Elder brother's garrison

The forum was filled with the festive atmosphere of Chinese New Year.

Suddenly, a strange feeling drifted through Xiaobai's heart.

The Black Tower's missile technology unlocking... could it be... not referring to the Deep Sea faction, but... the entire world?

Chapter 4008 So they're family!

So... the missile technology unlocked by the Black Tower is not limited to the Deep Sea faction, but is aimed at the entire world?

Once this thought flashed through Xiaobai's mind, it remained there like a brand, making it impossible for her to ignore.

Xiao Bai covered her mouth, her expression suddenly becoming quite interesting.

As is well known, missile ships are a very, very rare type of ship.

The rarity of missile ships is no exaggeration.

As for the extent of this so-called "rarity"... to put it simply, for two or three years after the world's first missile ship, Changchun, was launched, until today, no organization or faction in the entire world, apart from the newbie naval base, possessed even a single missile ship.

Missile ships are such rare things.

For a very long time, missile ships were generally considered by admirals to be the exclusive force of newbie naval bases.

Of course.

Although the newbie naval base has maintained its status as the only naval base with missile ships for so long, Shiro actually has no intention of keeping the information about the missile ship girls to herself. On the contrary, most of the missile ship-related information in the newbie naval base, except for a part involving Shiro's mental power which was necessaryly concealed by Yubari, was personally instructed by Shiro to let Yubari write papers, publish them, and disseminate them with peace of mind.

Even so, the other naval commanders still couldn't obtain any missile ship girls.

To paraphrase some admirals' self-deprecating words, this feeling of powerlessness is like the tech tree for missile ship girls being completely blocked, with only newbie naval bases in the world able to break through this blockade.

In a sense, this is also a rather frustrating situation.

However... on this very day, the admirals of Chapter 8, who had never obtained a missile ship before, have started building missile ship girls one after another. This is probably not a coincidence based on probability.

"So... the tech tree that was previously blocked for the admirals... has been unlocked by the Black Tower...?"

Xiao Bai muttered to himself softly.

"Hmm? What did you say, Admiral?" Chao Dahe, who was standing in front of Xiaobai's desk, asked subconsciously after hearing Xiaobai's murmur.

"Ah...no, nothing." Xiaobai snapped out of her reverie, smiled at Chaoda and shook her head, "I was just talking to myself."

"Oh……"

"Super Yamato, can you do me another favor?" Xiaobai asked again.

"Admiral, what is it?"

"Could you go downstairs and get me some data on the missile ship girls that were built today?" Xiaobai asked. "Since they were built at the Admiral's Guild, we should have relevant ship girl ability tests and records here."

"Okay... I'll go take a look." Chao Yamato nodded quickly, turning to walk outside, but after taking only two steps, she stopped, hesitating as she looked at Xiaobai, "Admiral..."

"Huh? What's wrong?"

Where should I look for the records?

"..." Xiaobai smiled, "The building above the construction floor is the ship girl's ability testing hall. Just go to Archive Room No. 1 in that corridor."

"Oh, oh..." Chao responded loudly, then quickly left the office and disappeared outside the door.

Xiaobai smiled and watched Chao Yahe leave the office. Only after Chao Yahe's figure had completely disappeared did she look down at the manuscript paper on her desk.

This is a notice regarding the Black Tower's ban...

Xiao Bai pondered for a moment, tapped the manuscript paper lightly twice with his fingers, and then put it aside.

The situation doesn't seem as bad as I initially thought... so... let's put it aside for now and see how things develop.

While Chao Yahe went to retrieve the data on the newly built missile ship girl, Xiaobai picked up the work documents that Chao Yahe had brought earlier. On the first page of the work documents, there was the sea area report of Patrol Team No. 1.

If I remember correctly... this patrol team number one is probably the patrol team that found the three ship girls that I left behind.

Xiao Bai thought for a moment, then picked up the sea area report in his hands, looked down at it, and flipped through it.

After watching for a while, a smile appeared on Xiaobai's face.

This sea area report... is written very neatly and carefully, which shows that the captain of Patrol Team One is quite professional.

As for the contents of this report on the sea area...

The sea area report detailed everything the patrol team encountered at sea, including the tactics and maritime decisions they used when facing the deep-sea missile ship, their ambush on the deep-sea missile ship, and how they almost capsized at the deep-sea gathering point... Of course, the sea area report also devoted considerable space to describing the entire process of the first patrol team being rescued by the ship girls of Nia Naval Base. Because the report could not include personal subjective emotions, the patrol team leader could not directly write too many words of thanks to Nia Naval Base, but through the descriptions of the ship girls of Nia Naval Base appearing out of nowhere, displaying their unique abilities, and wreaking havoc, as well as the ship girls of Nia Naval Base enthusiastically and proactively joining the patrol team in the search and rescue operation, Xiaobai could still tell what kind of excited feelings the patrol team leader had when writing this sea area report.

—They were practically writing "Please, Chairman, praise and reward them" in the report.

Xiaobai found it enjoyable to watch.

The ship girls of Nia's family... In Xiaobai's memory, they were just a group of rookie ship girls who were blown up by him... I never thought that after so much time, they would grow into mature ship girls who could save others. It's really impressive.

In the final paragraphs of the sea area report, the patrol team leader added some suspicious points about the recovered ship girls. For example, although the three ship girls were unconscious, they did not have any injuries. Also, although they were clearly abducted by the deep-sea missile ship, they appeared in an ordinary deep-sea gathering point. She did not speculate too much about these suspicious points, but only described them. It seems that she is going to hand these things over to the Admiral's Guild for judgment.

After reading the report, Xiaobai picked up a pen from the table, simply wrote "read" on the signature page, closed the report, and put it aside.

“I remember Nia told me she doesn’t like to be in the spotlight… so let’s just give her a casual commendation for this.” Xiaobai murmured. “As for the reward… it should be as generous as possible while still adhering to the rules. I’ll take it home after get off work and personally hand it to Nia and her Veneto-class ship girls.”

After settling the sea area report, Xiaobai picked up a pen and drafted a reward plan. After deliberating for a while, he finally decided to give Nia a generous reward of supplies and distribute a few reward medals that were not very useful but were perfect for bragging.

As for the doubts mentioned in the report...

For Xiaobai, those were definitely not suspicious points... but she couldn't explain these suspicious points to her subordinates, so she simply pretended not to see them.

Time heals all wounds; after all, these are minor matters.

After finishing his work, Chao Yahe returned to the office doorway once again.

"Admiral, I'm back." Chaoda walked into the office carrying several folders. She handed the folders to Xiaobai. "Admiral, I asked the staff in the archives, and they said that the data on the missile ship girls that have undergone ship equipment testing are all here."

"Oh, thank you for your hard work, super Yamato." Xiaobai took the folder with a smile. "Sit down and rest."

"……Um."

Chao Da nodded, then silently looked down at herself, then dragged a chair over to Xiao Bai's side and sat down close to Xiao Bai's shoulder.

Xiaobai had developed a muscle reflex-like reaction to Chaoda's approach. While flipping through the folder, she naturally leaned into Chaoda's arms and finally lay down in Chaoda's curvaceous and soft embrace. All her movements seemed so natural and effortless.

With the back of her head resting on Chao Dahe's large and high chest, Xiaobai silently felt the gentle touch of Chao Dahe's arms around her lower abdomen as she flipped through several pages of the folder in her hand.

Super Large brought quite a few folders, more than ten in total, each representing a missile ship girl who registered with the guild in Chapter 8.

Xiao Bai flipped the folder in his hand to the middle and began reading the ship equipment data of the missile ship girl recorded inside.

The information shows that this missile ship girl is a missile destroyer with extremely high ship equipment grade. The missiles she launches have a very strong range and destructive power. In addition, she also has long-range positioning and precision guidance capabilities, which are very rare among missile ships. Even based on the panel attributes alone, these luxurious data can be described as "top-notch".

"Wow... these attributes are pretty impressive..."

"The eighth chapter already has such powerful guided vehicles...?"

"This ship's stats, disregarding skills that can't be recorded, seem to be higher than our Changchun's just by looking at the panel data..."

Xiaobai murmured to herself, and she quickly became interested in the ship girl's name. Then she flipped through the folder to the first page and began looking for the ship girl's registration information.

The first page of the folder clearly records the ship girl's name and affiliation.

Three lines were written in black ink on white paper—

Registered ship girl: Jinan.

Ship type: guided missile destroyer.

Affiliated Garrison: Novice Garrison.

"..." Xiaobai remained silent.

Well, it seems that after looking at it over and over again for so long, I was actually looking at my own daughter.

Then it'll be fine.

Xiao Bai closed the folder, somewhat amused and exasperated, and placed it back on the desktop.

Chapter 4009 has never been unlocked?

If it's Jinan, then its luxurious ship equipment isn't surprising...

After all, she's a research ship girl, so it's perfectly normal for her to be stronger than ordinary ship girls.

Chao Da said that the information currently available is for all the missile ship girls registered in the guild in Chapter 8. As the president of the Admiral Guild, Xiao Bai had also submitted some information on missile ship girls before, so finding Jinan's information here is not a problem.

After watching and praising for so long, I realized I was praising my own people, which is a little embarrassing...

Fortunately, no one heard it.

Xiaobai sat up from Chao Yamato's arms, reached into the folder in front of him and searched through it. Sure enough, he found the ship equipment data for Missouri, Changchun, and Anshan.

Well... actually, Jean Bart's information was also included in the documents Xiaobai submitted... but given Jean Bart's constitution, her information was probably forgotten in a corner of the archives long ago, so it's normal that it can't be retrieved.

Xiaobai picked out the information on several of her missile ship girls, moved them aside, and then paid special attention to the information on Anshan.

Anshan's ship equipment data... actually, compared to other ship girls in this batch, it is considered to be one of the more "basic" types. From the perspective of ship equipment grade, Anshan's attributes were already a level lower than those of ship girls like Changchun when the data was first registered.

The reason why Anshan was able to defeat Changchun in actual combat was mainly because her skills were powerful enough to make up for the disadvantages in ship equipment attributes.

However, skills... mere textual information cannot quantify the skills of ship girls. Not every ship girl has skills, and these skills are precisely the biggest trump card of ship girls, which is more or less private, so naturally they are not registered.

After all, if you don't speak up, it's equivalent to having no skills, and the staff responsible for registering the information can't say anything.

Xiao Bai glanced at the information about Anshan briefly, then closed the document.

“Anshan has been upgraded now, and her ship equipment attributes are much better than before. If she were to register again now, her ship equipment would probably be at least as strong as Jinan's…” Xiaobai murmured, “…But let’s talk about it when we have time.”

After taking the data of several missile ship girls from the newbie naval base, only eight folders remained on the desktop.

—This is the number of missile ships "produced" in Chapter 8 today.

It has to be said that the shipment rate is... quite good.

Xiao Bai nodded silently as he reached out and picked up the remaining folders on the table to browse through them.

The names of these missile ships are quite interesting; they sound rather warm and inviting.

Some call it scorching hot...

Some call it being bold...

"Hmm... these newly built missile ships are much more normal. Their attributes are all far inferior to those of Jinan. The best of them are barely on par with the Anshan before its refit..." After looking around, Xiaobai smiled with satisfaction and put the folder back on the desktop. "I'm relieved. I was a little worried that someone would build a missile ship that was more powerful than our naval base. Now it seems that our newbie naval base is still the most powerful when it comes to missile ships."

Xiao Bai's strange competitive spirit was satisfied.

The giant, holding Xiaobai, looked at the back of Xiaobai's head with an expression that said he didn't know what to say.

"Admiral, is the human faction about to enter the missile age?" Super Yamato asked Shiro.

"Well..." Xiaobai thought for a moment, then nodded, "Judging from the current rate at which these missile ships are appearing, it should be about time, but..."

"but?"

"Hmm..." Xiaobai pinched her chin and thought for a while. She turned her head and pressed her face as close as possible to the soft flesh of her large breasts, and whispered, "I still need to confirm one thing."

"what's up?"

"Make a phone call." Xiaobai took out his phone and dialed a number without even looking at it.

The phone screen is huge and looks directly at Xiaobai.

When Xiaobai dialed the phone number, he directly entered the exact number. After the number was completely dialed, the screen immediately displayed the words "Dialing user Lianlian's phone number".

He raised his eyebrows unconsciously.

Is the Admiral calling Admiral Luo Lian...?

Xiao Bai's call was answered very quickly, so quickly that there wasn't even a "beep beep" sound before the person on the other end clicked to confirm.

"Xiaobai?" A calm and clear girl's voice came from the other end of the phone.

"Lianlian, it's me." Xiaobai immediately moved the phone to her ear.

"Yes, I saw it." The calm voice on the other end of the phone was as usual. "Is there some difficulty with Chapter Eight? Has there been any new change in the Black Tower?"

"Eh? Lianlian, you know about the Black Tower?"

“…I’m a top ten admiral after all.” Luo Lian was silent for a few seconds, then said indulgently, “With a forum account from a top ten admiral, I can still receive information about Chapter 8.”

"Ah, that's true." Xiaobai smiled sheepishly. "I thought you were too busy to check the forum, Lianlian."

"I still check it occasionally, but I haven't had a chance to today," Luo Lian's voice replied. "So, is there any news about the Black Tower?"

"There's been a bit of a situation... sigh, but let's not worry about it for now." Xiao Bai, holding his headphones, said to Luo Lian, "Lianlian, did you do any construction today?"

"what?"