Elder brother's garrison

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After tightening a screw, Luo Lian reached into the toolbox next to her and began to rummage around.

After looking at the design blueprints and glancing at the interior of the construction device, Xiaobai understood and handed a part to Luo Lian.

Luo Lian was somewhat surprised to have found the part she wanted, but her eyes never left the construction device in front of her: "Thank you, Warspite."

"You're welcome," Xiaobai said.

With a "thud," as soon as Xiaobai finished speaking, the wrench in Luo Lian's hand fell into the construction device. Luo Lian turned her head and looked at Xiaobai beside her.

"Lianlian, it's been a long time!" Xiaobai said to Luo Lian with a smile.

"Xiao Bai?!" Luo Lian looked at Xiao Bai, her eyes quickly scanning over him, then quickly glancing at Saratoga, Constellation, and Des Moines behind him, quickly understanding the current situation.

"I didn't expect Lianlian to have reached the second chapter so quickly, you really are amazing..."

"Aa ...

Xiao Bai stood there, stunned.

"Huh?" After a long while, Xiaobai looked at Warspite with some disappointment. "Warspite, did I do something wrong?"

"Uh, probably not." Warspite shook his head.

"Why is Lianlian avoiding me?"

“Uh… this has nothing to do with Admiral Lu Lin.” Warspite pointed to Little White’s finger. “Look.”

Xiao Bai looked down and saw that the oil on the part he had just touched had stained his fingers black.

“This thing is actually quite dirty. My admiral probably felt embarrassed about it,” Warspite said. “It’s alright. The room the admiral ran into is the bathing area.”

"Oh...that's a relief." Xiaobai breathed a sigh of relief.

A short while later, the door to the room was pushed open, and Luo Lian, dressed in a clean and tidy military uniform and exuding a faint mist of moisture, walked out. She coughed lightly, walked to Xiao Bai's side, and then her face blossomed into an incredibly bright smile, "Xiao Bai, you're here?"

"Yes. I happen to be here too." Xiao Bai smiled at Luo Lian, "I heard from Warspite that you're modifying the construction device?"

"Hmm." Luo Lian nodded, then her eyes lit up again. She grabbed Xiao Bai's hand and quickly pulled it in front of a construction device. "It's been modified."

The construction device in front of Xiaobai is one of the few still standing in Luo Lian's courtyard. Its appearance is almost identical to ordinary construction devices; it looks no different from them.

"This is a construction device with some of my ideas added, which increases the success rate of construction," Luo Lian said to Xiao Bai.

"Did you add some of your ideas, Lianlian?" Xiaobai looked at Luo Lian, making no attempt to hide the surprise in her eyes.

The significance and difficulty of improving the construction device have been discussed more than once; it is definitely not something an ordinary person can do.

"Hmm." Luo Lian beckoned Desmond over. "Little Bai, you and Desmond already know each other, right?"

"Yes. We've met."

"That's good, then I won't go into details." Luo Lian smiled at Xiao Bai. "Des Moines is a ship girl that I created using my improved construction device."

"That's amazing," said Xiaobai. "How many times did it take to build it?"

"three times."

"Oh!" Xiaobai couldn't help but clap his hands.

To be able to build a ship girl in just three attempts is already considered a lucky success rate.

"Little White, why don't you try building one too?"

"Huh? Me?" Xiaobai pointed to herself.

"Mm." Luo Lian nodded, then activated the construction device.

Amidst the sounds of machinery turning, Des Moines stepped forward and opened her ship equipment space directly above the resource dumping chute. With a rumbling sound, a large amount of ship equipment was dumped into the construction device.

After doing all this, Desmond handed a piece of deep-sea metal to Luo Lian and then withdrew.

Without saying a word, Luo Lian handed the deep-sea metal to Xiao Bai.

"Huh? Me? I don't need any more ship girls." Xiaobai said to Luo Lian, holding the heavy deep-sea metal.

"It's okay, just give it a try," Luo Lian said.

"I have very bad luck."

"It's okay, I'll pay for the materials." Luo Lian said, indicating that she was very wealthy.

Xiao Bai was amused by Luo Lian. She pursed her lips, thought for a while, and decided that since it was only a one-time thing, she might as well build it.

Xiaobai called Saratoga to his side and then placed the deep-sea metal in his hand into Saratoga's hand.

Saratoga held the deep-sea metal and looked at Little White.

"Saratoga, please help me." Little White said to Saratoga with a smile.

Chapter 689 How does good fortune spread again?

Saratoga was called to Xiaobai's side, took the deep-sea metal Xiaobai handed him, and looked at Xiaobai with some confusion.

"Saratoga, how about you help me build it?" Little White asked Saratoga.

Saratoga, holding the deep-sea metal, paused, looked back at the constellation behind her, blinked, and then looked at Little White.

"I really don't have much confidence in my luck..." Xiaobai said that he was still in the sage time after the previous hundred-consecutive-construction, and still had a lot of psychological shadow about construction. It was better to leave this kind of thing to his ship girls. "Saratoga, you are very lucky, right? You built all the constellations."

“Hmm.” Saratoga lowered his head, carefully examining the deep-sea metal in his hand.

Xiaobai's behavior is quite easy to understand. The act of ship girls helping admirals build ships is not strange in the entire admiral community. After all, admirals like to do metaphysics, and it is only natural for admirals to go through some ritualistic processes when building ship girls. Not to mention that ship girls help them build ships, some admirals even bathe, change clothes and fast for several months before major construction, looking like they have suddenly attained enlightenment.

Saratoga, being a ship girl, can create constellations with just a tap, which is incredibly lucky. Even newbies who don't care much about superstition tend to rely on Saratoga in situations like this.

"Maybe Saratoga will be lucky." Seeing that Saratoga remained silent, Xiaobai continued to puff out her cheeks.

As it swelled up, Saratoga started to swell a little.

After Xiaobai finished speaking, Saratoga quickly showed an expression that said, "Maybe I really am lucky." She held up the deep-sea metal in her hand and nodded heavily to Xiaobai.

Saratoga had seen Xiaobai build so many times, she wasn't stupid, she already knew the process. After agreeing to Xiaobai's request, Saratoga went up to Luo Lian's construction device, stuck her butt out and pressed a bunch of buttons on it. Finally, she threw a piece of deep-sea metal into the construction device and pressed the button hard.

After the beeping sound signaling the start of construction, Luo Lian's construction device slowly closed before everyone's eyes, with a buzzing sound emanating from the metal sheet.

Saratoga stared at the construction device with a hint of nervousness, remaining silent.

Xiao Bai and Luo Lian, standing behind Saratoga, were naturally not as nervous as Saratoga.

"Lianlian," Xiaobai called out to Luo Lian beside her.

"Hmm, what is it?" Luo Lian replied.

"You mean these construction devices are for modifications, right?"

"Ah."

"Where did you get the original construction device? The Admiral's Guild shouldn't sell these, right?" Xiaobai asked.

"I saw it in a corner when I went into the city a while ago. There were ten construction devices in total. I guess they were unwanted by the Admiral's Guild," Luo Lian said honestly.

"Ten...Admiral Guilds?" Xiaobai's expression was somewhat subtle.

The combination of these two keywords reminded Xiaobai of the Admiral's Guild's ten-pull construction machine.

Xiao Bai vividly remembers the scene of the Ten-Construction Machine failing to complete the construction. However, it seems that the Ten-Construction Machine was indeed scrapped by Guild Master Er Gou. Xiao Bai didn't know where the Ten-Construction Machine went after it was scrapped, but now it seems that it was most likely picked up by Luo Lian.

The ten-construction machine that was scrapped by the president probably had some hidden problems, otherwise it wouldn't have almost turned the constellation into a cripple.

Thinking of this, Xiaobai felt a little nervous. She was about to suggest that the construction be interrupted, but before she could say anything, she saw Des Moines standing with the constellation and chatting.

Des Moines is also a ship girl who came out of Luo Lian's construction device, and it seems that her body does not have the hidden dangers that Constellation had at the beginning.

—Could it be that Luo Lian really fixed the construction device? Or even successfully improved it?

"Lianlian," Xiaobai said nervously to Luo Lian, "Is Desmond alright?"

"Why do you ask that?"

“Uh… actually, Constellation… oh right, Constellation is that one, she came out of the construction device that was scrapped by the Admiral's Guild.” Xiaobai said, pointing to Constellation standing next to Des Moines.

"Is she one too?" Luo Lian looked at the constellation with some surprise. "That construction device used to have a problem with incomplete fuel combustion, which made it easy to pile up waste materials for unnecessary construction. If it was unnecessary construction and it succeeded by accident, it could easily affect the ship girl's health."

Xiao Bai shut his mouth.

Luo Lian's words hit the nail on the head with absolute precision, directly addressing the state of the zodiac sign.

Constellation is indeed both a blessing and a curse because of the pity system. As a non-existent ship girl, it is impossible to build her through regular construction. However, coincidentally, the pity system with discarded materials in the ten-pull does meet the conditions for Constellation's birth. However, at the same time, this unconventional construction does affect Constellation's body, making it difficult for her to even walk when she is born.

Looking at Xiaobai's subtle expression, Luo Lian thought for a moment and smiled at Xiaobai, "It's okay. That was just a small problem caused by the previous owner randomly piecing together the fuel transport pipeline. I fixed it a long time ago, and that possibility won't exist now."

"Lianlian...you're amazing." Xiaobai couldn't say anything else after struggling for a while. Faced with Luo Lian who said such amazing things so casually, she could only sigh in admiration. "Where did you learn how to construct the device?"

"I haven't studied it."

"Huh? You haven't learned this?"

"Mm." Luo Lian nodded. "Wouldn't it be easier if I just took a look?"

Xiao Bai stared blankly at Luo Lian, then turned her head and looked at the construction device that Luo Lian had been riding.

Luo Lian had dismantled half of the construction device, revealing an extremely intricate gear structure through the wide-open hatch. Various patterns and tens of thousands of tiny gears were intertwined, making one's head spin at first glance. Xiao Bai could remember what the inside looked like, but he had absolutely no idea which part was which.

"Speaking of which, aren't there many patterns on the parts? Lianlian, can you even understand those patterns?" Xiaobai asked.

"Patterns?" Luo Lian tilted her head, then her eyes lit up. "Oh, Xiao Bai, you mean inscriptions?"

"Inscription?"

"The inscription is..."

Just as Luo Lian was about to explain something to Xiao Bai, a rather abrupt sound of a microwave oven successfully heating up quickly interrupted her.

"Ding—" Listen, that's the sound of successful construction.

Upon hearing the sound, Xiao Bai and Luo Lian simultaneously turned their heads toward the source of the sound.

Saratoga was standing in front of the construction device, hands on his hips, looking at White with a hint of excitement on his face.

Saratoga stared at the little white dog, her eyes seeming to say, "Praise me, praise me!"

"Saratoga is amazing!" Looking at Saratoga's puffed-up little face, Xiaobai felt a genuine sense of joy. "Lianlian, you're amazing too!"

"No matter how skilled I am, I can't guarantee a perfect construction success," Luo Lian said with a smile to Xiao Bai. "Your ship girl is indeed lucky."

Xiao Bai and Luo Lian huddled up to Saratoga and looked toward the construction device.

Sure enough, the LCD screen on the construction device lit up, and a string of numbers displaying the construction time began to slowly count down.

Saratoga moved closer to Little White, smiling smugly as he took Little White's arm.

"Saratoga feels like she's been possessed by Enterprise," White said with a smile.

“We often hang out together,” Saratoga said, adding that this didn’t make sense.

After all, as a proud member of the internet addiction trio, Saratoga and Enterprise often went to Bismarck's house to play games with Tirpitz.

When playing games, there are times when luck plays a part. Saratoga has often offered incense and kowtowed to Enterprise. When they were tired from playing games and went to sleep together, Saratoga would often ride on Enterprise and suck on her breath, hoping to absorb some of her good luck.

Judging from the current situation, Saratoga's hard work seems to have finally paid off. Although she didn't get to eat the Tang Monk's flesh, she's been smelling the aroma every day, and Saratoga's luck index seems to have finally reached the level where she can go on her journey to the West to obtain the scriptures.

It feels so good to be a damn European.

Saratoga has really gotten too big for its britches this time.

"Little White, do you have a rapid construction device with you?" Luo Lian asked.

"Ah... I don't think so."

"It's alright." Luo Lian smiled and then extended her hand to Warspite.

Warspite quickly took out a rapid construction device from the ship's equipment space and handed it to Luo Lian.

Without saying a word, Luo Lian turned on the rapid construction device and connected it to the construction device.

Xiao Bai looked at Luo Lian's actions somewhat embarrassedly, but ultimately said nothing.

If Luo Lian were someone with a slightly less close relationship, Xiao Bai would definitely say that he would pay Luo Lian back for the quick repair device next time. However, Luo Lian and Xiao Bai's relationship is too good, so good that they can no longer distinguish between "yours" and "mine," so saying such a thing at this time would be inappropriate.

—Speaking of which, I'm clearly the world's number one admiral, so why do I always feel like I haven't helped Luo Lian much, but instead, I'm always the one being helped by Luo Lian?

Thinking about this, Xiao Bai felt a little depressed, but more than that, he felt admiration for Luo Lian.

Under everyone's watchful eyes, the rapid construction device was injected into the construction device like an injection. Then, under everyone's gaze, the construction time on the device decreased rapidly at a visible speed, reaching zero in just a few seconds.

Just as Xiaobai was about to reach out and press the button to open the hatch, Luo Lian reached out, grabbed Xiaobai, and pulled her back a few steps.

"Hey? Lianlian, what's wrong?"