Elder brother's garrison

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"Then I'll gladly accept your offer. I'll make up for your daily expenses," Luo Lian said.

Nia shook her head quickly, clutching the comic book in her arms as if it were a precious treasure.

Nia stared at Luo Lian with a serious expression: "No need to replenish it, we're partners, aren't we?"

"partner?"

"Ah."

Luo Lian didn't speak; she just quietly looked at Nia.

Nia, holding her comic book, quietly watched Luo Lian.

Luo Lian's personality is straightforward and he doesn't know how to consider other people's feelings. Nia, on the other hand, doesn't have Luo Lian's talent, so compared to Luo Lian, Nia is more timid and knows how to live tactfully. She also has a lot of meaningless gentleness in her daily life.

Logically speaking, these two completely opposite people would find it difficult to get along; their behavior and actions would always make the other feel uncomfortable.

However, these two people who could never be partners now share a special bond.

This bond is enough to resolve all difficulties and accomplish the impossible.

For example, getting two girls from completely different places to reach a consensus.

Sigrún has taught at the Iceland University of the Arts as a part-time lecturer since and was Dean of the Department of Fine Art from -. In – she held a research position at Reykjavík Art Museum focusing on the role of women in Icelandic art. She studied fine art at the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts and at Pratt Institute, New York, and holds BA and MA degrees in art history and philosophy from the University of Iceland. Sigrún lives and works in Iceland.

"Achoo!" Little White, who was surrounded by destroyers, felt a chill down his back and instinctively sneezed.

The sneeze was sudden and loud, making the empty bowl in front of Xiaobai tremble.

"Admiral? Do you have a cold?" Changchun, who was sitting next to Xiaobai, saw him sneeze. She quickly unscrewed her thermos and moved closer to Xiaobai. "Would you like some of this?"

"It's okay, Changchun, I won't catch a cold." Xiaobai smiled at Changchun, then rubbed her nose. "Maybe something got into my nose, but I'm fine now."

"Oh...I see." Changchun looked at Xiaobai with some concern, still feeling uneasy.

"Admiral, please wait a moment." At this moment, Bai Xue stood up from her seat, walked to Xiao Bai, and gave Xiao Bai a very friendly smile. "Let Bai Xue take a look."

Bai Xue bent down and leaned close to Xiao Bai's face. She cupped Xiao Bai's face in her hands and pressed her forehead against Xiao Bai's, quietly feeling the sensation for a moment.

"Hmm. No problem." Bai Xue let go of Xiao Bai's hand and smiled, "If you've just arrived at the beach, you might catch a cold if you don't keep warm because you haven't adjusted your lifestyle in time. Although the Admiral has a very good constitution, please be careful."

"Thank you, Bai Xue, I'll be careful." Xiao Bai smiled at Bai Xue, then looked at the thermos in Chang Chun's arms, "Chang Chun, what's in that thermos?"

"Ah... this is a drink that can cure all diseases..." Changchun said vaguely as he put the thermos back into his shoulder bag. "But... Admiral, you shouldn't drink it if you're not sick."

"Wow, that's amazing!" Xiaobai exclaimed.

"Haha..." Changchun nodded.

As Xiaobai was chatting with the destroyer, a feeling of something approaching suddenly rushed into his mind. Xiaobai turned his head and saw that the expressionless CV-16 had somehow appeared behind him.

"Huh? Mrs. Lie?" The four sisters, Changchun and Fubuki, were all surprised to see CV-16. The group of destroyers quickly stood up from their chairs, standing ramrod straight. They looked at CV-16's face with disbelief. "Why is Mrs. Lie here?"

“She’s not Lexington… oh, you could say that, but she’s not the Lexington currently in the naval base.” Xiaobai found the destroyer’s reaction amusing. “She’s CV-16, a ship girl I had Saratoga help build this morning.”

"CV-16?" The destroyers looked at Xiaobai with confusion.

"Okay, let's call it that for now," Xiaobai said. "Speaking of which, when I came back just now, CV16 was right behind me the whole time, didn't you guys see it?"

"Ah..." The destroyers were all embarrassed.

The destroyers see nothing but novice ships. As long as the CV-16 doesn't get too close to the novice, the playful destroyers won't even notice it.

Xiaobai arranged the empty bowls and chopsticks on the table, then stood up from her seat.

"cv16, is there something you need?" Xiaobai asked cv16.

cv16 shook his head.

"CV16, have you spoken to the ship girls at the naval base yet?" Xiaobai asked.

cv16 shook his head.

"Hmm..." Xiaobai pondered for a while. She looked at cv16 and then realized that cv16 didn't seem to be the type to talk much. If she was left alone, it seemed that she couldn't do anything except stand there.

Xiao Bai looked towards where cv16 had been standing.

Luo Lian and Nia were nowhere to be seen; only Warspite and Des Moines were chatting with the constellation. Saratoga had run quite a distance, hugging her shoulders and looking scared as she watched CV16 from afar.

— I guess it will take Saratoga a while to recover from the strange feeling he had about cv16.

Thinking about this, Xiaobai realized that he hadn't handled things well.

"CV-16, this is Changchun, this is Fubuki, Baixue, Chuxue, Shenxue." Thinking of this, Xiaobai pointed to her own destroyers and introduced them to CV-16 in turn.

Whenever Xiaobai introduces a destroyer, cv16 will nod slightly, indicating that she has remembered it.

After the initial misunderstanding, the destroyers quickly accepted CV16 as the ship girl.

After all, CV16 looks very similar to Lexington. Unless you're a ship girl with Lexington phobia like Saratoga, you'll have a pretty good initial impression of CV16.

As they were introducing themselves, rhythmic footsteps sounded behind Xiaobai.

Xiaobai turned around and saw Bismarck and Missouri, each carrying a vegetable basket, walking towards him.

"Admiral, you're back." Missouri greeted Xiaobai with a broad smile.

"Ah."

“The deep-sea metal has been moved. This is the merit card.” Bismarck walked up to Xiaobai, took out a credit card from his clothes, and handed it to Xiaobai.

After doing all this, Bismarck turned her attention to cv16 next to Little White.

Bismarck's gaze swept over cv16.

"Who is she?" After looking at her, Bismarck turned to Little White and asked.

"Ah, she's CV-16, the ship girl Saratoga built for me this morning," Shiro said to Bismarck. "She looks a lot like Lexington, doesn't she?"

“It doesn’t seem like it.” Bismarck shook his head.

"Huh?" Xiaobai was taken aback.

Bismarck nodded quite honestly, then extended his hand in front of cv16.

cv16 reached out and shook hands with Bismarck. Bismarck then picked up her basket, patted Little White's head, whispered "Treat her well," and went into the kitchen.

“…Uh, cv16, that’s Bismarck.” Bismarck’s behavior was a bit unexpected for Xiaobai, but she still pointed to Bismarck’s back and explained to cv16, “And this is Missouri.”

Missouri bowed to cv16 and said, "Greetings, senior."

“Missouri, you are her senior.” Little White said to Missouri.

Missouri smiled and did not refute Xiaobai's words.

After that, Xiaobai knocked on the door of her ship girl in the yard and introduced each of them to CV16. CV16 followed Xiaobai around like a little shadow, nodding slightly each time Xiaobai introduced her.

After a while, after introducing the existence of CV16 to all the ship girls, Nia and Luo Lian opened the door of the decompression room and came out.

Xiao Bai didn't know what had happened in their decompression room, but judging from Nia and Luo Lian's expressions, it seemed that they had reached a consensus in those few short moments, looking like best friends for life.

written request for leave

I really want to play games! ...

So I'll skip it for a day.

Chapter 695 The Goal, The Fourth Node

"Xiao Bai." After Nia and Luo Lian came out of the room, they headed straight for Xiao Bai.

"Lianlian, Nia, where did you go just now?" Xiaobai asked Luo Lian and Nia.

“Uh…” Nia paused for a moment when Xiaobai asked her the question, and stammered.

“Nia was just showing me around the room,” Luo Lian said to Xiao Bai.

"Oh, a tour of the rooms..." Xiaobai nodded, then quickly raised an eyebrow. "Huh? A tour of the rooms?"

"Okay." Luo Lian said to Xiao Bai, "I want to move in too."

"what?"

"Don't you like this?" Luo Lian asked Xiao Bai.

"No, no." Xiaobai quickly shook her head, put her hands together, and smiled at the two admirals in front of her, "It would be great if Lianlian could come and live with us too."

"Mm." Luo Lian smiled at Xiao Bai.

"Have you chosen where you want to stay?" Xiaobai asked Luo Lian while turning her gaze to the room Luo Lian and Nia had just left.

That room happened to be Nia's decompression room, and Xiaobai herself had never seen the interior decoration before.

Unexpectedly, Luo Lian was able to enter that room on her first meeting with Nia, which made Xiao Bai feel a little disappointed and envious.

"Lianlian, where are you going to stay?" Xiaobai asked, pointing to Nia's decompression room.

“No, I would die if I lived there,” Luo Lian replied calmly.

"Huh? Dead?" Xiaobai was taken aback.

Luo Lian nodded, not intending to continue the conversation: "I'll just pick any room nearby."

"Oh... what about your original yard?" Xiaobai asked. "Do you want to cancel the lease?"

"Let's not return it yet, let's leave it there. After all, there are still quite a few things in the yard, and I need to go back and check on them every now and then." Luo Lian shook her head.

It seems that Luo Lian still has a great deal of enthusiasm for modifying and building devices.

Xiao Bai turned around and looked at CV16 following behind him. CV16 came out of Luo Lian's improved construction device. Xiao Bai immediately felt that Luo Lian was very remarkable.

After speaking with Xiaobai, Luo Lian added that she was going back to get her luggage, and then left temporarily with Warspite and Des Moines.

Nia watched Luo Lian and the two ship girls disappear across the threshold, her eyes filled with mixed emotions.

"What does Nia think of Lianlian?" Xiaobai asked Nia.

"Ah? Yes, Miss Luo Lian is very capable, in every sense of the word," Nia said to Xiao Bai.

"Right? Lianlian is amazing." Xiaobai laughed.

"And... she's surprisingly serious in front of you too."

"serious?"

Nia didn't continue. She shook her head and said, "I'll go arrange rooms for Miss Luo Lian and her ship girls."

After Nia finished speaking, she went back to her room and retrieved a set of keys to the rooms in the courtyard.

Luo Lian acted very quickly. As soon as Nia took out her keys and prepared three rooms for Luo Lian, Luo Lian and the two ship girls rushed back.

"So fast?" Xiaobai was somewhat surprised by Luo Lian's speed.

"I saw a shop selling daily necessities on the way, so I bought some and came back," Luo Lian said.

Luo Lian accepted the three keys handed to her by Nia and led her ship girls to the room arranged by Nia.

After a while, Luo Lian walked out of the room and calmly approached Xiao Bai and Nia: "It's all done."

The three people stood together in a triangle, each with one or two of their own ship girls behind them. After the conversation ended, a subtle silence fell over the scene for a short time.

After an awkward silence, Xiaobai brought up the subject: "By the way, I haven't asked yet, Lianlian, how are your Warspite and Des Moines' training progressing?"

"Level of training?" Luo Lian nodded, then turned to look at the two ship girls standing behind her. "What level of training are you again?"

Warspite pursed his lips, looking distressed: "...Level seventeen or eighteen, I guess."

Des Moines smiled happily: "I've never been on the battlefield before, Admiral."

Xiao Bai and Nia looked at Luo Lian with expressions of disbelief on their faces.

Des Moines is understandable, since Luo Lian had just created her a few days ago, and Luo Lian had been busy with the construction equipment, so she naturally didn't have time to level up this new ship girl. But Warspite is a different story.

Warspite is a ship girl who has been with Luo Lian for a long time. She accompanied Luo Lian through the autumn event and even got second place with her, and cleared the first chapter. However, Warspite said that she only has a level of ten or so.

That's way too low.

Sensing the gazes of Xiaobai and Nia, Warspite's face flushed red. She lowered her head in embarrassment, looking ashamed to be seen by anyone.

"So low?" Luo Lian said to Warspite with an expression that she herself was also finding out for the first time.

"Whose fault is this?!" Warspite nearly popped her eyes out when she heard Luo Lian's words. She slapped Luo Lian's shoulder several times. "During the Autumn Event, Admiral, you wouldn't let me fight in the Abyss. When I went to sea, I was just a scout. I was basically slacking off the whole time. After returning to the naval base, there were no opportunities for training. When the first chapter came out, Admiral, you were obsessed with teaming up. I finally got to fight in the Abyss, but you became the captain and gave all the work to the other ship girls. I didn't get a chance to fight. You cleared the fourth node after only one or two sea runs. I'm so desperate!"

"Isn't it good to slack off?"

"I want to fight the Deep Sea!" Warspite spoke his true feelings.

Luo Lian squinted and obediently endured the blows to her shoulder from the War-weary soldiers, falling into deep thought.