Elder brother's garrison

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Lv: 120

Firepower: 350

Armor value: 200

Airborne: 250

......"

These are truly reassuring data points.

Xiao Bai breathed a sigh of relief.

"Great, very useful." Xiaobai stopped transmitting her mental energy, and the data that had appeared in the lenses quickly faded away. She lowered her hand and said to Luo Lian with admiration, "Lianlian, your glasses are even more amazing than the last ones!"

“After eliminating the need for batteries, I also reduced the weight considerably. Now these glasses are almost indistinguishable from real glasses,” Luo Lian said. “By the way, because I had more design space, I also added the music function back. Now you can also use these glasses to listen to high-definition music.”

"...That's really amazing."

"It's nothing, just a trivial matter." Luo Lian stepped forward and helped Xiao Bai adjust his glasses. "Judging from your expression just now, Xiao Bai, are you going to use this tomorrow?"

"Um……"

"I hope it helps you."

"Yes, we will." Xiaobai nodded sincerely, then looked at Yubari and Warspite running around in the factory behind Luo Lian.

"Hey, Admiral! What a coincidence, you're here to visit the set too?" The ship girls are very perceptive. Yubari was running around carrying a bunch of parts and didn't notice Shiro's arrival. But when Shiro turned his gaze to Yubari, Yubari seemed to sense it and turned around, waving to Shiro with a look of surprise.

"Good evening, Yubari." Shiro waved.

"Hey, now even the Admiral is wearing glasses." Yubari grinned, then put down the parts he was holding, ran over to Shiro, and circled Shiro's face twice. "Haha, perfect, perfect, perfect!"

"Ahem." Xiaobai scratched his cheek, lowered his head somewhat embarrassedly, and then, as if remembering something, looked up at Yubari and asked, "Yubari, it's perfect that you're here. I was just about to ask you about the progress of the Missouri renovation."

"What, is the Admiral here to see Missouri again?"

"Just offering my condolences."

"Hmm... Missouri's transformation is going smoothly." Yubari stroked his chin.

How much longer until the revisions are complete?

“It will be soon, in about half a month,” Yubari replied instantly.

Chapter 2107 Missouri

"It'll take another half a month..." Xiaobai sighed, his gaze involuntarily drifting towards the depths of the factory.

The modification of ship girls does take a lot of time, especially for large ship types like Missouri. The half-month period that Yubari just mentioned is not a long time for Missouri. However, by the time half a month has passed for Missouri, the strategy for Chapter 8 will probably be completely finished.

pity.

Xiao Bai sighed inwardly.

"The modification of the ship's equipment... what a complicated project." Thinking of this, Shiro couldn't help but say to Yubari.

"Hmm? Actually, the modification process isn't complicated at all." To Xiaobai's surprise, Yubari tilted her head slightly after hearing Xiaobai's words and then replied, "For example, Missouri's ship equipment was actually modified yesterday."

"Huh?" Xiaobai was taken aback. "Yesterday?"

“Yes.” Yubari nodded.

"Uh... but Yubari, weren't you studying the design drawings all along...?"

“Yes, so after studying the design drawings, the ship equipment was quickly modified. It’s a bit like assembling a Gundam, Admiral, you know what I mean?” Yubari answered as if it were common sense. “After all, when I went to the Admiral’s office to submit the materials, Lexington told me directly that we had ready-made parts in our naval base, so I just used them directly.”

"Uh..." Xiaobai blinked, tilted her head and looked at Chao Yamato next to her, then asked with even more curiosity, "What did you mean when you said before that Missouri's transformation would take another half month?"

“The modification of ship girls also involves several processes.” Yubari said, then seemed to feel that it was not convincing without evidence, so she waved to Shiro, “But Admiral, you’ve come at the right time. It’s a rare opportunity, so I’ll make an exception and let you take a look.”

Done.

Yubari then pointed to a workshop inside the factory with its gate tightly closed and a faint rumbling sound coming from within, and waved to Shiro.

“Let’s go over there and talk, Admiral.”

"Oh... okay." Xiaobai nodded and quickly stepped forward.

Chao Dahe wanted to follow, but was quickly pulled back by Luo Lian. Xiao Bai noticed the movement behind her, turned around and smiled at Chao Dahe: "Chao Dahe, wait for me here, I'll be right back."

"Oh!" Chao Dahe nodded quickly.

Shiro followed Yubari toward the workshop where the noise was incessant.

"Admiral, as I told you before, the ship girl modification process can be roughly divided into three stages, right?" Yubari said to Shiro while leading the way. "The three modification stages are removing the ship equipment, modifying the ship equipment, and reinstalling the ship equipment."

"Hmm, I think I mentioned it before." Xiaobai nodded.

"Removing the ship's equipment, as the name suggests, means separating the ship's equipment from the ship's body after it has entered the modification process. This makes it easier for us to modify it later. The modification stage is the stage of maintaining, upgrading, and modifying the removed ship's equipment." Yubari said, turning to Shiro with a slight smile. "Ah, of course, to make it easier for you to understand, Admiral, I simplified a few thousand steps when I just explained it."

“Several thousand…” Xiaobai swallowed hard.

"Well then, Admiral, it's time for questions." Yubari put her hands behind her back, hummed, and asked Shiro, "Admiral, which of the three stages of the modification do you think took the longest?"

"..." Xiaobai looked into Yubari's eyes and blinked slightly. "The stage of putting the ship equipment back onto the ship girl?"

"Huh?" Yubari was taken aback, stopping in his tracks, somewhat surprised. "Admiral, how did you guess it so quickly?"

“…Because Yubari yourself just said that the Missouri’s ship equipment was modified yesterday, but it will still take another half a month to complete the modification,” Xiaobai replied.

"Ah—" Yubari covered her mouth, looking embarrassed. "I knew it... Admiral, how did you guess it so quickly?"

"So it really takes a lot of time to put the modified ship equipment back on the ship girl?" Xiaobai asked.

“Yes, that’s right.” Yubari, having been exposed by Shiro’s words, didn’t keep her in suspense any longer. She nodded and slowly said, “Leaving aside the technical difficulties, if we only consider the time it takes, then the third stage is definitely the most time-consuming. As you know, Admiral, the ship girl’s body is closely related to the ship equipment. After all, even the ship equipment has undergone a complete transformation. So when the drastically changed ship equipment is put back on the ship girl, the ship girl’s body will naturally have to go through a period of growth and change to adapt to the brand-new ship equipment.”

"So, Yubari, the two weeks you just mentioned were Missouri's adaptation period to the guided-missile ship equipment?" Shiro asked after listening carefully to Yubari's words.

"Bingo!" Yubari nodded with satisfaction.

During their conversation, Yubari and Shiro arrived at the workshop where a faint, constant rumbling could be heard.

Yubari took out his key, inserted it into the keyhole next to the workshop, and then entered a long password into the exposed keypad. Only then did he place his hand on the security door next to the workshop, turn his head and give Shiro a mysterious smile.

“Admiral, according to the rules, only I, as the chief ship equipment designer, can enter here, but considering your special relationship with Missouri, I will make an exception and allow you to enter this time.”

As Yubari spoke, he opened the workshop door.

Yubari opened the workshop door.

Buzzing buzzing buzzing—(

First came a moderate rumbling sound.

Huff—)

Then a thick white mist, full of moisture, gushed out of the workshop, enveloping Xiaobai and Yubari's figures.

"Huh? What is this..." Xiaobai looked at the white mist around her in surprise. She felt the special dampness when the white mist came into contact with her body, and a tremor ran through the depths of her memory.

This white mist... seems familiar.

Although we've only been in contact a few times, it shouldn't be wrong.

This should be one of the few times that Xiaobai has seen the white mist gushing out when the ship girl construction device successfully creates a ship girl.

Xiao Bai quickly felt a hand emerge from the white mist, pulling her through the door in front of her. As Xiao Bai entered the room, the door slammed shut behind her with a whoosh.

"Admiral, how are you? Not scared, are you?" Yubari's voice appeared in front of Shiro.

"Ah...no, I'm fine...Yubari, what is this white mist?" Shiro asked, looking at the swirling clouds in front of him.

“These? This isn’t just simple white mist. This white mist contains countless nano-sized active metals, a high-end product comparable to a rapid repair device. Filling this workshop with these things serves two purposes: first, it isolates it from external pollution, and second, it maintains the important machinery inside.” Yubari released Shiro’s wrist and walked in one direction, her voice continuing, “However, this stuff does obstruct the eyes when there are people inside. Admiral, please wait a moment, I’ll expel these things right away.”

The sound of Yubari stopped moving when it reached a certain place.

Xiao Bai stood there and waited for a while. Soon, a sound like a range hood filled the air, and the white mist seemed to be guided and dispersed in all directions, revealing the original state of the room.

Xiao Bai looked ahead with surprise in his eyes.

Before Xiaobai lay a spacious room, as large as a classroom. The room was completely sealed off, with no windows, only a few ventilation pipes. There were few instruments in the room, only a strange computer buzzing around, several machines plugged with various wires and constantly running, and an oversized transparent bathtub filled with a blue, translucent liquid. Missouri, whom Xiaobai hadn't seen in a long time, was lying peacefully in it, with only her head and shoulders showing. Her body was vaguely naked beneath the liquid, and every short distance there were several detectors used to monitor her physical condition.

However, none of this surprised Xiaobai.

Yubari had shown Missouri's condition during the refit several times via monitor, and it was not much different from what it was now. What really surprised Xiaobai was that right in the center of the building workshop, on the largest area of ​​the equipment, was a huge, snow-white ship girl rigging.

This was a type of ship equipment that Xiaobai had never seen before. In terms of shape, it was similar to the equipment of a regular battleship, but upon closer inspection, both the position of the main gun and the form of the armor were quite different from those of a regular battleship. On the snow-white, symmetrical, streamlined hull, several white gun barrels were arranged closely together, but there was no position for the main gun. Instead, a tall missile launcher stood high on the deck, its shiny coating emitting a dazzling white light.

"How is it? Pretty, right?" Just as Xiaobai was staring intently at the ship equipment in front of her, Yubari popped out from behind Xiaobai and asked her triumphantly.

"Yubari, this ship's equipment... is it the Missouri's guided-missile ship equipment?" Xiaobai turned to ask.

“Yes.” Yubari looked at the snow-white ship equipment in front of her with great satisfaction. “This is the ultimate and perfect guided missile ship equipment that I designed after actively listening to Admiral Luo Lian’s suggestions and spending several days with her. As it stands, no one will surpass it for forty years… no, for fifty years!”

"We spent so long designing, but the renovation was finished in just one day," Xiaobai chuckled.

"After all, ship equipment is only so big. With the technical skills of Admiral Luo Lian and me, as long as our design drawings are sound, we can complete the modification plan in a day by simply following the design drawings." Yubari grinned at Xiaobai, then gestured towards the transparent bathtub not far away, nudged Xiaobai with her shoulder, and said with a grin, "Admiral, look, the person lying in that bathtub over there right now is Missouri, whom you've been thinking about all this time."

Chapter 2108 Runes, Only...

Missouri lay motionless in the bathtub, her beautiful face serene, her skin fair and rosy, her complexion radiant. If it weren't for the gentle rise and fall of her chest, she would have looked no different from an art wax figure.

"Yubari, what's wrong with Missouri?" Shiro walked to the edge of the bathtub, put her hands on the tub, and looked curiously at the motionless Missouri.

“She’s asleep.” Yubari walked to Shiro’s side and explained to her, “In order to allow her body to accept the modified ship equipment as soon as possible, Missouri is in a deep sleep, using all her energy to change herself and adapt to it.”

"...Will there be any danger?" Shiro blinked at Missouri in the bathtub, and after a while, cautiously asked Yubari.

"No, it won't," Yubari replied.

"...So, all the modified ship girls are like this?"

“Yes, this is a step that all modified ship girls must go through.” Yubari looked at Missouri in the bathtub and patted Shiro on the shoulder. “Including myself, the Empire that was just successfully modified, and Xiao Changchun who was modified even earlier, we all went through this process.”

"...Hmm...Will it hurt?" Shiro thought for a moment, then turned to Yubari and asked.

“Well…” Yubari closed his eyes and thought for a while, “How should I put it… In this state of deep sleep, no one can feel pain, so I don’t know if it will hurt.”

"I see." Xiaobai hummed in agreement, silently gazing at Missouri in the bathtub. "...Can I touch her?"

"Admiral, please go ahead." Yubari covered her mouth and chuckled in Shiro's ear, "Missouri is currently in a deep sleep and is unaware of anything happening around her, so whatever you do to her right now, Admiral, she won't resist you... Oh ho ho ho ho ho..."

Done.

Before Xiaobai could refute.

Yubari skipped away to check the data on the computer in the distance, leaving some space for Shiro and Missouri by the bathtub.

"Yubari is really something..." Shiro looked at Yubari's back, her face flushed, but she quickly turned back to look at Missouri in the bathtub.

Xiao Bai's expression returned to calm.

Xiao Bai lay down by the bathtub and gently touched the blue liquid in the tub with her finger.

It's warm and a little sticky.

This should be the nutrient solution that Yubari mentioned before. Like the white mist just now, it's a high-end product, the kind that costs a fortune.

Xiaobai withdrew her finger, moved it to Missouri's face, and touched Missouri's cheek.

It feels silky smooth.

It's like touching the softest silk in the world.

Just as Yubari had said, Missouri showed no reaction whatsoever when Shiro stroked her face.

“No wonder Yubari said before that no one other than the chief ship equipment designer is allowed to come in here…” Xiaobai murmured as he touched Missouri’s cheek.

This room is probably specifically for ship girls who are undergoing modification and entering the adaptation period. During this time, the ship girls have no ability to resist, and the modified ship equipment is also placed here. Its importance is comparable to the operating table of a major surgery. If it is not properly guarded as before, and if a mistake is made and even a fly is let in and lands on the critical equipment, delaying the operation of the instruments, that would be an extremely serious matter.

Thinking of this, Xiaobai couldn't help but raise her finger and gently stroke Missouri's lips.

The feeling of my fingertips moving between my lips was rather pleasant.

If Missouri were sober right now, although she wouldn't resist her actions, she would probably laugh and say some embarrassing jokes to herself, telling herself to stop immediately.

Xiaobai withdrew her hand, quietly looked at Missouri for a while, and then left the bathtub.

Following the wires extending from the bathtub, Xiaobai walked to the large ship equipment in the center of the workshop.

Xiao Bai observed the guided warship for a while longer and nodded slightly.

The few wires extending from the bathtub are probably the only connection between Missouri and the modified ship's equipment. In order to adapt to the modified ship's equipment, Missouri is trying to adjust her body in the bathtub through the information transmitted by these wires... During this process, there is a high possibility that her body shape and appearance will change in order to adapt to the ship's equipment.

I wonder what Missouri will look like after the renovations are finished...

"Sigh..." Xiaobai sighed softly, raised her hand and touched the guided warship equipment in front of her, "Although change is a good thing... I still think Missouri is beautiful enough as it is now... Hmm?"