Elder brother's garrison

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"...Shy, aren't you?" Duan Shuiliu hesitated for a moment, then gently patted Xiaobai's shoulder and introduced him to Xiaobai, "He is the eighth admiral of the advanced world, and his name is Li Hua."

“Li Hua…” Xiao Bai closed her eyes, thought for a moment, “Hmm… why does this name sound so familiar…”

"The characters often appear in the college entrance examination English essay, and they are also occasionally used in the essay questions of high school and junior high school English exams."

"Oh! I remember now." Xiaobai suddenly realized.

“You are all top ten admirals in the world, and you will have the opportunity to get to know him in the future.” Duan Shuiliu did not linger on the topic of Admiral Li Hua. She turned her gaze to the red-haired female admiral and continued to introduce him to Xiaobai, “This is the fifth admiral in the world, Nanxing.”

"Hello, Sister Nanxing! My name is Lu Lin, and I'm very happy to meet you."

Xiao Bai quickly extended his hand to the red-haired female admiral.

The female admiral named Nanxing stared blankly at Xiaobai, who was obediently reaching out to her.

In the corridor behind the three people.

Ling and Lian's frantic cries as they were relentlessly pursued by the ruthless guild leader, Er Gou, continued unabated.

"Help me—"

"Oh no! Someone, help! Waaaaaah!"

"I really... can't run anymore..."

"..."

Hearing the helpless cries in his ear, Nanxing swallowed almost imperceptibly.

Nanxing nodded slightly, then extended her snow-white palm and touched Xiaobai briefly with her first few fingers, as if it were a handshake.

After a brief and perfunctory handshake, Admiral Nanxing didn't say anything more to Xiaobai. She withdrew her hand, silently bent down to pick up the cigarette butt that had just fallen to the ground, gently blew off the ash, and held it between her lips. Then, her wandering gaze relaxed again and fell on the empty floor.

"……I slept."

Nanxing spoke calmly, pointing to the room in the hallway.

"Which one is empty?"

"The rooms over there are all empty." Xiaobai pointed enthusiastically to one side of the corridor and said to Admiral Nanxing with a smile, "Sister Nanxing, are you going to live on this floor too? Then we'll be neighbors."

"..." Nanxing silently took a drag of her cigarette, gently exhaling a wisp of white smoke. Her wandering gaze slowly drifted to Xiaobai, and she hesitated for a moment before looking at Xiaobai's face. "...I'm glad you don't mind the cigarettes."

After saying that, Nanxing walked to an empty room, took the key handed to him by the black-clad maids, and opened the door.

"Ah! Wait, wait a minute, isn't that Sister Nanxing over there? It's Sister Nanxing, right!"

The moment Nanxing opened the door, Ling and Lian, who were being chased by President Er Gou at the end of the corridor, spotted Nanxing and immediately raised their arms and shouted in their direction.

"Sister Nanxing! Help!"

"Only you can save us!"

"Nan-Xing-Sister, please save us!"

Lian and Ling ran as fast as they could, shouting anxiously towards the corridor.

However, Nanxing completely ignored Lian and Ling's cries for help, not even turning his head, and walked into the room, slamming the door shut.

"There is a flaw!"

At this moment, President Er Gou finally caught Lian and Ling, whose movements had become somewhat unpredictable due to their loud cries for help and their attempts to dodge and run. With a sudden leap, President Er Gou used a beautiful traditional Mu family technique in mid-air, a carp-like somersault, and quickly pounced on Lian and Ling. The three of them immediately tumbled together and fell to the ground in a heap.

"Don't come any closer!!!"

"Aiya ya ya ya ya————"

……

Duan Shuiliu gently covered Xiaobai's eyes, who was looking towards the end of the corridor.

"Don't look."

Duan Shuiliu reminded him.

"Oh, oh, oh..." Xiaobai turned her head shyly, scratching her slightly red cheeks, and smiled at Duan Shuiliu, "Um... that, Sister Duan."

"Ok?"

"Does Sister Nanxing not like me very much either..." Xiaobai said, rubbing her hands together, somewhat embarrassed.

“No, she’s like that with everyone.” Duan Shuiliu answered this quite readily.

"Oh, oh... I see." Xiaobai nodded, somewhat relieved. "Sister Nanxing is really a remarkable person... She seems very reliable. Just now, when Sister Lian and Sister Ling called for help, they said that only Sister Nanxing could save them..."

"Because Munago really likes Nanxing's type of woman," Duan Shuiliu said. "If she were to stand up for her, Munago would probably decisively give up on Ling and Ren and go directly to harass Nanxing."

"Uh..." Xiaobai broke out in a cold sweat.

That makes sense now.

Although Admiral Nanxing wasn't the most beautiful woman Xiaobai had ever seen, her features and figure were quite alluring, making her the kind of woman who was very attractive. In addition, her full breasts and perky buttocks made her exactly the target of the "Oppai Alliance" like Guild Leader Er Gou's.

No wonder Nanxing didn't even bother with what was happening at the other end of the corridor and just went straight into a room.

However, on the other hand...

—So, the president's infamy has reached this level among the world's top ten naval bases...?

how to say.

The fact that this formidable female admiral was actually his legal sister-in-law was quite something.

My brother is really an amazing person in every sense of the word.

Xiao Bai's feelings began to become complicated.

"Have you met the leaders of the families here yet?" Duan Shuiliu asked Xiaobai as she was marveling at the situation.

"Ah, I've met him." Xiaobai nodded to Duan Shuiliu. "He was a very kind old man. Have you met Sister Duan yet?"

"No, it's my first time here."

"Ah... that grandpa must have always lived underground. If you want to see him, Sister Duan, I happen to remember the way and can take you there," Xiaobai said.

"No need." Duan Shuiliu shook his head. "Researchers are all very busy. I'll just stay here."

Duan Shuiliu didn't seem to have any interest in meeting Ella's grandfather.

That makes sense. Duan Shuiliu wasn't originally the type to be overly curious or fond of gossip.

After choosing an empty room near Xiaobai's room, Duan Shuiliu simply put down his luggage, ostensibly to scout out the location, then waved goodbye to Xiaobai and left the floor alone.

Xiao Bai originally wanted to go out for a stroll with Duan Shuiliu, but since she had just seen many novel things underground, she needed some space and time to digest what she had learned, so she chose to stay here alone.

Logically speaking, the admiral should be able to share a room with the ship he married.

However, the rooms provided by Ella's family were simply too spacious, large enough for four or five people to share without feeling crowded. Yet, as the admiral, Xiaobai still got a room to himself.

Xiaobai had previously worried that living alone in such a large room might be too lonely, but now, she was actually quite happy to have a room to herself.

After settling her ship girls in another room, Shiro took a rune pen from Missouri, returned to her room, and closed the door.

Perhaps due to their unique cultural traditions and specialized skills, Ella's house, where runes are mastered, is furnished with a fairly large writing desk in every room, along with the Four Treasures of the Study (brush, ink, paper, and inkstone), and a wonderful, bookish fragrance permeates the room.

Xiao Bai sat down at the writing desk. She picked up the ink stick and smelled it. This was just ordinary ink, not the exquisite rune-inscribed ink sticks in the underground base.

After replacing the ordinary ink stick with rune-inscribed ink, Xiaobai laid out a sheet of Xuan paper and picked up the brush.

Xiao Bai had no prior experience using pen, ink, paper, and inkstone. Drawing runes in the base below was his first time, and this was his second.

"Okay!" Xiaobai gave himself a boost and focused his attention on the writing desk.

Water is poured and ink is ground.

Xiao Bai picked up a brush, dipped it in the inkstone, and then, recalling the rune words he had seen in the underground base, began to write rapidly on the paper.

The runic language contains a vast amount of knowledge. A single rune represents a very specific concept and often cannot complete a series of actions. Therefore, in order to use the complete runic language, users often need to string runes together to form a rune string with a series of behavioral concepts to achieve their goal.

Of course, these are not things that beginners need to consider.

While rune language is fascinating and interesting, to be honest, there's something even more interesting and fascinating about Xiaobai than rune language itself.

For example, a daughter who can cause an explosion at sea just by snapping her fingers.

For example, there are thousands upon thousands of obedient and well-behaved deep-sea maid teams.

For example, a super ship-mounted laser cannon that can shoot from one end of the sea to the other.

Therefore, runic language is not very attractive to Xiaobai. The reason why Xiaobai is now trying to write runic language is simply because he has just learned that runic language is a craft that can absorb spiritual energy.

Absorb spiritual energy!

It absorbs spiritual energy, doesn't it?

When Xiaobai first learned about this, it was as if a whole new world had opened up for her; she was overjoyed.

Because Xiaobai currently has an abundance of mental energy, an abundance that's practically explosive!

However, mental energy is not like money, where the more you save, the better. If mental energy is too strong, it can indeed affect the quality of life.

In fact, Xiaobai had been suffering from insomnia caused by her excessive mental energy for a very long time.

Some time ago.

By chance, Shiro learned a technique of giving a kiss before bed, which allows him to induce sleepiness by channeling his excess daily mental energy into Deep Sea Yamato.

At first, Xiaobai did enjoy a period of restful sleep, but this was only a temporary solution. Even though Abyssal Yamato's ship equipment had high growth potential and could accept the massive amount of mental energy Xiaobai poured in, she was still just an Abyssal Dean. Even she couldn't withstand such a large amount of mental energy being injected by Xiaobai every night. Over time, Abyssal Yamato's mental energy digestion couldn't keep up with Xiaobai's supply, and Abyssal Yamato would need to "hibernate" once, sleeping soundly for a few days. During these days, Xiaobai would lose her sweetheart and start having insomnia again.

Therefore, Xiaobai is currently very eager to find a new way to consume mental energy.

And now.

"Brand new methods" are right in front of us!

Xiao Bai grabbed a calligraphy brush and, based on what he had seen in the dictionary, drew several talismanic characters on the rice paper in one go.

Some of these runes and characters have simple strokes, while others have complex ones. Because Xiaobai is not proficient in calligraphy, his writing is crooked and awkward, and because he has not infused his spiritual energy, it looks imposing at all.

That's all for now.

Xiao Bai held the brush, nodded in satisfaction at the Xuan paper, then gently touched the first rune stroke with the brush, activated the Admiral Network, and injected his mental energy.

Having learned from his previous experience of shattering rune characters with a single strike, Xiaobai understood that the attached characters also had their own upper limit on the amount of spiritual energy they could absorb. This time, Xiaobai carefully controlled his spiritual energy and slowly poured it into the attached characters in front of him.

As Xiaobai poured his mental energy into the characters, the crooked runes in front of him slowly began to change with agility. A feeling of being drawn in, like a small vortex, began to appear on the surface of the characters, and as Xiaobai poured in his mental energy, the feeling of being drawn in by the vortex became stronger and stronger.

A few seconds later, Xiaobai picked up his brush and looked at the small vortex of text on the rice paper that was almost turning into a propeller. The suction effect of the text had reached its peak, and there was also a faint sense of destruction, as if it was about to suck the rice paper to pieces.

"Hmm... this must be the limit..." Xiaobai dared not inject any more mental energy. She frowned, squinted, and assessed her mental energy state. "It feels... like writing a rune character at its peak doesn't require that much mental energy..."

Xiao Bai's mental energy was still very strong, as if the amount of that single rune was completely insignificant.

"Hmm... Come to think of it, the rotating runes I drew underground didn't seem to deplete much of my mental energy... The mental energy consumption of the rune characters was less than I expected..." Xiaobai said with a hint of helplessness, squinting her eyes, before looking at the second rune character on the Xuan paper.

"Let's try one more."

Chapter 1443 Little White's Territory

The second script on the Xuan paper has more strokes than the first script.

The third rune script has more strokes, and so on, until the last rune script, whose strokes are so dense that it looks like a small lump of coal from a distance.

Xiaobai deliberately chose these rune fonts with increasing stroke counts because she wanted to know if there was a positive relationship between the number of strokes in a rune font and the amount of spiritual energy it could absorb.

Technological progress often stems from humanity's aspiration for a better life.

At this moment, Xiaobai is unusually motivated, hoping to have better sleep quality in the future.

Xiao Bai touched the second rune with the tip of his pen, and then poured his mental energy into the rune.

Soon, as Xiaobai poured his mental energy into the second rune, it began to faintly glow with a white light, and the brightness of the light increased with the infusion of Xiaobai's mental energy.

A few seconds later, at the moment when the light was at its brightest, Xiaobai picked up the calligraphy brush.

"Hmm..." Xiaobai gently tapped his lips with the pen, frowned as he looked at the second rune, and thought for a long time, "...Hmm, let's try the third one."

Xiao Bai then infused his spiritual power into the third, fourth, fifth, and finally the little coal ball rune characters.

In an instant, the Xuan paper in Xiaobai's palm seemed to be engaged in a battle of gods. Several runes took effect on the Xuan paper, causing it to tremble with a lively feeling, shine with a dazzling light, be shrouded in thick fog, be as soft as water, and be as hard as steel...

Looking at the rows of runes in front of him, Xiaobai showed no joy, but instead sighed slightly in disappointment.

"The number of strokes in the rune doesn't seem to have anything to do with the amount of spiritual energy absorbed..." Xiaobai murmured softly. "The number of strokes in the rune should only affect the rune's effect itself..."

Somewhat disappointed, Xiao Bai put the sheet of Xuan paper, which looked like a battle between gods, aside, then covered his mouth, leaned back in his chair, and pondered for a while.

After infusing his mental energy into that row of runes, Xiaobai finally felt that his mental energy had decreased slightly.