Elder brother's garrison

Where are they?

"They had some urgent business to attend to, so they left temporarily, but we'll see them tomorrow."

"Oh—" Kiat nodded in understanding after hearing everyone's explanation, then a smug smile appeared on her face. "Hehe, I get it now! Looks like I got lucky during the modification!"

Kiat was laughing so happily and brightly.

Only at this moment could people see a trace of her former self in her smile.

Chapter 3884 Recognizing Relatives

In a sense, Kiat's modification is the one with the most significant changes in terms of "physical appearance" among this batch of modified ship girls.

After all, unlike Chicago, whose appearance remained basically unchanged, and unlike Garibaldi, whose height only increased slightly, Kiat's transformation was a complete "makeover." And most importantly, her "makeover" was fundamentally different from the simple changes in appearance seen in Guam and Alaska—Kiat's transformation even involved changes in her "psychological age."

As is well known, the mental age of ship girls is generally fixed in 99% of cases and does not increase with their actual age and experience.

At least on a "spiritual" level, the ship girls will always remain the same as they were at the beginning.

A destroyer who looks like a little girl will always maintain her initial mental age, regardless of whether she has served in the naval base for one year or ten years, or whether she has experienced zero or countless battles.

This is why, when ship girls retire, the department responsible for registering their information focuses more on their psychological age rather than their actual age when arranging their retirement life.

This includes Kiat.

To be honest, she has served in the naval base for quite some time, but even after all these years, she still has the carefree mentality of a destroyer girl. Although her pranks have improved a lot over the years of training, and her ability to be a tiresome brat is no longer what it used to be, it is undeniable that her mental age has always been where she should be, and has not changed.

But after this renovation, Kiat is clearly different.

This is the most obvious experience of Xiaobai, Garibaldi, Chicago, and Yubari.

Although Kiat himself may not have realized this yet, the four people on Xiaobai's side, through their brief time together, almost strongly felt that Kiat had suddenly become much more "mature" after the transformation.

After all, you see...

Kiat has been out for so long, and she has never played a prank on anyone.

In the past, she would never have been able to tolerate it.

It's like those mischievous, troublesome little kids who came over from the neighborhood when we were kids, who were always a worry and didn't even have a concept of gender. After a summer vacation, they suddenly turned into a shy, lovestruck girl in a white dress, hiding behind her elders and secretly blushing as she stared at you. That terrifying sense of growing up washed over the hearts of the four of them.

Although they weren't entirely sure how much Kiat's mental age had matured, Xiaobai and the others were fairly certain that Kiat's mental age had grown to a level that matched her appearance.

Ok……

So... Kiat is the real winner in this transformation?

Xiaobai and the other ship girls exchanged glances. Many thoughts flashed in their eyes, then they all looked at each other with a strange expression and nodded.

Come to think of it, the previous renovations in Changchun also seemed to involve changes related to "psychological age" development.

Xiaobai had never seen Changchun before her refit, formerly known as "Guogan," but she had heard the ship girls at the naval base mention her a few times. The former Guogan was a delicate, cute, and innocent destroyer. Every time she saw the older women at the naval base, she would stop and bow deeply to greet them, showing a cute and healing smile...

It was only after being transformed into a beautiful young woman, both inside and out, that the Kokang became a graceful and elegant maiden...

Ok.

Good.

very good.

Xiao Bai praised it three times in his heart and silently gave KiAte a thumbs up.

"Kiart, come on, let's chat." Little White waved and smiled at Kiart.

"Huh? Me?" Kiat pointed to himself.

"Yes," Xiaobai asked Kia with a smile, "After it's converted into a missile ship, is there anything you'd like to do?"

"Hmm... does firing a missile at the admiral's office count?" Kiart touched his lips, thought seriously for a while, and asked Xiaobai.

"……"noob.

"That, that, that won't do..." Upon hearing this, Garibaldi was terrified and quickly raised his hands to wave at Kiat.

"Hahahaha!" Kiat burst into laughter, clutching his stomach. "How could it possibly shoot? That's a missile! I was just kidding, Admiral! Look at you guys, hahaha—"

"..." Xiaobai smiled bitterly.

Ok.

It seems that Kit hasn't completely given up her mischievous spirit, but as she grows older, her pranks will probably have to change their approach.

……

After the Kiat's ship equipment was modified, only one missile ship equipment remained in the ship equipment hall.

By process of elimination, the last remaining shipborne missile system must be the one from Anshan.

The ship equipment of Anshan is the most imposing and "advanced" among this batch of missile ship equipment. However, just like the order of the Yubari ship equipment's refit, although Anshan's ship equipment is in the position of a grand finale, its refit progress is the slowest among all the ship equipment that is being refitted.

After settling everyone into the available seats, Yubari pushed Anshan's ship equipment into the modification platform. Before the modification, she told Xiaobai that she might have to modify Anshan's ship equipment for three or four hours straight.

Xiaobai and his group sat there, watching from afar as Yubari repeatedly welded, assembled, and modified the Anshan ship's equipment on the modification platform, sparks flying all the way.

While watching Yubari's refit of Anshan's ship equipment, Xiaobai and his group also took the opportunity to explain to Kiate that the ship equipment refit she was undergoing was a special type of refit. Kiate herself quickly accepted the changes that were happening to her, and she excitedly said that everything was okay. She didn't intend to understand the things she didn't understand, as long as Xiaobai said that the overall direction of the matter was good, there was no problem.

Despite his young age, Kiat has already adopted a Zen-like attitude, much like Xiaobai.

This is a good thing.

However, it's not a good thing either.

The downside is that... Kiat doesn't seem to be very interested in watching Yubari's renovation.

At first, Kit would obediently watch Yubari control several mechanical arms, turning them over and over on the ship's equipment in Anshan. She would clap her hands symbolically and call out a few names like "Doctor Octopus." But as Yubari's modification process lasted for more than an hour, Kit finally got tired of watching. She lowered her head, dragged her legs in circles on the ground, and occasionally tugged at Shiro's arm.

"Admiral, how long will it take to complete the modification of this ship's equipment?"

"Hmm... I heard from Yubari that it will be a few more hours."

"So late? That's too long..." Kiat suddenly spoke up, "Admiral, Admiral, how about we go for a walk?"

"What, you want to go out?" Xiaobai asked.

"Hehe, I just wanted to show Sister Gearin, Frank, and Bauer what I look like now." Kiat puffed out her chest. Although her waist and leg curves had grown into perfect shapes, the only thing that remained was her light and free chest, which was still very much like the admiral, Little White.

"Hmm..." Xiaobai looked at Kiat's body and felt a surge of goodwill towards her. "In that case, since the ship girls accompanying us in the factory are all waiting, why don't we go out and see them?"

“Really? Yay!” Kiat cheered immediately.

Little White nodded to Kiart, then looked at Garibaldi and Chicago.

What do you think? Should we go out and take a look?

“Ah, I, I’m fine anywhere,” Garibaldi quickly replied, then shyly added, “But… if Lord Pompeii and Sister Zara are waiting outside, I haven’t seen them in so long, I’d like to go out and see them too.”

“I’ll go out and say hello to Baltimore too,” Chicago said to Little White.

“That’s fine then…” Xiaobai nodded, stood up from her seat, and glanced at Yubari from afar.

Yubari was still engrossed in the important task of modifying her ship equipment, and it was probably not convenient to disturb her in this state, so Shiro didn't ask Yubari anything. Instead, she simply signaled the ship girls around her to walk quietly and leave with her.

Xiaobai led the three ship girls out of the ship equipment hall and all the way to the exit of the modification workshop.

The door to the workshop's exit was surprisingly wide open.

It seems they didn't close the door when they left Guam and Alaska.

However, the escorting ship girls outside followed the rules of the modification factory and did not step into the modification workshop at all.

Xiaobai and the three ship girls walked out of the modification workshop.

Outside the workshop, the ship girls accompanying the factory were sitting at a table, playing cards and chatting idly.

Seemingly hearing footsteps coming from the modification workshop, the ship girls who were playing cards all turned their heads and looked over.

"Huh? Chicago, you've finished your renovation!"

Baltimore's voice rang out first. She stood up from the sofa, turned around, and, holding onto the back of the sofa, called out to Xiaobai and his group.

"Baltimore Sister".

Chicago called out to Baltimore as a greeting, then strode to the front with her hands in her pockets.

“Garibaldi, you’re out too.” Pompeii sat on the sofa and waved the playing cards in her hand at Garibaldi with a smile. “Great, just as Guam and Alaska said when they left, the remaining ship girls will be coming out one after another soon.”

"Lord Pompeii, Sister Zara, I'm back!" Garibaldi immediately bowed and greeted the two.

“Yes, you’ve grown a bit taller.” Zara, sitting next to Pompeii, nodded with a faint smile.

"Cough cough!"

Kiat coughed, walked up to the group, put his hands on his hips, and looked at Keelin, Frank, and Bauer with a smile.

The three sisters of Gearin did not play cards with the ship girls. Instead, they sat scattered around the ship girls, curiously watching Gearin.

From this unfamiliar face, Kirin and the others clearly felt a sense of familiarity stemming from their bloodline.

Chapter 3885 In Front of Family

Kiat stood there in front of Killin, Frank Knox, and Bauer, hands on her hips, a hopeful smile on her face, her body ramrod straight, deliberately striking a cool, silent pose.

The attention of the three members of the group was drawn to Kiart's affected behavior, and their eyes couldn't help but fall on Kiart, sizing him up for a while.

Then, the three of them couldn't help but show a hint of doubt in their eyes.

The three members of the Kirin group felt unfamiliar with the young lady who had appeared with the admiral, but whose appearance and aura they had never seen before. However, despite this unfamiliarity, they also felt a faint sense of familiarity about her.

This feeling of being both unfamiliar and not entirely unfamiliar is quite jarring.

Kilin stared wide-eyed at Kiat's face, seemingly lost in thought.

Frank was the first of the three to lose her temper. She frowned at Kiat, then turned to Little White and asked him a question.

"Admiral, may I ask who this lady is...?"

"Pfft!"

Before Frank Knox could finish speaking, a soft "pfft" was heard. Kiat, who had just been pretending to be profound, immediately covered his mouth, bent over, and burst into laughter, his body trembling.

When Kiat heard her call him "sister," his suppressed expression immediately crumbled.

"Hahahaha! Admiral, Admiral, did you hear that? Did you hear what Frank called me?!" Kiat laughed and waved at Shiro. "Frank called me 'sister'! She called me 'sister'! Hahahaha!!!!"

Kiat's laughter was so clear and loud that it instantly echoed throughout the entire factory hall.

Upon hearing Kiat's laughter, Kilin's already wide eyes widened even more as if she had realized something. She opened her mouth and stared at Kiat in astonishment.

"You...you are..."

"Huh? What's going on?" Frank listened to Kiat's laughter. Although she didn't recognize Kiat immediately, for some reason, Kiat's laughter made her feel inexplicably uncomfortable, as if her heartstrings were inexplicably tingled with shame and indignation. She frowned, and her thick glasses scrutinized Kiat again with a look of examination and doubt. "Was there anything impolite about how I addressed you? Who are you? Why did you come out of the modification workshop? Were you one of the ship girls who were previously modified?"

"Hahahaha! Admiral, Admiral, Frank hasn't noticed yet!" Kiat laughed so hard she couldn't stand up straight. She ran to Xiaobai's side in a few steps and quickly supported Xiaobai's arm. "Oh, Admiral, give me a break, I'm laughing so hard I have no strength left!"

Little White, who was being used as a support by Kiat, glanced at Kiat, then at Frank who was frowning in confusion, and finally at the dumbfounded Keeling, and at Bauer who was holding a book and watching them as if he knew everything but was detached from the situation.

These four sisters are truly unique...

Xiao Bai gently patted the back of Kiat's hand that was pressed on his arm, then smiled and spoke to Franknox and Gearing.

“Frank, Killin, and Bauer… well… let me introduce you.” Little White pointed at Kiat, who was laughing uncontrollably, and said, “Actually, she is Kiat.”

"ha?!!"

Frank was the one who reacted the most and the fastest after hearing Xiaobai's introduction.

Frank's eyes widened in disbelief, his gaze fixed behind his thick glasses.

"What? This is Kiat? How, how is this possible..." Frank Wu staggered back two steps, staring at Kiat, his voice trembling, "How could that guy Kiat have turned into something like this..."

"I know it's hard for you to accept right now, but Frank, ship girl equipment modifications have a certain probability of causing physical changes..." Xiaobai tried to explain.

"Hahaha, why are you telling Frank all this, Admiral? She's got that intellect!" Kiat interjected with a laugh, then pointed at Frank, his smile widening as he said, "Frank just never imagined I'd grow up this big! You heard her call me 'sister' just now, hahaha, she's never called me that before!"

"Uh...you...are you really...Kiart?"

Hearing Kiat's unrestrained laughter, Franknox's shoulders trembled slightly, her chin drooped, her teeth clenched, and her face was filled with shame and indignation, to the point that a deadly red began to appear on her entire snow-white face.

"I...I just...I didn't just..." Frank Knox stammered.

"What? I didn't hear you, I didn't hear what you said, Frank Nox, sister!" Kiat smiled and leaned forward, bending down to put a hand to his ear.

"I...I...Aaaaaah, Kiat, I'm going to cum on you, I'm going to cum on you!!" Franknox went berserk, raised her hands, and pounced on Kiat while howling.

Kiat laughed loudly and dodged Franknox's charge with a quick movement.

"You won't catch anyone if you're blinded by anger, Frank! Sis!"