Elder brother's garrison

Chapter 960 Missouri has no sense of shame

The exercise between Missouri and Wisconsin lasted a long time. While Missouri, despite the debuff of damaged ship equipment, launched a skill against Wisconsin and brilliantly counterattacked her, on the other side of the sea, the sun had already slowly emerged from the seabed, dragging its bloated body along.

The warm sunlight dispelled the darkness of the sea, illuminating the cool water, and even the ceaseless sea breeze gradually softened at this moment.

Missouri collected the fragments of Wisconsin's ship equipment and reached out to help the ship, which had fallen onto the sea surface, to its feet. A vague sense of crisis, like a cool breeze blowing on the back of her neck, instantly appeared in Missouri's heart.

Missouri paused, still carrying Wisconsin, turned back, and glanced at the water in the distance.

The sea in the distance was calm, and the azure water shimmered under the sunlight.

However, in the blind spot of Yangguang, beneath the azure sea, there were more than a dozen dark figures swimming toward him.

Missouri stared intently.

The dark figures were several deep-sea vessels lurking on the seabed. Like sharks that had smelled blood, they gathered in a group and moved toward him.

—Those were the Abyssal Fleet ships drawn by the sounds of the ship girls' battle.

The sea remained calm on the surface, but the deep-sea vessels beneath the water emitted a dark, ominous glow under the sunlight.

Missouri glanced at Wisconsin behind her.

Wisconsin was unconscious after taking Missouri's heavy blow. Her eyes were closed, and although her breathing was steady, she did not seem to be able to wake up on her own in the short term.

Missouri shifted her gaze back to the sea and slightly raised the gun emplacement beside her.

Just then, the deep-sea amphibious ships that had been approaching Missouri like flying fish suddenly stopped as if they had sensed something, and then frantically fled into the distance, wagging their tails.

"..." Missouri looked at the dozen or so black shadows underwater with some surprise, then glanced thoughtfully at the distant beach behind her, revealing a meaningful smile.

Missouri helped the unconscious Wisconsin back onto the beach.

On the beach, the anxious Miss Yuge watched as Missouri brought Wisconsin back to shore, and hurriedly instructed the ship girls behind her to head towards the sea.

"Quickly erase the traces of the battle, those things will attract the Abyssal Fleet," Miss Fisher Song said to the ship girls.

The ship girls behind Yuge summoned their respective ship equipment, took out professional salvage tools from their equipment, and headed towards the distant sea.

"Admiral, Missouri is back." Missouri put the Wisconsin Ping back on the ground and smiled at Little White beside Miss Fisher Song.

Although Missouri appears to have won the final victory, their current situation is far from carefree.

—After all, she had taken a full-force shell from Wisconsin. Missouri's ship equipment, except for the turret in her hand, was almost completely damaged. Her originally dry and close-fitting clothes were now soaked through in the battle, with a sleeve missing on the left and half a hem missing on the right. In particular, her originally eye-catching black stockings were now torn in the buttons, and her snow-white leg flesh was slightly exposed through the opening of the stockings. The red, white and black colors made her look somewhat desolate and alluring.

"I thought you'd win more easily, Missouri," Little White said with a smile as he walked up to Missouri.

“After activating its abilities, Wisconsin does indeed possess combat power that ranks among the best even in a rookie naval base. Missouri really can’t achieve a more impressive victory.” Missouri said to Shiro with a somewhat helpless smile.

"He said such cool things when he promised he would win," Xiaobai said.

“It is precisely because we are not entirely certain of victory that promises become even more meaningful, Admiral.” Missouri smiled at Whitey, took out two quick-repair devices from his ship equipment space, placed one flat on Wisconsin’s chest and activated it, before slowly putting the other quick-repair device on his head.

“...Admiral.” Missouri glanced at Little White.

"Ok?"

"Thank you," Missouri said softly to Little White.

“…Hehe.” Xiaobai put his hands behind his back and smiled at Missouri.

Thanks to the miraculous effects of the rapid repair device, the turret in Missouri's hands grew like a tree trunk, with silvery-white steel growing inch by inch from the end of her turret, extending and eventually growing back into a complete ship rig.

Missouri breathed a sigh of relief as her ship equipment was repaired. She put away her ship equipment and glanced down at her clothes.

Missouri was not wearing her combat uniform as a ship girl, but just ordinary fabric. Naturally, this fabric could not be repaired by the rapid repair device after it was damaged.

"Missouri, you're soaking wet, go change your clothes."

"Okay." Missouri nodded to Little White and took out a spare set of clothes from her ship equipment.

Missouri straightened up and gently unbuttoned her shirt in front of Little White.

A bang.

Her chest, which seemed tightly bound, expanded instantly like a flower as Missouri's fingertips brushed across it, accompanied by a joyful, liberating sound.

"Eek!" Little White looked at Missouri in shock, and quickly reached out and stood on tiptoe to grab Missouri's wrist. "Missouri! You, are you going to change your clothes here?!"

"is it not OK?"

"This is the wilderness..."

“Ah…but there are only girls here, isn’t that normal?” Missouri tilted her head and smiled at Little White. “Besides, no one else will come here.”

"...But...but..."

"Admiral, Missouri is soaking wet and feeling terrible," Missouri pleaded softly with Little White.

Xiaobai looked at Missouri's expression with great hesitation, and had no choice but to let go of her hand with some grievance.

Missouri smiled at Little White. She gently reached out and took off her shirt.

Just as Missouri took off her shirt, a white light enveloped her body. As soon as Missouri threw off her tattered clothes, another combat suit that Missouri usually wore appeared on her body.

Surprisingly, there was no wardrobe malfunction at all.

Xiaobai looked at Missouri in surprise.

Missouri looked at Little White with a smile.

"...Missouri...this outfit is..."

"These are ship girl outfits that are synchronized with the ship's equipment."

"Ah... I see... No wonder you changed your clothes on the beach, Missouri..." Xiaobai breathed a sigh of relief.

"Oh dear... Missouri said before that this is perfectly normal." Missouri stared at Xiaobai meaningfully, lightly touching her lips with a teasing tone, "...Admiral... are you thinking about something else?"

"..." Little White immediately shook his head rapidly, like a rattle-drum.

Missouri reached out and pressed down on the top of Xiaobai's head, looked into Xiaobai's eyes and smiled, murmuring in a soft voice, "Admiral, even if we're all girls, Missouri will only show her body to you."

"..." Xiaobai covered her face, even the tips of her ears were burning red.

At this time, the repairs on the Wisconsin's ship equipment, which was more severely damaged than that of the Missouri, were also nearly complete.

A confused murmur, typical of Wisconsin, came from behind Xiaobai and Missouri.

Xiao Bai let go of her face, quickly wiped her face to calm herself down, and then squatted down next to Wisconsin.

"Wisconsin, are you awake?"

"...Um...is it morning already?" Wisconsin squinted, her eyes still a little dazed, and stretched out her hands, groping around in the air for a while before slowly sitting up from the beach.

The already-used rapid repair device slid from Wisconsin's chest to between her legs, drawing her attention.

Wisconsin grabbed the rapid repair device.

"……Um?"

The rapid repair device, which had become nothing more than fragile scrap metal, naturally split in two in Wisconsin's palm.

Wisconsin's squinting eyes gradually widened.

"Ah...right, I was just doing a drill..." Wisconsin stared blankly at the quick repair device that had been broken in two, glanced at Little White beside her, and finally raised her head slowly, looking at Missouri in front of her.

"Good morning, Wisconsin." Missouri seemed to be in a good mood as she greeted Wisconsin.

"..." Wisconsin quickly lowered her head. She looked around for a while, somewhat at a loss, clenching her fists and then releasing them, clenching her fists and releasing them again.

--ah.

—I lost.

It took Wisconsin a long time to realize this reality.

With a look of utter despair, Wei Siqunyiyiqi IV Jiu Sijiu Ba Kangxing raised his head and glanced at Missouri, who was smiling.

"...I...I lost..." Wisconsin pouted, looking very disappointed.

"Hmm. The loser..."

"I know, I'll be good." Wisconsin patted the beach in despair, her eyes filled with tears.

Losing is losing. Although Wisconsin did not feel aggrieved by the result of this exercise, the feeling of defeat was like admitting its weakness and incompetence, which still made the proud Wisconsin feel very uncomfortable.

“Stand up,” Missouri said.

Wisconsin stood up from the beach with a whoosh.

"Squat down."

Wisconsin squatted down on the beach with a whoosh.

"stand up."

Wisconsin is swiping.

“Give me your hand.” Missouri extended her hand.

Wisconsin extended a hand, letting Missouri hold it and wave it.

"smile."

"Hahahahahahahaha————"

"Pfft." Missouri couldn't help but cover her mouth and laugh.

Wisconsin, her face flushed, angrily punched Missouri's shoulder several times with her little fists: "What are you laughing at!"

"Hahahaha—" Missouri laughed even harder.

Chapter 961 Under a Coincidence

Missouri did not intend to make things difficult for Wisconsin. After winning the exercise, Missouri did not make any more demanding requests, except for initially teasing Wisconsin like a puppy.

However, even though Missouri generously gave Wisconsin room to live, Wisconsin did not accept Missouri's kindness. Even though Missouri said it was fine as it was, Wisconsin strictly followed the agreement and obediently followed Missouri and Little White like a little shadow, without showing any arrogance.

The group stayed on the beach for a while, while Yuge's subordinates, who had been salvaging ship girl equipment fragments from the sea, returned home laden with a sack of white steel.

Speaking of ship equipment fragments, it is necessary to mention that the ship equipment of ship girls is different from that of deep-sea amphibious ships. When the ship equipment of deep-sea amphibious ships is damaged, it will directly disintegrate into nothingness within a period of time and return to its original state. However, the ship equipment of ship girls is actually constructed and repaired from rare metals. Therefore, even if it is shattered into pieces, the ship equipment fragments of ship girls are still quite precious metal building materials.

—In a sense, they are essentially the metabolic waste of ship girls.

Watching her subordinates salvage the ship equipment fragments from the Missouri and Wisconsin, Miss Fisherie breathed a sigh of relief. Looking at the calm sea, she smiled contentedly.

"That's great...we didn't attract the Deepsea Abyss Ship." Miss Fisher Song was even moved to tears.

This reaction piqued Xiaobai's curiosity.

More than 80 percent of the city’s residents are well aware that the reason why this city, despite its remote location and poor transportation, still occupies an economic high ground is precisely because of the deep-sea amphibious ships that fearlessly come up from the sea and deliver a continuous stream of deep-sea metal.

Logically speaking, since the defense here has reached a level of standardization and even routine, even if the deep-sea amphibious ships appear on this sea, they would just be throwing money away to the people here, right?

"Sister Fisherman's Song".

"Oh, what's wrong?" Yu Ge quickly wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes.

"Don't you like the presence of deep-sea amphibious ships on this coast?" Xiaobai asked.

Yu Ge was stunned for a moment. She and her ship girl subordinates exchanged glances, and an awkward expression appeared on their faces.

It seems that Yuge and her ship girl subordinates have reached a consensus?

—It seems that Yuge's idea is not just her own.

"Ah..." Yuge smiled sheepishly at Xiaobai, "...It's nothing...just a rather selfish thought..."

"..." Xiaobai looked at Yuge's expression strangely, "Self-interest?"

"Hmm." Yu Ge's face flushed slightly, and she glanced shyly at the sea behind her. "Well, actually, if a deep-sea amphibious vessel appears in this area, we'll basically have a large sum of money. We can submit it to the city's central branch, use it to develop the city, bring benefits to the city's residents, and even use it for exchanges with other cities..."

"Oh."

"But," Yu Ge hesitated for a long time, then shook her head sheepishly, "it's too tiring..."

"...Huh?" Xiaobai was taken aback. "Too tired means..."

“Every time a deep-sea amphibious ship appears, it means that for at least a month, the ship girls and other logistics personnel here will have to work 24-hour shifts. Each person often works for three or four days in a row until their body can't take it anymore before they can switch shifts. After resting for a while, they have to rotate back... So..." Miss Yuge's eyes reddened with grievance as she said this, "...basically, there are no days off throughout the year..."

Oh wow.

The truth is, I just don't want to go to work.

Looking at Miss Yuge and the dark circles under the eyes of the ship girls behind her, Xiaobai suddenly realized something.

How could an ordinary ship girl possibly look this haggard and exhausted...?