Elder brother's garrison

This girl just came into the yard yesterday to give me a heads-up, and many of the ship girls on my side think she looks familiar.

"Lexington, what's wrong?" Xiaobai turned around and looked at the two ship girls beside her.

"It's nothing, someone's just watching you," Lexington said with a smile.

"Who's watching?"

"A little angel."

"Hahahaha." Xiaobai couldn't help but laugh again. Lexington's words have been getting more and more interesting lately.

After discussing the mission with Ringo, Shiro took the task Ringo had given her and led the ship girls away from the second floor.

After Xiaobai and the others had completely left the second floor, Luo Lian walked out from behind Yan Zhan in the corner.

She touched her chest, still somewhat shaken: "That was close..."

I've long been a master at spying, and my method of completely turning myself into an ordinary person is already at a master level. I never expected that I would almost be defeated by a blue-haired ship girl today.

It seems I still have room for improvement.

Luo Lian reflected on her actions for a moment before saying to Warspite, "Little White's gone, let's go get our missions too."

Then Luo Lian saw the unhappy face of the war-weary man.

"Hmm? What's wrong with you, War-weary?" Luo Lian asked.

"Admiral, why won't you accept the mission given to you by the Governor-General?" Warspite asked, quite puzzled.

Chapter 435 Is one million so difficult?

Warwear couldn't understand why she, as the admiral, would reject the governor's suggestions, refuse the missions tailored specifically for her by the governor, and give up such a high-value reward to compete with ordinary admirals, where she might not even be able to get something of higher value than the missions directly issued by the governor.

No matter how you look at it, this is a suggestion that even a fool wouldn't refuse, right?

Seeing the war-weary look on her face, Luo Lian thought for a moment and then nodded: "Yes, it was my fault."

"Uh... I admitted my mistake a little too quickly..."

"I should have explained things to Warspite sooner," Luo Lian said to Warspite. "I'm sorry."

"what?"

"I don't think I've told you about the battle plan yet. That's really not good. As my ship girl, I should have shared my plan with you sooner. I'm really sorry. I'm used to acting alone and don't have the habit of explaining things to those around me..."

"Huh? Is this where I apologize?" Warspite was taken aback.

Luo Lian paused for a moment, then nodded to Warspite: "Yes, this is it."

Looking at Luo Lian's sincere and apologetic expression, Warspite felt embarrassed: "No need to apologize, aren't we family..."

To be honest, Warspite hadn't spent much time with Luo Lian. It had only been less than a week since she stepped out of the construction device, and there were still many things they hadn't worked out together. She had initially thought Luo Lian was the type who was highly capable, bold, and arrogant, but she hadn't expected Luo Lian to be so decisive and direct in admitting his mistakes.

—After being apologized to by Luo Lian, Yan Zhan even felt like he was being too dramatic.

Luo Lian smiled at Warspite, then led Warspite toward the center of the second floor: "Actually, the plan isn't particularly detailed. I just made a simple sketch in my mind. I'll have to think of something else when I need to use it."

It seems that Luo Lian is really going to tell Warspite everything about her plan.

“Actually, when we entered the temporary sea city, the rough plan was already in place, and there were procedures for what needed to be done at each stage,” Luo Lian said. “Do you remember what I said when I entered the city?”

"The one about a small goal of one million?"

"Ah."

"...Wasn't that something we said on the spur of the moment?"

“No, I did consider this plan before entering the sea city. One million merit points is indeed achievable,” Luo Lian said.

Warspite gently opened its mouth and looked at Luo Lian.

“Setting goals without a plan is just empty talk, isn’t it?” Luo Lian retorted.

"Uh... I'm sorry..." Warspite lowered his head in embarrassment.

She genuinely believed that her position as admiral was just empty talk.

"...In short, although I was indeed quite surprised by the Governor's suggestion, it conflicts with my plans, and I cannot accept it." Luo Lian said, pointing to the large blackboard in the center of the second floor, "My plans are closely related to this."

"Huh?" Warspite's eyes were full of questions.

As they were talking, Luo Lian had already led Warspite to the center of the second-floor hall.

After Xiaobai left with the ship girls, the hall became much more spacious, and the focus shifted from the group of fairy-like ship girls to Ringo.

The large blackboard in the center of the second floor is not a conventional teaching blackboard. It is much larger than a teaching blackboard, resembling a wall. Various task details and rewards are written on it in bright paper and printed font, giving it the feel of a mercenary hunter receiving a commission in a fantasy novel.

Luo Lian searched through them for a while and took down more than a dozen commissions.

"Admiral, Admiral! One for each person!" Warspite hurriedly reminded Luo Lian in a low voice.

"It's alright." Luo Lian didn't mind at all. She just smiled at Warspite and then pulled down seven or eight more commissions.

Leaving aside the quantity of the commissions Luo Lian pulled down, they were all high-level tasks with decent rewards but no less difficult ones. They were like chewing gum stuck to a blackboard, the kind that wouldn't be removed for seven or eight days after they were applied.

Many of the admirals around Luo Lian cast intriguing glances at her.

Luo Lian gathered all these tasks and put them in her hands, then gently counted them: "Twenty-six... Hmm, that's enough."

Luo Lian held the task sheet in her hands and walked straight towards Lin Qing, who was sitting not far away.

The governor also has the responsibility of helping to confirm the tasks of ordinary admirals.

Luo Lian walked up to Lin Qing and placed a thick stack of papers on Lin Qing's desk: "I want to take these missions."

Ringo looked down at the paper that Luo Lian had slapped on the table: "An admiral can only take on one mission at a time."

Hearing Ringo's predictable reply, the admirals watching Ringo and Luo Lian around them looked on with amusement.

You can only claim one of these tasks after they've been pulled down. Don't expect the staff to put the rest back on their own. Whoever pulled them down has to put them back on their own.

That would have been incredibly embarrassing.

“Yes, I know.” Luo Lian nodded, then reached into her clothes, took out her admiral’s certificate, and handed it to Ringo. “I have a team. This time, we registered as a team. There are a total of twenty-six admirals in my team, including myself.”

Upon hearing this, the admirals who had previously wanted to watch the spectacle were taken aback.

"What is your team name?" Ringo asked.

"Newbie Garrison Commander," Luo Lian said.

Ringo was also taken aback, but as an admiral, she was still quite efficient. Ringo took Luo Lian's admiral's certificate, looked at a stack of work sheets for a while, and then slowly nodded: "Okay."

Since it's a team, there's no way around it. The rule is that one admiral takes one mission at a time, so there's no problem with twenty-six admirals coming to take twenty-six missions.

"Thank you." Luo Lian accepted the task and then left the second floor with Warspite.

"Admiral, didn't you only have seven or eight people in your team? When did you get so many?" Warspite asked Luo Lian in surprise as they walked.

"I'll slowly build the team over the next few days. The people I form on the first day will serve as advertising, and it will naturally attract some admirals who want to form teams later. I just need to stand at the entrance of the admiral's guild for a while each day and people will ask me to form teams." Luo Lian said, handing the thick stack of quests in her hand to Warspite. "Warspite, take a look."

War-weary took the task handed to her by Luo Lian.

These missions are indeed fairly rewarding, quite generous, but they are also extremely difficult. For example, they might involve sinking a certain number of deep-sea battleships or aircraft carriers at a certain warship position.

These are all tough nuts to crack, with a level of difficulty that is not low compared to the rewards. If you are not careful, you might even end up damaging the ship girl.

"They're all missions in the same location." It took Warspite a while to notice the commonality among the missions Luo Lian had taken on.

These are all missions in dangerous sea areas far from temporary sea cities. Because of the high danger level, the rewards are correspondingly increased. However, even so, because accidents are very easy to happen there, most admirals don't like to go there.

“Although this place is dangerous, I’ve studied it. If we can open it up and remove the dangers, the mission here will be the most cost-effective,” Luo Lian said.

"Uh, that's true, after all, it's all about living on the edge..." Warspite nodded.

"That's the advantage of teaming up. With nearly thirty admirals combined, the profits we can make from the places we go are far greater than what we would gain individually," Luo Lian explained to Warspite. "If each admiral can only generate a maximum of 100,000 units of value when fighting alone, then by teaming up, we can conquer more challenging seas. When working in new seas, each admiral can generate far more than 300,000 units of value. And even in the most difficult seas, with our sheer numbers, completing the mission shouldn't be a problem."

Warspite stared blankly at Luo Lian.

"To put it simply, it's just a boring plan. There are still many things that need to be modified, and there are many flaws and temporary adjustments that need to be made. But this is the closest we can get to one million merits." Luo Lian finished speaking and smiled at Warspite. "With my abilities, that's all I can achieve."

"Is this why you, Admiral, did not accept the Governor-General's proposal?" Warspite asked.

“Well, the governor’s mission is good, but it’s only my mission after all. I can’t just take more than twenty of them. And even if I did take them, the reward wouldn’t necessarily be more than what I have now. Besides, it’s not a good idea to keep owing favors, is it?” Luo Lian finished speaking and looked at Warspite. “This is my whole plan. I’ve told you everything.”

Warspite nodded blankly.

What Luo Lian said was actually quite simple and clear. It wasn't a complicated plan, and in some ways it was even quite naive and simplistic.

It was just a simple team-up guide, but Luo Lian turned this action into a ruthless contractor hiring free labor to help him get something for nothing.

Luo Lian alone consumed all the value created by the team of twenty-six admirals, far exceeding the value of her working alone.

"Why didn't they think of that?" Warspite murmured.

"Didn't I say before that most people in this world don't know their own true value?" Luo Lian replied with a smile. "I'm just using my knowledge of this to team up with people who don't."

As War-weary looked at Luo Lian, the turmoil in his heart surged like waves that never ceased.

Warspite really thinks this admiral is something else.

Perhaps with a million in her hands, it might really be just a matter of a few days.

Chapter 436 Sounding the Battle Horn

Under the watchful eyes of the onlookers, Xiaobai and the ship girls walked back to the first floor of the Admiral's Guild. The cheongsam-clad waitress followed Xiaobai and the others back to their original positions with a smile on her face.

Actually, the cheongsam-clad waitress had been following Xiaobai and the others, but because there were so many girls around Xiaobai, all of them were like fairy-like ship girls, even the waitress with her excellent looks was ultimately assimilated by the ship girls as a mere accessory and went unnoticed by others.

"Admiral Lu Lin, please take care. Welcome to visit again." The cheongsam-clad waitress showed no resentment at being neglected and still bid farewell to Xiao Bai with the greatest enthusiasm and the brightest smile.

"Goodbye, sister." Xiaobai waved to the waitress.

After saying goodbye, Xiaobai and the others led the ship girls away from the Admiral's Guild and headed towards the beach.

On the way, Xiaobai handed the task that Ringo had given her to Lexington.

As one of the top ten naval commanders, and especially as the world's number one, Xiaobai's missions are all tailor-made for him, each one stronger than ten others.

Deep-sea metal can be obtained from the wreckage of deep-sea ships. Deep-sea metal can be exchanged for merit points. The higher the level of the ship, the higher the chance of obtaining deep-sea metal. Therefore, before the deep-sea event period, admirals will take on different levels of deep-sea ship groups according to their own abilities.

However, the Deep Sea activity period is different. During the Deep Sea activity period, Deep Sea ships are greatly nourished by Deep Sea resentment. Whether it is a battleship, cruiser, or even a destroyer or submarine, the probability of each Deep Sea ship dropping Deep Sea metal is quite high.

To prevent admirals from spending all their time during the Deep Sea event on small ships to obtain Deep Sea metal, leaving large enemy ships untouched, the Admiral Guild issues missions at such times.

In the missions, the price of deep-sea metal dropped by the corresponding mission objectives will be increased to incentivize admirals to conquer advanced deep-sea ship types.

To others, the mission of exchanging twenty pieces of deep-sea battleship metal for three thousand merit points in a certain strategic sea area is already quite cost-effective, but for a newbie, it's still a lot less.

The mission Xiaobai received corresponds to a battleground where he directly faces the deep-sea army. The danger level is quite high for ordinary admirals, but at the same time, the cost-effectiveness is also terrifyingly high.

The deep-sea metals that Xiaobai obtains in the main battlefield can be recycled for more than three times the price.

Lexington took over the task from Xiaobai and glanced at it briefly: "Hmm, the difficulty is about the same as before, but this time it's a little better."

"Which one is better?"

"The task limit has increased from one hundred to one thousand," Lexington chuckled. "That'll take a few days to complete."

"Huh? Doesn't that mean we have to do ten times the work?"

"The reward is ten times the usual amount, which saves us from having to go back to collect missions every day," Lexington said with a smile. "That's a huge benefit."

"Oh..." Xiaobai nodded.

Look how good Ringo is to you.

After Xiaobai left the Admiral's Guild, most of the ship girls who were guarding Xiaobai's yard also came out. Bismarck also took some time to go back to the yard and drag Tirpitz out.

Special ship girls like Abyssal Yamato, Abyssal Musashi, and Richelieu were all left in the yard. With Abyssal Yamato watching over them, Richelieu probably wouldn't be able to escape even if she wanted to.

Under the unwavering gaze of the crowd on the street, Xiaobai followed a long line of ship girls to the beach in the main battlefield area.

The main battlefield beach is vast, with few admirals but a large number of ship girls, mostly girls from a distance. It seems that the admirals who dare to come here are all quite capable.

Xiao Bai glanced around the beach several times.

"Lexington, I'm a little curious, who are the second and third world naval bases?" Xiaobai asked Lexington.

There are many admirals with a large number of ship girls on the beach, but no admiral has even half the number of ship girls as Shiro.

"The world's second and third?" Lexington asked, glancing around the beach. "Looks like they're not here."

"He didn't come?!"

“Yes, that’s right.” Lexington smiled. “Well, there are also those admirals who, after ten years as admirals, are not as energetic as young people. I guess this time, quite a few admirals are just planning to do some necessary work and then leave.”

"Eh... are all admirals this capricious?"