Elder brother's garrison

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"This doesn't seem to have anything to do with whether we cheated or not... For us, a sudden surge in progress is probably a good thing, right?"

"No, no, you don't understand, this is the fear of the unknown!"

"We must find out who did it!"

"Quickly, take the resources to the research and construction machine!"

"Something must have changed with the construction machine!"

Someone raised their arm and shouted, and the admirals who had been watching on the beach suddenly became nervous and flustered. They directed their ship girls to step onto the sea. Fleets crossed the water one after another, and the admirals rowed small boats behind them. A group of people rushed forward and arrived at the waters where the research and construction machine was located.

The ship girls arrived at their destination, and the research and construction machine remained as quiet as ever on the water.

Upon arriving at their destination, the admiral and the ship girls pondered for a moment before hurriedly taking out a large amount of supplies from their ship equipment. They lined up and dumped the supplies onto the research and construction machine like a factory assembly line.

"The change must have occurred after too much resource was invested!"

"Give me more resources! Maybe we'll reach 60% tonight!"

"Faster, faster!"

"Hey you in front, hurry up and feed us! It's almost our turn!"

The admirals at the back of the line began to urge them on anxiously.

The long lines of people began to sway on the water.

Hey! Don't step on my foot!

"Wait a little longer, I still have a few left to feed..."

"No, don't push me! I'm holding the oil drum!"

"oops!"

The queue lost its balance in the rapid shoving, and one of the ship girls who was distributing resources to the research and construction machine lost her footing and stumbled forward two steps.

Then, a shadow was cast over the ship girl's head.

The ship girl looked up and saw the enormous mouth of the research and construction machine in front of her.

boom! ! !

In front of everyone, the research and construction machine swallowed the ship girl who had crossed the safety line whole.

The surroundings fell silent instantly.

All the admirals and ship girls gasped.

"Oh no...oh no! The research and construction machine is eating the ship girls! Eating the ship—" the admirals began to scream.

"tui!"

But before the admirals could finish shouting, the research and construction machine that had just swallowed the ship girl looked up again and spat out the ship girl it had just swallowed, completely naked.

After being spat out, the barely clothed ship girl sat blankly in front of everyone, clutching her chest.

"Huh...? What just happened...?"

"You threw it up?"

"What happened just now?"

Everyone looked on in surprise and doubt. Suddenly, several admirals noticed the progress of the lock on the research and construction machine.

"Wow!!!"

"Look!"

"The progress of the research construction machine has increased by 0.01%!!!"

boom----

As this statement spread, the entire 8-1 sea area instantly descended into chaos.

Chapter 2780 Feeding the Ship Girls

With the secret of the scientific research and construction machine being accidentally uncovered, the admirals at sea were thrown into complete chaos.

Countless admirals stared with gleaming eyes as they watched the progress numbers on the research and construction machines increase dramatically!

It turns out that besides feeding them deep-sea metal and the four resources, another way to speed up the research and construction machine is to directly feed it to ship girls! And judging from the current situation, feeding ship girls seems to be much faster and more economical than directly feeding them deep-sea metal!

"I finally understand. It turns out that ship girls are what the research and construction machine really wants to eat!"

"I knew it! That's why the research and construction machine needed so much deep-sea metal. Turns out, deep-sea metal isn't what the research and construction machine wants at all!"

"Damn! I've lost a lot of money. I fed the research and construction machine a full three hundred pieces of deep-sea metal yesterday! That's my entire week's expedition reward!"

"Me too! I fed him 250 yuan yesterday! Now I'm really a fool!"

On countless rafts, the admirals, realizing that their efforts yesterday had been in vain, were so angry that they beat their chests and stamped their feet, making the small boats beneath them splash loudly.

The ship girl, ejected by the research and construction machine, huddled on the water's surface, her naked body exposed. Looking at the admirals around her, who were pounding their chests in frustration, her expression was extremely awkward.

The fabric of a ship girl's clothing is, to some extent, linked to the completeness of her ship equipment.

The ship girls in Chapter 8 are already seasoned veterans, having been tempered by real battles. They are no longer like the rookie ship girls in Chapter 1, who would freeze in place, embarrassed and at a loss, because of a little bit of skin showing. However, even so, there is a clear difference between a slight tear in their clothing and the complete disappearance of their clothing. Moreover, this is not a battle flagship, and the people around them are not ship girl comrades or deep-sea opponents, but a large group of other admirals.

The situation has changed.

My sense of shame resurfaced.

Even though the admirals present wisely avoided looking at her, the ship girl who had just been spat out by the research and construction machine still felt a strong sense of shame from the surrounding discussions.

Just then, an admiral rowed up in a small boat.

The admiral who appeared was the ship girl's superior. He quickly swam to the ship girl, and without saying a word, he carried his ship girl into the small boat. Then he took off his admiral's coat and draped it over her.

"Are you injured?" The admiral patted the ship girl on the shoulder and asked hurriedly.

"Admiral, I...I'm fine..." The ship girl tugged at her clothes, and the awkward expression on her face finally eased.

"Phew... thank goodness. What just happened?"

"I...I don't know, I'm so confused...I was just swallowed by the research and construction machine, it was dark and crowded inside, and before I even realized what was happening, I was spit out...and then I ended up like this." The ship girl swallowed hard, pulling her admiral's uniform tighter. "Well...it seems like my clothes melted, but other than that, I seem fine..."

"Doesn't it hurt?"

"It doesn't hurt..."

"What about the condition of the ship's equipment?"

"Let me see... Hmm... Ah, my ship equipment is badly damaged! But thankfully, the ship equipment's essence is still in my body, so it can be repaired." The ship girl closed her eyes to assess her condition and said to her admiral, "I should just go back and soak in the repair pool."

After listening to his ship girl's explanation, the admiral finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Upon hearing this, the other admirals watching regained their interest.

"Hey! Did you hear that? The ship girls swallowed by the research and construction machine suffer no damage and won't feel any pain. Their ship equipment will just be badly damaged!"

"So, what the research and construction machine might want to eat isn't the ship girls themselves, but rather their ship equipment..."

"As expected, research and construction machines are harmless to ship girls!"

"I can rest assured now..."

"So, in other words, as long as the ship girls are soaked in the repair pool, we can get the research and construction machine's charging progress for free?!"

"Good guy!"

"If a ship girl can increase by 0.01%, doesn't that mean she only needs to be fed 10,000 times to be fully fed? Isn't that much more reliable than spending tens or even hundreds of millions of deep-sea metals? And the ship girl's repair pool only costs a few dollars! A piece of high-quality deep-sea metal is enough for my ship girls to comfortably soak for a whole day!"

"I think I've found the real way to activate the research and construction machine!"

"The research construction machine seems to be edible. Is there any brave soul willing to be the second one? I'm willing to offer two hundred pieces of deep-sea metal, plus two MK6 guns, as a bounty for the second ship girl who dares to enter the research construction machine!"

"Wait a minute, I'll go back and ask my ship girl if she'd like to give it a try!"

"..."

Several admirals who were watching couldn't contain their excitement and quickly rowed away in their small boats.

The other admirals present swallowed hard and tentatively looked at their own ship girls.

The ship girls present all trembled.

……

On the 8-1 sea area, one noisy rhythm followed another, making a ruckus for a whole morning.

Inside the temporary garrison headquarters.

Around noon, Xiaobai, who was fiddling with her phone on her bed in the dormitory, paused. She gently turned over, looked at the messages on her phone screen, and her expression was slightly surprised.

"Xiaobai, what's wrong?"

Nia and Luo Lian put down what they were doing and looked at Xiao Bai.

"Ah..." Xiaobai propped herself up on the mattress and sat up. She looked at the message on the screen with a helpless expression, sighed, and then handed the phone to her two friends, "Nia, Lianlian, look at this."

Nia and Luo Lian came closer.

On Xiaobai's phone screen, the permissions were set to Chapter 8-2 of the Admiral Forum.

At this moment, the Admiral Forum was already flooded with countless trending posts.

"Breaking news—a new discovery: the best food source for research ship girls is actually ship girls themselves!"

"After being personally verified by several ship girls, it has been confirmed that research ship girls will not cause any harm to ship girls after swallowing them. Let us thank them for their sacrifice!"

"It has been verified that ship girls swallowed by the research and construction machine cannot be restored using the rapid repair device. However, admirals, please don't worry, because the method of restoring ship equipment in the repair pool will still work normally!"

"This newspaper followed up with interviews on the first three ship girls who were swallowed by the research and construction machine, as well as the first destroyer who was swallowed twice by the research and construction machine after her ship equipment was repaired. The following is the report—"

"The research and construction machine increased its progress by 30% overnight yesterday!"

"Damn, the situation in chapter 8-1 is absolutely hilarious! A whole bunch of admirals are leading their ship girls to line up in front of the research and construction machine to feed them, hahaha!"

"Breaking news! The research and construction machine is picky about food! It won't eat all the ship girls!"

"Further verification shows that the research construction machine seems to only prefer capital ships and small ships! One large ship increases progress by 0.05%, while one small ship increases progress by 0.01%!"

"..."

Luo Lian and Nia blinked as they looked at the message on the screen.

"Look, now everyone in Chapter 8 knows that the research and construction machine can be fed to the ship girls..." Xiaobai put down his phone with a regretful look and said to his two friends.

"Oh dear... that's such a pity." Nia lowered her head helplessly upon hearing Xiaobai's words, saying somewhat dejectedly, "I didn't expect the news to leak out..."

“After all, research and construction machines will actively hunt for prey; if they deliberately expose themselves, there’s nothing we can do,” Luo Lian said from the side.

"What are we going to do now? If all the admirals in Chapter 8 go to feed the ship girls, then Shiro won't have an advantage!" Nia said nervously, her hands clenched. "Should we join the queue now?"

"Well..." Xiaobai sighed, resting her chin on her hand with a troubled expression.

“There’s no need to rush,” Luo Lian said suddenly after thinking for a while.

"Eh? Aren't we in a hurry?" Nia looked at Luo Lian.

"Hmm... It will take at least seven thousand more feedings to fully power up the Research Construction Machine." Luo Lian pointed at Xiao Bai's phone and said, "Did you see that? It says here that the Research Construction Machine seems to only be interested in capital ships and small ships. And Xiao Bai also mentioned before that ship girls eaten by the Research Construction Machine can only have their ship equipment restored by soaking in repair fluid. In other words, even if the admirals in Chapter 8 find the correct way to feed the Research Construction Machine, given their current state and speed, it won't be enough to fully power up the Research Construction Machine in just one day."

"Oh...right, there's also the matter of soaking in repair fluid." Nia realized upon hearing Luo Lian's words, "Repairing ship equipment using repair fluid is very slow!"

"Lianlian, how long do you think it will take to fully feed the scientific research and construction equipment this time?" Xiaobai tilted her head and asked Luo Lian.

“When we held the martial arts tournament last time, I obtained a lot of information about the naval bases through the registration process,” Luo Lian said to Xiao Bai. “Because it is the eighth chapter of the expedition, the admirals who have arrived here so far are more inclined to bring their main ships. So if they only soak the ship equipment in repair fluid to repair it, their ship equipment repair speed will be very slow. I’ll estimate it based on this ratio, um… it will probably take at least a week.”

"From more than a year to a week..." Xiaobai murmured and nodded, "The speed is really fast after finding the right way."

"Xiaobai, your advantage is that you can continuously send ship girls over from the naval base thousands of miles away, right?" Luo Lian said to Xiaobai. "With the number of ship girls in your naval base, if you choose a time when it's almost over, it seems like you can max out the progress in one go?"

"Well... that probably won't work..." Xiaobai scratched his head and smiled apologetically at Luo Lian. "There are limitations to long-distance teleportation, especially given the distance between my naval base and Chapter 8. In reality, I can only send a few dozen ship girls over per day at most."

Chapter 2781 Brotherhood

Back during the Great Battle in Ella's hometown, when everyone first met Super Yamato, her teleportation ability was incredibly powerful. With just a wave of her hand, she could teleport thousands of troops over long distances.

Why was this "abnormal" ability weakened to such a regrettable degree after the eighth chapter?

Xiaobai did indeed ask Chaodahe about this issue.

The answer given by SuperD was also very simple—it's too far.

It's simply because it's too far away.

Super Yamato's teleportation ability consumes her personal stamina when activated, unrelated to deep-sea energy or the four resources. The amount of stamina consumed is closely related to the teleportation target and the teleportation distance, with the teleportation distance accounting for the highest proportion of the consumption. For example, if the teleportation distance doubles, the stamina required for Super Yamato increases exponentially, and this proportion becomes increasingly exaggerated as the distance increases.