Elder brother's garrison

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At the same time, his pupils contracted, and an expression of disbelief appeared on his face.

The ship girl who appeared next to Mu Yu was actually one of the twenty-six ship girls that Ke Yuan had sent out to challenge and salvage.

"Your Majesty the Governor."

Under Ke Yuan's incredulous gaze, the black-robed ship girl bowed her head to Mu Yu and gave a respectful bow.

"What are you doing?! What are you doing?! I'm asking you what you're doing!! I'm your admiral!!! Who are you bowing to!!!"

Bang it!

Ke Yuan slammed his fist on the railing and screamed at the black-robed ship girl next to Mu Yu.

Upon hearing Ke Yuan's scream, the black-robed ship girl remained surprisingly calm. She silently raised her head and glanced in Ke Yuan's direction.

The ship girl's gaze was exceptionally clear and pure, like a girl who had never experienced the ways of the world, but at the same time, it was like that of a stranger, causing the furious Ke Yuan to freeze in place.

Ke Yuan knew that this wasn't the kind of look his ship girls should have.

"Mu Yu... what exactly... did you do to her?" Ke Yuan looked at Mu Yu.

"I didn't do anything," Mu Yu smiled. "Ah... if I really had to say... I probably just helped her forget some things she never wanted to remember again."

"...You...you beast!!!"

"Admiral Ke Yuan, this isn't my fault." Mu Yu shook his head and smiled at Ke Yuan, saying, "I don't know if you still remember this ship girl. If you hadn't secretly ordered her to seduce the world's number one admiral, she wouldn't have had this opportunity to start anew, and of course, she wouldn't have become my spy planted in your team. From this perspective, I'm truly grateful to you. Thank you for your struggle all this time, Admiral Ke Yuan."

As he said this, Mu Yu smiled and looked at the black-robed admiral in front of him.

Mu Yu reached out and patted the ship girl on the shoulder.

"Thank you for your hard work these past few days."

"Governor, no...no trouble at all! I...I am very honored to be able to redeem myself through meritorious service!" The black-robed ship girl quickly stood up straight, her eyes clear and pure as she saluted Mu Yu. "I am very grateful to you for giving me this opportunity!"

"You have a good eye." Mu Yu nodded, then pointed to Ke Yuan in the cell. "How does it feel to see the former admiral?"

"...Reporting to the Governor...To be honest, I have absolutely no recollection of this person." The black-robed ship girl didn't even glance at Ke Yuan, but simply shook her head at Mu Yu, and said in a low voice with some confusion, her face showing sadness, "I just think he's so fierce. The last time I infiltrated other people's group to see him, he was like that too. I don't understand why I and the others always had to listen to him."

"It's good that you don't understand." Mu Yu nodded in satisfaction and smiled. "When we participated in the maritime operation before, I caused you and the others to get beaten up by the salvaged ship girls. I feel pretty bad about that. You won't blame me, will you?"

"No, no, no! Compared to the sins I committed, these are not even retribution!" The black-robed ship girl quickly shook her head, her eyes clear, and said without resentment.

"This is none of your business. Go downstairs. You still have work to do in the Admiral's Guild hall." Mu Yu smiled. "Regarding your sentence... After these matters are settled, considering that you have already started building ships again and made contributions, I will help you get the most lenient treatment."

"Thank you, Your Excellency!"

Upon hearing this, the black-robed ship girl immediately bowed in gratitude and then returned to the back of the group.

Mu Yu patted his wrists, put his hands behind his back, and looked at Ke Yuan, who was standing there dumbfounded in the cell.

“Ke Yuan, look at this,” Mu Yu said.

"...What method did you use... to make her forget me?" Ke Yuan muttered to himself.

"In short, it's a gentler method than your brainwashing," Mu Yu stepped forward and said to Ke Yuan.

"Haha... No matter how much you guard against it, it's hard to guard against a thief within your own family."

"That's not entirely true." Mu Yu shook her head. "Actually, if I hadn't specifically reassigned the Admiral's Guild's employees, you twenty-odd ship girls wouldn't have been able to operate under my nose—even though our Admiral's Guild is slacking off, we're not that bad."

"..." Ke Yuan looked at Mu Yu, then suddenly gave a bitter laugh, "So... I fell for their trap from the very beginning."

“I understand. After all, at this moment, you're like someone who's fallen into a river. If there's even a straw floating in front of you, you'll grab it without hesitation.” Mu Yu smiled. “You don't have the time to consider whether it's a trap or not. You're only thinking about whether this is your only chance in this life.”

"So...why?" Ke Yuan lowered his head.

"what why."

"You went through all this trouble, watching me struggle for so long, even planting a spy next to me, just so I could watch you perform like a clown?"

“From a personal perspective, I certainly enjoyed watching it,” Mu Yu said with a smile. “However… even if I were the governor, I wouldn’t go to such lengths and waste so much of the governor’s guild’s resources just to watch a clown show.”

"why?"

“You should know better than I do,” Mu Yu said, staring at Ke Yuan.

"..." Ke Yuan was silent for a while, then suddenly realized, "...Hehe, so you wanted to eliminate the root of the problem."

"Yes... The things left behind by the Ninth Admiral of the World are indeed too many and too troublesome. The things involved are definitely not something that can be resolved overnight." Mu Yu said with his hands behind his back and a smile. "Even if you are imprisoned, even if we have dismantled your forces and your network of relationships, there will still be some lingering connections and even some deeply hidden things acting for you. This makes me restless and unable to eat or sleep."

As Mu Yu finished speaking, he reached behind him and pulled out a blue hand grenade.

"Ke Yuan, I never expected you to give me such a surprise." Mu Yu played with the grenade in her hand and said to Ke Yuan, "You even have people in the ship equipment research center. Do you know that using ship girl technology to research anti-human weapons is strictly prohibited by the Admiral Headquarters? Just based on this, none of you can escape."

"..." Ke Yuan.

"You've really done me a huge favor this time." Mu Yu tossed the grenade to the ship girl behind her and continued to speak to Ke Yuan with a smile, "As expected of your only chance in this life, you've pulled out everything we've been trying to find but had no way of doing so. Thanks to this evidence and contact information, our next cleanup operation will go smoothly. And regarding your ship girls, we can also identify twenty-five stubborn ones, which will make it easier for us to carry out the next step of psychological treatment and punish them one by one."

Ke Yuan looked up, his eyes dim.

Mu Yu's smile was like a spring breeze, full of vigor and spirit.

Ke Yuan knew that this time, he had no chance of turning things around.

Chapter 3000 Steam Engine Novice

"Ke Yuan, time is running out." Mu Yu said to Ke Yuan with her hands behind her back, "Originally, I didn't even need to bring the ship girls to see you. I could have just let you stay in prison until the end and leave this world knowing what happened. I came here specifically to explain to you what happened these past two days out of gratitude."

"Should I thank you?" Ke Yuan opened his cracked lips, his voice hoarse, his eyes bloodshot as he stared at Mu Yu.

"I don't care," Mu Yu smiled.

"..." Ke Yuan remained silent. He raised his head and looked at Mu Yu. "I don't understand."

"Oh? With your intelligence, is there anything you don't understand?"

"Since you're trying to eliminate me completely... why are you still allowing my ship girls to go out to sea to challenge the salvage ship girls tonight?" Ke Yuan stared intently into Mu Yu's eyes. "Aren't you afraid... what if my ship girls actually defeat the salvage ship girls? And make me the master of special ship girls?"

"So that's what you don't understand."

"Because I already know how to defeat the salvaged ship girls!!!" Ke Yuan roared.

“Ke Yuan,” Mu Yu shook her head, “you are indeed an above-average smart person, but your downfall is that you always think you are the smartest person in the world, yet you are not smart enough at all.”

"……What do you mean?"

"As we all know, salvage ship girls are the strongest among the three special ship girls. According to the records of the Admiral's Headquarters, the salvage ship girls that have appeared are also the strongest ship girls of their generation," Mu Yu said to Ke Yuan. "But... Ke Yuan, do you know why salvage ship girls have always been the strongest ship girls?"

"...?"

"Because the strength of special ship girls is based on the template of the strongest ship girl of this era," Mu Yu said to Ke Yuan. "For example, if the combat power of the strongest ship girl of this era is 100, then when a salvaged ship girl appears, her combat power will be fixed at 101. If the strongest ship girl is 500, then the combat power of the salvaged ship girl will be upgraded to 501. It's something like that. The stronger the ship girls of this era, the stronger the salvaged ship girls will be, and so on."

"What does it matter?"

"The point is, you... have no idea how powerful the strongest ship girls of this era were before the advent of salvage ship girls," Mu Yu said with a smile. "Your limited vision and narrow perspective will prevent you from realizing the power of salvage ship girls. Their true strength is far greater than what is shown."

"What makes you think that? Do you have any evidence—"

“Of course I have evidence,” Mu Yu said. “To confirm this, a top ten admiral came to report to me immediately after observing the battle to salvage the ship girls.”

"..." Ke Yuan stood there, mouth agape, stunned.

"Fine, let me make it clearer to you." Mu Yu said with a smile, "Actually, even if you can really defeat the salvage ship girls, it doesn't matter. Anyway, I've already planted spies around you. With spies around, as long as they betray you at the crucial moment, your ship girls who have gone astray won't be able to defeat the salvage ship girls. This is my two-pronged plan."

Ke Yuan held onto the railing, slid down, and knelt on the floor.

"Why are you so quiet now?" Mu Yu asked, hands behind her back, looking at Ke Yuan kneeling before her. "According to procedure, shouldn't you have said you would fully cooperate with my investigation and then just beg me to spare your life?"

"...Hehehehe...You will spare me?" Ke Yuan laughed bitterly.

“That’s impossible,” Mu Yu smiled.

"Then what else do I need to ask for?" Ke Yuan's eyes were empty.

"You suddenly became clever at the last minute, which surprised me."

Mu Yu shook his head and waved behind him. A ship girl stepped forward and handed him a packaged milk candy.

Mu Yu threw the milk candy into the cell, where it landed at Ke Yuan's feet.

"It's time to get going." Mu Yu looked down at Ke Yuan, the smile on his face completely gone, his gaze calm. "Tomorrow morning, the news that Admiral Ke Yuan surrendered to the law in the face of irrefutable evidence, and chose to starve himself to death out of guilt, remorse, and fear of the future, will be submitted to the court of final judgment. This is the last bit of dignity I'm giving you, you must cherish it."

"..."

Ke Yuan quietly looked at the milk candy on the ground.

The corridor was quiet for a while.

Ke Yuan reached out and tore open the wrapper of the milk candy. He held the candy in his hand, glanced at Mu Yu with a withered face, stared at Mu Yu's cheek, and slowly put the candy into his mouth.

Ke Yuan swallowed the milk candy directly.

"Hahahahaha..."

"Hahahaha-"

"Hahahahaha!!!"

Admiral Ke Yuan laughed loudly, tears streaming down his face, his laughter hoarse.

……

ten minutes later.

Surrounded by the ship girls, Mu Yu wiped her hands with a white handkerchief as she left the corridor.

At the entrance to the prison corridor, two slender and beautiful figures stood quietly.

Mu Yu stopped in his tracks.

The ship girls behind Mu Yu all bowed and saluted.

"Greetings, Governor-General Ringo!"

"Greetings, Admiral Duan!"

Ringo and Duan Shuiliu seemed to have been in the corridor for some time. They quietly watched Mu Yu and his group, their gazes lingering on Mu Yu and the ship girls behind him.

"That reformed black-robed ship girl has left for the main hall," Duan Shuiliu said.

"Yes, I was the one who let her go." Mu Yu nodded with a smile. He took the handkerchief and said to everyone, "After all, Ke Yuan was her former admiral. Even if she doesn't remember anything, we can't leave the young girl with psychological trauma, right?"

"……solved?"

“Perfect solution.”

"……Um."

Duan Shuiliu and Lin Qin were silent for a while before looking out the window.

The moon outside the window was exceptionally bright.

"Shall we go get something to eat?" Mu Yu scratched his head, walked over to the two of them, and asked Lin Qing and Duan Shuiliu.

"it is good."

"How about hot pot?"

“箘耀二澪(三)尔令旗師坝你用公筷”

"Oh...you're too kind."

"Before you eat, go take a shower and wash away the bad luck."

"Of course, definitely."

The three of them walked to the prison gate, chatting amongst themselves. Mu Yu stopped, thought for a moment, and looked at Duan Shuiliu.

"By the way, Admiral Duan."

"Ok?"

"Speaking of which, haven't you always been quite mild-mannered? Why are you proposing such a radical plan to me this time?"

"..."

Duan Shuiliu stopped in his tracks.

She gazed quietly ahead, her hands tucked into her sleeves, her eyes calm.

"because……"

Duan Shuiliu opened his mouth, turned his head to look at the moon outside the window, and murmured softly.

"She said... she didn't want to be involved anymore."

"Oh haha."