Elder brother's garrison

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"Cough cough, um." Nia nodded while coughing, and picked up the deep-sea metal from the plate in front of Xie Yun.

Construction failures were common, and Nia was already mentally prepared for a long battle.

The men in suits stepped forward once again and neatly tossed the resources into the construction device.

Nia activated the construction device once again.

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When Veneto, Fubuki, and the other six ship girls, Cleveland, finished resupplying and returned to the second-floor lobby, they only saw Shiro standing outside a circle of black smoke.

A large group of burly men in black suits and a receptionist carrying trays stood nearby.

The atmosphere seemed somewhat heavy.

"Admiral?" Veneto walked up to Xiaobai and asked, somewhat puzzled, "What are you doing?"

“Build it.” Little White smiled somewhat awkwardly when he saw Veneto.

"Admiral, are you building it?" Veneto asked.

Shiro's bad luck is quite well-known in the naval base.

Lexington spent an afternoon building with her, but they didn't build anything. Instead, they discovered a half-finished sumpf left behind by a former admiral.

Does the Admiral disbelieve in fate and want to defy destiny?

"It wasn't me, it was Nia who built it over there," Xiaobai said.

At the same time, the black smoke in front of us finally dissipated.

Nia knelt on the ground, her hands supporting her weight, her long red hair obscuring her face, and she was trembling.

"Uuuuuu——"

"How many times has Nia built it?" Fubuki asked, looking at Nia.

“Thirty-one times now.” Xiaobai pulled Chuixue back.

"Waaaaaahhhhhhh—" Upon hearing Xiaobai's time announcement, Nia clutched her head and collapsed. "I'm so sorry, so sorry, so sorry, waaaaahhhhhh, I wasted Xiaobai's kindness, I'm so sorry, so sorry..."

Nia seemed to be having an existential crisis.

"Hey, Nia, don't be discouraged. I've also had a record of building for an entire afternoon without any results," Xiaobai said, stepping forward and patting Nia on the shoulder.

"Little White... Waaaaah!" Nia cried as she hugged Little White's waist. "I'm so useless, waaaaah..."

If an admiral builds too many times and doesn't get any loot, that might be the case.

Xiao Bai sighed.

Construction is indeed a cruel thing.

Seeing Nia's desperate state, Xiaobai also understood why his brother was rejected by admirals all over the world back then.

"Nia, there's another batch of materials here." Xie Yun knew this wasn't the time to talk, but delaying like this wouldn't do any good, so she stepped forward, carefully asking with the plate in hand, "Nia, are you still going to build it?"

"I'm not building anymore! I'm not building anymore! I'll never build again!" Nia buried her head in Little White's arms and cried her heart out.

Nia was never built except for the graduation ceremony.

This was her first time building, and the first time she realized how enormous the money and resources were spent with each button press. This emptiness of resources and money going to waste instilled a fear in her towards building.

"Don't say such capricious things. We'll still build it after we start." Xiaobai patted Nia's head.

"So, what should we do with the last piece of material?" Xie Yun asked Xiaobai, seeing that Nia had lost all will to build. She held the last piece of deep-sea metal in her hand.

"How about Miss Lu build it for us?" Xie Yun asked.

"I'll pass. I can't build it." Xiaobai shook his head with a smile.

"Oh, I see." Xie Yun nodded.

"Little White, just build it once." At this moment, Nia, who was in Little White's arms, raised her head and said pitifully to Little White.

"what?"

“Why don’t you build one too?” Nia said.

"..."

Actually, Nia's feelings are understandable.

Well, I guess it's because they want to see another victim feel the same way they do.

...Fine, I'll give it a try.

In fact, Xiaobai did have a sense of wishful thinking deep down that something might happen.

Xiaobai nodded.

“Veneto,” she called out.

"I'm here."

"I'm so unlucky, can you help me build it?" Xiaobai said.

Veneto raised an eyebrow.

“Yes, that’s fine,” Veneto agreed.

It's not uncommon for ship girls to build things on behalf of the admiral; this is a kind of mystical practice, similar to worshipping a corporate entity.

Ah, speaking of businesses.

Watching the last resources being poured into the construction device by the men in suits, Xiaobai took out his phone.

She dialed a phone number.

"Beep—beep—beep—splat."

"Hello?" Tirpitz's voice came from the other end of the phone.

"Tirpitz? Oh, sorry to bother you?" Xiaobai asked, holding the phone.

"It's alright, let's get down to business."

Is the business located near you?

“Yes, Saratoga is here too,” Tirpitz’s voice replied.

"Oh, is that so? Then can the company answer the phone?" Xiaobai asked.

“…” Tirpitz threw the microphone at someone.

"Ah, so this is how you use it, to speak here? Oh, I've learned something. Hello, hello, hello!" The company's clear and confident voice came through the microphone.

"enterprise!"

"Yes! It's me! So, Admiral, did you miss me?"

At this moment, Xie Yun handed the last piece of deep-sea metal to Veneto, who picked it up and was about to throw it into the construction device.

"Company, well, in short, we're currently building something out there, could you give us your blessing?"

"Ah, this? No problem at all. Then I wish the Admiral well..."

"It wasn't me, it wasn't me!" Xiaobai then took the phone down and held it to Veneto's ear.

Veneto was just about to press the construction switch.

"Um, Admiral, put the phone to my ear... Ah, isn't this Enterprise?" Veneto paused, "Oh, oh, um, um, thank you, I'll do my best."

Veneto nodded and pressed the switch.

Xiaobai got her phone back.

The conversation with the company on my phone had already ended.

—In short, hopefully it will be of some use.

Chapter 231 Opening the Warehouse and Inspecting the Goods

The construction device, having consumed its resources, transformed back into a steel chestnut, pulsating like a beating heart under the power of electricity.

Xiaobai put the phone away.

"Speaking of building ship girls, the odds are actually quite low. It's said that an ordinary admiral has to try hundreds of times to build one." Xiaobai explained to Nia during this time.

While it's called construction, this device is actually more like a summoning device.

Otherwise, given the current state of technology, it's impossible to explain how a pile of steel and petroleum could undergo such chemical reactions to become the flawless flesh and blood of a young girl.

"Is that so?" Nia wiped away her tears and looked at Xiaobai. "Then how many times did you build your ship girls, Xiaobai?"

This is a good question.

It seems that the four Fubuki sisters were created by their brother using a four-shot formula for small boats, while Veneto was created by her brother one day on a whim using a battleship formula.

In other words, it was basically built 5 times, and then these ship girls were created.

But looking at Nia's little face, Xiaobai felt a little reluctant to tell her the truth.

"Hmm... maybe five or six hundred times." So Xiaobai told a lie for Nia.

Xie Yun, who was standing next to her, almost dropped the plate she was holding.

Five or six hundred constructions?

Even excluding resources, there are five or six hundred deep-sea metals?

My goodness, this is several days' worth of net profit for the Admiral's Guild!

The Admiral's Guild is a behemoth with hundreds of employees and thousands of admirals providing its finances. The daily net profit of such an organization is unimaginable to ordinary people. But did this admiral really use up several days' worth of the Admiral's Guild's quota just to build ship girls?

Xie Yun's gaze towards Xiao Bai changed.

It seems Mr. Barbatos was right when he told himself that being an admiral was a lucrative profession.

"Five or six hundred... " Nia was also shocked by Xiaobai's extravagance.

When Xiaobai said it five or six hundred times, she didn't feel any pain on her face, as if she didn't care about money at all.

While Nia found her balance, she was also incredibly envious.

I still lost completely.

"Um, isn't the construction device taking a bit too long to operate?" At this moment, Veneto, who was standing in front of the construction device, turned around and asked the group.

When Veneto asked this question, everyone realized that the construction device seemed to have been running for several minutes.

The construction device usually gives a result within one minute. If it doesn't, it will spray you with black smoke from Africa. If it does, it will make a "ding" sound to show the construction time and then officially start construction.

The "ding" sound is similar to that of a microwave oven.

The steel chestnut inside was bulging and moving, like biting into a piece of tough beef while chewing.

"This..." Xie Yun doesn't usually go up to the second floor and isn't very familiar with construction. Seeing that the construction device is not responding for a long time, she doesn't know how to explain it.

Xie Yun turned to the burly man in the suit beside her and asked, "Have you encountered this problem before? Could it be that the construction equipment is broken?"

The men in suits all shook their heads.

The construction equipment is the most valuable machine on the second floor. It is always under warranty when not in use, and the machine itself is not easy to break down, so it is impossible for it to have any problems.

"That's really strange." Xie Yun looked at the construction device with a puzzled expression, rubbing her face.

Everyone lowered their breathing and watched the construction device with tension.

The sight of the mahjong table aroused the curiosity of the other admirals on the second floor, who strolled over.

Xiao Bai also quietly watched the construction device.

A bold idea came to her mind.

Could I have been infected?

The machine is malfunctioning. If it actually produces ship girls, then those ship girls inside are going to be something else...

Xiao Bai pondered.

A company's good fortune is irrational; Xiaobai experienced it more than once when he was at Yuxiu.

This ability to defy fate might actually help me build ship girls?

Everyone nervously looked at the LCD screen on the construction device.

It's been five minutes already.