Elder brother's garrison

"...You are...Nia Naval Base?" The patrol team's captain, a ship girl, turned her head and spoke to the beige-clad girl ship girl beside her.

"Yes, I'm Cleveland." The beige-clad ship girl nodded, giving a concise and direct self-introduction.

"Thank you for your rescue... I am the captain of the first patrol team of the Admiral's Guild, my name is..." The patrol team captain, a ship girl, breathed a sigh of relief. She immediately felt all her energy dissipate like a tide, and a huge sense of fatigue enveloped her. Just as she was about to use her last bit of strength to introduce herself, suddenly, she heard a shout in her ear.

"Captain! Captain!"

The patrol team's captain, a ship girl, turned her head and saw a patrol team member running towards her anxiously, his face flushed and his arms waving.

Upon seeing this team member, the patrol team's captain, a ship girl, revealed a tired smile.

It was precisely because this team member found the ship girls of Nia Naval Base in time and led the fleet of Nia Naval Base to the deep-sea gathering point that the other five members of the patrol team, including himself, were able to be saved at this time... From this point of view, this team member can be said to have made a great contribution.

"Captain, Captain! Are you alright? I was just leading... Wow! All four of them are asleep!" The team member came panting to the patrol captain's side. She was about to report the situation when she saw her four companions sleeping soundly on the water's surface. She was immediately startled.

"Let the four of them... let them get some sleep first." The patrol captain glanced at her four companions who were fast asleep on the water's surface. She took out four quick-repair devices from her ship's equipment space and covered them with them. Then, she turned to the team members who were standing there gracefully and said, "Your rescue was very timely. I will write this in the report. Also... your assistance was crucial. The Admiral will not forget your kindness."

When the patrol captain finished speaking, he looked at Cleveland with exceptional sincerity and gratitude.

"Uh...hehe, thank you, Captain..." The ship girl blushed upon receiving the praise, scratching her head somewhat embarrassedly and smiling. "But...actually, it was all just good luck...I originally received your order, Captain, to search for support from other fleets along the route, but I didn't encounter anyone along the way. It was quite a while before I bumped into the ship girls from Nia's Naval Base. They happened to be doing their daily mission at node 8-4 today and hadn't been to the Black Tower yet, so they didn't know what was happening there and weren't in the rescue ship girls' queue. But after I explained the situation to them, they immediately asked me to lead the way and bring them to you..."

“I see.” The patrol team’s captain nodded, her expression towards Cleveland filled with even more admiration. “Thank you very much, Miss Cleveland.”

“It was nothing,” Cleveland said, shaking her head to the patrol captain.

"Yes, I will include your act of bravery in the report so that the guild can reward you."

"Rewards don't matter." Cleveland shook her head. "After all, she's a ship girl under Admiral Lu Lin's command. We'll help if we can."

"...Are you very familiar with the chairman?" The patrol team leader paused for a moment, his eyes filled with doubt.

"..." Now it was Cleveland's turn to glance at the patrol captain with some confusion.

Chapter 3998... Is there anyone who doesn't know the relationship between Nia Garrison and Admiral Lu Lin...?

Cleveland wanted to ask a question, but looking into the patrol captain's incredibly clear eyes, she opened her mouth, then closed it again.

Forget it.

The patrol teams in Chapter 3999 probably stayed indoors all day, completely uninterested in the gossip of Chapter 8 except for their work. Perhaps they really don't know the close relationship between their own naval base and the newbie naval base...

While everyone was chatting, the Veneto sisters and Taiho slowly approached.

Veneto, walking at the front of the group, rubbed his neck, his brows furrowed pitifully, looking weak and endearing.

"Ouch... I twisted my neck a bit too hard when I unleashed the barrage..." Veneto from Nia's family muttered softly. She approached the patrol captain and looked at the ship girls in front of her. "Did we arrive in time? Did we rescue all the ship girls?"

"Thank you all for your help. We are... not really in any good shape." The patrol team leader, a ship girl, immediately stood up unsteadily. She first bowed to the ship girls, then explained breathlessly, "We were... quite disheveled just now. Please forgive us."

"If you walk by the river often, you're bound to get your shoes wet." Before Veneto could speak, Littorio behind her immediately crossed his arms and chuckled, "However... since you are ship girls under Admiral Lu Lin, even if you're not from the rookie naval base, your combat strength shouldn't have been so badly humiliated by a few deep-sea missile ships. If this gets back to Admiral Lu Lin, it might be quite amusing."

“Sister Littorio…” Roma immediately reached out, interrupting Littorio’s speech.

"I've said too much, I'm sorry." Littorio immediately understood and smiled as she spoke to the patrol ship girls.

"..." The patrol team's captain, a ship girl, looked embarrassed, but she still honestly said, "Everyone is right... In the battle just now... we were indeed too careless. Such a performance on the battlefield is truly a disgrace to the guild leader. I will write a self-criticism when I get back."

“Admiral Lu Lin is a very nice person, she won’t mind this kind of thing.” Veneto immediately comforted her, and she smiled and nudged Littorio behind her, “Oh dear, Littorio always speaks without thinking, don’t mind her, you’ve already done a great job!”

"..." The patrol captain looked silently at Veneto, who had a smile on his face, and gave an awkward smile. "Speaking of which, your performance in annihilating the deep-sea missile ship just now... is indeed admirable."

"Hmm, deep-sea missiles like to hide inside destroyers. It would be too troublesome to check them one by one. Fortunately, our Veneto's ship equipment skills are just right to beat up these small fry."

The ship girls at Nia's Naval Base immediately nodded in deep agreement.

Listening to the ship girls of Nia's Naval Base, the patrol team leader seemed to be deep in thought. She looked at everyone and asked a question.

"Judging from your tone... it seems this isn't your first time fighting a deep-sea missile ship?"

"Hmm? Yes." The ship girls at Nia Naval Base nodded and explained, "This morning when we were doing the daily mission for node 8-4, we encountered two groups of deep-sea missile ships."

"……Then what?"

"That's it, it just sank."

The ship girls at Nia's Naval Base explained as if it were perfectly natural, their tone as casual and nonchalant as if they had easily destroyed a few Abyssal destroyers on the roadside.

"..." The patrol team's captain, a ship girl.

Chapter 4000 Peach Blossom Spring

These ship girls at Nia's Naval Base... they actually managed to farm such a dangerous deep-sea ship type as if it were a destroyer... and judging from their tone, it seemed to be something trivial not worth bragging about.

The patrol team's captain, a ship girl, was overwhelmed with mixed feelings when she thought about how her people had almost fallen into the trap of the deep-sea missile ship.

Is this the strength of the ship girls from the top ten naval bases...?

"You... um... perhaps this is a bit offensive, I don't mean any harm..." The patrol team's captain swallowed hard and asked in a low voice, "I mean... now that you've encountered two Abyssal Missile Ships, have you considered reporting the information about the Abyssal Missile Ships to the Admiral's Guild...?"

"Us?" The ship girls of Nia Naval Base pointed to themselves, then looked at each other a few times, and finally answered the patrol captain ship girl sincerely, "Ah... actually we did pass on this message to the Commander, and the Commander probably told the Admiral's Guild."

"Oh, I see..." The patrol team's captain nodded immediately, and bowed again to the ship girls in front of her. "In any case, thank you all."

"We're all on the same side, no need to be so polite." The ship girls from Nia Naval Base immediately smiled, then looked at the chaotic battlefield around them and continued to ask, "Speaking of which, we didn't listen carefully to your situation just now. Why did you insist on exploring the chassis of the deep-sea missile ship?"

"It's like this..." Upon hearing the ship girls from Nia Naval Base inquire about her purpose, the patrol team's captain immediately became serious and began to explain.

After hearing the captain's explanation, the ship girls at Nia's Naval Base immediately understood and then showed concern.

"So that's how it is. A ship girl was facing an abyssal missile ship for the first time and accidentally fell into its trap, getting dragged into the missile ship's gathering point, right!"

"In that case, we'd better speed things up!"

"Let's help out too!"

The ship girls at Nia's Naval Base were also very kind-hearted, and they immediately spoke up.

The captain ship girl was deeply moved. With the ship girls of Nia's Naval Base protecting them, their future exploration of the seas and confrontations with deep-sea missile ships would be much safer and more efficient than when they were patrolling alone.

"Thank you all. Although I cannot represent the Admiral's Guild, I am very grateful!" the patrol captain said immediately, her expression tinged with apology at the end. "Regarding your daily tasks..."

“We can do routine tasks anytime, but this is just a coincidence that we’ve encountered a major rescue operation.” The ship girls from Nia Naval Base immediately interrupted their captain, saying with a smile, “Don’t worry, if our commander knew about this, he would definitely have us do the same!”

Hearing the words of the ship girls from Nia's Naval Base, the captain ship girl felt a warm glow in her heart.

As expected of... one of the top ten naval bases!

While everyone was chatting, the four heavily injured ship girls in the patrol team also finished absorbing the power of the rapid repair device, and they all woke up from their unconsciousness and were revived on the spot.

After the patrol team members regained consciousness, everyone immediately turned their attention to the center of the deep sea.

At this moment, in the center of the sea area filled with deep-sea corpses, the view was dark and dense, and the air was filled with a strong smell of burning. Because the patrol team members had never seen what the captain of the deep-sea missile ship looked like, they were not sure if this group of deep-sea missile ships was the culprit that towed away the three missing ship girls. But since things had come to this, they could only check the deep-sea corpses all over the area in order to find the presence of the ship girls in this sea area.

The two teams of ship girls, a total of twelve, immediately discussed and agreed on their respective areas of responsibility, and began to search the central sea area.

The deep-sea wreckage in the central sea area was blown to pieces, almost unrecognizable. The patrol team ship girls were each rummaging through the deep-sea wreckage in their respective areas, subconsciously taking out deep-sea metal from the wreckage while searching for any ship girl presence that might appear below the surface.

……

After a swift and accurate search, the two teams of ship girls returned to the waters where they had met, having found nothing.

"I didn't find any here." The patrol team's captain, a ship girl, stretched out her hand, her palm clutching a sack filled with heavy deep-sea metal. "By the way, these are the deep-sea metals from the area I'm responsible for, a total of one hundred and twenty-three."

"We haven't found any ship girl aura here either." The ship girls at Nia Naval Base shook their heads. They looked at the sack in the patrol captain's hand, thought for a moment, and then reached out to take the deep-sea metal.

According to the unspoken rules of ship girl expeditions, whoever kills the Abyssal Fleet and makes the most contribution in the battle gets the lion's share of the dropped supplies.

The ship girls of Nia's Naval Base almost single-handedly wiped out the deep-sea ships in the entire sea area's gathering point, so it was reasonable for them to accept these deep-sea metals. Since that was the case, the ship girls of Nia's Naval Base did not hesitate and accepted them directly.

The remaining patrol members took out the deep-sea metals they had collected and handed them over to the ship girls of Nia's Naval Base.

"We didn't find any ship girl aura either..." the patrol's ship girls said with some regret.

"It seems that the deep-sea missile ships here are not the same ones that kidnapped the missing ship girls," said a ship girl from Nia's naval base.

"Everyone, did you detect any ship girls among those missile ships you wiped out earlier?" the patrol team asked.

"We have checked this carefully, and it is indeed not there."

"Looks like we'll have to go to the next few dozen deep-sea gathering points..." the patrol team's ship girls murmured to themselves, their eyes filled with seriousness.

Seeing the calm expressions on the faces of the patrol team's ship girls, the ship girls from Nia's Naval Base immediately went forward to comfort them.

"Don't worry, the time before the major damage ends is still a long way off. We can just search all the remaining dozens of abyssal gathering points and we'll find the missing ship girls eventually." The ship girls of Nia Naval Base smiled one after another. "We'll always be with you."

"You are all such kind people..." The patrol team's ship girls were moved once again.

"We're all on the same side, so I won't say any more."

The ship girls at Nia Naval Base all gave a thumbs up.

The ship girls turned and left the sea area, immediately heading towards the next deep-sea gathering point.

The voices of the ship girls drifted in the air.

"Speaking of which, when you patrol teams were working in the Admiral's Guild, did you see Admiral Lu Lin very often?"

"..."

"What is Admiral Lu Lin like when she's working?"

"..."

"Admiral Lu Lin, she..."

"Don't worry, with us here, the missing ship girl will definitely be safe!"

"..."

The sounds in the air gradually faded away, leaving only a vast expanse of dark sea.

The deep-sea remains on the surface of the sea are gradually sinking to the seabed and slowly being decomposed by the deep-sea atmosphere because they have lost their deep-sea metal.

The deep-sea energy pulsated in mid-air, like wisps of black wind.

……

total darkness.

Endless darkness.

As consciousness gradually returned to the body, intense pain immediately reverberated throughout the limbs and bones.

The dark missile pierced the ship's hull with a vengeance, exploding with a violent shockwave. In an instant, the intense heat melted the hull, and the destructive force tore the entire ship's armor to shreds...

"what!"

The ship girl's eyes widened instantly, and she immediately sat up from the ground.

Just as the ship girl sat up, she suddenly heard a clicking sound, followed by a strange feeling of relief in her head, as two emerald green ship equipment repair devices fell down.

The awakened ship girl stared blankly at the rapid repair device that had fallen beside her.

"Eh... what am I doing..."

The ship girl muttered to herself unconsciously. She touched her face, looked at her clothes, which should have been in a terrible state but were now back to normal, and even slightly felt the ship equipment inside her body... Only then did she realize that her injuries had been completely healed.

The ship girl lowered her hand and looked in all directions.

Upon seeing the surrounding scenery, the ship girl's expression became even more puzzled.

The ship girls are currently in what resembles a strange, half-built concrete building. The building's lobby is incredibly spacious, filled with a peculiar smell of smoke and dust, while the clanging and banging sounds of construction continuously drift into the lobby from outside.

And beside him... his two companions were lying peacefully in their sleeping bags, each with a quick-repair device attached to their heads.

This is... the Admiral's Guild?

The awakened ship girl sat on the ground, gazing at her surroundings with some confusion. The buildings around her were remarkably similar to those in human society, but the high concentration of deep-sea energy in the air reminded her that this place was still part of the deep sea.

The ship girl had no idea where she was or what her situation was... In her memory, just a second ago she seemed to have been hit by a deep-sea missile ship and lost consciousness.

Thinking of this, the ship girl slowly got up.

The ship girl's injuries have been completely healed, and she can now move freely without any hindrance.

The ship girl first went to her two companions, squatted down to check on their condition—her two companions had completely recovered from their injuries and seemed to be out of danger.

Slightly relieved...

The ship girl let out a small breath, then stood up and looked out of the hall with a puzzled expression.

A strange urge to figure out where she was suddenly seized by the ship girl's mind, prompting her to walk to the front of the hall and look outside.

then.

This look.

The ship girl's eyes widened in shock, her face turning pale.