Elder brother's garrison

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"For example, Admiral Li Hua?" Xiao Bai asked curiously.

"Yes."

"They seem to have a good relationship," Xiao Bai said with a smile. "Just now, Admiral Li Hua was the first person to offer to help Admiral Zhao Kuo write the plan."

"..." Admiral Nanxing looked at Xiaobai, who was smiling innocently, and remained silent for a while before whispering, "Actually, their relationship is just so-so."

"Huh? What?"

"...It's nothing." Admiral Nanxing looked up at the corridor and pointed ahead. "My room is almost here."

"Oh, oh!" Little White replied excitedly.

Xiaobai feels very happy now.

She felt that the sky outside the window was incredibly blue, the clouds were as white as snow, and even the maids who passed by the corridor from time to time had smiles on their faces.

Of course, most of the maids in the Ella family don't smile. The reason Xiaobai feels that way is simply because she's in a good mood right now.

After all, after having an in-depth conversation with Admiral Nanxing and clearing up the misunderstanding, Xiaobai felt as if a huge weight had been lifted from her heart, and her mood brightened considerably.

This inexplicable sense of pleasure can probably only be compared to the feeling of coming home from school on a rainy day, getting soaked to the bone, taking a hot shower, and then changing into a dry pair of new underwear.

"Speaking of which, where are your ship girls?" Nanxing turned around and looked at Xiaobai's smiling face, asking her question.

"Huh? Mine?" Xiaobai pointed to himself.

"Ah."

"Ah... well, about Missouri and the others, I told them before I went out to hand you the lighter, Admiral Nanxing. They should be back in their rooms by now," Xiaobai nodded and said. "Admiral Nanxing, would you like them to come to your room as well?"

Nanxing Admiral paused, thought for a moment, and then turned to Xiaobai and spoke.

"...It's best...not to."

Admiral Nanxing's words were quite harsh.

"Huh?" Xiaobai blinked, looking at Admiral Nanxing with some confusion.

“My room isn’t exactly… worth visiting.” Admiral Nanxing’s face flushed slightly. “If there are too many people, I’ll… feel a little pressured.”

“…Oh, uh…” Xiaobai breathed a sigh of relief.

Xiao Bai and Admiral Nanxing arrived at Admiral Nanxing's door together.

Admiral Nanxing took out his key and opened the door to his room.

Suddenly.

As Admiral Nanxing opened the door, a very strong smell of smoke wafted out of the room.

Admiral Nanxing walked into the room without realizing it.

Xiao Bai stood outside the door, subconsciously covering his nose, and looked blankly at Admiral Nanxing's room.

"What's wrong?" Admiral Nanxing, who had just entered the room, turned around and looked at Xiaobai standing outside the door.

"Uh...no, it's nothing..." Xiaobai quickly put her hand down, smiled apologetically at Admiral Nanxing, then took a deep breath and stepped into Admiral Nanxing's room.

It smells like smoke.

Xiaobai's mother doesn't smoke, and her father is the type who rarely smokes. Even if he does smoke occasionally, he usually does it alone by squatting at the front door so that Xiaobai won't smell the smoke. The ship girls in the naval base are even less likely to be exposed to smoke. Therefore, Xiaobai currently lacks tolerance for secondhand smoke and is quite sensitive to the presence of smoke.

Of course.

Although Xiaobai doesn't really like this thing, he can at least tolerate it for a little while.

Xiao Bai tiptoed into Nan Xing's room.

Judging from the set design, Admiral Nanxing's room is similar to Shiro's bedroom. The only difference is that Shiro's bed is neatly made, while Admiral Nanxing's bed still has traces of him getting up.

Xiao Bai glanced at Admiral Nanxing's bedside.

On the bedside table of Admiral Nanxing was the medicine box I had given him yesterday, a cell phone that was charging, and three transparent ashtrays. The ashtrays were filled with cigarette butts, and empty cigarette packs were stacked next to the ashtrays, forming a small pyramid.

Xiao Bai stared intently at the lettering on the cigarette pack. He couldn't quite understand the specific cigarette brand, but he knew it was a brand of strong-flavored women's cigarettes.

—Speaking of which, it seems Admiral Nanxing is always smoking...

Looking at the ashtray and cigarettes on the bedside table, Xiaobai murmured to himself with a touch of melancholy.

"I don't have much to offer you." Admiral Nanxing searched the room, finally picking up a pack of cigarettes from his table and handing it to Xiaobai. "Would you like this?"

"Uh... no need, thank you Admiral Nanxing."

Admiral Nanxing withdrew his hand, silently opened his cigarette pack, picked up a thin cigarette, and put it in his mouth.

Admiral Nanxing took out a lighter and pressed it twice. A flame popped out of the lighter. Just as she was about to light a cigarette, she looked thoughtfully at Xiaobai, who was standing in front of her.

Xiao Bai stood quietly in front of Admiral Nanxing, obediently raising her head and meeting his gaze with pure eyes.

"..."

Admiral Nanxing kept his cigarette in his mouth, stared at Xiaobai for a while, and finally silently put down the lighter.

"Thank you for the medicine." Admiral Nanxing picked up the medicine box from the bedside table and handed it to Xiaobai.

"Hmm... I'm glad you could help Admiral Nanxing." Xiaobai accepted the medicine box with both hands.

"..."

"..."

"...Would you like to sit a little longer?"

"Okay."

Admiral Nanxing sat down on the bed.

Xiao Bai walked over to Admiral Nanxing and sat down next to him.

Both Xiaobai and Admiral Nanxing are the type of people who tend to be listeners in conversations, preferring to listen rather than speak.

When these two people sit together and chat, their conversation often stalls, and the topic inexplicably dies out, with no follow-up to the discussion.

Fortunately, the two eventually found a versatile topic to discuss.

Those are ship girls.

Just chatting.

Since both of them are admirals, they are more likely to have common topics about ship girls.

"Speaking of which, how do you and your ship girls get along, Admiral Nanxing?" Xiaobai asked Admiral Nanxing.

"My ship girls?" Admiral Nanxing, with an unlit cigarette dangling from her lips, thought quietly for a moment before her gaze drifted to the bedside table. "...They...like to send me messages."

"Information?" Xiaobai was taken aback. "Information is..."

Admiral Nanxing nodded and looked down at her palm.

“I’m not good at interpersonal communication…and I’m not very good at expressing my emotions either, so I have very few friends, and I don’t have much entertainment in my life. I also don’t like to talk much,” said Admiral Nanxing. “So…my ship girls are worried that I might do something drastic if I’m alone for too long, so they often send me messages to cheer me up.”

At this point, Admiral Nanxing gently removed the thin cigarette from his lips.

“It’s just those kinds of everyday messages.” Admiral Nanxing looked at Xiaobai, “like praying at the shrine, shopping, playing games, and other things, they’ll record them and send them to me.”

"Oh... then Admiral Nanxing, didn't your ship girls invite you to play with them?"

"I refused."

"Eh?"

"Too much work."

"..."

"Besides, it's nice to be able to see their daily information." As Admiral Nanxing said this, a gentle emotion suddenly appeared in his usually dull eyes. "At first, only one or two ship girls would do this, but gradually more and more ship girls were in the naval base, and the information became more abundant. It's been almost ten years now."

"More than ten years..." Xiaobai stared blankly at Admiral Nanxing, then clasped his hands together in deep emotion, "How romantic!"

"Romantic?" Now it was Admiral Nanxing's turn to be confused.

"How romantic!" Xiaobai nodded emphatically. "Sister Nanxing, your ship girls must all like you very much, right? After all, they've been caring for you in this way for ten years without interruption!"

"..." Admiral Nanxing silently looked at Xiaobai for a while, then nodded, "Hmm, the only way to stop my ship girls from sending me messages is probably by sinking the ship."

"……"noob.

"...Sorry, this joke doesn't seem funny."

"..." Xiaobai breathed a sigh of relief helplessly.

really.

Just as Admiral Nanxing just said, she really isn't very good at interpersonal relationships...

It seems like their social skills are even lower than Xiaobai's.

"Admiral Nanxing, may I see your ship girls' information?" Xiaobai asked curiously.

“…Okay.” Admiral Nanxing blinked, stood up, walked around to the head of the bed, picked up her phone, and sat back down next to Xiaobai. “I haven’t checked my phone all day; there should be quite a few new messages—”

As Admiral Nanxing spoke, he turned on his phone.

However, Admiral Nanxing was stunned when he turned on his phone.

"Admiral Nanxing?" Xiaobai glanced at Admiral Nanxing's phone subconsciously, noticing her expression.

Xiao Bai was also stunned for a moment.

Because, at this moment, on Admiral Nanxing's phone screen...

There wasn't a single new message.

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In the slightly dim room, Admiral Nanxing's phone screen emitted a faint white light.

The dim light shone on Admiral Nanxing's fair face, making his complexion appear and disappear in shifting light and shadow.

Admiral Nanxing's phone screen had very few apps, looking bare and quite monotonous. The notification bar only displayed a few scattered push notifications from the pre-installed apps; there was no new information to be seen—a complete contrast to what Admiral Nanxing had just described.

For most ordinary people.

My phone didn't have many notifications this morning, which is probably quite normal. It's just a sign that I'm not very popular and have a poor social life. It's nothing serious.

But seeing this scene on Admiral Nanxing's phone, especially combined with what Admiral Nanxing had just said to Xiaobai, gave him a strange and ominous feeling.

Xiao Bai stared blankly at Admiral Nanxing's bare phone screen.

The atmosphere between Xiaobai and Admiral Nanxing suddenly became very tense.

Xiao Bai was at a loss for words. She stared blankly with her mouth agape, her gaze shifting back and forth between Admiral Nanxing and his phone screen.

Admiral Nanxing just said that.

Her own ship girls might only stop sending her messages if their ship sinks.

Although Admiral Nanxing herself said that she was just joking and that her words should not be taken seriously, and that her statement was somewhat exaggerated, it at least proves that her ship girls are indeed particularly attentive to communicating with their admirals, and would never easily put it aside unless there are special circumstances that prevent them from doing so.

This flag...

They collected it way too fast...

Under Xiaobai's gaze, Admiral Nanxing stared at his bare phone screen in silence for several seconds. Then, with a serious expression, he gripped his phone tightly, his snow-white fingertips tapping nimbly across the screen as he rapidly dialed a number in front of Xiaobai.

Admiral Nanxing stared at the dial pad on the phone, waiting.

"Beep—beep—beep—beep—Sorry, the number you dialed is not in service. Please try again later;..."

A series of cold, mechanical voices rang out on Admiral Nanxing's call screen. The voices repeated several times before snapping shut, signaling the end of the call.

Admiral Nanxing dialed several more phone numbers in front of Xiaobai. These numbers, like the previous ones, either showed "out of service area" or "busy," and none of them went through.

"..." Admiral Nanxing lowered her head, her breathing gradually becoming rapid.

"Ah! Admiral Nanxing, don't be afraid!" Seeing that Admiral Nanxing was starting to lose control of her emotions, Xiaobai quickly grasped the back of her hand and comforted her, "Um, um... Admiral Nanxing, don't worry. Um, although I'm not entirely sure either, but... even though your ship girls haven't sent you any messages, it doesn't necessarily mean something bad has happened. Maybe they're just busy on their way and want to give you a surprise or something!"

Admiral Nanxing shook his head.

"Even when my ship girls are fighting in the Chapter Sea, they don't forget to send me photos of their battles regularly..."

"Uh... well, maybe it's just on the sea. There's no signal on the sea, so you can't send messages..."

"My ship girls use very special satellite phones so they can send me messages anytime, anywhere, and they're not affected by usage even at sea..."

"Then...then, perhaps it was forgotten to be charged..."