Elder brother's garrison

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"Oh~" The young admiral showed an expression of admiration.

While the two admirals were chatting, several groups of returning ship girls appeared on the sea.

The ship girls returning at this point in time are usually those who have suffered injuries in battle that prevent them from continuing to fight, so it's not uncommon. After all, as the sea level of the chapter increases, the ship girls can no longer maintain absolute invulnerability in battle as they did in the first chapter.

The two admirals looked at the returning ship girls, but both frowned.

In their minds, these returning ship girls should be the ship girls who were ambushed by the Abyssal Fleet, but the truth is not so.

The returning ship girls were dressed in good condition and showed no signs of dejection. They slowly made their way to the beach, a puzzled expression on their faces.

The ship girls returned to the beach and walked towards their admirals.

Just then, a group of ship girls returned to the side of one of the two admirals, one of whom was younger and the other older.

"What's wrong? Are you injured?" the admiral asked, looking at his ship girl with a puzzled expression.

"No." The returning ship girl shook her head, then held out her hands to show her admiral, indicating that she had not been harmed.

"So what's your situation?" the admiral asked.

"Admiral, there are no more Abyssal ships in the node." The ship girl pouted and said.

"Huh?" The admiral was taken aback.

"I've searched for a long time, but there isn't a single deep-sea ship left," the ship girl said.

"...Um, is Shenhai on maternity leave today?"

"Admiral, you're a pervert!" The ship girl punched the admiral's shoulder repeatedly. "I'm serious."

"Oh, no deep-sea... that's all... then that's it." The admiral smiled helplessly. "These things happen occasionally."

"Why do we always seem to run into them?" The ship girl pouted, looking helpless. "We ran into them once at the first node... What bad luck."

"We've encountered something that only happens once in a century twice, isn't that a huge win? Alright, alright, let's go back. Where do you want to go today? It's on me." The admiral patted the ship girl on the shoulder, comforting her, and then led her towards the city center, chatting as they left.

It seems he's gotten used to the disappearance of the deep sea from the nodes.

"Senior, he said the Abyssal Fleet disappeared from the node." The young admiral asked his senior, pointing to the departing admiral.

“Ah… um, I heard that too.” The older admiral scratched his head. “That makes sense then.”

"Isn't the deep sea within the nodes endless?"

"Who told you they're endless? They can only multiply indefinitely. However, when the number of ships destroyed far exceeds the number of ships produced, some deep-sea ships will disappear. They'll return to normal in a couple of days." The older admiral said, looking out at the sea.

Sure enough, not long after she and the young admiral's ship girls went out, they returned to the beach somewhat dejectedly.

The two admirals waved to the ship girls across the sea, summoning them back.

"Admiral..." The ship girls returned to the beach and hurriedly explained to their admirals.

"No need to explain, we already know." The two admirals smiled at their ship girls. "Let's rest today."

"Oh..." The ship girls nodded with different feelings.

"Kid, don't worry about this." After saying that, the older admiral put his arm around the younger admiral's neck and laughed heartily. "This is considered an official leave, although it's unpaid. Let's go have some fun today."

"Huh? Where are we going to have fun, senior?"

“Go to the second node and drag that scumbag back, then head to the club.” The older admiral said, pulling open his uniform to reveal a pink shirt and NIA insignia underneath. “Time is precious, so let’s have some fun before you become a big shot, so we can latch onto you later.”

"Ah, I don't have one, but it's fine!" The young admiral blushed as soon as he heard about the club. He also opened his military uniform, revealing a shirt that was exactly the same style as the older admiral's. The two smiled at each other, reached an agreement, and then led their ship girls away from the first node amidst a burst of laughter.

Who was responsible for the disappearance of the deep sea in Chapter 677? Ordinary admirals like them wouldn't bother to think about it, nor was it something they should be racking their brains over.

After all, as a lazy admiral, doing your job well and enjoying the present moment is the most pragmatic way of life.

Sigrún has taught at the Iceland University of the Arts as a part-time lecturer since and was Dean of the Department of Fine Art from -. In – she held a research position at Reykjavík Art Museum focusing on the role of women in Icelandic art. She studied fine art at the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts and at Pratt Institute, New York, and holds BA and MA degrees in art history and philosophy from the University of Iceland. Sigrún lives and works in Iceland.

Nia thought so too.

Nia stood blankly at her front door, brushing her teeth, staring at the dark, deep-sea metal mountain piled up in her yard.

To be honest, this wasn't the first time Nia had seen something like a deep-sea metal mountain.

In the time she's spent with Xiaobai, Nia has seen the first chapter at least three or four times.

For example, several times after clearing out the deep sea, Cleveland pulled out small mountains from his ship's equipment, or when Mr. Barbatos was in deep sea metal index crisis, Xiaobai gave Mr. Barbatos a mountain of deep sea metal, and so on.

However, none of the deep-sea metals that Nia had seen before were as large as the one she saw this time.

Nia tilted her head back, brushing her teeth as she looked at the deep-sea metal piled up in the center of the yard, its peaks almost reaching the height of the yard wall.

Nia numbly brushed her teeth while gazing at the deep-sea metal peaks.

—By the way, where did this come from?

Chapter 678 A Commendable Growth

After the thought crossed Nia's mind, she gave a wry smile, quickly shook her head, and then ran to the sink by the door, spitting out all the toothpaste foam from her mouth.

Nia felt it was silly of her to have such a question.

Do I even need to ask where it came from?

"Wow~" Just as Nia was blowing bubbles, the door next to her was pushed open, and Raffi and Javelin stared blankly at the deep-sea metal mountain standing in the center of the yard, and couldn't help but exclaim in amazement.

"Lafite, Lafite, how many are there?" Javelin asked, shaking the Lafite beside him in surprise.

“So many, so many, ten thousand!” Raffi exclaimed.

“…There can’t possibly be ten thousand.” Nia wiped her mouth, smiled, and walked over to Laffey and Javelin, smiling at the two destroyers.

"Admiral, did you move this here?" The two destroyers looked at Nia with some heartache. "Admiral, even though we are poor, you can't rob the Admiral's Guild. Admiral, you should turn yourself in."

"Oh dear..." Nia tilted her head, quite helpless about the performance of her two destroyers. "This wasn't my doing."

"If it wasn't the admiral, then who did it?"

"Isn't the answer obvious?" Nia sighed, then put her hands behind her back and looked at Xiaobai's room with a complicated expression. "It's definitely Xiaobai."

"Oh~" A surprised smile appeared on the fair-skinned faces of the two destroyers. "It's Admiral Lu Lin!"

"Admiral Lu Lin is amazing!"

"So awesome, so awesome!"

"As expected of Admiral Lu Lin!" The two destroyers surrounded Nia with starry eyes, tugging at her clothes and rubbing against her.

Nia, sensing that the two destroyers seemed to treat Xiaobai even better than she did, nodded helplessly.

After that, Laffey and Javelin asked where the deep-sea metal came from, but Nia herself didn't know. The only difference between her and Javelin and Laffey was that Nia saw the mountain of deep-sea metal a few minutes earlier than them. So after giving the two destroyers a few vague answers, Nia went to Little White's door alone.

Nia walked to Xiaobai's door and first tried to knock, but stopped when her hand touched the door.

"Is Little White sleeping?" Nia thought for a moment and felt it was very likely.

Although it's unclear why someone as wealthy as Xiaobai, who could be considered the queen of riches and beauty, would inexplicably go and move so much deep-sea metal, it's only possible that the incredibly powerful Xiaobai could have done it.

Since Xiaobai produced so much deep-sea metal in one night, she probably stayed up all night and is probably catching up on sleep now.

Nia thought for a moment, then pressed her ear to the door and carefully listened to the sounds coming from inside.

There were surprisingly loud noises coming from Xiaobai's room: the sound of several people walking around, chatting, and even the rustling of fabric.

"Huh?" Nia shrank back in surprise.

This doesn't look like someone is sleeping.

"Xiaobai, are you in there?" Nia knocked on the door, then stood obediently in front of it, waiting for a response from inside.

Footsteps soon came from Xiaobai's room. After a while, the footsteps got closer and closer to the door, and then with a click, Xiaobai's door was pushed open.

"Good morning, Nia." It was Xiaobai who opened the door, smiling and greeting Nia.

"Good morning, Xiaobai." Nia smiled sincerely, then turned to the side and pointed behind her. "Did you move those deep-sea metal mountains here, Xiaobai?"

"Ah, um, it was my ship girl who moved it. I'm so sorry, we really had nowhere else to put it. Did we disturb you?" Xiaobai asked.

"No, no, the yard is already quite big." Nia shook her head at Xiaobai.

"Nia, you can take as much of those deep-sea metals as you want," Xiaobai said to Nia with a smile. "Consider it a thank you for staying here."

"No, no, it's me thanking you," Nia refused.

"To thank me?" Xiaobai asked, puzzled.

Nia smiled and changed the subject: "Little White, how did you get these deep-sea metals?"

"Ah... well, it was an accident." Xiaobai smiled awkwardly. "I didn't originally intend to go and obtain deep-sea metals."

Just then, Xiaobai pushed the door open completely, took Nia's hand, and led her into the room.

Nia was led into the room by Xiaobai.

The sounds Nia heard earlier were indeed real; there were indeed quite a few people in Xiaobai's room at that moment.

Saratoga, Missouri, Constellation, Snow, White Snow, Deep Snow, First Snow, Changchun, Bismarck, are gathered together, having a heated discussion about something.

"Good morning, Admiral Nia." Missouri saw Nia and greeted her gently with narrowed eyes.

Good morning, Sister Nia!

Good morning, Nia!

The ship girls from Xiaobai also greeted Nia one by one.

After replying to each of the ship girls, Nia looked around the room curiously: "Hello... um, why are you all in the same room?"

“Because we need to treat the wounded and also consider the next steps,” Missouri said to Nia.

"The wounded? Is anyone among you injured?" Nia became a little nervous upon hearing this. "Ah... Tirpitz and Yixian? No, it's alright, I have a rapid repair device here..."

"No." The ship girls shook their heads, then exchanged glances with Xiaobai. After Xiaobai nodded to the ship girls, they all took a step back, displaying what they were surrounding behind Nia.

Nia gasped in surprise upon seeing the "thing" surrounded by the ship girls in the center.

“This…this is…” Nia stared at the object before her in astonishment, somewhat incoherent.

Before Nia lay a person completely wrapped in bandages, spread-eagled on the ground. Her entire body was covered in white bandages, from her cheeks to her fingers, all tightly bound together. Only her green eyes and mouth were visible. The only clues to her gender were the curves of her waist and hips encased in bulky bandages and the protrusions on her chest.

Beside the bandaged person, Yi Xian, dressed in a cheongsam, was kneeling beside her, her plump thighs exposed. Next to Yi Xian was a small medicine box, and on the ground were layers of discarded bandages that looked like they had been stained with ink. She was busy working on the bandaged person in front of her.

"Good morning, Admiral Nia." Yi Xian smiled at Nia. "Thank you for your concern, Admiral Nia. I am not injured."

“Then this one…” Nia looked in surprise at the bandaged person bound in a V-shape.

"Yes, this is..."

"Tirpitz!" Nia gasped, covering her mouth in surprise. She approached the bandaged man with a look of sympathy, gently touching his arm and saying with heartache, "How did Tirpitz get such a serious injury?"

"..." Yi Xian looked at Nia awkwardly, "Admiral Nia, this is not Tirpitz."

"Huh? What about Tirpitz?"

"She's in the admiral's bed right now."

Nia was taken aback, then looked towards Xiaobai's bed.

Tirpitz was seen sleeping soundly in bed, embracing a golden ship girl she had never seen before.

When Nia entered the room, Xiaobai was leading her, so Nia assumed there was no one on the bed and didn't look at it. It was only after Yixian pointed it out that Nia finally realized there were two people lying on Xiaobai's bed.

“Oh… Tirpitz isn’t injured.” Nia nodded, then looked puzzled and glanced at the ship girl next to Tirpitz. “And who is the other one…?”

“It’s also Tirpitz,” Xiaobai said.

"A ship with the same name?" Nia nodded knowingly. "And what about this injured lady on the ground?"

“It’s Bismarck,” Little White said.

"It's a ship with the same name?" Nia said with some surprise. "Then who attacked her like this?"

“Me,” Xiaobai said.

After Xiaobai said those words, she clearly felt the surrounding air freeze instantly.

Nia stared blankly at Xiaobai, then reached out and touched her ear: "Oops... I think I'm hallucinating a little. Xiaobai, could you say it again?"

"...What I mean is...they are my ship girls." Shiro evaded reality.

As soon as Xiaobai said those words, not only Nia, but also the surrounding ship girls breathed a sigh of relief.

"In short, a lot has happened, and now they are both my ship girls," Xiaobai explained to Nia.

Nia nodded: "And their injuries...?"