Elder brother's garrison

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Upon hearing this, many of the admirals present looked displeased.

To be honest, working under a younger, arrogant girl is not a prestigious thing. Almost all the admirals here were tricked and coaxed into joining the group by Luo Lian.

Indeed, Luo Lian's abilities made the team's coordination extremely good. The cooperation between the twenty-odd admirals was as perfect as the meshing of gears, and the team's daily profits were also extremely large.

However, humans are ultimately driven by greed. After learning that Luo Lian had no resources and was only using her brains to get something for nothing, while acting all high and mighty, the admirals began to feel resentful.

—Why should I?

At first, it was just a small idea, and the group of people could still be restrained by a little bit of contractual spirit. But later, this small idea was slowly brewed in yesterday's arduous labor that seemed to be exploiting labor.

In the end, the little idea slowly developed and expanded, eventually becoming the seed of rebellion, which took root and sprouted under Luo Lian's careful care.

Even now, after a night of lively discussion, the team members are even preparing to raise the banner of rebellion, wanting to directly usurp the captain's position, take a large slice of Luo Lian's generous rewards as captain, and teach this arrogant young girl a lesson.

However, dreams are ultimately beautiful. This group of people even failed at the very first step of their plan.

They couldn't find Luo Lian.

Normally, Luo Lian would meet on the beach, but this time, in order to create a sense of pressure and gain a psychological and aura advantage in the first step of the negotiation, the team chose to launch an unexpected surprise attack on the door of the hotel where Luo Lian was staying. Unfortunately, while there was an element of surprise, it wasn't Luo Lian who was unexpected this time.

More than twenty admirals stood in front of the hotel with unfriendly expressions, and as time went by, their anger slowly brewed in their hearts.

"Ah!" Suddenly, the eyes of one of the admirals who was staring at the hotel entrance lit up. He raised his hand and pointed to a ship girl who was leaving the hotel with him. "That ship girl!"

They recognized that ship girl; on the first day Luo Lian went out to swindle and cheat, she was followed by quite a few ship girls, and this was one of them.

one of them.

More than twenty admirals rushed forward and instantly surrounded the ship girl and the admiral.

"Huh? Who are you? Wait...wait, I didn't do anything! I don't have any money either!" The admiral, surrounded by more than twenty unfriendly-looking admirals, turned pale instantly. He subconsciously moved closer to his ship girl and looked around at the people in a panic.

"We won't hurt you, we want to ask about your ship girl." These ordinary, relatively inactive admirals, who at least belonged to an admiral's guild, wouldn't bother with the super-lazy admiral in the hotel. After a perfunctory explanation to the ship girl's owner, they ignored the admiral's reaction and turned to the ship girl, "Hello, do you still recognize us?"

"Uh..." The ship girl's face turned awkward. It seemed she recognized the admirals in front of her. "I... I didn't say anything. I was just doing a favor for our admiral, helping out in front of everyone..."

It seems this ship girl is treating these admirals like a group of deceived, motivated masses, coming to seek revenge.

"We didn't come here for that." Seeing the ship girl's reaction, the admirals were immediately delighted. "Is that brat who hired you staying at this hotel?"

“Uh…” The ship girl was taken aback, then looked at her admiral, and finally nodded somewhat resignedly, “I’ll be staying here.”

"Which floor?"

"It doesn't matter which floor she's on anymore, she moved out yesterday," the ship girl sighed.

"They moved away?!" The admirals were shocked.

"Yes, I happened to be at the hotel when she came back yesterday afternoon. I saw that they had packed their things and checked out."

The admirals were startled, and a million thoughts flashed through their minds in an instant, before finally settling on one point.

—Luo Lian ran away.

Damn, Luo Lian still has three days' worth of the team's income on her.

That's 1.7 to 1.8 million, nearly 2 million, which is a huge sum of 100 million in merit!

"Where did she go!" Upon realizing this, the admirals' anger flared up like dry haystacks, and they glared at the ship girl, demanding answers.

"...I...I don't know." The ship girl took a few steps back, looking somewhat frightened. "Then why don't you go look for it at the Admiral's Guild..."

"Let's go!" the group of admirals cursed angrily, and then ran straight towards the Admirals' Guild.

Humans are not ship girls after all, and besides, Luo Lian's place was quite a distance from the Admiral's Guild. When the group of admirals ran, it took them a full half hour to barely see the gate of the Admiral's Guild.

The matter was of great importance, so the group of admirals rushed into the Admirals' Guild, panting, and searched for Luo Lian like hungry wolves.

Luo Lian really is here.

Luo Lian was sitting quietly at a table in the rest area, holding a steaming cup of tea. Warspite, dressed in a red robe, sat beside her, his snow-white fingers constantly poking at the teapot in front of him.

"Luo Lian!" Seeing Luo Lian's calm demeanor, the group of admirals were immediately enraged. In full view of everyone, they rushed to the table where Luo Lian was sitting, staring at her angrily, as if they wanted to hear an explanation.

"Ah, everyone's here." Luo Lian didn't seem to have any intention of hiding. She turned her head, quietly looked at the arriving admirals for a few moments, and finally nodded. "Two hours faster than I expected. What, did you meet a master who gave you some guidance?"

"What, two hours?"

"People like you who lack initiative should have waited another two hours before realizing I'm no longer in the hotel, right?"

"You!" The leading admiral looked at Luo Lian and immediately became furious.

He didn't even care that Luo Lian was just a young girl. In an instant, the feeling of being cheated, enslaved, exploited, and played like a monkey surged up and turned into anger.

He raised his hand, ready to strike Luo Lian.

"This is the Admiral's Guild, you know," Luo Lian murmured softly.

The admiral in the lead was taken aback, only then realizing that several staff members were already looking at him with polite smiles.

A cold sweat immediately broke out on his back.

The Admiral's Guild strictly forbids violence, especially during an event. If Luo Lian hadn't reminded her, she might have been in grave danger.

And it's not just him; the twenty-odd admirals who were with him probably won't fare well either.

The admiral had no choice but to slink back his hand. The admirals behind him also breathed a sigh of relief.

Luo Lian gave him a cold look and put down her teacup: "Actually, if taking a punch would make you suffer a lot, I wouldn't mind. However, I have to meet someone very important later. If you hit me in the face and I get bruises, it would be more troublesome for me. So you don't need to thank me for reminding you."

The admirals fell silent, staring at Luo Lian, a subtle sense of defeat rising in their hearts.

Negotiations began the moment they met.

Luo Lian deliberately provoked their anger from the start, making the exhausted admirals furious and want to deal with Luo Lian in the most primitive way. At this moment, Luo Lian directly brought out the mountain of the Admiral Guild, which suppressed their actions and made them swallow their anger. After the end, she explained in a condescending manner that she disdained to use such methods against them, showing her kingly demeanor.

In an instant, the offensive was fully revealed.

"Alright, let's get down to business. What do you want from me?"

"Hand over your captaincy. Apologize to us." The admirals said coldly to Luo Lian, "Also, we demand a raise."

"Hmm." Luo Lian nodded, then picked up her teacup and took a sip. "Well said, raising salaries is indeed the most effective way to motivate employees."

"Then you agreed?"

"But what does that have to do with me being a cold-hearted pigeon?" Luo Lian put down her teacup.

"???" The team members looked at Luo Lian with confusion in their eyes.

"I've already left the team." Luo Lian shrugged. "So whether it's being the captain or getting a raise or anything, you guys can just do your thing."

Chapter 521 The Empress Dowager Arrives

Luo Lian's words stunned everyone present.

"Leave...leave the team?!" The team members looked at Luo Lian. "Why didn't we know?"

"It's all clearly written in the contract," Luo Lian said, extending her hand to Warspite. Warspite then took out a contract from her ship's equipment space and handed it to Luo Lian.

Luo Lian slammed the contract on the table and said to the admiral in front of her, "It's written in black and white that everyone can leave the team after the day's activities."

"The day's activities are over? But today hasn't even started yet..."

"I left the team after the event last night," Luo Lian said. "Anyway, I'm the team leader, so I can handle the paperwork for myself when I leave. What's wrong with that?"

The admirals stared blankly at Luo Lian, their heads bowed as they looked at the contract Luo Lian had slammed on the table. Only now did they finally understand.

—It seems the terms of this contract aren't for her own benefit, but for Luo Lian's!

"Fine, I have no objection." The leading admiral, his face grim, pulled out a chair and sat down. He looked at Luo Lian and asked, "Then what happened with you running off with the team's merits?"

"Wouldn't I be waiting for you here?" Luo Lian snorted, then with a flick of her wrist, she pulled out more than twenty credit cards and slammed them onto the table. "This is for you."

"how many."

"I didn't count carefully, but it should add up to around five or six hundred thousand merit points," Luo Lian said.

"You!" The admiral sitting in front of Luo Lian slammed his hand on the table and stood up, his eyes burning with rage. "You're too greedy!"

The team earned a whopping 1.7 to 1.8 million in just three days. But when Luo Lian left the team, she only left them with 500,000 to 600,000, while she herself took away the remaining 1 million or so. She was truly a ruthless contractor, just like Zhou Bapi.

"Watch your words. The division of labor was agreed upon beforehand. Everyone's wages will be distributed according to their work. The autumn deep-sea operation lasts for more than twenty days. I'll count fifteen days for you. The price for hiring you for fifteen days is 100,000 per person, which is 6,666 per day. I've hired you for three days in total, and there are twenty-five of you. I've left you with 500,000, which is already considered very considerate of you." Luo Lian said coldly to the admiral in front of her, then pointed her slender fingertips at the terms of the contract without any hesitation.

"You!" the admiral shouted, his face turning bright red in an instant. He looked at the contract on the table, then looked up at Luo Lian, but for a moment he didn't know what to say.

Indeed, it was clearly written in the contract, in black and white.

But when all the admirals joined, they felt that everything in the agreement was in their favor. How come now it seems that all the terms are in Luo Lian's favor?

"Are you done? Take your merits and go." Luo Lian put the contract away and put Warspite into her ship equipment space. She didn't look at the team members again.

More than twenty people stood around Luo Lian, looking down at the twenty-five credit cards that Luo Lian still had on the table, feeling extremely uncomfortable.

Admittedly, the income of nearly 20,000 merit points in three days is far more than what they could earn by working alone. However, when they thought about how Luo Lian directly took more than a million merit points, they felt a deep sense of injustice and unfairness.

But if I really had to say something, I couldn't. Luo Lian hadn't violated any rules; her actions were all reflected in the contract and permitted.

"...You're ruthless." In the end, unable to say anything more, the admiral could only utter a harsh remark, grabbing the credit card that Luo Lian had left on the table, and glaring at Luo Lian one last time, "I hope you never leave the Admiral's Guild."

Luo Lian didn't say anything, she just sighed softly.

At this moment, Luo Lian's opinion of this group of people dropped several levels.

As expected, a lackey is just a lackey; he can't accomplish anything great.

Luo Lian's nonchalant expression only fueled the team members' anger. They took a few deep breaths, turned their backs, and prepared to leave.

"Oh my... it's so lively." Just then, a calm and gentle female voice came from the entrance of the Admiral's Guild.

The voice was gentle and melodious, like a stream that could soothe the anger in everyone's heart, slowly flowing through the air.

The sound was neither too loud nor too soft, just enough for everyone to hear.

"Pfft." Luo Lian spat out a mouthful of tea, then quickly pulled out a handkerchief from her clothes and wiped her face and the table in front of her clean. She then placed her hands flat on her thighs, straightened her chest, and transformed into a well-behaved girl.

Luo Lian had seemed like an old general who was always confident of victory, but the next second after hearing this voice, he seemed to have become a different person, which made everyone very strange.

Everyone looked in the direction of the sound.

Then, everyone was stunned.

At the entrance of the Admiral's Guild, a long-haired ship girl in a white sailor uniform stepped through the gate. Her mature and beautiful body was curvaceous, and her gentle and soft aura wafted out like the fragrance of ripe fruit.

The ship girl gently tossed her head, her waist-length flaxen hair trembling slightly. A few strands of hair lay like flowing water on her fragrant shoulders, and flowed down her body as her slender fingers gently brushed them aside. The small movement was full of femininity.

"How about taking me with you?" The ship girl slowly walked in front of everyone, a gentle smile on her face. In an instant, the spring breeze was like a willow branch gently brushing against her cheeks.

"..." The leading admiral took a few steps back, his face immediately turning red like a young virgin seeing his dream lover.

"Sister, sister, who are you..." Several admirals couldn't help but feel curious about this mysteriously appearing ship girl.

"Shh!" The other admirals quickly grabbed the hands of the admiral who had asked the question and held him down. "She is Lexington!"

“Lexington…uh!” Several admirals were stunned, looking at Lexington’s smiling face, which resembled that of a goddess, and were immediately shocked.

Lexington?

That was a super famous ship girl, but what shocked the admirals the most was that only one Lexington was deployed during the Autumn Deep Sea event.

That's Lexington, the newbie naval base and the world's number one naval base.

—This is the Empress Dowager!

"Newbie Naval Base... Newbie Naval Base... My team name is also Newbie Naval Base, is this lady here to cause trouble?!"

The thought of this made the admirals present shudder, their legs trembling.

Although the world's number one naval base usually looks down on his group of lazy bums, if they go looking for trouble, the naval base wouldn't hesitate to wave its hand and send them flying. If it gets angry, his group will really be in trouble.

“Lelelek…Xington…”

"I'm here."

“Our team name is… it was chosen by the captain, no, it was chosen by the former captain, it was her!” One admiral pointed directly at Luo Lian, who was sitting at the table behind.

Lexington maintained her gentle smile and followed the admiral's finger to look at Luo Lian.

Then, Lexington nodded, her red lips parting slightly: "Ah..."

Lexington slowly walked towards Luo Lian, and the admirals quickly made way for him, watching with glee as Lexington reached Luo Lian's side.

Serves you right for showing off! You've bitten off more than you can chew! The title of the world's number one naval base isn't so easy to steal. You're doomed!

“That won’t do.” Under everyone’s watchful eyes, Lexington bent down and said gently to Luo Lian.

The admirals standing behind him clenched their fists and smiled.