Elder brother's garrison

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Everyone who was looking forward to it excitedly turned to look at the street and began searching rapidly.

Then they saw that, in a corner of the street, rows and rows of beautiful ship girls were walking towards the Admiral's Guild.

Leading the group was a ship girl with long flaxen hair. All the admirals in the artificial city who cared about the situation of the newbie naval base knew her. She was none other than the aircraft carrier Lexington. As one of the few super-powerful aircraft carrier ship girls in the world, she was also the secretary ship and symbol of the newbie naval base.

Ringo also suddenly raised her head and looked at Lexington and the ship girls behind her.

Lexington seemed to be in an exceptionally cheerful mood today; her face was beaming with a beautiful smile, and her skin glowed.

Seeing the expression on Lexington's face as he stood there, every admiral present felt a chill run down their spine.

—Didn't the newbie naval base just surrender?

Lexington was followed by most of the ship girls in the naval base. They walked and walked, quickly occupying a street, and finally slowly walked up to Ringo.

"It's been a long time, Governor Ringo," Lexington greeted Ringo, who was sitting in a chair.

"Hello." Ringo nodded, then looked around, searching for Shiro's location.

"Governor, are you looking for my admiral?" Lexington asked.

Ringo paused for a moment, then nodded.

“The admiral isn’t here right now,” Lexington said.

Ringo's expression dimmed for a moment: "Refresh merit points?"

"I'm not refreshing. Our naval base is closed today. Besides, my admiral's certificate is still with my admiral. Even if I wanted to refresh it, I couldn't," Lexington said with a smile to Ringo.

Ringo stared blankly at Lexington, seemingly trying to understand what he was saying.

Lexington had no way to conceal her words; her voice naturally amplified, and the admirals who had been holding their breath nearby heard her clearly.

The admirals couldn't help but stir.

Wave after wave of comments, like flies buzzing around, said things like, "This time, the newbie naval base is really no good. Ys Naval Base is going to be a disaster. Can the pros carry me?"

Lexington maintained her smile, ignoring the admirals around her. She simply shifted her gaze to the LCD screen beside her and then showed a slight surprise.

Lexington saw the table showing that the newbie naval base had been pushed out of first place.

"It's already ten million?"

"Mm." Ringo nodded.

“The momentum is incredible,” Lexington said. “I glanced at the clock when I left, and we were still in first place.”

"What are you going to do next?" Ringo asked.

“I don’t know,” Lexington said with a smile.

"..." Ringo's gaze dimmed again.

Looking at Ringo's dim gaze, Lexington realized that Ringo was indeed thinking about the new naval base. She smiled and said, "Governor, Lexington is just a ship girl. A ship girl is a ship girl. She won't worry about the admiral's affairs, so Lexington doesn't know."

Ringo raised her head.

However, Lexington did not intend to explain further and quickly changed the subject.

"Speaking of which, Governor Ringo, what brings you to the doorway today?"

"It's too hot inside."

"Is it still hot in autumn?"

"There are many people."

"Oh..." Lexington quietly looked at the few strands of hair on Ringo's head that were still damp. "Remember to relax."

"Thank you."

“Speaking of relaxation.” Lexington raised an eyebrow as she spoke, reaching behind her to pull out a blonde beauty dressed like a doll from among the ship girls behind her. “Governor, look.”

Ringo looked at the ship girl that Lexington had dragged out.

Dressed like a doll, in a lace-trimmed dress with ribbons and a sun hat, Saratoga, holding a teddy bear, stood behind Lexington with a look of utter shame.

"..." Ringo fell into deep thought.

"These are the clothes I picked out for my Saratoga, don't they look good?" Lexington's face blossomed into a radiant smile.

Is it pretty? Yes, it is pretty.

After all, Saratoga had a great figure and was a beauty with long hair down to her waist. When she didn't open her mouth, she looked serene and melancholic. She was a clothes hanger and looked good in anything.

However, Ringo had only ever seen this kind of clothing in anime. It was incredibly gorgeous. If she wore it in the real world, she would probably be mistaken for a model or something. Using this kind of clothing as everyday wear would be a bit too much. She wondered where Lexington had found this kind of clothing.

"It's beautiful," Ringo finally said, expressing her opinion.

"Isn't it pretty? Look at Jiajia, everyone says you're pretty." Lexington's face showed the kind of smile a child would have when playing with a doll.

Saratoga looked like she wanted to die.

"Are you shopping?" Ringo asked Lexington.

"Huh? Oh, no." Lexington smiled at Ringo. "You don't bring all your girlfriends when you go shopping, do you?"

"So, what brings you here?" Ringo asked.

“It was the Admiral who summoned us through the Admiral Network,” Lexington said to Ringo with a smile. “I told you, Lexington knows nothing, because our Admiral has already taken care of everything for us.”

"?" Ringo looked puzzled.

Then, right now.

A series of hurried footsteps then echoed from the surrounding roof beams.

With a whoosh, a dark shadow descended from the sky.

The dark figure arrived too quickly, soaring into the sky and hovering there for a while before landing directly in front of Lexington and Ringo.

The surrounding admirals were stunned for a while before they finally reacted.

Dressed in black, Bismarck placed the little white creature in his arms onto the ground.

Little White tugged at Bismarck's clothes, looking terrified: "Ah...are we finally here?"

"We've arrived," Bismarck said to the little white creature in her arms.

"...That's great." Xiaobai made a face that was hard to tell whether to laugh or cry. "I was almost scared to death..."

Xiao Bai patted his chest and looked around.

There were so many people around them, like worker bees coming and going in a hive. Luckily, Lexington and her friends were right next to them.

"Little White, you're back," Lexington said to Little White.

"Yes, I'm back." Little White smiled at Lexington, then shifted his gaze to Saratoga, who was standing next to Lexington.

"Sarah..."

"Meritorious service!" Ringo interrupted Shiro's words to Saratoga with some urgency, and said nervously.

Xiaobai paused for a moment, then smiled knowingly at Ringo.

"Good afternoon, Ringo-neechan."

"……good afternoon."

"I'm here to settle accounts for my merits." Xiaobai took out his admiral's certificate and handed it to Ringo.

Ringo breathed a sigh of relief, then took Shiro's admiral's badge: "Shall we take inventory of the deep-sea metal?"

"No need," Xiaobai shook her head. "I don't have any deep-sea metals."

"Then what should we use?" Ringo asked.

Xiaobai and Bismarck looked at each other for a while, and Bismarck nodded.

Bismarck took a few steps back and walked to an open space, then gently waved.

With a loud bang, a massive red ship-mounted aircraft landed on the street.

The crimson aura, like a lifelike long snake, continuously coiled around the ship's equipment.

"A complete, undamaged hull of the autumn deep-sea flagship."

Little White stood gracefully beside Bismarck, and amidst the glaring gazes of the admirals around them, who were all staring with their mouths agape, she smiled serenely at Ringo.

"How many merit points can I exchange for?" Xiaobai asked slowly.

Chapter 560 Rounding

"How many merit points can I exchange for?" Xiao Bai's voice wasn't loud, but it carried smoothly through the silent street, eventually reaching everyone's ears.

It was a very simple question, but all the admirals present, including Governor Ringo, stared blankly at the red ship equipment next to Shiro.

—Sorry, they said they couldn't answer that.

The ship's rigging behind Xiaobai was enormous and vibrant, with red currents swirling across the steel like a giant python spitting out its long tongue. Its dazzling brilliance resembled the radiance of a weapon forged to perfection, constantly flashing with the high-class flair of a pay-to-win player.

Is this the ship's equipment of the deep-sea flagship?

The admirals present seemed to forget to breathe, staring blankly at the ship's rigging behind Xiaobai.

The ship equipment of Abyssal Fleet ships is usually inferior to that of ship girls, which is one of the main reasons why ship girls have always been able to overpower Abyssal Fleet ships. In battles between ship girls and Abyssal Fleet ships, numbers seem to be the only advantage of the Abyssal Fleet ships.

However, the Dean of the Deep Sea Institute is different.

As I've said many times, the Deepsea Deans are a higher species than the Deepsea Abominations. Essentially, the difference between the Deepsea Deans and the Deepsea Abominations is like the difference between humans and monkeys. Therefore, when a Deepsea Abomination evolves into a Deepsea Dean, their ship equipment will also evolve, becoming a super-armor that even ship girls can't match.

Based on this, what kind of help would a complete, undamaged Dean's ship equipment provide to human ship girl technology?

No one can say for sure, and no one dares to say for sure.

Since ancient times, from the time when humanity first possessed ship girls until the present day, for hundreds of years, no admiral in the documented history has ever been able to obtain a complete, undamaged Abyssal Dean ship outfit.

The Deep Sea Dean is the leader of the Deep Sea Fleet. He lives in the sea and has thousands of Deep Sea minions that can be abandoned and resurrected at any time, as well as a dozen Deep Sea frigates whose combat power is comparable to top-tier ship girls. When they are holed up in their Deep Sea home, it is absolutely impossible for human ship girls to defeat them at this stage, let alone strip them of their ship equipment.

Even on a few special occasions, if the Abyssal Deans suddenly had a brain fart and went to the near sea to attack human cities, and happened to be discovered by dozens of super admirals who were playing mahjong in the human cities, they would send out hundreds of ship girls to launch a brutal attack on the Abyssal Deans, causing the Abyssal Deans to perish. Their ship equipment would also be burned in the aftermath of the battle, leaving only the metal of the Abyssal Deans for others to obtain.

Even if you're lucky enough to get a ship's equipment that's less damaged and more intact, that deep-sea ship's equipment will eventually turn to dust as time goes by, the deep-sea resentment within it will dissipate.

In theory, only by obtaining complete, undamaged, and essentially original imported deep-sea ship equipment can the ship equipment be preserved from being shattered into dust and thus have scientific research value.

But that's the hardest part.

Just like advising an enemy on the battlefield to take off their clothes and wear them, forcibly tearing them off will only damage the clothes themselves. Trying to completely peel off the Deep Sea Dean's ship equipment is nothing short of a pipe dream. Trying to force your way onto the ship equipment will only result in a pile of fragments and iron powder.

So how exactly did you do it?

"Ringo-neechan?" Seeing that Ringo didn't react for a while, Xiaobai raised his hand and waved in front of Ringo.

Ringo snapped out of her daze, then opened her beautiful eyes and scanned Shiro and the ship equipment behind her.

"This is real deep-sea ship equipment!" Xiaobai thought Ringo didn't believe her, so she immediately made a statement to Ringo.

Ringo quickly shook her head to indicate that she didn't mean it that way, then quickly nodded to show that she believed Shiro.

There's no need to believe or disbelieve this. Ringo could easily sense the deep-sea aura contained within the ship equipment by simply having any ship girl sense it. As the world's number one naval base, it's impossible for them to do something like this.

"Then, Ringo-neechan, how many merit points can this ship equipment be exchanged for?" Xiaobai asked.

"..." Ringo lowered her head, clenched her hands somewhat shyly, and swayed them from side to side.

This ship equipment is priceless in the narrow sense, but its value is not incomparable. However, Ringo really lacks experience in this area. The matter is of great importance, and even a governor like Ringo cannot make a decision.

After a while, Ringo, realizing that things couldn't continue like this, stood up from her seat. She took out a cell phone from her clothes and whispered to Shiro, "Make a call."

"Okay, sure." Xiaobai nodded.

Ringo then ran into the Admiral's Guild with her phone in hand, ran up to the second floor in full view of everyone, and then ran into the staff's room in full view of everyone.

Xiaobai stood still, waiting for Ringo. She turned to the side and looked in the direction of Lexington.

Lexington was also looking at Little White with an extremely surprised expression.

It's important to understand that even a rookie naval base that captures Abyssal Yamato, Abyssal Musashi, and Abyssal Pachina cannot hand over a complete set of Abyssal ship equipment.

Even if the Deepsea Yamato was bewitched by Lexington and fully cooperated with the demolition work, its ship equipment was still part of the Deepsea Yamato's body, and there would still be some minor damage from the violent demolition when it was dismantled.

“Wu Baba ordered Qiliu Yi Xiaobai, where did you get this?” Lexington asked.

"Ah... Bismarck and I were wandering the seas when we found the flagship, knocked it unconscious, and tore it down," Little White said to Lexington with a smile.

Xiaobai's words were all true, but she perfectly avoided all the sensitive points.

After listening to Xiaobai's words, Lexington looked at Xiaobai's smiling face, then looked up and surveyed Bismarck, who was guarding the ship's equipment, for a while before finally letting out a soft sigh.