Elder brother's garrison

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In a relatively safe corner within the ruins of the dilapidated factory, a woman in red with bandages wrapped around her hands sat slumped over. Her eyes were vacant, as if she had no spirit. Falling building blocks slid past her, scraping her oil-stained skin in several bloody scratches. But perhaps due to good fortune, these blocks at most grazed her body and did not directly hit her.

Li Yan simply glanced at the woman and then looked away.

Li Yan gripped the armrest beside the seat tightly, his gaze cold and indifferent.

"What just happened?" Li Yan asked.

"Commander, we...we don't know either..." The ship girls in the hall looked at each other, shaking their heads in confusion. "It seems like the building we're in was attacked, but the weapon the enemy used...it didn't seem to be a ship cannon or a carrier-based aircraft, but a beam of light..."

"A beam of light?" Li Yan frowned, but when he thought of the beam of light that had just shot past his head, his brows relaxed. He snorted and a mocking look appeared on his face. "I understand. It seems that my four friends are not so grateful for my mercy."

Li Yan stood up and walked downstairs.

Staring at the scattered building blocks around him, and the ornate decorations now buried beneath them, Li Yan's expression changed several times before a smile suddenly appeared on his face.

"Hancock, Hancock... you've made an incredibly foolish move." Li Yan murmured, his smile widening. "So what if you're strong? So what if your weapons are top-notch? This is the Blazing Fire Mercenary Group, with hundreds of ship girls. Even if the four of you are strong, can you defeat our entire mercenary group? And... don't forget, you haven't left the Pure White Wings Mercenary Group yet. Since you attacked us in our base, can I take that as the Pure White Wings Mercenary Group's doing? Hehehe... you made the first move. I've been waiting for this for so long, and finally... finally, I've waited until today."

Li Yan waved his hand and shouted loudly to the ship girls around him.

"Once they're exhausted, beat them until their ship equipment is badly damaged, then bring them back. I'll make them pay the price for destroying my palace!!!"

"Then, once their ravaged state ends the next day, I'll torture them until they're unrecognizable, then send their miserable state to the leader of the Pure White Wings mercenary group, and then! Launch a war against them!!!"

"Hahahaha!!! In this battle, we have the advantage of both reason and force!! Therefore, it will be the final victory for our Blazing Fire Mercenary Group! Even if the Admiral's Circle intervenes and forcibly stops it, the Pure White Wings Mercenary Group, which made the first move, will be the one to be punished in the end!"

"After tomorrow, there will be no one in this world who can threaten me!!"

"My Fire Mercenary Group will rule this world!"

"Hahahahahaha!!!"

As Li Yan finished speaking, it seemed he could already see a magnificent future ahead.

However, just as Li Yan opened his arms and laughed at the star-studded night sky, suddenly, another bright beam of light shot out from the distance.

For a few seconds, the night sky was lit up.

After the beam of light shot into the sky, it disappeared without a trace, but the rumbling sound of collapsing buildings continued to echo in the distance.

Li Yan, who was laughing loudly, stopped laughing and lowered his hand with a cold expression.

"What's going on? Those four ship girls took so long to deal with?" Li Yan coldly reprimanded the ship girls beside him. "What have you been doing all this time? It's just that the weapons are a bit new, and you can take hundreds of people to fight four people this slowly?! I spend so many resources to improve your strength, and this is how you use them?!"

The ship girl, who had been scolded by Li Yan, immediately lowered her head, covered in sweat.

"Commander, Commander... I, let's go out and take a look..." the ship girl said, making a move to run out of the hall.

"Stop!" But before the ship girls could leave, Li Yan called out to them with a gloomy expression.

The ship girls stopped and looked back at Li Yan in a daze.

"Stay by my side." Li Yan said with his hands behind his back and a cold expression, "In case anything unexpected happens again, you can protect me by my side."

"...But outside..."

"Put me first!" Li Yan roared. "Can't a few hundred people handle those four? A bunch of freeloaders!"

"..." The ship girls quickly shrank back and meekly returned to Li Yan's side, surrounding him.

With the ship girls protecting him closely, Li Yan finally felt at ease and sat back down. He stared coldly at the entrance to the hall and reprimanded the ship girl beside him.

"Anyone who loses in battle today will be punished with fifteen days' worth of meals, confined to their quarters, and forced to reflect on their shortcomings." As he said this, Li Yan added with a slight smirk to the ship girls, "You should all be glad you don't have to go out and fight, otherwise you would be the ones in confinement."

"..." The ship girls around her lowered their heads, not daring to speak.

Li Yan closed his eyes and was just about to lean back in his chair.

However, the next second, another white beam of light shot into the sky.

Even with his eyes closed, Li Yan could clearly feel the intense light.

The rumbling sound of the building collapsing echoed once more, but this time, it was much closer to the direction of the hall.

Li Yan opened his eyes, his expression turning grim once more.

"A bunch of trash!"

Even now, Li Yan's determination to capture those four ship girls remains unwavering. However, he is quite dissatisfied that it took so much time to capture just four ship girls and caused so many buildings to be affected.

But then, things started to develop in ways that Li Yan hadn't anticipated.

As time ticked by, the starry sky was occasionally illuminated by light. Each time a light appeared, it was accompanied by a dull thud as buildings collapsed, the sound growing ever closer to the hall.

Inside the hall, Li Yan's expression grew increasingly grim.

The faces of the ship girls in the hall gradually turned pale with fear.

"Commander, the situation... the situation is bad... should we..."

"Shut up!" Li Yan roared. "I am the leader of a hundred-man mercenary group, and you actually told me to run away?! Slap me!"

The ship girl, startled by the shout, immediately lowered her head in fear and raised her hand to slap herself twice across the face.

Two crisp sounds rang out, and then no one called for Li Yan to leave; the hall was completely silent.

It seems that from this point in time, the starry sky became exceptionally quiet, no more white light appeared, and the nearby buildings stopped collapsing.

Li Yan's ugly expression gradually returned to its usual confident state.

"I knew it, how could four ship girls possibly escape the encirclement of over a hundred ship girls... Even if they're quite strong, they're ultimately no match for our Blazing Fire Mercenary Group..." Li Yan muttered to himself, as if comforting himself, his voice echoing throughout the dilapidated palace, "After they're captured, I'm going to..."

However, the next second, Li Yan's voice caught in his throat. He widened his eyes and stopped speaking.

The ship girls also subconsciously looked towards the entrance of the hall. Upon seeing the entrance, they gasped and sweat beaded on their foreheads.

At the entrance, four figures were seen entering the hall one after another.

The four girls, including Xiaobai, were clean and neat from head to toe. Even though an entire road of buildings had collapsed outside, not a single hair on their bodies was disheveled.

It was as if the people who had just fought were not them, but merely tourists.

After entering the hall, Xiaobai, who was at the front of the group, looked around. She saw the human woman slumped in the corner, then looked at the hall full of ruins, and finally looked up at Li Yan on the central throne and the group of ship girls surrounding him.

A smile appeared on Xiaobai's face.

"I was wondering why those ship girls kept stopping us from coming this way. So this warehouse is your headquarters."

Xiao Bai's voice was light and cheerful, as if he were talking about a trivial and interesting little thing.

After seeing that Xiao Bai and the other three were completely unharmed, Li Yan was already speechless with astonishment.

"You...you...how could this be..." The ship girls hurriedly shouted loudly outside, "Where are the people outside?! Someone help! Someone help!!!"

"They won't be coming for a while," Xiaobai shook her head.

"You...you're lying!!!" the ship girls shouted at Xiaobai, "Even if the four of you are strong, how could you possibly defeat so many people!!!"

"Four?" Xiaobai tilted her head slightly, looking at the ship girls. She smiled faintly, shook her head, and then extended a slender, snow-white finger, casually uttering words that left the ship girls speechless, "No, no... actually, from the moment we met until now, I've been the only one who has made a move."

Chapter 3431 Love Me...

From the very beginning until now, only Xiaobai has taken action.

After Xiaobai said that, the ship girls present were stunned and stared at Xiaobai blankly with their mouths slightly open.

"No...impossible..."

The ship girls used almost all their strength to squeeze out those few words through gritted teeth.

"Believe it or not, it's up to you." Xiaobai shook her head, stepping onto the brick and tile ruins and moving closer to Li Yan. "But no matter what, the four of us have arrived here, haven't we?"

When Li Yan saw Xiao Bai approaching him directly, he immediately snapped out of his daze, screamed, and jumped up on his chair.

"Stop her! Stop her!!!" Li Yan slapped the armrest and pointed at Xiaobai, ordering the ship girl beside him.

The ship girls reacted almost instinctively, unfolding their ship equipment.

In an instant, the battleship's main guns and the aircraft carrier's runway were all aimed at Xiaobai, with hot shells and buzzing carrier-based aircraft poised for takeoff.

But before the ship girls could even make a move, and before even releasing her ship equipment, Shiro merely glanced at them, and they instantly collapsed to the ground as if they had lost their bones.

The ship girls lay on the ground, trembling, their eyes filled with shock and confusion.

"What are you doing? Get up!!! Get up!" Li Yan screamed, kicking and stomping at the ship girls lying on the ground. "Protect me! Protect me! Where did all the resources I gave you go?!"

"Stop bullying these ship girls!"

A crisp sound rang out in front of Li Yan.

Li Yan's voice faltered, and he immediately broke out in a cold sweat, raising his head in a trembling voice.

Moonlight streamed through the ceiling, falling on the white-haired girl before him. She stood with her hands behind her back, gazing at him with a calm and gentle look.

This was the first time Li Yan had seen Xiao Bai's face clearly.

The moment Li Yan saw Xiao Bai's appearance, his pupils contracted, followed by a blank and helpless look.

"You...you are..."

"Hmm? Oh...it seems you quite enjoy watching TV." Xiaobai raised her hand and extended it towards Li Yan. "I haven't appeared on screen for over two years. I thought many people had forgotten me."

Xiao Bai's hand was about to touch Li Yan's eyes.

In that instant, Li Yan subconsciously saw the dilapidated hall, the ship girls lying around him, and the holy girl in front of him. A certain defense in his heart was instantly shattered.

A sense of profound understanding, as if from a sudden enlightenment, enveloped Li Yan's heart.

So... in the face of absolute power, all schemes and tricks seem so laughable, so naive...

Who exactly am I going against...?

He screamed in terror instantly.

"Spare me, spare me... spare me, spare me!!!"

Li Yan desperately dodged Xiao Bai's fingers, then knelt down with a thud, clasping his hands together and begging for mercy.

"Spare my life, spare my life, please! No matter who you are, I...I just want to live, please spare me!"

While begging for mercy, Li Yan seemed to remember something, and he hurriedly reached his hands behind Xiao Bai while crying and laughing.

"Oh, right! Look, look! I've caught that woman who offended you today! I'm making her apologize to you! I was planning to make her apologize to you!!! Look!"

Xiaobai's hand hovered in mid-air as she looked at the man kneeling on the ground, whose head was still only as high as her chest, and slowly lowered her hand.

Little White turned around.

In the corner of the hall, a woman sat slumped, seemingly lifeless, her soul adrift.

Li Yan screamed at the woman.

"You bastards!!! I told you to apologize to them!! Didn't you hear me?! Get over here and apologize right now!!!"

Li Yan's screams echoed throughout the hall.

The woman, who had been listless, seemed to have finally regained some of her senses. She turned her head blankly to look at Li Yan and Xiao Bai, who was standing in front of him.

The woman stared at Xiaobai, her gaze distant.

After a while, the woman's vision gradually cleared. She took a deep breath and suddenly let out a bitter laugh.

"Hahaha!!!" The woman laughed through her tears, staggering to her feet and screaming at Xiaobai, "Apologize? Apologize to the ship girls?? Dream on!!! You're all dreaming!!! I'll never forgive the ship girls!!! You're all a bunch of damned bitches!!! You should all die, die, die!!!"

The woman raised her heavy arm and frantically screamed and waved it at Xiaobai.

"It's because of you, because you're beautiful, because you have great figures, the whole world, the whole society, is praising you! And what about us! We're women too, why doesn't anyone even look at us?! You filthy bitches, you sluts, you stole what belongs to us, you stole our lives!! You ruined our lives!!!" The woman screamed and yelled in despair, frantically picking up stones from the ground and throwing them at Xiaobai like a madwoman. "Especially you, especially you! You're so small, you look so clean, and what's most disgusting is your innocent look. My ex-husband ran away from me after seeing a ship girl like you once!!! My modeling job was also ostracized because I wasn't as pretty as the ship girls! What did I do wrong?! Why can you be so beautiful without doing anything? Why can you get men's attention without doing anything? Why, why, why? I hate you, I hate you, I hate you!!! You should all die!!!"

One stone after another flew towards Xiaobai's face.

Changchun and Chaoda swiftly flashed to Xiaobai's side, steadily catching all the flying stones and holding them in their arms.

"Come on, kill me! Kill me!!!" The woman screamed and cried at Xiaobai, charging towards her as if determined to take her down with her. "I hate you all! I hate all of you ship girls! I'll curse you in hell, I'll curse you to go to hell with me!!!"

The woman stumbled and rushed forward.

Hancock appeared behind the woman, coldly grabbed her wrist, and gently patted the back of her head.

The woman's eyes suddenly went vacant, and she quietly collapsed into Hancock's arms.

Hancock placed the woman in a quiet spot, then stood up and looked at Little White.

“She’s too emotional, I’m letting her calm down for a while,” Hancock said to the crowd.

"..." Xiaobai smiled slightly at Hancock, then turned to look at Li Yan, "So... what she just said was an apology?"

Li Yan's body trembled, and he shook his head frantically.

"No, no, no, she... she's mentally ill!! What she just said doesn't count! I clearly told her to apologize!!!" Li Yan knelt on the ground, clasped his hands together, and desperately said, "She's the one with the problem. I'll definitely teach her a lesson later, I'll teach her a real lesson, I'll make her apologize to you again, please believe me, I really..."