Elder brother's garrison

“Little White Sister shouldn’t be that kind of person. She seems to cherish ship girls and wouldn’t be reluctant to part with a rapid construction device,” Helena said to President Er Gou.

"Ah, is that so?" Guild Master Er Gou looked at the ten-unit construction machine, and then looked at the nine empty construction machines next to it for a while. "Oh... I understand."

"You understand now."

"No, I really understand now." Guild Master Er Gou smiled. "I knew it, my construction device is invincible."

"what does it mean?"

"A ten-times construction machine contains ten times the hope!" Guild Master Er Gou said again. "But who said a ten-times construction machine can only be used ten times?"

"Huh?" Helena was taken aback. "Isn't that right?"

"When the construction machine fails, the resources won't be completely burned out. Instead, they'll be partially digested and spewed out as ash. In other words, there will still be some resources left. If ten of them are started together, then when they all fail, there will be ten portions of resources that haven't been completely burned out and are still remaining. If these ten portions of resources are gathered together, then we can build an eleventh time, right?" Guild Master Er Gou looked at the construction device with emotion. "That's right, this is the pity system! It's like getting a free pull after a ten-pull! It's the official's conscience!"

"...Is the Ten-Construction Machine such an amazing item?" Helena asked.

"The eleventh draw is theoretically possible, and this is the first time I've seen it." Guild Master Er Gou smiled at Helena. "In short, if Little White Sister didn't notice the eleventh draw and thought she had failed to build the character, then it makes sense."

"But the eleventh construction also requires pressing the construction button, right? How did Admiral Lu Lin press it?"

"Uh..." President Er Gou thought for a while, "...Hmm...maybe I pressed it by accident."

"..." Helena looked at President Er Gou with suspicion.

"I don't know either, I was just sleeping." President Er Gou said, looking at the construction device in front of him with some worry. "In short, we need to deal with this first."

The value of a construction device that has already produced ship girls is extremely high. Although President Er Gou knows very well that this is his territory and no one can do anything bad, he is still a little annoyed.

After all, she was a living, breathing person; it's really pitiful that the admiral left her here.

"We can just tell Admiral Lu Lin when she gets back."

"Hmm..." President Er Gou thought for a moment, then nodded, "Okay."

"Okay, then I'll go get a few people to help check on the construction equipment, and wait for Admiral Lu Lin to return..."

"Use QuickBuild."

"???"

Chapter 645 Failure

The sound of waves crashing against the shore, the icy water coiling around the girl's ankles like thousands of tiny snakes.

The girl stood on the beach, staring blankly at the sea before her.

She had long golden hair and a pair of crimson eyes. She looked at the sea, letting the water wash over her ankles.

As the tide rose, the icy water slowly covered the girl's calves, gradually moving up her translucent skin and engulfing her body inch by inch.

The girl remained motionless.

She stood alone on the shore like a stone.

As time passed, the rising seawater gradually swallowed the girl's lower body, and its momentum continued to climb towards her soft, jade-like arms. Slowly, the water flowed up to the girl's neck and touched her delicate chin.

Finally, the seawater covered the girl's nose and blocked her eyes. After the last wave, covered in white foam, crashed in, the blonde girl was swallowed by the sea.

Unable to maintain her standing position in the sea, the girl slowly floated up, her entire body like a pebble, being shoved into the seabed by wave after wave.

The icy seawater kept pouring into her ears, and the sound of the seawater mixed with the girl's soft moans echoed in her ears.

The girl opened her mouth, and bubbles kept floating out of it.

Unable to breathe, she finally showed a slight reaction. A look of pain appeared on her delicate face, and her hands began to wave in the seawater.

—Who am I again?

The girl asked this question amidst the agonizing pain of suffocation.

—I am a ship girl.

—A warrior standing on the sea.

For some reason, as the girl asked the question, the answer naturally appeared in her heart.

Standing on the sea.

The girl struggled painfully in the seawater, then reached out her hand, trying to swim upwards.

However, she was still unable to move; the seawater was like shackles, tightly binding her wrists and neck, preventing her from moving.

—Am I not a ship girl? Why can't I move in the sea?

The girl asked this question.

However, this time, she did not receive an answer.

The girl opened her mouth and exhaled another string of bubbles. A faint crimson color gradually appeared on her face, and as time went by, this crimson color slowly deepened, turning into purple.

--oxygen.

--oxygen.

—If you don't breathe again…

The girl struggled, gazing at the sea above.

The sea was pale blue, seemingly bathed in sunlight, and calm.

The sea seemed so close, yet so far away; so close it could be touched, yet so far that no matter how much I kicked or struggled, I could never reach it.

—Speaking of which, why do I need to breathe? Aren't I a ship girl?

The girl, who was struggling in pain, asked this question.

Ship girls should be beings belonging to the sea, they originate from history, they are ships themselves, so why are they in such a sorry state?

The girl's constantly flailing limbs gradually stopped. She seemed to have used up all her strength, and she could no longer even open her eyes.

The girl exhaled her last string of bubbles, and then her body slowly sank into the deep sea.

—Because I am a ship that was never successfully built.

Darkness slowly descended around them, and the girl's body gradually arched upwards.

Darkness, like the icy seawater around her, swallowed the girl in an instant.

"crash"

Then, the world around us lit up again in an instant.

A hand swiftly pierced through the seawater and grabbed the girl's wrist. In an instant, warm sunlight shone down from the distant sea, and the surrounding cold seawater exploded rapidly, allowing the dry air to envelop the girl once more.

The girl, who was waiting for endless loneliness, looked up at the person holding her wrist.

The sunlight was too bright for her to see clearly.

Only a glimpse of warm, sun-kissed blond hair and a pair of azure eyes could be seen.

Sigrún has taught at the Iceland University of the Arts as a part-time lecturer since and was Dean of the Department of Fine Art from -. In – she held a research position at Reykjavík Art Museum focusing on the role of women in Icelandic art. She studied fine art at the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts and at Pratt Institute, New York, and holds BA and MA degrees in art history and philosophy from the University of Iceland. Sigrún lives and works in Iceland.

With a bang, the construction device was activated.

A blonde ship girl in naval uniform tumbled quickly out of the construction device, landing with a thud on the floor and slamming her forehead hard against the floor tile.

"Cough cough... cough cough... cough cough..." The ship girl, who had landed on the ground, covered her neck and coughed incessantly, as if she had drowned before stepping out of the construction device.

After coughing for a long time, the ship girl finally started breathing rapidly.

She forcefully inhaled the air into her body, then exhaled peacefully.

"Ah... I feel like I'm going to die in every sense of the word..." The ship girl wiped her mouth and patted her ears and cheeks.

"Admiral, that's Admiral Lu Lin's ship girl! Isn't it overstepping your bounds to help Admiral Lu Lin use the shortcut keys?" A clear voice rang in my still-ringing ears.

"It's okay, it's okay, it's just a shortcut key, consider it a gift for Little White Sister."

"That's not the problem. Many admirals want to see their ship girls emerge from the construction facility with their own eyes!"

"I want it too!"

"These aren't ship girls you built, Admiral! If you want to see them, go build them yourself!"

"It's okay, we can just apologize to Little White Sister."

"What are you going to use to apologize?"

"Pay with your body."

"Clap clap clap." Then came a noisy squabbling sound.

The ship girl raised her head and looked at the two people standing in front of her.

Her blurry vision gradually cleared over time, and she rubbed her eyes one last time before her vision finally became clear.

Standing in front of him were a woman with blue hair and a woman with black hair.

The ship girl tried to move her arm.

As she moved, a sensation similar to soreness and swelling quickly emerged from her muscles, causing her to grit her teeth.

The ship girl took a deep breath and finally stood up unsteadily from the ground.

As the ship girl gradually stood up from the ground, Helena, who was complaining to her admiral, quickly stopped talking. She went to the swaying ship girl's side and reached out to support her: "How are you feeling? Are you feeling alright?"

The ship girl nodded, then coughed lightly, "Thank you."

"You're welcome." Helena smiled at the ship girl in front of her, then turned to look at President Er Gou.

"Ah, to clarify, we're not your admirals." President Er Gou understood the meaning behind Helena's look and smiled as she said to the ship girl, "We just happened to help you get out of the construction facility."

President Er Gou looked at the ship girl in front of him, glanced at her limbs and face, and remained silent for a while.

“…I heard you.” The ship girl said softly, then gestured that she could stand properly and pulled her hand out of Helena’s arms.

The ship girl closed her eyes for a moment, then gave President Er Gou and Helena a confident smile.

"My name is Constellation, the second ship of the Lexington-class. Although you are not my admirals or comrades, I still thank you for releasing me from the construction device." The ship girl put one hand on her chest and smiled at President Er Gou. "I hope we can become friends."

"Well, um, definitely." Helena stared at Constellation's trembling arms and legs, smiled at Constellation, "I'm a member of the Admiral's Guild of this artificial city. I've met your admiral a few times. I'll help you contact your admiral in a while. Shall we find a place to sit down first?"

“Of course,” the ship girl named Constellation said with a smile.

Helena then stepped forward, took Constellation's arm, and, ignoring Constellation's immediately furrowed brow, helped her to a bench. Then, holding Constellation's hand, she chatted with her nonstop with a sunny smile.

After sitting down on the stool, Constellation's trembling limbs finally calmed down. Constellation subtly revealed a hint of relief, then smiled faintly at Helena.

President Er Gou watched as the constellation stepped off the construction device and walked to a stool in the distance before finally looking away from it.

President Er Gou looked at the construction device and slowly opened his eyes.

His golden eyes, like those of a wild beast, stared at the opened construction device, cold and devoid of emotion.

"Constellations..." President Er Gou murmured.

The Lexington-class destroyer is the true second ship of the Lexington-class.

It was a ship that was dismantled and destroyed midway through construction, just as it had taken shape. From its birth to its death, it never touched the sea.

In a sense, Constellation was a failed product that had to be dismantled due to the signing of a treaty, so it was a ship that could not have become a ship girl.

President Er Gou looked at the construction device and sighed.

"A ship girl built from the leftover resources of a failed ten-pull... This is too realistic." President Er Gou's sharp eyes narrowed slowly, her expression softening once more. "Luckily, I used the quick build feature, otherwise..."

"Admiral." Just as President Er Gou was muttering to himself, Helena's voice rang out behind him.

President Er Gou turned around and saw Helena standing next to the constellation, waving at him: "Admiral, stop slacking off, we need to get the constellation settled and then go back to work."

"Oh." President Er Gou shrugged helplessly, then walked towards Helena.

Sigrún has taught at the Iceland University of the Arts as a part-time lecturer since and was Dean of the Department of Fine Art from -. In – she held a research position at Reykjavík Art Museum focusing on the role of women in Icelandic art. She studied fine art at the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts and at Pratt Institute, New York, and holds BA and MA degrees in art history and philosophy from the University of Iceland. Sigrún lives and works in Iceland.

In the afternoon, Xiaobai and Nia returned to the Admiral's Guild amidst the cheerful laughter of the ship girls.

As soon as Xiaobai and Nia entered the Admiral's Guild, they saw several ship girls that Xiaobai had never seen before carrying construction equipment out of the guild.

"Excuse me, excuse me. Thank you." The ship girls politely carried the construction equipment and walked out of the Admiral's Guild.

Xiao Bai looked at the construction devices with curiosity, and asked Nia beside her with some doubt, "Nia, is the Admiral's Guild going to replace a batch of construction devices?"

"I don't know, that thing should last a long time," Nia said.

"Hmm..." Xiaobai seemed to be deep in thought.

Construction devices can indeed last a long time; the ones in the newbie naval base have been used for ten years without being replaced.