Elder brother's garrison

Missouri nodded, and she tried to take a few steps forward, one, two, three.

As soon as Missouri took her third step, a rather strange feeling arose in her mind.

It was a contradictory feeling—stepping forward, yet your feet seemed to land somewhere else entirely.

Missouri looked around curiously, a hint of surprise appearing in her eyes.

Her surroundings had changed without her noticing.

The deep-sea amphibious ships that had floated on the surface like crocodiles had vanished, leaving Missouri surrounded by pure, black water. The water was a stark, unadulterated black, without a single speck of debris, and not a single deep-sea amphibious ship in sight.

This is not where Missouri was just now.

"Admiral, where is this?"

"The place I was in yesterday."

"yesterday……"

"Well, I didn't expect to be back so soon..." Xiaobai sighed helplessly. She patted Missouri's shoulder, "Missouri, there are no Deepsea Ships here, you can let me down now."

Little White jumped off Missouri, turned around with a complicated expression, and looked behind her.

Xiao Bai has returned to the mysterious waters where she found Bai Jia Hei yesterday.

Missouri, just like Glorious and the others, couldn't sense the teleportation device...

Xiao Bai looked at the scenery behind him with a somewhat complicated expression.

In Xiaobai's vision, the boundary of the teleportation device was filled with countless cracks that looked like shattered glass. The cracks were of all sizes, some as small as a palm, others large enough to accommodate Missouri and Xiaobai. They were arranged together without any pattern. The deep-sea resentment was being continuously absorbed, forming a slight black wind that rapidly seeped into the cracks.

Xiao Bai glanced into one of the cracked wounds.

Following the wound, Xiaobai saw on the other side of the sea that several red deep-sea ships and a golden deep-sea ship were leisurely drifting along. One red deep-sea ship was leaning against the other side of the wound, enjoying the deep-sea resentment that drifted past from this side.

Dark gold patterns are faintly visible on the hull of this deep-sea amphibious vessel.

"Phew." Xiaobai exhaled and looked away.

These are not cracks; these are likely teleportation channels that haven't fully closed yet.

The teleportation portal connects Chapter Two and Chapter Six.

Xiao Bai rubbed his forehead, looking somewhat embarrassed.

Regardless of what happens next, at least in the first node of the second chapter, Xiaobai now knows the source of those advanced deep-sea resentments that can cause deep-sea minions to evolve rapidly.

So it turns out the deep-sea energy from here leaked out...

No wonder so many golden deep-sea formations appeared in just one night.

The deep-sea resentment here has existed for who knows how long; it might have some magical effect on those deep-sea ships.

"Admiral, is there anything over there?" Missouri asked, noticing that Xiaobai was staring intently at the endless sea.

"Yes, I have."

"what is it then?"

"A pot."

"pot?"

"Yes, it's my fault." Xiaobai covered her face.

"..."

Missouri.

"Missouri is here."

"Aren't you very experienced in life?"

"Well... Missouri has nearly fifty years of experience living alone..."

"Can I ask you a question?" Xiaobai asked Missouri, "Missouri, what brand of glue do you think is good?"

"...502? Missouri people prefer to use that."

"How effective is 502 glue for fixing spatial cracks?" Xiaobai gave up thinking.

"..." Missouri.

Chapter 823 hits Xiaobai's bullseye.

Before leaving the Admiral Guild, Xiaobai had discussed with Guild Leader Ergou... actually, it was just Xiaobai listening to Guild Leader Ergou bbbling down her views on these Abyssal Ships.

The conclusion of the discussion was that the Abyssal Fleet that attacked the ship girls this morning were originally Abyssal minions in the second chapter, but for some reason they received an extremely high concentration of Abyssal resentment, causing their ship equipment to undergo a qualitative change in a short period of time, thus transforming them into high-level Abyssal Fleet ships.

Deep-sea resentment is this troublesome thing; compared to things like "energy" or "gas," it's closer to some kind of special life form. On the sea surface, as long as deep-sea resentment isn't weakened, it will continuously consume its own volume to produce deep-sea amphibious ships until the number of deep-sea amphibious ships reaches a peak. Only then will it stop and instead focus on improving the quality of deep-sea amphibious ships until a deep-sea dean is produced.

The current state of the First Node is such that it is already at the peak of the Deep Sea Cluster. The number of Deep Sea Amphibious Ships has long reached its limit. After Xiaobai and the Deep Sea Will deal with the Deep Sea Dean who caused the Deep Sea Cluster, the cluster phenomenon here should subside quickly and eventually disappear.

However, by chance, the deep-sea resentment from the high-sea-area chapter flowed here and directly entered the general selection stage, upgrading one by one the deep-sea minions into high-level deep-sea beings, thus saving the deep-sea cluster phenomenon.

If Xiaobai had arrived a week or two later, this second node's sea area might have become a true training ground comparable to Chapter Seven. At that time, not only would high-level deep-sea minions appear, but also Chapter Seven level deep-sea battleships, deep-sea aircraft carriers, deep-sea armored carriers, and even deep-sea frigates and deep-sea deans would have appeared sooner or later.

Now that we know the cause of the incident, it's much easier to deal with. As long as Xiaobai finds the source of the extra deep-sea resentment, blocks what can be blocked, and cuts off what can't be blocked, then the evolution of these deep-sea amphibious ships will naturally stop spreading.

As for where the high-level deep-sea resentment came from, Xiaobai didn't know for sure at the time, but he guessed that it might be related to the waters he used to live in.

Just as Xiaobai had predicted, the deep-sea resentment did indeed leak out from the dilapidated old home of Baijiahei. The deep-sea resentment here was incredibly dense, yet it seemed to be bound by some strange limitation, unable to produce deep-sea amphibious ships, and had been cooped up in this dark and desolate place for who knows how long. Now, having finally reached the first node, it was like a young man who had been celibate for many years finding a lustful woman, dry wood meeting a raging fire, and then they had their fill.

Looking at the vast expanse of interconnected cracks in front of him, Xiaobai felt his head was about to explode.

“A spatial rift?” Missouri asked.

"kindness."

"..." Although Missouri couldn't see the so-called spatial rift, when she glanced at the black mist all around her, carefully sensed the deep-sea resentment here, and after a little thought, she quickly understood the current situation.

“Admiral, Missouri thinks that ordinary glue won’t be of any use,” Missouri said to Little White.

Smart people have an advantage; they have such a strong ability to accept new things that they don't even need explanations.

Well, after all, Missouri is a ship girl who has traveled through time, so she won't be as excited as someone seeing something for the first time when faced with something so mysterious.

"That's true..." Xiaobai sighed slightly, her gaze shifting to look left and right.

The wall, riddled with wounds, stretched into the distance to the left and right. The dense cracks grew as the wall receded into the distance, yet the number of spatial fissures showed no sign of thinning out.

Even if you could stick them together with glue, it would probably take several truckloads to finish.

"Admiral."

"kindness?"

Missouri wanted to know what those spatial rifts looked like.

"It's a bit like a broken window."

"Oh...can I touch it?"

"It's best not to," Xiaobai smiled at Missouri. "My hair got cut off by this last time."

Missouri's eyes flickered.

"Ah, it's okay. Cutting the hair was intentional, um." Xiaobai said to Missouri, "Anyway, let's not touch these things for now. Don't worry about going back, I can open a bigger door."

“I see.” Missouri nodded. “By the way, why can the Admiral see those cracks?”

"do not know."

Xiaobai didn't know why only she could see the spatial rift; she just knew she could see it.

"Is it only Missouri that can't see it?"

"It shouldn't be, Sister Glorious and Sister York can't see it either."

"...Glory and York...were those seniors who were with the admiral yesterday?"

"Yeah, this place wasn't like this back then. But as soon as I left, it turned into this." Xiao Bai muttered in a strange tone, "I hope this place doesn't collapse..."

After saying that, Xiaobai shook his head.

There's no ceiling, no solid walls, and it's not in another world. It's probably just some forgotten corner in Chapter Six. Even if this place collapses, it won't harm Xiaobai and Missouri. At most, they won't be able to use the teleportation device. They can just walk back from Chapter Six.

Just as she was thinking this, suddenly, Xiaobai's head started spinning again.

Realizing that it was her beloved daughter calling her, Xiaobai staggered a few steps and quickly walked into Missouri's arms, hooking her arm around hers. Only then did Xiaobai close her eyes in relief.

As her consciousness slowly sank, Xiaobai returned to the grassland of her spiritual world.

Xiao Bai looked around and found the Will of the Deep Sea standing beside him, eyes closed and silent.

“Deep Sea Will, I was just about to look for you!” Little White said to the Deep Sea Will.

"Hmm. You've run into trouble?" The Will of the Deep Sea opened its eyes.

"Yes..." Xiaobai nodded somewhat shyly, "Deep Sea Will, can you repair spatial rifts?"

"will not."

"!!!"

"...I'm not omnipotent," the Will of the Deep Sea said to Little White.

“…I see.” Xiaobai sighed.

"I have another way."

"Huh?" Xiaobai exclaimed in surprise.

“It just so happens that the spiritual world is lacking something, so let’s take care of it all at once,” said the Will of the Deep Sea.

"Huh? Can the spiritual world lack something?"

“Missing.” The Will of the Deep Sea nodded.

"What's missing?"

"The scent of the deep sea."

"..." Xiaobai stared at the Will of the Deep Sea, remaining silent for a long time before stammering, "Um... Will of the Deep Sea, could it be... you... want to..."

“Yes.” The Will of the Deep Sea nodded, a pleased smile appearing on its lips. “I’m going to pack up all the deep-sea energy here and take it with me.”

"Bring it into my mental world?"

"To be precise, it was brought into the ship's hull."

How do I install my ship equipment?

"That was originally the ship equipment of the deep-sea amphibious ship, so it's perfect for carrying the aura of the deep sea."

"Then I'd become a deep-sea amphibious ship..." Xiao Bai's heart skipped a beat. "Speaking of which, what does the Deep-Sea Will need the Deep-Sea Aura for?"

"I've come to realize that mental strength has its limits. No matter how powerful one's mental strength is, there will always be things that mental strength cannot solve... unless one transcends these limits..."

"Deep Sea Will, what exactly are you trying to say?"

"I need to pack up some deep-sea essence to increase our self-defense capabilities," the Deep Sea Will said.

"Well, what's the truth?"

"I want to create bosses and elite monsters with deep-sea characteristics in the spiritual world and become an excellent game designer... But it's too troublesome to rebuild every time a monster is defeated. I need a helper that can automatically create monsters."

"So you've set your sights on the aura of the deep sea?"

"kindness."

"..." Xiaobai looked helplessly at the Deep Sea Will, "But it feels terrifying to have the aura of the deep sea in my body."

"It's what you humans usually like to call Deep Sea Resentment, Deep Sea Resentment, but actually, Deep Sea Aura isn't such a negative thing," the Will of the Deep Sea said. "It's harmless to you right now."

"Won't I exude the aura of the deep sea?"

"Your ship equipment has never released any aura of a ship girl or a deep-sea creature, has it?"

Xiao Bai fell silent.

Xiaobai was a little conflicted.

Admittedly, Xiaobai is helping Er Gou, the former sister-in-law, by coming to solve the problem that has arisen at the first node. If the will of the deep sea takes away the deep-sea aura of this area, then that aura will naturally be unable to cause trouble for the first node.

This seems like a win-win situation that would make both Guild Master Er Gou and the Deep Sea Will happy, but Xiao Bai feels incredibly uncomfortable whenever he thinks about the Deep Sea Will stuffing so much sticky stuff into his body and filling him up completely.

Xiaobai still wants to be human; she doesn't want to go further down the path of non-humanity.