Elder brother's garrison

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Little White blushed and whimpered weakly in the ship girl's arms.

The way the ship girl held Xiaobai wasn't uncomfortable. Xiaobai's petite body, outlined by the ship girl, was like an inlay embedded in the ship girl's shapely embrace. The ship girl's body and Xiaobai's body were pressed tightly together, and the soft and supple feeling of their skin rubbing against each other was like waves flowing into Xiaobai's body from all directions.

The ship girl noticed Xiaobai's voice. She withdrew her gaze from the corridor, smiled, lowered her head, freed her arm from Xiaobai's waist, and made a gentle shushing gesture to Xiaobai.

"Shh... I'll explain everything to you later, please be quiet for a moment, okay?"

The ship girl's smile is very kind and sincere, just like a big sister next door, which makes the viewers feel good about her.

Xiaobai blinked, staring blankly at the ship girl, and nodded silently.

That is, when Xiaobai nodded.

Suddenly, a rustling sound came from outside the stairwell.

Xiaobai and the ship girl looked out of the corridor and saw a series of hurried figures rushing forward on the road through the narrow gap, as if they were marching.

"Where is he? He was just here!"

"Ahead! Ahead!"

"The rest of you, listen to my instructions. You two go to that neighborhood and notify us immediately if you spot the target! The rest of you, follow me and keep searching ahead!"

"Yes!"

"..."

Clatter. Clatter.

The hurried, tense footsteps and overlapping figures flashed past outside the road, finally disappearing into the gaps and gradually fading into the distance.

The ship girl continued to cover Xiaobai's mouth and waited with Xiaobai in the corner of the corridor for a few minutes. Only after confirming that the footsteps had not returned did the ship girl breathe a slight sigh of relief and release her hand from Xiaobai's mouth.

"Phew..." The ship girl lowered her hand and smiled at the bewildered little white in her arms. "Alright, you can get down now."

"Uh...you..."

"Shh...they might not be far yet, remember to keep your voice down."

"..." Xiaobai quickly stopped talking. She blinked, stared at the smiling ship girl, swallowed hard, and whispered to the ship girl, "That was..."

"Those people from just now?" The ship girl pointed to the corridor outside the gap.

"Um……"

"They're after you," the ship girl said with a smile to Xiaobai.

"Huh?" Xiaobai was taken aback and exclaimed in surprise, but quickly realized that her voice was a bit loud. She quickly covered her mouth, lowered her voice, and looked curiously at the ship girl in front of her. "Uh... me?"

"Yes..." The ship girl smiled at Xiaobai, "Little sister...you're not a ship girl, you're an admiral, right?"

"……what?"

"No need to hide it anymore, I know everything." The ship girl winked at Xiaobai and smiled slyly.

"Uh...you, how did you..."

"Do you remember when I chatted with the ship girl next to you at the Vestal Goddess's house before?"

"remember."

"She accidentally mentioned the words 'naval base' back then..." the ship girl said to Xiaobai with a smile. "So you must be military ship girls, right? Judging from that ship girl's attitude towards you, you must be her admiral."

“…Uh.” Xiaobai choked, then lowered her head awkwardly. “Oh, I see.”

"..." The ship girl silently looked at Xiaobai for a while, then turned her gaze to the street outside the gap. After thinking for a moment, she said, "...Those people who just ran past on the road were ship girls. They are members of a mercenary group."

"Mercenary group?"

"Ah."

"Huh? Why is the mercenary group targeting me..." Xiaobai was a little confused.

"This brings us to what happened a while ago, when you and the Goddess of the Hearth were at the house of the Goddess of the Hearth, and together you healed those two ship girls whose ship equipment was damaged." The ship girl smiled at Xiaobai. "You may not know this these days, but in fact, in our civilian ship girl circle, the story about you has spread to almost every corner of Kyoto."

"……what?"

"Thanks to the publicity from the ship girls I met that day, now all the ship girls in Kyoto know about it." The ship girl said to Xiaobai, "Everyone says that Sister Vestal has gained a new medical ship girl whose medical skills are more superb, whose knowledge is more extensive, who knows everything about astronomy and geography, and whose head contains a large deep-sea encyclopedia. Even Sister Vestal is willing to admit defeat."

"Huh? Me? A medical ship girl?" Xiaobai pointed at herself, dumbfounded and utterly astonished. "But, but I didn't..."

"I know, little sister, you're just an admiral, how could you possibly possess a ship girl's ship equipment... And having witnessed the treatment process, I also know that the one who truly treated those two sisters whose ship equipment was severely damaged was Sister Vestal. You were just assisting Sister Vestal in increasing her success rate." The ship girl smiled helplessly at Xiaobai, "However... even though that's the case, I can't stop the rumors from spreading by myself. Sometimes, it's just a matter of three people making a tiger, I'm very sorry."

Xiao Bai was speechless.

"...So...after they mistook me for a medical ship girl like Vestal Goddess, they came to capture me?" Xiaobai asked the ship girl after a moment of helpless silence.

"Yes... Sister Vessel Goddess is a ship girl working in the Ship Equipment Research Center. She has the backing of the government, but little sister, in the eyes of those ship girls, you are a free person. I bet there are at least a few hundred civilian ship girls in Kyoto who want to recruit you, either through force or persuasion."

The ship girl smiled at Xiaobai.

"..." Xiaobai lowered his head helplessly.

What kind of mess is this...?

She had only visited the Vestal Goddess a few times and helped her with a few small favors, yet she was rumored to be the new medical ship girl by the entire populace of Kyoto... and the rumors were getting more and more outlandish.

"Those people who just ran past outside, could they be...?"

“Hmm, they… are a very powerful mercenary group.” The ship girl frowned, her expression becoming somewhat serious. “They’ve been trying to win over Sister Vestal for a long time. This time, it seems they’re planning to forcibly take Sister Vestal away. They’ve brought a lot of people to Kyoto, but after hearing about you, little sister, they’ve switched their target to you before they could make their move.”

"Ah I?"

“Yes… Sister Vestal is employed at the Ship Equipment Research Center. With the protection of the Ship Equipment Research Center, compared to you, who is rumored to be just a free agent, you have no backing. However, you have outstanding medical skills and extensive knowledge. Taking you away is definitely safer and more worthwhile than taking Sister Vestal.” The ship girl said to Xiaobai with a wry smile.

"I'm the target..." Xiaobai sighed with mixed feelings.

This society is indeed more complex than Xiaobai imagined.

I never expected that just by strolling around Vestal, I would be targeted by a strange mercenary group... Indeed, Vestal's healing abilities, while seemingly a nice bonus to me, are a lifeline for a civilian mercenary group that is severely lacking in repair supplies. They are like a treasure from the sky, practically a walking gold mine, with an irresistible allure.

I never imagined I would become their target...

Xiao Bai is troubled.

Well... actually, Xiaobai wasn't too worried about her safety at this point. She felt that her combat strength was quite good, and even if she fell into the hands of a civilian mercenary group, she wasn't worried about not being able to escape, given her combat strength and her ability to suppress the ship girls—it was just a matter of when to make her move.

A mercenary group that forcibly took the goddess of the hearth...

Ok……

Vestal is currently a ship girl who has one foot in the newbie naval base, and as the admiral, I should be responsible for her safety... Since they've come looking for me, I might as well go along with it and see what's going on with that mercenary group that wants to kidnap Vestal.

Thinking of this, Xiaobai glanced at the ship girls beside her.

"...Uh...Speaking of which, how did you find out about this?" Xiaobai asked the ship girl curiously.

"Wherever there are people, there is a social hierarchy; wherever there is a social hierarchy, there are circles; and wherever there are circles, there is information." The ship girl smiled at Xiaobai. "Although this information is hidden in various hard-to-find corners, if you are careful, you can still glean some of it."

"Oh...so, you've come to save me?"

“Exactly.” The ship girl nodded. “Originally, I wanted to stay at Sister Vestal’s house so that I could take care of her if anything happened to her. But I didn’t expect that Sister Vestal would be fine, but the commotion has spread to you, little sister.”

"Uh..." Xiaobai shrank his neck and lowered his head. "Um... why did you help me?"

"Well... that's a secret for now." The ship girl held up one finger to Xiaobai and smiled gently.

The ship girl smiled brightly.

It was exactly the same as when I was in the house of the female Kitchen God.

Xiao Bai thought for a while and then gave up on asking any further questions.

"Now we..." Xiaobai opened his mouth and said to the ship girl.

"Drip drip drip drip!"

suddenly.

Before Xiaobai could finish speaking, his phone suddenly rang in his pocket. The ringtone carried like a small loudspeaker throughout the alley.

Xiaobai and the ship girl froze.

Just seconds after the bell rang out of the alley.

A series of footsteps, like ants swarming towards them at the scent of meat, rushed towards them.

"Oops!" Xiaobai quickly took out his phone and hung up.

"Yubari? Why is Yubari calling me at this time..." Xiaobai glanced down at his phone screen and awkwardly pressed the power button.

However, shutting down the computer at this point is indeed too late.

Just after Xiaobai shut down the computer.

A series of loud shouts came from outside the alley.

"Found them! They're here!!"

"Hurry! Don't let them get away!"

"We have her surrounded!"

"Go together!"

……

The voice was joyful and loud.

Chapter 1711 Mutsu

A series of loud shouts came from outside the alley.

Immediately following, a dense chorus of footsteps rose up like raindrops outside the alley entrance, and figures kept darting out from both sides of the alley. In the blink of an eye, the alley was overflowing with people and completely blocked.

Xiao Bai opened his eyes and looked.

Standing outside the alley were tall women dressed in casual clothes. Most of these women had delicate features and capable figures, and their identities as ship girls could be easily identified using the Admiral's Network.

As soon as the women squeezed into the alley, their eyes immediately locked onto Xiaobai and the ship girls behind her, and then a hint of excitement and joy appeared on their faces.

"Target found!!"

"Go together!"

“First come, first served!”

The women blocking the alley entrance gave Xiaobai almost no time to react. After a few shouts, they surged into the alley one after another, rushing towards Xiaobai. In an instant, the alley was filled with throngs of moving figures, like a swarm of bees making a constant rumbling noise.

Xiao Bai was stunned by the scene before him.

However, just then, a timely reminder came from behind Xiaobai.

"Little sister, close your mouth quickly, or you'll bite your tongue!"

"Huh? What?"

Xiao Bai was taken aback and turned around to look behind him.

next second.

Suddenly, a powerful force came from Xiaobai's waist. The ship girl standing behind Xiaobai grabbed her around the waist again, hoisted her onto her back, and dashed rapidly toward the wall on one side of the alley.

Just as the ship girl sprinted to the wall, she lightly leaped up, holding Little White in her arms, and slammed her feet hard against the alley wall. Then, using the recoil, she shot up to the top of the other wall.

Boom boom boom!

The ship girl, carrying Little White, moved swiftly between two adjacent walls like lightning. Under the watchful eyes of the women who had flooded into the alley, she leaped onto the roof of a small house in the alley in a few steps. Then, she ran out of the alley on the rooftops and landed on a nearby street. She then sped off into the distance, leaving everyone else in the dust.

"Who...who is that woman? Is she a monkey?!" The woman in the alley stared wide-eyed at the departing figures of the ship girl and Xiaobai, and was immediately taken aback.

"What are you all standing there for! Hurry up and chase after them!"

"Can't you go up to the roof?!"

"This thing isn't that simple!"

"..."

After their initial shock, the women in the alley quickly recovered. The next second, they scrambled up the low houses and poured out of the alley, then ran onto the street one after another, chasing after Xiaobai in the direction he had left.

"Don't run!"

"Don't run!"

"Stop for us!"

"..."