Elder brother's garrison

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"I'm really looking forward to it~" President Er Gou's face was full of a smug smile.

Half an hour later, Xiaobai, Nia, and Luo Lian returned to the Admiral's Guild at the enthusiastic invitation of Guild Master Er Gou. They ascended to the third floor of the Admiral's Guild without any hindrance, where they encountered Helena, who was standing with her arms crossed, clutching a notebook rolled into a cylinder, looking furious and as if she had been waiting for them for a long time.

"Hey, isn't this Helena!" President Er Gou greeted Helena without any guile when he saw her. "Thanks for staying here to help me with the documents, Helena! Love you, muah!"

This explicit expression of gratitude could not possibly reach Helena's heart.

"Guild Master!" Helena gritted her teeth and whispered a reminder to Guild Master Er Gou, "I've told you so many times, you need to be mindful of the Admiral's Guild's image when you're out and about!"

"I care about it very much," President Er Gou said seriously to Helena.

"Is this what you call an image?!" Helena pointed her finger at the swimsuit on President Er Gou's body. "Shameless!"

"...Tsk." President Er Gou turned his head away unconvinced. "She's a beautiful girl too. What's wrong with beautiful girls wearing swimsuits?"

"How old are you, still acting like a child!" Helena walked up to Guild Master Er Gou and kept poking his chest with her finger. "You're the guild master of the Admiral's Guild! You represent the guild's image. Please maintain a serious and attentive demeanor during working hours!"

"Okay, okay, it's just a swimsuit. You can just not wear it next time."

“This isn’t about wearing a swimsuit or not…” Helena seemed angry that President Er Gou didn’t understand her thoughts. She reached out her hand to continue speaking, but President Er Gou suddenly reached out a hand and grabbed Helena’s finger that was poking her chest.

"Helena." President Er Gou solemnly brought his face close to Helena's.

"Uh... um?" Helena didn't expect President Er Gou to do something like this. Her eyes widened in panic for a moment, then she glanced at Xiao Bai and the others behind President Er Gou, her face flushing slightly. "Wh-what's wrong?"

"...Could it be..." President Er Gou asked seriously, "that you're jealous?"

With a "smack!", Helena slammed the rolled-up cylindrical notebook into the head of President Er Gou, slamming her to the floor with a scream.

"Please review the expenses for this exercise, President." Helena coldly pulled out a piece of paper from behind her and handed it to President Er Gou, who was lying on the ground.

The guild leader, Er Gou, who was lying on the ground, reached out and took the papers Helena handed him. Then, scratching his head, he sat up and said, "Give me some face... Honestly, Helena is really ruthless. Let me see how many merits I have... Tsk, so expensive."

After seeing the data on the paper, President Er Gou revealed a pained expression that said, "I knew it." She clicked her tongue and looked at Helena: "Um... is it too late to back out now?"

"No."

"Ah... I should have said that everyone should pay 10,000 merit points..." Guild Master Er Gou pouted as she stood up from the ground. She scratched her head and looked at Xiao Bai. "Little Bai, I'll go to the office and take care of this first."

"Okay." Xiaobai nodded.

President Er Gou left listlessly.

Helena watched as President Er Gou's figure disappeared into the office before turning to Xiao Bai and giving him an apologetic smile: "I'm so sorry, Admiral Lu Lin, for keeping you company with our president's antics all morning."

"It's okay." Xiaobai smiled.

Helena led Xiaobai to the center of the third-floor lobby. It seemed Helena knew in advance that they would be returning with President Er Gou, as many sofas had been added to the center of the third-floor lobby, enough for everyone to sit.

Xiao Bai chose a place to sit down, and Helena quickly led a team of staff to bring tea and snacks to everyone.

As Xiao Bai sipped his hot tea, he looked at Helena, who was smiling beside him, and couldn't help but feel a little surprised.

To be honest, this Helena gave me a slight feeling of Lexington.

"...Speaking of Helena."

"I'm here."

"Are you a ship girl?" Xiaobai asked Helena.

Helena paused for a moment, then nodded: "Yes."

"Is your admiral the guild leader's older sister?"

Helena smiled, neither confirming nor denying.

"...So the guild leader is also an admiral." Xiaobai murmured, taking another sip of hot tea.

Just now, when President Er Gou took the form that Helena handed him, Xiao Bai also caught a glimpse of it.

The list showed that the amount of merit points to be compensated to the spectating admirals was in the tens of millions. Even a newbie naval base would feel a pang of heartache if they had to distribute that many merit points to others at once. However, when Xiaobai saw that list just now, Guild Master Er Gou didn't show any extreme emotions other than heartache, which made Xiaobai a little curious about Guild Master Er Gou's wealth.

—Speaking of which, Chairman Er Gou didn't seem particularly excited about the large amount of deep-sea metal he had casually obtained when he captured Bismarck and Tirpitz.

"Is Admiral Lu Lin very interested in this?" Helena asked Xiaobai.

"Ah, no, no." Even a novice like her knew that it wasn't a good habit to pry into other people's backgrounds, so she quickly shook her head. "Um, how's the ship girl who was carried back by the medical team earlier?"

"I fed each of them a quick repair device for free and then let them leave," Helena said to Little White.

The zodiac sign standing nearby seemed a bit curious: "You just let them go like that?"

“After all, the Admiral’s Guild is a neutral organization, and it can’t favor the Admiral.” Helena looked quite apologetic.

—Even though I've already shown favoritism.

"It's alright, let them go." At this moment, President Er Gou pushed open the office door and heard the conversation. She quickly approached the group, looking at them with an expression that seemed to say, "There's no need to pursue this any further."

"Is that all?" Constellation asked curiously.

"That's all." President Er Gou shrugged. "After today's drill, he probably won't dare to mess with you guys anymore."

"Oh... but isn't he the vice-captain? His fleet should still have..."

"After losing so much face, do you still think he can stay in his original fleet?" President Er Gou smiled at the constellation. "Besides, he was able to join the fleet in the first place because of the Royal Oak. Now that he's lost the Royal Oak, it's a stretch for him to stay in that fleet. By now, he's probably been kicked out."

President Er Gou and Constellation glanced at the Royal Oak sitting next to Xiao Bai, nodded, and looked away.

"Well, those are just trivial matters. I'll take care of the rest for you." As she said this, President Er Gou's shrewd eyes found Nia on the sofa. She plopped down next to Nia and began to grope Nia's thighs with her hands. "This is a rare opportunity, so let's talk about what little Nia asked me about before."

"What did you want to see me about?"

"Yes, wasn't there a talk about the phenomenon of deep-sea clusters a while ago?"

"Oh...that." Xiaobai nodded.

The Deep Sea Bismarck and the Deep Sea Tirpitz have been brought back to land by Xiaobai, but Xiaobai can't tell Chairman Ergou about this, so Xiaobai can't tell Chairman Ergou directly.

"The clustering phenomenon is getting more and more serious," President Er Gou said to Xiao Bai.

"Oh." Xiaobai nodded.

President Er Gou looked at Xiao Bai.

A second passed.

Two seconds passed.

Five seconds passed.

Ten seconds passed.

"Eh?!" Xiaobai jumped up from the chair in a flash, looking at President Ergou with a surprised expression.

Chapter 748 Our goal is! To cause trouble!

President Er Gou's words really surprised Xiao Bai.

As an admiral who personally experienced the deep-sea cluster in the first chapter, Xiaobai knows the reasons for its appearance and its dangers.

In the first chapter, Veneto rescued a group of ship girls from a small Abyssal fleet. Had Veneto not happened to be passing by, those ship girls would likely have been in grave danger.

A deep-sea cluster refers to the phenomenon where scattered deep-sea ships, under the command of advanced deep-sea ships, gradually aggregate and organize from scattered experience points into a deep-sea ship group with overwhelming numerical superiority, thus causing a qualitative change from quantitative change and posing a huge threat to ship girls in the sea area.

Deep-sea clusters usually have a reason. They are usually formed because a Deep-Sea Director has emerged in the sea area. Under the conscious or unconscious leadership of the Deep-Sea Director, the small deep-sea creatures gradually gather together to form a fleet.

This phenomenon usually resolves itself once the newly formed Deep Sea Dean is eliminated.

The Deep Sea Cluster in Chapter 749 was later discovered by Lexington and her team, who found the culprit behind the Deep Sea Cluster in Chapter 1 and used a barrage of B-25s to blast the escort ship that was about to become the Dean of the Deep Sea to death, thus eliminating the Deep Sea Cluster phenomenon in Chapter 1.

In the second chapter, when Xiaobai and her companions find the Deep Sea Bismarck and the Deep Sea Tirpitz, the large number of Deep Sea amphibious ships surrounding them are also a kind of Deep Sea cluster.

So after capturing the Deep Sea Bismarck and the Deep Sea Tirpitz, Xiaobai assumed that the Deep Sea Cluster phenomenon that Nia had mentioned earlier had been resolved.

During this time, Xiaobai encountered all sorts of things, so much so that after capturing the two Deep Sea Deans, Xiaobai didn't have time to go to the first node to verify whether the Deep Sea Cluster had disappeared. Occasionally, when Xiaobai went on a serious expedition, she would just go to the fourth node to stomp on weaker opponents.

"...Is it getting worse?" Xiaobai asked Guild Master Ergou cautiously.

President Er Gou nodded.

"...Are any of the admirals' ship girls injured?" Xiaobai asked curiously.

"Oh, no, it's just that the groups have changed from two or three to four or five. They're still small fry," said Guild Master Er Gou. "In fact, this has led to the admirals reaping more rewards recently."

"Ah...that makes sense. After all, we'll save the trouble of finding lone Abyssal Fleet ships..." Xiaobai breathed a sigh of relief and smiled at Guild Master Ergou.

It seems that the deep-sea cluster phenomenon in the second chapter is not as obvious as in the first chapter. It has even turned into a limited-time welfare event similar to the increased probability of deep-sea amphibious ships.

Thinking about this, Xiaobai felt a little conflicted: "Does the president know the reason for the deep-sea cluster?"

"Who knows? I'm not the Deep Sea." President Er Gou shrugged. "But for now, this phenomenon seems to be a good thing."

"Haha..." Xiaobai chuckled dryly twice.

With the admirals of the second chapter being far stronger than those of the admirals of the first chapter, a group of four or five Abyssal Fleet ships together will make the battles a little more intense, but it also means that they will get double the usual rewards for each battle. This will save the ship girls a lot of time searching for enemies on the high seas and improve the efficiency of their expeditions.

Therefore, at present, deep-sea clusters are not a situation to worry about.

“But if the phenomenon of deep-sea clusters continues to intensify, and eventually, like in the first chapter, there are forty or fifty deep-sea ships gathering together all the time, the admirals here may not be able to handle it,” Nia said to President Er Gou and Xiao Bai, who were sitting to the side.

As the person whose strength is closest to that of an ordinary admiral among those present, and who has also experienced the devastating deep-sea cluster activity in the first chapter, Nia's current feelings of worry outweigh her joy.

"The first chapter?" Luo Lian looked at Nia curiously.

"Hmm, ah, Miss Luo Lian doesn't know yet, does she?" Nia looked at Luo Lian's curious eyes, thought for a moment, then moved closer to Luo Lian and whispered to her about the deep-sea cluster in the first chapter.

"I see." Luo Lian nodded, then crossed her arms and pondered for a while.

"President Sister, have you found the reason for the deep-sea cluster?" Xiaobai asked President Ergou curiously.

"I've sent fleets to the first node many times to search for the Deepsea Dean, but I haven't found him. I'm really desperate," Guild Master Er Gou sighed, a helpless expression on his face. "But then I heard that after the Deepsea Cluster in the first chapter was dismantled, that lowlife Barbatos was accused of negligence and received a heavy punishment. If the Governor hadn't intervened and given him a chance, he probably wouldn't even be able to keep his chair now. At this rate, I might get punished too."

As President Er Gou spoke, his hands, which were roaming over Nia's flushed body, never stopped for even a moment, seemingly unconcerned about it.

Xiao Bai gave an awkward laugh.

The deep-sea cluster in Chapter 750 is directly related to Xiaobai by nearly 80%. At this moment, Xiaobai heard that Mr. Barbatos was punished for this matter, and she couldn't help but feel a little sorry for him.

Fortunately, the governor later gave Mr. Barbatos a chance. I guess the governor who gave Mr. Barbatos a chance was either Mu Yu or Sister Ringo. Their intervention helped clean up Xiao Bai's mess.

"So, is the reason the president told us about this today because she wants us to help you?" Xiaobai asked President Ergou.

"Yes." President Er Gou nodded quite directly. "Please help me."

President Er Gou is really a decisive person.

Xiao Bai is also prepared to help President Er Gou.

"I can help, but what exactly does the president want me to do?" Xiaobai asked.

"It would be best if we could find the Dean of the Deep Sea. If not, please take some time to help me clean up the Deep Sea ships in the first node," said Guild Master Er Gou. "We don't need to do it too often now. Because of the Deep Sea Cluster, the strength of the Deep Sea ships in the first node is almost catching up with that of the second node. This is not very friendly to new admirals whose strength has not yet improved."

As he spoke, President Er Gou pulled a list out of his clothes: "Of course, I won't cheat you. How about I multiply the rewards in the first node by five? That's much more generous than the rewards in the fourth node."

President Er Gou smiled as he looked at Xiao Bai.

Although Xiaobai is not short of money and has never gone to war for merit, the decision made by Guild Master Ergou still warms Xiaobai's heart.

"Hmm, that works too." Xiaobai said to President Ergou with a smile.

"So it's settled then?"

"It's a deal..."

Just as Xiao Bai was about to nod, Luo Lian's hand suddenly reached out from behind Xiao Bai. She took the list handed to her by President Er Gou and began to look at it carefully.

"Mmm, mmm, mmm." Luo Lian nodded as she looked at the list.

"Lianlian?" Xiaobai looked at Luo Lian and asked her curiously, "What's wrong?"

“Nia just told me about the Deep Sea Cluster,” Luo Lian said, putting down the list and addressing Xiao Bai and Guild Master Er Gou. “So, if the Deep Sea Cluster is left unattended, the Deep Sea Abominations will soon cluster into groups of forty-five, right?”

"...Yes, that makes sense."

"Moreover, because of the Dean of the Deep Sea Academy, the deep-sea aura of the entire chapter sea area has been tilted towards this place, so the growth rate and number of deep-sea amphibious ships have been increasing continuously, right?"

"Yes, that's how it is." Xiao Bai looked at Luo Lian and tilted her head.

With a loud slam, Luo Lian slammed the list in her hand onto the table.

Luo Lian's photo was taken very suddenly, startling Nia and Xiao Bai, who were paying attention to Luo Lian.

Luo Lian looked at President Er Gou: "What a waste."

"Huh? What a waste?" President Er Gou stared at Luo Lian with some curiosity.

Luo Lian walked over to President Er Gou, holding the list, pointing to the data on it, and muttered a few words to him with her head down.