Elder brother's garrison

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"..." Admiral Nanxing didn't even utter a word of explanation this time.

Ok.

Even Xiaobai himself felt that this reason was extremely untenable.

It's impossible for all the ship girls in a naval base to have their phones die at the same time...

"Something must have happened to my ship girl..." Admiral Nanxing muttered softly, her breathing erratic as she gripped her phone tightly, her knuckles turning white from the effort. "And it must be a really, really big problem..."

Admiral Nanxing's breathing became uneven, and his originally calm face now showed a clear sense of unease and panic. Even the back of his hand, which was being covered by Xiaobai, was trembling slightly.

Xiaobai felt the trembling of Admiral Nanxing coming from her palm. She swallowed and lowered her head to think for a while.

"Um, Admiral Nanxing, don't rush. First, think about it. Right now, besides the phone, do you have any other means to contact your ship girls?"

"……No."

"Isn't the Admiral Network working?"

“My admiral network coverage area… isn’t that far,” Admiral Nanxing replied. “I tried calling just now, but I couldn’t reach him.”

The farther the ship girl is from the admiral's location, the more difficult it becomes to connect with him. For someone with Shiro's abnormally high level of mental strength, the distance between them is never a concern, and they can share their senses with the ship girls anytime, anywhere. However, for ordinary admirals, the mental connection is subject to many limitations and is far less convenient and easy to use than Shiro's.

"...The ship girls are beyond the admiral's network range..." Xiaobai muttered softly, a touch of worry creeping onto his brow.

if it is like this……

Now, the situation has become a major one: the world's fifth admiral has lost contact with his own naval base.

"Anyway! Sister Nanxing, we need to tell the other admirals present about this first." Xiaobai patted her cheeks and said to Admiral Nanxing, "Admiral Nanxing?"

Nanxing Admiral was shaken twice by Xiaobai. She looked over in confusion, her eyes filled with a bewildered and helpless look as she stared at Xiaobai.

"……what."

As the person directly involved, Admiral Nanxing was far more affected than Xiaobai. He was clearly still reeling from the incident, and his expression showed a bewildered and disoriented look.

"Admiral Nanxing!" Xiaobai slapped Nanxing's cheek.

"??" Admiral Nanxing stared blankly at Xiaobai.

"Well, although it's a bit easy for me to say this now... but I think that in this situation, we as admirals must not panic! Perhaps your ship girl needs your help right now!" Xiaobai cupped Admiral Nanxing's cheeks, stared intently into her eyes, and said loudly, "Admiral Nanxing, relax, take a deep breath!"

"Take a deep breath..."

Nanxing subconsciously repeated Xiaobai's words.

“That’s it, learn from me. Hiss—ha. Hiss—ha.” Xiaobai took a deep breath in front of Admiral Nanxing.

Admiral Nanxing stared blankly, opening his mouth and taking two breaths in sync with Xiaobai's movements.

While guiding Admiral Nanxing to take deep breaths, Xiaobai secretly activated her own Admiral Network, using her mental power to gently soothe Admiral Nanxing's emotions.

In Xiaobai's perception, Nanxing Admiral's mental energy was as messy as a clump of weeds, fluctuating wildly with unease. Xiaobai manipulated his own mental energy to cover Nanxing Admiral's mental energy, gently smoothing out the messy mental energy like stroking a cat's fur.

Admiral Nanxing looked at Xiaobai's serious expression with a bewildered expression. Her condition slowly returned to normal after Xiaobai's spiritual power touched her body.

Admiral Nanxing followed Xiaobai's deep breaths, his chest heaving violently for a moment before his gaze gradually calmed down at a visible speed.

Admiral Nanxing raised his hand and covered Xiaobai's palm. Admiral Nanxing's voice was still somewhat weak and feeble, but his gaze towards Xiaobai was full of calm and determination.

"...I...have calmed down. Let's go find the other admirals."

"Ah, that's great..."

Xiao Bai breathed a sigh of relief and released his hand from Admiral Nanxing.

Admiral Nanxing looked at Xiaobai with some gratitude. She put away her phone and got up from the bed.

"……Thanks."

"No need to thank me, Admiral Nanxing." Xiaobai smiled at Admiral Nanxing. "Even I would be at a loss if my own ship girl encountered such a big thing. With your professional admiral mentality, Admiral Nanxing, even without my help, you can recover on your own with a few more minutes of buffer time. I just wanted you to calm down a few minutes earlier."

"...But thank you anyway." Admiral Nanxing shook his head.

"..." Xiaobai smiled silently.

Xiao Bai opened the door to Admiral Nanxing's room.

Missouri and the other ship girls were all huddled on the wall outside the door, looking over with curiosity.

They saw Xiaobai and Admiral Nanxing come out of the room.

Missouri smiled and waved to Little White.

"Admiral, how was your chat with Senior Nanxing?"

"Admiral, what a coincidence! We were just passing by here!"

"We weren't eavesdropping, we weren't eavesdropping!"

The ship girls talked amongst themselves.

"Ah, it's Missouri! You've come at the right time!" Xiaobai quickly reached out to the ship girls and pulled up Missouri, who was standing at the front. "Missouri, there's an emergency! Come with me and Admiral Nanxing!"

"Admiral? Special circumstances?"

"Well, we'll talk about the specifics when we get there. Anyway, the situation is extremely urgent right now!" Xiaobai pulled Missouri along, and together with several ship girls behind Missouri, they left the corridor and headed towards the lobby on the first floor.

In the lobby and conference room on the first floor.

When Xiaobai, Admiral Nanxing, and a bunch of ship girls arrived at the conference room, there were already three admirals there.

In the morning, I saw Admiral Zhao Kuo sitting at a table piled high with draft papers, sketching rapidly with a fountain pen. Admiral Li Hua stood beside him, carrying thick stacks of documents back and forth, occasionally handing Zhao Kuo several thick volumes of reference materials. Duan Shuiliu sat some distance away from them, holding a nearly bound plan and silently reading it with her head down.

Chapter 1480 Little White Has a Quick Idea

"Xiao Bai?" Duan Shuiliu, who was reading the schedule, was the first to notice Xiao Bai and the others standing at the door. She looked up, closed the schedule, and walked to the door. "What brings you here?"

Duan Shuiliu's gaze swept over Xiaobai and the ship girls behind her, and finally unexpectedly settled on Nanxing.

Upon hearing Duan Shuiliu's voice, Zhao Kuo and Li Hua, who were at the very back of the conference room, stopped what they were doing and looked towards the main entrance.

"Sister Duan, something terrible has happened!" Xiao Bai raised her hand and said nervously to Duan Shuiliu.

"Something bad is happening?"

"Admiral Nanxing's ship girl hasn't sent her a message all morning!" Xiaobai said.

"What?! All morning?!" The admirals present seemed to know the habits of the Nanxing admiral's ship girls very well. After learning that the Nanxing admiral's ship girls had not contacted their admiral all morning, admirals Zhao Kuo, Li Hua, and even Duan Shuiliu all showed varying degrees of surprise on their faces.

Everyone looked at Admiral Nanxing behind Xiaobai.

“Miss Nanxing… Is this really true?” Admiral Li Hua stared at Nanxing with his mouth agape in astonishment.

Nanxing nodded, her eyes somewhat dim.

"I...Oh my god." Admiral Li Hua covered his mouth with a look of utter dismay. "Then, then wouldn't that mean..."

"Nanxing, where did your ship girls go?" Duan Shuiliu asked Nanxing.

“It’s the normal route,” Admiral Nanxing said. “After my naval base is ready, half of the route passes through cities, and the other half is by water.”

Ship girls are, after all, a kind of army, especially when there are many of them. When large numbers of them pass through cities, they will attract a lot of unnecessary attention. Therefore, the top ten naval bases in the world, including the newbie naval bases, have more or less chosen waterways to some extent in the routes of their ship girls to avoid being noticed.

Ship girls are ship girls after all; it's only natural for them to travel by water.

Although there is a certain risk of encountering Abyssal Fleet ships when the ship girls travel by water, this is what the ship girls are meant to do, and this time they are all the main force with high combat power. Traveling by water is actually safer than previous expeditions. Even if they encounter some Abyssal Fleet ships, it is not a big deal. They can treat it as a warm-up before the battle.

"waterway……"

After listening to Nanxing's words, the admirals present thought about it carefully for a while.

Nanxing Admiral is, after all, the fifth-ranked super naval base in the world, and the main force of the ship girls has extraordinary combat power.

Minor mishaps are unlikely to affect her ship girls. Even if they encounter some deep-sea fleets roaming the seas, the ship girls of the world's fifth naval base should at least have time to inform Admiral Nanxing.

—So, if that's the case...

The trouble that Admiral Nanxing's ship girls are facing right now is probably not just as simple as "encountering a wandering deep-sea fleet"...

What level of disaster could cause the ship girls of the world's fifth naval base to lose contact?

Upon realizing this, the admirals present all became serious.

"Among the top ten admirals gathered this time, are only my ship girls and Admiral Haoding's ship girls present?" Admiral Zhao Kuo asked, looking up.

"Yes." Admiral Li Hua nodded.

"In short, before resolving Admiral Nanxing's matter, this sudden situation that has caused even the world's fifth-ranked admiral to lose contact with his ship girls is extremely serious. I suggest that all admirals whose ship girls haven't arrived yet contact their ship girls as soon as possible, check their status in advance, and change their routes to avoid similar situations!" Admiral Zhao Kuo took out his phone. "I'll also check with Admirals Lian and Ling, who aren't present..."

Speaking of it.

Zhao Kuo, the admiral, looked at Nanxing, his expression full of apology.

"I'm sorry, Admiral Nanxing..."

Admiral Nanxing shook his head. Although his eyes were somewhat dim, he didn't seem to mind.

Seeing that both Admiral Zhao Kuo and Admiral Li Hua were making phone calls, Admiral Nanxing gently patted Xiaobai on the shoulder and spoke to him.

"Get in touch with your ship girl soon too."

"Oh... okay." Xiaobai quickly took out her phone and dialed her ship girl's number.

Xiaobai had a large number of ship girls, so she split them into several groups to reduce the burden of travel. Xiaobai first called the flagships of the groups that were mostly traveling by land to check on their situations.

"Hello? Is this Bismarck? It's me, Shiro... It's okay, I'm fine here. I just wanted to ask how things are going on your end, Bismarck—ah, your fleet will be here in two days? Oh... have you encountered any trouble on the way? Eh? People keep hitting on the ship girls in your fleet? Uh... well..."

"Hello? Is this Washington? This is Little White..."

"Hey?"

"Hey?"

……

Xiaobai contacted her ship girls one by one.

The response from the other end of the phone was reassuring. Although, due to the high number of attractive women, they were frequently approached by strangers or mistaken for celebrities or members of a movie troupe, the journey was generally smooth and uneventful, without any major problems.

Xiao Bai made one last phone call with peace of mind.

"Hello? Is this Akagi? This is Shiro... Um, I wanted to ask if you've encountered any problems lately..."

"Huh? How did you know that, Xiaobai?!"

Before Xiaobai could finish speaking, Chicheng's surprised voice burst out of the loudspeaker and into Xiaobai's ears.

Xiao Bai's heart skipped a beat.

"Huh? We're really in trouble?"

"Yeah... just now." Akagi's helpless voice came from the other end of the phone. Shiro could almost picture Akagi with a pained expression, rubbing her cheek and complaining, "I really don't know how to tell you this, Shiro..."

"Was there... was there any loss?" Xiaobai quickly gripped her phone and asked nervously.

"Losses... Ah. No, not at all." Akagi's relaxed voice came through. "Just now, we encountered a strange deep-sea dean."

"Dean of the Deep Sea Academy?!"

"Well, that's how it is. The first person to discover Dean Shenhai was—Xiaobai, is it convenient for you to talk on the other end?" Akagi paused slightly at this point.

Xiaobai blinked, looked around at the top ten admirals, grabbed her phone, ran to the door of the conference room, and shrank into a corner.

"It's convenient now, there's no one around me."

"Okay, sure." Akagi's voice continued, "Yamato was the first to encounter the Deep Sea Dean."

"Huh? Yamato-neechan? Isn't she at the naval base?"

"Well... could this be considered a leniency from Lexington?" Akagi's voice was full of helplessness. "Anyway, she's in my team now and takes my orders."

"oh oh……"

"To put it simply, just now, Yamato encountered a very mysterious Abyssal Director while on patrol alone, and engaged in a fierce battle with the Abyssal Fleet under her command," Akagi said. "The opponent's strength is extremely formidable, and the number of Abyssal fleets under her command is also enormous. Even Yamato said that she did not gain any advantage over them at all. Finally, when we detected the Abyssal fluctuations and launched our carrier-based aircraft to Yamato's side, the Abyssal Director used a magical method to instantly teleport away and disappear."

"Huh? Instant teleportation?" Xiaobai was startled.

“Yes, teleportation,” Akagi added. “Although it could also be an ability to conceal one’s presence or become invisible, if it were just invisibility, it should be impossible to hide from our B-25 bombing.”

"Oh……"

"Yamato had previously advised her not to attack human cities, but the dean's fighting spirit was astonishing, and she completely ignored Yamato's advice, even saying that she had advised her too late."

"..." Xiaobai blinked, digesting the information she had received from Chicheng.

"Xiaobai, do you have any records of this amazing Deep Sea Dean at the Admiral's Headquarters?" Akagi asked.