Elder brother's garrison

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The sea they were in was unmarked and at first glance appeared to be an ordinary sea tainted by deep-sea resentment. It was vast and boundless, filled with dark water, and occasionally, several deep-sea vessels could be seen wandering beneath the surface.

"Lord Su, is this the place where the ship girl technology is located?" Looking at this ordinary sea area with no special features, Xiaobai was a little puzzled.

“Yes, this is it.” Sukhbaatar walked up to Little White and praised the Deep Sea Maiden’s Will, “At first I was a little worried that she might go astray without any markers, but I didn’t expect this child to be so accurate.”

Xiao Bai looked at Sukhbaatar's mysterious expression and tilted his head in confusion.

Sukhbaatar's credit rating is exceptionally high. If it were any other ship girl, Xiaobai would be considering whether she would be taken to an unfamiliar place and silenced.

"Shipgirl technology, if it were that obvious, it would have been discovered long ago." Sukhbaatar shrugged, then lifted his foot and lightly stomped on the water. "It's right here."

"Here?" Little White looked at Sukhbaatar's feet. "Ah, could it be underwater?"

“You got it right.” Sukhbaatar walked over to Little White and took her other hand. “Speaking of which, little girl, how long can you hold your breath?”

"Hold your breath... for about half a minute... Ah, should we go down?" Xiaobai thought for a moment, then suddenly paused.

“It’s safe to say we have to go down,” Sukhbaatar said righteously.

"Even half a minute isn't enough," Xiaobai said awkwardly, looking at Sukhbaatar.

Xiaobai's lung capacity isn't very high. She's only tried holding her breath once or twice when she was in junior high school, and usually it didn't last more than a minute. Even if we assume it was a minute, Xiaobai probably wouldn't be able to stay underwater for very long.

—It would be great if there were an oxygen cylinder or something.

Sukhbaatar thought for a moment and nodded: "Hmm... I can go down by myself, or you can wait for me up here."

"Then I'll have to trouble you, Lord Su," Xiaobai said gratefully.

Sukhbaatar waved his hand, put the fishing rod back into his ship's equipment space, then pinched his nose, greeted Little White, and then fell into the water with a gurgle.

Xiaobai and the will of the deep sea girl stood on the water's surface, looking down at Sukhbaatar, who quickly disappeared into the seawater.

The person was out of date, and Xiaobai had no watch on him, nor any landmarks on the sea. He just waited there, not knowing how much time had passed since Sukhbaatar fell into the sea.

Little White stood on tiptoe and waited on the sea for quite a while.

The Deep Sea Loli's will was not as impatient as Xiaobai's. Perhaps it was because her genes were originally taken from Xiaobai's body. Her closeness to Xiaobai was unparalleled. As long as she could be with Xiaobai, she didn't care whether she was just waiting or doing something else.

After waiting a while longer, Sukhbaatar still hadn't come up. Xiaobai looked at the sun that was high in the sky, slowly touched the pocket of his clothes, pulled out two pieces of dried meat, stuffed one of them into his mouth and chewed it gently.

The Deep Sea Girl's Will curiously watched Little White munching on jerky.

Xiaobai looked at the Deep Sea Will, thought for a moment, then took another piece of jerky, squatted down next to the Deep Sea Lolita Will, and brought it to the Deep Sea Lolita Will's mouth, "Here, do you want to eat this?"

The will of the deep-sea little girl opened her mouth and gently bit into Xiaobai's jerky, her little mouth bulging as she chewed.

"It's not exactly something tasty," Xiaobai muttered to the will of the deep-sea girl. "Let's eat some of this to kill time while waiting for Lord Su to come up."

When Xiao Bai mentioned waiting for Lord Su to come up, she lowered her head dejectedly: "If only I could go down with Lord Su..."

"Hmm?" Upon hearing Xiaobai's words, the deep-sea little girl's will, who was chewing on jerky, opened her eyes wide, thought for a moment, and then quickly nodded, "Yes!"

Xiao Bai observed the Deep Sea Lolita's will and asked, "Deep Sea Will, do you have a way to get me into the sea?"

"Hmm!" The will of the deep-sea girl looked at Xiaobai's face, nodding and smiling.

She knelt on the sea surface with a piece of dried meat in her mouth, and put her two little hands directly into the water.

As she moved, the water around Xiaobai and the Deep Sea Will quickly gathered towards them, eventually forming a hollow black water droplet that enveloped Xiaobai and herself.

Then, like bullets launched from a bow, the water droplets shot into the sea and sped off in the direction Sukhbaatar had gone.

As fast as ever, as if the resistance of the water surface did not exist at all, the water sphere containing Xiaobai and the will of the deep-sea girl swam through the water with a splash, and the surrounding scenery quickly began to darken.

Sitting in the water sphere, Little White marveled at the sight of this vehicle moving so quickly even underwater, exclaiming in amazement, "Wow..."

The will of the Deep Sea Lolita is truly omnipotent; she's amazing.

Little White knelt inside the water sphere, gripping the sphere's walls and looking out. The underwater scenery gradually darkened as the sphere went deeper. However, it wasn't completely dark yet; with Little White's eyesight, he could still make out what was underwater.

"Deep Sea Will, do you know where Lord Su is right now?" Xiaobai asked the Deep Sea Child Will beside her.

The Deep Sea Lolita Will chewed on the jerky, lying on the ground of the water sphere, and nodded. Because her hands were still stuck in the water sphere, she couldn't pull her fingers out, so the Deep Sea Lolita Will could only lift her small chin and turn in one direction.

Following the direction pointed by the chin of the Deep Sea Maiden's Will, Xiaobai looked but only saw a monotonous expanse of water.

There was nothing but water, pitch black, not even a single fish or deep-sea vessel.

"I haven't seen Lord Su. She's walking in this direction. Could she be hiding somewhere..." Xiaobai asked with some doubt. However, just as she finished speaking, the scenery in front of her suddenly brightened up.

Xiao Bai felt as if the water sphere he was in had been pierced through some kind of membrane, and the scenery in front of him suddenly brightened.

The waterscape we had just seen vanished in an instant, and the dark light suddenly brightened. The monotonous scenery had transformed into an open space the size of a football field in the blink of an eye.

On the open ground, a strangely shaped half-sunken ship lay on the ground, and a faint white light lingered around the surrounding land.

"...Wow..." Xiaobai couldn't finish her sentence. A thousand words were stuck in her throat, and then turned into a sigh.

The water balloon pierced the membrane, entered the open space, floated in the air for a while, and then fell directly to the ground.

Just as Xiaobai felt her butt was about to be hit by a freefall, the Deep Sea Lolita's will timely pulled her hands out of the water sphere, then turned the water back into her palms, quickly catching Xiaobai before she hit the ground.

The hand carrying the two girls landed slowly.

"That's great, thank you!" Little White landed safely on the ground, then hugged the Deep Sea Lolita Will next to her tightly and rubbed her head.

The will of the deep-sea girl also revealed an innocent smile.

Xiaobai and the will of the deep-sea girl stepped down from the palm of the seawater, and Xiaobai took a gentle breath.

—There's no seawater here, but there's breathable air. That's truly remarkable.

Little White called out softly to Sukhbaatar, and Little White's voice echoed outwards, but Sukhbaatar did not come over.

Xiao Bai glanced at the Deep Sea Child's Will beside him and thought for a moment: "Deep Sea Will, can you find out where Lord Su is right now?"

The Deep Sea Lolita's Will still had half a piece of dried meat in her mouth. When she saw Little White asking her a question, she nodded and then pointed in a direction.

"Could you take me to Lord Su?"

"Mmm!" The deep-sea little girl's will responded, then she took Little White's hand and took a step in one direction.

Xiaobai and the will of the deep-sea girl walked to the strangely shaped half of the sunken ship and pointed to the ship.

Xiaobai understood perfectly and carried the soft body of the Deep Sea Loli on her back. Then, relying on her ship girl-level physical abilities, she climbed up the half of the deck while stepping on the ship's hull.

This shipwreck is quite strange.

The ship was enormous, comparable to a cruise ship. It appeared to have been cut in half by something, with a clean and distinct break. Half of the bow lay submerged on the ground, with no seawater able to reach it. It looked somewhat worn, yet there was no rust. When Xiaobai climbed onto the hull, he could tell that the ship was quite new.

—If such a strange place has ship girl technology, then Xiaobai doesn't find it strange at all.

It took Little White a while to climb onto the deck. As soon as he got on, Little White finally heard Sukhbaatar's voice.

"Hmm...hmm...hmm!" Sukhbaatar seemed to be straining as he moved something.

Xiao Bai looked around on the deck and finally followed the sound to find where Sukhbaatar was now.

Right at the edge of the ship's deck, Sukhbaatar was gritting his teeth, clutching a black machine, and trying to move it.

“This thing… um… how… um… is so heavy…” Sukhbaatar’s limbs were too small to even hold the machine properly. She used all her strength to pull it up like a radish, but the machine did not budge.

As Xiaobai looked at the machine that Sukhbaatar was holding, his eyes gradually brightened.

—That machine looks familiar. I've seen it before and even used it, more than once.

That's the ship girl's construction device.

The next chapter isn't finished yet, but I'll try to finish it as soon as possible and post it in about an hour.

Chapter 481 The World's Number One: A Life Threatened Everywhere

Xiaobai remembers what the construction device looks like, or rather, even without her memory, any admiral in modern times could recognize the machine in Sukhbaatar's arms.

That machine was full of love and justice, full of hope and dawn!

Sukhbaatar was engrossed in pulling up radishes and didn't notice that Little White and the Will of the Deep Sea Girl had walked up behind her.

Xiao Bai reached out and patted Sukhbaatar on the shoulder: "Lord Sukhbaatar..."

"Oh my god, a ghost!" Sukhbaatar, who was pulling up a radish with all his might, screamed like a groundhog as soon as Little White touched him, and fell to the ground with a thud.

Sukhbaatar, who had fallen to the ground, looked ahead and breathed a sigh of relief when he realized that the person who had patted him was Xiaobai: "Oh... it's you, little girl."

"It's me." Xiao Bai nodded sheepishly. "Did I scare Lord Su?"

"I, Sukhbaatar, am all-powerful, capable of anything, who can frighten me!" Sukhbaatar coughed lightly twice, then stood up from the ground. She dusted herself off and looked at Little White, "By the way, little girl, aren't you unable to dive? How did you get here?"

"Oh, it was the will of the deep sea that brought me here." Xiaobai and the deep sea little girl will that was holding her hand smiled at each other.

Seeing how well Little White and the Will of the Deep Sea got along, Sukhbaatar simply muttered, "A loving mother and a filial daughter."

"Here, this is the ship girl technology." Sukhbaatar patted the machine behind him and said to Shiro.

"Yes, thank you, Lord Su." Xiaobai definitely recognized the ship girl's construction device. She looked at the device behind Sukhbaatar with great emotion, and then nodded her thanks.

"Ahem, since you've come all this way, then I won't help you." Sukhbaatar coughed lightly again, then stepped aside, patted the construction device, and said to Little White, "Pull it yourself."

"Huh? Pull it out?"

"Don't worry, it won't break." Sukhbaatar gave Xiaobai a reassuring look. "Besides, even if it does break, it doesn't matter. You can study the internal structure when you get back. You can always imitate what you see, right?"

"Oh, I see." Xiaobai walked up to the construction device, looked at it, and reached out to hug it.

It's really heavy, like it's embedded in the deck by something. But with Shiro's ship girl physique, she could try to forcibly pull it out.

"Oh, right, Lord Su." Xiaobai looked at the construction device in front of her and suddenly remembered something. She looked at Sukhbaatar with some curiosity, "What exactly is this place?"

“Oh, here? I don’t know either.” Sukhbaatar held the back of his head and whistled. “I was here when I woke up in the construction device.”

"Did Lord Su come out of this construction device?" Xiao Bai asked in surprise, pointing to the construction device in front of him.

“Yeah, did I spring out of a rock? My mother isn’t a monkey,” Sukhbaatar said.

“…Ah.” Xiaobai nodded.

It turns out that the construction device she was moving was the one used to build Sukhbaatar; in a sense, it was her old home.

I never imagined that Sukhbaatar would donate his hometown for the future of humanity. I was truly moved.

"Hurry up and move," Sukhbaatar said to Little White. "I don't really like coming back here. Let's get this done quickly so we can get out of here."

"Okay." Xiaobai nodded, then slowly exerted his strength to pull on the construction device in front of him.

The construction device was a single unit, so Xiaobai wasn't worried about damaging it by using so much force. Xiaobai kept increasing the force, and a series of creaking sounds came from the deck connected to the construction device.

No matter what, Xiaobai is a being with a large ship-mounted system like Luji, and is not on the same level as Sukhbaatar when he has not entered his transformation state. Therefore, after receiving Sukhbaatar's promise, Xiaobai quickly shook the foundation of the construction device.

Then, under the watchful eyes of the Deep Sea Girl's Will and Sukhbaatar, Little White quickly pulled the entire construction device, along with the fragments of the deck, off with a snap.

Sukhbaatar clapped his hands: "You're much stronger than you look!"

"Is that so..." Xiaobai smiled sheepishly, then looked at the construction device in front of her.

The construction device is over a meter tall, and it would be too much trouble to carry it back by simply lifting it.

"Just put it in your ship equipment space. You're a large ship girl, so you must have plenty of space," Sukhbaatar reminded her at the right moment.

Xiao Bai nodded, then reached out with both hands to touch the construction device in front of him.

During the three-month hiatus, whether voluntarily or involuntarily, Xiaobai had to use the ship's equipment many times, such as walking on water, fighting, firing cannons into the deep sea, and then fighting, or something like that.

Therefore, Xiaobai gradually developed the particularly convenient capability of shipboard space.

However, because of what Lexington said beforehand, Shiro actually doesn't really like to actively use the ship's equipment.

Xiao Bai's hands touched the construction device, and then he slightly distracted himself. The construction device disappeared in a flash. At the same time, Xiao Bai felt that something had been added to his ship equipment.

"Did you put it in?" Sukhbaatar asked.

"It's in."

“Alright then, let’s go…” Sukhbaatar was about to say something when a loud rumble came from the deck beneath their feet, and a deep crack appeared in front of Xiaobai and Sukhbaatar.

"Boom!" Then, whether by coincidence or for some other reason, cracks spread rapidly from the spot where Xiaobai had pulled out the construction device, quickly covering the entire deck.

The shipwreck, about the size of half a football, began to disintegrate right before the eyes of Xiaobai and Sukhbaatar.

Xiao Bai had a bad feeling and quickly turned around to look at the outer edge of the open space.

Sure enough, the magical protective membrane that had been protecting the shipwreck disappeared, and the seawater that had been keeping its distance from the shipwreck surged toward them with a thunderous roar.

"...Lord Su, danger!" Xiaobai reached out and pulled Sukhbaatar from the other side of the crack into her arms.

"Wow..." Sukhbaatar looked at the surging seawater crashing towards him as if he had seen something amazing.

Xiaobai quickly pulled Sukhbaatar and the will of the deep-sea girl into her arms.