Elder brother's garrison

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"..." Lexington looked at Akashi and sighed, "Mia is my most important friend, Akashi."

"I didn't bully Mia!" Akashi quickly waved her little hands in anger. "If you want to build equipment, you need to understand it first. I don't have any blueprints, so I can only use this as a first attempt."

"Is that so?" Lexington asked Mia, who was in his arms.

Mia thought for a moment, her face flushing slightly, but she still nodded.

Lexington smiled and patted Mia's head, then said to Akashi, "Mia is a girl too, you can't use that method anymore."

"Huh? But if I don't lick it..."

"I heard you've been selling ship girl outfits lately," Lexington suddenly asked.

"Ah, oh, I'm selling them. Just trying to make a little money," Akashi said, scratching his head.

"But I did hear that your shop also sells hardcover comic books and the like."

"Alas!?"

"What comic book is it?" Lexington asked Akashi. "I heard it's not very harmonious."

“Uh…that…” Akashi was sweating profusely.

"Oh, right, it's not good to pry into other people's affairs like that, so I won't ask anymore." Lexington smiled and gave up on the question. "Akashi, you have to treat Mia well."

"Ah... okay." Akashi bent down dejectedly.

Lexington then looked at Mia: "Mia, you should also try your best to cooperate with Akashi. It's not easy for her either. If we succeed, Mia, you can have another little sister."

Mia covered her mouth, looked at Lexington, hesitated, nodded, and got down from her arms.

Having calmed down, Akashi dejectedly led Mia away, and the two of them left the admiral's office together.

Lexington then raised his teacup and took a small sip of the tea.

A short while later, Reputation walked in from outside.

"Why isn't the door closed?" Renown glanced into the admiral's room and, finding only Lexington there, smiled and asked her.

“Akashi and Mia were just here, they probably forgot to turn it off,” Lexington said.

"The two of them?" Reputation thought for a moment with some curiosity, then walked up to Lexington. "Is it about replicating the humanoid equipment?"

“Who knows?” Lexington smiled at Reputation, then handed him another cup of black tea on the table.

Reputation took the teacup and watched Lexington drink the tea.

"Your sister has run away," Reputation said.

"Oh dear, what are we going to do?" Lexington said casually, picking up his teacup and blowing on it lightly.

"You did this on purpose, didn't you?" Reputation laughed.

"No, that's not true." Lexington shook her head, then after a while, smiled at Reputation and said, "Little White didn't bring any carriers this time, so Gaga's going won't be a problem, right?"

"You really did it on purpose."

“No, no.” Lexington continued to shake her head, put down her teacup, and looked out the window at the sky.

Cloudless.

"prestige."

"Reputation remains."

"It's so quiet."

"..."

A few days later, Xiaobai got off the train.

Having already experienced this once before, Xiaobai skillfully led the ship girls away from the train station.

"Admiral, which way should we go now?" Missouri asked Xiaobai, who was standing next to him.

"Keep walking forward, a car will take us there."

"Oh, I see. Missouri understands."

"Missouri, you've never been to the Chapter Sea?"

“Never been there before.” Missouri laughed. “It’s wonderful that Missouri’s first time was with the Admiral.”

"Really?" Little White clearly didn't understand Missouri's words. She smiled and lowered her head to look at the map in her hand.

On the other side of Xiaobai, Saratoga, who was carrying Xiaobai's bag, stuck out her tongue heavily.

A few days ago, when Xiaobai arrived in the city center by bus, he saw Saratoga, who had escaped from the naval base yet again.

This was an unsurprising ending, after all, he was Saratoga, the man who acted recklessly and without restraint, capable of anything.

Xiao Bai didn't let Saratoga go back. Just like in Yu Xiu, since Saratoga wanted to come along, Xiao Bai wouldn't refuse.

Since Saratoga has already escaped, whether she goes back now or after the conquest is complete, the punishment she faces will be the same. By granting Saratoga's wish, Xiaobai can at least make Saratoga die a little more peacefully.

"Speaking of which, the sea areas in the first chapter and the second chapter are quite far apart," Xiaobai said, looking at the map in his hand.

"The chapter sea areas are actually several independent sea areas that have been separately divided up." Changchun explained to Xiaobai after hearing Xiaobai's voice, "Admiral, the second chapter sea area is a very remote sea area."

"Oh, Changchun, you've been to Chapter Two?"

“I’ve been here a few times during expeditions,” Changchun said.

"That's amazing."

"Because I was very weak back then, I couldn't help anyone at the naval base much, so I could only go on expeditions from afar. It wasn't anything special." Changchun blushed slightly, then took a water bottle from his backpack and handed it to Xiaobai. "Admiral, would you like some water?"

"Ah, thank you." Xiaobai was also a little thirsty, so she took Changchun's water bottle, took a few sips, and said, "Changchun is so considerate."

"Thank you for the compliment, Admiral." Changchun took back Xiaobai's water bottle, put it back in his backpack, and smiled sheepishly.

Under Xiaobai's guidance, the group followed the map for a while.

After walking for a while, Xiaobai and her friends saw a shuttle vehicle similar to the one in the first chapter. Xiaobai got into the car, and the vehicle stopped after driving for several hours.

Xiao Bai got out of the car and looked ahead.

What came into view was a vast blue sea, not the man-made city that Xiaobai remembered.

"Huh? Where's Chapter City?" Xiao Bai was surprised to see the bare beach after getting off the car.

"Admiral, the sea area for the second chapter is in a very distant sea," Changchun reminded Xiaobai.

"what?"

“To put it simply,” Bismarck said, stepping forward, “we’re not there yet. We need to take a boat.”

As if to confirm Bismarck's words, right after she finished speaking, a sizable yacht, parting white waves, sailed toward Xiaobai on the horizon she was facing.

The yacht stopped after approaching the beach where Xiaobai was.

"Get on board, Admiral," Changchun said to Xiaobai.

"Okay, okay." Xiaobai quickly put the map back into his clothes and then boarded the yacht.

There were two or three reliable soldiers sitting in the helm of the yacht. After seeing Xiaobai, they simply saluted him silently and said nothing more.

After Xiaobai and the ship girls boarded the yacht one by one, the yacht spun out and sped towards the sea.

After settling in inside the yacht, Xiaobai chose a seat and sat down.

Bismarck then went up to the deck alone under the guise of keeping watch.

"Admiral, the sea area for the second chapter is far out at sea. We need to go to an island," Changchun said to Xiaobai.

"Ah... I see. So, are we going to sleep on the yacht all day?"

"need."

"emmmmm"

"Is the Admiral not used to sleeping on the ship?"

"It's alright, I've slept with it before."

"That's good." Changchun continued to explain to Xiaobai, "The yacht will take us to the artificial city in the second chapter. There are many daily necessities on the yacht, as well as reliable military uncles and ship girls."

"Hey, are there any ship girls?"

"Yes, after all, we need to protect the people on the ship just in case, even though we don't need protection." Changchun said, then smiled at Xiaobai, "Admiral, you're not thinking of rescuing the ship girls on this ship again, are you?"

"No way," Xiaobai said sheepishly.

"Even the admiral couldn't do this, you know. These are government-owned ship girls."

"No way..." Xiaobai said.

Just then, a commotion suddenly erupted on the deck, accompanied by a woman's scream.

The ship girls sitting inside the yacht suddenly realized they had encountered the deep sea and hurriedly ran out in a swarm.

Xiao Bai followed.

Everyone rushed out of the cabin and looked towards the deck.

There was no deep-sea attack.

On the deck, a red-haired ship girl was clinging tightly to Bismarck's leg, shouting as if she had seen a savior.

"My benefactor! My benefactor!" the red-haired ship girl cried out while clinging to Bismarck's leg.

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Chapter 608 Progress and Advancement

She always remembered the little angel admiral who had helped her.

Jinqu was once an ordinary ship girl belonging to a marine insurance company. Her main task was to take on tasks assigned by the company and escort cruise ships for tourism.

Encouragement is a ship girl created by the insurance company. Her potential and strength are average, but fortunately, the insurance company has other ship girls besides her, so Encouragement still has companions. The company's compensation is also reasonable. Considering that she works hard for the insurance company, the money she earns is quite substantial from a human perspective. With companions and money, her daily life is not lonely.

The company also promised to grant her freedom after she worked for the company for fifty years and earned enough money to build the ship. She would then become a free person, and from then on, she could either dismantle her ship equipment and integrate into human society or do something else entirely.

That's why I feel a sense of purpose in life.

Just when Jinqu thought she would live an ordinary life like this, an unexpected illness, like something that was bound to happen sooner or later, suddenly disrupted her peaceful life.

That was her partner, who was attacked by the deep sea during an escort mission and whose ship equipment was severely damaged.

For military ship girls, severely damaged ship equipment is not a big problem. With abundant resources and convenient facilities, they can be restored to their original condition by soaking in the quick repair pool after their ship equipment is damaged.

However, this doesn't apply to civilian ship girls like the Enterprise.

Because the resources and facilities serving military ship girls are extremely expensive and rare, and these things are kept as top secrets by the military, civilian ship girls like Jinqu and her companions have to spend a large sum of money to apply for a loan from the naval base where the city is located if they want to use the quick repair pool.

When a ship girl's rigging is severely damaged, it means her combat power is reduced to a minimum. After a period of time, even the last line of defense protecting the ship girl—the invincible protection from severe damage—will disappear. At this point, until the rigging is repaired, the ship girl is no longer an indestructible steel body, but a frail, ordinary girl. If there's anything special about her compared to human girls, it's probably that she can only show off by walking on water.

The unscrupulous insurance company where Jinqu works stipulates that all civilian ship girls must pay out of their own pockets for the management, maintenance, repair, and even the purchase of equipment. Jinqu and her colleagues have relatively high salaries compared to ordinary humans, but if this amount of money is invested in the maintenance of ship girls' equipment, it is far from enough.

Jinqu and his friends usually maintain their ship equipment, so most of their wages go towards it. After deducting daily expenses and entertainment, they don't have much left at the end of the month. Suddenly having to pay for ship equipment repairs is simply impossible for Jinqu and his friends. Even with Jinqu's savings, the amount they can scrape together is less than half the cost of the repair pool ticket.

Money is something that can stump even the most heroic figures, and even powerful ship girls are no exception.

Having no other choice, Jinqu and her friends opted for a desperate measure.

The two of them took on a fairly large job: protecting a cruise ship heading to the tourist hotspot Corola Island. It was a very safe area with a low chance of encountering deep-sea creatures, and the tourists on board mostly hired the ship girls simply to see them, take photos, and have some fun.

Although the teammate of the ambitious one no longer has much combat power and can only be a decorative figurehead, the ship's equipment is still healthy. She can handle the safety of a cruise ship by herself. After the delivery is over, the ambitious one and her teammate will have enough money to enter the repair pool.

However, bad luck never comes alone; it always arrives one after another, in droves, when you least want to see it.

Sure enough, they encountered deep-sea amphibious ships in the safe waters, and it was a small deep-sea fleet that included advanced ship types, far exceeding the upper limit of what the Advance could handle.

During the battle, Jinqu was unsurprisingly surrounded and heavily damaged by the deep-sea ships. Even her companions were hit by cannon fire while trying to save her, spitting out a mouthful of blood and fainting on the spot.

At that moment, Jinqu was truly desperate. Just as she was hugging her friends and watching the deep-sea ships around her approach step by step, and she could only wait to die, hope appeared.

The sky roared as carrier-based aircraft, burning like miniature suns, burst forth from the cruise ship behind them. The aircraft flew overhead and, while the enemy was bewildered, dropped bomb after bomb, tearing the entire enemy to shreds in an instant amidst flames and explosions.

After that, a ship girl with beautiful blonde hair rushed over from the direction of the cruise ship. She grabbed herself and her companions and hurried back towards the cruise ship. After settling herself and her companions in, she left.

For a fleeting moment, Jinqu truly believed that the God of Ship Girls had come to save him from his miserable state.

The next morning, he went to find the ship girl who had saved him and shamelessly begged her to help him.