Elder brother's garrison

The enemy has broken free!

Bai Ying was the first to react. The moment the black ice crystal shattered, Bai Ying, who was standing not far from Xiao Bai, quickly took two steps forward, reached out her hand, and with a forceful push, blocked Xiao Bai behind her. Then, she controlled the land-based ship equipment behind her to aim the long main cannon at the black whale that had broken free.

Boom!

Boom!

Bai Ying's ground-based cannon fired, and a swift fireball shot out from the barrel amidst a tremor on the water's surface. It traced a rapid trajectory in the sky, traversed the long stretch of sea, and slammed into the body of the black mechanical whale in the distance with both force and stability.

Sparks instantly ignited on the black whale's metal exterior.

With a roar of alarm and anger, the immense force of Bai Ying's cannonball overturned the black whale onto the surface of the water, its massive body slamming into the water and creating towering black waves.

The next second, a group of carrier-based aircraft, which took off from Bai Ying's land-based ship equipment, arrived late and bombed down like rain. Amidst a series of deafening explosions, Bai Ying completely blasted the surface of the water where the black whale was located upside down.

Bai Ying truly lived up to her reputation as a land-based ship... cough cough, an aviation battleship. With the support of her high base attributes, even if she were alone, she could potentially create an attack intensity equivalent to a fleet in a short period of time. Brilliant flames continuously shattered the black mechanical whale, and the flames engulfed a small area of ​​the sea for a moment, obscuring everyone's vision.

however.

Even amidst such powerful and rapid bombardment, the roars of the deep-sea amphibious ships emanating from the flames were not diminished in the slightest.

even.

A roar emanated from the flames.

There is also a sense of exhilaration, as if the body is slowly building up anger in preparation for a counterattack because it is being subjected to excessive beatings.

Xiao Bai stared blankly at the sea of ​​fire before her, realizing that Bai Ying was proving what she had just said.

Bai Ying's damage output, while not quite reaching the level of Xiao Bai's fully upgraded land-based ship equipment, was still far superior to that of ordinary ship girls. However, even with such formidable attack power, she still couldn't inflict any substantial damage on the mechanical whale engulfed in flames.

"Are normal artillery fire and carrier-based aircraft bombing completely ineffective against that thing?" Xiao Bai hid behind Bai Ying, staring blankly at the sea of ​​fire in the distance, lost in thought for a moment.

"It seems there's still some impact, you see, she's getting angrier and angrier." President Er Gou also took the opportunity to slip behind Bai Ying's ship rigging, and squeezed into the center of Bai Ying's ship rigging. "In short, she's no longer capable of fighting. Xiao Luo Lian, help that peaceful birth type deep-sea dean to the side, let me come in and hide."

That's the advantage of land-based shipboard equipment.

Putting aside issues like flexibility, it's certainly reliable for hiding from people.

Given the situation, the severely damaged ship captain, Er Gou, was indeed of little help. If she were forced to stay outside, she might become a burden. Therefore, Xiao Bai and Bai Ying had no objection to Er Gou going to find Luo Lian and Shen Hai Yamato for mutual support.

"Bai Ying, um, how much do you know about that thing?" Xiao Bai was a little flustered, seeing that even Bai Ying could only suppress it and couldn't harm the Deep Sea Dean. Taking advantage of the bombardment, she turned to Bai Ying and asked, "You should have a way to deal with her, right?"

"Yes." Bai Ying turned her head, looked at Xiao Bai's innocent face, thought for a while, then frowned and simply stretched out her hand to Xiao Bai, "Give it back to me."

"Huh? What?"

"A knife," Bai Ying said to Xiao Bai, "the knife I gave you before."

"A knife?" Xiao Bai stared blankly at Bai Ying's outstretched hand, blinked, and suddenly realized, "Ah... I see..."

Xiaobai understood again.

As Luo Lian said, growth in experience is inseparable from the number of failures. The reason why most deep-sea ships cannot become stronger is not because they lack comprehension, but because compared to ship girls who have the protection of being heavily damaged, the failure of deep-sea ships basically means death. Most deep-sea ships have no chance to reflect on themselves or evolve on their own.

However, this time, the collective boss, through some kind of relationship with the White Deep Sea Deans, gained access to the thousands upon thousands of battle experiences the Deans had accumulated during this event, including being sunk by the ship girls.

Even human hands develop calluses to protect the body after doing a lot of physical labor, and the same is true for deep-sea amphibious ships. At this moment, the collective boss, both in terms of physical reaction and the strength of its ship equipment, has undergone tremendous changes due to the countless failures, thus developing an almost instinctive and perfect resistance to this type of attack.

This is already a powerful qualitative change, similar to biological evolution.

In other words.

Conventional ship girl attack methods are no longer effective in threatening this ship girl.

The moment this collective boss appeared, she was already in an invincible position against the ship girls.

but.

This does not mean that this deep-sea boss is completely unbeatable.

Although her body is no longer afraid of artillery fire and bombardment, or even torpedoes and missiles, and other attacks from ship girls, this deep-sea composite is still vulnerable to attacks from "non-ship girl" targets.

Take a military knife, for example.

The deep-sea special attack knife that Bai Ying gave to Xiao Bai.

Compared to the ship girls' firearms, which have a long attack range and are easy to use, the military knife that Bai Ying gave to Xiao Bai is far inferior in terms of both skill and attack range. However, it is precisely because of the unpopularity of this military knife that it has become the only physical attack method that the enemy has not stacked damage resistance for among the physical attack methods that Xiao Bai can find at this stage.

Bai Ying breathed a slight sigh of relief after seeing a flash of understanding in Xiao Bai's eyes.

"Give it to me." Bai Ying hurriedly spread her hands towards Xiao Bai, pointing to the deep-sea aggregate that she had temporarily suppressed with endless artillery fire and bombardment in the distance, "My firepower can't suppress her for long."

"Uh? Bai Ying, are you going to do it yourself...?"

Compared to Bai Ying's haste, a hint of embarrassment and awkwardness flashed across Xiao Bai's face.

"No time, I'll explain later." Bai Ying hurriedly spread her hands again. "It's in your ship rigging, right? Take it out."

"..." Xiao Bai's eyes were complicated, then she nervously opened her ship equipment space and timidly pulled out a sheathed military knife. "Uh... it's still here, but Bai Ying, you..."

Before Xiaobai could finish speaking...

Bai Ying swiftly reached out and snatched the sheathed military knife from Xiao Bai's hand with a snap.

"You step back, I'll take over." Bai Ying coldly and coolly tossed out these two sentences to the bewildered Xiao Bai, then slowly picked up the hilt of her military knife and turned her gaze toward the Deep Sea Dean, who was helplessly furious in the sea of ​​fire in the distance.

"Okay...that's fine now..."

Bai Ying murmured to herself, then gripped the hilt and drew the general's sword from its sheath.

Then, there was a popping sound.

After Bai Yingding unsheathed the sword, the entire sheath fell vertically off the hilt.

then.

With a thud.

Fell into the sea.

Bai Ying stared blankly at the blade.

All that could be seen was the hilt of the knife.

The once slender and gleaming blade was now gone.

Only at the point where it connects to the hilt remains a small section that could barely be described as resembling a small dagger.

"..." Bai Ying.

Chapter 1163 I'm not going to hold you back!

Regarding the previous reason why Bai Ying gave this military knife to Xiao Bai.

In fact, there are still some.

Earlier, when Bai Ying first realized Xiao Bai's identity, it was when she saw Xiao Bai take out the certificate of acting city lord from the ship's equipment.

After confirming Xiao Bai's identity, Bai Ying changed her strategic plan from temporarily staying at Xiao Bai's house to becoming a long-term guest. As a reason for Xiao Bai to accept her, Bai Ying simply threw away the most valuable thing she owned at the time, the military knife that Xiao Bai had bitten into.

As for why the ultimate weapon against the boss was given away so easily to someone else, the reason, besides being "driven by emotions and acting impulsively" by about 60%, also included trust in the newbie.

After all, Xiao Bai's real identity is the world's number one naval base. But since Bai Ying has already seen through Xiao Bai's identity in the intergenerational era, she naturally knows that Xiao Bai also possesses Bai Ying's prototype ship equipment—the legendary world's first example, the ship equipment of an aviation battleship.

In other words.

At that time, Bai Ying already knew that Xiao Bai possessed absolute combat power that surpassed her own.

That's why, since Xiaobai is such a powerful figure, Bai Ying felt at that time that perhaps she didn't need to take on the task of completing the mission against the Deep Sea Aggregate. Anyway, given the progress of the world's number one naval base, they would inevitably encounter the Deep Sea Aggregate sooner or later, so she might as well just give the knife to her.

Correct.

That's exactly what Bai Ying thought at the time.

With a rather passionate and somewhat chuunibyou-esque thought, like "Young man, the world is in your hands to protect," he gave the great sword to Xiaobai.

However, after Bai Ying started spending time with Xiao Bai, through their daily interactions, watching Xiao Bai interact with the ship girls, and observing the interactions between the ship girls in Xiao Bai's household, Bai Ying gradually discovered that Xiao Bai's behavior was not as courageous and correct as the legendary hero.

The little white girl that Bai Ying saw did indeed possess considerable power, but once that power was removed, she was just an ordinary human girl who did not possess any of the characteristics of a human savior.

Compared to words like brave, righteous, and fearless, Bai Ying felt that derogatory terms like being bullied, being used to relying on others, and living in constant fear were more suitable for her.

If the scholars and experts who have devoted themselves to the study of history over the past five hundred years knew that it was this weak little girl, who had nothing special about her except for her pretty face, who led humanity out of the five hundred-year gap in time, they would probably be so angry that they would jump out of their coffins.

Therefore, Bai Ying felt...

Xiaobai is not cut out to be a hero.

Asking her to go up and fight the deep-sea aggregate single-handedly with a military knife is really asking too much of her.

As expected, you have to do these things yourself.

With this in mind, Bai Ying asked Xiao Bai for the military knife she had given her and made up her mind.

Then, when Bai Ying drew her military knife, she looked at the small blade that was left, which resembled a dagger more than a military knife, and fell into deep thought.

This dagger.

It seems that someone carefully gnawed on it with their small front teeth, resulting in an unexpectedly sharp edge.

Peeling an apple shouldn't be a problem at least.

Above the mysterious sea, where thunder roars and roars.

Xiao Bai and Bai Ying remained in the same position.

No one spoke.

Bai Ying's eyes were dull.

Xiao Bai blushed and sweated profusely.

After a while.

Bai Ying, clutching the dagger that was now only a small piece, turned around expressionlessly and looked at Xiao Bai behind her.

"Waaaaah, I'm so sorry!!!" Unable to bear the pressure of the silence, Xiaobai covered her face with tears streaming down her face, lowering her head with deep shame. "I...I...I didn't know this had this use before...So when you gave it to me, Bai Ying, I really just thought of it as a decoration...I...I was wrong...It was my fault..."

"..." Bai Ying.

Damn it.

Bai Ying had considered that this little girl wasn't cut out to be a hero.

But she never expected that this bratty little girl would be so talented at becoming a burden.

As the saying goes, when God closes a door, He always opens a window.

Bai Ying sighed deeply.

"you……"

"I'm so sorry! I'll make it up! I really will! I'll find another way to deal with that older sister! I'm so sorry! I'm so, so sorry!!" Xiao Bai was so ashamed that she almost knelt down before Bai Ying on the spot.

"...It's...okay." Bai Ying tried her best to keep her breathing normal. "Lift your head."

Little White timidly raised his head.

"Bai Ying..."

"Whether it's a dagger or a military knife, the effect is about the same." Bai Ying gripped the hilt of the knife, subtly observing the small section of the blade attached to the hilt. "Don't worry."

Under Xiao Bai's watchful gaze, Bai Ying lightly stomped her foot, and with a few whooshing sounds, the massive land-based ship equipment behind her instantly separated from her body.

Bai Ying, gripping her military knife, stepped out from under the protection of the land-based ship's equipment.

"Go wait for me in the ship's equipment compartment." Bai Ying said indifferently, as if venting her dissatisfaction, and pushed Xiao Bai behind her before slowly walking towards the sea of ​​fire in front of her.

"Ah, Bai Ying! Um... I..."

"I can manage on my own!" Bai Ying didn't even give Xiao Bai a chance to speak before speeding up and running towards the sea of ​​fire.

Bai Ying's land-based ship equipment remained in place, maintaining its full-power suppression mode against the deep-sea ensemble.

In the very center of the land-based ship equipment, Luo Lian lay on the edge of the equipment. After watching Bai Ying's figure grow further and further away, she withdrew her gaze.

"Are we holding them back?" Luo Lian sat back in her ship's equipment, blinking as she looked at the silent Deep Sea Yamato lying on the ground opposite her, and at the Second Dog President sitting on the other side, humming a little tune and rummaging around in his ship's equipment space.

"There's no other way. If you and I were just thrown onto the water in our current state, we might die in an accident." President Er Gou replied while rummaging through his treasure bag. "That kid who looks a lot like Xiao Bai may be strict with her words, but she has a kind heart."

"..." Luo Lian frowned again and again.

Luo Lian felt a little uncomfortable.

"Ah, found it." Just then, President Er Gou's voice rose two octaves.

"Did you find a nuclear warhead? Or a hydrogen bomb? Or a communication device that can contact powerful thugs?" Luo Lian heard the voice of Guild Master Er Gou and immediately raised her head, looking at Guild Master Er Gou with hope in her eyes.