Elder brother's garrison

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Compared to the tense Nia, the ship girls seemed much more relaxed.

“Arn————” Behind Nia, Warspite stretched and let out a short groan, “That was fulfilling.”

"How many times has Warspite gone to the battlefield this time?" Missouri asked, looking at Warspite's cheerful expression.

"I've been there many times, but I've always been too restrained to show my skills. It felt so good to fight freely this time." Warspite said, looking at Missouri, and finally waved his hand helplessly, "But I'm super bad at it, so I wasn't of much help."

"Warspite-senpai is too modest. Given time, you will definitely become a powerful ship girl," Missouri said with a smile.

"Hahaha—" Warspite smiled at Missouri.

Missouri did not deny that she was holding back.

Warspite's laughter turned somewhat awkward, and she glanced at Luo Lian behind her with a hint of resentment.

Ultimately, Warspite felt it was all Luo Lian's fault. Luo Lian had been preventing Warspite from going to the battlefield, which meant that even though Warspite had been out of the construction facility for several months, her training level was still like that of a new ship girl.

Sensing Warspite's gaze, Luo Lian, who was pondering something while rubbing her chin, raised her head. She looked directly into Warspite's resentful eyes and tilted her head: "Warspite, how much has your training improved today?"

"There was only one battle today, but I feel like I've reached level one at least," Warspite said.

"Oh." Luo Lian nodded. "What about Des Moines?"

"Her training level has probably increased by three or four levels by now."

Luo Lian smiled at Warspite: "The effect is really obvious."

"Admiral, have you finally seen the light?!" Warspite looked at Luo Lian with emotion.

It seems that Luo Lian has finally realized that ship girls still need to go to sea to fight in the deep sea and gain experience.

"Yes, War-weary needs to work harder." Luo Lian patted her pocket. "Since it's still early, why don't you come back to our courtyard with me?"

"Why go back there?"

"I came up with a few ideas today, I'll try them out when I get back at the construction site."

"Admiral, you haven't finished your research yet..." Warspite's face fell as soon as she heard Luo Lian's words.

However, no matter how bitter her face looked or how unwilling she was in her words, Warspite's body was still incredibly honest. After Luo Lian said goodbye to Xiao Bai and Nia and left, Warspite still dragged Des Moines along obediently.

After Luo Lian left the team, the ship girls led by Bismarck walked to the middle of the courtyard. They opened their ship rigging, and with a series of crackling sounds, pieces of equipment glowing purple fell out of the ship girls' rigging and piled up into a small mountain in the middle of the courtyard.

"Huh? Bismarck. Where did all this equipment come from?" Xiaobai looked at the equipment that had fallen out of the ship girls' rigging and couldn't help but wonder.

Bismarck looked at Little White, and after thinking for a moment, she seemed to be considering what word to use: "Spoils of war."

“Spoils of war…” Little White stared curiously at the pile of equipment that formed a small mountain in front of Bismarck.

Having been an admiral for so long, even a novice can tell that these are all ship girl equipment for large ship types, and should be considered quite rare equipment in the second chapter.

Xiao Bai doesn't think the Abyssal Fleet in Chapter Two would have these things. Since Bismarck called them spoils of war, their origin is self-evident.

"Bismarck... were these equipment taken from those ship girls?" Xiaobai asked.

Bismarck nodded.

“…I see.”

“I keep my word.” Bismarck gave Little White an OK sign. “I said I wouldn’t leave a single needle or thread behind, and I won’t.”

Xiaobai smiled awkwardly and nodded, "Okay."

In a sense, Bismarck is also a rather simple ship girl.

Xiao Bai looked at the ship equipment in front of Bismarck and did a simple calculation of its value.

These ship rigging pieces are all purple-grade, and specifically large-scale ship rigging equipment, which is considered quite good in Chapter 2. However, by the standards of a newbie naval base, their quality is probably inferior to those pieces gathering dust in the newbie naval base's warehouse.

Among the ship girls around Xiaobai, only Constellation, CV16, and the newly joined Enterprise Emerald are equipped with the newbie naval base equipment that can be used. Not to mention Bismarck and Missouri, even Fubuki and Yixian are all equipped with gold equipment.

Bismarck probably chose to strip the equipment because she was concerned about the condition of the four of them. Normally, such equipment would not have even caught Bismarck's eye.

"Let's just strip it then." Xiaobai nodded.

"It's a pity they're all main guns and aircraft; the Enterprise and Emerald are useless," Bismarck said to Little White with some regret.

"After all, they are both light cruisers. Let's make do for a while and talk about it when we get back."

Bismarck nodded, pointing to the pile of purple equipment in front of her: "What do we do with the rest?"

"Hmm... let's leave it for now," Xiaobai said.

Bismarck nodded: "Then I'll cook."

"Thank you for your hard work," Xiaobai said gratefully.

Bismarck then took out a white apron from her ship's equipment space, put it on, and then went into the kitchen.

Nia cooks her own meals, and she seems to enjoy it. Her ship girls are also used to the taste of Nia's cooking, so even Bismarck wouldn't be so bored as to take over the job. However, Bismarck, who is used to the stove, still prefers the smoky atmosphere of the kitchen. She is not the head chef in the kitchen, but she can still do things like chopping vegetables and heating up the pot.

After Bismarck went into the kitchen, Nia also walked behind Little White. She covered her mouth and looked at the large amount of equipment in the place where Bismarck had been.

“Those are…” Nia looked at Xiaobai, a hint of surprise in her eyes.

"You're bullying your admiral's ship girls' equipment," Xiaobai said.

"They bullied me..." Nia opened her mouth and repeated what Xiaobai had said. After a while, she finally understood the relationship. "Huh? Did Cleveland and the others steal all the equipment from those ship girls?"

"It seems so." Xiaobai nodded.

Nia looked at the equipment, her expression complicated: "Will you return it?"

"Well... in short, the rest is already here. If those ship girls come to ask for it, apologize to Nia, and if you're sincere, you'll probably return it." Xiaobai nodded. "After all, the ship girls didn't do anything wrong."

"You don't need to apologize to me," Nia quickly waved her hand.

Xiaobai smiled at Nia and said, "Nia, I'm hungry."

"Okay! I'll go cook right away!" Upon hearing Xiaobai's words, Nia quickly withdrew her hand and ran into the kitchen in a few steps.

Xiaobai watched as Nia ran into the kitchen. A moment later, clanging sounds came from the kitchen, and fiery red flames shone through the window, casting bursts of light outside.

The sound of footsteps rang out again, and someone else walked towards Xiaobai.

Xiao Bai turned around and saw that the expressionless cv16 was holding a book, looking at it while comparing it to himself.

"cv16, how was the expedition?" Xiaobai had a good initial impression of cv16 because of her appearance, which was very similar to Lexington's. When she approached her, Xiaobai smiled subconsciously.

cv16 walked up to Xiaobai and nodded slightly: "Very good."

"How's your training progressing?" Xiaobai asked again.

“Level four,” cv16 said.

Considering that she only fought one battle, CV16's level 4 boost in one go is quite efficient.

However, compared to the one-click max level feature of the Xiaobai Admiral Network, this is still much less efficient.

Xiao Bai looked at cv16 and examined it from bottom to top.

If you want, Xiaobai can actually upgrade CV16 to the maximum level now. However, Xiaobai also feels that slowly leveling up from level 1 is a valuable experience for ship girls, as it helps to improve their true strength.

Max-level ship girls are very powerful. For example, after Constellation was boosted to max level by Shiro, even if she is relegated to Chapter 7, she can still withstand the onslaught of those deep-sea ships and become a ship girl who can stand firm in the Chapter 7 sea area.

However, for new naval commanders, reaching the maximum level is not enough. Perhaps in the eyes of other admirals, reaching the maximum level is the end for a ship girl, but for ship girls in new naval commanders, reaching the maximum level is just a basic requirement.

Just like Rome, although both Zodiac and Rome are max-level ship girls, I can guarantee that even if two or three Zodiacs attacked together, and Rome gave them the first move, they might not be able to defeat one Rome.

This is the difference in combat experience. After being thrown into the deep sea by Veneto and struggling desperately, after spending hundreds and thousands of quick repair devices to barely reach the maximum level, and then having intimate exercises with Veneto from time to time until it was completely damaged, experiencing being hit in the face by cannons countless times, and holding on when it was about to give up countless times, Rome broke through its own limits, developed its own fighting style, and gained rich combat experience. After that, Rome's combat power was far beyond what a max-level ship girl could describe.

Even Bismarck once told Shiro that Rome was a very good ship girl.

"cv16, you need to learn from Bismarck during this time. Combat experience is very important to you," Xiaobai said to cv16.

She decided to wait until CV16 had accumulated enough practical experience before leveling it up.

cv16 nodded, her eyes darting back and forth between Xiaobai and the book.

"...Speaking of which, what book are you reading, cv16?"

"Comic books."

"Oh……"

"commander."

"Ok?"

"You are the main character."

"Oh..." Xiaobai nodded, then paused, "Huh???"

Chapter 710 A Feeling of Déjà Vu

Xiao Bai stared in surprise at cv16, who stood calmly behind her. Then, Xiao Bai's eyes went to the book in cv16's hand.

The ship girls in the naval base all have their own hobbies. For example, Tirpitz likes playing games, Enterprise likes taking walks, Saratoga likes to do crazy things, and Bismarck likes to steal aluminum. So when I saw CV16 reading a book, I didn't pay much attention.

After all, cv16 has a quiet appearance, and this gentle feeling is quite suitable for a book. Xiaobai initially thought that cv16, like Empire, was just reading a normal book.

However, after only a few words, cv16 told Xiaobai that she was reading her own comic book.

Xiao Bai was immediately startled. The fear of someone secretly reading her comic book instantly surged into her heart. She quickly moved closer to cv16 and carefully looked at the comic book in cv16's hand.

cv16 is very tall, and even if Xiaobai stands on tiptoe, she can't see the contents of the comic book, so she can only look at the cover of the comic book.

The cover of the CV16 comic book features a female admiral with long white hair. Along the edge of the cover, there are four large pink cartoon characters that read "Yuru Kantai Collection," and in the corner, there is a "Volume 2" logo.

Xiao Bai stood there, staring at the cover for a long time. Only after confirming that it was an all-ages comic and not the little book with all sorts of indecent storylines from before did he breathe a sigh of relief.

"Oh, it's for all ages..." Xiaobai patted her chest and felt relieved.

After all, Xiaobai is an admiral with a story. After experiencing the Autumn Deep Sea event, every time Xiaobai hears something about his own manga, his heart skips a beat.

This has almost become a psychological trauma for Xiaobai.

"All ages?" cv16 heard an interesting term from Xiaobai's mouth. She put down her comic book and stared at Xiaobai curiously, as if asking what "all ages" meant.

Xiaobai chose to ignore those looks that practically screamed "I have a problem in my eyes."

“The character in this comic book… well, it is indeed me.” Under cv16’s gaze, Xiaobai chose to change the subject and said this to cv16.

This statement indeed caught the attention of cv16.

“The first book features a character with black hair,” cv16 said to Xiaobai.

“Hmm…I used to have black hair too.” Xiaobai said, smoothing the white hair behind her ear with her hand. “And my hair used to be very short, about shoulder length.”

"Are you the type who transforms when you see the moon?" cv16 asked, looking at Xiaobai.

"What does it mean to transform when you see the moon...?"

cv16 didn't answer Xiaobai. She simply flipped to a page in the comic book in her hand and showed it to Xiaobai. The page was filled with descriptions of how the protagonist wasn't human, but an alien from a certain galaxy. Whenever she saw the moon, she would transform into a beautiful white-haired girl. One time, after transforming on a full moon, the moon was shattered by a shirtless old man's energy blast. As a result, the moon shattered, and the protagonist became permanently a white-haired girl, never to transform back.

"...This forced transformation plot..." Xiaobai looked at the comic book's storyline about the protagonist turning from black hair to white hair and couldn't help but laugh awkwardly, "I have a feeling I'll get a lawyer's letter..."

Because of his sense of shame, Xiaobai has never read his own all-ages comic. The only thing he has seen was a little bit of it when Tirpitz dragged him to a comic convention and he saw it at a vendor's stall.

Xiaobai had heard from the Kantai Collection girls that she also had white hair in the manga. She asked Tirpitz why she wrote it that way, and Tirpitz said it was because the model had changed, and it was difficult for her to keep the hair the same when she was drawing.

Xiaobai understood this, but she really didn't expect Tirpitz to come up with such a far-fetched reason for her transformation.

Little White isn't a gorilla, so how can you expect the moon to transform?

Fortunately, the comic itself has a strong element of parody, so the strange reason for the transformation is not unacceptable to most readers except for novice readers.

For example, CV16 seems to have a particular fondness for this setting.

"I can't transform, you see, there's a moon here every night," Xiaobai explained to cv16. "I became like this for other reasons, I can tell you about it later when I have time."

cv16 closed the comic book, hugged it, and nodded to Xiaobai.

"Speaking of which, cv16, where did you find this comic book?"

“Spoils of war,” cv16 said.

"...Spoils of war?" Xiaobai narrowed his eyes subtly.

cv16 nodded.

As for the spoils... they'll probably be looted from those ship girls during the day.

It seems that, without anyone noticing, the hardcore ship girl manga "Yuru Kantai Collection" has slowly spread to the ship girl community beyond the newbie naval base ship girls.

Although it's better than having your own notebook leaked, Xiaobai still felt inexplicably tired.

"Commander?" cv16 noticed that Xiaobai's condition was a bit off and couldn't help but remind him.