Elder brother's garrison

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Changchun rubbed her temple, her alert gaze becoming somewhat lost after realizing there was nothing suspicious in her surroundings. She propped herself up on the bed and looked at the tightly drawn curtains before finally returning her gaze to the bed.

When Changchun's gaze returned to the bed, her eyes finally softened, and her jewel-like red eyes were instantly filled with tenderness.

Beside Changchun, Xiaobai was curled up in bed like a little animal.

Xiao Bai's white hair was spread out on the bed, like silken threads wrapping around her body. Xiao Bai was naked in her sleep. She reached out and gently hugged Chang Chun's waist. Her slender and straight legs were close to one of Chang Chun's thighs. She was very close to Chang Chun, as if she were stuck to him.

Under the moonlight, Changchun, half-shyly, reached out her finger and brushed aside a few strands of hair on Xiaobai's cheek before carefully examining Xiaobai's face.

Little White was breathing evenly in her sleep, her sleeping posture as peaceful as a baby in swaddling clothes. She looked pure and beautiful, like a blank sheet of paper untouched by any dust.

The admiral is so cute.

Even when he was fully awake...

Thinking of this, Changchun suddenly smiled silently for some reason, two blushes appearing on her fair cheeks. She looked around the bed and finally found the "yes" pillow that had been kicked to the corner of the bed. Then she leaned over and hugged the pillow back to her side.

Perhaps because the movements were a little too large, there was some physical friction between Changchun and Xiaobai. Just as Changchun took back the pillow and was about to lie back down next to Xiaobai, Xiaobai, who had been sleeping peacefully, suddenly stirred.

"Um……?"

Little Whitey's eyelashes fluttered in her sleep. She let out a sweet murmur, then twisted her body and raised her arm to wipe her eyes.

The white hair wrapped around Xiaobai's arm seemed to have a spirit, slipping off her arm one by one with her movements.

Xiao Bai opened her slightly drowsy eyes and looked at Chang Chun, who had just woken up.

"Hmm... Changchun?" Xiaobai stared at Changchun for a while before asking in a low voice.

"Ah, Admiral..." Changchun smiled slightly at Xiaobai, put the cushion behind her, and then lay back down next to Xiaobai with a smile. "I'm sorry, did I wake you up?"

"not bad……"

Xiaobai yawned, shook her head dismissively, then squinted and reached out to find Changchun's hand.

Changchun immediately reached out and caught Xiaobai's outstretched hand. The two clasped hands tightly in the darkness, their fingers intertwined.

Feeling the warmth from her palm, the awakened Xiaobai quickly became peaceful again.

“I… I rarely see Changchun get up at night…” Xiaobai said softly, her voice tinged with the sound of her half-undone pajamas. “Before, once you fell asleep, you would sleep soundly until dawn.”

"Admiral, no..." Changchun replied softly, "I just... sensed something strange."

"Hmm? Something strange..."

"I suddenly heard a bell ringing... the sound seemed to ring directly in my head."

"Ah... the bell... that's it..."

Xiao Bai, who was sleeping beside Changchun, closed her eyes, smiled, and brought her mouth to Changchun's neck, gently kissing the girl's soft skin.

"It's nothing, well, it's been happening every night in Chapter 8 recently... about that," Xiaobai explained.

Changchun didn't know if he had listened to Xiaobai's explanation.

At this moment, Changchun was blushing, squinting her eyes, turning her head to the side, showing her slender neck to Xiaobai as much as possible, and quietly feeling Xiaobai's kiss.

The night continued.

The moonlight shone on the curtains, but the tightly drawn curtains let in no light at all.

Every now and then, the girl's murmurs could be heard in the darkness.

……

The next morning came.

After spending the night in Xiaobai's dormitory, Changchun got up the next morning feeling refreshed.

Changchun carefully dressed himself at his desk, looking neat and tidy. He then looked at himself in the mirror for a long time to make sure there were no "flaws" in his clothes before he felt relieved and got up with Xiaobai. He helped Xiaobai wash up, comb his hair, and change his clothes. Finally, he went with Xiaobai to the temporary garrison's canteen, where they had a comfortable breakfast together.

"Admiral, I'll head back to Anshan and Jinan now! Keep up the good work at the Admiral's Guild! If you need any help, please contact us immediately!"

After the meal, Changchun, carrying the packed breakfast, waved goodbye to Xiaobai with a happy expression before turning around and jogging away.

Standing at the entrance of the temporary naval base's canteen, Xiaobai smiled and waved, watching Changchun's figure disappear along the path leading to the ship girl dormitory building. Only after she was completely out of sight did she slowly lower her hand, satisfied.

"Ah, it's so warm."

Xiao Bai stroked her belly and sighed softly.

The cafeteria was crowded in the morning. Ship girls from Nia Naval Base and Newbie Naval Base came and went one after another. When the ship girls saw Xiaobai and Changchun leaving together, they couldn't help but smile as if they understood something, and they huddled together and discussed it in hushed tones.

The chattering noises made Xiaobai feel a little awkward.

Hmm...how to put it.

While spending the night with your shipmate isn't shameful and is an open secret among ship girls, showing affection in front of so many ship girls still makes Xiaobai feel a little embarrassed.

Run, run.

Xiao Bai quickly ran back to his dormitory.

Before going to work, Xiaobai played on her phone in her dormitory for a while.

Xiao Bai recalled that last night when he was sleeping, Changchun, who was sleeping next to him, seemed to have been woken up by the mental energy fluctuations of the Black Tower.

Hmm... If I remember correctly, the Black Tower "updates" every night at midnight. Its updates cause all the admirals and ship girls in Chapter 8, and even the Abyssal Deans, to be affected by "mental energy fluctuations".

To put it simply, it feels like someone suddenly shouts at you from behind; it's quite startling when you're not prepared.

Unfortunately, Xiaobai has never heard the Black Tower's voice before, and she doesn't yet know what it's like to be "wake up" by the Black Tower.

"If the Black Tower update notification always goes off at midnight, wouldn't I be woken up every night..." Xiaobai muttered to herself as she logged into the Admiral Forum on her phone. "It's fine for me... but it's not good for Changchun and the others to be woken up all the time... It really affects their sleep. Anyway, we can find out the Black Tower update content on the Admiral Forum the next day, so we might as well think of a way to prevent them from hearing the sound... Hmm... right, then again, the ship girls themselves probably can't hear the specific update content, right? They can only hear the annoying bell, so we should definitely block it."

As a former severe insomniac, Xiaobai knows all too well the frustration of being jolted awake from a good night's sleep.

Putting aside everyone else in Chapter 8, Xiaobai still wants to do her best for her own ship girls.

...However, before that, Xiaobai still needs to check the updated content on the Admiral Forum.

Xiao Bai glanced at the Admiral Forum for a few moments.

Many admirals on the admiral forum have uploaded the Black Tower update content to various posts. Even a newbie can easily find more than a dozen posts discussing these updates by just browsing around.

After briefly reviewing the update, Xiaobai nodded and silently turned off her phone.

...In short, since no one cleared the second section yesterday, the opening of the third section was delayed, right?

The rest of the content was pretty much the same as the previous two, just some bland and uninformed reports.

Xiao Bai was a little worried before that if the garrison hadn't cleared the second section of the Black Tower yesterday, would the Black Tower punish him in Chapter 8? But now it seems that the punishment has nothing to do with the Black Tower. The Black Tower is indeed a good building.

"However, if we don't clear the Black Tower, it's really not a good idea to leave it here."

"I wonder how many floors and sections this Black Tower has. If we don't clear it, will it wake everyone up every night without fail...? In that sense, is this a punishment for not clearing the Black Tower?"

"Currently, the Black Tower is only two stars in difficulty, which means there are even more difficult levels to come?"

"The road ahead is long..."

Xiaobai murmured softly. She remembered that before she closed the Admiral Forum, apart from discussions about Black Tower updates, almost all the other posts on the Admiral Forum were asking the Admiral Guild to release Black Tower guides, or even directly tagging newbies in their garrisons and asking her to show her prowess. She said that without her guides, they would be crushed by Black Tower.

Xiao Bai is easily influenced.

When someone suddenly showers you with praise and compliments, you immediately start to lose your composure.

"I need to work on the second section's strategy today... Sigh, being the guild leader is basically just being a babysitter..."

Chapter 4019 Unsophisticated

Since the Black Tower has appeared in Chapter 8, Xiaobai, as the guild leader of the Chapter 8 Admiral Guild, has a certain obligation to be responsible for the Black Tower, which is unavoidable.

The profession of admiral is inherently linked to responsibility.

Time quickly came to work, and Chaoda and Zhunyue arrived at Xiaobai's dormitory door on time to pick Xiaobai up for work.

When Shiro went out to greet Chao Yamato, Chao Yamato was still standing in front of the door, cautiously glancing into Shiro's dormitory several times.

"Super Yamato? What are you looking for?" Shiro asked Super Yamato.

“Admiral, last night…” Chao Dahe began.

"Changchun has already gone back." Xiaobai smiled helplessly and said to Chaodahe.

"Ah..." Chao Dahe immediately nodded in understanding.

Xiaobai and Chaoda used the teleportation vortex to return to the Admiral's Guild's main hall.

Today, the Admiral's Guild still has a huge pile of documents for the guild leader to handle, but compared to the first few days after the Black Tower appeared, the Admiral's Guild now seems to have "returned to normal".

Xiao Bai flipped through the work on the desk, looking at the familiar, routine official documents, and began to estimate that after a while, once the Black Tower was completely stable, he could hand over the work of the Admiral's Guild to Miss Luo Yingying downstairs again.

However, we still need to work on a walkthrough for the Black Tower today.

Xiao Bai sat at his desk in the office, poured himself a glass of juice, and then called out towards the door.

"Ticonderoga".

"Admiral, did you call me?" Ticonderoga's head popped in from outside the door almost the instant Xiaobai finished speaking.

"Okay, come here." Little White smiled and waved to Ticonderoga.

Ticonderoga immediately went into the office, and she approached Xiaobai's desk with a mixture of anticipation and nervousness.

"Admiral, please give your orders."

"You guys know about the second section of the Black Tower yesterday, right?"

“I know,” Ticonderoga nodded. “I heard that all the admirals in the entire eighth chapter failed, and not a single one of them cleared the second section.”

"That makes sense. Yesterday, I was dealing with the deep-sea missile ships on the surface, so I didn't pay attention to the Black Tower," Xiaobai explained to Ticonderoga with a smile. "If you have some free time today, could you ask your Royal Guard to do what you did the day before yesterday and explore the second zone again?"

After hearing what Little White said, Ticonderoga opened her eyes wide in surprise and pointed to herself.

"Shall we go again today?" Ticonderoga asked.

"Yes," Xiaobai nodded. "What's wrong? Is it inconvenient for you here?"

"Ah, no, our Royal Guard is ready to depart at any time." Ticonderoga immediately corrected herself, but after saying this, her expression became somewhat uncertain. "But... Admiral, I heard that the second section seems to be more difficult. The hundreds of admirals who cleared the first section all fell on the first day of clearing the second section. What if our Royal Guard isn't strong enough... wouldn't that be a waste of your precious challenge attempts?"

"It's alright, I believe in you." Xiaobai said to Ticonderoga with a smile, "Putting everything else aside, Ticonderoga, your strength is quite good in our naval base. With you here, clearing the mere second zone won't be a problem."

"Thank you... thank you for your recognition, Admiral!" Ticonderoga was immediately moved, as if she had been greatly encouraged. She immediately saluted Shiro, "Then I will assemble my personal guard and set off! I stake my honor on this day to secure the first pass for you!"

Xiao Bai smiled and nodded.

Little White watched as Ticonderoga made his pledge, then turned around with great confidence.

Suddenly.

As if suddenly realizing something, Xiaobai raised an eyebrow and suddenly called out to her.

"Oh, by the way, Ticonderoga, wait a moment!"

Ticonderoga, who had already reached the office door, suddenly stopped and turned around.

"Admiral?"

“Oh… I just thought about it again, and what you said makes sense,” Xiaobai said. “Although Ticonderoga, you are very strong, in battle, the strength of the team is ultimately more important than the individual strength of the ship girl.”

"..." Ticonderoga.

Ticonderoga silently returned to Xiaobai's desk.

"Then... Admiral, what are your thoughts...?" Ticonderoga asked cautiously, a hint of nervousness in his eyes.

Judging from the admiral's words... could it be that he dislikes the other five ship girls in his personal guard...?

Thinking of this, Ticonderoga couldn't help but feel a little bitter.

Ticonderoga still values ​​her five companions. Admittedly, she has to admit that their strength is only average compared to the entire patrol team of the Admiral's Guild. If the Admiral really wants to challenge high-difficulty maps, it would be more appropriate to replace her five teammates with five other, stronger ship girls, which would result in a higher and more stable success rate.

But... he was Ticonderoga's comrade-in-arms after all.

If possible, Ticonderoga would still like to fight alongside her comrades.

"Alright, Ticonderoga, show me your equipment," Xiaobai said to Ticonderoga.

"Huh?" Ticonderoga was still immersed in inexplicable sadness when she heard Xiaobai's words and was suddenly stunned.

"Let me see your gear." Seeing that Ticonderoga didn't react, Xiaobai added, "Um... if you feel your privacy is being violated, you don't have to show it to me."

"Ah, no, no! No, no..."

Ticonderoga immediately shook her head and quickly summoned her ship equipment.

For ship girls, their ship equipment is like an extension of their body, a part of their body. So if an unfamiliar admiral suddenly asks them to "look at their ship equipment" or "look at their gear," it's like a human girl being asked by a stranger to "lift up her skirt and look at her legs"—it's definitely a somewhat offensive request.