Elder brother's garrison

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Xiao Bai stared blankly at the girls in front of him.

That's right.

Just as the pancake vendor outside the alley had told me, all the girls who occupied the courtyard of the Goddess of the Kitchen God were, without exception, ship girls.

The number of ship girls... seems to be much more than I imagined...

Looking at the ship girls in front of him, Xiaobai sighed silently, his curiosity growing ever stronger.

"Um... excuse me, who are you...?"

Just as Xiaobai was about to ask about the origins of the ship girls in front of her, a click was heard and the tightly closed door in the courtyard suddenly opened.

Surprisingly, the moment the door opened, the courtyard, which had been noisy just moments before, fell silent, and all the ship girls stared reverently at the open door.

First, a ship girl with a flushed face walked out of the room, and then a familiar figure opened the door, tiptoed, and appeared in Xiaobai's sight.

Upon seeing this figure, Xiaobai's heart skipped a beat.

She is the goddess of the hearth!

It's the Kitchen Goddess, whom I haven't seen for a day!

"Next! Remember to close the door!" Perhaps because there were too many ship girls in the courtyard, the female veil who opened the door did not notice Xiaobai and Changchun at the back of the line. She just casually called out to the ship girls at the door, then turned her head and went back into the room without looking back.

"It's my time, it's my time!"

The ship girl closest to the Vestal's house jumped up and down excitedly. She hurriedly scurried into the Vestal's room and slammed the door shut behind her.

The door closed.

The once silent courtyard gradually returned to its lively state.

The ship girl who came out of the house of the goddess of the hearth attracted the attention of the ship girls in line. They swarmed around her and immediately started asking her a barrage of questions.

"how is it going?"

"Yes! Just as the rumors said! All the damage to my ship equipment has been restored thanks to that lady's power!" The ship girl, blushing, emerged from Vestal's room, clenched her fist, raised it high above her head, and excitedly told the people in front of her, "I feel full of power now!"

"Amazing!"

"As expected of the Goddess of the Hearth!"

"I remember your ship equipment was heavily damaged just now, right?"

Seeing this ship girl stretching her body and doing exercises as if to prove something, the other ship girls present looked on with pride and couldn't help but chatter amongst themselves.

"As expected, there is no injury in this world that the Goddess of the Hearth cannot heal!"

“I still remember the last time my sister was seriously injured at sea. I thought she would need to recuperate for a very long time, and that she wouldn’t be able to return to the sea until I earned enough money to buy the qualification to soak in the recovery pool. But I brought my sister here on a whim, and she recovered from her injuries in just one hour!”

"Yeah yeah!"

"That's incredible!"

"When I first came here, I didn't believe in the Kitchen Goddess either. I thought she was some kind of charlatan. But I was desperate at the time, so I had no choice but to believe in her. And she healed my injuries in no time! I... I think about it now and I was so naive!"

"It's simply a miracle!"

At this point, as if triggering some kind of resonance, the ship girls present nodded excitedly, their eyes filled with admiration.

The back of the line.

Xiaobai and Changchun stared blankly at the ship girls in front of them, then exchanged a glance.

“Admiral… what those older sisters said… could it be that Miss Stove Goddess…” Changchun said to Xiaobai with a strange expression, “is here… as…”

"doctor?"

Xiao Bai picked up where Chang Chun left off, and said with a look of surprise.

Although Xiaobai and Changchun have only been in the courtyard for a short time.

But what just happened in the courtyard was enough to explain most of the doubts in Xiaobai and Changchun's minds.

Well known.

Ship girls' equipment does not have self-repair capabilities.

If a ship girl's equipment is damaged in battle, the injured ship girl can only rely on three methods to repair her damaged equipment: soaking in a repair pool for a long time, using a quick repair device, or simply spending money to buy a damage repair kit.

Apart from these three methods, there is no known means in the world that can repair a ship girl's equipment.

But according to what the ship girls in these courtyards are saying... it seems that the Vesta has a very magical power that can repair the ship girls' equipment in a fourth way?

Thinking of this, Xiaobai stared at the ship girls lining up in front of him and subconsciously activated the Admiral Network, scanning over the bodies of these ship girls.

Xiaobai's mental strength is now so powerful that it has reached an exaggerated level. Unless a ship girl's training level is at the top, she will not realize that her body has been thoroughly and clearly understood by Xiaobai's admiral network.

Xiaobai's admiral network quickly analyzed all the ship girls present.

really!

Although these ship girls appear radiant, there's something unbalanced about the aura emanating from them. Only the ship girls who just came out of the Vestal Goddess's house have a normal aura.

These are all injured ship girls!

Xiao Bai opened his eyes wide.

So these ship girls came to the Vestal to repair their ship equipment?

Chapter 1675 Communication about the Patient's Condition

The goddess of the hearth can actually repair the ship girls' equipment!

When this conclusion came to Xiaobai's mind, Xiaobai was immediately shocked.

After all, the conclusion that there is no other way to repair a ship girl's equipment except by spending money on a quick repair device or by using a repair pool has been deeply ingrained in Xiaobai's mind and has become part of Xiaobai's ship girl worldview.

This firmly held worldview is now facing its most powerful challenge right here in this small, unassuming courtyard.

Xiao Bai recalled the profound words that Grandpa Ella had said to him when he left Ella's house.

—Vestal is a very "special" ship girl. Her specialness lies not in her appearance, but in her amazing "methods".

When Xiaobai heard Grandpa Ella's words, he didn't think much of it. He thought that the Vesta was just a supply ship girl with special scientific research skills... or a special way of fighting, or like Sukhbaatar, whose very existence was just a magical existence.

But it wasn't until this moment, when Xiaobai saw the ship girls filling the yard in amazement, that he truly realized what Grandpa Ella meant by "special".

So the female hearth goddess was actually a wet nurse!

She can heal the ship girls!

She is... the only healer ship girl in the entire world, the entire universe!!

No wonder even someone of Grandpa Ella's status would remember the existence of the Vesta so vividly, even after twenty years. After all, everything in this world is valued for its rarity. As the only healer ship girl, the Vesta's worth is immeasurable just for that reason alone.

"I see..." Xiaobai covered her mouth and muttered softly, then looked up curiously at the ship girls around her.

However... this is quite strange...

The existence of healer ship girls is so magical that they can change the battle layout of a naval base, forcibly increase the safety of the sea area, and give the entire naval base a sense of security. If that is really the case, then ship girls with the status of Vestal should have been famous all over the world twenty years ago, right?

At least a newbie naval base couldn't possibly be unaware of this.

Why is the goddess of the hearth still so unknown to this day?

Where did these ship girls who came to see a doctor come from?

Little Bai's tiny head was filled with big questions.

"Little friend, do you have many questions?" Just then, a gentle voice rang out beside Xiaobai and Changchun.

Xiaobai and Changchun turned their heads.

The ship girl who had pulled the two of them to the back of the group was now smiling at them.

"Ah...you...hello." Xiaobai swallowed hard and gave the ship girl an awkward smile. "Um...um..."

"No need to say more, I can tell what you're thinking just from your expressions."

"……what?"

"You must be newcomers who haven't witnessed the power of the Goddess of the Hearth yet, so you were surprised to see the younger sister who was healed, right?" the ship girl said with a smile to Xiaobai.

"..." Xiaobai, "...Um...I guess so."

"Hahaha." The ship girl reached out and patted Xiaobai on the shoulder, then patted Changchun on the shoulder. "I understand, newbies are all like this. I didn't believe in Sister Vestal when I first came here either, until I experienced it for myself and realized how amazing she is!"

"Ah... um." Xiaobai and Changchun exchanged a glance, then looked at the long queue in the distance, thought for a moment, and said, "Um... Sister, you just said we can ask you if we don't understand anything..."

"Yeah, sure, it's good to take care of newbies." The ship girl nodded with a smile.

"...I want to ask, are all the ship girls here here to have Vestal treated for their injuries?" Xiaobai asked curiously. "Where did you all learn about Vestal?"

"From where?" The ship girl looked at Xiaobai strangely. "Little sister, that's a strange question. Didn't you all come here after hearing the rumors?"

"...Huh? Rumors?"

"It's just a rumor from the mercenary group," the ship girl said, spreading her hands at Xiaobai. "They say there's a magical ship girl in faraway Kyoto who's kind-hearted, does good deeds without asking for anything in return, and even treats mercenary ship girls like us who can't repair our ship equipment—didn't you come here because you heard this rumor?"

"Ah...we...we...I guess so." Xiaobai stammered, trying to brush off the ship girl's question, but her attention was subconsciously drawn back to the words the ship girl had just uttered.

This ship girl said... it's just a rumor circulating among mercenary groups?

Xiao Bai seemed to be deep in thought.

Xiaobai knew about mercenary groups. When he met Pompeii and Zara before, they explained to him that mercenary groups are similar to civilian garrisons. Mercenary groups specialize in helping remote coastal cities solve deep-sea disasters that official garrisons cannot address immediately, and then collect appropriate compensation.

Are the ship girls in the courtyard... all ship girls from mercenary groups scattered across the world?

Thinking of this, Xiaobai's gaze unconsciously swept over the ship girls in the courtyard.

Speaking of which, when I used the Admiral's Network to detect the aura of these ship girls just now, I didn't sense any ship girls with high levels of training... Moreover, these ship girls' clothes weren't very luxurious or flashy, and they had a different vibe from the ship girls in my naval base...

So they weren't military ship girls after all...

Ok……

That's right.

Because mercenary ship girls are a civilian organization, improving their ship equipment is a major challenge. Moreover, every time their ship equipment is damaged in a naval battle, it is the most difficult time for these ship girls. After all, for civilian ship girls, the cost of repairing ship equipment is too high, even far exceeding the reward for one or two jobs.

For ship girls like this, having a ship girl like Vestal who can heal their ship equipment for free would be incredibly good news...

No wonder this news hasn't circulated much among military ship girl enthusiasts... It's probably been monopolized by these mercenary ship girl groups.

Thinking about this, Xiaobai understood a little.

"Speaking of which, little sister, what kind of injury did you get on your way here?" The ship girl who spoke to Xiaobai seemed to be a very talkative type. Seeing that Xiaobai was thinking with her head down and not speaking, she thought that Xiaobai was too shy to speak. She patted Xiaobai's shoulder and warmly brought up the topic, "If you're too embarrassed to talk about it, then I'll start with me! My ship equipment is heavily damaged. It was three days ago when I was protecting a fishing village in a coastal city. I was hit by a deep-sea destroyer's torpedo!"

"Wow! It must hurt a lot!" Before Xiaobai could speak, another ship girl next to her heard this and quickly turned around, saying with a surprised look.

"It's alright, it's alright. With the ship's equipment protecting me, it doesn't hurt too much." The ship girl laughed heartily.

"Sigh, the damage to my ship equipment was caused by the shelling of a deep-sea light cruiser." Another ship girl sighed.

"Huh? You were hit like this by the shelling of a light cruiser?"

"Critical hit."

"Oh, it's alright then. Critical hits are something you can't help, every ship has to experience them a few times in its life." The ship girl shrugged, patted her shoulder, and said with a smile, "You'll get used to it."

"Hahaha... Sister is right!" The other ship girl nodded with a smile. The two ship girls then turned their gaze to Xiaobai and Changchun. "Little sister, what kind of injury did you suffer?"

The two ship girls simultaneously turned their gazes toward them, their eyes filled with deep affection.

It was full of sincerity and concern.

The novice felt a little embarrassed.

Xiao Bai never expected that the atmosphere, which was normal just a second ago, would turn into a patient exchange meeting the next. He and Changchun became the only two normal people at the patient exchange meeting, and he felt a little out of place at this moment.

I have a feeling that if I say that neither I nor Changchun are injured... it might be a bit awkward in this strange atmosphere...

Moreover, these are all civilian ship girls, living in a different circle from myself.

"I..." Xiaobai swallowed hard, scratched his cheek, and in his haste made up a story he thought would get him away with, "I... I was... hit head-on by a battleship..."

Xiao Bai thought his fabricated reason was just an ordinary one.

Changchun also felt that Xiaobai's reason was rather ordinary.

But after Xiaobai finished speaking.

The kind-hearted ship girl, who was listening to Xiaobai speak, and another ship girl beside her, widened their eyes in surprise.

"What?! You've been hit by battleship fire?!"