Elder brother's garrison

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"Huh? Sister Nanxing is going too?"

“Well, I know a little about photography…maybe it will come in handy,” Nanxing said.

“Oh…” Xiaobai looked at Nanxing’s expression, nodded, and then looked at Chao Yahe, “Then Chao Yahe, you…”

"I'm not resting! I'm going, I'm going too," Chao Yamato said immediately.

"Chao Da and Sister, Admiral Nanxing, thank you—" Jinan said pitifully to his two older sisters.

Nanxing didn't say anything, but reached out and ruffled Jinan's hair. After feeling the texture of her fox ears, which were like those of a plush pet, Nanxing paused for a moment, and then ruffled them a couple more times.

Nanxing withdrew her hand and stared at her palm for a while.

Xiao Bai and his two companions left the garrison with Jinan.

Her memories of Jinan seemed quite good. As soon as she stepped out, she led Xiaobai and Nanxing straight in one direction. They returned to Shenzhen and wandered through the streets and alleys, amidst the bustling crowds. Throughout this journey, Jinan's pace never faltered even for a moment.

This saved Xiaobai a lot of trouble—if Jinan hadn't remembered where the shop that tricked her was, Xiaobai would probably have had to ask Deep Sea Will to look for it in Jinan's memory fragments.

After a while, Jinan led Xiaobai and the other two to a stop at the entrance of a not-so-busy alley. She pointed to the thick willow trees growing horizontally in the alley and a shop sandwiched between two old willow trees, and kept talking to Xiaobai.

"Admiral, that's it!"

"Let me see..." Xiaobai followed Jinan's gaze.

Instead of approaching the shop, the group stood at a distance under a stream and observed.

The shop in the distance wasn't big or new; it was just a whitish, roughly renovated abandoned store.

Behind the transparent glass door were neatly arranged transparent display cases. Near the display cases leaned seven or eight men with rough, dark skin, varying builds but all around the same age of forty or fifty. They were wearing black shirts and jeans, and each held a car key in their hand. The men chatted casually, with roguish smiles on their faces, and they played with their car keys, turning them over and over and tapping them on the glass display case.

Perhaps due to preconceived notions, Xiaobai felt inexplicably uncomfortable looking at them from afar.

Xiao Bai withdrew his gaze, glanced a few more times at the super big and Nanxing beside him, and his mood improved considerably.

"Were those people in the store when you came last time?" Xiaobai asked Jinan.

"Yes, there are a few!" Jinan nodded, but then shook her head and added, "However, there are more people now!"

“There are more…” Xiaobai murmured, then nodded and said, “Okay…”

"Should we call the police?" Nanxing asked.

“Well… there’s no need to rush.” Xiaobai shook her head and looked at the people inside the glass door. She said slowly, “I’ve seen how police work. They have to handle a lot of things every day. For this level of fraud, it takes some time before the police can respond.”

"Then what do you mean..."

"..." Xiaobai smiled slightly at Nanxing, then glanced at Jinan, "Jinan, you go in and ask first."

"Me?" Jinan pointed to himself. "Am I the only one?"

"Ah."

"Then, what should I say?"

"Just say whatever you want to say."

"..."

"Just say a few words to them, and then you can come out," Xiaobai said with a smile. "Oh... right, no matter what they say to you, remember not to take it to heart, and don't be the first to make a move."

"……oh……"

Although Jinan didn't understand what Xiaobai meant, she nodded, let go of Xiaobai's hand, and walked into the shop in the distance.

Xiao Bai and the others stood under the willow tree in the distance, watching Jinan walk into the shop.

As Jinan approached the shop, her suppressed anger flared up, and she stormed into the shop with increasing force.

Xiao Bai watched from afar as Jinan spoke to the men inside the shop. The men seemed to burst into laughter. Then, a group of people said something to Jinan, who visibly blushed with anger and clenched her fists as if preparing to teach these people a lesson.

But just as she was about to have an attack, Jinan seemed to remember Xiaobai's words. She gritted her teeth and ran out amidst the men's laughter, running all the way to the willow tree where Xiaobai and the others were in the distance, and threw herself into Xiaobai's arms.

"I'm so angry, so angry, Admiral, I'm so angry!!!" Jinan kept rubbing against Xiaobai, saying angrily.

"What did they say?"

"They said I had no evidence, so I should be taught a lesson. They even called me a shorty and told me to go home and find my mom to nurse!" Jinan gritted her teeth in anger. "I told them I didn't have a mother, and they laughed at me!!!"

Chapter 3685 Little White's Great Adventure

"How could those people say such things? It's so vulgar..." Xiaobai muttered softly. She gently stroked Jinan's head and comforted her tenderly, "It's okay, Jinan, don't take their words to heart."

"Admiral, I'm so angry!" Jinan hugged her, pouting, looking like she was about to burst into a chimney of anger.

Jinan has never suffered such humiliation in its entire life.

I was scammed again, and when I went to confront them, they not only didn't feel guilty, but also mocked me.

Jinan at the time really wanted to pull out its own missile launcher and flatten this shop!

—But unfortunately, it can't be taken out.

—Not at least not now.

"Thank you for your hard work just now. Leave the rest to us." Xiaobai patted Jinan on the shoulder and said with a smile.

"Hmm..." Jinan felt Xiaobai's touch, lowered his head and nodded, his angry emotions calming down.

Xiao Bai withdrew her hand and looked at the shop in the distance.

Xiao Bai carefully observed the shop's signboard.

The shop's signboard is as simple as its interior design, even rudimentary. To a novice, the signboard is simply a blue background with a line of fancy lettering that comes with a Word document, and it reads "Image World Secondhand Trading Shop".

The sheer amount of knock-off vibes is overwhelming...

Xiao Bai looked at the doorplate and smiled helplessly.

It's estimated that only a naive ship girl like Jinan would run into a shop like this. Anyone with even a basic understanding of human society would not think that such an unreliable shop is a place to go.

Xiao Bai glanced at Jinan.

"Admiral, why are you looking at me like that?" Jinan felt a little awkward when he felt Xiaobai's gaze.

"It's nothing," Xiaobai shook her head.

Xiaobai just asked Jinan to go in and argue with someone, mainly to test the attitude of the shop's staff.

If even a one percent or one ten-thousandth chance of the shop assistants admitting their mistake and returning the money to her in Jinan were to occur, Xiaobai would be willing to accept it as a series of coincidences leading to a beautiful misunderstanding.

However... while ideals are beautiful, reality is often harsh.

The truth is, when Jinan went to the store a second time, not only did she not receive the staff's forgiveness, but she was also cruelly ridiculed and kicked out by the smug staff. This result proves that the store is indeed a shady business; they've come clean and are no longer pretending. They admit that what they did to Jinan was indeed a scam, and to prevent Jinan from causing trouble, they even brought out a few more staff members, emphasizing that they are incorrigible.

Ugh……

Thinking of this, Xiaobai reached up to touch her forehead and shook her head.

They were given a chance, but they didn't appreciate it.

What happened next was not Xiaobai's fault.

"Admiral, should we charge in?" Super Yamato looked at Shiro, raised an eyebrow, and asked in a low voice, "If it's just a few humans, I can win without using my deep-sea aura."

“How could we be the ones to start this?” Xiaobai shook her head and said to Chaodahe and Nanxing, “Sister Nanxing, Chaodahe, you two stay here with Jinan. I’ll go over there by myself.”

"Admiral, are you alone?" Chao Yamato was taken aback.

“Yes.” Xiaobai nodded.

"Are you going to smash up the store by yourself?" Super Large and blinking.

"...When did I say I was going to smash up the store?" Xiao Bai smiled. "I'm just going to check it out, just like I did in Jinan."

“Then, then I’ll go too…” Chao Dahe said.

"Forget about you." Xiaobai looked at Chao Yamato's face and body and said, "Chao Yamato, you don't look like someone who's easy to bully. What if they see you and don't dare to attack me?"

"...Uh." Chao Yamato's mood immediately plummeted.

Xiao Bai smiled and waved to the two of them before turning and walking towards the shop.

The willow tree where Xiaobai and the other three were standing was not very close to the "Image World Secondhand Trading Store".

Perhaps because the little girl from Jinan looked completely harmless, the people in the shop didn't chase after her to check on her after they kicked her out.

So Xiaobai strolled along slowly by herself. When she reached the shop, she could see the men inside chatting happily, their unrestrained laughter rising and falling continuously.

Through the transparent door, the sounds inside were not very clear; they just seemed to be buzzing like insects chirping.

Xiaobai secretly used her ship girl-level hearing, and soon, the conversation inside the house became crystal clear.

"..."

"Haha, that little girl is really funny. After being scammed, she still stupidly came all the way here to ask for her money back."

"That's it!"

"Brother Li did a great job! You made a small profit from this barbecue order, and you can treat us guys to a nice massage!"

"Go away, go away, this little bit of money is nothing, just a few tens of thousands of yuan. That girl seems to come from a well-off family, I feel like we didn't scam her enough."

"It's because she comes from a wealthy family. Ordinary families can't raise such a fair-skinned little girl. Look, when we were talking to her just now, she was so angry that she couldn't even say the words to curse us, hahaha!"

"Her family is very rich. What ordinary family would give so much money to such a young child?"

"Yeah, I called a few of my buddies over today because I was worried she'd go home to her parents or relatives, but I didn't expect her to dare come alone!"

"We guys were too impulsive. If you ask me, we should have squeezed more money out of her."

"Hahaha! Yes!"

"..."

The men in the shop were talking and laughing, with several burnt-out cigarette butts stuck in the ashtrays in front of them. Even though Xiaobai was standing outside the door, he could feel that the room was filled with a suffocating smell.

Xiaobai closed her eyes, calmed herself down, stopped the power of the ship's equipment, and then took a deep breath.

She raised her hand and gently knocked on the door.

dong dong dong.

Xiao Bai's knocking sound entered the house, but was drowned out by the men's laughter and conversation.

Xiaobai looked at the man in the room, then raised her hand and knocked on the door again.

The crisp knocking sounded again, but it was drowned out by the noise. However, this time it seemed to be lucky. A man in the shop was about to flick his cigarette ash when his gaze drifted to the transparent door and he saw Xiaobai's figure.

"Yo!"

The shop assistant's eyes lit up immediately when she saw the little white car outside the door.

The clerk quickly put down his cigarette, nudged the person next to him, pointed towards the door, and excitedly began to speak.

Without using her ship girl powers, Xiaobai couldn't hear their voices at all through the glass door.

But just by reading the lip movements, Xiaobai could tell that the employee who noticed him pointing at him was saying to the others in just four words: "Another one."

Xiao Bai lowered her eyebrows slightly.

Ultimately, the people that fraud gangs like to target most are the elderly, the young, the sick, and the disabled. In Jinan, it was precisely because the girl looked too innocent and human-like, and she didn't hide any of her money, that she fell into their trap.

—Isn't it a coincidence? Xiaobai's build, at least in terms of height, is actually quite similar to Jinan's. The two of them look like girls of the same age, and both appear to be from wealthy families. So if this group would target Jinan, there's no reason they wouldn't target Xiaobai as well.

Who would complain about having too much money?

They just closed a deal in Jinan this morning, and their hands are still hot.

While Xiaobai was looking down, the glass door in front of her creaked open.

"Oh, welcome, esteemed guest!" A man dressed as a shop assistant greeted Xiaobai with a warm smile as he opened the door. "Miss, how may I help you?"

"Hello." Xiaobai looked up and spoke to the shop assistant, "I'm here to buy something."

"Oh, guess what? We just happen to sell things here." The shop assistant smiled happily and turned to walk into the store. "Come in, come in, little customer, feel free to pick anything you like. Our store offers high-quality products at reasonable prices, and we treat everyone fairly, young and old."

"I'm honest with everyone, young and old..." Xiaobai muttered to herself, smiled slightly, and walked into the store.

The shop assistants had already started tidying up the store, each of them secretly glancing at Xiaobai as if it were a walking gold nugget.

No one was smoking inside, but the air still smelled of cigarettes.

Although the smell of these cigarettes no longer affected Xiaobai's current physical condition, she still stopped and covered her nose.

"Uncle, there's a smell of smoke here."

"Smells of smoke? Got it, got it." The clerk immediately turned around, pulled his two companions to his side, and kicked them in the backside. "Smoking, smoking, all you know is smoking! You two get out of here and smoke!"