Elder brother's garrison

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Luo Yin's meaning was simple, and Ian could understand it too.

"Brother Luo." Ian sat up, holding the bottle of wine, looking at Luo Yin with a complicated expression. "You mean you want me to go over and apologize? Beg for those two's forgiveness?"

“That’s right.” Luo Yin nodded.

Unlike usual, this is a gathering, a place for friends to get together. If Ian were to step up and humble himself to ask for forgiveness, even a novice like him wouldn't refuse, given the smiling faces of the surrounding admirals.

At that time, the Admiral's Guild might open its doors to Ian again, and Ian will be able to return to his former life.

Now is not the time to argue about who is right and who is wrong. For Ian, offending such a powerful admiral is definitely not a wise thing to do.

Ian smiled.

"Brother Luo, thank you." Ian sincerely thanked Luo Yin.

"No need to thank me, I was just doing it on the spur of the moment," Luo Yin said.

“Your kindness to me is enough to prove your character, Brother Luo. I express my sincerest gratitude to you,” Ian said. “You are a kind person who has always thought of me.”

As Ian spoke, he raised his head.

Luo Yin looked into Ian's eyes.

Those were bloodshot, bright red eyes.

“But you still don’t understand.” Ian’s expression was ferocious as he gritted his teeth and growled at Luo Yin in a low voice, “Brother Luo, there’s so much you don’t understand, so much!”

After Ian finished speaking, he threw down the bottle in his hand and stood up.

"Brother Luo, you want me to apologize? Okay."

Ian gave a bitter laugh.

Then, reeking of alcohol, he pushed through the crowd and walked straight toward Xiaobai and Nia.

Xiaobai and Nia also noticed this person when Ian pulled the crowd apart.

Ian's face was flushed, and he reeked of alcohol, completely unlike the dashing figure he had when they first met.

The surrounding admirals frowned instinctively when they saw Ian's expression.

Ian ignored the admirals around him and staggered over to Xiaobai and Nia.

The crowd instinctively made room for him.

He straightened his back and looked up at Nia and Xiaobai: "Long time no see."

Nia instinctively tightened her grip on Xiaobai's hand, looking at Ian with some nervousness.

"Hello." Xiaobai shook Nia's hand in return and nodded to Ian.

Ian stared silently at Nia, as if trying to pierce through her body with his gaze.

After a long while, he finally opened his mouth.

"Let's have a drill."

Under the watchful eyes of everyone, Ian calmly said this to Nia.

The plot has reached a certain point, and I need to sort out the outline. Also, the fatigue I've accumulated over the Lunar New Year seems to be finally about to explode. I'm exhausted all over, and my head is often foggy. Even though I go to bed early, I still end up sleeping past ten o'clock.

After finishing this chapter, I'm going to go outside for some fresh air and find a quiet place to read a book.

See you tomorrow (kneeling)

Chapter 295 The Truth Part 1

Ian's words were like throwing a boulder into a calm lake.

The surrounding crowd was so shocked by Ian's words that they took a few steps back.

Exclamations of surprise rose and fell among the crowd.

The exercise refers to a friendly exchange between the ship girls of two admirals, where they learn from each other and improve together.

This is a positive and uplifting behavior.

However, the coastal cities where the expedition is being conducted lack both space and time, making it extremely difficult to carry out the exercise. Therefore, admirals generally do not choose to conduct exercises here.

Unless there is an irreconcilable conflict between the two, reaching a critical point where they must determine who is stronger, they will stubbornly choose to conduct exercises in the sea area where they are about to set sail.

The Admiral's Guild accepts requests to resolve personal grudges openly through drills, because it prefers a fair and square arbitration method, similar to a knightly duel, to the two sides resorting to underhanded tricks, conspiracies, and forming cliques, causing chaos in the First Chapter Sea.

Ultimately, the role of an admiral still depends on the ship girls to speak for them.

The exercise location is usually chosen at the first node, in the safe sea area between the deep sea territory and the beach. All admirals who are interested in the exercise can come and watch.

Winning is fine, but losing would be a huge embarrassment.

Ian's body was swaying from drinking quite a bit of alcohol, but his eyes were perfectly clear.

"Ian, you're drunk!" someone who knew Ian said, trying to persuade him.

“I’m not drunk,” Ian said.

“Let’s do the drill,” Ian said to Nia again.

Nia, holding Xiaobai's hand, subconsciously took a step back.

As Nia took a step back, Cleveland and Roma, who was chewing on a chicken leg, suddenly appeared in front of Xiaobai and Nia.

"Back off!" Cleveland coldly shouted at Ian.

"Huh? Huh? What happened?" Rome only saw a man walking towards the admiral, who seemed unhappy, so she put down her chicken leg and ran over. She hadn't figured out what was going on yet, and her head was still foggy.

Who is this guy? What's going on? What happened? What should we do? Is this guy a good person or a bad person? Should we kill him?

When Ian provoked Cleveland, Rome hadn't even been built yet. Later, Little White and Veneto never even talked about him, so Rome didn't know Ian.

"Rome, it's alright, you go ahead and do your thing," Xiaobai said to Rome.

"Oh." Rome nodded, gave Ian a strange look, and then left.

Xiao Bai watched as Rome returned to the dining table, then turned to look at Ian.

Judging from Ian's disheveled appearance, Xiaobai could roughly guess that Ian had been having a hard time lately.

“Mr. Ian?” Xiaobai asked tentatively.

"Hello, Miss Lu Lin," Ian greeted Xiaobai.

"Why did you apply for the exercise?" Xiaobai asked.

"I just want to settle things once and for all," Ian said calmly.

Xiao Bai looked at Ian, a hint of difficulty in his eyes.

Ian requested the exercise from Nia, not from Xiaobai. This means that if the exercise starts, it will be a one-on-one fight between Nia and Ian.

Nia only has one ship girl, Cleveland, while Ian has five, with various ship types. The default rule for the exercise is to field a team of your own ship girls. Ian will definitely field all five of his ship girls, while Nia only has Cleveland.

Are we going to send Cleveland to take on all five enemy ship girls by herself?

Even Rome at present cannot do such a thing.

How could Nia possibly accept such an unfair and unjust exercise application?

“Nia won’t accept it,” Little White said to Ian.

I noticed Ian as soon as Xiaobai met Nia and Cleveland. For some reason, he kept targeting Nia.

Nia was initially shunned by the admirals, but apart from Ian, no one stood up to mock her to her face.

Xiao Bai was very confused. Nia was cute, gentle, and frugal. She shouldn't be the type to annoy people. Even if she made a mess and let Shen Hai go, and was punished by her superiors, it didn't affect anyone else. Why did Ian hate her so much?

“She will accept it,” Ian said to Xiaobai, as if it were something that had already been confirmed.

“I…I won’t accept it…” Nia squeezed Xiaobai’s hand, as if trying to gain courage from Xiaobai’s body, and looked up at Ian.

"Don't rush to refuse," Ian said calmly.

He took the opportunity to glance around at the admirals around him.

His gaze lingered on Luo Yin, who had arrived later, for a moment.

"Nia, do you remember which naval base you were assigned to when you graduated?" Ian asked casually.

“Me?” Nia frowned.

This was not a pleasant memory for Nia.

The garrison she was assigned to was quiet and safe, but it was also very remote, a place where she could not get any training.

Nia was one of the few trainees who had a ship girl before graduation, and her potential for development should have been great. However, the naval base turned Nia and Cleveland into useless people.

Before even setting foot in the first chapter of the sea, they not only failed to earn any extra money and obtain enough merit points, but also failed to gain any experience.

In the early stages, this can be fatal for an admiral.

This was almost the direct cause of Nia's inability to keep up with the first group.

Xiaobai also knew about this; Nia had told him about it in the Admiral's Guild's dining area.

Ian looked at Nia's furrowed brows, his face expressionless.

“Nia, haven’t you ever thought about why you were assigned there?” Ian asked.

Nia looked at Ian, momentarily stunned.

Ian said that he and Nia were alumni.

Xiao Bai remembered this incident, but she didn't think much of it. At this moment, Xiao Bai couldn't help but cover her mouth.

"What do you mean!" Nia seemed to realize something, and her voice began to tremble.

Xiao Bai could feel Nia's hand trembling as she held his.

"Nia! Calm down!" Cleveland quickly snapped out of his daze and put his arm around Nia's shoulders.

“Nia, you have no money,” Ian said. “Without money and power, no matter how outstanding you are, you won’t be able to choose a good naval base. You can only pick what others have left over, do you understand?”

Ian's words struck Nia like a hammer blow.

“I…” Nia looked at Ian, unsure how to react for a moment.

"Ian!" Luo Yin finally came out and helped Ian up. "You're drunk!"

“Nia, don’t listen to him.” Cleveland kept comforting Nia. “Perhaps a few naval bases are indeed pre-selected because of the former admiral’s designation, but there are still many naval bases that are assigned to people. We were just unlucky to be selected for that naval base, not because of that.”

Nia looked at Cleveland, listened to her explanation, and nodded somewhat blankly.

"Ha... I'm not drunk." Ian hadn't finished speaking.

"Stop talking and go back!" Luo Yin shouted.

Ian was already drunk and starting to talk nonsense, so Luo Yin couldn't let Ian continue like this.

"Bad luck? Hahahaha!" Ian, supported by Luo Yin, began to laugh maniacally. "You really think you're unlucky?"

“Well, actually you guys are pretty lucky. The naval bases you were assigned to aren’t the best, but they’re pretty reliable,” Ian said. “The unlucky one is me. I was assigned to a terrible naval base!”

Ian looked at Nia, glared at her, and said, "You want to ask why your naval base has become like this, don't you?"

"Because, your naval base should have been mine!"

Under the watchful eyes of the surrounding admirals, Ian shouted this.

The whole audience fell silent.

Ian's answer stunned everyone present.

This news caught everyone off guard, and the atmosphere became extremely tense.

Then, just as everyone fell silent, a brown figure darted in front of Ian.

"Thump!" Enraged, Cleveland punched Ian hard in the stomach, knocking him to his knees.

"Pfft!" Ian's body involuntarily hunched over like an earthworm.

Even if the ship girl controlled the force of her punch, taking a solid hit would be enough to keep someone bedridden for a day.

Cleveland grabbed Ian by the collar and lifted him off the ground.

"You scum!" Cleveland's eyes blazed with rage as he stared at the human in his hands. His fists gripped Ian's collar tightly, as if he were about to unleash a punch on Ian's head, smashing it like a coconut shell.

"Cleveland!" Just as Cleveland was about to do something, Nia's voice came from behind her, calling out to her.

Cleveland paused, then turned to look at Nia.