Elder brother's garrison

Back then, I had a rather unpleasant first meeting with Sukup. As a result, Sukup would feel weak in the knees every time he saw me afterward, which can be considered one of the stains on my life.

—Hmm, thinking about it that way, we absolutely cannot let this happen again. The incident with Succou's ship equipment sparkling once was enough.

Xiao Bai slowly reached out and gently grasped the girl's hands in front of him.

"Hello, my name is Lu Lin." Xiao Bai introduced herself to the girl in front of her in the gentlest voice possible.

Xiao Bai's friendliness was no joke. The little girl in front of him quickly got used to his presence. She slowly raised her head and looked at Xiao Bai's face again.

“...Mia.”

"Are you called Mia?" Xiaobai asked, somewhat surprised.

The girl named Mia nodded.

"There's an airplane in this world called Mia?" Xiaobai asked curiously.

"Of course not, she's not a ship girl, and there's no need for her name to be like a ship girl's." Mu Yu laughed behind Xiao Bai. "Her aircraft type is F14, a fighter jet."

Xiaobai doesn't know much about airplanes, but as an admiral, he does have at least a basic understanding of the subject.

Xiaobai vaguely remembered that the F-14 was a fighter jet called the Tomcat.

"Oh..." Xiaobai nodded thoughtfully, then looked at Mia's face.

“…Meow.” Mia called out cautiously to Little White.

Xiao Bai couldn't help but laugh.

As for male cats, Mia is a very cute girl, so she should be called a female cat.

"Hello Mia, I'm really sorry about what happened earlier. I overreacted." Xiaobai bowed slightly to Mia and apologized.

Mia looked at Xiaobai cautiously, her stiff body slowly relaxing, and the warm current emanating from her body seemed to be seeping into Xiaobai's body.

"Ah, but I'm an admiral, not a ship girl, so please don't connect to me," Xiaobai quickly explained to Mia.

Upon hearing Xiaobai's words, Mia tilted her head in confusion, but still obediently withdrew the warm current flowing from her body.

Xiao Bai secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

It's not that Xiaobai doesn't want to connect with Mia. In fact, Mia is so beautiful that, purely from the perspective of human nature's collecting desire, Xiaobai isn't really against connecting with Mia. However, the problem is that the Deep Sea Will still resides in Xiaobai's mental world. If someone else's network infiltrates his body, it would be troublesome if the existence of the Deep Sea Will were exposed.

Xiaobai slowly released Mia's hand, then, imitating Lexington, reached out and patted Mia's head: "Nice to meet you from now on."

“…Mmm,” Mia replied softly.

After doing all this, Xiaobai turned her head and looked at Mu Yu standing beside her.

Mu Yu gave Xiao Bai a thumbs up: "Looks like you've reached a consensus?"

"Mm." Xiaobai nodded.

"That's good." Mu Yu coughed lightly as she said this, "Then what's next..."

"Is there anything else?"

"Hmm... Next, I'll talk about Mia."

"Oh..." Xiaobai nodded.

"Well... cough cough, anyway, don't let Mia's seemingly weak appearance fool you. Her performance is absolutely superior to other non-spiritual fighters. After all, living things are always more powerful than inanimate objects, right?" Mu Yu said.

"Ah."

"...Then, strictly speaking, Mia is also a mecha girl created under relatively good circumstances, so in some ways she is even more precious than ship girls."

"..." Xiaobai frowned, instinctively sensing that he had been set up.

“…Ahem.” Mu Yu coughed lightly. “In other words, as the only naval base in the world that currently possesses mecha girls, we still hope that you can regularly provide feedback on Mia’s performance indicators and data changes.”

“No problem.” Xiaobai nodded.

"Yes, and also, Mia actually has to pay," Mu Yu said, nodding.

"...Huh?" Xiaobai was startled.

"..." A slightly embarrassed expression appeared on Mu Yu's face. "Ah, little Bai, you should at least try to understand... Our research department has put in a lot of effort to study Mia, so even if it's just a token gesture, we should at least give back a little something..."

"Huh? Isn't Mia my reward?"

"To be precise, the reward given to Little White Sister is the qualification to possess Mia."

"...How much will it cost?"

"Ahem... I'll just say it's a matter of fate, maybe seven or eight hundred million." Mu Yu laughed awkwardly.

Xiao Bai felt as if a big hash symbol had appeared above his head.

"..." Xiaobai remained silent.

"Little White Sister, don't be silent! Look, Mia is our only masterpiece since the end of our time, the only one to have achieved success in anthropomorphic technology outside of ship girl technology. There's only one in the whole world! It only costs seven or eight hundred million, which is practically free compared to the research funding! If it weren't for Little White Sister, even if someone had seven or eight billion, they might not be able to have her!"

Xiao Bai was indifferent.

"Governor Mu Yu".

"what?"

"I don't know if it's just my imagination, but..." Xiaobai looked at Muyu with suspicion, "Do you want to take back the merit points that were just awarded to me?"

Mu Yu paused for a moment, then his face turned completely red.

—Hmm, it seems you're right.

Chapter 565 Fourth Generation

In fact, when the leaderboard was refreshed, Xiaobai saw that the ship equipment of the Deep Sea Dean was worth 100 million merit points, and he also felt that the merit points were a bit too much.

—Admittedly, considering only its hidden value, the Deep Sea Dean's complete ship equipment is not worth the merit points.

However, the Admiral's Guild has never awarded so many merits at once, and logically speaking, they wouldn't give out so many merit points.

Xiao Bai sighed as he looked at Mu Yu's flushed face.

"Did you give me my 100 million merit points, Mu Yu?" Xiao Bai asked.

Mu Yu smiled apologetically at Xiao Bai.

"Did I give you too much?"

"Um... well, how should I put it..."

"Putting a price tag on Mia is very unfair to her," Xiaobai said to Muyu. "Like the ship girls, she doesn't have a price."

"Uh... I'm so sorry." Mu Yu looked apologetic.

Xiaobai turned to look at Mia beside her.

When Mia first saw Xiaobai's silence after hearing her price, she thought he thought she was too expensive and didn't want her anymore, and her face turned pale with fright. Now, hearing Xiaobai plead for her, she was incredibly moved.

Mia looked at Xiaobai with tears in her eyes and a deeply moved expression.

Xiao Bai smiled gently at Mia, comforted her, and then turned her gaze back to Mu Yu.

"Little White Sister, I'm also desperate! I thought it was a rare opportunity to show off, so I impulsively gave Little White Sister 100 million merit points to boost my image! But after giving them to her, I slowly realized the value of 100 million merit points. I'm really desperate!" Mu Yu pounced at Little White's feet with a thud, pretending to pounce on Little White's thigh.

Xiao Bai took a step back, dodging Mu Yu's salted fish pounce.

"Little White Sister! Your garrison isn't short of money, how about we discuss returning a small portion of these merit points? One hundred million merit points, giving them to you like this could cause a lot of trouble!" Mu Yu fell to the ground, thrashing around like a child.

Suddenly, all sorts of shady theories emerged, such as inflation, the negative impact on other garrisons, and the sudden increase in distant relatives.

Xiao Bai sighed helplessly.

"How much do you want to recycle?" Xiaobai asked.

"Eighty million merit points will do!" Mu Yu was rolling on the ground a second ago, but he stopped abruptly and nodded quickly to Xiao Bai.

“Fifty million,” Xiaobai said.

"...Seventy-five million!" Mu Yu knelt on the ground and said sincerely to Xiao Bai.

“Fifty million,” Xiaobai said indifferently.

"...Seventy million!"

"Fifty million." Xiaobai remained indifferent.

"...six...six..."

"Fifty million, not a single merit can be more," Xiaobai said.

"Little White Sister, do you even know how to bargain?!" Mu Yu cried, "What if I just take Mia back with me like this?!"

"Impossible." Xiaobai shook her head, then glanced at Mia beside her and chuckled softly, "If you don't give Mia to me, I'll just snatch her away."

Mu Yu covered her face, agreeing to Xiao Bai's unreasonable terms with a look of despair.

Although Xiaobai is simple-minded, after spending a lot of time with Bismarck, he sometimes picks up a little bit of Bismarck's habits. However, it must be said that Bismarck's methods are indeed quite direct and efficient.

The process of redeeming merit points was very simple, and Mu Yu seemed to have prepared in advance. He simply pulled out a card reader from behind his back.

After giving Mu Yu a helpless look, Xiao Bai took out the platinum card that Ringo had just given her and handed it to Mu Yu.

Mu Yu took Xiao Bai's card and swiped it lightly in the card reader, thus concluding the handover of merits.

It's worth mentioning that Mu Yu specifically explained to Xiao Bai that since the event had ended and the leaderboard was fixed, even if Mu Yu deducted 50 million of Xiao Bai's event merits, the more than 100 million merits of the newbie garrison on the outside leaderboard would not change.

Anyway, Xiaobai won't thank Muyu.

"Is there anything else?" Xiaobai asked Muyu, holding Mia's hand.

"It's alright, it's really alright this time." Mu Yu waved and smiled at Xiao Bai.

"Don't do such bad things again next time," Xiaobai said.

Mu Yu knew that Xiao Bai wasn't talking about his own merit points being collected, but rather about opening a casino with Luo Lian. He nodded: "Luo Lian's merit point increase this time will probably be noticed by the higher-ups of the Admiral's Guild. After they find out where her merit points came from, they'll probably add a rule starting from the next event that Admirals are not allowed to trade event merit points during events."

"Oh." Xiaobai nodded.

"But it's okay. Luo Lian only chose the wrong path this time because the strength of her naval base couldn't keep up with the event. Who knows what her naval base will be like by the next event?" Mu Yu was surprisingly confident about this.

Xiao Bai didn't say anything more to Mu Yu. After saying goodbye to Mu Yu, she led Mia out of the warehouse as if she were running away from a creepy uncle.

Xiaobai left the warehouse, where Lexington and the others had been waiting for a long time.

"Little White, you're out?" Lexington smiled at Little White, then quickly shifted her gaze to Mia, whom Little White was holding hands with. "And this... is?"

“Lexington, I’m out.” Little White smiled at Lexington, then pulled Mia to stand in front of Lexington. “Her name is Mia.”

"Mia?" Lexington was slightly surprised for a moment, then reached out and patted Mia's head. "So the reward is a new ship girl sister?"

Mia was being stroked by Lexington, and she looked at Lexington with a strange look in her eyes.

Xiaobai touched her like that just now, and Mia doesn't dislike that kind of contact.

"No, she's not a ship girl, she's a mecha girl," Xiaobai explained, saying to Lexington, "She's an airplane."

"An airplane?" Lexington was taken aback.

"Yes, an airplane." Xiaobai then smiled at Mia and said, "Mia, this is Lexington, my aircraft carrier ship girl. Would you like to become her partner?"

Mia blinked, glanced at Little White, and after getting Little White's permission, reached out and touched Lexington's hand.

Lexington did not dodge.

However, the next second, something surprising happened to Lexington. Lexington felt a warm current rush from Mia's hand, quickly seeping into her body and soon merging into her ship equipment.

Lexington instinctively withdrew his hand and stared blankly at Mia.

"Did the connection work?" Xiaobai asked from the side.

Mia nodded.

"Little White... what's this?"

"Mia is the equipment of the ship girl, she's a fighter jet," Xiaobai explained.

As soon as Xiaobai finished speaking, Lexington, Hude, and Akagi were all taken aback.

All the ship girls looked at Mia with eyes that seemed to have seen something impossible, causing Mia to involuntarily take several steps back and shrink behind Shiro.

Then, a feeling of being pressed against by a big, soft white rabbit appeared behind Xiaobai.

Although Mia isn't much taller than Xiaobai, she's definitely much bigger and stronger than Xiaobai.

"She's a fighter jet?!" Akagi, standing to the side, covered her mouth in surprise as she looked at Mia.