Elder brother's garrison

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"No, no." The white-haired girl shook her head at Su Lei.

"That's good. So, when is a convenient time for the exercise?"

"Well..." The white-haired girl looked slightly troubled.

Seeing the white-haired girl's troubled expression, Su Lei felt this was a good opportunity to test her. He took the opportunity to gently ask her, "Admiral Lu Lin, is there a ship girl named Missouri at Akashi Naval Base?"

"Huh? No."

"Oh, I see." A huge weight lifted from Su Lei's shoulders. "Sorry, I think I mistook you for someone else."

"Mistaken identity..." The white-haired girl seemed to understand something, and she showed an embarrassed expression.

However, Su Lei wasn't paying attention to the white-haired girl, so he didn't see her subtle expression. Su Lei only felt a sense of confidence rushing back into him like flowing water: "Then let's start the exercise now."

"Hey, with me?"

"Um, Admiral Lu Lin, are you busy?"

"Um... well, could you wait a moment?"

"Of course," Su Lei nodded in agreement.

Under Su Lei's watchful gaze, the white-haired girl seemed to have something urgent to attend to and walked out of the courtyard through the side gate with the blonde ship girl beside her.

"Hood, Hood!" As soon as they reached the side door, Xiaobai looked excitedly at Hood beside him.

exercise.

What a beautiful word!

Exercises between ship girls are different from exercises between naval bases. Regular exercises between naval bases are friendly actions used to exchange ideas and improve the training level of the ship girls on both sides, which is a good thing.

However, as a rookie admiral of a naval base, and holding the highest position in the world, Shiro has never experienced a single proper exercise since taking office.

This is directly related to his older brother's daily use of newspaper teams to wreak havoc on other naval bases, but Shiro is different. Shiro actually has some longing for the exercises.

Unexpectedly, while I was helping Admiral Akashi guard the house, an admiral came to my door and asked me to participate in an exercise.

For a novice who had been eagerly anticipating a formal exercise, this was like a windfall.

"He mistook you for Admiral Akashi," Hu De explained to Xiao Bai.

"Hmm." Xiaobai nodded with a smile. "But Admiral Akashi entrusted the naval base to me before he left."

"You want to practice with him?"

“Admiral Akashi isn’t here. He won’t be back until very, very late,” Xiaobai said. “Besides, he just specifically asked me to participate in the exercise with him.”

"Hmm..." Hood smiled as he looked at Xiaobai's somewhat happy expression, then sighed helplessly.

"Is someone coming?" Just then, Bismarck, who was training the ship girls on the sea, also found an excuse to walk onto the beach and came to the side of Shiro and Hood.

"An admiral has arrived and wants to have Xiaobai practice," Hu De stated succinctly.

Bismarck paused, seemingly pondering why someone could find Little White even after she had traveled so far.

"An exercise?" Bismarck finally asked Hood after a long while.

Hu De shrugged and pointed at Little White.

Bismarck looked toward Little White's face.

Little White looked at him with a happy expression, as if he had encountered something good.

Someone asked Xiaobai to practice—Xiaobai was very happy—Xiaobai likes practicing.

Bismarck's mind quickly reached this conclusion.

“Yes.” Bismarck nodded. “Let’s do the drill.”

"Ah, Bismarck, you agreed?" Little White looked at Bismarck with surprise.

Bismarck and Hood exchanged a glance.

"Get him!" the two said in unison.

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Su Lei waited for a while at the Akashi Naval Base, and then Xiao Bai, with a big smile on his face, rushed back with Hu De.

"Admiral Lu Lin, are you ready for the exercise?" Su Lei asked Xiao Bai.

"That's fine." Xiaobai nodded.

After hearing Xiaobai's reply, Su Lei revealed a confident smile.

The smile wasn't deliberately hidden, so Xiaobai and Hude could see it too.

Yes, it's a good thing for an admiral to be confident, as it can certainly boost the morale of the ship girls under his command.

"Admiral Su Lei, are these ship girls behind you participating in the exercise?" Xiao Bai asked Su Lei.

Su Lei nodded, then turned to look at his ship girls: "Yes."

Admiral Su Lei's ship girls bowed to Xiao Bai.

Xiao Bai also greeted Admiral Su Lei's ship girls.

"Admiral Lu Lin, shall we begin now, or wait for your ship girls to resupply?" Su Lei asked with a humble expression. "Well, although I'm a little embarrassed, we actually have very little time left to use."

"Huh? Is that all?"

“Yes, we have to take the train and leave here tonight,” Su Lei said.

"Are you in such a hurry to go back?"

Su Lei didn't speak, but just gave a mysterious laugh.

In reality, Akashi Naval Base is only a small part of the 9527 Naval Base exercise. As mentioned at the beginning, Admiral Su Lei applied for exercises with a considerable number of naval bases in order to climb the ranks. Even if he fought one game a day, he wouldn't be able to go home for a month or two.

Hurry up and take care of Akashi Naval Base, then head to the next naval base. My climb to higher ranks still seems a long way off.

"Oh, I see. That's a pity," Xiaobai murmured after thinking for a while.

If Admiral Su Lei is in such a hurry to leave, he probably won't have time to wait for Akashi, the true master of the naval base, to return after the exercise with me.

"What's a pity?"

"Ah, it's nothing." Xiaobai shook his head and smiled at Su Lei. "Admiral Su Lei, come with me."

Xiaobai led Su Lei and his ship girls through the side gate of the naval base and onto the beach.

As soon as Admiral Su Lei stepped onto the beach, he saw several ship girls lying on the sea.

These ship girls seemed to have lost their bones, lying on the water in a daze, panting heavily, looking like lazy, useless wimps.

Admiral Su Lei immediately frowned.

Why isn't any of these ship girls standing?

He turned his head and looked at the strongest battleship among his ship girls.

The battleship girl made a rather subtle hand gesture towards Su Lei.

This is a little secret between Admiral Su Lei and the ship girl.

This gesture means that she can sense the opponent's strength, that we have a great advantage, that we have achieved a great victory on September 27th, and that we can handle it without any problems.

Admiral Su Lei sighed inwardly.

No wonder Akashi Naval Base is just a small town naval base. The ship girls themselves are not strong, and they are not so proactive in training. They lie on the water all day, slacking off and never amount to anything.

Su Lei originally wanted to give Xiaobai some pointers, but after thinking about it, he realized that it wouldn't be of any use for him to say such things, so he kept the idea to himself.

"Those ship girls are too tired from training, so they're taking a break," Xiaobai explained to Su Lei.

"Okay." Su Lei nodded, without saying anything else.

How could a ship girl, a creature with energy as boundless as a blazing fire, be so tired as to lie down in the water?

Su Lei took Xiao Bai's words as a false excuse.

"Admiral Lu Lin, should I wait until those ship girls have rested?" Su Lei's voice already carried a hint of unkindness.

"Ah, no need..."

"You're welcome. Although I'm short on time, I still have time to wait for the ship girls to rest."

"Really, no need, really no need," Xiaobai quickly shook her head and refused.

Those lying on the water are all ship girls from the Akashi Naval Base, subordinates of the Akashi Naval Base. Even if I am the world's number one admiral, I have no right to order them to conduct exercises until Admiral Akashi personally hands over the command of the ship girls to me temporarily.

Besides, Admiral Su Lei is going to practice with Xiao Bai on his own. What kind of situation would it be if he brought along the ship girls from Akashi Naval Base?

"It's not those ship girls doing the exercise," Xiaobai said to Su Lei. "My ship girls were training just now, so they lost some resources and went to resupply. They'll be back soon."

"Oh, I see. Well, that's very rude of me." Su Lei's expression softened slightly after hearing Xiao Bai's words. "How about I arrange for my ship girls to wait for you on the sea?"

"Sure, the supplies will arrive quickly."

Su Lei nodded in agreement, and then his ship girls set foot on the sea, disappearing into the distance in a flash.

Meanwhile, the ship girls who had been lying on the sea surface finally sat up while rubbing their joints, and then climbed ashore, making room for the sea surface where the exercise would be held.

Su Lei glanced a few more times at the ship girls who had climbed ashore.

—There seem to be quite a few ship girls at Akashi Naval Base. These seven or eight who have climbed ashore, plus the ones who will be doing exercises with me later, there are probably fourteen or fifteen of them.

There are more of these ship girls than I am. If I level them up, I might even become a top player who can conquer the deep-sea events.

Unfortunately, putting aside the admiral, the ship girls are rather disappointing.

Su Lei shook his head, clearing the thoughts from his mind.

He stood ramrod straight on the beach, facing the gentle sea breeze, and then closed his eyes to rest.

Xiao Bai glanced at Su Lei a few times and thought that this admiral was really a bit strange.

A little while later, footsteps were heard in the courtyard of the Akashi Naval Base.

The ship girls, led by Bismarck, have finished resupplying and are heading this way.

"Little White." Bismarck, who was walking at the front, came to Little White's side, reached out and rubbed Little White's head, and then looked at Admiral Su Lei, who was standing not far away.

"Is it him?" Bismarck asked Little White.

"Yes. His name is Su Lei."

Bismarck nodded.

Actually, Bismarck wasn't interested in the name of the admiral who dared to apply for the exercise, but since Xiaobai mentioned it, he decided to make a note of it.

"Have you finished resupplying?" Xiaobai asked.

“The supplies are finished.” Bismarck nodded, but then suddenly seemed to remember something and said to Shiro, “It seems that the Akashi Naval Base is running low on resources.”

"what?"

"I saw this during resupply; the Akashi Naval Base's resource depot is running low," Bismarck said. "It looks like we've been using up quite a bit these past few days."

How much is left?

"The last bit is on me."

"Uh—" Xiaobai was stunned for a moment, and then his expression became awkward.

As the world's number one naval base, Xiaobai's naval base has more resources than it can use, so much so that she has never developed the habit of considering resource consumption.

Thinking about it that way, it makes sense. Bismarck and the others are all large ships with extremely high consumption. Even if only five or six are used for work normally, it is still a terrible consumption for some weak naval bases that don't have much resources to begin with.

The more Xiaobai thought about it, the more embarrassed she felt.

No wonder Admiral Akashi's expression has been so strange lately...

"Well, well—how about we buy some resources for Admiral Akashi after the exercise is over..." Xiaobai asked apologetically.

Bismarck didn't speak, he just nodded.

"Just allocate a little of the resources we've consumed," Hood said to Shiro. "Don't give Akashi too much at once; too many resources aren't good for a newbie."

Xiaobai nodded.

"Let's talk about the exercise next," Hu De said with a smile to Xiao Bai. "The admiral Su Lei brought six ship girls, which is the full complement for the exercise. We have a lot of people now, so who should go?"

"I me me!"

In an instant, all the ship girls present, except for South Dakota, raised their little hands.