Elder brother's garrison

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Xiaobai can see Cleveland standing next to Veneto and Rome's... chest inside the suit jacket through Veneto's perspective.

—Now I think I understand why Veneto was so hostile towards Rome.

"Sister! Has the Admiral linked with you yet?" Roma asked, bouncing around excitedly.

The two lumps of flesh bobbed up and down in front of Veneto's eyes.

"Stay put and don't move!" Veneto sneered.

"Oh..." Rome stopped, looking as if she didn't know why but felt like she had upset her sister again.

"Yes, Veneto, there was an admiral on the beach earlier who said his shipgirls were attacked," Xiaobai said. "It's supposedly an Abyssal fleet."

Veneto nodded: "We just met this one."

"Hey? You guys ran into each other too?"

“We encountered them, more than forty deep-sea amphibious ships.” Veneto thought for a moment, “No, it should be sixty. When we arrived, there were only about fifty left.”

"Oh, are you all alright?"

"It's alright, don't worry."

"That's good. Veneto, how's the situation in the fourth node area now? Are there many deep-sea fleets gathering there?"

“We haven’t encountered a second batch yet, but I have many guesses,” Veneto said. “Because until just now, we haven’t encountered any other deep-sea vessels besides the first batch.”

That's indeed the case.

Chapter 281 Second-hand Popsicles

Sure enough, something happened at the fourth node.

The deep-sea amphibious ships, which were usually as vulnerable as wooden stakes, have slowly begun to gather in groups.

It's important to know that the ship girls in the first chapter's sea area are used to winning by sheer numbers.

Rather than improving their skill level, they prioritize quantity.

Indeed, this is true. For a wooden stake enemy with virtually no resistance, two attack frequencies are always better than one.

Cleveland had previously stated that as a light cruiser, even with high training levels, she couldn't offer much help to Xiaobai, and was even less helpful than two destroyers.

However, the above condition is that the enemy is a "wooden stake".

Chapter 282 The enemies in the sea are weak, their attacks are feeble, their accuracy is poor, they don't know how to dodge, and they don't understand strategy. If you encounter them, just bombard them with overwhelming numbers and firepower.

However, when this weak enemy gathers into a fleet and a group of ships, its weakness will turn into streams of water, merging into rivers and seas.

Having lost their previous reliance on sheer numbers, what will the ship girls in the first chapter of the sea rely on to fight?

The results speak for themselves.

They might all fall like Luo Yin's ship girls, defeated by the Abyssal fleet that resembles army ants.

"Veneto, can you do me a favor?" Xiaobai asked.

“Okay.” Veneto agreed to Xiaobai’s request without even asking.

Xiao Bai was slightly touched.

"If the deep sea really does form a fleet, then the ship girls here shouldn't be able to handle it, right?" Xiaobai asked.

“Probably. If it’s only a dozen or so, it’s fine, but if there are forty or fifty of them together, the ship girls here probably won’t be able to handle it,” Veneto said.

A fleet of forty or fifty deep-sea amphibious ships, even if each one is only of the strength of the first chapter of the sea, is too much for the ship girls of the first chapter of the sea to handle when gathered together.

The suffocating pressure and the overwhelming barrage of cannon fire could even make many ship girls who had never experienced brutal combat give up their will to resist.

Even the ship girls in Chapters 4 and 5 couldn't handle it.

After a brief silence, Xiaobai tentatively opened her mouth: "Veneto, could you please go and save them?"

If what Veneto said is true, then many fleets' ship girls should have encountered the Abyssal Fleet at the fourth node.

At this stage, perhaps only Veneto can save them.

"can."

Veneto agreed.

Veneto had pretty much guessed that Shiro would beg her to save the other ship girls.

My admiral is kind-hearted and guileless; sometimes it's very easy to guess what he's thinking.

Since someone is in trouble, the admiral would be quite happy to lend a helping hand as long as it doesn't endanger himself.

"Thank you, Veneto," Little White said gratefully.

“No need to thank me.” Veneto shook her head. “The ship girls in the first chapter are the future pillars of human society. If I could, I would also take the initiative to rescue them. Rather, Admiral, you can just let me rescue them directly, which saves me the trouble of reporting to you.”

"That's great," Xiaobai said.

Veneto seems quite willing to help these ship girls in trouble, which is wonderful.

"Then I'll disconnect the Admiral's network, Veneto. I'll leave the rest to you."

"Ah."

Veneto nodded.

After a short while, Veneto felt an emptiness as if something had been drained from his body.

That's what it felt like when Xiaobai interrupted the Admiral's network.

Veneto raised his hand and looked at the ring on his finger.

—I am the admiral's married ship, and I heard that I am the first one in the entire naval base. With such a special position, I must obey the admiral in everything.

Based on the fact that the third concubine was the first ship in line for marriage, not to mention the saying "a wife follows her husband's lead," it's only a basic requirement that she would do whatever the admiral wanted to do.

The admiral is being too polite.

They still need to rely on themselves.

A slight smile appeared on Veneto's lips.

A fierce fighting spirit ignited in Veneto's eyes.

It's just saving a few kids, Admiral, you just wait and see.

Today, I, Veneto, will protect this ocean!

"Fubuki!"

"exist!"

"Next, it's time to run."

"ok!"

Xiaobai has lost contact with Veneto's admiral network.

She opened her eyes.

Nia was sitting next to her, her little face close to hers, staring intently.

The breath that Nia exhaled from her nose brushed against Xiaobai's face, smelling as sweet as if she were in an orchard.

“Nia?” Xiaobai asked.

"Waaah!" Nia quickly pulled her head back in. "Little White, you're back!"

"Huh?" Little White asked curiously, "I didn't go anywhere, Nia."

“Didn’t you just fly to the heavens?” Nia asked. “And you were even talking to yourself, one sentence after another.”

"Oh, that's when I was talking to Veneto using the Admiral's Network," Xiaobai explained.

I did connect to Veneto without telling Nia, she just didn't notice.

However, Nia had previously mentioned that she knew about the existence of the Admiral Network, and Xiaobai thought that Nia knew this was a state of communication with the ship girls.

"You were using the Admiral's Network just now?" Nia asked, looking surprised.

"Doesn't Nia know about the Admiral's Network?"

“I only know that this thing exists.” Nia smiled. “I haven’t taken my medicine yet, so I don’t know what the Admiral Network is, what it’s used for, or how to use it.”

"Let's not talk about that now, Xiaobai. Were you talking to Veneto just now?" Nia asked.

"kindness."

"Oh, no wonder." Nia nodded knowingly, looking at Xiaobai with some envy. "I really envy Xiaobai for being able to use this so easily."

Nia herself had the nerve medication her advisor had given her upon graduation, but she wasn't fully prepared to take it.

Xiaobai could only accept Nia's envy with a smile.

There's no way around it; there's just too much to say about my own admiral network. If I were to explain it all to Nia, it would involve a lot of things that can't be shared with outsiders.

Nia sat back down in her seat.

The Admiral Network shares the five senses of the ship girls and the Admiral, but not their thoughts. If Xiaobai wants to say something to Veneto, she has to speak it out here and share her hearing with Veneto so that Veneto can hear her.

So half of the conversation just now reached Nia's ears.

She could roughly understand that Xiaobai was asking Veneto to rescue the ship girls in this area.

After delivering the message to Veneto, Xiaobai and Nia returned to their leisure mode.

Nia wasn't worried about Cleveland's safety. In the entire first chapter region, including both land and sea, the safest place was right next to the little white ship girl. With Veneto around, Cleveland might get a little injured from the training, but she would be completely safe.

Xiaobai was even less worried. She had an almost blind faith in her ship girl. If Veneto said she was fine, then she must be fine.

The admirals on the beach began to pace anxiously.

I have no idea what's going on with my ship girl in the sea. It's driving me crazy with worry.

Sukhbaatar, who had been weaving among the admirals, returned with a dejected look on his face, carrying a box of popsicles, and sat down on the sand in disappointment.

"It's over, we can't sell any more popsicles." Sukhbaatar said bitterly.

"That's true, after all, no one knows what's going on with their ship girls."

"Honestly, whether things are good or bad, eating an ice pop won't change anything. Instead of worrying, I might as well have an ice pop to calm down." Sukhbaatar looked at the ice pops in the box slowly thawing under the scorching sun with a pained expression, then pulled one out and stuffed it into his mouth.

“Lord Su is right,” Xiao Bai said with a smile, looking at Sukhbaatar.

"Oh no, the popsicles are probably all melted." Susukhbaatar looked pitifully at the popsicles in the box.

Sukhbaatar sat in front of the popsicle box, looking worried about the box of popsicles in front of him. His stingy appearance didn't seem to match the image of the Guardian from Chapter One at all.

—Huh? Wait, the Guardian?

Xiao Bai looked at Sukhbaatar and then realized who Sukhbaatar was.

"Speaking of which, Lord Su, aren't you the ship girl guarding the first chapter of the sea?" Xiaobai asked, "Do you have any clues about the changes in the sea?"

"The popsicles have melted, so we'll have to put them back in the freezer to freeze again..." Sukhbaatar muttered to himself, looking at the popsicle box.

"Huh? Freeze it once?" Xiao Bai's eyes widened. "Lord Su, this is an ice pop..."

"Ahem!" Sukhbaatar then realized he had let something slip. "The sea area, ah, you mean the changes in the sea area? I heard it just now, it seems like the deep-sea amphibious ships in the sea area have gathered in groups."

"You said 'again'! Does this mean you've done this more than once, Lord Su?!" Xiaobai asked, touching her lips.

"Hmm." Sukhbaatar looked at Xiaobai with an embarrassed expression. "Little girl, being persistent and clingy is not a good habit."

Sukhbaatar cleared his throat: "We'll talk about the popsicles later, let's talk about the sea first."

Sukhbaatar looked at Xiaobai and said, "The deep-sea amphibious ships of the first chapter are theoretically unable to assemble into a group. They lack the most important element for assembling into a group."

Despite his circumstances, Sukhbaatar was a learned and experienced man who knew a great deal. With just a few words, he managed to divert Xiaobai's attention from the possibility that he was eating a secondhand popsicle.

"Elements?"

“Yes, that means they have no thoughts,” Sukhbaatar said. “The deep-sea ships in the first chapter are complete puppets and wooden stakes. Once they are produced by the deep-sea resentment, they can only wander around aimlessly and only have a conditioned reflex to attack the breath of life. Therefore, it is impossible for intelligent species of their level to gather in groups.”

"Oh……"

“At the very least, there needs to be the ability to express basic emotions before there is any possibility of gathering,” Sukhbaatar said. “However, there are always exceptions. Sometimes the gathering of the deep sea is not of its own will.”

Chapter 283 Lord Su frowned, realizing that things were not so simple.

As Sukhbaatar finished speaking, he waved his finger in front of Xiaobai, giving off an expression that said, "Isn't that amazing? I know so much, right? Praise me!"

Xiao Bai quickly reached out and clapped for Sukhbaatar.