Elder brother's garrison

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"I'm not interested." Luo Lian shook her head.

"So you're researching this because..."

“I have a feeling… we’ll probably need it.” Luo Lian said, tapping her notebook lightly with her fingers. “And that’s exactly what happened, isn’t it? If I really want to break into the top ten in the world, this information I have will be invaluable strategic material in the short term.”

"Wow..." Xiaobai suddenly realized, feeling both amazed and deeply impressed.

Even though Luo Lian didn't know about the top ten admirals when I looked for her before, she had already made many preparations to make a breakthrough in the world rankings when I found her.

Is this the power of being prepared...?

Lianlian is amazing.

Lianlian is indeed always ready, no matter the situation.

Xiao Bai immediately developed an unconditional trust in Luo Lian.

While it's unclear how a single heavy cruiser like Des Moines could possibly break into the world's top ten, if it were the magical Rei-Rei, there would probably be some special methods to achieve it.

Xiao Bai and Luo Lian quickly returned to Nia's dormitory.

When Xiaobai and Luolian returned, Nia was still hunched over her desk in the dormitory, handling her work for the day.

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The dormitory was quiet, with only the speed at which the pen moved across the paper being particularly noticeable.

On Nia's desk, there were piles of documents as high as small mountains on both sides. Nia leaned over the desk and filled one document with writing before taking out the second document and placing it in front of her to continue working.

Xiao Bai and Luo Lian quietly observed Nia for a while.

In fact, Nia's speed in processing documents is already quite proficient compared to that of an ordinary admiral; she's incredibly fast. But even so, faced with a mountain of official documents that had accumulated over an unknown period of time, Nia's processing speed alone seemed rather insignificant.

"Nia, we're back." After watching for a while, Xiaobai called out to Nia.

"Oh." Nia, who was focused on her official duties, stopped writing and looked in surprise at Xiaobai and Luo Lian. "Xiaobai? Luo Lian, you're back so soon?"

“Yes…” Xiaobai smiled, “I’ve already told Lianlian about my goal of breaking into the world rankings.”

"Xiaobai, um... no, I'm sorry... I haven't finished my work yet..." Nia blushed with embarrassment as she looked at Xiaobai and Luo Lian. "Give me... give me two more hours, I... I'll speed things up and try to finish within two hours..."

Xiao Bai listened to Nia's words and glanced at the thick stack of official documents on the table.

Clearly, at Nia's pace, this couldn't be completed in two hours.

"Sigh." Xiaobai sighed. She came up behind Nia, placed her palm on Nia's smooth, swan-like neck, and gently massaged it. "Nia, take a rest first."

"Hmm... Little White..." Nia let out a soft hum the moment Little White touched her, her eyes crinkling with contentment. "No... it's alright... I don't need to rest... After I finish work, I still need to discuss things with Little White and the others..."

"Leave it to me," Little White whispered in Nia's ear.

“…Huh?” Nia looked at Xiaobai in confusion. “What?”

"Official documents." Xiaobai smiled slightly at Nia, who was close at hand. "If you don't mind, leave them to me."

"Huh? How can that be... Xiaobai, you don't need to worry about me..."

"It's nothing. Actually, to be honest, this is about all I'm good at." Xiaobai patted Nia's shoulder. "But Nia, would you mind if I, an outsider, helped you with the internal affairs of the naval base?"

"How could that be!" Nia panicked when she heard Xiaobai call her an outsider. She quickly stood up from her chair and hurriedly said to Xiaobai, "Xiaobai, you're not an outsider to me! Everyone in our naval base, from top to bottom, treats you like family!"

"In that case, I'm relieved." Xiaobai nodded to Nia with a smile. "Then let me give it a try."

"Huh?" Nia was stunned.

While Nia was still in a daze, Xiaobai had already sat down in Nia's chair.

Nia's chair was a bit hard and uncomfortable to sit on, but it still retained a trace of the girl's body heat. The thought that it was the warmth left by her best friend made Xiaobai feel that the chair was much more comfortable to sit on.

Xiao Bai sat steadily and picked up the document that Nia was halfway through processing.

“Xiaobai, this is the naval base's planning log for this period of Chapter Eight. The Admiral's Guild required each naval base to submit a report on time... Tonight is the deadline for submitting the report.” Nia approached Xiaobai and explained to her. After explaining for a while, she said with some concern, “Xiaobai... this is very troublesome to write. It requires referring to a lot of information from Chapter Eight, which wastes a lot of energy. Why don't you take a break and let me finish writing this…”

Nia wasn't worried that Xiaobai would cause trouble for her work.

Nia simply knew how tedious and exhausting official duties were, and didn't want Xiaobai to bear that pain for her.

"No need," Xiaobai shook her head, then smiled and picked up the pen.

To Nia's astonishment, Xiaobai picked up a pen and began to transcribe directly onto the document.

The documents and materials related to Chapter Eight were right next to Xiaobai. Without even flipping through them, Xiaobai filled the document in front of him in just a few minutes, right under Nia's surprised gaze.

"Here, Nia, take a look at the finished product." Xiaobai handed the completed document to Nia.

"Huh? This... is it finished already?" Nia took the document from Xiaobai with both hands in a daze, glanced at it a few times, and then her blank gaze instantly turned into amazement.

Xiaobai's file processing speed is so fast that it exceeds the level of normal humans.

However, this was not the most shocking thing for Nia. What shocked Nia the most was that even though Xiaobai processed the documents at such a fast speed, the completeness of the documents she processed was still so perfect that no one could find any fault with them!

Looking through the entire document, Xiaobai's handwriting filled the tables and explanation dialog boxes completely, and there wasn't a single typo; every character was written neatly.

The content was also precise and perfect. Although this document required consulting a lot of complex information to complete, Xiaobai did not look at any of those materials from beginning to end. Yet, her document report was full of quotations and examples. Moreover, Xiaobai seemed to have an extraordinary understanding of her own naval base. From the long-term planning of the naval base to the name, equipment type, living needs, and combat strength of each ship girl in the naval base, she knew everything about it as if it were her own. It was as if these ship girls did not belong to her family, but to Xiaobai.

Nia looked at the documents in her hand in amazement.

This document/report is so perfect... it's almost framing and textbook-worthy...

If there's anything lacking in these documents and reports... it's probably the content I wrote before Xiaobai took over...

Thinking of this, Nia blushed and felt ashamed.

"Little White, you're so amazing..." Nia said to Little White.

"Hehe... It's alright..." Xiaobai smiled and handed Nia another document filled with writing. "Nia, here, this is the second one."

"Huh? The second one?"

"Well, while you were looking at the first page, I finished writing the second page for you. How does it look?"

"Just... just a few minutes after I looked at the first one?" Nia held the report, which was almost as perfect as the previous one, and didn't know what to say for a moment.

Xiaobai's processing speed is not simply several times faster than Nia's...

This is a speed difference that's fundamentally about the same era...

Nia looked at Xiaobai with a complicated expression.

Nia considered herself a fairly resilient admiral, but even so, when she witnessed Shiro's processing speed, which completely overwhelmed hers, and her meticulous knowledge of her own ship girls, Nia couldn't help but feel a strong sense of inferiority.

Seeing Nia holding her documents without saying a word, Xiaobai gave her an embarrassed smile.

“I’m sorry, Nia. I know that the work of a naval base is best done by the naval base owner. It’s very offensive for someone like me to suddenly come and help you with your official duties.” Xiaobai scratched his head and said apologetically. “But this time there is something very important to do, so let’s make an exception for today. After this, I will definitely not interfere with your naval base’s official duties again.”

Chapter 2875 Luo Lian's Mysterious Plan

"No, no, no, no!" Nia immediately snapped out of her daze upon hearing Xiaobai's words and quickly shook her head at him. "Other people's words might indeed offend me, but it's different with you, Xiaobai! If it's you, Xiaobai, you don't need to mind this at all!"

"Really?" Xiaobai clasped her hands together.

"Yes! Really!" Nia placed the two completed reports on the table, then clasped her hands together in a flustered manner, looked away, and said to Xiaobai apologetically, "Well... it's me... seeing how much you know about my naval base, I'm a little... um... that... that thing."

"Which one?" Xiaobai tilted her head.

“…Happy.” Nia whispered, covering her mouth, her cheeks flushed.

Nia's words were indeed true.

Perhaps most admirals would feel uncomfortable and offended if they saw someone who knew their naval base and ship girls better than they did, but when Nia saw that Shiro knew her naval base and ship girls so well, she felt not any displeasure, but rather a strange sense of joy and happiness.

—It's like the wonderful feeling of finding out that your sweetheart has memorized your birthday and ID number.

—This is a kind of happiness that comes from being valued.

—Nia felt that as time went on, she was becoming more and more infatuated with Xiaobai.

"Great! I'm relieved that you don't mind, Nia." Xiaobai patted her chest, smiled at Nia, and breathed a sigh of relief. She turned around, picked up her pen, and immediately started working on the remaining documents for Nia. "Leave the rest to me. I can finish them in about half an hour!"

"How fast Xiaobai is!" Nia exclaimed, standing beside Xiaobai and watching as Xiaobai's pen flew across the paper like a dragon in a play.

Half an hour passed in the blink of an eye.

When Xiaobai finished processing the last document and breathed a sigh of relief, the two small mountains of documents that had been piled high on the side of his desk had been cleared away.

Nia arrived outside the dormitory carrying the processed documents.

The ship girls who had just been summoned by Nia were standing outside the dormitory.

"Help me sort these documents. This one goes to the Admiral's Guild, this one to the Finance Department, and this one..." Nia carefully handed over the documents that Xiaobai had processed to the ship girls in charge of various functions. "And this last one... oh, right, remember to also call over Veneto and her three sisters, as well as Taihou, Helena, Wichita, Atago, Takao, and Cleveland..."

The ship girls, holding stacks of documents in their hands, quickly responded, said goodbye to Nia, and left the corridor, disappearing around the corner of the stairs.

"Phew... I didn't expect that you could finish all the documents that would have kept me busy until evening, Xiaobai, in just half an hour... That's amazing." Nia returned to her dorm and looked at Xiaobai sitting in her seat, a look of admiration on her face.

This was the umpteenth time Nia had praised Xiaobai since he started processing documents.

"It's alright... Actually, if it were my own naval base, I could process it even faster." Xiaobai scratched his head, looking embarrassed as he said to Nia, "After all, I'm not very familiar with Nia's naval base yet, so I need a little time to get used to processing these documents..."

"Huh... this speed is actually something I'm not used to...?"

Yes, that's right...

"The world's number one admiral truly lives up to his name..." Nia lowered her head and sighed sincerely. She walked behind Xiaobai and massaged Xiaobai's shoulders with her fair hands. "Speaking of which, Xiaobai, when did you memorize all the names of my ship girls?"

"It's the first day."

"Ok?"

"When I first arrived here, you introduced me to all your ship girls, right?" Xiaobai looked up at Nia and smiled, "So I remember them all."

"...Xiao Bai, your memory is just too good..."

"Hehe, it's alright." Xiaobai stood up, took Nia's hand, and led her to the bedside. "Now that the work is done, we can start discussing how to improve our ranking!"

Luo Lian had been waiting for Xiao Bai and Nia by the bedside for a long time.

"Lianlian, I'm sorry to have kept you waiting!" Xiaobai jumped onto the bed and said to Luo Lian, who was sitting on the bed.

"It's alright, this gives me some time to make a plan for myself." Luo Lian stroked her chin and said to Xiao Bai and Nia, who had walked up to her.

"Is Luo Lian going to try and climb the rankings with me too?" Nia came to Luo Lian's other side, sat down nervously next to Luo Lian's lap, and asked her, "Um... Luo Lian, what's your ranking right now?"

"About the same as you, I'm around 15,000th."

"Huh? Does that mean we can climb the rankings together!" Nia's eyes lit up immediately upon hearing Luo Lian's words, but her expression quickly turned into deep worry. "Ah... well... but I remember, Luo Lian, you don't seem to have enough ship girls right now, right? Won't that cause trouble in the short term..."

Nia had been sharing a room with Luo Lian for some time, so the two of them had gotten to know each other quite a bit during their midnight chats.

Nia knew that Luo Lian only had two ship girls.

"With only two ship girls, climbing the rankings will be very difficult..." Nia asked worriedly. "Even if we start building now, it will take a long time to train the ship girls... Um... should I ask my ship girls? Maybe some of them are willing to temporarily join your naval base to help you..."

"Don't panic, it's not a big problem." Luo Lian shook her head at Nia.

"Yes, but..."

Luo Lian interrupted Nia, simply patting her shoulder lightly.

"I know what I'm doing," Luo Lian said.

“…” Nia.

Since Luo Lian had already gone this far, Nia could only bite her lip and nod.

Fortunately, Luo Lian always gave Nia the feeling that she was omnipotent. Even though the conditions were very unfavorable to her, as long as she said there was no problem, Nia was willing to believe her.

"Lianlian, have you thought of a great way to improve your ranking?" Xiaobai stared at Luo Lian's expression and suddenly asked, "Tell us about it?"

“I did think of a potentially feasible method, but…” Luo Lian looked at Xiao Bai, then glanced at Nia, “but unfortunately, this method is probably useless for Nia, so I think for Nia’s sake, I should keep it a secret for now.”

"Huh? Can't we tell Nia?"

“Nothing is more frustrating than having a solution in front of you but being unable to use it,” Luo Lian said. “Nia is better suited to her own methods, and all I can do is try my best not to affect her.”

"Oh..." Xiaobai nodded as if she understood, and exchanged a glance with Nia beside her.

The three of them continued their discussion about improving their ranking in the dormitory.

Because Luo Lian seemed to have thought of a brilliant idea, but couldn't speak up, the conversation between Xiao Bai and the other two mainly revolved around "how to help Nia climb the rankings faster".

During the discussion, Luo Lian also came up with several reasonable ways for Nia to utilize the ranking mechanism to speed up her ranking. Nia was overjoyed and thanked her profusely.

Soon, as Xiaobai and the other two were discussing, a series of footsteps sounded outside the dormitory door.

The ship girls that Nia had previously asked someone to summon arrived outside the dormitory.

"Admiral? We're here—" Veneto lifted the curtain and walked in with a whole squad of ship girls behind her. "What happened? Why did you suddenly call us up? Oh? Admiral Lu Lin and Admiral Luo Lian are here too!"