Elder brother's garrison

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As Xiaobai and his companion moved forward, the surrounding air began to thicken, and the water beneath their feet became darker. Through the swirling black mist, more and more deep-sea creatures were observing them from afar.

The giant gazed around at the water with a puzzled expression.

We've been gone for quite a while now... and there aren't any mineral veins or anything like that on the surface of the sea. On the contrary, there are more and more deep-sea creatures.

To be fair, while the deep-sea creatures in Chapter 4 are clearly not as strong as those in higher-level sea areas, and even give the impression that they might not be able to defeat the elite deep-sea ships in Chapters 2 and 3, the number of deep-sea creatures in Chapter 4 is truly abundant.

A quick, sweeping glance revealed that the sheer number of deep-sea creatures around them caused their red pupils to blink in the distant black smoke, creating a blood-red, tranquil starry sky.

Just as Super-Big was secretly observing the deep-sea creatures around her, suddenly, her ears twitched.

Boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom...

It seemed that in the direction I was heading, far away, there were some battle sounds that were very faint but strange because of the great distance.

The sound was strange.

It seemed as if hundreds or thousands of strings of firecrackers were lit at the same time, the crackling sound ringing out densely and rapidly, as if it would never end.

Chao Da frowned as soon as he heard the voice.

Is this... the sound of ship girls fighting against the deep sea?

But that’s not right either.

These crackling sounds should all be the cannon fire from the deep-sea forces. But what about the sounds from the ship girl forces?

He glanced at Xiaobai instinctively, his eyes widening.

Xiao Bai also heard the sounds of battle in the distance, but compared to Chao Da's puzzled expression, Xiao Bai smiled.

"We're almost there," Xiaobai said.

"Is the Admiral right? Over there?" Chao Dahe pointed to the distant direction from which the firecrackers were coming from.

"Yes."

"...Admiral, what's the situation over there? Are people fighting against the Abyssal Force?"

"Yes."

"I didn't hear any counterattack from the ship girls... Could it be that some ship girl units have fallen?" Super Yamato said to Shiro, "Should we lend a hand?"

"..." Upon hearing Super Yamato's words, Xiaobai didn't reply immediately, but looked at her in surprise, "Super Yamato, you're actually so concerned about the safety of a strange ship girl now?"

"Ah...no, I, I just..." Chao Dahe suddenly remembered that she was supposed to be a deep-sea dean, and she felt embarrassed.

Xiaobai smiled with some relief. She stopped, stood on tiptoe, grabbed Chaodahe's arm, pulled her down to bend over, and patted her head.

"Super Yamato, well done! You're really integrating into this world more and more." Xiaobai's face was full of praise. "Keep up the good work!"

"..."

Chao Da scratched his head, feeling conflicted and unsure of what to say.

So, is the admiral not planning to rescue the ship girl force?

The giant and the cautious gaze looked at the little white creature.

There wasn't a trace of anxiety on Xiaobai's face.

Since Xiaobai didn't move, Chaoda and Ziran could only follow quietly. They slowly made their way towards the water surface where the explosions kept coming from. Finally, after traveling for more than ten minutes, the distant sound, which was originally just like firecrackers exploding, gradually became deafening.

The distant horizon looked as if it were on fire, burning the sea.

The burning sea was filled with countless deep-sea amphibious ships.

These deep-sea amphibious ships roared furiously amidst the flames, unleashing their firepower with their shipboard equipment into the distance, the sky above the flames almost entirely filled with the black shells they fired.

The shells slammed into the water, and amidst the deafening roar, massive curtains of water rose high into the air, creating an incredibly terrifying spectacle.

“So many…” Chao Da murmured.

"We're here, this is it!" At this moment, Shiro tugged at Yamato's wrist and pointed to the battlefield in the distance with a smile.

"Huh?" Chao Da was stunned. "This is it?"

"Yes, look, right in the very center of the battlefield."

"The center of the battlefield..."

Super Big and Confused followed Little White's guidance and looked toward the center of the sea of ​​fire.

At this moment, the sea was filled with blinding light effects and a curtain of water accompanied by red light and flying smoke due to the splashing of shells and the output of firepower. It was quite difficult to see the scene in the center of the flames.

He squinted and stared for a long time before finally getting a clear look at the center of the inferno.

then.

Upon seeing the state of the center of the inferno, Chao Dahe suddenly widened his eyes and opened his mouth slightly.

"...Huh? This isn't..."

In the heart of the inferno, the ship girl unit that had been predicted to fall in the previous and major events turned out to be Bismarck herself!

However, compared to his state of being occupied, Bismarck seemed to be full of energy at this time.

As shells rained down like a torrential downpour, Bismarck, expressionless amidst the sea of ​​fire, charged straight towards them. Hundreds upon hundreds of shells formed a net that crashed onto the sea, and in an instant, more than a dozen shells slammed into Bismarck's body.

Bismarck's expression remained unchanged.

A dozen shells aimed at her were deflected by her armor with a series of crisp clanging sounds. Bismarck's body immediately shone with a strange, polished effect. She was not only unharmed, but her movements were also completely unaffected. She continued to sprint at full speed and easily reached the leader of the Abyssal Force. With a light leap, she landed on the head of an Abyssal destroyer.

Bismarck's contact drove the deep-sea army into a frenzy.

Countless firepower bombarded Bismarck, who ignored the clanging and banging on her body, but the destroyer beneath her was blasted apart and sank into the sea with a roar.

Bismarck continued to leap, transforming into a humanoid monster flashing with light amidst the barrage of cannon fire, and jumped onto the body of the second heavy cruiser.

The shells were coming after Bismarck.

Bismarck leaped and bounded, stepping on the heads of deep-sea creatures as he went, and expressionlessly arrived at the very back of the deep-sea forces, in front of a snarling deep-sea aircraft carrier.

"Ow"

The deep-sea aircraft carrier in Chapter 3548 is a special life form that is almost half-fish and half-girl, and completely mechanized. As soon as its girl part saw Bismarck approaching, it immediately roared and stretched out its arms. Long armor covered its arms and revealed mechanical claws, tearing at Bismarck with all its might.

Bismarck seemed to have anticipated the deep-sea carrier's reaction. While enduring the shell fire on her back, she calmly raised her leg and kicked away the deep-sea carrier's outstretched claws. Then, she kicked the deep-sea carrier straight in the face.

"Thump!!!" The kick was extremely powerful, and the deep-sea aircraft carrier was immediately thrown backward in pain, its hands scratching erratically in mid-air.

Bismarck immediately crouched down and, taking advantage of the deep-sea carrier's scratching motion, reached into the mechanical fish section beneath the carrier. With a creak, she skillfully turned on a valve-like device on the mechanical fish. Bismarck crouched on the fish for a while, then pulled out a large pile of aluminum blocks covered in black liquid and jumped expressionlessly into the water beside her.

Boom boom boom boom boom————

As Bismarck departed, shells slammed into the deep-sea carrier, which shattered into pieces amidst a resentful roar.

Bismarck jumped into the water and cleaned the aluminum blocks as if no one was around. She then stuffed the aluminum blocks into her ship's equipment space, looked around, and nimbly jumped onto the body of a nearby deep-sea destroyer. She continued to use the deep-sea creatures as springboards to move from one deep-sea amphibious ship to another, and finally found the second deep-sea aircraft carrier.

It's the same operation as before.

Kick it once, then kick it again, then crouch down, open the valve, scavenge for resources, grab the resources, jump into the sea, and find the next one...

Everything was done so smoothly and effortlessly, as if it were a natural creation.

At this time, Bismarck was constantly under heavy attack.

Chapter 3549 The Unsinkable Warship

Boom boom boom boom...

The deafening roar of cannons echoed fiercely across the gloomy sea, and flames surged and burned amidst the furious roars of the deep-sea army.

Chao Da stood dumbfounded beside Xiao Bai, staring blankly at the agile figure tumbling through the sea of ​​fire.

In the sea of ​​fire, Bismarck's figure was as small as a black dot.

But this tiny black dot has stirred up an entire deep-sea army, preventing them from having any peace.

Bismarck was like a nimble monkey, and this sea of ​​fire was like the forest she lived in. The shells falling from the sky were the green leaves that covered the sky, and the roaring deep-sea ships were the winding, long branches laden with fruit.

Bismarck moved effortlessly through the deep-sea fleet, leaping and bounding purposefully across one deep-sea creature after another. Sometimes she would step on the armor of the deep-sea amphibious ships, sometimes she would hook her hands around the scorching hot cannons, and sometimes she would even jump into the air to catch a cannonball heading straight for her. Using all sorts of unbelievable means and methods, she launched herself in front of one deep-sea aircraft carrier and light carrier after another in the deep-sea fleet, seemingly oblivious to everyone else.

Then, Bismarck launched a fierce double kick at the deep-sea creatures that were baring their fangs and claws but unable to do anything to her. In front of everyone, she kicked down the upper body of the deep-sea aircraft carriers, squatted down, pried open the ship equipment under them, and quickly carried away piece after piece of precious aluminum.

The deep-sea creatures went berserk, roaring, yet they could do nothing to her.

These roars, in turn, became Bismarck's accompaniment to her opportunistic attacks, making her movements among the deep-sea army faster and faster.

……

"Super Yamato, did you see it clearly?"

In the distance, Xiaobai tugged at Chao Yamato's wrist, who hadn't responded for a long time, and smiled as she brought her back to her senses.

The super-sized Yamato swayed, and her dazed gaze finally snapped back to reality.

After regaining his senses, Chaoda took a deep breath and looked at Xiaobai with an unusually complicated expression.

"Admiral... this... this is aluminum theft?"

“That’s right, this is stealing aluminum.” Xiaobai nodded.

"This...this isn't stealing..." Super Dahe was speechless for a moment, unsure of what to say. She simply glanced at Bismarck's location in the distance and sighed, "Isn't this robbery..."

"Oh dear, my brother calls this 'stealing aluminum' in his notes." Xiaobai waved her hand with a smile and continued to say to Chao Yamato, "In short, after seeing Bismarck's work with your own eyes, you finally understand the process of stealing aluminum, right? The so-called stealing aluminum is actually coming here to rob the resources inside the deep-sea creatures' ship equipment."

"Hmm..." Chao Dahe nodded, her gaze still somewhat strange. "But Admiral... why here? If it's just because the deep-sea creature's ship equipment contains resources, aren't deep-sea creatures everywhere? And wouldn't the deep-sea creatures in Chapter 8 have even more resources in their ship equipment?"

"That's pretty good, you can even apply what you've learned to other situations." Xiaobai smiled as she listened to Chao Yamato's words and said to him, "Chao Yamato, you might have the potential to be an admiral."

Xiaobai patted Chao Yamato's lower back, praising him. After Chao Yamato blushed, Xiaobai slowly lowered his hand and continued speaking.

"Actually, when I first heard about stealing aluminum from my brother's notes, I had the same question. Since the essence of stealing aluminum is to plunder resources hidden in the ship equipment of deep-sea creatures, why specifically in Chapter 4... or even in a place like 4-3, which is so precise down to the sea area node?" Xiaobai looked at the sea of ​​fire in front of her, her pupils reflecting Bismarck's figure tumbling in the flames. "Furthermore, if it's about plundering resources from the ship equipment of deep-sea creatures, why only steal aluminum and not oil or ammunition? Clearly, if we wanted to, we could find oil and ammunition in the ship equipment of deep-sea creatures. And most importantly... since stealing aluminum is feasible, why, after almost ten years, is it still only our naval base's ship girls working in the 4-3 area, and why don't other high-ranking admirals come at all?"

"Yeah, why?"

Chao Da nodded to the side and asked.

The questions Xiaobai just raised are indeed very big and things I've never understood.

"The answer is simple, it's really just a matter of cost-effectiveness." Xiaobai turned to Chaodahe and said, "Because in the end, stealing aluminum is just a form of resource exchange."

"Resource exchange?"

“To seize resources from deep-sea ship equipment means that we must fight against deep-sea creatures. Since we have to fight, we must rely on the power of ship girls.” Xiaobai looked at the sea of ​​fire and slowly explained, “And ship girls can’t use their power without the four resources of oil, ammunition, steel, and aluminum. Even battleship ship girls that do not rely on aluminum resources at all still need oil and ammunition to support their daily consumption, and steel or quick repair devices to repair damaged ship equipment. So in a sense, stealing aluminum is a resource exchange method that consumes oil, ammunition, and steel to obtain aluminum.”

"Oh..." Chao Da nodded, seemingly understanding but not quite.

"So why do we only steal aluminum?" Xiaobai asked Chaodahe with a smile.

"Is stealing other resources not cost-effective?"

"That's right, you really have the talent to be an admiral." Xiaobai laughed, giving Chaoda a thumbs up in admiration. "Aluminum is the hardest to obtain among the four basic resources in the admiral circle, but it is also the resource with the highest strategic value. Because of the special existence of aircraft carrier girls, they can create countless carrier-based aircraft that blot out the sun from aluminum, exchanging an astonishing amount of resources for overwhelming, large-scale strike power in a short period of time, allowing the naval base to win important battles at an extremely fast speed. Therefore, compared to stealing oil, stealing ammunition, or even stealing steel, stealing aluminum is the most cost-effective choice."

"Thank you, Admiral..." Chao Da blushed.

"Now here's another question," Xiaobai continued, asking Super Yamato. "Super Yamato, tell me, why, with such a large ocean world, did we choose to steal aluminum in the 4-3 area instead of going elsewhere? And why didn't the other naval bases operate like us?"

“This…” Chao Dahe opened her mouth, thought for a while, but couldn’t think of an answer, so she shook her head, “Admiral, I don’t know…”

"Actually, the answer to this question is the same as the previous one." Seeing that Chaodahe couldn't answer, Xiaobai didn't continue to trouble her and said with a smile, "It's still a matter of cost-effectiveness. Did you notice that Bismarck didn't actually fire a single shot in the battle just now?"

“Indeed.” Chao Dahe nodded.

Super Big and I were just wondering about this.

With Bismarck's strength, although there are many deep-sea creatures in this area, she should be able to easily clear out most of the troublesome deep-sea creatures first, and then slowly deal with the small number of deep-sea aircraft carriers.

Why did Bismarck, who could have easily sunk them, simply leave them unattended?

"Because firing cannons consumes a lot of resources," Xiaobai said to Chao Yamato. "Aluminum theft is essentially a form of resource exchange. So, to increase the profits from aluminum theft, besides increasing the amount of aluminum obtained at once, another way is to reduce the costs. Bismarck chose to steal aluminum alone, and didn't even fire a single shot when facing an entire deep-sea army. This is because she wanted to increase the profitability of aluminum theft by reducing the number of her teammates and reducing her own resource consumption."

"So that's how it is..." Upon hearing this, Super Yamato finally understood Shiro's words. She nodded in realization, "No wonder Bismarck chose to come out alone..."

"Because ultimately, if it's not just one person stealing aluminum, the amount of fuel and ammunition resources expended by an entire fleet of ship girls on an expedition far exceeds the amount of aluminum obtained... It's a huge loss." Xiaobai sighed, looking at the sea. "The deep-sea creatures in Chapter 4 are numerous, but fortunately, their attack intensity isn't particularly high. Bismarck has two ship equipment abilities. One she often uses is a flagship killer that can pinpoint targets, and the other... is a special passive ability that greatly reduces the damage she takes. With this second damage reduction skill, Bismarck can basically ignore the attacks of deep-sea enemies at the level of Chapter 4. So she's probably the only ship girl in the world who can face an entire deep-sea army in the fourth sea area without firing a single shot and accurately and quickly carry out the aluminum-stealing mission."

"Ah...no wonder she said I wasn't good enough..."

Chao Yamato's thoughts drifted back to the past.

Because they had lived together before, even though Bismarck didn't say anything, Yamato had gained some understanding of Bismarck's abilities through the conversations of the others.

Putting aside the flagship killer ability, Bismarck's second ability is a damage reduction skill with a rather unique effect.

The mechanism of this damage reduction skill is amazing.

This isn't like Veneto's Aegis, which completely blocks a certain amount of damage within a limited time and number of uses, nor is it another type of effect that reduces a portion of the damage received proportionally. Bismarck's damage reduction effect is that her skill continuously assesses all sources of damage that attack Bismarck. Any damage below a certain threshold, regardless of the type of attack, will be completely blocked and negated by her passive skill. Only damage above this threshold can actually harm her with the remaining portion after the threshold's power has been reduced.