Elder brother's garrison

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"Are you taking me here?" the young admiral asked.

At this moment, Lu Yun seemed too lazy to communicate with the young admiral, and simply watched the sun on the beach in silence.

The young admiral stood frozen in place, holding the map.

The SUV continued its journey in silence, bumping and slowly driving away from the beach. It followed the road into the lanes of Mianjiang City, and then, amidst Lu Yun's frantic shouts and face-covering cries to the driver, it ran a few red lights and slowly drove away from Mianjiang City.

The off-road vehicle drove toward the location marked on the map.

As the off-road vehicle drove along, the surrounding scenery gradually became familiar.

This is exactly the scene from when we set off on that previous expedition.

The only difference is that the ship girls traveled by water that time, while the young admiral is traveling by land this time.

The SUV was driving along.

It traveled steadily and smoothly, traversing mountains and valleys.

Slowly, as the off-road vehicle drove closer to the battlefield from a few days ago, a strange smell of gunpowder and burning came over.

The young admiral was very familiar with this smell; it was the smell of the ship girls sinking the hulls of the Abyssal Fleet during battles, releasing large amounts of flammable oil that then burned wildly on the sea surface.

It seems that the wreckage of the Abyssal Fleet destroyed in the battle a few days ago has not yet been broken down and recovered by the ocean due to its sheer volume...

The young admiral was thinking to himself.

Then the off-road vehicle also rolled over the last mountain ridge at this moment.

The dense, verdant forest, seemingly layered upon layered, suddenly opened up into a bright, expansive view as a beam of light appeared.

What was exposed to the young admiral was a vast expanse of sky on the distant horizon, a large, seemingly visible moon-like shape, stretching towards the inland coastline, and below that, a clear, jewel-like blue sea.

as well as.

The ruins of a village right before our eyes.

Chapter 1376 Awakening from a Dream

The azure sea stretches far into the distance.

Like a pure blue gemstone, it shines with dazzling brilliance on the water's surface, protected by a moon-like coastline.

What a beautiful view!

However, it's right before our eyes.

It smells burnt.

The smell of gunpowder.

Buildings burned to ashes, their shapes indistinguishable, the sky filled with black dust, and the air so polluted that even a single breath caused excruciating pain in the lungs.

A small village, or rather a small town, sits on land far from the shore, as if it had been ravaged by war, leaving behind a mass of ashes whose shape is indistinguishable.

The SUV came to a bang on the side of the road, stirring up the black dust that had finally settled on the ground.

The young admiral quickly covered his mouth and coughed several times.

"Alright, we've reached the destination. Get off." Lu Yun glanced silently at the young admiral who was coughing with his head down, then gently stepped onto the railing of the carriage and jumped off.

Lu Yun jumped off the train.

The door to the SUV's cargo compartment opened a step later.

Below the carriage, Lu Yun and Bismarck stood on either side of the door, their gazes fixed intently on the young admiral who was coughing with his head down on the carriage.

"Get out of the car quickly." After arriving at the destination, Lu Yun's voice seemed colder than before, filled with an undeniable ruthlessness.

The young admiral covered his mouth and nose, swallowed hard, and silently got off the carriage.

Land on both feet.

The long ride in the off-road vehicle made it difficult for the young admiral to adapt to the solid ground. The moment he stepped off the vehicle, his legs gave way and he fell to the ground with a thud.

"what!"

The young admiral cried out in pain, then realized that his hands and buttocks, which were pressed against the ground, were covered with strangely smelling black ash.

The young admiral raised his hand, looking at the black ash on his palm with a puzzled expression.

The black ash from ordinary burning.

The only smell was burnt, with at most a slight residual gasoline odor.

But at this moment, the black ash on the young admiral's palm, amidst the unpleasant smell of burning, still carried a strange gunpowder scent.

"This, this is..."

“You’ve been an admiral for so long, it’s unlikely you can’t even tell the difference,” Lu Yun said as he and Bismarck walked toward the charred village in the distance. “This village was attacked by the Abyssal Fleet.”

"Attacked by... an Abyssal Fleet?" The young admiral opened his mouth.

The scorched village still radiated a lingering heat, and with the sea breeze blowing in from the sea, large amounts of black ash were constantly blown off the charred buildings and toward where the three were.

The young admiral got up with a bewildered look on his face and followed Lu Yun and Bismarck into the village.

The village, where houses of all sizes once stood, was now covered with black bricks and debris. A thick layer of black ash had accumulated on the streets, and occasionally, sparks of spirituality could be seen among the collapsed buildings.

The village is small; you can barely see its edge at a glance.

“You said before that your method of clearing out the Abyssal Fleet was to surround and trap them.” Walking down the street, Lu Yun said to the young admiral behind him, “Indeed, from a combat perspective, this method is extremely efficient and safe—but the so-called safety only applies to the ship girls in combat.”

"To use this tactic, we first need to drive the deep-sea amphibious ships into this area, then use the surrounding terrain to block their exits, and finally launch a carpet bombing attack on the area that has been reduced to a bay. If all else fails, cut off their exits and wait for the enemy inside to run out of ammunition and supplies." Lu Yun said, looking around. "This method of combat is indeed one of the more effective naval tactics in the history of human warfare."

Speaking of it.

Lu Yun stopped in his tracks.

He turned around and looked at the young admiral following behind him, his gaze sharp and fixed on the young admiral's eyes.

"But that's naval warfare. Their goal is victory, and their enemy is also human!" Lu Yun walked up to the young admiral and shouted at him emphatically, "But we are admirals! Our enemy is the Abyssal Fleet! Our battle with them is not simply for victory and applause, but for protecting our compatriots!"

"The reason why the vast majority of admirals in the world choose naval protracted warfare, trying to keep the battles in the deep sea as much as possible, is precisely because admirals worldwide want abyssal ships to stay away from land and human homes! For this, admirals are willing to bear more troublesome enemies and more dangerous battles!" Lu Yun reached out, grabbed the young admiral by the collar, and shouted fiercely at him, "Low-level abyssal ships only have destruction, destruction, and destruction in their minds! Do you know how terrible the consequences will be if you lead these deadly things to the coast! Just one! Just one abyssal ship ashore! For the humans on the coast, that would be the most terrible disaster!"

“Every inch of land is a treasure for mankind. Our greatest role as admirals is to give those who dare to use the coastal land the greatest sense of security. We are their protector! It is because they trust us enough that we can stand here! It is because of their trust in us that we have our city!”

"Now!"

"It was you, you bastard, who tore apart the trust between the admiral and the people! It was you who trampled underfoot the bond between our admiral's predecessors and the people, built up over hundreds of years! It was you! With your arrogance and dictatorship, with your self-righteous cleverness, who burned down this village!"

"you tell me!"

Why would I arrest you?!

Lu Yun roared loudly, and with each shout, he would grab the young admiral's collar and pull him even closer.

The young admiral turned pale from Lu Yun's angry roar. He was grabbed and shaken in the air by Lu Yun, and finally fell back to the ground with a thud after Lu Yun let go.

Black ash flew everywhere.

"...These...I did these?" The young admiral looked at Lu Yun in confusion.

"Yes."

"My ship girls... it's all because of this..." The young admiral lowered his head, muttering softly, but quickly raised his head, took a few heavy breaths, and hurriedly called out to Lu Yun, "I! I admit my mistake! I was wrong! I... I didn't recognize my responsibility, I... I disappointed my ship girls! I will make it up to them! I will apologize to my ship girls properly, I will compensate those affected by this war, I... I will be a good admiral! Everyone makes mistakes, I can definitely..."

The young admiral spoke hurriedly, as if he were swearing an oath before a medal, his tone solemn and urgent.

but.

Despite the young admiral's admission and apology, Lu Yun's expression remained unchanged.

"...You still don't understand." Lu Yun looked down at the young admiral sitting on the ground, his expression indifferent. "You don't understand at all."

“…Huh?” The young admiral was taken aback.

Lu Yun swiftly stretched out his hands, grabbed the young admiral's arms, and lifted him off the ground.

"Ugh! Ugh!! Uh!!" The young admiral was completely taken aback by Lu Yun's actions. In an instant, he felt his throat being gripped tightly, making it difficult to breathe. His tongue, dripping with saliva, kept sticking out, and his face began to darken into a purplish-red.

"Go and... reflect on your actions properly."

next second.

What the young admiral saw.

It was a spiritual force surging towards me like a vast ocean.

And Lu Yun's pair of dark pupils, which seemed to glow with an eerie light.

The young admiral rolled his eyes.

-

By the time the young admiral came to his senses again...

He was standing on a peaceful street.

An elderly man pushing a snack stall on the side of the street looked at the middle of the street with a smile.

Middle of the street.

Two or three children, boys and girls, chased each other happily, their laughter mingling with the paper windmills in their hands dancing in the wind.

"Hehehe, Old Li's little girl is getting prettier and prettier. She's so young and already has two other kids following her around all day. Looks like she'll find a good family to marry into in the future." An old man pushing a snack stall passed by the young admiral and said with a smile.

"Huh?" The young admiral was taken aback, pointed to himself, "...You, you're talking to me?"

"Otherwise what?" The old man looked at the bewildered young admiral and patted him on the shoulder. "You blockhead, let me tell you, look at the kids your age, they're already old enough to run errands, and you're still standing here dumbfounded. Sigh... When you bring up finding a partner... Cui Niang is shy, and years ago she had a heartless bastard who didn't do her any good. Now she's all alone with a child to take care of... But she and her son are also pitiful..."

The old man patted the young admiral on the shoulder, sighed, and pushed the snack cart away.

Cui Niang?

The young admiral stared blankly as the old man pushed the cart away.

Although the young admiral didn't understand the name Cui Niang at all, for some reason, upon hearing it, he felt a surge of excitement and warmth in his heart, which was particularly invigorating.

The young admiral scratched his head, muttering about Cui Niang in his mind. For some reason, his hands and feet started to walk in one direction on their own until he reached an open doorway.

Inside the room.

A young woman was pacing around the house, holding a crying baby.

"Don't cry, don't cry, don't cry, don't cry..."

The woman held the child and comforted him, then quietly unbuttoned her shirt and began to breastfeed.

"Don't cry...don't cry...Mother will nurse you..." the woman murmured to the baby, then turned away.

She was a young woman with a worried expression on her face, and a pretty and delicate appearance.

The room was filled with mostly needles and embroidery, and these items were piled up in baskets.

The woman turned around and quickly saw the young admiral standing dumbfounded at the door.

"Oh!" The woman stared at the young admiral, her face blank for a moment, then flushed with embarrassment and shame. She quickly turned her back and hurriedly put her unbuttoned shirt back on. "It's Ah Niu... Why didn't you say anything?"

Ah Niu?

Who is Ah Niu?

The young admiral scratched his head.

For some reason, his mind was a complete blank, as if he were immersed in something strange, giving him a dreamlike feeling.

It's just like.

I am not myself.

It's like a completely different person.

Just as the young admiral was about to continue thinking, the crying of a baby being weaned rang out again.

"Oh, no, don't cry, Mother will give it to you right away..." Cui Niang held the baby in her arms, glancing anxiously at the young admiral standing at the door. Tears welled up in her eyes. "Please, don't, don't cry..."

"Me! I'll help you hold the baby!" For some reason, the young admiral was suddenly excited and squeezed into the house. He raised his hands and, under Cui Niang's astonished gaze, took the crying baby into his arms and gently comforted him.

The crying baby actually calmed down in the young admiral's arms.

The flustered Cui Niang watched as the baby gradually calmed down. She looked at the young admiral with some surprise, his large, still somewhat childish eyes shining with a strange light.

"It actually... really... quieted down," Cui Niang murmured.

"Hehe, I'm more popular with kids," the young admiral said for some reason.

"Ah... I see." Cui Niang lowered her head.