Elder brother's garrison

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“Ugh…” Wisconsin’s limbs froze in mid-air, then she landed with a thud. She pouted, rolled over, and glanced up at Missouri. “Well, anyway… it’s good that you’re not sick.”

Missouri patted Wisconsin's head and looked at Little White.

Xiao Bai had been staring at Missouri in surprise from the beginning. Now that their eyes met, Xiao Bai finally relaxed and breathed a sigh of relief. The two smiled at each other without saying a word.

"Admiral, what are you planning to do next?" Yubari walked up to Shiro and asked him.

"Huh? Me?"

“Yes… Missouri has been confirmed to be healthy now. All those strange symptoms were signals from her body requesting modification. If left untreated, these symptoms would gradually disappear in about a week.” Yubari said expectantly to Shiro. “Ah… Of course! Don’t worry, Admiral, her modification eligibility will remain. She can be modified whenever she wants… I just wanted to ask when you plan to arrange Missouri’s modification plan…”

As Yubari finished speaking, he chuckled somewhat sheepishly and rubbed his hands together in front of Shiro.

It was obvious to anyone with eyes that Yubari was quite interested in the Missouri renovation plan. Although she didn't say much about it, her expression completely revealed her thoughts, practically screaming, "Leave the Missouri renovation to me."

“That makes sense…” Xiaobai smiled slightly, nodded with a sigh, looked at Missouri for a moment, and then said, “Although there’s an old saying that good things come to those who wait… I don’t like to keep postponing good things. Now that Missouri has the opportunity for transformation, let’s arrange a transformation plan for her as soon as possible. Can I ask you for this task, Yubari?”

"Really?!" Yubari was even more excited than Missouri herself after hearing this. She almost jumped up with excitement. "Admiral, you really need to think this through! The modification of a large ship takes a very, very long time, from planning to completion! Even for a regular large ship, the modification takes at least a week! Not to mention Missouri, the world's only top-tier ship girl. There's a good chance she won't be able to make it to the eighth chapter's expedition event. Is that alright?"

"Hmm... It's a real shame that we don't have Missouri's support, but things will work themselves out." Xiaobai smiled slightly and shook his head nonchalantly. "I'll leave all the renovations in Missouri to you. You can arrange it without worry, there's no need to rush."

"Don't worry! We'll take care of Missouri's share while she's not around!" The surrounding ship girls responded enthusiastically upon hearing Yubari and Shiro's conversation.

With the support of the ship girls, Shiro and Missouri no longer needed to hesitate.

Chapter 2045 The current environment definitely does not support the Missouri renovation plan; only the newbie naval base has the corresponding environment and equipment.

Amidst the ship girls' joyful farewells, Shiro, along with Missouri and Yubari, stepped into the black vortex of the Super Yamato, departing from Chapter 8.

In the end, Missouri, whether she was sick or not, still left the battlefield of Chapter Eight.

However, in terms of the process, everyone's mood this time was much more joyful and jubilant than before.

I've returned to the newbie garrison.

The super-large structure positioned the exit of the black vortex in front of the cafeteria.

Yubari followed Shiro and the others out of the black vortex, looking back at the slowly closing vortex with a look of amazement.

"What a convenient ability... It's just like the Anywhere Door from a manga, but I wonder how it works..." Yubari rubbed his chin, leaned closer to Super Yamato, and stared at Super Yamato's body for a long time. "Hmm... Do you want to study it with me? If we could make a similar long-distance movement device, it would be a groundbreaking discovery that would shake the academic world!"

"Super Yamato's teleportation ability is her skill, and it can't be explained by science," Shiro said to Yubari with a smile. "Besides, Super Yamato's teleportation ability always reveals the aura of the deep sea."

"Sigh...what a pity." Yubari sighed decisively, patting Yamato's arm with envy. "It's so nice...so nice..."

Chaoda blushed deeply under Yubari's gaze and lowered her head shyly.

It's getting close to night now.

Under the dark sky, the four of them arrived at the temporary factory that Yubari had used to transform the empire. Yubari opened the door, revealing various instruments and daily necessities neatly arranged inside. He then jogged into the factory, stepped on the generator, and pulled hard on the generator handle. A rumbling sound rang out, and the various electrical appliances in the factory began to work continuously.

"The power's back on! The power's back on! I'll go get the equipment ready!" Yubari jumped up and down twice, then ran to the blackboard at the back, shouting as she went. She took down the various ship equipment blueprints pasted on the blackboard and neatly placed them on the table next to her. Then she took out stacks of white paper and pasted them on top of the blackboard.

Yubari looked very happy; she was busy at the factory where the call came in.

“Missouri, let’s find a place to rest.” Little White turned to Missouri and said, “Your body is still a bit tired from the physiological reactions of the modifications, right?”

“Thank you, Admiral.” Missouri smiled.

There were plenty of places to rest in the factory, and even the tents that Rome had set up when they were stationed here last time were still there. The three of them found a place to sit down and rest. Seeing that Yubari was too busy to pay attention to them for the time being, Xiaobai curiously stood up, walked to the blackboard, and glanced at the ship equipment blueprints that Yubari had just taken down.

The ship equipment blueprints that Yubari took down were immediately recognized by Shiro as belonging to the Empire.

"Oh... so this is what the modified ship equipment blueprints look like..." Xiaobai nodded, flipping through a few pages, looking with satisfaction at the extremely precise drawings and every inch carefully marked by Yubari, feeling particularly at ease. "Yubari is really conscientious and responsible... Huh? This is..."

Xiaobai turned to the next page and was surprised by what was on the drawing.

The blueprints on the following pages did not show the ship equipment of the Empire, but rather the ship equipment of another type of battleship.

It looks familiar.

Chapter 2046 The Direction of Missouri's Transformation

"Hmm... the ship equipment on this paper... doesn't it look like Roman?"

Xiao Bai looked at the blueprints in his hand, somewhat surprised.

Although Xiaobai hadn't observed Rome's ship equipment in detail, based on her memories of Rome showing her their ship equipment a few times, she still found many commonalities between the blueprints in her hand and Rome's ship equipment.

"Oh? Admiral, what are you looking at?" Yubari, who was fiddling with the equipment, heard Shiro's mutterings and turned around to look at Shiro.

"Ah... I'm sorry, these were just on the table..." Xiaobai quickly put down the blueprints in her hand. "Are these blueprints considered confidential? Are they not allowed to be looked at...?"

"It's alright, we're all family, feel free to look around." Yubari grinned at Shiro and said nonchalantly, "The ship girls who were modified and the designers themselves are all on your side, Admiral, so there aren't many rules."

"I see..." Shiro breathed a sigh of relief and smiled at Yubari. "Speaking of which, I think I saw Rome's ship rigging in the blueprints just now..."

"Eh... Admiral, you recognized it? That's impressive." Yubari nodded and smiled at Shiro. "Yes, those are the blueprints I prepared for the renovation of Rome."

Is Rome also going to be transformed?

“Rome might not be ready yet.” Yubari turned around and said while fiddling with the instruments, “But I did promise Veneto that I would prepare a modification for Rome that would be as perfect as possible, so I designed some modification blueprints that might be used in the future in advance—after all, I’m a ship girl who keeps her word.”

"Designing and modifying blueprints in advance... is that even possible?" Xiaobai couldn't help but be curious after hearing Yubari's words.

“Yes, yes.” Yubari put down the instrument parts in his hand, stood up and smiled at Shiro, then gestured with his hands, “Since we have some time now, how about I explain it to you, Admiral? If you know a bit about the modification process, it might be helpful for the Missouri modification plan.”

“Okay, please go ahead.” As soon as Xiaobai heard that it might be beneficial to Missouri, he nodded quickly.

"Well... Admiral, first of all, let me ask you, do you know why ship girls have a retrofit state?" Yubari walked up to Shiro and asked with a smile.

"Uh... doesn't it just mean it can be modified?"

"I was asking about the principle behind it."

"I don't know," Xiaobai honestly shook his head.

"Hmph..." Yubari seemed to have noticed Shiro's cluelessness. She hummed twice and then said to Shiro, "The so-called ship girl modification is essentially a state in which the ship girl's own ability value exceeds the upper limit that the ship equipment can accommodate. The so-called modification state I mentioned before is, in a sense, equivalent to the ship equipment being unable to continue to accommodate the ship girl's growing abilities and talents, thus issuing an upgrade warning."

"Uh... upgrade warning..."

"To put it simply, Admiral, you should first quantify all the ship girls' abilities," Yubari explained to Shiro. "We generally divide the ship girls' abilities into several categories: artillery fire, aviation, air superiority, torpedo fire, survivability, and anti-submarine warfare. The ship girls' ability values ​​are the data for these six abilities. Each ability actually has an upper limit. Once one of the abilities reaches the ship's equipment's peak, it can no longer grow. Then the ship's equipment will react to this, exhibiting some physiological reactions similar to overflow."

"Oh...I think I understand..."

"And then... here we come to the point." Yubari patted his chest smugly. "And I, an excellent ship equipment designer, my job is to test the ability values ​​of the modified ship girls, determine which ability triggered their modification state, and then, when designing the modified ship equipment, further enhance that excellent ability—well, to give another simple example, if a ship girl's modification state was triggered by reaching the limit of her artillery fire capability, then when designing her modified ship equipment, I would design a larger artillery mount and a buffer facility that can withstand more intense artillery fire. Conversely, if it's triggered by aviation capability, then I would increase her cabin capacity and lengthen the runway; if it's survivability capability, I would adapt a higher-performance power reactor or thicken her armor; if it's air superiority capability..."

"Just add anti-aircraft guns?" Xiaobai asked back.

"That's pretty much the gist of it." Yubari grinned at Shiro and nodded. "Of course, the actual modification is definitely not that simple. I'm just telling you in a way that you, the Admiral, can understand."

“I understand it very well.” Xiaobai nodded with a smile. “Thank you, Yubari. I’ve learned something new.”

“So… it’s not strange to make modification blueprints for ship girls in advance.” Yubari pulled out Roma’s modification blueprints from the table and said to Shiro, “Roma… because of all the things that happened before, I’ve studied her various stats pretty well. Roma’s stats in artillery fire are significantly higher than her other stats. If she enters modification mode, improving her artillery fire will most likely be the direction of her modification.”

"Oh I got it."

"Of course, Rome's survivability is also excellent. There's also a possibility that her survivability stat skyrockets in the later stages, surpassing her artillery fire capability, thus triggering the ship's equipment modification based on her survivability... So I have Plan B, which is this blueprint..." Yubari leaned closer to Shiro and showed him Rome's modification blueprint. "On this blueprint, I specifically increased her armor protection capabilities, adopting the most advanced protective measures, and then..."

Once Yubari started talking about ship equipment, she couldn't stop and went on and on to Shiro.

Shiro listened to Yubari's words with a smile.

"So, when you're modifying Missouri, Yubari, you should first investigate the direction of the modification, right?" Shiro asked Yubari.

"um, yes."

"Do you already know the direction of Missouri's redevelopment?"

“Well… actually, I have Missouri’s stats saved here. Judging from her previous stats, Missouri’s artillery firepower is the strongest among all her abilities. Her modifications will most likely be in that direction.” Yubari nodded, hands on her hips, and said with a smile, “Of course, I’m a meticulous ship equipment designer. After all, that’s Missouri’s data from a few months ago. I still need to conduct a new round of stat assessments on her.”

"I understand." Xiaobai nodded. "To the training grounds?"

"No need for that. Once it enters the modification phase, the ship's equipment will automatically tell everyone around it a lot of things. I can just use the instruments here to investigate a bit." Yubari pointed to the large instruments in the distance and said to Shiro.

The large instrument that Yubari was referring to was somewhat similar to the one she had taken out of her ship's equipment space in Chapter 8, except that it was much larger and more sophisticated.

Yubari summoned Missouri, took out various probes from the large instrument, attached them to Missouri's body, and then squatted down next to the large instrument to fiddle with it.

"This instrument, simply put, is used to digitize the ship girl's equipment information. It can easily determine the direction of the ship girl's modification," Yubari said.

"Wow...that's an amazing gadget...technology is so advanced these days."

"Hehe, I invented it." Yubari shook his head, full of confidence. "Including the previous ship girl modification theory, including the idea that ship girl modification should follow the direction of ability value in order to maximize the improvement, I was the first to propose it in the academic community."

"As expected of Professor Yubari!" Xiaobai clapped.

"It's alright, it's alright..." Yubari scratched his head contentedly, then patted the table. "Ahem, anyway, let's take a look first. Although I guess Missouri's modification this time is also aimed at artillery, I can only feel at ease after seeing the data."

Yubari gestured for Shiro to look at the screen.

Unlike the other instruments in Yubari that have dials and cluttered data, this instrument's display screen is surprisingly simple and plain, with only seven progress bars-like elements. Below the progress bars are labels such as "artillery fire," "aviation," and "survival," which Yubari just mentioned.

"These progress bars represent various ability values. When a progress bar is full, it means the direction of the modification has been determined," Yubari explained to Shiro. "How about that? Pretty intuitive, right?"

"Oh...very intuitive..." Xiaobai nodded, staring at the progress bar on the screen, and suddenly looked curiously at the last one, "Huh..."

Xiaobai then noticed that Yubari had mentioned that there were only six ship girl stats in total, but there were seven progress bars on the screen. Although the first six progress bars had their own explanations, such as artillery fire, aviation, and survival, the last progress bar had no label at all.

"Yubari, why isn't this last ability stat marked?"

"Ah... this? You don't usually need this." Yubari glanced at the last progress bar and said simply, "It's okay, don't worry about it."

"Did you add it on the spot during one of the renovations?"

"You noticed this admiral too?"

"After all, you didn't even write your signature at the bottom."

"Hahaha! Admiral is so clever!" Yubari laughed. "Actually, this is an option I added temporarily when I was modifying Xiao Changchun. Because I didn't know what kind of modification it was before, I didn't write a name on it. After the modification was finished, I was too lazy to add it, because Xiao Changchun has only used it once in all these years."

Chapter 2047 Instantly Reaching Max Level

"Oh, that was originally an option only for Changchun..." Xiaobai realized.

"Yeah... Speaking of Xiao Changchun's refit, it really put me in a difficult position back then. Her ship equipment condition at the time... Ah, well, it's all in the past anyway." Yubari said enthusiastically, then quickly shook her head halfway through, smiled at Shiro, and said, "Admiral, if you're interested, I can tell you about it later. Anyway, let's focus on preparing for things in Missouri first."

"Okay."

Under Yubari's skillful manipulation, the dozen or so stethoscope-like tentacles attached to Missouri's body gradually began to make a whirring sound, and the progress bars on the large instrument screen, which symbolized the ship girl's ability values, also began to slowly rise.

According to the modification theory that Yubari had previously told Shiro, the final content displayed on the screen would determine the direction of Missouri's ship equipment modification.

Thinking of this, Xiaobai couldn't help but hold his breath and stare intently at the rising data bar on the screen.

Of the six abilities that represent Missouri, the artillery value is indeed growing the fastest, followed by the survivability value and the air superiority value. These three abilities are far ahead of the average and are rapidly increasing towards the maximum value.

Yubari's previous prediction was indeed correct... If this trend continues, the Missouri's ship equipment modification should focus on increasing its artillery capabilities.

Xiao Bai looked at the data on the screen, nodded, and couldn't help but glance at the progress bars of the other ability values.

The other progress bars on the screen represent the torpedo capability (torpedo value), the aviation capability (aircraft control capability), and the anti-submarine capability (anti-submarine detection capability). Missouri's data shows zero for all three capabilities—after all, she is a battleship, and these three capabilities do not belong to the category of battleships, so it is only natural that her data shows zero.

Thinking of this, Xiao Bai glanced at the progress bar for the last Changchun project.

The progress bar used in Changchun is now showing a value of zero.

"Admiral, look! The artillery value is in the lead!" Yubari excitedly called out to Shiro, pointing to the screen.

"Ah... I knew it." Xiaobai followed Yubari's finger and saw that in just a few seconds, the rate of increase in artillery fire value had far exceeded that of the other two attributes, and it was growing towards its peak at an extremely rapid speed. "Hmm... judging from this rate of increase, Missouri's modification direction can be determined, right?"

“It’s practically a sure thing.” Yubari nodded, chuckling excitedly as she pulled out a sheet of white draft paper and began sketching with a pencil. “Actually, for battleships, increasing gunnery is a very common modification direction. I’ve accumulated a lot of experience from my many years of practical work in Kyoto. Admiral, you can rest assured. Regarding the modification of Missouri’s ship equipment to enhance her gunnery, I now have at least three reliable plans! For example, the first one is the most traditional one: increasing the size of the main gun mounts and strengthening the keel’s compressive strength to pursue an extreme increase in gunnery power…”

Yubari excitedly muttered to himself, his pencil flying across the drawing paper, and soon he had sketched out the Missouri's ship equipment.

Watching Yubari draw and the slightly hasty yet meticulously crafted revised manuscript in her hand, Xiaobai couldn't help but admire her superb technical skills.

"As expected of Yubari... so reassuring..." Xiaobai murmured, turning back to look at the instrument screen.

then.

Xiao Bai was stunned.

“…Huh? What is this…” Xiaobai looked at the progress on the instrument screen and opened her mouth slightly.

"Admiral? What's wrong?" Yubari, who was drawing, heard Shiro's words and subconsciously looked up.

"Yubari, look at the screen..." Shiro pointed to the screen.

"The screen?" Yubari looked at the screen in confusion, following Shiro's finger. Then, her eyes widened and her mouth dropped open. "Wow? There's such a thing?!"

On the instrument's screen, the artillery capability value, which had been far ahead, suddenly stopped at 99% just one bar before reaching its peak.

"Yubari, what's going on?" Shiro asked.

“This…” Yubari frowned, then relaxed and smiled at Shiro. “I understand. It seems that the direction of Missouri’s modification is not artillery, but survivability or air superiority. Admiral, you see, although the artillery capability is the first to reach 99% progress, the data that symbolizes survivability and air superiority is still slowly increasing. Maybe it will catch up in a while.”

"There's such a thing?"