Elder brother's garrison

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"What kind of development targets?"

"It's about the wedding ship aspect."

"Huh?!" Xiaobai exclaimed in surprise, her mouth agape as she looked at President Er Gou. "Why, why are you suddenly asking this? I... I haven't known Project 24 for very long..."

"Just tell me whether you like this type or not."

“This…” Xiaobai stammered, unable to speak.

Everyone around, including Super Yamato, Nia, and the ship girls from Nia's family, stared at Xiaobai's face instinctively when they heard Xiaobai mention this place, all waiting for Xiaobai's next words.

The current situation is quite stressful.

Xiao Bai was now so frustrated that he was like a pot of boiling water, his whole body bubbling and steaming, and he couldn't say a word.

Montana watched this scene with a meaningful smile on his lips.

……

The news of Xiaobai's return to Chapter 8 quickly spread throughout the temporary garrison.

Rather, given the situation just now, with the golden flames filling the sky, it would be difficult for anyone in the entire temporary garrison to not notice Xiaobai's return.

A short while later, Luo Lian came looking for her from the training ground.

Upon seeing Nia and Xiaobai, Luo Lian jogged up, and the three greeted each other and chatted about what had happened recently.

In the middle of their conversation, Xiaobai took out his phone, connected to the Wi-Fi for Chapter 8, and checked Nia's world ranking.

Nia, who hasn't been out of action for three days, has seen her world ranking drop to over ninety.

From her ranking of over forty before participating in the special training, she dropped by about fifty places in total over the past three days.

Perhaps because of the truce charm in effect, Nia's drop was surprisingly small, which Xiaobai found acceptable.

After greeting Xiaobai and Nia, Luo Lian returned to the training ground to continue training her ship girls.

After seeing her current world ranking, Nia quickly told Xiaobai and then took the ship girls out, wanting to make up for her fallen ranking.

It's worth mentioning that before Nia left, Xiaobai specifically stopped her and told her not to take Veneto and the others to the exercise, and to let them rest for at least a day.

For the past three days, Veneto and the others have been subjected to a lot of torture by Shiro. Even though they are ship girls made of steel, their bodies and minds have reached a certain limit. After the training is over, what they need most is rest, not to go to work.

Veneto and her teammates don't need much rest, but whether or not they get rest is very important to them.

Nia thought Xiaobai's words made a lot of sense, so she first arranged for Veneto and her group to go back to their dormitories to rest or to take a bath in the repair pool to relax. Then she took another group of ship girls out.

—The Nia family's garrison has quite a large number of ship girls.

—Based on Nia's previous performance, even without deploying the core ship girls like Veneto, Nia could still achieve a high ranking in the world's top ninety-something category.

Chapter 3255 It's her again!

Xiaobai arrived at the gate of the temporary naval base and watched as Nia led another group of ship girls away from the temporary naval base.

Xiao Bai waved and watched Nia and her group's backs until they disappeared from sight.

"Nia is as hardworking as ever... She hasn't been back to the temporary naval base for several days, and she didn't even go back to her dormitory before running off to the exercise." Xiaobai muttered to himself as he entered the temporary naval base.

When Xiaobai returned to the dormitory building, she happened to run into Veneto and his family from Nia's family.

Yes, it's the same group of ship girls who just finished their beginner training.

Nia had previously arranged for them to return to their respective dormitories to rest and had also cleared out the ship girl repair pool for them to use. Now, after returning to their rooms and tidying up their belongings, they went out to soak in the repair pool to relax.

However, in Xiaobai's eyes, the group seemed to be in a somewhat swaying state of mind, with almost everyone sighing and looking rather insecure.

Judging from their appearance... it doesn't seem like they're going for a bath, but rather to drown themselves in the lake.

"Veneto." Xiaobai stopped and called out to the ship girls in front of her.

"Huh? Admiral Lu, Admiral Lu Lin?" The ship girls stopped when they heard Xiaobai's voice, holding their bathtubs and looking at her. "You, you're back... Has the Commander already left?"

"Yes, Nia has already gone out." Xiaobai smiled and nodded to the ship girls, her gaze sweeping over the bathtubs in their hands. "You're going to the repair pool, right?"

"Mmm, mmm..." The ship girls nodded subconsciously, behaving meekly.

"Relaxing more is a good thing," Xiaobai said with a smile. "With Nia's speed and the challenge tickets she's accumulated over this period, she'll probably be back in the top 50 in the world rankings by tomorrow. Then it'll be your turn to show your prowess."

"Show your might..." the ship girls murmured to Shiro, feeling uncertain in their hearts.

To put it dramatically, the special training these past few days has completely shattered the confidence of Veneto and the other ship girls.

If any other group of ship girls were to suffer such a lopsided beating, especially for three days and three nights, they would probably have their moral compass shattered and never make any further progress.

It was precisely because of Xiaobai's special identity, coupled with her already close relationship with Veneto and the others, which was comparable to a second life, that, thanks to this unique relationship, even though they had suffered so much beating from Xiaobai, their mentality did not change too drastically.

Even so... I really have no confidence.

Veneto and her group genuinely felt they had no way of defeating the ship girls they had encountered before.

"Go for it!" Xiaobai encouraged Veneto and his group.

"Admiral Lu...Admiral Lu Lin..." the ship girls called out pitifully to Xiaobai.

"Huh? What's wrong?"

"Do you really think we can..." The ship girls opened their mouths, stammering.

"?" Xiaobai stared at the ship girls.

The ship girls stared, mouths agape, feeling Shiro's innocent and sincere gaze, unable to utter a single, discouraging word.

So the ship girls had no choice but to change their tune.

"Admiral Lu Lin... would you... would you like to come with us to the repair pool for a soak?" the ship girls invited.

"Eh? Me?"

"Yes." The ship girls nodded.

"Well... if you don't mind, I can do it too..." Xiaobai said.

Seeing Xiaobai respond, the ship girls' dejected expressions brightened slightly.

……

This wasn't the first time Xiaobai had taken a bath with the ship girls from Nia's family.

Xiaobai had been spending more than a month intermittently in the repair pool. During the period when she was repairing her ship equipment, she often used the repair pool with the Nia family ship girls who came to repair their ship equipment, so she could be considered a familiar face.

Ship girls are aquatic creatures and love taking baths.

Xiaobai spent a long time in the repair pool with the ship girls from Nia's family. Everyone was talking about ordinary topics in the repair pool, and no one was tactless enough to change the topic to the exercise during this leisurely rest time.

In the afternoon, seeing that it was almost time, Xiaobai said goodbye to the ship girls in the repair pool and left the repair pool amidst their reluctant gazes.

Little White can't always be with Nia's ship girls.

Xiaobai also has her own ship girls.

So after leaving the repair pool, Xiaobai didn't go back to the dormitory immediately. Instead, she went to the dormitory in Missouri, chatted with her ship girls, and then went to the training ground to talk to the ship girls who were training with Luo Lian. She spent some free time there.

Soon, night falls.

Just after Xiaobai and Luolian finished their day's work and returned to their dormitory, a series of light footsteps echoed in the corridor outside the dormitory.

Nia returned under the stars and moon.

Upon hearing Nia's footsteps, Xiaobai and Luo Lian, who were chatting with Xiaobai in the dormitory, immediately opened the dormitory door. Xiaobai waved to Nia with a smile.

"Nia, you're back."

"Ah, Little White!" As soon as Nia saw Little White, her smile instantly brightened. She ran over, hugged Little White, bounced a few times, and said in a spoiled tone, "I'm back!"

"How did the second squadron of ship girls' exercise go?" Xiaobai asked with a smile, feeling Nia's soft and full body rubbing against him.

"Yeah, I've used up all the challenge tickets I saved up over the past few days!" Nia smiled and released Little White, saying to her, "My ranking is back in the top fifty in the world! If I go on another normal day of competition tomorrow, I'll be back in the top forty!"

As Nia finished speaking, her gaze shifted to Luo Lian, who was standing to the side.

Nia smiled, opened her arms, and gave Luo Lian a gentle hug.

"Take a rest," Luo Lian said to Nia.

“That’s exactly what I should be saying to you,” Nia pouted at Luo Lian. “You go to bed later than me and get up earlier than me.”

“But I usually just stay near the training ground, it’s not tiring. But you have to run around the entire training ground of Chapter Eight,” Luo Lian said to Nia.

"Well……"

Nia is probably one of the few people Luo Lian has cared about besides Xiao Bai in recent years.

Watching this scene, Xiaobai felt a pang of emotion.

However, just as the three were enjoying a pleasant moment, an untimely beeping sound broke the peaceful atmosphere.

The three of them looked down at Nia's waist.

"Ding! You have a new challenge message."

A notification sound immediately followed from Nia's waist.

This is the voice from the Admiral app.

Nia paused for a moment, then instinctively reached into her waist pocket and pulled out her phone.

Nia opened her phone and tapped the screen gently.

then.

Under the watchful eyes of Xiaobai and Luolian, Nia's face suddenly paled, and she became very nervous.

"Nia, what's wrong?" Xiaobai asked.

"It's happening again...it's happening again." Nia gripped her phone tightly with a complicated expression. She thought for a moment, then looked at Xiaobai and Luo Lian. Finally, she sighed and turned the phone to show the two of them.

On Nia's phone screen was the interface of the Admiral app.

At this moment, a bright red notification appeared on the Admiral's app screen.

"You have been locked into the targeted challenge. Please bring your participating ship girl to Exercise Field 36 at 9:00 AM tomorrow. Have a pleasant exercise."

This is a prompt for an orienteering challenge.

Perhaps because the orienteering challenge started too late, the exercise, which was originally scheduled to take place within two hours, was moved to tomorrow morning.

Xiao Bai and Luo Lian looked at the details of the orienteering challenge.

The detailed information revealed that the admiral who launched this targeted challenge against Luo Lian was named Gu Ming.

"It's her again!" Xiaobai exclaimed.

"I remember this person... is he currently ranked seventh in the world?" Luo Lian asked Xiao Bai and Nia, stroking her chin.

"Yeah, this person really likes to rack up points. When Nia rose to the top 20 in the world recently, it was this person who kept targeting Nia and launching constant practice runs, causing Nia's score to drop again and again," Xiaobai said from the side.

“I thought I’d run into her later…” Nia said, holding her phone with mixed feelings. “I guess she saw that my ranking had risen back to the top 50 in the world, and I had more points to gain, so she launched another targeted challenge against me…”

"I see." Luo Lian stroked her chin and nodded. "In that case, it's actually a good thing."

“…Good news?” Nia looked at Luo Lian, somewhat confused.

“Isn’t she seventh in the world now? Defeating her would give us a lot of points, right?” Luo Lian said.

"Ah..." Nia suddenly realized.

As expected of Luo Lian, her perspective is completely different from Nia's and Xiao Bai's.

“If you want to get into the top ten, Gu Ming is the admiral you have to defeat. The fact that she challenged you sooner saves you some trouble,” Luo Lian said.

After listening to Luo Lian's words, Nia held her phone and remained silent.

Xiao Bai patted Nia on the shoulder from the side.

"Great!" Xiaobai gave a thumbs up and said with a smile, "Keep it up, Nia! Trust Veneto and the others!"

“I…I will!” Nia gripped her phone, took a deep breath, and nodded repeatedly, her eyes gleaming with confidence. “I believe in them!”

Luo Lian dragged Nia back to the house to rest.

……

The next morning, sunlight quickly streamed into the dormitory.

Xiaobai got up very early. She looked at the time on the clock, tidied her appearance in front of the mirror, and left the dormitory.

Outside the dormitory, Nia also came out of the dormitory at this time.