Elder brother's garrison

Page 1314

"..." Xiaobai shrank its neck, pursed its lips, and finally uttered a sound, nodding, "Okay..."

The goddess of the hearth breathed a sigh of relief and turned to wave at the wounded ship girl she had just led in.

"You over there, you can come over now," the Vesta said to the ship girl, pointing to an empty sofa.

"Okay, Sister Vestal!" The ship girl's eyes were full of trust in the Vestal. She sat down in the spot the Vestal pointed to, straightened her back, and placed her hands flat on her lap.

"What injury did you suffer?" the goddess of the hearth asked.

"Reporting to Sister Goddess of the Hearth! I was speeding during a battle and accidentally crashed into a deep-sea heavy cruiser. My ship's rigging is damaged!"

"...The way you got injured is quite bizarre..." the Vessine muttered, raising her hand to summon her ship equipment wrench, then rolling up her sleeves and saying to the ship girl, "Release the ship equipment."

"Okay, Sister Vestal!" It seemed that this wasn't the first time the ship girl had come. After the Vestal finished speaking, the ship girl obediently summoned her ship equipment.

A ship with some damage and charring on the outside, but whose overall frame and condition were relatively healthy, appeared behind the ship girl.

The goddess of the hearth ran behind the ship girl with a wrench in hand, and began fiddling with the wrench on her body.

A hazy white light shone on the goddess of the hearth.

Under Xiaobai's watchful gaze, when the Vess's wrench touched the ship girl's damaged rigging, a faint, retrograde state, similar to using a rapid repair device, appeared on the ship girl's damaged rigging. The broken wounds of the rigging began to slowly heal in the white light, and the charred black on the rigging also faded. Finally, the rigging slowly returned to its pure white and elegant state.

In less than ten minutes, the Vesta Goddess had completely repaired the ship girl's equipment.

"Phew. It's over." The goddess of the hearth breathed a sigh of relief and patted the ship girl's rigging. "It's fixed. Stand up and try it out."

"Alright!" The ship girl quickly stood up, stretched her arms, did a few stretches on her ship equipment, and then nodded happily to the Goddess of the Hearth. "Yes! I'm all better! I'm completely better! Thank you, Goddess of the Hearth! You're still as amazing as ever!"

"It's just a minor damage, nothing to brag about!" The Vesta snorted. "You can go now! Have the ship girls outside line up, and I'll bring the next one in later."

"Yes, Sister Vestal!" The ship girl stood at attention and bowed to Vestal. Her gaze lingered on Xiaobai and the other ship girls in the living room for a while. Although there were some question marks in her eyes, she didn't say anything. After pondering for a moment, she left the living room alone and pushed open the door.

"What an amazing ability..." After the ship girl left, Xiaobai clapped her hands at the Vestal Goddess and exclaimed in amazement.

After watching the Vesta's repair process, Xiaobai mentally compared it to the time his own ship girls needed to soak in the repair pool. The Vesta's speed in healing moderately damaged ship equipment was definitely not as fast as the rapid repair device, but based on the efficiency of her repairing a moderately damaged ship girl's ship equipment in just ten minutes, the repair speed of the ordinary repair pool could not even come close to her.

Furthermore, the Vestal's repairs are cost-free; she does not need to pay for the resources required to repair ship girls, nor does she consume rapid repair devices. More importantly, it seems that the Vestal's healing methods do not require ship girls to be out of combat.

That's a terrifying ability. In a sense, the Vesta's repair ability is even more powerful than repair pools or rapid repair devices for ship girl fleets going out to sea.

"It's nothing, nothing at all." The Vesta Goddess enjoyed Xiaobai's amazed gaze, but just as she was about to become smug, her gaze fell seriously again when it swept over the two ship girls on the sofa. She walked up to the ship girls on the sofa with a wrench in her hand and said, "It's almost time. Have you digested the repair progress a little? Then summon your ship equipment again, and I'll continue to repair a little more for you."

The ship girl on the sofa nodded and summoned her distorted ship equipment, which was spraying sparks.

The goddess of the hearth crouched down and carefully tapped the twisted ship's rigging with a wrench.

"If you feel any discomfort in your ship rig, tell me immediately, and I will stop the repairs right away," the Vess said to the ship girls. "The further you progress in repairing your ship rig, the more dangerous it becomes. I'm about to repair the inside of your ship rig. Be careful, if I'm not careful, I could damage the internal parts of your ship rig. So if you feel any discomfort... or any tendency to feel discomfort, be sure to tell me immediately. I will change the direction of the repairs."

"...Yes." The ship girl on the sofa swallowed nervously and spoke cautiously to the goddess of the hearth. Their legs were taut and motionless, as if afraid of making any movement that might affect the goddess of the hearth.

The goddess of the hearth was indeed much more cautious and careful in repairing these two ship girls than she had been with the previous one.

The goddess of the hearth stared intently at the exterior of the ship girl's rigging, constantly using the radiance emitted by her wrench to influence the outer shell of the rigging, carefully observing the changes on the outer shell, and holding her breath to listen to the sounds coming from inside the rigging.

Drops of sweat trickled down the forehead of the female kitchen god.

After a few minutes.

After a short treatment session, the female hearth goddess breathed a sigh of relief and put down the wrench.

"Phew... You can take it back now." The goddess of the hearth wiped the sweat from her forehead and whispered to the ship girls on the sofa.

The ship girl on the sofa also breathed a sigh of relief and quickly put away her ship equipment.

The treatment process seemed calm on the surface, but only the Vestal herself knew how dangerous the treatment she had been doing to these two ship girls was... The Vestal's treatment was from the outside in. The initial treatment went smoothly because she was only treating external injuries. As her treatment progressed, she began to touch the chaotic interior of the ship rigging. The Vestal could not see the situation inside the ship rigging. She could only keep probing, guessing and verifying the situation inside the ship rigging from its reactions, the sounds coming from inside, and her years of clinical experience, before adding subtle treatments.

This process is extremely dangerous and meticulous, allowing no room for error. If one's judgment is flawed, the ship girl's equipment will crash to the ground and shatter, endangering her life...

The female hearth goddess bit her lip.

Tsk... If only I could see what's inside the ship's rigging... The reason I'm so restricted right now is because I can't see what's inside the rigging...

The goddess of the hearth murmured resentfully.

At this moment.

A wisp of steam rose from the goddess of the hearth.

The female stove goddess turned her head.

Xiao Bai smiled and handed over the glass of water.

"Miss Kitchen Goddess, thank you for your hard work."

"..." The female hearth goddess silently looked at Xiaobai, reached out and took Xiaobai's water cup, "Sigh, are you alright..."

"How is the ship's equipment healing progressing?"

"Well... actually, this is the most difficult part..." The female hearth goddess said, frowning as she drank water, "The difficulty of the next treatment will be ten times that of the previous ones... no, to put it bluntly, more than a hundred times. Even if I were highly skilled, unparalleled, the best in the world, the strongest king, the grandmaster, the extraordinary master, I could only guarantee a 70% success rate when faced with such a difficult treatment..."

The goddess of the hearth was not lying.

After all, the subsequent treatment process is akin to performing surgery with one's eyes closed, relying entirely on experience and luck. Even a super healer of Vestal's caliber doesn't know if she can succeed. And that 70% refers to the success rate of treating just one ship girl... Now, there are two ship girls waiting for her treatment, making it 49 in total. The chance of successfully repairing their ship equipment is less than 50%... And this doesn't even take into account her fatigue level, or whether a failure on the first case will affect her confidence for the next one...

The more the goddess of the hearth thought about it, the more she felt that her head was huge.

This is so worrying...

"Sigh...yes." Just as the goddess of the hearth was feeling troubled, Xiaobai beside her also sighed softly, "The state of that ship girl's rigging is such that most of the parts are damaged and bent, the components are twisted, and sparks and high temperatures are constantly scorching the inside of the rigging. These chaotic elements are gathered together, and they are just in a state of equilibrium on the verge of collapse. At this moment, even the slightest mistake from the outside could cause the rigging to collapse..."

“Yes…that’s why it’s so difficult…” The Vesta frowned, took a sip of water, and stared at the ship girl, muttering softly, “Sigh…inside…inside…”

"..."

"..."

"..."

Suddenly, at that moment, the female stove goddess paused, tilted her head, and looked at Little White beside her.

"...Huh? What did you say? Inside?"

Chapter 1682 How Many Ways Can a Novice Salvage a Boat?

The female Stove Goddess, who had just been pondering while holding a water glass, suddenly turned her head as if she had stepped on an electric shock, staring at Xiaobai with a look of astonishment.

"Huh? Me?"

Xiao Bai pointed to himself with a confused look on his face.

"Yes!" The female hearth goddess whirled around, her two gleaming eyes fixed on Little White, and she couldn't wait to ask, "You, you just said something about the internal structure of that ship girl's equipment!"

"Ah... I'm sorry... I shouldn't have said that..." Seeing the female stove god's sudden strong reaction, Xiaobai thought the female stove god knew that she had secretly contacted the patient while she was away, and that she had displeased her. She quickly sat up straight and apologized to the female stove god with a face full of remorse, "I just..."

"No! That's not what I meant!" However, before Xiaobai could finish speaking, the female hearth goddess quickly shook her face, then slammed the water glass in her hand on the coffee table with a bang. She stood up, took two steps closer to Xiaobai, grabbed his hand, and said nervously, "What I meant was! Did you just mention something about the internal information of that ship girl's equipment? How did you know? When did you find out?!"

"Huh? Uh..." Xiaobai didn't expect the Vestal Goddess's emotions to suddenly become so agitated. Although he was a little confused, he still opened his mouth and honestly replied, "Just now... well, while you were out, Miss Vestal Goddess, I chatted with the ship girl on the sofa, and then... well..."

"What?!" The goddess of the hearth exclaimed, her eyes wide. "Was that just now?"

“…Yes.” Xiaobai nodded.

The goddess of the hearth, still holding Little White's hand, turned her head to look at the two ship girls on the sofa.

The two ship girls on the sofa nodded like squirrels, indicating that what Xiaobai had just said was true.

"You... you only spent a few minutes and you knew the situation inside their ship's equipment?" The Vesta withdrew her gaze, looking at Little White with some disbelief, and murmured.

"Ah... this..." Xiaobai didn't understand why Vestal was so conflicted about this point. After all, in Xiaobai's mind, speculating about the internal structure of a ship girl's equipment shouldn't be difficult for Vestal. "Yes... Miss Vestal, you can see it too..."

"I can't see it!"

"Huh? Can't you see it?"

"Of course I can't see it! I don't have X-ray vision! There's no X-ray vision in this world for observing ship girls' ship equipment!" The Vess said to Xiaobai, pacing impatiently between her legs. Then she took Xiaobai's hand, lowered her head and thought for a while, "Right...right, you're right. The reason why their ship equipment can't use the rapid repair device is because their ship equipment is in an extremely fragile dynamic balance. Once the repair power of the rapid repair device shakes this balance, it is very likely to have the opposite effect—I only knew this conclusion before, but I didn't know the reason at all. I could only guess that it was because their ship equipment was fragile. Now I finally understand!"

Talking to herself, the female hearth goddess jumped up and down several times as she arrived at this point.

"I understand! So that's how it is!" The goddess of the hearth looked at Little White with surprise, but her gaze quickly turned to doubt. "But... how did you know about the inside of her ship's equipment?"

"Uh..." Xiaobai blinked, glancing awkwardly at the two ship girls sitting on the sofa. "This is... um... while we were chatting, my mental network spun into their ship rigging and checked everything, so..."

The Admiral Network is only available to the highest-ranking Admirals.

The female hearth goddess, having worked as a senior security guard at the ship equipment research center for twenty years, should have some knowledge of the existence of the Admiral Network. However, given the experience of the civilian ship girls present, they probably wouldn't have access to the Admiral Network. Therefore, as long as Xiaobai slightly changes the word "Admiral" before "Admiral Network" and mentions it in front of them, there shouldn't be any problem.

"Mental...network?" Sure enough, after Xiaobai finished speaking, although the other ship girls present looked confused, Vestal's eyes were only confused for a moment before she quickly understood what Xiaobai meant. "You mean you just used the...cough cough, mental network to check the ship equipment of those two ship girls?"

"Um……"

"The mental networks I know of don't have this function!"

"Mine... is probably a bit special..." Xiaobai scratched his cheek, explaining somewhat awkwardly.

An ordinary admiral's network is simply a means of contacting ship girls, and of course it doesn't have the fancy functions of Xiaobai's admiral network. The reason why Xiaobai's admiral network can do so many amazing things is simply because the volume of her mental power is so large that quantitative change has led to qualitative change.

After listening to Xiaobai's words, the female kitchen god held Xiaobai's hand, frowned, and fell into deep thought.

"Um... Miss Stove Goddess."

"Ok?"

"Is it really that important that we can see inside the ship's equipment?" Xiaobai asked Vestal with a puzzled look. "I noticed you were suddenly very agitated just now, Miss Vestal..."

"Of course I'm excited!" The goddess of the hearth became excited upon hearing Xiaobai's words. "You don't understand. Being able to see the internal workings of a ship's equipment... that's not even a question of whether it's important or not. It's truly an ability comparable to Pangu creating the world!"

"Wow... is it that amazing...?"

"Little girl, do you know the importance of X-rays in the medical field? Do you know how important surgical equipment a shadowless lamp is? Do you know the four diagnostic methods of traditional Chinese medicine: observation, auscultation, inquiry, and palpation? To put it bluntly, these are all observation methods that doctors who cannot see the inside of the body devised after a lifetime of research!" The goddess of the hearth held Little White's hand and shook it up and down repeatedly. "Whether it's a human doctor or a ship girl repair ship, judging the internal condition of a patient is the most important and crucial step!"

"what……"

As Xiao Bai listened to the explanation from the female Kitchen Goddess, he subconsciously opened his mouth.

Xiao Bai then realized that her ability to see through the internal workings of the ship girls' equipment was such a powerful thing for Vestal...

“In my previous treatments, 70%... no! 80%! even 90% of my energy was spent assessing the internal condition of the ship girls’ rigging! Every step was fraught with danger, every step was like dancing on a knife’s edge. One careless mistake, one operational error, could kill the ship girl being repaired on the spot! That’s why I mentioned a 70% success rate!” The Vessian stared wide-eyed at Little White. “If... if I could see the internal condition of the rigging and perfectly treat the problem... I have a 90%... no! I have 100% confidence that I can perfectly repair their rigging!”

"Ten percent?!" As soon as the goddess's voice fell, Xiaobai and the two ship girls on the sofa exclaimed in unison.

"Yes! As long as I can see the inside of their ship equipment, with my skills, repairing it will be a piece of cake!"

"Sister Vestal!" The two ship girls on the sofa finally showed expressions full of hope. They looked at Vestal and Little White with great joy, their gazes lingering especially on Little White. Their eyes shone with excitement as they looked at each other, tears welling up in their eyes. "We...we're saved! We're saved!"

Standing at the entrance to the living room, the ship girl, who usually stood obediently like a door god, saw this scene at the coffee table. Her usual flattering gaze revealed a hint of shock.

"Well... Miss Vestal, if you want to know the situation inside those two ship girls' ship equipment, just ask me when you're treating them. I can be your assistant and tell you everything I can see." After a brief moment of confusion, Xiaobai finally realized that she might really be able to help this time. She quickly straightened her chest, grasped Vestal's hand in return, and said to Vestal with great confidence.

“No… transmitting information mouth-to-mouth is too slow!” To Xiaobai’s surprise, the Goddess of the Hearth shook her head. “This way of exchanging information is not only inefficient, but it is also very likely to cause errors due to our subjective language. Do you have a way to directly import the internal information of their ship equipment into my head?”

"Huh? I'll just..."

Xiaobai looked troubled.

"You used your mental network to observe their ship's equipment anyway, right? I know a thing or two about mental networks. Since your mental network can relay information about the inside of their ship's equipment to you, it shouldn't be a big problem for you to relay it back to me with a little manipulation!" The Vess suddenly brought her face very close to Little White's. "The fact that you can project information directly into my mind is very important to me! I've never seen the inside of a ship's equipment before. As long as you're willing, I'll agree to anything you ask. This can help not only me but also them. Please think of a way!"

The female hearth goddess stared intently at Xiaobai, her eyes filled with righteous indignation, selflessness, compassion, and also intense curiosity, excitement, and barely contained joy.

Perhaps, as she said, Shiro's ability to see through the internal structure of ship girls' equipment may seem ordinary, but for a repair ship like Vestal who has been working on the front lines of repairing ship girls' equipment for many years, it is an extremely attractive ability.

Just as coders are often drawn to concise, neat, and beautiful code, and fashion designers often find themselves unable to look away from seemingly ordinary clothing, this wonderfully powerful attraction stems entirely from their corresponding professional qualities. The more professional a person is, the more easily they become engrossed in it, which is difficult for outsiders to understand.

"I...I think I understand what you mean, Miss Goddess of the Hearth..." Xiaobai nodded and swallowed.

"So you have a solution now!" The goddess of the hearth looked at Xiaobai with surprise.

"Uh... how should I put it... actually, there is... there is, but... it's not as simple as you think, Miss Stove Goddess." Little White hesitated, "because..."

"But it doesn't matter!"

"...As you know, the original purpose of the mental network was to facilitate information exchange between ship girls... So, if it's a ship girl I'm linked to, I can project the information I see onto her... However, this is only limited to ship girls I'm linked to. As for outsiders, I'm really a bit..." Xiaobai looked at the Vestal Goddess with difficulty.

Xiaobai's meaning is very clear.

She can indeed share information, but only with her own ship girls. She simply cannot do that with "outsiders" like Vestal.

After listening to Xiaobai's words.

The female stove goddess was taken aback at first.

The female hearth goddess silently watched Xiaobai, who looked troubled.

Subsequently.

The goddess of the hearth gave a knowing smile.

"I see." The goddess of the hearth expressed her understanding and nodded.