Elder brother's garrison

After leaving the Deep Sea Lolita's Will, Xiaobai tried many times to enter the spiritual world to chat and have a heart-to-heart talk with the Deep Sea Will. Unfortunately, ever since Xiaobai was pushed out of the spiritual world by her last time, the Deep Sea Will, as the core of the spiritual world, directly blocked the door to the spiritual world and refused to let Xiaobai enter again.

Of course, as the highest authority in the spiritual world, the Deep Sea Will couldn't stop Xiaobai from entering. If Xiaobai really wanted to go in, the Deep Sea Will couldn't stop her. However, Xiaobai also felt that if she really did that, things would become quite awkward and difficult to handle, so she let the Deep Sea Will block the door and prevent her from entering.

Fortunately, although the Deep Sea Will doesn't talk to or meet with you, it still does its job well. The carrier-based aircraft floating next to Xiaobai at this moment is controlled by the Deep Sea Will.

Following behind Xiaobai, Sukhbaatar looked in the direction Xiaobai was pointing and asked, "How much further is it?"

"We'll see it in another hour or two," Xiaobai said, taking out a straw hat from her ship's equipment space and putting it on.

Just as Xiaobai said, a dozen minutes later, Sukhbaatar indeed saw the white city walls in the direction Xiaobai pointed out.

The human city seemed to have changed during the time Xiaobai was away, becoming even more lively. When Xiaobai and Sukhbaatar arrived at the human city, it was just as the city gates were opening. A large number of residents with bright smiles and satisfied expressions walked out of the city gates and worked enthusiastically.

Xiaobai stowed away his carrier-based aircraft and walked to the city gate with Sukhbaatar. Amidst the surprised expressions of the goalkeeper they had met before, they quickly surged into the crowd and entered the city.

As soon as Sukhbaatar entered the city gate, she was immediately drawn to the large number of people and the lively atmosphere. Her little face was flushed as she followed behind Little White, looking around and making sounds of amazement.

Xiaobai initially led Sukhbaatar to the place where she and Linglan had previously lived. However, when she arrived, she found that her temporary lodging was already overcrowded. Numerous residents surrounded the house, each looking at it with pious expressions, and wreaths and fruits were piled up in circles around the entrance.

"Hey, why are there so many people here?" Xiaobai exclaimed in surprise, looking at her house with a puzzled expression.

"Is that your home?" Sukhbaatar asked the little white dog, holding the back of his head.

“Yes, my friends are inside too,” Xiaobai explained.

“Oh…” Sukhbaatar closed his eyes, sensed for a moment, and then shook his head at Little White. “There’s no one in the house.”

"Nobody's here?" Xiaobai frowned and thought for a while.

Looking at the current state of her room, she felt that Linglan should be quite safe, after all, the door was piled with small gifts, and it seemed that people in the city were quite welcoming to her.

—Perhaps it's similar to the situation in modern times where a big star's residence is discovered by fans?

Thinking about this, Xiaobai calmed down a bit. Since that was the case, there was no need to worry about Linglan's safety. Xiaobai decided to go directly to the open space in the city center and hand over the construction device to Muji and the others.

So Little White led Sukhbaatar to the city center and to the gate.

The young man in front of the gate watched a familiar figure wearing a straw hat slowly approach him, and as if some memory had been stirred up, his eyes gradually brightened.

"Um, I am..."

"Oh ho..." Before Xiaobai could finish speaking, the young man guarding the gate blushed and stood to the side, pushing open the gate in a gesture of inviting her in.

“…Thank you.” Xiaobai bowed his head and thanked her, then led Sukhbaatar inside.

"What did you do to him?" Sukhbaatar asked Xiaobai with some curiosity after walking in.

"...Ah, I guess I startled him." Xiaobai remembered the time she had broken his pistol.

Amidst Sukhbaatar's loud laughter, Xiaobai took off his straw hat and walked to the center of the open space with an embarrassed look on his face.

Just as Xiaobai had predicted, in the middle of the open space, the staff, led by the current city lord Muji, were engaged in a heated discussion around a piece of destroyer deck equipment. Even Linglan, wearing the same white lab coat as Muji and the others, stood beside them, looking unsure of what to say.

The sight of Shiro and Sukhbaatar entering was quickly noticed by Suzuran, who was watching the staff's lively discussion.

When Linglan saw Xiaobai, whom she hadn't seen for a long time, a smile immediately appeared on her face. She took long strides and ran directly towards Xiaobai.

"Lu—Lin—!" Linglan rushed to Xiaobai's side like a gust of wind, picked her up in one go, and rubbed her face against her cheeks. "You're finally back!"

"Sister Linglan, I'm back." Xiaobai smiled and said to Linglan, "How have you been doing in the city?"

"Oh my, I'm so nervous! Ever since you left, I've been used as a shield. There are always people crowding around my door, one after another looking for me. I can't even sleep properly. I'm just a country girl, I really don't know how ship girls are made. Why won't they listen?" Suzuran complained to Shiro with a bitter expression.

"Hahaha—" Xiaobai laughed.

It seems that Suzuran is taking the blame for the creation of ship girls.

Just then, the staff members, including Muji, who were discussing ship equipment, saw Xiaobai return and excitedly gathered around: "Miss Lu Lin! Miss Lu Lin! You're finally back!"

Muji looked like he hadn't slept well lately, with very dark circles under his eyes. When he saw Xiaobai return, his excitement was palpable: "Miss Lu Lin, the ship girl blueprints you gave us are simply amazing, incredible! Although we and our predecessors have spent decades, even more than ten years, researching the prototype unit, we still deeply feel that even in terms of mecha technology, the precision of the blueprints you gave us, Miss Lu Lin, far surpasses our own!"

"Ah, I'm so glad you like it." Xiaobai smiled at Muji.

"And... uh, Miss Lu Lin..." Muji's face showed a hint of embarrassment as he said this, "Regarding the research on the blueprints, it will take us several more months to fully understand them, but could you perhaps provide the ship girls'..."

"You need the technology to create the humanoid body part, right?" Xiaobai asked Muji.

"Yes, yes, yes!" Muji nodded.

Xiao Bai's previous departure from the city was precisely for this purpose. She smiled at Mu Ji, then took a few steps back, clearing a space.

Then she reached out her hand, and with a loud bang, a black machine suddenly appeared and crashed into the open ground in front of her.

"I'm sorry, I don't know exactly how the ship girls' humanoid forms are constructed either, but this is the ship girl construction device. If I give you this, you should be able to figure out the ship girl construction technology." After taking the construction device out of the ship equipment space, Xiaobai said to Muji and the staff.

Kiji and the staff stared in surprise at the construction equipment in front of them: "Miss Ship Girl, what is this?"

"The ship girl construction device," Xiaobai said, explaining, "is a tool that turns raw materials into ship girls by itself."

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Chapter 484 Super Construction Device!

The construction device was a single, solid piece, looking hard and black, completely unlike the high-tech product with dazzling special effects of various colors that others had imagined. When Xiaobai took it out of the ship's equipment space and put it on the ground, it was like a small ship's equipment, slamming into the ground with a bang and kicking up a cloud of dust.

"Construction device!" After confirming the construction device's true form from Xiaobai's words, Muji became incredibly excited. He stared wide-eyed at the construction device in front of him with ecstatic joy, then shook his head back and forth between Xiaobai and the construction device.

As a researcher, he fully understands what a complete ship girl construction device means.

That's a core product that encapsulates the entire ship girl technology. As long as we can disassemble it and deduce the manufacturing method, even if we can't understand the sophistication of ship girl technology for a while, we can still mass-produce ship girls to a certain extent.

Kiyoshi deeply understands the combat power of Shiro, a ship girl. If he could create a hundred, no, even just ten ship girls with combat power of Shiro's level, it would be more than enough to protect this city.

"Should we dismantle this?" Linglan was well aware of the value of the construction device Xiaobai had set up. She frowned and looked at Xiaobai hesitantly. "Lu Lin, is this thing very precious?"

"Hmm..." Xiaobai nodded, "Just one."

After saying this, Xiaobai looked at Sukhbaatar, who nodded to Xiaobai, indicating that she was right.

"Just one..." Kijiro overheard Suzuran and Shiro's conversation. He paused, his heart sinking. "Miss Ship Girl, are there really no other Ship Girl construction devices?"

"There really aren't any left," Xiaobai replied.

This construction device was Sukhbaatar's hometown. Xiaobai still remembers the sunken bow of the ship. There was only one construction device on the entire deck. She didn't have time to go inside the ship to see anything else. Later, the ship broke down. Xiaobai didn't know the origin of that strange ship, so she thought that there probably wouldn't be a second construction device.

After listening to Xiaobai's words, Muji's expression quickly turned serious.

Disassembling the construction device and deducing the construction blueprints is not inherently wrong. To save humanity and create a large number of ship girls, this is something that must be done sooner or later. However, there are always special circumstances. What if the construction device is disassembled and its technological content is so overwhelming that Kiji and the others cannot understand the high technology it contains? If they cannot copy other construction devices in a short time and cannot assemble it back together, then this perfectly good construction device will be lost.

As soon as he thought about it, the pressure became immense, pressing down on Muji. His gaze shifted from looking at the construction equipment in front of him as a tempting prospect to seeing it as a hot potato.

He was to either become a hero who saves humanity or a sinner who destroys it. This immense pressure surged over him like a tidal wave, causing beads of sweat to instantly stream down Muji's face.

What Muji was thinking, the other staff members naturally thought of as well, and at this moment they all wore rather troubled expressions.

"What's wrong?" Xiaobai asked, noticing that Muji and the others didn't seem happy and instead had serious expressions.

"Afraid of taking the blame, huh?" Sukhbaatar said, holding the back of his head. "Afraid of ruining the construction device, huh?"

Sukhbaatar spoke quite directly, and after hearing this, Muji and the staff all turned red like eggplants.

"Ah, Lu Lin, who is this little girl?" Linglan also noticed Sukhbaatar was with Xiaobai at this moment.

"This is Lady Sukhbaatar, Lady Sukhbaatar. She's also a ship girl," Xiaobai introduced, raising her hand.

"Are you a ship girl too?" Suzuran asked in surprise, looking at Sukhbaatar.

“Yeah, right.” Sukhbaatar chuckled. “But I’m an intelligence type, you know. I don’t fight.”

Sukhbaatar's statement was obviously false. At most, she was just a mysterious person who knew a little more, but she was not an intelligent ship girl at all. She was more like a lazybones. Her statement was just a way to maintain neutrality and avoid battle.

"Can you build construction devices?"

"Nope."

Lily of the Valley looked dejected.

After a strange silence and intense deliberation by the staff, Kiyoshi finally sighed helplessly: "Miss Ship Girl, the significance of this construction device you brought is far too great. I need to think about it for a while."

"Okay, sure." Xiaobai nodded.

Compared to Alexander's Muji, Xiaobai didn't seem to care about this issue at all.

It's only a matter of time before humans create a ship girl construction device. In other words, it's unlikely that this construction device will be unable to deduce the blueprints. At most, it will only hold up these technologically backward workers for a short while. Human progress is very fast, and it's estimated that they will be able to copy the construction device soon.

"Miss Ship Girl, in short, can we use this construction device to build one or two ship girls first?" Muji asked.

"Okay, sure." Xiaobai nodded.

With Xiaobai nodding, Muji and the others breathed a sigh of relief, relieved of their worries.

Under the watchful eyes of Kiji and the others, Shiro moved the construction device to the factory at the end of the open space, the same factory that had once been used to produce Unit-01.

There were originally quite a few workers in the factory, but after the mecha technology was abolished, the workers were all sent back to the city. The information about the deep-sea technology that was leaked earlier was also leaked by them.

Anyway, there's no one in the factory right now, it's empty, but there's no problem with the construction equipment to house the ship girls.

“Building ship girls requires a lot of resources. I saw them in the resource depot before.” As everyone gathered around the construction device, Xiaobai turned to Muji beside him and said, “We need fuel, ammunition, steel, and aluminum. Oh, and deep-sea metal.”

"Deep-sea metal?"

"Deep-sea metal is a special metal that contains a high amount of energy that may appear on the bodies of deep-sea amphibious ships after they are sunk," Xiaobai explained.

"...We haven't sunk a single Abyssal vessel yet." Kiji lowered his head in shame. "So we don't have any Abyssal Metal."

“I have one.” Lily of the Valley next to Xiaobai tilted her head back, reached into her pocket with a smug look, and pulled out a dark metal object.

This metal was obtained when she dealt with the deep-sea ship that had been taken to the center of the village. Because the village lacked tools to utilize deep-sea metal, Suzuran had been carrying it with her, and she never expected to use it today.

"Thank you so much." Muji looked at Suzuran and Shiro with a grateful expression.

He truly felt that the two people in front of him were angels. Not only were they beautiful and gentle, but they also brought precious ship girl technology and did not look down on their own side for being technologically backward. They extended a selfless hand to help the city.

In an era where everyone is indifferent and unable to even protect themselves, such warm-hearted people are extremely rare.

The advantages of Muji being the city lord came into play at this time. He quickly organized people and sent a large amount of resources to the factory, which soon piled up into four small mountains.

"Want more?" Muji asked Xiaobai.

"No need, that's enough," Xiaobai said.

"How about a little more?" Muji tentatively probed at the edge of Xiaobai's body.

"More resources aren't necessarily better when it comes to building ship girls," Xiaobai said with a smile.

Muji nodded meekly.

This city still has the resources accumulated from decades of human hard work, enough to create ship girls. What this city lacks is not resources, but construction equipment.

Xiao Bai opened the construction device, then directly used the highest-cost large ship formula, and placed the deep-sea metal into the construction device under everyone's watchful eyes.

Xiao Bai stood there for a moment, thought for a while, and then took a few steps back.

"What's wrong?" Linglan, who was on the other side of Xiaobai, asked Xiaobai curiously.

"Ah... if we're talking about building ship girls... then Suzuran-neechan, you should do it." Shiro said to Suzuran with a smile.

"what happened?"

"I've had terrible luck; I haven't been able to build a ship girl yet," Xiaobai sighed sadly. "Sister Suzuran, why don't you give it a try?"

“Can construction fail?” Lily of the Valley was stunned.

"Sure." Xiaobai walked behind Linglan and pushed her towards the construction device.

Lily was pushed in front of the construction device and, following Shiro's instructions, continued the operation she was halfway through.

With a bit of nervousness, Linglan pressed the button that symbolized the start of construction. With a snap, the scattered outer shell of the construction device slowly came together and began to fluctuate in a fairly regular manner.

“…Building ship girls is never a failure.” Sukhbaatar looked at Shiro and thought for a while before slowly saying this to her.

"Huh?" Xiaobai looked at Sukhbaatar.

“The construction of the device will not fail,” Sukhbaatar explained once again.

"Won't it fail?"

“No way.” Sukhbaatar looked at Little White with a puzzled expression. “I’m actually a little curious why your construction device might fail.”

Xiao Bai turned his head in surprise toward the construction device in front of him.

—The future construction device will indeed fail many times, making the chance of constructing a ship girl extremely low. But Sukhbaatar claims that the ship girl construction device will not fail?

Could it be that the copies made by humans later based on the construction device were degraded versions or something similar?

Xiao Bai thought about it and felt it was very likely, then his eyes lit up.

Now that you mention it, this construction device in front of us is very likely a super construction device, perhaps the kind of member-exclusive version that guarantees a gold item in every ten pulls and an SSR!