Elder brother's garrison

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"Thank you," Muna Hana said softly.

Konohana remained calm. Although she didn't appear as warm and amiable as before, she had at least put on a symbolic smile since she was out in public.

Xiao Bai felt a little uneasy.

Several rows of doctors in white coats were waiting for Munaihua in the hospital.

"Mrs. Mu, I'm so sorry for not greeting you sooner!" A doctor stepped out from the crowd and greeted Munaihua warmly.

"Hello." Konohana smiled at the person in front of her, as if nothing had happened. "May I ask how my father is doing lately?"

"The old man is in good health. He has almost recovered from the emotional shock he suffered last time. However... after all, he is quite old. After all these days of stress, his body still needs some rest. He can be discharged from the hospital within a week."

"That's great, thank you doctor." Muna Hana smiled. "Could you take me to see a doctor?"

"Sure, but the old man just fell asleep..."

"It's alright, just take a look."

The doctors led Munaihua, Shiro, and the others up the stairs to the top floor.

On the way, Mu Naihua chatted with the doctor about Grandpa Mu's condition, occasionally mentioning the issue of visiting him that morning. However, the doctor didn't mention Mu Yu or General Mu, presumably because those two really hadn't been to the hospital.

There were no patients on the top floor. At the end of the corridor was a separate room, with several people and ship girls standing around it. After seeing Konohana, one of the ship girls took out a key from her ship equipment space and opened the door.

A slight sound was heard, and the door opened, revealing a simple and unpretentious single room at the back.

Muna and President Er Gou went inside, while Xiao Bai, Luo Lian, and the ship girls stayed outside.

The door was far from the bed, and Xiaobai couldn't see anyone in the room.

Out of curiosity about the so-called number one person in the Mu family, and wanting to see what kind of extraordinary abilities this person possessed, she carefully activated her Admiral Network and spread it into the room.

Xiaobai's network of admirals is extremely large. With a mental strength that absolutely crushes others, not only can it be used without the ship girls and admirals noticing it, but it can even be used as eyes.

Xiaobai's admiral network spread out, slowly passing through Muna's body, touching the bed, and then sensing the old man who was taking a nap on the bed.

The person on the bed was a fairly ordinary old man, with an IV drip in one hand, wearing a hospital gown and covered with a clean white sheet. Nothing special.

Muna sat down beside the bed, quietly watching the old man without saying a word.

Having satisfied her curiosity, Xiaobai lost interest in spying on others and slowly withdrew from her admiral network.

The Admiral's Network slowly flew back from inside the house, passing over the body of Chairman Er Gou behind Muna Hana.

President Er Gou opened his eyes and glanced at Xiao Bai in front of the door.

Startled, Xiaobai hurriedly put away the Admiral's Network.

—I almost forgot, Chairman Er Gou is the admiral of the world's second-largest naval base.

She must also have a powerful admiral network. Since Xiaobai's admiral network cannot overwhelm her by a thousandfold advantage, there is no way to make the admiral network invisible to Guild Leader Ergou.

President Er Gou looked at Xiao Bai, who was standing at the door with his head down and his face flushed, and smiled slightly without saying anything.

Perhaps Grandpa Mu was still taking a nap and there was nothing to talk about.

Or perhaps Mu Naihua was gauging Mu Yu and General Mu's feelings, because within a few minutes, Chairman Er Gou and Mu Naihua came out of the room.

After saying goodbye to the enthusiastic doctor, Muna and President Er Gou left the hospital with Xiao Bai, and the group got into the car and drove away slowly.

"From today onwards, you will continue to live with me."

Inside the carriage, Muna asked Chairman Er Gou a question.

"Oh." President Er Gou nodded, glancing at Mu Naihua. "What are you thinking about?"

After returning to the car, Konohana's perfect smile crumbled, and she leaned against the car window, looking lost in thought.

"I wonder what they'll ask of me," Monica murmured.

"Hmm... a thousand construction units?"

Are they, father and son, worth that price?

"It's worth it! The Pacific Governor position is a very lucrative one!" Chairman Er Gou slapped his thigh.

Muna glanced at President Er Gou, pursed her lips, and forced a smile: "Thank you."

"I'm not making this up. These two are living people, after all. That brat is someone of some standing. Let alone a thousand units, even ten thousand..." said Chairman Er Gou.

"What if they want the factory?"

"Incredible! You dare to give them the factory? Would they dare to take it?"

"What if they want me to destroy those factories?"

Muna asked.

"..."

President Er Gou remained silent.

The value of a governor to human society is indeed far greater than that of any number of inanimate objects such as construction equipment.

But what if we compare the governor to a factory that produces and builds equipment in an endless stream?

That's hard to say.

After all, this factory is not just a simple iron building.

A factory, in fact, also includes a large number of workers with rich and skilled work experience, complete equipment, abundant building material resources, established production lines, material imports, and so on.

Every minute, every second, the value produced in the factory flows into society, creating all sorts of snowballs.

“Without the production line, the supply of construction equipment will stop within two weeks at most, and it will take at least three months for the production line to be repaired,” Muna said. “In those two months and two weeks, the price of any existing construction equipment will increase a hundredfold.”

"..."

"The economic losses are certainly severe, but because of this, even the appointment of new admirals will be delayed, and the repair requests submitted by veteran admirals will be shelved. Many remote coastlines will not be able to replenish their ship girls because the construction equipment cannot be updated in time, thus creating the hidden danger of deep-sea invasion in safe waters and causing a bad social impact... Ultimately, it will affect the image and reputation of admirals and ship girls in human society, and what will become of our home then?"

"..."

"...Nai-ka." Konohana turned her head, smiling faintly, and asked President Er Gou, "Do you think...that father and son are worth this price?"

Munai's words silenced everyone in the carriage.

Muna didn't press the Second Dog Chairman for answers, but instead turned to look out the window.

The car continued driving quietly along the mountain road toward the villa. Along the winding mountain road, hundreds of feet below the fence, were lush, tall tree branches.

Konohana rolled down the window and expressionlessly threw her phone out the window. The mountain wind rushed in from outside and slapped Konohana's face hard.

Muna looked out the window at the sky. Strands of black hair at her temples danced in the wind.

"So, we shouldn't have agreed," Monica muttered as she rolled up the window. "Even if it wasn't this time, once a precedent is set, there will be a next time, and the next, and again and again... Someday, sooner or later..."

"The Mu family has hundreds of thousands of members..."

Muna Hana murmured to herself, her expression somewhat bewildered. She looked at President Er Gou and asked, "Naiko, do you think I'll agree to their offer?"

"Probably." President Er Gou nodded.

"why?"

"If you really weren't going to agree to their terms, why did you throw your phone away?"

“Oh…” Munai nodded, “But that would harm the Mu family.”

"Yes, that's right." President Er Gou nodded.

"Then why...did I agree to their request...?"

"Who told them to be your son and husband?" President Er Gou shrugged and said indifferently.

Muna Hana raised her head in confusion, looking at President Er Gou.

Aren't you going to try to persuade me?

"I told you, smart people know when to be cheeky and when not to be cheeky."

"...But this is for the good of the Mu family."

"I told you, I'm afraid you'll cry." Guild Master Er Gou sighed. "I've been afraid of you because of this since I was a child."

"..." Muna Flower looked quietly at President Er Gou, then looked past him and at Xiao Bai and the others on the other side.

Xiao Bai sat there, holding Luo Lian's hand nervously.

Luo Lian, standing beside Xiao Bai, was completely oblivious to what was happening around her. After Xiao Bai nervously grasped Luo Lian's hand, Luo Lian remained beaming with delighted excitement, happily staring at Xiao Bai's profile. She wore an expression of fervent joy, as if the world had ended and she could find a god to create another one—an expression of fervent hope that Xiao Bai had missed and would never have again.

Missouri wore a faint smile, as if to say that as long as she was by her side, she would never worry.

Kaga sat upright on the far side, his expression very serious and rigid, but his gaze was fixed, and one look at him revealed that he was in a daze.

"Pfft." Konohana covered her mouth and burst out laughing.

"Hey!! That's too much! I finally managed to deliver a heartfelt speech that made sense from beginning to end, and you just burst out laughing!!!??" Insulted by Konoka's laughter and feeling that his performance had been flawed, President Er Gou naturally had no idea what Konoka had been thinking.

"I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry..." Konohana covered her mouth, her thin shoulders trembling as she tried to hold back her laughter, "One...one more time..."

"Screw your Merry Christmas!" President Er Gou slapped Munai's thigh hard. "You think I'd just repeat myself like that? Wouldn't that be incredibly embarrassing for me?"

"Hahahaha————" Konohana even put her hands down and started laughing.

President Er Gou frowned as he watched Mu Naihua burst into inexplicable laughter. After a while, he lost the will to scold her and could only mutter "crazy" under his breath before ignoring her.

Muna laughed alone in the car for a long time.

Finally, the car drove smoothly back to the villa.

After a routine check of the SUVs around the villa, Muna and Shiro, having finally had their fill of laughter, got out of the car and entered the villa.

Inside the villa, the living room, which had been filled with relatives and friends that morning, had long since left. As Xiaobai entered, the house felt empty and deserted; there were no servants, no pets. The surroundings seemed very desolate.

"There are plenty of rooms available, and they're always cleaned, so please don't mind. Just choose any one to stay in," Konohana said with a friendly smile as they entered the room.

Monica seems to have figured something out, and has regained the peaceful demeanor she had when Shiro first met her.

Xiaobai was a little worried.

"Sister Bai." Seeing the worry on Xiaobai's face, Muna Hana reached out and patted Xiaobai's head. "Thank you, Sister Bai. It was very important to me that you found out about their disappearance so early. I was in a bad mood outside, but now that I'm back, I want to thank you again."

"Ah, um... even if I didn't say anything, you'd find out about this after we got to the hospital, Nono-neechan..."

"Thank you anyway, at least it prepared me mentally." Muna Hana said to Shiro with a smile, "I'm fine now, go and choose a room from the others."

"..." Xiao Bai looked at Mu Naihua's face, and then left with Luo Lian with some worry.

Xiaobai is actually in a rather awkward position right now.

Although Xiao Bai didn't have a good impression of Mu Yu, Mu Yu had helped him before. Now that Mu Yu, the lazy governor, had been kidnapped, Xiao Bai wouldn't be too resistant to using the power of the Deep Sea Will if he could do his part to save him.

However, Mu Yu and General Mu are human.

The Deep Sea Will's detection ability is only effective against ship girls and Deep Sea Abyssal Ships. Humans are ineffective against it. If Xiaobai wants to rely on the Deep Sea Will to find humans in the city, she must be extremely familiar with the human's aura.

Take Luo Lian for example. From the moment they met, Xiao Bai had always been with Luo Lian. They liked to sleep together and go for a run together, so they knew each other inside and out. Xiao Bai even remembered how many moles Luo Lian had, how many marks were on her neck, and how many eyelashes she had, not to mention her scent. Therefore, if Xiao Bai wanted to find Mu Yu, she had to know Mu Yu just as well.

However, even though the book has already reached 250 million words, Xiaobai has never actively touched Muyu even once.

Therefore, even if Xiaobai uses the power of the Deep Sea Will to search, he will not be able to find Mu Yu at this stage.

Munao watched with a smile as Xiaobai and Luolian walked up to the second floor of the villa and moved back and forth between the rooms before turning around to look behind her.

President Er Gou stood behind Muna Hana with an indifferent expression.

"Naige, aren't you going?" Muna asked.

"You practically have 'staynight' written all over your face," said President Er Gou, shrugging his shoulders.

"As expected of my sister, nothing can be hidden from you."

Where should we talk?

"Let's use the living room." Konohana glanced at the little girls darting around on the second floor and smiled contentedly.

The two entered the living room, and President Er Gou closed the living room door behind him.

“Before, when I heard Mu Yu say that he wanted to bring his sister over to be the admiral, I actually refused.” After entering the living room, Mu Naihua smiled at Chairman Er Gou, “I thought at the time that it was too ridiculous to just hand over such an important position as admiral and such an important thing as the world’s number one naval base to a naive young girl.”

"And now?" President Er Gou seemed somewhat interested in what Mu Nai Ge had to say.

"Now I think it's fine this way," Konohana said. "Perhaps pure children are more suitable to get along with ship girls than dirty adults..."

"Oh haha."

"What do you think?"