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The cell phone beeps.
Admiral Guan Qi was startled. He instinctively picked up his phone and glanced at it.
The phone displayed a notification of the settlement of the exercise.
"Ding! The points for this exercise have been settled. You unfortunately lost this exercise, with a score of -241. Your world ranking has dropped to 56. Please try again."
Looking at the settlement notification on his phone, the admiral took a deep breath, and after a while, he let out a long sigh.
"Oh—that's great."
The admiral, who had just been locked up, revealed a relieved smile.
……
"Ding! The points for this exercise have been settled. You have won this exercise, with points +38 (+4000%). Your world ranking is 1."
On the beach, Xiaobai looked at the notification that popped up on her phone, somewhat surprised.
"Huh... This exercise actually added so many points? And why is there a buff-like effect after these points..." Xiaobai stared at his phone for a while, then suddenly understood, "Oh... Could it be that the cost of launching a targeted challenge has increased, but at the same time the points gained have also increased exponentially? I see, I completely understand now."
Chapter 3150 Famous Scene
Xiao Bai put down his phone, pondering his schedule for the day.
Montana caught up from behind and came to Xiaobai's side, looking down and fiddling with her phone with a smile.
As Montana's fingers expertly swiped across the phone screen, the phone emitted a series of coughing chat sounds.
"Montana, who are you chatting with?" Xiaobai asked Montana curiously.
"Reporting to the Admiral, it's those children from just now," Montana said, turning his head to smile at Xiaobai.
"Huh? What was that just now..." Xiaobai paused, glancing back at the crowded beach. "Were you referring to the ship girls you were practicing with just now?"
"Yes."
When did you add them as social media friends?
“Just now, on the sea,” Montana said, then showed the phone screen to Xiaobai. “Admiral, look, they’re very enthusiastic.”
Xiao Bai glanced at Montana's phone.
On Montana's phone, accounts with cute profile pictures were sending her messages such as "Miss Montana, can I call you 'sister' from now on?", "Miss Montana was so gentle and cool today", "Sister, when can I see you again?", "Sister is so cool", and "Miss Montana, are you free tomorrow?"
Even someone like Xiaobai, who considers himself socially awkward, could sense a surging, burning desire on Montana's phone.
"Wow... you've gained so many female fans in just a short time."
Xiao Bai looked away, staring at Montana with a complicated expression.
Montana's speed in making friends is something that even a novice like me can't help but envy.
Of all the people (referring to humans) that Xiaobai has lived to this age and who are still by his side and can truly be called friends, it seems that there are no more than five.
Xiaobai has very few friends, even though he has many ship girls.
"Hmm? Does the Admiral also want to meet these ship girls?" Montana asked, noticing Xiaobai's complicated expression. "If the Admiral wants to meet them, I can help you make a connection with them."
"Haha... Thank you for your kindness, but I'll pass."
"I see... Could the Admiral give me a day off in a couple of days?"
"Huh? What?"
"I'll go out to eat with them," Montana said with a smile, shaking his phone.
"……also."
"Thank you, Admiral."
"No need to thank me for this. Our naval base is always very lenient. If you want to go out and have fun whenever you want, just tell me and I'll approve it." Xiaobai paused slightly at this point, "Oh... by the way, speaking of which, Montana, what did you think of this exercise?"
"Ok?"
"Weren't you bored staying in the naval base?" Little White said to Montana with a smile. "How does it feel to get out and about?"
“Ah…” Montana stretched and looked at the clouds in the sky, and said softly, “If the admiral had asked me this a few days ago, I could have nodded and said it was not bad, but after fighting with you and Frederick the Great, I can only say that I am a little disappointed—this level of battle is not even good enough as a warm-up, and it is not enough to satisfy me now.”
"Life is full of disappointments, eight or nine times out of ten," Xiaobai said from the side.
"What does this sentence mean?" Montana asked, looking at Xiaobai.
"I don't know either, I just said it because it felt right," Xiaobai smiled.
……
Little White and Montana left the 8-2 area and returned to the temporary naval base.
Soon after Xiaobai and Montana left, the onlookers who had just watched the exercise where the admiral and Xiaobai were imprisoned quickly spread what they had seen and heard to the admiral's forum.
To compete for a top-ten position... the prerequisite is to gain the approval of the world's number one admiral!
In other words, only those who pledge their loyalty to the world's number one admiral are qualified to remain in the top ten naval bases during this event!
Once this idea was put forward, it instantly caused a huge uproar in the Admiral Forum!
"Only those who submit to Admiral Lu Lin can become one of the top ten admirals...?"
"My God, I can't believe I only just realized this now!"
"That's right! Admiral Lu Lin has the ability to knock any of the top ten admirals down to outside the top fifty in the world. In other words, she is the one who controls the top ten spots this time!"
"Isn't the Admiral's Guild going to offer any explanation for this?"
"What are the Admirals' Guild's intentions in creating such rules..."
"What's there to explain? All of Admiral Lu Lin's actions are within the rules. The reason she has this effect is simply because she is too powerful."
"Unless the Admirals' Guild introduces new rules to restrict Admiral Lu Lin..."
"Even a clay figure has some temper. Last time, Admiral Lu Lin was banned because she was giving the Admiral Guild face. Do you believe that if the Admiral Guild dares to change the rules again, Admiral Lu Lin will directly lead her ship girls to the Admiral Guild and wreak havoc?"
"Besides... who knows what ways Admiral Lu Lin will find to demonstrate her unparalleled presence after the Admiral's Guild changes the rules..."
"That's true. Take this rule change for example. Although the efficiency of Admiral Lu Lin's exercises did decrease after the missile ban, our ship girls will have to face Admiral Lu Lin himself in person from now on! Isn't this pushing our ship girls into a fire pit?!"
"It really is."
"Nothing wrong."
"I'd rather be bombed by missiles than have my ship girls threatened..."
"It makes sense; it matches all my expectations of being number one in the world."
"..."
The heated discussion within the Admiral's Guild lasted for a very long time.
That afternoon, as Xiaobai sat in her dormitory, looking at the top ten leaderboard and struggling with the question of who to challenge next with her two thousand challenge tickets, the ship girls guarding the gate brought her some news that she never expected.
At this moment, the gate of the temporary naval base was completely blocked by a group of admirals ranked between 10 and 50th in the world.
This large group of people, both men and women, were all powerful admirals who usually showed their faces in public.
These admirals all had serious expressions, as if they would rather die in the street than leave until they saw Admiral Lu Lin today.
In ordinary temporary garrison towns, unfamiliar admirals often come to visit, hoping to befriend Xiaobai or Nia Luolian.
However, these admirals usually come in small groups, and the ship girls, under the instructions of the three admirals, try their best to send them away. If they can't be sent away, Missouri is asked to help send them away.
This is the first time that more than forty admirals have arrived at the gate of the temporary naval base, and they are all top-ranked admirals in the world, excluding the top ten.
Those who didn't know better would think that the temporary garrison had committed some serious crime and was about to be attacked by the masses.
After learning about this, Xiao Bai put down his work and went straight to the gate of the garrison.
Stepping out of the temporary naval base, Xiaobai stood on the steps and looked at the admirals gathered in front of him. He recognized most of them; they were all admirals who had participated in the exercises with him on the first day of the event.
"Admiral Lu Lin! We've finally met you!" The admirals below the stage greeted Xiao Bai in unison as if they had been trained.
The sound was deafening.
Admirals, ship girls, and merchants around the four streets all stopped what they were doing and looked over.
If an ordinary person were to be yelled at by so many high-ranking admirals, they would probably be so frightened that their legs would go weak.
If this had happened when Xiaobai had just become an admiral a few months ago, he probably wouldn't have been able to say a word upon seeing this scene.
But the Xiaobai of today is no longer the same person as before.
"Good afternoon, everyone. May I ask what brings you here?" Xiaobai asked the admirals in front of him in a soft voice.
"Admiral Lu Lin, we've come because of what happened this morning!" the admirals announced loudly.
"What happened this morning... could you be referring to... my affair with Admiral Guan Qi?" Xiao Bai, somewhat prepared, asked the admirals.
"Exactly!!"
"I see." Xiaobai nodded in understanding. She said to the admirals, "Actually, my relationship with Admiral Guanqi is not as complicated as you all think. I did not promise him anything. He just said some cheesy things to me, as he said."
"Yes! That's exactly what we've come for!" the admirals shouted.
"Do you want me to sever ties with Admiral Guan Qi?" Xiao Bai asked curiously, looking at the group of aggressive admirals below the stage.
"Admiral Lu Lin, you've misunderstood!" the crowd below shouted.
"No...? Then what do you all mean?" Xiaobai asked curiously.
The people below the stage looked at each other.
Under Xiaobai's curious gaze, the admirals below the stage had deep and determined eyes. Then, under Xiaobai's watchful gaze, they all pulled out a cane from behind their backs with a clatter.
Followed by.
"We only have one idea!"
The admirals present acted in unison, holding their canes horizontally in front of their chests, then raising their right legs and snapping their canes in half with a snap.
"That is, to offer our loyalty to Admiral Lu Lin!"
*Smack!*
Snapped!
clap clap...
One by one, the canes broke under the admirals' movements, and the admirals shouted in unison, their voices echoing throughout the street.
Xiao Bai's gaze turned to astonishment at this moment.
The onlookers around also took out their phones, as if they were witnessing some kind of momentous event, and kept taking pictures of the group of admirals and the newbie on the stage.
"For Admiral Lu Lin! I pledge my loyalty!"
"For Admiral Lu Lin! I offer my loyalty!"
"For Admiral Lu Lin! I pledge my loyalty!"
"..."
The admirals threw their broken canes aside and shouted in unison.
Amidst the shouts of the admirals, Xiaobai was momentarily bewildered and at a loss.
Chapter 3151 So who is so lucky?
This will surely be a scene that all the admirals who participated in the eighth chapter of the event, the Holy Day, will never forget.
On this day, all the top admirals of the entire sea area swore an oath of submission, offering their loyalty to the king of this sea.
……
Broken canes were scattered all over the ground in front of the temporary garrison.
After the admirals finished taking their oaths, the admirals' guild, which had come upon hearing the news, arrested them all on the grounds of disturbing public order.
The ship girls at the temporary naval base had to personally pick up and collect the broken canes from the ground one by one.
"The wood used for this cane seems to be quite high-quality; it even smells fragrant," a ship girl remarked, holding one end of the wooden stake.
"Take it to the cafeteria; it seems we've saved on firewood today," another ship girl said.
"Speaking of which, how did these admirals manage to break their canes?"
"Hey, you don't understand. Look closely, isn't there a smooth seam in the middle of the broken cane? It's obvious that the admirals sawed the cane in half before they came over, so it can be easily broken with a little force." Another ship girl held a cane used by a female admiral and pointed to the half-smooth and half-rough part of the broken cane, saying to the person next to her, "Human girls are not as strong as men, and their bodies are more flexible and delicate. If it were a whole cane, breaking it would cause a lot of pain. This is the solution."
"Oh, oh, oh..." The ship girls beside them nodded in agreement, as if they were listening to a lecture.