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"Wow, Miss Barbarossa is amazing!" Little White clapped at Barbarossa, showering her with praise.
“I might have gotten stronger,” Barbarossa said seriously. “Come and play a match with me. I feel like I can win this time.”
"Ah... but I still have work to do..."
Just one.
"I……"
"One." Barbarossa tugged at the hem of Little White's clothes and gently swayed his body.
"...Alright then." Unable to withstand Barbarossa's gaze any longer, Xiaobai sighed and walked over to Shenhai Zuikaku. "Shenhai Zuikaku, how about I play a game with your cards?"
"can."
Deep Sea Crane left its seat, and Little White took its place.
Barbarossa tossed everyone's cards back onto the blanket, then carefully shuffled, dealt, and arranged the cards, called for the landlord, and then, holding his hand of cards, stared intently at the blanket in front of him, his eyes seemingly burning with an indomitable fighting spirit.
He actually looks like he's got the makings of a gambling god...
Looking at the atmosphere surrounding Barbarossa, Xiaobai muttered to himself, then picked up his cards and quickly arranged them neatly.
"A ten."
"No."
"One against three."
"One against ten".
"No."
"Four twos with two kings."
"..."
Barbarossa's card skills are indeed a step ahead of those who have just learned Dou Dizhu, such as Shinkai Zuikaku and Kamikaze. This is inseparable from her hard work and study during this period. However, unfortunately, in this kind of card game, it is obviously not enough to beat a player like Xiaobai who has a physical cheat code that comes with a card counting device. A few days of hard work is obviously not enough.
Although Barbarossa was full of confidence this time, he still fell to Iniesta's relentless attacks.
"I won." Xiaobai smiled and put down the last card.
"..." Barbarossa lowered his head, his hands resting on the carpet, his fighting spirit instantly vanishing.
“Miss Barbarossa, you’re already amazing. You’re the first person I’ve ever met who’s become so proficient after only playing this game for a few days.” Xiaobai said to Barbarossa with a smile. “I guess after a while, I probably won’t be able to beat you anymore.”
"……real?"
"Yes... really." Xiaobai nodded.
"..." Barbarossa seemed to have regained some confidence. She carefully picked up her hand of cards and ran her fingertips along the edge of the cards, as if imagining the scene of her beating Little White one day.
"Miss Barbarossa, you guys continue playing. I'm going to the Black Tower to find the Deep Sea Frigates." Little White breathed a sigh of relief and stood up.
Barbarossa also took out yesterday's two of diamonds playing cards from the card box and handed them to Little White as a token that carried his essence.
"Give."
“Ah… we don’t need the card. You’ll need it when you play cards later, right? If I were to take it with me,” Little White waved to Barbarossa and smiled gently, “I had a pretty good time with those Deep Sea Deans yesterday. Even without your token, Miss Barbarossa, I should be fine today. After all, I still have Frederick and Deep Sea Hindenburg’s tokens.”
"..." Barbarossa felt that what Xiaobai said made some sense. She silently put down her cards, but after thinking for a while, she still handed the empty blue card box to Xiaobai with some unease. "You can borrow that box."
“…Okay, thank you, Miss Barbarossa.” Little White looked at Barbarossa’s sincere expression, reached out and took the card box, holding it in his arms.
"A token?" Kamikaze looked curiously at the box in Shiro's arms. "What's that?"
"Ah... this... this is—" Shiro briefly explained the function of the token to Kamikaze.
"Hmph... I understand." After listening to Shiro's explanation, Kamikaze nodded thoughtfully. She glanced at Barbarossa and Zuikaku, then beckoned to Shiro with her finger, "Come here."
"What's wrong, Sister Shenfeng—hmm?!" As soon as Xiaobai approached Shenfeng, Shenfeng suddenly pulled Xiaobai into her arms, pulled open Xiaobai's collar, and took a deep breath on Xiaobai's neck.
Kamikaze used the power of a Deep Sea Dean to suck on a human body. The suction force was extremely powerful, and it also contained a deep aura of the deep sea. If Kamikaze sucked on a human body like that, she would suck out most of the blood in that body.
Fortunately, Xiaobai is not an ordinary human.
With the ship's armor protecting her, Xiaobai was not harmed by Kamikaze's inhalation of steel; it only left a faint lip mark on Xiaobai's tender neck.
"Hey..." Kamikaze stopped talking, licked her rosy lips, then tapped her lips with her index and middle fingers, looking at Shiro with satisfaction, and started fiddling with the cards in her hand again.
Xiao Bai stepped out of Shen Feng's arms. She shuddered and quickly took two steps back. Then she raised her hand to cover her slightly stinging neck and looked at Shen Feng with some confusion.
The surrounding abyssal deans were also drawn to Kamikaze's actions, and they all turned their curious gazes toward him.
"Sister Kamikaze, what's wrong...?"
"Hehehe... If I hadn't seen it, that would have been fine, but since I have, I can't just leave without helping, right? But I don't have any token that can carry my aura right now..." Kamikaze looked at Shiro with a rather smug gaze and said loudly, "So, how about I leave you a little mark?"
“A mark…” Xiaobai pulled open his collar and reached down to touch the slightly stinging spot on his neck. “This mark… it’s not like Frederick’s, is it?”
"I wish it were." Kamikaze crossed his legs and shrugged. "But I don't have her kind of power. This is just an ordinary hickey. It hurts a little, but at least it has some of my scent on it, you know? You should cherish this thing."
"..." Xiaobai covered her neck.
“Vulgar,” said the deep-sea hermit.
"I'm doing this for my dear sister's sake... With my aura around, at least the Abyssal Frigates will be more obedient, right?" Kamikaze chuckled, fiddling with the cards in his hand, glancing sideways at Abyssal Zuikaku. "Those who didn't participate in the Abyssal Frigate training can only watch from the sidelines, can they?"
"..." Shenhai Zuikaku closed his eyes and completely ignored Shenfeng.
Kamikaze was in a good mood, and she hummed a song while looking at the cards in her hand.
Xiaobai looked at Shenfeng helplessly.
Xiaobai always felt that the mark that Shenfeng left on her neck had some impure motives. She also regretted not being more alert earlier, but in her current state, Xiaobai couldn't say anything and could only accept her fate.
Fortunately, Kamikaze's location was relatively private.
If you turn your collar up properly and cover it with your hair, no one should be able to see it.
Xiao Bai touched his collar, thinking to himself.
"Alright, thank you, Ms. Kamikaze..." Shiro waved to the Deep Sea Headmasters at home, "You guys play first, I'll head out now..."
The directors of the Deep Sea Institute bid farewell to Xiaobai.
Xiao Bai left the residence while rubbing his neck.
Chapter 2055 Success! Admiral!
Xiao Bai took out the tokens given to her by the Deans of the Deep Sea, especially the small piece of cloth belonging to Frederick the Great, and arrived at the foot of the Black Tower. On the sea surface beneath the Black Tower, the thick layer of black grease from yesterday had largely dissipated, and the smell in the air had become much fainter. The Deep Sea frigates were clearly divided into two groups: one group lay motionless on the water, covered in wounds and breathing weakly, while the other group wandered along the edge of the water, moving stiffly.
After yesterday's events, these fearless, mad dog-like deep-sea frigates were completely terrified of the white-haired, petite deep-sea dean in front of them. In their eyes, Xiaobai was practically a demon. None of their companions who fell into her hands had a good ending; they were tortured until their bodies were cracked and they were in unbearable pain.
As Xiaobai's figure slowly approached the Black Tower, the deep-sea frigates wandering along the edge of the water became panicked and tense. They flapped their tails, screamed restlessly, and tried to move away from the surroundings, with black water splashing beneath their massive bodies.
Even though the deep-sea frigates wanted to escape, the orders Frederick the Great had given them yesterday prevented them from running away from Little White on their own. They could only watch in panic as Little White's figure slowly approached them, then waved her little hand in greeting with a pure and kind smile.
"I'm back!" Xiaobai greeted with a smile.
"Awoooo ...
Beneath the Black Tower.
Today, the horrific cries of the deep-sea frigates continue to echo.
Time flies.
After finishing his day's work, Xiao Bai looked contentedly at the deep-sea frigates that were turning belly up on the sea. He put away Frederick the Great's cloth, left the Black Tower, symbolically said goodbye to the deep-sea frigates that were too weak to speak, bowed, and walked towards his residence.
Xiao Bai's figure disappeared near the Black Tower.
Followed by.
Frederick the Great emerged from within the Black Tower.
Just like yesterday, Frederick the Great silently walked to all the deep-sea frigates that Xiaobai had come into contact with that day. After carefully and meticulously inspecting the bodies of the deep-sea frigates, she slowly left the water and returned to the Black Tower.
After finishing a day's work, Xiaobai returned to her residence.
In the lobby on the first floor of Xiaobai's residence, the Deans of the Deep Sea Academy had not left. Even when Xiaobai walked in, the lively sounds of playing cards could still be heard.
"Three belts and one."
"Crushed to death"
"You're older."
"..."
"Hurry up, the flowers I've been waiting for have all faded."
The three deep-sea deans remained squatting in their old spots, barely moving for most of the day, their playing cards slapping loudly on the blanket.
Hindenburg lay sprawled on the floor not far away, with two lively, thrashing fish beside her.
—I always feel like these deep-sea deans are treating my home as their own.
Back home, Xiaobai silently watched the Deep Sea Deans gathered at his house, muttering to himself, but remained silent as he walked to the Deep Sea Hindenburg.
"Admiral, you're back!" Hindenburg looked up and gave Whitey a happy smile.
"Hmm... I'm back..." Little White looked at the lively fish next to Deep Sea Hindenburg and asked curiously, "Deep Sea Hindenburg, what's going on with these two fish?"
"Touched!"
"Touched?"
“Barbarossa and the others wouldn’t let me play cards.” Hindenburg said, squinting his eyes and pouting angrily, “So I went outside to fish by myself.”
"...I didn't know you had this hobby."
“It’s not a hobby.” Hindenburg shook her head, then clutched her stomach, looking pitifully at the two fish in front of her. “Admiral, can I eat this?”
"You want to eat fish?" Xiaobai asked curiously, surprised.
"Yes!" Hindenburg nodded. "Admiral, please help me!"
"Ah...you're hungry, right?"
"Ok!"
"Where's the dried squid I gave you yesterday?"
"Finished!"
"You have really good teeth..."
Little White glanced at Deep Sea Hindenburg's belly, then met Deep Sea Hindenburg's pitiful gaze for a second.
Since its equipment was damaged, the efficiency of the Deepsea Hindenburg in converting deep-sea energy to replenish its own strength has greatly slowed down. As a result, it has gradually developed some of the hunger and fatigue that humans and ship girls experience. I guess the two fish it caught today were probably caught by the Deepsea Hindenburg through its survival instincts.
"...This...should be edible. But given your current constitution, it's best not to eat raw food." Xiaobai squatted down, held up a finger to the two fish, and a small cluster of blue flames emerged from Xiaobai's index finger.
Blue flames rose up.
The surrounding temperature dropped noticeably by several degrees.
Hindenburg shrugged.
Xiao Bai gently tapped the two fish's heads with his burning index finger, which was ignited with ice and fire. The flames exploded on the fish's heads, and the two fish's bodies stiffened as they fell to the floor.
"I'm not really good at cooking... If you don't mind, just grill something." Xiaobai took out a matchbox and a few pieces of camping fuel from his ship's equipment space, piled the fuel in front of the Deep Sea Hindenburg, and then picked out a match and threw it into the fuel.
A simple campfire was ready.
Little White clapped his hands, looked up at Deep Sea Hindenburg, and saw Deep Sea Hindenburg staring curiously at the matchbox in Little White's hand.
"This? I brought it from my hometown." Xiaobai explained simply, then threw the matchbox into his ship equipment space, and then threw the two fish whole into the campfire.
Watching the orange-yellow flames slowly roast the fish, Xiaobai sighed.
In human society, lighting an open flame indoors is a very unsafe act, but now that I live in a dangerous building, it doesn't matter whether there's an open flame or not.
"Is it ready?" As soon as the fish was thrown into the firepower, Deep Sea Hindenburg asked Little White anxiously.
Not yet.
"Oh." Hindenburg of the Deep Sea lay down by the campfire, staring wide-eyed at the flickering flames. After about ten seconds, he looked up and asked, "Is it done?"
"not yet……"
"Oh……"
Hindenburg hugged his knees, shook his head, and after a while, he raised his head and looked at Little White expectantly.
"Is it ready?"
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