the rustling of leaves remained in the park.

The short man trembled as he lay down.

"I... I'm just a lackey, I'm just a lackey! Grandma Admiral, I've never kidnapped anyone! Please believe me, we have a boss behind us, they're the kidnappers! They've done all sorts of evil!" the short man pleaded.

“…Okay.” Xiaobai let out a breath and nodded. “So, Miss Miao Yan was kidnapped by you?”

"Yes, yes!" the short man quickly replied.

"Her real name is Miao Yan?"

"No, no, her name was given by my older brother; it's a fake name she used in the hospital! And all the identification we used was fake too!"

"Is your older brother the man who's taller than you?"

"Yes!"

“Okay…” Xiaobai nodded. “So, you ran away with Miao Yan in the middle of the night because you really didn’t have any identification?”

“Yes…” The short man lowered his head in frustration upon hearing this.

"What a coincidence, it just so happened to run away on the very day I arrived," Xiaobai said.

“Actually… my older brother said he would wait another half month.” The short man glanced fearfully at Xiaobai. “But today, my older brother read in the newspaper that a second-hand electronics store in Shenzhen was blown up because of a scam. He felt it was bad luck and panicked, so he decided to run away today…”

"……"noob.

Ok.

It seems this matter is also related to Jinan.

"When did you human trafficking organization ever show any humanity?" Xiaobai changed the subject and continued to ask the short man, "To people like you, aren't kidnapped children just expendable commodities? Why would you specifically send someone to risk exposure to bring her to a major hospital?"

"I don't know, I really don't know. I'm just someone who usually cleans and cooks. My older brother took me out on this mission. I really don't know the specifics!" The short man clutched his head and quickly replied, "I've never encountered a situation where I had to take someone to the hospital before, especially with this little girl... I know this is the first time!"

Didn't you ask your older brother?

"I asked him, but my older brother is very tight-lipped. It seems like this involves internal secrets, and he won't say anything!"

"Did you inflict Miao Yan's injuries as well?"

"I don't know, I don't know either!" the short man replied, crying.

"..." Xiaobai withdrew her gaze, took a deep breath, "So, when you were on the phone with your older brother just now, were you discussing your rendezvous location?"

"Yes, yes! Very few people in our organization know where the base is. Someone like me rarely has the chance to know where the base is. I'm always led in and out blindfolded. My older brother knows!"

"Miss Miao Yan, are you with your older brother right now?"

"exist!"

How is her health?

"Barely, barely able to come with us!"

"The hospital said she's not ready to be discharged yet..."