Elder brother's garrison

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"Uh... Missouri, what a coincidence, you're locked up here too?" Xiaobai asked with a troubled expression.

“?” Missouri tilted her head.

"While I was unconscious...they didn't give you any trouble, did they..." Xiaobai huddled closer to the blanket, then nervously continued to ask Missouri.

"?" Missouri's beautiful eyes showed a hint of doubt, but looking at the expression on Xiaobai's face, Missouri quickly realized. Missouri raised her fair arm to cover her mouth and let out an uncontrollable laugh, "Pfft."

Missouri?

“Missouri had thought about what the Admiral would say after he woke up, but she didn’t expect this. Pfft…” Misssouri couldn’t help but smile. As she stood up from the bucket, she clutched her stomach and explained to Xiaobai, “Admiral, you don’t actually think that while you were unconscious, Senior Frederick took the opportunity to recover from her injuries and come back to wipe us all out, do you?”

"Uh...no, isn't it?"

"It seems the admiral is still half asleep."

"But, but my original clothes..."

“The Admiral’s original clothes were quite damaged in the battle and stained with too much blood. Missouri has already sent them back to the naval base for professional cleaning.” Missouri smiled and pointed to the blanket on Xiaobai’s body. “Of course, Missouri also brought back a few spare sets of clothes, as well as a blanket and a soft bed to give the Admiral a peaceful sleep.”

Following Missouri's finger, Xiaobai saw a set of neatly folded, square-shaped spare admiral's uniforms in the corner of the bed.

"Huh? Then why am I naked...?"

"Of course, this is an essential process." Missouri held up the towel in her hand and said with a smile, "During the time the Admiral was unconscious, whether it was the daily muscle massage, body cleaning, or even changing clothes and maintaining a dignified appearance, Missouri took care of the Admiral's body personally. Missouri was just preparing to wipe your body, Admiral."

"So that's it..."

Xiao Bai listened to Missouri's words and saw the relaxed expression on her face before letting out a long sigh of relief.

"I thought... you were being attacked by Frederick while I was dreaming..." Little White muttered to himself, a hint of guilt on his face.

When she chose to spare Frederick the Great's life, Xiaobai didn't expect that she would sleep for so long. Now, in the entire eighth chapter, only she can stop Frederick the Great. Her unconsciousness means that Frederick the Great can do whatever he wants. Whether it's the ship girl base on land, or Missouri, Abyssal Yamato, or even Savoy, their lives are all in Frederick the Great's hands.

This is an extremely dangerous thing.

If Xiaobai had known that she would be unconscious for so long after defeating Frederick the Great, she would definitely have reconsidered her decision to spare Frederick's life.

"..." Missouri silently watched Xiaobai's expression. After noticing Xiaobai's low mood, she lowered her head, folded the wet towel in her hand, hung it on the bucket, and then slowly walked to Xiaobai's side and sat down next to Xiaobai. "It seems that the admiral must have had a very, very long dream."

Xiao Bai looked up and found Missouri looking at him with a big smile.

"Admiral, you can rest assured. As for Senior Frederick, she hasn't actually woken up yet," Missouri said slowly, placing his hand on the back of Xiaobai's hand.

"Not awake?"

"Yes, ever since the battle ended that day, Frederick-senpai has been in a deep sleep. While the Admiral was still asleep, Yamato-senpai and the others gathered to seriously discuss how to deal with Frederick-senpai. Fortunately, he's still lying obediently in bed, showing no signs of waking up," Missouri said to Shiro. "Well, at least from the outcome, it's good. After all, Admiral, you woke up before Frederick-senpai, didn't you?"

"...Has Yamato-neechan been helping me manage this place all this time?"

“Yes,” Missouri nodded.

"……no problem?"

"Yamato-senpai's professional skills are really impressive." Missouri smiled happily as she looked at Shiro's worried expression. "Don't be fooled by how she acted when she was at the naval base. After all, she was the world's first Abyssal Commander. Perhaps no one in the world is more suitable to lead the Abyss than her? And in hindsight, that's how it is. Although there were occasional sounds of friction and arguments between other seniors in the Abyssal city during the time the Admiral was unconscious, they always calmed down immediately, and it was generally peaceful."

"Big sister Yamato..." Shiro's face showed relief.

“…Speaking of which,” Missouri tilted her head, looking at Xiaobai’s face, and suddenly asked, “Does the Admiral know how long he’s been asleep?”

"Uh... a week?"

“Such a precise sense of time even while asleep, as expected of the Admiral.” Missouri laughed, but still raised her finger and said seriously, “But to be precise, it’s seven days, six hours and forty-three minutes… Oh, it’s seven days, six hours and fourteen-four minutes now, exactly the early morning after a week’s absence.”

"Absolutely."

"But after taking care of him for so long, Missouri is finally able to appear by his side as soon as he wakes up. She's quite satisfied now," Missouri said with a smile, putting down her hand.

"...You must be exhausted from these past seven days..." Xiaobai said with a wry smile.

“Missouri doesn’t feel tired at all, after all, this is all done out of love,” Missouri said casually. “If the Admiral still doesn’t wake up, Missouri is confident that she can continue to take care of him for a month, a year, ten years, or even a hundred years.”

Missouri's tone was quite lighthearted, as if she were joking.

But Xiaobai was completely too afraid to respond to the joke.

After all, Missouri had traveled from a distant era to the modern world to find him, and had been searching for him for forty or fifty years without giving up... From this point of view, Xiaobai really wasn't sure how much truth Missouri's joke was.

"Um……"

Xiao Bai could only nod gently, condensing a hundred emotions into a simple "hmm".

"Oh, right, speaking of which," Missouri suddenly seemed to remember something, turning to Shiro with a smile, "Is the Admiral going to see Yamato-senpai and the others later?"

"Yes."

"That's perfect. We've only gotten halfway through today's cleaning, Admiral. Missouri, shall we continue?"

"Huh? Wait, we don't need this..."

"It's alright, Admiral. This is your first appearance in a week. A dignified appearance is very important to the other seniors. If you have any stains on your clothes and it affects their opinion of you, Missouri would be seriously derelict in her duty."

"You're wearing clothes, you know. Who would look under your clothes when you meet someone..."

"Admiral, it's always best to be absolutely certain."

"No, wait a minute, I haven't... oh!"

Before Xiaobai could finish speaking, Missouri pushed him onto the bed.

Missouri climbed onto the bed amidst laughter and grabbed a wet towel to rub against Little White.

Xixisuosuo.

Splash, splash, splash.

The bucket placed beside the bed trembled and rippled as the two played around, creating waves on the surface.

Chapter 2187 The Deep-Sea Masses Who Learn from All

In the deep-sea city, the sky is always shrouded in thick black fog, visibility is extremely low, and light is very weak, making it difficult for people with poor sense of time to tell the exact time.

But Xiaobai felt that a whole morning had passed since she woke up.

Little White lay in Missouri's arms, feeling the fullness of her body against her skin, while staring wide-eyed at the ceiling.

The thin blanket, which was originally enough to cover Xiaobai alone, was now covering both Xiaobai and Missouri. Xiaobai turned her head to look and saw Missouri beside her with her eyes closed, breathing evenly and gently. Her beautiful face was flushed with a faint pink hue mixed with warmth, and her breath exhaled a sweet fragrance.

Missouri was sleeping soundly.

Although Missouri had always said that her job was very easy and that she was just doing it out of love, in reality, her so-called care for Xiaobai's body was nothing more than high-intensity supervision, 24 hours a day. Xiaobai felt that no matter how good-looking or cute she was, Missouri would get sick of staring at her for a week. Her week was definitely not as easy as she made it out to be.

Xiao Bai shifted his position and gently tapped Missouri's eye socket with his finger.

At least—Missouri probably hasn't slept a wink this week.

Ship girls have enough energy to support them in doing many things, but that doesn’t mean their energy is unlimited. Even ship girls need to rest. Working continuously for a week without interruption, without even a minute of relaxation, is definitely not a comfortable job for a ship girl.

You can tell from how soundly Missouri is still sleeping.

Time... flies so fast.

Xiaobai murmured something in a daze, leaned close to Missouri, gently pecked Missouri's lips, then sighed softly and slowly sat up.

Little White tried not to disturb Missouri by getting up, and crawled out from under the blanket.

The blanket Missouri prepared for Little White was obviously the wrong size for her, as she was much taller. The blanket could only cover Missouri from her chest to her thighs, leaving the rest of her body exposed.

"Hmm... I hope the ship girls won't catch a cold..."

"Let's leave it at that for now..."

Xiao Bai muttered to himself as he reached for the clothes on the bedside table.

Missouri's clothes were scattered haphazardly on the left, still damp with warmth, while Xiaobai's clothes were neatly folded on the right.

Xiao Bai grabbed her clothes, jumped off the bed, quickly put on the spare clothes, took out a small mirror from her ship equipment space, tidied her appearance in the mirror, and then tiptoed to the door and pushed it open.

As soon as the door opened, a blast of cold air rushed in.

Xiao Bai instinctively shuddered, quickly squeezed out, and then closed the door.

Outside, there was a thick black fog and a black waterway that stretched as far as the eye could see.

"Chapter Eight truly lives up to its name. Frederick had completely depleted the deep-sea energy here before, but I didn't expect it to recover so quickly." Xiaobai recognized the surrounding scenery at a glance and couldn't help but exclaim in amazement. Then, she chuckled, rubbing her forehead. "Wait a minute... I was unconscious for a week, so this place should have recovered by now..."

Xiao Bai glanced back at the house.

Xiao Bai had already memorized the map of Deep Sea City. As soon as she looked at the surrounding environment, she recognized where in Deep Sea City this was. This was not the place where Xiao Bai had lived when she was undercover. It was a very inconspicuous little place in Deep Sea City, far away from the residences of every Deep Sea Director, and also far away from the Black Spire area that had now become ruins. It belonged to the category of "relatively deep mountains and forests".

"The outside looks a bit shabby, but the interior is alright, although it's a bit like a prison cell... but it's still better than the other places I've stayed in before. It's really amazing that Missouri found such a good place," Xiaobai muttered to himself, unable to help but sigh.

Following the waterway, Shiro embarked on a journey to find the deep-sea Yamato.

The location of the deep-sea Yamato is not difficult to find.

Xiaobai hardly needed to think about it; she already knew where Deep Sea Yamato was right now.

Xiao Bai silently followed the waterway, passing through small paths, and eventually returned to the familiar waterway streets.

As Xiaobai moved, a white and silver building came into view. The main door on the first floor was open, and several figures were going in and out of the building.

—This is where Xiaobai used to live.

As soon as Xiaobai approached the building, he could hear Shen Hai Yamato's powerful voice coming from the first floor.

"Ring ring!! Today we're going to talk about 'How the Deep Sea Survives in Human Society'!"

Xiao Bai walked to the first floor of the building with his hands behind his back and quietly peeked into the door.

In the lobby on the first floor, Yamato Shinkai, wearing gold-rimmed glasses, was giving a lecture to the Deans of Shinkai, holding a book in one hand and a pointer in the other.

"As Abyssal Fleet members! Living in human society, our identities are extremely easy for ship girls to discover! If our identities are discovered by ship girls outside the naval base, it will cause you a lot of trouble! Note, I said a lot of trouble!" Abyssal Fleet member Yamato said, tapping her pointer against the wall with a serious expression. "That's why! I'll briefly list five ways to conceal your identities, five situations that easily expose them, and five actions you can take after your identities are exposed. You must remember them well—"

Before Yamato Shinkai could finish speaking, one of the Shinkai deans in front of him suddenly raised his arm.

"Report!" Kamikaze raised his hand.

"Speak!" Yamato Akagi nodded to Kamikaze.

"Since the consequences of being discovered are so severe, why not just kill the ship girls who discover our identities?" Kamikaze asked seriously. "If we kill everyone who knows our identities, no one will know we are Abyssal Fleet members."

"Kamikaze, that's a very good question." Yamato Akami nodded after listening. "So, let's take this a step back to the topic we discussed yesterday: the rules of the 'Basic Behavior Manual for Deep-Sea Creatures in Naval Bases.' The first and most important rule is that under no circumstances should innocent lives be harmed!"

"report!"

"Speak!"

"Are all those who discover our identities innocent lives?!" Kamikaze asked again.

"Yes! They are all innocent!"

"What if it's an emergency? Can it be cut off?"

“No, that won’t do either!” Yamato Aqua’s attitude was firm, but as she said this, she still adjusted her glasses with her finger. “In human society, life is the most important thing. For example, even though Shiro and Frederick the Great fought so hard, she still spared Frederick’s life in the end. That’s respect for life!”

“ohhhhh——”

Kamikaze had an expression that said, "I think I understand, but I don't fully understand. But what you're saying makes a lot of sense, so I'll listen to you."

However, compared to Kamikaze's enthusiasm, the other deep-sea deans present did not seem to be as enthusiastic about the Deep-Sea Yamato course.

Savoy lay sprawled on the table, yawning repeatedly. Barbarossa stared blankly at the wall, lost in thought. Hindenburg, his body covered in bandages, was gnawing on a piece of wood, seemingly oblivious to Yamato's words.

Looking at the scene in the hall from outside the door, Xiaobai couldn't help but smile awkwardly.

how to say.

It feels quite like... education for all.

Perhaps because Xiaobai's laughter couldn't be contained, Shenhai Yamato, who was giving a lecture in the hall, seemed to sense something and looked towards the door.

Upon seeing Shiro, Yamato Akagi froze on the spot, then his face lit up with joy.

"Ah! Xiaobai!"

"Yamato-neechan..." Shiro smiled and waved to Deepsea Yamato.

"Y-you-you-you're awake!" Deep Sea Yamato dropped what she was holding and skipped over to Shiro, picking him up and spinning him around in mid-air. Then, with an unrestrained smile, she said, "That's great! If you hadn't woken up, I was going to get a few shamans to summon your spirit!"

"I'm so sorry... I kept you waiting for so long..." Xiaobai also looked apologetic. As she said this, she looked at the other Deep Sea Deans in the hall.

The four Deans of the Deep Sea Sect in the hall seemed to be still adjusting to Xiaobai's new identity. When they saw Xiaobai appear, although they all wanted to come closer, they stopped in their tracks and just stared at him with slightly complicated and unfamiliar eyes.

Xiao Bai pursed her lips, smiled, and waved to Dean Shen Hai in the hall.

Savoy, Kamikaze, and Barbarossa remained standing there, seemingly afraid to approach.

"..." Little White thought for a moment, then waved affectionately at the Deep Sea Hindenburg, "Shindenburg~"