Elder brother's garrison

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There was no other way. If word got out that Jinqu and her companions had both lost their fighting ability, the cruise ship would have to wait for rescue. While she wouldn't have to pay all the losses, she would still have to pay a substantial fine. However, Jinqu couldn't even afford to pay compensation; she was too busy with her own ship equipment to have any money left.

Having just been rescued and feeling the relief of surviving a disaster, I thought about the pressures of life and even felt that I would have preferred to be killed by the deep-sea amphibious assault ship.

That's why Jinqu sought help from that group of mysterious ship girls.

Before begging for help, I made sure to settle my seriously injured and unconscious companion who had lost the protection of the ship's equipment. I gritted my teeth and took a shower, sprayed perfume, and put on light makeup.

Regardless, that group of ship girls is the last hope for progress. Apart from her pretty face, she has nothing left to offer. That group of ship girls is very likely a ship girl and admiral on an incognito visit. In that case, even if it means sacrificing herself and being played with, she has to rescue her friends.

The result was naturally exciting and unexpected for the admiral. Although there was a fierce-looking cat-eared ship girl among the group of ship girls, the admiral was quite gentle and considerate. After learning about her situation, she gave her two invaluable quick repair devices without saying a word and promised to protect her.

It was truly touching to see Jinqu. At that time, Jinqu felt like an angel descended to earth, bringing light to the world.

After using the rapid repair device, Jinqu regained his combat effectiveness, and his comrades also recovered quickly from their physical wounds due to the ship equipment repair, and were no longer in danger of death.

Jinqu originally wanted to properly thank the group of ship girls and the admiral, but in the following days, because he and his friends had to escort the cruise ship, they didn't have time to go and thank them. When the cruise ship finally reached its destination, Corola Island, and Jinqu, having completed his mission, wanted to disembark and look for the group of ship girls, at least to treat them to a meal and thank them in person again, he could no longer find them.

Jinqu and his friends searched all afternoon but couldn't find it, and in the end they had no choice but to accompany the cruise ship back the way they came.

When all the bad luck has passed, good luck will come.

After returning to the company, the ambitious marine insurance company where he worked, which had once again entered a mode of diligent but exploitative work, was soon ordered to make reforms.

A number of members from the Ship Girl Protection Association came down and took the ship girls, including Jinqu, away separately for investigation and questioning.

During the investigation, I learned that as a ship girl, I have the right to choose the company I work for. It's not that whoever built me ​​has the right to command me. The insurance company has already made a lot of money from me, enough to build ten of me. The insurance company also has to pay for the maintenance of ship girl equipment. Civilian ship girls also need regular maintenance. The life of a real ship girl is actually much better than what I am living now.

After investigating the unscrupulous insurance company, all the ship girls from the Enterprise and Insurance Company were freed.

When asked why their company was being audited, the investigator simply said that someone with considerable influence had personally written the whistleblower letter, and that the ship girls would receive fair treatment before leaving.

Jinqu thinks that the person who wrote the whistleblower letter is probably the admiral of the group of ship girls who saved him.

After gaining their freedom, Jinqu and his friends' lives improved a lot, but Jinqu always wanted to find his benefactors and repay them properly.

After searching high and low, she finally found a job that made it easy to get close to the admiral, thanks to her relatively high level of training among civilian ship girls.

That's the frigate that transported the yacht in Chapter Two.

He worked diligently and conscientiously for more than half a year, all for the sake of finding his benefactor.

However, as time went on, they gave up their ambition.

Having met more admirals, Jinqu realized that the admiral he encountered back then must have been incredibly powerful, possibly even a super admiral in Chapter 7 or later. Why would such an admiral bother coming to Chapter 2?

With this in mind, Jinqi began to accept reality while simultaneously giving up.

On this day, just like any other day, the crew of the Yacht, who was working and protecting the peace of the ship, welcomed a new batch of ship girls and admirals.

Jinqu sat at the stern, rolling up his sleeves, ready to catch a few fish at sea.

Soon after, a fierce-looking white-haired cat-eared ship girl walked up to her and looked at her with a bit of curiosity.

"Fishing?" Cat Girl asked.

"Yeah, let's catch a few to take home and use, that way we can save some money tonight..." Jinqu replied while glancing at the ship girl beside him.

Then, she froze.

A few seconds later, chaos erupted on the deck. Jinqu suddenly pounced on Bismarck's lap and hugged her tightly, refusing to let go.

"My benefactor!"

Chapter 609: The Market Opens!

When Xiaobai and the other ship girls arrived on the deck, they all fell silent upon seeing the two people entangled together.

The red-haired ship girl was clinging tightly to Bismarck's leg, crying and shouting at Bismarck with snot and tears streaming down her face, as excited as if she had seen her long-lost mother.

Bismarck's face showed a complete lack of understanding of the situation. She frowned and looked down at the ship girl on her lap, wondering if she had seen this ship girl before.

"Ah, from the ship." Of all the ship girls present, Saratoga was the first to recognize her. Walking next to Shiro, Saratoga stared at the red-haired ship girl suspiciously for a long time, then her eyes flashed, and she grabbed Shiro's arm and took the opportunity to snuggle against her. "Um, from the ship!"

"On the ship? Admiral and Saratoga, do you know her?" Before Xiaobai could speak, Changchun asked curiously.

"I know her!" Saratoga was overjoyed. She wasn't happy because she recognized the ship girl, but because she and Shiro finally had a shared event.

“I do know this ship girl…” Xiaobai smiled sheepishly at Changchun. “I met a ship girl on a cruise ship when I went to Colorado Island before. This is her.”

"She calls you 'Benefactor, Admiral,'" Changchun said.

"Well, something happened a little bit." Xiaobai smiled.

Changchun looked knowingly at the red-haired ship girl on Bismarck's lap.

This red-haired ship girl must be the one Changchun mentioned before, the one used to protect soldiers on this yacht. She's currently clinging to Bismarck's leg, and it's hard to tell whether she's laughing or crying; she's definitely very emotional.

"Admiral..." Changchun pouted, a rare sight for her, and looked at Xiaobai with a somewhat aggrieved expression.

What happened in Changchun?

"Changchun lost. When it comes to salvaging ships, the Admiral is truly unparalleled," Changchun said with a hint of resentment.

"Ha...ha." Xiaobai laughed awkwardly, "I didn't say I wanted to fish...besides, it was only a one-time meeting, and they might not even want to come back with me."

"Does the Admiral want to rescue her?" Missouri, who was next to Xiaobai, heard Xiaobai's words and moved behind Xiaobai with a smile. "Missouri is willing to do everything in her power to help the Admiral."

"Missouri, don't make things worse." Xiaobai was extremely embarrassed at this moment.

It's hard to pinpoint exactly when it started, but it seems like all my ship girls have come to see me as someone with an incredibly passionate dedication to salvaging ships.

Honestly, while Xiaobai did manage to acquire more Abyssal Fleet ships and other ships, it was all quite natural. Those ship girls all went online on their own initiative. Although there were some like Pachina who were immediately punished and had to stay obediently by Xiaobai's side, Xiaobai didn't intentionally want to bring them back to the naval base.

Xiaobai still values ​​human rights; she would never let the ship girls do anything they didn't like.

"Admiral." Just as Xiaobai was thinking, Changchun's voice woke him up once again.

"Ah, what's wrong?"

"If you don't go now, it will be too late," Changchun said.

"What's not going up?" Little White stared blankly in Bismarck's direction.

After finishing her contemplation, Bismarck's face was no longer filled with doubt. Now, Bismarck's face was full of determination. She raised one hand, made a chop gesture, and aimed at the red-haired ship girl Jinqu's neck, ready to cut it down.

Xiaobai knew how powerful Bismarck's slash was. With the power of a ship girl, a single strike could knock someone unconscious if she was lucky, or send them straight to hell if she was unlucky.

"Bismarck!" Little White quickly called out to Bismarck, stopping her in mid-air.

Bismarck looked at Little White and lowered his hand.

“Bismarck, we know that person.” Seeing that Bismarck had stopped, Xiaobai slowly walked up to him and said.

"You know him?" Bismarck asked.

"Yes, the ship girl who guarded the cruise ship that I met on Corola Island before," Xiaobai said.

“…” Bismarck fell into deep thought.

For Bismarck, the people he met in his life generally fell into only two categories: family and strangers.

Family members are the crew members inside the naval base, including Shiro. As for strangers, they are people outside the naval base.

Remembering the hundreds of family members inside the naval base was already a difficult task for Bismarck, so he usually forgot about passersby and strangers as soon as they passed through his mind.

For example, in Bismarck's eyes, Ringo and Muyu were no different; they were both useful people who listened to the commoners.

For this reason, after more than half a year, Bismarck had long forgotten about the ship girls she had encountered on the cruise ship.

But even so, since Xiaobai says they know each other, then they must know each other.

Bismarck looked into Little White's eyes, thought for a while, and finally lowered his hand.

The man on Bismarck's lap watched as Bismarck chatted with a somewhat familiar white-haired girl for a while before putting his hand down and looking at the white-haired girl's face with some curiosity.

Jinqu lingered on Xiaobai's face for a moment with some confusion, as if some memory was about to emerge.

Xiao Bai knew that this was someone Jin Qu had never seen before, someone who had seized the ship's equipment and turned into someone with white hair.

Xiao Bai had indeed changed a lot after acquiring the ship's equipment. He was worried that his parents might not recognize him, so apart from occasionally calling home, he hadn't dared to video chat or send any photos back.

Thinking this, Xiaobai closed her eyes and smiled at Jinqu, then reached out and gathered her hair, pinning it up behind her.

The person who had been watching Xiaobai's ambition suddenly turned surprised after Xiaobai closed his eyes and tossed his hair behind him.

Her mouth agape, she stared in shock at Xiaobai, then trembled as she released her grip on Bismarck: "It's...it's my benefactor...it's my benefactor!"

"I'm not some benefactor, Enterprise. Long time no see." Little White let go of her hand, and her white hair flowed down her fingers like water, returning to its original place.

Jinqu looked at Xiaobai with tears streaming down his face, saying, "I've finally met you..."

"Well, how have things been since then?"

"Thank you! Thank you!" Jinqu lunged forward and jumped off Bismarck's lap into Xiaobai's arms.

Jinqu knelt on the ground, hugged Xiaobai's waist, and kept rubbing his face against Xiaobai's stomach.

Fortunately, Shiro was already used to being touched closely by ship girls. When she was hugged by Jinqu, Shiro didn't react much. She just casually patted Jinqu's head.

In the end, Jinqu calmed down.

Because the noise was too loud, even the reliable soldiers couldn't stay in the cockpit in peace, so they crawled out to check the situation.

To avoid any negative consequences, Xiaobai's ship girls worked together to pull Jinqu out of Xiaobai's arms and served him some cool tea.

A few minutes later.

"Good boy, good boy." Yi Xian, who had been pulled out to work as a nanny, embraced Jinqi like a mother. Under the radiant glow of her outstanding maternal love, she patted Jinqi's back rhythmically.

Jinqu seemed too excited; for a moment, she didn't even know what she was doing. While the excitement was still lingering, she was sobbing.

"Good boy, have some tea." Yi Xian took the cool tea that Xiao Bai handed over and then held it out to Jin Qu. "Drink something sweet to calm down. Don't worry, it's cool."

"Hmm, uh." Jinqu took a can of herbal tea and gulped it down his throat.

"How are you feeling?" Yi Xian asked with a smile, looking directly at Jin Qu.

Sweet drinks can help people who are mentally unstable regain their senses.

Soon, Jinqu, nestled in Yixian's arms, slowly regained her senses. She looked around and saw Xiaobai and the other ship girls surrounding her, who was being embraced by Yixian.

She looked back and saw her colleagues, those reliable soldiers, looking at her with smiles, as if they were looking at their own daughters who were being spoiled.

"Uh!" Memories flooded back into his mind like a stream, and Jinqu finally realized how rude his out-of-control behavior had been.

Jinqu's face turned bright red in an instant. She quickly stepped out of Yixian's embrace, lowered her head, and stood in front of Xiaobai looking completely at a loss.

“…Thank you,” Jinqu said.

"You're welcome," Xiaobai said with a smile. "How are you feeling now, Miss Jinqu?"

"Okay, it's nothing." Jinqu swallowed hard, lowered his head and said to Xiaobai, "I'm so sorry for causing you trouble."

"It's nothing." Xiaobai waved her hand, indicating that she didn't care about these things. "By the way, Miss Jinqu, don't you work at an insurance company? What are you doing here?"

"The insurance company went bankrupt."

"Huh?" Xiaobai was startled. Realizing that this might be due to the effect of her whistleblower letter, she immediately became somewhat embarrassed. "Miss Ambition... are you unemployed?"

"Ah, that's true, but it's precisely because it went bankrupt that I'm free." Jinqu looked at Xiaobai's expression and thought to himself that it was indeed the person who reported it earlier. His goodwill towards Xiaobai increased even more. "I'm working here now, and the pay is much better than before. My colleagues at work also take good care of me. I'm very grateful to them."

"Ah...that's good." Xiaobai breathed a sigh of relief. "Speaking of which, Miss Ambition, where are your friends?"

"She's off today and is currently living in the artificial city."

"Oh, it seems your lives are getting better than before."

"Yes, it's all thanks to your help, my benefactor..."

Xiaobai and Jinqu started chatting normally.

Yi Xian raised her hand, fastened the button on her chest that had been loosened, and returned to the other ship girls' side.

The four Fubuki sisters were squatting next to Saratoga with Changchun, and the ship girls were chatting enthusiastically.

"How long do you think it will take the Admiral to win over this new older sister?" Fubuki had already started to treat Jinji as one of her own.

"Hmm...three days?"

"No, no, one day!"

"No way, I'll guess for two days."

"I'll bet my pocket money for a day that the admiral can take care of this young lady as soon as he gets off the ship!"

Seeing how energetic the ship girls were, Yi Xian couldn't help but smile.

Chapter 610 Enterprise and Bismarck