Elder brother's garrison

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After a dizzying spin, Xiaobai left through the teleportation vortex exit on the other side.

The moment Xiaobai left the teleportation vortex, he felt the sea breeze around him suddenly become much stronger. The fierce sea breeze was like blades, constantly scraping against his clothes and body, making his casual clothes make a crisp crackling sound.

Xiao Bai subconsciously tightened his arms and looked around.

The scenery around her was still an endless expanse of empty sea.

"Admiral, we're back." Super Yamato said to Shiro, pointing to a distant but clearly visible area on the open sea. "That's where you should be, Admiral."

"It really is..." Xiaobai muttered to herself, covering her temple with one hand as she tentatively activated the Admiral's Network to contact Missouri.

It's strange to say.

After stepping out of the teleportation vortex, Xiaobai immediately felt that her connection with Missouri's mental network had become extremely weak. If she hadn't activated Missouri's dedicated line before leaving, strengthening the mental link between the two, she probably wouldn't have been able to find Missouri's location as soon as she stepped out of the teleportation vortex.

"Missouri, can you hear me?" Little White asked.

Xiao Bai's voice was transmitted, but the other end of the mental link was shrouded in darkness and deathly silence.

After about ten seconds, a voice, sounding like a poorly made walkie-talkie, with a muffled and distant tone, finally rang out.

"Admiral, Missouri is here."

Hearing that faint but familiar voice, Xiaobai felt much more at ease.

"Missouri, is everything alright on your end?"

"Thanks to the Admiral, although it's a bit lonely here in Missouri after you left, the house is fine as long as it provides shelter from the wind and rain," Missouri's smiling voice came through.

Xiaobai smiled, waved to Chaoda behind her, and the two headed straight for Missouri.

The distance between these two anchor points is really not long.

With Xiaobai and Chaoda's travel speed, they arrived at their destination in just over ten minutes.

"Admiral, this is it." Super Yamato arrived at an open body of water that looked exactly like the surrounding area. She reached out with both hands to a patch of water and said to Shiro, "This is our teleportation anchor point."

Chapter 3519 The Disappearing Truth, The Solution

After arriving at the location where they were supposed to meet up with Missouri, Xiaobai stood on the water that Chaodahe had mentioned and looked around.

open.

Boundless.

gloomy.

flat.

Just as mentioned before, the surrounding water features are completely devoid of any urban landscape, not even a single brick or tile.

Even more outrageous, Xiaobai even used her own network of admirals to search for traces of Missouri, but she couldn't find even the slightest trace of Missouri's existence here.

Missouri, and the deep-sea city, seem to have vanished into thin air.

"Missouri, are you still there?" Little White asked from the other end of the mental link.

After about ten seconds, Missouri's voice rang out.

"Admiral, Missouri is here."

"Oh...you, you're still staying where you are, right?"

Upon hearing Missouri's voice, Xiaobai breathed a sigh of relief, then tentatively asked.

Actually, Xiaobai already knew the answer to this question, but she just couldn't help wanting to confirm it again.

"Yes, Admiral." Missouri's reply was exactly what Xiaobai had expected. "Missouri hasn't left the spot since the Admiral left."

Despite the crackling, broken audio, Missouri's reply was firm and normal.

"You didn't see me in Missouri either, did you?" Xiaobai asked again.

"Has the admiral arrived?"

"Well, we're here."

“We haven’t seen any trace of the Admiral in Missouri,” Missouri said. “...If the Admiral wants to confirm, he can use the visual sharing function of the mental link.”

“…Yeah, I’d like to too, but for some reason, the connection signal with you has been very weak since we left the vortex. We can barely communicate by voice now, and if we use the visual sharing function, the connection will probably be lost,” Xiaobai said.

“I see,” Missouri replied.

Xiao Bai bent down and stirred the water beneath him twice.

The waves spread out normally, the ripples twisting with the sea breeze, spreading in all directions without any sign of obstruction.

Xiao Bai watched for a while, then suddenly turned to Chao Da and spoke.

"Super Yamato."

"Admiral?" Chao Yamato quickly stepped forward.

"Summon your ship's equipment and fire a shot at the water nearby," Xiaobai said.

"Ah? Oh..."

She was stunned, but her body moved instinctively as she raised her hand to summon the deep-sea ship equipment.

An incredibly dense aura of the Deep Sea Dean erupted instantly, and the colossal Yamato's body, enveloped in a black mist-like aura, fired a shot at the water not far away.

boom! ! !

The dark red shell exploded from the barrel and slammed into the water.

In an instant, a huge explosion rang out.

Water droplets exploded into the sky, then turned into a light rain that fell down with a pattering sound.

Xiaobai stood there, looking at the rain in the sky. She continued to cover her temple with one hand and asked Missouri on the other end of the mental link.

"Missouri, do you hear anything?"

"Missouri heard the sound of wind and flowing water."

"Was there no sound of cannons firing or rain?"

"Has the admiral opened fire?"

"Ah."

"Missouri didn't hear it."

"Ok."

Xiao Bai lowered his hand, stood still, and silently scanned the water surface around him.

After a few minutes, Xiaobai took a deep breath and turned to face the huge opening where the ship's equipment was unfolded.

"Super Yamato, that's enough, let's go back."

"Did the Admiral discover anything?" Super Yamato retracted her ship equipment, the black mist surrounding her dissipated, and she landed back next to Little White, raising her hand to summon the Deep Sea Vortex.

"I haven't really discovered anything... I still don't have any evidence, but I suspect there is one." Xiaobai shook her head, muttering to herself, and pulled Chao Yamato's hand as she walked into the teleportation vortex.

The anchor point is right in front of us.

At such a close distance, even when using the teleportation vortex, Xiaobai felt a strange sense of unease, as if he were standing still.

But the moment Xiaobai left the teleportation vortex and the surrounding darkness faded, she found herself back in the familiar city, the familiar second floor of the hall, and the familiar wardrobe.

Xiaobai nimbly jumped down from the wardrobe. She looked at Chaoda and the other woman behind her, who, due to her tall and voluptuous figure, struggled to move in the narrow space and slowly squeezed out of the wardrobe with a red face. She smiled helplessly.

"Admiral, should I lose weight...?" After stepping out of the closet, Chao Da asked Xiao Bai with a blush on his face.

"No need, you're perfect the way you are now," Xiaobai said earnestly, then took Chao Yahe's hand and went downstairs with her.

Xiaobai and Chaoda returned to the lobby on the first floor.

Inside the lobby on the first floor, Missouri was still standing outside the lobby door, gazing at the night view outside.

Xiao Bai watched Missouri's retreating figure and reached out to tap his temple.

Hmm... After returning to the city, my mental connection with the Missouri construction site was strengthened once again.

Xiaobai seemed to have an idea; she gently severed her connection with Missouri.

Missouri shrank back at the door.

"Admiral? You're back?" Missouri turned around, asking as she did so.

After seeing Xiaobai and Chaoda holding hands, Missouri seemed to relax a lot. She breathed a sigh of relief and a relaxed smile appeared on her face.

"Missouri, sorry to keep you waiting." Little White waved.

"The admiral just arrived here from the other side, didn't he?" Missouri asked.

“Yes…” Xiaobai nodded, “From the perspective of the ship girls’ geographical perception, we should have reunited, but it’s like we’re in completely different places. We can’t detect each other at all, and the city only appears on your side…”

“That’s quite an interesting phenomenon,” Missouri said. “What’s your opinion, Admiral?”

"Hmm... my opinion is..." Xiaobai thought for a while, scratched her head, looked at the deep-sea city in front of her, her gaze swept across the seawater, and looked at the city center through the layers of buildings, "Although it is just a personal guess, I think this city... was probably separated from the sea by some strange thing."

"Splitting it off?" Missouri and Supermassive listened to Little White's words with some curiosity.

“Hmm… Speaking of which, I’ve actually remembered a lot of things.” Xiaobai reached out, looking at her fingertips, and slowly said, “Actually, there are many runic characters in this city, including in the center of the city, where there used to be a spire where Frederick the Great guarded a metal plate covered with complex runic characters… If we consider that the origin of the runic characters is related to this city, then perhaps the former inhabitants of this city were able to use the power of the runic characters better than humans are now.”

“Runic script…” Missouri looked at Little White, “So the Admiral thinks the disappearance of this city is related to the power of runic script?”

“Runic script is a very mysterious, yet incredibly powerful thing,” Xiaobai said to Missouri. “In a sense, ship girls are born into this world through the power of runic script… Think about it, how amazing ship girls are! For example, their ship equipment can appear and disappear at will, their ship equipment space can hold objects, they have all sorts of ship equipment skills, their small size but incredibly powerful cannons and carrier-based aircraft, their immense strength, long lifespan, beauty, elegance, and eternally healthy and active physique… Since they have already created so many miracles, I think it’s not impossible for them to create a few more.”

“What the admiral says makes sense,” Missouri nodded.

“If it’s the power of the runes, then the strange phenomena in this city can be explained.” Xiaobai thought for a while and continued, “Perhaps we destroyed too many buildings, or for some other reason, shortly after we left the city, some kind of self-preservation mechanism of the city began to operate. Under the influence of the magical power of the runes, the space where the city is located was separated from the real world and formed an independent space.”

"A separate space?"

"Simply put... it's like the city being put into a huge ship's equipment space."

“Ah…that’s easy to understand.” Missouri and Super Big nodded.

“The city’s location should still be the same, but because the space where the city is located is separated from the original space, people in the original space cannot have any contact with the city at all.” Xiaobai pinched his chin and looked around. “Because, as we see it now, although the city is still in the same place, it is like a different layer or a different dimension compared to its original location. It is separated by a distance comparable to thousands of mountains and rivers.”

"Then why was my teleportation vortex able to return here?" Chao Dahe raised his hand and asked curiously.

“Because both the Super Large and your teleportation vortex are spatial skills, it’s an interaction between two spatial abilities,” Xiaobai replied matter-of-factly. “Your ability places the teleportation anchor here, so it’s reasonable for a spatial teleportation skill to bring you in from the outside, right?”

“Oh…I see…” Chao Dahe seemed to understand something, and she nodded.

"Although we don't have any evidence yet, we can say that we've cracked the mystery of this city's disappearance." Xiao Bai clasped his hands together and said with a smile, "Well, congratulations! This mission has been successfully completed!"

“Congratulations, Admiral.” Missouri smiled and clapped. She then asked with a smile, “However, Admiral… if this is the truth, Missouri has a few questions for you.”

"What's the problem?"

"Since this city was spatially divided by a mysterious runic ability... then how will you, Admiral, inform the Admiral Headquarters about the existence of this city and the methods for entering and leaving it in the future?"

"……what?"

“Right now, the only people who can lead people in and out of the city… are probably Super-Big and Senior, right?” Missouri asked. “So… how are we going to explain this to the Admiral’s Headquarters?”

Chapter 3520 Little Red's... New Home?

After Missouri asked those two questions, Xiaobai stood there stunned for a long time.

She, Missouri, and Superman just stood there, staring at each other, and no one spoke for more than ten seconds.

Outside the hall, the sea breeze howled.

Black seawater surged and crashed against the broken stone bricks at the entrance.

"...Oh, this." Finally, Xiaobai realized what was happening. Her eyes showed a rather complicated and embarrassed expression as she slowly uttered to Missouri, "...Right, how are we supposed to explain this..."

After Missouri's reminder, Xiaobai belatedly realized something: the reason she, Chaoda, and Missouri went to sea to search for the missing deep-sea city was not only to investigate the truth behind its sudden disappearance, but also because Xiaobai wanted to help the Admiral Headquarters and the expedition team find this historically significant and scientifically valuable relic. After all, she was now considered the president of one of the eight chapters of the sea, and this was her way of contributing to the organization in her spare time...

The city has indeed been found, and the truth behind the disappearance has been uncovered.

But the problem now is, how can I inform the Admiral's headquarters about the methods of entering and leaving the city and the principles behind its disappearance?

Thinking of this, Xiaobai shifted his gaze to Chaodahe.

For unknown reasons, the deep-sea city has now separated from its original sea area and entered an independent space that no one can see or touch. Currently, the only person who can enter and leave the city without hindrance is Super Yamato, who also possesses spatial abilities and, by some twist of fate, left a teleportation point here. In a sense, the deep-sea city is now like a mansion with its doors locked, and the only person who holds the key to this mansion is Super Yamato.

Even if the reason for the disappearance of the deep-sea city can be flimsy, in the end, to enter the deep-sea city, one still has to pass through the super-Yamato teleportation vortex.

Of course, if Super Yamato were a normal and ordinary ship girl, it wouldn't be out of the question for her to make some contributions to the Admiral's Guild or become a gatekeeper for the Abyssal City.

But isn't Chao Dahe a deep-sea dean?