Elder brother's garrison

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The five top ten admirals seemed to be having a lively chat.

Xiaobai approached the top ten admirals. Soon, as Xiaobai drew near, Admiral Lian and Admiral Ling, who were chatting, suddenly froze. Then, a look of surprise flashed in their eyes, and they quickly looked toward Xiaobai's location.

"That scent! It's from Little Cutie!"

"My little darling radar is powered up!"

The twin admirals were the first to notice Xiaobai's approach. They instantly put on affectionate smiles and quickly waved their arms at Xiaobai.

Following the twin admirals' voices, the other three top ten admirals also turned their heads to look at Xiaobai.

When everyone saw Xiaobai's figure, they were all stunned for a moment, and then showed surprised expressions.

"Admiral Lu Lin! Good morning!"

Admiral Haoding's cheerful voice traveled directly through the distance between him and Xiaobai, reaching Xiaobai's ears with perfect clarity.

Xiao Bai quickly waved to everyone and hurried over to them.

"Good morning, everyone." Xiaobai's gaze fell on the top ten admirals in front of him one by one, and then he bowed to everyone apologetically, "Um... we agreed to go on the expedition with you, but it seems that I am a little late today."

"Haha, Admiral Lu Lin, it's not late at all. Actually, we just arrived too."

"Has Admiral Li Hua still not come today?"

"Yes, the previous medical check-up results said he should rest and recuperate, so he probably still needs to recover."

"What a pity," Xiaobai sighed.

"Haha, but I will tell him about how much you care about him, Admiral Lu Lin!" Admiral Hao Ding laughed.

"Then I'll have to trouble you." Xiaobai pursed her lips and smiled slightly at Admiral Haoding. "...Well, speaking of which, what were you guys doing just now?"

"Just now? Oh—we were just checking the sea area map for 8-3." Admiral Haoding exchanged glances with the other admirals, then said to Xiaobai, "Since it's pre-departure work, will Admiral Lu Lin also participate?"

"Huh? Checking the sea map?" Xiaobai looked at everyone curiously when he heard this. "What do you mean by checking the sea map... Do we still need to check the sea map for 8-3?"

The sea map mentioned by the top ten admirals is, of course, the map of the 8-3 sea area.

This is strategic information that every admiral who goes out to explore new lands must collect and record. It is also the foundation for formulating strategy plans when exploring new lands. However, what Xiaobai is a little curious about is that in her impression, the sea map of 8-3 should have been prepared by these top ten admirals long ago. Why do these admirals suddenly talk about checking the sea map?

Upon hearing Xiaobai's curious question, the top ten admirals all smiled.

"Haha, Admiral Lu Lin, judging from your expression, it seems you're unaware of something." Admiral Hao Ding smiled and said loudly to Xiao Bai, "Admiral Lu Lin, have you been on the admiral forum today?"

"Hmm? The Admiral's Forum..." Xiaobai blinked. "Not yet... what's wrong?"

"Admiral Lu Lin, why don't you open the admiral forum and search for posts related to the sea map?" Admiral Hao Ding said to Xiao Bai.

"Huh? Oh... okay." Xiaobai paused for a moment, then took out her phone in front of everyone.

Following Admiral Haoding's instructions, Xiaobai logged into the Admiral's Forum and searched for posts about "sea area maps".

The search results came back quickly.

Surprisingly, there are quite a few of these posts, and a significant portion of them were posted today and yesterday, just when Xiaobai hadn't logged into the Admiral Forum.

Xiao Bai carefully browsed the screen of his phone.

"(Hot Post) Are there any brothers who went on the expedition on August 2nd? Have you noticed that the sea map seems to be malfunctioning?"

"(Hot Post) Coordinates 8-1, has anyone noticed the changes in the sea area?"

"Holy crap, the sea map is broken! I set out today using the sea map I collected before, but the ship girls got lost!"

"I suggest not going on expeditions for a while. My ship girls went on an expedition today, intending to rest in a safe area on the map, but they almost crashed into a deep-sea hideout! Good heavens, two of them were destroyed on the spot! They almost didn't make it back!"

"The sea map is outdated!"

"Although we don't know exactly what happened, the only thing we're sure of is that the sea maps we have now are useless."

"..."

After reading most of the posts, Xiaobai couldn't help but show a surprised expression and looked up at the top ten admirals in front of him.

"The sea area command in the hands of the admirals has become invalid?" Xiaobai asked the top ten admirals in surprise.

“That’s right.” The top ten admirals nodded to Xiaobai.

"This actually happened..." Xiaobai stared wide-eyed, muttering to himself.

Sea maps are indeed not permanent. Every migration of deep-sea amphibious fleets in the deep sea, every convergence of deep-sea aura points, and every change in ocean currents under the influence of deep-sea aura will gradually affect the accuracy of sea maps. Even so, a sea map should be valid for at least three months. During these three months, admirals will also continuously revise their own sea maps. Therefore, in theory, the kind of large-scale sea map failure event that is circulating on the admiral forum should not happen.

"It may sound unbelievable, but it seems that all the sea maps in the current Chapter 8 are invalid." Admiral Haoding said to Xiaobai, "Whether it's the ones in the hands of our top ten admirals, or the ones in the hands of the admirals of 8-1 and even 8-2, none of them are without exception."

When did this happen?

"Hmm... According to the latest news in the post, it seems to have started last night." Admiral Haoding thought for a while and said to Xiaobai.

"Last night..." Xiaobai thought for a moment, then asked the top ten admirals, "So what do we do now?"

Faced with Xiaobai's question, the top ten admirals exchanged glances and shrugged.

"Since the map is completely unusable, there's nothing we can do." Admiral Lian scratched the back of his head and sighed helplessly. "We can only start exploring from scratch again."

"Anyway, as long as we can clear 8-3 once, we can clear it a second time," Admiral Ling said to Xiaobai. "It just takes a little time."

"Hahaha! In the previous 8-3 sea area reclamation operation, Admiral Lian and Admiral Ling took the lead, but this time I will not admit defeat!" Admiral Haoding put his hands on his hips and laughed loudly.

"You really dare to say that!" Admiral Lian and Admiral Ling covered their mouths and laughed at Admiral Haoding.

Xiao Bai stood beside the crowd, his gaze sweeping over each admiral.

The top ten admirals have a really good mentality. Something like the sea map suddenly becoming invalid is a huge blow to admirals who are in the early stages of exploration. If an ordinary admiral were to encounter such a blow, he might just give up and become depressed. But the top ten admirals not only did not show any frustration, but even seemed to have a courage to face the challenge head-on.

That's truly admirable.

Xiao Bai sighed as he looked at the top ten admirals.

"Speaking of which, have all the admirals' ship girl teams entered the sea area yet?" Xiaobai asked the top ten admirals.

"Yes," Admiral Lian said to Xiaobai, shrugging helplessly. "Just now, our ship girl team was checking in the sea area to see if the sea map was invalid."

"Like This……"

"Huh? Speaking of which, cutie, didn't you bring any ship girls with you?"

"Ah... I... I didn't bring it today..." Xiaobai smiled apologetically, "My ship girls have been a bit busy lately, so I won't be participating in the 8-3 raid. I'll just stay here with you guys."

"Hahaha! Admiral Lu Lin is, after all, a pioneering hero. Every sea area here is open to her." Admiral Hao Ding gave a thumbs up and laughed. "So even if Admiral Lu Lin doesn't participate in the exploration of 8-3, she is still qualified to accompany us into the 8-4 sea area!"

"Wow——"

"Waaah, this treatment is just too good..." Upon hearing this, Admiral Lian hugged Little White with envy, "Little cutie, please give me a big hug!"

Chapter 2917 The Rising Beast

After a brief interlude, the top ten admirals also began their exploration of the 8-3 sea area.

Since the map is no longer valid, we can simply collect the map information from scratch.

The top ten admirals, while directing their ship girls to gather information about the sea area, sat together and started sketching and writing on a blank strategic sheet of paper.

“The route we used in the 8-3 area before originally had a safe area for ship girls to rest near the second point in the center. However, after the map became invalid, this area became a gathering point for deep-sea ships.” Admiral Haoding lay on the white paper, his pencil moving rapidly across the paper, quickly sketching a fairly vivid route for the area. “So the previous route can no longer be used as a pioneering route, but according to my Elizabeth’s information, the route I’m drawing now seems feasible.”

"Oh, oh—" Admiral Lian stroked his chin, looking at the sea route on the white paper, "Admiral Haoding, pen, give me the pen."

Admiral Haoding handed the pen to Admiral Lian.

Admiral Lian, holding a pencil, added another route below the one Admiral Haoding had just drawn.

“My ship girls just scouted this route. Although there are two powerful abyssal convergence points below this route, there is a safe area in the middle of the two abyssal convergence points that is large enough to accommodate a squad of ship girls to rest,” Admiral Lian said to everyone, pointing to the sea route with a pencil.

“This route is also acceptable…” Nanxing took a pencil, moved closer to Admiral Lian, and quickly drew a sea route with the tip of the pencil.

"Hmm... the route I just found probably won't work. It's full of dense deep-sea gathering points. When you're exploring, you'd better stay away from here." Admiral Ling also took the pencil from Admiral Lian's hand and quickly sketched out a sea area on another route.

With each of the top ten admirals contributing their ideas, and through their efforts, the map of the outer sea area of ​​the 8-3 sea area began to take shape in just a few hours.

Standing among the crowd, Xiaobai couldn't help but marvel at the rapidly taking shape sea map thanks to the efforts of the top ten admirals.

This efficiency...

The top ten admirals truly deserve their reputation as top-tier admirals... I never expected them to be so skilled at drawing sea maps.

Compared to them... a self-taught admiral like myself, my professional skills in this area are...

Thinking of this, Xiao Bai rubbed his hands awkwardly.

"Hmm? Admiral Lu Lin, you seem to have something to say?" Admiral Hao Ding noticed Xiao Bai's little movements. He stopped drawing the map and asked Xiao Bai, "Is there any suggestion you want to make?"

Others also turned their attention to this.

"Huh? No, no, no... it's nothing..." Xiaobai quickly waved his hand at everyone, scratching his cheek and laughing, "Your maps are all drawn so well... I don't have any suggestions to offer..."

"Hahaha, Admiral Lu Lin is too modest!" Admiral Hao Ding burst into laughter upon hearing Xiao Bai's words. "Back when we were pioneering the entire eighth chapter, the first sea map that our human faction had was brought by you, Admiral Lu Lin! In terms of sea map drawing, we are all your juniors!"

“That’s true. This map must be the best drawn by the little cutie, right?” Admiral Lian also said.

"Yes, that makes sense." Admiral Ling nodded.

"It's a pity that Little Cutie didn't bring any ship girls today, otherwise I would have been able to see Little Cutie's map-drawing skills."

All the admirals cast approving glances at Xiaobai.

"Uh..." Under everyone's gaze, Xiaobai was at a loss for words, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.

Now, Xiaobai really doesn't know how to explain to the top ten admirals that he didn't actually do any of the map drawing back then; it was basically all handled by Chao Yamato...

Even the Dean of the Deep Sea Academy is better at map drawing than I am.

"Speaking of which," Xiaobai quickly changed the subject, saying to the top ten admirals, "I'm very curious, what exactly caused the sea maps in the hands of all the admirals in Chapter 8 to become invalid this time?"

Upon hearing Xiaobai's words, the top ten admirals who were drawing the map were stunned for a moment, and they looked at each other.

“Oh… so even Admiral Lu Lin cares about this.” Admiral Lian nodded and said.

"Yes, yes..."

"Well... there isn't really an official explanation yet for the malfunctioning sea map in Chapter 8. The Admiral's Guild is investigating it as well," Admiral Ling said. "After all, this phenomenon has only been going on for less than two days, and there are quite a few admirals in Chapter 8 who haven't been on expeditions in the last few days who don't even know about it."

"Hahaha! There will always be some unsolved mysteries in the world!" Admiral Haoding said, looking up.

"It's possible that the number of admirals who went on expeditions recently was too small," Duan Shuiliu said to everyone after thinking for a while.

"Hmm? Are there very few admirals going on expeditions lately?" Xiaobai looked at Duan Shuiliu.

"Because of the research and construction machine," Duan Shuiliu said.

"Oh...that makes sense." Xiaobai understood, scratching her head sheepishly. "It seems that lately many admirals have been focusing on research and construction of mechs, and haven't even been sending out regular expeditions..."

“If deep-sea areas are left unattended, it’s normal for them to undergo some drastic and unusual changes in a short period of time,” Duan Shuiliu added. “This may be why the sea map is no longer valid.”

"Hmm...that makes a lot of sense." Xiaobai nodded in agreement as she listened to Duan Shuiliu's words. "So, the sea map malfunctioning is indeed due to the admirals in Chapter 8 neglecting their expeditions lately..."

"But now that the research and construction machine has also disappeared, those admirals who had nothing to do before should come back to fight, right?" Admiral Lian asked upon hearing this.

"Not necessarily. There are still many admirals searching for the whereabouts of the research and construction machine in Chapter 8," Admiral Ling said.

"Oh dear—" Admiral Lian sighed upon hearing this.

Xiao Bai covered his mouth, blinked as he watched the top ten admirals express their feelings, and looked towards the distant black sea.

The sea map... is no longer working.

Although Xiaobai only brought this up to change the subject of the admirals, after Duan Shuiliu's reminder, Xiaobai did realize the seriousness of the matter.

If the failure of the sea map is indeed due to the admirals' neglect of expeditions during this period, then it is very likely that this phenomenon is a warning from the deep sea to the admirals of Chapter 8, reminding them that it is time to get back to work.

Xiao Bai stared at the distant sea, thinking to himself.

There's a sense of unease that's impossible to ignore...

I've finally started to get a little busy these days, and I really hope nothing bad happens.

……

While Xiaobai and the top ten admirals were fighting on the beach in the 8-3 sea area.

In the 8-2 sea area, admirals led their ship girl squads in twos and threes, and they all came to the shore.

Did you guys watch today's Admiral Forum?

One admiral said this to several other admirals while his ship girl was being prepared.

"Look, I heard the sea map is no longer working?"

"You already know, so why did you still bring the ship girls on the expedition?"