Elder brother's garrison

"Where is Nia now?"

"Well, this question would normally be charged for, but I'll tell you for Xiao Nia's sake," Guild Master Er Gou said to Xiao Bai. "She's in the first node."

"Huh? Only in the first node?"

"Ah, she's strong enough to go to the third chapter a long time ago, but she's been particularly fond of staying in the first node for the past month or two. When I asked her, she was very secretive and wouldn't tell me. Who knows what she's doing there?" Guild Master Er Gou shrugged and said.

"...We can already go to Chapter 3!" Xiaobai exclaimed in surprise.

"Hmm." President Er Gou nodded. "Do you know her?"

“Good friend,” Xiaobai said.

"Oh, it's amazing that you two became such good friends," President Er Gou said with a smile.

Xiao Bai listened to President Er Gou's speech with some confusion.

Then, Xiaobai noticed that President Ergou was staring at his chest with a smile on his face.

Xiao Bai immediately covered his chest.

"Nia is usually away for a long time, and she probably won't be back for a day or two. In short, just wait for her at the first node," Guild Master Er Gou said with a smile to Xiao Bai.

"I... um..." Xiaobai clutched her chest, tears welling in her eyes as she looked at President Ergou. She had thought for a long time about what to say, but all the words she wanted to say came out as a tragic "um."

"Small breasts have a future too, believe in yourself."

"Waaah—" Xiaobai bowed deeply to President Ergou and then rushed out the door.

One by one, the ship girls waved goodbye to President Er Gou and left her office.

Bismarck was the last to leave.

She looked at President Er Gou and thought for a while.

"If we don't hurry, we won't be able to catch up with your admiral," Guild Master Er Gou reminded him.

Bismarck nodded and then strode out of the office.

After everyone had left the office, President Er Gou yawned softly and leaned back in his chair.

Shortly afterward, the office door was pushed open.

The waitress standing at the entrance of the Admiral's Guild walked in. As soon as she entered, she saw Guild Master Er Gou yawning, and then she sighed.

"Stayed up all night again," the waitress said.

"Take advantage of your youth and endure the hardships," President Er Gou said with a smile.

"You're still young?" the waitress said to Chairman Er Gou with a smile. "Don't you have any idea how old you are?"

“Revealing a lady’s age is quite rude, you know,” President Er Gou smiled at the waitress. “Helena.”

“Okay.” The waitress named Helena shrugged, then slowly walked behind President Er Gou and gently massaged her shoulders. “Admiral.”

"Ok?"

"That child..."

"Lu Yun's sister, of course." President Er Gou tilted his head back and looked at Helena.

"...You've caused me so much trouble right from the start. No wonder you're Admiral Lu Yun's sister." Helena said to President Er Gou with a smile.

"Hahahaha." President Er Gou laughed, "Compared to that idiot Lu Yun, Little White is much better."

"Because Admiral Lu Yun is a man?"

"Because Little White Sister is a girl," President Er Gou said righteously.

"Flirtatious."

"You're the only one in my heart."

"Smooth-talking." Helena laughed, then lightly slapped the forehead of the Second Dog Association President. "What are you going to do about this?"

"Actually, I've wanted to beat him up for a while now," President Er Gou said to Helena. "Let's get him!"

"You've finally made your move, huh? Didn't you say before that 'Oh, with such a powerful background, I can't do it'?"

"How much bigger can it get? I was just too lazy to care before." President Er Gou chuckled as he said this.

"Admiral, you have quite the airs of an official!" Helena laughed.

"Let's return the favor," said President Er Gou, glancing at the small mirror on his desk.

The mirror stood on the table, reflecting the entire face of Chairman Er Gou.

President Er Gou slowly opened his eyes and stared at his golden eyes in the mirror.

Those golden snake eyes were like inlaid in human eye sockets, lacking beauty but possessing a chilling aura.

—Are these eyes really beautiful?

That young girl should know when to stop talking nonsense.

Thinking this, a charming smile immediately appeared on the plump lips of President Er Gou.

The snake-eyed beauty in the mirror also laughed, a dangerous allure emanating from her beautiful, fair face, like a cloud of seductive charm.

"No matter what, I'm still the world's second-best admiral, aren't I?" President Er Gou muttered softly as he spoke to Helena.

Chapter 624 2-1

The beach at the first node is probably the liveliest place among all the nodes in the second chapter.

Under the direct sunlight, the golden sands were filled with admirals, who gathered in twos and threes, chatting or quietly gazing at the sea.

The admirals in the first node are mostly those who have just graduated from the first chapter. Their strength has not yet undergone a complete qualitative change from the first chapter, and they are in a state that is slightly weaker than the average level of the second chapter. Under this condition, most admirals who have just graduated from the first chapter will choose to stay in the first node and hone their ship girls.

A group of admirals who had just graduated from the first chapter were sitting on the beach, looking at the ocean with some nervousness.

The beach was actually quite lively. Although the number of admirals on the beach wasn't as dense as on the beach in the first chapter, it wasn't exactly sparse either. The admirals scattered on the beach would say a few words from time to time, making the whole beach as lively as a tourist attraction.

However, these newly graduated admirals didn't seem to have integrated into the atmosphere of the second chapter. They sat on the beach for a long, long time without saying a word, their brows furrowed. They would occasionally pick up a bottle of mineral water and gulp it down, but the rest of the time they stared at the sea like waiting-for-husband stones.

After a while, just as these admirals were nervously watching the sea, a group of ship girls suddenly slowly walked out from the other side of the sea.

As the ship girls approached, they gradually became clearer to the admirals on the beach.

The admiral who had been gazing at the horizon sighed helplessly the moment he saw the ship girl. His furrowed brows relaxed into a look of disappointment.

He stood up from the beach and walked to the shore.

The group of ship girls slowly arrived on the beach as the admiral walked to the shore.

There was a group of six ship girls. They all had their heads down, looking guilty and ashamed. Their clothes, which had been worn by intense battle, were tattered and torn. Through the tattered strips of cloth, one could vaguely see the ship girls' snow-white skin.

"Admiral, I'm sorry." The leading ship girl said to the admiral in front of her with a sob in her voice.

"They're alright, they weren't seriously injured, were they?" The admiral looked helplessly at his ship girls, his eyes sweeping over their tattered clothes. "Let's go back."

"Admiral, we're sorry, we failed to complete the mission again..." Although the admiral didn't say anything blaming, the ship girls were still quite ashamed. Ignoring the fact that a large portion of their bodies were exposed, they kept bowing to their admiral and apologizing.

"It's alright, they'll improve their training level." The admiral said to the ship girls, looking at the ship girl in front of him whose clothes were almost completely torn. After thinking for a while, he took off his own shirt and draped it over the ship girl in front of him.

"We were doing so well in the first chapter..." The ship girls, heads bowed, complained to the admiral in a tone brimming with frustration, "but here we've been holding you back for so long..."

"This is different from the first chapter after all." The admiral explained to the ship girls, raising his hands for a long time, but not knowing where to begin.

Just when the admiral was in a difficult position, he suddenly heard a light sound of footsteps on sand beside him.

"The Abyssal Fleet in Chapter Two is no longer a sitting duck." Then, a gentle girl's voice came from behind the admiral.

On the beach, it's quite rare for admirals who are strangers to each other to talk.

Upon hearing the girl's voice, the admiral turned around in surprise and looked behind him.

Behind the admiral, a red-haired girl smiled gently at him and his ship girl. Her hands were placed in front of her chest, her ten slender fingers interlaced. An aura of intimacy emanated from her, making her seem like a cute little sister next door.

"Excuse me... who are you, Miss Admiral?" The admiral, still somewhat curious despite being amazed by her beauty, asked the admiral in front of her.

"My name is Nia," the red-haired girl said with a smile to the admiral.

"Oh, Miss Nia, hello..." The admiral bowed to Nia, and was just about to introduce himself when Nia's gaze had already left him.

Nia looked at the six ship girls behind the admiral, whose faces were full of frustration.

"Excuse me, are you the admiral who just came from the first chapter?" Nia asked.

“Uh, yes.” The admiral looked at Nia and nodded. “I just arrived here a week ago.”

“Ah, is that so? Me too. I came here three or four months ago.” Nia said to the male admiral, showing a friendly expression as if she had seen a fellow countryman. “Since you have six ship girls, you must have had a very easy time in the first chapter of the walkthrough.”

"Yes, that's right." The male admiral couldn't help but show a hint of pride when he mentioned this. "It really went by quickly. I finished the first chapter in just two months."

However, the male admiral's smug expression quickly vanished as he thought of his current predicament.

If you had to describe the male admiral's success in the first chapter in one word, it would be "unstoppable." By a stroke of luck, he managed to build six ship girls, which can truly be considered the pinnacle of his life in the first chapter.

With six ship girls deployed, no node in the first chapter seemed difficult to him. He only took two months to complete the first node and the fourth node.

With a strong sense of confidence, he resolutely chose to graduate from the first chapter and move on to the second chapter, thinking that the situation might be exactly the same as he imagined. However, reality gave him a hard slap in the face.

His six ship girls, whom he was so proud of, stayed in the first node of the second chapter for a whole week. Every time they ventured into the sea, they were defeated by the abyssal ships that inexplicably emerged from the sea, and had to return to the beach early.

A week has passed, and this admiral has not only made no progress in the strategy, but has also almost exhausted the merit points he accumulated in the first chapter because the ship girls have been broken and repaired repeatedly throughout the week.

"Is that so? That's really impressive." Nia smiled at the male admiral. "The Abyssal Fleet Operation in the first chapter was sluggish. Increasing the number of ship girls was indeed very helpful in conquering the first chapter's sea area, but the second chapter is different."

"Chapter Two?" The male admiral looked at Nia with some confusion after hearing her words. "Speaking of which, Miss Nia, you just said that the Abyssal Fleet in Chapter Two is no longer a target, but a wooden target? What did you mean by that?"

"Your ship girls' training levels probably haven't increased much, have they?" Nia asked the male admiral.

The male admiral was taken aback, then nodded somewhat embarrassedly.

"If you rush through the first chapter, your ship girls' levels won't be raised in time," Nia said to the admiral. "The Abyssal Fleet in the first chapter is slow and has low attack power, but the second chapter is different. The Abyssal Fleet in the second chapter has begun to understand basic team composition and attacks, and its movements have become more flexible. If you still try to conquer the second chapter by overwhelming it with the number of ship girls, the losses will be very heavy."

"what?"

"Simply put, the strategy for Chapter Two isn't just about having a lot of ship girls anymore," Nia said to the male admiral, then looked at the six ship girls behind him.

At this moment, the six ship girls also heard Nia's words. They all raised their heads and looked at Nia with some hope.

"So, does that mean my ship girls weren't able to go deep into the sea because their training level was too low?" the admiral asked Nia.

“Yes.” Nia nodded.

"Then... how can I improve my training level?" The admiral asked Nia somewhat awkwardly. "This should be the weakest part of the second chapter for Abyssal Fleet, right... should I go back to the first chapter?"

“Going back to Chapter 1 and honing your skills at Node 4 would be the best course of action. Three or four months ago, an accident occurred in Chapter 1, which significantly reduced the abyssal resentment there, making the strength of the abyssal ships particularly low. If you come to Chapter 2 from there without proper preparation, you'll suffer a great loss,” Nia said to the male admiral. “You're not the first admiral or ship girl to suffer a setback here.”

The male admiral's expression turned awkward.

"Then...then should I go back to the first chapter?"

“No need.” Nia shook her head. “There are also Abyssal Fleet ships on the outer perimeter of the second node. As long as you don’t go too deep, you can practice against some lone Abyssal Fleet ships on the outer perimeter. This can improve your training level while ensuring the safety of your ship girls.”

"Is staying on the outside okay?"

"Haste makes waste," Nia said, tilting her head at the admiral. "After half a month of training on the periphery, your ship girls should be able to try going deeper, right? Good luck!"

The male admiral stared at Nia's smile, lost in thought for a long time.

After a while, he finally realized that Admiral Nia had come to help him and his ship girls conquer the second chapter.

Having figured this out, a look of surprise and delight immediately appeared on the admiral's face. Then, as if he had met a benefactor, he bowed several times to Nia, saying, "Thank you! Miss Nia, I finally understand. Please accept my sincerest gratitude!"

"You're welcome. Now that you understand, I'll take my leave." Nia smiled at the male admiral, then waved and turned to leave.

Chapter 625 Your Little Cutie is Calling You

Nia arrived suddenly and left suddenly, without a trace of regret.

This selfless attitude deeply impressed the male admirals.

He looked back at his six ship girls.

After Nia's words, their ship girls seemed to perk up. Although they weren't exactly confident, they looked much better than before when they were completely dejected.

For a ship girl and admiral who have no idea where they went wrong, having someone like Nia directly point out the problem is more effective than anything else.

The admiral watched as Nia walked back onto the beach, gazing out at the sea against the sea breeze.

Nia is beautiful, but not breathtakingly so; her beauty is just right, making people feel close to her and comfortable.

A girl standing on the sea, her red hair fluttering in the wind, contrasting with her fair face, her demure movements and surprisingly well-endowed figure, made her a very eye-catching sight on the beach.

The male admiral looked at Nia's figure and thought about the help she had given him, and couldn't help but feel a little smug.