Elder brother's garrison

Xiaobai sat alone in the yard for a while. Then, as footsteps sounded outside the yard, a tired-looking Nia returned with her ship girls.

As darkness continued to fall, Luo Lian and Xiao Bai's ship girls returned to the courtyard at night.

"Little White!!" Saratoga had just returned to the yard when she saw Little White sitting in the middle of the yard listening to the destroyers like Laffey Javelin chatting. She immediately rushed over and crashed into Little White's arms, hugging Little White's waist and sucking on Little White's touwa.

"Saratoga, good evening." Little White patted Saratoga's head and smiled at her. "Thank you for your hard work."

In terms of hard work, it wasn't hard at all. The ship girls on the white ship weren't doing deep-sea battles in the first phase; they just wandered around the surface, checking which ship girls were in trouble and helping them out. This kind of protection work was far less strenuous than the ship girls conquering the seas. However, for Saratoga, while this kind of life wasn't tiring, it was incredibly boring.

Saratoga snuggled against Little White, a blissful expression on her face.

Following Saratoga, Bismarck and the others slowly approached Whitebeard.

"Bismarck, what's the situation with the deep-sea cluster phenomenon in the area today?" Little White asked Bismarck.

“Same,” Bismarck said.

Even the seemingly endless resentment of the deep sea in the first node has its limits. After all, no matter how strong the phenomenon of the deep-sea cluster is, this is still only the second chapter's sea area. Now, due to the long-term neglect, the overall strength of the deep-sea amphibious ships in the first node has approached the fifth chapter's sea area. This is the limit of the second chapter, and it cannot be increased any further.

Furthermore, despite the significant increase in strength of the first node, thanks to the hard work of the admirals and the adage "many hands make light work," the first node remains merely an automated source of deep-sea metal and ship girl training materials, and it cannot amount to much.

Just as Xiaobai was thinking about this, she suddenly noticed that Bismarck was looking at the ground with some confusion, her small nose twitching incessantly.

"Bismarck?"

“There’s an odd smell,” Bismarck said.

“…Ah, it’s another Bismarck whose bandages were removed today,” Little White said to Bismarck.

"Is your injury healed?" Bismarck asked.

"Mm." Xiaobai nodded.

Bismarck closed her eyes and said nothing more. She took out an apron from her ship equipment space, tied it on quite skillfully, and walked into the kitchen.

As Bismarck walked into the kitchen, Xiaobai carefully sniffed the surrounding air.

Even if Xiaobai activated the admiral's network and secretly used the ship girl's sense of smell to smell the surrounding air, she still couldn't smell the blood of the Deep Sea Bismarck.

"Admiral." Just then, footsteps sounded again beside Xiaobai.

The Royal Oak carefully approached Little White and greeted it, saying, "I'm back..."

"No need for such formalities in greeting me," Little White said with a smile to the Royal Oak.

The Royal Oak gave Little White a somewhat relieved look.

"Well then, Admiral, I'll head back now." Royal Oak looked at Little White, whispered to her, and then walked towards her room.

Then, a dark figure appeared behind Royal Oak like a ghost and grabbed her hand with a snap.

Royal Oak gave a knowing look, and turned to look behind her.

CV16 was looking at her with hopeful eyes, her hands tightly gripping Royal Oak's wrists, which Royal Oak could not break free from no matter how hard she tried.

“…cv16, um, I’m a little tired today…” Royal Oak attempted a verbal attack.

"..."

"Ah, right, right, I still need to buy clothes for Vulta later, um... as for the time..." Royal Oak used Vulta as a weapon.

"..."

Looking at cv16's almost pious expression, Royal Oak seemed to understand that the child might be unexpectedly stubborn, and in the end, Royal Oak chose to give up resisting.

She sighed deeply, shyly reached out and tugged at her collar, and whispered in a low voice, "...Okay, I understand."

Xiao Bai watched as cv16 led the blushing Royal Oak into Yi Xian's room, and blinked.

—Although I always felt that the conversation between Royal Oak and cv16 seemed to contain some rather dangerous content, it was, after all, Yi Xian's room, so it shouldn't happen what I imagined... right?

Thinking this way, Xiaobai didn't pay much attention to what was happening over there.

The four Fubuki sisters and Changchun quickly squeezed over, holding Vulta's hand. Xiaobai and the destroyers spent a wonderful pre-dinner time together.

At night, Missouri and Saratoga sneaked into Shiro's room while everyone was sleeping, just like before. Shiro spent a wonderful night with the two tall and beautiful ship girls on either side of her.

The next day, when Xiao Bai arrived at the entrance of the first node as usual, the life-size TV that Luo Lian had arranged was already set up in an open space next to Xiao Bai.

The remote control was on the table at the registration desk. Xiaobai turned on the TV, which was showing some of the TV dramas and variety shows that Xiaobai used to like.

Although Xiaobai could still watch these things, watching romance dramas on the street was indeed a bit too embarrassing. After watching for a while and noticing that many people were looking at him with curiosity, Xiaobai finally understood why people didn't watch dramas on the big TVs in public places.

Xiao Bai pressed the power button, hid the remote control inside the table, and began to organize the registration forms in her hands.

Just then, Xiaobai's phone suddenly rang.

Xiao Bai put down the registration form she was working on, picked up her phone, and glanced at the phone number on it.

A string of numbers—it's a phone number without any notes.

"Hello? Is this the president?" Xiaobai answered the phone and asked into the other end.

"Okay, it's me." The reassuring voice of President Er Gou came through the phone. "Little White, how did you get my number?"

"This is the same phone number we used to communicate with the admirals about the Deep Sea Cluster," Xiaobai said into the phone.

"Little White Sister, you have a good memory."

"I have a very good memory," Xiaobai said with a smile. "Did the president want to see me about something?"

"Um, something's up." President Er Gou paused for a moment, "Ahem, well then, I'll cut to the chase."

"OK, all right."

"Do you remember the admiral you practiced with before?"

“…Oh, I remember.”

"Her ship girl went missing at the first node yesterday."

On the other end of the phone, there was a subtle undertone in Chairman Er Gou's voice.

Chapter 758 A snap and a pile of troublesome hairs appeared.

Xiao Bai held up his phone and listened to what President Er Gou had to say.

After a short while, Xiaobai was stunned: "Huh? The ship girl is missing?"

"Yes, she's missing." President Er Gou said with a helpless sigh, "Little White Sister."

"Well, I'm here."

"As the saying goes, you can't go too far. Royal Oak followed you willingly, and I have no objection to that. However, it's not good for innocent ship girls to be dragged into the feud between admirals..."

Listening to what President Er Gou said, Xiao Bai tilted her head, somewhat not understanding the meaning behind her words.

However, it wasn't long before Xiaobai realized what was going on in the somewhat earnest tone of President Er Gou's words.

—Does President Er Gou think that he kidnapped that person's ship girl?

Thinking of this, Xiaobai's expression immediately turned awkward: "President sister... I didn't do this."

"Huh? Wasn't it Little White Sister who made it?"

"No," Xiaobai said into the microphone.

Honestly, Xiaobai considers herself a kind person. Even if she has a deep grudge against any admiral, she would never bring those grudges onto the ship girls. Moreover, Xiaobai has never taken the matter between her and that admiral as a big deal.

As for kidnapping ship girls, Xiaobai (a nickname for a newbie) would be even less likely to do such a thing. After all, the newbie naval base is the world's number one naval base, possessing the world's number one demeanor and prestige. As the world's number one, the newbie naval base should be the benchmark for naval bases worldwide, serving as a model for admirals around the world. Therefore, the admiral and ship girls of this naval base must act with high-class elegance and class when out in public. The people of the newbie naval base would never stoop to such despicable methods as kidnapping ship girls...

Ok……

Xiaobai suddenly remembered a French battleship that was temporarily serving as a maid in her naval base.

Xiaobai recalled the maid corps and maid corps reserves in the newbie naval base, which had absolutely no normal ship girls.

...Kidnapping or something, you wouldn't do that, would you?

Probably not?

As Xiaobai thought about it, he began to doubt himself.

After hesitating for a moment, Xiaobai decided to trust her memory. She reached out and patted her forehead, then reiterated into the microphone, "I really didn't do it."

There was a brief silence on the other end of the phone.

After a long while, the sound of President Er Gou's soft sigh finally came over.

"I really wish it was you, Little White Sister, who did it." President Er Gou's voice was full of melancholy.

Xiao Bai squeezed the microphone and gave a somewhat helpless smile.

Given the current situation, if those ship girls disappear at the first node, there are only two possibilities.

The first scenario is that the ship was kidnapped by Xiaobai and taken back to the naval base, where a physical salvage technique was used.

When President Er Gou called Xiao Bai, the first question she asked him proved that this was how she hoped things would turn out.

However, when Xiaobai stated that this matter had nothing to do with her, it proved that these ship girls could only have encountered the second scenario: being ambushed by the Abyssal Fleet.

That would be an even more troublesome outcome than being rescued by Xiaobai.

This situation means that the first node no longer maintains a high level of security. If the ship girls are attacked by Abyssal Fleet ships once, it's almost certain to happen again. If this news spreads, the admirals leveling up at the first node will likely realize the danger of the Abyssal Fleet from the huge rewards it offers, and thus dare not risk their ship girls being attacked there. With their departure, the first node will lose its workforce constantly suppressing the ship girls, allowing the Abyssal Fleet to continue operating smoothly and stably. Then, the number of Abyssal Fleet ships will increase dramatically. Once the number reaches its peak, the Abyssal Fleet attack on land that occurred in the first chapter will happen again.

"It's not good news." Xiaobai didn't know what to say at this moment, she just said this into the microphone.

"Yeah, it's not good news." President Er Gou's voice was full of grievance, "...If this continues, not only will I not be able to make money, but I won't be able to slack off in peace either!"

"what?"

"I feel like the whole world is against me!" President Er Gou kept slamming his fist on the table on the other end of the phone.

Xiao Bai was speechless.

Even a child like Xiaobai could think of this, so Guild Master Ergou, as the guild leader of the Admiral Guild, must have thought of it long ago. However, Guild Master Ergou doesn't seem worried about this matter at all.

—At this point, all you're thinking about is slacking off and making money. President Er Gou's ambitions are a bit too big.

While thinking this, Xiao Bai felt a little relieved because of Er Gou's eccentric behavior.

"President, when did you find out about the missing ship girls?"

"I found out as soon as I woke up today. That admiral was looking for me at the admiral's guild early this morning," said Guild Master Er Gou.

"Oh, so how is he now?"

"In short, I had Helena knock him out and lock him up first." President Er Gou's voice revealed an air of "I'm really a clever little devil."

Allowing the information to leak out now would indeed cause real unrest, so for now, keeping the information confidential should be fine.

Xiao Bai held up his phone and glanced a few times at the crowded First Node Beach behind him.

"President Sister, what are you going to do?" Xiaobai asked.

"All-powerful little white sister, please help me out!" Guild Master Er Gou delivered a direct attack.

Xiao Bai revealed an expression that said, "I knew it."

—However, it seems that for now, Guild Leader Er Gou can only rely on Xiao Bai.

The most important thing now is to find the missing ship girls. If the admiral guild sends out ship girls to search for the missing ship girls, it will be easy for other admirals to notice. It is better to have an admiral like Shiro, whose ship girls are all patrolling the sea area, do the search for the lost ship girls in a more discreet manner.

"Then leave it to me," Xiaobai thought for a moment and replied into the microphone.

Given the close relationship between Xiaobai and Chairman Ergou, who seem to have ties with the criminal underworld, Xiaobai could certainly help with this kind of favor.

"Mua!" President Er Gou didn't say anything, but just gave the microphone a hard kiss. The slurping sound kept coming through the microphone to Xiao Bai's side, making Xiao Bai shrink back. "Then it's settled, okay? This little lady will definitely repay you with her body in the future!"

Then, with a beep, before Xiaobai could reply, the call was disconnected by President Ergou.

Xiao Bai looked at her phone with a hint of helplessness, then looked down at the registration form in her hand.

She flipped through a few pages and, sure enough, found the registration record of the male admiral from yesterday afternoon in Luo Lian's area of ​​responsibility.

Xiao Bai glanced at the registration time, picked up her phone, and typed a message to Luo Lian saying she was very sorry, something had suddenly come up, and hoped that Lian Lian could come and cover for her first shift, and that she would thank her in person later.

Xiao Bai clicked send, and the phone screen quickly displayed the message "Sent successfully." Just as Xiao Bai was about to put the phone away, Luo Lian's text message came back with a beeping sound.

Xiaobai opened the text message.

"ok()??"

Looking at the text message, Xiaobai couldn't help but laugh.

Lianlian will never let Xiaobai down.

"I registered at three o'clock yesterday afternoon." Xiaobai murmured as she closed the registration form and then hurried towards Nia's yard.