Elder brother's garrison

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"Okay." Upon hearing Luo Lian's command, the man directly in front of Luo Lian covered his ears and stepped back, sending out his admiral network to contact his ship girl.

"Numbers 6, 7, and 11, move your anti-submarine teams to area 4."

"Number 3, Number 21, Number 8, have your ship girls stay in area 6 and wait for orders."

"Number 24, Number 23..." Luo Lian quickly issued the orders, and the admirals around her also sprang into action.

Chapter 445 Being second in the world is pretty good too

The admirals standing around Luo Lian were naturally the laborers she had recruited.

After Luo Lian gave the order, her teammates quickly used the admiral network to contact their ship girls and relayed the order to them one by one.

On the high seas, the ship girls who were fighting the deep-sea amphibious ships received the news and quickly changed formations, spreading out on the sea and exchanging positions to deal with their respective enemies.

After issuing all the instructions, Luo Lian lowered her head again and carefully examined the map.

The map was divided into areas by Luo Lian using various colored ballpoint pens and gel pens, and named according to serial numbers. Each teammate also had a copy of the miniature map.

Luo Lian's actions were simply to make the team gain merit points faster and safer.

Luo Lian's teammates included both men and women, all of whom were older than her. Some of the oldest were even old enough to be her fathers. However, at this moment, they seemed to ignore Luo Lian's age and all stared at her with extremely trusting eyes, without questioning any of the instructions she gave.

Trust certainly doesn't come from nowhere.

Before yesterday's gathering, many people simply regarded Luo Lian as a lazy rich second-generation, like the kind of new admiral who is too lazy to do anything himself.

However, the result was beyond their expectations. When they gathered, Luo Lian was not surrounded by as many ship girls as they remembered; there was only one Warspite.

When they asked about the situation, Luo Lian told the truth quite directly.

She only has one ship girl, Warspite. The previous five ship girls were all rented fighters, just there to make her look good, and they wouldn't fight for her.

Upon learning of this, all the admirals present were enraged. Luo Lian's actions clearly fell into the category of fraud, and several hot-tempered admirals even considered grabbing Luo Lian and subjecting her to violence.

Of course, violence is unacceptable, and in the end, these actions were stopped by rational adults after Luo Lian explained the pros and cons of violence in a simple and clear manner.

After that, the admiral in Luo Lian's team who declared his intention to leave started a wave of controversy. After all, no one wanted to work for a naval base that lacked even the most basic combat capabilities. They felt that Luo Lian couldn't guarantee them any compensation.

However, Luo Lian seemed to have anticipated this. She took out the contract and pointed to a clause that she had reached a consensus with the team members: "You can voluntarily leave the team after the daily activities, and the reward will be distributed according to the proportion of the final reward and the amount of labor." She then laid it all out on all the team members.

You can leave, but you have to work for a day first.

The team members never expected that Luo Lian would set a trap here. They had no choice but to work against Luo Lian for a whole day, even though they were resentful.

That day was quite unpleasant. None of the team members gave Luo Lian a friendly look, and it was even more difficult for Luo Lian to issue orders. It wasn't until Luo Lian took out the contract and pointed to the clause that "all orders shall be issued by Captain Luo Lian, and the team members must execute any orders that do not pose a great threat to the lives of the ship girls" that the group of rioters who wanted to defect were finally suppressed.

However, aside from giving orders, Luo Lian just let her teammates verbally abuse her.

The team worked from morning till sunset, and amidst the unfriendly glares on everyone's faces that seemed to say, "Finally it's over, I'm going to teach this little bitch a lesson," Luo Lian and her teammates and ship girls returned to the Admiral's Guild.

There were 26 people in the team. Twenty-five teammates had submitted applications to leave the team, leaving only Luo Lian herself.

Luo Lian said there was no rush, and led the people to register on the first floor, then went up to the second floor, to the place where the rewards were tallied.

Finally, to everyone's astonishment, thousands of deep-sea metals were poured out by the ship girls, gathering in front of them to form a dark, imposing mountain.

The teammates finally realized that their second impression of Luo Lian was so terrible that no matter what Luo Lian did afterward, they couldn't change their feelings towards her in a short period of time. Even when their ship girls were harvesting deep-sea metal, they subconsciously treated it as a very ordinary thing.

—Unbeknownst to many, deep-sea metals have accumulated to this amount.

After submitting all the tasks for 26 people, Luo Lian tallied up the team's earnings for the day and relayed them to her teammates who were standing there dumbfounded.

That was deep-sea metal worth nearly 600,000 merit points, thanks to the special buffs during the deep-sea activity period and the recycling bonus from the mission.

"Those who want to leave can leave now. Take your first day's pay." Luo Lian stood coldly in front of everyone and said this to all her teammates who had spoken ill of her before.

Who else would leave the team?

After just one day of work, the team had earned a huge profit that they could never have imagined under normal circumstances. They had no doubt that Luo Lian would keep his promise to them.

In an instant, memories rushed back.

Luo Lian's accurate and swift command, her detailed understanding of the map, her grasp of the battle situation, and all her other brilliant abilities as a captain flashed through her mind at once.

So, all the teammates fell silent, as if they weren't the ones who had stood on the wings of justice a few seconds earlier, arrogantly criticizing Luo Lian for being dishonest and despicable.

Under Luo Lian's gaze, which seemed to see right through people, the teammates remained silent for a long time.

Only at the very end did Luo Lian murmur softly, "Has no one left the team?"

Luo Lian didn't say a word more, only briefly saying "Dismissed" and "Meet at a certain time and place tomorrow," before leaving with a flushed, excited Zhan Yan.

To win over disobedient teammates, you need to slap the fact that you are awesome in their faces, make them clearly realize this, make them feel guilty for their actions and stupidity, and then give them the choice of whether or not to follow you.

Luo Lian gained the loyalty of her teammates in such a simple way.

Then, on the second day, after a night of contemplation and reflection, Luo Lian's teammates all abandoned their own thoughts, elevated Luo Lian to the pinnacle of the team, and placed their complete trust in this young girl.

"Captain, I'm sorry, one of my ship girls was just moderately damaged." Just as Luo Lian was giving orders, a team member interrupted her with a look of shame.

"Your team is an anti-submarine squad. So be it if it's moderately damaged. Let your ship girl bear with it." Luo Lian said calmly to her team members. "In another hour, we can get her ashore for a quick meal. Number 11, gather your team with Number 6 and try your best to protect the moderately damaged ship girl."

"Yes!" another team member replied.

Luo Lian lowered her head, acting as if the conversation had never happened, and continued to carefully examine the map.

Although Luo Lian has the fewest ship girls and has nothing to do all day but sit on the map looking back and forth, seemingly having a relaxed life, her brain is actually spinning rapidly almost all the time.

Every few seconds, she would use the admiral's network to observe the situation in the sea from Warspite's perspective, analyze the enemy's status, and work with the admiral in front of her to calculate the battle that would last for several hours. She would issue preemptive orders to the ship girls and her teammates.

The Deep Sea event is essentially a means and activity for admirals to plunder resources from each other; it's a competition of who can get more, faster, and earlier.

Luo Lian's team has an exceptionally large number of ship girls, so naturally they can get a lot. However, the responsibility of getting them early and quickly falls entirely on Luo Lian's shoulders.

This is also why these admirals admire Lorene so much, after a night of reflection.

Not just anyone can be a team leader. If such a bloated team is not properly organized, it will only create chaos and fail to achieve the expected goals.

After issuing the command, Luo Lian finally had a moment to catch her breath. She sat up from the map, took a deep breath, picked up the bottled water that was placed to the side, and took a small sip.

"Captain, you're amazing!" The female admiral, who had been quietly watching Luo Lian from the side, looked at Luo Lian with stars in her eyes, making no attempt to hide her admiration.

This is the only admiral in Luo Lian's team who is only a few years older than Luo Lian. She also looks like she graduated not long ago, and her fleet strength is not particularly good. Luo Lian only recruited her into the team with the idea of ​​not losing money.

She was one of the few admirals who didn't show too much hostility towards Luo Lian during yesterday's riot. Judging from this point alone, Luo Lian had a pretty good impression of her.

"Hmm." Luo Lian accepted the compliment and then placed her hands on the ground.

"Captain, Captain, you'll definitely become an amazing admiral in the future!"

"Mm." Luo Lian nodded.

It seems that this teammate's trust in Luo Lian has become inflated to a certain extent.

"Captain, you'll definitely become an amazing admiral!"

"Ah."

"You will definitely become the most powerful admiral in the world in the future!"

“Impossible,” Luo Lian said calmly.

Luo Lian's little fangirl was stunned, not expecting Luo Lian to refuse so decisively: "Captain, you're the first person I've ever met who's this amazing. Being number one in the world shouldn't be a problem for you..."

"I said it's impossible," Luo Lian repeated.

“…Oh, oh.” The little fangirl subtly felt that Luo Lian was a bit scary like this, and then lowered her head as if she had said something wrong.

Luo Lian's thoughts once again sank into the map in front of her.

—Number one in the world? That's a newbie's spot.

Luo Lian had absolutely no interest in that position.

The position of second in the world is much harder to achieve than that of first place, and it is fraught with more thorns and obstacles...

Chapter 446 The Collapse of the Battle

After that, Luo Lian ignored her little fangirl and continued doing what she had been doing before: observing the situation, practicing combat, and studying the map.

Luo Lian's little fangirl stood beside him, her hands clasped together in a slightly aggrieved manner, her head bowed, her eyes sparkling.

Luo Lian is actually this kind of person. Although he is quite docile in front of Xiao Bai, Luo Lian is actually quite arrogant. As he said when he first appeared, although Luo Lian has never looked down on anyone around him, he has never taken anyone else seriously except for Xiao Bai.

For example, this fangirl of mine, at such a young age, has become an admiral with the ability to conquer deep-sea events and also has an admiral network. Without even thinking about it, it's obvious that she must be a newcomer with considerable potential and luck. If left to grow, she might really become an outstanding admiral in the future.

Even so, the fangirl can only be a passerby in Luo Lian's life. Sooner or later, she will disappear from Luo Lian's life as he continues to move forward.

Luo Lian continued to carefully observe the map, tracing the lines of the sea and shore with her finger. Her mind raced, and a 3D image of the sea and shore formed in her brain, with the army of ship girls appearing as rows of black dots moving incessantly on it.

Because the deep-sea amphibious ships are not intelligent beings, even under the control of the deep-sea flagship, they have the basic ability to form groups, but they are still just wild monsters with ordinary reactions and lack of adaptability.

Predicting how this level of battle will develop in the next hour is not a problem for Luo Lian.

Luo Lian is currently constantly checking the development of the battle from the perspective of war-weariness, keeping her calculated and predicted future at the level of one hour in the real world.

Luo Lian's predictions cannot stop. After all, every five seconds in the real world, Luo Lian has to continue to speculate for another five seconds. Only by maintaining a dynamic balance can he continue to maintain the advantage of being one step ahead of others in terms of information.

In Luo Lian's mind, her team was methodically collecting deep-sea metals, while she was constantly receiving new information from the battle situation.

"Sector 1 feedback normal, sector 2 feedback normal, sector 4 enemy ships are putting up strong resistance, the team's ship girls have suffered combat losses, sector 3 feedback normal..." Luo Lian murmured in a soft voice as she checked the map in her mind.

"Number 25, abandon area 8 and move the team to area 4 for support."

"Yes!"

After issuing the simple order to relocate, Luo Lian continued to study the map intently.

—Then, just a few seconds later, information came from area three that the ship girl's equipment had been damaged once again.

Luo Lian frowned and looked towards area number four.

Including the previous casualties of Team Member Six, this is the third time such a problem has occurred in just a few hours.

Ship girls can indeed make mistakes, after all, the battlefield is ever-changing, and even the strongest ship girls cannot guarantee that they will be 100% free from accidents. Therefore, admirals are quite used to situations where ship girls are attacked unintentionally.

But doing it three times in a row is a bit too much.

Luo Lian covered her head, expanding her connection with war-weariness.

"What's wrong, Admiral?" Warspite on the high seas clearly felt that her connection with the Admiral had been strengthened, and asked with some curiosity.

"War-weary, go stay in Zone 4 for a while."

"Oh, okay." Warspite lifted her skirt and strode towards Zone 4.

Luo Lian quickly saw the battle scene in Area 4 in the visual information transmitted by Warspite.

Luo Lian lay on the map and looked at it for a while.

Suddenly, Luo Lian sat up, lowered her head, and carefully looked at the message sent by Yan Zhan.

Finally, Luo Lian closed her eyes.

"Alright, war weariness is fine now."

“Oh, then I’ll go back to patrol?” Warspite replied.

“No, let’s go back to shore. Today’s activities are over,” Luo Lian said.

"Huh?" Warspite's shocked voice came from behind.

Despite her shock, Warspite still trusted her admiral. She said "Oh," and then hurried back to the beach.

Luo Lian's teammates on the beach also heard her voice, and they were all stunned.

"Captain, what did you say?"

"Today's activities are over." Luo Lian rolled over, off the map and back onto the beach. She put her shoes back on, then folded up the large map and put it back into her clothes.

"It's over?" Luo Lian's teammates looked at her in disbelief. "We haven't been working for very long today. How is it over already?"

“If you want to continue, that’s fine, but this afternoon you’ll have to do it in your individual capacities. I don’t mind,” Luo Lian said calmly as she waited for the war-weary men to return to the beach. “However, I suggest you leave this area within an hour.”

Luo Lian's erratic reactions left the team members even more baffled.

Warspite quickly returned to the beach. She didn't team up with anyone; she was an independent ship girl created by Luo Lian, serving as Luo Lian's eyes on the high seas, patrolling the waters and relaying real-time information to her. Therefore, her return was faster than any other ship girl.

Luo Lian stepped forward and said a few words to Warspite. Warspite nodded and then took out three quick repair devices from her ship equipment space. Luo Lian handed the repair devices to the three ship girls who had suffered battle damage: "In short, in the name of the captain, I hereby announce that the team's rookie naval base activities are over for today. We will continue to gather here at seven o'clock tomorrow morning."

"Captain, tell us why you're leaving?" The team members were still puzzled. Although Luo Lian had established a great reputation in their hearts, the fact that she ended the activity so abruptly was still very puzzling.

"Because it's dangerous." Luo Lian said simply, then ignored the team members and walked back to the city with Warspite.

The admirals left on the beach stared blankly at Luo Lian and Warspite's retreating figures, unsure of what to do.

What else can they do? Their individual fleets aren't particularly strong, and if they were to fight alone, none of them would be qualified to fight in this kind of sea. Even if they wanted to continue forming a team, with Luo Lian gone, they wouldn't be able to accomplish anything without their leader, and none of them could stay here.