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The fact that Admiral Nanxing likes Xiaobai has long been a well-known fact among the top ten admirals.
Rather, during the Ella Family Operation, whenever the top ten admirals gathered for a meeting, Admiral Nanxing would always hold Xiaobai close to her body. This behavior completely demonstrated her affection for Xiaobai. Admirals Lian and Ling were aware of this, but because of this, they also inexplicably had a tacit understanding and decided to temporarily conceal their meeting with Xiaobai.
Although they couldn't stop Xiaobai from saying what she wanted to say, they could still keep it a secret for as long as possible.
After all, both Admiral Lian and Admiral Ling like Shiro...
Although I feel a little bad for my good friend Nanxing, it's always good to have one less competitor.
"Hey hey hey..."
Thinking of this, Admiral Lian and Admiral Ling put their hands behind their backs and continued to show mischievous smiles to Nanxing.
"...?"
Nanxing Admiral felt uncomfortable under the strange gazes of Lian and Ling Admirals. She turned her head from time to time, looking at the two strange sisters with confusion.
Nanxing's puzzled gaze was quickly interrupted.
Therefore, Admiral Haoding's voice rang out once again.
"Hahaha! It's not a matter of being enthusiastic or not! Admiral Li Hua was perfectly fine a few days ago, but these past two days he suddenly said he wasn't feeling well and went to his residence, locking himself and the ship girls inside, refusing to see anyone. This really worries me!" Admiral Haoding said to everyone with his hands on his hips, "So I really want to go and visit Admiral Li Hua! What do you all think?"
"Ah... let's forget about it." Admiral Lian and Admiral Ling waved their hands and said with a smile.
After seeing Xiaobai, Admiral Lian and Admiral Ling naturally realized that Admiral Li Hua was not hurt at all; he was simply hiding because he was afraid of Xiaobai.
"Alright, then I will convey the words of condolence from Admiral Lian and Admiral Ling!" Admiral Haoding nodded and said sincerely, then looked at the others.
In front of Admiral Haoding, besides Nanxing, there was another female admiral with black hair and black eyes, who was extremely quiet.
“You can go.” Duan Shuiliu nodded.
“I can too.” Nanxing glanced at Duan Shuiliu, thought for a moment, and then slowly nodded.
"Haha! Admiral Li Hua will be very happy!" Admiral Hao Ding laughed loudly upon hearing this. He said to the two female admirals, "Then Admiral Nan Xing and Admiral Duan Shui Liu, after today's expedition, let's go to Admiral Li Hua's residence! Hopefully, when we see him again, he won't be in the same state as me, hahahaha!"
As Admiral Haoding finished speaking, he even told a joke in a hearty manner, his bald head reflecting the sunlight.
"Huh? You mean the deep-sea aura invading your body?" Most of the top ten admirals present had heard about Admiral Haoding's injury, and seeing him so casually joking about his own injury, they asked with some curiosity.
“Haha, yes, it’s no small matter for deep-sea energy to invade the body.” Admiral Haoding said, crossing his arms. “From the perspective of someone who has been through it, I don’t want you all to suffer the same level of injury as me—after all, only Admiral Lu Lin can cure this kind of injury, and Admiral Lu Lin isn’t always by our side, like right now.”
"..." Upon hearing this, Admiral Nanxing raised an eyebrow imperceptibly.
Duan Shuiliu quietly looked at Admiral Haoding's dark skin. After thinking for a while, she pointed at Admiral Haoding and asked.
"Not okay yet?"
"Hmm? Oh... Admiral Duan, are you talking about my illness? Hahaha! I can answer you, I'm actually completely fine now! Whether it's going to war or anything else, I'm just as healthy as I was before!" Admiral Haoding laughed loudly.
"But your skin is still dark," Admiral Lian asked, covering her mouth and blinking. "And your hair too..."
"Well... it's more like a side effect," Admiral Haoding nodded, laughing heartily. "Actually, the deep-sea aura in my body was cleared out about half a year ago. As for my skin and hair... it's probably because some of the deep-sea aura that seeped into my skin before wasn't completely cleaned out. But that stuff has absolutely no effect on my body anymore! You can all rest assured! Hahahaha!"
Chapter 2729: One Day to Clear 8-2!
Although Admiral Haoding wasn't exactly handsome, he was still a good-looking young man who was pleasing to the eye for girls.
Now, this young man, after being invaded by the aura of the deep sea, has lost all his hair, and his skin is dark and oily. It's as if his race has changed. For female admirals who care about their appearance to some extent, this is quite a frightening punishment.
"Admiral Haoding, I can't laugh..." Admiral Ling took out a lollipop and offered it to Admiral Haoding with a pitiful look, "Um...would you like a piece of candy?"
"Hahaha! Don't worry about me, everyone. Although my appearance has changed, I am still me!" Admiral Haoding puffed out his chest and said happily, "Compared to dying from the invasion of deep-sea energy, at least I can still stand here, breathe fresh air, talk with my colleagues, and even shamelessly become one of the heroes who pioneered the eighth chapter. For me, this is the best ending!"
"Well..." The female admirals looked at each other, unsure of what to say.
"However, on the other hand, although Admiral Lu Lin hasn't continued to diagnose me, the doctor in charge of me did say that as long as I stay away from the aura of the deep sea and rest properly for a year or two, my body will gradually expel the aura of the deep sea, and my skin will probably return to its previous state," Admiral Hao Ding added to the female admirals.
"Oh? So it can be restored?"
"Haha, yeah!"
"Then why don't you go and rest? Why do you keep coming here every day!"
"Hahahaha! I am the Admiral! The Admiral's job is to fight against the Abyss! You are all fighting, how can I live a cowardly life! This is called fighting until the very end!"
"You're already one of the pioneers of Chapter 8... It's okay if you don't stay here in Chapter 8, the guild will automatically speed up your progress to completion anyway."
"That won't do. Actually, during the initial exploration of Chapter 8, it was mostly Admiral Lu Lin who turned the tide, while I was just an ordinary person barely surviving under her protection. Strictly speaking, I didn't contribute anything. Although Admiral Lu Lin generously shared half of the exploration rewards and glory with me, I actually felt unworthy of it. So now that Chapter 8 is open, I must use my own strength to complete the main storyline from beginning to end!" Admiral Haoding clenched his fist and said to everyone, "If I don't, I won't be able to eat or sleep peacefully!"
"This is something that Admiral Haoding would do..." The female admirals looked at Admiral Haoding with complicated feelings and sighed one after another.
"Hahaha! It's fun to explore new lands together! After all, the chances of fighting alongside my colleagues who are among the top ten admirals are getting fewer and fewer!" Admiral Haoding laughed heartily, then looked at Duan Shuiliu. "For example, Admiral Duan, I was pleasantly surprised to see you this time! After I heard that your garrison had been handed over to Admiral Lu Lin, I thought it would be difficult to fight alongside you again."
"Hmm..." Duan Shuiliu thought for a moment and nodded slightly, "Me too."
"Oh? Right, speaking of which, we seem to have forgotten to ask. Miss Duan, wasn't your garrison transferred to someone else? So how are you going to war now?" Admiral Lian suddenly asked curiously.
“…Rely on the ship girls of the military police.” Duan Shuiliu thought for a while and said to everyone, “It will take some time before the resignation procedures for the admiral are completed, so before the resignation process is completed, I will still abide by the instructions of the admiral’s guild and fulfill the duties of the admiral.”
"Wow……"
The admirals looked at Duan Shuiliu and sighed with emotion.
Of all the admirals, only Admiral Nanxing kept silently watching Admiral Haoding's dark skin, pondering deeply and very seriously.
……
Time passes slowly.
On the sea area of 8-2, artillery fire soared into the sky.
Boom boom boom boom boom boom
Countless bombs were released by the carrier-based aircraft, raining down from the sky like a torrential downpour, relentlessly bombarding the deep-sea fleet.
The deep-sea destroyers and light cruisers in the deep-sea fleet had almost no chance to resist. They were destroyed in the terrifying bombardment, their bodies sinking to the bottom of the sea with a series of angry howls.
"Roar roar roar roar roar roar————"
Amidst the sea of fire, a massive deep-sea flagship angrily broke through the flames and charged out. Despite its charred and filthy wounds, it raised its cannons at the ship girls.
However, before flames could even begin to build in his ship's cannons, a silver figure flashed past the deep-sea flagship's eyes in the next second.
The deep-sea flagship looked toward the silver figure.
Appearing before the deep-sea flagship was a battleship girl with numerous silver curly hair like flowers and shimmering ship equipment. The ship girl swiftly dodged the deep-sea flagship's attack, then raised her ship cannons and aimed the gleaming weapons at the deep-sea flagship.
For an instant.
A strong sense of crisis lingered in the heart of the deep-sea flagship.
The deep-sea flagship roared, its massive body about to splash water, attempting to overturn the sea surface where the silver ship girl was. But before the deep-sea flagship could even make a move, another figure, as fast as lightning, appeared and rapidly ascended along the deep-sea flagship's arm to its head.
The deep-sea flagship was enormous; its head alone was larger than the body of an ordinary ship girl. The figure that appeared in front of the deep-sea flagship looked as insignificant as a mantis trying to stop a chariot.
Boom! ! !
Before the deep-sea flagship could even make out the figure in front of it, it felt a slender leg kick hard in the eye.
"Awoooo ...
The deep-sea flagship screamed in pain and furiously scratched at the front.
The deep-sea flagship caught nothing.
"Boom boom boom boom boom——"
With the lightning-fast ship girls providing cover, the silver ship girl's cannons completed charging. A streak of gray light shone from the ship girl's eyes, and then the ship's rigging became even brighter. Several ship cannons instantly unleashed a barrage of bullets, covering the deep-sea flagship from all directions.
Before the deep-sea flagship, a brilliant galaxy rose.
The Milky Way descended from the sky, followed by a series of shattering sounds. The deep-sea flagship's rigging was torn to pieces, and its hull was pierced again and again.
……
After the barrage ended, the massive deep-sea flagship, its enormous body swaying, crashed into the water with a loud thud, turning into countless mechanical parts.
A hissing sound of overheating came from behind Veneto, and Veneto's ship equipment fell to the water's surface, coming into contact with the cold water and emitting scorching steam.
"Phew...Finally...Finally defeated..." Veneto swayed a couple of times, staggered a few steps, then lost his balance and fell into the water.
"Watch out." Littorio caught Veneto before she fell, holding her in her arms and smiling as she looked at the sweat on her face. "Well done, Veneto."
"Ha...okay, so tiring..." Veneto chuckled wryly, then turned to look behind him, "You two...did you learn anything?"
Standing behind Veneto, Rome and the Empire nodded in agreement.
Applause followed.
"Veneto, what brilliant tactics! Was that fierce barrage of shells your ship equipment skill?" The rookie naval ship girls who had been watching from the sidelines came up, clapping as they approached Veneto and the others. "What amazing skills! You can even one-shot an enemy like a deep-sea flagship with its tough armor!"
"This skill is utterly useless..." Veneto wailed. "My barrage skill takes a long time to charge up, and it overloads my ship's equipment after use, leaving me completely exhausted and unable to fight for about twenty seconds. During that time, I'm just a burden, so unless I'm certain I can defeat the enemy with a barrage, I absolutely refuse to use this ability..."
“But its power is immense, unparalleled,” Littorio said with a smile.
"Um..." Veneto blushed and hid in Littorio's arms. "Littorio... let me hide for twenty seconds..."
“Okay.” Littorio smiled and hugged Veneto. She looked at the smiling rookie naval ship girls and bowed respectfully to them. “Thank you very much. After defeating this wave of enemies, the advance in the 8-2 area is considered complete. Without your help, we might still be struggling to explore the map today, not to mention the numerous and troublesome enemies along the way.”
"No, Sister Veneto, you guys are amazing too." Changchun smiled and shook his head. "The Admiral instructed us to just cover you. You defeated the main enemy yourselves."
"And we didn't even have to lift a finger against the final boss of 8-2, that's your own achievement." The company chimed in, "What?! You guys are amazing too!!"
"..." Littorio smiled as he looked at the ship girls in the newbie naval base, but said nothing.
Although the ship girls of the newbie naval base were very humble, Littorio had seen their fighting style along the way, and she could never take their words seriously.
The gap between them and the newbie naval base is far more than just a tiny bit...
Take the recent final battle, for example. Our team had to exert all our strength and use every means to defeat the enemy. But if it were the rookie naval girls from the new naval base, they probably wouldn't need to say anything else; they could wipe out the enemy in one fell swoop.
In reality, it was only thanks to the support of the newbie naval bases that we were able to reach the end of stage 8-2 in such good condition and face the flagship boss with all our might. Without the help of the newbie naval bases, even if we had mastered the route, it would have taken us almost half a month to grind our way to the end of the stage with the right amount of health.
Ugh……
The ship girls in the newbie naval base... they're all monsters!
As Littorio thought of this, he tightened his grip on Veneto slightly, and his gaze towards the rookie naval base became somewhat complicated.
Chapter 2730 Deep-Sea Flagship Metal
Even among max-level ship girls, there are significant differences.
This is probably the most valuable takeaway for Littorio from his expedition with the newbie naval base today.
Just as Littorio was lost in thought, crisp footsteps sounded from behind them.
Littorio and the rookie naval girls looked behind them and saw Cleveland's agile figure sweeping over the wreckage of deep-sea ships on the battlefield littered with wreckage. With a flick of her delicate hand, she skillfully picked out pieces of deep-sea metal from the wreckage from various gaps and put them into her pocket.
After clearing away the remaining wreckage of the deep-sea amphibious ships, Cleveland quickly arrived at the wreckage of the massive deep-sea flagship. She bent down, pulled open the hull of the deep-sea flagship, and crawled inside. After a short while, Cleveland emerged covered in dust, but this time she was holding a piece of deep-sea metal the size of a fist in her hands.
The fist-sized piece of deep-sea metal shimmered with a faint golden light under everyone's gaze, surrounded by a rich aura of the deep sea.
Upon seeing the deep-sea metal in Cleveland's hand, Littorio raised an eyebrow slightly, revealing a look of surprise and delight.
This deep-sea flagship... it actually dropped deep-sea metal?!
Regarding the probability of obtaining deep-sea metal, in reality, regardless of the sea area, no low- to mid-level deep-sea vessel is guaranteed to drop deep-sea metal. Even in the highest-level sea areas currently accessible to humans, the probability of ordinary deep-sea creatures dropping deep-sea metal is only one in ten or twelve.
Only when a Deepsea Abomination reaches the level of an existence like that of a Deepsea Dean will deepsea metal appear in their body 100% of the time. Of course, whether deepsea metal only appears in the body after becoming a Deepsea Dean, or whether only Deepsea Abominations with deepsea metal in their bodies have the potential to become Deepsea Deans, is still a matter of speculation and uncertainty for the human Deepsea researchers due to a lack of sufficient information to verify.
Under everyone's gaze, Cleveland presented the deep-sea metal of the deep-sea flagship to the crowd.
"Wow, I didn't expect to be so lucky this time! The final boss of 8-2 is actually a Deepsea Flagship with Deepsea Metal." Changchun looked at the Deepsea Metal in Cleveland's hand and said to Littorio with a smile, "No wonder my admiral always says that Admiral Nia is incredibly lucky. Look, this Deepsea Metal from the 8-2 Deepsea Flagship is a priceless treasure. I remember that the Admiral's Guild is still using a lot of merit points to buy it. I didn't expect you guys to just get it as a reward for clearing the stage!"
"What?! Deep-sea metal from the deep-sea flagship? Where? Where? Where?!"
Hearing the conversation, Veneto, who was nestled in Littorio's arms, jolted awake and looked around rapidly.
"Looks like you've had a good rest these past twenty seconds?" Littorio looked at Veneto with a half-smile.
“As long as it’s not during a battle, twenty seconds isn’t a blink of an eye!” Veneto blushed slightly, then gently punched Littorio’s chest and perked up from her embrace.
“Here you go!” Cleveland stepped forward and held up the deep-sea metal in his hand.
"Wow... this is the deep-sea metal from the Deepsea flagship..." Veneto looked at the deep-sea metal in Cleveland's hand, her eyes sparkling. "The deep-sea aura on it is so strong, it's definitely not comparable to ordinary deep-sea metal!"
"From a life form perspective, the Deepsea Flagship can be understood as having abandoned the arduous evolutionary path of the Deepsea Dean, opting instead for a slightly lower life level, but a more stable and conservative path, and still becoming the strongest deep-sea creature below the Deepsea Dean after successful evolution," said Taihou from the White House in the rookie naval base team. "Therefore, once Deepsea Flagships produce Deepsea metal, due to the origins of their evolutionary paths, their Deepsea metal can also possess some aura similar to that of the Deepsea Dean, making it extremely precious."
"Wow, Taihou, you know so much!" The newbie naval girls all looked at their own Taihou.
"Well... after all, the admiral mentioned this before..." Xiaobai's Daihou smiled sheepishly.
"So, this thing is the grand prize from the 8-2 sea area?" Veneto poked at the deep-sea metal in Cleveland's hand with his finger. "Looks like we've hit the jackpot!"
“Yes.” The ship girls from the newbie naval base nodded. Then, as if remembering something, they said to Veneto, “Oh, by the way, don’t give us any of this deep-sea metal. We didn’t get involved in the final battle, so you can keep all the spoils for yourselves.”