Elder brother's garrison

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"It's just the two of us left." Little White watched as Lexington and the others gradually disappeared from sight, then turned and smiled at Missouri.

“We can still see them here in Missouri.” Missouri smiled at Xiaobai. “Would the Admiral like to connect to Missouri and take a look?”

"No need," Xiaobai shook her head.

"Ah, that's a pity." Missouri's tone remained unchanged. She thought for a moment, then turned to look at the restaurant where Xiaobai had stayed yesterday. "Missouri, go buy the Admiral some drinks."

After saying that, Missouri didn't even give Xiaobai a chance to refuse before walking towards the open-air restaurant.

—It's possible that Xiaobai has the illusion that the newbie naval base is supporting this small restaurant.

Missouri left. Then, coincidentally, a few minutes later, Ella, with blonde hair, also waved and ran towards Little White.

I haven't seen Ayla's ship girls yet, but I heard from Ayla yesterday that they are quite capable and don't need her command. They were assigned to Ayla directly from her grandfather after she was kidnapped, so they are a group of elders.

"Little White!" Ella ran towards Little White with a big smile on her face.

Ella wasn't wearing her admiral's uniform, but rather a rather pure and lovely dress. Her fair, slender legs below the knees were connected to a pair of white sandals, and her delicate toes, like pearls, held a few specks of sand that had splashed in, giving her a unique charm. The youthful beauty of the girl clung to her like vines, making it impossible to look away.

"Ella?" Xiaobai looked at Ella in surprise as she ran to his side. "Aren't you wearing your admiral's uniform today?"

"Hehe." Ella shyly reached out and twirled her hair. "I'll wash it when it gets dirty."

"That's the rule."

"It's okay, nobody's bothering me." Ella just smiled calmly. "Little White, Little White, do you think my outfit looks good?"

Ella tugged at the hem of her skirt and twirled in front of Xiaobai.

Admirals are required to wear uniforms when going on campaign. Even when Xiaobai is in the naval base, he wears a white military uniform most of the time. So, generally speaking, an admiral has three or four spare sets of uniforms. Simply sending them to be washed when they get dirty is an utterly lame excuse.

—But Ella, her lineage is a symbol of human spirit, so who would dare to mess with this little princess?

"Yes, it looks good." Xiaobai felt relieved after thinking about it, and nodded to Ella, praising her.

"Thank you." Ella's cheeks were flushed.

"Admiral, Missouri is back." Missouri returned at this moment, carrying three glasses of chilled juice. She walked up to Xiaobai with a smile and looked at Ella's face: "Hello."

"You are……"

"I'm Missouri. I was left with the Admiral because I was too weak to keep up with the team. I'm so sorry to have shown you such an uncharacteristic side of Missouri." Missouri lied through his teeth, then handed a bottle of chilled juice to Ella.

"Oh... I've seen you on TV... Well, it's okay. You just came out of the construction facility, right? It's normal that your training level is a little low and you can't keep up with the ship girls of the world's number one naval base. Keep up the good work! You're a super powerful ship girl." Ella took the juice from Missouri and smiled at her. "Thank you."

"You're welcome." Missouri placed the remaining two bottles of juice in front of Xiaobai. "Which one would you like, Admiral?"

"Orange juice."

"Ok."

Little White took the orange juice from Missouri's hand and gently sipped through the straw.

Missouri seems to be incredibly good at these kinds of polite remarks; I think the only word to describe her is "appropriate."

Missouri simply held the juice in her hands without drinking it, and quietly watched Little White.

Xiao Bai gradually became embarrassed by the stares: "Missouri?"

"Is there anything you need to tell me, Admiral?"

"You want some too?"

"Okay." Missouri then opened her mouth and took a few sips through the straw.

Ella was also looking at Missouri at that moment.

Missouri had previously lived on Colorado Island and even fought with Bismarck, who was then desperately trying to save Little White. In some ways, Missouri's position at the time might even have made her an accomplice of Bismarck.

However, since Ella doesn't know this, Xiaobai and Missouri won't just tell her on a whim.

Missouri is now a ship girl belonging to Shiro, so let bygones be bygones.

Chapter 444 The World's First Ship Girl

Missouri did not forcefully separate Ella and Little White as Saratoga had suggested, nor did she forbid Ella from any intimate behavior with Little White. She simply stood beside Little White, like a breathing sculpture, silently smiling as she watched the two of them.

To be honest, with Missouri watching like that, Ella was actually a little embarrassed to hug and cuddle with Xiaobai for a while.

Xiaobai and Ella chatted on the beach for a while, and as time passed, more and more admirals came to participate in the strategy.

"It's so hot, let's go rest over there. We can't do anything standing here," Ella suggested to Xiaobai, pointing to the small restaurant behind the beach.

"Okay."

So the three of them sat down in the same seats they had sat in the day before, greeted by the smiles of the waiters at the open-air restaurant.

"What would you three ladies like to order today?" The waiter approached Xiaobai with a welcoming smile.

"Everyone from yesterday, come..."

"No, no!" Xiaobai quickly interrupted Ella's spellcasting, then smiled apologetically at the waiter, "We'll just rest here for a while, and look for something to eat later, okay?"

"No problem, the three of you can rest comfortably." The waiter nodded and then slowly retreated.

"Doesn't Xiaobai like to drink juice?" Ella looked at Xiaobai with some curiosity after the waiter left.

"I like it." Xiaobai pointed to the orange juice in her hand. "I have some now."

"Wouldn't you like a little more?"

"That's such a waste." Xiaobai was quite clear about what "a little bit" meant to Ella. She was just about to repeat yesterday's whole "ice and hot juice" thing.

"Oh, I see." Ella held the juice in her hands and slowly took a few sips.

Ella and Shiro sat facing each other as they had yesterday, while Missouri casually sat down next to Shiro. However, unlike the three ship girls who squeezed next to Shiro yesterday, Missouri did not stick close to Shiro like they did, but rather kept a respectful distance from Shiro.

This forms a stark contrast to ship girls like Sa, who have no worldly concerns and dare to love and act boldly.

If this were Sa, her chest would probably be squeezed into Xiao Bai's arm.

"Speaking of which, Little White, how did you build Missouri?" Ella suddenly asked with some curiosity.

"It was one night, just as we stepped out of the construction facility..."

"No, no!" Little White quickly rushed to Missouri and covered Missouri's mouth with her hand.

Missouri is clearly going to start repeating the same story he told in the TV interview. Of course, Xiaobai understands that Missouri's position is special and the things he's involved in are quite complicated. If he honestly says that Missouri is a self-employed individual who came to join the naval base voluntarily, then dealing with the situation will probably be much more complicated.

However, the rhetoric Missouri used to justify their claims was really embarrassing for Xiaobai. Things like destiny, angels, love at first sight, and fighting for Xiaobai made Xiaobai into such a romanticized version of herself.

Xiao Bai doesn't think he's that good yet.

Missouri's mouth didn't open after Xiaobai covered it. She smiled as she looked at Xiaobai, who was covering her mouth with a shy expression, and then slowly reached out and removed Xiaobai's hand from her mouth: "Does the Admiral not want me to talk about this?"

"That's so embarrassing."

"Really? It's something that's already happened."

Looking at Missouri's seemingly serious demeanor, Xiaobai really wanted to ask, "Where did you even go through all this?"

However, since Ella was still watching Xiaobai and Missouri across from him with her face in her hands as if watching a drama, Xiaobai could only swallow his anger.

Missouri might be the type who's good at playing pranks.

"You two have such a good relationship," Ella said, cupping her face in her hands and smiling at Xiaobai.

"Ah...it's just so-so," Xiaobai said sheepishly as she sat back down.

“There are many ship girl seniors in the naval base who are even closer to the Admiral. Compared to their fervent feelings, Missouri is still too young,” Missouri said humbly to Ella.

“She’s the rational type,” Ella smiled at Missouri.

“She’s the rational type.” Missouri and Ella exchanged a smile.

Missouri and Ella gradually reached a consensus.

"Ayla, weren't your ancestors the ones who invented the ship girl construction device?" Xiaobai felt this topic needed to be ended quickly, so she abruptly changed the subject, "How did your ancestors build that?"

“Construction device? Ah…” Ella gave a bitter smile. “How was it constructed… Well, it’s said that it was suddenly built after obtaining information about the Deep Sea Amphibious Ship. I don’t know the specific details. Things from that time are too incomplete.”

"I see." Xiaobai nodded. She had only asked the question to change the subject and didn't intend to dwell on it for long.

After all, that was a period of discontinuity. It was the era between the appearance of the Abyssal Fleet and the emergence of ship girls. It was a time of great devastation for human civilization, a time when all human society was in decline and almost all documents and books were destroyed. At that time, all the inheritance relied on oral transmission from humans, and it was not easy for even a few to survive intact.

"It's a matter of historical periodization. Although ship girls had just appeared, we were busy fighting against the Abyssal Fleet and reviving civilization at that time, so there were very few documents specifically recording the era. Later, they were gradually lost for various reasons. So, as descendants hundreds of years later, we still feel a bit powerless to know exactly what happened in that era." Ella seemed quite interested in this topic. Xiaobai only touched on it slightly, and she then spoke at length with deep emotion.

"Well, after all, no one has ever survived from that era... Those who did probably all became immortals." Xiaobai said, then paused as if she had suddenly remembered something.

"Xiaobai, what's wrong?"

"Ah, it's nothing." Xiaobai shook her head.

She thought of Sukhbaatar, who claimed to be the oldest ship girl in the world. Maybe she really was a survivor from a time warp. If that's the case, wouldn't her status be even higher than Missouri's?

"Ella, do you want to know what happened during the timeline?" Xiaobai asked.

"I'm a little curious."

"Oh..." Xiaobai nodded.

Sukhbaatar is still at the naval base. Xiaobai thinks he can go back to the naval base to ask Sukhbaatar later. As an old relic who may have survived the period of discontinuity, Sukhbaatar might know something.

"There's a ship girl in my naval base who claims to be the oldest ship girl in the world."

"Who is it?"

"Sukhbaatar".

"A ship girl I've never seen before."

"She's not very famous..." Xiaobai smiled sheepishly. "I'll ask her when I get back. Maybe she knows something about things that are out of date, like what the world's first ship girl was, since she's the oldest ship girl..."

“Oh, I know that,” Ella said.

"Huh?" Xiaobai was taken aback.

"The world's first ship girl was my ancestor, so her status is so special that it has been passed down orally like a training manual."

"What kind of ship is it?" Xiaobai asked blankly.

The true identity of the world's first ship girl is something that hasn't even been mentioned in naval textbooks, and it has always been incredibly mysterious. Now that Ella suddenly claims to know about the world's first ship girl, I have to say that I'm starting to get a little interested.

“It’s an aviation battleship,” Ella smiled. “Our ancestors said it was an unbelievably powerful ship girl.”

"An air battleship?" Xiao Bai was taken aback. "Eh...it might really be Lord Su's..."

"Who is Lord Su?"

“Oh, Sukhbaatar of my garrison.”

"That's impossible, that ship girl has already died in battle."

"Oh...oh." Xiaobai seemed a little disappointed.

"Anyway, it's all in the past. Even if I knew, it wouldn't affect my life now. Most of the time, I just listen to it like a story." Ella said, then stopped talking. She chuckled and swung her smooth little legs back and forth under the table.

Xiaobai was learning about this for the first time, so she was quite shocked. But Ella had known about it since she was very young and was already emotionally numb.

“Instead of this, Xiaobai, we’ve finished our juice, how about we eat something?” Ella asked Xiaobai.

Xiao Bai then realized that she had finished her juice during the conversation.

"Uh... um."

"Waiter! Bring me one serving of all your fried noodles!" Ella immediately reached out and shouted to the waiter who had been waiting for a long time.

Even Xiaobai couldn't stop it in time.

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Compared to the fierce main battlefield, the admirals and ship girls were not much less relaxed in the flanking waters corresponding to the other beaches.

The sound of booming cannons echoed across the sea, accompanied by the roar of carrier-based aircraft, as red flames and black wisps of air rose continuously.

Luo Lian knelt on both knees, propped up on her hands on the beach, and stared carefully at the map spread out in front of her.

The map was huge, bigger than Luo Lian's entire body, and it was divided into many areas with a ballpoint pen. When Luo Lian lay on the beach, it looked more like he was lying on the map.

Luo Lian's expression wasn't particularly serious, but it wasn't particularly relaxed either. This calm expression, however, gave others a great sense of security, as if everything was under her control.

Luo Lian looked at the map for a while, then closed her eyes. The crystal-like admiral network kept growing, and she connected with Warspite, who was far away at sea. After watching Warspite's ship girl squad still fighting in an orderly manner, Luo Lian opened her eyes and continued to look at the map in front of her.

The sight of a young girl lying on the ground looking at a map was quite conspicuous, so many people on the beach had already noticed Luo Lian's presence.

However, they did not go forward again, because Luo Lian was already surrounded by a thick circle of people.

"It's almost time, Number One. Have your team move to Area Three," Luo Lian said, looking up at the man in front of her.