Elder brother's garrison

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"Definitely not."

“If Tirpitz at home hears this, she’ll draw you into a book.”

"Huh?" The company looked completely bewildered.

Don't be fooled by Tirpitz's nonchalant expression; she's just as reckless as Saratoga. If you mess with her, there's a good chance that Enterprise will be the next ship girl in Shipgirls.

Enterprise and Shiro walked to the center of the town hall courtyard and began to survey the surrounding environment.

Actually, if it was just about detecting deep-sea reactions, the company could have detected the naval base from the beach, but I still think we should go and say hello.

The company launched the plane into the sky, and with the support of Xiaobai's network of admirals, it quickly detected the surrounding environment.

"No." Enterprise shook its head at Xiaobai after bringing the plane back into the sky.

Still nothing to show for it?

Xiao Bai withdrew from the Admiral Network and sighed.

Searching for something from twenty years ago in Yuxiu was already a bit of a stretch. Although Xiaobai brought the company and held the greatest hope, he didn't feel much disappointment when he still couldn't find the source of the deep-sea reaction.

—It's more of a feeling of, ah, look, I really can't find it.

"Have you finished looking?" At this moment, Youzi walked out of the door with a piece of snow-white steamed bun in her mouth and a pair of chopsticks in her hand. "Come in and have something to eat. I made too many steamed buns."

Miss Yuzu's two most peculiar traits are that she always has bright lipstick on her lips, and that no matter what she's doing, she speaks with uncanny clarity.

"Oh! Is that okay?" the company replied happily.

"Hmm, I felt like making one steamer basket would be enough, but I don't know why I suddenly wanted to make more this morning."

It seems the company's lucky aura has kicked in.

Xiaobai felt a little embarrassed that she not only went to someone else's garrison to challenge them, but also freeloaded on their food and drinks. However, since the company and Yuzu had already reached an agreement, she couldn't refuse.

At Youzi's invitation, Xiaobai and Qiye entered her house.

Yuxiu Garrison Command is less of a garrison commander's residence and more of a large courtyard by the sea in terms of scale and form, containing houses where ordinary people live.

There was a large round table in the living room, on which was a big plate of steaming steamed buns and white porridge. Little Tirpitz was sitting at the front of the table, slurping down the porridge with a small bowl of pickled vegetables.

"You can sit here." Yuzu moved two stools over, and then slowly returned to Xiaozhai's side.

The business owner showed no politeness whatsoever, sitting down on a stool and grabbing a steamed bun to take a bite.

"It doesn't taste like much," the company said, chewing on the pomelo.

The company usually eats sandwiches, bread and fried eggs, or a little chicken for breakfast, so they are not used to such a simple Chinese breakfast.

"Steamed buns, well, they don't really have much flavor anyway. You should eat something light in the morning," Yuzu said, looking at Enterprise. "By the way, which ship girl are you? Blonde hair, blue eyes, are you Saratoga?"

"I am a company."

"Pfft—" Yuzu spat out the steamed bun in her mouth.

Yuzu stared blankly at the company, as if looking at some strange creature.

Businesses feel uneasy under that kind of gaze.

“I remember the governor told me you didn’t bring the company.” Yuzu stood up with unusual seriousness and rummaged through a box in the living room.

"Ah, the company came to us on its own," Xiaobai explained from the side.

"Oh... okay." Yuzu gave a simple reply and continued searching for something in the box.

"What is Miss Yuzu looking for?" Xiaobai was very curious about Yuzu's behavior.

"Okay, look for this." Yuzu pulled out a bag of small, yellow, stick-shaped objects.

“This is fragrant,” Yuzu explained. “It’s a company, right? You keep eating, don’t worry about me for now.”

"Oh." The enterprise looked at the pomelo and slowly ate the steamed bun in its hand.

This steamed bun is soft and has no flavor. However, it starts to taste sweet as you chew it, so it's not unpleasant to eat.

Yuzi took out a match, lit the incense, held the incense stick between the middle and index fingers of both hands, with her thumbs supporting the end of the incense, and placed it in front of her chest with the incense tip facing the company member who was eating a steamed bun. She then raised the incense to her eyebrows, then lowered it and placed it in front of her chest, with the incense tip still facing the company member who was eating a steamed bun.

Yuzu took out a steamed bun, placed it on the table, and then inserted the incense sticks in her hand into the center, left, and right sides of the bun in order, while muttering incantations.

"May the Bodhisattva protect you, may the Bodhisattva protect you..."

Xiao Bai finally understood.

Like the people the company had mentioned before, Yuzu was worshipping her like a Buddha.

"I knew I'd suddenly wanted to make a lot of steamed buns today, this is a real stroke of luck." Yuzu muttered to herself, "Well, you guys eat first, I'm going out for a bit."

Then Yuzu walked out carrying a bunch of keys.

"Where is Miss Yuzu going?" Xiaobai asked curiously when he saw Yuzu in such a hurry.

However, Miss Yuzu did not answer and quickly disappeared from sight.

The company was already used to being worshipped, and she just kept eating her steamed bun.

"Speaking of which, what happened to those people you mentioned who bowed to you with incense sticks?"

"I don't know, they didn't say anything. But a few days later they brought me a bunch of things, but I didn't need most of them, like cigarettes and alcohol, so I had Bumblebee throw them away." Enterprise said, stuffing the last bite of steamed bun into his mouth. "It would be better if this thing called steamed bun had some meat in it."

"Wouldn't that just turn it into a roujiamo (Chinese hamburger)?"

"Then we can add some more vegetables, like lettuce, onions, tomatoes, and pickled radishes."

"Would you like some more salad dressing?"

"Okay."

"That's a hamburger."

"Hahaha, Admiral, you're so funny." Enterprise laughed.

Just as the two were chatting happily, Yuzu's frantic voice came from outside the door.

"Hooray! I won! I won!"

I'll have almost paid off the update I owed from the last bounty by the 27th (I've been writing 6000 words a day lately, which is an extra update compared to the previous 4000). So I might be opening another bounty around the 27th of this month... monthly tickets and tips, I hope everyone can support me then.

(Dogeza)

Chapter 142 Possessing a mountain of rice yet unaware of human suffering

Yu Zi's laughter, as if she had won the lottery, echoed through the house like a barbell.

Little Tirpitz was so startled by the laughter that he dropped his bowl onto the table with a thud. Luckily, he had almost finished the porridge, so the white, sticky substance didn't spill on him.

As a series of drum-like footsteps approached from afar, Yuzu rushed back, her face flushed.

Yuzu surveyed the room, then pinpointed Xiaobai's location. She ran towards him, knelt down, hugged his waist, grabbed his hand, and excitedly shook it up and down: "I won! Ee! I won! Hahahahahahahahahahaha!"

Yuzu's state is clearly one of utter despair caused by the shock of reality.

"Admiral, should I slap her to calm her down?" Enterprise asked, turning to Shiro who was being shaken wildly, looking at Yuzu who was getting a little too excited.

"No need..." Xiaobai replied hesitantly.

Looking for deep-sea reactions in someone else's naval base, then freeloading afterwards, and finally slapping someone else's admiral in front of their ship girls—it just feels so outrageous.

Although I felt a little dizzy from being picked up and rocked by Miss Yuzu...

"Hahaha." However, before the company could take any action, Miss Yuzu, who was laughing halfway through, suddenly seemed to get stuck and fainted.

Xiaobai then gently pulled Youzi's head into her arms.

Behind Yuzu, Tirpitz, with a cold expression, withdrew his hand chop.

Little Tirpitz quietly returned to her seat, picked up the bowl she had almost spilled, and slowly began to drink.

...The scene in the living room gradually became somewhat awkward.

"This doesn't count as me hitting it, right?" After a while, the company asked Xiaobai.

"No, that doesn't count," Xiaobai replied.

"What if she gets up and insists that I hit her?" the company said. "Maybe I should go up and slap her again. I won't lose out if I get scolded later."

"Miss Yuzu doesn't seem like an unreasonable person." Xiaobai smiled wryly. "Enterprise, could you please wake Miss Yuzu up for me?"

"I could slap her awake." The company's eyes gleamed with eager anticipation.

Xiaobai thinks that the ship girl in front of him might not be Enterprise, but rather Saratoga in Enterprise's skin.

"Can't we use a method that doesn't involve violence?" Xiaobai asked helplessly.

Miss Yuzu is such a kind person, what if she breaks ties with us because of this slap from the company?

"In TV dramas, they usually just pour a basin of water on it and it wakes you up." The company member picked up the bowl of porridge in front of him.

"If that spilled on Miss Yuzu's face, the worst we'd face would be assault." Looking at the steam rising from Enterprise's bowl, Shiro's heart sank again. "And Enterprise, you definitely did it on purpose, didn't you?"

"Oh, have we been discovered?"

"It's shameful to waste food."

"Sigh, but this really doesn't taste good," the company said, holding up the porridge.

Companies accustomed to strongly flavored foods don't seem to like simple, plain foods like porridge.

"It tastes pretty good with some pickled vegetables or fried sauce."

"Ah, is that so?" the company exclaimed in realization.

"Wait, shouldn't we wake Miss Yuzu up first?" Xiaobai realized that the conversation between her and the company was likely to veer off course.

However, at that moment, Youzi, who had fainted in Xiaobai's arms, took a deep breath and sat up from her embrace.

"Pfft—I just had a dream that I shipped a shipment." As soon as Yuzu woke up, she said to Xiaobai, "It really was a dream."

His thoughts were clear and his logic rigorous; he didn't seem like someone who had just woken up from a coma.

"Sister Yuzu, you did shout that I won, I won!" Xiaobai said.

"..." Yu Zi, under the influence of the curse, shrank back into Xiao Bai's arms and remained silent.

After a while, Yuzu glanced at the company holding the porridge next to her, then looked up at the ceiling.

"Ah...it's not a dream."

Yuzu isn't as excited as she was before.

It seems that in the blink of an eye, he has experienced the vicissitudes of life, and he remains unfazed even if Mount Tai collapses before him.

"By the way, Sister Yuzu, what did you go to do just now?" Xiaobai asked.

"...Okay, give me a steamed bun to calm my nerves." Yuzu reached out and touched a piece of steamed bun in the small white bowl, took a bite, and said, "I just went to develop it."

Xiao Bai looked at the pomelo and nodded thoughtfully.

If an admiral wants a ship girl, he has to build one. Ship girls come with their own ship equipment, but the ship equipment does not come with weapons.

The weapons of ship girls cannot be manufactured by humans through normal means. To obtain the weapons of ship girls, one must develop them using similar methods or exchange them with the admiral.

The development and construction of ship girl weapons are basically the same: they are all about throwing metal into the deep sea, then adding resources to make the machines run. It's like a lottery or a chance to win, except that the amount of resources required for development is much less than that required for construction.

"I just built a siscon cannon!" Yuzu said, her eyes filled with glistening tears. "That's a weapon with a full 24 points of firepower!"

"..." Xiaobai didn't quite understand what "sister-complex cannon" meant, but he did understand the phrase "24 points of firepower" at the end.

Shipgirl weapons are categorized by firepower, and the MK6 is probably the only weapon that can reach 24 strength levels.

Those are triple 16-inch gun turrets, designed for battleship girls and battlecruiser girls.

"Congratulations, Sister Yuzi!" Xiaobai clapped.

Someone like Xiaobai, who gets a fully upgraded naval base right from the start, wouldn't understand how an ordinary admiral lives.

Ordinary admirals lack combat power and are unable to fight against the powerful deep sea, so they cannot obtain resource rewards. Without resource rewards, they cannot become stronger through construction and development, thus they cannot improve their combat power. Without improving their combat power, they cannot fight against the powerful deep sea, so they cannot obtain resources... This is a vicious cycle.

Therefore, the admirals in this world are either getting weaker or stronger, following their own virtuous or vicious cycles.

Just like how Yuzu goes crazy for an MK6, the MK6 is not an ordinary piece of equipment for Yuzu. To her, it is a magical artifact that can help her break this vicious cycle, unlock the path to becoming stronger, and be a necessity to reach the pinnacle of life. That's why she is so happy.

However, for a novice, this item is just a decent piece of equipment, and doesn't have much significance.

—Because the MK6 is considered the standard equipment for battleships in the Shiro Naval Base, with basically three or four per person.

Veteran ship girls like Bismarck are even equipped with more advanced turrets.

"Why didn't Sister Yuzu go and build it just now?" Xiaobai asked, somewhat puzzled.