Elder brother's garrison

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"It seems like I'm the only one left now..."

"Admiral Lu Lin, speaking of which, when are you planning to challenge the salvage of ship girls?" Admiral Hao Ding asked curiously.

"As for me...maybe...about half a month later." Xiaobai's eyes darted away.

"Hmm, as expected of Admiral Lu Lin, even with her great strength, she still walks with a steady pace." Admiral Hao Ding looked at Xiao Bai approvingly.

"Haha..." Xiaobai scratched her head and laughed. After thinking for a while, she also spoke to everyone, "Oh, right... um... I have something to tell you."

"Admiral Lu Lin, please speak."

"Starting tomorrow, I will temporarily not accompany you on your expedition."

"Oh? Admiral Lu Lin, what is the reason for this?"

"I need to prepare for the challenge of salvaging ship girls... I don't have much time to prepare if I go on an expedition, so let me stay by myself for half a month first." Xiaobai smiled at everyone.

It's been such a long time.

Xiao Bai is finally going to start preparing for the restoration of the ship's equipment.

Chapter 3003 Photos of Missouri

Since Nia and Luo Lian left the garrison, Xiao Bai has been feeling a little lonely taking a bath alone, and has actually been harboring a subtle resistance in his heart.

But... no matter how much you resist, you still have to take a bath.

In order to restore the ship's equipment as soon as possible, defeat Montana who was wandering on the sea, and bring him into the newbie naval base, Xiaobai had no choice but to put the restoration of the ship's equipment on the agenda.

on the beach.

After hearing what Xiaobai just said, the top ten admirals looked at each other.

"Hmm... I see!" Admiral Haoding gave Xiaobai a hearty smile. "Admiral Lu Lin, I wish you a speedy completion of your preparations and success in your challenge to salvage the ship girl!"

"If you need any help, just call me anytime," Duan Shuiliu said, bowing her head and gently patting Xiaobai's shoulder.

"Yes! Thank you, Sister Duan, and thank you, Admiral Haoding." Xiaobai smiled at the two admirals.

"Wait, wait, wait—" Admiral Lian hurriedly pushed his hand away and asked everyone, "Since our little cutie is going to stay home to prepare for this period of time, what about our 8-4 raid?"

"Sister Lian, you don't need to mind me. Go ahead and start clearing the wilderness if you want," Xiao Bai said with a smile. "Anyway, even if I'm with you, I'll just be watching you fight... It wouldn't make any difference if I weren't there."

"You can't say that, there's a big difference." Admiral Lian shook her head, frowned, thought seriously for a while, and muttered, "Hmm... It's not easy for the top ten admirals to get together, and of course everyone should be happy together when it comes to pioneering and such. What's the point of me sneaking off alone..."

“I can wait for Admiral Lu Lin!” Admiral Haoding nodded and said.

"Eh? I can't accept this..." Xiao Bai immediately felt embarrassed upon hearing Admiral Hao Ding's words. "Didn't you guys say before that there were very important things to do after the land reclamation was over..."

“That was then, and now is now!” Admiral Lian interjected.

"Who knew salvaging ship girls could be so interesting... I can't take my eyes off it either." Admiral Ling nodded in agreement.

"The world is full of troubles! Hahaha! Although most of them are urgent, we can actually put them aside if we're a little more accommodating! The strength of the salvaged ship girl this time is beyond expectations, and I'm really looking forward to seeing where she ends up!" Admiral Haoding said, hands on his hips, laughing heartily. "What kind of fate awaits a ship girl as strong as this salvaged one? How intense will the final battle be? How many brilliant challengers have shone and sweated on this beach during this time! All of this makes me incredibly excited! I'm so thrilled!"

"Me too! I was defeated by a salvaged ship girl in front of so many people, and then I had to slink back to clear 8-4 like that? I'm not having it!" Admiral Lian raised her hand again and said, "At least I have to see her being salvaged with my own eyes! Only then will I feel at peace!"

"Just consider it a two-week rest," Duan Shuiliu said to everyone.

"Mm." Nanxing nodded.

"Now that you mention it, I haven't had a break in a long time either." Admiral Lian thought for a moment, then smiled and said to everyone, "Ah... well, let's take advantage of this time and give ourselves a break. Let's go shopping sometime tomorrow. I remember there's a really high-end movie theater in the Ship Girl Entertainment City in the center of Chapter City. They even came to my naval base to advertise a while ago and gave me a bundle of discounted movie tickets, and the popcorn and cola were free too. I saw in the ad that they said there's a really popular and good movie that's been released recently, what's it called again, Earth?"

"The Wandering Earth".

"Oh right, that's it!" Admiral Lian raised her hand and said with a smile, "It's been so many years since we last saw a movie, I'll treat everyone to a movie tomorrow! And then Admiral Haoding will treat us to dinner!"

"Damn, why are you still thinking about Admiral Haoding's dinner party?"

"Hmph, this is a chance to get the Admiral of Haoding for free, how could I let it go!"

"Hahahaha! Since it's Admiral Lian's suggestion, I have no choice but to agree!" Admiral Haoding laughed.

"Is it really okay to have such a fancy team-building event when Admiral Lu Lin isn't around? —"

"It's okay, after the little cutie finishes the ship girl salvage challenge, I can treat the little cutie to a movie by herself! Hehe... After the movie, I can also treat the little cutie to a hotel, have dinner together and watch goldfish..." Admiral Lian said, her face turning into the smirking expression of Crayon Shin-chan, looking in the direction of Shiro, drooling.

"You've got abacus beads flying right into my face."

Duan Shuiliu raised his palm, transforming it into a hand chop, and struck the head of Admiral Lian, who was indulging in wild fantasies.

Looking at the top ten admirals, watching them chat enthusiastically about their holiday activities, Xiaobai breathed a sigh of relief.

Little White smiled sweetly.

These older brothers and sisters of the top ten admirals... they really are a group of kind and gentle people.

……

Xiao Bai bid farewell to the top ten admirals and returned to the temporary garrison.

After making arrangements with the temporary naval base and entrusting her schedule to several reliable ship girl companions, Shiro finally returned to the familiar ship girl bathhouse, crawled into the repair pool, and began to enjoy her daily routine of ship equipment restoration.

unconsciously.

Several days passed.

Compared to the hustle and bustle outside, the environment inside the ship girl bathhouse is exceptionally quiet and peaceful.

In the huge restoration pool, Xiaobai floated on the surface of the water in a starfish shape, staring blankly at the ceiling covered with water droplets.

Xiao Bai's long hair floated freely in the repair solution, like a spider web, flailing wildly.

"Admiral, immersing your beautiful hair in boiling water is a very damaging thing to your hair."

A cheerful voice rang out from beside the repair pool.

Upon hearing the sound in the repair pool, Xiaobai blinked and quickly turned around, swimming to the edge of the pool while stepping on the bottom.

wow-

Little White poked its head out and looked toward the edge of the repair pool.

Missouri, holding a fruit platter, was squatting on the edge of the repair pool with a smile on her face, looking at Little White.

"Missouri...you're here."

"Yes, Admiral, this is a freshly cut fruit platter. The fruit was just picked from the market this morning. Please have a taste." Missouri placed the fruit platter on the edge of the repair pool, gently picked up a toothpick, forked a piece of snow-white apple, and bent down to offer it to Little White.

Little White gripped the repair pool with both hands, opened its mouth, and caught the fruit pulp that Missouri offered.

"Admiral, how are you feeling?"

"Mmm..." Little White chewed on the apple, blinked, and nodded. "...Delicious, thank you Missouri."

Missouri smiled slightly at Xiaobai, then used a toothpick to pick up the next piece of fruit, pushed the whole plate towards Xiaobai, and stood up.

"Admiral, Missouri will head back now."

"Hmm... glug glug..." Little White looked at Missouri with reluctance, its mouth submerged in the water and it started blowing bubbles.

"Admiral?"

"Missouri, why don't you come down and keep me company..."

“Admiral, all the senior members of the temporary naval base know you're taking a bath. If Missouri, as your married ship, were to accompany you at this time…” Missouri smiled at Xiaobai's words, then slowly squatted down and came to the edge of the repair pool, saying to Xiaobai, “If it's the Admiral's insistence, Missouri doesn't mind what the other senior members think… but for you, Admiral… if the senior members of Admiral Nia's family speculate about what happened in the bath… then when you come out, your reputation will be…”

chi chi chi...

Xiao Bai blushed deeply after Missouri's two sentences, and steam rose from his forehead.

Little White buried its head in the water, and bubbles started to rise.

Missouri looked at the bubbles on the water's surface and smiled.

"Admiral, Missouri will take her leave now. If you need anything else, please feel free to call Missouri anytime." Missouri smiled and took out a cell phone, wrapped it in a dry white towel, and gently placed it next to the fruit plate. "This is your cell phone, Admiral. I've already charged it for you, and I've left it here."

After saying these words, Missouri stood up, bowed slightly to the bubbling water, and slowly left.

After Missouri left, the bath returned to calm.

Little White slowly emerged from the water, her gaze shyly fixed on the direction Missouri had gone. She then swam to the edge of the bath, reached out and picked up a few pieces of apple cut into little white rabbit shapes from the fruit plate, and began to chew them.

"Well……"

"Repairing ship equipment is such a tough time..."

Xiao Bai sighed, reached into the bath towel, grabbed her phone, and held it in her palm.

Xiaobai never used to get bored while taking a bath because she always had someone with her.

Now, Xiaobai can only soak in the repair pool by herself. In order to let her concentrate on repairing, the ship girls are very sensible and do not run into the repair pool to disturb her. It's okay for a day or two to have a peaceful day, but if it's three days, four days, or even seven days or half a month... it would be too torturous.

If she stayed any longer, Xiaobai felt like she could become a nun.

"How long did I stay in the repair pool again...?"

"Hmm... I've been staying in the repair pool even at night these past few days, so I haven't been able to see the view outside the bath. I don't even know how much time has passed."

"I charged the phone six times in Missouri... based on the battery life of smartphones."

"It should be... three days, or four days?"

Xiao Bai muttered to himself, turned on his phone screen, and glanced at it.

The phone screen lights up.

The first thing that appeared on the screen was a photo of Missouri wearing only a thin white shirt and black stockings, sitting in a chair with her legs crossed, taking a selfie in front of the mirror with one hand covering her face with her phone, and the other hand making a kissing gesture towards the camera.

Xiao Bai panicked, his hand trembled, and he almost dropped his phone into the repair pool.

Chapter 3004 The First Eleven Families

"oops!"

Little White slipped out of my hand in a flash.

Xiao Bai quickly pulled his hand back to catch it. The phone bounced around in Xiao Bai's hand like a bouncy ball, and finally, just a second before it fell into the water, Xiao Bai caught it.

Xiao Bai held her phone, her heart pounding wildly.

"That was close...that was close...I almost fell in...phew..."

"Missouri is really something..."

"Why did they suddenly change my phone screen to this...?"

"This prank was terrifying..."

"And that photo... um..."

Xiao Bai took a while to catch his breath and calm himself down.

Xiao Bai looked down and glanced at his phone screen.

Xiao Bai blushed, closed her eyes, and quickly covered her phone with her chest.

After a while,

Xiao Bai, feeling guilty, secretly flipped through his phone and glanced at it again to confirm.

Xiao Bai blushed again and closed her eyes.

Xiao Bai recalled that when Missouri came to find him with a fruit platter, her long, shapely legs were covered by black stockings under her black pencil skirt, and she was wearing a conservative white shirt. Overall, she looked like a dignified, elegant, capable, and reliable female office boss.

The style of shirts in Missouri that Xiaobai remembers is exactly the same as the one in this photo.

Xiao Bai held his phone, head down, carefully examining the photo of Missouri, not missing a single pixel detail.

This photo seems to have been taken before I came to see myself.

They're wearing the same clothes, yet the photos capture two completely different vibes?

As expected of Missouri.

It seems Missouri knew she had been too lonely in the bathhouse these past few days, so she came up with a little something extra to add some fun to her life.

Xiaobai was moved.

But this phone screen is just too embarrassing. I can save the photo, but I'd better switch the phone screen back to normal...

Thinking of this, Xiaobai's face flushed red.

It seems I'm still far from achieving the detached state of mind of a nun, unmoved by external gains or losses.

This photo is quite stimulating for today's newbies, like a rare spice in a dull life, like a scene in a black and white film suddenly becoming magnificent. Although this kind of photo can't be shown to parents, it certainly can't be used as a phone screen forever and will have to be changed sooner or later, but it's not bad to hang it up like this and look at it for a while...

Xiao Bai blushed, looked at her phone, convinced herself, and nodded.