Elder brother's garrison

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"Ah... I knew he wouldn't tell the truth." A look of disappointment appeared on Xiaobai's face.

“Admiral, things have come to this point, it seems we have no choice but to use that method,” Missouri said to Little White.

"Hmm... okay." Xiaobai looked at Shenhai Longxiang with some helplessness and nodded.

"What, what are you going to do??" Abyssal Ryujo immediately became alert upon seeing Missouri and Shiro whispering to each other. She nervously looked around. "Let me make this clear first, no matter how you beat me, I will uphold the integrity of the Abyssal Dean! This time is different from before. I will absolutely not bow down to humans and ship girls, and I will never admit defeat to you!"

After saying that, Deep Sea Dragon closed its eyes tightly, shrinking its head as if waiting to die.

A series of whooshing sounds rang out in front of the Deep Sea Dragon.

The ear-piercing sound of tables and chairs being moved across the floor, like a series of torture instruments being carried, made Deep Sea Dragon's liver and gall bladder tremble.

—I've heard for a long time that humans are cruel. Even such powerful ship girls have submitted to them. They must have cruel interrogation methods... Probably similar to the tongue-pulling, hand-stomping, and oil-boiling cauldrons in hell...

With its eyes closed, Deep Sea Dragon's breathing became heavier, and it subconsciously gritted its teeth.

No!

I am the Dean of the Deep Sea!

They are the heroes of the deep sea, the pride of the deep sea!

We can't let the deep sea down!

This situation is different from hell. The one judging me is not a high and mighty god, but the opposite side of my camp, my enemy. Although the torture will be very painful, I... I absolutely cannot surrender!

Deep Sea Dragon felt his mind become incredibly clear in that instant.

No matter what tortures they use, I will never, ever lose to those despicable ship girls and humans!

Deep Sea Dragon made up its mind in its heart.

The sound of the tables and chairs being moved stopped, and a strange smell wafted out.

"Wow~ Admiral, this is so delicious!"

"This custard bun is amazing! The filling is sweet and soft, and the skin is so thin and fluffy, like cotton..."

"Admiral, ah—"

……

The ship girls' chatter rang out in front of Abyssal Ryujo.

At the same time, what spread in front of the Deep Sea Dragon was a strange and mesmerizing fragrance that it had never experienced before.

Deep-sea dragon was startled and instinctively opened its eyes in curiosity.

Just then, the ship girl and admiral who had just interrogated him brought out a large table and chairs from the corner of the room, and the other ship girls also gathered around and sat down at the table.

The table was filled with steamers and small plates, which were filled with shimmering, colorful objects, some round and some in pieces, each emitting a strange fragrance that seemed to be able to steal the soul of a deep-sea dragon.

The ship girls grabbed their chopsticks and began to slowly savor the colorful objects on the table. They put the pretty things into their mouths, chewed gently, and chatted and laughed with Xiaobai.

The deep-sea dragon began to drool uncontrollably.

"Huh? This...this is..." Deep Sea Dragon was starting to get curious about her own physiological behavior. She stared wide-eyed at the ship girls on the table.

"These? Ah... Senior Ryujo, you've been living in the deep sea all this time, you probably don't know this, right?" Missouri noticed the eager-looking Ryujo from the deep sea, and she smiled as she introduced these to him, "These are human food, things that have been developed over thousands of years and refined through generations of human inheritance. They have many wonderful flavors."

“Beauty, the taste of beauty is…” Deep Sea Dragon looked longingly at Missouri’s chopsticks. For some reason, she felt her stomach was empty, lonely, and cold. A longing surging in her blood was rushing through her body.

"Gulu gulu gulu..."

The deep-sea dragon's belly growled.

“Ryujo-senpai originally had ship-mounted power to support him, so he didn’t need to eat, right?” Missouri asked the Deep Sea Ryujo.

"Eating behavior is..."

"It's about getting energy through eating."

"Hmph! I am an excellent abyssal dean. I can obtain energy by relying on the abyssal aura obtained from the ship equipment. I don't need to go through such a low-level feeding process at all...%..." By the end, the abyssal drool had overflowed from its open mouth, and it could no longer speak clearly.

“Ryujo-senpai, you feel hungry right now,” Missouri said to Deep Sea Ryujo, laughing. “Your body is craving food.”

"Liar! Liar! We've never eaten anything, so why would we crave this strange thing..."

"That's precisely why I crave it—because I've never tasted it before," Missouri said with a smile, asking Deep Sea Ryujo, "Would you like something to eat, Senior Ryujo?"

"I...no, I won't..."

"Gurgle gurgle gurgle gurgle..."

A long series of rumbling stomach noises interrupted the Deep Sea Dragon's struggles, and it lay down on the ground.

"No...it's impossible...we won't lose, absolutely not..."

The Deep Sea Dragon pounded its head against the floor.

"...Uh, well...if you're willing to tell us where you learned your human language, we can give you some to eat." Attracted by Deep Sea Dragon's actions, Xiaobai turned around and cautiously said to Deep Sea Dragon, who was banging his head on the floor, "This should be a trivial little secret for you, right?"

Xiao Bai had barely finished speaking.

The Deep Sea Dragon, which was pounding the floor, paused.

Chapter 1506 Ning Zhen is a Little Genius

Deep-sea amphibious ships are wondrous creatures that thrive in the ocean, nourished by the atmosphere of the deep sea. Their physiological structure is not much different from that of ship girls, and can be roughly divided into two parts: "human parts" and "ship equipment parts".

Of course.

In lower-level deep-sea amphibious ships, the human body and ship equipment are not clearly separated. In terms of life form, only a certain special type of deep-sea amphibious ship and all deep-sea deans have evolved to the point where the body and ship equipment are completely separated.

In other words, the Deep Sea Deans, like the ship girls, possess basic physiological functions similar to those of humans.

The deep-sea deans can eat like humans, tasting sweet, sour, bitter, and salty flavors with their own tongues. They can also sleep after becoming tired, restoring their energy through deep sleep. Furthermore, they can observe the world from a human perspective and enjoy all the entertainment that humans can enjoy.

However, deep-sea amphibious ships are, after all, a group of wondrous beings with ship equipment. The difference between them and ship girls is that deep-sea amphibious ships can survive well on the sea even with only the energy supplied by their ship equipment. Therefore, most deep-sea amphibious ships—especially those represented by the vast majority of deep-sea deans—do not actually have the concept of eating and entertainment.

But this does not mean that Dean Shenhai has no need for gourmet food.

For the highly intelligent Deans of the Deep Sea, human cuisine is actually a very attractive thing.

Take, for example, the current Deepsea Dragon.

Although it was the first time Deepsea Ryujo had ever seen these so-called human delicacies, she should have been completely unmoved by them. However, as soon as she saw the ship girls next to Shiro chewing their food, and the wonderful sweet aroma wafted through the air, Deepsea Ryujo's mouth began to drool uncontrollably, and her stomach began to rumble uncontrollably.

The Deep Sea Dragon was well aware that its weakened body craved food, yearning for it to enter its body and then transform into a continuous source of energy to replenish itself.

hateful!

Damn it!

The Deep Sea Dragon trembled with humiliation.

If our ship equipment were still intact... if our ship equipment were still intact! At least with the ship equipment's energy supply, we wouldn't need these inferior human foods!

I need energy!

The Deep Sea Dragon remained perched on the floor with its head lowered.

“Deep Sea Dragon” said softly.

"One?" Xiaobai tilted her head.

"If you want... to know our secret, then give me one of those in exchange!" Deep Sea Dragon trembled as he raised his finger and pointed at the red bean bun in front of Little White. Then, blushing and ashamed, he shouted at Little White in a desperate manner.

"Ah..." Xiaobai looked at Shenhai Longxiang's humiliated face and couldn't help but chuckle softly. She picked up the plate of lava buns in front of her and handed it to Shenhai Longxiang. "Um... anyway, this is what you wanted, right?"

Snapped!

With a whoosh, Deepsea Ryujo snatched the plate from Shiro, then sat cross-legged on the ground. Under the watchful eyes of the ship girls, he grabbed a snow-white lava bun and, as if taking revenge on the food that had made him lose his integrity, fiercely took a bite out of the snow-white body of the lava bun.

"Ugh!" Deep Sea Dragon's fierce expression crumbled instantly upon the sweet and soft filling of the lava bun. She stared blankly at the filling in her hand, her mouth instinctively starting to chew. "Sweet...sweet..."

An indescribable, wonderful taste spread through the mouth of the deep-sea dragon.

Soft, sweet, and fluffy.

It was a wondrous experience that the deep-sea dragon had never encountered before in its life, and perhaps it would never have encountered in the future if it hadn't been for today's accident.

Deep Sea Dragon was stunned for a few seconds, then stuffed the lava bun into its mouth in big gulps. After swallowing it in a few bites, it even licked its palm, which was still covered with some of the sweet filling, with reluctance.

I never knew my tongue was such a powerful human organ!

It's amazing how delicious it tastes!

Is this...is this how humans eat?!

Deep Sea Dragon looked at his palm with trembling eyes.

The eyes are used to scout out enemy positions, the nose is used to smell blood, the ears are used to eavesdrop on the sounds of the battlefield, and the skin is the third eye.

Deep Sea Dragon once thought that its mouth was just an organ with a device-like function, far less powerful than other organs. But it was only after experiencing human food that Deep Sea Dragon truly understood that the tongue and mouth were indeed powerful organs, comparable to, or even surpassing, the eyes, ears, and nose!

"How is it? Is it delicious?" Just as Deep Sea Dragon was in a state of profound enlightenment, having seen through the fog of life, Xiao Bai's gentle voice suddenly drifted from in front of Deep Sea Dragon.

Deepsea Dragon looked up and saw Little White and the other ship girls smiling at her.

"Cough...cough cough..." Deep Sea Ryujo quickly withdrew her hand. She looked at the bare plate in front of her and subconsciously swallowed. "Well...thankfully, you actually absorb energy in this way. Humans and ship girls are really troublesome creatures..."

Deep Sea Dragon wanted to put on a brave face and maintain his last shred of dignity as the Dean of the Deep Sea.

Faced with Abyssal Ryujo's gaze that kept drifting towards the table, the ship girls present did not expose Abyssal Ryujo's thoughts.

"Now can you tell us, Deep Sea Dragon, how did you learn human language?" Xiaobai asked Deep Sea Dragon.

"No taking it back," Saratoga warned quietly from the side. "The buns are all gone."

“We’re not a ship that goes back on its word!” Deep Sea Dragon argued with Saratoga, coughing lightly twice and taking a deep breath. “Since we agreed to exchange with you before, we’ll tell you now—hmph, it’s not some kind of secret anyway.”

As Shenhai Longxiang finished speaking, for some reason, his gaze suddenly dimmed.

Shenhai Longxiang put down the plate in his hand and changed his cross-legged sitting posture to a more formal and solemn kneeling posture.

"We learned our human language from humans about a decade or so ago," Deep Sea Dragon said slowly, looking at the ship girls in front of the table.

"Huh? On the human side?" Upon hearing Deep Sea Dragon's words, the white-haired girls and the ship girls present were all stunned. "More than ten years ago? Humans?"

"Is that strange?" Deep Sea Dragon looked at White's surprised expression. "Isn't it natural that human languages ​​can only be learned among humans?"

“Uh… yes, logically speaking, that’s true, but…” Xiaobai covered her mouth, looking at Shenhai Longxiang kneeling in front of her, “But… Shenhai Longxiang, you are the Dean of the Deep Sea… when did you approach the human city and have contact with humans?”

“It wasn’t said that you could only encounter humans in human cities.” Deep Sea Dragon tilted its eyes. “I just encountered a ship carrying humans on the sea. That ship wasn’t protected by any ship girls and was being attacked by a group of deep-sea amphibious ships. Normally, I would have ignored it, but since it was the first time I had seen humans, I was a little curious, and I also had some important things to ask them, so I just waved my hand and sent those deep-sea amphibious ships away.”

"What a carefree Dean of the Deep Sea..." Xiaobai smiled at Deep Sea Dragon.

"Mind your own business." Deep Sea Dragon muttered under his breath, then looked up and continued, "Anyway, although we don't know what happened later, after we dispersed the Deep Sea Ark, many of the humans on that ship were very strange. They gave us a lot of strange rectangular pieces of paper, some smiled at us, some knelt on the ground and kowtowed to us, and even a human in white clothes, whom they said was the captain, bowed to us and spoke a bunch of human languages ​​that we couldn't understand at the time—in short, it was very strange."

“Uh…” Xiaobai tilted her head.

“Admiral, it seems the people on that ship mistook the hapless Ryujo-senpai who casually dispersed her subordinates for a wandering ship girl who was helping others.” Missouri said to Shiro. “The Abyssal Dean’s appearance is very similar to that of a ship girl. For ordinary humans who don’t have the ability to distinguish the abyssal aura and rarely see real ship girls, it’s quite easy to confuse them with ship girls when they suddenly see the Abyssal Dean who is helping them.”

"Oh...no wonder." Xiaobai nodded, looking at Shenhai Longxiang, "What happened after that? Shenhai Longxiang, didn't you attack them?"

"Anyway, they're just a bunch of weak humans. Without the protection of ship girls, they're like a group of unarmed women and children. It's not the kind of thing for a deep-sea warrior like us to attack such beings." Deep-sea Ryujo puffed out his chest proudly and said with his head held high, "But they did let me stay on the ship for a while. During that time, I managed to learn a little bit of human language and stuff. That's how my human language came about."

"...How long exactly did you stay?"

"About six or seven days and nights."

"Huh? You learned so fast?!" Xiaobai exclaimed in surprise.

"Soon? Aren't human language very simple?"

Seeing Xiaobai's surprised expression, Shenhai Longxiang became puzzled and asked Xiaobai with a frown.

"..."

Xiao Bai gave an awkward laugh.

Xiaobai was too embarrassed to tell Shenhai Longxiang that the few Shenhai Bismarck, Shenhai Tirpitz, Shenhai Musashi, and others in her home still couldn't speak a few complete sentences since she captured them. Shenhai Yamato even spent several months barely managing to improve her human language to the point where she could browse the internet.

The learning abilities of these deep-sea deans are probably miles ahead of the deep-sea dragons in front of them.

Xiao Bai looked at the Deep Sea Dragon with a touch of emotion.

—Could this deep-sea dragon actually be a language genius?

Chapter 1507 The days ahead are still long.

“I see.” Missouri, standing beside Xiaobai, nodded and smiled at Shenhai Longxiang. “Senior Longxiang’s integrity and magnanimity have impressed Missouri. However, after hearing about Senior Longxiang’s deeds, Missouri still has a question that remains unanswered. I hope Senior Longxiang can answer it.”

“What we just said was the truth.” Deep Sea Dragon said to Missouri with a somewhat unhappy expression.

“Missouri certainly doesn’t question Senior Ryujin’s thoughts.” Missouri smiled, pointing her finger in the air. “It’s just that Missouri is a little curious. Senior Ryujin, you just said that you had something important to ask the humans on the ship, which is why you were forced to board, right? May I ask about that matter—”