Elder brother's garrison

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Tirpitz was shaken awake by Saratoga with a frown.

Tirpitz seemed very sleepy, but he couldn't resist Saratoga's shaking, so he could only open his eyes a crack, glance at Saratoga, and then at the computer screen.

"The handle... is fine." Tirpitz said this as if it were his last words, and then fell back into a sweet sleep, no matter how much Saratoga shook him, he wouldn't wake up.

Saratoga angrily picked up the handle.

"Come on, Sara! Let's continue our battle, hohoho!" Enterprise finished speaking to Xiaobai and began to control her character.

For some reason, once the company's attention shifted back, Saratoga's controller returned to normal.

Saratoga gripped the handle, seething with anger.

Xiao Bai watched the two aircraft carriers arguing on the computer screen and felt a pang of envy.

They have such a good relationship.

Xiao Bai then looked at Tirpitz, who was lying unconscious behind Saratoga, wearing a white shirt that was slightly see-through. He walked over and picked her up.

Having deep-sea ship equipment is really great; the strength is incomparable to what it used to be.

Tirpitz isn't fat, but she has a fleshy build, and her body feels very soft to the touch, so she weighs slightly more than the slender Saratoga.

In the past, Xiaobai would have struggled to even lift Fubuki, let alone Tirpitz.

You see, you should always look on the bright side. Although Xiaobai's physical condition has been ruined by this deep-sea ship equipment, making her neither a deep-sea ship girl nor a ship girl, it still brings convenience in terms of daily life.

Little White carried Tirpitz back to Tirpitz's room.

Looking at Tirpitz's peaceful sleeping face, Xiaobai couldn't help but mutter a few words to himself.

—Tirpitz is such a good-looking person. If only she weren't such a homebody. If she just sat in the naval base's square with a book and a flower, exuding a literary and artistic vibe, and did nothing all afternoon, she could quickly become the most beautiful person in the naval base.

What a pity.

After settling Tirpitz properly into bed, Xiaobai returned to the living room.

Saratoga and Enterprise were locked in a fierce battle, unleashing a barrage of attacks and skills at each other.

Xiao Bai laughed.

After watching the battle between Tirpitz and Deepsea Yamato, even a complete novice can see that Saratoga and Enterprise are clearly just two newbies messing around.

However, she didn't have the habit of disturbing others' enjoyment, so she retreated to the sofa in the living room.

Bismarck should have left around five o'clock. There's breakfast she made in the kitchen. Xiaobai can eat it after she's rested.

She looked at Yamato Fukami, who was lying on the sofa in the living room, hugging a cushion.

Yamato had spent the whole night playing with Tirpitz and should have just fallen asleep a few hours ago. His beautiful face had a strange expression that was a mixture of exhaustion and satisfaction.

Bismarck's black cat Oscar seemed to like Yamato the Deep Sea very much, and curled up in Yamato's arms with his eyes closed.

Sensing Shiro's approach, Oscar opened his eyes, meowed twice at Shiro, jumped out of Yamato's arms, and stretched.

Xiaobai reached out and lifted Oscar, who had been stretched into a long strip, and placed him on her lap.

Oscar rubbed against Xiaobai's hand, then curled up comfortably on Xiaobai's lap.

Xiao Bai finally felt a little comforted.

As expected, Oscar still likes me the most.

Xiao Bai smiled and patted the black cat's head.

Of course, Oscar really liked Little White. That's because Bismarck's family was full of mature women, and he got tired of seeing them every day. Little White, who hadn't fully grown up, was one of a kind. Sitting on her lap, he could feel the soft skin of a young girl without having his precious sunlight blocked by those two strange things like Bismarck or Tirpitz. It was the best cushion.

These are things that a novice wouldn't understand.

Little White only enjoyed the peaceful morning for a short while.

Just before eight o'clock, there was a knock on the door of the Bismarck's house.

Xiao Bai put down Oscar, who was slightly dissatisfied, and went to open the door.

"Greetings, Master." After opening the door, Reputation and Counterattack stood one after the other, bowing to Little White.

"Honorable reputation, hello counterattack."

"Master, is the apprentice maid awake?" Reputation asked.

"Apprentice maid? Ah, is that Yamato-neechan? Not yet."

"Excuse me." Renown bowed slightly, lifted her skirt, took off her boots, and walked into the Bismarck residence.

Counterattack didn't follow her inside; instead, she stood there watching Xiaobai with a standard maid-like smile.

Being stared at like that after being countered, Xiaobai was too embarrassed to leave for a while.

Reputation went in quickly and came out quickly, in less than ten seconds, carrying the sleeping Deep Sea Yamato out with one hand.

"Then Reputation will take his leave, Master." Reputation quickly put his boots back on, carried Deep Sea Yamato, and walked out of Bismarck's house.

"Huh? Where is Reputation supposed to move Yamato-neechan to?"

"It's been a long time since work started; Yamato is a full hour and fifty-two minutes late." Renown accurately stated the time without even looking at his watch.

"The maids at the naval base start work at six o'clock?" Xiaobai asked, somewhat surprised.

Working at six o'clock is really tiring.

If it's six o'clock... then Yamato-neechan would have just gone to sleep by then.

"The maids start work at 4:50, Master," Reputation replied neither humbly nor arrogantly. "The apprentice maids start at 6:00."

"You've really worked hard." Xiaobai was moved by Shengwang's dedication.

"Then Reputation will take its leave." Reputation, looking sleepy and feeling somewhat uncomfortable in this position with his eyebrows furrowed, prepared to leave.

"Ah, right. Master." Reputation had just taken a step when, as if remembering something, he turned back to look at Little White. "Look at Reputation's memory, he almost forgot the important matter."

"Is there anything else?"

"Yes, Lexington asked me to pass on a message to my master."

"What are you saying?"

"Today we need to prepare for the expedition. I hope you are ready, Master." Reputation looked at the little white dog in front of him, a hint of tenderness in his eyes. "This is Master's first expedition as Admiral."

Chapter 197 The World's Strongest Destroyer Reappears

"Expedition" refers to the naval base sending ship girls to clean up severely affected areas in the deep sea.

Although humans currently hold the vast majority of the advantage in the war between humans and the deep sea, the deep sea is still the deep sea, and its creatures are marine life. The ocean will always be on their side.

There are always some sea areas in the world that even modern humans cannot completely clean up.

The deep-sea resentment in these seas is extremely active, and every once in a while, a large number of deep-sea vessels are born. It can truly be described as endless. All that humans can do is try to reduce the number of deep-sea vessels in these seas before they expand to their limit and begin to invade and harm the surrounding creatures.

These disaster-stricken areas in the deep sea are categorized into chapters from weakest to strongest. Admirals of different strength levels around the world choose the ocean areas they can handle and then clean them up according to their own abilities.

The task of launching expeditions is like a performance target. Each garrison has to conduct these operations several times a year, and failure to meet the targets will result in punishment. Therefore, launching expeditions is like a nightmare for some weak garrisons.

However, it's different for top-tier naval bases like Xiaobai's. The so-called "fighting to sustain war" means that with top-tier training and ship girl abilities, appropriately conquering and clearing some abyssal areas with high reward rates will always yield rewards that outweigh the costs.

For example, when Fubuki took Succou to level up, they went to the sea area in Chapter 6.

This is one of the reasons why, as we've been saying before, the strong get stronger and the weak get weaker.

The newbie garrison has abundant resources, deep-sea metals, equipment, and all sorts of other things—rewards earned by the newbie brother through years of battles.

The newbie naval base is practically overflowing with resources.

However, after Shiro took office as admiral, the naval base never went on another expedition.

She frequently went on expeditions and often received small rewards, but because Xiaobai was still getting familiar with the work of the admiral at that time, Lexington did not arrange expeditions for her to increase her workload.

Anyway, the naval base can easily sustain its resource consumption, so closing the port for a few months won't hurt or affect it much.

However, the garrison headquarters not going to war is not a problem, but the people above are somewhat unhappy about it.

After all, it is the world's number one naval base. Simply being stationed in this sea area cannot demonstrate its value; it must always be ready to go on expeditions.

So it was yesterday, after Xiaobai had become completely familiar with the work of the admiral and some miscellaneous tasks had come to an end, that Lexington finally chose to enable the option of launching an expedition.

The ship girls in the room all heard the news that Shiro was going to go on an expedition.

Saratoga and the Enterprise swiftly dropped the handle and emerged from the door, their large, bright eyes fixed on Little White.

"Admiral! Are you finally going to war?!" Enterprise asked excitedly.

Going on an expedition is a passionate and challenging thing. As ship girls, it is a very passive thing to stay on the sea and wait for the deep sea to invade. They prefer to take the initiative.

"Ah, um." After watching Reputation and Counterattack leave, Xiaobai turned to look at Enterprise and Saratoga, who were blocking the doorway together. "Didn't Lexington tell Saratoga?"

Saratoga shook her head quickly: "My sister rarely talks to me about work."

"Ah, is that so?" Xiaobai said as she went into the house, found a steamed bun in the kitchen, and put it in her mouth.

—Setting out on an expedition.

Along with development, construction, and expeditions, these are the four things an admiral can never leave behind.

It can be said that development can be stopped, construction can be halted, but expeditions and campaigns are the only things that cannot be abandoned.

For Xiaobai, this was truly her first time going on a mission, and even she couldn't help but feel nervous.

While munching on a steamed bun, Xiaobai changed her clothes. After she finished changing, she put down the half-eaten bun and went out.

Saratoga and Enterprise lost interest in playing the game and followed closely behind Shiro as she arrived at the Admiral's Office.

Pushing open the door to the admiral's cabin, Lexington was sitting in the secretary's seat, organizing documents.

"Welcome back... Oh dear." Lexington looked up with a smile as she heard someone enter, glancing towards Little White. "Gaga and Enterprise are here too?"

"Okay!" Saratoga nodded, trotting up behind Lexington and raising her little hands to massage her back.

"What's wrong?" Lexington was surprised by Saratoga's unexpected, even obsequious, behavior. "I just started working, my shoulders aren't sore yet."

“Sister…I want to accompany the Admiral on his campaign,” Saratoga said softly as she massaged Lexington’s shoulders.

"Hmm?" Lexington smiled and narrowed his eyes. "Ah, I was wondering why Jiajia was suddenly so well-behaved. So she had a request."

Lexington looked at Little White: "Little White, did you also tell Gaja and Enterprise what I asked Reputation to pass on to you?"

"kindness."

“Well, go ahead and tell me. It’s nothing to hide.” Lexington patted Saratoga’s hand on his shoulder.

“I was indeed planning to send Little White on the expedition,” Lexington nodded and said. “However, Gaja and Enterprise, you two may have misunderstood something.”

"Huh? What's the misunderstanding?" the company asked, somewhat puzzled.

“I didn’t say I was sending Xiaobai to that dangerous sea area that the former governor used to frequent,” Lexington chuckled. “This time, I only plan to send Xiaobai to the sea area in Chapter One to familiarize himself with the situation.”

"What?" The company's eyes widened as soon as Lexington finished speaking.

As mentioned before, the various sea areas where the expedition took place were divided into several chapters, ranging from weak to strong.

Chapter 198's sea area is so easy it's practically nonexistent; any ship girl could easily win an S-rank victory there, and all the ship girls in the naval base could dominate the difficulty level.

Only newcomers who have just become admirals might experience some difficulty in the first chapter.

Moreover, for the current naval base, there is no benefit to conquering the first chapter. The resources gained are even less than what Saratoga consumes when launching a wave of aircraft.

"Why do we need to go there?" the company asked, puzzled.

The company was planning to go to those extremely difficult sea areas and fight those golden-skinned deep-sea ladies until the stars collapsed, the Great Dao was obliterated, and all the heavens and myriad paths were trampled underfoot. But unexpectedly, Lexington sent Xiaobai to the first chapter to fight.

This……

That's so embarrassing.

Are you, the world's number one garrison, leveling up solely by killing Huggy Rabbits in the starting village?

Putting aside the fact that the efficiency is outrageously low, just the fact that we only went to the first chapter is embarrassing to even mention.

"Well, it's a little embarrassing, but after all, Xiaobai has just become an admiral, so I think we should start with the more difficult tasks from the beginning," Lexington explained with a worried look.

The company felt its fighting spirit and passion vanish in an instant.

—I almost forgot Lexington's tendency to be extremely protective of her admiral.

Such a person simply wouldn't do something like sending a novice into high-difficulty waters right from the start.

"Well... let's leave it at that, Chapter One." The Enterprise sighed. "Does Lexington want me to go?"

"While I'm glad the company volunteered, this is only the first chapter. As a world-class aircraft carrier, it's not appropriate for the company to follow a newbie. I'm sorry," Lexington apologized to the company.