Elder brother's garrison

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Xiao Bai's Admiral Network was placed on the old man's forehead, gradually spreading out along the center of his brow, sensing the old man's mental state.

Little White closed its eyes.

block.

block.

block.

block.

block……

Brush it.

Xiaobai retracted his admiral network and quickly opened his eyes.

Wow!

Although the flow of spiritual energy within this old man's body was like a tattered, cluttered net, with no way out, there was no doubt that spiritual energy did exist within his body!

He was once a commander!

Chapter 1298 Comparison is the thief of joy

"hiss----"

Just after Xiaobai withdrew his admiral network, he seemed to feel a slight touch of mental energy. The old man, who had been in a coma since the beginning, suddenly jolted open his eyes as if he had stepped on an electric shock.

The old man quickly sat up between Xiaobai and Jinghua.

"Ha...you are..." The old man was covered in sweat, panting heavily as he looked at the ship girls in front of him.

"Teacher!! You're finally awake!!" Before the old man could finish speaking, Jinghua, with tears in her voice, rushed into his arms, hugged his waist tightly, and rubbed her little face against his chest. "Teacher, you looked so scary lying on the ground just now!"

"Jinghua?" The old man looked at Jinghua in surprise as she rushed into his arms. He subconsciously raised his hand and stroked Jinghua's head with her hair before his expression gradually calmed down. "Phew...you little rascal...where have you been these past two days?"

"Teacher! Teacher, listen to me!" Jinghua heard the old man's words and finally remembered Xiaobai and the others. She stood up from the old man's arms and excitedly pointed to Xiaobai and the ship girls beside her. "Teacher, I went and asked that very powerful ship girl from the naval base you mentioned to come over! They said they would help us solve our village's problems!"

"Hmm?" The old man turned his head in surprise after hearing Jinghua's words and looked at Xiaobai beside him.

"Um... hello grandpa." Xiaobai smiled at the old man. "My surname is Lu, and I am the admiral of the rookie naval base."

"Newbie Naval Base... Newbie Naval Base..." After listening to Xiaobai's words, the old man muttered a few words in a low voice, then lowered his head and pondered for a while in a daze. Afterwards, he raised his head and stared at Xiaobai's face carefully, looking at it again and again.

Xiao Bai felt a little embarrassed by the old man's gaze, and she shrank her shoulders.

"Um...sir, is my face strange...?"

"The admiral of a newbie naval base... shouldn't the admiral of a newbie naval base be a young man?" The old man opened his mouth, then looked at Xiaobai with some confusion and said, "Hmm, although he does have the surname Lu... but... could I be mistaken..."

“…Ah.” Xiaobai blinked, then lowered her head and forced a smile. “Grandpa, you’re talking about…the previous admiral of the rookie naval base, right…”

"Hmm? Then, what about the previous admiral?!" The old man was taken aback when he heard Xiaobai's words, and then looked at Xiaobai with a slightly excited expression.

"...He has passed away." Xiaobai bowed slightly to the old man. "The previous admiral was my brother, named Lu Yun. My name is Lu Lin. I am the current admiral of the rookie naval base, helping my brother to continue taking care of it."

“He’s passed away…” The old man stared blankly at Xiaobai.

"Ah."

"...Oh...oh." The old man nodded, somewhat bewildered, then silently stood up from the floor. "Thank you for telling me, little girl."

"Um... it seems like you know my brother, grandpa..."

"We've only met once, nothing more." The old man nodded, then sighed deeply. His eyes, filled with an unusually complex expression, stared at Xiaobai. "Were you... hired by Jinghua?"

"...Didn't you send Jinghua to find us, Grandpa?" Xiaobai was puzzled by the old man's question.

“Kyouka is just a child, how could I let such a child go out on errands…” The old man revealed a helpless and weathered expression, “Although I did talk about your garrison in front of Kyouka, I never let Kyouka leave the house…”

After listening to the old man's words, Xiao Bai subconsciously glanced at Jinghua.

Jinghua shrank back in fright, took a few steps back, and hid behind the old man.

"……"noob.

Ok.

I feel like I roughly understand what happened.

Xiao Bai smiled at Jing Hua, who was hiding behind the old man, only showing her head, looking at her with a mixture of shame and hope.

"In short, although you didn't ask Jinghua to come and find us, we did accept Jinghua's request. Please rest assured and leave all the issues in the sea area around this village to me."

Xiao Bai patted his chest at the old man and said confidently.

The old man stared at Xiaobai's confident, energetic smile for a long time before tilting his head and glancing at the open doorway, at the waterway with a few lights visible in the distance.

"I see..." The old man sighed with mixed feelings. He bent down and picked up the bowl of soup from the ground. "Speaking of which... you fed me this soup just now, didn't you?"

“It was fed by Missouri.” Little White pointed to Missouri.

The old man looked at Missouri, nodded to her, and whispered his thanks before turning back to Little White.

"Admiral Lu... could you spare a little time?"

"Sure, grandpa, what can I do for you?"

"You and your ship girl haven't found a place to stay yet, have you? Go out and turn right into three alleys. There's the only small inn in this village. It's not great, but it's the only place for travelers to stay." The old man pointed outside. "Why don't you have your ship girl arrange a few rooms first, and then we can talk privately?"

"Hmm..." Xiaobai blinked, exchanged a glance with Missouri, then looked at the old man and nodded, "Sure."

The old woman showed a slightly relieved expression. She sincerely thanked Xiaobai, then turned her head and spoke to Jinghua beside her.

"Kyoka, quickly take those ship girls to the inn."

"Okay!" Jinghua nodded quickly, then grabbed Missouri's hand. "Sister, come with me!"

After exchanging glances with Shiro, the ship girls, including Missouri, silently followed Kyoka out of the room and closed the door.

After Missouri and the others left.

The old man finally breathed a sigh of relief, as if a huge burden had been lifted from his shoulders.

"Admiral Lu, thank you... With ship girls around, I do feel a little uncomfortable..." The old man smiled apologetically at Xiaobai.

"Grandpa, you don't like ship girls?"

"No, no... I have great respect for ship girls." The old man quickly waved his hand and forced a smile. "It's just my personal affectation... just consider it a strange habit of someone who's halfway to the grave."

"I see." Xiaobai nodded.

"Admiral Lu, please have a seat." The old man pointed to the stools in the room, then dragged his somewhat slow steps toward another stool.

"Speaking of which, Grandpa, when you were unconscious just now, well, due to some unavoidable circumstances, I used my mental power to briefly check your body." Xiaobai sat down on the stool and spoke to the old man's back. "Um... if I'm not mistaken, Grandpa, you should also be a Grand Admiral who has activated the Grand Admiral Network, right?"

The old man's back suddenly stopped.

"...I knew she woke up so quickly this time..." The old man shook his head, muttering as if sighing, then turned to Xiaobai and smiled, "Little girl, you're really clever... But now, I'm just a stinky old man teaching in a small village..."

"I knew it..." Xiaobai covered his mouth. "Grandpa, are you a retired admiral?"

"There's nothing to say about this old man's affairs, really nothing to say." The old man didn't answer Xiaobai's question. He just shook his head, then turned around and sat down on the stool, letting out a sigh of relief. "If you really want to talk, young lady, you might as well talk about my student Jinghua."

"Oh, is that so? Then I'll gladly accept!" Xiaobai's eyes lit up, and she put her hands together. "Grandpa, Jinghua said she lives with you, is that true?"

“It’s true.” The old man nodded. “Jinghua… lost her parents when she was very young, so I adopted her and taught her to recognize some characters and read books.”

"Jinghua is very sensible and kind. Grandpa, you've raised a wonderful student," Xiaobai said with a smile to the old man.

The old man's lips curled into a smile, but he quickly closed it again.

“That brat…” The old man shook his head. “If it were before, you could say she was sensible, but now, no. A few days ago, I was a bit worried about things at sea, and this girl came to comfort me. She’s still young, so I didn’t hide too much from her. She asked me a lot of questions, and then she disappeared the next day.”

At this point, the old man pointed to Little White.

"I never expected that this girl would actually invite you all here..."

"..." Xiao Bai scratched his head, "Wherever there is trouble, there we are... Speaking of which, Grandpa, have you been looking for the Mirror Flower these past few days?"

“How come you see?”

"You've been so busy looking for Jinghua that you haven't even had time to take your medicine..."

The old man did not reply.

“Since Jinghua has brought you here… that’s naturally a good thing…” The old man coughed lightly twice, turned around, took out a thick stack of calculation papers from behind him, and slowly handed them to Xiaobai. “Admiral Lu, please take a look at this.”

Xiao Bai quickly reached out and took the papers from the old man's hand.

Xiao Bai looked down.

These papers were all neatly arranged calculation sheets, filled with various calculation procedures. Xiaobai flipped through the last few pages and found that in addition to the calculation steps, there were also many field investigations of the marine conditions, which were basically related to water quality and the underwater ecological environment.

"Excuse me, what is this...?"

"This is my investigation of the sea area over the past few days," the old man said. "I don't know if my calculations are correct, but since it concerns the lives of the people here, I have done my best... My investigation results show that there is indeed a deep-sea aura in this area."

“…Ah.” Xiaobai was stunned. “These are the steps you took to prove, Grandpa, that the safe sea area has been polluted?”

"Hmm." The old man coughed softly. "Sea area surveys take a lot of time. If Admiral Lu doesn't mind, I'll give you this sea area report... I hope it can help you in assessing the sea situation."

"Uh... Oh..." Xiaobai nodded.

The sea is changing...

That's true. Before the intensity of deep-sea activity reaches a level visible to the naked eye, ordinary human senses alone cannot perceive changes in the ocean. To draw concrete conclusions, we need to do what this old man did: collect data from various locations and gather on-site reports, organize and consolidate multiple pieces of information, and then perform extensive calculations to finally arrive at a data-driven conclusion.

This is also the method that admirals usually use to judge marine pollution.

--only.

Although this is the truth.

However, Xiaobai is different from ordinary admirals. The admiral network that Xiaobai possesses is far more powerful than that of ordinary admirals. Xiaobai can easily discern the deep-sea atmosphere within the sea area with just a glance, relying solely on his admiral network...

Xiao Bai silently closed the calculation paper in her hand.

He looked up at the old man who was gazing at him with hopeful eyes.

"Admiral Lu...look..."

"Uh, um! Grandpa, you wrote so well... This will be very useful to me!" Xiaobai nodded.

Anyway.

I feel like a newbie.

I'd better not discourage this old man.

Zhang Tui

After maxing out the favorability rating

After maxing out the affection levels of all the romanceable characters in the Xianxia MMORPG "Shangyang," Liu Yuan transmigrated.

Thus, the greatest and most heinous swindler in the history of the Shangyang Realm, and the most unparalleled Casanova of all time—

born.

It's a really good book, and it even seems to have started a trend recently.

Just enjoy it and that's all that matters.

Chapter 1299 Someone Behind Us

"I'm glad I could help Admiral Lu..."

"I will read your sea area report carefully, sir." After saying that, Xiaobai carefully put away the manuscript she had received from the old man in front of him.

The old man watched silently as Xiaobai put his manuscript away, a look of relief appearing in his eyes.

"Well, that's all I have to say, old man. I'm really sorry to have taken up your time, Admiral Lu. It's getting late, so let's talk about other things tomorrow. Now, Admiral Lu, go and go rest with your ship girls."

After speaking to Xiaobai, the old man dragged himself up from the stool and slowly moved a few steps toward the bedside.

"It didn't take up much of my time, actually." Xiaobai smiled at the old man's back. She stood up from the stool and was about to leave when a thought suddenly struck her. She exclaimed to the old man, "Oh, right, Grandpa!"

The old man stopped moving.

The old man turned around.

"Is there something you need, Admiral Lu?"

“Grandpa, when I examined you just now, I found that there seems to be a problem with your spiritual energy. It’s possible that your illness is caused by that blocked spiritual energy.” Xiao Bai said to the old man. “Well, if you trust me, I’m quite good at solving problems related to spiritual energy…maybe I can cure your illness.”

After Xiaobai finished speaking, he waited for the old man's reply.