Elder brother's garrison

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"Hahaha." Little White still agreed to Lexington's request.

“Bismarck, Hood, Veneto, Rodney, Nelson, Rome… Oh, Rome applied too, Missouri too, Washington and North Carolina applied as well.” Xiaobai looked at the stack of documents in his hand with some difficulty.

Xiaobai only read the top small layer; there's still a thick stack below.

Choosing ship girls is a rather painful process. The ship girls who apply are all quite capable, but unfortunately there are only so many slots, and quite a few have to be reserved.

Chapter 399 Replenishing Xiaobai's Ship Equipment

After selecting their aircraft carriers and battleships, Xiaobai and Lexington spent the entire afternoon in the admiral's room choosing ship girls of other ship types.

Don't be fooled by the fact that the ship girls in the newbie naval base are all beautiful and charming. They usually stay at home in the naval base like young ladies, walking their birds and fishing, creating a scene of a secluded boudoir. But when it comes to fighting, few of these young ladies are cowards. Inside those delicate bodies, there is nothing but hot blood.

In just one afternoon, the application forms for the expedition piled up all over Xiaobai's desk.

"Aircraft carriers, battleships, light cruiser girls, heavy cruiser girls, submarines, destroyers..." Xiaobai tidied up the papers in front of her.

“Light Mothers.” Lexington looked at the documents in his hand with some annoyance. “Those skilled Light Mothers at the naval base haven’t returned yet.”

Who are they?

"Hmm, the Chaser, Eromanche... they're all quite strong." Lexington sighed.

Xiaobai remembered that the pursuers seemed to be on the list he was supposed to find, but unfortunately, due to the time and the number of people in the group far exceeding his expectations, Xiaobai returned to the naval base after finding Rodney and Nelson.

“Ah…Speaking of the Chaser…” Xiao Bai thought for a moment, and there happened to be a copy of the Chaser in the information Luo Lian had given her. “There’s still a long time before the event starts, right? Since we’re short of a light aircraft carrier, we should be able to find her temporarily.”

"Little White, do you know the exact location of the pursuers?"

"It's alright, it should be quite accurate?" Xiao Bai had a lot of trust in Luo Lian's abilities.

Lexington pondered for a moment: "Well, that's fine then. It shouldn't take too long. When that time comes, please go and find the pursuers, Xiaobai."

"Ok."

"Speaking of which, Xiaobai, do you also know where Eromanche is?"

"Uh, I don't know." Xiaobai shook his head.

After all, Luo Lian is not a god and has no way to help Xiao Bai find ship girls who have no news at all.

“That’s true, I was too hasty,” Lexington smiled.

Lexington is in a real hurry.

This is Xiaobai's first time leading an expedition as an admiral around the high-altitude admiral. Although Lexington doesn't force her, she hopes Xiaobai can achieve first place in the entire battle. This is a result that can boost Xiaobai's confidence, boost the confidence of the ship girls in the naval base, and intimidate others.

Therefore, Lexington went to extreme lengths, as evidenced by the huge sums of money it spent to lure Deepsea Yamato into becoming a traitor.

The rest of the time, Xiaobai and Lexington spent in the admiral's office cleaning up all the remaining expedition applications.

Since she couldn't take all the ship girls with her, Shiro reluctantly left most of the ship girls who had submitted applications at the naval base.

After writing the last word, Xiaobai stacked the documents in front of her together and let out a soft breath.

"Lexington, that's settled then." Xiaobai handed the thick stack of documents to Lexington.

Lexington took it, flipped through it, and then nodded to Little White: "Understood."

"Thank you." Xiaobai exhaled, then picked up the sweet tea that had been sitting on the table for quite some time and took a small sip.

The work of Xiaobai is finished. The job of Lexington, as the secretary ship, is to tell the corresponding ship girls the results of Xiaobai's screening one by one.

"Little White." Just then, Lexington seemed to suddenly remember something and called out to Little White.

"Hmm? What's wrong?" Xiaobai looked at Lexington.

"Xiaobai, you have ship equipment, right?"

"...Ah, um, it's fortress ship equipment."

"Did you have Pachina use it once before in the first chapter?" Lexington asked.

"Mm." Xiaobai nodded.

Lexington basically knew about what happened in Chapter 400, so Xiaobai had no reason or need to hide it from Lexington.

"...Did you resupply your ship after that?" Lexington asked.

Xiao Bai looked at Lexington and exclaimed "Ah!"

She really didn't.

“…No.” Xiaobai put the teacup back on the table and said to Lexington apologetically.

I promised Sukhbaatar I would resupply the ship, but things have been so busy lately that I haven't had a chance to do it yet.

"As expected..." Lexington sighed.

Little White really doesn't take his ship equipment seriously.

The fact that Shiro, being human, possesses ship equipment, specifically deep-sea ship equipment, is a major secret of the naval base. If Shiro can maintain this unconscious state of ignoring his ship equipment, it's actually a good thing; it helps protect this secret.

However, there are always unexpected events. Just like in the first chapter, there was still a time when we needed to use the ship's equipment. Lexington felt that we couldn't throw the baby out with the bathwater. Although the consequences of exposing this matter were extremely serious, it was still much less serious than the life of the ship's equipment.

“Replenish your ship’s equipment,” Lexington said.

"Huh? I have to fight too?" Xiaobai was startled.

"No, that's not what I meant." Lexington laughed when she saw that Xiaobai didn't understand the situation. "Xiaobai, ship girls can't protect you all the time. Even the most secure protection will eventually have a loophole. When that happens, if you can use your ship equipment, you will be much safer."

“…Oh, that makes sense.” Xiaobai understood.

It seems that deep-sea operations are much more difficult than simply going on an expedition. Lexington even offered to resupply Xiaobai's ship equipment just in case.

Lexington acted swiftly and decisively. After determining what needed to be done, he immediately put down the documents in his hand, led Xiaobai out of the office building, and headed to the supply warehouse.

The supply depot is right next to the office building; it's a large building that's not much smaller than the office building itself.

Little White followed Lexington to the supply depot.

"Huh? Yi Xian?" Xiao Bai noticed that Yi Xian was sitting in front of the supply warehouse with a small table set up, resting with his eyes closed.

Yi Xian opened her eyes and looked at Xiao Bai.

"Admiral?" Yi Xian saw Xiao Bai, stood up, bowed slightly to Xiao Bai, and gave a salute.

"Yixian, what are you doing here?" Xiaobai asked.

“While you were looking for Chicheng and the others, Xiaobai, Yixian came to me looking for something to do, so I gave her the job of guarding the warehouse gate,” Lexington explained to Xiaobai.

"Oh, I see." Xiaobai finally understood.

“The warehouse is completely self-service. Anyone can come and resupply the ship without being asked anything. But then again, such an important place should have someone guarding it.” Lexington said, then turned to Yixian and smiled. “I’m really sorry to always assign you such boring and tedious tasks.”

“Mrs. This job was requested by Yixian herself.” Yixian didn’t seem dissatisfied at all; on the contrary, she was surprisingly energetic.

It seems that Yi Xian has a strange obsession with the job of a goalkeeper.

After greeting Yixian, Xiaobai and Lexington pushed open the warehouse door and went inside.

The naval base's resource warehouse is very clean because the ship girls come here almost every day, so there is no dust, cobwebs, or even dark corners.

The huge warehouse was hollow and had almost no facilities; only a few massive mountain peaks gleamed golden in the sunlight.

Xiao Bai stared blankly at the several mountain peaks neatly piled up in the warehouse.

The concept of piling resources into mountains first came to Xiaobai in the first chapter, when he was calculating the amount of deep-sea metal for Guild Manager Mr. Barbatos. At that time, the black mountains piled up in that small house were dark and shiny, and looked particularly solid.

But compared to the real mountains in front of Xiaobai now, they are truly insignificant.

How big are the mountains here?

Even beginners want to climb to the top of the mountain to watch the sunrise.

"This...so much..." Xiaobai was utterly shocked as he faced the resources of his garrison for the first time.

Even if I were to use these resources to build a ship, I'd probably die of exhaustion before I ran out of resources.

“Yes, there are too many resources to send them all out at once, so most of them have been sent to headquarters to be used as invoices,” Lexington said.

"Anything else?"

“Hmm. This is only a third of the way through. Come here, Little White.” Lexington didn’t dwell on the matter for long. She walked to the foot of one of the mountains and waved to Little White. “This is where you resupply ammunition. Come here and release your ship equipment.”

Xiaobai was once again overwhelmed by the extravagant atmosphere of his own garrison.

Xiaobai walked to Lexington's side and released the fortress ship equipment.

As Xiaobai thought, the massive crystal ship equipment slowly emerged from the void, and then, with a faint chill spreading out, it crashed onto the floor with a loud bang.

The white and blue hull is embroidered with colorful purple patterns, and its surface shimmers with a faint white light. Compared to the deep-sea ship's rigging, the one behind Xiaobai looks more like a glass work of art by a master craftsman.

Lexington walked up behind Xiaobai and stared at Xiaobai's ship equipment: "Where do we resupply this ship equipment?"

"Uh... I don't know..." Xiaobai shook his head.

Lexington stared at the enormous crystal beast head on the ship's rigging, pondered for a moment, and then asked, "Little White, can you make it open its mouth?"

"Okay, I'll give it a try." Xiaobai released the Admiral Network and tried to control the beast head on the ship's equipment.

The Admiral Network was indeed useful. Under Xiaobai's control, the beast head on the ship's equipment slowly opened its mouth. As the blue flames burned continuously, the dark cannon muzzles and runways emerged from its mouth.

“This is the only hole I can find.” Lexington picked up the ammunition at hand and tentatively threw it directly into the beast’s mouth.

The ammunition fell into the blue flames without making a sound, as if it had fallen into a bottomless pit.

However, Xiaobai had a subtle feeling that something had actually appeared in his ship's equipment.

"It seems to be here," Xiaobai nodded and said.

“That seems to be right.” After receiving Xiaobai’s agreement, Lexington put down his gun, picked up the tools next to him, and began to pour large amounts of ammunition into Xiaobai’s ship rig.

Lexington's drenching lasted a full twenty minutes.

Chapter 401 Event Begins

Little White sat on the ground, watching Lexington shovel ammunition into the jaws of the fortress ship's beasts, one scoop at a time.

The beast head, spewing icy blue flames, opened its mouth like a bottomless pit. The ammunition thrown in by Lexington was instantly enveloped by the blue flames that coiled around it like a swarm of snakes, and then quickly burned away.

A minute passed.

Two minutes passed.

Five minutes passed.

Ten minutes passed.

Twenty minutes passed.

Even a novice like him finally realized that something was wrong.

In the first chapter, Xiaobai often watched as Rome and Veneto went to resupply.

In Xiaobai's memory, even for a battleship like Rome, which consumes a lot of resources, the time needed for resupply, from entering the room to leaving, is only about ten minutes.

But it took me twenty minutes just to reload my ship's ammunition, and it still wasn't full. What's going on?

"Lexington, stop for a moment." Little White finally called out to Lexington.

"What's wrong? Are you feeling unwell?" Lexington stopped shoveling and looked at Little White with concern.

"No, no." Xiaobai waved his hand. "Lexington, is my ship equipment resupply taking a little too long?"

"Ah, it has taken a while." Lexington thought that Xiaobai's body had been affected by the resupply. After knowing that she was fine, she breathed a sigh of relief and smiled at Xiaobai, saying, "Yeah, it's been twenty minutes."

"Twenty minutes..." Xiaobai looked at the shovel in Lexington's hand, lost in thought. "How many... resources did it use?"

"That's about four jugs' worth of ammunition," Lexington said after a moment's thought, nodding in agreement.

"Huh? We've already used that much?!" Xiaobai exclaimed in shock.

“Yes, that’s a bit much.” Lexington’s reaction wasn’t as strong as Xiaobai’s. “But it’s understandable.”

"what?"

"The ship girls have different ship equipment sizes, and the amount of resources needed for resupply also varies." Lexington explained to Shiro, "Gaga is an aircraft carrier, and along with battleships, they are large ship types that consume a lot of resources. The resources they need for one resupply are enough for Fubuki to sortie almost five or six times."

"Oh..." Xiaobai nodded.

"Xiaobai, your ship equipment is much larger than that of ordinary ship girls. Even Jiajia can't compare to your ship equipment. After all, that's a fortress."

"fortress……"

“In a sense, the difference between fortress ship equipment and ordinary ship equipment is the difference between an island and a ship.” Lexington said, picking up a shovel and shoveling a full load of ammunition on the mountain. “So I was prepared to resupply a lot.”

After all, there has never been a ship girl with fortress-like equipment in history, and humanity has zero records and experience with this, so no one knows the maximum amount of resources that this equipment can hold.