Elder brother's garrison

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Luo Lian revealed a light smile.

The ship girls behind her had different expressions at this moment.

It's like watching an Oscar-winning performance and then having a knowing look on your face, as if you know all too well the wickedness of human nature.

The admiral who was being spoken to was a little surprised to see the ship girl acting this way, as he had been paying attention to Luo Lian's ship girl.

However, he didn't pay much attention to it. Maybe that's just how ship girls and admirals interact, and it shouldn't have anything to do with him.

After all, this ship girl can't be fake, right?

At this moment, Luo Lian slapped out a contract with her name already written on it: "Here, this is the contract. Take a close look. It's the same as the conditions we discussed before. If you think it's about right, then sign it."

The admiral who was being spoken to picked up the contract, glanced at it, and after confirming that there were no problems, took out his own pen and signed his name on it.

This contract was certified by the Admirals' Guild as an intermediary. It was made in duplicate and was specifically for admirals to use when forming teams to distribute loot. Therefore, it has a high reputation and there are no problems.

After confirming the meeting place with the admiral who had spoken to her, Luo Lian put away their respective contracts and then walked towards her next target.

Because Luo Lian had already made a good start, recruiting the second team member went much more smoothly when she had already signed the contract.

Under the watchful eyes of everyone in the Admirals' Guild, Luo Lian spoke with all the weakest Admirals who were in the rest hall, and reached a consensus with most of them.

After signing seven or eight parts of the contract, Luo Lian folded it up and handed it to Warspite beside her. Warspite, with an embarrassed expression, put the contract into the middle of her ship equipment.

Then, Luo Lian hurriedly led the ship girls away.

Luo Lian and the others quickly blended into the crowd and then followed the road back to the inn.

Luo Lian and Warspite returned to their rooms, and the henchman ship girls also took this opportunity to temporarily return to their respective admirals.

"Admiral..." After entering the room, Warspite looked at Luo Lian with a sorrowful expression.

"what happened?"

What prices did you negotiate with them?

"Hmm...it's in the contract, it's all 100,000 merit points." Luo Lian said nonchalantly.

"I know it's 100,000, Admiral, but we only have 100 merit points right now! Where are you going to get merit points to pay their salaries?"

"...We only have a few dozen merit points left now, and we lost quite a few just after entering the rest hall," Luo Lian pointed out.

War-weary now wants to smash his head against the wall and die.

“Each of them can only earn 70,000 to 80,000 at most. If you open all the contracts and get 100,000 merit points, then with eight contracts, we will lose at least 160,000.”

Luo Lian looked at Warspite quietly for a while, then nodded.

“When making investments, taking out loans is a necessary step. The extra human resources can make any difficult task much easier,” Luo Lian said seriously as always. “This is a risk that must be taken before reaping huge profits.”

At this point, Luo Lian raised a finger and looked at Warspite, saying, "Assessing the level of risk is what investors should pay attention to. Those who lack the ability should not borrow amounts exceeding their capacity."

Just as Warspite seemed to understand a little, Luo Lian's lips curled up slightly again, and she twisted her fingers: "Next time someone talks to you like that, you can point your finger at them and say they're talking nonsense."

"Huh?" Warspite was listening when Luo Lian suddenly said this, and then she was stunned.

"War-weariness, have you ever heard of the three-fold theory?"

"Uh...what?"

“A good contractor will never set his employees’ wages at more than one-third of the value they create for the organization,” Luo Lian said. “Because ninety percent of the people in this world underestimate their own value.”

"Huh?" Warspite was stunned again.

“I didn’t take any risks,” Luo Lian said to Warspite, lowering her hand. “On the contrary, I made a huge profit when I signed the contract.”

As Luo Lian spoke, she took off her military uniform, changed into an inconspicuous set of clothes, and put on a baseball cap.

Luo Lian then left the inn.

War-weary was left sitting blankly on the bed, completely bewildered.

—Warspite felt that he, as the admiral, was actually quite remarkable.

It's almost the end of the month again! Hey, if you have any extra free razor blades or small gifts, please send them out! They'll expire if you don't! (Praises you profusely)

Chapter 417 Round, Black, and Sweet

These past few days, Xiaobai has been feeling something is off.

After Shiro went to the Admiral's Guild to register, the ship girls in the naval base began to work enthusiastically on pre-battle preparations.

However, since ship girls are a special species, pre-battle preparations can actually be completed in just a few hours, so they've spent most of their time playing these past few days.

Xiaobai sat on the steps in the courtyard, idly gazing at the sky and watching the ship girls come and go.

Lately, whenever Xiao Bai steps out of the yard, she occasionally gets the feeling that she's being watched. Of course, as the person involved who caused a stir online just a few days ago, Xiao Bai is quite aware of her reputation, but being watched and being targeted are two completely different feelings.

Xiao Bai looked around.

This feeling of being watched wasn't constant, 24/7, but when it did occur, it was so blatant that it made Xiaobai feel extremely uncomfortable.

"Xiaobai, what are you doing at the door?" Lexington's voice rang out from behind Xiaobai.

"Ah...it's nothing, just checking out the pedestrians," Xiaobai replied.

Actually, Xiaobai was sitting at the gate of the courtyard looking for the person who had been secretly watching him these past few days, but there was no need to tell Lexington about such a trivial matter.

"Oh, I see." Lexington didn't doubt Xiaobai's words. She said to Xiaobai, "The floor tiles in front of the door are cold. Don't sit for so long. Come back soon."

"Hmm." Xiaobai walked back into the yard.

The ship girls in the courtyard had been relaxing too much these past few days, and they seemed to have subtly become lazy as well. At this time, most of them brought out a rocking chair and lay on it, looking like Yi Xian from the naval base, with a rosy glow in their eyes.

"Speaking of Lexington, how many days has it been since we registered?"

“It’s been three days,” Lexington replied.

"Has the deep-sea activity period not started yet?"

“Hmm…” Lexington frowned, looking troubled as well. “It seems… it hasn’t started yet.”

"Was this the case during all previous deep-sea activity periods?"

“It wasn’t like this before.” Lexington sighed softly. “Although it’s not an exact time, this time the deep-sea activity period feels a few days late.”

As Lexington finished speaking, she called out to Yamato, who was lying in a rocking chair with the ship girls, "Yamato, are you there?"

Yamato Fukami, who was lying in the rocking chair, took off his sunglasses and sat up: "What's wrong?"

Lexington and Shiro walked up to Yamato.

"What are you doing?" Lexington's approach made Yamato Abyss suddenly alert.

"Yamato, the main force of the deep-sea forces hasn't even approached this area yet during their active period. Do you know why?" Lexington asked.

"How would I know? I've already retired," said Yamato Akagi with an air of self-righteousness, then put his sunglasses back on, rested his head on his arm, and comfortably lay back in the rocking chair.

The deep-sea submersible Yamato can now calmly talk about retirement. That's truly remarkable progress.

Lexington and Shiro could only exchange a glance before reluctantly leaving Yamato's side.

Having completely become a traitor in the deep sea, the Dean of the Heroic Academy no longer needed to keep it a secret from Lexington, so Lexington didn't ask any more questions.

However, despite the late return during the deep-sea activities, the headquarters was still effectively conveying the progress of the deep-sea activities.

As the main force during the deep-sea activities, the deep-sea amphibious ships, like a rising tide, are almost at the furthest distance that the ship girls can go to launch a counterattack.

Although it's unclear why these deep-sea amphibious ships have become increasingly sluggish in recent days, especially the last day, they've barely moved towards the humans. They're just wandering around aimlessly, leaderless.

However, the Deepsea Amphibious Ships are, after all, not very intelligent. Headquarters has also detected that the Deepsea Amphibious Ships' formation has recently become scattered. It is estimated that they will probably attack in a few more days.

After confirming the battle plan with Lexington once again, Xiaobai, having nothing else to do, went out of the yard.

As for the battle plan, Xiaobai has confirmed it with Lexington dozens of times over the past few days. Not to mention Xiaobai, even Lexington can recite it by heart. Xiaobai hasn't had anything to do in the temporary admiral's room these past few days. After Tirpitz's game console ran out of battery, he's been lying in the room all day looking like he's lost his dreams. The whole room has a dead fish-like sense of decadence, and even Xiaobai doesn't really like being there.

The decision to go for a stroll in the city was made somewhat suddenly, so Xiaobai didn't greet many people immediately. He simply said goodbye to Lexington and then left.

Lexington was quite at ease with Little White, since no one could physically harm him anyway.

Xiao Bai also wanted to find out who had been secretly watching him lately.

After saying goodbye to Lexington, she walked out of the courtyard alone and headed towards the Admiral's Guild Center, where the crowds were the densest.

This walk took a whole day.

Some things are everywhere when you don't expect them, but they never appear once you become interested in them. Xiaobai was very close to this situation. She wandered around the city for a morning without feeling that persistent gaze upon her again.

Xiao Bai finally stopped in front of a small shop.

She didn't find what she was looking for, but she unexpectedly ran into someone she had met before.

A white-haired woman wearing clothes a size too small stood at the entrance of the convenience store, a round piece of bread dangling from her mouth, looking in his direction.

"...Ah." Xiaobai covered her mouth and looked at the strange woman. "Musashi-neechan?"

"..." Deep Sea Musashi stared quietly at Shiro with his narrow red eyes.

"Uh... do you remember me? The one I saw at the beach a few days ago."

Deep Sea Musashi chewed quickly, swallowed the bread in her mouth in a flash, and then nodded to Shiro while licking the cream-stained corners of her mouth.

"Oh, you still remember?"

"Yes." Deep Sea Musashi nodded.

After all, Shiro was her teacher who taught her how to use money and even treated her to a meal, so Deep Sea Musashi still had a deep impression of Shiro.

"It's been a few days. Has Musashi found your admiral yet?" Shiro asked Deep Sea Musashi.

"..." Musashi narrowed his eyes, looking like he didn't want to answer.

If she didn't want to answer such a private question, Xiaobai wouldn't ask any more questions. She smiled and looked Shenhai Musashi up and down.

Xiao Bai has always been unable to resist tall, mature women with perfect figures.

Lexington, Hood, Missouri, Akagi, Yamato-neechan—every gesture and movement exudes the charm and allure of mature women, making Xiaobai yearn for them immensely.

Although the older sister named Musashi in front of him always seemed a bit dazed, the mature feeling she exuded still made Shiro yearn for her.

Beautiful women always unconditionally increase others' positive feelings towards them, even if the object of their affection is a young girl.

"What is Musashi going to do next?" Shiro asked Deep Sea Musashi.

"Let's eat," Deep Sea Musashi said.

"Eat? What do you want to eat?" Xiaobai had an "I knew it" look on her face.

Deep Sea Musashi raised his hand and gestured a circle in front of Shiro: "Black and sweet."

"Huh?" Little White was taken aback. "What's that?"

“I don’t know either, I’ve had it once before,” Deep Sea Musashi said.

That thing was something Deepsea Musashi found on a defeated ship girl before she came to human society. At that time, it had been broken into sticky fragments, but you could still vaguely see what it originally looked like.

During her stay in human society, Deepsea Musashi had barely eaten anything, but she had indeed eaten a lot of delicious food. The taste was no worse than what she had found on the ship girls before. However, she still wanted to eat the things she had eaten before again.

"Dark and sweet..." The description of Deep Sea Musashi is so simple and direct that even a novice wouldn't be able to make any connection with it for a while.

"Uh... is it a cookie?"

"No, I've already eaten the cookies."

"Then... chocolate?" Xiaobai asked tentatively.

Deep Sea Musashi looked at Shiro with curiosity.

It just so happened that it was right next to the convenience store. Shiro asked Deep Sea Musashi to wait at the entrance of the convenience store and then went inside.

Round chocolates are quite hard to find. Xiaobai searched for a while in the convenience store and could only find something related to round, like chocolate cake.

To be honest, Xiaobai didn't expect to be able to buy the kind of food that even a ship girl like her couldn't forget at the convenience store; she was just trying it out.

Xiao Bai walked out of the convenience store carrying a bag of chocolate cakes.

"Musashi-neechan, this is all I could find." Shiro took a piece of chocolate cake from the heavy plastic bag in her hand and handed it to Deep Sea Musashi. "Is this it?"

Deep Sea Musashi stared blankly at Shiro, then carefully reached out and took the thing Shiro handed him.

Deep Sea Musashi opened the packaging and took out the black, round object inside.

It's a familiar scent.

Deep Sea Musashi's spirits immediately lifted. She stuffed the chocolate cake into her mouth and chewed it with a blissful expression.

"Is this it?" Xiaobai asked.