Elder brother's garrison

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"Hmm, tea." Xiaobai handed over the tea.

Barbarossa took the tea, ignored the temperature, and took a small sip. His brow furrowed slightly before relaxing.

"It tastes a little bitter at first... but it's very fragrant after drinking it." Barbarossa held up the water glass and said to Little White, "Strange thing, where did you get it?"

"Well... these are things I collected before coming to this city," Xiaobai said, sitting down in front of the tent and looking at Barbarossa. "How is it? Is it good?"

“Hmm.” Barbarossa nodded. “...Is it a special kind of seaweed?”

"It's not seaweed, it's a terrestrial plant," Xiaobai explained.

"Have you ever been to land?"

"Uh...yes, I've been there." Xiaobai was taken aback, then quickly added, "Yeah, you haven't been?"

“I’ve been to this land; it’s barren, there’s nothing there. As for your land, I haven’t been there,” Barbarossa replied, looking down at the liquid in his glass. “I’ve heard there are enemies on your land.”

"Hmm...yes." Little White looked at Barbarossa with a puzzled expression.

Barbarossa... could it be that she's never been anywhere outside of Chapter 8? Judging from her reaction, that seems to be the case. But didn't Kamikaze and Zuikaku from the Deep Sea mention before that Frederick the Great, Hindenburg, and Barbarossa were also from the Outer Deep Sea? Where were they originally from?

"Is it very strong?" Barbarossa suddenly asked as Xiaobai was thinking.

"Well..." Xiaobai didn't know how to answer for a moment.

“It seems you’re not very strong.” Barbarossa lowered his head again before Little White could answer. “Because you seem to be able to go ashore at will. The things you took out before were probably all unique to the land.”

"Haha..." Xiaobai scratched his head awkwardly.

Barbarossa's sensitivity was far superior to Hindenburg's, who was obsessed with fighting. Xiaobai felt that if Barbarossa continued to question him, he would most likely be exposed.

"Moreover, Miss Barbarossa, um...did you find that wonderful feeling you mentioned earlier?" Little White asked Barbarossa.

"..." Barbarossa paused for a moment, holding her teacup, and glanced at Little White. "Found it."

"Oh, I see... That's a good thing." Little White felt a little numb in his legs after being stared at by Barbarossa.

“You are indeed different from the others,” Barbarossa said.

"Ahem, indeed, indeed."

“Just now, I don’t know why, I really wanted to pounce on you,” Barbarossa said again.

"Yes...really?"

“Hmm, but I don’t know why I pounced on you.” Barbarossa squinted and thought for a while. “When you touch me, it’s strange, I can’t control myself a little, but when you don’t touch me, I’m very calm.”

"……"noob.

"Glug glug." Barbarossa tilted his head back, ignoring the water temperature, and drank the steaming hot tea in one gulp, then put down the empty teacup. "Delicious."

“Miss Barbarossa, if you like, you can come to me later, and I’ll make you a few more cups,” Xiaobai said.

“…This is a very precious thing, isn’t it? You should keep it for yourself.” Barbarossa shook his head, then hesitated for a moment before saying to Little White, “More than this…next time, I’d like you to touch me.”

"what?"

"Can't you?"

"Uh... yes... yes, that's possible..."

"..." Barbarossa gave Little White a rare, gentle smile.

Quite cute.

Xiao Bai's head was buzzing a little.

Barbarossa got up and walked towards the tent entrance. After taking a few steps, he stepped on several sheets of calligraphy paper that Xiaobai had used up his mental energy last night.

Barbarossa bent down, picked up the calligraphy paper from his feet, and glanced at it a few times.

"Ah, that's..." Xiaobai exclaimed as soon as he saw the calligraphy paper.

"Have you been to Frederick recently?" Barbarossa asked Little White, holding up a sheet of calligraphy paper.

"Huh? Uh... sort of. How did you know?"

“Because these are the inscriptions from Frederick’s tower,” Barbarossa said to Little White, holding up the calligraphy paper. “You want to study these?”

"...?"

Buzz — Rain

This time, Xiaobai's head was really buzzing.

Xiao Bai was stunned.

"What did you say?"

"Hmm? These are the inscriptions inside the spires. Haven't you seen them before?" Barbarossa held up the calligraphy paper, looking at Little White with a puzzled expression. "Didn't you write all those inscriptions on this?"

Barbarossa spread the Xuan paper out for Little White.

On Xuan paper.

The characters, densely packed and of varying sizes, were all written with a brush, flowing freely and neatly, gleaming with golden light in the hazy night.

Chapter 2094 A Loving Couple's Tear

tower?

After listening to Barbarossa's words, Xiaobai stared at the Xuan paper in Barbarossa's hand, his mind falling into a deep, almost paralyzed state of contemplation.

There were even runic characters in the black spire where Frederick the Great lived?

This city?

That spire?

Rune font?

Is it inside?

In an instant, a flood of questions, accompanied by astonishment, poured out of Xiaobai's mind like a fountain.

In a sense, Xiaobai's understanding of rune knowledge is unparalleled in the past five hundred years of human society. Five hundred years ago, it was Xiaobai and Sukhbaatar who retrieved the world's first ship girl construction machine from the ocean floor, which was filled with deep-sea ships, and gave it to humanity, which was still in a period of technological discontinuity. Both ship girl technology and rune knowledge were developed based on the deconstruction and learning of that ship girl construction machine by the people at that time.

The importance of this to the human world is self-evident—it can be said with certainty that without rune knowledge as a foundation, ship girl technology is just empty talk. Humans would not be able to build their own ship girl legions, nor would they be able to protect the land and their homes from rampant deep-sea creatures. Let alone the bustling modern cities we have today, it's questionable whether humanity could even survive the devastation caused by deep-sea creatures and barely pull through from a period of decline.

Such an amazing thing... I didn't know there was one in this city too.

Xiao Bai seemed to realize something.

what.

correct.

There is no such thing as a thing without a reason in this world. When Xiaobai and Sukhbaatar salvaged the ship girl construction device from the seabed, neither Xiaobai nor Sukhbaatar knew the origin of that construction machine. Later, in order to save some unnecessary thinking, Xiaobai did not think too much about it. Now, thanks to Barbarossa's reminder, that ship girl construction machine is most likely an object from another era far beyond the level of human technology.

The city where Frederick the Great lived was an abandoned ancient city.

So, is ship girl technology ancient technology?

Thinking of this, Xiaobai's brows relaxed slightly, but quickly furrowed again, his face showing even more doubt.

That's not right...

Isn't it said that ancient humans were ravaged and entered a period of decline because they lacked means to defend themselves against deep-sea creatures? If ship girl technology really belongs to ancient humans, then all of this doesn't make sense.

That's really strange.

"What's wrong? Your face looks strange." Barbarossa looked at Little White, who hadn't spoken for a long time, but was holding his chin and his expression was as lively as if he were changing faces, and couldn't help but ask.

"Ah...no, it's nothing..." Little White was jolted awake from her reverie by Barbarossa's reminder. She quickly shook her head, then forced a smile and grinned at Barbarossa, "Um...Miss Barbarossa, you're right, I was indeed studying these characters..."

“Just as I thought.” Barbarossa nodded.

"Ahem... Um, will doing this make Frederick angry?" Xiaobai asked cautiously.

“She won’t get angry about something like that,” Barbarossa replied calmly. “And Frederick didn’t forbid anyone from seeing the inscriptions on the Black Tower. It’s just that no one else in the city is interested in them. So far, only you have made a point of drawing them and taking them back to your residence.”

"I see... Miss Barbarossa, can you understand these words?" Xiaobai nodded, then took two steps toward Barbarossa and stopped in front of her.

“I don’t understand,” Barbarossa said.

"Where is Frederick?"

“She probably wouldn’t understand it either,” Barbarossa said slowly after thinking for a while, holding the Xuan paper.

"Should?" Xiaobai wondered why Barbarossa used a questioning tone.

“Hmm… I think so.” Barbarossa nodded. “We can’t understand these words, but Frederick seems to know the meaning of one or two of them. When we occasionally go to her for meetings, if we happen to find her reading these words, she will share some of her thoughts on them with us.”

"Huh? She can understand one or two words?" Xiaobai was surprised, then quickly moved closer to Barbarossa, "Miss Barbarossa, can you tell me too?"

“Let me think.” Barbarossa nodded, held the Xuan paper and looked at it for a while. Seemingly unable to find the two words she recognized, she bent down and searched the tent again, finding a stack of Xuan paper covered with runic script. She returned to the tent and flipped through it in the hazy night, finally finding one of the pages. “Yes, this is it.”

"Which one? Which one?" Little White quickly stood on tiptoe and hooked his arm around Barbarossa's.

"..." Barbarossa looked down at the eagerly waiting Xiaobai, then bent down and held the Xuan paper in front of Xiaobai. "This page contains this text. Frederick told us that this text represents the meaning of the characters. Yes."

細衫磷久玲旗就V吧“的…”

Following Barbarossa's finger, Xiaobai saw a shiny rune on the rice paper.

Xiao Bai opened her eyes slightly.

That's right.

There is no problem with the translation of Frederick the Great's name.

In Ella's family's rune dictionary, this rune does indeed mean "of," and it is a very common conjunction used to connect rune strings and improve the overall coherence of the runes, so it appears very frequently.

"Is there anything else?" Xiaobai asked again.

“If there’s anything else…” Barbarossa flipped through the Xuan paper, found another page, pointed to a rune on it, and said, “This one on this page means fire.”

"flame……"

Little White muttered to himself, looking at the rune that Barbarossa had pointed out this time, then raised an eyebrow and revealed a subtle smile.

Ok.

This is wrong.

This time, Frederick the Great's translation of the rune was about 30-40% correct in meaning, but not entirely accurate. Although this rune does have some connotation of fire, in the Ella family's rune dictionary, it should be represented as "burning".

The rune analysis of the Ella family was passed down from Suzuran five hundred years ago. It has been tested and refined by human society for five hundred years, so its accuracy should not be a problem.

Xiaobai understood.

Frederick the Great was likely trying to decipher the runic script within the Black Tower on her own.

What a thoughtful director of the Deep Sea Institute...

Thinking about this, Xiao Bai couldn't help but admire it in his heart. Translating a brand new language is a pioneering act that can be described as quite groundbreaking for any race, especially for a cold race like the Deep Sea with its strict hierarchical order. Frederick the Great's actions are even more remarkable.

However rare it may be, Frederick the Great was, after all, just one person. While deep-sea creatures far surpass humans in combat power, they still fall short in intelligence. If Frederick the Great were to rely solely on his own relentless study to catch up with humanity's current mastery of rune knowledge, it would likely take him more than a thousand years.

“Miss Barbarossa…” Little White looked up at Barbarossa and spoke.

“Just call me Barbarossa,” Barbarossa replied.

"Ah, okay." Xiaobai nodded, then asked, "About Frederick's research on runic script... roughly when did she start researching this?"

“We’ve been researching it since day one,” Barbarossa replied.

That was probably a hundred or two hundred years ago.

This level of academic research has been going on for one or two hundred years...

That perseverance is truly impressive...

Xiao Bai stared at the runes on the Xuan paper and nodded silently.

It seems that Frederick the Great did not have any talent for deciphering languages. He made no breakthrough progress in deciphering languages ​​on his own for so long. Although he managed to slowly figure things out by relying on his long lifespan, it was probably more than a thousand years before he caught up with humanity.

not worried.

However... that being said, although there's no need to worry about the deep-sea technology tree posing any threat to humanity, I still need to pay attention to the runes in that tower.

Those questions in my mind couldn't be resolved without personally verifying them inside the Black Tower.

I should find some time to go and take a look.

Xiao Bai thought to himself.

"You're daydreaming again." The perceptive Barbarossa quickly noticed that Little White was thinking about something again, so she called out to him.