Elder brother's garrison

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The location of the newbie garrison and Chapter 8 are more than ten thousand miles apart.

It's no exaggeration to say that these two places are as far apart as if they were located in two opposite corners of the world.

Every time Super Dahe uses its teleportation ability to try to cross these two places, it requires unimaginable physical exertion. Considering Super Dahe's own physical strength limit, teleporting a dozen or so targets to Chapter 8 a day is already quite tiring. If it continues to teleport desperately, it can only reach a few dozen at most.

"Only a few dozen at most..." Luo Lian nodded gently as she listened to Xiao Bai's words, lost in thought.

“If it’s only a few dozen, even for a capital ship, that’s only a few percent of the progress…” Nia said worriedly from the side. “Isn’t that too extreme… What if someone else builds the research ship girls…”

"It's okay, at worst I'll go to the newbie naval base near the end and get all the mass-produced Deepsea Dean Metal!" Little White gave Nia a thumbs up. "I still have over a thousand mass-produced Deepsea Metals left. It'll be a bit of a waste to feed them all at once, but I can use them to kill off the research construction machines!"

"Hey! That's right!" Nia suddenly realized upon hearing Xiaobai's words, "I forgot that we can also feed it mass-produced Deep Sea Dean Metal!"

"Xiaobai, you still have about three thousand of the mass-produced deep-sea metal left, right? That should be enough to cover about 30%," Luo Lian said to Xiaobai, stroking her chin. "In that case, as long as the research construction machine reaches 70% completion, Xiaobai, you can directly propose the research ship girl."

"Uh... it's just a little painful to feed so much deep-sea metal in one go." Xiaobai smiled wryly.

"It's okay. If you're worried about the progress, you can stop at 80%, or even 90% or 95%." Luo Lian said to Xiao Bai. "Even 5% progress is a huge number that most admirals in Chapter 8 can hardly imagine. This will make things much easier for you, Xiao Bai."

"Hmm... Lianlian is right, I'll consider it." Xiaobai nodded.

Hearing this, Nia, who was standing nearby, finally felt relieved and breathed a sigh of relief.

"Wow...that's great! If that's the case, Xiaobai's research ship girl should be a sure thing!"

"It's just a matter of spending more or less deep-sea metal," Luo Lian said to Nia.

"Wow! I'm completely relieved!" Nia raised her hands and smiled happily at Xiaobai and Luo Lian.

"Let's not go on any expeditions for the next few days. Let's just stay home and rest, and wait for the research and construction machines outside to be 70% filled," Xiaobai said with a smile.

“Yes!” Nia nodded with a smile.

At this moment, there was a sound of footsteps outside the door.

Veneto from Nia's family appeared at the door.

“Commander… Ah, so you’re here after all.” Veneto leaned against the doorframe, smiling as she bowed to the three people inside. “Admiral Lu Lin, Admiral Luo Lian, good afternoon.”

"Veneto? What's wrong?"

"Here's the thing, the kitchen staff just contacted me and said that the ingredients in the cellar are almost not fresh anymore. They plan to come to Bo Da in the next few days to use up all the ingredients, and then the Commander should find some time to go and buy a few truckloads of fresh ingredients to fill the warehouse."

"Huh? Oh, right, I've been busy with other things lately, and it seems like it's almost time. I completely forgot about it." Nia stood up apologetically, sticking her tongue out at Xiaobai and Luo Lian behind her. "Xiaobai, Luo Lian, you two chat first, I'll be back for a bit!"

"Are you going to buy groceries?" Xiaobai asked.

"Okay! I'll be back soon!"

"Do you want me to come with you?" Xiaobai asked, pointing to herself.

"I'm just ordering some ingredients from the wholesale market. All the vendors there know me! There won't be any problems."

"Hmm...okay then."

Xiao Bai and Luo Lian waved goodbye, watching Nia leave the dormitory with Veneto.

The sounds of Nia and Veneto talking, along with their footsteps, gradually faded away and disappeared.

Xiao Bai's dormitory quickly became quiet.

Luo Lian sighed, got out of bed, and slowly walked to Xiao Bai's dormitory door, closing the door and windows.

Luo Lian returned to Xiao Bai and gazed into Xiao Bai's eyes.

Xiao Bai grinned and showed his teeth at Luo Lian.

"...So, how much of your ship equipment has been repaired?" Luo Lian asked.

"Hehe... well... I guess I'll have to soak in the repair pool for another half a month." Xiaobai scratched his head sheepishly. "The repair speed of the land-based ship equipment is much slower than I expected..."

"Sigh." Luo Lian sighed, which was rare for her. She sat down next to Xiao Bai, thought for a while, and then said slowly without any emotion, "You jump in to experience the scientific research and construction device without even knowing how deep it is. It is indeed something that someone like you would do."

Luo Lian's voice sounded extremely flat.

But to Xiaobai's ears, it made her shrug her shoulders in embarrassment.

Luo Lian was probably a little angry.

"I just wanted to test its safety..." Xiaobai said to Luo Lian, scratching his cheek.

“You don’t actually need to use this method to test safety,” Luo Lian said, turning her head to Xiao Bai. “For example, like today, as long as you find an opportunity to leak the news that the research and construction machine can eat ship girls, naturally a large number of people will help you test it…”

"Okay, I understand. I'm sorry." Xiaobai smiled at Luo Lian.

"..." Luo Lian's words stopped in her tracks. She lowered her hand, thought for a moment, and then asked Xiao Bai again, "So your ship equipment can increase the progress of scientific research and construction devices by 30% in one go?"

"Well, yes..."

“Well, it’s not a complete loss.” Luo Lian tapped her knee and said slowly, “But unfortunately, the repair speed of land-based ship equipment is too slow. By the time you repair the ship equipment by soaking it in the repair pool, the research and construction machine will have already been filled up.”

"What a pity," Xiaobai said, looking down.

"...But it's not entirely a pity." Luo Lian continued, "From today onwards, there will be more and more eyes watching the research and construction machines. You probably won't be able to sneak off to the surface of 8-1 like you did last night. Even if your ship equipment is completely repaired, you can't expose the secret of your ship equipment under so many eyes just for the sake of a research ship girl."

“That makes sense…” Xiaobai wholeheartedly agreed.

"..." Luo Lian looked up at the ceiling, then turned to Xiao Bai and said, "About Nia..."

"Ok?"

“Nia doesn’t know yet that you have ship equipment, Xiaobai. You haven’t found a reasonable explanation for the 30% increase in progress last night,” Luo Lian said to Xiaobai. “Nia is very sensible. She knows that this 30% progress might be related to your secret, so she hasn’t asked you about it. Xiaobai, what are your thoughts? Are you going to tell her that you have ship equipment?”

Upon hearing this, Xiaobai immediately scratched his head.

It wasn't that Xiaobai didn't want to tell Nia about it, but the matter was simply too far beyond what most people could comprehend, and Xiaobai was afraid that telling Nia would frighten her...

"Lianlian, do you think I should say it?" Xiaobai asked.

"It depends on whether you believe in Nia or not," Luo Lian replied.

“…As for Nia…although I only spent a short time with her, it was a very pleasant experience being with her—ah, of course, it would have been even better if Nia hadn’t been so polite to me.” Xiao Bai thought for a moment and then said to Luo Lian, “I really like Nia, and everyone else as well.”

“I see.” Luo Lian nodded.

"...Should I say it?"

“In that case, it’s up to you whether you tell her or not.” Luo Lian thought for a while and said, “I thought you might not trust Nia, which is why you haven’t told her about this. But since you say you have a good opinion of her now, then it doesn’t matter.”

“I really trust Nia,” Xiaobai said to Luo Lian.

"Hmm." Luo Lian shrugged.

Xiao Bai looked at Luo Lian's profile and pouted.

"Lianlian," Xiaobai said.

"Ok?"

"I have a feeling... your relationship with Nia seems to have progressed by leaps and bounds." Xiaobai squinted and moved closer to Luo Lian.

"Really?" Luo Lian looked at Xiao Bai, who was right in front of her.

"Lianlian, you've never seemed to care about anyone other than me before." Xiaobai pouted, slowly approaching Luo Lian. "You wouldn't happen to be..."

"Cough cough." Luo Lian coughed. "Xiao Bai, don't think too much... whatever you were thinking just now, don't think too much."

Luo Lian's heart belongs only to Xiao Bai.

The reason why Luo Lian cares so much about Nia... and even speaks well of Nia... well...

Luo Lian asked herself honestly, and this was indeed a rare occurrence for her. Perhaps... it was a kind of brotherly affection that came from finding "comrades-in-arms".

Chapter 2782 Attack I

"puff."

Xiao Bai stared at Luo Lian and burst out laughing.

"Lianlian, I was just joking. Why do you look so guilty? It's making me feel embarrassed."

"I'm not guilty..." Luo Lian explained to Xiao Bai, "But Xiao Bai, I didn't know you used to be the type to make jokes like this."

"People change, don't they?" Xiao Bai smiled and approached Luo Lian.

“Then you’ve changed so much in the last two years.” Luo Lian said, looking at Xiao Bai. As she looked at him, she suddenly realized that she could see some of Missouri’s personality traits in Xiao Bai now.

People change so often without us even realizing it.

In Luo Lian's memory, Xiao Bai used to be a simple, timid girl who would blush and feel shy when talking to many people. But at some point, Luo Lian discovered that Xiao Bai could not only calmly face various public situations, but could even tease her and make jokes about her.

"Lianlian doesn't want me to change?" Xiaobai stopped in front of Luo Lian and said to her with a smile.

"It doesn't matter whether it changes or not, my feelings for you will never change anyway," Luo Lian said.

Luo Lian likes Xiao Bai simply because she is Xiao Bai.

It has nothing to do with what kind of girl Xiaobai is.

Let alone going from shy to poised and confident, even if Xiaobai turned into someone like President Er Gou...

Ok……

hiss……

Luo Lian pondered this point for a while with extra care.

No.

It would be really impossible for Xiaobai to become like the guild leader Er Gou.

This kind of development must be absolutely avoided.

"Smooth talker!" Just as Luo Lian was deep in thought, suddenly, Xiao Bai pushed Luo Lian onto the bed and then pounced on her with a smile.

Xiao Bai's hands, like two slippery little snakes, darted under Luo Lian's armpits and began to gently tickle her.

Luo Lian's body stiffened instantly. She writhed like a caterpillar, her breathing rapid and her face flushed.

"Xiaobai...no..."

"This is divine punishment for being glib-tongued! Lianlian—" Xiaobai said to Luo Lian with a smile, tickling her armpits and lower abdomen as he rode on her back.

"Uh... Xiaobai! If you keep doing this... I'm going to fight back!"

Luo Lian huffed and puffed out hot breaths. She closed her eyes, did a somersault, wrapped her arms around Xiao Bai's limbs, and pressed Xiao Bai down beneath her.

Luo Lian's fighting skills are far beyond what a mere novice could subdue. As long as the novice doesn't use the power of the ship's equipment, let alone one novice, even ten novices wouldn't be enough to fill Luo Lian's teeth.

Xiao Bai was almost completely powerless as Luo Lian controlled her body.

"Oh dear! I've been defeated!" Xiao Bai lay on the bed, letting Luo Lian massage her joints, and smiled crisply at Luo Lian, whose face was obscured by her lowered head. "What am I supposed to do to you?"

"Ha...ha...watch me!"

Luo Lian took a couple of breaths, then grabbed Xiao Bai's ankle, lifted Xiao Bai's foot, and started scratching in the middle of Xiao Bai's white socks.

"Hahaha, it's so cool, Lianlian... Haha... It's so itchy... That's foul, foul, foul over there—"

When Luo Lian took over Xiao Bai's soles, she quickly let out a series of pleading laughs.

Luo Lian was not about to let Xiao Bai off the hook.

Rather, seeing Xiaobai's appearance, Luo Lian's breathing became much heavier.

"Little...Little White..."

"There is a flaw!"

Suddenly, seizing the moment when Luo Lian paused, Xiao Bai subdued Luo Lian with a scissor kick and pinned her to the bed once again.

"Lianlian, I'm about to unleash my ultimate move!"

Xiao Bai's icy hands slipped inside Luo Lian's coat and gently tickled the soft flesh around her waist.

"Ah, Little White—"

Luo Lian was both amused and exasperated.

The two of them tossed and turned on the bed, sometimes Luo Lian on top, sometimes Xiao Bai on top, for a full half hour before finally lying down on the bed, panting and quiet.

The bed sheets and duvet cover were all twisted and messy by the two of them.

Xiao Bai and Luo Lian lay on the bed in a starfish shape, their clothes disheveled, as if they had just fought a battle.

"Hoo..." Xiaobai looked at the ceiling, feeling the lingering effects of the play in her body. After resting for a while, she suddenly spoke, "Lianlian."

"Ok?"