Elder brother's garrison

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"Well... most of them aren't..." Xiaobai smiled, put down her coffee cup, and just as she closed the document in her hand, she prepared to open the next one. "These documents are mostly about financial transactions and information logins, there's really nothing worth looking at... but... eh?"

Xiao Bai answered, but his gaze faltered slightly when he looked at the next document.

Missouri listened to Xiaobai's words, and saw Xiaobai suddenly close her mouth, her gaze also turning to the computer screen.

On the computer screen, the next document was titled "Basic Information on the Sea Area in Chapter Eight, Analysis and Processing of Deep-Sea Aura Concentration in the Surrounding Area, and Special Circumstances Report from the Field Investigation - Deep-Sea Area No. 1 Expedition Team, Researcher Luobei".

Luobei...

Oh……

Xiao Bai murmured the author's name at the end of the document, somewhat realizing what was happening.

This name looks very familiar.

Xiao Bai clearly remembered that when he had just finished exploring Chapter 8, the governor and his men came to pick him up. This female researcher named Luo Bei was one of them. He had even gone out to explore the sea with them, especially leading them to explore the deep-sea city where Frederick the Great and his people had lived.

As for what happened next...

Xiao Bai was unaware of what happened to the expedition team afterward, because after she went to sea with the team once, Mu Yu arranged for her to take a long vacation in a human city, where she also became an idol manager and resolved the phenomenon of "deep-sea worship" in human society.

When Xiaobai returned to Chapter 8, the area had been transformed into the magnificent and vast city it is today, and the expedition team had long since left.

Xiao Bai never heard anything more about the expedition team from Mu Yu and Lin Qin.

Of course, Xiaobai wasn't surprised by this situation. After all, the expedition team couldn't stay here forever after completing their mission. Xiaobai just considered it a chance encounter between him and the expedition team.

Seeing the familiar name again, Xiaobai felt a pang of emotion.

"I didn't expect to find Ms. Luo Bei's documents here. It seems that searching for these early documents was actually quite worthwhile after all..."

Xiao Bai thought for a moment, then reached out and opened Ms. Luo Bei's file.

Ding!

However, to Xiaobai's surprise, when she clicked on the report for this sea area in Luobei, a large exclamation mark popped up on her computer screen.

You do not have sufficient browsing permissions!

Xiao Bai opened his mouth, looking at the pop-up window in front of him with a bit of confusion.

"Huh? I'm the student council president??"

Xiao Bai was shocked and confused.

Xiao Bai took another look at his account.

That's right, this is the Admiral's Guild Leader's personal account...

Logically speaking, no account should have more privileges than this, right?

As the guild leader, how come I can't access all the files in my own guild?

Is this a bug?

Xiaobai tried again, and sure enough, the pop-up window continued to remind Xiaobai that he did not have enough viewing permissions.

Xiao Bai frowned helplessly.

If they don't want us to see it, why is this document left here...?

And what kind of document is this that even the chairman won't let us see...?

Xiaobai stared at the account area for a while, then, almost unconsciously, logged out of her guild leader account and logged into her admiral account.

Surprisingly.

Even though it's an admiral's account, I can still browse the guild's archive.

Xiao Bai didn't think much of it; he simply found the sea area file for Luobei and clicked on it tentatively.

A dialog box suddenly popped up on the computer screen.

Do you want to open this file?

Ironically, this pop-up window is different from the last one.

Chapter 3508 Deep-Sea City

"This document is really strange... The Admiral Guild Master's account doesn't have permission to view it, but I can view it after switching to my Admiral account."

Instead of immediately clicking on the pop-up window, Xiaobai started complaining to Missouri, who was sitting next to him.

"Let me see." Missouri gently brushed a strand of hair behind her ear, leaned close to Xiaobai's body, glanced at the screen, and then smiled as she rushed towards Xiaobai, saying, "It seems that the world's number one admiral has more authority than the guild leader of the chapter guild. The admiral doesn't know himself well enough."

"Sigh, it seems so..."

Xiaobai gently clicked the mouse and then clicked the confirmation button on the pop-up window.

With the option to confirm viewing pressed, the document for Chapter Eight, the sea area report, was finally opened.

As the computer screen switched to a blank file page, the first page of the file had a large, bold title: "Basic information about the surrounding sea area in Chapter 8, analysis and processing of deep-sea aura concentration, and a report on the field investigation."

Xiaobai dragged the mouse down.

As the mouse is dragged down, a large amount of data reports appear in front of the novice.

Xiaobai rested her chin on her hand and quickly glanced through the reports. She found that the information in the reports was basically about the sea conditions in Chapter Eight when the expedition team first took over. This included not only the concentration of deep-sea aura in the surrounding waters and the distribution of several deep-sea gathering points, but also the types of deep-sea enemies in the area, their basic data, ship equipment strength, the value of surrounding aquatic products, land conditions, and rough sea maps, etc.

At the time, this data would have been invaluable information for the Admiral's Guild, which was planning to build large-scale coastal cities.

Xiao Bai believed that the city's construction plan in Chapter Eight must have been based heavily on the contents of the expedition team's report.

but……

Then again.

Xiao Bai looked at the report and couldn't help but feel a little confused.

Ultimately... these are all rather outdated materials.

Although some information in the report will not lose its accuracy over time, the cities in Chapter Eight have now been completed on the sea. Over the course of its operation, the Admiral's Guild has also re-explored and confirmed the situation around the sea by issuing various tasks or sending out special teams, thus obtaining a larger amount of more accurate information.

In other words, the expedition team's marine report should have little practical reference value by now.

So... why are these reports encrypted to this extent?

When Xiaobai was flipping through the document halfway through, he couldn't help but become curious.

However, just as Xiaobai continued to mechanically scroll down, turning the document report to the last few pages, her gaze suddenly drifted to a line of text.

"Investigation report on the mysterious city ruins in Chapter Eight..."

This line of text appears on the last few pages of the report, using the same font as before. At a glance, it looks like ordinary report content.

But the moment Xiaobai saw this line of text, she suddenly stopped using the mouse and began to read the rest of the text carefully.

City ruins...

This likely refers to the deep-sea city where Frederick the Great and the other deep-sea deans from Chapter 8 once lived.

It's also interesting to say.

Xiaobai has been in Chapter 8 for so long, and she has never heard the admiral here talk about the ruins of this city. The admiral's guild has absolutely no quests or documents related to the ruins of this city.

Xiao Bai had always thought that it was probably because the expedition team had already completed the investigation of the city ruins long ago, and that the area had most likely become a tourist attraction similar to a historical site, with no further scientific research value, which was why it was no longer mentioned.

Thinking this, Xiao Bai scanned the report in front of him line by line.

The report was written by researcher Luo Bei, the tall and lovely young lady who went out to sea with Xiao Bai on the boat. From Luo Bei's perspective, Xiao Bai even saw his own name.

"To ensure the safety of the expedition team and to provide proper guidance, Admiral Lu Lin, the pioneer of Chapter Eight, suggested that we set off from the shore and sail into the water. Along the way, she took great care of the newly arrived expedition team."

Xiao Bai nodded and continued looking down.

"With the help of Admiral Lu Lin, the expedition team successfully reached the target waters, where we saw a heartbreaking urban ruin."

"Judging from the architectural style and building materials, this urban ruin is not a work of modern humans. We also discovered within the city..."

"The area of ​​this city is..."

"Judging from the extent of the damage, the city was once occupied by deep-sea creatures. These creatures are aggressive, so most of the buildings in the city were severely damaged, especially the central area, which resembles a command tower. It seems that a major battle took place here not long ago..."

"Internal strife among deep-sea creatures seems to be a daily occurrence."

"...After the first day of the expedition, the team collected some scattered building stones and returned to their base."

"The next day, Admiral Lu Lin, who was to act as our guide, had to leave us due to job assignments, and the task of investigating the mysterious city fell entirely on the expedition team."

"Although the departure of Admiral Lu Lin is regrettable, the members of the expedition team remain full of confidence. We firmly believe that this mysterious urban ruin will greatly help us understand human civilization before the end of time, even though it is more than 90% destroyed by fire."

"At 3 p.m. on the second day, after making basic preparations, the expedition team, escorted by the ship girls from the Admiral's Headquarters, sailed into the sea and headed towards the sea area from the previous day."

"..."

"However."

"When we arrived at our destination, we found that the city ruins had vanished into thin air."

"It vanished from the surface of the water as if it had never existed."

"..."

The document had scrolled to this point, and Xiaobai, who was resting her chin on her hand, paused for a moment. She slowly lowered her arm, frowned, and stared intently at the contents of the document.

...disappeared?

...The city where Frederick the Great and his consorts once lived has vanished?

what?

This information was something Xiaobai had never imagined before.

The deep-sea city is indeed not located on the surface of the water from the first to the fourth chapter. It is located at a deeper level than the fourth chapter, but that location is far away from the area rich in deep-sea energy and is more like ordinary sea area.

Indeed, Xiao Bai has never gone to read Chapter 8 since returning to it.

The reason she didn't go there was quite simple. First, she had already brought the deep sea where she originally lived back home. That place wasn't something that could evoke homesickness for Xiaobai. Xiaobai wasn't an archaeology major, so she wasn't very interested in ruins and the like. In Xiaobai's heart, that city had no value anymore, and she had no reason to go back. Besides, she was doing just fine as a human admiral in Chapter 8. Why would she keep running to the surface? It would be quite troublesome if she was unlucky enough to be seen by someone.

But... it disappeared.

Xiao Bai thought for a while.

The city vanished into thin air... This was completely unexpected for Xiaobai.

Xiaobai shifted her gaze back to the document on the screen and continued scrolling down to read.

The rest of the document mainly describes the expedition team's search for city ruins in the surrounding waters. They confirmed several times that the location they had reached was the place Xiaobai had taken them to. In order to find the city ruins again, the expedition team spent a full six months investigating the surrounding waters, but the investigation results were still useless.

The city ruins are like a dream.

After they saw it once, the city never appeared before anyone again.

All that was left for the expedition team was a dreamlike encounter and a few palm-sized pieces of architectural debris that they had taken from the city when they first arrived.

The report concludes with a sentence written by Luo Bei himself: "After six months of fruitless investigation, even though the team members wore complete safety equipment, they gradually began to experience mild symptoms of deep-sea aura infection due to prolonged contact with the aura. Considering the health of the team members, we have temporarily abandoned the investigation on the water. The whereabouts of the mysterious city ruins have come to a temporary end."

The report ended somewhat abruptly.

It's incoherent and doesn't have a beginning or an end.

Xiaobai stared at the blank space at the end of the report, then sat in her chair and pondered for a long time.

"Admiral, is the city mentioned in the report the one we visited before?" Missouri asked Xiaobai after finishing reading the report.

"Yes, that should be the case." Xiaobai nodded.

"The city is missing... Could it be because the aftershocks of the battle between the Admiral and Frederick the Great were too intense, causing the floating city to sink into the sea?" Missouri stroked his chin, thought for a while, and then asked Xiaobai.

"Um... well, it's best not to do that..." Upon hearing this, Xiaobai laughed awkwardly.

If that mysterious city ruin disappeared because of his battle with Frederick the Great... then Xiao Bai couldn't bear the pangs of conscience.

After all, even a novice could tell from Miss Luo Bei's report how high the scientific research value of that city ruins was...

Xiao Bai thought for a while, then slowly got up.

"Where is the Admiral going?" Missouri looked up at Little White and asked.

"I'm going to the sea." As if she had made up her mind, Xiaobai turned to Missouri and said, "Missouri, I'm going to the sea."

Chapter 3509 Covert Operation

Xiaobai finally understood.

It's probably because Miss Luo Bei's report contained information about the mysterious city and news of its disappearance that this document became a special document that even the guild leader of the Admiral's Guild didn't have the authority to view.

The reason this file, encrypted to such an extent, can still remain in the database is...