Elder brother's garrison

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Missouri, draped in a sheet, took the brown paper bag and briefly flipped through the documents inside.

"Is the Admiral busy selecting the top ten trustworthy figures in the New World?"

"Yes, after all, this matter was entrusted to me by Admiral Zhao Kuo and Admiral Haoding..." Xiao Bai said, scratching his head.

"Admiral Haoding?"

"Yes, Admiral Haoding told me this today... uh, yesterday, after his medical check-up yesterday."

“I see.” Missouri nodded with a smile.

Little White brought Missouri a chair.

Missouri, her perfect figure covered by a thin sheet, sat beside Little White.

"Missouri...why don't we go back and change into our pajamas..." Xiaobai asked Missouri cautiously.

“No need, Missouri prefers it this way.” Missouri smiled and pulled the sheet around herself, leaning against Shiro. “Ship girls aren’t afraid of the cold, and… this gives Missouri a feeling that her relationship with the Admiral has gotten closer, which Missouri really likes.”

"Oh, I see..." Xiao Bai blushed.

Xiaobai opened the brown paper bag and spread out the documents inside.

"Miss Ning Lu helped me compile a list of admirals who have reached 11th place in the world rankings in the last five years or so... Actually, the number is surprisingly small, only less than a dozen in total." Xiao Bai sorted the data by admiral's name and took out the first set of data. "This set of data is for a female admiral named Liu Shao. She reached 11th place in the world rankings a year ago, but she hasn't been ranked in the world rankings for quite a while now. She is currently 54th in the world rankings."

"The ranking has dropped drastically."

"Yes... I was just looking at this admiral's information." Xiaobai said regretfully, holding the information. "According to Miss Ning Lu's information, this admiral named Liu Shao originally had great potential to become the next top ten admiral, but unfortunately, after she reached eleventh in the world rankings, she stubbornly applied to Sister Duan for the admiral ranking competition three times in a month, and was brutally defeated each time. Since then, she seems to have lost interest in improving her world rankings. Even if she is surpassed by others, she doesn't care and just lets her ranking slowly decline. According to the information, she doesn't even seem to participate in events anymore, and there's no news of her appearing in this eighth chapter."

“He must have been driven to despair by this situation…” Missouri said regretfully. “It seems it will take some time before this admiral regains his confidence.”

"Anyway, since she's not in Chapter 8 now, there's nothing we can do but exclude her." Xiaobai regretfully put the admiral's information aside and finally took out another one.

"What is this one...?"

"This admiral is named Xu Mo. He was once ranked eleventh in the world and is now ranked twenty-first."

"Does it have great potential?"

"Ah."

"It seems you don't like him very much, Admiral."

"Yes, because the information shows that he has close ties with Ke Yuan's network of interests. After Ke Yuan is tried, he will be next."

"Then it seems this one won't do either."

"The next admiral is Yan Zizhou... This admiral has a clean record, works very hard, and is currently in Chapter 8... He seems promising."

"It would be great if he didn't have any major personality flaws either." Missouri stretched out her smooth, slender arm and gently tapped her finger on the personality analysis in the document. "Unfortunately, it says here that although this Admiral Yan doesn't have any major flaws, he is often arrogant, haughty, and stubborn."

“Although personality is everyone’s freedom… but if someone like this becomes one of the top ten admirals, just thinking about having to chat with someone with this kind of temper at every top ten admiral gathering…” Xiaobai looked up and sighed helplessly, “I still feel very resistant to it.”

“Next one, please,” Missouri replied with a smile.

"Hmm. Next one." Xiao Bai put down the documents and picked up the next one. "The next one is called Ding Li. The personality analysis says that this admiral is greedy for small gains and is not very popular."

“Next.” Missouri nodded.

"Okay, next one," Xiaobai said.

……

Xiao Bai and Missouri flipped through the files of one admiral after another.

At this moment, Xiaobai felt a strange sensation, as if he were selecting resumes.

Regarding the selection of the top ten admirals, Xiaobai didn't have any particular feelings before. It wasn't until he went through most of the information that he realized that no one is perfect. He then realized how difficult it was to find an admiral who was well-rounded in intelligence, morality, physical fitness, aesthetics, and labor, and who was kind, steady, and reliable.

Xiao Bai initially thought of just finding a random admiral with a similar level to Nia in his resume to make up the numbers.

But it wasn't until Xiaobai had gone through most of the resume that she suddenly realized that even just reaching Nia's level of character design was already extremely difficult for a normal human being.

"Sigh... Finding an admiral who is as beautiful and cute as Nia, as gentle and kind as Nia, as hardworking and resilient as Nia, as reliable and steady as Nia, and as fair and compassionate as Nia... it's such a difficult thing..." Xiaobai tremblingly put down the resume in her hand, "...So Nia is such a wonderful person... Are we being too picky...?"

“If you judge people by their shortcomings, then there will be no one in the world you can befriend,” Missouri said with a smile. “Unless… you encounter a true sage.”

“That makes sense… How about we relax the requirements a little?” Xiaobai said.

"I'll do as the admiral says." Missouri nodded.

“But I really don’t think those people are suitable…” Xiaobai continued, “We can only choose from the remaining people…”

"Ah."

"Hopefully the next file will be an SSR..." Xiaobai closed his eyes and murmured earnestly. Then he reached out and took out a file from the remaining few files, flipping through it. "Hmm... this admiral's file... he reached eleventh place in the world two years ago, but he barely stayed there before being knocked down. Now he's the seventeenth naval base in the world, and its name is..."

Xiao Bai moved his finger to the admiral's name on the document, glanced at it, then paused, revealing a surprised expression.

"Huh? This admiral's name is... Jin Shiqi?"

"The information states that the admiral's shortcomings are that he seems to have never grown up, he thinks about unrealistic things every day, and his behavior is extremely silly."

"It's someone I know."

Chapter 2914 The Shocking Visitor

Missouri and Xiaobai leaned together, carefully reviewing the admiral's information in Xiaobai's hand.

“It’s a familiar face,” Missouri said. “This admiral… if Missouri remembers correctly, he seems to be a friend of that admiral Fang Jie, right? Missouri has heard from the seniors at the naval base that he is an unexpectedly straightforward person who also retains a childlike heart.”

“Hmm… childlike innocence… well… that’s true.” Xiaobai couldn’t help but smile wryly as he listened to Missouri’s words. Then, he flipped through the admiral’s information in his hand with some surprise. “I didn’t expect that this Admiral Jin Shiqi was once ranked eleventh in the world… what an unexpected discovery.”

"What does the admiral think of this admiral?"

"I think he's fine."

"A surprisingly high rating."

“After all, we just talked about how we can’t set the selection criteria too high…” Xiaobai stared at the admiral’s information in his hand and said with a helpless expression, “I would like to find a new admiral with the same level as Nia, but Missouri, as you can see, it’s impossible to find another Nia… The previous admirals were either too withdrawn to come to Chapter 8, or they had all sorts of strange and bad tempers, or their history wasn’t clean… At least compared to these people, I feel that Admiral Jin Shiqi’s shortcomings have become advantages.”

“I see…” Missouri nodded with a smile, closed her eyes, rested her head on Xiaobai’s shoulder, and murmured softly, “So, Admiral, have you decided on this Admiral Jin Shiqi?”

"Hmm...Speaking of which, when I was framed by Admiral Ke Yuan, Admiral Jin Shiqi was one of the few who was willing to stand up for me." Xiao Bai touched the admiral's file, tapping lightly on Admiral Jin Shiqi's personality analysis with his finger. "...Although we're not that close, I think it's much better than a stranger with a terrible temper—hmm, let's decide on that!"

Xiao Bai quickly flipped through the remaining admiral information, glanced at it briefly, and then put the remaining information together with the previously discarded information and tossed it into the corner of the desk cabinet.

Xiao Bai looked at the last remaining information on Jin Shiqi in his hand, and his eyes quickly flickered.

The moonlight suddenly peeked through the dark clouds.

The night seemed even brighter in the temporary garrison.

"Admiral, is the work finished?" Missouri asked quietly from the side.

"Mm." Little White smiled and nodded to Missouri.

“Then…Admiral…” Missouri murmured softly, unbuttoning the sheet and pressing herself against Xiaobai. “…Since it’s already decided, let’s leave tomorrow’s business for tomorrow. Admiral, don’t you think tonight is unusually long?”

"..."

The bright night was extinguished as the moonlight retreated back into the dark clouds.

The table creaked and groaned.

Two figures swayed in the room.

The thin bed sheet fell to the ground, but luckily the floor was swept clean, so it didn't get dusty.

the next day.

After having breakfast with Missouri, feeling refreshed, Xiao Bai went out alone and headed towards the temporary garrison where Jin Shiqi was located.

Xiao Bai didn't know Jin Shiqi's address at first, but fortunately, the information Ning Lu gave Xiao Bai contained a lot of information about Jin Shiqi, including his parents' names, clan information, personal file, admiral's resume, garrison information, and even the locations of the several properties Jin Shiqi owned, his social network, his marital status, and medical examination data.

After reading the information Ning Lu provided, Xiao Bai could be said to have become one of the people in the world who knew Jin Shiqi best.

Arriving at Jin Shiqi's temporary garrison headquarters, Xiaobai stood on the street, looking up at the residence in front of him.

The residence rented by Jin Shiqi was a rather luxurious courtyard house. Standing at the gate, Xiaobai could see the ship girls coming and going inside, cooking and starting fires. After observing for a while, Xiaobai looked at the pillars next to the main gate of the courtyard house. On the nearby pillars, the name "World's Seventeenth Naval Base" was engraved in large gilded characters. Under the sunlight, the golden characters shimmered with dazzling light.

"It really is... eye-catching." Xiaobai muttered to himself as he looked at the golden lettering.

Just then, the ship girls inside the courtyard noticed Xiaobai outside the door.

A ship girl dressed as a light cruiser looked at Xiaobai curiously as she walked out of the courtyard.

"Hello, are you a ship girl or an admiral?"

The light cruiser girl stared curiously at Xiaobai's face, then looked at Xiaobai's admiral outfit, and asked with some confusion.

"I am the admiral," Xiaobai said politely to the light cruiser ship girl.

"Oh! It's someone else's admiral!" The light cruiser girl exclaimed. She quickly stopped, bowed to Xiaobai, and asked politely, "It's an honor to meet you, Admiral! Are you here to visit my admiral?"

Xiaobai smiled slightly as she looked at the ship girl bowing to her at a ninety-degree angle.

Although the admirals in Chapter 8 all recognize themselves now, it seems that a large portion of the ship girls still don't know the identity their faces represent...

Ok.

Also good.

It's enough to just scare the admiral normally.

Xiaobai doesn't want to scare away the ship girls while they're chatting.

"I'm here to see Admiral Jin Shiqi. Could you introduce me?" Xiaobai asked the ship girl in front of her with a smile.

"Wow... they really came to see my admiral!" The light cruiser ship girl exclaimed excitedly upon hearing Shiro's words. "That's great! Usually, no one comes to visit my admiral! It seems my admiral hasn't been completely isolated by the others in Chapter 8!"

Xiaobai gave the ship girl an awkward smile.

It seems that Admiral Jin Shiqi is not well-liked among admirals.

"Can you take me to see Admiral Jin Shiqi?" Xiaobai asked.

"Ah! Sure, of course... Oh!" The light cruiser girl nodded, but halfway through her sentence, a rather troubled expression appeared on her face. "Oh dear... Oh no, oh no."

"Huh? What's wrong?"

"Um, um... my admiral is currently entertaining another friend..." the light cruiser girl said cautiously, glancing at Xiaobai. "I don't know if he's available right now..."

"Another friend... oh, it must be Admiral Fang Jie."

"Eh? You know about this too?!" the ship girl exclaimed in surprise.

"Jin Shiqi's only friend left is him."

“That makes sense,” the ship girl said, scratching her head and laughing.

"I'm friends with Admiral Fang Jie, so it's alright. Take me with you to see them," Xiao Bai said with a smile.

"Oh, it's an old friend!" Upon hearing this, the light cruiser girl immediately smiled with relief. She quickly said to Xiaobai, "Admiral, please, please come with me! I'll take you to find the admiral right away!"

Xiaobai successfully entered Jin Shiqi's temporary garrison with the light cruiser girl.

At this moment, it was breakfast time at Jin Shiqi's temporary garrison. The ship girls in the courtyard were either eating breakfast with small bowls in their hands or taking a walk after breakfast to exercise.

The light cruiser ship girl led Xiaobai to the entrance of the canteen in the courtyard. Xiaobai soon heard two familiar voices talking inside the canteen.

In Xiaobai's view, two admirals were squatting at the entrance of the canteen, eating fried rice while chatting.

"Brother Fang, speaking of which, we've both received the business card for the world's number one admiral, so why hasn't anyone come to visit me all this time?"

"Is no one here all the time?"

"That's it."

"Maybe it's because your reputation is too great that no one wants to come to you," Fang Jie said while eating. "Look at my place, people come to my door every day."

"Sigh... I'm so envious of Brother Fang," Jin Shiqi said.

"What's there to envy? Those people who come to me aren't really trying to befriend me; they just want to use me as a stepping stone to contact the world's number one naval base." Admiral Fang Jie sighed deeply. "Ever since the research and construction machine incident, people with this 'profitable' mentality have been constantly trying to befriend me. I've really had enough of these people..."

"No wonder you came here to seek refuge, Brother Fang."

"Let me hide away for a while. I really can't stand those people anymore. I just want to live my life quietly and occasionally do some math problems." Fang Jie sighed, took a few bites of rice, and continued to Jin Shiqi, "Speaking of which, Lao Jin."

"Ok?"

"Your courtyard house may be luxurious, but why is the cafeteria so small?"

"Where would a courtyard house have a canteen? The canteens here are all converted from the kitchen. They were built brick by brick by me and the ship girls."

"...Don't you find it troublesome?"

"Hey, it's troublesome as it may be, but..."