Elder brother's garrison

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As soon as everyone arrived on the beach, they looked toward Exercise Field No. 3. There, in the preparation area, Luo Lian was holding a notebook and talking calmly to her ship girls.

It seemed that this was also the first time that Luo Lian's ship girls had practiced with the world's top ship girls. Their expressions were much more nervous than before. A row of ship girls stood obediently in front of Luo Lian, listening attentively to what Luo Lian was saying.

"Admiral Luo Lian looks very nervous too!" Everyone said as soon as they saw Luo Lian.

"Hmm? What makes you say that?" someone asked. "Admiral Luo Lian didn't seem that flustered."

“I’ve watched Admiral Luo Lian’s previous exercises. She usually does nothing but lie in her chair and sleep when she’s in the preparation area. This time, she talked so much with the ship girls. It’s obvious that she’s in a different state than before.” The admiral who had just spoken said confidently, “It seems that the pressure of exercising with Admiral Xiao Yuan has made Admiral Luo Lian unable to hold on any longer!”

"Although Admiral Luo Lian's face is expressionless, she must be frantic inside! Because someone is going to beat her until she reveals her true colors!" a gaunt admiral shouted.

"I see..." Everyone nodded and looked at Luo Lian as they listened.

Luo Lian seemed to be talking to the ship girl, but after watching for a while, no one could make out the content. So they quickly turned to look at Luo Lian's opponent in this exercise.

Luo Lian's opponent in the exercise was a female admiral named Xiao Yuan.

On the other side of the training ground, a young woman with a proud and radiant expression was leaning on her hip with one hand and gazing at Luo Lian's back with her chin raised.

The female admiral's eyes were filled with an irrepressible eagerness and a look of excitement at wanting to prove herself.

"I remember Admiral Xiao Yuan... she's quite young among the admirals." Someone in the crowd looked at Xiao Yuan and started discussing, "I remember she's only twenty-one or twenty-two this year. She went to university when she was fifteen or sixteen. She's very talented, has good luck in construction, and was well-educated by her family. She's practically a prodigy with unlimited potential! However, her achievements at such a young age have indeed made her a bit arrogant. I guess that's why she can't stand Admiral Luo Lian being ranked lower than her but being so popular on the admiral forum. She'd rather spend three thousand challenge tickets to launch a targeted challenge against Admiral Luo Lian, probably because of this mentality."

"Simply put, it's jealousy, right?" the group concluded.

"Hey! That's no fun at all!" the person who had just spoken said, waving his hand dismissively.

Everyone seemed to understand, and they all laughed silently.

On the other hand, on the preparation table in the exercise field, Xiao Yuan kept staring intently at Luo Lian's back, her eyes burning as if she wanted to pierce through Luo Lian's back.

But Luo Lian seemed completely oblivious to Xiao Yuan's gaze, continuing to chatter on and on to her ship girl.

Gradually, Xiao Yuan frowned, her bright face showing some displeasure. Then she took a step forward and walked towards Luo Lian's prepared seat under everyone's watchful eyes.

Luo Lian quickly noticed Xiao Yuan's approach. She closed her notebook and turned to look at Xiao Yuan.

Xiao Yuan stopped behind Luo Lian, her smile continuing.

"Is there something you need?" Luo Lian asked Xiao Yuan.

"What are you doing?" Xiao Yuan asked.

"Preparations for battle," Luo Lian replied calmly. "Is that not allowed?"

"I see!" Xiao Yuan put her hands on her hips and said urgently and crisply to Luo Lian, "Miss Luo Lian, but I think you're wasting your time! It's come to this, no matter how hard you try, you can't beat me! My world ranking is a full two hundred points higher than yours! The gap between us is as big as a bird in the sky and a tortoise on the ground!"

Xiao Yuan seemed to have prepared these lines in advance, and after saying them, a relaxed expression appeared on her face.

Luo Lian silently gazed at Xiao Yuan, then turned her gaze to the referee not far away.

"Where are you looking?" Xiao Yuan asked quickly when she saw Luo Lian turn her gaze to the side.

“I remember that the practice match shouldn’t have included a trash-talking segment,” Luo Lian said. “Or is this just your personal style?”

"Uh……"

"Go back now." Luo Lian didn't say anything more. She wasn't even stirred by Xiao Yuan's words. She turned back and opened her notebook.

Xiao Yuan stared wide-eyed at the indifferent Luo Lian, her cheeks quickly flushing red.

Xiao Yuan could clearly sense the calm and indifference Luo Lian showed towards her in those few words—yes, Luo Lian did not show any contempt or disdain. She looked at Xiao Yuan as if she were looking at a random NPC, without any emotional fluctuation.

No matter what the random NPCs say... it's just the language set by the program. It's a character model that the game company uses to evoke players' emotions and release information. NPCs have no emotions, no soul, and no status. Let alone provocation, even if they point fingers and insult each other, as long as it doesn't involve a newbie, it won't elicit any reaction from Luo Lian.

Because she's just an NPC.

After today, this kind of NPC won't stay in Luo Lian's mind for more than a few seconds.

This is a higher level of contempt.

For a moment, Xiao Yuan felt extremely uncomfortable after experiencing this treatment.

It was like punching cotton hard; the cotton swayed in the wind under the sun, leaving one feeling powerless.

"Luo Lian! You'll soon realize that I'm someone you can't underestimate!" Xiao Yuan shouted, clenching her fist. "I'm better than you, stronger than you. I'm one of the world's top 100 admirals, and my achievements far surpass yours! I'm more worthy of your attention!"

"..." Luo Lian still did not react.

Xiao Yuan watched Luo Lian's retreating figure, her teeth clenched in anger, but all she could do was stomp her foot in frustration and leave in a huff.

Chapter 3288 Two-Stage Reversal

Xiao Yuan stormed back to her own training area.

As soon as she returned to her seat, Xiao Yuan turned around and stared at Luo Lian with eyes that seemed to be spitting fire. She picked up the mineral water bottle that was placed to the side, pressed it against her chest, and started straining.

Crunch, crunch, crunch...

The innocent mineral water bottle was squeezed into odd shapes in Xiao Yuan's arms, making a harsh sound of plastic rubbing together.

The ship girls from Xiao Yuan's family were tidying up their ship equipment. When they heard the noise made by their admiral, they all put down what they were doing and came over.

"Admiral, what's wrong?"

"Why do you look like you've been angered by someone..."

"Did Admiral Luo Lian say anything to you?"

The ship girls curiously surrounded Xiao Yuan, looking at her clenched teeth and flushed face.

"No—no—" Xiao Yuan squeezed the mineral water bottle and gritted her teeth as she spat out the two words.

"No?" The ship girls tilted their heads in confusion. "Then why do you look so angry, Admiral?"

"That's why I'm angry!" Xiao Yuan shoved the crumpled water bottle in her arms into the ship girls' arms, then stomped her feet angrily and said to them, "I'm a top 100 admiral in the world! Her ranking is so much lower than mine, how dare she ignore me like this!"

"Ah..." The ship girls looked at each other, their faces showing embarrassment.

"I...I...I even went out of my way to talk to her, and she...she...not only did she not appreciate my kindness, but she also dared to treat me like this!" Xiao Yuan stomped on the sand, complaining with each step. "I, Xiao Yuan, entered university at twelve and graduated at sixteen. During my graduation construction, I built a top-tier battleship in one go and cleared the first chapter in just one month! I've been an admiral for over six years now, and it's been three or four years since I entered the seventh chapter! I got from the first chapter to the eighth chapter entirely through my own hard work and talent. Even the admiral guilds along the way praised me as a once-in-a-decade admiral genius! Everyone who sees me praises me as a rising star! The line of people wanting to get to know me stretches from the first chapter to the sixth! She...she...she only got the title of the world's second-best naval base, how dare she look down on me! Ahhhhh, I can't take it anymore!"

Xiao Yuan held her head and made a crisp sound towards the ship girls.

"Admiral... calm down..." The ship girls quickly reached out to Xiao Yuan.

"I'm fine, I'm calm!" Xiao Yuan lowered her hands and said angrily to the ship girls, "I've decided, in the upcoming exercise, you must not show her any mercy. I want you to give it your all and win this battle decisively!"

"We'll give it our all in the exercise... Admiral, please have some water first."

The ship girls surrounded Xiao Yuan, handed her bottled water, and gently patted her back to help her catch her breath.

Under the care of the ship girls, Xiao Yuan's breathing became much smoother, but she still stared in the direction of Luo Lian, panting heavily.

The ship girls looked at Xiao Yuan helplessly, then turned their gaze to their companions beside them.

The ship girls gave a silent, bitter laugh and shook their heads.

In other naval bases, it's usually the admiral who takes care of the ship girls, but in Xiao Yuan's naval base, it's the opposite; it's mostly the ship girls who take care of the admiral.

This admiral of ours... perhaps because he's always had a smooth and successful life, his temper is actually quite like that of a willful eighteen or nineteen-year-old girl; he's really young and impetuous...

……

The scene of Xiao Yuan running to talk to Luo Lian, and the two failing to reach an agreement, and Xiao Yuan angrily leaving her seat, was naturally witnessed by the onlookers.

"Goodness, this smells a bit too strong."

"This will make the upcoming exercise even more exciting."

"Admiral Luo Lian doesn't even respect Admiral Xiao Yuan? That's interesting..."

"There's probably nothing to look forward to in the exercise... Based on the previous performance of Admiral Luo Lian's ship girls, they're only around the top 200 in the world. She can't beat Admiral Xiao Yuan's ship girls."

"..."

The admirals chatted amongst themselves, their eyes gleaming with intense interest as they watched the preparation area in the training field.

Soon, the preparation time ended, and with the referee's call, the ship girls from Luo Lian and Xiao Yuan's families entered the arena and sailed onto the water.

Luo Lian and Nia approached the referee.

"Just you wait! You'll lose soon!" Xiao Yuan stood to the left of the referee and shouted at Luo Lian on the other side.

"..." Luo Lian listened calmly to Xiao Yuan's words, her gaze shifting slightly towards Xiao Yuan, lingering for a moment on Xiao Yuan's slightly heaving chest.

“…What are you doing?” Xiao Yuan noticed Luo Lian’s gaze and instinctively covered her chest.

"..." Luo Lian withdrew her gaze and looked at the referee, "Is it allowed for admirals to trash talk each other on the training field?"

"Well..." the referee said with a wry smile, "The Admiral's Guild only prohibits abusive and discriminatory language. As for ordinary trash talk, there's really no rule against it..."

"I see." Luo Lian nodded in understanding.

Luo Lian's reaction was as if she was holding back some big move, preparing to break Xiao Yuan's defenses with just one sentence.

This gesture suddenly put Xiao Yuan on her guard.

However, Xiao Yuan waited for more than ten seconds, but Luo Lian on the other end just calmly looked at the sea without saying a word.

For a moment, Xiao Yuan felt a strange sense of being suspended in mid-air, yet unable to fall back down, leaving her feeling somewhat empty.

"If you two are ready, then our exercise will begin," the referee said at this moment.

“No problem.” Luo Lian nodded.

The referee looked at Xiao Yuan.

"Oh? I'm fine with that too." Xiao Yuan nodded quickly.

The referee then raised his flare gun, looked at the two groups of ship girls on the sea, took a deep breath, and fired a shot into the sky.

Snapped!

The crisp signal flare exploded instantly in the open sea.

Upon receiving the command message, the two squadrons of ship girls immediately sprang into action. The roar of carrier-based aircraft echoed across the sea, followed by a series of intense artillery fires. The ship girls darted and weaved through the waves.

Boom boom boom boom——

The battle on the sea was quite intense for a time. Perhaps because the two sides had just clashed, it was not clear at first glance who was stronger.

Xiao Yuan firmly believed in her victory from the bottom of her heart.

Xiao Yuan glanced briefly at the ship girls on the sea. Watching her own ship girls unleash their cannon fire, seeing their neat formation, fierce attacks, and surging momentum, she couldn't help but feel confident.

The ship girls from Xiao Yuan's family are in great shape today!

At their current level, they are able to perfectly unleash the combat power of the world's top 100 ship girls!

In this state, the ship girls are simply no match for the top 200 ship girls in the world!

When Luo Lian sees the state of her ship girl, she will probably realize the gap between them and regret saying those words that underestimated her.

Thinking of this, Xiao Yuan couldn't help but smile, but her gaze kept drifting towards Luo Lian.

However, Xiao Yuan froze on the spot when she saw Luo Lian's current state.

At this moment, Luo Lian stood quietly with her eyes closed, ignoring the fierce battle on the sea, the raging cannon fire, and even the hot winds mixed with the smell of gunpowder blowing through her hair.

what?

What is she doing?

Xiao Yuan stared at Luo Lian with wide eyes, somewhat bewildered.

Doesn't she care at all about the battle on the sea? Or... has she actually given up on this battle long ago, and closed her eyes simply because she doesn't want to see her ship girls defeated?

A series of questions arose in Xiao Yuan's mind. She stared at Luo Lian's fair face, her brows furrowing involuntarily.

An indescribable feeling rose in Xiao Yuan's heart.

Xiao Yuan looked at Luo Lian with a hint of disdain.

...If Luo Lian really is that kind of person, then I really misjudged her before.

The former world's second-best naval base was once so dazzling, but now its heir is a coward who can't even muster the slightest courage to face the difficulties of battle.

Ah.

Ridiculous.

Xiao Yuan recalled the scene where Luo Lian ignored her before, and suddenly she didn't feel so angry anymore.

I'm being so stubborn. I actually spent three thousand challenge tickets on someone like that... and I even got angry because that person ignored me... Sigh... really...

Luo Lian is simply not qualified to compete with me... We will eventually be from two different worlds.

Thinking of this, Xiao Yuan took a deep breath, looked away from Luo Lian who had her eyes closed, and brushed the hair behind her ear as if she were relieved.