Elder brother's garrison

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She turned around and looked around.

Aside from the ship girls, the surrounding area was a safe sea, and the sea was calm at the moment.

"Is it just my imagination?" Rome murmured, supporting the light carrier girl beside her.

"Is there anything I can help you with?" The light carrier girl was heavily damaged and had no strength left. She looked at Roma's strange expression and couldn't help but ask.

"Ah... um... I feel a strange, creepy feeling down my back..." Rome replied.

She looked at Cleveland and the Empire: "Hurry up and get back to the beach."

The Empire nodded; she had wanted to return to the beach for a long time. She picked up the lightest destroyer and walked towards Rome.

--wrong.

Rome's brow remained furrowed, and the sense of crisis emanating from within him grew stronger with time.

Rome is the highest-ranking ship girl here, and also the ship girl that Veneto takes the best care of. Her training volume is several times that of others. Moreover, during most of the time when others are resting, Rome is also practicing alone with Veneto. Her intuition has long been trained by Veneto to be as accurate as radar.

The ship girl beside Ian couldn't possibly do anything bad; this ominous feeling stemmed from something much further away.

As Rome led the group toward the beach, he glanced behind him.

This safe area is located between the beach and the deep sea territory. When Rome looks back, he is looking into the distant deep sea territory.

"Sister?" The Empire asked, noticing the strange expression on Rome's face, which lacked her usual smugness after winning.

"Hmm? Empire, can you sense it?"

"what?"

"I'm feeling really anxious," Rome said.

"Is Veneto going to beat you up again?"

"It's not this..." Just as Rome was about to explain, Rome, who had been staring at the deep-sea territory, finally saw a clue.

In that deep-sea territory that is shrouded in black mist year-round, two points of red light suddenly appeared.

"Alas, there are deep-sea amphibious ships?"

Just as Rome was wondering what was going on, two more red lights appeared around the two red lights in the black fog.

Then, like proliferation, two becomes four, four sides become eight, eight becomes sixteen...

Soon, the black fog in the distance was filled with a blinding red light, like a honeycomb.

"Holy crap!" Rome was startled when he saw the bright lights.

She quickly turned around, grabbed Empire beside her, and led everyone to run rapidly toward the beach.

"Run! The deep sea has rebelled! Aa ...

What they saw in Rome, they also saw in Veneto.

From the start of the exercise until now, Veneto had kept his eyes on Rome and the Empire. Now, seeing Rome rushing back in this direction, Veneto turned his gaze to the distant deep-sea territory.

The ship girls have excellent eyesight; they can see very far away with just a little concentration.

Then the countless red eyes that emerged from the deep sea came into Veneto's view.

Veneto's expression changed, and ignoring Ian in front of him, he started shouting at the admirals beside him.

"Hurry! The Deepsea Territory's Abyssal Fleet has emerged! There are several hundred of them!"

The crowd that was still watching the spectacle was also taken aback when they heard Veneto's voice, and then they subconsciously shifted their gaze to the distance of the sea.

Rome and the others were carrying Ian's ship girl and running quickly towards the beach, all under the watchful eyes of the crowd.

"Run! The deep sea has rebelled! Aa ...

The news from Rome finally reached the admiral's ears.

"Deep-sea rebellion?"

"What do you mean?"

"How can the deep-sea amphibious ships in the first node rebel?"

The admirals were initially confused and bewildered, but just a few seconds later, they heard a faint rumbling sound coming from afar.

Then, everyone saw a dense cluster of red flames in the sky.

"It's a cannonball!" someone shouted.

"Run!"

The next second, shells rained down on the beach from the sky like a meteor shower.

The ship girls beside the admirals quickly released their ship equipment and stood in front of them. Amidst the chaos, everyone frantically ran towards the city.

"Admiral!" Veneto called out to Little White.

"Okay, I understand." Xiaobai nodded. "So Dean Deepsea was in the first node?"

"Okay, let's go!!" Veneto quickly pulled Little White along and followed the surging crowd towards the city.

"Miss Lu! Miss Lu! Help me!" Mr. Barbatos shouted as he pushed Ringo toward Shiro for help.

The four Fubuki sisters quickly ran behind Mr. Barbatos, released their ship equipment to block him, and then pushed the two of them with all their might.

The ship girls truly lived up to their reputation as warriors; even in such an unexpected situation, they handled it remarkably quickly.

Then, the barrage of cannon fire finally reached the beach.

"Boom boom boom boom boom boom boom!" Intense heat and flames erupted all around, and sand and stones flew on the beach. The blazing red light burned like suns in the surrounding sand pits. Veneto relied on the heavy armor of the ship to shield Little White from all the firepower in the rain of cannons.

"Let's get back to the city first."

“Okay.” Xiaobai glanced at Nia.

Nia was also being protected by Takao and Atago, who were following behind her.

It's good that the only person I need to worry about is also okay.

Rome and her allies also have their own ship equipment, so they shouldn't have any problems venturing into cities.

Little White nodded, and then, under Veneto's protection, followed the crowded people toward the city.

"It's probably the scale of the exercise that caught the attention of the Deep Sea Director. It must have thought it was fully developed by now before it came out," Veneto said as he led Little White away from the city. "Such a targeted bombardment could probably only be organized by the Deep Sea Director."

"Okay, Veneto, I'll leave it to you later."

"It's alright, let's retreat first. It should be safer after this round of shelling." Veneto's ship rigging was quite thick, and it remained sturdy even after withstanding several direct shelling attacks to protect Little White.

"Is everyone there?"

“Everyone is here, everyone has ship equipment, there’s nothing to worry about,” Veneto said.

Xiao Bai was stunned for a moment, then quickly turned around and looked behind him.

Oh no, Pachina doesn't have any shipboard equipment!

Sure enough, just as Xiaobai turned around, Pachina and Sukhbaatar, who were at the back of the group, were barely keeping up. Sukhbaatar's ship equipment range was too small without relying on the "Rage" skill, and it was not yet able to perfectly block Pachina and himself.

"boom!"

Another shell struck the beach next to Pachina, and the intense heat instantly turned her arm red. Pachina's skin was scorching at a visible speed.

Even without her deep-sea ship equipment, the Deepsea Dean is just a beautiful human girl. How could she possibly withstand such an injury?

In pain, she lost her footing and fell to the ground, separating herself from the rapidly moving group and being exposed on the beach.

Then, by sheer coincidence, another shell flew down from the sky, heading straight towards this direction.

Chapter 317 Selflessness

Since her conflict with Xiaobai, Pachina hasn't spoken a single word to him, but even so, she stays by his side day and night.

She is the Dean of the Deep Sea, a mortal enemy of humanity. However, Pachina also possesses Xiaobai's memories. Xiaobai has an extraordinary memory, so the length of Xiaobai's memories is not much shorter than Pachina's own memories as the Dean of the Deep Sea. These memories are enough to change Pachina's core.

After gaining Shiro's memories, Pachina's rationality and wisdom grew rapidly, eventually reaching the level of a top-tier dean like Yamato from the Deep Sea. However, because the memories that fostered her growth originated from humans, Pachina retained the Deep Sea's personality while also possessing some human emotions.

That's why Pachina rushed headlong into the human world, even after its ship equipment was torn apart by Sukhbaatar without much complaint.

As Xiaobai watched Pachina's body being engulfed by the splashing flames, her skin instantly turning a scorched, rose-red color, she felt a sharp pang in her heart.

Pachina's physical strength is at the level of an average human.

In fact, because she never exercises and stays at home on her ship equipment all day, after more than ten years, her human aspects are even worse than those of an ordinary human who can at least walk.

Pachina is now severely damaged.

With such severe injuries, coupled with that deadly cannonball from the sky, if no one came to her rescue, Pachina would likely be torn to shreds by that meteor-like iron ball in the next second.

"Veneto!" Little White shouted.

Veneto quickly understood the situation. She also saw Pachina lying behind the group, but she had to protect Xiaobai and couldn't leave.

Sukhbaatar, who is closest to Pachina, is even less of a concern. Her combat power is almost zero when she doesn't use her rage skill, so she can't help at all at this time.

As the shells drew closer and closer, and feeling the flames and intense heat around him, Xiaobai instinctively began to move towards Pachina.

Veneto felt a burst of icy cold air erupt from Xiaobai's body, instantly penetrating Veneto's ship equipment and spreading in all directions.

This is Xiaobai's posture when he's about to activate the ship's equipment.

Amidst the ever-growing crowds moving towards the city, Xiaobai's chilling state was quite concealed. However, if she were to unleash her ship equipment, the people around her wouldn't be fools and would notice immediately.

"No!" Veneto quickly grabbed Xiaobai's hand.

The distance is too far. Even if the ship equipment is released, Xiaobai will not be able to move to the back of the formation when the shells come down.

Just as the brief and hurried conversation between Xiaobai and Veneto ended, just as Veneto had predicted, the red-hot shells had already flown directly above Pachina, radiating a heat that seemed capable of incinerating everything.

Pachina, lying on the beach, hadn't even reacted yet; she just stared blankly at Xiaobai.

Just then, a red figure appeared beside pachina.

Ringo dashed out from beside Fubuki, reaching Pachina with a speed that Shiro had never seen before. As if she had rehearsed it in her mind for a very long time, she bent down, reached out and quickly picked up Pachina from the ground, then turned and rushed back to Shiro.

The scorching hot iron ball slammed into Ringo's back, and the shockwave sent her flying towards Fubuki.

The four Fubuki sisters were prepared and caught Ringo and Pachina in the air.

Xiao Bai breathed a sigh of relief.

She felt her heart pounding, as if the blood was rushing to her head.

After being protected by Fubuki and the other three, Pachina and his group returned to the city safely with the admirals on the beach amidst the barrage of cannon fire.

The range of the deep-sea salvo was not large, only covering the entire beach.

Once you leave the beach and reach the road closer to the city, you're temporarily safe.

Once on the main road, Veneto retrieved her ship equipment, and Shiro quickly turned around to look at the four Fubuki sisters.

Trembling, Mr. Barbatos rolled onto the concrete road like a ball, tumbling several times before finally stopping in front of Little White. The fear and relief of surviving the ordeal instantly overwhelmed the man: "Oh dear, my little princess, thank goodness you were here, otherwise I, Barbatos, would have been doomed! Waaah!"

He's a man, yet he got so scared.

Xiaobai nodded simply to Barbatos, then walked over to Ringo and Pachina behind him.

Pachina's skin was burned red from the residual heat of the previous shells, suffering severe burns. She didn't even have the strength to walk. She gritted her teeth, and tears kept streaming from her blue eyes, whether from the excruciating pain or something else.

Ringo's face was also quite pale. Her wide red dress had been burned in large areas by the aftershocks of the shell, and the entire back of her dress was burned through, revealing large burns underneath that were no less severe than those on Pachina.

"Ringo-neechan! Thank you!" Xiaobai didn't know what to do in this situation, so she kept bowing to Ringo to express her gratitude.

To risk her life for a complete stranger, Ringo, I really don't know whether to call her foolish or kind.

Ringo breathed softly, waved to Shiro, then covered her chest to keep her clothes from falling off, and walked alone to Barbatos' side.

The four Fubuki sisters also carried Pachina there. Shirayuki took out a first-aid kit from her ship's equipment space, pulled out several stacks of gauze, and began to treat the two wounded soldiers in front of her.

The admirals who had taken refuge on the beach also reached the safe zone around this time, each with a look of confusion and bewilderment on their faces.

The ship girls of these admirals had to take the hits for them, and most of their ship equipment was badly damaged. Fortunately, only a minority of the admirals were injured, and most of them were still fine.

The wide road was suddenly crowded with people.

Rome and the Empire, carrying heavily damaged light carrier girls in one hand and unprotected street vendors picked up along the way in the other, also drove their ship equipment onto the cement road at this moment.

"Charge! Charge!" Rome leaped hard, pulling the people behind him onto the concrete road.

With a thud, Rome crashed on the road.

"Ah, I'm exhausted!" Rome let go, and the ship girl and merchant in her arms slid safely to the ground.