Elder brother's garrison

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"...?" Luo Yingying's eyes widened. "???"

“Miss Yingying, so… can you help me?” Xiaobai looked at Luo Yingying, “I think you must know about this.”

"..." Luo Yingying's heart pounded violently, and his hands trembled.

“My old friend is…” Xiaobai opened her mouth to Luo Yingying.

There was a pop.

Before Xiaobai could finish speaking, Luo Yingying immediately knelt down on the ground.

"Huh? Miss Yingying, what are you doing all of a sudden!" Xiaobai was startled.

"I'm so sorry... I'm sorry!" Luo Ying sobbed, clutching her head, tears welling up in her frightened eyes. "I'm so sorry, I... I... I didn't mean to lie to you, sob sob sob..."

"Huh??? Is leaking information about Admiral Zhao Kuo really that stressful for you?" Xiao Bai quickly stood up, looking embarrassed and apologetic.

"I...I...Hmm? Wait, Admiral Lu Lin, who did you just say?" Luo Yingying was sobbing when she suddenly realized something and looked up at Xiaobai, "Admiral Zhao Kuo?"

“Yes, the third-ranked of the top ten admirals, the third-ranked admiral in the world, Zhao Kuo.” Xiaobai nodded and squatted down next to Luo Yingying. “The old friend I was just talking about is him.”

“…” Luo Yingying.

“…Miss Yingying? What’s wrong?”

"Cough cough...no...no...I...I probably didn't sleep well last night..." Luo Ying stammered, reaching out and grabbing the table to climb back into her chair. She took a deep breath and looked at Xiao Bai with complicated emotions. "So...so you were talking about...Admiral Zhao Kuo..."

“Yes.” Xiaobai nodded.

“…Sigh.” Luo Yingying rubbed her forehead, thought for a moment, and said, “That’s true…that’s true…”

Changchun poured Luo Yingying a cup of hot water and handed it to her.

Luo Yingying gratefully accepted the water glass and drank it all in one gulp.

After drinking the hot water, Luo Yingying's mood returned to normal.

"Phew... So it was about Admiral Zhao Kuo." Luo Yingying murmured softly. After thinking for a while, she turned to Xiao Bai, who was close by and looked at her with concern, and said, "Admiral Lu Lin... please... please sit back down."

Luo Yingying barely managed to say the words "I'm scared".

"Okay." Xiaobai returned to her seat.

"So, Admiral Lu Lin, are you trying to find out where Admiral Zhao Kuo is now?" Luo Yingying asked.

"Yes, that's right." Xiaobai nodded. "Although Admiral Zhao Kuo hasn't been seen for a while, since he said those things to Admiral Haoding before, it means that I can actually see him, right?"

"...Admiral Lu Lin, you are truly quick-witted."

"Hehe." Xiaobai chuckled sheepishly.

“Admiral Zhao Kuo did indeed instruct us that we could tell you his whereabouts,” Luo Yingying said after thinking for a while. “However, the prerequisite is that Admiral Lu Lin must ask him on his own initiative.”

"Yes, that's why I asked."

“Admiral Zhao Kuo is currently staying in the private hospital on the fifth floor of our Admiral Guild. If you want to see him, I can take you there now,” Luo Yingying said to Xiaobai.

"So it really is in the Admiral's Guild..."

“After all… the Admiral's Guild is quite well-equipped. This matter wasn't discussed with the other top ten admirals.” Luo Yingying smiled sheepishly. “Are you going now?”

"Okay, thank you." Xiaobai nodded earnestly.

Luo Yingying got up and staggered a couple of steps before leaning against the wall to calm herself down. She then led Xiaobai and the wedding ships out of the VIP suite.

Luo Yingying led Xiaobai to the elevator lobby, swiped her card, and led them to the fifth floor of the Admiral's Guild.

The fifth floor of the Admiral's Guild opened, revealing a snow-white corridor. In the corridor, ship girl nurses in pink outfits and human doctors in white coats busily moved about, and the strong and familiar smell of disinfectant wafted over.

“This is it, Admiral Lu Lin,” Luo Yingying said to Xiaobai.

"This private hospital...it's so formal," Xiaobai asked Luo Yingying. "Who are the patients here right now?"

"Only Zhao Kuo was the commander."

"Huh? Just him?"

"Yes."

"And what about these doctors and nurses..."

"They are all responsible for overseeing Zhao Kuo alone."

"..." Xiaobai remained silent.

What kind of illness has Admiral Zhao Kuo contracted... that it requires so many human doctors and ship girl nurses to be mobilized.

"Admiral Zhao Kuo's room is at the end of the corridor. The doctors and nurses along the way are all on our side; they won't stop you," Luo Yingying said to Xiaobai, pausing slightly. "Also... if possible... the nurse ship girls here have all been carefully trained by the Admiral's Guild and have over ten years of clinical experience. Each one is a veteran, a valuable human resource for the Admiral's Headquarters... Um... actually, the training cost for nurse ship girls is quite high... Although in a sense they are all unclaimed ship girls, as long as it's voluntary, we have no right to interfere with who they go with... but... but we still hope that Admiral Lu Lin will be lenient..."

"...I know, I know..."

Xiao Bai covered his head, unsure how to explain to Luo Yingying.

Chapter 2866 Reunion with Zhao Kuo

When Luo Yingying finished speaking, she looked nervous, her eyes darting around, her two delicate, fair hands clenched tightly together, and layers of fine sweat kept appearing on her forehead.

It's clear that Luo Yingying was under immense pressure to say those words in front of Xiaobai.

—It's as if the little white guy in front of me might get upset and grind him to dust.

Although Xiaobai wasn't quite sure what Luo Yingying had gone through, he could empathize a little with her reaction, considering his own reputation in Chapter Eight. So, Xiaobai could only give Luo Yingying a wry smile and awkwardly agree to what she had just said.

"Miss Yingying, don't worry, I won't poach any members from the Admiral's Guild," Xiaobai said earnestly to Luo Yingying.

"Ha...Phew." Upon hearing Xiaobai's reply, Luo Yingying felt a significant reduction in pressure and smiled timidly at Xiaobai, "Thank you for your understanding, Admiral Lu Lin."

Xiaobai and the wedding ships stepped out of the elevator.

Xiao Bai turned around and looked at Luo Yingying, who was still standing in the elevator.

"Miss Yingying, aren't you coming along?"

"As for me... I won't come along." Luo Yingying pursed her lips at Xiaobai and bowed respectfully, saying, "Admiral Zhao Kuo only allowed Admiral Lu Lin to visit him, and did not allow anyone else to do so."

"Oh, I see..." Xiaobai thought for a moment, then smiled at Luo Yingying, "Miss Yingying is so thoughtful."

"...You're too kind."

"Can my ship girls come along?"

"The ship girl and the admiral are considered as one, so please do as you please, Admiral Lu Lin."

"Thank you." Xiaobai waved to Luo Yingying with a smile.

Luo Yingying let out a long sigh of relief. She bowed to Xiaobai and the ship girls, then pressed the close button on the elevator.

The elevator doors slowly closed.

Luo Yingying left the hospital floor amidst a buzzing sound of machinery.

Xiao Bai and her group watched Luo Yingying leave, then they exchanged glances, picked up the fruits and gifts in their hands, and walked towards the end of the hospital corridor.

Sure enough, no staff members stopped us along the way.

Xiao Bai and his group arrived smoothly at the room at the end of the corridor.

Compared to other parts of the hospital floor, the room at the end of the corridor seemed rather solemn.

When Xiaobai and his group arrived, they saw two rows of ship girls in uniform standing quietly on both sides of the corridor in front of the ward. These ship girls were clearly different from the nurse ship girls they had seen before. They stood silently and motionless like statues, exuding a powerful aura.

As Xiaobai and her group approached, the silent ship girls instantly sprang to their feet, as if a trigger had been activated, and glared sharply at Xiaobai.

In an instant, dozens of penetrating gazes converged on Xiaobai.

This is not an aura that ordinary ship girls can possess.

These are all ship girls with the level of a top-ten naval base!

The three ship girls behind Xiaobai almost instinctively stepped forward, firmly blocking Xiaobai's path and confronting the statue ship girls in front of them.

"Missouri, Veneto, Changchun, everything's fine."

Xiaobai smiled at the three ship girls in front of her. She gently pulled them apart, then walked to the front, letting the ship girls in front of her scrutinize her.

Xiaobai smiled at the ship girls in front of her.

"You must be ship girls from Admiral Zhao Kuo's faction, right? I saw you during the previous Top Ten Admiral missions. Do you remember me?"

The sculpted ship girls silently watched Xiaobai. They stared at Xiaobai's serene smiling face and her features, trying to recall something. Then, as if they had remembered something, they all trembled.

"Admiral Lu Lin, I apologize for the offense!"

The sculpted ship girls immediately knelt down on one knee in front of Xiaobai.

Hua Hua Hua——

The corridor was suddenly filled with a sound as powerful as a torrential downpour.

"Looks like you finally remembered me, but there's no need to be so formal..." Xiaobai looked at the ship girls kneeling in front of her and gave a wry smile. She quickly bent down to help one of the ship girls up and asked her gently, "I heard about your admiral from Admiral Haoding. Is Admiral Zhao Kuo inside right now?"

"Yes." The ship girl nodded.

"How is he doing now? Can I go in and check on him?"

"The Admiral's condition is relatively stable," the ship girl said in a low voice, bowing her head to Xiaobai. "And... the Admiral has been waiting for you for a long time."

Hearing the ship girl's words, Xiaobai couldn't help but smile wryly.

Knew it……

Perhaps because their admiral was hospitalized, the ship girls of Admiral Zhao Kuo's family seemed to be very quiet and reserved at the moment, far less cheerful than they had been during the Ella Family Operation.

However, Xiaobai can understand this change in personality.

Thinking of this, Xiaobai patted the ship girl's shoulder lightly, and then walked towards the ward door behind the ship girls.

The ship girls from Admiral Zhao Kuo's household quickly made way for them.

The ward door was unlocked.

Xiao Bai turned the doorknob and walked into the ward with the wedding ships.

In contrast to the somber atmosphere in the corridor outside the ward, the ward was bathed in bright sunshine.

—This is a single suite decorated in a way that refreshes the mind and body.

The ward was neither too large to make one feel lonely, nor too small to make one feel crowded. The room was spotless, the blue curtains were open, and golden sunlight filled the entire space. Several potted green flowers and plants swayed gently in the sunlight, full of vitality.

On the single bed in the ward, a man in a hospital gown sat with his back to the door.

The man was gazing out the window. He was slightly overweight, and his hospital gown looked bulky, but his back gave off an unusually serene feeling.

There's a subtle feeling of being one with nature.

Xiaobai looked at the man's back, her gaze filled with a mixture of admiration and sorrow.

Xiao Bai gestured for the wedding ships to close the ward door, then picked up the gifts in her hand and quietly walked towards the man.

“Zhao Kuo mentioned…”

"I'm super!"

"Huh?" Xiaobai stood there, stunned.

Upon hearing Xiaobai's voice, the man on the bed was so frightened that he jumped right off the bed. Under Xiaobai's gaze, the man's somewhat bloated body crashed back onto the bed with a loud, discordant thud.

...The legs of the single bed seem to have cracked a little from being sat on.

The man who turned around was none other than Zhao Kuo, the admiral whom they hadn't seen in a long time.

At this moment, he stared at Xiaobai in shock, his face instantly turning bright red, filled with panic and embarrassment.

"Lu Lu Lu Lu Lu—Admiral Lu Lin, when did you arrive!"

As Zhao Kuo spoke, he suddenly rolled over in bed, as if he were about to get up.

"No, no, no, Admiral Zhao Kuo, you're sick, you should stay in bed!" Xiao Bai quickly stopped Admiral Zhao Kuo from getting up. Then she raised the gift box in her hand and smiled at Admiral Zhao Kuo, saying, "Admiral Zhao Kuo, well... anyway, it's been a long time. Here, this is some fruit and milk I bought for you."

Zhao Kuo, the admiral, sat on the bed, staring blankly at Xiao Bai.

Xiao Bai's smile was bright and sunny.

Zhao Kuo first glanced at Xiaobai, then at the three ship girls behind Xiaobai.

When Zhao Kuo's gaze returned to Xiao Bai, he tremblingly reached out and respectfully accepted Xiao Bai's gift box.

"Admiral Lu Lin, thank you for your hard work..."