Elder brother's garrison

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After listening to Luo Lian's analysis yesterday, Nia had already set her expected price for this deep-sea flagship metal at 100 million merit points. However, before she could even hold onto it and raise the price, Luo Yingying directly pushed the price above Nia's expectations!

This completely baffled Nia.

Xiao Bai looked at Luo Yingying in surprise. She hadn't expected that Luo Yingying, as an employee of the Admiral's Guild, would speak up for her like this.

"Miss Yingying... If your Admiral's Guild finds out... that you helped us negotiate with them, will they punish you?" Xiaobai asked awkwardly.

"That shouldn't be the case... After all, you are the world's number one admiral. The Admiral's Guild would never take advantage of you, no matter who else they want to take advantage of," Luo Yingying said.

"Oh, I see..." Xiaobai exclaimed.

"Then, Admiral Lu Lin, what are your thoughts?" Luo Yingying asked quickly when she saw Xiao Bai pause. "How about 110 million merit points? If you think it's acceptable, I'll contact the higher-ups of the Admiral's Guild right away."

"Well..." Xiaobai didn't reply to Luo Yingying immediately; she turned to look at Luo Lian.

Luo Lian closed her eyes and shrugged at Xiao Bai.

Chapter 2738 Heaven-Defying Ship Girl

Luo Lian's shrug meant very little.

Now, Luo Yingying has raised the price of Deep Sea Flagship Metal by 20 million merit points out of respect for Xiaobai. Although it seems that there is still considerable room for the price of this Deep Sea Metal to rise, the benefits of these 20 million merit points are real and there is no risk involved. If Xiaobai feels it's better to be on the safe side, then for peace of mind, he can directly trade the Deep Sea Flagship Metal to the Admiral Guild.

Xiao Bai withdrew his gaze from Luo Lian.

Xiao Bai has completely understood Luo Lian's meaning.

"Miss Yingying, I've made up my mind," Xiaobai said to Luo Yingying with a smile.

"What are your thoughts?" Luo Yingying asked.

"I'm not selling," Xiaobai said.

"Alright, I'll contact the higher-ups at the Admiral's Guild for you right away... Hmm?" Luo Yingying took out her phone and was about to dial a number when she suddenly froze, staring blankly at Xiaobai while holding her phone. "Admiral Lu Lin? What did you just say?"

"I said, not for sale," Xiaobai repeated with a smile.

"...Ah this."

"After careful consideration, this stone still has some room for appreciation. Besides, we don't really need the money right now." Xiaobai held up a finger and smiled at Luo Yingying. "I'm very grateful to Miss Yingying for purchasing this deep-sea metal for 110 million merit points, but I still think it might sell for a higher price in the future, so please allow us to keep it for a few days."

"..." Luo Yingying was dumbfounded.

Luo Yingying stared blankly at Xiaobai, her heart churning with turbulent emotions.

There really are admirals in this world who can refuse 110 million merit points...

Luo Yingying's lips were trembling.

She clearly paid a price 30 million higher than the bounty, which isn't thirty or three hundred yuan, but 30 million merit points...

Admiral Lu Lin is incredibly patient...

Thinking of this, Luo Yingying fell silent. Looking at Xiaobai's obedient and smiling expression, she suddenly felt a little awkward and afraid for some reason.

As expected of the world's number one admiral who has seized countless naval bases, bullied men and women, and run rampant in several high-level sea areas, making the whole world dare not speak out against him, he really has guts...

Luo Yingying sighed inwardly, glancing reluctantly at the deep-sea flagship metal in front of her.

According to Luo Yingying's identification results, this piece of deep-sea flagship metal should be the hardest and most concentrated deep-sea metal in the world, apart from the genuine deep-sea dean metal. Deep-sea metals are inherently expensive, and the higher the purity of the energy they contain, the greater their scientific research value and energy application value. Once the quality of deep-sea metals reaches a certain level, even a slight difference in concentration can result in a world of difference in price... Strictly speaking, the Admiral Guild is not short of money; what the Admiral Guild lacks is deep-sea metal like this.

It's quite a shame that such a high-quality piece of deep-sea metal couldn't be put into the Admiral's Guild's warehouse immediately.

Even so, Luo Yingying didn't continue to persuade Xiaobai.

The world's number one admiral has already made up his mind, and it's far too late for an nobody like me to try and persuade him again.

“Since Admiral Lu Lin has made up her mind, I won’t force the three of you.” Luo Yingying stood up, bowed to everyone, and said, “Please take this piece of deep-sea flagship metal back with you. As for Admiral Nia and Admiral Lu Lin’s permission to go to Sea Area 8-3, I will personally handle it for you after I leave here and return to my office. If everything goes smoothly, you can go to Sea Area 8-3 this afternoon.”

"Miss Yingying, there's no need to rush. Nia and I aren't going on the expedition today," Xiaobai said with a smile.

"..." Luo Yingying simply smiled and nodded, "Then, Admiral Lu Lin, Admiral Nia, and... Admiral Luo Lian, I won't bother you any longer."

Luo Yingying breathed a sigh of relief and turned to leave.

"Hey! Wait a minute, Miss Yingying!" Just then, Xiaobai's voice rang out from behind Luo Yingying.

"..." Luo Yingying froze, a strange sense of danger suddenly welling up inside her. She then turned her head to look at Xiaobai, hesitantly, "...Admiral Lu...Lu Lin?"

In Luo Yingying's vision, Xiaobai was smiling at her.

"Miss Yingying, I'm so sorry to have troubled you in so many ways these past few days," Xiaobai said sincerely.

"Um...it was all just a small favor..."

"I feel a little embarrassed that you've been helping me so selflessly all this time, Miss Yingying..." Xiaobai thought for a moment, then held up a finger to Luo Yingying and said with a smile, "How about this, Miss Yingying, if you have time, remember to bring Shenying to see me. I'll treat you two to a meal then."

Boom————

The moment Xiaobai finished speaking, a thunderous roar echoed in Luo Yingying's mind.

The long-buried memories suddenly awakened from her DNA and began to attack Luo Yingying.

Luo Yingying's face turned pale instantly.

"Huh? Miss Yingying, you look terrible. What's wrong?" Xiaobai asked worriedly.

"Uh...I...I...I didn't..." Luo Yingying's hands trembled in panic, "Admiral Lu...Admiral Lu Lin, you knew all along that Divine Eagle was my ship girl...?"

"Hmm? Isn't that obvious at a glance?" Xiaobai tilted her head curiously. "Miss Divine Eagle doesn't care about most people, but when she looks at you, Miss Yingying, her eyes are full of respect."

"..." Luo Yingying remained silent.

"Miss Yingying, remember to come for dinner sometime, we've made a date." Xiaobai waved with a smile.

“…Mmm…Mmm.” Luo Ying nodded tremblingly, “I…I will come…”

After saying goodbye to everyone present, Luo Yingying staggered out of the VIP room.

For a moment, only Xiaobai and her group, along with the ship girl attendants from before, remained in the VIP room.

"Miss Luo's demeanor completely changes the moment she hears she's going to have dinner with Xiao Bai," Nia asked Luo Lian. "Doesn't she like having dinner with Xiao Bai?"

“How could that be? No one in this world would hate Xiaobai.” Luo Lian shook her head seriously. “She’s probably just trembling with joy.”

“Oh…that makes sense.” Nia nodded with a sigh. “No wonder she’s always taken such good care of Xiaobai. Xiaobai always listens to her. So she likes Xiaobai too.”

Xiao Bai listened to the two people behind him talking and smiled helplessly.

Xiaobai picked up the Deep Sea Flagship Metal and handed it to Veneto.

"Alright, stop chatting. The Admiral's Guild has almost finished what it needed to do, so we should head back." Xiaobai said to his two friends with a smile, "The bigger the tree, the more the wind will blow against it. Let's put this piece of deep-sea flagship metal away quickly, lest someone outside see it."

"Understood!" Veneto quickly opened the ship's equipment space and threw the deep-sea metal directly inside.

After tidying up their belongings, the group left the VIP room through the same door they had come from.

The Admiral's Guild Hall was unusually quiet at this moment. When Xiaobai and her group left the VIP room led by their ship girl attendants, all the admirals outside stared at them with wide, hungry eyes. The hall was completely silent, except for the creaking of Xiaobai's group's footsteps on the smooth, shiny floor tiles.

For some reason, the admirals' gazes toward Shiro and his group were about 45 percent sharper than before.

However, none of this mattered to Xiaobai. All Xiaobai wanted to do now was to get back to the temporary garrison as soon as possible.

Xiao Bai and his group eventually left the Admiral's Guild quietly, disappearing from the sight of the Admirals in the hall.

……

It wasn't until ten minutes after Xiaobai and his group disappeared that the admirals' breathing could be heard again in the hall.

"hiss……"

"How did they manage to clear the 8-2 sea area in just one day...?"

"I don't believe it, I don't believe it, I really don't believe it... No matter how powerful a special ship girl is, she's still just a mere ship girl..."

"I haven't even finished exploring the 8-2 sea area yet..."

The admirals' murmurs rose and fell.

Just then, suddenly, one of the admirals spoke up.

"Actually, it's not impossible for a special ship girl to clear 8-2 in a day."

The moment these words spread, all the admirals turned their gazes toward them.

The speaker was a rather thin admiral. He lowered his head and thought seriously for a while before addressing the people around him.

"The special ship girls' ability... isn't it to absorb luck? Perhaps they relied on their ability to draw luck to find an easy and simple route to the deep-sea flagship in the complex 8-2 sea area."

"Uh...is this reasonable?"

"What else can we explain it? Did they really spend a whole day exploring 8-2? That's even more outrageous... Unless they bribed all the deep-sea creatures in Chapter 8, I don't believe it for a second."

"Indeed... considering this, it's probably the only outcome."

"But this is too lucky... There are thousands upon thousands of routes to 8-2... If she can really find a direct route by luck, wouldn't she be invincible?"

"Such abnormal abilities must come at a price. Do you remember the martial arts tournament they held on the beach yesterday?"

"Yes, I remember. I even participated."

"Those who participated in the martial arts tournament all had some bad luck afterwards. I mean... is it possible that they held the tournament that day to absorb our good luck... and then release it when we were clearing level 8-2?" A commander put forward a bold conjecture.

"Incredible! Absolutely incredible! Now I understand everything! No wonder they shipped Deepsea Flagship Metal! Now I know everything! They sacrificed the luck of hundreds of admirals in Chapter 8!!!"

One of the admirals shouted loudly, then pounded his chest and stomped his thighs in frustration.

The admirals present looked at each other, and they all saw fear and envy in each other's eyes.

Fear refers to the ability of special ship girls.

Envy... is envy of those who own special ship girls.

Chapter 2739 Returning Again

As Xiaobai and his group left, news of the shipment of Deep Sea Flagship Metal spread like wildfire.

Some of the Chapter 8 admirals, who had some special relationships within the Admiral Guild, put in some effort to inquire and indeed obtained some fragmented information about the Deep Sea Flagship Metal. Among this information, it seemed that the Admiral Guild offered a rather generous price and ultimately purchased the Deep Sea Flagship Metal from Xiaobai and his group.

This is the end.

With the confirmation of this news, the argument that special ship girls' ability is to absorb luck, and that admirals who possess special ship girls have used this powerful ability to drain the luck of hundreds of admirals, and then used this massive amount of luck to clear chapter 8-2 in one day, and finally obtain the extremely precious deep-sea flagship metal, has also gained traction.

The rumors spread like wildfire throughout Chapter Eight.

Inside and outside the Admirals' Guild, on the streets, and on the beach, almost all the Admirals were excitedly discussing this matter.

"Hey, did you guys know? The abilities of the special ship girls have been confirmed—"

"Wow, the bounty for the Admiral's Guild's Deepsea Flagship Metal has reached over 80 million..."

"My God, does that mean the owner of the special ship girl is currently the only ordinary admiral besides the top ten admirals to have reached the 8-3 area? Doesn't that mean they already possess power comparable to the world's top ten naval bases? Or even more..."

"The rumors are true..."

"That despicable owner of the special ship girl actually used the opportunity of holding a martial arts tournament to absorb my luck! No wonder I haven't gotten any good ship girls from my construction yesterday! Damn it!"

"I will remember this grudge!"

"What, you want revenge?"

"if not!"

"Think about your own strength... She now possesses abilities comparable to the top ten naval bases in the world. Even if she deceived us back then, do you still want to settle scores with her? She's a future top ten naval base! Besides, even if you dare to challenge her, she can absorb our luck. Those little exercises before made us unlucky for days. Aren't you afraid of offending her and then being chased down and having your luck drained?"

"Ah this..."

In the course of spreading rumors, there are bound to be some admirals who beat their chests and grit their teeth in frustration. However, after a brief discussion, these admirals will eventually conclude that they dare not provoke special ship girls, and in the end, they can only swallow their anger and suffer a deeply unforgettable loss.

……

The group of Xiaobai, who had just left the Admiral's Guild, had no idea what kind of rumors were currently circulating about Chapter Eight.

"Xiaobai, I never imagined this piece of deep-sea flagship metal would be worth more than we thought!" On the way home, Nia couldn't contain her excitement and exclaimed to Xiaobai and Luo Lian, "One hundred and ten million... Wow, I've never seen so much money in my life. I feel like I'm living in a dream... No! I wouldn't even dare to dream of having so much money!"

"To remain so calm in the face of 110 million merits, there's probably only one admiral in the whole world like you, Xiaobai." Luo Lian nodded in agreement.

"No way, let's not talk about Nia for now. Lianlian, you've been very calm the whole time." Xiaobai was a little embarrassed by what her two friends said, so she quickly spoke up.

"I'll stay calm, of course, because this piece of deep-sea metal has nothing to do with me." Luo Lian simply shrugged and said calmly, "Human joys and sorrows are not the same as mine. If you don't believe me, you can give me this stone, and then see if I'll just pull it out and show you."

"Ha ha……"

Upon hearing this, Xiaobai and Nia smiled in unison.

Luo Lian's statement was definitely a joke. Xiao Bai and Nia wouldn't take it seriously.

"Xiaobai, Xiaobai, the permission to go to the 8-3 sea area has been opened now. When are we going to the next chapter?" Nia asked Xiaobai, pulling on his wrist.