Elder brother's garrison

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"Who is it?" Yubari asked the hearth goddess.

"According to our previous agreement, I shouldn't tell you her name..." Xiaobai continued to sigh, but looking at the bright eyes of the female hearth god and Yubari, she said helplessly after a while, "However, last time I didn't tell you her name, and it caused such a small mess. This time, in order not to make you think too much, it seems I have no choice but to tell you... Okay, this time I'll just consider it a breach of my agreement to tell you. But this time, you really can't tell any of you."

“Nervous…” Yubari and the hearth goddess swallowed hard.

"The person I mentioned before is actually Sister Nanxing," Xiaobai said.

"Admiral Nansei?!" Yubari's eyes widened. "It's her?!"

"Yeah, you didn't expect that, did you?" Xiaobai said.

"I really didn't expect that... But isn't she human?" Yubari asked blankly.

"To be precise, she is a hybrid of human and ship girl, but this news is not widely circulated," Xiaobai explained. "When you worked at the ship equipment research center before, you should have had some feelings about her... Nanxing sometimes acts a little unlike a human, and she occasionally exudes a ship girl-like aura."

"Hmm...that's true..." Nanxing thought for a while, then nodded in deep agreement. "I felt quite relaxed when I was with her...there was a strange sense of closeness. Is it because half of her blood is that of a ship girl?"

“Oh…so close…” Shiro raised her finger, touched her lower lip, and looked at Yubari.

"Cough cough cough, the person I'm closest to right now is, of course, you, Admiral!" Yubari quickly said. "Everyone else is just a casual acquaintance, an act for show!"

"..." Xiaobai smiled slightly and put her hand down.

"Is the Nanxing you're talking about one of the top ten admirals?" the female hearth goddess asked curiously.

“Yes, you haven’t met Miss Vestal, have you? She’s a very good admiral,” Xiaobai nodded and said. “And she’s quite famous among the higher-ups in the admiral circle.”

"Would humans actually allow a ship girl hybrid to serve as an admiral?" the goddess of the hearth asked.

"After all, ship girl hybrids are essentially human," Xiaobai said. "Even if they are ship girl hybrids, they are just humans who look better. This has been verified and confirmed by history."

“Strictly speaking, ship girls cannot reproduce when they are still ship girls,” Yubari said from the side. “When we talk about ship girl hybrids, we are actually referring to the offspring of retired ship girls who have integrated into human society, fallen in love with someone in human society, and had a relationship. At this point in their lives, retired ship girls have already lost their ship girl powers and equipment; they are just another kind of beautiful human.”

"Uh...bad memories are coming back..." The goddess of the hearth clutched her chest.

"Let's quickly skip this little topic." Xiaobai smiled and quickly said, "In short, although Sister Nanxing is a ship girl hybrid, for a long time since her birth, she has perfectly conformed to the state of a human in terms of both actual performance and data verification. However, since she had close contact with me for a while recently, one day she suddenly found herself gradually awakening the ship girl's constitution. Now, she can't even control the powerful force brought by the ship girl's constitution, and has entered a state where she can easily accidentally destroy things around her. In order not to cause unnecessary commotion, she really can't show her face to anyone."

"No wonder she hasn't been going out lately."

"That's right."

"From a hybrid state... suddenly awakened into a ship girl..." Yubari listened to Shiro's explanation and suddenly became curious, "Will ship equipment grow inside Admiral Nansei's body?"

"Uh... well... I did a mental energy test on her body last time, so she probably doesn't have any ship equipment," Xiaobai answered honestly.

"Without ship equipment, how can you turn back into a human?" the goddess of the hearth asked from the side.

"That's what I'm saying... that's why I came to you guys..." Xiaobai smiled bitterly.

“Let’s start by thinking about the source.” Yubari said to Shiro, “Admiral, you just said that Admiral Nanxing became like this because she had close contact with you for a period of time… Since you used this statement, does it mean that you actually have some clues about Admiral Nanxing’s transformation into a ship girl?”

“I have indeed thought about this.” Xiaobai nodded. “I asked Sister Nanxing about her recent life. Generally speaking, her life is very regular, and she rarely goes out to try new things. During the time when she was slowly awakening her ship girl physique, the first things she tried were basically brought to her by me.”

"For example?"

"Hmm... rune script?" Xiaobai asked, rubbing his chin. "Sister Nanxing inhaled some deep-sea energy before. In order to dispel the deep-sea energy in her body, I wrote some rune script on her body."

"Is it the same style as those crossbody bags from New Jersey?"

"Yes."

"...Admiral, you really have a twisted sense of humor."

"It's to save people..." Xiaobai smiled bitterly.

"Runic script? What does it look like?" The goddess of the hearth asked curiously, listening to Little White's words.

"It's a script that contains special power, its origin is unknown, and it's said to have been passed down from a period of discontinuity," Xiaobai said. "It's also one of the necessary technologies for building ship girl construction devices, and it's quite amazing."

"...Could you show me how?" The goddess of the hearth paused thoughtfully for a moment before asking.

“Sure, I happen to have some tools here too.” Xiaobai took out a brush, ink, and Xuan paper from the ship’s equipment space.

Just as Xiaobai was about to write a few tally marks on the paper, the next second, the female Stove Goddess pressed her fair hand onto the rice paper.

Xiao Bai looked up along the Kitchen Goddess's arm and saw that the Kitchen Goddess was staring intently at Xiao Bai.

"Admiral, don't write it on paper." The female hearth goddess spoke very seriously to Xiaobai, word by word, "Write it on me too."

Chapter 3183 The reason has been found!

"Write it on your body?" Xiao Bai, holding the brush, paused for a moment.

“Yes, it’s a good opportunity for me to experience it too.” The goddess of the hearth nodded.

"This, this isn't right..."

“What’s wrong with that? Shennong tasted hundreds of herbs too,” the female stove god said. “To better understand the illness and try to trace its origin, that’s also the conscience of a physician.”

"OK then."

Xiao Bai thought for a while and felt that what the female stove god said made some sense. She nodded and then picked up a brush and wrote a small tally mark on the female stove god's fair arm.

The tip of the brush gently grazed the skin of the goddess of the hearth.

Xiao Bai put down the pen, and his mental energy flowed into the rune characters. Soon, the originally black characters began to shimmer with a faint golden light under the infusion of mental energy.

"It's done," Xiaobai said, putting her hands down.

“This is the runic script…” The goddess of the hearth withdrew her hand, looking at the tally marks on her arm, and clicked her tongue in amazement. “It feels cool, and I can feel a strange energy penetrating my skin and entering my body… It’s kind of magical.”

“Normally, rune fonts don’t have such outrageous effects; it’s just that the rune font I wrote is slightly different.” Xiao Bai said to the goddess of the hearth while tidying up his tools. “So, goddess of the hearth, did you sense anything?”

"Hmm... I think this should be harmless." The female hearth goddess touched the tally mark on her arm and said slowly, "In fact, the place where it was written on feels quite comfortable..."

"Comfortable?" Yubari asked suddenly, listening to the words of the goddess of the hearth.

“Yes.” The hearth goddess nodded to Yubari.

"Oh...so comfortable..." Yubari murmured softly, stroking his chin.

"Yubari, did you find something?" Shiro asked quickly, seeing that Yubari looked like she had grasped something important.

"Hmm... I can't say for sure, Admiral. Do you have Admiral Nansei's recent medical report or any recent medical records?" Yubari didn't answer Shiro, but asked instead.

"Do you have Sister Nanxing's recent medical report and medical records?" Xiaobai thought for a moment, "Yes, I do."

"Where are you?"

"Here," Xiaobai pointed to her head, "When I went for my physical exam with her last time, I saw Sister Nanxing's recent medical records and wrote them down. Do you want me to write them down for you?"

"...Then I'll have to trouble you, Admiral."

"It's okay, just a small problem."

Xiao Bai took out his work paper and pen from his ship equipment space, carried a chair to his desk, and bent down to write quickly.

Nanxing's recent documents totaled six or seven pages, containing records of her physical examinations and medical reports over the past six months, covering everything from the invasion of deep-sea energy into her body to the treatment and recovery from minor ailments like colds.

By the time Xiaobai finished writing all the information, half an hour had passed.

For the next half hour, Yubari and the goddess of the hearth sat quietly on the bed and waited.

"It's written."

After writing the last word, Xiaobai returned to the two ship girls and handed them the document.

As soon as the document was handed to Yubari and Vestal, the two ship girls immediately picked it up and read it carefully.

“Oh…I see…”

"It's here..."

"Oh... I knew it..."

"If you say so..."

Yubari read the pathology report, occasionally letting out an "I see" sound.

"Yubari, have you found anything?" Shiro asked.

"I think I know how Admiral Nansei awakened his ship girl physique." Yubari put down the report in her hand and looked up at Shiro.

"You've already got a clue?" Xiaobai asked in surprise. "Is it really related to my rune fonts?"

“Hmm… Strictly speaking, it’s not exactly a direct relationship.” Yubari stared at the case report for a while and said to Shiro, “Admiral, you just said that Admiral Nansei recently encountered symptoms of deep-sea aura entering the body, right? I just checked the information on that in the case report—because deep-sea aura entering the body is considered an incurable disease for humans, the report, treatment process, and treatment experience are all written in great detail.”

As Yubari finished speaking, she took out a page from the report and placed it in front of everyone.

"Admiral Nanxing's intake of deep-sea energy this time exceeded the human body's tolerance threshold by 160 times. That's roughly equivalent to her swallowing a piece of deep-sea metal the size of a fingernail in one gulp," Yubari said. "For a normal human being... even an exceptionally strong one, this level of deep-sea energy intake would be enough to rapidly consume all organs to the point of failure within just three days. However, according to the case report, after enduring such a massive amount of deep-sea energy, Admiral Nanxing was able to fight against the deep-sea energy within her body for almost half a month with the assistance of comprehensive medical equipment and ample medical treatment... The case report even shows that in the early stages, her body exhibited symptoms of suppressing the deep-sea energy."

"It still won't work later," Xiaobai said.

“Yes, but in any case, from this point of view, even if it’s just resisting the erosion of the deep-sea aura, this kind of time is abnormal for humans.” Yubari put down his hand and said to Shiro.

"So, Yubari, what are your thoughts..."

"The hybrid bloodline of ship girls... it seems that it's not just a simple matter of inheriting the mother's beauty." Yubari gently touched the corner of her mouth, looking at the medical record and said, "Although I didn't personally see Admiral Nanxing's body at that time, based on the daily updates to her physical condition in the medical report, I have reason to suspect that after the abyssal aura entered her body, in order to survive the erosion caused by the abyssal aura, Admiral Nanxing's body broke through the limits of her race and, to some extent, awakened the ship girl genes she received from her mother..."

"Uh...ship girl...genes?"

"Admiral, have you heard of the theory of mitochondria?" Yubari put down the report in her hand and said to Shiro, "It is said that the DNA contained in mitochondria inherited from the mother has not changed at all from ancient times to the present. In other words, the mitochondria in Admiral Nansei's body are exactly the same as those in her mother, that ship girl's mother."

"Oh... I think that's true, but wasn't it later debunked as pseudoscience?"

"There are many things in this world, who dares to say whether it's true or false?" Yubari shrugged and continued, "Admiral, as you know, we ship girls are born to fight against the abyss. That's why our ship equipment can tear apart the bodies of the abyss, and our bodies are naturally highly resistant to the abyssal aura... Perhaps it is because of this that Admiral Nansei, who inherited the mitochondrial genes of the ship girls perfectly, was stimulated in her mitochondrial DNA when faced with the invasion of the abyssal aura, and subconsciously began to fight against the abyssal aura."

"Oh... what does this have to do with me?" Xiaobai asked.

“It’s very important, Admiral.” Yubari pulled up the Vestal Goddess’s arm, pointed to the tally mark on her arm, and said to Shiro, “Admiral, do you remember how the Vestal Goddess just commented on this?”

"...Uh, amazing?"

"It's so comfortable, so comfortable!" Yubari said. "Admiral, your rune font is so comfortable for ship girls! Because it contains purified energy and a lot of spiritual power, which is like an energy reservoir to nourish the body for ship girls!"

"Huh? Is that so!"

“I guess those rune fonts of yours, Admiral, are resonating with the activated ship girl genes within Admiral Nanxing’s body. A large amount of energy has been poured into the activated ship girl genes, which have begun to modify Admiral Nanxing’s body, causing Admiral Nanxing’s body to tilt towards the ship girl side…” Yubari said, pointing at Shiro, “However, in theory, this level of stimulation should not be enough to complete the full awakening of the ship girl’s physique… So, Admiral, have you been leading Admiral Nanxing in doing anything that would be beneficial for the ship girl recently?”

"Uh... does soaking in the... well, does that count?" Xiaobai paused, then subconsciously answered, "When I was preparing for the Montana Challenge, she soaked in it with me for half a month..."

"Clap!" Yubari clapped her hands and said loudly, "That's it! The ship equipment repair pool also contains a large amount of ship equipment power. Originally, Admiral Nanxing's ship girl genes had just been activated, and the energy that your rune font infused into her was not enough to support her physical modification. However, it was the experience of the repair pool for half a month that allowed Admiral Nanxing to absorb a large amount of ship equipment power. Her genes were stimulated once again, and a large amount of energy circulated in her body, which gradually led to the awakening of her ship girl physique!"

"Huh??? So that's how it is?!"

Xiao Bai was surprised.

After hearing what Yubari said, Shiro felt as if he had been enlightened and suddenly understood!

So that's how Nanxing became a ship girl!

First, her body was invaded by the aura of the deep sea, which stimulated the ship girl genes within her. Then, her own runes provided energy to these stimulated ship girl genes, prompting them to operate and modify Nanxing's physical attributes in order to resist the aura of the deep sea. Finally, the super long half-month of soaking in the repair pool was like ship equipment, giving Nanxing a continuous supply of ship equipment power, allowing the ship girl genes within her body to complete the final step of physical modification!

No wonder Nanxing was easily dizzy when she first took a bath, but became more and more energetic as she soaked!

Nanxing never had any ship equipment from beginning to end, but Xiaobai's rune font and repair pool achieved a similar power supply effect to ship equipment!

So, it turns out that ship girl hybrids really can become ship girls!

Chapter 3184 Daughter Inherits Mother's Business

Shiro was reflecting on what Yubari had just said.

As expected of experts in ship girl equipment research, Yubari and Vesta were able to easily and simply deduce the reason for Nansei's physical changes after listening to Yubari's explanation of the cause and effect and glancing at Nansei's medical records.

Hmm... no wonder he's a professional.

Shiro's admiration for Yubari increased.

"So... Yubari, now that we've found the real reason, do you have a way to turn Nansei back into a human from a ship girl?" Shiro asked.

“From ship girl to human again…” Yubari held the medical record in Nansei’s hand, thought for a while, and then said, “Actually, under normal circumstances, if a ship girl wants to become human, she just needs to undergo ship equipment dismantling surgery. If the surgery goes smoothly, she can become human within a few hours. But Admiral Nansei’s situation is a bit special. Her current ship girl constitution is not caused by the ship equipment, but by a series of coincidences.”

“After all, Admiral Nanxing doesn’t have any ship equipment in his body right now…” said the Goddess of the Hearth.

"Won't the ship armor grow back?" Xiaobai asked, still somewhat unwilling to give up.

"Admiral, do you think ship equipment is like a radish, growing whenever you want..." Yubari gave a helpless bitter smile. "Ship equipment is a weapon that ship girls are born with. Admiral Nansei wasn't created by the ship girl construction device; she was a girl born from the flesh and blood of a retired ship girl through gestation. Under such circumstances, how could she have ship equipment..."

"Uh... then what should we do?" Xiaobai asked blankly.

"Hmm... To put it simply, it's like this: first, equip Admiral Nanxing with ship equipment, then wait for her ship equipment to start circulating and completely transform her into a ship girl, and then remove her ship equipment, right?" Yubari thought for a while and said, "Essentially, it's still the same old ship girl retirement system, just with some added preconditions."

"I see!" Xiaobai suddenly realized.

"It's not the first time you've done this kind of operation of reinstalling ship equipment on ship girls, Admiral," Yubari said with a smile. "When you reinstalled the ship equipment on Shropshire before, you did a great job, didn't you? The procedures should be similar, right?"

"Hmm... As long as I channel my mental energy into the body of the ship girl-transformed Admiral Nanxing, and build a bridge between her and the ship equipment that needs to be installed, that should be enough, right?" Xiaobai asked from the side.