Elder brother's garrison

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"It's okay, just keep chewing. You have nothing to do anyway, so you can finish it by evening." Xiaobai reached out and patted Deepsea Hindenburg's head, instructing her.

"Aww!" Hindenburg nodded, picked up the dried squid, and crunched it vigorously.

"Ah...right, Hindenburg of the Deep Sea, there's something I want to tell you."

"Well?"

"Friedrich assigned me the task of training the deep-sea frigates today. So I won't be able to stay with you for a while; I have to go train the deep-sea frigates."

"Ugh!" Deep Sea Hindenburg's eyes widened, and she shook her head hurriedly while chewing on dried squid. "I want to go too! I want to go too!"

"Sweetie, you should just give up now." Xiaobai patted the head of Deepsea Hindenburg with a wry smile and said to her, "You're not capable of fighting right now, and those deep-sea frigates aren't exactly mentally sound. If they see you, who always bullies them, looking so weak, they might come looking for revenge."

"Hmm..." Deepsea Hindenburg lowered its head dejectedly, looking like a pet dog that its owner had refused to take for a walk. "Okay..."

"Don't worry, I'm just filling in for you for a short time. You'll go back once you're healed." Seeing Hindenburg's dejected look, Xiaobai couldn't bear to tell her a lie.

"Can we listen to stories while training?"

"...Yes, either way is fine."

"Yay!" Hindenburg of the Deep Sea exclaimed happily.

"..." Xiaobai silently looked at the Deep Sea Hindenburg and sighed in his heart.

Although that's what Xiaobai said, there's a high chance that the Deep Sea Hindenburg will never have that opportunity again.

After all, before her injuries have even healed, the matter between Xiaobai and this ruined city will come to an end. Regardless of whether Xiaobai's plan succeeds or fails, Xiaobai will not be able to stay here any longer.

Chapter 2035 Check Carefully

When Xiaobai came to Barbarossa's house, it wasn't actually just to greet the two of them. A key purpose was to build rapport while also learning from Hindenburg about the training procedures for deep-sea frigates, in case any novice mistakes occurred.

—After all, Frederick the Great had gone to great lengths to give him this job, so even if he wanted to secretly cause some minor damage, he should at least know when it was the best time to make his move, right?

That's why Xiaobai came to Hindenburg in the deep sea.

Then Xiaobai realized that this action was a bit unnecessary.

Although Hindenburg of the Deep Sea has always been in charge of the daily activities of the Deep Sea Frigates, her method of training them can be described as quite brutal—she would take out a small group of Deep Sea Frigates at fixed times every day and beat them severely until they had no strength left to struggle before throwing them back.

to be frank.

This method is a bit barbaric, but it is efficient enough. However, its only drawback is that it is not suitable for beginners.

While playing cards with Barbarossa, Xiaobai listened to Hindenburg of the Deep Sea enthusiastically recount his training process, basically hearing about the basic procedure of dragging the Deep Sea frigates out from near the Black Tower, beating them up, and then sending them back.

After playing two more rounds of cards with Barbarossa, Xiaobai spoke to Barbarossa, who was shuffling the cards.

“Miss Barbarossa, um… although it was fun playing cards with you, work is more important. Super and I should go to the deep-sea frigate for some training…” Little White whispered to Barbarossa, “How about we come back to you after we finish training?”

“…Okay.” Barbarossa paused for a moment while shuffling the cards, then slowly lowered them, straightened up, and nodded to Little White.

"Then we'll take our leave and head over there..." Shiro and Yamato stood up.

"Wait a minute." Barbarossa called out to Little White as he watched it get up.

Little White stopped in place and looked at Barbarossa curiously: "What's wrong, Miss Barbarossa?"

"This... is for you." Barbarossa picked up a playing card and handed it to Little White.

"This is... the Two of Diamonds?" Xiaobai took Barbarossa's card with a puzzled look, staring at her strangely. "Miss Barbarossa, what is this you gave me...?"

“The same reason as Frederick,” Barbarossa said calmly. “These cards have been with me for a long time and have my scent on them. If you take this with you and use it in conjunction with Frederick’s card, the Deepsea Frigate will be more lenient towards you when it first meets you.”

"Oh...oh, I understand, thank you, Miss Barbarossa..." Little White looked down at the two of diamonds in his hand, blinked, and suddenly said, "But this card must be something very important to you, Miss Barbarossa, right? Is it alright if I take it with me?"

"Anyway, if you don't come back, I can't play."

“…Alright.” Xiaobai smiled slightly and put away the card.

"Me too! Me too!" Hindenburg shouted, raising his hand. "I also have something for the Admiral!"

"What are you going to give me?" Xiaobai asked, looking at the Deep Sea Hindenburg with a smile.

"This!" Deep Sea Hindenburg reached behind his head, removed his one-eyed eyepatch, and excitedly handed it to Little White. "This also has my aura. It's for you!"

"An eye mask...this isn't a good idea...aren't you going to use it again?" Xiaobai looked at the eye mask that Deepsea Hindenburg handed her in surprise, subconsciously looking up at Deepsea Hindenburg, then paused, "Huh?"

Hindenburg, having removed his blindfold, stared excitedly at himself with his two large, undamaged eyes wide open.

"Deep Sea Hindenburg, your eyes...aren't injured?"

"Injuried?"

"It's the eye you're wearing the blindfold with, why..."

"Found it in the city because it looks cool!"

“…That’s alright then.” Xiaobai accepted the blindfold from Deep Sea Hindenburg. “In that case, I’ll take it.”

After a warm farewell from Hindenburg in the deep sea, and under Barbarossa's silent gaze, Shiro and Mega Yamato left Barbarossa's territory and headed towards the Black Tower in the city center.

Several tens of minutes later, Xiaobai and Chaoda returned to the vicinity of the black spire in the center of the city.

The deep-sea frigates usually live beneath the black spire, lingering in the waters near it. They typically keep a distance from the spire's entrance. When Little White and Super Dahe enter and exit the spire, these deep-sea frigates merely bar their teeth and stare at them from afar with their ferocious, blood-red eyes.

This time, as Xiaobai and Chaoyahe approached the Abyssal Fleet with a purpose, the Abyssal Fleet became noticeably agitated. They opened their huge mouths and emitted a series of buzzing groans. Hundreds of pairs of blood-red eyes were filled with a cruel aura as they stared at Xiaobai, seemingly warning Xiaobai and Chaoyahe not to come closer.

Xiao Bai stopped just in time at the edge of the deep-sea frigates' alert zone, without getting any closer.

"Admiral, be careful, they're going to attack if we go any further..." Chao Yahe quickly stood in front of Xiaobai, watching the deep-sea destroyers in the distance warily.

Xiaobai patted Super Yamato's waist, then reached into his pocket and pulled out the Deep Sea Hindenburg's black eye mask, which he then held up to Super Yamato and waved at the distant Deep Sea destroyers.

When the fierce gazes of the deep-sea frigates noticed the black blindfold on Xiaobai's hand, a slight look of doubt appeared on their faces, and their threatening movements and auras paused.

Seeing the obvious effect, Xiaobai took out the Barbarossa Diamond 2 from his pocket, placed it together with the black eye mask, and shook it in front of them.

The ferocious aura emanating from the deep-sea frigate gradually dissipated, but it remained fixed on Shiro and Super Yamato, its voice muffled as if it were still subtly wary of Shiro.

It seems that having these two deep-sea deans' keepsakes alone isn't enough...

Xiao Bai sighed inwardly, took out the hem of Frederick the Great's robe that he had put in his ship equipment space earlier, placed it together with the eye patch card, and showed it to the deep-sea frigates.

"...Ouch..."

Upon spotting Frederick the Great's robes, the deep-sea frigates let out a series of howls, then withdrew their fierce gazes, lowered their heads, and went about their business, no longer wary of Little White.

"The effect is truly remarkable..." Xiaobai looked at the three tokens in his hand and clicked his tongue in amazement. "If it weren't for these three things, I'm afraid it would have taken me a whole day just to get close to the deep-sea frigate."

Holding three tokens, Xiaobai emerged from behind the super-large ship and slowly walked to a deep-sea frigate that was very close to it.

The deep-sea frigate was enormous; compared to Xiaobai's body, it was like the size difference between a car on the road and a pet.

Xiao Bai's approach quickly attracted the attention of the deep-sea frigates once again. However, this time, because of the token in their hands, the deep-sea frigates did not do anything to Xiao Bai, but just stared at Xiao Bai coldly with their bloodshot eyes.

Xiao Bai patted the hull of the deep-sea frigate.

Hard.

Cool.

It's also slippery.

To be honest, the feel is not as good as petting a cat.

Xiao Bai not only lowered his hand in disappointment but also sighed. Then he raised his eyes and looked around at the deep-sea frigates.

These unpopular deep-sea frigates have become the biggest obstacle to Xiaobai's plan. Once the ruined city goes to war with the ship girls, these astonishingly large number of deep-sea frigates will cause trouble sooner or later... Now that he has the opportunity to "train" these deep-sea frigates, Xiaobai must do something to them.

Ok……

So what should we do?

Xiao Bai held the keepsake in her hand and thought for a while.

Under the guise of training, they were taken out and then sunk one by one.

No.

That would be too obvious. Previously, the Abyssal Fleet's Zuikaku was locked up in the tower by Frederick the Great for a long time because it lost a squadron of Abyssal destroyers. If I did that, I'd probably be locked up there too.

So... how about we secretly leave some hidden flaws in the bodies of these deep-sea frigates, so that their future combat capabilities will be affected?

this……

Maybe we could give it a try?

Thinking about this, Xiaobai nodded thoughtfully. She looked around to make sure no one was nearby before releasing the Admiral Network and sending it towards a deep-sea frigate in front of her.

Xiaobai's admiral network quickly approached the body of the deep-sea frigate.

Subsequently.

Just as Xiaobai was about to extend his mental power into the body of the deep-sea frigate, suddenly, everything went black before his eyes, and he felt an intense attraction coming from behind him.

Whoosh——

A strong wind blew in Xiaobai's ears.

Xiao Bai felt his body being pulled up and flying away in an instant, falling backward.

At first, it was all dark.

Then it shone brightly.

"Ouch!" Xiaobai finally fell to the hard floor, her bottom hitting the ground hard and hurting quite a bit. She sat up, rubbing her bottom. "What...what happened?"

"I advise you not to move around." A familiar, clear voice rang out beside Xiaobai.

"Huh?" Little White looked up.

Before Xiaobai, the Will of the Deep Sea was rolling up its sleeves, revealing a section of snow-white arm resembling a lotus root, looking down at her.

"Deep Sea Will? How did you get out of my mental world?" Xiaobai was stunned.

"I just pulled you in here suddenly." The Will of the Deep Sea clapped his hands, blew on his palms, and said calmly, "The situation was urgent just now, and I didn't have time to wait for your reaction, so I used a little too much force."

"Uh... this is the spiritual world..." Little White looked around blankly, and sure enough, the surroundings were the villa of the Deep Sea Will in the spiritual world. "Deep Sea Will, why... why did you suddenly pull me in here?"

"I was about to ask you what you were going to do," the Will of the Deep Sea said, bending down to Little White sitting on the ground. "Just now, you weren't planning to use your mental power to infiltrate the bodies of those deep-sea frigates and cause them some damage, were you?"

"...Is that not okay?" Little White tucked in her legs and looked up at the Will of the Deep Sea with a pitiful expression.

"..." The will of the deep sea silently watched Xiaobai. After a while, she sighed helplessly, straightened up, and snapped her fingers. With three sharp cracks, three items fell in front of Xiaobai.

What fell in front of Little White was Barbarossa's two of diamonds, Hindenburg's black eye patch, and the hem of Frederick the Great's robe.

"I didn't say it's impossible, it's just not possible now. You're just too slow to be alert..." The Will of the Deep Sea gently kicked away the card and the black eye mask, picked up Frederick the Great's robe, and handed it to Little White. "This is a copy I made from the real world. Its existence in the spiritual world is almost the same as outside. I'm giving you a chance. Pick this up and examine it carefully."

"Check..." Xiaobai blankly accepted the fabric handed to her by the Will of the Deep Sea, subconsciously using her mental power to check it, then paused, "Huh... this... also has Frederick's mental power mark on it?"

"It's not just a simple mental energy mark." Seeing that Xiaobai had finally discovered something, the Deep Sea Will's expression gradually softened. She said to Xiaobai, "The strength and complexity of this mental energy mark are different from the one left on you before."

"What's the difference?"

"You can think of this as a pinhole camera and a bugging device."

"what?!"

Chapter 2036 Another Way

A pinhole camera, also known as a miniature camera, is an optical instrument primarily used for covert filming.

A listening device, a type of eavesdropping device, is a small, inconspicuous instrument used to steal audio information.

These two terms flashed through Xiaobai's mind.

"This...this thing is a camera and a listening device?" Xiaobai looked at the Deep Sea Will in disbelief. "This...this is possible?"

“It’s not difficult at all.” The Will of the Deep Sea reached out and took the fabric, weighing it in his hand. “Mental power is originally responsible for conveying the user’s consciousness. As long as the user’s ability is sophisticated enough, it’s not strange to turn one’s mental power into a sensor and place it on other objects.”

"Uh... so that means Frederick is spying on me right now?" Xiaobai came to her senses.

"Ah."

"This... Didn't Frederick always trust me quite a bit before... Could it be that my plan has been exposed..." Xiaobai was a little confused for a moment.

“I don’t think her reasons for monitoring you have anything to do with whether your plan has been exposed…” Deep Sea Will sighed. “Think about it, you’ve only been in this city for four or five days, and you haven’t even exchanged a few words with Frederick. She’s just so confident in entrusting you with the task of taking care of the Deep Sea Frigate. As the city’s administrator, she’s really not very vigilant… So, besides the reasons she mentioned before, isn’t this also a test of your loyalty?”

"Loyalty...test?"

"Think about it. Now you've gained the favor of the Deepsea Dean of the entire ruined city, won Frederick's approval, and have the authority to command hundreds of Deepsea frigates. If you really want to do something detrimental to this city... now should be the perfect opportunity, right?" The Deepsea Will grasped the piece of Frederick's cloth in its hand, tossed it lightly into the trash can, and said, "If I'm not mistaken, Frederick is probably in the Black Tower right now, observing your every move through the spiritual energy on the cloth. If you had tampered with those Deepsea frigates just now... within seconds, Frederick's shells would be upon you, and your plan would be ruined."

"I..." Xiaobai shrank his shoulders, looking at the trash can in the corner with lingering fear, "Luckily, Deep Sea Will, you found me in time..."

“I noticed it when she handed you the fabric.” Deep Sea Will tossed her long hair behind her head and slightly raised her snow-white chin.