Elder brother's garrison

Xiao Bai stared at Montana for a while before slowly withdrawing his gaze.

"Okay, the venue is almost ready, let's do it now," Xiaobai said.

"You seemed to have said before that time was running out and it was time to return to the garrison," Frederick the Great said to the little white dog in front of him.

“Yes, time is running out…” Xiaobai nodded with deep feeling, and said to herself, “We’ve been away from the naval base for more than four hours. If it’s any longer, Lexington will probably realize that we brought you out of here… uh… maybe she already knows.”

"...Then why fight me?"

"Well, there's no other way, it's what everyone wants, right?" Xiaobai smiled and shrugged. "And it shouldn't take too long."

"..."

Frederick the Great stared at Xiaobai, and when Xiaobai said it wouldn't take long, her red eyes lowered slightly, and a cold light slowly shone in them.

silent.

Speechless.

The sea is calm.

then.

boom----

It was like a storm approaching.

A fierce, surging, and turbulent aura of the deep sea began to emanate from Frederick the Great.

Centered on Frederick the Great's body, terrifying air currents mixed with dark red deep-sea energy surged in all directions, causing the vast sea to groan and howl. Ripples on the surface crashed like lightning, creating wave after wave of giant waves.

Frederick the Great's body moved without wind, her pirate captain's robes crackled incessantly, and her white hair, which had been piled up, was untied in the gale and blown into the sky.

The terrifying aura of the Deep Sea Dean echoed across the sea surface.

Black and red energy coalesced into a tentacle-like armor around Frederick the Great's body. The ship's rigging behind her fell away, and black and red deep-sea energy continuously surged into her body.

Frederick the Great's skin rapidly cracked and regenerated, then cracked again and regenerated once more.

Even when his body was in perfect condition, Frederick the Great was using all his strength to rejuvenate his body.

Frederick the Great instantly entered her strongest battle state, unleashing an explosive aura that she had never even used during her battle with Montana.

Finally, Frederick the Great raised his hand and brought it down hard on the smiling little white dog!

boom! ! !

A tremendous roar, accompanied by the waves, caused an instant explosion.

Under the cover of the water curtain, the black and red air currents instantly fled away from where Xiaobai was, and in the blink of an eye, they had created a great distance.

Upon reaching the distant shore, Frederick the Great unleashed the full power of his ship's equipment, with a large amount of deep-sea energy surging into the ship's rig. One cannonball after another rained down from the sky, crashing heavily into the water curtain. Amidst the earth-shaking explosions, giant waves surged one after another on the sea surface.

The water curtain dispersed in the next moment.

A massive land-based warship broke through the water curtain and appeared in Frederick the Great's field of vision amidst a series of clanging sounds.

Frederick the Great's cannonballs slammed heavily onto the land-based ship's equipment.

These ferocious shells, powerful enough to instantly kill a deep-sea commander, only caused the land-based ship's equipment to shake violently and leave minor cracks when they hit it.

And then.

As the sea breeze blows, her bright silver-white hair flutters in the air like a flag.

Upon seeing this, Frederick the Great's gaze froze for a moment.

Deep within Frederick the Great's eyes, the intense light of the land-based ship-mounted laser cannons shone.

sizzle ————

The land-based ship-mounted laser cannons activated instantly, and the powerful kinetic energy they generated propelled a petite, white-haired girl across an enormous distance, jetting her right in front of Frederick the Great.

Frederick the Great watched helplessly as Little White arrived before him, blue flames igniting in her hands, and a beast's head opened its mouth, spitting out a hilt of a sword.

Immediately afterwards, a military knife as long as Xiaobai's height shot out.

Clang————

The blade flashed instantly, illuminating Frederick the Great's entire field of vision.

Frederick the Great was unable to move, and the flow of time around her slowed down considerably. She could only watch quietly, as if from a third-person perspective, as Xiaobai flew towards her with a long sword. Then, the long sword made a crisp sound as it touched her flesh.

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Time resumed its normal pace in that instant.

Xiao Bai's longsword flew from above Frederick the Great's head to his feet.

swoosh————

The sharp blade pierced through Frederick the Great's body, and the sea several meters behind her split in two with a loud crash.

The deep-sea aura in the air screamed and howled, rapidly surging into Frederick the Great's body.

Immediately afterwards, the deep-sea atmosphere above the sea surface vanished into a vacuum with a deafening roar, followed by an explosion.

Chapter 3823 Frederick's Puzzle

The instant Xiaobai's gleaming military knife sliced ​​through Frederick the Great's body from top to bottom, the once dark sea suddenly became extremely eerie—the churning black waves and surging, layered surf instantly froze as if a pause button had been pressed. The surrounding violent explosions and the howling of deep-sea air currents also seemed to be silenced, making no sound at all. All movement on the sea surface disappeared, leaving only boundless silence. Everything seemed to be frozen in time, centered on Xiaobai and Frederick the Great.

The eerie silence lasted for a few seconds.

And then.

Boom————

Accompanied by a strange explosion, a powerful suction force suddenly erupted from Frederick the Great's body.

A transparent void, invisible to the naked eye but clearly perceptible to the body, appeared on Frederick the Great's body. In an instant, the severed Frederick the Great seemed to transform into a black hole, violently swallowing the deep-sea aura in all directions.

A terrifying storm arose from the ground, and the deep-sea atmosphere in the sky, the sea, and the air screamed and howled, pulling at each other and surging into Frederick the Great's body.

A massive, twisting tornado, carrying a tidal wave, suddenly appeared on the sea surface.

Little White, who was in the eye of the storm, was slapped away by a wave and sent flying.

The sea where Frederick the Great was located was now covered by a thick curtain of rain that could not be penetrated by the naked eye. The ship girls watching from a distance even felt that their senses were being shattered by the terrifying ocean storm in front of them. With the waves swaying them, they could only grab onto their companions and try their best to stabilize themselves.

"Wow!"

"What, what is this?!"

"Chongqing, take my hand!"

"Sister Yixian—"

"Zhaohe!"

"Waaaaahh ...

The ship girls unleashed their ship equipment, attempting to stabilize themselves amidst the sudden deep-sea storm.

Even as they huddled together, faced with this scene that could be described as nature's fury, the ship girls felt that their resistance was extremely powerless and insignificant. They were all bent over and raised their arms, being blown backward inch by inch by the waves, their bodies uncontrollably about to be lifted into the sky.

Fortunately, just a second before the ship girls were about to be swept into the sky, golden flames suddenly rose from beneath them, forming walls that enveloped them, preventing them from being carried into the terrifying sea tornado.

The storm continues to rage on the sea.

The terrifying storm lasted for several minutes before slowly subsiding.

After the waves subsided, the golden wall protecting the ship girls turned into flames and dissipated. The ship girls, who had been crouching in the center of the golden wall with their heads in their hands, raised their faces and looked around at their surroundings with some confusion.

"Huh? Is it over?"

"What...what happened..."

Wow???!! The sky is so blue!!!

"..."

Before the ship girls could even get a good look at their surroundings, the first thing that caught their eyes was a clear, azure sea that seemed to reflect the sky.

The ship girls stared wide-eyed.

They stared in astonishment at the mirror-like ocean beneath their feet, looking down at the sky reflected on the surface of the water, and the white clouds in the azure sky. Suddenly, as if realizing something, they reached out and grabbed at everything in their direction, then closed their eyes and sniffed.

After a few seconds of silence.

The ship girls opened their eyes again and looked at each other.

"...Yixian...I, I didn't feel it wrong, did I?" Chongqing covered his mouth, as if he had seen some novel scene he had never seen before, and spoke to Yixian.

“…Hmm.” Yi Xian nodded gently, gazing at the clear horizon that almost met the sky in the distance, her expression complex. “…The deep-sea atmosphere here is almost imperceptible.”

"Wasn't this just a deep sea area comparable to Chapter Eight? How come it seems to have been purified after the storm? So what exactly was that just now..."

"I'm not really sure either..." Yi Xian shook her head as she answered.

"Ah... I think it's probably because... I was drained." Just then, Changchun's voice rang out.

The ship girls all looked towards Changchun.

Changchun raised his right hand to his cheek and pursed his lips shyly in front of everyone.

"Drained?" everyone asked.

"Hmm..." Changchun put down his hands, rubbed them together, and looked up into the distance.

Everyone subconsciously followed Changchun's gaze and looked into the distance.

The place Changchun was looking at was the spot where Frederick the Great had been standing. When everyone's gaze fell upon it, they saw that the sea was completely clean, with no one standing there...

Ok?

wrong.

The ship girls stared at that area of ​​sea, paused for a moment, and then quickly widened their eyes to continue looking.

No, no, no, no...

There were still people on that stretch of sea, but... they weren't standing on their feet.

The ship girls looked closely and then they could see clearly that on the water where Frederick the Great was, there was a woman's body lying on the surface... or more accurately, it was the body of a woman that had been neatly cut in half.

Everyone blinked instinctively, exchanged glances, and then, startled, took a step and ran towards that direction.

"Frederick? Frederick?!"

The ship girls jogged across the sea where the sky met the water, and soon arrived at the location of Frederick the Great, finally seeing his condition up close.

The moment the ship girls saw Frederick the Great's condition, some stood there dumbfounded with their mouths slightly agape, some showed expressions of extreme surprise, some couldn't bear it and covered their mouths, turning away and gagging, while others stood there with particularly complex and conflicted expressions...

"vomit!!"

"Well--?!"

"Ah... Frederick..."

Under everyone's gaze, Frederick the Great was lying on the water.

At this moment, her body was perfectly sliced ​​in two halves, starting from the center of her forehead, down to between her eyes, the center of her nose, the center of her chest, her navel, and even down to the center of her legs. When the ship girls arrived in front of Frederick the Great, they saw that a thin layer of black blood membrane had grown between the two body parts. Although the cut surface was still lifelike, with the shaved bones, clearly defined muscles, and the internal organs and vital organs clearly visible, fortunately, the presence of this blood membrane prevented Frederick the Great's blood from flowing haphazardly and his internal organs from spilling onto the ground.

Frederick the Great, of course, did not die.

On Frederick the Great's body, which was split in two, two eyes on different parts of his body turned to the side at the same time.

She looked at the crowd, her eyes still bloodshot and cold, just as always.

"Yingrui, Zhaohe, Pinghai, Ninghai, stop looking for now." Yixian turned around and pulled the ship girls who were gagging behind her. Then she glanced at Changchun and Jinan, and after seeing that their reactions were relatively stable, she sighed and said nothing more.

Yixian walked up to Frederick the Great's two body parts, squatted down, and gently patted the waist of the left side of Frederick the Great's body.

"Frederick, what's the situation now?"

"..." Frederick the Great's two bodies looked at Yi Xian, and her two body parts opened their mouths slightly at the same time, and the voices appeared as if in resonance, "...I lost."

"Did you lose?"

"To recover from my injuries, the deep-sea energy in this area has been temporarily depleted," Frederick the Great said calmly, his face expressionless. "But the deep-sea energy was already scarce, and this is the extent of my current recovery..."

"..." Yi Xian was silent for a while, looking at the black blood membrane on the two bodies, "...Can't these two...be restored to each other?"

"The power is insufficient," Frederick the Great said calmly.

"..." Yi Xian fell into deep thought.

Just then, the crisp sound of shoes stepping on the water's surface came from behind them.