Elder brother's garrison

“Lexington, her name is Akashi, she’s a work ship,” Xiaobai introduced to Lexington, standing to the side. “We met in the city where the Prince of Wales lives.”

"And then you brought her back to the naval base?" Lexington asked.

Xiao Bai blushed and smiled sheepishly.

Faced with this tacit attitude, Lexington could only sigh inwardly.

Yeah, this is very basic.

Lexington doesn't dislike novice ship-salvaging; in fact, it's quite a happy thing that fresh blood is constantly joining the naval base.

However, Little White was well-behaved and obedient, and good at everything, except for two things that always surprised Lexington.

That means salvaging a boat at the slightest disagreement, and giving away a wedding ring at the slightest provocation.

Recently, the ways that newbies collect ships seem to be getting more and more creative. From the beginning, they started by collecting ships in a proper manner, but then they started by having other people's ship girls throw themselves at them. Later, it became a contest to find a ship girl to marry, and now even when they go to find a ship girl to take home, they have to bring back a local specialty ship girl.

Lexington felt he needed to quickly get used to Little White's ship-salvaging skills. Otherwise, he'd eventually be scared out of his wits by Little White.

"Speaking of which... Akashi is a work ship, right?" Lexington looked at Akashi, a look of interest on her face.

“Yeah, she’s a work ship, she can even make equipment,” Xiaobai said to Lexington.

"Making equipment?"

"Hmm." Akashi put her hands on her hips. "I can make any kind of equipment."

"That's really impressive." Lexington paused for a moment, then smiled at Akashi while praising her. "Speaking of which, Shiro, you went to a human city, right? Did Akashi stay in a human city before?"

"kindness."

"How did you meet?"

"The Princess of Wales' sisters were quite familiar with Akashi, so the Prince of Wales took them to meet Akashi, and then it just went with the flow," Xiaobai explained.

"The Prince of Wales knows Akashi?" Lexington looked at Akashi in surprise, and couldn't help but sigh that it was indeed fate. "No wonder."

"No wonder!"

"No wonder you lured me back here," Lexington said with a smile.

Xiao Bai scratched his head and smiled sheepishly.

Lexington glanced a few times at the car behind Akashi.

Lexington then realized that no one had gotten out of the car since Akashi got out. And now, upon checking, the car was indeed empty.

"Didn't the Duke of York and King George V come back with you? And what about Washington?" Lexington asked curiously.

"Oh, that's it." Xiaobai nodded. "It's because our car was driving too fast and we left the cars behind us behind."

There are more cars behind us.

"Yes, there are quite a few people." As Xiaobai said this, she quickly went to the passenger seat, took out a few red bills from her wallet, and handed them into the car. "Grandpa, thank you."

"You're welcome." A loud male voice came from inside the car, followed by a dark, shiny, wrinkled face. The driver, an elderly man, smiled kindly at Xiaobai, his face full of wrinkles. "Young lady, I'll be going now."

"Goodbye, Grandpa." Xiaobai bowed to the driver.

The driver chuckled, then the car spun around on the ground, the tires screeching against the pavement, before speeding back the way it came like an arrow launched from a bow.

Lexington watched the car disappear off the edge of the road, and after a while, a series of sounds came from the end of the road again.

Lexington thought to himself, "This is probably the car that Xiaobai was talking about behind me."

That makes sense. Thinking about it carefully, Xiaobai had nearly ten ship girls on this trip, and it was obviously inappropriate to squeeze them all into one vehicle.

"The car behind us is here," Xiaobai said to Lexington, having also heard the sound of a car at the end of the road.

Lexington nodded, then gazed at the end of the road.

At the end of the road, a cloud of dust billowed up, and then, from within the white dust, four speeding taxis suddenly emerged.

Lexington: ? ? ?

The driving skills of these four taxis were noticeably weaker than those of the old man before them. They drove steadily on the highway, without going particularly fast or making any fancy maneuvers. Finally, as they approached the gate, they slowly slowed down and came to a stop one by one at the gate of the naval base.

The door of the lead taxi opened, and the blond Duke of York helped King George V out. Behind them, Washington and South Dakota also quickly got out of the car.

"Lexington!" the Duke of York greeted Lexington with a smile.

"The Duke of York, George V. Long time no see." Lexington greeted the two ship girls she hadn't seen in a long time with squinting eyes, then turned her gaze to South Dakota, "South Dakota's here too."

“He used to live with the Prince of Wales in South Dakota,” Little White said.

"Oh, I see." Lexington smiled meaningfully at South Dakota.

"Hehe, I'm back." South Dakota waved sheepishly at Lexington and then moved toward the little white dog by the door.

Lexington shifted his gaze to the three taxis behind him.

The doors of the three taxis behind opened one after another, and then eight or nine unfamiliar ship girls whom Luxington had never seen before slowly stepped out of the cars.

Lexington opened her eyes wide and looked at the many ship girls in front of her.

"These ship girls are..."

“It’s Akashi’s ship girl, and she came to our naval base with her,” Shiro said.

"Akashi's ship girl?" Lexington was taken aback.

“Akashi was an admiral before, serving as admiral in Linning,” Xiaobai said to Lexington. “In short, after some events, I invited Admiral Akashi and her ship girls to join our naval base.”

Lexington looked at Little White, speechless.

Now, even someone as intelligent as Lexington is finding it increasingly difficult to keep up.

Akashi is both a ship girl and an admiral? She has quite a few ship girls under her command? And she's even established a naval base?

As a result, Xiaobai captured the entire garrison and brought them all back.

Good heavens, Xiao Bai's skills are getting stronger and stronger!

"Xiaobai, then there's no garrison in Linning City, is there?" Lexington asked.

“It’s alright, Mu Yu said they’ll arrange for a new admiral to go there soon,” Xiao Bai said to Lexington with a smile.

Lexington had nothing to say.

There were so many things he wanted to ask that Lexington didn't really know which one to ask.

In the end, Lexington could only pat White's head, chuckle helplessly, and then lead all the ship girls standing at the naval base gate back to the office building.

Inside the office building, in the admiral's room, the once spacious room now seemed rather cramped.

"South Dakota, come here and fill out this form." Lexington tossed a form in her hand toward South Dakota.

South Dakota stepped forward, took the form from Lexington, and then retreated to the sofa to join the three Welsh sisters.

How do I fill out this form?

Just answer whatever they ask.

"It also needs to list the places I've lived in over the past few years."

"Just write down the location of the house you bought."

“How am I supposed to remember all of this? It’s all about this road and that road, and all these different committees, groups, and numbers.” South Dakota said with a long face, “I also have to write down where I work. I’ve been doing odd jobs for three years, which one should I write down?”

“If you don’t know how to write it, just leave it blank, and I’ll write it for you,” the Duke of York said with a smile to South Dakota. “I know where South Dakota lives.”

"Ah, thank you!" South Dakota nodded gratefully to the Duke of York, then handed him a whole sheet of snow-white paper.

"Akashi!" Shiro, who was sitting at the desk, called Akashi over from among the ship girls. "Sign here."

"Oh, okay." Akashi, who was surrounded by her former subordinates, pushed through the crowd to Shiro's side, took the documents from Shiro, and asked, "Is it okay after you sign your name?"

"Okay."

“No problem.” Akashi took the pen from Shiro and quickly signed his name on it.

"Next." After signing her name at Akashi, Shiro called out to the ship girls watching behind her.

The ship girls of the Akashi Naval Base, which were now practically defunct, suddenly made a commotion and quickly pushed out a second ship girl who walked towards Shiro.

After registering, recruiting, assigning residences, and assigning ranks to the ship girls, several hours had passed.

The three princesses of Wales and the South Dakota family, having their own homes, wisely refrained from disturbing Little White during this busy time and quietly left.

Hood and Washington also returned to their homes.

Saratoga and Enterprise told Shiro that they had gone to Bismarck's house to play with Tirpitz.

Bismarck, needless to say, was happily stealing aluminum on his beloved sea at that moment.

Chapter 595 Expansion of the Naval Base

After filling in the information for the last ship girl, Xiaobai breathed a sigh of relief.

"Akashi, these are the keys to the ship girls." Shiro pulled out a keychain from under her desk and handed it to Akashi, who was standing in front of her.

"Oh." Akashi reached out and took Shiro's keychain.

"Go to the dormitory building next door and pick an empty room to stay in," Xiaobai said to Mingshi.

"Oh, I understand." Akashi nodded to Shiro, holding the key.

“We don’t have many empty houses left in our naval base, so we may not be able to guarantee that every ship girl will have her own room. Can we make do for a while?” Xiaobai asked.

“No problem.” Akashi laughed. “Thank you, oh no, thank you, Admiral.”

Xiao Bai nodded and softly called out towards the door, "Is your reputation active?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Reputation, dressed in a maid outfit, walked in from outside the door.

"Renown, could you take Akashi and the others to the accommodation building?"

"Republic understands." Republic nodded, then walked up to Akashi, whispered to her, "Please come with me," and led the dozen or so ship girls in the office away.

After watching all the ship girls leave the admiral's room and their footsteps fade into the distance, Xiaobai slammed the document on the table and stretched deeply.

"Ah, it's over," Xiaobai said.

"You've worked hard." Lexington, who had been helping out, watched as the work came to an end, then walked to the sofa and made a pot of tea for Xiaobai.

Mia, who had been staying by Lexington's side, took a cup of black tea and walked over to Xiaobai at Lexington's instruction, carefully handing the teacup to him.

"Thank you, Mia." Xiaobai took the teacup from Mia's hand, took a small sip, and said, "It's delicious."

Seeing how much Xiaobai enjoyed it, Mia couldn't help but smile with satisfaction on her otherwise tense face.

"Is Mia happy at the naval base?" Shiro asked Mia.

"Mm." Mia nodded.

"Who is Mia living with now?" Xiaobai asked.

“I live alone,” Mia replied.

"Wow." Xiaobai looked at Mia in surprise.

Mia's shoulders trembled at Xiaobai's "Wow!" She looked at Xiaobai pitifully and said, "..."

The look in his eyes was quite obvious.

Mia thought that Xiaobai was unhappy about her living alone.

"Of course, of course!" Xiaobai waved quickly and smiled at Mia. "I thought Mia would live with Lexington, but I didn't expect Mia to live alone."

"I also tried to persuade her to move in with me, but who knew Mia would be so independent," Lexington said with a smile to Little White.

Xiao Bai looked at Mia and smiled silently.

Mia has always given people the impression of being shy and timid. In addition, she is not a ship girl, but equipment belonging to the ship girls. Xiaobai always thought that she was the type who would stick to other people all day and live with them.

I never expected Mia to be so independent.

Xiao Bai, who still doesn't dare to live alone, has developed some admiration for Mia.

"The reason Mia doesn't live at the Lexington house is because Lexington already has a younger sister, right?" Just then, a pleasant voice came from the doorway of the admiral's office.

Xiaobai looked towards the door of the admiral's office and saw Akagi holding the doorknob, smiling faintly at him.

"Hi, I'm here," Akagi said to Shiro.

"Akagi, I'm back," Shiro greeted Akagi.

"Hmm." Akagi walked into the admiral's office, slipped behind Mia, and quietly reached out to pull her into his arms. "Hey!"