Elder brother's garrison

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A white ship-mounted aircraft crashed to the floor with a loud thud.

This is not the rigging of the Missouri missile battleship, but rather the rigging of a snow-white heavy cruiser.

Lu Ming stared blankly at the ship equipment that appeared in front of her. Her gaze was initially filled with doubt, but soon, as if she had discovered something, her eyes widened.

"This is……"

“That’s right!” Xiaobai said to Luming with a smile, “This is the ship equipment that was dismantled from you, Miss Luming!”

"Why...why isn't my ship equipment already..."

"Hmph, this is all thanks to Miss Vestal." Xiaobai put her arm around Miss Vestal beside her and said to Luming, "After performing the incomplete dismantling on you, Miss Luming, your ship equipment was indeed dismantled into countless fragments. However, Miss Vestal never gave up on the idea of ​​completely healing you. All the ship equipment of the ship girls she dismantled was eventually repaired one by one and stored in the warehouse of the medical clinic in Kyoto! Those ship equipment are all Miss Vestal's treasures!"

"..." Lu Ming looked at the female stove god.

"Don't look at me..." The female hearth goddess let Xiaobai hug her shoulders, she covered her arm, turned her head to look at the corner of the room, "I know, according to common sense, ship girls who have had their ship equipment dismantled can never turn back... Repairing the dismantled ship equipment won't do any good for you who have become human... The reason I repaired these ship equipment was just because I had nothing better to do at the time..."

"..." Lu Ming looked at Xiao Bai.

“Miss Luming, this ship equipment originally belonged to you; it was originally one with you,” Xiaobai said to Luming. “However, after a dismantling operation, your connection with the ship equipment was severed once. Therefore, in order to rebuild your connection with the ship equipment, mental power is necessary for you now.”

"..." Lu Ming stared blankly at the ship's equipment.

“Miss Luming, this is the nerve serum.” Xiaobai released the female hearth goddess, held the red and white capsule between her thumb and forefinger, and handed it to Luming. “To be honest, Miss Luming, I don’t know if you’d rather be a ship girl or a human. I also don’t know if this nerve serum will work on you, and I don’t know… if this serum comes into contact with a ship girl’s body, it will produce even more dangerous effects. All of this is unknown. What we’re doing is no different from a gamble with our lives. In comparison, perhaps honestly accepting the final treatment and becoming human is a safer outcome.”

Xiao Bai's capsule stopped at Lu Ming's lips.

"Take the nerve serum and risk your life for that slim chance of turning back into a ship girl, or give up the nerve serum, give up your almost permanent beauty, and become human?" Xiaobai said to Luming, her eyes gentle. "Miss Luming, this is your future, and you decide for yourself."

Chapter 2511 Deep Sea Aura!

After Xiaobai finished speaking, she quietly waited for Lu Ming to appear.

Lu Ming was indeed staring blankly at the nerve potion that Xiao Bai handed her, her mind processing the sudden influx of information.

In the dimly lit room, only the sound of suppressed breathing could be heard for a moment.

Does it mean taking a nerve-stimulating drug and risking everything to find even the slightest possibility of becoming a ship girl again?

Or should we give up the neurotoxin, honestly dismantle the ship's equipment, and become an ordinary human being?

In the darkness, Xiaobai watched Luming with concern.

For Lu Ming, the identity of a ship girl and a peaceful life are like two heavy bargaining chips, now placed together on the same scale.

True.

After becoming a ship girl again, Shikamaru will gain almost permanent beauty, which is incredibly tempting for any girl in the world.

But the words came back again.

As Xiaobai mentioned before, nerve agents are, after all, drugs tailored for humans, and no one knows what kind of changes will occur when ship girls take them.

Perhaps after taking the potion, Lu Ming will indeed develop a mental power similar to that of the Admiral Network, just as Xiao Bai previously deduced. However, it's also possible that due to the difference in physical constitution between him and humans—one in ten thousand or one in a hundred thousand—the originally stable medicinal properties might experience a slight disruption the moment he takes the potion, potentially causing Lu Ming to die on the spot.

After all, the raw material for the nerve agent is the blood of the advanced deep sea... and deep sea blood is a deadly poison to ordinary humans, even more potent than arsenic.

Xiaobai is worried about Luming's choice.

But Xiaobai also respects Luming's choice.

Although it was Xiaobai who suggested taking the nerve agent, she was also very clear that this was a gamble with no other options. Compared to risking her life to fight for that tiny chance of becoming a ship girl again, choosing to give up the risk and live a peaceful life as a human was a mature choice.

Moreover, even if she were to obediently become human, it wouldn't mean that Lu Ming would immediately lose her beauty. Lu Ming has achieved great success in the human world, gaining both wealth and fame. Even if she were to become human, her life in human society might not be much worse than that of a ship girl. Although she cannot compare with ship girls in terms of lifespan and youth, at least the richness of her life would surpass that of 99% of the ship girls in the world.

A faint "hmm" finally drifted out from the dimly lit room.

Lu Ming, who was kneeling in front of Xiao Bai, finally finished thinking. She didn't look at the capsule in Xiao Bai's hand, but slowly closed her eyes and let out a long sigh.

"So you really chose to become human after all..." Xiaobai saw Luming close her eyes, and although she felt a little regretful, she still smiled happily for her. "That's right, Miss Luming. Compared to risking your life for that slim chance, it's definitely better to stay the way you are. There are still so many riches and honors waiting for you in human society. If something were to happen to you, it would be a huge loss..."

Xiaobai comforted Luming, making a move to take back the capsule in her hand.

But the next second, Lu Ming, with his eyes closed, moved closer to Xiao Bai's finger, opened his pearly teeth, and gently bit Xiao Bai's capsule.

"Gudu."

Lu Ming bit the capsule into his mouth and swallowed it.

After swallowing the capsule, Lu Ming opened his eyes and smiled slightly at Xiao Bai.

Lu Ming's face did not show the expected emotions such as "excitement", "shock", "urgency" or "fear". Her expression was as calm and serene as ever. However, if you had to say, there seemed to be a bit more open-mindedness in the smile she gave when she rushed towards Xiao Bai.

"Huh? You really ate it?!" Xiaobai was stunned.

"Admiral, hurry!" The female hearth goddess quickly reminded, "Before the capsule is digested, quickly absorb all the ship equipment energy from Miss Shikamei's body! Otherwise, that ship equipment energy might interfere with the capsule's effectiveness!"

"Oh, oh, oh, oh!" Little White was reminded by the female Kitchen Goddess and didn't have time to sense Lu Ming's determination. She hurriedly knelt down in front of Lu Ming, frantically pulling open Lu Ming's collar and getting close to her jade-like white neck. "Miss Lu Ming, there's no time. I have to start!"

"Mmm." Lu Ming nodded, gently turning her head to expose as much of her skin as possible to Xiao Bai's eyes.

Xiao Bai stared at Lu Ming's neck, her gaze gently sweeping over the skin on her neck.

Lu Ming's neck was long and white, as elegant as a swan's. Beneath its smooth, white silk-like surface, a few slightly bluish veins were faintly visible.

Xiaobai hugged Luming, snuggled up to Luming's neck, and bit him.

The moment she absorbed the "devouring" ability, Xiaobai's eyes became empty, her thoughts seemed to stop for a moment, and her entire body became a tool unconsciously driven by the ability.

The teeth penetrate the skin with almost no obstruction.

"……Um……"

Lu Ming's body trembled slightly, and he let out a muffled groan that sounded a little painful.

Blood gushed out.

Xiao Bai's face was instantly stained red with Lu Ming's blood.

The gushing blood quickly splattered onto Xiaobai and Luming's clothes, flowing down their bodies before splashing onto the ground, where it pooled into a large red puddle on the plastic sheeting.

"This amount of bleeding... is astonishing..." Yubari, standing to the side, looked at Shiro and Shikamei with some shock and couldn't help but say.

“The carotid artery is very close to the heart, so the pressure is high. Once it ruptures, blood will gush out.” Missouri explained to Yubari, “For a human body, the Admiral’s bite could be a life-threatening injury.”

"Wow, this is ridiculous?!" Yubari covered her mouth.

"It's alright, I'm here." The female Vess stared intently at Xiaobai and Luming. The medical ship equipment behind her was emitting a faint glow. "Before the ship equipment energy in Shropshire's body is drained, it will act as an adhesive to hold her wounds in place. Once the energy is drained, I will take over to stop the bleeding and stitch up her wounds as soon as possible."

"Fortunately, Miss Luming recovered her health beforehand... Judging by the amount of bleeding, if it had been combined with the previous two treatments on the same day, Miss Luming wouldn't have enough lives to compensate for it..." Yubari sighed, looking at the increasing amount of red blood on the ground with complicated emotions.

"..."

The sweet, metallic smell of blood gradually filled the air.

As he lost blood, Lu Ming's face gradually turned pale.

Perhaps because the wound was on the neck this time, the ship equipment energy was being lost faster than before, and only two minutes later, the last bit of ship equipment energy in Lu Ming's body entered Xiao Bai's mouth.

Xiao Bai's eyes regained their clarity, and she opened her mouth, slowly releasing Lu Ming.

Little White sat down on the ground with a thud.

The female stove goddess ran forward, took out gauze and sterilized needles and thread, and began to treat Lu Ming's wounds.

"Admiral, how is it?" Yubari approached Shiro, handed her a damp towel, and asked cautiously, "Has all the ship's equipment energy been drained?"

"Hmm... not a single drop is left." Xiaobai wiped her sticky chin with a wet towel and looked in Luming's direction.

"In that case, we can wait for the nerve agent to take effect." Yubari breathed a sigh of relief.

"How long does it take for the nerve agent to take effect?" Missouri asked.

"Hmm... Depending on individual constitution, the time it takes for the effect to take effect varies from person to person." Xiaobai looked down at the bright red, damp towel. "Some people activate the Admiral Network the moment they take the potion, while others need to sleep for a while before they can obtain the Admiral Network the next day."

“I see.” Missouri nodded.

"It all depends on luck now..." Shiro handed the towel back to Yubari and turned her worried gaze back to Shikamei.

Lu Ming was kneeling in a pool of blood, her face pale and her breath weak.

The goddess of the hearth, wearing white socks, stepped unabashedly into the pool of blood. Several sophisticated mechanical claws extended from her ship's rigging behind her, each holding a medical instrument, and they methodically stitched up the wound on Lu Ming's neck.

The blood on the ground completely stained and soaked the female hearth goddess's white socks.

Under the watchful eyes of everyone, the time spent stitching up the wound seemed exceptionally long.

At a very specific moment.

The goddess of the hearth, who was carefully stitching up her wound, suddenly paused, her movements halting, and the ship-mounted mechanical claws behind her also stopped.

"Vestal goddess, what's wrong?" Shiro and Yubari asked anxiously.

"...It's working." The goddess of the hearth paused for a moment, glanced at Lu Ming's face, and said to Xiao Bai.

"W-what's taken effect?"

"The nerve agent has taken effect."

"So fast!" Shiro and Yubari were both stunned, and they quickly looked at Shikamei's face.

After Xiaobai drained Lu Ming's ship equipment energy, perhaps due to excessive blood loss, she has lost consciousness and is only holding on by sheer willpower to avoid collapsing.

At this moment, at the behest of the female Kitchen Goddess, everyone looked at Lu Ming's face. They saw that her pale face was furrowed from time to time, revealing a faint expression of pain.

Xiao Bai immediately activated the Admiral Network and probed towards Lu Ming's body.

Under the detection of Xiaobai's network, a faint spiritual energy fluctuation was emanating from Luming's body. In Xiaobai's vision, Luming's body was like a spiritual energy planet that was sometimes bright and sometimes dim, and it was in a state of regular change that was unclear whether it was shining, exploding or dead.

"It seems the nerve serum really can help retired ship girls regain their mental strength." Yubari exclaimed excitedly to Shiro, as if she had discovered a new world. "Admiral! This is a major discovery!"

“No…” Xiaobai stared intently at Luming’s body, frowning as she shook her head.

"Huh? What's wrong, Admiral?"

"broken!"

During the investigation by Admiral Xiaobai, it was observed that Luming's body, which had initially been alternating between bright and dark, was becoming increasingly dark over time, with fewer and fewer instances of light appearing...

Chapter 2512 The Invisible Hand of Fate

As if echoing Xiaobai's words, the pain on Luming's face became more obvious, and weak but continuous muffled groans escaped from her throat.

"Mmm...uh...mm..."

With a muffled groan from the deer, wisps of black mist, like newly sprouting buds, began to emanate from her body.

The black mist gradually swirled around, enveloping Lu Ming's body.

"This is... the aura of the deep sea...?!" The goddess of the hearth stared wide-eyed, exclaiming in shock, "How could this be?"

“It seems that even after the ship equipment energy is drained, ship girls who have become ordinary people are still different from humans…” Yubari frowned as soon as he saw the black mist around Shikamei, biting his finger and saying, “This is bad. If we let this deep-sea aura spread, her physical body will be infected by the deep-sea aura before Miss Shikamei awakens her spiritual power!”

"Where did these deep-sea auras come from?!" The goddess of the hearth looked utterly bewildered.

"..."

Hearing the anxious discussions of the ship girls around her, Xiaobai's heart pounded with nervousness.

Xiaobai was well aware of just how terrifying the aura of the deep sea was for the human body.

Take, for example, the father of Yu Gan whom I met some time ago.

Yu Gan's father had only spent a short time with the Deep Sea Deans, whose auras were emanating from them, when he accidentally inhaled the Deep Sea aura emanating from Deep Sea Kaga. His originally robust body immediately collapsed, and he ended up being confined to his home as a bedridden cripple. If it weren't for the good fortune of meeting Xiao Bai later, Yu Gan's father would probably have been buried in the ground in a while.

"Admiral, do you have a solution?" Missouri's concerned voice came from Xiaobai's ear.

“…I’ll give it a try…” Xiaobai nodded hesitantly.

Xiaobai took a deep breath and carefully approached the deer's cry shrouded in black mist, raising her palm and reaching into the mist.

A flash of white light appeared.

The massive land-based ship equipment landed behind Xiaobai.

The black mist surrounding Lu Ming transformed into a swift black stream the moment it touched Xiao Bai's palm, as if summoned, and rushed towards Xiao Bai at high speed.

The crystal beast head atop the land-based ship equipment opened its mouth, and icy blue flames rose up. Before the black mist rushing towards Xiaobai could even get close to Xiaobai's body, it was sucked into the mouth of the crystal beast head on the land-based ship equipment.

In the blink of an eye, the black mist surrounding Lu Ming vanished completely.

The pain on Lu Ming's face eased somewhat.

"Phew...it seems it worked..." Xiaobai breathed a sigh of relief.

"Admiral, congratulations!" Yubari, standing in the distance, excitedly gave Shiro a thumbs-up.

"..." Xiaobai rushed towards Yubari and gave a bitter smile.