Elder brother's garrison

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Ning Lu... actually knew that she could get special admission tickets from the Admiral's Guild?

"I understand." Xiaobai nodded and said to Ning Lu, "Thank you, Admiral Ning Lu."

"Haha! This is called getting what you need, no need to thank me." Ning Lu let go of Xiao Bai's hand, took two steps back, and smiled at Xiao Bai, "Well, I've finished telling you the two pieces of news, Admiral Lu Lin. You have to keep your promise. If I come to interview you in the future, you can't refuse."

"No, it won't happen." Xiaobai shook her head with a smile.

"Then I look forward to seeing you again next time." Ning Lu smiled and glanced at Xiao Bai. She waved to Xiao Bai and turned to leave, but before leaving, she stopped and thought for a while, then turned back to Xiao Bai and said, "...Oh, right."

"Hmm?" Little White tilted its head.

"There's one more piece of news, consider this a gift to you," Ning Lu said to Xiaobai.

"what news?"

"The letter that was sent to your residence before was a frame-up by Admiral Ke Yuan against Admiral Nia." Ning Lu said seriously to Xiao Bai with her hands behind her back, "Admiral Nia is innocent. She never intended to betray you."

"..." Xiaobai was stunned for a moment.

"That's what I wanted to say," Ning Lu said with a smile.

"...Admiral Ninglu, are you and Nia...old acquaintances?" Xiaobai asked curiously.

"No, I only interviewed her," Ning Lu said with a smile. "That girl has a great presence."

“…I see.” Xiaobai nodded knowingly and smiled at Ning Lu. “Thank you, Admiral Ning Lu.”

"I already said, our information exchange was just that—an exchange. You're welcome..."

"But Admiral Ninglu probably came to talk to me today on purpose to say a few good words for Nia, right?" Xiaobai asked. "She's been trying to exchange information with me before, and she wanted to tell me this news, right?"

"..." Ning Lu remained silent, looking at Xiao Bai with interest, her eyes slightly narrowed. "Admiral Lu Lin... I'm a professional reporter without any emotions. Mixing personal feelings into work is something only an amateur would do."

"That's true, it seems I misunderstood you." Xiaobai smiled.

"Haha!" Ning Lu turned around, waved to Xiaobai, and left.

Xiao Bai smiled and waved at Ning Lu's retreating figure.

Talk about it.

Despite being a world-ranked admiral with a ranking of 10000+, Nia is surprisingly well-described in the amazing female admiral review on the admiral forum.

Xiao Bai also recalled that when he asked Nia if she had any friends in Chapter 8, Nia seemed to have said that she had almost no contact with the admirals in Chapter 8. Even if she knew some of them, she had only met a few female admirals a few times and they were just nodding acquaintances.

A nodding acquaintance... oh.

Little White looked at the sky and exhaled.

Nia unexpectedly met a pretty impressive person.

Chapter 2812 Approaching the Research and Construction Machine Again

After Admiral Ning Lu left, Changchun and Anshan stepped forward one after the other, approaching Xiaobai from the left and right, watching the direction Ning Lu had left in until her figure completely disappeared into the crowd.

"Comrade, why did you agree to exchange information with her just now?"

Anshan leaned close to Xiaobai's ear, lowered his voice, and asked curiously.

"She seems to be after our secret... Are you sure it's okay?"

"It's okay, I just promised her I would do her interview." Xiaobai shook her head and looked at Anshan. "As for the questions she might ask me during the interview, I never said I would answer them all truthfully."

"...Wow." Upon hearing this, Anshan immediately covered his mouth, his eyes wide with surprise. "Comrade, you're so naughty."

"Everyone's getting what they want... Besides, I do need someone to help me spread the news." Xiaobai said to Changchun and Anshan with a smile, "Instead of having the admirals of Chapter 8 send spies to follow me day and night, it's more convenient to just find someone to release the information they want to know, right?"

"makes sense……"

Changchun and Anshan exchanged a glance, and then it dawned on them.

Xiao Bai's main goal in leaving the temporary garrison was simply to spread his message, and Ning Lu's appearance perfectly fulfilled that need. Thinking about it that way, if one really had to choose someone to help Xiao Bai disseminate the message legitimately… Admiral Ning Lu was indeed the best candidate.

“No wonder Comrade agreed to Admiral Ninglu’s request…” Anshan sighed, but then leaned closer to Xiaobai and asked in a low voice, “...But doesn’t that mean we have to tell Admiral Ninglu false information…”

“Gossip news… is never guaranteed to be true.” Xiaobai shook his head. “When I was an idol manager in Yuncheng, there were often rumors circulating among the third-rate vendors that I was keeping a mistress in Shropshire. During my short career as an idol manager, I learned the most important lesson: no one cares whether gossip news is true or false. For many people, as long as it’s sensational, that’s enough.”

"Hmm? Who is Shropshire?" Anshan asked curiously.

“She’s a very beautiful patrolwoman from our naval base,” Changchun said with a smile. “She was a big star in human society, and she even acted in movies.”

"Eh... Admiral, you have quite a lot of experience." Anshan said in surprise.

"It's alright," Xiaobai smiled.

To be honest, the deal Ning Lu offered to Xiaobai wasn't very attractive to him.

After all, Xiaobai is not short of money, and there is really nothing he particularly wants to know.

After all... even if Xiaobai really has a secret she wants to know, she doesn't need to ask Ninglu for help. Instead, she can directly ask Baal to inquire outside the temporary garrison. Xiaobai believes that with Baal's special abilities, the secrets she finds out will definitely be no less than Ninglu's.

But then again.

While Jean Bart certainly has a unique advantage in gathering information, she is not a professional espionage worker. Perhaps in the field of eavesdropping on someone's secrets, Jean Bart is undoubtedly the best, but when it comes to gossip news that is mixed and has no clear target, Jean Bart is indeed not as good as Ning Lu, who has stronger professional skills.

Just like what happened now.

The two gossip rumors that Ning Lu casually mentioned to Xiao Bai were probably information that Jean Bart couldn't gather.

"Every profession has its top performers." Thinking of this, Xiaobai said to the two ship girls beside her with such emotion, "In any case, Admiral Ninglu is a capable person. She is willing to befriend us, and we have no reason to refuse—it is better to be friends with someone like her than to offend her."

"Yes, the Admiral is right!"

After discussing this, Xiaobai and his two companions left the corner of the beach.

After a brief conversation with Ning Lu, Xiao Bai still gained some insights.

Xiao Bai glanced at the admission ticket in his hand, which ranked over a thousandth, then tore it into pieces and threw it into a nearby beach trash can.

Afterwards, Xiaobai led the two ship girls straight to the entrance of the sea area.

At the entrance to the sea area, the admirals were divided into two rows, and the noise between them was noticeably louder. After observing for a while, Xiaobai and the ship girls discovered that the admirals here were roughly divided into two types: one type was people who brought their own ship girl teams and were obediently queuing up with their admission tickets in hand, while the other type was people who held up their admission tickets and shouted and sold them to those around them.

"Ticket number 680! Ticket number 680! Only five pieces of deep-sea metal from Chapter 8, five pieces!"

"Ticket number 612, there are only a dozen or so people left ahead of us, and it only costs eight Deep Sea Metals!"

"Item No. 701... Now you can buy four for only!"

The admirals waved their admission tickets and hawked them to the people around them.

The price of these admission tickets... is surprisingly cheap?

I thought it would take at least several hundred...

Xiao Bai silently watched the admirals queuing up to sell tickets. Then, looking at the long line they were in, he noticed that most of the admirals were actually waving and shouting to sell tickets. He nodded thoughtfully.

Hmm...that makes sense.

The operation of a naval base is quite unique. For most admirals in the world, the vast wealth of a naval base is not "earned" but "accumulated." Admirals sometimes go to great lengths to adjust their ship girl lineup and equipment in order to save a few points of aluminum consumption. This is an operation that is integrated into the admirals' DNA. Therefore, whether it is an admiral in Chapter 8 or an admiral outside of Chapter 8, no one will underestimate the value of a few pieces of deep-sea metal.

For the admirals, selling the queue tickets was a convenient, zero-cost business. Selling the tickets was like making a fortune in deep-sea metal, and even if they couldn't sell them, they could still go out to sea and see the research and construction machines. Therefore, quite a few admirals took the opportunity to sell their tickets while waiting in the long queue.

It seems there's fierce competition even among scalpers.

"Changchun, could you buy me a ticket that's closer to home?" Xiaobai said to Changchun beside her with a smile.

"Huh? Admiral, aren't you coming along?"

"My current identity is sensitive... If I go, I doubt anyone will be willing to do business with me."

"Ah... well, okay then..." Changchun also realized what was going on. She smiled apologetically at Xiaobai, and then jogged over to the group of the Yellow Ox Admirals.

Xiao Bai watched as Changchun ran into the long queue, greeted each of the admirals present, and was then led to the front.

A few minutes later, Changchun returned with a smile on his face, carrying a ticket.

"Admiral, I got the tickets!" Changchun returned to Xiaobai's side, holding up an admission ticket with the number 581 written on it. "Look! It only cost twenty pieces of deep-sea metal!"

"Looks like the tickets are more expensive the further in the row you are," Xiaobai said, taking the admission ticket from Changchun and nodding with a smile.

Although saying this might sound like showing off, a mere twenty pieces of deep-sea metal are indeed like a drizzle to Xiaobai, who comes from a wealthy family, and are far less valuable than the time she wasted waiting in line.

The ticket that Changchun bought for Xiaobai was among the first in line.

At this point, there were only two or three admirals ahead of Xiaobai in the rankings.

Xiaobai, holding the ticket, led the two ship girls to the entrance and waited for a short while. Soon, the ticket checker from the Admiral's Guild began calling out the numbers on Xiaobai's admission tickets.

"Ticket number 581, ticket number 581—only three times, number 581, number 581—" the ticket inspector called weakly to the admiral's group, his face showing a nonchalant and indifferent expression.

“It’s me, it’s me.” Xiaobai stepped forward and handed over the ticket with both hands.

"Why is it so slow..." The ticket inspector impatiently took the admission ticket and complained under her breath. However, the moment she looked up and saw Xiaobai, her eyes widened, and her impatience vanished, replaced by astonishment and shock. "...Admiral Lu Lin?! You...you're in line too?"

"Yes."

"Ah...yes, I'm sorry! My apologies..." The ticket inspector shuddered, quickly bowing and carefully taking Xiaobai's admission ticket with both hands. She then briefly scanned the code on the ticket with her machine, giving Xiaobai an apologetic smile. "Admiral Lu Lin, I'm sorry, um...verifying the authenticity of admission tickets is a standard procedure for the guild. Everyone has to go through this step, so it doesn't mean I suspect you of forging it..."

"I understand." Xiaobai nodded with a smile.

The ticket inspector carefully checked the ticket, breathed a sigh of relief, then put away the admission ticket and nodded respectfully to Xiaobai.

"Admiral Lu Lin, you may go in now."

Xiaobai thanked the ticket inspector, then pulled up the two ship girls behind her and walked into the entrance that was cordoned off.

After Xiaobai left, the ticket inspector breathed a sigh of relief, looking as if he had gone through eighty-one tribulations.

The Admiral's Guild did more than just set up a cordon on the beach. When Xiaobai entered the sea area, she found that there were several small speedboats at the entrance on the edge of the shore. These speedboats varied in size, some could carry more than a dozen people, while others could only carry two or three.

"Looks like this is for the admiral..." Xiaobai muttered to himself, gazing at the speedboat.

"Does the Admiral want to sit here?" Changchun asked from the side.

"I can't drive a speedboat..." Xiaobai smiled regretfully.

Operating methods for maritime vehicles is actually a required subject in naval academies.

For any admiral who has graduated from a regular naval academy, possessing all the necessary licenses to operate sea vehicles is merely a preparatory course to becoming an admiral. In fact, in addition to being proficient in the operation of sea vehicles, admirals are all experienced swimming experts, diving masters, and well-versed in various aspects of oceanography and marine biology, and can even recite the scientific names of thousands of marine creatures by heart...

When dealing with ship girls, your abilities related to the sea must be maxed out.

But it's a pity.

Xiaobai became the admiral through connections; she had not received any training in this area.

"Oh, I see... then I'll carry the admiral over there." Upon hearing this, Changchun quickly smiled and opened his arms to Xiaobai.

Chapter 2813 Let's fall into the abyss together, just kidding.

"Hmm... then I'll trouble you." Xiaobai glanced at the crowd of admirals outside the cordon behind him and smiled slightly at Changchun.

Changchun walked up to Xiaobai, pressed herself against him, put one arm around his shoulder and hooked the other around his knee, and Xiaobai lifted her up in his arms.

The three of them stepped onto the water and quickly left the shore.

Soon, the noise on the shore was drowned out on the other side of the horizon. Xiaobai leaned gently against Changchun's chest, feeling the full touch from his arms and chest. Her breathing was steady and her gaze was calm.

"Speaking of which, Admiral, how far have you progressed in repairing your ship's equipment?" Changchun asked curiously, looking down at Xiaobai in his arms as he hurried toward the research and construction machine.

“Lianlian and the others asked the same question,” Xiaobai smiled. “Only about 40% has been repaired.”

"What does 'around 40%' mean?" asked Anshan, who was standing nearby.

"Hmm... Most of the combat abilities, including the laser cannon, are basically unusable." Xiaobai stretched out his hand and made a grasping motion in the air, then said to Changchun, "However, the most basic ability to walk on the sea surface, as well as the functions related to the Deep Sea Killer, are still there."

"Huh? Does that mean you're very weak, Admiral?" Changchun stopped abruptly upon hearing this, his face filled with worry. "Should we go back? What if something happens at sea later..."

"It's alright. Even if only about 40% of the ship's equipment is left, we can still protect ourselves." Xiaobai shook her head and smiled slightly at Changchun. "Besides, aren't all admirals in the world fragile? Anyway, with ship girls by my side, there's nothing to be afraid of."

"Oh...I see." Changchun sighed and said to Xiaobai very seriously, "Then...it's alright! Admiral, if anything really happens, Anshan and I will protect you with our lives!"

"...We're just going to check out the research and construction machine, Changchun, don't make any promises here, it's kind of scary."

"Ah...no, I'm sorry..." Changchun blushed and lowered her head to apologize.

Xiao Bai raised her hand and touched Changchun's cheek, then slowly leaned down, pressed her face against Changchun's chest, and closed her eyes.

Even with only about 40% of the remaining land-based ship equipment, it's not a problem to move freely on the water. However, there are many people and eyes on the eighth chapter, and it would be quite troublesome if someone spotted me walking on the water during the day. Compared to that, it's safer to have the ship girl carry me.

And more importantly... Changchun's body is really comfortable to lean on.

Pure and full of life.

It has a textured, uneven surface.

Soft and fragrant.