Elder brother's garrison

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Xiao Bai quickly walked to the metal plate, carefully examined the runes on it to make sure they were correct, and only after confirming that they were exactly the same as the previous one did he reach out and take the metal plate off.

Although it's unclear how the buff between Frederick the Great and this metal plate works, as long as this thing is put into the ship's equipment space, the connection between the metal plate and Frederick the Great will definitely be severed.

"It's over." Xiaobai murmured softly, looking at the heavy metal plate in his hand. Then he opened his ship equipment space and pretended to stuff the metal plate into it.

however.

Just at this time.

An accident happened.

zizi

The moment the metal plate touched Xiaobai's ship equipment space, the metal plate, which was only emitting ordinary light, seemed to have triggered some condition and suddenly became much brighter. Amidst a strong electric current sound, before Xiaobai could utter a sound, the blazing light instantly enveloped Xiaobai and then illuminated the entire room at the top of the tower.

Chapter 2141 Impregnable!

The light emitted by the strange metal plate was so intense that Xiaobai felt as if he were holding the sun.

Xiao Bai had no idea what was happening to the metal plate in her hand. She only felt that the light was ridiculously bright. Even when she blocked it with her palm, the light could still penetrate her flesh and make her unable to open her eyes. But before Xiao Bai could figure out what was going on, the next second, she felt the icy touch of the metal plate suddenly turn into an unbearably hot temperature, burning her palm painfully.

This is how Xiaobai felt after summoning the ship's equipment and his physical body was protected by it!

Xiao Bai let go in pain, not even bothering to throw the metal plate into the ship's equipment space, and could only let the metal plate fall from his hand.

Snapped!

The metal plate fell to the ground with a crisp, pleasant sound.

The brilliant light vanished the instant the metal plate hit the ground, plunging the entire room back into darkness.

Xiao Bai, supporting the entrance to the ship's equipment space, opened its eyes, which were sore from the bright light, and stared blankly at the metal plate lying flat on the floor.

The metal plate was now just like the one Xiaobai had when he first entered the room at the top of the tower, surrounded by a faint light. Hundreds and thousands of runes on the silver metal shone brightly, as if what had just transformed into a small sun in Xiaobai's hand was not this thing, but something else entirely.

"What was that just now...?" Xiaobai stared blankly at the metal plate on the ground, unable to understand what had just happened.

Xiao Bai looked down at his palm. The hand that had just held the metal plate was red from the high temperature. The damage to the palm cells from the lingering heat had not yet healed, and there was still a slight, cracking pain.

Shock.

Xiao Bai felt that although his body was not invincible, it was still able to withstand the heat of a regular iron plate heated to red-hot. For a hand protected by ship equipment to be burned like that in an instant, the metal plate must have reached an unimaginable temperature.

Xiao Bai shook his hand to shake off the pain in his palm, then bent down and carefully poked the metal plate on the ground with his fingertips.

Get it cold.

The metal plate instantly reached an unimaginable high temperature, and then instantly cooled back to its original cool temperature... and during this process, the smooth surface of the metal plate did not develop a single crack.

Is this... the power of runic fonts?

Xiao Bai muttered to himself, picked up the metal plate again, and stared at the densely packed runes on it with a complicated expression.

Although I don't quite understand the specifics, it seems that the metal plate in front of me doesn't want to be put into the ship's equipment space. The intense light and high temperature just now were its means of resisting being put into the ship's equipment space.

hateful.

It's incredibly intelligent!

I'm going to shove you in there anyway!

Xiao Bai squeezed the metal plate and opened the entrance to the ship's equipment space again. However, this time Xiao Bai did not slowly stuff the metal plate into the ship's equipment space as before. Instead, he directly aimed at the entrance of the ship's equipment space and gently tossed the metal plate in his hand.

Falling due to gravity... surely that can't be wrong, right?

Xiao Bai watched confidently as the metal plate swung through the air in an arc before slowly descending into his ship's equipment space.

really.

Just as the metal plate approached the entrance to the ship's equipment space, a light as intense as the sun appeared once again, accompanied by a wave of heat that made Xiaobai's face sting. Xiaobai quickly covered his eyes and turned to the side, trying to use his peripheral vision to watch the shadow in the light slowly descend towards the entrance of the ship's equipment space.

The shadows within the light approached the ship's equipment entrance.

"Success—it's done! Eh?!" Just as joy appeared on Xiaobai's face, a sudden change occurred.

Just as the front half of the metal plate fell into the ship's equipment space.

With a loud bang, the air around the metal plate exploded.

The powerful sound wave spread outwards from the metal plate, blowing away the unsuspecting Little White and slamming it against the wall at the top of the tower with tremendous force.

boom!

Xiao Bai felt as if his bones were about to be shattered by that impact.

Buzz buzz buzz————

The dust was shaken off.

The entire black spire seemed to be wailing at that moment.

Little White slid off the wall in a daze, staring blankly at the metal plate in the middle of the arena as the spire trembled.

The metal plate landed on the ground unharmed.

It... it can do this?

That's so unfair...

Xiao Bai swallowed hard, quickly got up from the ground, ran to the metal plate, bent down to pick it up, and carefully examined it from top to bottom.

Unexpectedly, even Newton couldn't fit this metal plate into the ship's equipment space—oh no, now I should be glad I didn't put it in. With such intense heat and air cannons, if I had actually put it in my ship's equipment, I would most likely have met a bad end.

Xiao Bai stared silently at the metal plate in his hand, lost in thought for a long time.

Xiao Bai finally understood why Frederick the Great placed such an important metal plate on the top of the tower instead of storing it in her ship's equipment space... It was simply because even she herself couldn't fit it in!

will die.

If you stuff something like that in, it could really kill someone!

Xiao Bai gripped the metal plate with slightly increased force, her brow furrowed in distress.

Xiao Bai felt that the plan he made yesterday had just begun, but it was already doomed at the starting point.

As if things weren't going to go wrong, seemingly alerted by the recent tremors of the Black Tower, Xiaobai heard Frederick the Great's footsteps coming from downstairs.

The footsteps were neither hurried nor slow.

But each step brings us closer to where we are.

Geek!

Xiaobai's heart skipped a beat, and she hurriedly put the metal plate back in its original position.

Just as Xiaobai placed the metal plate back in the center of the field, Frederick the Great's tall figure appeared outside the door.

"Ah, Frederick, you've arrived." Little White quickly put his hands behind his back, scratched the hair by his ear, and greeted Frederick the Great with a smile.

"..." Frederick the Great approached slowly with an expressionless face. She stopped next to Little White, first looking down at Little White with her bandaged eyes, then looking up at the metal plate that was placed steadily in the middle of the field. "...Just now, there was a strong tremor from here."

"Huh? Is there? Is there?" Xiaobai was startled, but pretended to be stupid.

"What were you doing just now?" Frederick the Great asked, looking down at Little White.

Although Frederick the Great's eyes were wrapped in thick bandages, Xiaobai could feel a strong gaze through the bandages. This gaze was neither malicious nor benevolent; it was a scrutinizing gaze that seemed to want to see right through Xiaobai.

The already guilty-looking Xiao Bai felt his heart rate increase noticeably when Frederick the Great looked at him like that.

"Huh? I... I was just studying this metal plate..." Xiaobai replied, forcing a smile.

"Has something happened?"

"Um... I, I saw some familiar runes on the metal plate... they seemed to be related to some kind of restriction, and then... then I couldn't resist trying it out..." Xiao Bai's brain was racing, and for a moment she didn't care what she was saying anymore, she could only try to describe what had just happened in a way that wouldn't threaten Frederick the Great, "and then... the metal plate reacted a little..."

"..." Frederick the Great did not speak.

"...But it's alright! The reaction is over!" Xiaobai sensed something was wrong and quickly said, "Now...now this metal plate is..."

"Rune strings?" Frederick the Great interrupted Xiaobai, asking, "What are rune strings?"

"Huh? Rune strings... Rune strings are... a way of using rune fonts..." Xiaobai was stunned and subconsciously replied.

"Are these all strings of runes?" Frederick the Great asked, looking at the metal plate.

"……yes."

"You know about rune strings?"

“…I know a little…I know a little.” Xiao Bai’s scalp began to tingle.

Xiao Bai said he didn't understand anything about rune strings.

This is the most difficult and obscure knowledge in runic language; beginners can't understand it at all.

But despite not understanding, Xiaobai had accidentally uttered the word when explaining her actions, and she couldn't change her mind and say she only had a vague understanding, so she had no choice but to grit her teeth and continue.

"...Find me a string of runes." Frederick the Great was silent for a moment, then gently removed the metal plate and handed it to Little White.

“Uh… well, then this one…” Xiaobai pointed to a corner of the metal plate.

What does "the above" mean?

"In short, the runes here have effects such as stabilizing and strengthening metals, but they also cause the metals to fatigue, so over time they will make them extremely brittle..."

"..."

Frederick the Great did not speak.

Xiao Bai held the metal plate and couldn't help but swallow.

Xiao Bai had absolutely no knowledge of rune strings, but luckily, when Luo Lian was explaining the rune fonts on the metal plate to Xiao Bai yesterday, she happened to list two rune strings on it and explained their functions to Xiao Bai. Xiao Bai just used her powerful memory to find the corresponding rune string on the densely packed, mountain-like metal plate, and then explained it to Frederick the Great.

Frederick the Great, who had been silent for a long time, slowly reached out and gently stroked the string of runes that Xiaobai was pointing to.

After a while.

Frederick the Great lowered his hand and nodded.

“Are rune strings… a higher level of knowledge?” Frederick the Great asked.

"Hmm..." Xiaobai nodded.

“Teach me the runic script once I’ve learned it all,” Frederick the Great continued.

“…Yes, either way is fine.” Xiaobai nodded again.

Chapter 2142 A Good Method from the Will of the Deep Sea

After hearing Xiaobai's promise, Frederick the Great's serious aura seemed to change, becoming much more relaxed.

"I'm looking forward to it." Frederick the Great nodded, turned and left, saying to Xiaobai as he went, "Go ahead and watch, and come see me in the conference room after you're done."

Under Xiaobai's watchful eye, Frederick the Great left the room at the top of the tower.

The footsteps gradually faded away.

Only after Frederick the Great's footsteps had completely faded from sight did Xiao Bai take a deep breath and, feeling somewhat exhausted, sit down on the floor.

"Whoa... Oh, that scared me to death..." Xiaobai braced herself against the floor with her hands behind her back, looking weakly at the metal plate in front of her. "I feel like I've taken on a lot of troublesome tasks again..."

Once Frederick the Great has mastered runic script... will I then have to teach her about rune strings...?

Xiao Bai breathed a sigh of relief.

Although Xiaobai had no knowledge of rune strings, he wasn't too afraid of it. After all, there were so many runes on the metal plate that even Frederick the Great, who could only read thirty characters a day, would not be able to learn them all in less than a year and a half.

a year?

That's plenty of time.

Xiao Bai's undercover operation in this deep-sea city is nearing its end. She will only stay here for a few days at most, and she can't possibly play with Frederick the Great for that long, so she's not afraid of being exposed.

But at least they managed to fob Frederick the Great off...

It seems like they even managed to gain some goodwill.

Xiao Bai looked at the metal plate in front of him, and his eyebrows furrowed again.

In short, now I have to start thinking about what to do with this metal plate again...

Based on the situation just now, secretly taking the metal plate into the ship's equipment space is no longer an option. For my own safety and the sake of this tower, I should find another way.

Since we can't take it away...

Then let's destroy it.

Xiaobai gritted her teeth, and suddenly a wicked thought arose in her mind. She rolled to her feet, picked up the metal plate, and the land-based ship equipment slowly appeared behind her. She used the power of a ship girl on the metal plate and began to fold it in half with all her might.