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Social niceties and interpersonal relationships are too troublesome.
President Er Gou patted Xiao Bai's head.
"Sigh, never mind, Xiaobai, you should stay away from this old geezer in the future, okay? This is advice from someone who's been there." Guild Master Er Gou said to Xiaobai, "I'm off then! I have a fishing trip planned for today!"
"Um... then please be careful, President..."
"Don't worry, don't worry, even if the boat capsizes, I can swim back by myself!" President Er Gou winked at Xiao Bai, then skipped away carrying the wine bottle.
Missouri smiled and bowed slightly to Chairman Er Gou.
Xiao Bai watched Er Gou's retreating figure until she disappeared into the square.
"Missouri," Xiaobai called out to the ship girl beside her.
"Admiral, Missouri is here." Missouri smiled and looked at Xiaobai.
"What would happen if I actually accepted Emden's offer of employment?" Xiaobai asked.
Missouri is unaware.
"Then just guess."
“Since the Admiral has said so, Missouri will make a bold guess…” Missouri thought for a while, then smiled at Xiaobai and said, “If Miss Emden joins our naval base, she might become a spy planted by the Commander-in-Chief within our naval base. At that time, certain information within the naval base will no longer be able to be kept secret.”
"Ah? Is it that serious?"
"It might not be that serious," Missouri continued with a smile. "Perhaps the Commander-in-Chief just wanted to give it a try. Admiral, are you, as the rumors suggest, someone who enjoys stealing other people's ship girls?"
"Okay." Xiaobai shook her head, suddenly feeling a little helpless. "Luckily, I didn't accept it."
“Yes, the admiral acts according to his conscience, so naturally he has nothing to fear,” Missouri said with a smile.
Xiaobai and Missouri walked towards the square.
In the square, when Nia's ship girls saw Xiaobai return, they quickly surrounded her.
"Admiral Lu Lin, has that old gentleman left yet?"
"What did the old man say? Did he mention any problems with the atmosphere at our garrison?"
"I...I...I've covered myself up so well, I should be fine, right?"
"..."
The ship girls all seem very worried about being used as examples of anti-vulgarity campaigns.
Xiaobai looked at the ship girls of Nia's family and couldn't help but laugh.
"It's alright, that old man has already left." Xiaobai said to the ship girls, "He didn't come to enforce discipline or set a bad example. He's just an elder of one of my friends. He just came to visit me."
"Really?!" The ship girls were overjoyed. "So, we passed the test?"
"Yes, I passed." Xiaobai nodded. "I passed too, I think."
"Wuhu!"
"great!"
The ship girls of Nia's family exchanged glances, shouted, and immediately began to unbutton their cotton-padded jackets and leather pants.
In an instant, clothes filled with the fragrance of the ship girls flew into the sky, and the ship girls of Nia's family returned to their usual flamboyant appearance.
"Admiral Lu Lin, thank you!"
"Admiral Lu Lin, thank you!"
"I knew Admiral Lu Lin was the most reliable!"
The ship girls crowded around, hugged Xiaobai's head, and kissed her forehead and cheeks repeatedly.
Xiao Bai felt as if she was instantly engulfed by soft, snow-white waves.
……
After the ship girls from Nia's family left, Xiaobai rubbed her face, which was covered in lipstick marks, and staggered back to Missouri's side.
"Admiral, slow down." Missouri helped Little White up and smiled at her, "You seniors are so kind."
"Ah... um..." Xiaobai scratched her cheek and smiled shyly at Missouri, "Missouri, let's go back too."
Xiaobai and Missouri returned to their dormitory.
Back in her dorm, Xiaobai thought about what she had just talked about with President Ergou. She took out her phone, opened a search engine, and started searching for the keywords "admiral," "moral exemplar," and "city tour."
The search results came up quickly.
The first few pages are mostly filled with useless information.
Xiao Bai glanced at the page numbers and flipped through about a dozen pages.
Sure enough, Xiaobai soon saw a familiar face on a video link on a certain video website.
Chapter 3325 Little White's Knee
The search link that Xiaobai found led to a video from about twenty years ago.
The video is titled "A Rare Video of the Admiral's Publicity Ambassador's Speech Tour."
Back then, video quality wasn't that high. When a novice clicked on the video, there was static and the footage was shaky, as if the person filming was holding the camera and shooting directly at the screen.
The scene depicts a spacious plaza. On a stage in the center of the plaza, a tall young woman dressed in an admiral's uniform is holding a speech and delivering a speech to the audience.
"As an admiral, loyal to the people, loyal to the world, I will lead the resistance against the deep sea..."
"Respecting the elderly and caring for the young, moral exemplars..."
"Burning one's own self for the benefit of all..."
"..."
Xiao Bai cupped her cheeks as she looked at the person in the video, her lips curving upwards involuntarily.
It's really rare...
I never imagined that the president would be like this.
The video, which is over 20 years old, is still very interesting to a novice.
After watching the video, Xiaobai moved his gaze down to the comments section of the website.
The comments in this video's comment section are quite old, some from over twenty years ago, some from over ten years ago, and some from a few years ago. However, it seems to have gained some popularity recently. I glanced at them briefly and found that most of them were comments from the last six or seven months, and there were quite a few of them, about a dozen.
The content in these comment sections is also surprisingly consistent, ranging from "archaeological souvenirs" to "dig up the top post" and so on.
Xiao Bai was about to close the video webpage when her gaze unconsciously drifted to the bottom of the video.
In order to retain users as much as possible, video websites will put more related videos below a video page. These related videos are basically determined by the video's tags.
For example, if the video of President Er Gou contains the tag "Admiral", then all related videos will naturally be related to the Admiral.
When Xiaobai saw the related video at the bottom of the webpage, he was stunned for a moment, then burst into laughter.
The videos below contain a large number of clips from variety shows that Xiaobai participated in when she was an idol in Yuncheng. In addition to these, there are also short songs and dance videos of Shenhai Dahe and her group when they were in a girl group. Each of them has tens of millions of views.
Even more shockingly, Xiaobai saw a video promoting herself as a couple with Lu Ming.
The video was titled "If True Love Exists in This World," and the cover was a magical scene created using advanced photo editing technology, showing the self and Lu Ming gazing lovingly at each other, surrounded by pink flowers.
As for the video's views, they far surpassed others, reaching over 700 to 800 million.
Xiao Bai thought for a moment and realized that it was no wonder that Er Gou's old video had recently received new comments; these comments were probably indexed by these related videos.
Thinking of this, Xiaobai subconsciously tapped the video, and it started playing.
The video begins with a scene from a variety show where Lu Ming, still in her human celebrity form, sits beside her, staring intently at her profile. Then, the sound pauses, followed by a poignant background music track. The touching lyrics, combined with appropriate scene transitions, bring tears to the eyes. As the video reaches its climax, the screen is flooded with comments like "Watched it twice, three times, four times," "Watched it a hundred times, two hundred times," "I've been watching it on repeat all afternoon," "I miss her," and "They are so good."
This video is really well made.
The atmosphere was so intense that even Xiaobai himself began to wonder if he was having an affair with Shropshire.
After turning off the video, Xiaobai stretched.
This video is really well made. I'll send it to Shropshire later so she can take a look.
"Has the Admiral found the Chairman's old video?" Missouri asked with a smile.
"Well, I found it."
"What are the admiral's thoughts?"
"My thoughts..." Xiaobai drawled, thought for a moment, and then smiled at Missouri, "Well, everyone on the internet is a familiar face!"
……
The time came to noon.
After Missouri left, Xiaobai played on her phone in the dorm for a while longer.
When Luo Lian and Nia returned, Xiao Bai was lying on the bed in the dormitory, his two bare little legs swinging in mid-air.
"Xiaobai, we are back."
Luo Lian returned to Xiao Bai's room, looked at Xiao Bai on the bed, and called out softly.
"Lianlian? Nia, you're back!" As soon as Xiaobai heard Luo Lian's voice, she quickly put down her phone and sat up in bed. "How's it going with the Admiral's Guild?"
"Nothing special. After the governor called us over, he gave us some instructions on work matters."
"That's it."
Xiao Bai sat on the edge of the bed, smiling at Luo Lian and Nia, her bare legs hanging down naturally, her toes lightly touching the floor.
"Xiaobai, when I came back just now, I heard from the ship girls that some strange people came to visit?" Nia asked Xiaobai.
"Ah...that's true." Xiaobai nodded.
"They're not here to crack down on vulgar trends, are they..." Nia covered her mouth worriedly.
"...Why is even you, the admiral, worried about this..." Xiaobai didn't know where to begin to retort to Nia's words. She shook her head and said, "No, they're just friends. They've already left."
"Oh, that's good, that's good." Nia patted her chest and breathed a sigh of relief.
"Xiaobai, besides Nia and me, Ning Lu and Jin Shiqi also went today." Luo Lian walked to the table, poured herself a glass of water, and said to Xiaobai.
“Miss Ning Lu and Jin Shiqi… that’s right, they are also the newly appointed top ten admirals, they should go.” Xiao Bai nodded.
“Jin Shiqi told me that he is very grateful for your guidance and would like to pay a visit to express his gratitude if possible,” Luo Lian said. “He originally wanted to come yesterday, but it was the first day after the event ended, and he was afraid of disturbing our rest, so he didn’t come.”
"I see."
"So you want him to come?"
"Um..." Xiaobai thought for a while, a strange expression on his face.
It wasn't that Xiaobai disliked Jin Shiqi; it was just that her own reputation was rather complicated. It was one thing for Nia and Luo Lian, who lived with her, to both make it into the top ten, but for Jin Shiqi and Ning Lu, the two newly appointed top ten admirals, to come and visit her in public felt like the world's number one naval base was interfering with the top ten admiral positions and trying to develop its own dark forces... It sounded rather uncomfortable.
Xiao Bai supported Jin Shiqi and Ning Lu, and also supported her friends Nia and Luo Lian. In fact, she never asked for anything in return. As for developing her own staff, subordinates, and power... Xiao Bai was completely uninterested in such things.
Xiao Bai just wants to enjoy her peaceful life.
Ultimately, the reason Xiaobai did this was because Admiral Haoding had asked her to do it before, and Xiaobai herself had the time, so she just did it.
After becoming one of the top ten admirals, Xiaobai felt that he still needed to distance himself from Ning Lu and Jin Shiqi a little... at least in the public eye.
To avoid suspicion.
"Let's just forget about it... It's good enough that he meant well," Xiaobai said to Luo Lian.
"Yeah, I knew you'd say that." Luo Lian took a sip of water and said to Xiao Bai, "That's why I rejected him for you."
"You did a great job," Xiaobai said with a smile.
Luo Lian listened to Xiao Bai's words and silently put down her cup.
"Oh, right." Luo Lian suddenly seemed to remember something and turned to Nia, saying, "Nia, I just remembered that I left something important in your dorm room. Could you help me find it?"
"Huh? Something important?!" Nia was taken aback, and quickly asked with concern, "What is it?"
"It's a fountain pen that Xiaobai gave me before. I remember putting it on your desk. Can you help me find it?"
"What? It's from Xiaobai! That's a big deal, I'll go see it right now!" When Nia heard that the thing Luo Lian left behind was a gift from Xiaobai, she hurriedly pushed open the dormitory door and ran towards the next room.
In the blink of an eye, Nia disappeared from Xiaobai and Luo Lian's sight.
Luo Lian walked to the door and closed it.
crunch.
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