Elder brother's garrison

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Chapter 816 A Bite of Hundreds of Millions

Seeing that Xiaobai had been holding onto the marriage certificate for so long, staring blankly at it, President Ergou slowly walked behind Xiaobai, bent down, and peered at the photo in Xiaobai's hand.

"Oh, this?" President Er Gou said knowingly. "Well, regardless of whether it's true or not, it was a wedding back then. Your brother said it didn't matter, but as a virgin, I had to give my hometown an explanation, so I just had a wedding and took some photos, and sent them to my hometown without informing them first."

"My brother never told us that he had been married."

"After all, he's a kept man." President Er Gou's voice carried a hint of smugness.

"President, is your family very powerful?"

Why do you ask that?

"Didn't my brother initially want you as his backer?"

"Hmm..." President Er Gou smiled, pursing his lips. "He might be pretty powerful, but it has nothing to do with me now."

Xiao Bai looked up at President Er Gou.

Speaking of which, Xiaobai had always focused her thinking on her brother, and it seems she had never considered the position of Chairman Ergou.

Although President Er Gou always says she makes a killing, if she really comes from a prominent family and is the child of some powerful official or noble person, the pressure she would have faced in her whirlwind marriage to a poor young man who had just graduated at the time must have been considerable.

How exactly did her brother convince her back then?

Xiao Bai suddenly felt a mixture of admiration and curiosity.

"What's wrong? Your eyes are all red." President Er Gou only noticed Xiao Bai's slightly red eyes when Xiao Bai looked up.

"Ah, this is just a feeling, it's nothing." Xiaobai shook her head, holding the photo.

"Feelings... Hmm, I understand." President Er Gou thought about it seriously for a moment, staring at the photo of the bride and groom in Xiao Bai's hand for a while, "...Am I that good-looking? Look how moved you are."

"..." Xiaobai smiled awkwardly, "The bride is the most beautiful girl."

"I see. Hmph, actually those clothes are tight and heavy, and it's really uncomfortable to wear them like that." President Er Gou's face lit up with a smug expression. "If you like them, just leave the marriage certificate here, and these photos are yours to take home and masturbate as much as you like."

"Ah? Is it really okay?"

"Of course, it's just a few photos."

"But this is your wedding photo, President Sister..."

"Have you ever seen such a simple wedding photo?" President Er Gou patted Xiao Bai's head. "If I want to take wedding photos, whether it's one or a hundred, I can take them anytime."

"Oh……"

"And to be honest, Helena has a lot of opinions about these photos, but it's a rare moment when I'm at my peak of beauty, and it would be a shame to burn them like this. But keeping these photos would put a lot of pressure on me. If you could take them back, I would feel so relieved."

"Ah, okay, then I'll take them." Only then did Xiaobai feel relieved enough to put the photos in her pocket.

After putting the marriage certificate back on the table, Xiaobai followed President Ergou and Helena out of the office.

The lobby on the first floor of the Admiral's Guild remained deserted. Ship girls dressed in Admiral's Guild uniforms carried large stretchers, transporting pieces of Abyssal Ship wreckage into the lobby.

These deep-sea wrecks are somewhat different from the deep-sea amphibious ships that Xiaobai secretly saw on the surface of the sea last time. These iron shells, which are obviously much thicker, are marked with dim golden patterns. Even though they are broken into pieces, the dark golden patterns are still faintly glowing.

On the other side of the hall, many admirals who had been slacking off were now curiously standing on tiptoe, looking this way.

"Is it okay to leave it here?" Xiaobai asked Ergou, the guild leader, in a low voice. "Weren't we supposed to keep it a secret...?"

"This isn't a disappearance, it's a ship girl being attacked in person. It's a huge attack, the wind is too strong to cover it up." President Er Gou shook his head. "Let's be frank and talk things out."

After nodding to the ship girls who were carrying the deep-sea ship equipment, President Er Gou led Xiao Bai to the nearest piece of deep-sea wreckage.

President Er Gou squatted down and casually fiddled with the ship's equipment a few times.

"Oh...it really is golden ship equipment." President Er Gou muttered to himself, feeling the deep-sea wreckage in his hands.

Looking at the ship's equipment in front of him, Xiaobai was filled with many thoughts.

The deep-sea amphibious ships in the first node of Chapter 817 usually do not emit light, and even if they do, it is only a faint red glow like that of a salted fish.

At this moment, the deep-sea debris in front of Xiaobai was golden.

The ship equipment of the deep-sea amphibious ships does indeed change gradually as their strength changes. This is related to the concentration of deep-sea resentment in the local area. Although there are many and varied changes, the easiest to identify and the most convenient one to use as a basis is the color of the deep-sea ship equipment.

Those that glow with gold are definitely more impressive than those that don't; in TV dramas or cartoons, this is called a "duangduangduang" special effect.

Because only the strong deserve to possess these high-class items, and even the deep sea is no exception in this respect.

Xiao Bai recalled the mechanical whales he encountered in that mysterious sea.

Those mechanical whales are at the level of frigates in Chapter Six, second only to the Dean of the Deep Sea, and much stronger than these small fry in Chapter Seven. If they escape, they shouldn't be so easy to catch.

—Speaking of which, it seems like there's been a lot of disasters happening in the place I live in lately.

Xiaobai was a little worried. She squatted down and, just like President Ergou, reached out and touched the deep-sea ship equipment in front of her.

The deep-sea vessel equipment has a limited shelf life after landing on land; it will soon break apart over time, and the deep-sea resentment inside will overflow and return to the sea.

As Xiaobai touched the wreckage, wisps of transparent deep-sea resentment continuously oozed out from the wounds.

These deep-sea resentments are invisible and imperceptible to ordinary people; only admirals and ship girls who have activated their admiral networks can perceive them.

These deep-sea resentments subconsciously tried to drift towards Xiaobai, but Xiaobai gently raised her hand and effortlessly dispersed them, ultimately turning them into nothingness and merging into the surrounding air.

As Xiaobai's admiral network swept over these deep-sea resentments, a familiar feeling suddenly welled up in his heart.

Then, Xiaobai, who was still squatting on the ground, was suddenly pulled back into the mental world.

--Um???

The next second, Xiaobai smelled the fresh air of the grassland, but before she could get used to her surroundings, she suddenly felt a gentle push from behind.

“That’s not the deep-sea resentment from Chapter Seven.” The voice of the deep-sea will sounded behind Xiaobai. At the same time, she gently pushed Xiaobai’s back with her hand. “Those are the deep-sea amphibious ships that evolved locally.”

"Huh? What do you mean—"

Just as Xiaobai was about to ask more questions, the surroundings suddenly swayed, and the scenery in front of him quickly changed back to a pile of deep-sea debris. Xiaobai was then pushed out by the will of the deep sea.

Little White stared blankly at the Deep Sea Aquarium in front of him, mouth agape, for a moment.

Deepsea Will's recent actions have been getting increasingly impressive...

"Does the smell of deep-sea resentment make you uncomfortable?" Er Gou's voice rang out beside him.

"Ah, it's nothing, it's nothing." Xiaobai shook her head and withdrew her hand from the deep-sea ship's equipment.

"Oh, I see. It's good that you're alright." President Er Gou withdrew her hand, which held a small piece of deep-sea metal.

This deep-sea metal is black, with a faint, shapeless dark golden glow.

"President Sister, this Deep Sea Aquatic Ship is from the First Node local area," Xiaobai said to President Ergou.

"Huh? Local deep-sea?"

"Ah."

What do you think of this?

"Uh..." Xiaobai stood there awkwardly for a while, not knowing how to answer.

She couldn't very well say that she sensed the deep-sea resentment within the ship's equipment wasn't the deep-sea resentment from Chapter Seven, could she?

"Uh... The Deep Sea in Chapter Seven was just staying at home... why would it come all this way here?"

"Pfft, Little White, do you think all the Deepsea Fleet members are shut-ins?"

"..."

Yeah, Xiaobai thinks that all the Abyssal Fleet ships except for the supply ships are shut-ins, and the kind with all their laziness attributes maxed out.

"However, I do like this reason quite a bit." President Er Gou nodded, holding the deep-sea metal in his hand.

"President, do you think so too?"

"Well, but this is my reason." President Er Gou handed the deep-sea metal in his hand to Xiao Bai.

Xiao Bai accepted the deep-sea metal and examined it carefully.

"What's wrong with this deep-sea metal?"

If you were to ask Xiaobai how she felt, all she could say was that she had no appetite.

She felt that all the deep-sea metals except for the Deep-Sea Dean were trash.

"The gold patterns on this deep-sea metal are of poor quality, the luster is too dim, the surface is rough and uneven, and it lacks a sense of age. It is definitely not the deep-sea metal from Chapter Seven, nor is it from Chapter Six," said Guild Master Er Gou. "This is probably just a fake made by our deep-sea amphibious ships absorbing some high-level deep-sea resentment."

"Huh? You could even tell that, President Sister?"

"Do you know how many years I've worked here? I handle deep-sea metals every day."

"How many years?" Xiaobai asked cautiously.

"About..." President Er Gou paused abruptly as she spoke, her brow furrowing as she realized something was amiss. "You brat... are you trying to find out my age?"

"...Huh?" Xiaobai pretended to be stupid.

"...Even if it wasn't me, any other admiral with a decent level of experience could recognize something like deep-sea metal." President Er Gou avoided the topic of age. "Admirals with more experience can tell the chapter a deep-sea metal belongs to just by its quality."

"Oh, I see... I didn't realize that."

"How long have you been an admiral?"

"Does the Dean's metal also have different qualities?"

"Even a phoenix in a chicken coop is still a phoenix, no matter how bad it is." President Er Gou shrugged. "The deans who can nurture deep-sea metals at the dean level are all intelligent, so none of them are easy to deal with. Otherwise, that stuff wouldn't be so expensive."

"How expensive are deep-sea metals at the Dean's level?"

"It depends on the situation, probably around a billion merit points per piece," said President Er Gou calmly.

Then there was a loud thud.

Xiao Bai, whose face had turned pale, plopped down on the ground.

Chapter 818 This is the expression of an African who gets an SSR.

Xiao Bai sat on the ground, staring blankly at President Er Gou.

Is a piece of deep-sea metal of the Dean's rank really that expensive?

"What's wrong?" President Er Gou looked at Xiao Bai, who had sat back down on the ground, with a puzzled expression.

"Uh...it's nothing. My leg just went numb." Xiaobai swallowed hard, reached out and rubbed her stomach, her feelings complicated.

—Dean-level deep-sea metals are so expensive...

The amount of metals the dean has consumed is staggering... if I took a bite, wouldn't it be worth hundreds of millions...?

"It's okay that your feet are numb. Is there anything else that's bothering you?" President Er Gou asked.

"My stomach... hurts too," Xiaobai said, clutching her stomach with a complicated expression.

"Maybe he absorbed too much resentment from the deep sea. Let's wait a bit." Guild Master Er Gou smiled, then stood up, reached out, and pulled Xiao Bai up from the ground by his arm.

"Thank you, President Sister..."

"You're welcome. Anyway, the investigation is finished."

"So, has the investigation yielded any results?"

"Yes, the best news is that we know these are local Abyssal Fleet ships, not Abyssal Fleet ships from other chapters that have invaded."

"……Oh."

"..."

"President Sister".

"What's wrong?"

"Can you let go for a moment..." Xiaobai pointed to the hand that President Ergou was still holding firmly on his arm.

"Do we need to worry about such a small thing in our relationship? Look, you've seen all my most embarrassing dark history. It was just a grab on the arm, just normal courtesy." President Er Gou said righteously.

"I don't mind... Helena is standing right behind me..."

Before Xiaobai could finish speaking, she felt her arm lighten. She saw that President Ergou had quickly let go of her hand. While gazing into the distance, she muttered solemnly, "Speaking of which, it seems we should interview the ship girls who tamed these deep-sea amphibious ships... Helena, where are the ship girls who tamed the deep-sea ships?"

“Just call out and they’ll come in.” Behind President Er Gou, Helena smiled as she spoke, slowly sending a thick rolling pin back into her ship equipment space.

Xiao Bai and Helena exchanged a glance, and Helena gave Xiao Bai a gentle and virtuous smile.

Violence is never the best way to solve problems.

But it is the fastest way to solve the problem.