Elder brother's garrison

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"Yes... well, I do encounter a few cases occasionally after a while." Yubari grinned, glancing regretfully at the blueprint she had just drawn. She then ripped it off, crumpled it into a ball, tossed it aside, and picked up a pencil to start drawing on the next blueprint. "But Admiral, please rest assured, although I usually handle the modification of battleship girls primarily for artillery fire, I also have considerable experience in survivability and air superiority modifications! In short, I can offer you two more options..."

While drawing the blueprints, Yubari continued to explain to Shiro.

While listening to Yubari's words, Xiaobai kept a close eye on the screen, paying particular attention to the growth rate of the other two progress bars.

As the survivability and air superiority values ​​approached their peak, the growth rate of these two values ​​slowed down. Under Xiaobai's watchful eye, the air superiority value quickly stagnated at 80%, ultimately failing to reach the end, leaving only the survivability value continuing to crawl slowly like a tortoise.

—It seems the direction of Missouri's modifications is survival-oriented...

Xiao Bai looked at the screen and nodded slightly in his heart.

Ok……

Also good.

Whether it's increasing evasion, increasing armor, or even having a built-in repair skill, Xiaobai thinks it's all good for Missouri. After all, when it comes to fighting at sea, no matter what happens, surviving unharmed is the ultimate victory.

I'll feel more at ease when Missouri goes out to sea for operations in the future.

Thinking about this, Xiaobai felt a sense of peace.

However... an unexpected event occurred at that moment.

Just as Xiaobai was feeling relieved about the successful survival modification, the progress bar, which symbolized Missouri's survival ability, slowed down noticeably once again. Finally, under Xiaobai's gaze, it slowly stopped at 90% and didn't move any further.

"...Huh?" Xiaobai was taken aback. "It's not full either?"

Although Missouri's stats are all quite high, none of her three stats actually reach the pinnacle of ship equipment?

"Yubari, Yubari..." Shiro hurriedly called out to Yubari beside him.

"Huh? What's wrong?" Yubari stopped drawing and said with a hint of complaint, "I finally got this inspiration, and I was really into it..."

"...Take a look at the screen first."

"What's wrong with the screen again? The screen... ah, this..." Yubari muttered to herself as she looked at the screen, about to say something, but then she froze when she saw that none of the three stats had reached their peak. "Huh? What happened? Survival and air superiority aren't even full??"

"Yeah... what's going on?" Shiro asked Yubari, equally confused.

"This...I..." Yubari stammered. It seemed like this was the first time she had encountered such a situation. She put down the paper and pen in her hand, scratched her head, and first went to Missouri's side to check whether the various contacts were connected to Missouri. Then she went to the instrument and looked at the screen with a puzzled expression. "Artillery attribute 99%, survivability attribute 90%, air superiority attribute 80%...uh...these attributes are indeed good, but where did the 100 go?"

Yubari scratched his head.

Shiro moved closer to Yubari.

"Yubari... what does it mean if none of your attributes reach 100?"

"...This means that this ship girl has not entered the modification phase..." Yubari answered while fiddling with the instruments.

"Huh? And Missouri, she..."

“But Missouri has definitely entered a transformation phase.” Yubari scratched his head. “I’m absolutely certain about that… However, judging from the attribute data, her transformation direction shouldn’t be these three aspects…”

"Aren't there only these three directions for battleships?"

"Yeah... I'm puzzled too. After all, Missouri can't just be modified into a torpedo, can she..." Yubari muttered to himself in distress, leaning over to the machine and fiddling with it for a bit. "Could it be that this machine is old and damaged? That's why there was an error when measuring the capability values?"

"error……"

"Hmm...no, I need to check if there's anything wrong inside the machine." Yubari raised his hand and rubbed his nose, making a move to squat down and disassemble the instrument.

"Lord Yamato said that if the machine breaks down, just tap it a couple of times and it'll be fine." Just then, Yamato, who had been standing silently to the side for a long time, suddenly spoke up to Yubari.

“This is a very precise instrument… Do you think this is a TV with a bad signal, something you can just film whenever you want?” Yubari gave a wry smile, raising her hand to tap the main unit of the machine, and said to Chao Yamato, “These kinds of high-precision machines are very fragile. You see, if I had tapped it any harder, I might have broken it completely…”

"Hmph, hiss, hiss—"

Sudden.

Just as Yubari knocked three times, a muffled rumble suddenly came from the running machine.

The people present were drawn to the roar of the machine and subconsciously looked towards it.

Hmph—

Hmph—

Huffing and puffing—buzzing and buzzing—

The machine emitted a rather strange sound, like the noise of an old engine desperately turning. Then, the data on the screen representing Missouri's abilities became chaotic before finally stabilizing.

then.

Under everyone's gaze.

On the screen, a value appeared out of thin air for the last of the seven ability bars.

1%...5%...10%...20%...

40%...80%...100%!

In just a few blinks of an eye.

The value of the seventh ability bar jumped directly from 0 to the maximum.

Chapter 2048 Yes or No

"Yu...Yubari? The seventh progress bar is full...How do you usually explain this situation on your side?" Shiro noticed the change in the monitor and couldn't help but ask Yubari, who was standing next to her.

"This..." Yubari stared blankly, her gaze darting back and forth between the screen and Missouri, remaining silent for a long time.

"Senior Yubari, is this a bad sign?" Missouri asked Yubari.

"Ah, no! No, no, no!" Yubari reflexively shook her head, making it look like a rattle drum. Then she patted her chest, looked at Missouri with a complicated expression, and said to Missouri and Shiro with a strange expression, "Well... how should I put it... I'm not sure if it's a good thing... but it shouldn't be a bad thing... maybe..."

"What type of ability is the seventh progress bar?" Shiro asked Yubari.

“Um… sigh.” Yubari glanced back at the screen, then sighed and said softly, “…that progress bar represents an ability…that’s actually a missile.”

"missile?!"

“Yes… I already told you, Admiral, right? Those are the upgrade stats I specifically designed for Xiao Changchun.” Yubari scratched his head and explained to Xiaobai, “When Xiao Changchun entered the upgrade phase and went to the ship equipment research center in Kyoto to have her upgraded, I also tested her stats… Originally, upgrading destroyers is quite easy. I’ve upgraded at least eighty to a hundred destroyers. I was originally planning to strengthen Xiao Changchun’s ship equipment according to the procedure, but when I tested her stats, my instruments measured that none of Xiao Changchun’s stats reached the ship equipment’s peak value.”

"...Just like today?"

“Yes, just like today.” Yubari nodded and said, “Then I spent some time studying Xiao Changchun’s ship equipment… It really took a lot of time, but in the end I was lucky and by chance discovered that her ship equipment had a special ability that was different from the original six ship girl abilities. Then I extracted that thing and upgraded the machine in the same way as measuring other abilities. Sure enough, I measured the seventh ability and found that it was the best direction for Xiao Changchun’s modification.”

"And then... Changchun was converted into a missile destroyer..." Xiaobai blinked as she listened to Yubari's words and asked her in a low voice.

"Yes... After further research and discussion, I finally discovered that the seventh capability hidden in the Little Changchun's ship equipment was missiles. After developing and specifically modifying this capability, the Little Changchun was finally transformed from an ordinary destroyer into the world's first missile destroyer," Yubari said to Shiro.

"So, the ability that prompted Missouri to enter the modification phase is also missile capability?" Xiaobai finally realized this and stared blankly at Missouri. "If Missouri is modified, what will it be transformed into? It won't be transformed into a missile destroyer, will it?"

Xiao Bai finds it hard to imagine a tall, voluptuous woman like Missouri becoming a destroyer... even a missile destroyer is a bit hard to imagine.

"No, not all ship girls with missile capabilities are only converted into missile destroyers..." Yubari smiled and waved at Shiro when she heard Shiro's concern. "Well... if we're really talking about it, Missouri's conversion should be into a missile battleship... or what's commonly known as a missile warship."

"Guide war..."

“Well, missile-equipped ships…like Xiao Changchun, missile-equipped ships are from a different era than other ship girl types. I’ve tested this missile-handling ability on the ship girls who came to our ship equipment research center after Xiao Changchun for a while, hoping to see if we could do a few more missile-equipped modifications. Unfortunately, from then until yesterday, no other ship girl with missile adaptability appeared.” Yubari paused, looking at Missouri with a complex expression, and explained after a moment of contemplation, “…The following are all my speculations. I think…missile adaptability has nothing to do with the ship girl’s own talent, but rather has a lot to do with the ship equipment’s origins.”

"What connection?"

"Ship girls with missile adaptability... the ship names they bear should all be those ships that once broke through an era that was about to decay, and survived until the day when the level of war technology made leaps and bounds, resulting in a qualitative change." Yubari said slowly, gesturing to Shiro. "For example, the ship Missouri, as a top-level battleship that once witnessed world-class wars and decided the outcome, her existence was certainly ahead of its time, so she was certainly qualified to live to that day in the future, and it is only natural that she would awaken missile talent with a low probability."

"So that's how it is! I get it!" Xiaobai's eyes lit up, and he couldn't help but show an excited smile.

So the Missouri's refit was actually a refit of a missile battleship!

No one has gone before!

There will never be another like it!

This kind of elaborate modification is really suitable for a special ship girl like Missouri...

Xiaobai has a strong affinity for missile attacks because the last ship girl with missile talent was in Xiaobai's naval base, Changchun.

Before her refit, Changchun was just an ordinary destroyer ship girl. While her combat strength wasn't weak, she was far inferior to top-tier destroyers like the Fubuki sisters, Fletcher, and even Ayanami. She couldn't break out of the destroyer category. However, this ordinary destroyer ship girl, after gaining missile capabilities, leaped to become one of the naval base's ace ship girls, with combat strength even comparable to large capital ships. This demonstrates just how extraordinary her missile capabilities are.

If an ordinary destroyer becomes so much stronger after gaining missile capabilities, then what about an already powerful battleship that gains missile capabilities... wouldn't that create an even greater chemical reaction?

Thinking about this, Xiao Bai couldn't help but feel hopeful.

While Xiaobai was engrossed in fantasizing about missiles, he didn't notice that Yubari, standing to the side, shrank back, a glint of something unseen flashing in his eyes.

"Admiral, are you planning to renovate Missouri?" Yubari asked Shiro.

"Of course, this is a missile..." Xiaobai replied subconsciously. She looked at Yubari, but suddenly noticed that Yubari's expression was a little strange. Xiaobai couldn't help but close her mouth and asked Yubari in confusion, "Uh... Yubari, what's wrong?"

"Sigh... Admiral, to be honest with you..." Yubari sighed after hearing Shiro's question, scratching her head as she said to Shiro, "From my personal perspective, I strongly advise against modifying Missouri..."

"Ah? What's wrong?"

“Admiral… I have no experience, and no one in this world has experience.” Yubari said to Shiro. “Missouri is the first missile battleship in five hundred years of human history. Our ship equipment research center has no information on this, and no one has clinical experience, so I have no idea what Missouri’s ship equipment will be like after the modification… I’m not even sure if she will become stronger or weaker.”

"What kind of explanation is this... When you were renovating Changchun before..."

“Xiao Changchun’s situation is different from Missouri’s, Admiral,” Yubari explained to Shiro. “Xiao Changchun was just an average… or to put it bluntly, a weak destroyer. Whether it was her talent or the limits of her ship equipment, she was far inferior to the other front-line destroyers in the naval base. So, retrofitting was her only hope for a complete transformation. That’s why she was willing to accept missile ship equipment, and we dared to take the plunge.”

But Missouri is different. She's already a top-tier combatant in the naval base, one of the most prestigious battleships in the world, and has awakened her unique skill. There are very few ship girls in the entire naval base who can match her. You could say Missouri's starting point is at the very pinnacle. However, to obtain the missile-equipped ship equipment, she must sacrifice some of her original equipment and undergo drastic modifications. As a battleship, Missouri's stats will inevitably be limited to some extent after the modifications, so we simply don't know whether the missile-equipped ship equipment will be an asset or a stumbling block for her now.

Xiaobai listened blankly to Yubari's analysis.

Yubari's words were very clear.

"Is it worthwhile to upgrade Missouri to missile-equipped ships, and is it worthwhile for the US to take the risk of gambling on Missouri's future with missile-equipped ships?"

"Uh... this, this..." Xiaobai frowned, unsure how to draw a conclusion for a moment. She weakly looked up at Yubari and asked, "Yubari... if the ship girl's equipment modification is not ideal, can it be reverted?"

“No… Ship rigging can only be changed when the ship enters the modification phase. Once the modification is complete, the rigging is completely fixed, and no one can change it back then.” Yubari sighed. “Besides, if it were really possible to change back, would I have been so serious about weighing the pros and cons for you, Admiral, just now…”

“That makes sense…” Xiaobai gave a wry smile, then scratched his head, looking at Missouri with a complicated expression.

Missouri's increased combat power after becoming a missile strategist... can it compensate for the power she lost after giving up her battleship identity...?

This really is a global problem...

If Missouri were any weaker right now, she wouldn't be so conflicted about whether or not to modify her...

Xiao Bai never expected that being strong could become a source of unnecessary trouble.

Chapter 2049 Missouri says change is necessary!

"Sigh, Admiral, to be honest, if Missouri weren't one of our naval base's people, I'd have a hundred ways to trick her into undergoing missile modification." Yubari said regretfully to Shiro, "We researchers love things that are unprecedented. If Missouri's missile modification plan were implemented, regardless of the outcome, it would greatly enrich our understanding and knowledge in the field of missile shipboard modification, laying the foundation for future research—but Missouri is one of our naval base's people after all. Missouri's missile modification might not be a good thing for her. As a senior member of the naval base, I also have to be responsible for her future..."

"You're right." Xiaobai nodded, somewhat regretfully.

Xiaobai felt that Yubari's words made some sense.

There was absolutely no need for Missouri to undergo shipboard modifications and take that risk.

The missile-guided ship upgrade means a change in ship type. Missouri is already strong enough. She is a ship girl at the forefront of the naval base's combat power and has mastered ship girl skills with ridiculously high strength. Every muscle in her body is filled with the combat instincts honed by battleship ship girls. These things belong to battleships, not missile-guided ships. Once Missouri completes the upgrade and her ship type changes, how much of these things she will retain remains a mystery.

—Maybe we shouldn't take the risk.

Missouri is doing quite well now.

The thought flashed through Xiaobai's mind. She sighed and was about to look up at Yubari when she suddenly saw Missouri standing behind Yubari with a smile on her face, her beautiful eyes silently watching her.

Little White closed its mouth.

"...Admiral, have you made up your mind?" Yubari couldn't help but remind Shiro when he didn't speak.

"Hmm... I do have some ideas too..." Xiaobai looked away and smiled shyly at Yubari. "However... after all, this is a major life event for Missouri, so my thoughts can only be considered suggestions. I think we should ask her opinion herself."

“As for myself…” Yubari muttered to Shiro’s words, then turned to look at Missouri, “Sigh… this choice is too difficult. I actually don’t want Missouri to make the decision herself…”

"Thank you for thinking of Missouri, Yubari-senpai." Missouri smiled slightly at Yubari.

"Hmm... judging from your expression, it seems you already have an idea?" Yubari raised an eyebrow, looking at Missouri's relaxed smile, and asked curiously.

"Yes, senior."

"Then what do you think?"

"Missouri wishes to undergo missile warfare modifications." Missouri bowed to Yubari and said slowly, "Please grant my request, senior."

"Huh?" Yubari was taken aback, staring blankly at the bowing Missouri. "Missouri, you... didn't you hear what I just said?"

Missouri has memorized every word Yubari-senpai just said.

"Then...then you're still willing to accept the transformation?" Yubari asked with a puzzled look. She clapped her hands and explained to Missouri, "Do you really know? Once you accept the transformation, you might have to give up all the power you have now and go to another unfamiliar territory that no one has set foot in, to explore alone! You might not be able to achieve what you have today!"

“Missouri understands. But…Missouri still wants to become a missile strategist.” Missouri nodded, then spoke earnestly to Yubari.

Yu Zhang stared blankly at Missouri for a short while, her mouth agape.

Seemingly sensing a gentle resolve in Missouri's eyes, Yubari slowly let out a sigh of relief, scratched his head, and then squinted at Missouri with one eye.