Elder brother's garrison

"Little Sa, do you like spicy food?"

"kindness."

"How about we have spicy beef hot pot tonight?"

"it is good!"

"Little Sa, how did you and Little White come to be here?"

"By train."

"There are a lot of people here, you two girls shouldn't get taken advantage of."

"kindness."

"Come on, try some of Mom's pickled cucumbers."

……

Xiao Bai pouted. "I'm clearly the real daughter."

"Mom!" Xiaobai walked up to her mother and made her presence known.

Little White's mother is feeding Saratoga her pickled cucumbers with chopsticks.

Saratoga sat in front of her mother, mouth agape, ready to defend herself against any challenge.

It seems that Xiaobai's mother really likes Saratoga.

"Xiaobai, you just got back, go back to your room and change your clothes. You'll help Mom with the chores later." Xiaobai's mother was delighted to see Xiaobai sneaking up to her side.

Xiao Bai was wearing his usual white military uniform. Although it was custom-made and fit him perfectly, Xiao Bai's mother still preferred him to wear casual clothes.

Because of Xiaobai's physique, wearing a military uniform, especially one with a short skirt on the lower half, always feels like she's playing some kind of strange uniform play.

Xiao Bai said "Oh" and went back to the bedroom.

Xiaobai's bedroom is at the very back. It looks like Xiaobai's mother cleans it often; it's very clean and hasn't gotten dusty even though no one has lived there for several months.

Xiao Bai picked out an outfit she used to wear from the closet and came out.

She usually wears military uniform at the naval base, and she dressed quite formally for the trip to Colorado Island because it was a banquet. This is the first time that Xiaobai has worn a casual suit in front of Saratoga.

Xiaobai's home outfit was the kind of childish clothes that suited her real age, the kind that only fifteen or sixteen-year-old girls would wear.

Saratoga, who was crunching on a pickled cucumber, looked at Little White with a curious expression as he saw him change his clothes.

If there's anything wrong with those serious clothes on a daily basis, it's that these overly serious clothes add some unique attributes to Xiaobai's persona, thereby obscuring Xiaobai's most important qualities.

Yes, perhaps Xiaobai gives people a sense of reliability, or a sense of freshness and cuteness, but one thing cannot be ignored: Xiaobai is a younger sister.

Her original character was supposed to be a younger sister!

This timid and shy younger sister trait, cultivated through years of relying on a reliable older brother, can only be truly expressed through simple and natural loungewear.

Because Xiaobai was forced to become an admiral, her age was changed to twenty years old, so she definitely can't wear clothes that only little girls can wear anymore. But it is precisely those discarded clothes that allow Xiaobai's girlish attributes to flourish.

Saratoga put his hands on White's shoulders.

"Huh? What's wrong? Is there something on my shoulder?" Xiaobai asked.

Saratoga shook his head frantically.

“Call me sister,” Saratoga said, her bright blue eyes shining.

"Huh?" Xiaobai asked, puzzled. "Why do we have to call it that? Didn't we agree at the naval base that we could just call it by its name?"

"I want to be called." Saratoga pouted, looking aggrieved.

"If you really have to call someone, you should call them sister-in-law..."

"Waaah..." Saratoga's eyes instantly filled with tears, as if to say that if Little White didn't call her "sister," she would cry right there and then.

"Okay, okay, I'll call it then..." Little White naturally didn't understand why Saratoga was making this request of him, "But you can only call it once..."

I still feel shy calling an acquaintance "sister" all of a sudden.

Xiao Bai thought about it and realized she was getting more and more shy.

She covered her mouth with her fair wrist and looked down at the floor.

"Sister...?" A voice as soft as a mosquito reached Saratoga's ears.

Saratoga felt as if something had pierced through her heart.

She scooped Xiaobai into her arms with a plop and rubbed her face against Xiaobai's.

"Hahaha, don't rub it here, hahaha, my ears are so itchy, hahaha..." Xiaobai felt that Saratoga was acting strangely today.

Xiaobai's mother, who was busy in the kitchen, came out following the sound and couldn't help but laugh when she saw the two of them hugging.

The admiral's job is so special that his family cannot even contact the people working there, and it is possible that his daughter, who lives away from home, will not come home for several years.

For Xiaobai's mother, being able to see her daughter is more joyful than anything else, especially seeing her daughter getting along so well with the ship girls.

—It's more joyful than anything else.

A few hours later, Xiaobai's father returned with two plastic bags of steaks, and that evening Xiaobai's mother made steak hot pot.

Xiao Bai's mother kept asking Xiao Bai how her life had been lately, and Xiao Bai told her mother everything she could.

He kept secrets about the admiral's affairs or his own injuries to himself.

Saratoga understood all this, so he pretended to be stupid along with the little white dog.

Xiao Bai's mother and father weren't stupid either; they knew that some things shouldn't be asked too much.

Overall, it was a very enjoyable night.

The next morning, Little White took Saratoga out.

With only two days off, Xiaobai will take Saratoga on the second day to explore the entire Port-a-Lane.

Compared to Yuxiu, who is several sizes smaller, this task is obviously much more difficult.

"Where to go first?" Saratoga asked Little White as they went out the door.

"We went to the train station yesterday, let's start from where it's next to the train station today," Xiaobai suggested.

“Okay.” Saratoga nodded, but then turned to ask, “Aren’t you going to see your friends?”

Everyone has their own social circle. Xiaobai must have had friends before he became an admiral, right?

“…There’s nothing I can do.” Xiaobai gave a bitter smile. “My information has been deleted, and I can no longer see my friends.”

What reason is there for someone who has disappeared in a social sense to reappear?

“…I’m sorry.” Saratoga didn’t know why she suddenly felt like apologizing.

"It has nothing to do with you... Well, this is my own choice," Xiaobai comforted her.

While comforting him, Xiaobai couldn't help but reminisce about the old days.

I have quite a few friends, I wonder how they are doing now.

……

Luo Lian sneezed.

She pulled out a few tissues from her handbag and wiped her nose.

...Have you been working too hard lately?

Luo Lian looked at the crowd in front of her.

She is currently sitting on a bench on the third floor of the department store.

In the middle of such buildings with high foot traffic, there are always some facilities for passersby to rest. Luo Lian likes to stay here and watch the crowd when she is tired.

Who knows, maybe Xiaobai will just walk by right in front of us.

The crowd in front of her was dense and long, passing by like a dragon.

Luo Lian threw the crumpled paper into the trash can next to her and quietly looked at the crowd in front of her.

After yesterday's events, Luo Lian had a better idea of ​​Xiao Bai's whereabouts.

—I was indeed too hasty these past few days. After thinking about it carefully, the idea of ​​being abducted or something really seems impossible.

After all, I've never seen any human trafficking organization so powerful that it can completely erase a person's social traces.

The child didn't seem to be acting strangely a few days before leaving, so it seems he didn't encounter any crisis at the time.

Luo Lian sighed.

Thinking about it this way, the person or organization that could take Xiaobai away must be either rich or powerful.

It can't be that she's being kept by someone, can it?

Xiaobai isn't exactly the kind of person who really likes money...

There are too few clues; you really can't guess anything just by thinking about it.

Luo Lian looked up, feeling a pang of sadness.

Actually, there is one possibility.

Luo Lian simply didn't want to think about it.

...This kid, Xiaobai, doesn't he really want to find her on his own?

Thinking of this, Luo Lian bit her lip.

Impossible, Xiaobai has no reason to hate me.

When I was with Xiaobai, I clearly controlled my impulses many times and acted like a normal person. She would never have found out that I was a pervert.

Even if they find out, someone like Xiaobai would definitely not hate me.

Is that right?

Thinking of this, Luo Lian quickly encouraged herself.

"I must be overthinking it." Luo Lian patted her face and stood up. "Well then, I'll keep trying today."

"Anyway, let's try to sneak into the police station first," Luo Lian muttered to herself. "Maybe my family is involved in some kind of criminal organization that was busted by the military..."

...Go to the police station.

I wonder if the hypnosis techniques I learned a long time ago to trick newbies into bed... cough cough, to help newbies get a good rest, are still working.

Honestly, why do the skills I teach for newbies always end up being used in weird ways?

Luo Lian thought for a moment and then walked towards the entrance of the department store.

……

"Saratoga, have you found her?"

……

Just as Luo Lian took a step towards the door, a very subtle whisper, so subtle that a normal person wouldn't notice it, reached Luo Lian's ears.

There were just too many voices like that in the department store.

Logically, such a sound should have been like one of the many noises in the crowd, drowned out by the even louder noise, and wouldn't have attracted anyone's attention.

However, Luo Lian admits that she is no longer a normal person.

She's a pervert.

A pervert is someone who can hear sounds that normal people can't hear, isn't that right?

—That's Xiaobai's voice.

Absolutely, Luo Lian would bet her own life on it.

In an instant, like a traveler who had been traveling in the desert for more than ten years and was about to die of thirst, Luo Lian's heart began to pound like lightning.

plop ...

Intense and stimulating.

This is the sound of life.

Chapter 122 has finally arrived!

Sound is a strange thing. Perhaps it was just a coincidence that the moment Luo Lian heard Xiao Bai's voice was just a few seconds when the noisy crowd around her was a little quieter than before, which allowed Xiao Bai's voice to come through.