Elder brother's garrison

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The large-scale migration of deep-sea creatures naturally leads to the formation of deep-sea fog.

The emerging deep-sea fog obscured the course of the ship.

Under the cover of the fog, hundreds of shipping routes appeared on the sea. These routes seemed wide and straight, with a bright future, but in reality, they led to one dead end after another. These were all deceptive routes that hid dangers and could lead the ship girls into a place of no return.

Compared to the previous pristine sea area, the 8-2 sea area now resembles a meticulously crafted, massive maze specifically designed to trap and kill ship girl fleets—it's terrifying beyond measure.

The changes in the ocean pose no threat to the Dean of the Deep Sea.

After all, the deep sea is the home of the Deep Sea Deans. The deep-sea creatures here will not attack the Deep Sea Deans unless they want to. When they move around here, the Deep Sea Deans are just like strolling in their own backyard.

But for ship girls, it's a completely different story.

Deep Sea Yamato is well aware that the 8-2 area, without exaggeration, has now completely transformed from a peaceful and abundant treasure map into a dangerous burial ground for anyone outside of Deep Sea Dean.

There are no supplies here, no respite.

There was only endless, continuous battles and attrition, as well as one secret and malicious route after another, and one desperate deep-sea settlement after another.

If the ship girl fleet chooses the wrong route to challenge this place and inadvertently embarks on one of the false routes, what awaits them will be endless getting lost like a frog being slowly boiled in water, as well as repeated deep-sea ambushes... Under such harsh conditions, let alone safely reaching the destination, even if the ship girl fleet realizes something is wrong halfway through the battle and wants to back out along the original route, the overwhelming deep-sea fog and the exponentially increasing number of trap routes will definitely not make their departure a simple matter.

Thinking of this, Yamato Shinkai suddenly felt a cold sweat run down his spine.

When Yamato looked at Shinano again, his feelings were complicated when he met her innocent yet focused and aloof expression.

Good guy.

A bloodless victory...

Previously, Yamato thought Shinano was just a freeloader in the newbie naval base, but after Shiro's explanation, Yamato realized that his new little sister was clearly a living, breathing deep-sea killing machine...

Although Shinano Akami's combat strength is average and she usually seems harmless, she is fully capable of challenging an entire eighth chapter of ship girls with her abilities.

She may be one of the most threatening deep-sea deans to humanity in the last few centuries.

What's even more terrifying is that the Shinano Deep Sea can change the layout of the ocean at any time.

Even if a fleet of ship girls were to spend a huge amount of money to figure out a new route and prepare to sail straight into the deep sea to challenge Shinano, Shinano could simply flip his hand and overturn the previous sea layout, rebuilding a sea that was completely different from the previous one, but equally deadly.

Based on this alone, Shinano the Deep Sea is already a terrifying Deep Sea Dean that is almost impossible for humans to defeat.

This terrifying Deep Sea Dean was thankfully tamed by Xiaobai...

Yamato was on tenterhooks.

If we let her frolic freely on the sea, the human camp will likely suffer another heavy blow...

Yamato sighed.

But soon, Yamato Fukami frowned again and scratched her head.

Ok?

Wait a moment.

Was I just... worried about the human faction?

Thinking of this, Deep Sea Daisuke suddenly realized something and quickly patted her cheeks.

Yamato, Yamato, what are you thinking!

I'm not human, why should I worry about the human camp...

Yamato Fukami shook her head, trying to shake away the strange thoughts in her head. Then she stepped forward and patted Shinano Fukami on the shoulder.

"Shinano, you did a great job! You did a great job!" Yamato gave Shinano a thumbs up, shook her, and praised her loudly, "I didn't expect you to be so amazing, my opinion of you has changed!"

The deep-sea Shinano was shaken by the deep-sea Yamato.

In the swaying China, Shinano's eyes widened slightly, and a sense of pride in being recognized seemed to well up in her pupils.

Shinano Fukushima extends its palm and gives a thumbs-up.

"Well, Yamato-neechan, you should be relieved now, right?" Shiro said with a smile. "Although Shinano Fukami isn't the strongest Deep Sea Director, she's definitely the most capable one for this job."

“Hmm…that’s true…” Upon hearing this, Abyssal Yamato stopped what she was doing, looked at Shiro, and nodded quickly. “With this ability, there really isn’t any way for the ship girls to threaten her.”

"Then we'll leave tomorrow's tasks to Shinano Abyss." Xiaobai said to Shinano Abyss and Yamato Abyss, "After the sea changes, the Admiral's Guild should be aware of the existence of the Dean of the Deep Sea as soon as possible. At that time, the Admiral's Guild will issue bounty missions for the Dean of the Deep Sea. As long as we complete the bounty missions, we won't need to go out to farm challenge tickets for a long time."

“I see…” Yamato thought for a moment, then asked Shiro with concern, “But… Shiro…”

"Ok?"

"Isn't what we're doing a scam?" Abyss Yamato looked around, as if he were being extra careful that someone might be eavesdropping on them at this moment. "Isn't it a bit unethical for us to cry wolf, deceive the Admiral's Guild, and farm the Admiral's Guild's challenge tickets like this?"

"Ah... how could that be?" Xiaobai drawled, blinking her eyes and clasping her hands together. "Yamato-neechan, I feel fine."

"How is this any good?" Yamato Akagi retorted.

"Hmm... Yamato-neechan, look, the Admiral's Guild's bounty missions are an existing mechanism, right?" Shiro shrugged. "I didn't force the Admiral's Guild to create these bounty missions, did I?"

"Yes."

"Are the Admiral's Guild's bounty targets the deep-sea creatures from Chapter Eight?"

"yes……"

"Logically speaking, as long as it's a high-quality deep-sea creature, it can be exchanged for challenge tickets by the Admiral's Guild, right?"

"correct."

"Is Shinano, the deep-sea creature, also a deep-sea creature?"

"That's for sure."

Was she born in Chapter Eight?

"Uh...that seems to be true..."

"If I hadn't subdued Shinano Abyss back then, wouldn't the admirals here have suffered heavy losses?"

"Uh……"

"So, I've worked so hard to help everyone defeat the Deep Sea Dean in Chapter 8 and prevent everyone from suffering losses. I don't want any banners or bonuses. I just want the Admiral's Guild to give me a symbolic reward of a few challenge tickets. Is that alright?" Xiaobai smiled happily and said to Deep Sea Yamato, "There's no such thing as working for someone for free in this world. Everything I did was perfectly reasonable."

"...Hiss...Eh?"

Yamato was confused. She looked at Shiro, who was smiling at her with her hands clasped together, looking as cute as an angel. Yamato scratched her head, feeling that something was not quite right, but she couldn't figure out what was wrong.

Yamato squatted on the surface of the water, and thought for a while with her hands behind her head.

In just a few seconds, Yamato reviewed his entire 500-year life from beginning to end.

Deep Sea Yamato suddenly had the illusion that his experience had greatly increased.

"Wait... let me sort this out... Shinano Akami is the Deep Sea Dean of Chapter 8, and the Admiral's Guild has a bounty on the Deep Sea creatures of Chapter 8... bounties can be exchanged for challenge tickets... hiss..." Yamato Akami thought for a long time, then suddenly felt her mind go blank. She looked at Shiro with a sudden realization, "Shiro, you... what you said seems... to make sense! We're upright and have nothing to fear, so why not take these free challenge tickets!"

"That's right!" Shiro laughed as she pulled Yamato from the surface of the water. "Yamato-neechan, that's exactly what I meant!"

Deep Sea Yamato had a sudden realization. After getting up, she clenched her fists in front of Shiro.

"Xiao Bai, you can rest assured about this. I'll stay here with Shinonome today! I'll make sure everything goes perfectly smoothly for your challenge tickets!"

"You want to help too, Yamato-neechan?" Shiro asked in surprise.

“After all, I’m a little worried about Shinano being here all by herself…” Yamato scratched his cheek and gave a wry smile. “Since we’re already here, I might as well lend a hand…”

"Thank you, Yamato-neechan!" Shiro whispered, throwing herself into Yamato's arms.

The waves of Chapter 3207 surged all night.

Time comes the next day.

The night faded and the sun rose.

The thick black fog on the sea surface coiled like snakes, climbing up the sky and obscuring the sun. The sky in Chapter Eight remained gloomy and oppressive.

One by one, the early-rising admirals led their respective fleets of ship girls to the beach in the 8-2 sea area in the cold morning wind.

"Hmm...? Don't you guys feel like something's different about the sea area today?"

On the beach, the ship girls who had arrived were preparing their ship equipment. A petite battleship ship girl looked at the sea shrouded in black mist in front of her. Suddenly, she frowned and looked at her companions around her with a puzzled expression.

"Huh? Is there any?"

The surrounding ship girl companions were drawn to the battleship girl's words, and they all stopped what they were doing and looked curiously into the sea.

I stared at the sea for quite a while.

The ship girls present blinked, looking at the battleship girl with blank expressions.

"No? Isn't this the same as yesterday?"

"What do you find different?"

The ship girls asked questions.

The battleship girl scratched the back of her head, looking at the water in front of her with a puzzled expression. She grinned and looked at the water in front of her, her eyes filled with doubt, suspicion, and uncertainty.

"Hmm... If you ask me to say it, I can't say it right now... But don't you guys think the sea is unusually eerie today?"

"The deep sea is not always pitch black."

"Uh."

"I think you've been on too many expeditions lately, you've got a nervous breakdown!" The ship girl companions beside her immediately teased, saying to the battleship girl, "After today's expedition, how about you ask the admiral for a few days off to relax?"

"I, I didn't mean that—" Upon hearing this, the battleship girl gave a helpless smile. She waved to her companions and continued to say with a smile, "Alright, alright, I was probably being too suspicious. Looking closely, this sea area is no different from yesterday. Just pretend I didn't say anything."

"It's good to be careful. Our naval base has climbed to where it is today through hard work and caution, hasn't it?" the ship girls said with a smile. "If you're really worried, just tell the admiral."

“Yes, that’s right.” The battleship girl nodded, then looked back at a young admiral not far away who was engrossed in studying the daily expedition rewards on his phone. In the end, she shook her head helplessly. “But… never mind… there are so many people here, what could possibly happen in the Chapter Sea?”

The ship girls, upon hearing this, agreed that there was some truth to it. They nodded and continued preparing their ship equipment.

A few minutes later, the admiral, who was studying the challenge tickets, finally turned off his phone. He finished his daily mission, returned to the ship girls, and carefully explained the tasks that needed to be completed that day to them.

The daily missions mentioned by the admiral weren't anything particularly novel; the ship girls present had already completed them seven or eight times.

By now, practice makes perfect. After memorizing the mission details, the ship girls confidently declared to the admiral that they would be back in a few hours. Then, after their ship equipment was fully prepared, the ship girls assembled in formation and, under the admiral's watchful eye, stepped onto the sea like dumplings being dropped into boiling water.

On the sea, the waves surge and shift.

The ship girls stood firmly in the middle of the waves, waving their arms towards the beach.

"Admiral, let's set off!"

After speaking, the ship girls turned and sailed into the sea. With a few waves crashing against them, their figures disappeared into the black mist and vanished without a trace.

On the beach, groups of ship girls like these set off one after another.

……

Boom boom boom!

On the black, fog-shrouded waves, the sounds of naval gunfire rose and fell, echoing across the entire ocean.

After several battles at sea, the ship girls began to venture deeper into the 8-2 sea area.

"Hmm... We're about four-fifths of the way to completing today's daily mission." The flagship ship girl checked the rewards from the recent battle and asked her companions for their opinions. "Let's do the same as before and go to that deep-sea cluster we usually farm today."

"Agreed!" The ship girls nodded with smiles.

The deep-sea clusters mentioned by the ship girls refer to the areas they have been frequently "visiting" recently. Although the area is remote, it is rich in deep-sea atmosphere and produces a variety of deep-sea creatures. These creatures are relatively weaker than those in other deep-sea clusters, making it a great place to farm materials and complete missions.

Thanks to this "monster spawn point," the naval base where the ship girls are located can always generate more challenge tickets every day, thus improving the naval base's ranking significantly.

After briefly checking their own status and confirming their resource reserves and equipment integrity, the ship girls headed towards the deep-sea cluster they remembered.

Black fog swirls over the sea.

Soon, as the ship girls set off, the waters around them were shrouded in black mist.

"Huh? Why does the sea route seem a little different from what's on the sea map?" Some of the ship girls, with their keen senses, noticed the changes around them and asked curiously.

"Could it be that this issue's deep-sea map is about to expire?" The ship girl in charge of collecting maps took out the sea map and looked at it for a few moments. She said strangely, "Hmm... That's strange. Logically speaking, the sea map should be usable for at least a few months. Even if it's the initial development period and the layout on the sea surface is relatively short-lived, it should still be usable for at least a month. It's only been a little over a week, so how come the sea routes have changed?"

Among the fleet, a petite battleship girl heard this and a hint of worry flashed across her brow as she looked around.

"Ah! Found it! So the route has turned this way." Suddenly, the ship girl holding the map exclaimed in surprise. She pointed in a direction and said to everyone, "Although the route has changed, the general direction is still there. We should be able to get to our usual monster-farming spot if we go from here."

The ship girls looked in the direction of the sound and saw a wide and concealed route vaguely visible in the direction of the black mist.

Upon seeing this flight path, the ship girls breathed a sigh of relief.

"Oh, so that's where it was hidden!"

"I knew it. Even if the layout of the sea area is changed slightly, it can't be changed too much."