Elder brother's garrison

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The supply operation, which had been interrupted for a short while, resumed.

Next, the beast head on Xiaobai's ship equipment opened its mouth, and Lexington kept throwing resources into it, watching the enormous amount of ammunition rise into nothingness in the blue flames, without feeling any heartache at all.

Time passes slowly.

For a long time afterward, Xiaobai could only listen stiffly to the digging sound of the Lexington shovel.

Each of those sounds represents a large amount of ammunition resources disappearing with the wind.

Another twenty minutes passed.

Then an hour passed.

Finally, at a certain point, after Xiaobai had become too lazy to keep track of time, she finally felt a sense of saturation in her ship equipment.

"Lexington, it looks ready," Xiaobai said to Lexington.

"Huh? Is it done already?" Lexington, holding the shovel, finally managed to stop the inertial motion of pushing it in.

"Hmm, that should be about right," Xiaobai said.

The saturation of the ship's equipment is something that the owner can feel most clearly, and Lexington had no doubts. She shoveled the shovel in her hand back into the mountain of ammunition behind her with a snap.

"Let's go to the next one." Lexington led the somewhat numb Little White to the fuel tank next to them.

Fuel is a liquid. Even though the fuel for ship girls is highly efficient and not easily damaged, and can be stacked up without any problem, it is still not okay to leave something like oil out in the open. Therefore, a special iron tank for storing fuel needs to be built in the resource warehouse.

Of course, this metal can is no smaller than the ammunition mountain next to it.

Following the previous procedure, Xiaobai found a place to release the ship's equipment. Lexington pulled out an iron pipe and put it into the mouth of the beast that had been thrown into the ammunition earlier.

“It has begun,” Lexington said.

"Okay," Xiaobai replied.

Lexington then pressed the button on the iron pipe, and fuel gushed out of the pipe and poured into Little White's ship equipment through the holes.

Never judge a ship's equipment capacity by its external size.

The amount of ammunition Xiaobai swallowed while replenishing her ammunition was far greater than the ship's equipment behind her.

So Lexington barely hesitated before activating maximum fuel output and pumping it into Xiaobai's ship equipment.

But then the unexpected happened.

"Ah, Lexington! It's full!" The moment the fuel was poured into Xiaobai's ship rigging, Xiaobai felt the saturation from the rigging. She quickly called out to Lexington.

Lexington hadn't reacted yet; she was clearly stunned for a second or two before pressing the stop button.

In just a second or two, a large amount of fuel gushed out from Xiaobai's ship equipment, splattering the ground with a greasy mess.

"Why so fast this time?" Lexington looked at Xiaobai in surprise.

"It seems my ship equipment doesn't need refueling..." Xiaobai said awkwardly to Lexington.

"Don't you need it?"

"Um……"

“…Ah, fortress ship equipment…No wonder.” Lexington held the tube and thought for a while before suddenly realizing what it meant.

Fuel and ammunition are two major resources that no ship girl can avoid. Lexington brought Shiro to refuel without thinking. However, ship girls need fuel because they need to move. The fortress ship equipment itself is a super-large fortress that cannot move at all. Since it does not need to move, there is no need to refuel.

“It’s just my habit of thinking it’s time to refuel,” Lexington reflected.

Looking at the greasy fuel on the ground, Lexington sighed: "I'll have to get Reputation to clean it up later."

Lexington and Little White eventually reached the aluminum resource mountain and tentatively replenished their aluminum resources.

Little White's ship equipment swiftly swallowed the aluminum blocks that Lexington had thrown in.

After confirming that Xiaobai's ship equipment could be replenished with aluminum resources, Lexington began to throw it in in large quantities, just like she had done with ammunition before.

Compared to its seemingly endless ammunition capacity, Xiaobai's other ship equipment resources are clearly quite ordinary.

The fortress ship didn't require much more aluminum resources than the Saratoga, which relieved Xiaobai.

"It seems the fortress ship's equipment has a very high demand for ammunition." Xiaobai breathed a sigh of relief and said to Lexington.

"Yes, that's how it is." Lexington put down the shovel and breathed a sigh of relief after resupplying Little White.

"Lexington, how much ammunition did I resupply in total?"

"There are probably about fifteen Jiajia, after all, they are fortress ship equipment," Lexington said to Xiaobai.

Most naval bases simply can't afford to maintain such expensive ship equipment as Shiro.

Xiaobai and Lexington left the resource warehouse.

At the entrance of the resource warehouse, Yixian was sitting there drinking tea. When she saw Lexington and Xiaobai come out, she didn't ask why they had been inside for so long. She just smiled slightly.

After greeting Yixian, Xiaobai and Lexington returned to the admiral's office in the office building.

While the two were away, many more ship girl deployment applications appeared on the table.

"How are you feeling after the resupply? Is there anything that's bothering you?" Lexington asked slowly after seeing Xiaobai sit back down.

"Hmm... I don't feel anything," Xiaobai replied subtly, rubbing her hands together.

"That's good." Lexington sat back down. "Little White, the ship equipment replenishment resources are only to ensure that you have the most basic means of protecting yourself in the event that your ship girls are not around and you encounter danger. As long as you can escape, that's enough. So please don't use them if you can avoid it, okay?"

"Okay," Xiaobai replied.

"It's great that you understand." Lexington looked at Little White with satisfaction.

Even with only the deep-sea ship equipment lacking resources, Xiaobai's combat power already far surpasses that of a normal human. Now that Xiaobai's ship equipment resources have been replenished and the performance of the fortress ship equipment has been 100% activated, it is estimated that even if the deep-sea flagship of the autumn event comes to cause trouble, Xiaobai will probably not have much of a problem to deal with it.

After a short rest, Xiaobai and Lexington returned to their intense and demanding work.

A few days later, with the headquarters finally confirming the location of the autumn deep-sea event, the expedition roster for the newbie naval base was also completed.

The naval base was unusually lively that day.

Lexington, holding the hands of the bewildered Richelieu and Abyssal Yamato, walked towards the large bus parked in front of the naval base. The ship girls selected on the list also bid farewell to their friends who were staying at the naval base one by one, and boarded the bus amidst cheers and laughter.

Thousands of miles away, the crimson-eyed abyss creature with two horns on its head was also slowly approaching human society within its massive ship rig.

The autumn deep-sea activity season has begun amid intensive preparations by both parties.

Chapter 402 The Chaser

News of the deep-sea activity period also spread to human society.

However, ordinary residents in human society don't have the same level of accuracy in their information as the admiral.

In the bright room, a red-eyed girl with waist-length white hair sat cross-legged on a chair, chewing on a piece of dried squid while looking at the computer screen in front of her.

The computer screen displayed a recently released news item about the sea being closed off, a common practice in human society, with such a two-week period occurring around this time of year.

"So, the reason for the sea closure is the deep-sea activity period," the white-haired girl said in a muffled voice to the other side of the computer screen, chewing on dried squid.

It seemed this wasn't the first time the girl had engaged in online conversations. As she spoke, she raised one leg, reached her hand under her foot, and gently picked at her shiny toenails with her fingers.

"Did I ever lie to you about chasing after my sister?" The girl said in a lazy tone, reaching out with her other hand to pull the dried squid out of her mouth, and then said to the screen, "Let me tell you, I'm a ship girl, you know. I know a lot about these things. There's a deep-sea activity period every quarter, which is the time when the sea is closed."

After each sentence the girl finished speaking, she would stare at the screen for a while.

On the screen, lines of text scrolled across the screen, interspersed with "666".

"That idiot streamer is lying again, lol."

"The streamer is saying she's a ship girl again."

"What ship girl? Wife, stop messing around and come home with me."

"Stop, stop, friend, we might have entered the wrong room."

"I've followed this bragging streamer!"

However, apart from a few newcomers who had just been tricked into joining and were saying "Really?", almost no one in the live chat believed what the girl said.

"Tsk." The girl seemed to be used to the disbelief in her words from the comments. "I really am a ship girl. Let me tell you, I'm the top light carrier in our naval base, and I'm really good at it. Our naval base is also the number one naval base in the world, far ahead of the second place."

"I really am, you guys believe me."

However, no matter how the girl explained, the comments were always in a tone that said, "You make so much sense, so the streamer is just bragging again."

The girl had truly lost hope in the world.

After repeated explanations, the girl, finally giving up, could only helplessly sit back down, chewing on dried squid like a salted fish who had lost all dreams.

As the girl dressed in revealing clothes and acted so approachable, coupled with her beautiful face and figure, even without any outrageous actions, the comments section was still flooded with "666".

The girl sighed.

Yes, this girl is indeed a ship girl. It's not a publicity stunt or a deception; she is a genuine, active ship girl.

Just like the opening line, "Did you ever lie to your sister, Chaser?", she is indeed the light aircraft carrier Chaser of the rookie naval base, a submarine killer and a madman who blasts fish.

The pursuer is now also an amateur online streamer.

A live streamer is someone who broadcasts games, talents, or other activities online to generate traffic for the live streaming platform and earn a salary.

As for salary, Chaser has no shortage of it. I've said it many times. As a newbie ship girl in a naval base, she may lack many things, but she's never short of money. As for why she became a live streamer, it's because Chaser lives alone and is too bored. She didn't want to work a 9-to-5 job every day, so one day when she was online, she saw how lively the live streaming platforms were and got the itch to become a streamer to kill time.

Before the live stream even started, the pursuers had already come up with a gimmick for the live stream.

Sexy ship girls, live streaming online!

Those who were chasing them back then could all foresee that when they went live, people who had never seen the ship girls would rush in one by one to cheer them on or say things like "666" or "the girl is so cute".

However, reality is ultimately harsh; the pursuers have seriously underestimated the limits of human capability.

After starting the live stream and using "Sexy Ship Girl Online Live Stream" as the title, not many people entered the Chaser's live stream room, and even those who did enter mostly commented with strange remarks such as "Oh, oh, oh, another ship girl."

The pursuers only later learned that many female streamers on the live streaming platform had also called themselves "ship girls," and that it was common practice for female streamers to occasionally call themselves "ship girls" to satisfy the curiosity and vanity of the audience.

Of course, these female streamers are all human; who can afford to hire ship girls to stream?

—And this made things difficult for the pursuers.

Even if the pursuers talked themselves hoarse, even conjured up their own ship equipment, showed off their ship equipment space, and shared some minor gossip from the ship girl community, not a single person believed them.

Instead, they all talk about how good their magic has become, how imaginative their ideas are, and other such boastful things.

Without the identity of a ship girl, what does the pursuer have left besides her looks?

There wasn't much left. When the Chaser first started streaming, her singing was mediocre, her gaming was terrible, and she would often reveal her lack of understanding of human society when chatting, failing to keep up with the audience's jokes. As a result, her popularity was quite low for a period of time. It only started to rise a little after she gradually learned more about human society.

So now, even though he has transformed into a chat-style streamer, his live stream room hasn't become very popular. He's only managed to maintain a fairly well-known, moderately prosperous level of fame thanks to his ship girl-like appearance.

Anyway, the pursuers are just having fun and don't care about money, so the live streaming has somehow gotten to where it is today.

"I already told you, the sea closure is because of the deep-sea activity period. Kids, don't go to the beach to get yourselves killed for no reason," the pursuer said, resting his chin on his hand and looking at the computer screen.

"Where did the streamer buy the beauty camera? I didn't turn on the beauty camera. It's a completely natural live stream with no fakery."

"The streamer's skin is so fair, she must have her camera on. Bullshit! My skin is naturally great, okay? I'm a ship girl, have you ever seen a ship girl with bad skin?"

Sure enough, after the pursuer finished speaking, the comments section started flooding with messages again.

"Wife, please stop making a scene and come home with me."

"The streamer talks trash all day long, I've subscribed!"

"You're such a drama queen, streamer."

"Buy fruit, melon seeds, drinks, and bricks in the front row!"

"Drama queen/featured streamer, add me to your special follow list!"

The pursuers no longer even had the will to explain.

Once these viewers are convinced that she is a fake ship girl, no matter what explanation she gives, they won't believe her.

"Since you're a ship girl, why are you still streaming here instead of going back to the naval base?" Among the dozen or so 666 comments, an honest person asked this question.

The pursuer watched as the barrage of comments slid from the left to the right of the screen.

Many honest people have asked why she, a ship girl, would do live streaming, but the pursuer doesn't want to answer.

It is precisely because of this that the audience has always felt that the pursuer is a fake ship girl.

Why did the pursuers leave the naval base?

Of course, it's because the admiral died.

The pursuers naturally wouldn't tell the audience this news.