Elder brother's garrison

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"Once this event is over, my ranking will probably drop out of the top ten," Duan Shuiliu said to Xiaobai. "If there's another similar top ten gathering next time, I won't be tenth in the world anymore."

";Qun'er just Lin Wushan started (one) shirt uh..." Xiaobai was stunned, and nodded with a subtle expression.

indeed.

Now that Duan Shuiliu's garrison has been merged into the new garrison, the world's tenth garrison is just an empty shell. Although it is currently stuck at the top ten threshold due to the short time it has been, once this news spreads, the other garrisons under her who are eyeing the top ten garrisons will directly snatch Duan Shuiliu's tenth place in the world.

Fair competition is something we can't avoid.

After all, Duan Shuiliu herself had told Xiaobai that she had long wanted to give up being an admiral and devote all her energy to her work in the military police.

I guess we really won't see Duan Shuiliu at the next Top Ten gathering...

For some reason, Xiaobai suddenly felt a little melancholy.

"What about you? What are you going to do when you get back?" Duan Shuiliu, on the other hand, remained calm and didn't dwell on the question. She asked Xiaobai instead.

"Me? Hmm... Actually, I just received a big mission, and I'll have to prepare for it when I get back... But before I start the mission, I want to find a ship girl." Xiaobai had nothing to hide from Duan Shuiliu and told her very frankly.

"Ship girls?" Duan Shuiliu raised an eyebrow. "Where are we going to find them?"

"Hmm... I don't know either." Xiaobai scratched his head sheepishly. "Actually, I said I was looking for that ship girl, but until now, apart from knowing her name, I don't know anything else about her."

"..." Duan Shuiliu.

"But it's alright... after all, we still have the Admiral's Headquarters' database! That ship girl's name should only exist in the whole world right now. As long as she has logged in her information anywhere, I should be able to find her," Xiaobai said to Duan Shuiliu.

Duan Shuiliu nodded in understanding, and then asked a casual question.

"What's her name?"

“The goddess of the hearth,” Xiaobai replied.

"Hmm? The goddess of the hearth?" Suddenly, at that moment, an old and surprised voice came from behind Xiaobai.

Xiao Bai turned around.

Not far away, Grandpa Ella, who was saying goodbye to Admiral Zhao Kuo, seemed to have heard what he had just said and looked at him with some surprise.

"Admiral Lu Lin, did you just mention the goddess of the hearth?" Grandpa Ella rushed up to Xiaobai and asked in surprise.

"Uh...yes...well, excuse me...what's wrong?" Xiaobai stared blankly at Grandpa Ella, who had suddenly become very excited, and looked somewhat timid.

Could it be... that Vesta is actually a very secretive ship name? Did Grandpa Ella realize that I had secretly entered his family's archives?

Grandpa Ella shook his head.

"Ah...it's nothing, nothing, I just vaguely remember that name." Grandpa Ella stroked his beard, pondered for a moment, "In my memory...it seems to have been a special guest who came to our house twenty years ago..."

"Twenty years ago... such a long time ago, Grandpa Patriarch, you still remember?" Xiaobai was somewhat surprised to see Grandpa Ella's thoughtful expression.

Twenty years ago was an extremely long time for a human being, long enough for many to forget deeply etched memories and experiences, starting from scratch like a blank sheet of paper. Not everyone possesses Xiaobai's memory ability; most people's memories are passive and fragile in the face of time.

"Haha..." Grandpa Ella stroked his beard and chuckled when he heard Xiaobai's words. "It's been a long time... indeed it has been a long time. However, that year was shortly after my little ancestor was born, and that guest was indeed quite special, leaving us with a lot of impressions, which is why we still remember him."

"Special enough?" Xiao Bai asked curiously. "Is the female hearth goddess very beautiful?"

"Hmm... Well, so many years have passed, I can't really remember what she looked like anymore." Grandpa Ella closed his eyes and thought for a while, then shook his head. "But Admiral Lu Lin, what I mean by 'special' is not her appearance."

"Not appearance... then what does it refer to?" Xiaobai immediately became curious.

"Hehe..." Grandpa Ella chuckled. "When she first came to our house, that guest's initial behavior was as innocent as a naive child. Yet, even so, she possessed a mysterious and magical power and peculiar methods... It was this wonderful contrast that left a deep impression on me."

Chapter 1646 Where Did the Goddess of the Hearth Go?

"Oh I got it."

After listening to Grandpa Ella's introduction, Xiaobai nodded thoughtfully.

Grandpa Ella's description of the mysterious ship girl, Vestal, is rather simple, but simple does not mean crude. Although it is only a few sentences, Xiaobai can still learn a lot of information from Grandpa Ella's simple description.

According to Grandpa Ella, the Vesta seems to be a ship girl with magical powers and unique abilities.

Ella's grandfather was the head of the Ella family. As a scientific research family on par with the Mu family, there were few people in the world who had more knowledge than him. For someone like Ella's grandfather to use the words "magical" and "unique," then the goddess of the hearth must really be magical.

Thinking of Sukhbaatar and Odin in his own garrison, Xiaobai gradually understood.

really.

When it comes to being magical and unique, Sukhbaatar and Odin are the most suitable ship girls.

If I'm not mistaken, this goddess of the hearth is most likely a super supply ship like Sukhbaatar and Odin.

"Speaking of which, Admiral Lu Lin, are you looking for the goddess of the hearth?" Grandpa Ella asked Little White.

"Mm." Xiaobai nodded.

"I see..." Grandpa Ella stroked his beard, pondered for a moment, and then looked up at Little White and said, "Actually, when you were talking about this with others just now, Admiral Lu Lin, I overheard part of it... Judging from what you just said, Admiral Lu Lin, it seems that you don't know where the Vestal Goddess is now, right?"

“Yes…” Xiaobai nodded, looked at Grandpa Ella, and asked cautiously, “Um… do you know Grandpa Head of the Family?”

"Regarding this... well..." Grandpa Ella smiled, "The reason I have such a deep impression of the ship girl Vestal is not only because I have witnessed her amazing power and methods, but also because I personally handled her whereabouts back then."

"Huh? Where to go?"

"Yes, when I met her twenty years ago, she was still an unclaimed ship girl. At that time, no naval base took her in, although our family offered to let her stay here indefinitely as a guest... but she didn't seem to have any intention of staying with our family." Grandpa Ella glanced at Loki standing next to Little White as he said this, "Speaking of which, Admiral Lu Lin, Loki still owes that ship girl a favor... Anyway, to repay this favor, at that ship girl's strong request, I used my connections to get her the job she wanted... Twenty years have passed, and if she hasn't abandoned the job I found for her... I should know where she is now."

"Oh! Is that so!" Xiao Bai's eyes lit up when she heard this. "Then, Grandpa Master, can you tell me where the Kitchen Goddess is now?"

So the goddess of the hearth has such a close relationship with Ella's family!

Xiao Bai never expected this.

It turns out that behind that simple three-word signature in Ella's autograph book, there was such a complicated relationship hidden.

Xiao Bai was worried that if he couldn't find information about Vestal in the Admiral's Headquarters database, he would have to search for a needle in a haystack across the entire world. Finding a ship girl who might not even respond to him was more difficult than winning the lottery.

Fortunately, Grandpa Ella helped her out.

"Hahaha... It's nothing to hide, Admiral Lu Lin, if you want to know, I'll tell you." Grandpa Ella chuckled, not seeming to care about anything. He said to Xiaobai, "That ship girl named Vestal doesn't like fighting. Instead, she's very interested in research on ship girl technology and ship equipment repair. So, instead of recommending her to a famous naval base, I found her a research job in Kyoto."

"Kyoto? Scientific research?" Xiaobai suddenly became curious upon hearing this.

"Yes, Kyoto is the capital, with high opportunities and a large flow of people. It is also the center of ship girl technology—Admiral Lu Lin, you should have been there, right?"

As Grandpa Ella finished speaking, he smiled and pointed to the six large, golden characters "Ship Equipment Research Center" on the front gate of his house.

"The job I recommended to the goddess of the hearth was a first-level researcher at the ship equipment research center in Kyoto," Grandpa Ella said slowly.

"Kyoto's... ship equipment research center?" Xiaobai's mouth dropped open in astonishment.

Ok?

Kyoto?

Shipboard Equipment Research Center?

Wait a moment.

Isn't that Yubari's workplace?

So the female hearth goddess was there too!

Absolutely!

I was once so close to the goddess of the hearth!

Xiao Bai looked at the large, golden characters of "Ship Equipment Research Center" at the entrance of Ella's house with great awe.

When Xiaobai first arrived here, he didn't think much of the big characters on Ella's door. He simply assumed it was a cover for Ella's family to deceive people...

I never knew her family actually had connections to the ship equipment research center in Kyoto...

"Judging from your expression, Admiral Lu Lin, it seems you've already been to the Ship Equipment Research Center?" After all, Grandpa Ella had lived for seventy or eighty years, and seeing Xiaobai's surprised expression, he guessed pretty much what Xiaobai was thinking.

"Um... I have been there." Xiaobai scratched his head and smiled sheepishly. "Actually, I have a friend who works there, and I even visited him once before."

"Hehehe... As the saying goes, fate is truly wondrous." Grandpa Ella stroked his beard and said with a smile, "Sometimes fate is just that wonderful. People you thought were worlds apart from you might have just brushed past you."

“…I’ve learned a lot.” Little White bowed to Grandpa Ella.

“Now that Admiral Lu Lin knows where you want to go, I won’t keep you any longer. I wish you a safe journey,” Grandpa Ella said with a smile.

"Yes, thank you, Grandfather!"

Grandpa Ella waved his hand, turned around, and left.

Xiao Bai watched gratefully as Grandpa Ella returned to Admiral Zhao Kuo's side, then looked at the three female admirals beside him.

"Looks like you're going to Kyoto, Xiaobai?" Guild Master Ergou asked Xiaobai.

"Um, does the president want to come along?"

"As for me... never mind, I'm exhausted from all this running around outside. I'd better go back to Chapter Two." Guild Master Er Gou said, picking his ear with his little finger. "Speaking of which, Luo Lian told me yesterday that she's mastered rune language and is eager to go back to Chapter Two to test some of the new ideas in her head."

"I see..." Xiaobai nodded, then looked at Duan Shuiliu and Nanxing, "Then, Sister Duan and Sister Nanxing..."

"It's not on the way." Admiral Nanxing and Duan Shuiliu shook their heads regretfully.

"Then there's nothing I can do..." Xiaobai sighed with some disappointment. "It seems I'll have to go to Kyoto by myself."

"Xiaobai, are you taking an entire naval base to Kyoto?" Guild Master Er Gou stood on tiptoe, glancing at the line of ship girls beside Xiaobai that was clearly more impressive than those of the other top ten naval bases. "To be honest, Xiaobai, even if the ship girl industry in Kyoto is quite developed, seeing such a magnificent naval base of yours will probably cause quite a stir..."

"Ah...that's true." Xiaobai glanced back at the line behind him and shrugged.

sometimes.

Having too many people at the naval base is also a problem.

Kyoto is the capital city with a high population density. If Xiaobai takes the naval base there, it will most likely cause a sensation.

Although Xiaobai is no longer afraid of being watched, it doesn't mean that Xiaobai likes being watched.

"Hmm... Anyway, Kyoto isn't by the sea, so there's not much of a need for combat. How about I let the newbie ship girls go back to the naval base on their own, and then I'll take a few ship girls from here to Kyoto?" Xiaobai said to Guild Master Ergou.

"I think it's okay." President Er Gou shrugged.

"Then let's do it this way." Xiaobai nodded.

The ship girls in the new naval base are very independent. They don't really need the admiral's command to go into battle. It's just a small matter for them to leave the admiral and go back to the naval base.

Xiaobai found several flagship ship girls in the newbie naval base and told them about her upcoming trip to Kyoto. She also temporarily handed over the three newly acquired Abyssal Commanders, along with Abyssal Yamato, to Akagi, asking her to bring them home.

Do it all.

Xiaobai selected a few ship girls to accompany her, greeted the female admirals, and then hurried towards the end of the street.

Xiaobai is the link between the female admirals.

Xiaobai is gone.

The conversation between Er Gou, Duan Shuiliu, and Nan Xing suddenly stalled. The three female admirals said their farewells briefly and then left with their ship girls.

The area in front of the ship equipment research center gradually quieted down.

After passing Wu Baling, he stood up and performed the ceremony for a while.

A furtive male admiral peeked out from the doorway, looked around, and breathed a sigh of relief after seeing that Xiaobai was no longer on the street.

"Phew... Finally, it's safe..." Admiral Li Hua patted his chest, still shaken, and leaned against the door, squatting down.

Admiral Li Hua has been on sick leave for the past few days and has not attended the gathering of admirals.

Admiral Li Hua wasn't trying to prove anything; he simply felt that the current top ten admirals were surrounded by dangers, everyone was a fanatical fan of Xiao Bai, and his own awkward existence was extremely precarious.

"Sigh... This is terrifying. In just a few days, they've bewitched all the top ten admirals... They even went after the head of this household, a man in his seventies or eighties, and managed to snatch away his head maid..." Admiral Li Hua sighed. "Luckily, I was quick-witted, otherwise my naval base would have been..."

"Huh? Isn't this Admiral Li Hua?" Suddenly, a voice rang out from behind Admiral Li Hua.

"Whoa!!" Admiral Li Hua jumped three feet high in fright.

Behind Admiral Li Hua, Grandpa Ella was seen squatting at the doorway with a smile, watching the lonely Admiral Li Hua.

"Isn't Admiral Li Hua unwell these past few days? What brings you here?" Grandpa Ella asked Admiral Li Hua with a smile.

"Uh...I..." When Admiral Li Hua saw that it was Grandpa Ella behind him, he first breathed a sigh of relief, but then, looking at Grandpa Ella's strange expression, Admiral Li Hua was a little embarrassed for a moment. "I...suddenly, suddenly I'm better..."

"Hahaha." Grandpa Ella chuckled.

"...I'm so sorry I haven't been able to attend the top ten admirals' gathering these past few days...and I haven't been able to meet you, sir..." Admiral Li Hua bowed somewhat awkwardly to Grandpa Ella, "As a junior...I am truly ashamed."

"It's nothing, it's nothing. I'm not one to stand on ceremony. Admiral Li Hua, you did contribute to pacifying the Deep Sea Territory, this is nothing." Grandpa Ella stood up and patted Admiral Li Hua on the shoulder. "Actually, I was planning to find an opportunity to see you alone, Admiral Li Hua, but I didn't expect you to recover so quickly. That saves me a lot of trouble~"

Grandpa Ella is a shrewd old man who has been around for decades, so of course he couldn't hide Admiral Li Hua's little schemes from him.

However, Grandpa Ella didn't want to expose Admiral Li Hua's thoughts. He just smiled and patted Admiral Li Hua on the shoulder, speaking earnestly.

"However... Admiral Li Hua, sometimes you can't judge a person by appearances; you have to look carefully and attentively..."