Elder brother's garrison

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"A little more."

"it is good."

Ringo added four or five sugar cubes to Shiro's coffee cup, then used her snow-white wrist to push the coffee in front of Shiro.

Xiao Bai picked up his coffee, took a sip, and then stuck out his tongue with a somewhat unpleasant expression.

"Ugh...it's still so bitter," Xiaobai said, biting her tongue.

"..." Ringo didn't speak, but just smiled slightly.

Ringo's smile lasted only a moment, yet it was like a white epiphyllum blooming in the night, so beautiful that it was unforgettable.

"Cough cough cough." In the end, it was Mu Yu's cough that brought everyone back to their senses.

Under everyone's gaze, Mu Yu took a deep breath and then sighed helplessly.

"Actually, the thing is..." Mu Yu scratched his head and said to Xiao Bai, "Little Bai, as you know, the current Chapter 8 Guild is run by the successor of Governor Ringo, that guy named Luo... Luo something?"

"Luo Yingying?"

"...Is that his name?" Mu Yu thought for a while, but still shrugged. "Never mind, it's that Steward Luo. His abilities are indeed quite good, and his character can withstand the test. So, for the sake of training him, he is usually in charge of various matters of the Eighth Chapter Guild. At the same time, he is also the assistant that Governor Ringo is preparing to leave for you."

"It really helped me a lot." Xiaobai nodded earnestly.

"Look, since Ringo has left behind helpers, how can I, as the one who introduced Little White Sister to the Admiral's circle, not lend a hand!" Mu Yu said, puffing out his chest and raising his head, his spirits high. "As the Pacific Governor's Office, how could I not have helpers like Steward Luo? In fact, I've already trained them!"

"Is Mu Yu's helper Miss Ning Lu?" Xiao Bai looked at Ning Lu.

“Yes.” Ning Lu made a peace sign at Xiao Bai. “After I graduated from the Naval University, I received secret training from Governor Mu Yu. I have benefited from his help all the way to where I am today, so I am a big fan of Governor Mu Yu. I will do whatever he asks me to do.”

"...Miss Ning Lu, how long have you been an admiral?"

"It's been about seven or eight years."

“…It’s been so long since I trained him…” Xiaobai looked at Muyu.

"You train an army for a thousand days to use it for one. Don't let Ning Lu's usual unreliability fool you; she can be quite helpful sometimes," Mu Yu said. "For example, Little White, your Nia, when she first arrived at Chapter Eight, it was I who personally instructed Ning Lu to help Admiral Nia get used to the atmosphere and environment here. Also, later, when Nia wanted to rent the largest and most luxurious temporary garrison in the city, something that money can't buy, she wasn't originally qualified. It was only through my secret arrangements that her subordinates managed to rent it to her."

"Oh haha."

"What's wrong, Little White Sister?"

"So you're the one who gets a million merit points from Nia every month, right?" Xiaobai pointed at Muyu.

"Cough cough cough cough..." Mu Yu coughed, "Little Bai, please understand, I've already tried my best to keep the rent as low as possible within my authority..."

"Sigh, fine, I'll let this go." Xiaobai said to Muyu, "But then again, you've been explaining all this time, and you still haven't told me why you instructed Miss Ninglu to tell Ke Yuan about me and Nia?"

"Isn't it necessary to explain the cause before talking about the consequences?" Mu Yu pondered for a while and slowly said to Xiao Bai, "I do have my own ideas about why I am doing this."

"What reason?" Xiaobai waited for Muyu's answer.

"Before I explain that reason, Little White Sister," Mu Yu said, then looked up and suddenly asked, "...Have you ever heard of the title 'Ninth Admiral of the World'?"

Chapter 2853 The FMVP of this game is Jean Bart

The quiet hall was peaceful and quiet.

After a while.

Xiao Bai picked up his coffee cup and took a sip.

“…Oops…It’s still so bitter.” Xiaobai bit her tongue and asked Mu Yu, “…Who is the world’s ninth admiral? I’ve never seen him before…He didn’t seem to appear when we were on the mission to become one of the top ten admirals at Ella’s house.”

"Yes," Mu Yu nodded.

"So where is the world's ninth admiral?" Xiaobai asked.

"He's dead." Mu Yu crossed his arms and placed them in front of his nose, speaking earnestly.

"...Huh?" Xiaobai was stunned for a moment. "Dead?"

“Yes, he’s dead.” Mu Yu said seriously, “...This news is top secret even among the higher-ups at the Admiral’s Headquarters. We probably won’t announce it to the public in the future. Little Bai, remember not to tell anyone.”

"...I'll keep it a secret." Xiaobai looked down at the brown sugar cubes that hadn't completely dissolved in the coffee cup.

"Haha, little Bai, don't be so down. Not all of the top ten admirals are likable." Mu Yu smiled at Xiao Bai and comforted her. "The world's ninth admiral is just a simple scumbag. Although he can't be called extremely vicious, he has done a lot of evil. It's no pity to ruin such a person."

"That's it."

"In short, let's leave the topic of the world's ninth admiral here for now." Mu Yu then asked Xiao Bai, "And then, little Xiao Bai, do you know why I brought up the world's ninth admiral?"

"why?"

"Because the world's ninth admiral was once Ke Yuan's backer," Mu Yu said.

"Eh?"

"Birds of a feather flock together," Mu Yu shrugged. "The two of them used to have a pretty good relationship; they were practically brothers."

"I see." Xiaobai nodded. "Then I can roughly understand how annoying the Ninth Admiral of the World is."

"Haha!" Mu Yu laughed. After thinking for a while, he said to Xiao Bai, "However... even a centipede doesn't die easily. Our Admiral Headquarters can't release the news of the Ninth Admiral in the World to the public. Therefore, the network of relationships represented by the title of Ninth Admiral in the World will continue to operate as it did when he was alive. And among the network of relationships of the Ninth Admiral in the World, the one who has benefited the most at present is naturally Ke Yuan."

"..." Xiaobai blinked.

“Although the top ten admirals are admirals, Little White, you’ve been in Chapter 8 for so long, you should know that they possess unparalleled leadership among admirals. Furthermore, the ship girl power they wield is indeed of great help to the world. Therefore, to some extent, even if we dislike them, we can’t directly attack them,” Mu Yu said to Little White. “Now that the ninth admiral, as the head of the criminal organization, has finally fallen, it’s not something our admiral headquarters can easily do overnight to wipe out the network of connections he represents. Therefore, we need a reason—a perfectly legitimate, respectable, and irresistible reason—to carry out our actions.”

"Is this reason Ke Yuan?" Xiao Bai asked, as if she had thought of something.

“That’s right. After the Ninth Admiral announced his disappearance, Admiral Ke Yuan, due to his relationship with the Ninth Admiral, has become the invisible leader of their network of connections. A group of people, whether willingly or unwillingly, follow his lead,” Mu Yu said. “Ke Yuan is our breakthrough point. However, he is extremely cautious in his actions. Even if we try our best to find his clues, after two whole years, we still can’t find any flaws in him.”

"Are you guys really that bad?" Luo Lian asked.

“Uh… haha…” Mu Yu laughed awkwardly, “After all, he’s a big shot in terms of connections… it’s not convenient for us to investigate too aggressively… at most, we can only restrict him from continuing to act under the name of the missing Ninth Admiral of the World.”

"Okay." Luo Lian picked up the coffee spoon and stirred Xiao Bai's coffee cup.

“Ke Yuan is extremely cautious. He’s even wary of his own ship girls. So, at most, we can only annoy him.” Mu Yu said to Xiao Bai. “But after Xiao Bai and her group came into contact with Ke Yuan, I found that after several encounters and setbacks, he seemed to harbor extremely strong malice towards Xiao Bai and her group. I think this might be a good opportunity.”

"So... you sent Ning Lu to contact Ke Yuan?" Xiao Bai asked.

"No, no, no, actually it was Ke Yuan who took the initiative to contact Ning Lu."

"Eh?"

"Hmph... Ning Lu's reporter resources are basically all from me. From Governor Lin Qing to Admiral Nia, with me around, what kind of information can't she get? Therefore, she naturally became the most famous paparazzi in the entire eighth chapter." Mu Yu said confidently, "So even if I do nothing, Ke Yuan, who wants to investigate you and Nia, will take the initiative to come to Ning Lu. And Ning Lu only needs to play along and play the role of a double agent."

“Uh…” Xiaobai frowned. “So this is your reason for having Miss Ninglu tell Ke Yuan that Nia and I didn’t quarrel?”

"Yes."

"I still don't quite understand why..."

“Little Bai, even an extremely calm person can lose their composure in anger,” Mu Yu said with a smile. “If it were just the usual Ke Yuan, he certainly wouldn’t do anything too outrageous; at least he would leave himself a way out. However, the moment he learned about Xiao Bai and Nia’s secret from Ning Lu, his triumphant emotions and the negative energy of hatred overwhelmed him, causing him to act without leaving himself a way out for the first time.”

"Poisoning...?"

“Yes, usually Ke Yuan’s plans, even if they fail, at most he’ll just lose face. But this time, his plan for you, Little Bai, if it fails and backfires, it will be a huge problem that harms his colleagues,” Mu Yu said. “I can use this as an excuse to detain him and the garrison headquarters in the military police for investigation, and use this as an opportunity to gradually dismantle the network of connections behind him.”

Aren't you afraid he'll do something to me?

“Little Bai, we know each other pretty well, right?” Mu Yu smiled wryly. “Tell me honestly, even if Ke Yuan uses all his tricks, what can he do to you? In the end, all those schemes and tricks are just a joke in the face of real power…”

"..."

“However, your plan still didn’t come in very good shape,” Luo Lian said from the side.

"Uh." Mu Yu shuddered.

"That's right. In the end, Ke Yuan's poisoning plan didn't work. In the end, I had to produce the evidence of Ke Yuan's crimes to send him to jail," Xiao Bai said.

“Uh…” Mu Yu shuddered again.

"It seems your schemes and tricks haven't worked, Mu Yu," Xiao Bai said.

"..." Mu Yu trembled uncontrollably.

"Now I can probably understand why this group of people have been targeting Ke Yuan for so long," Luo Lian added from the side. "It can only be said that they are evenly matched opponents with a perfect matchmaking mechanism."

"Thump!" Mu Yu collapsed onto the table.

Mu Yu let out a series of helpless, bitter laughs and raised her head.

“Little Bai, after all, we’re just ordinary people. You and Luo Lian, one is the world’s number one admiral, and the other is a human all-around warrior. How could Ke Yuan possibly be a match for the two of you…” Mu Yu said awkwardly. “In the face of absolute power, all schemes and tricks are easily exposed. Little Bai, think about it carefully. If you didn’t use your abilities at the level of the world’s number one admiral, your own amazing methods, or even rely on Luo Lian, would Ke Yuan really be so easily manipulated by you?”

"Well..." Xiaobai thought for a while.

Indeed, Xiao Bai used quite a few "magical methods" when confronting Ke Yuan.

If Xiaobai imagines himself as an ordinary admiral with no power or special abilities, he would be quite helpless against someone like Ke Yuan, who is like a venomous snake hiding in the bushes and occasionally jumping out to strike him.

"It's so good to have power." Thinking of this, Xiaobai said to Muyu with emotion.

“That’s what I mean.” Mu Yu nodded.

“I only told Ke Yuan that you and Nia didn’t quarrel, but I didn’t tell him that Admiral Lu Lin is the world’s number one admiral.” Ning Lu said to Xiao Bai from the side, “I bet Ke Yuan never imagined that the ordinary admiral he’s been targeting is actually a monstrous beast in sheep’s clothing.”

"That's quite a lot of trouble..." Xiaobai smiled wryly.

"Huh? But speaking of which," Mu Yu asked Xiao Bai curiously, "Little Bai, where did you get Ke Yuan's notebook from?"

"I asked the ship girls to find it," Xiaobai said.

"Where are these ship girls so capable? Missouri?" Mu Yu asked curiously, "Or Lexington?"

“...The one who came out of the banquet with a notebook is him,” Xiaobai said with a smile.

"Oh, oh, so it is..." Mu Yu nodded, but then suddenly frowned. "...Huh? Wait, who is it?"

Mu Yu looked at Ning Lu.

“When I reported the situation before, didn’t I say that the ship girl who took out the notebook was…” Ning Lu started to speak, but then suddenly paused, her curiosity piqued. “Eh… wait, who was it again? Wait, wait, let me see…”

As Ning Lu spoke, she took out a notebook from her person and opened it to read.

Xiao Bai turned his head to look and saw that Ning Lu's notebook was filled with wildly written, illegible characters, like a doctor's diagnosis report.

"Huh? That's strange. I remember writing down that ship girl's name, but I can't see it..." Ning Lu frowned, looking at her notebook and muttering to herself.

Chapter 2854 Translation: What is a Surprise?

Ning Lu fiddled with the notebook in her hand, her face full of doubt and questioning her existence.

Seeing Ning Lu's bewildered expression, Xiao Bai couldn't help but smile faintly at everyone.

"Based on my understanding of Ning Lu, while her memory isn't quite at the level of Xiao Bai's, which is practically a rare condition, it's still quite excellent for a normal person. Besides, Ning Lu has been a gossip reporter for so long; she should have developed a good habit of jotting down key information. It's unlikely that such a forgetful trait would be present in Ning Lu." Mu Yu muttered to himself, stroking his chin, his gaze unconsciously drifting to the smiling Xiao Bai. "Xiao Bai, did you do this?"

"It wasn't that I did it on my own initiative." Xiaobai nodded to Muyu and said with a smile, "The ship girl who helped me steal Admiral Ke Yuan's notebook is named Jean Bart."

"Jeanbard..."

Everyone was still puzzled when they heard the name.

Even Luo Lian, who was sitting next to Xiao Bai, frowned, looking unsure of what was going on.

"Say hello to everyone." Just then, Xiaobai turned her head and said to the air beside her.

"Hmm? Little White Sister, who are you talking to?" Mu Yu asked curiously.

The next second, before Mu Yu could get ready, a clear and melodious greeting rang out in the air where Xiao Bai was looking.

"Good evening, esteemed governors and admirals!"

To everyone's astonishment, a pink-haired ship girl with a delicate and adorable face, wearing a black top hat, suddenly appeared on the empty floor that had been empty just a second ago.

The ship girl who suddenly appeared greeted everyone enthusiastically while raising her hand high and waving it vigorously from side to side, her face full of a lively and cheerful smile.

"I am Jean Bart!"

"what?"

"Eh?"

Mu Yu and Ning Lu were startled by Jean Bart's sudden appearance.

"Holy crap! Little White Sister, when did she...when did she get here?!" Mu Yu looked at Little White with horror, pointing at Jean Bart and asking repeatedly, "This is the Admiral's Guild of Chapter Eight, for crying out loud! It's the top-tier office where two governors work, heavily guarded, watertight, not even a mosquito could get in! When did she...how did she get around so many guards...?"

“She came with me.” Xiaobai smiled at Muyu.

"Huh? Little White Sister, didn't you come up here alone?"

“Jean Barre has an ability to make people ignore and forget her… well, or is it a constitution?” Xiao Bai looked at Jean Barre and thought for a while. “Actually, she has always been by my side. From the time I attended the banquet tonight until now, she has been by my side the whole time, but no one has noticed her.”

"Hehe." Jean Bart gave everyone a thumbs up. "The cake at the banquet was delicious."

Just as Mu Yu was blankly accepting the information about Jean Bart.