Elder brother's garrison

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Duan Shuiliu showed no sign of disappointment at failing the challenge; she remained calm, as if nothing had happened.

Duan Shuiliu walked towards the direction of the top ten admirals.

The admirals made way for them.

Duan Shui returned to the top ten admirals without any hindrance.

"Duan Duan—Waaah, I didn't expect you to perform so well, but you still lost, waaaah!" Admiral Lian rushed forward and hugged Duan Shuiliu, saying to her, "What a pity—what a real pity—that salvaged ship girl was just too much! How could she even have a second transformation! Is she some kind of final boss in the game?!"

"Duan Duan, you've done a great job!" Admiral Ling stepped forward and said quickly.

"Admiral Duan! Your performance is truly astonishing! Absolutely outstanding!" Admiral Haoding also gave a thumbs up, making no attempt to hide his admiration for Duan Shuiliu.

"..." Nanxing opened her mouth towards Duan Shuiliu, then looked around at the crowded scene, and then lowered her head and closed it, but her two hands were clenched together and kept rubbing.

Duan Shuiliu nodded in response to the praise and comfort from the crowd.

Duan Shuiliu's expression returned to normal, without disappointment or joy, only a calm indifference, like the tranquility of eating tofu and pickled vegetables, watching the smoke rise from the chimneys.

After Duan Shuiliu parted ways with Admiral Lian, she chatted briefly with the others. Seeing that Duan Shuiliu didn't react particularly strongly, the surrounding admirals left dejectedly, turning in other directions.

After Duan Shuiliu finished talking with everyone, he looked at Xiaobai.

Duan Shuiliu walked up to Xiaobai, raised his hand to press on Xiaobai's shoulder, bent down and leaned close to Xiaobai's ear.

"I've scouted it out for you... Good luck with the rest."

Duan Shuiliu spoke softly into Xiaobai's ear, his voice relaxed, leisurely, and also gentle and encouraging.

This was probably the only emotion that Duan Shuiliu showed today.

Chapter 3019 Progress of Ship Equipment Repair

Duan Shuiliu's whisper was very soft and delicate.

But to Xiaobai, it instantly gave her a feeling of being refreshed by a clear spring, and then suddenly enlightened.

Xiao Bai touched his ears, looking at Duan Shuiliu who was so close to him in surprise.

Oh, I see... that's how it is.

Xiao Bai finally understood why Duan Shuiliu, after saying he was giving up on salvaging ship girls, suddenly told all the top ten admirals that he wanted to challenge her again some time later.

So it turns out... these two things don't conflict.

Duan Shuiliu's challenge to salvage the ship girl wasn't about winning at all.

Duan Shuiliu never had any intention of competing with Xiaobai from the beginning, whether it was healthy or vicious competition. She never really thought about getting Montana. Everything she did before was simply to pave the way and eliminate risks for Xiaobai to acquire the salvaged ship girls, from her perspective.

Looking at Duan Shuiliu, gazing at her exquisite features so close to his face, and observing the calm yet warm expression on her face, Xiao Bai couldn't help but feel a little moved.

Duan Shuiliu... she really has nothing but Xiaobai on her mind.

"...Thank you, Sister Duan."

“…Hmm.” Duan Shuiliu straightened up and nodded to Xiaobai.

Xiao Bai stepped forward, took Duan Shuiliu's hands in her own, and placed them on top of her head.

Xiao Bai, with Duan Shuiliu's palm against hers and her wrists in his hands, looked up and smiled at her.

Although... Duan Shuiliu didn't know that Xiaobai had already learned about Montana's true abilities from Montana. No one in the entire Chapter 8 city understood Montana better than Xiaobai. Duan Shuiliu didn't need to do this and it was perfectly fine. But even so, everything Duan Shuiliu did for Xiaobai was truly from the bottom of his heart.

Xiao Bai could sense that she genuinely wanted to be alright.

This is enough.

-

With Duan Shuiliu's challenge failing, among the top ten admirals, some failed, some gave up, and in the end, only Xiaobai was left.

The admirals on the beach, also feeling a strong sense of frustration, were having a heated discussion about Montana's new ability.

"Judging from this, the salvaged ship girl Montana must be a very rare ship girl with two skills—"

"No, no, no, I disagree with you. Each ship girl can only possess one ability at a time. This is an immutable rule for ship girl skills!"

"Then how do you explain the two abilities Montana just displayed?"

"Is it possible that she used the same ability in both the first and second stages?"

"Impossible, absolutely impossible!"

"The first stage ability of the salvage ship girl is absolute hit and absolute evasion, while her second stage is to summon a mechanical army from the sea! I admit that some ship girls have more diverse skill effects, which may give people the illusion of having three or even two skills, but the different effects of the same skill of these ship girls are actually interconnected. Look at the two abilities shown by the salvage ship girl! There is absolutely no connection or linkage between them!"

"Then tell me, what exactly is Montana's ability all about?!"

"Perhaps the ship girl we salvaged in the first phase was only using her stats to fight us... she didn't even use her ship equipment abilities."

"Impossible! I don't agree! Doesn't what you're saying mean that before Admiral Duan Shuiliu's challenge, all of us admirals challenged Montana and failed to force out Montana's ship equipment skills? According to you, aren't we a bunch of clowns!"

"Don't be anxious, please don't be anxious first."

"So the equipment salvaged from the ship girl wasn't part of her ability; it was just equipment."

"Thinking about it this way, it makes sense..."

"Salvaging ship girls, that's terrifying."

"..."

On the beach, discussions about Montana are heating up.

The admirals in Chapter 3020, being top-tier admirals with excellent professional skills and rich experience, gradually deduced Montana's abilities and attributes amidst their enthusiastic discussions after observing Duan Shuiliu's entire challenge.

As information about Montana gradually became clearer, the admirals present grew increasingly terrified.

Montana, this terrifying ship girl, spent a whole week defeating most of her challengers. Just now, Duan Shuiliu, one of the top ten admirals, finally found a way to counter Montana's first-stage ability through prior preparation and on-the-spot performance, putting her at a disadvantage... But at this moment, Montana turned the tide and entered the second stage, directly using a more powerful, more terrifying, and more outrageous new skill.

In any case, this means that the admirals who challenged Montana before had completely wasted their efforts.

The admirals in Chapter 3021 studied day and night, racking their brains to target and try to break through Montana's "outer shell." Her true terrifying abilities were a new starting point for all the admirals present.

And most importantly...

Montana's new skills... are just too amazing!!!

What kind of outrageous operation is it to pull an entire mechanical army directly from the ocean?

Furthermore, according to the admirals' observations, each of these summoned mechanical units possesses strength comparable to that of ordinary top-tier ship girls! If this were to fight Montana in her second phase, even if she remained idle from start to finish without ever attacking, the difficulty of fighting her would be no different from directly engaging in a team battle against a hundred well-trained, perfectly coordinated top-tier ship girls! Moreover, when Montana activated her new skill, everyone saw the terrifying ship rigging that rose behind her—a vessel resembling both a cruise ship and a tank, covered in cannons and displaying a menacing, menacing appearance. Clearly, under the new skill's effect, Montana's combat power has increased to a terrifying level. If she were to combine this state with hundreds of mechanical units comparable to top-tier ship girls, who knows what terrifying results would occur!

This ability... is even more despairing than in the first stage!

When the admirals got to this point in their discussion, they couldn't help but start wailing and howling.

Before marveling at the power of salvaging ship girls, the admirals felt a deep sense of powerlessness and frustration at the sheer strength of the salvage operation.

Even if a salvaged ship girl is strong... you still need to be able to subdue her.

At this rate, who in the world can defeat salvaged ship girls?

monster!

A complete monster!!

The salvaged ship girl is a complete monster ship girl!

Even the world's number one naval base couldn't possibly defeat a monster of this caliber!

Is this Holy Day of Founding... really going to become an endless series of Holy Days of Founding...?

Just as the admirals on the beach were discussing the future of salvaging ship girls, Shiro had already said goodbye to the other top ten admirals, secretly left the beach, and returned to her temporary naval base.

Before returning, Xiaobai asked Nanxing if she wanted to go back to the garrison base with him for a bath.

Before Nanxing could reply to Xiaobai, Admiral Lian and the others suddenly appeared out of nowhere, grabbed Nanxing, and told Xiaobai that Nanxing had been going to Xiaobai's place to play every day for the past few days, acting like she was siding with outsiders, so they were determined to take Nanxing away today.

Faced with the protests from Admiral Lian and Admiral Ling, Xiaobai scratched his cheek somewhat embarrassedly and had no choice but to give up the idea of ​​taking Nanxing home.

makes sense.

During this time, Xiaobai gradually felt that Nanxing came to the garrison every day to cuddle and hug him, and that he had been monopolizing Nanxing for too long.

Regrettably.

But Nanxing really should be allowed to spend more time with the other admirals.

Now that the excitement on the beach is over, it's time for Xiaobai to return to the temporary naval base to continue repairing her ship equipment.

Store your clothes in the changing room.

Little Bai, with her hair down, skipped and hopped into the steamy restoration pool. She carefully waded into the water, gripped the edge of the pool with her arms, and lay on the steps beside it, kicking her legs as she played on her phone.

In the chat group of the top ten admirals, Admiral Lian and Admiral Ling started posting selfies non-stop again.

In the photos, they and the other top ten admirals led Nanxing to a movie theater, a theme park, an aquarium, a restaurant, and so on...

In the photo, Nanxing still appears slightly reserved in front of the camera, but Admiral Lian and Admiral Ling's expressions as they make peace signs at the camera are exceptionally bright, while Admiral Haoding and Elizabeth, who are in the background, are as cheerful and laughing as ever.

What about the section of water flow?

Oh, Duan Shuiliu is a photographer.

Xiaobai pouted as she looked at the photos in the chat group.

These older women put aside their official duties and had so much fun outside, while I had to stay in this small restoration pool day after day.

Really.

Even a novice can get upset.

"Sister Nanxing can only be given to you for one day. You must return Sister Nanxing to me tomorrow..."

Xiao Bai muttered to himself, but only sent a few panda emojis to the chat group before closing it.

Can't watch anymore.

If Xiaobai keeps watching, she thinks she'll lose control of her legs and run out to play with them.

After closing the chat group, Xiaobai opened the Admiral Forum and browsed the posts.

Several hours had passed since Duan Shuiliu's challenge ended in defeat, and the admiral's forum was already flooded with various messages and speculations about salvaging the ship girl Montana.

Xiaobai simply clicked on a few posts, looked at their contents, and found that most of them were information she already knew, as well as the admirals' complaints and worries about the strength of salvaging ship girls. After reading for a while, she felt that the content of today's admiral forum was too monotonous, so she closed it.

Xiaobai turned off her phone, saving the battery, and placed it aside.

The repair progress of Xiaobai's ship equipment has been quite good these past few days. Because he can soak in the repair pool day and night, the progress is twice as fast as Xiaobai originally expected. The ship equipment has been repaired from 30% to nearly 80% and 90% respectively.

At this rate.

There are only two or three days left until the challenge against Montana.

Chapter 3022 Little White's Special Sandwich

As the saying goes, the closer you get to success, the more restless you become, like a wildly growing prairie.

Xiao Bai felt that this was exactly his situation.

Xiaobai had been spending a week in the repair pool day and night. The reason she was able to stay there and even enjoy it was thanks to Nanxing's constant care for her with her beautiful body. Now that Nanxing had been taken away by the other top ten admirals, Xiaobai's pillar of support had vanished. Her boredom and listlessness grew, and with nothing to do, Xiaobai was suffering terribly while staying in the repair pool.

But Xiaobai really had nothing else to do.

To pass the time, Xiaobai even had Missouri move the official documents that had been in Nia's absence to the repair pool for her to handle.

Xiao Bai thought that the work Nia had accumulated over this period would keep her so busy during her bath that she would forget about time. However, the seemingly mountain of documents was all processed and handled properly by Xiao Bai in less than half a day.

no way.

Xiaobai was already used to the heavy workload of a newbie naval base, so taking care of Nia's naval base, which only had a hundred or so ship girls, gave her a lighthearted, almost playful feeling, as if she wasn't working. This even increased her work efficiency.

After finishing his official business, Xiaobai soaked in the restoration pool, turning over and over.

Especially since Xiaobai's mind was still filled with the scene of Nanxing and Admiral Lian playing outside together, it made it even more difficult for Xiaobai to stay in the repair pool.

at last.

it's dark.

Feeling she had reached her limit, Xiaobai climbed out of the repair pool, went into the changing room to change her clothes, and left the ship girl bath.

When Xiaobai stepped out of the ship girl bath, the sky was already covered by night, and the entire sky was dotted with stars, like a dazzling galaxy.

Xiao Bai rubbed his aching back, looked up at the sky, and let out a long sigh.

Although the ship girl bath is also very large... as expected, nature is still more spacious.

Even the night sky is enough to give me a moment of relief.