Elder brother's garrison

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Super-Dawa doesn't really like interacting with humans. She thought she could escape this dinner party by taking a break afterwards, but Shiro seems to really like inviting her to these kinds of events, which makes her a little helpless.

……

When Xiaobai and the other two returned to Nanxing's dormitory, sure enough, perhaps because they were a little late, several ship girls had already returned.

"Admiral! Admiral! You're back too!"

Jinan sat on the sofa in the living room, fiddling with the camera hanging around her neck and her two legs wrapped in white stockings. As soon as she saw Xiaobai and the other two return, she immediately waved her arms with a smile and excitedly called out to Xiaobai.

"Jinan, you're back so early!" Xiaobai walked into the living room, looked around, and said to Jinan, "Where is the others?"

"Hehe, I came back alone!"

"one person?"

"Yeah, yeah, the older sisters go shopping to buy clothes and see the sights, but I'm not interested in any of that." Jinan bit her tongue, holding the camera hanging around her neck, and snapped a picture of Xiaobai. "Admiral! Admiral! This is our newly bought camera, look! It's so clear, our photo!"

"Let me see……"

Xiao Bai stepped forward, but found that the camera did not seem to have a photo viewing function, which puzzled him.

"Huh? Can't we see the photos beforehand?"

"No, you can't look at this brand."

"What a strange camera..."

"It cost me 60,000 yuan," Jinan said, looking down and fiddling with his camera.

"Young Master Duo??" Xiao Bai was taken aback.

Chapter 3683 Finding a Way Out

Xiao Bai was taken aback by the amount Jinan casually mentioned.

She wasn't surprised by the fact that Jinan suddenly produced 60,000 yuan; she was just a little surprised that such an expensive camera didn't even have a basic function like previewing photos...

"Jinan, you haven't been scammed, have you?" Xiaobai asked Jinan hesitantly, looking at the small, square, black thing in Jinan's hand, her eyes filled with barely concealed suspicion.

"How could that be? Aren't cameras all sold for this price?"

"I have indeed heard news reports of very expensive consumer cameras selling for tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands or millions of yuan..." Xiaobai murmured, "But is yours one of those?"

“This camera must be the one!” Jinan raised his hands.

"Let me see?" Xiaobai reached out, tentatively asking.

"Comrade Admiral, here you go!" Jinan obediently took the camera off his neck and handed it to Xiaobai with both hands.

Xiao Bai held the camera and immediately felt its lightness.

Xiao Bai's heart skipped a beat; he immediately sensed that something was wrong.

This thing shouldn't be very light.

Xiao Bai then weighed the camera in his hand a couple of times. The camera had very few buttons. Although the casing and lens looked quite decent, giving off a sense of simplicity and authenticity, the moment he touched it, he could feel a strange plastic feel. It was as if if Xiao Bai were to lightly flick this thing on the ground, the camera wouldn't shatter into pieces and fly off, but would simply be dented flat.

Xiaobai weighed the camera in her hand. She didn't even bother to open it and take a closer look. After thinking for a while, she returned the camera to Jinan.

"Admiral? Why don't you give it a try?" Jinan asked curiously.

"No need to try anymore." Xiaobai forced a helpless smile.

A novice could preliminarily conclude that this camera is most likely a fake...

Perhaps there are indeed expensive cameras in the world that cannot display photos, and there are indeed expensive cameras with a simple and compact appearance, but at least Xiaobai can be sure that this is definitely not the one in Jinan's hands.

To be honest, Xiaobai doesn't know much about the camera industry, and she doesn't know what a high-priced camera should look like.

But Xiaobai has indeed touched quite a few high-tech machines in his life, such as the high-tech instruments in Yubari Laboratory, the priceless super construction machine, and the construction machine factory hidden underground by the Ella family, and so on... Having seen and touched so many of those things, Xiaobai can now vaguely judge whether a high-tech product has corresponding value just by feeling.

"Jinan, where did you buy this camera?" Xiaobai asked.

"Hmm...it was on the way back." Jinan grunted, seemingly understanding Xiaobai's meaning. She held the camera, placed it on her lap, and her mood immediately dropped. "Admiral, is this really a fake?"

"..."

Xiao Bai looked troubled.

But at this moment, Nanxing, who was behind Xiaobai, came out. She reached out and gently picked up the camera from Jinan's thigh, then held it up to her eyes and fiddled with it for a bit.

The camera was clicking away as Nanxing operated it.

Nanxing's camera handling skills are clearly much more professional than Xiaobai's.

"Sister Nanxing, have you studied photography?"

“I’ve played it before,” Nanxing replied, putting down her camera and handing it to Jinan.

"Admiral Nanxing, is this real or fake?" Jinan asked.

“It’s fake, a counterfeit made by an unlicensed manufacturer that imitates brand-name cameras,” Nanxing said.

"Aaaaaaah! It really is fake!!!" Jinan clutched her forehead, collapsing onto the beach, her two white-stockinged legs curling up in agony. "How could this be fake? Everyone around me said it was real! The shop owner even said he'd lose money selling it to me! And everyone around me said it was such a pity I bought it, they wanted to buy it too! Aaaaaaahh ...

When the words from Jinan reached Xiaobai's ears, Xiaobai and Nanxing exchanged a glance and immediately understood what was going on.

"Sister Nanxing, since you know about this, how much would this camera be worth if it were sold normally?" Xiaobai asked.

“I can’t see the specifications, but these kinds of cameras usually don’t sell for more than 500 yuan,” Nanxing replied.

As soon as Nanxing said that, Xiaobai immediately regretted asking.

Upon hearing this, Jinan, who was lying on the sofa, screamed even more miserably.

"Sixty thousand yuan, waaaaaah, my sixty thousand yuan!!!"

Jinan kicked its little legs, hugged its head, and crawled and twisted its tiny body on the sofa, just like a little moth fluttering around.

Xiao Bai stepped forward and quickly reached out to gently grasp Jinan's feet, which were kicking wildly in mid-air, stabilizing her body.

"Jinan, it's okay. You were just scammed. We'll go find the person who sold you." Xiaobai said, gently pressing his thumb on Jinan's sole and smiling at Jinan on the sofa.

Jinan's feet were clean, small, and slender, with white stockings covering her calves, which extended downwards. Through the white silk, a few delicate little toes could be seen on the soles of her feet, revealing her pinkish-white skin.

Xiao Bai gently pressed her hands down, pushing Jinan's legs back onto her body.

Jinan curled up her legs and hugged her knees. She lay on the sofa, looking pitifully at Xiaobai. Her bright eyes showed not only grievance but also anger.

"Admiral, sob sob, Admiral..."

"Okay, okay, it's alright, it's alright, get up first." Xiaobai comforted her with a smile, gently pulling Jinan up from the sofa.

Jinan rubbed his eyes and sat down on the sofa.

With Xiaobai's comfort, she was no longer as distraught as before. Xiaobai reached out and ruffled Jinan's hair, feeling the fluffy texture of her pink fox-ear hairstyle, and felt slightly relieved.

Ok……

On the bright side, Jinan's morale recovered quite quickly.

Thinking of this, Xiaobai turned around and exchanged glances with the two ship girls behind her.

First and foremost, one thing must be confirmed... Jinan certainly doesn't lack money.

Don't let Jinan's recent birth fool you; she's always bouncing around in the naval base, acting like an unemployed little girl on summer vacation. But she's now officially a new ship girl in the naval base, and she's officially employed.

As everyone knows, newbie naval bases lack everything except money.

The newbie naval base has always offered very generous salaries to all ship girls, which is clearly evident from the fact that even the newbie's own salary is among the lowest in the newbie naval base.

In particular, the Jinan is a guided-missile destroyer. Guided-missile destroyers are small-hulled main warships, but their emphasis is not on their size, but on their status as main warships. The Jinan's position on the battlefield is equal to that of main warships. Considering the presence of guided-missile equipment and its own powerful long-range positioning capabilities, its value is even greater. Therefore, its treatment is naturally equal to, or even better than, that of a group of main warships in the naval base.

In Jinan, spending tens of thousands of yuan to buy a desired toy is about the same as buying a pencil at a two-yuan store on the street.

Losing 60,000 yuan is not an irreparable loss for Jinan.

It could even be said that the 60,000 yuan in Jinan might not even be enough to buy the seasonal fashions that Missouri or Iowa are wearing today. Not to mention the haute couture gowns they wear to the party at the naval base, which can only be worn once and are priced at an astonishing amount.

—But that's how it's said.

—Although 60,000 yuan is not a particularly painful loss for Jinan, it is true that someone was scammed out of money.

The feeling of having one's trust trampled is more painful than the loss of money.

Who likes to be deceived?

Xiao Bai completely understands Jinan's feelings. When she was still a minor, she was tricked and lured out by that scoundrel Mu Yu and forced to become an admiral. She felt the same way then. Of course, Xiao Bai is quite happy to be an admiral now and doesn't regret it. But that doesn't mean that Xiao Bai, who was angry back then, doesn't hold a grudge.

One yard owned by a yard.

This kind of thing.

Therefore, Xiaobai must help Jinan get revenge; it is his responsibility as the admiral.

Chapter 3684 Testing

Xiao Bai exchanged glances with Nan Xing and Chao Dahe beside him.

Then Xiaobai looked towards Jinan.

"Jinan, tell me, where did you buy this camera from?" Xiaobai asked Jinan, stroking her hair.

"Um... I bought it on the way back." Jinan rubbed her eyes and said to Xiaobai with a pitiful expression, "Sisters Changchun and Anshan were going to go shopping for clothes with Sister Missouri and the others, but I don't like new clothes, so I came back. On the way back, I saw an electronics store having an exhibition, so I went to take a look..."

"Don't you like your new clothes?" Xiaobai asked suddenly upon hearing this.

"This outfit is fine with me!" Jinan said to Xiaobai. "I'm comfortable in this!"

"Hmm..." Xiaobai nodded and smiled at Jinan. "Go on, what happened next after you went into that shop?"

"Let me think..." Jinan hung his head and thought for a while, then said, "After entering the shop, I saw people looking at the products. The shop owner was talking about a lot of things, which were much more interesting than the fabric, so I went over to listen. Then the owner asked me if I wanted to buy anything, and I said I didn't know. The owner started introducing me to products—at first, he introduced me to products that cost a few hundred yuan, but after we talked for a while, suddenly someone came in and told the owner that he wanted to pick up a camera he had ordered..."

"Could this person be..." Xiaobai looked at Nanxing.

"Probably." Nanxing nodded.

"What is it?" Chao Dahe asked, looking completely bewildered.

"Tout." Xiaobai and Nanxing said to Chao Yamato in unison.

"A 'tuo'?" Jinan looked at Xiaobai, completely bewildered. "Comrade Admiral, what is a 'tuo'?"

“They’re with the scammers,” Xiaobai said, rubbing Jinan’s head to give her some reassurance. “Yeah, it’s okay, keep talking.”

Jinan's gaze flickered.

Then Jinan spoke to Xiaobai.

"Then, as soon as that person came in, the boss stopped talking to me. He left me hanging, then bent down and took out a huge box. He mysteriously slammed the box onto the table and told the person that this was a product he had gone to great lengths to obtain..." Jinan seemed a little excited as she recounted this, pointing her hands to her chest. "After the box was opened, there was a camera box inside. The boss took out the camera and talked about how good it was, how difficult it was to obtain, and how valuable it was. The person across from me was about to buy it when he heard the price, but his expression suddenly changed, and he said he didn't have enough money with him that day and would have to come back in a few weeks."

"In the end... did you buy it?" Xiaobai asked.

"Yeah." Jinan nodded, feeling wronged. "When the shop owner heard that the other side couldn't afford it, he immediately got angry and said that he had borrowed money to buy this camera. If no one bought it, his shop would go bankrupt. Then the shop owner gave the camera a 20% discount on the spot... The other people in the shop couldn't buy it because they couldn't come up with that much money right away. So when I saw that the situation was like this, and the camera seemed really good, I said I would buy it... They even thanked me when I left."

"Is that all?" Xiaobai asked.

"Yes," Jinan nodded.

"Hmm... okay, I understand." Xiaobai closed her eyes and nodded. "In Jinan, you were indeed scammed. The person who scammed you set up a trap, just waiting for you to fall into it..."

"Why, why did you lie to me..." Jinan looked puzzled.

"Well... it's probably just a simple scam where they wait for someone to take the bait. You just happened to be in their shoes." Xiaobai rubbed Jinan's head, looking into Jinan's bright eyes. "This scam is actually quite old. I've seen many similar examples in anti-fraud videos before..."

"Um... Admiral, am I really that stupid..." Upon hearing this, Jinan lowered his head even further.

"Not really, it's a scam... The person involved is often blinded by their own emotions. They're led step by step into the trap, and there's nothing they can do if they're slow to react." Xiaobai shook her head. "Jinan, you still don't know enough about human society. The people here aren't ship girls. Some of them may look kind on the outside, but they're actually up to no good. Just be careful next time."

"Then, Admiral, the camera..."

"Hmm... I have a dinner appointment with Aunt Limu and the others. I'm not sure of the exact time, but the last time I ate at their place was in the evening." Xiaobai glanced at the time, smiled, and stood up. "Well, we still have a few hours. Since we're free anyway, let's go check it out—do you remember where that restaurant is in Jinan?"

“I, I remember, I remember it very clearly!” Jinan immediately raised his hand.

"I remember." Xiaobai nodded, a smile on her face. "Let's go."

Upon hearing that Xiaobai was going to stand up for her and leave, Jinan immediately jumped off the sofa, hugged Xiaobai's waist, and her eyes instantly filled with tears.

"Admiral, sob sob, you're the best, Admiral!"

"My ship girl is being bullied, how can I, as the admiral, just sit idly by?" Xiaobai shook her head and gently patted Jinan on the back.

Xiaobai gently hugged Jinan's back, then turned to look at Nanxing.

“Sister Nanxing, if you don’t like going out, how about I go out with Jinan first…”

“I’ll go too,” Nanxing said.