Elder brother's garrison

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"...Such a thing is possible?"

"Yes."

Iowa nodded at Xiaobai, pondered for a moment, and then nodded in agreement.

really……

The reason why the ship girls can be on guard against the Deep Sea Dean in advance is because the Deep Sea Dean always exudes a deep-sea aura that is beyond scale. This is not only the Deep Sea Dean's signature feature, but also the biggest reminder to mankind.

It is precisely because of the characteristic that the breath arrives before the person does that humans are able to prepare for resistance in advance.

If a Deepsea Dean could conceal the aura of the Deep Sea, allowing such a terrifying being to infiltrate the shore and arrive in the heart of a city filled with unsuspecting admirals, the consequences would be extremely dire...

Thinking of this, Iowa suddenly raised his eyebrows and looked at Xiaobai with curiosity.

"Since Musashi is so amazing, how did you, the admirals, finally discover her?"

"..." Xiaobai turned her eyes to the side and scratched her cheek. "Um... because..."

"...Admiral?"

“Because she… snatched me from the shore and took me to the water…” Xiaobai scratched his cheek and said awkwardly, “Then Lexington found out…and you probably know what happened next.”

"..." Iowa.

Iowa suppressed a laugh.

The young man blushed.

"As expected of the Admiral, that was a long, long time ago, right? Long before I was born," Iowa said, covering her mouth with a laugh.

"yes……"

"Seriously, such an early admiral already has such a strong allure." Iowa shook her head and sighed, "Even someone as indifferent as Musashi wanted to monopolize the admiral. I really don't know whether to call the admiral a human succubus or something else..."

"Let's talk about something else," Xiaobai said awkwardly.

"Well, in short, Admiral, do you think this enemy might be caused by the Deep Sea Dean who has a hidden presence?" Iowa asked.

"I'm not quite sure... Because of the unique way submarines operate, no one has ever seen the enemy submarine in person, so there's no evidence to prove her identity," Xiaobai replied, calming the blush on her face and tapping the table with her finger. "I think the probability of that is very small, but given the current situation, it seems like this is the only possibility if we use the process of elimination..."

“Since it’s a deep-sea submarine-type deep-sea commander, this is something that an ordinary naval base can’t handle,” Iowa said.

“Yes, Dean Shenhai…” Xiaobai murmured to himself.

"What are the Admiral's thoughts?"

"Me?" Xiaobai looked at Iowa, thought for a moment, and said, "In short, after the investigation of the ship girls' self-reports is completed, I may have to go to the surface of the sea to meet this deep-sea enemy."

Chapter 3604 No Results

After deciding to personally confront the mysterious submarine enemy, Xiaobai simply became a hands-off manager, leaving all the cleanup and follow-up work after the incident to Luo Yingying.

—It's not that Xiaobai is being lazy. After all, this is Luo Yingying's job. Before Xiaobai became the president of the Admiral's Guild, Luo Yingying had already demonstrated her unparalleled patience for working overtime and her ability to adapt to changing situations in handling various emergencies in the eighth chapter's sea area (although most of them were caused by Xiaobai). Xiaobai believes that Luo Yingying has at least more experience in handling this kind of problem than he does.

Xiao Bai sat comfortably in her office, finished processing the mountain of paper documents in front of her, and then immediately started browsing the Admiral Forum, comfortably becoming a spectator.

The work progress on Luo Yingying's side is indeed very reliable.

Almost in the short time it took Xiaobai to refresh the Admiral Forum, the official account represented by Luo Yingying also posted several official posts on the Admiral Forum.

Detailed Investigation Report on this Incident

An open and frank heart-to-heart talk

Mysterious submarine of unknown strength suspected to have appeared in the 8-2 sea area

The Admiral's Guild takes full responsibility for this incident and has announced the following three new rules.

"Please trust the guild, admirals."

The Admiral's Guild is conducting a detailed marine survey.

...

One by one, these posts from the official accounts of the Admiral's Guild all became the latest hot posts in Chapter 8, reaching the top of the forum and almost dominating the entire screen.

This is the first time Xiaobai has ever seen an official post fill an entire homepage.

Xiao Bai raised her finger and clicked on each post in turn. She read the contents of the posts carefully. The content and information in the posts were actually in the paper documents that Xiao Bai had just processed. Although Xiao Bai had been slacking off in this incident, she was certainly not a complete shirker, so she had slightly simplified the draft that Luo Yingying had handed over.

The content of these posts was largely consistent with the previous draft, so Xiaobai nodded in relief and then looked at the comments section.

The comments section was a mixed bag. Some were questioning, some were blaming, and some even spoke anonymously, their words carrying a sarcastic tone, trying to blame the incident on their own "incompetence" as guild leaders. Fortunately, these were only a small minority of comments. Most of the comments expressed that they were of one mind with the Admiral Guild, that the incident was unrelated to the guild, that they believed in the Admiral Guild and the organization, and criticized those other admirals who did not believe in the Admiral Guild at such a critical juncture.

To be fair, this comment section is much friendlier than I imagined.

Xiao Bai was prepared to be condemned by everyone before clicking into the comments section.

Xiao Bai pinched his chin, looked at the supportive comments that were still refreshing in the comment section, pondered for a while, and then understood.

Oh, right.

The Admiral's Guild has such high credibility, it seems, because the heavily damaged ship girls that fell into the sea were all rescued by the Admiral's Guild at an extremely fast speed?

It seems I do have some use after all.

Thinking of this, Xiao Bai couldn't help but smile.

Although Xiaobai had made up his mind to confront the submarine enemy in the 8-2 sea area alone, the incident had just occurred, and too many eyes were watching him, both on the sea and in the chapter city. To be on the safe side, Xiaobai decided to wait.

The fortunate thing about this incident is that it seems that only the initial hundred or so ship girls in the anti-submarine squad were affected. As for the other ship girls who went out to sea in the chapter area, their expeditions were actually smooth and successful.

After Shiro rescued the fallen ship girls and brought them ashore, no new victims appeared in this incident.

Xiaobai sat in her office browsing the Admiral Forum. She read through it from late at night until two or three in the morning. Finally, the refresh rate of the hot posts on the forum slowed down significantly, and the crowds on the street outside the window became completely deserted, with only a few squads of ship girls patrolling back and forth on the nearby road.

Xiaobai saw that it was almost time, so she put down her phone and slowly got up.

"Is the Admiral about to depart?" Iowa sat opposite Xiaobai, watching Xiaobai's movements, and asked with a smile.

"Mm." Xiaobai nodded.

“The people outside haven’t completely dispersed yet,” Iowa said to Little White. “And judging from the current situation, it seems that we won’t be able to return to the environment where we can sneak out to sea as freely as before anytime soon.”

“Yeah…but it’s okay, I can have Chaoda pick me up.” Xiaobai walked out from behind the desk and said with a smile, “At worst, we can set off from the deep-sea city. It’s so late now, and the sea is so vast. We can’t just walk around and run into people like we do in the city.”

"Then shall I accompany the Admiral?" Iowa asked.

"The sea is dangerous at night, I'll go alone," Xiaobai replied.

"Sigh." Iowa sighed, "The admiral is right. I'm just an ordinary battleship. Someone like me with no combat power can even attract abyssal ships by emitting the aura of a ship girl. I can only be a burden to the admiral."

"Hey, no..."

"I was just kidding, Admiral, don't mind me." Iowa smiled. "Have a safe trip, I'll be here waiting for you to come back."

"..." Xiaobai gave Iowa a wry smile, "Well, I'm off then."

Iowa smiled and waved, watching Xiaobai leave the office. Her footsteps echoed softly in the deserted office lobby, gradually fading into the darkness.

The office lights were still on. After Xiaobai left, Iowa slowly got up and walked to her desk to tidy up Xiaobai's desk.

After tidying up the desk, Iowa did a quick cleaning of the office.

In the quiet office, only the rustling sounds of Iowa's movements could be heard, like the chirping of insects at night.

Two hours passed by in the blink of an eye.

After two hours, the dark sky gradually began to lighten. As the sky brightened, Iohua stood in front of Xiaobai's desk, holding a feather duster. She gently wrapped one arm around the other's arm and stared at the sky outside the window, lost in thought for a while.

Suddenly, at that moment, a series of crisp footsteps sounded behind Iowa.

Iowa's eyes brightened slightly as she turned her head to look at the office door.

"Admiral?"

At Iowa's call, a figure reappeared at the doorway.

Xiao Bai stood in front of the door, a faint chill and moisture emanating from her, and smiled faintly at Io Hua.

"Iowa, I'm back."

"Admiral, it's already dawn. You're quite late to return to Zero-Ershan Division 8 in the South." Iowa breathed a sigh of relief, opened her arms, and smiled at Xiaobai. "So... how was the battle? Did you engage that enemy submarine?"

"Sigh..." Upon hearing Iowa's words, Xiaobai's faint smile instantly turned into a helpless sigh. "About this..."

Xiao Bai walked into the office, passed by Iowa, and returned to his seat.

Iowa felt a sweet, salty smell and a chill from the sea brush past him like a thin veil.

Xiao Bai sat back in his seat, resting his chin on his hands, looking somewhat helpless.

"Actually... I didn't find it."

“…Hmm?” Iowa tilted her head.

“It wasn’t until after we went out to sea that I realized something,” Xiaobai said earnestly, looking up at Iowa. “That is… I don’t seem to know how to anti-submarine.”

“…………” Iowa was silent for a while, then she nodded, “Well… indeed, after all, your ship equipment type is land-based, and land-based ships cannot be used for anti-submarine warfare… that’s common sense.”

"So, today..." Xiaobai glanced at the sky, "Oh no... it should be yesterday? Yesterday I went to the 8-2 sea area, especially the sea where those ship girls were trapped, and wandered around for a long time, but I couldn't find that mysterious submarine enemy they were talking about at all."

"You've been looking for over two hours and still haven't found it?"

"Yes."

"Admiral, have you used your invincible admiral network?"

"I used it, I really used it, I searched for a long time." Xiaobai rested his chin on his hands and said seriously, "But I feel like I've almost searched the entire seabed of that area. I've encountered quite a few ordinary deep-sea submarines, but I haven't seen a single special deep-sea submarine."

“Oh…” Iowa looked at Xiaobai and nodded slightly. “So… the ship girls that were affected before seem to be ship girls with anti-submarine capabilities. Other types of ship girls that had been in that area before were not affected at all… So, did that mysterious submarine enemy only target ship girls with anti-submarine capabilities?”

“I guess so,” Xiaobai nodded. “I can’t find it, but it doesn’t come looking for me either. I’m practically begging to hang a traffic light on my head.”

"I see. Then it seems the Admiral should send some ship girls with anti-submarine capabilities to accompany him on his outings," Iowa said with a smile.

"Sigh... that's something for tonight." Xiaobai said, leaning back in her chair and looking at the sky outside the transparent glass wall, which had turned a pale white, with a hint of regret. "I've been working for nothing all night. The sea was so cold tonight. Even I was freezing."

Xiao Bai seemed quite disappointed with his trip to the 8-2 sea area.

Iohua couldn't help but smile at Xiaobai as she listened to her words.

"How about I brew you a cup of hot tea to warm you up?"

"Oh? Iowa, you can brew tea?"

"No, but I have tea bags." Iowa bent down and pulled a box of instant tea bags from under his secretary's desk.

"Then I'll have to trouble you..."

Chapter 3605 I'm off work today!

Iowa skillfully brewed hot water for Xiaobai and poured her a steaming cup of tea.

"Admiral, please have some tea."

Iowa smiled, held the teacup, came to Xiaobai, and pushed the teacup to Xiaobai's side.

Xiaobai gazed at the rising steam from the teacup in front of her. She reached out and grasped the teacup, feeling its temperature for a moment before hugging it to her chest and rubbing it between her hands.

The teacup was scalding hot.

The temperature is so high that it would burn a layer of skin off an average person if they touched it.

But for Xiaobai, who had been soaking in the icy waters of the 8-2 sea area all night, this temperature was just right.

Xiao Bai picked up the teacup, took a sip, and exhaled a long breath of hot air.

"Phew...that feels so much better." Xiaobai turned her head and said with a smile, "Thank you, Iowa."

Xiaobai used to not like drinking tea.

But at this moment, Xiaobai found the hot tea particularly delicious, which is probably the principle behind why food tastes better when you're hungry.

"You're welcome, Admiral."

As Io Hua answered, she walked forward and slowly squatted down in front of Xiao Bai's chair, reaching out towards Xiao Bai's feet.

Xiaobai, who was drinking tea, suddenly felt her calf being grabbed. She was stunned for a moment, then turned her head and saw Iahua lifting one of her feet, as if to help her take off her shoe.

"Huh? Iowa, what are you going to do?"

"Admiral, your legs are so cold."

"No, it's alright... It's like this after walking on water for a long time." Xiaobai put down her teacup and said immediately, "I have ship equipment after all... It's cold, but it's just a bit uncomfortable, I won't get hurt because of it..."

"There's nothing I can do to help with this, so let me do my bit and warm up the Admiral's feet." Iowa ignored Xiaobai's explanation and simply smiled as she held Xiaobai's ankle, saying, "Admiral, relax."