Elder brother's garrison

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Thinking about this, Xiao Bai couldn't help but sigh and feel overjoyed.

"I see, I understand now!" Little White smiled at Montana. "Montana, thank you!"

"You're welcome, you're welcome." Montana shook her head, carrying the circuit board to the ship girl construction device. She placed the circuit board inside and began assembling it. "I should have told you about this sooner, but you hadn't come the other day, so I didn't have a chance to tell you... It just so happens that the construction device is almost finished being modified, so you've come at a good time..."

As Montana spoke, the welding machine inside the ship girl construction unit crackled and popped.

As Xiaobai watched Montana's retreating figure, her face flushed slightly. She stepped forward, mustered her courage, and opened her mouth to Montana.

“That… Montana.”

"Ok?"

"Since you've put it that way, actually... I also have something to tell you!"

"What is it?"

"Actually, I'm not a ship girl!"

"Oh? Then what are you?"

"I am the Admiral!"

“…That’s a funny joke,” Montana said from inside the ship girl construction device.

"No, no, no, listen to me, I really am the Admiral!" Little White said to Montana's exposed buttocks, "Actually, my ship equipment is because..."

Xiao Bai simply told her about his background and his identity.

After Xiaobai finished speaking, a huge weight was lifted off her shoulders.

Little White breathed a sigh of relief and smiled contentedly.

That feels so good!

Chapter 3025 The Price of Power

For a long time, Xiaobai has actually felt somewhat guilty towards Montana.

After all, ever since Montana appeared, every interaction she had with Little White was so heartfelt and sincere, as friendly as family, leaving no room for pretense. She never played the riddle-maker, and whenever Little White asked a question, she would frankly tell Little White the information she wanted. However, after being treated so sincerely, Little White always had to consider her special constitution and a series of issues related to the operation of the naval base behind her, thus making it impossible for her to honestly tell her her true situation.

Xiaobai doesn't really like to lie.

Especially since she kept deceiving such a kind older sister.

This made Xiaobai feel like he was committing crimes all the time.

Now that Montana has directly confessed her preference to Xiaobai, Xiaobai is not only moved, but also feels a sense of relief, as if a huge weight has been lifted from her shoulders.

boom!

My defenses are down!

In that case... Xiaobai can rest assured.

Since Montana has already considered herself a ship girl of Xiaobai's family, it means that Montana will join Xiaobai's naval base sooner or later and become one of her people. In that case, Xiaobai doesn't need to think too much and can directly tell Montana her little secret that she can't tell others.

So Little White couldn't wait to share with Montana the secret of his naval base that was known to everyone.

This is what is called...

A genuine exchange of sincerity!

"Montana, actually my name isn't Patchina." To prove her words, Little White pulled out a whole bunch of her human documents from her ship equipment space and showed them to Montana's backside. "Actually, my name is Lu Lin, I just turned eighteen this year, and also... this is my ID card, and my expired student ID, admiral's certificate, bicycle license, bank card, household registration book, and social security and housing fund certificates... If you want photos, I can find you photos of all my ages from birth to now... In short! All these documents can be verified! They completely prove my admiral status!"

With so much evidence.

Even if Montana resisted, she would eventually have to believe in Little White's human identity.

However, to Xiaobai's surprise, when he was halfway through his explanation, Montana in the construction device stopped responding.

Montana remained in the position with his buttocks sticking out, completely submerged in the gap of the construction device, quiet and still, as if frozen in time.

Little White, clutching a huge stack of ID documents, blinked and stared at Montana's backside, waiting for quite a while.

"Montana?"

"..."

"Montana... are you still there?" Xiaobai put her identification back into her ship equipment space, took a small step forward, and gently placed her hand on Montana's lower back, pushing him from side to side. "Montana... are you... are you angry...?"

"..."

Montana remained silent.

Fortunately, after Xiaobai slightly pushed Montana's defensive midfielder, Montana finally reacted.

Montana's elbow slowly emerged from the construction device, and she pulled herself out by pressing on both sides of the opening.

Montana reappeared before Xiaobai with wide eyes and a very strange expression on his face.

She turned around and looked at Xiaobai.

"So... what you just said wasn't a joke?"

Montana stared at Little White and asked.

"Yes...yes." Seeing Montana's reaction, Xiaobai suddenly felt a little nervous. She clutched her clothes and muttered softly, "Well, um...I'm really sorry for deceiving you all this time..."

"Wait, wait, wait... Don't speak yet, let me think about it." Montana interrupted Xiaobai. She leaned on the construction device, slowly walked to the side, touched her forehead and pondered for a while. Then, she looked at Xiaobai and said, "So, you were originally an ordinary human, but due to some special reasons, you possessed a special Admiral Network. With this Admiral Network, you could use the unique ability to temporarily borrow ship girl equipment... And in an accident, in order to save an innocent citizen, you decided to push your Admiral Network's ability to its limit, directly upgrading the borrowing effect to robbery, thus forcibly taking away the ship equipment of an Abyssal Dean. Although the Admiral Network's special ability disappeared after that, it was a blessing in disguise, as you awakened the Abyssal ability that only Abyssal Deans possess. The Abyssal ability you finally awakened was Devouring. Then, with this Devouring ability, you found and absorbed the power of more than a dozen Abyssal Deans in just two years, and also absorbed the power of many legendary-level ship girls, thus evolving your ship equipment time and time again, becoming the powerful form you are today?"

"Yes!" Xiaobai nodded quickly.

This is what Xiaobai just talked about for a long time.

Montana simply provided a basic summary for beginners.

"..."

Montana looked at Little White, her gaze suddenly becoming very strange. She frowned her beautiful brows, one hand resting on her forehead, as if she were considering something very difficult.

"I... I'm telling the truth..." Xiaobai quickly raised her hand, "These are all my real experiences!"

“I know, I know…” Montana shook her head, her brows furrowed, but her expression suddenly became one of deep distress and exhaustion. “You just presented too much evidence; it’s not something that can be fabricated in a short time… Besides, you didn’t need to go to such lengths just to play a joke on me, so I didn’t suspect you, and I don’t blame you for hiding this from me before. I just… just…”

As Montana finished speaking, he squatted down, found a stool, and sat down with his hands behind his forehead.

"But... this is... a difficult situation."

Sitting on the bench, Montana leaned forward, lowering her head between her ample thighs, and muttered to herself.

"Montana...what's wrong?"

Xiao Bai cautiously walked up to Montana, bent down, and asked.

Montana looked like a player who had missed a free throw in a big basketball game and was taken off the court by the coach, extremely frustrated.

This was the first time Xiaobai had ever seen Montana so down.

“I did think your behavior was sometimes quite unique, unlike that of an ordinary ship girl. But considering your strong combat power, I thought you might have some special treatment, such as extra autonomy.” Montana raised her head and looked at Xiaobai with a complicated expression. “That was my biggest assumption about you. But I never expected that your true situation would be even more exaggerated than I guessed. You are not a ship girl, but an admiral who has obtained the power of the deep sea.”

"Uh... wh, what's wrong?"

"In short, this is bad."

"It's...it's broken?"

"I may not be able to join your naval base."

"Huh? Huh—what, why is it suddenly like this? It was fine just now?"

“It’s different now than it was just now.” Montana shook her head, rubbing her forehead, and said to Xiaobai with a complicated look in her eyes.

"What's different?"

“Listen to me first.” Montana’s gaze was rather empty. “I remember telling you before that the determination of ownership of salvaged ship girls is actually unrelated to my personal will.”

“I did say that…” Xiaobai squatted down in front of Montana and nodded cautiously.

"Regarding this rule of judgment, it's my fault; I didn't explain it to you properly," Montana said. "The detailed explanation of this statement is that the determination of ownership of salvaged ship girls, on a broad level, completely disregards my personal likes and dislikes. In fact, no matter what kind of naval base it is, even if I hate them to the core, as long as their ship girls can defeat me, I will become a ship girl of that naval base no matter what. Conversely, no matter how much I like a naval base, no matter how much I want to join a naval base, if the ship girls in that naval base cannot defeat me, then I will never join them. This rule has nothing to do with my personal will. It's a mission-like idea that has lingered in my mind since I appeared in this era. Because of this, although I can adjust the difficulty of the challenge to a certain extent, I cannot do anything that violates fairness under this judgment."

“It doesn’t have to be unfair, I can fight you.” Xiao Bai patted his chest and said earnestly to Montana.

"Sorry, you can't."

"Huh? Why..."

“Because… you’re not a ship girl,” Montana said to Xiaobai. “Only battles between ship girls and me will affect the determination of ownership of salvaged ship girls. If you were an admiral, even if you defeated me a hundred times, it wouldn’t matter.”

"Huh? Huh??? There's... there's such a thing???" Xiaobai covered her mouth.

"There is indeed this limitation."

"Why is there such a strange restriction... The admiral is also part of the naval base, so it's really strange that his actions don't count!"

“I guess this rule is to limit unexpected events from the Abyss,” Montana said, raising his hand and looking at his palm. “For example… if there were no ship girl restriction, and anyone could defeat me, then if I encountered an incredibly powerful Abyss Commander before finding a suitable naval base and lost to her, would I have to abandon the human camp and join that Abyss Commander's camp as her subordinate? So, to ensure that I will definitely join the human camp, there is this restriction that only battles between ship girls and me will take effect. As for the situation where the Admiral's intervention doesn't count…”

As Montana finished speaking, he lowered his hand, looked at Little White, and his gaze held a hint of helplessness.

"You were probably caught in the crossfire of this rule. After all, before you, even in my time, there was never a human being stronger than a ship girl."

"Ah this..."

Xiao Bai looked at Montana, completely bewildered.

That is to say...

Did he lose his right to challenge Montana the moment he revealed his identity?

"Yes, is it because I told you too early? If I hadn't told you I was the admiral, would things have turned out differently...?"

"No, since you are my admiral, I will find out your identity sooner or later. On the day I find out, even if I have joined your naval base, I will have no choice but to return to this sea."

"Then, then go easy on me in your next challenge..."

“I really want to go easy on you, but I can’t do that…” Montana smiled and shook her head at Little White. “The descriptions of the challenge rules are just thoughts swirling in my mind. Although they are rather vague, they are surprisingly strict in some aspects. For example, I can indeed go easy on you to a certain extent in the challenge, but even if I do go easy on you, in order to maintain the fairness of the battle, the fighting power I put in must not be lower than in any previous battle.”

"The fighting strength shown cannot be lower than in any other battle..." Xiao Bai murmured Montana's words, then suddenly, as if remembering something, his eyes widened.

"In other words... in the previous challenges, when I faced the black-clad ship girl, and also today's challenger, I used this power." Montana raised her hand, golden flames burning dreamlike in her palm. Looking at the flames, her gaze flickered. "Right now, the naval base... if it wants to defeat me, it would at least have to demonstrate the strength to overcome this ability..."

Montana finished speaking.

The waves crashed and churned beneath the ship.

The sea breeze howled coldly.

Little White and Montana gazed at the golden flame before them and fell into a silent understanding.

Xiao Bai's forehead began to sweat with nervousness.

That is to say...

To obtain Montana's naval base, do we need to send a fleet of ship girls capable of defeating Montana in its second phase?

Oh my god...

to be frank.

In the first phase, Montana was practically invincible throughout the entire eighth chapter. Among all the admirals in the entire eighth chapter, only Duan Shuiliu could put her at a disadvantage without resorting to trickery.

Once Montana enters her second-stage form and utilizes her ship equipment abilities, she becomes a terrifying being that ordinary ship girls simply cannot defeat.

Because Montana's strength as a salvageable ship girl is comparable to that of Shiro's ship equipment!

Xiaobai has witnessed many of Montana's battles up close, and she has even personally fought against Montana in its first phase once. Because of this firsthand experience, Xiaobai understands even more clearly that even for novice ship girls in a naval base, even for the strongest and most core teams in the entire base, defeating Montana in its first phase is not a sure thing, let alone the fact that Montana now has a second phase...

Whenever Montana uses her ship equipment capabilities...

Given the current state of the newbie naval base, it's safe to say that among all ship girl teams, the possibility of defeating Montana is...

It's less than one-tenth of the total.

Chapter 3026 Admiral, this is my last Ripple!

good news!

The other naval bases have completely lost any chance of defeating Montana; they're not even in the same league as Little White!

bad news!

Xiaobai has been banned!

New players are now having a less than 10% win rate against Montana in the naval base!

Montana is probably destined to be alone on this ocean!

Xiao Bai covered his head, feeling dizzy and disoriented.