Elder brother's garrison

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Chapter 1875 Oil Exhausted

Although Xiaobai was very curious about what the Dean of the Deep Sea was planning in Chapter 8, he quickly put that curiosity aside as time went by.

because.

About an hour later, with the final roar of the main guns and the fall of the last Abyssal Fleet, the ship girls of the newbie naval base ended the battle on the sea, wiping out the entire Abyssal fleet that had appeared on the surface.

The deep-sea amphibious ship's counterattack ended just like that, peacefully, smoothly, without any beginning or end, and inexplicably.

"Admiral, we're back!" The ship girls quickly cleaned up the battlefield and returned to the beach with bags and bags of deep-sea metal.

The ship girls guarding Xiaobai quickly dispersed, clearing a path for the ship girls who had come ashore to reach Xiaobai.

"Welcome back," Xiaobai said with a smile to the returning rookie garrison.

"Admiral, the enemy was so weak this time!" Before Xiaobai could say anything, the returning ship girls couldn't wait to show him their spoils, shouting, "Look, look! This battle not only ended quickly, but the loot wasn't even as much as last time! Although we haven't had time to count it yet, just by looking at it, you can tell it's less than a tenth of what it was last time!"

Xiaobai peeked out and looked at the sacks that the ship girls had torn open.

really.

The amount of deep-sea metal obtained on this expedition was far less than the last one. Even the quality of the deep-sea metal in the sacks looked somewhat mottled and not as pure as last time, resembling some crudely made, rushed products.

"The quality of this deep-sea metal is far inferior to the last one. I think even the deep-sea metal from Chapter 7, Chapter 6, which is slightly deeper in the sea, is of better quality than this," the ship girls told Xiaobai.

"The current sixth chapter is probably not going to work. I heard that the deep-sea aura for the current sixth chapter has been exhausted, and the production is far less than before." Some ship girls sighed helplessly. "But it's true that the quality of the seventh chapter is much better than this batch."

"Let's put these away for now." Xiaobai smiled helplessly and asked the ship girls, "Instead of counting the spoils, was anyone injured during this expedition?"

"Reporting to the Admiral, all crew members are unharmed!" the ship girls replied in unison.

"That's good." Xiaobai nodded, took one last look at the distant sea, and then said to the ship girls, "Let's go back."

"Roger that!"

The ship girls of Haoding Garrison remained on the beach to keep watch, while Xiaobai and the ship girls left the beach and returned to the valley in peace. Along the way, the ship girls chatted and laughed, as if they had just been on a leisurely sea picnic rather than on a mission.

When Xiaobai returned to the valley, Admiral Haoding and the ship girls, including Elizabeth, were waiting for her at the valley entrance. From a distance, Xiaobai could see a dark, human-shaped wooden stake pacing back and forth with his hands behind his back at the entrance of the emerald green valley.

Upon seeing Xiaobai and the returning rookie naval base, Admiral Haoding and Elizabeth quickly approached. Xiaobai, knowing what they were worried about, told Admiral Haoding that the rookie naval base had successfully won the battle and wiped out all the deep-sea ships that appeared on the sea.

Admiral Haoding was relieved to learn of the results. Xiaobai then asked Admiral Haoding if there had been any signs of abyssal ships invading the valley during her absence, or any unusual noises that had not occurred before.

Faced with Xiaobai's question, Admiral Haoding and Elizabeth exchanged a glance, and then told Xiaobai that during the time Xiaobai was away, everything in the valley was fine, there was no intrusion, and no unusual activity occurred.

—It seems that the Dean of the Deep Sea in Chapter 8 really didn't intend to steal the base.

Maybe I'm just overthinking things.

Xiao Bai breathed a sigh of relief, touched his forehead, and smiled at Admiral Haoding and Elizabeth.

After the battle ended, the valley returned to its usual tranquility. In fact, because the scale of this deep-sea surprise attack was too small, no ship girls in the valley discussed it much after the battle ended, treating it as a minor daily event and ignoring it.

The sun slowly sets.

Night falls.

Inside the villa, Xiaobai and the ship girls had dinner and chatted for a while before returning to their respective bedding to rest.

Lying in the slightly cool but soft bedding, Xiaobai looked at the dark ceiling and gradually let go of the worries that had been weighing on her mind all day.

The next morning arrived.

Elizabeth brought a giant octopus she had just caught from the sea that morning to visit Xiaobai. While Akagi was preparing the ingredients, Xiaobai invited Elizabeth to sit in the villa. When Missouri saw Elizabeth, she greeted her very warmly. Elizabeth lowered her head shyly, as if she felt guilty and dared not face Missouri's enthusiastic smile.

Everything was as peaceful as ever.

Just as Akagi finished cooking the octopus and served the snow-white octopus meat, a familiar and loud alarm sounded again in the valley.

"Warning! Warning! Deep-sea reaction detected!"

"Warning! Warning! Deep-sea reaction detected!"

"Warning! Warning! Deep-sea reaction detected!"

"..."

The sudden alarm startled the ship girls and Shiro, who were preparing to have dinner in the villa. They exchanged glances and saw the astonishment in each other's eyes.

"Huh? Again???" Little White looked at Elizabeth and stammered, "Miss Elizabeth, before we came, were the deep-sea counterattacks you encountered in Chapter Eight this frequent?"

“No…” Elizabeth also looked puzzled, “Before Admiral Lu Lin and you arrived, we only encountered one more deep-sea counterattack…”

"Uh... never mind, let's get going!" Xiaobai put down her chopsticks and stood up.

"Received!" The ship girls inside the villa quickly packed their things and ran out of the villa in high spirits.

Xiaobai arrived at the beach with Elizabeth and the ship girls from the newbie naval base.

The situation on the beach was exactly the same as yesterday. The alarm had been sounding for more than ten minutes, but all that could be seen was the sea fog churning and no sign of the Abyssal Fleet. It wasn't until Xiaobai and the ship girls arrived at the beach that, a few minutes later, large and small Abyssal Fleets began to appear on the sea, gathering in formation and roaring as they charged toward the beach.

Today's deep-sea amphibious ships are the same as yesterday's: small in scale and of varying quality.

The ship girls of the newbie naval base stepped onto the sea and bravely fought against the abyssal ships. The battle on the sea continued smoothly for more than an hour. After the newbie naval base wiped out the abyssal ships once again, the ship girls cleaned up the battlefield, carrying bags of abyssal metal. While complaining about the weakening of the enemy's combat power, they returned to Shiro's side.

After the battle ended, life returned to normal the next day.

It was the afternoon of the third day.

Just as Xiaobai was squatting at the villa entrance, looking up at the sky and waiting for something, sure enough, the ship girl's alarm sounded again and again in the valley.

"Warning! Warning! Deep-sea reaction detected!"

"alarm……"

"..."

The newbie naval base acted very quickly this time, reaching the beach within ten minutes of the alarm sounding for the first time. The beach was still just shrouded in black fog as usual. It wasn't until the ship girls of the newbie naval base arrived at the beach that the deep-sea ships emerged one by one from the horizon.

of course.

The combat strength of the Abyssal Fleet's neighboring land forces remains weak and easily defeated.

……

Since the first day the alarm was raised, the sea area of ​​Chapter 8 seems to be under some kind of curse. Every day, a group of deep-sea amphibious ships, neither small nor large, emerges from the horizon and routinely invades the land. As usual, they are easily wiped out by the ship girls of the rookie naval base, who deliver a sum of deep-sea metal, which, although of ordinary quality, is still quite valuable.

The deep-sea amphibious ships appear at different times each day—early morning, noon, and afternoon—but they always appear at least once a day.

Faced with the daily attacks of the deep-sea ships, the novice naval ship girls went from initial doubt and caution to gradually getting used to it, and eventually, they simply treated it as a daily routine.

Time passes day by day.

In the blink of an eye, a week has passed.

After completing today's daily quests... and the Deep Sea Raid, the newbie naval girls stretched and returned to their villas to continue their daily lives. After returning to the villa, Shiro quietly went to a corner and started flipping through her notebook.

Xiaobai's notebook records the time and scale of the appearance of the Abyssal Fleet every day, the loot collected by the ship girls of the new naval base after defeating the Abyssal Fleet, the time when the Abyssal Fleet was destroyed, the number of large Abyssal Fleet, and all other information that might be useful.

Xiao Bai held her notebook and quietly flipped through the data on the Deep Sea Fleet's appearances over the past week—data she already knew by heart, but for the sake of a sense of ritual and to create an environment conducive to reflection, Xiao Bai would look at it like this every day.

"Today's deep-sea amphibious fleet... is it slightly weaker than the previous times..." Xiaobai murmured, turning the pages of her book. "The number of large deep-sea vessels is three fewer than before, four fewer than the time before last, and six fewer than the time before that... These fluctuations in numbers are really subtle... How long will this deep-sea surprise attack last..."

Xiao Bai muttered to himself and sighed.

"If this continues, even my family's resources will run out..."

In the eighth chapter of the newbie naval base's expedition, although the supply ships' huge capacity allowed them to bring enough strategic resources for the ship girls to use for a while, even with abundant resources, they are still relatively limited. The extra resources brought by the four supply ships alone cannot withstand the daily consumption of the newbie naval base.

"Although the resources consumed in each battle are not much, they can't last every day. It seems that we only have enough resources for three or four days of attacks..."

Xiao Bai turned the pages of the book with some distress, biting his fingers, muttering to himself, and sighing.

Life is not easy...

Chapter 1876 Artillery Submarine a Thousand Miles Away

Although the deep-sea fleet that appears on the sea every day is weak, Xiaobai cannot simply ignore them. The strategic resources of Haoding Garrison are exhausted, and no one can share the burden with Xiaobai. The novice garrison can only bite the bullet and go on, so Xiaobai can only watch helplessly as the precious strategic resources are consumed little by little in this seemingly endless war of attack and defense.

……wrong.

Strictly speaking, the daily siege battles in Chapter 8 also have an end.

According to Xiaobai's research and statistics, although the changes are very subtle, the quality of the deep-sea fleet that appears on the sea surface every day is actually weaker than the day before - these changes are basically reflected in the decreasing number of large deep-sea ships in the deep-sea fleet.

This is not difficult to understand.

Although there are no restrictions on resource replenishment for deep-sea ships, the number of deep-sea ships that can revive in a sea area each day is limited. The speed at which the newbie naval base can eliminate them all is greater than the speed at which deep-sea auras in the nearby sea area can revive deep-sea ships. In this week, along with the newbie naval base, the deep-sea dean of Chapter 8 is also slowly reaching its limit.

The resources of the newbie naval base will slowly run out, but the number of abyssal ships that the Dean of the Deep Sea can use in Chapter 8 will also decrease as the newbie naval base is deployed day by day. This is a war of attrition to see who can hold out until the end.

"But then again, why did the Deepsea Dean suddenly adopt a war of attrition tactic in Chapter 8? Logically speaking, as a deep-sea creature, she shouldn't know that ship girls need resource supplies for their expeditions..." Xiaobai tilted her head back, pressing a ballpoint pen against her upper lip as she muttered to herself, "I've been going on every expedition these past few days, and I've been diligently searching the sea and land using the Admiral's Network, but I haven't found any trace of the Deepsea Dean... So where has she been all this time..."

"..."

"No, the most important issue now isn't where the Deep Sea Dean went, but rather that if this stalemate continues, the resources of the newbie garrison will be exhausted in three or four days..."

"..."

"Sigh... It's still more than two weeks until Admiral Haoding's ship girls deliver the next batch of resources... And even if Admiral Haoding's resources arrive, it will only replenish Miss Elizabeth's and the others' resources, and won't have much to do with our naval base..."

"..."

"Should we really abandon this land reclaimed by Admiral Haoding and retreat to a more remote area to await resource replenishment...? No, I have a very bad feeling. The Deep Sea Dean of Chapter Eight has already raised his guard. If we abandon this land now and lose a strong defensive position, it will be difficult to come back next time..."

Xiao Bai murmured softly, talking to himself in a low voice, his voice filled with helplessness.

"Admiral." Just then, a gentle voice rang in Xiaobai's ears.

"Ok?"

Xiaobai, who was thinking about the future, paused slightly when she heard the call. She turned her head to look at her side and saw that Chaoda and Zheng were kneeling beside her, quietly looking at her.

"Super Yamato?"

The ballpoint pen that Xiaobai had stuck to his lips fell toward the floor.

The large pen, slightly tilted forward, caught the falling ballpoint pen, then shyly lifted it up and handed it back to Xiaobai.

"Oh, thank you..." Xiaobai looked at Chaoda and Congyu's slender fingers, took her ballpoint pen from those beautiful fingers, and smiled gently at Chaoda and asked, "What's wrong, Chaoda? Is there something you need?"

"It's almost dinner time. Lord Yamato asked me to remind the Admiral to eat." Super Yamato placed her hands flat on her lap, like a loyal little maid, and obediently bowed to Shiro as she spoke.

Of course.

The adjective "small" might not be a perfect fit for "super-large".

Although Chaodahe has become as gentle and cute as a girl next door after resolving her inner conflicts, her appearance remains unchanged from when she was the Lord of the Seas—with red lips, delicate eyebrows, fair skin, a tall and voluptuous figure. Every part of Chaodahe's body exudes an aura of majesty and nobility.

If you only look at her appearance, the other Deepsea Deans in the newbie naval base look like a group of innocent, budding girls next to her.

"Oh... thank you, Chao Yamato, I understand." After hearing Chao Yamato's words, Xiaobai glanced at the villa door. Sure enough, the sky was already getting a little dim. She looked at Chao Yamato and said to him half-jokingly, "Why didn't you just come and call me directly for something that only takes a few words? Why did you have to go through all this trouble, Chao Yamato?"

"..." Yamato's shoulders trembled slightly. She looked up at Shiro, a hint of sadness and desolation quickly appearing on her delicate face. "I...I'm sorry...I didn't know the Admiral didn't want to see me..."

"Huh?" Xiaobai was stunned for a moment. Seeing Chaoda's eyes about to turn red, she quickly put down her pen, moved her knees closer to Chaoda, and nervously took Chaoda's soft, boneless hand in hers. While touching the back of her hand, she explained to Chaoda, "No, no! I was just joking... I didn't mean to not want to see you... I'm sorry... I scared you, I apologize, I apologize..."

Hearing Xiaobai's explanation, Chaoda's dejected expression slowly faded. She stared at her hand being stroked by Xiaobai. Although she didn't make any expression, a blush involuntarily appeared on her fair cheeks.

"...Lord Yamato is currently grilling fish for Lord Musashi, so he can't leave for the time being," Super Yamato explained to Shiro in a low voice.

"I see, I see." Xiaobai breathed a sigh of relief. She put down Chaodahe's hand, then blinked and silently studied Chaodahe's mature face for a while.

Speaking of which, ever since Super Yamato returned to the newbie naval base, she has been following behind Abyssal Yamato like a little follower. Perhaps because of her overly cold and mature appearance, she rarely interacts with other ship girls... including other Abyssal leaders. The ship girls in the naval base also show excessive respect to this new Abyssal leader. Even Shiro hasn't found a good opportunity to chat and talk to her properly.

Super Big was a little shy under Xiao Bai's direct gaze. She lowered her head slightly, and the pink color on her cheeks grew stronger.

"Speaking of which, Super Yamato, this is the first time we've spent time alone together, right?" Shiro said with a smile to Super Yamato.

“…Mm.” Chao Dahe nodded.

“After all, we live together every day, and we’re bound to have one or two chances to be alone together after a while…” Xiaobai said with a sigh, and smiled at Chao Yamato. “Before, we had Yamato-neechan, Loki, and other ship girls with us. I was worried that without them around, I would feel a bit pressured when I was alone with you… But now it seems that I’m quite comfortable being alone with you.”

"..." Her large, flat hands, resting on her thighs, nervously clenched the fabric. She swallowed hard and nodded hastily, "Me...me too. Thank you, Admiral...for not punishing me..."

"What punishment?" Xiaobai asked curiously to Chao Yamato, "What did you do wrong?"

“Before… we tried to attack you, Admiral, several times on the sea…” Chao Dahe lowered his head, his hands nervously clasped together.

"...Ah, you mean the matter with Ella's family?" After hearing what Super Yamato said, Xiaobai smiled and waved his hand dismissively. "That's all in the past. Besides, our positions were different back then, and there were misunderstandings between us. It's normal for you to attack me. I never cared from the beginning. Besides, look at our Deep Sea Dean now. Apart from Miss Loki, how many of them didn't lay a hand on me back then?"

"...Yamato-sama?"

"Yamato tried to hit me back then too," Shiro whispered to Super Yamato, as if afraid someone would hear. "That was the first time I met Yamato. Back then, Yamato was still locked up in our naval base's prison..."

The giant bent down and listened attentively to Xiaobai's story.

Xiaobai also told Chao Yamato about how he first met Shenhai Yamato, who mistook him for Dean Shenhai, and how Shenhai Yamato eventually saw through his identity and tried to beat him up to vent his anger, but Xiaobai ended up subduing him and pinning him to the bed, where he was in so much pain that he cried.