Elder brother's garrison

"Mmm...mmm...woo..."

All that could be heard from Jinan was some incoherent speech, because Jilin was holding a very thick towel over Jinan's head and rubbing it against her face.

Jinan reached out and grabbed wildly in mid-air, finally managing to push Jilin away with great difficulty.

"Stop rubbing! Stop rubbing! You'll rub your face raw! We're fine!" Jinan breathed a sigh of relief and said to Jilin. She shook off the water, and with a splashing sound, the cool water sprayed in all directions, and she quickly dried off.

Jilin used a towel to shield Xiaobai from the water droplets that were flying off Jinan.

The other destroyers present were all more or less half-dry and half-wet from the water droplets on Jinan.

"Hahaha! This is so much fun!" Kiat laughed.

"You're still laughing! You're still laughing!" Frank pinched Kiat's waist. "Apologize to the Admiral and this exile girl named Jinan right now!"

"Hehe, sorry!" Kiat said to Jinan, "but that water-throwing trick you just did was really funny."

"Sigh... I've learned a lesson in my short life: even in a naval base, you should never lower your guard..." Jinan muttered softly, clutching his fluffy fox-ear hair.

Xiaobai looked at Jinan and smiled, then reached out and ruffled Jinan's hair.

"Admiral, don't touch it, it's wet and uncomfortable," Jinan said.

"Hmm." Xiaobai combed Jinan's hair with her fingers and then withdrew her hand.

Jinan seemed quite annoyed at being humiliated, but didn't appear particularly angry.

No wonder he's from Changchun; he has such a good temper.

"This young lady... according to the Admiral, her name should be Jinan?" Kirin asked Jinan curiously, holding a towel. "We have some clothes to change into here, would you like to change?"

"No need, my clothes will dry quickly." Jinan put his hands on his hips. "We're here to take care of important business!"

"Hmm? Serious business?" Hearing Xiaobai's words, Kirin curiously raised her eyes to look at Xiaobai, then suddenly seemed to realize something. She exclaimed and took a step back, "Could it be... could it be that the Admiral found out about our secret misappropriation of the naval base's warehouse!"

"..." Xiaobai chuckled, "...Let's not talk about whether I came here for this reason...I'm standing right here now, of course I know about this."

"Waaaaah... I'm so sorry, Admiral! It's all my fault!" Kirin's expression turned quite heavy. She hugged the towel tightly to her chest, her eyes filled with wavering. "It's all... it's all my fault... Admiral, please don't punish Frank and Kiat... just, just punish me... I, I'll do anything!"

“Killing, how can you protect Kiat? We made this decision together,” Frank said from the side.

"Admiral! It was my idea to sneak into the warehouse!" Kiat raised his hand and said to Shiro, "Don't forget me if you're going to punish someone! Oh... right, I dragged Bauer and Gearin over here, this has nothing to do with her, Admiral, you can just punish me and Frank severely!"

"I was dragged here by you, you know!" Frank's eyes widened.

"What's wrong, my dear? Are you upset about being punished along with me?" Kiat said to Frank. "I wonder who was having so much fun playing a strategy simulation game with someone just now!"

“That’s true…true…but…but…” Frank clenched his fist and began grinding his teeth.

"Hey, no, don't fight, don't fight..." Kirin quickly came over, trying to calm Frank down while also comforting Kiat.

Xiaobai looked at the scene before her and exchanged a glance with Jinan beside her.

Xiao Bai withdrew his gaze and smiled at the destroyers landing on the ship.

"Strategic simulation? Are you talking about the game that Killin and Frank just played?" Xiaobai asked.

"Huh? Admiral, you know all this? How long have you been here?" Kiat looked at Xiaobai in surprise.

"It'll only be a little while," Xiaobai thought for a moment and said to Jilin, "Is the strategic simulation the chess game you were just playing on the table?"

"Ah...yes, yes..." Kirin immediately lowered his head and said somewhat embarrassedly.

"Let me see?" Xiaobai asked.

"Um...it's right there on the table..."

The destroyers all looked toward the table in the center of the warehouse.

Xiao Bai also walked to the table and looked down at the objects on it.

After seeing the items on the table, Xiaobai raised an eyebrow, revealing a look of surprise.

The sand table and chess pieces on this table actually look quite realistic...

Xiao Bai carefully examined the structure of the sand table and map, as well as the distribution of the pieces. With a little experience in admiral games, Xiao Bai immediately recognized that the "strategy simulation" that Jilin and Franknox had just played was a highly realistic military exercise, in which the two of them each commanded their own armies and used various tactics to defeat each other on a sand table map with uneven terrain.

Keeling is in charge of the Red team, while Frank is in charge of the Blue team. Keeling's tactics are straightforward. The two armies are engaged in fierce combat. From the perspective of the main battlefield, Keeling has the advantage, but Frank has clearly held back. If the strategic simulation continues, it is estimated that the rear of Keeling's army will become vulnerable. Frank's ambushing forces will emerge from the fatal weakness of Keeling's army. At that time, Keeling will be overwhelmed by Frank's pincer attack and lose a major advantage.

Xiaobai withdrew his gaze and turned to look at Kirin and Frank.

Xiaobai smiled at the two ship girls.

"You played well," Xiaobai praised.

"Ah, thank you... thank you, Admiral...?" Kirin was somewhat bewildered.

"..." Frank pouted, looking at the gaze that Xiaobai was giving her, and shrugged her shoulders uncomfortably.

"Actually, you don't need to sneak in to use these small warehouses. As long as you submit usage applications to the naval base regularly, I will approve them for you." Xiaobai said to the ship girls, and she laughed. "I'll pretend I didn't see it this time. Remember to submit the usage application later. Each application can be used for three months. Remember to submit it after three months."

"Ah! Thank you, Admiral!"

Upon hearing Xiaobai's words, Jilin immediately clasped her hands together in delight.

Frank looked at Little White, and she silently exhaled.

"I will write the application and submit it to the Admiral's office in person," Frank said to Xiaobai. "By the way, I will also submit my and Kiat's apology letters this time. I'm very sorry for causing trouble for the Admiral."

"Huh? Who? Me?" Kiat pointed to himself.

Xiaobai smiled and nodded at Frank.

“Okay, let’s do it your way.” Xiaobai nodded. “But I have to say something first: I’m not here today to discuss the warehouse misappropriation. I’m here to do something else.”

"Something else?"

The Gearing-class destroyer ship girls spoke in unison, looking at Xiaobai with confusion, and then exchanging glances.

“Kiart, you haven’t done something we don’t know about again, have you?” Frank asked.

“How could that be!” Kiat immediately shook her head, but soon she became a little uncertain, “Hiss…uh…but…maybe not?”

"No need to guess, I'm here for the renovation," Xiaobai said.

“Modification? That doesn’t make sense either. Besides Gearing, who’s already been modified, the other three of us haven’t even reached our modification preparation stage yet.” Frank immediately said to Xiaobai, who looked on with curiosity, “Did the Admiral find another Gearing-class? Jiang Yuan… no, I saw Jiang Yuan this morning. That girl seemed perfectly normal. Could it be Timmerman? But she doesn’t make sense either… or is it someone else…”

"Well, this matter needs to be explained starting from Jinan." Xiaobai thought for a while, then looked at Jinan. "But we can let Jinan do it first, and you'll find out what's going on later."

Everyone looked towards Jinan.

Jinan coughed twice, stood in front of everyone, and then, without saying a word, rubbed her hands together, releasing a circle of white light.

A white light drifted past the four destroyers in front of them.

The white light touched Gearing and then dissipated.

The white light touched Frank and Bauer, then disappeared into their bodies, but produced no reaction.

Finally, a pale white glow slowly emanated from Kiat's body, and an orange light shone in her pupils.

Chapter 3783 My Silly Sisters

All eyes immediately turned to Kiat.

"Huh?!" Kirin stared blankly at Kiat, who was radiating a faint white light and whose eyes were flashing a striking orange light, for a few seconds before instinctively covering her mouth and exclaiming, "Kiat, you, you, you, this state is not... "

“Hmm? Kiart’s current state is very similar to when Gearin was preparing to modify him…” Franknox looked Kiart up and down, pushing up her glasses and lingering on Kiart’s glowing body. “Hmm… but when Gearin was modifying him, his eyes would only light up occasionally, his body didn’t become this dimly glowing… Kiart, how do you feel right now?”

"Uh...it feels swollen." Kiat looked at his palm, his expression strange, and muttered to himself.

"That's right!" Kirin exclaimed happily upon hearing this. "Kiart, congratulations! These are symptoms of entering the modification phase! You're going to be modified too!"

“Strange, I haven’t done anything lately… Could it be…” Kiat muttered suspiciously, then she remembered Jinan waving a strange white light at them earlier, and immediately looked up at Jinan, “Jinan sister, could it be that you did this?”

"Hmph." Jinan put his hands on his hips smugly, like a proud little fox.

Xiao Bai smiled and explained to the four destroyers.

"Jinan's ability is to discover the missile talent of ship girls. Ship girls touched by the light she just emitted will enter the preparatory modification state for missile ship equipment if they meet the requirements." Xiaobai gently put his hand on Jinan's shoulder and continued to say with a smile, "Kiat, we came here before to find ship girls who can be modified for missile ship equipment. It seems that Jinan's power has chosen you."

"What? Missile-equipped ships? Admiral, are you sure you're not mistaken? Missile-equipped ships?!" Frank was immediately surprised when he heard Xiaobai's words.

"Kiart, did you hear that! The modification you're going to undergo is a missile-equipped ship modification!" Upon hearing this, Gearing clenched his hands tightly to his chest with delight and excitedly told Kiart, "A missile-equipped ship modification! That's a super-modern modification, just like Changchun's! After your modification is complete, you'll definitely become the most powerful destroyer in our naval base, just like Changchun!"

“Congratulations—” Bauer said to Kiat.

"..." Kiat looked down at her palm, her brows furrowing as she listened to the others' words. "Missile ship equipment, missile modification... are they talking about me?"

“Yes! The Admiral said so!” Kirin nodded with a smile.

“…Hmm…” Kiat looked up and met Gearin’s gaze. Kiat stared at Gearin’s smiling face, then turned to look at the smiling White, “Admiral, so… are you taking me to do missile modifications?”

"Yes, that's right." Xiaobai nodded.

"After I upgrade it, I'll be the strongest destroyer in the naval base?"

"Well... I don't know, but as the best and most advanced type of shipboard equipment, missile shipboard equipment will definitely make your strength leap forward."

“…” Kiat silently lowered his hand. “Okay, I understand, Admiral.”

"Okay, then let's go to the factory renovation site and find Yubari now..."

"I don't want to be modified!" Before Little White could finish speaking, Kiat suddenly stuck out her tongue at Little White, reached out and pulled at her eyes, making a funny face, "Hehehe!"

"……what?"

Everyone present was completely taken aback by Kiat's reaction, and they were all stunned for a moment.

In that instant, Kiat nimbly leaped a few times, slipped out from behind Xiaobai, and dashed out of the warehouse, standing in the sun.

"If it's converted into a missile ship, then I'll have to be on missions with the admiral every day like Changchun! No way! Life is so comfortable now! I don't want to train, I'm so dissatisfied!" Kiat stood outside, bent over, sticking his tongue out at Xiaobai. "If you want me to go back and obediently undergo the conversion, then the admiral can come and arrest me personally! Bye-bye! Never again!"

After Kiat finished speaking, his small figure darted up to the warehouse next door, climbed onto the roof using both hands and feet, and then disappeared in a flash.

"Aa ...

After saying that, Kilin dashed out of the warehouse and chased after the direction where Kiat had disappeared.

"Ugh... my head hurts so much..." Frank rubbed her forehead, looking at the direction where Gearin and Kiat had disappeared with a troubled expression. She bowed to Little White, "Admiral, please wait here for a moment. I'll go and find Kiat for you. She really went too far today, daring to openly disobey the Admiral's orders... You'll have to punish her properly when she gets back."

"Ah... I didn't..."

Just as Xiaobai raised her hand to speak, Franknox had already jogged out of the warehouse. Xiaobai only saw her two little blue ponytails swaying in mid-air before she nimbly climbed the wall next to the warehouse and chased after the direction where Kiat had disappeared.

The warehouse now only has Xiaobai, Jinan, and quiet Bauer left.

Xiaobai silently watched the direction where Kiat disappeared. She reached out and scratched her cheek, then turned her head to look at Jinan.

"Jinan..."

"Hmm?" Jinan looked at Xiaobai.

"Do ship girls generally dislike the idea of ​​being modified?" Shiro asked.

"No way...we're not Pikachu from Pokémon," Jinan said, arms crossed. "Modification is definitely a good thing for us."

"Sigh." Xiaobai sighed upon hearing this, "I never expected that Kiat wouldn't want to be modified... This was my mistake."

"Then, Admiral, what should we do now?" Jinan asked again.

"If a ship girl is triggered by your transformative power and enters a transformation state, will she slowly revert to her original state if she is not transformed?" Xiaobai asked Jinan.

“How could that be? A ship girl who has entered the modification state will naturally remain in that state.” Jinan immediately said, “To be precise, it wasn’t me who put her into the modification preparation state. I just brought out her talent. She entered her own modification state on her own.”

"Oh..." Xiaobai thought for a while, "This state probably isn't very comfortable."

"It's definitely not as comfortable as before. It feels like my stomach is full and heavy," Jinan said.

"Then we'll have to send Kiat over for modification." Xiaobai said, rubbing her forehead with regret and sighing, "Sigh, this is all my fault. As the admiral, I should have cared about the ship girls' feelings. I should have asked Kiat beforehand if she was willing to be modified. If I had known she was so resistant to modification, I wouldn't have let you use the power of change to contact her. Now... we have to find a way to bring Kiat back..."

"Hmm..." Jinan listened to Xiaobai's words, crossed her arms, and mumbled some fragmented words, which were basically saying that Xiaobai was too kind.

Xiaobai looked at Jinan shyly, when suddenly she felt a small hand gently tugging at her sleeve from behind.

Xiaobai felt the touch and turned around to look.

All he saw was Bauer clutching his sleeve, staring at him with his green eyes wide open.

"Bauer?" Xiaobai looked at Bauer, as if she understood, and immediately turned around and gently patted Bauer's shoulder, saying gently, "Don't worry, it's okay. If Kiate doesn't want to participate in the same high-intensity training as Changchun and go on missions with me, I won't force her. Now that she has entered the transformation state, it's like spilled water that can't be brought back. But after her transformation is completed, I will still let her return to your side."

"..." Bauer listened to Xiaobai's words, shook her head, and her twin ponytails behind her head swayed twice. "Admiral... that's not what I meant."

"Huh? What are you trying to say?"

"Admiral, please don't be angry with Kiat, and please don't hate her." Bauer raised his head and looked at Xiaobai with reverence. "Although Kiat is very naughty, she is not the kind of ship girl who would disobey your orders, Admiral. The reason she said that this time is because she knows that Sister Gearing really wants to be with you, Admiral, so she wants you to play with her and Gearing for a while."

"Eh? Is that so?"