Elder brother's garrison

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...So these people's attacks are so easy to dodge?

...Why did they launch such an easy-to-dodge attack? Did they have some kind of backup plan?

...What? There's no backup plan?

……

Lots and lots of them.

Suspicion of the enemy.

Doubting oneself.

These emotions left Gu Ming's ship girls breathless, their faces flushing red and then turning pale with anger.

what happened……

This doesn't make sense...

These ship girls were just rookies who were being rubbed and crushed on the surface of the sea a few days ago, how come their movement and footwork have become so slippery in just a few days!

This time, it's impossible to hit it...

"You... what's going on with you guys?!" The ship girls from Gu Ming's family finally couldn't hold back anymore. Gritting their teeth, with expressions of utter bewilderment, they shouted at the ship girls from Nia's family, "What kind of movement technique is this? It's like you've become completely different people! We can't hit you at all!"

The voices of Gu Ming's ship girls reached the ears of Nia's ship girls amidst the intense and exciting battlefield.

Upon hearing this, the ship girls of Nia's family slowed down their movements slightly.

The ship girls looked at each other.

The eyes of the crowd gleamed.

After a few seconds, the ship girls asked in return.

"An attack of this magnitude... isn't it easy to dodge?"

"Stop testing me, just show me your true abilities."

"..."

The comments from Nia's ship girls nearly made Admiral Gu Ming's ship girls faint.

Oh my god...

I was clearly using all my strength to chase after these ship girls... and they still thought I was holding back?

Why are you so sarcastic?

Haven't they realized that all the attack methods they are using now are actually far more intense than during the last exercise?

"Have you guys been soaking in oil barrels these past few days? How come your movements have suddenly become so oily!"

"It's fake, it must be fake!"

"Not a single shell hit us from start to finish! Don't be ridiculous! Give us a hit, a hit, a hit, a hit, a hit!!!"

Endless misses can raise blood pressure, especially for those who are the ones you once crushed.

The ship girls from Gu Ming's family were so enraged by the huge disparity that they became somewhat hysterical, and they unleashed a barrage of firepower on the ship girls from Nia's family.

In an instant, a fiery heatwave swept across the sky and the sea.

A terrifying thing then happened.

Faced with the all-out attack of Gu Ming's ship girls, Nia's ship girls, who had previously been overwhelmed by the attacks, now seemed to be jogging in the morning, easily accelerating, decelerating, and making neat turns... and then inexplicably dodging all of Gu Ming's ship girls' attacks completely.

The ship girls of Nia's family even raised their voices in full alertness.

"If you keep testing us like this, we'll have to take action!"

The next moment, the ship girls of Nia's family rushed through the light curtain, and the turrets of their ship equipment lit up behind them.

The ship girls from Gu Ming's family almost vomited blood upon seeing this scene.

"You...how did you...how did you...how did you dodge those shells...?" Gu Ming's ship girls shouted with their last breath.

"Just focus and treat every shell as if it could wipe out the whole team, and dodge it carefully!" Nia's ship girls were already close in with their turrets.

At the forefront of Nia's ship girl formation, Veneto had already drawn her ship-mounted main gun with both hands, her powerful barrage skill fully charged.

"What...you're kidding me? Where in this world would you find such an attack!"

The indomitable screams of Gu Ming's ship girls.

"Yes, it is!" Veneto shouted with utmost seriousness, furiously swinging the glowing main cannon forward, yelling with all her might, "—It really is!!!"

boom! ! !

Chapter 3259 A Great Victory

A dazzling light burst forth in the waters of Exercise Field 36.

As Veneto's game-ending barrage skill filled up, raging flames instantly soared into the sky, followed by a barrage of artillery fire that rained down like a meteor shower, densely sweeping towards Admiral Gu Ming's ship girls.

Boom boom boom boom boom——

The endless flames engulfed the ship girls of the Gu Ming family.

Veneto's ship equipment ability is a special skill that requires a considerable amount of time to charge and has such a powerful negative effect that once used, it will cause the ship equipment to crash within tens of seconds.

At first glance, this seems like a rather awkward ability.

However... the slow activation conditions and tricky side effects also mean that once this barrage skill is successfully activated, it possesses terrifying destructive power.

That's exactly what happened.

Whether in a drill or in conquering the deep sea, as long as Veneto finds the right opportunity to successfully activate his skill, the battle will indeed end in an instant.

No exceptions.

Such fierce offensive skills are the hallmark of Nia Garrison's rapid progress in the exercises.

This is why Veneto became the ace ship girl of Nia's naval base.

The reason why Gu Ming's ship girls were able to defeat Nia's ship girls one after another was not because they had a way to counter this terrifying skill. They simply relied on their fierce and continuous attacks to disrupt Nia's ship girls' rhythm at the beginning of the battle. Then, with their rich combat experience, they kept eroding Nia's ship girls' living space and defeated them before Veneto's barrage ability could be fully charged.

The Nia family's ship girls were once helpless against this tactic.

However, at this moment, the Nia family's ship girls are like newborns.

……

Fireballs relentlessly bombarded the water's surface, causing the icy seawater to boil continuously.

After being bombarded by Veneto, the ship girls of Gu Ming's family lay sprawled on the water, their ship suits either burned or torn. All of them were grimacing in pain and unable to turn over, and without exception, they were all in a state of severe damage.

"Hahaha……"

Veneto gasped for breath, clutching the scalding hot ship equipment, staring at the Gu Ming family ship girls in the distance who had lost all mobility. Her pupils kept dilating and focusing, dilating and focusing again.

"...Eh...Eh?"

"What, what happened? They collapsed already?"

The ship girls gazed at the Gu Ming family ship girls, who had become quiet in the distance.

It took quite a while.

The Nia family ship girls withdrew their gaze and looked at the others in the group with some surprise.

"Wait... since all of Admiral Gu Ming's ship girls have been severely damaged... does that mean... our exercise..."

The ship girls belatedly opened their mouths in surprise.

Seemingly confirming the ship girls' reaction, at the same time, in the spectator stands of Exercise Field 36, the referee raised the small flag in his hand and lowered it towards Nia, who was all alone.

"The exercise is over! The winner is Admiral Nia!"

The referee's voice was strong and clear, reaching the ears of the ship girls on the sea.

Upon hearing this, the eyes of the ship girls from Nia's family lit up, and the gloom and shoving on everyone's faces vanished.

"Ah! We won!"

"We really... won!"

"I don't know how I won, but I won!"

"Ahhhhh, we won! We won! That's great!!"

The ship girls immediately hugged each other and excitedly jumped and bounced on the sea.

……

On the beach, in the spectator stands.

Back in his seat, Admiral Gu Ming stared wide-eyed at the scene on the sea.

In fact, Gu Ming had this expression from the very first minute after the exercise began, and her astonished look remained unchanged until the end.

Beside Admiral Gu Ming, the group of people who had once praised him were now staring wide-eyed, as if they had seen a horror movie, dumbfounded as they looked at the water.

Among the crowd, only Xiaobai slightly pursed her lips, raised her hand to press the baseball cap on her head, and her eyes were full of relief.

...I trained these ship girls myself.

Seeing their victory in the exercise, Xiaobai felt a real sense of accomplishment.

At the other end of the stands, Nia breathed a sigh of relief when she saw the victory flag fall on her. With tears in her eyes, she raised her hands and clasped them together in front of her chest.

"So... great!"

Nia raised her hand to wipe away the tears from the corner of her eyes, her gaze turning to Gu Ming on the other side of the field.

Gu Ming and Nia's eyes met.

Gu Ming did not speak.

But Gu Ming's breathing was unusually heavy, her chest heaving up and down, and her eyes looked as if she wanted to devour Nia.

Gu Ming's reaction naturally silenced those around her.

But Nia, who was in the distance, seemed completely oblivious to the pressure emanating from Gu Ming. She simply smiled at Gu Ming with exceptional politeness, then placed her hands on her knees and bowed deeply at a ninety-degree angle towards him.

“Ms. Gu Ming, it’s a pleasure to practice with you!” Nia smiled politely and looked up at her, saying, “I think… I should now be qualified to challenge the world’s top ten… My match with you will be a valuable experience in my life, thank you very much!”

"Boom!"

Nia's polite voice and smile sent a jolt through Gu Ming's body.

Upon seeing this, the surrounding crowd immediately made way for Gu Ming.

Gu Ming stared wide-eyed, took a long stride, and stomped across the sand with a ferocious aura as she approached Nia.

"Oh no... Miss Gu seems to be losing her composure..."

"Admiral Nia's words just now were somewhat disrespectful to Admiral Gu..."

Among the crowd, the discussion proceeded belatedly.

Xiao Bai pressed down on his baseball cap, frowning as he stared at Gu Ming's retreating figure.

Because Gu Ming has a very pleasant voice, Xiao Bai had developed some fondness for her. But now, seeing the scene unfold, and with Admiral Gu Ming realizing she had lost to Nia and all her previous actions had been proven wrong, she might be about to fly into a rage and attack Nia…

That's not okay.

If she really wanted to do that, it would violate the rules of the Admiral's Guild, and I would then have to act as the world's number one admiral to uphold the authority of the event rules...

However... even though Xiaobai was ready to take off her baseball cap to show her identity, Gu Ming, after arriving in front of Nia and staring at her for more than ten seconds while breathing heavily, didn't do anything else.

Gu Ming maintained this vulnerable state, as if she could suddenly lash out and hurt someone at any moment, yet she stubbornly refrained from taking any further action.

It wasn't until both sides' ship girls returned to the beach and Gu Ming's ship girls came up behind her dejectedly to apologize that Gu Ming finally turned her head away without blinking. She didn't look at Nia again, nor did she look at the referee. Instead, she left with a heavy snort, waved her arm, and led her ship girls back to the crowd.

Once back in the crowd, people around him rushed forward to comfort him.

Some of these people comforted Gu Ming, saying that this defeat was nothing to worry about, while others told her that losing a match was okay, and that she could still be in the top ten, and so on...

But no matter what these people said, Gu Ming seemed not to hear it. She strode away with the ship girls, and in the blink of an eye, she left them behind and disappeared.

Xiao Bai, standing in the crowd, breathed a sigh of relief.

It seems that although Admiral Gu Ming is unable to accept reality, her behavior is still quite rational.

At least she didn't have a meltdown on the spot...

Now I don't have to do it myself.