Elder brother's garrison

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Illinois said.

"..." Xiaobai felt the warmth from Illinois's hand. She remained silent for a long time, then nodded and turned around. "Okay, let's go."

Before leaving, Xiaobai used the Admiral Network to scan the artificial lake.

At this moment, the concentration of deep-sea aura in the artificial lake was approaching that of Chapters 6 and 7. Fortunately, after several upheavals, the ship girls and deep-sea creatures in the lake had been completely depleted. Now, it was just a stagnant body of water with a high concentration of deep-sea aura.

Before deep-sea creatures reappear in this lake, it is believed that the local naval headquarters and other departments, such as the admiral's headquarters, handled the situation well upon receiving the news and arriving at the scene.

As for the three corpses lying here, they should be properly disposed of, so Xiaobai won't interfere.

After purifying the last two corrupted ship girls, Xiaobai and her group returned to the principal's office on campus.

"Admiral, what's going on with this young lady?" After returning to the principal's office, Illinois took Miao Yan from the awake ship girls and asked Xiaobai curiously, pointing at Miao Yan.

“Her,” Xiaobai said, looking at Miao Yan lying in Illinois’s arms. She sighed, forced a smile, and then reached out to touch Miao Yan’s forehead. “When I infiltrated here with her, Aunt Mei discovered us halfway through. She was very scared and nervous, and eventually she just fainted in my arms.”

"To faint in the Admiral's arms, she's quite a character," Illinois asked. "Should we wake her up?"

"Let her fall asleep first."

“Okay. I’ll take care of her.” Illinois bent down, hooked her knees behind Miao Yan’s, and picked her up.

After Miao Yan fainted, she slept soundly and didn't wake up the whole way.

As the saying goes, misfortune may be a blessing in disguise, and a blessing may be a misfortune in disguise.

Thanks to the benefits of sleeping soundly, Miao Yan didn't have to witness all the dramatic and absurd things that happened afterward, unlike Xiao Bai.

Now, whenever Xiaobai recalls what just happened, she feels very depressed and a little upset.

Xiao Bai rubbed his temples and looked back at the artificial lake in the distance.

This family...

Ugh.

Chapter 3720 Rest

When Xiaobai and the ship girls walked out of the principal's office and returned to the lobby on the first floor, the campus was already brightly lit, as if it were daytime.

The fire outside has been extinguished.

In the hall, several tall women were counting heads.

In the lobby, along the corridors, and at the edges of the doorways of each room, rows of men and women squatted with their hands behind their heads, afraid to make a sound.

When the women counting heads saw Xiaobai and the ship girls appear, they blinked and then immediately waved to Xiaobai.

"Admiral Lu Lin! Is it over on your end?"

"Wow...it's so lively here."

Xiaobai walked to the center of the hall, looked at the women in front of her, and examined their smiling faces.

These women... are ship girls.

Although they aren't ship girls from the newbie naval bases, they are ship girls from the top ten admirals' naval bases, such as Nanxing Naval Base, Haoding Naval Base, Lian Naval Base, Ling Naval Base, and so on...

"Have you all suppressed the entire campus?" Xiaobai asked the ship girls.

"Yes, thanks to the opportunity you created, we swiftly and beautifully suppressed the fire. Not only the school, but also the village and the factories within it—everything was taken down in one fell swoop. Your ship girl sisters are truly reliable! Missouri and Iowa's on-site command was reassuring! Oh! By the way, we also discovered an escape tunnel in a room on the first floor of this campus and blocked it from the opposite exit immediately." The ship girls chattered away, like a flock of chirping, melodious birds. "Oh, right, Admiral Lu Lin, you want to see our admiral, right? Please wait a moment, I'll go and call them for you!"

"Yeah... that's okay."

Xiaobai nodded.

The ship girls turned around and ran out of the campus. The area outside the campus seemed just as lively as the area inside. Xiaobai listened to the buzzing of vehicles, the sound of tires coming and going, and the creaking of a large number of armed machines and the sound of commands.

After a while, the glass doors of the campus lobby opened.

Several familiar figures strode into the hall.

"Admiral, we're here!"

The four Iowa-class ship girls, along with Changchun, Anshan, Jinan, Chaoda, and a group of people, jogged in together with Nanxing.

As soon as the ship girls saw Xiaobai, they immediately called out to her and waved. The scene was so lively that even the expressionless New Jersey and Nanxing raised their hands slightly and waved to Xiaobai.

"I didn't expect everyone to be here..."

Xiaobai breathed a sigh of relief as she looked at the ship girls and Nanxing, a smile of satisfaction spreading across her face.

"Yes, Admiral, you suddenly pulled this emergency event out of the blue. We couldn't wait for you to come back at home." The ship girls came up to Xiaobai and said with a smile, "Admiral, you've solved another big case this time. Congratulations!"

"..."

Xiaobai smiled somewhat awkwardly. Just as she was about to speak, the glass door to the hall was pushed open once again.

"Hahahahaha!!!"

A familiar long howl rushed into the hall like flowing flames.

Admiral Haoding's eyes widened, and he laughed heartily, revealing his perfectly white teeth, as he led a large group of people in with great fanfare.

"Admiral Lu Lin! You did a great job! You did a great job!" Admiral Haoding laughed as he approached Xiaobai, hands on his hips. "I never expected that Admiral Lu Lin, even on your vacation, wouldn't forget to punish evil and promote good. This human trafficking gang was busted so smoothly, without losing a single soldier or bullet from beginning to end. Such a significant achievement is truly all thanks to Admiral Lu Lin! Hahahaha, you truly deserve to be my most trusted admiral!!!"

"Admiral Haoding, it's been a long time..." Xiaobai smiled at Admiral Haoding, "How have you been lately?"

"Oh! Long time no see!" Admiral Haoding nodded emphatically, grinned, clenched his fist, and gave Xiaobai a rather hearty smile. "Admiral Lu Lin, I've been working and detoxing at the same time lately. Look at my skin, isn't the dark color much lighter!"

"Uh... um."

Xiao Bai looked at Admiral Hao Ding's still dark, coal-like skin. Although in Xiao Bai's memory the color didn't seem to have faded much, she thought for a while and nodded.

"Little cutie!"

Oh my!

Behind Admiral Haoding's broad figure, Admirals Lian and Ling hopped out like two little rabbits, sticking their tongues out at Xiaobai with playful smiles on their faces.

"Sister Lian, Sister Ling, hello..."

"Okay, okay, I'm happy, you're happy, and she's happy too!" Admiral Lian and Admiral Ling came over and laughed as they pinched Xiaobai's cheeks. "We heard that you were kidnapped by human traffickers, so we immediately dropped everything and came here to see you. Hehe, the world's number one admiral being kidnapped and auctioned off, this kind of fun only happens a few times in a lifetime. This is really great!"

"What a pity, if I were a little richer, I could have gotten my hands on this cutie."

"So, who took the picture of the cutie in the end?"

"I remember it was Nanxing... Oh, as expected, Nanxing is still deeply in love with the little cutie."

Admiral Lian and Admiral Ling exchanged words back and forth, like actors performing a play, each with their own hidden meaning.

Almost everyone present, except for Admiral Haoding and the person involved, wore a meaningful smile.

Only Nanxing looked at everyone talking about her, and a hint of doubt appeared in her eyes.

"Cough cough..." Xiaobai coughed awkwardly.

"Hmm, Admiral Lu Lin, although we didn't discuss the plan beforehand, judging from your habits, you must have just gone with the ship girls to confront the leaders of the human trafficking gang, right?" Admiral Hao Ding turned his gaze to Xiao Bai and asked.

"Hmm...that's right."

“According to our investigation, the head of this village is an elderly woman known as Aunt Mei. She has two capable subordinates named Xu An and Gao Le…” Admiral Haoding said to Xiaobai, “Where are they now?”

“…Dead.” Xiaobai’s gaze was lowered, and her expression returned to tranquility.

Admiral Haoding was taken aback.

The ship girls and admirals around him also quieted down.

Everyone was looking at Xiaobai with concern.

After a while, Admiral Haoding nodded, looked at Xiaobai, and exhaled heavily through his nose.

“Admiral Lu Lin, please don’t take it to heart. It’s common for heinous criminals to choose to end their own lives when they are desperate and not prepared to face trial,” Admiral Hao Ding said to Xiao Bai. “You’ve already done a very important job by not letting them harm others at the last moment.”

"Thank you." Xiaobai nodded to Admiral Haoding.

"Admiral Lu Lin, if you don't mind, leave things here to us for now," Admiral Hao Ding said to Xiao Bai. "You can go and rest first; there are vehicles we've prepared for you outside the campus gate."

“Okay, I am a little tired.” Xiaobai said to Admiral Haoding.

"Admiral Lu Lin, thank you for your hard work." Admiral Hao Ding nodded.

Xiaobai pointed to the thirty-odd conscious ship girls behind her.

"Also, the ship girls behind me were controlled by Aunt May using special methods. I just helped them break free of the control. For a period of time, they became accomplices in protecting this village, but in a way, they are also victims in this incident... In short... I'll leave the investigation and their resettlement to you."

"Leave it to me!" Admiral Haoding looked at the ship girls and gave them a thumbs up. "I'll tell you the results myself after everything is settled!"

Xiao Bai smiled at Admiral Hao Ding, then walked out of the residential area.

As Admiral Haoding watched Xiaobai walk past him, he suddenly turned around and called out to Xiaobai.

"Admiral Lu Lin!"

"Ok?"

Xiao Bai turned around and saw Admiral Hao Ding frowning with his thick eyebrows and big eyes, looking troubled.

"Admiral Lu Lin, about... the whereabouts of the leader of the criminal organization..."

"The bodies of the three of them are in the wild area behind the principal's office, where there is an artificial lake." Xiaobai understood, and she smiled at Admiral Haoding, "Sorry, I forgot to mention that."

"..."

……

After briefly explaining the remaining matters, Xiaobai left the campus with her ship girls.

Because Nanxing is not Shiro's ship girl, she, like the other top ten admirals, is the person in charge of this "bandit suppression" operation. Therefore, even though she expressed her desire to leave with Shiro, she can only stay by the side of Admiral Ren and Admiral Ling.

After exchanging a knowing glance with Nanxing, Xiaobai smiled slightly at Nanxing before leaving the campus. Outside the campus, the open space at the entrance was filled with people. These people were not all ship girls; there were also many fully armed police officers, armored vehicles, logistics personnel coming and going, and even helicopters hovering in the sky.

The helicopter whirred and spun, making a lot of noise.

Missouri led Little White by the hand to a nearby ambulance. The back door of the ambulance was open, and inside there was food, a mattress, and blankets—enough for a safe and restful space.

"Admiral, go upstairs and rest." Missouri stroked Little White's head, gazing intently at him, and whispered.

"Okay." Xiaobai nodded.

Little White climbed up, and Illinois carried Miao Yan to Little White's side.

"Admiral, where should we put this child?" Illinois asked.

"Put it next to me." Xiaobai patted the empty space next to her.

Illinois understood and got into the car. She placed Miao Yan next to Xiao Bai, then pulled a blanket over Miao Yan's body.

Xiao Bai sat in his seat, looking at Miao Yan lying next to him, feeling lost and forlorn.

Today... Xiaobai witnessed a person's death for the first time with her own eyes.

This feeling is quite complicated; it's not exactly a comfortable feeling.

Xiaobai wasn't tired, but she felt she really needed to rest.

Xiao Bai reached out and touched Miao Yan's forehead.

The noise of people around her was deafening, she was covered by a thin blanket, and the air around her was neither too hot nor too cold. Her consciousness seemed to have left her body, and Xiao Bai suddenly felt that it was quite nice to have Miao Yan lying next to her.

Chapter 3721 Where's my hen?

That night, the area outside the ambulance was bustling with noise and people coming and going.

Xiao Bai wrapped himself in a blanket and lay down next to Miao Yan, spending a simple and rough night in the car.

Time quickly came to the next day.

As the sky began to lighten, Xiaobai inside the ambulance slowly opened her eyes.

Xiao Bai rubbed his eyes, supported himself with his hands, and slowly got up from his sleep.

Xiaobai didn't sleep well that night.

Sleeping in an ambulance is obviously not a very comfortable experience.

However, Xiaobai doesn't want high-quality sleep.

After all, it was the first time she had witnessed a human death, and it had been a significant, but not insignificant, shock to her life experience. Therefore, she needed some time to close her eyes, rest, and adjust her mindset and emotions.

Xiaobai isn't a very sentimental person.

The person who died in front of Xiaobai this time was neither her friend nor her close relative. She wouldn't have the overflowing sympathy to empathize with a vicious criminal. So even though she suffered some mental shock, after a night of resting with her eyes closed, she felt that she had almost recovered.

Xiao Bai untied the blanket and shifted her gaze to Miao Yan beside her.