Elder brother's garrison

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"The first lock reward for the research and construction machine is Anshan, and the second lock reward is missile equipment..." Luo Lian stroked her chin and said to Xiao Bai, "It seems that this research ship girl who is not easy to obtain is probably also a ship type with rare missile capabilities."

“No wonder, it’s high-tech…” Xiaobai murmured and nodded, then glanced at the faces of Changchun and Anshan.

Changchun and Anshan, being the only ship girls present with missile capabilities, were intently watching the missile launcher in Enterprise's hand, much like elementary school students looking at fancy toys in a shop window, their eyes shining brightly.

"Changchun, what do you think of this missile launcher?" Xiaobai asked Changchun.

"Huh? Me?" Changchun snapped out of her daze and lowered her head somewhat embarrassedly. "Ah... well... I'm not really sure either, um... but... I have a vague feeling that this transmitter seems to be a bit better than my Shangyou-1 transmitter..."

"It's even better than the upstream transmitter in Changchun..." Xiaobai was quite surprised.

Just then, the crowd behind them parted.

Luo Yingying staggered out, accompanied by her ship girl attendants.

Luo Yingying looked at the missile launcher in the company's hand, and the worry on her face finally vanished. She breathed a sigh of relief and gave Xiaobai a somewhat awkward smile.

"Great...Great, Admiral Lu Lin, it seems that this directional metal has finally been successfully used up...and it's even a special equipment. Congratulations."

Luo Yingying expressed that her fragile heart really couldn't withstand another explosion.

"Yes, thanks to Miss Yingying." Xiaobai smiled at Luo Yingying, "My ship girl said this missile launcher seems pretty good, but she's not quite sure about the specific mass of this missile launcher."

"...If Admiral Lu Lin trusts me, you can let me do the appraisal." Luo Yingying said to Xiaobai after a moment of silence.

"Eh? Miss Yingying, you can even appraise ship equipment?"

"As for me... I also work part-time as a ship equipment appraiser in this admiral's guild..." Luo Yingying scratched her cheek sheepishly, "But Admiral Lu Lin, please rest assured, although I'm only doing it part-time, my skill level..."

"Outstanding, right?" Xiaobai had completely figured out Luo Yingying's tricks. She smiled at Luo Yingying, "Miss Yingying, you really know everything! How many part-time jobs do you have?"

“Not much…not much, really not much…” Luo Yingying shook her head hurriedly.

Xiao Bai gestured for the company to hand the missile launcher to Luo Yingying.

Xiao Bai silently watched as Luo Yingying tentatively caught the missile launcher with both hands.

Generally speaking, ship girl equipment is extremely heavy for humans, but fortunately, this missile launcher is only about the size of a girl's arm. Even if Luo Yingying were to carry this kind of ship equipment...

Pfft!

The moment the company let go, Luo Yingying collapsed to her knees with a thud.

"So...so heavy!"

"Watch out, Steward!!"

The ship girl attendants nearby rushed forward in a panic, catching Luo Yingying before she collapsed to the floor and taking over the missile launcher for her.

It seems that even such small ship equipment is still too heavy for ordinary humans.

"Miss Yingying, are you alright..." Xiaobai asked worriedly.

"N-nothing...it's just...haha...it was a bit too heavy, I didn't notice..." Luo swallowed hard and gave an awkward laugh.

"Miss Yingying...you should have said so earlier if you couldn't carry it...this equipment isn't afraid of breaking, but what if you accidentally hurt your foot?" Xiaobai smiled helplessly.

"...I...this is also my first time inspecting a missile launcher. I thought I could lift it..." Luo Yingying said awkwardly.

"Huh? First appraisal?"

“Yes… after all, missile launchers are quite rare equipment.” Luo Yingying said, rubbing her shoulder that had almost dislocated. “Ah—but Admiral Lu Lin, you can rest assured, even if it’s equipment I’ve never seen before, I’ve learned how to identify it… um… so it’s no problem to leave it to me.”

"……OK."

Luo Yingying smiled at everyone, then gestured to the ship girl attendants behind her to pick up the missile launcher.

Immediately afterwards, Luo Yingying led everyone away from the building floor.

Although both ship equipment appraisal and deep-sea metal appraisal are called appraisal, the procedures required for the two are completely different. In order to appraise the special equipment in their hands, Luo Yingying led everyone to the floor specifically responsible for equipment appraisal. They took out a lot of firepower equipment to test and tested it, and used various types of mechanical targets to collect data. It took more than two hours to collect data before the appraisal was finally completed.

Finally, Luo Yingying returned to Xiaobai with a thick stack of documents and a ship girl holding a missile launcher.

"Admiral Lu Lin, the results are in." Luo Yingying handed the documents to Xiaobai.

"Oh... thank you very much." Xiaobai took the thick stack of documents and began to carefully read through them.

"Little White, what's the result here?" Nia asked curiously.

"Um! I don't understand!" Xiaobai said embarrassedly, and handed the information to Luo Lian, "Lianlian, you take a look."

"...The conclusion here is that the performance of this missile launcher is excellent. Compared with ordinary missile launchers, it can further enhance the missile's power while maintaining excellent accuracy." Luo Lian quickly flipped through the data and said to everyone, "Furthermore, this missile launcher puts very little burden on the ship's equipment. Perhaps ship girls who are properly equipped with this launcher will be more agile and convenient in their actions."

"How does it compare to the upstream transmitter in Changchun?"

“The upstream launcher is also an excellent missile launcher, but… if we don’t consider dexterity, the accuracy of these two missile launchers is about the same, but this one has slightly better firepower,” Luo Lian said after flipping through the data again.

Wow, amazing gear!

Everyone was amazed.

Chapter 2771 Luo Lian's Car Crash

“Even the strongest equipment needs someone to use it. In the current ship girl community, missile ship girls are extremely rare, and the ship equipment research center's research on missile ship equipment modification has only just begun. At this stage, high-quality missile launchers like this are actually quite useless for other naval bases that don't yet have missile ship girls. However, for new naval bases that have a lot of missile ship girls, their value is far higher than conventional equipment like cannons or carrier-based aircraft.” Luo Lian closed the documents that Luo Yingying handed her and gave Xiaobai and the others a faint smile. “So this time we got something good, Xiaobai.”

“That’s right. Even the most powerful equipment needs ship girls to use it.” Nia clasped her hands together and looked at Xiaobai with great sincerity. “Xiaobai’s family happens to have missile ship girls right now, so this kind of equipment can actually come in handy!”

"Are missile ship girls such a rare sight now?" Xiaobai blinked.

"Of course that's true..." Luo Yingying smiled wryly from the side, "Ship girls with missile potential are extremely rare. According to statistics from our admiral headquarters, there are currently only less than three ship girls in the world equipped with missile ship equipment."

"Two or three? I remember that Missouri, Changchun, and Anshan from Xiaobai's family are all missile ship girls." Nia looked at Luo Yingying.

"...So what this means is that currently only the newbie naval base has missile ship girls," Luo Lian reminded her from the side.

"Wow, so missile ship girls are an exclusive technology for newbie naval bases?" Nia exclaimed in surprise. "I'd only ever heard that missile ship girls were extremely rare, but this is the first time I've heard that they're exclusive to newbie naval bases!"

"Because the information about the new naval base is classified as top-secret, even at the Admiral Headquarters, access to it requires at least the signed consent of two officials in charge of the position of governor," Luo Yingying patiently explained to Nia. "So it's normal that even the admirals in Chapter 8 aren't very clear about the various matters concerning the new naval base, especially after the new admiral takes over. Most people's understanding of the new naval base is actually just a concept based on its name."

“I see, I understand now…” Nia said, indicating that she had learned a lot.

"In that case, the missile launcher will be yours to use, Changchun," Xiaobai said, turning around to Changchun and Anshan at the back of the group.

"Huh? Us?" Changchun and Anshan pointed at themselves in surprise.

"Yeah, I think your eyes were practically popping out of your sockets just now," Xiaobai said with a smile.

"Well...how could I possibly accept that..." Changchun quickly lowered her head shyly, her little hands nervously rubbing together. "I...or maybe I should leave it for Sister Missouri..."

“That makes sense, but judging from the design of this missile launcher, its configuration seems more like it was made to better complement destroyer rigging.” Xiaobai walked up to the ship girl attendant holding the launcher, casually picked it up under Luo Yingying’s stunned gaze, and then examined the interface on the base. “Hmm… just as I thought. Missouri is a missile battleship, which is larger and slower than the lighter destroyer rigging. If her rigging is paired with this launcher, it seems difficult to fully utilize the advantages of lightness and agility mentioned in the data.”

"Then just absorbing the firepower bonus is also..."

“Then we can’t maximize the advantages of this missile launcher.” Xiaobai said to Changchun with a smile. “If Missouri were here, she would also prefer Changchun and Anshan to use this missile launcher.”

"what……"

"And what you should be arguing about now isn't whether or not to give the missile launcher to Missouri." Xiaobai walked up to Changchun and Anshan, holding the missile launcher, and handed it to them. "There's only one missile launcher. You two sisters should discuss whether this equipment should belong to Anshan or Changchun."

Under Changchun's stunned gaze, Xiaobai handed over the missile launcher to Changchun and Anshan.

"Sigh... So, the decision is really being left to us..." Changchun murmured to herself. She subconsciously turned her head to look at Anshan. "Sister Anshan... how about I give you this missile launcher?"

"Kong Rong sharing pears, right?" Anshan shook her head and smiled when she heard Changchun's words, and said with one hand on her waist, "Never mind, you can have it, I'll just use the Shangyou No. 1."

"But Sister Anshan, you're better than me..."

"Precisely because I'm better than you, you should work hard to catch up with me." Anshan patted Changchun's head gently and said confidently, "And on another note, my silly little sister, you don't actually think that just changing a missile launcher will make you surpass me, do you?"

"Uh... no... no, that's not it..."

"Then you can use this without worry."

Changchun blushed after being spoken to by Anshan in just a few words. She hugged the missile launcher in her arms tightly and gave Anshan a sweet smile.

"Well then, thank you, Sister Anshan! And thank you, Admiral!"

It seems the users of the new missile launcher have already been decided.

Xiao Bai smiled as he looked at Changchun and Anshan, silently nodding in his heart.

Just then, Xiaobai suddenly felt a prickling gaze on her neck from behind. Curious, she turned around and saw Luo Yingying staring at her in disbelief.

"Hmm? Miss Yingying, what's wrong?"

“Admiral Lu…Admiral Lu Lin…you…you just…” Luo Yingying pointed in disbelief at the ship girl attendant beside her, “You actually…picked up the missile launcher of Shen Qier (III)’s neighboring flag umbrella…how did you do that…ah…”

"Huh? Uh... Oh..." Xiaobai smiled at Luo Yingying a beat late, patted her arm, and said, "I exercise every day! I'm very strong!"

“…” Luo Yingying.

Xiao Bai's explanation left Luo Yingying speechless for a moment.

After the missile launcher evaluation was completed, Xiaobai and his group said goodbye to Luo Yingying and left the Admiral's Guild with a wealth of gains.

Luo Yingying and the ship girl attendants escorted Xiaobai all the way to the Admiral's Guild gate, standing at the gate and watching Xiaobai and her group disappear at the street corner.

After Xiaobai and his group completely left the Admiral's Guild, a slender figure carrying documents slowly appeared inside the guild.

"Admiral? Did Admiral Lu Lin and the others go back?" Shenying walked to Luo Yingying's side with the documents in her arms. She first peeked out and glanced regretfully at the spot where Xiaobai and the others had left, then slowly looked at Luo Yingying. After seeing Luo Yingying's expression, Shenying was slightly stunned. "...Admiral? What's wrong?"

At this moment, Luo Yingying looked at her hands with a complicated expression, her face full of dejection.

"Divine Eagle."

"I'm here."

"...What kind of person do you think I am?"

"Hmm?" The Divine Eagle was taken aback, but still tentatively asked, "...Beautiful and dignified? Intelligent and virtuous?"

"..."

"Admiral?"

"Divine Eagle, do I look like the kind of weakling whose strength is even less than that of a 1.6-meter-tall human girl...?"

"...It shouldn't be that bad. At 1.6 meters tall, I'm at least a head shorter than you, Admiral," Divine Eagle replied. "Human males have far more muscle mass than human females of the same build. In any case, normal human males are stronger than normal human females."

“Normal…” Luo Yingying’s shoulders trembled.

Luo Yingying seemed deeply stung by the word "normal" in Shenying's speech.

"Admiral, what just happened?" Shenying asked, looking at Luo Yingying's puzzled expression.

"It's nothing...nothing's wrong..." Luo Yingying lowered her hands and shook her head. She took a deep breath, and as if she had made up her mind, she seriously raised her head and said to Shenying, "Shenying! Find me a hidden gym in Chapter 8 later! Starting today, I'm going to lift weights! I'm going to work out! I'm going to build muscle!"

"...?" Divine Eagle.

……

Just as Shenying was wondering when his admiral had started pursuing masculine beauty, Xiaobai and his group, who had left the admiral's guild, were walking down the street, chatting happily with each other.

"Xiao Bai, judging from your expression, you seem a little disappointed?" Luo Lian asked Xiao Bai, "Are you not satisfied with the reward for the second lock?"

"It's not that I'm dissatisfied..." Xiaobai shook her head, glanced at Changchun's happy expression at the back of the group, and then said to Luo Lian, "It's great to get powerful equipment... but... well... when I think about the energy requirements of the research and construction equipment, I'm still a little unhappy..."

“Oh…no wonder.” Luo Lian nodded and sighed. “The reward for the second lock doesn’t seem to help with the charging needs of the research construction machine at all.”

"From now on, I'll just have to slowly fill in that research and construction machine myself." Xiao Bai scratched his head regretfully. "I wonder how long it will take..."

"Based on my previous guess, the rewards from the first two locks might play a crucial role later on, and I genuinely believed that." Luo Lian looked up at the sky and said with some melancholy, "But now, looking at the progress of the third lock, everyone is on the same starting line. No matter who it is, no matter what kind of person they are, even if they didn't get the rewards from the first two locks, as long as they can fill the charging progress of the third lock, they can still get the research ship girls... Now, my prediction can be said to have been completely wrong, and I've really lost face."

Luo Lian rarely makes mistakes, especially when it comes to things concerning Xiao Bai.

But in this battle for the research ship girl, Luo Lian had to admit that she had really messed up.

Chapter 2772 A Chance Encounter at Night

"You can't say that," Xiaobai noticed Luo Lian's mood and quickly turned to encourage her. "If it weren't for Lianlian's solution, we wouldn't have been able to get Anshan and the powerful missile launcher. Even if the rewards for the first and second locks don't affect the subsequent progress, Anshan and the missile launcher are still research ship girl prizes that others would envy! We've really gotten a lot of benefits!"

“…Yes, thank you, Xiaobai.” Luo Lian nodded to Xiaobai.

"Don't be discouraged!" Xiaobai hugged Luo Lian and smiled at her.

Luo Lian was being shaken by Xiao Bai, her head bobbing back and forth.

"Hmm... speaking of which, where are we going next? Are we going back to chapter 8-1?"

"We probably don't need to go back to Chapter 8-1 for now. The second technological lock has just been opened, and the admirals there must be busy researching the research construction machine," Luo Lian suggested while being shaken by Xiao Bai. "Because the third lock is completely different from the first two, the admirals who couldn't participate in the research ship girl competition due to their insufficient math skills will probably rush over as soon as they hear this news. The 8-1 area will probably be overcrowded during this period. Anyway, charging that construction machine is definitely not something that can be done in a day or two. Let's stay at home for a while and go check it out after the situation outside stabilizes. We can also see how much energy the other admirals can charge that construction machine."

"I see! Lianlian is so clever!"

"..."

Xiao Bai took Luo Lian and Nia's arms.

"I've been busy outside all morning, and I'm hungry. Let's go home and have some lunch!"