Elder brother's garrison

Xiao Bai took out his phone and opened the text message.

Sure enough, the text message contained exactly what President Er Gou had just said, but Helena seemed to have embellished it with more official and friendly rhetoric, making it sound more civilized and irresistible.

The man's face had turned from ashen to purplish-red. He looked at President Er Gou and said, "President, you're forcing me."

President Er Gou forced him to practice against Xiao Bai, wanting to see him lose completely in front of Xiao Bai. He also forcibly ordered all the admirals in Chapter 2 to watch the practice battle, which was to embarrass him in front of all the admirals in Chapter 2.

This is absolutely devastating!

"What? I just saw that you and the cute little white girl had a disagreement, and I wanted to mediate between you two." President Er Gou put on a pitiful expression.

President Er Gou is already very pretty, and when she acts cute, she looks so pitiful that it's quite endearing.

However, the man, who felt his days were numbered, had no such thoughts. He clenched his fists and glared at Guild Master Er Gou: "Then why did you invite all the admirals of the entire Chapter Sea to watch? You're just the guild master of an admiral's guild! Do you have that right?!"

"I don't care about that." President Er Gou snorted. "This is my territory, and I'm in charge."

"I'm not participating!!" the man shouted.

"If you don't participate, then you can never set foot in the Admiral's Guild again." Guild Master Er Gou looked at the man and revealed a kind smile. "I swear on my honor that if you dare not go to today's exercise, and you manage to step into the Admiral's Guild even once before I die, I will become the sex slave of all the second-chapter sea admirals and a whore who sleeps with everyone."

President Er Gou spoke gently and softly, seemingly without any imposing manner, but when she uttered this sentence, which was full of bawdy jokes and extremely strong will, the entire scene was stunned.

Upon hearing what Chairman Er Gou said, the man instantly began to tremble.

This is a complete threat from Guild Leader Er Gou. If he doesn't participate in the exercise and gets thoroughly beaten, he won't be able to get the services of the Admiral Guild in Chapter 2, he won't be able to clear Chapter 2, he won't be able to go to the high-sea area chapter, and he won't even be able to make a normal expedition in Chapter 2 because he can't resupply and repair his ship equipment.

"You...you don't have that authority..." The man's voice was already trembling.

"I've said it before, I'm in charge of this territory," Guild Leader Er Gou said calmly. "Do you think I'm some kind of guild leader that's easy to insult? Dare to accuse me of abusing my power for personal gain? I'll show you what that means!"

After saying that, Chairman Er Gou slammed his hand on the table, the loud noise startling the man.

"Are you going to the exercise or not?" President Er Gou asked the man.

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Today's second chapter is another peaceful day.

Under the bright sunshine and without a cloud in the sky, admirals and ship girls on the beach, on the road, in the city, and in their rooms held their phones, looked at the sky, and couldn't help but smile wryly.

On my phone, there was a message that the Admiral's Guild had just sent me.

In the second chapter, there will be a performance-style exercise soon. The location and time will be announced shortly. In order to broaden the horizons of the ship girls and admirals, the Admiral Guild requires all admirals to attend and learn. No absences, lateness, or early departures are allowed.

—What's wrong with the Admiral's Guild this time?

The admirals stared helplessly at the long list of consequences for not responding on their phones, pressing their temples and rubbing their eyes in exasperation.

"Beep beep!" Just as the admirals were feeling helpless, their phones rang again. They quickly opened their phones and looked at the newly received text messages.

"Holy crap! It's starting in twenty minutes???"

Admirals in various locations looked at the time in the text message. Those far away cursed inwardly, while those nearby hurriedly packed their gear without any unease, and then rushed towards the exercise location.

For a time, the city in the second chapter was filled with the rumbling of admirals rushing about.

The location chosen for the exercise was actually quite humane, as it was a sea area where few Abyssal Fleet ships had ever appeared. However, precisely because there were few Abyssal Fleet ships there, very few admirals usually went there, so much so that most of the admirals who received the information were now rushing there desperately.

Twenty minutes passed.

The coastline where the exercise was held was suddenly packed with people, with a large number of admirals and ship girls crammed together. The admirals who were not late all breathed a sigh of relief.

"We finally made it." Some admirals smiled with relief.

"Damn, I was still on a mission when I arrived. All the ship girls were at sea and I couldn't contact them, so I had to come here alone." Some admirals squatting on the nearby shore complained breathlessly.

"What kind of clout is this? So many people are needed to watch a performance by Xi Jinping."

"Who knows."

"Look over there, the guild leader is there." Some sharp-eyed admirals quickly pointed to a relatively open beach.

On the beach, President Er Gou, dressed in a swimsuit, sat with her legs crossed under a parasol, wearing large sunglasses and a faint smile on her lips.

"...Damn, it's actually quite beautiful." Many admirals looked down and muttered as they saw the large expanse of snow-white skin exposed to the sunlight and the long legs swaying in mid-air of the Second Dog Guild Leader.

Standing beside President Er Gou were Xiao Bai, Luo Lian, and Nia. They looked at President Er Gou, who was completely in vacation mode, with a hint of helplessness in their eyes.

On the other side, about ten meters away from President Er Gou, a male admiral with a gloomy and desperate expression was standing there with several ship girls behind him.

"Who's that pig-headed guy?" some admirals asked, pointing at the male admirals. "How did he get beaten up like that?"

"I don't know them. Do you know them?"

"...You look familiar, but I don't think I know you."

The admirals' comments reached the man's ears in waves, and these voices, which were aimed directly at him, made his expression even more gloomy.

Seeing that almost everyone had arrived, President Er Gou stretched and picked up the megaphone next to him, shouting, "Ahem! Is everyone here?"

The loudspeaker of President Er Gou was connected to the newly installed megaphones around the coast. In an instant, with her shouts, President Er Gou's voice spread throughout the entire coastline.

"Everyone's here, let's start the exercise. There will be random roll calls during the exercise. If you're not called, you know what I mean? Don't let me see you in the Admiral's Guild for the next week!" Guild Leader Er Gou's domineering voice echoed across the beach. "The rules of the exercise are one-on-one ship girls, best of three. Any means are allowed. Surrender doesn't count as a loss. There's only one way to determine the winner, and that's to beat the opponent's ship girls until they're heavily damaged. That's it."

Er Gou shouted, and the admirals around him dared not speak out against his anger.

After a moment of silence, seeing that no one dared to object, President Er Gou reached out and adjusted his sunglasses: "Then the exercise begins, the first group of ship girls, take the field!"

Upon hearing the voice, the man shuddered, turned around, and glanced at the ship girls behind him.

The ship girls behind the man trembled slightly. They all swallowed hard, looking at their admiral with some hope that he wouldn't send them into battle.

"You go first." In the end, the man chose a battleship ship girl.

The chosen battleship girl turned pale instantly, looking as if the end of the world had come.

Her legs trembled as she walked onto the shore and slowly sailed into the exercise area.

This ship girl is another one of the few ship girls that can be in the same fleet as Royal Oak, so naturally, she has also experienced Bismarck's strength.

There's absolutely no way to win; that's a difference of dimensions.

The ship girl kept praying in her heart, her eyes closed, her hand clutching her chest, her whole body trembling as she begged that her enemy would not be Bismarck.

After a while, upon hearing the sound of a ship girl arriving in the distance opposite her, the ship girl timidly opened her eyes and looked ahead.

—The one facing her was not the short-haired, black-clad, death-like ship girl from her memory.

After seeing the appearance of the ship girl opposite her, the ship girl couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

"That's great..." the ship girl murmured thankfully, "We won't lose too badly."

Standing opposite this ship girl was a beautiful ship girl who was smiling humbly, and who looked very gentle, generous, civilized and well-mannered.

"Are the contestants ready?" President Er Gou's voice came from the beach.

"Greetings, senior. I look forward to your guidance during this exercise." Missouri smiled at the ship girl across the long sea.

Seeing Missouri's friendly expression, the ship girl felt her panic ease considerably: "...Hello, I've seen you before."

"Have you seen me before, senior?"

“Yes, I was at sea that day too,” the ship girl said.

“Oh, what a coincidence,” Missouri said with a smile. “I apologize for my rudeness that day.”

"It's alright, it's alright." The ship girl quickly waved to Missouri.

The ship girl was also thrilled.

She seems to be a gentle ship girl... That's great.

"Actually, we were the ones who were wrong... We didn't..." the ship girl explained to Missouri across the sea.

"The exercise begins!" President Er Gou's voice suddenly came from the coast.

The ship girl blinked.

Then, in the next second, it felt as if Missouri, which was far away, had somehow gotten right in front of his face.

In the ship girl's eyes, there were the waves that were rolled up on the calm sea behind her due to Missouri's rapid movement, and Missouri's raised fist.

"boom!!!"

Just like a cannonball crashing into the sea, Missouri delivered a powerful punch to the ship girl's face like a meteor.

The next second, the ship girl flew backward like a rapidly thrown dart after a loud bang.

Then, in the ship girl's last gaze, she saw countless bright red cannonballs flying all over the sky.

"Boom boom boom boom—"

It was as if an endless barrage of shells, like a meteor shower, pounded on the ship girl's slender body. In an instant, accompanied by a loud explosion and water splashing high into the sky, steel fragments bloomed like tragic flowers in the fiery red light.

Chapter 742 Flying Torpedo Warning

The exercise, loudly proclaimed by President Er Gou through a megaphone, began to reverberate throughout the entire sea. The admirals on the beach were mentally prepared to watch a fierce and friendly artillery battle between the ship girls, symbolizing love and justice. However, a series of booming explosions instantly traveled from the clear sea to the beach, startling the group of admirals.

After the admirals recovered from their shock, they saw the flames that appeared along with the explosion.

Since it was the sea, the firelight came and went quickly.

The firelight ceased, and the ship girl, her clothes tattered from the Missouri bombardment, lay on the sea, her neck tilted to the side, surrounded by a faint white light. It seemed that she had been directly blasted into a heavily damaged state by the series of bombardments from Missouri and had fallen into a deep coma.

After confirming that the opponent had completely lost its combat capability and even its consciousness had been blasted away, Missouri put away her ship equipment. She turned around and looked in the direction of Little White on the beach, waved slightly, and revealed a relaxed smile.

The admirals on the beach stared blankly at the sea.

At this moment, the admirals watching felt not only astonishment at Missouri's incredible combat prowess, but also a sense of disorientation, as if they were dreaming.

—Huh? Aren't we here to watch the ship girls battle and learn from each other's experiences?

Logically speaking, shouldn't this kind of training and performance exercise be a harmonious and friendly exchange of fire and movement between two ship girls, showcasing their individual combat skills and proficiency in various ways? Usually, a battle would last for more than ten minutes.

The admirals looked at the unharmed Missouri on the sea and the unconscious ship girl lying on the distant horizon.

If these admirals could learn anything from this battle, it would probably only be that they grasped just how powerful ship girls can be.

"Awesome!" At this moment, Guild Master Er Gou's voice rang out from the loudspeakers everywhere, "This ship girl has won the first battle! The current overall score is 1 to 0! Medical team! Take that ship girl lying over there back to the Admiral's Guild!"

As soon as President Er Gou finished speaking, a group of ship girls carrying stretchers suddenly appeared out of nowhere. Wearing nurse caps, they counted "one, two, one" and quickly ran to the ship girl who had been knocked down by Missouri. They quickly threw the ship girl, whose clothes had been ripped off and exposed, onto the stretcher, then returned the way they came, pushing through the crowd and disappearing.

Missouri watched as her opponent was dealt with properly, and then jogged back to the beach.

"Yes, it was a truly spectacular battle. I'm sure all the admirals here have learned a lot," President Er Gou said into the loudspeaker in a meaningful tone.

Upon hearing Chairman Er Gou's heartfelt lies, the faces of the admirals present all darkened.

—What kind of knowledge is this? Does might makes right?

"This isn't a performance exercise, is it?" some admirals couldn't help but whisper among themselves.

Most admirals aren't stupid. After seeing this, not many people would still believe that this was just an ordinary performance exercise. Missouri went all out as soon as she entered the field and took down the opposing ship girls without giving the opposing admiral any face. Anyone who still believes that this was just a performance exercise is an idiot.

"I get the feeling that this is a revenge plot," one admiral said, expressing his thoughts.

"I think so too. Whose ship girl is that? Does anyone know?" one admiral asked.

"They're the ones standing next to the guild leader, right?" Some admirals pointed to Xiaobai, Nia, and Luo Lian next to Guild Leader Er Gou. "I don't recognize the other two, but Admiral Nia is there too."

"Oh? Admiral Nia?" Nia's identity quickly piqued the interest of the group of admirals. "Admiral Nia hasn't offended anyone before, so there shouldn't be anyone who would go to such lengths to break ties... Ah, if we really have to say, there might only be..."

At this point, the admirals all turned their attention to the male admiral on the other side of Guild Leader Er Gou.

This admiral had suffered various injuries before, and his face was swelled up by Bismarck's slap, so his head now looked like a pig's head. He had lost all his charisma and was completely different from a few days ago. Many admirals did not recognize him at first glance. After being reminded, the group of admirals carefully observed him again and finally found a trace of memory on his deformed face.

"Holy crap, isn't that the vice-captain of that fleet?!" An admiral exclaimed, his eyes wide as he pointed at the man.

"Damn, it really is him!" Some admirals who thought he looked familiar slapped their thighs and shouted at the other side.

As soon as one or two admirals recognized the man's identity, the news quickly spread throughout the entire beach like wolves among the large crowd.

In an instant, all sorts of gazes, like swords and spears, pierced the man's body: some gloating, some kicking him while he was down, some looking on with pity, some watching the drama unfold, and some even saying that retribution was just a matter of time.

The man standing on the beach lowered his head, trembling as he accepted the gazes coming from all directions.

With such a gaze upon him, the man felt his dignity as an admiral being stripped away at an alarming rate. Even now, when he recalled his former dashing self and the thought that from tomorrow onwards this would become a source of ridicule, an immense sense of humiliation welled up from within.

The gazes he received at that moment were a testament to Chairman Er Gou's good intentions.

"The power of the masses is great." Just then, Chairman Er Gou put down the megaphone and muttered to himself.

The man raised his head and looked at Chairman Er Gou, his eyes filled with humiliation and hatred.

"Don't look at me like that." President Er Gou smiled at the man while touching the megaphone. "If you usually do legitimate things, would you be afraid of other people's opinions? Don't forget that I'm treated the same way you are."

As he spoke, President Er Gou pointed to his swimsuit.