Elder brother's garrison

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“Miss Elizabeth, take a deep breath, imitate me, take a deep breath.”

"Hoo... Breathe... Breathe..." Under Xiaobai's guidance, Elizabeth opened her mouth and took a few breaths, then lowered her head and breathed heavily, her breathing gradually becoming steady.

"Miss Elizabeth, how are you feeling?" Xiaobai asked.

“…Thank you.” Elizabeth looked up at Xiaobai with a complicated expression. “I’m sorry…Admiral Lu Lin, just now I…”

"It's alright, just calm down now. Time is of the essence, can you take me to see Admiral Haoding?" Xiaobai shook his head and said to Elizabeth.

"..." Elizabeth didn't speak. She nodded, got up, took Xiaobai's hand, and walked quickly toward the door of Admiral Haoding's room. "...The Admiral is inside. I'll take you in."

After Elizabeth finished speaking, she took out her key and opened the door.

The door had just been opened.

Xiao Bai felt a faint black current rush in from behind the door, and instinctively covered his mouth and nose to look inside.

The room was completely dark inside—but that didn’t mean there were no candles. In fact, the candles were burning brightly. The reason Xiaobai thought the room was dark was because a faint black mist, not very dark in color, was swirling around it. This mist seemed to absorb light, limiting the candlelight to a small area, leaving the rest of the room completely dark.

This is... the scent of the deep sea?

Xiao Bai looked at the black mist in the room with a puzzled expression. The next second, before she could even take a good look at the room, her gaze was drawn to a figure on the bed in the room.

When Xiaobai saw the figure on the bed, her heart skipped a beat.

The person lying on the bed was Admiral Haoding—but Admiral Haoding at this moment was different from the Admiral Haoding that Xiaobai had seen before. At this moment, Admiral Haoding had almost no life force on his body. His whole body was pitch black, and strong fluctuations of deep-sea energy surged on his body. His limbs were not visible at this moment. Violent black energy was emanating from his body from time to time, drifting into the room and forming a faint black energy that blocked the light everywhere in the room.

If Xiaobai didn't know that Admiral Haoding was a human, he might have mistaken Admiral Haoding for a pure deep-sea creature just by looking at this scene.

“Ever since the Admiral returned from the beach, things have turned out like this…” Elizabeth said to Xiaobai, tugging at his sleeve as if clinging to her last hope.

Xiaobai can probably understand why Elizabeth was squatting outside just now.

Seeing their admiral in this wretched state, his fate unknown... any ship girl with a sound mind would be at a loss...

“…I’ll go take a look.” Xiaobai nodded, pressed Elizabeth’s hand down, and walked to Admiral Haoding’s bedside.

Upon sensing Xiaobai's arrival, the deep-sea aura emanating from Admiral Haoding initially swept towards Xiaobai with malice, attempting to corrupt his body. However, the moment this deep-sea aura touched Xiaobai's body, it seemed as if it had sensed a natural enemy and hastily fled, clearing a path for Xiaobai to pass through.

Elizabeth, who was watching Little White from the doorway, showed a hint of surprise in her eyes.

Xiao Bai's mind wasn't on Elizabeth behind her at the moment. She simply swatted away the deep-sea aura around her like swatting flies, then walked up to Admiral Haoding, pulled up a chair, sat down, and poked Admiral Haoding's dark arm with a frown.

Ok.

Hard.

Girls' skin is definitely softer.

Xiao Bai withdrew his hand, moved closer to Admiral Haoding, and glanced at Admiral Haoding's dark face, which was covered with the aura of the deep sea.

In contrast to the intense deep-sea aura surrounding him, Admiral Haoding was in a fragile physical state. He was unconscious and breathing very weakly—a large amount of deep-sea aura was currently lingering in his body, constantly eroding him.

This is no longer a deep-sea aura that can be sustained by sheer willpower and vitality. Even if this deep-sea aura were to penetrate a ship girl's body, it would be enough to torment her for several days, let alone a human body. The fact that Admiral Haoding has managed to hold on until now with a faint life response is already quite remarkable.

"Hmm, it seems that the deep-sea aura that wasn't completely digested last time and lingered in Admiral Haoding's body became bait during this deep-sea operation, causing the aura to mistake him for a deep-sea creature and thus surge into his body in large quantities," Xiaobai muttered to himself.

"Is there...is there any hope?" Elizabeth asked anxiously.

"...Don't worry, there's hope." Xiaobai smiled at Elizabeth.

"That's...that's wonderful..." Elizabeth looked at Xiaobai with surprise, "Admiral Lu Lin, is there anything I can do for you?"

"Yes." Xiaobai nodded, then sat down at Admiral Haoding's desk, reached under her skirt, and under Elizabeth's bewildered gaze, pulled out a complete set of writing brush, ink, paper, and inkstone, and neatly placed them on the desk. "Miss Elizabeth, do you know how to grind ink?"

"Grind...grind what?" Elizabeth looked confused.

Chapter 1862 Talking and Laughing

“Grinding ink. Ink is this stuff.” As Xiaobai spoke, he picked up a small piece of ink from the table and explained to Elizabeth, “Hmm…Miss Elizabeth, have you seen this before?”

“…Never seen it before…” Elizabeth looked nervously at the ink blot in Xiaobai’s hand, a look of unease flashing in her eyes, her expression apologetic. “I’m sorry…Admiral Lu Lin…”

“If you don’t know me, you don’t know me… No need to apologize…” Xiaobai smiled helplessly. She stepped forward and handed the ink block in her hand to Elizabeth. “Miss Elizabeth, the so-called ink… is actually a special pigment used for writing. The thing used with it is called a brush. A long, long time ago, before humans invented convenient and easy-to-use fountain pens, ballpoint pens, and the like, this was what they used to write and record.”

“A calligraphy brush…” Elizabeth held the ink block in her hand and muttered to herself for a while. Then, a thought flashed through her mind, and she asked Xiaobai, “Could it be that the calligraphy brush that Admiral Lu Lin just mentioned refers to a quill pen? And the ink block in my hand refers to ink?”

“Ah…yes, that’s right, they’re pretty much the same thing.” Xiaobai smiled slightly. “Miss Elizabeth, you’re from a British ship, right? No wonder you haven’t seen this before—in your language, this thing is a tool used in the same way as a quill pen and ink.”

“I, I understand!” Elizabeth nodded excitedly.

"I understand." Xiaobai breathed a sigh of relief. She stepped forward, took Elizabeth's hands in her hands, patted the back of Elizabeth's hands, and said gently, "Miss Elizabeth, go find some hot water, then take this ink and gently grind it in the hot water for a while, and the hot water will turn into ink. I need to use that ink to save Admiral Haoding later."

"Yes, ma'am!" Elizabeth hurriedly clutched the ink block in her hand as if it were a lifesaver, then stammered to Little White, "The place to boil...boil water is not far from here, Admiral Lu Lin, please wait a few minutes, I'll go find some hot water..."

"Go quickly and come back quickly." Xiaobai put down her hands.

"Yes!" Elizabeth nodded gratefully, then turned and ran towards the door.

"Oh, right, Miss Elizabeth." Just then, Xiaobai suddenly called out to Elizabeth.

"Admiral Lu Lin?" Elizabeth stopped abruptly, holding the inkstone in her hands, and turned her head delicately.

"..." Xiaobai looked at Elizabeth's confused eyes and smiled slightly, "It's nothing serious, it's just that this room is filled with the aura of the deep sea right now. If your ship girls discover Admiral Haoding's current state, it will definitely cause a lot of trouble. So, Miss Elizabeth, you'd better close the door when you go to get hot water."

“Oh! I understand!” Elizabeth nodded quickly. She stepped out of the room, opened the door to Admiral Haoding’s room, and was about to close it when she hesitated and turned her worried gaze to Xiaobai.

"I'm fine, I'm not afraid of these deep-sea scents," Little White waved to Elizabeth.

"..." Elizabeth lowered her head, gave Xiaobai a complicated smile, and then slowly closed the door.

crunch.

After Elizabeth left, the door was closed.

The windows in Admiral Haoding's room were small. To conceal the strong aura of the deep sea in the room, Elizabeth had boarded up the narrow windows long before Xiaobai arrived. Now that the door was closed as well, the room was completely dark, with only two lamps on the table still shining faintly.

After Elizabeth left, Xiaobai breathed a slight sigh of relief.

"Phew... Anyway, I managed to get Miss Elizabeth away... Miss Elizabeth trusts me so much that she didn't even ask what the ink was for, which really saved me a lot of trouble explaining..." Xiaobai muttered softly as she walked back to Admiral Haoding's bedside and looked down at his dark face.

Regarding how to treat Admiral Haoding's current physical condition, Xiaobai did not deceive Elizabeth. She did indeed have her own method to treat Admiral Haoding, and the ink she had just given Elizabeth would indeed be needed in the treatment process.

It has to be said that Admiral Haoding was incredibly lucky.

Admiral Haoding is human, and his physical condition is far inferior to that of a ship girl. Now, the abyssal aura has severely entered his body. If this abyssal aura is allowed to continue to erode him, even if Admiral Haoding hasn't kicked the bucket yet, he'll be just a few breaths away from truly dying. If Xiaobai had no experience in treating abyssal aura inhalation, then the time it would take for Xiaobai to stand by the bedside thinking of a solution would be enough for Admiral Haoding to repeatedly teeter on the brink of death seven or eight times.

“Based on the experience of treating New Jersey, using runic fonts should be enough to dispel the deep-sea aura in Admiral Haoding’s body…” Xiaobai muttered to herself, slowly placing her palm on Admiral Haoding’s forehead. “However… if we only do this, dispelling the deep-sea aura will take a long time. Given Admiral Haoding’s physical condition, he might not be able to hold out for that long. Fortunately, Admiral Haoding hasn’t been infected by the deep-sea aura for long, and the intensity and stubbornness of this aura are much weaker than the one in New Jersey. I can do more to reduce the amount of deep-sea aura in Admiral Haoding’s body to a relatively safe level…”

"Um……"

"The deep-sea aura that invaded Admiral Haoding's body seems to mostly stay in his head... It might be related to Admiral Haoding's active brain while constantly commanding ship girls on the beach." Xiaobai gently tapped Admiral Haoding's forehead twice with her finger, and the Admiral's Network spread out, following Xiaobai's finger and entering Admiral Haoding's forehead. "Then this is it."

swoosh————

The moment Xiaobai's admiral network burrowed into Admiral Haoding's head, the deep-sea aura surging on Admiral Haoding's body began to violently surge. A large amount of deep-sea aura boiled on Admiral Haoding's body like boiling water, constantly emitting a dark, smoky aura. With the surge of airflow, even Admiral Haoding's numb limbs began to twitch grotesquely on the bed.

The deep-sea energy expelled from Admiral Haoding's body lingered restlessly in the air. It quickly began to gather back towards Admiral Haoding's body, as if it couldn't forget him and wanted to return to his body.

Just now.

Blue light flashes.

A crystal beast skeleton burning with icy blue flames emerged from mid-air behind Xiaobai.

This is part of the Xiaobai land-based ship equipment.

The crystal beast skeleton that appeared behind Xiaobai opened its huge mouth, and the icy blue flames in its eye sockets shone brightly. As if guided, a large amount of deep-sea aura overflowed and poured into the crystal beast skeleton's mouth.

The icy blue crystal beast bone swallowed all the deep-sea aura emanating from the room. Then, with its eyes burning with blue flames, it opened its mouth and chewed for a while in a very human-like manner, seemingly savoring the flavor of the deep-sea aura in its mouth. After a while, the blue flames in the beast bone's eye sockets flickered, and the beast bone quickly pouted its huge mouth, turned its head sharply to the side, and spat a mouthful of blood into the window that was sealed with wooden planks.

boom!

A black aura was disdainfully exhaled by the crystal beast bone, transforming into a gray air cannon that smashed through the wooden-boarded window and disappeared into the outside air.

As expected of Xiaobai's ship equipment, at least in terms of being picky about food, the land-based ship equipment and Xiaobai are surprisingly similar.

After exhaling the breath of the deep sea, the blue flames in the beast bones flickered twice before gradually settling down, and then slowly disappeared behind Little White.

Xiao Bai withdrew his hand, looked at Admiral Haoding on the bed, and breathed a sigh of relief.

At this moment, Admiral Haoding had transformed back into human form from his pitch-black, skeletal state. Although his limbs and facial skin were still covered by deep-sea energy, making them appear pitch-black, at least there were no longer any cool special effects of excess deep-sea energy constantly emanating from his body.

"Hmm, this amount should be enough. The remaining deep-sea aura is quite stubborn. If we continue using the previous method, even I would have a hard time cleaning it up without harming Admiral Haoding. Let's rely on the rune-like incantations to heal him slowly." Xiaobai withdrew her hand, wiped non-existent sweat from her forehead, and stretched contentedly. "If Admiral Haoding's constitution were strong enough, he might have already woken up..."

Just now.

This seems to confirm Xiaobai's self-talk.

As soon as Xiaobai finished speaking, the Admiral Haoding, who was lying on the bed, trembled. His eyebrows furrowed slightly, his eyelids began to tremble, and then a dry groan came from his throat. Under Xiaobai's gaze, he weakly opened his eyes.

"Good evening, Admiral Haoding." Xiaobai smiled slightly at Admiral Haoding.

"..." Admiral Haoding's eyes were very weak and filled with confusion. After waking up, Admiral Haoding stared blankly at the ceiling for a long time before being attracted by Xiaobai's voice. His cloudy eyes turned slightly towards Xiaobai, "...Lu...Lin...Admiral?"

"..."

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Elizabeth nervously clutched the ink block Little White had given her, squatting by the campfire waiting for the kettle to boil.

"I hope the admiral is alright... I hope the admiral is alright..."

While waiting for the water to boil, Elizabeth clasped her hands together, staring at the water in the kettle and praying softly.

Boiling water is a quick process.

But to Elizabeth at this moment, time seemed to drag on endlessly. The kettle boiled and boiled, the water inside scorched by the intense heat, yet it just wouldn't bubble.

at last.

Just when Elizabeth felt like she had waited a hundred years, the water in the kettle finally began to bubble and steam.

"Although it's not completely boiled yet, the temperature should be high enough..."

Ignoring the scalding heat of the kettle, Elizabeth grabbed it from the campfire, pulled out a square, empty aluminum lunchbox from her ship's storage space, and poured the water from the kettle into the lunchbox.

wow-

Hot water was poured into the lunchbox, and billowing steam rose up, quickly heating the aluminum lunchbox to a scorching heat. Elizabeth took out the ink block that Little White had given her and pressed it into the lunchbox, rubbing it vigorously. As the ink block dissolved, the boiling water in the lunchbox gradually turned black and thick, and the ink stained Elizabeth's snow-white and slender fingers black.

"That should be about right!" Elizabeth stood up, looked at the thick, black ink in the lunchbox, and quickly picked it up and ran back the way she came. "It's time to go back to Admiral Lu Lin, time is of the essence... time is of the essence..."

Elizabeth gritted her teeth and ran all the way back to Admiral Haoding's room.

In just a few seconds, Admiral Haoding's house came into view.

"Admiral! Admiral Lu Lin, I, I'm back!" Elizabeth frantically pushed open the door with her shoulder and rushed into the room, anxiously calling out to the person inside, "I'm so sorry, it took a while to boil the water, I tried my best to wait..."

"Hahahahahahahahaha————" However, before Elizabeth could even stand still in the room, a hearty laugh came from inside.

"Huh?" Elizabeth stood there, holding the lunchbox, stunned, and looked into the room.

Inside the room, the all-black Admiral Haoding, who looked like he had been transformed into a non-European (unlucky) person, sat on the bed, hands on his hips, laughing heartily at Xiaobai standing at the head of the bed. His bright white teeth stood out conspicuously against his all-black skin.

"Hahahaha! Admiral Lu Lin is indeed mighty and brave! He sank every single one of the invading deep-sea ships! As expected of the world's strongest humans, my decision to invite Admiral Lu Lin and your naval base to Chapter 8 was truly wise! Hahahaha!" At this moment, although Admiral Hao Ding was as black as a lump of coal, there was no trace of the weakness caused by his serious illness on his face. He was laughing heartily at Xiao Bai, his face full of admiration for Xiao Bai and joy after winning the battle.

"Admiral Haoding, I think you should lie down and rest..." Xiaobai advised Admiral Haoding with a helpless expression.

"It's alright! Admiral Lu Lin, my physical ailment is just a minor problem. Right now, I'm incredibly excited! Nothing in this world can heal my body better than victory!" Admiral Hao Ding flashed a dazzling set of white teeth at Xiao Bai. "With news of Admiral Lu Lin, I feel like I can get back to work tomorrow... no, I even feel like I can right now! Please let me continue to assist Admiral Lu Lin and the others! Please!"

"No, there's no such thing as assisting or not... Admiral Haoding and you all deserve a lot of credit for our victory in this battle against the Deep Sea..."

"No, no, no, it's still Admiral Lu Lin who deserves the credit..."

"No, no, it's all thanks to Admiral Haoding's excellent assistance..."

"It's Admiral Lu Lin..."

"It's Admiral Haoding..."

"..."

"..."

Xiao Bai started exchanging compliments with Admiral Hao Ding.

The room was instantly filled with a relaxed and pleasant atmosphere.

Doorway.

Elizabeth, holding the inkstone, stared at Admiral Haoding and Xiaobai inside the door, momentarily stunned.

Chapter 1863 Unlucky Haoding

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