Elder brother's garrison

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Just like yesterday, Xiaobai squatted down and turned Henry over.

Henry, turned over, looked exactly the same as yesterday. Inside her transparent helmet shell, her fair face was framed by closed eyes and a slightly open mouth, as if she had fainted.

Little White reached out and touched Henry's helmet shell.

“I remember this thing was shattered into pieces when Henry disappeared yesterday… I didn’t expect it to be restored to its original state today,” Xiaobai said.

"Whether it's a ship girl or a deep-sea character, they can all repair ship equipment, right?" the pursuer said.

“That’s true.” Xiaobai nodded, withdrew her hand, and looked at Henry.

Henry's injuries were not serious. Although her latex suit revealed many cracks and her milky white skin, she slowly woke up a little while after being pulled out by Xiaobai and the other two.

Henry let out a groan and opened his purple eyes.

When she opened her eyes, she saw three people, including Xiaobai, squatting in front of her, forming a triangle around her and staring at her.

"Oh! She's awake!"

"Good evening, Henry."

"We meet again, you little brat who doesn't keep her promises."

The three of them, Xiaobai, spoke to Henry.

"..." Henry stared at the three of them with wide eyes, her mouth slightly open.

Just as Xiaobai and the other two were waiting for her reply, Henry, who was lying on the ground, suddenly scrambled to her feet, her round purple eyes immediately filled with shock, anger, and fear.

Henry quickly hugged herself and shrank into a corner of the land-based ship's equipment. She nervously observed her surroundings. After realizing that she had left the sea, she began to open her mouth at Xiaobai and the other two, making a series of sounds that were delicate and pleasant to hear, but mostly hoarse and threatening roars.

The three of them, Xiaobai, were stunned.

It is clear……

Henry is not quite right now.

When Xiaobai and his two companions saw Henry, the emotion in her eyes showed no affection for them whatsoever; instead, there was only unfamiliarity, anger, tension, and intense rejection.

"Admiral, something's wrong with Henry," the pursuer immediately turned to Little White and said.

"Yes, I can see that." Xiaobai nodded. "Her current state... seems to indicate that she doesn't recognize us."

Is her memory really that bad?

"This... I don't know." Xiaobai thought for a moment. She looked at Henry, who was baring his teeth at her like a frightened little tiger. She slowly walked forward and squatted down in front of Henry.

Henry showed particular aversion when Little White approached her, and she tried to move her bottom and back away.

But Henry was already leaning against an armored door of the land-based ship, with nowhere to retreat, so she could only growl and look at Little White squatting in front of her with a threatening look in her eyes.

“Henry…” Little White took a deep breath and tentatively said, “If I remember correctly, I should have already taught you to speak when we last met… Why don’t you try communicating with me in human language? With your current level, you should be able to understand what I’m saying, right?”

Behind Shiro, the pursuers and Fubuki were slightly surprised to hear this.

Wasn't that the first thing our admiral said to Henry yesterday?

Did she repeat it again?

The two ship girls seemed to be deep in thought.

Hearing Xiaobai's words, Henry, who was under threat, was stunned for a few seconds, then her expression became puzzled and she became more composed.

After a while.

Henry closed her mouth, swallowed nervously, glanced at Fubuki and the pursuers, and tentatively spoke to Shiro.

“...You...you...hitting...hitting people...that's wrong..."

Henry's voice was hoarse, as if he had just learned to speak.

Upon hearing this, Xiaobai immediately had the answer in her heart.

"Just as I thought." Xiaobai slowly got up, looking at Henry sitting on the ground, bewildered and helpless, her eyes somewhat dark.

"Admiral, what's wrong?" the pursuer asked from the side. "Judging from your conversation just now, has Henry lost her memory? Has she forgotten everything about us?"

“It shouldn’t be as simple as amnesia.” Xiaobai shook her head. “Amnesia is unlikely to take away technology… If it were real amnesia, she shouldn’t have regressed to this level of speech. I remember when we separated from her yesterday, she was already speaking fluently.”

"Then what's wrong with her?" The pursuer was even more puzzled upon hearing this.

“I guess… she’s back to the state she was in before she saw us yesterday,” Xiaobai said.

"what?"

"It's like a rollback," Xiaobai said, pointing a finger at the pursuer. "You get the gist of it, right?"

“I do know about rollbacks…” the pursuer nodded, “but do rollbacks really exist? The world we live in isn’t a game world, you know.”

“I can’t say for sure… but as it stands, a reverted state seems more suitable for Henry’s situation than amnesia.” Xiaobai was also a little troubled. As she spoke, her gaze kept sweeping over Henry.

Henry hugged herself, sitting on the ground with her legs tightly together and her upper body huddled together, like a little white rabbit being targeted by three jackals. Her expression became noticeably more uneasy after listening to the conversation between the three jackals.

"Henry, Henry...who?" Henry asked nervously.

“Henry, it’s you.” Xiaobai looked at Henry and gave him a gentle smile.

"Henry...me?" Henry asked blankly.

“Yes, that’s your name. You told us it yesterday.” Xiaobai nodded.

“…I…” Henry looked down, staring blankly at her own body. After a moment, she looked up and slowly said, “Henry…it’s me…I guess…”

“That’s right.” Xiaobai nodded with a smile.

"Admiral, if she really has been reverted to a previous state, what should we do?" the pursuer asked from the side.

"Well... let's do it the same way as before... Henry was just reverted to a previous state, not modified..."

As Xiaobai spoke, he took out an energy bar from his ship's equipment space and handed it to Henry.

Henry stared at the energy bar with a wary expression.

Xiao Bai smiled.

……

Five minutes later.

Henry, his face beaming, pressed down on Xiaobai's thigh, like a little dolphin waiting to be fed, rubbing his sticky, slippery belly against Xiaobai's knee, and reaching out to Xiaobai.

Xiaobai, holding the energy bar, turned around and smiled at the pursuers and Fubuki.

"See, it's still very effective, right?"

Chapter 3634 The Jailer

As it turns out, even though Henry was "reverted" by an unknown force and his condition returned to what it was before he last met Xiaobai and his group, Henry after the "revert" was still Henry, and that remained unchanged.

That's why, as long as Xiaobai takes out the energy bar again, he can lure the little submarine in front of him into his arms once more.

Following yesterday's method, after Xiaobai traded a whole box of energy bars for Henry's right to return home, the group of four boarded a land-based ship and headed towards the deep-sea city.

"You're a good person, and this is delicious!"

Henry sat in Little White's lap, rubbing her round little bottom against Little White's thigh. She held an energy bar, tearing at the colorful wrapper while lifting the transparent helmet on her head and stuffing pieces into her mouth.

With a crunching sound as he chewed, Henry revealed an expression of unprecedented satisfaction.

“Admiral, what she just said was dangerous in every sense.” The pursuer sat to the side, looking at Henry with a helpless expression. “She looks so young, and you didn’t even correct her thinking…”

"Well... she'll revert to her previous state anyway..." Xiaobai just smiled helplessly at this.

"Rewind?" Henry, nestled in Xiaobai's arms, looked up at the sound. "Me?"

"It's okay, you can continue eating." Xiaobai shook her head at Henry, and reached out to touch Henry's transparent helmet, as if she were touching her own head.

"Oh..." Henry lowered his head and continued to gnaw like a little hamster.

Upon hearing Xiaobai's words, the pursuer's expression first showed surprise, then became complicated.

"Admiral..." The pursuer sat down on the other side of Xiaobai, glanced at Henry, and then lowered his voice to ask Xiaobai, "You mean... Henry will still disappear today...?"

"Ah."

Xiao Bai nodded to her pursuers, her eyes slightly lowered, her expression somewhat profound.

Henry... probably won't be able to go home with Little White.

I can't go home at least today.

Although this result is just Xiaobai's guess, Xiaobai thinks it is a fact that will inevitably happen in the future.

Henry disappeared yesterday at the exact moment that Xiaobai and his group were about to leave the 8-2 sea area and head to the central sea area where the deep-sea city is located... Xiaobai does not think that this timing was just a coincidence.

perhaps……

Little White touched Henry's transparent helmet, pondering things about Henry.

Perhaps... Henry is a ship girl imprisoned in this 8-2 sea area by a force similar to "rules". During her imprisonment, if Henry actively or passively violates the so-called "rules" of imprisonment, or if someone shows Henry the ability to escape and tries to take her away, the "rules" binding Henry will take effect immediately and pull her away from these threats.

Even if she seriously violates the "rules" once, she will not only be taken away, but she will also be punished by being rolled back.

As for the rollback period...

Based on Xiaobai's recent conversation with Henry, it's highly likely that this rollback will only last for one day.

The main basis for Xiaobai's conclusion that the timeline had reverted to one day is that although Henry's memory had returned to the state of the previous day, the fact that the Deep Sea Will had used its body to contact Henry a few days earlier and left a wisp of its spiritual power in her body in order to teach her to learn human language still had an effect.

If the rollback had occurred earlier, Henry should be completely speechless right now.

Thinking of this, Xiaobai suddenly sighed.

Henry, sitting in Xiaobai's lap, sensed Xiaobai's disappointment. She looked up at Xiaobai, nodded, then looked at the half-eaten energy bar she had been biting, and then held up the energy bar and handed it to Xiaobai.

"Would you like some?" Henry asked.

“…Thank you.” Xiaobai looked at the energy bar, smiled, but shook her head. “You eat it, I’m not hungry.”

"Oh!" Henry withdrew his hand.

Xiao Bai's gaze shifted from Henry to the soft tissue floating above Henry's head, like an angel's halo, inside Henry's transparent helmet.

Based on what Xiaobai saw yesterday, this thing should be the culprit that pulled Henry away.

The moment they crossed the 8-2 sea area, the soft tissue that had been steadily hovering above Henry's head suddenly expanded and swelled as if stimulated, crushing Henry's helmet and then sweeping her away in a powerful surge of mental energy...

If Henry's condition is likened to being in prison... then this lump of soft tissue seems to be... the jailer?

Xiao Bai stared at the soft tissue on Henry's head for a while.

Xiaobai spread her palm out and gently pressed it against the other half of the transparent helmet, where the soft tissue was located, through the transparent helmet.

Seemingly sensing the warmth of Xiaobai's palm, the suspended soft tissue moved away from Xiaobai.

"Is this thing conscious...?" Xiaobai murmured softly.

"Hmm?" Henry said.

"Henry, in your memory, is the sea always this dark?" Little White asked Henry.

"Hmm..." Henry nodded.

Haven't you ever seen the sun?

"sun?"

"It's another kind of moon, bigger and brighter than the moon."

"No……"

"It seems that according to the rules, you can only appear at night." Little White stroked Henry's helmet and said to Henry, "Where are you after nightfall?"

“Hmm… go to sleep!” Henry replied.

"How do you sleep?"

“Close your eyes and sink down…” Henry said.

"Why don't you sleep at night and come out during the day?" Fubuki asked curiously as she listened to Henry and Shiro's conversation.

“I don’t know…” Henry shook his head.

"Do you just wander around this area at night?" the pursuer asked, arms crossed and legs crossed. "Didn't you think about looking somewhere else?"

"Other places?" Henry leaned closer to Little White's embrace.

“It’s somewhere outside this sea area.” Xiaobai gently put an arm around Henry’s slender waist and pointed in the direction the land-based ship equipment was moving. “For example, over there.”