Elder brother's garrison

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Xiao Bai pinched his chin and stared at the progress bar on the screen for a while, then looked up at the label at the top of the screen.

At the very top of these progress bars is a note that reads "Ship Equipment Integration Rate".

Upon seeing this, Xiaobai nodded slightly.

The reason why Anshan, Kiat, Chicago, and Garibaldi have a zero fusion rate is probably because they haven't entered the fusion period for ship equipment yet...

Thinking of this, Xiaobai suddenly became curious and turned her head to look at Yubari.

Yubari was currently frantically scanning through messages in front of a bunch of machines.

"Yubari," Shiro called out.

"Hmm? What's wrong, Admiral?" Yubari stopped what he was doing and asked Shiro.

"Why are the ship equipment upgrades of Guam and Alaska so far ahead of the other ship girls?" Xiaobai asked curiously.

“Uh…” Yubari thought for a moment, “Because they arrived the earliest…and their modifications were relatively simple and conventional modifications.”

"Ah...you brought up this routine modification again."

"Ahem, well, I'm all alone here, so it's unavoidable that I have to take care of some things at once." Yubari chuckled at Shiro. "But Admiral, trust me. I've done my best to handle the modifications of every ship girl, so you won't be disappointed."

"I'm quite reassured about that!" Shiro nodded to Yubari.

Yubari quickly checked the ship's equipment data, and as she had said, no unexpected situations occurred during the check.

Xiaobai left the nutrient tank room where the ship girls were with Yubari, feeling reassured.

"Admiral, what are your plans for the future?" As she was leaving, Yubari asked Shiro as if she had suddenly remembered something.

"Hmm? Me?" Xiaobai pointed to herself, thought for a moment and said, "Well... I don't have anything to do today... After leaving here, I'll probably go back to the Admiral's office to write a few ship girl biographies or something."

"Kantai Collection biographies?"

"Hmm... Yubari, you've been spending all your time in the lab lately, you probably don't know..."

"what do you know?"

"It's better that you don't know." Xiaobai stood on tiptoe and reached out to pat Yubari's shoulder.

Yubari looked completely bewildered.

As Shiro and Yubari chatted, they quickly returned to the room where the ship girls' uniforms were displayed. When they came back, the colorful uniforms in the hall were still quietly shimmering.

"Speaking of which, Yubari, are those two ships from Guam and Alaska?" Shiro asked, turning his head.

"What, Admiral, can't you see it this time?" Yubari asked with a smile.

"...Are they the two that look the biggest?" After thinking for a while, Xiaobai pointed to the two missile ship equipment that looked the biggest in the hall room and turned to ask Yubari.

"You got it right!" Yubari laughed. "Guam and Alaska are the only two large ships among the ship girls that underwent modification this time. Actually, their ship equipment is the easiest to recognize."

Afterwards, Yubari led Shiro to the ship equipment of Guam and Alaska.

The Guam ship's rigging is a striking blue, covered with shells resembling horns, spotlights, and speakers. These musical "decorations," though numerous, are arranged harmoniously and do not appear cluttered. Upon closer inspection, it can be discovered that these so-called "decorations" are actually part of the ship's armament disguised as naval guns and missile launchers.

The ship equipment on the Alaskan side is in a similar situation, but compared to Guam's blue, Alaskan ship equipment is a more flamboyant and bright dark pink.

"You can even create such stylistic specializations during the modification process..." Xiaobai touched the ship equipment of Guam and Alaska, feeling the cool and hard texture from his palm, and couldn't help but sigh, "These ship equipment are really unique."

Yubari didn't say anything; her face was full of an expression that seemed to say, "Isn't the Admiral awesome? Praise me, praise me!"

Shiro immediately said "Yubari is so great" to Yubari several times, and only then did Yubari put her hands on her hips with satisfaction.

The ship equipment of Guam and Alaska was indeed in the fusion stage. When Xiaobai touched these two ship equipment with her hands, the feedback was different from when she touched the ship equipment of Anshan. Because the ship equipment of Anshan was not in the fusion stage, it felt like touching a large weapon, nothing special. But the ship equipment of Guam and Alaska had a faint feeling of a heart beating under it, as if something was flowing inside the ship equipment.

Xiaobai's hand paused on the Guam ship's rigging for a moment. She noticed that some runes seemed to be flashing and operating in the gaps of the Guam ship's rigging.

"Hmm? Oh..."

Xiaobai paused for a moment, then remembered the process of the Missouri renovation, and nodded in understanding.

The missile modification of Yubari seems to have utilized some of the power of the runic script, just like the modification of Missouri last time.

Looking at the runes operating within the ship's rigs in Guam and Alaska, she could clearly sense that the power contained within those runes was not abundant.

I've already infused the runes I installed on the Missouri with my own mental energy... so infusing Guam and Alaska with my own mental energy... shouldn't be a problem, right?

After thinking for a while, Xiao Bai stretched out his hand, and his spiritual power extended from his hand, slowly pouring into the two ship equipment.

Chapter 3861 Adding Ingredients

Xiao Bai is preparing to "add some features" to the ship equipment of Guam and Alaska.

However, it's not as exaggerated as saying "add some fuel." Xiaobai simply noticed that the runes inside these two ship rigs weren't operating smoothly enough, so he added some fuel to them.

After all, this is a rune font modification for my precious ship girls... Modification is a lifelong event for ship girls. Putting everything else aside, the quality of the rune font should be better than when I practice calligraphy, right?

The spiritual energy extending from Xiaobai's palm was like a flood that had been released. Starting from her, it surged out wave after wave like an overwhelming torrent towards the ship rigs of Guam and Alaska. The moment this terrifying amount of spiritual energy came into contact with the two ship rigs, the runes within them lit up with a faint light. Then, all the spiritual energy was instantly absorbed by the ship rigs as if by a sponge, and quickly disappeared into the depths of the ship rigs.

Now, Xiaobai is quite adept at controlling the flow of his mental energy.

Therefore, even though the amount of mental energy surging from her hands was quite terrifying, Yubari, who was standing next to Shiro, did not feel anything amiss because she was not within the range of Shiro's mental energy output. In fact, from Yubari's perspective, Shiro was just quietly stroking the ship equipment of Guam and Alaska from beginning to end, and she did not do anything else unrelated to stroking the ship equipment.

In fact, if Yubari had simply taken even half a step forward, or even just peeked forward, she would have instantly experienced a baptism of overwhelming spiritual power from head to toe, a feeling of exhilarating ascension.

Unfortunately, Yubari did not do that.

only……

Even though Yubari didn't sense a large amount of spiritual energy passing by, as a ship girl, she was still extremely sensitive to her surroundings.

"Hmm? Why does the room feel a little chilly?"

After a while, Yubari subconsciously hugged his arm, rubbed it up and down with both hands, and then looked around at the surroundings with a suspicious expression.

"Hiss... That's strange. Didn't I set the temperature for this area? Could it be that there's a problem with the indoor temperature control system in this area?"

Yubari muttered to herself for a moment, then instinctively glanced at Shiro.

Xiaobai was still quietly stroking the ship equipment of Guam and Alaska, a faint smile on her lips, as harmless as a lamb, seemingly very absorbed in her thoughts.

Yubari glanced at the two ship-mounted aircraft in front of him again.

There were no problems with the ship equipment in Guam and Alaska either...

Well... at least there's nothing wrong with the appearance.

It seems the temperature drop has nothing to do with the Admiral...

Thinking about this, Yubari scratched his head in a bit of a daze.

The renovation workshop is a very important place; if the temperature control here goes wrong, it will be a serious matter.

Thinking of this, Yubari temporarily left Shiro's side and walked quickly to the entrance of the hall room.

Every temperature standard in the modification workshop has a reason for being set. For example, the optimal operating temperature of a certain instrument is between a certain number of degrees, and the optimal storage temperature of ship equipment is between a certain number of degrees. If the indoor temperature is incorrect, as the owner of the modification workshop and the person primarily responsible for the modification, I must correct it immediately.

Yubari found the control panel for the indoor temperature control system on the wall next to the door.

She reached out and fiddled with it for a bit, poking and prodding at the control panel with her fingers, checking if the temperature control system was malfunctioning.

A few minutes later, the investigation was completed.

After a simple check, Yubari could not find the source of the temperature control system malfunction. The control panel showed that the temperature control system of the modification workshop had been operating well and stably. In other words, the temperature drop that Yubari had just felt was not a problem with the temperature control system.

"Eh...that's strange..." Yubari scratched her head and walked back to Shiro's side. She called out to Shiro, "Admiral, did you feel that the surroundings suddenly got a little colder just now?"

"Hmm? Really?" Xiaobai finally finished infusing the ship's equipment with mental energy. She put down her hand and turned to ask Yubari.

When Xiaobai is controlling her mental power, her senses are relatively dulled due to the high concentration of her attention. Although she can feel if someone touches her, hits her, or talks to her, she is definitely not able to perceive subtle changes in temperature at this time.

"Huh... the admiral doesn't feel anything? Or is it just my imagination?"

Yubari looked suspicious. She closed her eyes again and carefully sensed the air, but she could clearly feel that the chill in the air had disappeared and Wendy around her had returned to a warm state.

I rely on...

Could it be a ghost?

Yubari secretly grumbled.

No, no... I'm a researcher, I have to believe in science... What are these demons and monsters... I don't believe in them at all.

Yubari quickly shook her head, patting her cheeks so hard they made a loud slapping sound.

After putting her hands down, Yubari met Shiro's worried gaze.

"Yubari...are you alright?" Shiro asked.

"Sigh, I guess I've been working overtime a lot lately, and I'm a bit tired." Yubari hesitated for a moment before finally saying to Shiro, "Maybe it's some kind of neurasthenia, which is making me a bit sensitive."

"Oh? That won't do, you need to rest properly..." Xiaobai said to Yubari as soon as he heard this.

"Hehe, thanks for your concern, Admiral." Yubari's mood immediately improved after hearing Shiro's concern. "After I finish this batch of modifications, I'll take a few months off to rest at the naval base... Speaking of which, Admiral, have you finished looking at all your ship equipment?"

"Oh, I've finished watching them all."

Xiaobai nodded in response, and after she finished speaking, she glanced at the ship equipment of Guam and Alaska displayed in front of her.

In Xiaobai's observation, the runes that were originally hidden inside the ship equipment in Guam and Alaska, operating as slowly as a tortoise, have now been filled with abundant spiritual power by Xiaobai. After receiving sufficient energy, the intensity and efficiency of the rune circuits inside these ship equipment have increased rapidly, like a rocket, more than a hundred or a thousand times faster, completely incomparable to before.

Oh, right.

I still need to tell Yubari what I just did.

After infusing Missouri's ship equipment with spiritual power last time, I didn't have time to tell Yubari because of some unforeseen circumstances. I can't neglect Yubari again this time.

"Oh, by the way, Yubari, speaking of ship equipment..." Shiro immediately turned to Yubari and said, "Actually, I just used my mental power to scan Guam and Alaska..."

"Huh? Just now?"

As Yubari was listening to Shiro's words, suddenly, before Shiro could finish speaking, the ship equipment of Guam and Alaska beside them began to buzz.

hum-

boom--

The two ship equipment units, which had been sitting quietly on the rack, suddenly made a loud noise, which really startled Shiro and Yubari, who were completely unprepared.

"Huh? What's going on?"

Yubari instinctively stood in front of Shiro, reaching out to protect Shiro behind her. She stared wide-eyed, somewhat dazed, at the ship's rigging that suddenly started buzzing.

Under Yubari and Shiro's watchful eyes, the ship rigs of Guam and Alaska roared like racing car engines, the sound growing louder and louder. This powerful hum instantly filled the entire hall, reverberating throughout the quiet room and causing the surrounding ship rigs to shake. Then, they clearly felt a huge fluctuation of mental energy emanating from these two ship rigs. Accompanying the fluctuation of mental energy was an enormous heat. The ship rigs were like two burning suns, turning red and scorching hot. The terrifying heat made Shiro and Yubari's faces burn.

"Huh? This, this is..."

Yubari stared blankly at the ship's rigging.

Then, the roar of the ship's equipment, the fluctuations of mental energy, and the immense heat all reached their peak almost simultaneously, as if they were about to explode in the next instant.

Yubari's pupils contracted, and she turned around quickly, raising her white coat to hug Xiaobai in the first instant.

However, the expected explosion did not occur.

The next moment, the two scorching hot ship equipment vanished into thin air, and a large number of data cables and wires connected to the ship equipment fell to the ground from mid-air. The ends of those wires and data cables were either melted or carbonized, emitting a burnt and unpleasant smell on the ground.

Yubari hugged Shiro for a long time before slowly letting go of him and tentatively looking around at the surroundings.

The surroundings were now safe. Nothing terrible had happened to the two ship rigs. All that remained in front of them were the metal frames that had once supported the rigs.

"Hiss?! The ship's rigging... disappeared? Huh? How could it disappear..."

Yubari looked at the two red-hot metal frames that were left in front of her, her face full of doubt, and her brows furrowed.

However, Yubari Hisashi seemed to realize something very quickly and hurriedly looked at the hibernation pod room where he had left with Shiro.

"Ah! Could it be that...!"

Yubari yelled, slapped her thigh, and before the little white creature in her arms could speak, she grabbed its arm and ran towards the hibernation pod room with it.

"Admiral, hurry, let's go back to our old room!"

"Huh? Ah... okay... okay..."

Xiaobai was pulled by the wrist by Yubari and ran towards the hibernation pod. She staggered as she looked at Yubari's back, feeling the ticklish touch of Yubari's long hair brushing against the tip of her nose, and couldn't help but turn her head to the side.

"Yubari, actually I just..." Shiro tried to continue explaining.

"Admiral, we can talk about other things later! Let's go back to the hibernation chamber first!" Yubari replied immediately.

"Uh...okay..."

Xiao Bai responded weakly.

Chapter 3862 The Culprit!