Elder brother's garrison

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The night is getting darker.

Newbie Town Guardian.

In the temporary ship equipment research facility in Yubari, the lights were still bright, casting a long shadow of a person bent over a desk on the ground, stretched out by the swaying lights.

Swish, swish.

Snapped!

The figure, hunched over his desk, scratched his head vigorously, tore off the paper in front of him, crumpled it into a ball in frustration, and threw it behind him.

"Ah—no inspiration!" The figure cried out in despair, then slumped into a chair, letting out a miserable cry, "No inspiration, no inspiration... Why is drawing and surveying so difficult?"

The crumpled paper behind the figure fell to the ground, making a series of rustling sounds. The crumpled paper behind the figure had already piled up into a high mound, and the last crumpled paper rolled down from the mound, finally coming to a stop limply next to the trash can.

Just as the figure was wailing in agony.

Another tall figure emerged from behind the hill. She walked to the crumpled paper that had just fallen next to the trash can, picked it up, unfolded it, and began to examine it carefully.

“Senior Yubari, the modification blueprints you drew this time are much better than the last one.” Missouri held the blueprints that Yubari had discarded and walked back to Yubari’s side. “This level of modification blueprints would be considered excellent even by the most skilled ship girl I’ve ever seen, right? Why did you discard this one?”

“It’s different, it’s different!” Yubari grabbed the design drawings from Missouri’s hand in frustration, crumpled them into a ball, and threw them behind him. Then he slammed his hand on the table and looked at Missouri seriously. “You’re the world’s first missile modification! The world’s first! It’s epoch-making! The modification drawings I gave you before were based on my experience with ordinary modifications. I always felt like I was holding myself back. How could a modification of this level match my previous bold claims! So, there must be some modification direction that can maximize the advantages of your missiles that I haven’t figured out yet!”

Yubari spoke with great conviction, repeatedly patting his chest.

Missouri did not refute Yubari any further. She listened obediently as Yubari finished saying everything she had to say, and then nodded gently.

"Well... Missouri, I understand. Would you like some water, or a late-night snack, Yubari-senpai?"

"Oh... then you can make me some noodles." Yubari was reminded by Missouri and seemed to realize that she hadn't eaten for a while. She touched her stomach and nodded to Missouri.

“Noodles… ah.” Missouri smiled.

"Huh? What's wrong with the noodles?"

“No… it’s just that Missouri happens to be a little confident in her noodle-making skills.” Missouri stood up and said to Yubari, “Then Yubari-senpai, please wait a moment while I go and make you some late-night snacks.”

"Oh……"

After watching Missouri's figure disappear into the hill of crumpled paper, Yubari let out a long sigh, rubbed his eyes, and slumped weakly onto the table.

Yubari remained silent for a long time.

The stars outside were dazzling.

The factory was completely silent.

The quiet atmosphere lasted for a while, until it was finally broken by a long sigh.

"Sigh... It's been three days..." Yubari muttered softly, her voice filled with frustration, "There's not even been any progress on the blueprints... What am I going to do... I was so confident before, promising the Admiral that I would give Missouri the best upgrade, ugh... Now I'm so ashamed..."

"It shouldn't be that badly swollen, right?" Suddenly, Shiro's voice rang out from in front of Yubari.

"Huh?" Yubari was taken aback. She quickly stood up and looked up. "Admiral?"

"Good evening, Yubari." Standing at the factory entrance in front of Yubari were Xiaobai, Luo Lian, and Yan Zhan, who smiled at her. "Still drawing modification blueprints so late?"

"Ah...yes, yes..." Yubari awkwardly stood up, shifting the paper and pen in her hand behind her back, looking embarrassed. "Um...Admiral, regarding the progress of the modification blueprints, I..."

Yubari's expression at this moment was one of embarrassment, as if he hadn't written a single word of his summer homework, but was still called upon by his homeroom teacher to check it after the start of the new semester.

"The blueprints for the missile modification must be difficult to draw, right?" Xiaobai walked up to Yubari with a smile and said to her, "It's okay. Although I don't know much about this, the road without predecessors to refer to is always the most difficult. I understand why you've been struggling with this, Yubari. After all, you want to give Missouri the best modification, right?"

"Admiral..." Yubari looked at Shiro with emotion, "If all clients in the world were as understanding as you, Admiral, how many unnecessary conflicts would be avoided in the world..."

"..." Shiro smiled at Yubari, then turned around and gestured behind her, "Oh, right, Yubari, I have a surprise for you this time."

"Surprise?" Yubari looked curiously in the direction of Shiro, only to see that Shiro was pointing at Luo Lian and Yan Zhan behind him.

"Admiral, who are these two...?"

"my friend."

"Newly caught sisters?"

“…No, they’re friends.” Xiaobai gave a wry smile, then introduced them to Yubari, “This is Lianlian, her name is Luo Lian, she’s a very, very powerful admiral, and that’s Warspite, she’s Lianlian’s ship girl. The few days I disappeared before, I was actually going to find them.”

“Oh… Luo Lian…” Yubari looked at Luo Lian and Warspite thoughtfully, nodded, and then asked, “Admiral, do you mean you want this Admiral Luo Lian to help me research the missile warfare modification of Missouri?”

"Yes."

"..." Yubari looked at Luo Lian with a puzzled expression, then at Xiaobai's face, pondered for a moment, and then walked up to Luo Lian and said, "Actually, I was just about to say that the difficulty of missile modification is far higher than that of ordinary modification, and to keep up with my speed, you need at least ten years of clinical work experience. Although I am very grateful to the Admiral for thinking of me, if I just find an outsider who can't even get into the ship equipment research center to help me, even if he is a little arrogant, he will not actually help me at all, and may even make things worse. But then I suddenly felt that our Admiral is not such a superficial person. Since it was the Admiral who found the helper for me, there must be something special about him, right?"

"My name is Luo Lian, nice to meet your guidance." Luo Lian looked directly at Yubari and extended her hand to her. "I have some knowledge of ship girl technology."

"Oh? What?"

Regarding construction machines.

“Hmm…” Yubari nodded. She turned around, picked up the crumpled blueprints she had dropped earlier, carefully unfolded them, and handed them to Luo Lian with both hands. “Admiral Luo Lian, you can take a look at this first.”

"Is this the latest missile modification blueprint?" Luo Lian took the blueprint and glanced at it before saying to Yubari, "Hmm... It's the same as the one Xiaobai showed me before. It's a very meticulous modification blueprint that maximizes the symbiosis between artillery and missile capabilities. It's an excellent modification plan."

“Is it really that good…” Yubari sighed, scratched her head, and turned around. “The coexistence of artillery and missile capabilities… It sounds simple, but it’s so difficult to do… The potential of ship girl equipment is inherently limited. If you want to preserve battleship-level artillery capabilities to the greatest extent possible while also possessing advanced missile capabilities, the final result can only be a mediocre fit. It’s practically the most greedy modification plan in the world…”

"How about we slightly shift the modification plan towards missile capabilities?"

"Do you mean I should give up the Missouri's gunnery capabilities as one of the world's top battleships?"

"Of course not... um... what I mean is..." Luo Lian thought for a moment, then raised a finger at Yubari, "Instead of letting artillery and missile capabilities coexist, each consuming limited ship girl resources, why not slightly integrate and allow them to interact? For example, we could use the high armor penetration of missiles to enhance artillery capabilities. That way, even if artillery capabilities decrease slightly, the high armor penetration can compensate for the lost attributes..."

Luo Lian hadn't finished speaking.

Yubari suddenly jolted awake, staring wide-eyed as he turned his head.

An expression of sudden enlightenment and clarity filled Yubari's face.

rub rub!

Yubari moved closer to Luo Lian, bringing his face close to Luo Lian's, his eyes fixed on Luo Lian.

Luo Lian also met Yubari's gaze with composure, and even when Yubari's lips were almost touching hers, she did not back down in the slightest.

"Fusion?!"

"Yes, fusion."

"How do we integrate them? Do you have a solution?"

"Hmm... let's put aside the solution for now, but I do have some ideas."

"for example?"

"Runes, have you heard of them?"

"Take a step to speak!"

Chapter 2071 Incredible Softness

After hearing Luo Lian's words, Yubari perked up completely.

Yubari quickly pulled Luo Lian to the desk, spread out a drawing, and pushed the paper and pen on the desk to Luo Lian. Then, they hit it off immediately and started a serious discussion. During the discussion, all sorts of advanced terms that no newbies could understand came out like a geyser, and the atmosphere became incredibly lively.

"This is truly...this is truly..." Xiao Bai exclaimed softly, looking at the lively atmosphere between Luo Lian and Xi Zhang, "The effect is outstanding..."

As Xiaobai was muttering to herself, Missouri came out from behind the pile of paper balls, carrying several bowls of steaming noodles. She looked up at Xiaobai and Warspite and then smiled happily.

"I just heard some commotion over here. It turns out the Admiral has returned." Missouri said with a smile, her gaze sweeping over Yubari and Luo Lian, who were having a lively discussion, before settling on Warspite. "Warspite-senpai, it's been a long time. Do you still remember Missouri?"

"Greetings." Warspite lifted her skirt, bent her knees, and bowed slightly to Missouri.

"Warspite, Missouri made a few extra bowls of noodles. Would you like some?" Missouri asked with a smile as she walked up to Warspite.

"Ah... thank you for your kindness... but I'm sorry, I've already eaten."

"I see, what a pity." Missouri placed the bowl of noodles on the table, smiled slightly at Warspite and Shiro, and then bowed to the unprepared Warspite. "Senior Warspite, thank you for your support and Admiral Luo Lian's support. Missouri will remember your kindness."

“Oh? No need…” Warspite quickly helped Missouri up and said to her apologetically, “I’m just an assistant, Missouri, you don’t need to be so polite.”

"Senior is too modest. Without your daily care for Admiral Luo Lian, how could she possibly devote herself to her research? Your importance cannot be simply summarized as just being an assistant," Missouri said with admiration.

"Hey...hehe...no way..." Warspite was a little embarrassed by Missouri's words. She picked up a few strands of brown hair and twirled them around her fingers. "Thanks."

"War-weary, take out the file bag I entrusted to you before I left." Luo Lian's voice rang out from afar.

"Oh! Coming!" Warspite responded instinctively, then couldn't help but smile at Missouri and Little White, and whispered, "Um... the Admiral called me, I'm going to help out..."

With about 30% more energy, Warspite skipped and hopped towards Luo Lian and Yubari.

Missouri smiled as she watched Warspite leave, then slowly wiped the smile from her face and cast her gentle, watery gaze upon Little White.

"Admiral."

"Ok?"

"These past two days have been really tough on you, dealing with this little thing in Missouri."

"You guessed Missouri?"

"After all, Admiral Luo Lian, who should have been in the second chapter, is now in the naval base..."

“That makes sense…” Xiaobai nodded, then shook his head at Missouri. “It’s nothing. I haven’t been that busy these past few days, it’s just that my hands hurt from playing cards every day.”

"play cards?"

"Yes, Dou Dizhu (a popular Chinese card game)."

“Hmm…” Missouri stared thoughtfully at Little White’s cheek.

On this strange topic, even with Missouri's exceptional intelligence, it was difficult for her to understand the exact meaning behind Xiaobai's card-playing comment.

"I get the feeling... the Admiral must have had quite an eventful few days," Missouri said to Xiaobai, her hands behind her back.

"Wonderful... well..." Xiaobai gave a wry smile.

"Admiral, where are Chaoda and his senior?"

“Chao Da and she just went home to rest. She’s been running around these past few days, so even if she’s not physically tired, she must be mentally exhausted,” Xiao Bai replied, adding, “The president sister went along too.”

"...She's here too."

"Yes, I originally invited her to come and visit you, but the president said she couldn't help and would only cause trouble, so she went with Yamato to Yamato's place." Shiro smiled at Missouri. "Oh, by the way, don't ask me everything. How have you been these past few days, Missouri? Are you still coughing?"

“Thanks to the Admiral, Missouri’s health has improved a lot.” Missouri raised her hand and clenched her slender, snow-white fingers in front of Xiaobai. “Perhaps after realizing that she had not been seriously ill before, but simply entered a state of transformation, the discomfort she had before completely disappeared the night before last.”

“Yes, that’s a good thing…” Xiaobai nodded and smiled at Missouri. “Although I don’t know much about this either, this state means that you’re completely ready to accept the transformation, right?”

“I hope so,” Missouri replied with a warm smile.

Just as Xiaobai and Missouri were whispering to each other, Luo Lian and Yu Zhang, who were also discussing things in hushed tones on the workbench, seemed to have made some progress.

Xiao Bai heard an excited shout of "Good!" and Yu Zhang raised a hastily drawn drawing high, excitedly shouting to Luo Lian.

"Brilliant! Admiral Luo! Your method is truly brilliant! It seems I was indeed stuck in a rut before! Instead of racking my brains to figure out how to utilize the potential of ship girls' equipment to accommodate these two abilities, why not think about how to fuse these two abilities? I've got it! I've really got it! The answer is right in front of me, Admiral Luo, you helped me break through this barrier! Thank you so much!"

"It is certainly excellent to find a research direction." Luo Lian said in a humble yet assertive voice, "Your theoretical knowledge and practical experience are both very strong. The reason why you were stuck on a dead end for a while before was probably just because your thinking was limited by the previous examples of ship equipment modification. I only did some insignificant work."

"Don't mention it, Admiral Luo. You're the most capable person I've ever met! In the field of ship equipment, even those old fogies in the ship equipment research center don't know as much as you!"

"You're welcome."

"Oh, right! Admiral Luo, regarding that rune knowledge you just mentioned, I actually encountered it when I was researching ship girl equipment before. I have a particular idea that I'd like you to explain to me..."

"can."

"..."

Luo Lian and Yu Zhang's discussion had just reached a preliminary conclusion when they immediately began a second, heated discussion.

Researchers in this world are like family. Regardless of whether they are close or distant, as long as there is a bridge and bond of knowledge, people of all kinds can chat as lively as a family.

While Yubari and Luo Lian were discussing, Xiao Bai quickly drew page after page of blueprints out the renovation plan. Unlike before, these blueprints were not discarded, but were neatly arranged in the center of the table, stacking higher and higher.

—Judging from this situation, I shouldn't have to worry anymore.

Xiao Bai breathed a sigh of relief.

The transformation of Missouri has finally taken its first step from scratch...

"It looks like Lianlian and Yubari are going to be discussing this for quite a while. Missouri, let's find a place to rest," Xiaobai said to Missouri with a smile.

"Isn't the Admiral going back?" Missouri countered.

"It must be quite lively at home now... It's been so long since Chao Yamato greeted Yamato-neechan, and the student council president is probably playing with them too. I won't bother them tonight." Shiro smiled shyly at Missouri. "Missouri, if you don't mind, I can sleep with you tonight?"

"The Admiral's sleep... which one does it refer to?"