Elder brother's garrison

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"Uh... also, this is the first time I've ever seen Admiral Li Hua in such a disheveled state... it's truly an eye-opener in every sense of the word."

"Wasn't Admiral Li Hua just acting like a wise and enlightened master? How did he change like this in the blink of an eye..."

"The illusion has been shattered..."

"What's going on?"

"What about Admiral Li Hua's exercise?"

"..."

The admirals present looked at each other, each with a bewildered expression, completely unable to keep up with the situation.

"Huh...?" Nia also looked curiously in the direction Admiral Li Hua had left. She linked arms with Xiao Bai and cast a strange glance at Xiao Bai. "Xiao Bai... what's wrong with Admiral Li Hua?"

"You're asking me? I don't know either," Xiaobai said with a wry smile to Nia.

"Sigh...it's really a bit disheartening." Nia sighed. "Judging from Admiral Li Hua's condition, he probably won't be able to continue participating in the ship girl exercises of the competition."

"There's nothing we can do about it..." Xiaobai pursed her lips and glanced thoughtfully in the direction where Admiral Li Hua had left.

Xiao Bai really didn't expect that the martial arts tournament he casually organized would actually attract the top ten admirals.

but……

What caused Admiral Li Hua to suddenly become like that?

Judging from his expression, it was as if he had seen something terrifying.

Is there something so scary here?

Xiao Bai subconsciously touched her cheek, a look of confusion flashing in her eyes for a moment before turning into a sense of relief.

Forget it.

Admiral Li Hua has already fled, so there's no point in thinking about this anymore.

Anyway, for me, it's a good thing that Admiral Li Hua ran away.

After all, Admiral Li Hua is different from other admirals. As one of the top ten admirals who knows him inside and out, Admiral Li Hua knows his status as the world's number one.

If Admiral Li Hua were to suddenly reveal his identity in his shock, then the happy trio of himself, Nia, and Luo Lian would most likely be ruined... At least compared to that worst-case scenario, it's a good thing that Admiral Li Hua was scared away by something.

Xiao Bai hasn't even had a chance to fully enjoy his time hiding his identity in Chapter 8 yet.

"Maybe he suddenly remembered he forgot to turn off the gas at home," Xiaobai said to Nia.

"Sigh...so that's how it is," Nia murmured.

"Don't worry about him, just let him go," Xiaobai continued with a smile. "Let's continue with our martial arts tournament."

“Yes!” Nia nodded quickly.

……

Admiral Li Hua, enduring the strange looks from all around him, screamed miserably as he fled the 8-2 sea area.

Admiral Li Hua had just left the 8-2 sea area when he saw his own ship girls rushing towards the 8-2 sea area.

"Admiral? What are you doing out of Sea Area 8-2?" The ship girl who rushed over immediately showed a surprised and puzzled expression when she saw Admiral Li Hua. "Didn't you just say on the phone that the exercise was very tight and that I should put down what I was doing and hurry over—wait and see!!"

Before Admiral Li Hua's ship girl could finish speaking, the next second, Admiral Li Hua rushed over, grabbed the ship girl's hand, and pulled her away frantically from the 8-2 sea area.

"It's too late! Run! We have to run!" Admiral Li Hua shouted.

"Huh? Admiral?? Where are we going??"

"I'm fine with anywhere as long as I don't go to 8-2!"

"But, but didn't you just sign up for that special ship girl exercise..."

"Forget about special things! Survival is the most important thing!" Admiral Li Hua hurriedly interrupted the ship girl, grabbing her wrist and shouting nervously and fearfully, "That thing in area 8-2 is not something we can easily touch right now! We need to get as far away from here as possible! Understand?!"

"Huh?? Uh... oh..."

Admiral Li Hua's ship girl looked completely bewildered, but still staggered away as Admiral Li Hua dragged her along.

On both sides of the road, the admirals watched in astonishment as Admiral Li Hua and the ship girls made their disheveled exit. After Admiral Li Hua was out of sight, the admirals began to discuss among themselves.

"Huh? Was that Li Hua who just walked by?"

"Admiral Li Hua, ranked eighth in the world? Isn't he supposed to be in the 8-3 sea area? How come he's here?"

"And what did Admiral Li Hua just say? Is there something in the 8-2 sea area that he can't easily touch? He's the world's eighth-ranked admiral! What in the world could possibly scare him..."

"I just heard from people in the sea that Admiral Li Hua is preparing to submit an application for an exercise with the special ship girls."

"what?"

"Could it be that the untouchable being that Admiral Li Hua mentioned is a special ship girl?"

"It's most likely true..."

"Moreover, judging from this situation, it seems that Admiral Li Hua doesn't even have the courage to fight against special ship girls."

"Holy crap... Even the world's eighth-ranked admiral has personally admitted that these ship girls are terrifying... Could it be that these special ship girls really have something terrifying about them...?"

"That must be it. The top ten admirals have much better eyesight and perspective than us ordinary admirals. Admiral Li Hua must have observed something on the special ship girl that we couldn't notice, which is why he left in such a panic!"

The admirals, having reached this point in their discussion, all stared wide-eyed at each other.

The atmosphere became somewhat quiet for a moment.

After a while.

A series of gasps filled the air.

……

The afternoon passed in a flash.

Before we knew it, it was evening.

On the beach at 8-2, Nia raised her arms and shouted to the crowd behind her.

"Is Admiral No. 321 here? Our exercise is about to begin. Admiral No. 321, please bring your ship girls here to report for duty!"

"Number 321? Is Number 321 here?"

"three hundred……"

Nia shouted to the crowd several times until her throat was dry from repeating the same thing, then she lowered her hands in disappointment and let out a long sigh.

"Sigh... What's going on? Another admiral skipping the exercise. How many is this this afternoon?"

“That’s the fifty-sixth,” Little White, sitting behind Nia, said to her.

Roma was also beside Xiaobai at this time. It seemed that she hadn't been to sea for a while. At this moment, Roma was holding her cheeks and sitting obediently next to Xiaobai, looking up at the group of admirals in front of her.

“This morning there wasn’t a single admiral skipping the exercise.” Nia said to Xiaobai with a puzzled look on her face when she heard Xiaobai’s voice. “How come there are so many admirals who registered but didn’t participate this afternoon?”

“That’s right.” Xiaobai nodded, his gaze sweeping over the group of admirals in front of him.

Xiao Bai recalled briefly that the large-scale abstention on the beach at this time seemed to have started with Admiral Li Hua.

Before Admiral Li Hua arrived at Sea Area 8-2, the enthusiasm of the admirals here for signing up and participating in the competition was quite high, and the atmosphere of discussion about special ship girls was also very high. However, after Admiral Li Hua withdrew and left, for some reason, some admirals here also began to follow Admiral Li Hua's example and withdrew and ran away.

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Thinking of this, Xiao Bai couldn't help but turn his head to look at the side.

Rome, sitting quietly beside him, was clearly approaching level 90 according to Xiaobai's network of intelligence.

—The speed at which this skill level increases is truly astonishing.

—But that's understandable.

Roma from the Nia family is an exceptionally talented ship girl. Her talent is not only reflected in the quality of her ship equipment and her understanding of combat techniques, but even in the improvement of her ship equipment level, which is much faster than that of ordinary ship girls. Because of the martial arts tournament, Roma has sparred with hundreds of ship girls today. Among them are ship girls of all kinds, each with a different fighting style, and each of them is an ace ship girl of the admiral in Chapter 8. Although Roma did not directly fight these ship girls in the end, as the old saying goes, for a new ship girl, even just standing on the sea and feeling the fighting aura of these battle-hardened ship girls is already very beneficial to her.

Rounding up, it means that the entire admiral in Chapter 8 was helping Rome level up.

In terms of the speed of personal advancement in Rome, this is much faster than going to sea.

"Although the improvement in training level becomes smaller as you progress... if we play another fifty or sixty matches, Rome should be able to break through level ninety, right?" Xiaobai murmured, a hint of regret showing on his face. "Sigh... what a pity, such a good opportunity, and others skipped more than fifty of them."

"Xiaobai, how's the situation here?" Just then, a clear and melodious voice rang out from behind Xiaobai and Nia.

Xiao Bai and Nia turned around and saw Luo Lian, who smelled of ink, walking towards them carrying a stack of notebooks.

"Lianlian, you're back!"

"Ah."

"We're doing fine here, how's it going at your registration office?"

“I’ve been waiting for about ten minutes, and no one has signed up yet.” Luo Lian shook her head. “I estimate that the personnel saturation should be about two more hours away. I don’t know what happened before, but now many admirals seem unwilling to conduct exercises with our special ship girls.”

"Is...is that so..."

Thinking of this, Xiao Bai subconsciously looked around at the crowd of admirals.

Xiao Bai felt that these admirals must know something.

However, upon sensing Xiaobai's clear gaze, the group of admirals in front of them all lowered their heads, meekly and submissively, like a flock of birds silencing themselves in front of a tiger, and remained completely silent.

“…Strange thing.” Xiaobai muttered to himself.

"Xiaobai, none of the dozen or so admirals after the 321st have responded either." Nia came to Xiaobai's side and said regretfully, "We've reached the last one. I called out several times, but still no one answered."

"I see. It seems that today's exercise will have to end here." Xiaobai sighed.

"Are we still going to war today?" Nia blinked and suddenly asked.

"Look at the time... Where are we going to set off now?" Xiaobai chuckled wryly, then got up, patted his butt, and smiled slightly at Nia and Luo Lian. "Anyway, the 8-2 admirals should have seen enough of the special ship girls by now, so they won't bother us to set off tomorrow. Let's go home."

"Oh! Okay! I'll go collect the registration fee..."

"Then, Admiral, I'll go pack up the tent."

"Xiaobai, what are we having for dinner tonight?"

Wow, so many express repair shops.

As soon as Xiaobai finished speaking, Luo Lian, Nia, and the other ship girls beside her reacted one after another.

Saratoga shook her hand and finally put down the flagpole that read "Martial Arts Tournament". Nia also ran to a small hill made of rapid repair devices and started tidying it up. The other ship girls dismantled tents and cleaned up the trash. The group completely ignored the admirals who were quietly watching from all around.

A few minutes later, Xiaobai and his group, having packed their luggage, leisurely left the 8-2 sea area.

Before leaving, Xiaobai and his group didn't even say goodbye to the other admirals.

However, none of the admirals around dared to step forward and stop Xiaobai and his group.

After Xiaobai and his group left the 8-2 sea area with their day's harvest, the many admirals on the beach watched their departing figures and breathed a sigh of relief.

……

"Huh? Lianlian, what are these in your hands?" On the way home, Xiaobai looked at the thick stack of notebooks in Luo Lian's arms and couldn't help but ask curiously.

"This is the registration form," Luo Lian replied to Xiao Bai. "Taking advantage of the ship girl convention, I collected a lot of information about the admirals in Chapter 8 through the registration area."

"Eh……"

“Admirals who can reach the 8-2 area are among the top admirals right now,” Luo Lian said, turning to Xiao Bai. “In other words, these people are your main rivals in the competition for special ship girls. We’ve gathered their information under the guise of special ship girls, which may come in handy in the future.”

"Wow... Lianlian, you're so thoughtful."

"It was just a side effect." Luo Lian shrugged. "Of course, the difference in strength between these people and you is too great. Collecting information is one thing, but I don't think I'll need it."

"There will always be a chance." Xiao Bai patted Luo Lian's arm with a smile and took half of the notebook from her arms. "Lianlian, let me help you carry some."

"Ah."

"Oh, right, Little White." Nia approached, carrying a full load of rapid repair devices. "Little White, you've got quite a few rapid repair devices today too!"

"Yeah, there must be two or three hundred, right?" Xiaobai asked.

"Yes, I've got them! I had Veneto and the others help me stuff most of them into the ship's equipment space." Nia smiled sheepishly. "The rest that couldn't fit, I'll just have to take back."

"That's good too." Xiaobai smiled. "This can be considered a joy of a bountiful harvest."

"This is all thanks to you, Xiaobai!" Nia said quickly. "These rapid repair devices are also your spoils of war, Xiaobai! I'll give them to you when we get back!"

"No need, Nia, you can keep these quick repair devices yourself."

"Eh? How can this be..."

“I don’t lack fast repair, and as for Lianlian, you’ve seen it yourself. Lianlian only has two ship girls, so she won’t need fast repair for the time being.” Xiaobai said to Nia with a smile, “So Nia, you should keep them. These resources will be put to their maximum value in the shortest time.”