Elder brother's garrison

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"There's a limit. People with less than 20,000 activity merit points aren't allowed to enter. If you lose less than 20,000 in the casino, you'll be asked to leave. In short, although it does rip off a lot of money... cough cough, merit points, it won't ruin anyone's family." Mu Yu said as she walked.

"How come I never knew?" Xiaobai asked again.

"...The people who participate in the casino are definitely carefully selected, you know how confidential they are," Mu Yu said to Xiao Bai.

"Oh..." Xiaobai nodded.

“…Actually, it’s pretty good that Luo Lian got second place,” Mu Yu said.

"what happened?"

Mu Yu stopped talking at this point, just smiled gently, and quietly led Xiao Bai towards the warehouse.

Xiaobai and Muyu continued walking, passing through a magnificent wall piled high with ship girl equipment, and finally arrived at the very back of the warehouse.

Mu Yu took a key out of her clothes and opened a door.

Xiao Bai went inside and was immediately greeted by a dazzling array of colorful lights that stung his eyes.

"here it is?"

"This is where the first place in the Autumn Event gets its rewards. How about it? Six-star equipment, isn't that impressive?" Mu Yu said proudly to Xiao Bai.

Xiaobai nodded.

Six-star equipment isn't particularly abundant even in a beginner's naval base, let alone outside. While it's unrealistic to expect every six-star piece of equipment to reach the level of the Yamato Cannon in the Deep Sea Yamato, there aren't many disappointing six-star equipment options.

"But having enough prestige isn't enough. Most of this equipment is anti-aircraft guns, just for show. Little White, come with me." Mu Yu said, waving to Little White, and then led her to the innermost part of the room.

Xiao Bai followed Mu Yu and finally stopped with Mu Yu in front of a black coffin.

--coffin?

Xiao Bai was stunned, looking at the coffin in front of him with a slightly confused expression.

In the deepest part of the place, which is full of six-star equipment and whose rarity is unimaginable even by a fool's eye, there is a coffin?

Xiao Bai stayed behind Mu Yu, then quietly looked at the coffin.

The coffin was mechanical, with a black, square shell. It wasn't very tall, only about a head taller than Xiaobai. There was a keypad for entering a password at the opening, connected to seven or eight locks. There was no colorful light on its body, making it look particularly solemn.

"...Excuse me...what is this?"

"Doesn't it look like a coffin?" Mu Yu said with a smile.

“...Yes.” Xiaobai nodded.

"Hahahaha!" Mu Yu laughed, slapping the coffin with one hand. "That's what I thought at first too, but I was wrong. This thing isn't a coffin."

"Is this coffin equipment belonging to a ship girl?" Xiaobai asked, frowning.

"This coffin... ugh, this protective device is indeed very expensive, but it's still far inferior to the equipment of ship girls. Have you ever seen someone carrying something that looks like a coffin on the street?" Mu Yu asked Xiao Bai.

"Ah... I've never seen it before."

"Yes, your reward is what's in here," Mu Yu said.

"A person?" Xiaobai was taken aback.

"Little White Sister, you're very clever, but it's still not accurate." Mu Yu said, pressing on the coffin called the protective device, and then entering several strings of passwords into the combination lock on it.

Soon, a series of sounds came from the protective device, and then, accompanied by clicking sounds, seven or eight locks were quickly unlocked one after another. A burst of white steam, as if the ship girl had been successfully built, also gushed out and instantly enveloped Xiaobai and Muyu.

“Little White Sister.” Mu Yu’s voice came from the white mist, “Ship girls are long-lived creatures, right?”

“…Hmm.” Little White nodded in the white steam.

“Since the beginning of the Cultural Revolution, humanity has been considering this. Ship girls are long-lived creatures, while their admirals are merely human. Humans only live for a hundred years, and the time spent as admirals is even shorter. Even if the bond between a ship girl and her admiral is deep and unwavering, it cannot prevent the admiral from aging and dying. Ship girls are ultimately alone,” Mu Yu said. “The only way is for the ship girls to remove their ship equipment, relinquish their power, longevity, and eternal youth, and watch the years pass by with their beloved admirals, eventually returning to the earth and vanishing into nothingness.”

"..." Xiaobai fell silent.

"Finally, in recent years, our research has yielded results."

"Huh?" Xiaobai was taken aback. "Have you figured out a way to make humans live longer?"

"Hahaha..." Mu Yu laughed, "I'm sorry, little sister, at least with the current level of technology, it's still impossible to make humans live longer."

"So you're bringing the dead back to life?" Xiaobai's pupils contracted.

"I'm sorry, it's impossible... and it won't happen again."

"So what are your research results..." Xiaobai tilted her head in confusion at Mu Yu in the white steam.

Just then, Mu Yu, who was in the white steam, pressed a button on the protective device. There was a whooshing sound like a range hood being blown away, and the white steam quickly dissipated.

The scenery around Xiaobai and Muyu became clear again.

Mu Yu lowered her head, a helpless smile on her face: "I've already said it, haven't I? Ship girls are lonely. We're just solving this problem."

Mu Yu stretched out his finger and pointed inside the protective device.

Xiao Bai looked in the direction Mu Yu was pointing.

Inside the protective device, there lay a hooded girl with short, beige hair.

The girl had delicate and beautiful features, and was cute and charming. Her petite and plump body was covered by a loose top and a mini skirt, with two long white and black stockings wrapped around her long legs. She was curled up in the protective device, gently closing her eyes and sleeping quietly, like a sleeping beauty.

Xiao Bai stared at the girl in front of him in surprise.

The contents of this coffin are quite a shock to Xiaobai's worldview.

"...Is this a ship girl?" Xiaobai asked.

"No." Mu Yu shook her head.

"...Then is this a person?"

"Not at all."

"...Abyssal Fleet??"

"No, that's not it either." Mu Yu shook her head again.

"Then... what is this?" Xiaobai was genuinely confused this time.

"She's an aircraft." Mu Yu looked at the girl inside the protective device and said slowly, "It's the equipment of a ship girl, and also the final reward of this autumn deep-sea event."

Xiao Bai turned to look at Mu Yu.

Mu Yu also looked at Xiao Bai.

"Um...excuse me...is this...the problem you solved?"

“Yes.” Mu Yu nodded. “It was developed through the reverse propulsion ship girl technology. Since ships can be personified, then airplanes should be able to as well. However, ship girl technology is too advanced. After several years of research, only this one has succeeded so far.”

"...How do you solve the problem of ship girls not being lonely?"

"These are our companions for the ship girls, theoretically possessing a lifespan absolutely no less than that of the ship girls," Mu Yu said. "Even life and death cannot separate them from the ship girls. How about that, isn't it romantic?"

As Mu Yu spoke, she grinned and said, "Little White Sister, go and touch her hand."

"Me?" Xiaobai was taken aback.

"You have ship equipment too, right?" Mu Yu said to Xiao Bai. "Land-based ship equipment can also carry aircraft."

"..." Xiaobai nodded, then walked nervously to the protective device and carefully looked at the girl's face for a while.

—It is indeed a beauty that cannot be seen in the ordinary human realm.

Xiao Bai thought for a while, then reached out and gently grasped the girl's small hand that was folded in front of her chest.

Just as Xiaobai grasped the girl's small hand, the girl, who was still fast asleep, suddenly opened her large, beige eyes like a cat being woken up, sparkling with a crystalline light, and stared directly at Xiaobai's face.

"Huh?!" Xiao Bai was so startled that he instinctively pulled his hand back, not expecting the girl to wake up and stare at him the next second after she had been fast asleep.

Then, the so-called "airplane girl" grabbed Xiaobai's hand and, with her lithe body, nimbly supported by the protective device, darted out and stood in front of Xiaobai.

A cute and pretty face pressed close to Xiaobai's, their eyes meeting.

In that instant, Xiaobai felt as if a warm current was emanating from the girl's body, rapidly passing through his palm and entering his own body, then transforming into a warm, furnace-like temperature that warmed his body.

A feeling of being one with the girl in front of him drifted into Xiaobai's mind like a gentle breeze.

—So comfortable.

"Humph!"

However, at this moment when he felt as if he had become one with the girl in front of him, Xiaobai suddenly felt a familiar cold snort coming from his body.

Then, the girl in front of him turned pale, let out a muffled groan, released her grip on Xiaobai's hand, and fell backward, landing hard on her bottom.

Chapter 564 Magic, like mecha girls, requires payment.

In Xiaobai and Muyu's eyes, the girl with beige hair flew up to Xiaobai and grabbed her hand with lightning speed, as if she was about to rush into Xiaobai's body at any moment. But the next second, as if she had hit a large spring, she let out a painful groan and her whole body was bounced back to the ground by something strange.

There was a bang.

The light brown-haired girl fell against the safety barrier, her delicate waist slamming against the hard metal with a loud thud; it looked painful.

Indeed, it did seem to hurt quite a bit. After the little girl with beige hair was thrown back and her whole body got stuck on the protective device, her big yellow eyes instantly filled with crystal tears, making her little face look pitiful.

"Little White Sister??" Mu Yu looked at the girl on the ground in surprise, then turned to Little White, looking completely bewildered. "What's going on?"

"Uh..." Xiaobai looked at Muyu with an embarrassed expression.

Of course, Xiaobai knew what had happened.

In that instant, the little girl in front of him grasped his hand, and then a warm current emanated from her hand, slowly seeping into his body.

Having been an admiral for so long, Xiaobai could naturally sense that the warm current was actually very similar to the admiral network. However, unlike the admiral network that establishes a hierarchy, the warm current coming from that little girl's body seemed to be only seeking a connection.

So here's the problem: if this girl wants to connect with Xiaobai, she'll have to go through Xiaobai's admiral network. However, Xiaobai's admiral network is no longer the bloated behemoth it once was.

After being harmonized by Pachina and with Deep Sea Will as the core support, Xiaobai's Admiral Network, although much larger in size, has also become much more sensitive.

So much so that now, Xiaobai's admiral network can even be described as an extremely agile fat man.

In this state, if something else suddenly enters one's admiral network, the admiral network can quickly detect it and react.

And most importantly, there's someone else inside my body.

The Deep Sea Will, residing at the core of the spiritual world, is not exactly known for its good temper. The act of pushing away the beige-colored girl in front of it just now was done by none other than her.

But these newbies can only pretend to be stupid.

We can't just tell Mu Yu about the existence of the Deep Sea Will, can we?

Xiao Bai felt that this wasn't her fault, but Mu Yu's fault; it was all Mu Yu's fault for not explaining everything clearly.

"Uh... I don't know." To this, Xiaobai could only shake her head helplessly at Mu Yu, and started playing dumb.

Mu Yu fell into deep thought.

The fact that the little girl with the beige hair was thrown into the air was also unexpected for Mu Yu.

"Could it be that because you're not a ship girl yet, you can't link with Little White Sister?" Mu Yu voiced her speculation.

"Huh? Ah, um, um!" Little White nodded quickly, "That should be it!"

“…Sigh.” Mu Yu sighed. “In a way, it’s good news.”

"good news?"

"Compared to ship girls, you're closer to being human," Mu Yu said with a helpless shrug.

"Ah..." Xiaobai sighed, "How about Muyu, you give me a different reward?"

"Why change the reward? Don't you like this?" Mu Yu asked.

"Isn't it that I don't need it?"

“I didn’t originally intend for you to use it… Well, actually it would be better if you could use it, but this child is equipment meant for ship girls, so let’s take it back for the ship girls to use.” Mu Yu said, turning to look at the beige-colored little girl on the ground, and then beckoning to her, “Get up.”

The little girl looked at Mu Yu, then her big eyes turned slightly to look at Xiao Bai beside her. When she touched Xiao Bai's face, she seemed to see something terrifying. Her little shoulders trembled, but she still obediently lowered her head and stood up.

“Although I gave out the reward, this is also the first time I’ve met Little White. She’s been kept in a protective device ever since she was created. In a sense, when I asked you to contact her earlier, it was like a fledgling bird recognizing its kin. In short, you are now her admiral,” Mu Yu said. “Go and introduce yourself to her.”

"Hey, me?" Xiaobai pointed to himself.

"You," Mu Yu nodded.

Xiao Bai looked at the girl with beige hair, thought for a while, and then slowly walked to her side.

"Hello?" Xiaobai greeted him.

The girl with beige hair seemed to still have some lingering trauma from the time Xiaobai sent her flying. When Xiaobai approached her, she couldn't help but tremble slightly in fright.

For some reason, Xiaobai suddenly thought of Sukufu, who was far away in the naval base.