Elder brother's garrison

Having lived for so long, the village chief quickly understood the situation by exchanging a few glances with his granddaughter. So he waved his hand and said, "Never mind, just pretend I didn't say anything."

Although Xiaobai sensed that the village chief and Linglan had clearly misunderstood her, she was still relieved. In fact, this way she could save herself the effort of telling fewer lies, which was good.

“…That’s life here. You always have to face a lot of life and death separations. Even I, an old man, don’t know if I’ll see the sun rise tomorrow when I go to sleep.” The village chief muttered to himself for a while with deep feelings, then raised his head. “Young lady, if you don’t mind, you can stay here.”

"Thank you, Grandpa," Xiaobai said gratefully.

As mentioned before, people need resources to live. Although Xiaobai has super combat power thanks to the ship equipment, he is still too strong to directly mold soil into food or conjure up any daily necessities out of thin air. He still needs the help of the people living here.

Besides, the resources inside the ship's equipment are limited, so we have to use them sparingly.

"Thank you, Grandpa!" Seeing that Xiaobai and the village chief had reached a consensus, Linglan scratched her head and chuckled.

"What are you thanking me for, you brat?" The village chief snorted when he saw Linglan's appearance, his wrinkles crinkling up as he couldn't help but laugh. "You should really worry about yourself."

"What do you care? I'm very capable!"

"You went to the beach again, didn't you?"

"Uh……"

"Going to such dangerous places every day will only lead to trouble sooner or later."

"If I hadn't gone there today, I wouldn't have discovered Lu Lin."

"You're sharp-tongued," the village chief shook his head. "I can't out-argue you, I can't out-argue you."

"Hehe—" Linglan walked behind the village chief and punched his shoulders with her two little fists. "Don't worry, I'm safe."

"You're so old, yet you still act like a man and fool around every day. When are you going to have a child with one of the young men in the village so I can see it?"

"I'm still young, there's no rush," Linglan said, feigning reluctance.

“You’re still so young. When your grandma was your age…” The village chief paused, seemingly remembering something unpleasant. He shook his head, looked at Xiaobai, and smiled apologetically. “Little girl, I’m sorry you had to see this.”

Xiao Bai waved his hand.

I wouldn't say it's laughable, but Xiaobai was secretly incredibly envious.

Normally, she hadn't noticed it, but after transmigrating to a time-gap era, Xiao Bai's longing for her parents suddenly increased a hundredfold. Now, watching the interaction between the grandfather and granddaughter in front of her, Xiao Bai had no more of a "spectator" mentality.

After talking with the village chief for a while, Linglan told him to continue resting on the ground. After comforting the village chief, Linglan felt relieved and took Xiaobai's hand, walking towards the center of the village.

Although the log cabins were simple and fragile, they were built quite quickly. The men in the village were all skilled at this, and after clearing away the wreckage from the previous attack, they began the rapid reconstruction work.

"Lu Lin, we all build our own houses here. Do you know how to build a house?" Linglan asked as she walked with Xiaobai.

"Uh...no."

"Oh, then I'll help you then, but we'll probably have to squeeze together before our houses are finished," Linglan said to Xiaobai with a smile.

"...Yes, thank you, Sister Linglan."

"Hehe—" Looking at Xiaobai's well-behaved appearance, and thinking about how much precious knowledge she had in her head, Linglan liked Xiaobai more and more.

As they walked, when the two reached the middle of the village, they found that many of the villagers who had left earlier were gathered in the center of the village, discussing something with serious expressions.

In front of them, large chunks of dark, burnt material were piled up, emitting a foul, acrid smell.

"Lily of the Valley, you're here? Come and see!" Some of the onlookers who saw Lily of the Valley and Little White hurriedly greeted them.

Linglan frowned as she looked at the dark mass, her previously relaxed expression turning serious. She pulled Xiaobai to the person's side.

That black object emitting a foul odor was known to almost everyone in the era of the "discontinuity" (or even to those who were not from the "discontinuity").

Linglan walked up to the black object and looked at the huge mass of steel in front of her several times: "Where was this found?"

“Someone carried it back before.”

"..." Lily of the Valley pinched her chin and carefully examined the black wreckage in front of her.

Behind Linglan, Xiaobai's expression also turned strange.

Xiao Bai recognized this lump of stuff; it was all the steel debris from the deep-sea ship's rigging that Xiao Bai had just smashed with his ship's rigging.

Because of the urgency of the situation, Xiaobai didn't think too much before setting up the ship and sinking all the deep-sea amphibious ships that were approaching the village, without even considering the aftermath.

As expected, these items were discovered by others and brought back to the village.

"The Abyssal Fleet was killed?" Linglan murmured, her brows furrowed. "Who did it?"

The deep sea is invincible, completely immune to human technology. Before the end of time, humans exhausted all means and could not harm them in the slightest. Even now, in the minds of humans, those sea monsters have always been invincible species that can only be avoided and cannot be resisted.

But now we can actually see deep-sea remains? This is too fantastical. What kind of species and what methods did they use to kill such an invincible deep-sea creature?

There must be a reason for this unusual situation. Suzuran pondered for a while whether something special had happened today. Perhaps this was the crucial opportunity to defeat the Deep Sea.

However, to Linglan's utter surprise, she turned around helplessly and looked at Xiaobai.

Could it be Lu Lin?

Linglan glanced at Xiaobai's thin arms and legs several times.

Come on, don't be silly, how could she possibly do that?

Lily felt that she must have been out of her mind to even think of such an absurd possibility.

Chapter 458 The Whereabouts of the Deep Sea Will

Linglan's eyes swept over Xiaobai, then she gave him a look that said, "I must have been half asleep today," and turned her gaze back to the deep-sea wreckage in front of her.

"The deep sea's body is very tough, why don't we disassemble it and make weapons or something?" someone asked Linglan.

"That's right! If we can make it into a weapon, maybe we can create equipment that can damage the Deepsea Amphibious Ship!" someone shouted excitedly.

Linglan lowered her head and thought for a while, seemingly feeling that this method wasn't entirely unworkable. Then she slowly nodded to the villagers: "Let's give it a try."

With the deputy village chief's permission, the villagers immediately got to work with great enthusiasm. They grabbed saws and axes and happily ran to the pile of deep-sea debris that had become a small mountain. They began to chop and rub the lifeless deep-sea remains with all their might, as if venting their anger and resentment at being wantonly trampled on. They put in a lot of effort, and sparks flew everywhere from the mountain of deep-sea debris.

Xiaobai stood at the back of the crowd, watching the villagers working diligently. She sighed softly and then turned away.

For a generation of humans who are normally defenseless against the Abyssal Fleet and can only tremble in fear at its invasions, the idea of ​​using the Abyssal Fleet's hull as a weapon to fight it is truly remarkable. This proves that as a highly intelligent species, even though humans have always been the oppressed, they have never given up their desire for victory.

However, as a person from the future, Xiaobai also knew that this behavior was meaningless.

Putting aside the question of how these villagers, armed only with hacksaws and axes, could possibly cut through the deep-sea steel that even missiles couldn't blast apart, even if they did manage to cut it through, it would be useless.

The bodies of the deep-sea amphibious ships are almost entirely composed of deep-sea resentment. When they die, the deep-sea resentment on their bodies dissolves and returns to the sea. At the same time, their hard, impenetrable outer shells soften, disintegrate, and eventually turn into a pile of fragments, leaving only the deep-sea metal that forms their core.

These deep-sea amphibious ships, situated on land, are at a considerable distance from the ocean, so their disintegration is much slower. However, even this slow process is unstoppable. It's estimated that in another half a day, this pile of deep-sea amphibious ships will be reduced to a pile of rubble.

Therefore, using the remains of deep-sea amphibious ships as weapons is simply not feasible.

But Xiaobai couldn't just go up to Linglan and say that wouldn't work, right? That would be too suspicious. Anyway, the worst consequence would just be that they'd wasted half a day's work, which wasn't a big deal, so Xiaobai just watched Linglan and her people get busy.

At this point, Xiaobai's stomach started rumbling.

The sound was very soft, but even the softest sound can be heard. Lily of the Valley, who was holding an axe, turned her head and instantly fixed her gaze on Little White.

Xiao Bai clutched his stomach, his face flushed red.

"Ahem." Linglan put down her axe, reached into her clothes, pulled out a yellow wild fruit, and quietly handed it to Xiaobai.

"...Thank you..." Xiaobai's face was flushed red, her skin felt hot and she was almost dying of embarrassment.

Linglan smiled at Xiaobai, then picked up her axe again and swung it at the deep-sea debris in front of her. Sure enough, such a silly and cute little girl didn't seem like a big shot who could tear the deep sea apart with her bare hands.

Xiao Bai sat down next to her, holding the wild fruit that Lily of the Valley had given her, and took a small bite.

The sweet and sour juice instantly filled Xiaobai's mouth and tongue, making Xiaobai unconsciously hum in agreement.

While it can't compare to modern, meticulously cultivated fruits, this stuff is at least much tastier than seafood soaked in water.

Xiao Bai quickly ate almost all the fruit in his hand.

Not long after Xiaobai finished eating the fruit, it seemed that the impact of the dismantling catalyzed the speed at which the deep-sea resentment returned to the sea. Within a few minutes, after a man shouted, "I've taken it apart!" the wreckage of the deep-sea amphibious ship made cracking sounds, and finally, lightning-like cracks spread out from a wound like the head of a rapidly crawling snake.

Finally, under the watchful eyes of everyone, the wreckage of the Deepsea Abyss Ship let out a mournful roar and collapsed instantly, unable to maintain its shape any longer.

All that remained were a group of villagers, standing there in a daze, holding weapons such as sickles, crowbars, saws, axes, shovels, spears, and Green Dragon Crescent Blades.

"What's going on here?" Linglan stared blankly at the powder scattered on the ground in front of her, holding her axe.

The villagers and Linglan were unaware that this was the state of the deep-sea resentment within the Deepsea Abomination's body after returning to the sea. They looked at each other, their eyes filled with confusion.

Fortunately, people in this era seemed to have a very strong ability to accept things. They quickly accepted reality and then swept up the powder on the ground.

Linglan returned to Xiaobai's side with a small piece of black metal in her hand. She plopped down and looked at the sky with a helpless expression: "Ah, I failed."

"...What a pity," Xiaobai comforted him.

“That thing probably can’t be used as a weapon anymore.” Linglan held up the deep-sea metal in her hand. “It was completely pulverized, and this is all that’s left.”

Xiao Bai wasn't surprised that some deep-sea metal could be found in more than a dozen deep-sea wreckages.

"Ah... that might be the core of the deep sea, maybe there's a lot of usable energy inside," Xiaobai suggested.

“That’s right.” Lily of the Valley sat up abruptly, looking at the deep-sea metal in her hand like it was a treasure. “What kind of energy is in this?”

Xiao Bai thought for a moment and said, "Electricity and heat energy, I guess."

"what is that?"

"..." Xiaobai smiled awkwardly, "Anyway, let's keep it for now."

Xiaobai almost forgot that this is a village without electricity. Even if there are free resources in the deep sea core, Suzuran and the others can't use them.

"Lu Lin, the village you lived in before seemed really impressive, you know so much..." Linglan looked at Xiaobai for a while and unconsciously murmured to herself. Halfway through her sentence, Linglan realized that this was not something she should say to a little girl whose clan had been wiped out, so she quickly covered her mouth apologetically.

It would be best if Linglan didn't bring up this topic. Xiaobai could only remain silent to show his agreement.

"By the way, Lu Lin, was that fruit delicious?" Linglan tried to change the subject.

"It's delicious." Xiaobai nodded.

"Then let me pick a few more for you." Lily of the Valley stood up, covering her embarrassment as she left.

"It shouldn't be a problem to eat more fruit, right..." Xiaobai muttered to herself for a while. To be honest, she did feel like she hadn't eaten enough.

Compared to seafood soup, which seems quite precious in Lily of the Valley, I feel more at ease eating natural products with a sweet and sour taste like fruit, which are readily available in large quantities.

Huh?

Suddenly, as if a brilliant idea had struck Xiaobai.

"Sweet and sour...?" Xiaobai squinted her eyes.

The word "sweet and sour" was like a needle, piercing into Xiaobai's head and tugging out a rather faint memory.

In her hazy memory, a strange taste rushed to the tip of her tongue as Xiaobai squinted, turning into a thick fog, a young snake, icy and lingering.

It was a delicious flavor that was hard to describe. It seemed to have little taste, yet it felt richer and sweeter than anything else.

Xiao Bai was a little curious about this memory; she didn't think she had ever eaten anything so delicious before.

Oh, right! The Will of the Deep Sea?

Suddenly, Xiaobai slapped her thigh, her eyes lighting up. She had been with the Will of the Deep Sea before, and she remembered how she had exerted all her strength to wreak havoc on it, even fainting after her mental world collapsed. When she woke up, she was in Linglan's house.

Could my time travel be inextricably linked to the will of the deep sea?

Xiao Bai thought about it for a while, and the more he thought about it, the more reliable it seemed.

Where is the will of the deep sea now? Little White quickly sat up and looked around anxiously several times.

A strange feeling told Xiaobai that as long as he found the Will of the Deep Sea, he would know everything.

"Lu Lin, I'm back." Just as Xiao Bai was looking around, Ling Lan came back carrying two yellow fruits that were the same as before. "Why are you in such a hurry? You were standing there waiting for me."

Lily clearly sees the little white creature that stands up to search for the will of the deep sea as a child waiting to be fed.

Linglan handed the fruit in her hand to Xiaobai: "Here, eat it."

"Uh... thank you." Xiaobai took the fruit somewhat dejectedly.

Upon closer reflection, it's unlikely that the will of the deep sea could reside in the village.

Seeing that Xiaobai was somewhat disappointed as she took another bite of the fruit, Linglan felt relieved and rejoined the villagers in the effort to rebuild the village.

As for Xiaobai not doing any work, no one blames her anymore. Putting aside the fact that she is still young and not old enough to work, just look at all the knowledge she has in her head. Who would have the nerve to let a girl like her do manual labor?

So Xiaobai stayed in the center of the village and spent a relatively peaceful afternoon.

By evening, although the houses in the village had not yet been built and the roofs had not been installed, at least there was a place to sleep.

Linglan (whom she considers herself) set up two beds in her own home and gave one to Xiaobai to sleep in.

Xiao Bai accepted it with great gratitude.