Elder brother's garrison

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"Ah."

"It seems... there really is a Deep Sea Dean in this sea area."

"Well..." Xiaobai's expression turned a little strange for a moment. She gave a wry smile and did not answer. "Actually... I already know who rescued those ship girls."

"Hmm?" Iowa looked at Xiaobai.

Just then, Xiaobai's land-based ship equipment arrived at an exceptionally open, even unusually clear, sea surface.

Xiaobai drove the land-based ship equipment to a spot on the water's surface. Then she stopped the ship equipment, removed its armored walls, and took Iowa's hand to the edge of the ship equipment.

"Admiral?" Iowa looked curiously at Xiaobai as he led him to the bow of the ship.

Xiaobai stopped and looked helplessly at the calm water in front of her, then spoke.

"Come out, stop hiding."

"..."

Previously, this body of water was only rippling in the breeze.

But as soon as Xiaobai said those words, the waters began to react, with bubbles starting to rise from the surface.

Immediately afterwards, more and more bubbles appeared, along with the strong aura of the Deep Sea Dean.

Finally, a head, like a radish in a field, popped out of the water with a gurgle, right at Xiaobai and Yi Ahua's feet, blinking its eyes and looking up at them.

Upon seeing the head suddenly appear, Iowa, who was next to Xiaobai, widened her eyes slightly.

"...This is...A Deep Sea Taihou?!"

Iowa's voice contained a hint of surprise.

Chapter 3589 Like a Different World

Iowa never expected that the so-called Dean of the Deep Sea who appeared in front of him and Xiaobai would be such a familiar figure.

—Isn't this the perfect partner for newbie naval bases, the mass-produced Deep Sea Taihou?

"Admiral, this is... Deep Sea Taihou?" Iowa asked Shiro in surprise.

"Yes, this is Xiao Hong." Xiao Bai nodded.

"I remember... shouldn't Xiao Hong and the others be in the mysterious sea area of ​​Chapter Two, or at the naval base?" Iowa asked, puzzled. "How did they end up here?"

“Yeah… how did they end up here?” Xiaobai gave a wry smile. She slowly squatted down, extended her index finger, and gently poked the snow-white tip of the exposed Deep-Sea Taihou’s nose. “About this, well… I did bring quite a few of the others out of Chapter Two with Super Yamato a while ago. But I clearly put them all in that lost deep-sea city. That city is now separated from the real world by an insurmountable wall. How did they manage to sneak out?”

Xiao Bai rubbed her fingers on the tip of the Deep Sea Phoenix's nose.

Deep-sea wind, with only its head showing, felt Xiaobai's touch. Like a good-natured kitten, it slightly narrowed its eyes, letting Xiaobai's fingers poke the tip of its nose inward again and again.

This adorable, helpless look makes it hard to believe that this is also a director of the deep sea department.

Iowa silently watched the Deep Sea Taihou, then turned her head to look at Shiro.

"So... Admiral, you found that missing deep-sea city?"

"Yes."

“I see. It seems I’ve been kept in the dark all this time.” Iowa sighed suddenly, her expression somewhat sorrowful. “It seems I haven’t gained the Admiral’s complete trust yet.”

"No, no... Iowa, I didn't mean to keep it from you... I just wanted to give everyone a surprise, so I wanted to tell the others after this was done." Xiaobai immediately gave an awkward smile. She withdrew her fingers from the tip of the Deep Sea Taihou's nose, grabbed Iowa's wrist, and quickly explained, "According to my plan, I was supposed to tell you about this in about a week."

"Is the Admiral truly serious?"

"Really? Really?" Xiaobai nodded repeatedly.

"Did Missouri know about this before?"

“No, not even Missouri knows.” Xiaobai quickly shook her head. She paused for a moment and then added, “Actually, the only people who know about this besides me are Lexington and Super Yamato.”

"Well, that's no problem."

Upon hearing this, Iowa's disappointed expression vanished, replaced by a satisfied smile.

Iowa's ability to change her expression is just as fast as her sister Missouri's.

Xiao Bai looked at Iowa helplessly.

She was a little suspicious that Iowa's sad expression just now was fake, and that she might just be teasing her.

"I'll tell you more about the deep-sea city later." Xiaobai turned her gaze back to the deep-sea giant phoenix in front of her. "Xiaohong, come out first."

The deep-sea giant phoenix, with only its head showing, nodded upon hearing Shiro's command. Then, it slowly extended its hands from underwater, pressed them against the surface, and with a splash, climbed out of the water to the surface.

Large amounts of black seawater flowed down the body of the deep-sea giant phoenix.

Xiaobai and Yihua watched as the seawater on the Deep Sea Phoenix drained away, and its body gradually returned to a dry and refreshed state.

"I have a lot of questions I want to ask you... But, first of all, I still want to ask the most crucial question." Xiaobai held up a finger to Shenhai Taihou and said seriously, "Xiaohong, you... or one of you, didn't you recently rescue a group of ship girls who were almost poisoned by deep-sea creatures?"

"..."

Taihou blinked, exchanged a few glances with Shiro, and then nodded.

Seeing the Deep Sea Taihou nod, Xiaobai finally breathed a sigh of relief and showed a relieved expression.

"Phew... So it really was you who rescued them... I can finally relax." Xiaobai patted her chest and smiled, continuing, "So how are the ship girls you rescued? Are they all safe?"

"..."

The deep-sea giant phoenix gave Shiro an OK sign.

"As long as you're safe." Xiaobai nodded, then patted Shenhai Taihou on the shoulder. "Now, would it be convenient for you to take me to find that group of ship girls?"

Deep Sea Taihou nodded, glanced at Iowa beside Shiro, then turned around and jogged off in one direction.

It seems that the deep-sea giant phoenix wants to lead the way.

Seeing this, Xiaobai pulled Iowa back onto the land-based ship equipment, which broke through the water and followed the figure of the Deep Sea Taihou.

Deep-sea giant phoenix led little white duckling towards the empty, clear waters before them.

Once the land-based ship was in place, Xiaobai took a moment to use the Admiral's Network to search the nearby sea surface while controlling the ship's movement. To her surprise, although her Admiral's Network had already explored the sea surface and seabed within a radius of dozens of nautical miles and found many reaction points of deep-sea creatures, she still couldn't find any reaction points belonging to the ship girl.

Are deep-sea giant phoenixes really that good at hiding people?

Can't even find their own admiral network...?

As Xiaobai was thinking, the Deep Sea Taihou, which was in charge of leading the way on the land-based ship, suddenly slowed down its advance.

Xiaobai quickly equipped the land-based ship with a speed reduction device, and then followed the Deep Sea Taihou to a slow stop in the central area of ​​the empty water surface.

"Little Red? What's wrong?" Little White called out curiously when she saw that the Deep Sea Taihou had completely stopped.

"..."

The deep-sea phoenix did not reply. She simply stood on the water and glanced back at Shiro and Iowa.

The deep-sea phoenix's gaze was as pure as that of a small animal.

Then, the Deep Sea Phoenix turned her head and slowly bent over in front of the mirror-like calm water. She squatted on the water and fiddled with her hands in a daze.

Xiaobai stared blankly at Shenhai Taihou.

then.

Just a few seconds later, a scene that shocked Xiaobai to the point of extreme astonishment unfolded.

Just a few seconds after the deep-sea giant phoenix swam across the water in front of it, a black vortex, roughly the height of a person and constantly rotating in an oval shape, appeared out of thin air in front of the three of them!

Upon seeing this black vortex, Xiaobai was immediately speechless with astonishment.

"Huh?? Huh???? Sigh???? Wait, no... wait a minute, could this be..."

A massive teleportation vortex?

Ah? ? ?

This is real?

Am I not dreaming?

Where did the Deep Sea Taihou and the others learn this skill?

To Xiaobai's astonishment, the Deep Sea Phoenix, who had conjured a teleportation vortex with her bare hands, slowly stood up. She beckoned to Xiaobai, pointed her index finger at the teleportation vortex, and then stepped straight into it.

The figure of the deep-sea phoenix disappeared into the whirlpool.

Xiaobai stared blankly at the teleportation vortex in front of him, which was exactly the same as the teleportation vortex of the super-Yamato in terms of shape, color, and even rotation speed.

"Admiral, it looks like Deepsea Taihou wants us to go in with her," Iowa said to Xiaobai, who hadn't moved for a while.

“…Um…yes, that seems to be the case.” Xiaobai snapped out of her daze, took a deep breath, and nodded with a complicated expression.

Forget it.

Regardless of how Deep Sea Taihou came up with the same teleportation skill as Colossus... anyway, Deep Sea Taihou wouldn't harm me. Since she told me to follow her, I'll just follow her.

Xiao Bai suppressed the countless questions in his mind and gently patted the land-based ship equipment beneath him.

The massive land-based ship equipment instantly vanished in an icy blue light.

Xiao Bai and Yi Ahua fell back to the water's surface.

"Iowa, aren't you curious? Just now, Little Red used the Super Yamato teleportation ability right in front of us," Little White asked Iowa.

"Hmm? So even the Admiral didn't know?" Iowa tilted her head slightly as she listened.

"...Of course I don't know..."

"I thought this was also a surprise the Admiral had prepared for me," Iowa said with a smile.

"..." The expression on Xiaobai's face was indescribably fascinating.

Xiaobai and Iohua stepped into the teleportation vortex. As soon as they stepped inside, the familiar dizzying sensation rushed towards them.

Before Xiaobai could even savor this familiar feeling, the next moment, she felt the surrounding light suddenly become even brighter.

After passing through the teleportation vortex, she discovered that the other end of the vortex was actually inside the deep-sea city.

—Oh no, actually we shouldn't use the word "surprisingly," but rather "as expected."

The instant the Deep Sea Taihou used its teleportation vortex, Xiaobai suddenly understood many things, including why the Deep Sea Taihou were able to appear in the sea area of ​​Chapter 8, and why the missing ship girls had not yet been found...

It seems that Taihou and her companions have mastered the ability to enter and exit deep-sea cities.

Although Xiaobai still couldn't figure out how they learned this trick.

Stepping onto the familiar waterway, Xiaobai looked up and searched for the figures of the deep-sea giant phoenixes around her.

The destination at the other end of the teleportation vortex appears to be the very center of a deep-sea city.

Xiao Bai is very familiar with this place because it was once the area where he fought Frederick the Great to the point of chaos, even obliterating the main road.

In Xiaobai's memory, due to the aftermath of that battle (although most of the destruction was deliberately caused by the will of the deep sea), this place had become a sea of ​​broken walls and ruins. The once towering buildings had all collapsed and crumbled. At a glance, the sea was full of building fragments, a complete mess.

But when Xiaobai returned here after passing through the teleportation vortex of the Deep Sea Phoenix, she looked up at the familiar, crisscrossing overpasses in the sky, and then gazed at the new, towering black and white spire at the end of her vision, and fell into deep thought.

...Have I time-traveled again?

Chapter 3590 Dafeng Construction Team

Xiao Bai is now starting to doubt whether the vortex she just passed through was actually a teleportation vortex.

Could the vortex I just passed through be... a spacetime teleportation vortex?

Is this... me back in time before this deep-sea city was destroyed by the will of the deep sea?

Looking at the bright, brand-new tower in front of her, and the intersecting overpasses in the sky, Xiaobai felt the refreshing atmosphere and muttered to herself.

The building is so new, it's almost unbelievable how well-preserved it is...

Even when I first came here as an undercover agent in the deep sea, this place didn't look as complete and brand new as it does now.

Could it be that... I've traveled back hundreds of years in one breath?

As Xiao Bai thought about it, her heart skipped a beat.

This wasn't Xiaobai's first time experiencing time travel, but to be honest, the last experience was just... too complicated. If possible, Xiaobai wouldn't want to have such a strange experience again.

Just then, she suddenly heard a clanging and rumbling sound behind her, like a demolition site.

Xiao Bai subconsciously turned around to look.

Xiao Bai raised an eyebrow.

Xiao Bai saw that on the city streets behind him and Iowa, the deep-sea giants wearing small yellow hats and with the words "Construction Team" tied to their bodies were like a swarm of busy little bees in a dense hive, going in and out of one dilapidated building after another.