Elder brother's garrison

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"So you're going to build ship girls? Have you built any?"

"...No, why?"

"We've already started producing missile ship girls in Chapter 8, why don't you try building some on your end too?"

"..." There was a moment of silence on Luo Lian's end. After a while, Luo Lian's voice came from the phone as she stood up from her chair, "Hmm, I'll go and take a look."

Da da da……

The crisp sound of running steps.

Xiao Bai listened as Luo Lian ran downstairs, phone in hand, for several minutes before another melodious voice came through her earphones.

"Admiral? You're out of the lab so early today... Wait, Admiral, what are you doing?"

A voice of war weariness came from the phone, followed by shouts of "Oh dear, oh dear!"

"War-weary, come with me to build the floors."

"Huh? At this time???"

"Hmm, Xiaobai asked me to build some boats."

"Uh... Admiral Lu Lin? Okay... but why do I have to go too?"

"It will probably require a lot of resources, and it's so heavy I can't lift it."

"Okay, okay, so I'm the laborer again, huh?!"

A familiar, heartwarming voice came through the phone. Immediately, Xiao Bai's mind conjured up the scene of Yan Zhan being pulled by Luo Lian's hand as they rushed towards the construction site. She couldn't help but cover her mouth and laugh.

On her phone, Luo Lian quickly arrived at the construction floor.

Luo Lian was, after all, just an ordinary human girl, and her strength was only at the level of a human girl. She definitely couldn't lift heavy construction materials. So, Xiao Bai's phone was filled with the sound of Warspite dragging the materials while complaining bitterly to Luo Lian for afternoon tea.

Judging from the sounds, construction over there has already begun in full swing.

"Xiao Bai, are you still there?" Luo Lian's voice came through.

"Yes, I'm still here."

“I’ve already started construction here, please wait a moment,” Luo Lian said.

"Ah... I can wait until you have the results of your construction before I come out..." Xiaobai said immediately, "I'll hang up now..."

“No need for that.” Luo Lian quickly interrupted Xiao Bai, who was about to hang up, and took a breath before slowly saying, “I’ve had Warspite book an entire construction floor. We’ll use hundreds of machines here to build it simultaneously, and we’ll have results soon.”

"...Wow? Such a big spender?"

"It's alright, after all, you're also anxious to wait for the results," Luo Lian said.

"Now I finally understand why you wanted Warspite to accompany you in building it..."

Xiao Bai smiled wryly.

Xiao Bai thought Luo Lian was just using a construction machine to build, but she didn't expect Luo Lian to book an entire construction floor to build it. It seems that asking Luo Lian to book her afternoon tea is already a very ladylike statement for Yan Zhan.

"Perfect timing, we can talk about what happened in today's eighth chapter, right?" Luo Lian's voice continued.

Besides Luo Lian's voice, the phone also played the rumbling sounds of a construction machine running, as well as the sounds of a failed construction project spewing out clouds of steam.

Xiao Bai could almost picture the entire building being shrouded in black smoke.

"Lianlian... it's like this..." Xiaobai had just finished her work and started chatting with Luo Lian, "Actually, today's eighth chapter..."

Xiao Bai was talking to Luo Lian about serious matters, and she told Luo Lian about the series of events in Chapter 8 of today.

Luo Lian remained silent, amidst the rumbling sounds of construction.

Luo Lian finally responded after Xiao Bai finished explaining everything.

"Hmm... I understand. Deep-sea missile ships have appeared in the deep sea area, and the construction floor in Chapter 8 has also started producing missile ships, right?" Luo Lian said.

“That’s the situation,” Xiaobai replied. “So I was just thinking about whether this is good or bad, whether it’s related to the Black Tower, and whether we should ban the Black Tower…”

"It's better not to seal off the Black Tower." Luo Lian suggested almost without hesitation, right after Xiao Bai finished speaking.

"Huh? So decisive?" Xiaobai was a little surprised.

“Yes, my suggestion is to continue opening the Black Tower to the Admirals and try to speed up their exploration progress,” Luo Lian said.

“I see…” Xiaobai nodded, holding her phone. “But Lianlian, the Black Tower has only cleared the fifth floor and such a big mess has already appeared. I’m a little worried about what will happen next… What if the Black Tower unlocks some strange technology for the Deep Sea next time?”

“There’s no need to worry about that,” Luo Lian continued, “because in my opinion… the Black Tower has never unlocked any technology for the Deep Sea.”

“…Huh?” Xiaobai was stunned.

Chapter 4010 has been created.

Luo Lian's words surprised Xiao Bai so much that after Luo Lian finished speaking, Xiao Bai gripped his phone tightly and stared blankly for several seconds before finally coming to his senses.

...The Black Tower has never unlocked any technology for the Deep Sea faction?

Is this what Lianlian meant?

But... the changes in the sea were clearly due to the Black Tower's rewards...

When Xiao Bai came to her senses, she even thought that the person on the other end of the phone might not be Luo Lian, and couldn't help but glance at her phone screen.

The phone number on the phone screen was Luo Lian's private number.

In other words, the person talking to Xiaobai on the phone is indeed Luo Lian herself, and not someone else.

Xiao Bai looked completely bewildered.

"Lianlian... do you mean that the Black Tower didn't provide any assistance to the Deep Sea faction?" Xiaobai put the earphone back on her ear and continued to ask the person on the other end of the phone.

Luo Lian didn't rush to explain. After saying that, she seemed to have anticipated that her words would confuse Xiao Bai for a while, so she remained silent until Xiao Bai asked another question.

Upon hearing Xiao Bai's voice, Luo Lian slowly spoke up.

“Yes,” Luo Lian said. “Or we can categorize it in more detail. The appearance of a deep-sea missile ship on the sea in Chapter 8 is at least not directly related to the Black Tower.”

"But... the deep-sea missile ship appeared the day after the Black Tower's reward settlement," Xiaobai said softly, holding her phone. "Could it be that the appearance of the deep-sea missile ship on the sea was just a simple coincidence?"

"Of course I didn't mean that." Luo Lian's voice remained calm. "Xiao Bai, what I meant was that the appearance of deep-sea missile ships on the sea surface was not a coincidence, but it was not the result of the Black Tower's actions."

"It has nothing to do with the Black Tower?"

"There are relationships."

"But you just..."

"There's no direct relationship, but there is a certain indirect relationship," Luo Lian explained.

"……"noob.

Xiao Bai felt like she was getting dizzy from Luo Lian's explanation.

Luo Lian is the most intelligent human that Xiao Bai has ever seen in his life. So sometimes her thought process is much faster than that of ordinary people. Her thinking speed is far beyond that of ordinary people. Many times, things that ordinary people need to think carefully about are just the result of a subconscious thought for her. Because of this, if Luo Lian does not deliberately explain her language, it is easy for the people around her to not understand her speech.

Xiao Bai's confusion seemed to be transmitted to the other end of the phone.

Luo Lian's voice immediately became much gentler.

“Xiao Bai, this is what I think,” Luo Lian said.

"Mmm." Xiaobai nodded quickly, focusing her attention on listening.

"In the five hundred years since humanity escaped the predicament of generational gaps, with the development of strength in various fields and the feedback from all parts of society, the strength of the Admiral's camp has generally shown a year-on-year upward trend, right?" Luo Lian said to Xiao Bai.

"Uh...right?" Xiaobai nodded subconsciously.

The strength of the human faction's ship girls has indeed been gradually increasing overall.

This is not an illusion.

It is a generally accepted fact.

After all, the conditions now are different from those of 500 years ago. The current human faction has an advanced ship girl technology chain, abundant resources, a mature admiral training system, and chapter sea areas that are closely divided according to strength to train novice admirals all the way to high-level admirals.

Our ancestors five hundred years ago didn't have these conditions.

Five hundred years ago, the lives of our predecessors were basically similar to those of today's civilian mercenary groups and ship girls. They were in a state of extreme scarcity of resources and had nothing they needed.

If we only consider the size and strength of the naval bases, there's no need to even talk about the top ten naval bases now. Even if you randomly pick one of the top hundred naval bases and throw it back 500 years, it would be a super naval base that could wreak havoc in that era.

"So, Xiaobai, you also know that the current naval base is actually much stronger than the old one, right?" Luo Lian said to Xiaobai.

“Yes…” Xiaobai responded subconsciously.

"Xiaobai, have you considered something?"

"What's the matter?"

"Since the current admirals are so much stronger than the admirals of five hundred years ago... then why... is the Deep Sea always able to fight the human forces to a standstill?"

"...It's not exactly evenly matched...Aren't we humans the ones with the advantage overall?" Xiaobai asked rhetorically.

"Five hundred years ago, humanity reclaimed the land from the deep sea, and five hundred years later, we are still guarding the land we have reclaimed..." Luo Lian's voice rang out, "Given the extent of our human strength growth over these five hundred years, we should have already conquered the sea by now."

"Uh...that's true."

"So, Xiaobai, after listening to what I said, do you have any thoughts?" Luo Lian's voice sounded like a teacher guiding a student to give an answer.

"...Lianlian, do you mean...the strength of the Deep Sea faction has also been increasing over the past five hundred years?"

“Yes,” Luo Lian replied, “isn’t that a perfectly reasonable explanation?”

"..." Xiaobai fell silent. She glanced at Chao Yamato beside her, then nodded quietly. "Hmm...that seems to make sense..."

"Now there's another question," Luo Lian continued, "Since we know that the strength of the Abyss faction is also increasing year by year, then... the increase in the strength of the human faction is because the human faction's technology tree is being upgraded year by year, social productivity is increasing year by year, and the various technologies and institutions used to cultivate admirals and ship girls are becoming more and more mature... But what about the Abyss? The Abyss has nothing, so how did they manage to increase their strength year by year?"

"Uh..." Xiaobai was stumped by the question. She scratched her head and looked at Chao Yamato with a pleading expression. "Chao Yamato, can you answer this question?"

Although Xiao Bai wasn't on speakerphone, she was sitting in Chao Da He Bing Ruan's arms, with Chao Da He's chin resting on the top of Xiao Bai's head. At this distance, even if Chao Da He didn't use her deep-sea level senses to eavesdrop, she could still hear the conversation between Xiao Bai and Luo Lian.

"..." But faced with Xiaobai's question, Chaoda could only shake his head innocently.

Luo Lian's question was a bit too broad.

Although Ultraman is a deep-sea creature, this question is like asking an ordinary person with no medical knowledge how their internal organs, muscles, and neurons work—Ultraman has no answer to it.

Xiao Bai could only speak to Luo Lian on the other end of the phone.

"Lianlian... I don't know the answer to that question."

“Yes, this is a difficult question to answer and difficult to prove. I estimate that there will be no definite answer for a long time.” Luo Lian’s voice came softly. “But… we can make reasonable speculations.”

"Speculation?"

"In these five hundred years, the human faction's strength has increased rapidly, which is an inherent characteristic of humankind's continuous growth... Especially during the first to third hundred years, the admirals' strength increased at a breakneck pace. Logically, we should have been able to crush the deep-sea faction very quickly," Luo Lian said. "But in reality, no matter how fast the human faction improves, the deep-sea faction will always be only slightly weaker than us; their overall strength always keeps up. This rate of improvement is too miraculous. Even in the last two hundred years, when the human faction's strength has gradually slowed down, the deep-sea faction's strength still hasn't surpassed ours."

"So... Lianlian, what you mean is..." For some reason, upon hearing Luo Lian's words, Xiaobai suddenly seemed to understand what Luo Lian wanted to express, and her eyes widened slightly.

"Yes, that's the conclusion I'm trying to make," Luo Lian said casually, as if stating a very ordinary conclusion, "The Deep Sea faction will grow along with the overall strength of the Human faction."

"……"noob.

really.

This was indeed the conclusion Luo Lian wanted to reach...

Xiao Bai immediately showed a complicated expression, as if she had known it all along, but her heart skipped a beat.

"Lianlian...this is just your speculation...there's no evidence, right?"

“After all, the Deep Sea Faction is too far removed from human scholars, and no one can prove this conjecture,” Luo Lian said. “But even so, in the five hundred years since humanity emerged from the gap, there is a wealth of information about the strength of the human faction, and there are also numerous reports on marine surveys. It is not difficult to find data from these sources that can corroborate this conjecture.”

"...This conclusion is not to be spoken..." Xiaobai murmured, "Then wouldn't the human camp have absolutely no need to make progress?"

"That's not entirely true. After all, we can't be sure that if the human faction's strength declines, the deep-sea faction's strength won't decline as well, thus putting the human faction at a huge disadvantage and causing a repeat of the historical crisis of generational discontinuity..." Luo Lian said. "Necessary progress is still necessary. It involves various aspects. In short, progress in the human faction is not a bad thing."

"it is good……"

"So, combining my conjectures above, Xiaobai, do you understand what I meant just now?" Luo Lian said.

"I understand, Lianlian, you mean... it wasn't the Black Tower that caused the emergence of the Deepsea Missile Ships in the Deepsea faction, but rather the widespread appearance of missile ship girls in the human faction that led to the corresponding emergence of Deepsea Missile Ships." Xiaobai confirmed with Luo Lian, "Is that what you mean?"

"That's what I mean." Luo Lian said, then paused for a moment and suddenly called out to Xiao Bai, "Xiao Bai."

"Ok?"

"It seems we're... about to enter the next era of ship girls," Luo Lian said softly.

As Luo Lian finished speaking, the incessant construction noise in the background of her phone suddenly stopped.

A joyful shout rang out.