Elder brother's garrison

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"I see..." Lu Ming's expression softened on the screen, and she gently asked the man, "Hello, what's your name?"

“Chen…Chen Rui…” the man stammered as he looked at Lu Ming.

"Chen Rui, keep up the good work with your treatment, you'll get better." Lu Ming encouraged the man on the screen, a beautiful smile on his face.

Lu Ming's smile seemed to have the power to heal all things in the world.

"Th-thank you..." the man stammered.

Xiaobai put her phone away and pointed the camera at herself again.

"Thank you so much, Sister Luming, you've been a huge help!"

"You're welcome……"

"I'll treat you to a meal next time I'm back in Yuncheng. I have something to do here, so I'll hang up now."

"Ah."

"Bye~"

Xiaobai raised her phone, waved happily at the screen, and then ended the video call.

Xiaobai turned off her phone and let out a long sigh of relief.

"Phew... Now you know whether it's true or not, right?" Xiaobai put away her phone and asked the man, "Even if someone wanted to lie to you, it's impossible for someone to find people who look exactly like me and Miss Luming to team up and lie to you, right?"

“Yes, indeed…” The man finally admitted his mistake, nodding as his emotions calmed down. “However, I have another question…”

"what is the problem?"

"The ship girls you brought on the show... why are they different from the ones around you?"

"What's wrong with that? I'm the admiral, is it strange that I have a lot of ship girls around me?"

Chapter 2334: Raising the Price

After hearing Xiaobai's explanation, the man gradually calmed down.

The man stared intently at the bank card in Xiaobai's hand, his gaze growing intense, his breathing becoming heavy.

"If I tell you the special information about the Deepsea Amphibious Ship, will the money in this card be mine?" The man swallowed hard, confirming with Xiaobai, "If you transfer the money in this card to me, will it have legal effect? ​​Will it be recovered later?"

"Do you still want to make money?"

"Yes, yes, yes! Of course I want it!" The man's eyes burned with a thirst for money as he shouted urgently, "Give me your bank card, and I'll talk, I'll talk right now!"

Xiaobai gently placed the bank card on the coffee table.

The man tried to reach for the bank card, but the ropes binding him stopped his hand a centimeter before it touched the card.

The man struggled to touch the bank card, and after several failed attempts, he turned to York with a pleading look on his face.

"Don't move. I'll untie you after you answer the questions properly," York reminded him, frowning.

"Okay, okay..." The man reluctantly withdrew his gaze from the bank card. He swallowed hard, shifted his gaze back to Xiaobai, calmed himself for a moment, and asked, "...What do you want to know?"

"I want to know about how you filmed that video on the internet."

"What happened?" The man's eyes twitched almost imperceptibly. "I told the people who locked me up here everything two months ago about the cause and effect of filming that video. They should have written records of my interrogation. You can ask them for them."

“Paper documents are paper documents after all, and there will always be omissions. Compared to that, aren’t you right here? Wouldn’t it be better to just ask you directly?” Xiaobai replied.

"So much time has passed, how could I possibly remember the details clearly! Just go look at the interrogation records!" The man immediately replied loudly upon hearing Xiaobai's words, then lowered his voice and said, "Compared to the process of filming the video, aren't you more interested in what happened to the Deep Sea Deans? I know exactly what those two Deep Sea Deans look like, and I've even had contact with them!"

"Oh?" Xiaobai's interest was piqued. "You really had contact with them?"

"of course!"

“That’s what I came here for.” Xiaobai found a chair in the living room, moved it in front of the man, sat down, and asked, “Then tell me what those two Deans of the Deep Sea look like.”

“Those were two…very beautiful women!” The man closed his eyes, frowned, and thought seriously for a while before slowly speaking, “…they were wearing white and black robes respectively, and had tattoos on their thighs that resembled cherry blossom branches.”

"You can see this information just by watching the video. Is there anything else besides this?" Xiaobai asked after hearing the man's words.

"Don't rush! What I'm about to tell you is something you definitely don't know!" The man took a deep breath and then spoke, "I haven't told anyone the information I'm about to share! I'm telling you, of the two Deep Sea Deans on the surface of the sea, the one with the reddish hue is seriously injured!"

The man finished speaking.

In the living room, Xiaobai, York, and Baltimore all subtly tightened their gazes.

The red-clad Dean of the Deep Sea... is injured?

The three of them, Xiaobai, looked at each other.

They quickly remembered the deep-sea ship equipment fragments they had found on the seabed.

The information the man provided did indeed match what Xiaobai and the other two had discovered last night.

The man opened his eyes, and seeing the seemingly moved reactions of Xiaobai and the other two, he smiled smugly.

"How about that? This news is explosive, isn't it!"

“That was certainly shocking.” Xiaobai nodded, trying her best to keep her expression from fluctuating too much, and continued to ask the man, “What type of injury did that Red Deep Sea Dean suffer? Was it an blast? Burns? Or a laceration?”

"Hmph, this information was obtained after I risked my life to contact those two Deans of the Deep Sea!" The man didn't answer Xiaobai, but immediately sneered, "Want to know? You'll have to pay more!"

"Hey! You're trying to raise the price on the spot!" York's eyes widened, and he yanked the rope hard.

“You’re big stars, you’re even admirals, you certainly don’t lack money! What’s wrong with me adding a little more money! This news isn’t just for you, everyone else wants to know it too! They’re willing to pay even more for this news!” The ropes binding the man were tightened by the Yorkshire tether, the thin ropes immediately leaving obvious indentations on his body. The man cried out in pain, but even so, his desire for money remained as firm as ever. “More money! You have to add more money! Otherwise, even if you kill me, I won’t say another word!”

York wanted to say something more, but was stopped by Xiaobai raising her hand.

"...How much more do you want?" Xiaobai put down her hand and asked the man.

"Give me another five million!" The man's eyes were red as he stared intently at Xiaobai.

“Okay.” Xiaobai opened her wallet and took out a silver-gray bank card. “There are five million in this card. Tell me what happens next, and I’ll give you this card too.”

Under the man's burning gaze, Xiaobai gently placed the bank card on the coffee table, next to the one she had just received.

The man stared at the two bank cards on the coffee table, his eyes gleaming with excitement, and his breathing quickening.

Seven million...

He could easily make seven million from this person just by opening his mouth!

The man's lips curled into a smile as he glanced at Xiaobai.

Generally speaking, when faced with someone demanding a higher price on the spot, the person involved will more or less show some indignation or displeasure. However, the white-clad, white-haired girl in front of him showed no emotion whatsoever, even when faced with his demand for a higher price. It was as if she had casually pulled out something as insignificant as a fried dough stick or a pancake, rather than a bank card.

Xiaobai sat quietly in the chair, her open wallet still clutched in her hand. Her face came into the man's view, making him think of the idiom "naive and ignorant of the ways of the world."

—It seems I've run into a sucker.

As the man thought about this, his mind began to race.

“Eh? Admiral, this bank card is…” Baltimore, who was standing nearby, recognized the bank card that Xiaobai had taken out.

"Yes, this is the five million Loki earned from his cameo role in Director Zhang's film last time. She said she'd keep the money with me temporarily." Xiao Bai nodded, looking at the man seriously. "Anyway, the money's been taken out. Can you tell us the specifics of Dean Deepsea's injury?"

Chapter 2335 Vulnerability Wu

Upon hearing that the bank card Xiaobai had taken out this time was Loki's salary card, Baltimore hesitated to speak. Although she didn't say anything, she still glared at the man next to her several times, looking slightly angry.

The man completely ignored Baltimore's gaze; his burning eyes were fixed on the half-open wallet in Xiaobai's hand.

A pair of white hands gently closed the wallet.

The man looked up and found that it was Xiaobai looking at him.

"What kind of injury is it?" Xiaobai asked calmly.

"It's...it's blast damage! They were attacked by ship girls! They were attacked by a squad of ship girls!" The man pondered for a moment before speaking to Xiaobai, "The squad of ship girls that attacked them severely injured them, and they ended up in Peicheng to recover! That's why they didn't attack any human cities!"

"They encountered ship girls?" Xiaobai raised an eyebrow.

"Yes!"

"They were severely injured?"

"That's right!"

"...Wasn't it said that only the red-haired Dean of the Deep Sea was injured?" Xiaobai asked.

"Uh—" The man's expression froze, his mouth slightly open, before he explained, "I... I meant that the red Deep Sea Dean was seriously injured, not that the blue Deep Sea Dean wasn't injured. In fact, the blue Deep Sea Dean was also injured! But it wasn't obvious!"

"I see." Xiaobai raised her hand thoughtfully, her five slender fingers spreading out, the fingertips lightly touching her lips.

"I...I also know where they ended up!" The man took a breath, and then, as if he had made a decision, he said loudly to Xiaobai, "You want to find them, right? You know that's why you came to me! I can only say you've come to the right place, I do know where they are!"

As the man spoke, he kept a close eye on the reactions of Xiaobai and the other two.

Sure enough, right after the man finished speaking, the two ship girls behind Xiaobai were clearly surprised.

Hooked!

The man was overjoyed and quickly shifted his gaze to the young man's face.

But when the man saw Xiaobai's expression, his excited look faltered slightly.

In the man's view, Xiaobai did not show any surprise at hearing his words this time. At this moment, Xiaobai was just looking at him thoughtfully, her bright and pure eyes constantly examining his body and body, with a hint of doubt.

The man's heart skipped a beat.

Did I overdo it?

"You...you don't want to know this news?" the man asked Xiaobai tentatively.

"Oh... how much will it cost this time?" Xiaobai asked back.

Oh.

It seems that I am overthinking it.

This person is very savvy!

The man was secretly delighted.

"Ten...ten million, ten million!!!" the man murmured, his voice rising gradually. "I only want ten million! This should be nothing to you! I swear this is my last request. As long as you give me ten million, I promise I won't ask you for any more money, not a single penny!"

"Hey! That's going too far!" York was furious upon hearing the man's words, her teeth itching with rage. She wanted nothing more than to kick him across the face. "Don't you have any sense of contractual obligation?! You're so shameless, why don't you just accept the 9.8 billion?!"

"What's the use of a contractual spirit! I want money! I only want money! With money, you can be a superior person!" The man, now completely desperate, said to Xiaobai, "I have no interest in women, I have no interest in power, I'm only interested in money, so give me money! You can get everything you want from me! How about it, I just want money! Just that ten million!"

"Ten million..." Xiaobai sighed. "To be honest, with the money rising to this level, it's no longer something I can decide on my own."

"No, no!" Hearing the refusal in Xiaobai's words, the man panicked. He desperately twisted his body, pleading with Xiaobai, "Don't you want to know where Dean Deepsea went?! They're injured! Very, very badly injured! They're covered in blood, and when I saw them, the sea beneath them was stained red with blood! This is definitely not an injury that can be healed in a month or two! If you seize this opportunity to find them and defeat them, you'll be heroes who have vanquished Dean Deepsea! This is a chance to become a great hero!! The opportunity is right in front of you, ten million isn't too expensive, is it?"

“Indeed.” Xiaobai nodded. “Ten million for an opportunity is really not expensive.”

Then, as if persuaded by the man, Xiaobai took out her wallet again.

Amid the man's excited expression, Xiaobai opened her wallet and pulled out a bank card that shone like a diamond.

The man's breathing grew heavier and heavier as the bank card was withdrawn inch by inch.

The man seemed to see ten million dollars sprouting wings and flying towards him, until they reached him.

But at this time.

Snapped!

Xiaobai put the bank card back into her wallet and gently closed it.

"What are you doing? That's my ten million!" The man's eyes widened as he shouted at Xiaobai, "Give it back to me! Don't you want to know where Dean Shenhai went?!"

"Keep making things up." Xiaobai clutched her wallet, rested the hand holding the wallet on her cheek, and crossed her legs.

Bang! Bang! Boom!

As soon as Xiaobai finished speaking, the man's heart skipped a beat, and large drops of sweat immediately appeared on his face.

"What, what are you saying..." The man quickly looked away and sincerely looked at Xiaobai and the other two. "What do you mean by making things up? What did I make up? I didn't lie to you!"

"You...haven't met Dean Shenhai, have you?" Xiaobai ignored the man's explanation and said to him.

"You! You're slandering me!" The man's face immediately changed. "What evidence do you have?!"

“I do not have any evidence, but… there are far too many loopholes in your description of Dean Deep Sea just now.”

"W-what vulnerability—"

"How could an ordinary naval base possibly defeat the Deepsea Commander with just one squad of ship girls, let alone two of them? Besides, you're seriously underestimating the speed of information exchange within the admiral's circle. If a naval base were to encounter the Deepsea Commander and then allow it to escape, the matter would definitely be reported to the admiral's headquarters at lightning speed."

"This...this is an internal matter for your ship girls, how would I know what happened by myself! Couldn't it be that they just didn't report the information?!"

"Let's just pretend they didn't report it," Xiaobai sighed. "Actually, according to our information, the only one who should be injured is the red-clad Deepsea Dean. You said the blue-clad Deepsea Dean was also injured, which doesn't match our information. And most importantly, if the Deepsea Dean really wants to avoid being hunted by the ship girls, do you think they'll let you go if they see fishing boats like yours that could expose their whereabouts?"