Elder brother's garrison

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Yes, that’s right!

This city is an antique!!!

Xiaobai was horrified. She stared wide-eyed at the deep-sea giant phoenixes outside the hall.

Little White ran all the way to the outside of the hall. She stood on the steps outside the hall, looking at the Deep Sea Phoenix carrying containers all the way on the waterway, and the faint black and white spire in the distance. Her breathing was sometimes intense, sometimes suffocating, and sometimes relaxed.

Xiao Bai hesitated, as if he wanted to say something but then stopped.

On the waterway, a group of deep-sea giant phoenixes carried containers and silently stared at Xiaobai.

Little White's mouth opened and closed, then opened again and closed again...

at last……

Xiao Bai finally slumped down on the steps, head bowed, still dazed.

It's over...it's all over.

It's too late...

Why didn't I think of this before...?

She had only thought about letting the deep-sea giants come to this city for some fresh air and a change of scenery; she never imagined they would completely transform the city...

By the time Xiaobai realized the consequences of his actions, it was clearly too late.

The crime of damaging cultural relics...

How long will he have to go to jail...?

Xiao Bai suddenly felt fortunate that she hadn't read any law books, otherwise she probably would have already calculated the year and month she was released.

"Admiral, relax." Iowa slowly walked outside the hall and squatted down next to Xiaobai. "Should I say something comforting to help you relax?"

"...Okay, go ahead and tell me."

“Actually, according to the law, the crime of illegally possessing a deep-sea artifact, or even breeding a large number of deep-sea creatures, is far more serious than the crime of damaging cultural relics,” Iowa said with a smile. “It can range from thirty years to the death penalty, and there’s no upper limit.”

"...Thank you, Iowa. I suddenly feel much better."

"Admiral, you're welcome," Iowa said with a laugh, hugging her knees. "But then again, this city will never be discovered by humans again, so it doesn't really matter what you do with it, right?"

"Well, that makes sense."

Xiao Bai took a deep breath, stood up, and looked at the tower that was faintly visible in the distance.

That's it.

Iowa is right.

This city will probably never be discovered by humans again... No, it's more like now that things have come to this point, I can't let this city be discovered by humans!

Xiao Bai patted his chest vigorously, trying to catch his breath.

After calming down her somewhat chaotic emotions, Xiaobai turned around and looked at Chao Yahe who had chased after her.

"Admiral, are you alright?" Chao Yahe asked innocently.

“I’m fine, Chao Yamato, I’m fine… probably…” Xiaobai thought for a while with her head down, then shook her head.

"Oh... shall I escort the admiral back?" Chao Dahe pointed to the teleportation vortex in the hall.

"...No need this time, we have things to do on the sea later."

“Ah, okay…” Chao Dahe nodded, “Then these supplies…”

"We've already got Lexington all set up, we can't just throw it away, can we? We'll use it however we want." Xiaobai said that he had completely let go of the past.

"I understand," Super Yamato replied. "Then, Admiral, I'll go back to work!"

"Remember to go back to the Admiral's Guild to rest when you're tired. I'll probably be back in a few hours." Xiaobai waved. "If you want to rest in between, you can take a walk in the city and go to the city center to see Xiaohong and the others' masterpieces."

"I understand, Admiral."

Shiro and Daiwa exchanged a glance, nodded, and then left with Iowa and Taihou.

The three of them put on red hard hats and returned to the construction site they had been at before.

In the lobby of the construction site, the ship girls lay neatly in their original spots. After Xiaobai squatted down and checked their bodies again using the Admiral's Network, she called on several nearby Abyssal Taihou to help her lift the six ship girls' bodies. The group then boarded the whirlpool entrance in the city center and left the Abyssal City.

Shiro, Iowa, the six missing ship girls, and the six deep-sea Taihou have returned to the real sea.

Xiaobai searched through the ship's equipment space and found six bracelet-shaped deep-sea aura shielding devices, which she then put on the six deep-sea Taihou.

"Little Red, whoever wants to go out in the future should take this with them—because there are just too many of you, even I can't produce that many right now... Anyway, I'll ask Lord Su and Odin to give me more ship equipment fragments during this time, and I'll also have Akashi work overtime to make more, so please make do with these until I have enough for all of you." Little White said apologetically to the Deep Sea Taihou.

The deep-sea phoenixes nodded in agreement. They accepted the bracelets and wore them on their wrists. Soon, the aura of the deep-sea dean surrounding their bodies dissipated.

Xiaobai looked at the Deepsea Taihou with satisfaction. Apart from looking exactly the same, they were similar in appearance to ordinary ship girl squads. She let them carry the missing ship girls and follow her and Iowa towards the 8-2 sea area.

Along the way, although Iowa still exuded a sweet ship girl aura, and with the six missing and badly damaged ship girls by her side, they attracted a lot of Abyssal ships, who eyed them menacingly as they approached.

Fortunately, as long as these deep-sea ships showed even the slightest intention to attack, the deep-sea phoenixes would remove their bracelets, revealing a hint of the aura of the deep-sea deity, which would scare the deep-sea ships away.

So this journey was much safer than the way here.

Soon, Xiaobai and his group returned to the 8-2 sea area.

Following the information in the data, Xiaobai arrived at the sea area where the search and rescue team would likely pass by. After waiting for a while, she indeed sensed the presence of ship girls from the Admiral's Guild not far away through the Admiral's Network.

Xiaobai directed the Deep Sea Taihou to place the six missing ship girls on the nearby water, letting them drift with the current.

Sure enough, just a few minutes later, the search and rescue team's ship girls bumped right into the missing ship girls.

"Oh! So this is where it is!"

"Report to headquarters, we've found the missing ship girl!"

"The missing ship girls are all badly damaged, but fortunately there are no traces of deep sea around them, and they are all safe!"

"Reporting to headquarters, the search and rescue team is to return immediately!"

"..."

From afar, Xiaobai used the Admiral's Network to sense the search and rescue team leading the missing ship girls along the same route, and she breathed a sigh of relief.

Xiaobai turned around and looked at the six deep-sea giant phoenixes floating on the water.

"Yes, thank you all for today. You did a great job." Xiaobai reached out and stroked the heads of the Deep Sea Taihou one by one. "You can go back now. Remember to wear your ship equipment's aura shielding devices. Have a safe journey."

The deep-sea giants stroked their heads and nodded contentedly. They twisted their bodies like fish, turned and left, diving to the surface and disappearing below the horizon in the blink of an eye.

Chapter 3595 The Enemy of the Deep-Sea Submarine

Xiaobai and Yihua stood there, watching the figures of the deep-sea giants disappear into the distant waters, vanishing without a trace.

"With the ship-mounted aura-shielding device, Sister Xiaohong and the others shouldn't be detected by other ship girls, right?" Iowa turned to Xiaobai and asked.

"Well, generally speaking, it shouldn't be." Xiaobai nodded.

"What if?" Iowa asked again.

“If something goes wrong… then we’ll have to worry about the safety of the ship girls who discovered them.” Xiaobai looked at Iowa and said with a smile, “After all, Xiaohong and the others are genuine Abyssal Deans.”

“The Admiral is right.” Iowa smiled upon hearing this.

Xiao Bai and Io Hua followed the same route they had taken, returning to the beach in the 8-2 sea area in the same way.

It was several hours later when Xiaobai and Iowa returned to the beach.

It was nearing dusk, and the gloomy sky was gradually darkening. The beach was sparsely populated and deserted. Xiaobai and Iowa saw the young admiral who had been anxiously waiting for news from the search and rescue team on the beach. He was now shaking the arms of the admiral's guild staff members, his face flushed with excitement, and he kept muttering things like, "Thank you so much," "The admiral's guild's rescue speed is truly the best in the world," "I don't know what I would have done without them," "Thank you for helping me find my family," and "I will never forget your kindness in my life."

Xiaobai put on the magical baseball cap and stood silently with Iowa not far away, observing the admiral for a while. Then, Xiaobai clapped his hands with satisfaction and turned to leave.

"Iowa, let's go back to the guild."

"Yes, Admiral." Iowa strode forward, hands behind his back, and followed Little White.

Xiaobai and Iowa left the 8-2 sea area as if they were strolling through a shopping mall, and headed towards the Admiral's Guild along the bustling street of merchants.

On the way back to the Admiral's Guild, Xiaobai seemed to be in a good mood.

She hummed a song softly as she led Iahua to a street vendor's stall and picked out some snacks and treats that she couldn't buy in the office lobby, packing them up to take away.

"Hmm, candied hawthorns really do have to be made by someone with good skills." Xiaobai sighed, holding a candied hawthorn stick and taking a light bite of the hawthorn wrapped in a thin layer of sugar.

"Is the Admiral in a good mood today?" Iowa asked with a smile, carrying the shopping bag that Xiaobai had brought.

"Yes, it's a good deed."

"Even if others don't know it was the admiral who did it, does it matter?"

"Yeah, that's fun too." Xiaobai nodded and handed the candied hawthorn with one bite taken out of it to Iohua. "Iohua, would you like one?"

Iohua looked at the candied hawthorn that Xiaobai handed her, her gaze becoming somewhat hazy, as if she were in another world.

“I remember when I first met the Admiral as a ship girl, he seemed to be eating one of these little things,” Iowa said.

"Ah...right, your collar got dirty from a passing destroyer back then."

"The Admiral has a good memory," Iowa said with a smile.

"It won't get dirty this time," Xiaobai said, handing the candied hawthorn skewer closer.

Iowa parted her lips slightly and gently bit the top candied hawthorn with her pearly teeth.

The sound of the sugar coating bursting was exceptionally crisp.

……

When Xiaobai and Iowa returned to the Admiral's Guild, in the hall, Shenying was spinning around in circles with a stack of documents in his arms, looking completely at a loss.

"Good afternoon, Miss Divine Eagle." Xiao Bai and Yi Ahua waved to Divine Eagle.

"Ah... Guild Leader Lu Lin, and Miss Io Hua." Shen Ying looked over following Xiao Bai's voice. When she saw Xiao Bai and Io Hua, a hint of relaxation appeared on her serious face. She quickly walked over, "You two are finally back. The guild has another batch of urgent documents, and we haven't been able to reach you..."

"Ah, sorry." Little White smiled apologetically at the Divine Eagle. "Iowa and I saw that we didn't have much work to do, so we went for a walk for a while."

Xiao Bai can lie so easily now, without even breaking a sweat.

"I see..." Shenying listened to Xiaobai's words, her gaze unconsciously drifting to the shopping bags Xiaobai and Iowa were carrying. Therefore, she didn't suspect anything and directly replied, "President, next time if you need to go out during working hours, I hope you can at least inform one of your return time..."

"Okay, I understand. I'll be more careful next time." Xiaobai handed the shopping bag to Iowa, then held out her hand. "Give me the documents."

"Let me take it up for you."

"No need, no need, I'll just bring it along on my way."

"Well... that's fine too." Shenying handed the documents to Xiaobai, and she gently instructed, "President Lu Lin, the documents are a bit heavy, please be careful."

Xiaobai smiled and nodded, holding the document firmly in her arms and weighing it in her hand.

"I'm very sorry, these urgent documents should have been handled by Manager Luo, but she is currently hospitalized and resting. You are the only person in the entire guild qualified to handle these documents." Shenying took a step back and gave Xiaobai an apologetic look.

"It's nothing. I was the one who said I'd help Miss Yingying with her work anyway." Xiaobai didn't mind. She waved her hand with a smile, then suddenly seemed to remember something and asked, "Oh, by the way, how is Miss Yingying's recovery going?"

"Thanks to you, apart from some insomnia, Manager Luo is basically fine. The doctor said she can be discharged in two days."

"Insomnia?"

"Yes."

"Sigh, I know insomnia best; it's really painful," Xiaobai said with deep feeling.

"Does President Lu Lin also suffer from insomnia?" Shen Ying asked, somewhat surprised.

"Yes, I used to."

"President Lu Lin means...you used to have insomnia, but now you're cured?"

"more or less."

"Do you have any experience in treatment?" Shenying thought for a while and then suddenly asked.

"Hmm..." Xiaobai squinted, seriously pinching her chin and thinking for a while. She turned her head to look at Iohua, who was smiling without saying a word, and then replied, "...My method is probably not suitable for Miss Yingying. I can't help you."

"Yes, thank you again." The Divine Eagle nodded.

Xiao Bai and Yi Ahua said goodbye to Shen Ying and took the elevator back to the guild's top-floor office hall.

The eagle was holding a variety of urgent documents.

According to Shenying, these documents were part of the work that Luo Yingying was supposed to handle.

Xiao Bai returned to his office and briefly glanced at the documents in his hand.

She discovered that Luo Yingying's job duties were quite different from her own as the president. If the president's job was more about issuing macro-level directives, then Luo Yingying's job duties were mostly about trivial matters, including but not limited to the specific implementation of various directives and measures, personnel deployment, the planned commendation of admirals who performed well in the sea area, and the emergency handling of unexpected external events.