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The yacht sailed to the shore of the artificial island. Xiaobai and the ship girls, who had spent the whole day on the yacht, disembarked and looked at the artificial city in front of them.
Although the city in front of us is built on the sea, its size and layout are actually quite similar to those in the first chapter.
After packing their luggage, everyone said goodbye to the reliable young soldiers who came off the yacht.
Jinqiu, looking distracted, also stepped off the yacht.
“Jinqu, your home is here too, right?” Xiaobai asked Jinqu.
Jinqu nodded silently.
"There will be many opportunities to meet again in the future," Xiaobai said with a smile.
His expression was subtle.
After exchanging a few brief pleasantries, Jinqu waved to Xiaobai and the others and walked into the artificial city.
Behind Shiro, Fubuki, Bismarck, and other ship girls gathered together.
Fubuki pouted and handed over her allowance.
Changchun smiled broadly, like a hundred flowers in full bloom, and accepted Chuixue's pocket money: "A bet is a bet."
"I haven't given you enough of that sweet talk yet," Fubuki sighed.
"It's alright. Although you lost, Fubuki, Miss Jinqu is already quite swayed," Changchun said with a smile. "In a few more days, Miss Jinqu will be our new older sister."
As if sensing something, Xiaobai, who was standing in front, turned around and looked at the destroyers behind him who were gathered together and grinning mischievously, feeling a little strange.
As expected of a destroyer, it gets this excited just going to an island.
In Chapter 614, the artificial city in the sea has far fewer admirals than in Chapter 1. Compared to the bustling scene of admirals everywhere in Chapter 1, there are mostly small merchants and vendors here.
After all, this is the place that has passed through the first layer of the sieve called the first chapter. Although there are fewer admirals here, their quality is significantly better than that of the first chapter.
After walking through the bustling main street, he noticed the occasional admiral dressed in pure white. After a moment's thought, he followed the street into an alley.
The alley was lined with small black houses arranged like neat rows of tofu. The houses were fairly large, with walls and courtyards, one next to the other. These were the residences prepared for the merchants here, and the public ship girl, Jinqu, was also assigned one.
As he walked, Jinqiu touched his chest.
The one or two days I spent away from home felt like several months to me, and I still feel excited when I think about it now.
She met her benefactor, whom she had been longing for, and his ship girls even extended an olive branch to her.
To be honest, Jinqu doesn't really like her current job. Although her military colleagues respect her and treat her as a friend, and she's happy at work, Jinqu still feels like a ship girl and that going to the battlefield to fight in the deep sea is her mission.
In the artificial city, every day when Jinqu goes out, he can see military ship girls following behind the admiral. They are energetic and bright-eyed, talking about the battlefield and telling each other about how the Abyssal Fleet was doing today. They are heroic and valiant, like real warriors.
In Jinqu's view, those were the real ship girls. Compared to them, Jinqu felt that those who worked here to protect the yacht really had a feeling of just loafing around and waiting to die.
Thinking this, Jinqi felt a little excited.
She walked along the alley and finally came to a courtyard.
"Jade, I'm back," Jinqu said, knocking on the courtyard gate.
Jinqu waited at the gate. After a short while, the gate to the courtyard slowly opened. A ship girl with short blue hair peeked out through the crack in the gate. After seeing Jinqu, she breathed a sigh of relief and then opened the gate completely.
"Jinqu, you're back!" Emerald smiled at Jinqu.
"Yes, is everything alright at home?"
“It’s nothing.” Emerald shook her head.
"That's good, Emerald. Listen to me, I encountered a big problem on this trip," Jinqu said to Emerald.
"What's up? Did you get a raise?"
"Uh, no, well, listen to me." As Jinqu spoke, she walked into the courtyard. She took Emerald's hand and led her to a corner of the courtyard. Jinqu lowered her voice, as if afraid that others would hear, "I met my benefactor."
"Ah?!" Emerald was startled when she heard Jinqu's words, then her expression turned excited, and two red blushes rose to her cheeks. "My benefactor?!"
"Yes, I saw him!"
Has she appeared in Chapter Two?
"Yes, the people I went out to pick up this time were my benefactors."
"really?"
"Really, I swear it's true!"
Emerald stared at Jinqu, her mouth agape, her face beaming with surprise: "They really came... It's the benefactor who saved me, they really came..."
As Jade spoke, her eyes filled with glistening tears.
“Yes, that’s the benefactor who gave us the repair equipment and rescued us from that shady company,” Jinqu nodded and said.
"Quickly, make progress, I want to see them, please," Emerald said, wiping away her tears as she reached out her hand.
"Jade, don't worry, I still have something to say." Jinqu looked at Jade's crying face and understood how Jade was feeling.
Jade was the partner who, despite being badly damaged, shielded the Enterprise from cannon fire on the cruise ship and was severely injured in the process.
On that day, Xiaobai gave her the repair device, helped her repair her ship equipment, saved her life, relieved her worries, and allowed her to perfectly complete the mission assigned by the company.
Xiao Bai was the savior who saved her life.
However, due to falling into a coma during the battle and being bedridden afterward, Emerald never saw her benefactor or his ship girl's appearance, which was nothing short of torture for her, who was determined to repay his kindness.
Now that she finally knows where the person who saved her life is, how could Jade not be anxious?
"What could be more important than seeing them right now?" Emerald asked Encourage anxiously.
“Yes, this is it.” Jinqu said, holding Emerald’s hand. “Although my benefactor didn’t say it, her ship girls asked me if I wanted to join their naval base.”
"Join their naval base?"
“Yes.” Jinqu nodded.
Jade's expression turned somewhat sad.
Jinqu then realized that Emerald probably thought she was going to abandon her, so she quickly shook her head, "Emerald, I still have you."
"Huh? Am I included?"
"Yes, Yixian said she hopes that you and I can join our benefactor's garrison."
"That's wonderful!" Emerald looked at Jinqu excitedly. "So, where can we find them?"
“Ah, I forgot to ask…” Upon hearing Emerald’s words, Jinqu was taken aback, then became visibly embarrassed. “But it’s alright… It seems that our benefactor and the others are visiting Chapter Two for the first time. They should be at the Admiral’s Guild right now. They were too excited earlier and almost messed things up…”
“Then let’s go quickly!” Emerald said, gripping Jinqu’s hand tightly. “I’ve been having such a hard time lately, I don’t want to see that again…”
"Who did you see?" Just as Emerald was speaking, a man's voice came from the courtyard gate.
Upon hearing this voice, Jade's face instantly turned pale.
Upon hearing this voice, even Jinqu's brows furrowed instantly, as if something terrible had happened.
Jinqu squeezed Emerald's hand, and after briefly calming her down, he turned and looked towards the gate of the courtyard.
At the gate of the courtyard, a young man dressed in the uniform of an admiral was leaning against the door, looking at Emerald and Progress in the courtyard with the typical expression of a playboy.
"We've found our benefactor! Congratulations!" The male admiral clapped lightly after seeing Jinqu's expression.
"You were eavesdropping on us?" Jinqu glared at the male admiral at the door.
"I just happened to be passing by the door. Your gate was open, how could I be allowed to eavesdrop?" The male admiral chuckled as he slowly walked into the courtyard.
Jinqu quickly shielded Jade behind him, staring intently at the man who had approached his courtyard: "Get out!"
"No." The male admiral decisively refused to take the initiative.
Jinqu gritted his teeth and stared at the male admiral, his anger rising in waves.
Enterprise and Emerald are among the few government-owned ship girls in the artificial city. Their training level is among the highest of all government-owned ship girls, even higher than most military ship girls who have reached the second chapter. Such a powerful ship girl is still unclaimed by an admiral, so naturally many admirals have designs on Enterprise.
However, at the time, Jinqu was focused on finding Xiaobai, and she politely declined all offers from admirals. Most admirals were reasonable, and seeing that Jinqu had no intention of becoming someone else's ship girl, they all left in a gentlemanly manner.
But this one in front of him really made Jinqi suffer a lot.
He was incredibly persistent and obsessive towards Jinqu, using all sorts of methods, from anonymous silent phone calls and strange letters to loitering at the door every day and using vulgar and obscene language to insult Jade when Jinqu wasn't around.
Jade and Progress have really suffered a lot from his harassment during this period.
"Why won't you join my garrison?" the man asked Emerald and Ambition, puzzled.
Why should we join?
"Because I'm very strong," the man said.
Jinqi stared intently at the man's face, her lips pressed tightly together.
“But Emerald and I don’t like you, please leave.”
“It’s alright, I don’t mind.” The man took another step forward.
Emerald saw the man take another step closer to her, and her shoulders trembled in fright.
"If you take another step, I won't be polite!" Jinqu watched as the man took a step towards him, raised his hand, and shouted at the man with an unfriendly expression.
"What do you mean 'you're welcome'? How am I not welcome?" the man said with a smile, opening his arms. "Want to hit me?"
"..."
"I am the admiral. As an unclaimed ship girl, you know the consequences of attacking me, don't you?"
"You disgusted us first."
"Didn't I tell you? I'm very strong." The man smiled at Jinqiu. "In other words, I have a certain amount of say. The people arbitrating this matter don't care whether I disgusted you or not; as long as you made the first move, that's all that matters."
Jinqu glared at the man with hatred.
“I love that look in your eyes.” The man said, looking at Jinqu’s expression, then looked at Emerald behind Jinqu. “But I like her even more. If it were her face, after being whipped so hard, with bloodstains and snow-white skin interspersed, coupled with that innocent expression, how delicate and beautiful she would be.”
"You...you pervert!" Jinqi was so angry that he wanted to raise his hand and rush over to slap the man across the face.
But just as Jinqu was about to move, Emerald grabbed her from behind.
Emerald shook her head, her face pale: "He's trying to provoke me. Don't fall for it."
His fingers, clenched so tightly they turned white, were now white.
"Let's go." Jinqu snorted heavily, pulling Emerald along as they tried to bypass the man and leave the courtyard.
"That won't do." The man snapped his fingers lightly, and the gate to the courtyard was slammed shut. "You're looking for your benefactor? No, no, no, that won't do. You're my partners, not his."
"What exactly do you want to do!" Jinqu was furious at the man's expression, which seemed to indicate that he had everything under control.
"Either become my ship girl, or kill me." The man said, spreading his arms wide.
"you!"
However, the conversation ended.
The moment the man uttered those words, a black shadow darted over the wall from the other side and approached him like a whirlwind.
"Fine." Bismarck, with lightning speed, slammed a punch into the man's face.
With a scream, the man's body flew like a gust of wind onto the wall.
But that wasn't the end of it. Bismarck charged viciously onto the wall and unleashed a flurry of kicks on the man who had just been punched and turned red and white.
In an instant, sand and dust filled the sky.
After kicking for several seconds, Bismarck emerged from behind the mosaic of tiles on the wall. She wiped her hands, looked at Enterprise and Emerald, and nodded slightly: "We meet again."
Emerald and Enterprise looked at Bismarck with horror.
“…I’ve never heard of such a strange request.” Bismarck, seeing that the topic seemed to be getting out of hand, said this to Emerald after a long pause.
Chapter 615 Sorry, I'm here to steal someone too.
Encouragement and Emerald nestled together, watching Bismarck stop in front of them.
Dressed in black, Bismarck looked serious and focused. After saying what she had just said, she lowered her head, took out a handkerchief, and quietly wiped the blood off her fingers.
The atrocity just now seemed to have no effect on Bismarck's mood at all; she remained as serious as ever on the ship, suggesting that this was not the first time she had done something like this.
“Bismarck… Bismarck…” Enterprise looked at Bismarck with trembling eyes, feeling his legs shaking uncontrollably. “You, how did you get here…”
“…I’m not at ease.” Bismarck thought for a moment and then said this to Enterprise.
"Did you know about the trouble my family was in while you were on the ship?" Jinqu asked.
“…” Bismarck and Ambition stared at each other for a while, then remained silent.
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