Elder brother's garrison

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What should I write?

I was the one who got instantly killed, so what data is there left to write?

"Lu Lin is amazing! Amazing! As expected of you! You're incredibly strong!" In the end, it was Linglan who broke the peace. She raised her hands and jumped around excitedly on the ground, cheering non-stop.

"Cough cough cough." Then, the second one to come to his senses was the city lord, Muji, who also clapped along with Suzuran, "Amazing, amazing, as expected of a ship girl."

Although Muji still showed some heartache at the destruction of his hard work, he was surprisingly at ease about it. He turned to the staff beside him and said, "Let's put the mecha technology aside for now."

"Yes." The staff member next to Muji's eyes dimmed slightly, but he agreed willingly.

Xiaobai has already shown them through real combat that compared to the still far from mature mecha technology, ship girls, which already have products, are more valuable for development and dissemination.

—And speaking of which, just a few minutes ago they thought it was quite absurd that these warriors fighting against the deep sea were actually cute girls, but when they saw Xiaobai's appearance, they subtly felt... that this idea was surprisingly good.

The staff who had been inside the combat-use Unit-01 also walked out of the wreckage of the Unit-01 dejectedly.

Unit-01 had a fairly reliable pilot protection system, but this system was never triggered from beginning to end, because apart from their faces being burned by the high temperature, they did not suffer any impact and were completely unharmed.

However, it is precisely because she was unharmed that it proves from another angle how easily the beautiful white-haired little girl in front of them handled the situation.

"Don't worry about it. These Unit-01s have already accomplished something by witnessing your power as a ship girl." Kiji clapped his hands as he led the staff closer to Shiro. "Please accept my sincerest apologies and deepest gratitude."

After saying that, Muji bowed deeply to Xiaobai.

"Ah...no need to be so polite." Xiaobai quickly waved her hand.

"Could you please provide us with the blueprints and specifications for the ship girls?" Muji asked Shiro.

"Yes, that's fine." Xiaobai nodded, then thought for a moment, "That's exactly why we came here."

Upon hearing Xiaobai's words, Muji and the staff behind him were so moved that they almost shed tears.

—What a noble, supreme, and kind girl she is! She's practically an angel.

"Well, but... can I make a small request?"

"Please feel free to ask. As long as it's something we can do, we'll help you with it."

"That's great!" Xiaobai nodded excitedly. "Um, could you give me the energy bodies in your city?"

"An energy body?" Muji was taken aback.

"Ah, missiles, gunpowder, and other high-energy, high-heat things."

“Missiles and gunpowder… we do have those, high-energy and high-calorie ones… how about oil and coal?” Muji pondered for a while, then nodded. “I’ll get you a pass later, you can take whatever you want whenever you want.”

"Thank you!" Xiaobai said to Muji, her whole body filled with excitement.

It's been over three months now, and for the first time, Xiaobai feels like she's just one step away from going home.

"Please come in, ship girl. We'll have the best paper and pens ready." Seeing how happy Shiro was, Muji nodded gently. He then invited Shiro and Suzuran, "And this lady... are you also a ship girl?"

"No, my name is Lily of the Valley."

"Oh, Miss Linglan, hello. Please come in." Muji pointed to a white factory at the end of the open space and said politely to Xiaobai and Linglan.

Linglan then happily walked to Xiaobai's side and took Xiaobai's hand.

Looking at Linglan's proud expression, Xiaobai's inflated sense of joy at returning home subtly diminished.

If Xiaobai goes home, will he and Linglan never be able to see each other again?

That's really a sad thing.

Looking at Linglan's profile, Xiaobai's joy at finally being able to go home unconsciously turned into sadness.

It's impossible for Xiaobai not to go home. In the modern world, Xiaobai has many, many things she cares about: her ship girls, her parents, and her friends, all of whom are waiting for her.

"Sister Lily of the Valley," Xiaobai called out to Lily of the Valley.

"Um, what's up?"

"Thank you..."

"?" Linglan looked at Xiaobai strangely, thought for a moment, and then nodded. "Yes, you're welcome."

The group entered the factory in the open space.

There were surprisingly many people in the factory, and many of the Unit-01s that were assembling parts were standing upright like robots in an anime.

With a wave of his hand, Muji's staff quickly moved a square table filled with various blueprints out of a corner.

Xiaobai walked up and looked at the blueprints. He found that they contained detailed data on Unit-01, including its ideal combat capabilities.

"No need to look at these anymore, Miss Ship Girl, these are... obsolete." Muji walked up to Shiro, put away the blueprints in front of her, and gave Shiro a rather awkward smile.

Upon hearing Muji's words, many of his staff members lowered their heads slightly, looking dejected.

Xiao Bai didn't know what to say at this moment, so he could only obediently watch as Muji and the staff placed the brand-new blueprints and various drawing tools in front of him.

"Excuse me, Miss Ship Girl, drawing usually takes a long time. During this time, would you like us to prepare accommodations for you and your companions...?"

"Yes, thank you, but it'll be done soon. As for the drawing," Xiaobai nodded and smiled at Muji, "I can draw very quickly, I should be able to."

"Oh……"

Under the astonished gazes of Muji and the staff, Xiaobai picked up a ruler and pencil and began to scribble and draw on the drawings in front of him.

Yes, it's copying.

What he copied were the notes that Shiro had looked at when he was working as an assistant for Yubari.

At this point, one has to admire Yubari's professionalism. As a ship equipment researcher, Yubari's detailed descriptions of ship equipment are so advanced that even a paramecium could understand them. Xiaobai thinks that just by bringing out Yubari's work, it would be enough to keep this researcher, who is hundreds of years behind modernity, entertained for a while.

After all, these are professional drawings, and even if a novice knows the data, they can't write them out. Just the fact that they can't draw using professional methods is a problem. Fortunately, the novice flipped through a few more pages and read through all of Yubari's notes, otherwise it would be really difficult now.

Little Bai quickly picked up a ruler and pencil and began drawing rapidly on the snow-white paper in front of him.

When Xiaobai drew the first line, Muji and the researchers raised their eyebrows.

As people who have been dealing with this field for years, they can tell from the very first stroke of a novice that the novice is not a professional. There is a sequence to drawing, and the novice's method of drawing clearly shows that he is not even a beginner, but a complete novice.

Muji wanted to interrupt, but after thinking about it, he kept quiet and carefully observed the drawing that Xiaobai was making.

A minute passed.

Two minutes passed.

Three minutes passed.

Muji's eyes gradually widened in surprise. He looked at Xiaobai in shock, as if he had seen something incomprehensible.

—The blueprints drawn by this ship girl in front of me are so precise!

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For a novice like me, accuracy is key. I never make any deletions or corrections; I draw a line exactly as it is, from beginning to end, label the data, and immediately start drawing the next line. There's not a single pause in the entire process.

Soon, the complex and mathematically beautiful lines slowly came together, and a brand-new image of the ship's equipment was presented.

This particularly shocked all the staff, including Kiji.

As researchers who frequently need to draw diagrams and spend a lot of time in the studio every time they make a modification, they are well aware of the difficulty of drawing diagrams.

The amazing ship girl in front of me actually drew such a complicated thing so easily and effortlessly?

The shocked staff members felt that they had probably wasted their time researching dogs.

Xiaobai couldn't understand the turmoil in the hearts of the staff, and Linglan, being a complete novice, naturally didn't understand the terror of Xiaobai's drawing skills. So, the scene fell into silence for a while, with only the sound of Xiaobai's pen moving across the paper.

This heavy atmosphere lasted for a very long time, until the very last moment, when the setting sun shone through the glass into the factory, and Xiaobai gently put down his pen and slowly exhaled.

"It's finished." Xiaobai handed a thick stack of drawings to Muji, who had been waiting for a long time.

Muji hadn't dared to breathe loudly for a while, afraid of disturbing Xiaobai's work. It wasn't until Xiaobai handed him the papers that Muji finally let out a breath. While suppressing the pounding of his chest, he accepted the drawings from Xiaobai as if receiving a royal decree, and then couldn't help but start flipping through them on the spot.

"Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful! Absolutely amazing!" While formally examining the ship equipment blueprints, Muji slapped his thigh and exclaimed in admiration at the first page of the blueprints, "There's even such a design! This design is exquisite, beautiful, and full of streamlined charm! It's perfect!"

"...It's great that you like it." Even Xiaobai felt a little tired from drawing continuously. He secretly breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that Muji seemed to like the drawing.

“But I have a question. The ship equipment drawn here seems a bit different from the one behind you just now, Miss Ship Girl.” Muji nodded as he flipped through the pages, then looked up at Shiro with a slight puzzlement and asked, “The ship equipment here… seems to be much smaller than the one behind you.”

"Ah... well... every ship girl's equipment is different..."

Are there different types of ship girls?

"Of course, every ship girl is unique," Xiaobai said, nodding.

"Oh..." Muji nodded thoughtfully, and then sure enough, he saw a line of annotation on the blueprint, "This ship equipment... is it for a ship girl named Tashkent?"

"Yes."

"I don't know much about this, but may I ask what kind of ship girl Tashkent is?"

"Destroyer".

"Oh." Muji was sincerely grateful for Shiro's prompt answers to his questions. "Ship girls...ship girls...I see. Each ship girl corresponds to a ship that actually existed in human history, right?"

"Ah."

"What an ingenious design!" Muji made no attempt to hide his admiration for the blueprints before him. "The Abyssal Fleet is a demon of the sea, and ships are humanity's strongest partners in its voyages across the ocean. To come up with the idea of ​​using ship girls to counter the Abyssal Fleet is simply brilliant."

Xiao Bai smiled somewhat awkwardly.

Shiro felt embarrassed by Muji's praise.

"Wow, that's amazing! The biggest problem with Unit-01 is its inconvenience in operation, but as the core achievement of ship girl technology, the ship girl itself is part of the ship equipment, so the inconvenience in operation simply doesn't exist. It's brilliant! The person who came up with this idea is definitely a genius!"

"But thinking about it this way, since the ship girl's true form is a ship, shouldn't she also have a corresponding captain?"

"Yes, all ship girls need to have an admiral." Xiaobai nodded.

"Then, Miss Ship Girl, your admiral... oh, I apologize for my rudeness." Kiji asked Shiro subconsciously, but then looked at Suzuran, gave her a knowing look, and finally gave up on the question.

Despite appearing to be the city lord, Muji is actually a talkative scientist. After receiving the blueprint, his words flowed like a never-ending river.

Finally, Xiaobai couldn't stand Muji's words any longer. She found an opportunity to raise her hand and interrupt Muji: "Um, may I ask, Lord Muji, about the energy body..."

"Oh, look at my memory, I'm so sorry. I'll write you a pass right away." Muji nodded happily, then picked up a blank sheet of paper and quickly wrote a line of words. Finally, he took out a stamp from his clothes, stamped it on, and handed the paper to Xiaobai. "Take this to the resource warehouse, show it to the guard, and you can take whatever you want inside."

"Thank you very much." Xiaobai accepted Muji's note and finally sighed with gratitude.

After that, Kiyoshi wrote several more notes, one for Suzuran and the other for their payment and accommodation in the city. Then, after telling Shiro that they could come back anytime, Kiyoshi and the staff around him buried themselves in Shiro's drawings and began to carefully discuss them.

Xiaobai and Linglan found their straw hats and concealed their appearances. They left the factory, walked out of the open space, and headed towards the city amidst the shouts of the gatekeeper.

As Linglan walked, she kept praising the incredible high-tech city, and also exclaimed how amazing Xiaobai was, saying things like, "No wonder she's Lu Lin, I knew I hadn't misjudged her."

Xiao Bai didn't say anything along the way, but looked at Ling Lan's profile with a touch of sadness on her face.

Finally, Shiro and Suzuran reached the resource repository with the pass provided by Kiji.

"Sister Linglan, I can go in by myself from now on," Xiaobai said to Linglan beside her.

"Oh, okay." Linglan didn't think too much about it and waved to Xiaobai. "Come back soon."

"..." Xiaobai smiled, then turned around and slowly walked into the open door of the resource repository.

After quickly adjusting to the dim light of the resource depot, Xiaobai saw the coal and other resources piled up like small mountains in front of him.

The heavy mountain of resources kept piling up, like the resource depot in the newbie town's stronghold, turning into a dark and imposing peak.

Xiao Bai looked at the resources in front of her with emotion, feeling that she had seen hope of going home.

She closed her eyes and entered her own mental world.

The familiar scent of grass filled the air, and Xiaobai quickly opened her eyes and ran towards the Deep Sea Will, who was leaning against the headboard looking lazy.

Deep Sea Will is holding several pages of blueprints and looking at them quietly, appearing to have the air of a quiet, literary young woman.

"Deep Sea Will! Deep Sea Will! I found it!" Little White ran to the side of the Deep Sea Will, grabbed its exposed thighs with both hands and swayed back and forth.

"Hmm." The Will of the Deep Sea nodded simply, then placed the blueprints in his hand on his lap.

The thing that Deep Sea Will placed on his lap was the blueprint for the mecha technology that Muji and his city had been researching, which Xiaobai had seen before.

"Huh?" Xiaobai looked at the blueprint on the Deep Sea Will's leg and thought for a while in surprise. She didn't understand why the Deep Sea Will would be interested in this.

But now is clearly not the time to consider such questions. Xiao Bai quickly shook his head: "Deep Sea Will, do you think the resources outside are enough for us to travel back?"

"...No..." The Will of the Deep Sea was about to say no, but after thinking for a while, it sighed, "Let's not talk about time travel for now. You should think about how to detonate those things and still save your life."

"Huh? Didn't you say that having energy is enough?" Xiaobai asked.

“I did say that, but I never said that having enough energy would be enough.” The Will of the Deep Sea said, looking at Little White. “Actually, this energy isn’t really enough. And if you want to travel back from here, even if you succeed by sheer luck, the people in this city have lost so many resources, it probably won’t end well.”

The words of the Deep Sea Will stumped Xiaobai.