Elder brother's garrison

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Xiao Bai could clearly see that on the middle finger that Shen Hai Dai Feng had just cut, there was still a cut about one centimeter thick. However, Shen Hai Dai Feng was, after all, the Dean of the Deep Sea Academy, and her physical recovery ability was amazing, especially in a place filled with deep-sea energy. Even if such a small wound appeared just a few seconds ago, by the time Xiao Bai looked at it now, it had basically recovered to only a tiny trace.

Even as Xiaobai was observing, the scar on Shenhai Dafeng's middle finger was healing and disappearing completely at a speed visible to the naked eye.

After the wounds completely disappeared, Xiaobai put down Deepsea Taihou's hand with a complicated expression and looked at Deepsea Taihou in front of her.

"...So, you summoned that teleportation vortex just now by relying on the rune script?" Xiaobai sorted out the information from just now and said to Deep Sea Taihou with complicated feelings.

The deep-sea giant phoenix nodded.

"...Where did you learn your knowledge of rune script?" Xiaobai asked again.

Deep Sea Taihou blinked and pointed at Shiro's chest.

"Me?" Xiaobai pointed to himself.

The deep-sea phoenix nodded repeatedly, its expression revealing innocence.

Xiao Bai opened his mouth, as if he wanted to say something but then stopped.

Looking at the innocent-looking Deep Sea Taihou, Shiro finally closed his mouth, covered his forehead, closed his eyes, and sighed.

Ok……

Although she was indeed a little startled, Xiaobai wasn't entirely surprised by this development...

Xiao Bai opened her eyes a crack, looking at the buzzing, spinning teleportation vortex with mixed feelings.

In short, I should first sort out the information myself.

The rune knowledge possessed by the deep-sea phoenixes... is indeed, as they say, derived from their own.

After all, the Deep Sea Taihou and the others are essentially spiritual entities separated from Shiro's spiritual world.

They once shared Xiaobai's memories in Xiaobai's mental world.

Of course, most of the memories involving Shiro's privacy, such as reading naval base secrets, cuddling with her wedding ship, interacting with family, or taking a bath, sleeping, looking in the mirror naked—memories that are inconvenient to share with too many people—were ruthlessly blocked by the Deep Sea Will. But aside from these private matters, most of Shiro's knowledge, insights, common sense, and even knowledge acquired through her superhuman memory from various books, movies, TV shows, or even hearsay—including mathematical formulas, foreign language words, blueprints, and portraits that she glimpsed out of the corner of her eye—were directly shared with all the Deep Sea Taihou as the foundational logic for building her spiritual world.

Simply put, whatever the little ones remember, the deep-sea giants remember too.

So since Xiaobai has mastered the knowledge of rune script, there's no reason why the Deep Sea Taihou shouldn't as well.

Thinking of this, Xiaobai lowered her gaze and looked at the water.

As for the practical application of runic fonts...

The method that the deep-sea phoenixes just used was also a method that Xiaobai had figured out in her previous life. It was a tricky way of writing down the rune script first and then infusing the rune script with mental power. Xiaobai had once told Ella's grandfather that although her method of using rune script was simple and crude, considering that this operation required a huge amount of mental power to support it, there was probably no other human in the world who could do it.

—Hey, isn't that a coincidence?

Xiaobai had no idea at the time that the deep-sea phoenix inside her body actually met the conditions for doing so.

The Deep Sea Taihou is, after all, a Deep Sea Dean who split off from Shiro's body. Even if their spiritual power is nothing compared to Shiro's original body, it is a complete crushing defeat compared to other humans in this world.

If human spiritual power is a drop of water, and Shiro is the entire ocean... then the spiritual power of the Deep Sea Giants is roughly the size of an artificial lake.

With the mental power of an artificial lake, using rune fonts is at least not a problem.

Chapter 3592 The Deep Sea Phoenix Speaks

"Admiral, you've been standing here thinking for quite a while now." Iowa, who had been watching Shiro's troubled expression as he pondered for a long time, couldn't help but offer a reminder.

"Ah...yes, yes."

Xiaobai snapped out of her daze, nodded to Iahua, and smiled helplessly.

"I was also hit by such a huge shock all at once, and my mind is a bit of a mess."

"So, does the Admiral mean that you've now figured things out?" Iowa smiled.

"Hmm, that's about it." Xiaobai nodded, then turned her gaze back to the Deep Sea Phoenix. "You just pricked your finger because you wanted to use your own blood to carry the runes, right?"

The deep-sea giant phoenix nodded.

“Indeed… the main raw material for the ink used to write runes happens to be the blood of high-level deep-sea creatures. If we disregard the stability and activity of the ink, as well as issues like reducing its toxicity to ordinary humans, the blood extracted from the Deep Sea Dean on site is indeed an excellent medium for writing runes.” Xiaobai said, reaching into her clothes and pulling out a bottle of ink, which she tossed to Deep Sea Taihou. “But don’t do that next time. It’ll hurt if you keep cutting your fingers. Use this next time.”

Deep Sea Taihou took the ink bottle from Xiaobai. She held the ink bottle, looked down at it, then looked up and nodded like a chick pecking at rice.

"And another thing, the strings you just used... I don't remember ever using those." Xiaobai put one hand on her hip and said to Shenhai Taihou, "Even I, after all these years, only know how to use single rune fonts. How did you learn to use rune strings? Did you also get hold of Lianlian's memories?"

"..." Deep Sea Phoenix shook its head, holding the ink bottle.

"Could it be that the memories of these rune strings also come from me?"

"..." Deep Sea Phoenix continued to shake its head.

Deep Sea Phoenix put away the ink bottle, raised its hands towards Little White, and gestured with its palms in mid-air.

Xiaobai couldn't understand the gestures of the Deep Sea Taihou, and she was somewhat confused.

"Xiao Hong, what exactly did you mean just now..." Xiao Bai was about to ask more questions when she heard Iahua's gentle voice calling her from beside her.

“Admiral,” Iowa interrupted Xiaobai with a smile, “I think… what Xiaohong and the others are trying to say is that they learned how to use strings on their own.”

"……what?"

"Sister Xiaohong, am I right?" Iowa smiled as she looked at the Deep Sea Taihou.

"..." Deep Sea Taihou nodded like a chick pecking at rice.

"……"noob.

Looking at the innocent expression on the Deep Sea Taihou's face, Xiaobai felt a surge of emotions, a mix of feelings, and an exceptionally complex mood.

So... the ability to use strings was something the deep-sea giants developed through their own training?

They relied on the basic knowledge they were given, as well as some advanced runic texts they had been crammed into the library at Ella's house, and then... that's how they were trained.

what?

what?

what?

Such a genius?

I, who can provide them with knowledge of runic script... still don't know anything about it...

Xiao Bai said he couldn't take it anymore.

Xiao Abi felt blood rushing to her head. She covered her head and staggered backward until she felt a huge, soft touch behind her head.

"Admiral, are you dizzy?" Iowa reached out her warm hand, hugged the little white girl who had come closer, and touched her forehead.

"I'm not dizzy, I'm just... oh well, I am dizzy." Xiaobai slumped into Iowa's arms, starting to whine, "Iowa, I've come to realize the truth: my talent is actually just that of a mediocre person..."

"...In my eyes, the Admiral is a very intelligent person." Iowa smiled and gently patted Shiro's head as she spoke.

It took Xiaobai a while to catch her breath in Iowa's arms.

After calming down, Xiaobai relaxed a bit.

Putting aside my own lack of talent in rune knowledge...

Since the Deep Sea Taihou and the others can share memories and experiences with each other anytime and anywhere, it's normal that they learn everything incredibly fast.

After all, their practical abilities are extraordinary, and there are thousands upon thousands of them working together to research something. It's normal that their progress is faster than that of an individual.

Yes, that's normal.

"Little Red, can your memories be shared with me in reverse?" Little White asked the Deep Sea Taihō.

"..." Deep Sea Taihou blinked, a confused expression on her face.

"Ah...it seems that won't work." Xiaobai sighed.

The relationship between Shiro and the deep-sea giants can probably only be a one-way transfer.

Seeing Xiaobai's utterly disappointed expression, Shenhai Taifeng stepped forward, took Xiaobai's hands, and cupped her own fair cheeks in her hands.

Although she didn't quite understand why Shiro suddenly felt down, Deep Sea Taihou still tried to comfort Shiro in her own way.

"Thank you, Xiao Hong."

Feeling the warmth emanating from her palm, Xiaobai smiled at the Deep Sea Taihou.

Xiaobai briefly recalled the string from before.

The difficulty of knowledge about rune strings lies in the fact that once the originally clear and independent rune characters are formed into a string, the stroke relationships between the characters will undergo huge and complex changes. These changes are layered on top of each other, and even a small rune character can undergo a complete transformation after the changes.

Even Xiaobai couldn't determine what characters the Deep Sea Phoenixes used in the rune strings just by looking at their shapes.

Sigh...the knowledge gap.

Xiaobai sighed inwardly and continued speaking to the deep-sea giant phoenix in front of her.

"So, you used runic knowledge to create the teleportation vortex?"

“…” Deep Sea Taihou thought for a while and nodded.

"Does that mean that you can use teleportation abilities to go wherever you want, just like Super Yamato?" Xiaobai asked again.

Surprisingly, Deep Sea Taihou shook her head in response to Shiro's words.

Immediately afterward, under Xiaobai's gaze, Deep Sea Taihou pointed to the teleportation vortex, then to her feet, and gave Xiaobai an "OK" sign. Finally, she pointed to the teleportation vortex again, then to other places, and gave Xiaobai a big "X" sign.

Xiaobai stared at the Deep Sea Taifeng, lost in thought.

Oh... Xiaobai understood this time.

"Xiao Hong, you mean... you didn't actually learn the Super Yamato skill, and the string effect just now was just to open a passage to the outside?"

The deep-sea phoenix nodded quickly.

"And this is the only way to get outside the city?" Xiaobai asked tentatively.

The deep-sea giant phoenix continued to nod.

"I see, I finally understand."

Xiao Bai sighed and shifted his gaze to the teleportation vortex to the side.

After the teleportation vortex was summoned, no one entered it, and the vortex slowly closed and disappeared.

It seems that the teleportation vortex form... should be the original form of a tunnel involving spatial displacement, and Super Yamato's ability is to create spatial tunnels, which is why her teleportation vortex is so similar to this teleportation vortex.

The abilities of the Deep Sea Taihou are unrelated to those of the Mega Yamato.

I had preconceived notions.

After thinking for a while, Xiaobai raised his hand and touched the head of the Deep Sea Phoenix.

"Hmm...we've figured out most of the problems," Xiaobai said. "So, after figuring out how to leave this city, you guys went off to wander around outside?"

Deep Sea Taihou stiffened, lowered her head, and clasped her hands together, looking very guilty.

"Sigh, I didn't mean to punish you." Xiaobai smiled at Shenhai Taihou, and released Shenhai Taihou's head, saying, "You are now the Dean of the Deep Sea, so with this kind of strength, you won't be bothered by the ship girls if you go out... Besides, when you went out this time, didn't you rescue a group of ship girls from a dangerous sea full of dark, dense Abyssal ships? I'm not such a rigid person... As long as you are willing to hide yourselves properly and not have conflicts with the ship girls, then going out for a stroll once in a while is fine."

Upon hearing this, the deep-sea giant phoenix looked up.

"So, don't let anyone find out," Xiaobai said, holding up one finger.

The deep-sea phoenix nodded quickly.

"Okay, I'm fine now." Xiaobai smiled. "Let's go back. We still need to take those six ship girls you rescued back with us."

After Xiaobai finished speaking, he turned around and prepared to leave.

But just then, she suddenly felt a gentle tugging sensation from behind.

"Hmm?" Shiro turned to look at Taihou. "What's wrong?"

The deep-sea giant phoenix tugged at Shiro's clothes, opened her eyes, and gestured with her hands towards Shiro.

Xiaobai stared blankly at the sign language of the Deep Sea Daihou.

"Um... what does this mean?" Xiaobai turned her head to look at Iowa.

“Admiral, I don’t understand either,” Iowa said with a wry smile.

"But you clearly guessed it just now..."

“It depends on the context… but what Sister Xiaohong wants to say right now is probably not closely connected to the context,” Iowa said.

"Is that so..." Xiaobai looked at Shenhai Taihou, "Xiaohong, is what you want to say really relevant to the present?"

"..." Deep Sea Phoenix shook its head.

"Oh...is that something important?"