Elder brother's garrison

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"You're the Admiral's Guild's... shipgirl patrol? Is there something you need from us that you've suddenly approached?" Veneto cleared her throat slightly, then stepped out of the line and addressed the patrol, "We didn't violate any of the Admiral's Guild's rules, did we?"

"Rest assured, everyone. We have witnessed your challenge to the Black Tower, and everything was in accordance with the rules set by the Admiral's Guild." A tall, mature ship girl with a captain's armband on her shoulder stepped forward from the Admiral's Guild's patrol team. She placed one hand on her chest, expressing her goodwill. "Greetings, ladies. We are the First Patrol Team of the Admiral's Guild in Chapter Eight. We are here on the orders of the Admiral's Guild to help you resolve your difficulties."

"Solve their problems?" Veneto and his group were somewhat surprised.

"Well, first of all, congratulations on passing the Black Tower's test." The patrol captain smiled at Veneto. "And congratulations on becoming the second challenger after President Lu Lin to receive such a generous reward. The reward supplies in front of you are quite substantial. I imagine how to transport these rewards back to the naval base is the problem that's troubling you right now."

"What, you want a share?" Da Feng asked, crossing her slender, fair arms and raising her embroidered eyebrows.

"Hahaha." The patrol captain laughed upon hearing this. "Ladies, please stop joking. Our guild leader instructed that the rewards for successfully completing the Black Tower challenges must be properly distributed to all challengers without any discrepancies."

"So it was Admiral Lu Lin's order..." The ship girls at Nia Naval Base looked at each other and exchanged glances.

"Yes, that's right, so let's get straight to the point." The patrol team's captain, a ship girl, said with a smile, "Regarding your clearance supplies, if you feel that the amount of supplies you obtained this time is too large and it's really inconvenient to transport them back, you can entrust them to our Admiral's Guild for shipment. We will help you count and record the quantity of these supplies and send them to your naval admiral in the form of merit points. If your admiral wants to withdraw them, he can go to the Admiral's Guild and directly exchange the deposited supplies with merit points."

"Wow, that's so convenient!" Veneto and his group exclaimed in surprise. "Are there any handling fees or anything?"

"Ah... as for the handling fee, there will still be a little bit." The patrol ship girl held up three fingers to the other ship girls. "The transfer of supplies within 30,000 units is free. For supplies exceeding this unit, we will charge 3% of the amount exceeding the free amount as a handling fee for this transfer."

"It really wasn't free after all..."

"...Please understand, after all, the Admiral's Guild needs to make a living by employing so many people..." The ship girls immediately smiled apologetically. "However, the transfer of supplies is entirely voluntary. If you feel it's better for you to transport them yourself, we will also help you look after these supplies on the sea during the transport until you have transported all the supplies back to shore. This time, it's all free."

"I see, how thoughtful."

"So, ladies, what kind of service would you like to choose?"

“As for us…” Veneto and her group looked around. They thought for a while, then looked down and calculated the time and resources lost during the round trip. They nodded to the patrol team, “The three percent handling fee is quite reasonable. We’ll trouble you to help with the transportation.”

The Admiral's Guild's patrol team immediately stepped forward and began to help Veneto and his group count the supplies, then rumbled and hauled the supplies away to a distance.

After completing the inventory, the captain of the first patrol squad handed Veneto a redemption card containing 46,005 units of fuel and supplies. She then nodded to Veneto and her group before turning to leave.

"Hey, wait a minute!" Veneto suddenly called out to the patrol captain.

"Hmm? Is there a problem?" The patrol captain stopped and turned to look at Veneto curiously. "Is it that the number of supply cards doesn't match?"

“No, not at all.” Veneto shook his head, then asked, “Can this Black Tower be challenged repeatedly?”

"Well... we don't know. Guild Leader Lu Lin hasn't challenged him repeatedly. You can try, since it doesn't violate the Admiral's Guild's regulations." The patrol captain thought for a moment and said to Veneto and his group.

"Did President Lu Lin receive this many supplies before?"

"...I didn't expect you to ask this question." The patrol captain seemed quite interested. She thought for a while, pondered for a moment, and then said to Veneto and his group, "Never mind, it's not a secret anyway... Actually, after successfully completing the challenge, President Lu Lin received more resources than you. She received a full 50,000 units of supplies."

"Okay, I understand, thank you." Veneto and his group nodded with smiles.

Seeing that Veneto did not ask any further questions, the patrol ship girls left.

After watching the patrol captain leave, Veneto and his group exchanged glances.

"The Admiral's Guild is quite considerate. They even knew that it was difficult for us to transport supplies, so they found someone to help us transport them."

"It's not the Admiral's Guild that's being considerate, it's Admiral Lu Lin, after all, she cares about us ship girls the most."

"Admiral Lu Lin is still a good person."

"So... is it possible to continue challenging this Black Tower?"

"If possible, then this is a great deal... to receive such a huge reward every ten minutes or so..."

"Indeed, the challenges inside this Black Tower are just a warm-up, not difficult at all, and the resources are earned far too easily."

The ship girls at Nia's Naval Base whispered among themselves, then turned their eager gazes to the black tower before them.

Chapter 3954 A Turn in the Concave Section

If the Black Tower could be challenged an unlimited number of times... then the resources obtained from it would be an outrageous figure.

The ship girls at Nia's Naval Base understood this, of course. After exchanging glances, they nodded in agreement and then went to the foot of the Black Tower once again, reaching out to touch its body.

However, this time, the Black Tower did not suck up the ship girls from Nia's Garrison again.

The moment the ship girls of Nia's Naval Base touched the Black Tower, a strange, ripple-like sense of repulsion gently pushed them back to their original positions.

The ship girls at Nia's Naval Base looked at their palms in surprise.

"Huh? It was pushed away by the Black Tower?"

"Does that mean I can't touch you anymore?"

The ship girls whispered among themselves, and then Veneto tried to touch the Black Tower again. This time, she activated her ship equipment power, and her eyes shone with a brilliant silver light as she tried to break through the repulsion field at the edge of the Black Tower.

But no matter how strong Veneto's touch was, the repulsive force of the Black Tower always managed to push Veneto back with ease.

After trying several times, Veneto had no choice but to give up his own idea and speak to his teammates.

"There's nothing we can do; we can't touch this tower at all."

"So, the Black Tower is closed?"

"It shouldn't be shut down... I can sense that the Black Tower is still operating... it's just not working on us anymore."

“I see, we’ve used up our challenge attempts.” Littorio shrugged. “Looks like repeatedly farming the Black Tower for resources won’t work.”

Is this a one-time, permanent limit, or can it be refreshed?

"Who knows, but we definitely can't get in now."

"As expected, there's no such thing as a free lunch."

"Black Tower has already given us a windfall once."

"Alright, alright, it's time to head back to shore. The commander is waiting for us to return and report back."

The ship girls at Nia's Naval Base chatted as they left the edge of the Black Tower and headed back the way they came.

The surrounding ship girls watched silently as the ship girls from Nia Naval Base departed. After the ship girls from Nia Naval Base disappeared into the distant horizon, shrouded in endless black smoke on the sea, the ship girls present couldn't help but swallow hard.

"This black tower seems pretty good..."

I don't know which ship girl suddenly said that.

"Hmm..." The other ship girls did not object. They thought about the huge black container that had just fallen from the sky and the massive amount of supplies inside it, and they all fell silent.

What exactly is the meaning behind Black Tower's act of distributing supplies to the ship girls?

A reward for those who succeed in the challenge... or... bait to lure and capture ship girls?

Not sure.

not understand.

But the supplies they provided were really plentiful...

With so many supplies, I could clear the Black Tower once and then rest at home for a week without feeling guilty...

The ship girls' expressions were particularly vivid as they thought about it.

Just then, one of the ship girls suddenly shuddered and shouted out.

"Ah! My admiral has replied! He told us to hurry up and challenge the Black Tower!"

"My admiral said the same thing!"

"My commander too!"

One by one, the three squads of ship girls reacted, and they immediately rushed towards the Black Tower.

At what time did the third, fourth, and fifth squadrons of ship girls arrive at the foot of the Black Tower and reach out to touch it?

Whoosh!

The three squads of ship girls immediately disappeared.

The moment the ship girls disappeared, the remaining ship girls were still watching.

After the Black Tower swallowed three squads of ship girls, the tranquility on the sea surface lasted for an exceptionally long time. It wasn't until half an hour later that a ripple of human figures appeared beneath the Black Tower.

A group of ship girls, dressed in tattered clothes as if they had been through a great battle, reappeared in front of the Black Tower.

Sunlight poured down, and their ship uniforms were no longer as neat and intact as before—their clothes were tattered, torn strips of cloth swaying precariously in the wind, barely hanging on their slender bodies. The marks of flames left charred marks on their clothes, and the torn corners fluttered in the wind. But even so, the eyes of the ship girls who emerged from the black tower gleamed with a victorious light.

"—Alright! Level cleared!"

"Sigh, the deep sea here isn't difficult at all; it's about the same level as killing a regular final boss!"

"It's not that difficult!"

"Where's my reward? Where's my reward?!"

The ship girls who had returned from the Black Tower looked around excitedly. Soon, a wave of mental energy emanated from above their heads, followed by a large container crashing down.

The container that fell this time was half the size of the one that caused the incident at Nia's naval base.

The ship girls were puzzled when they saw the size of the container.

"Huh? Why is it so much smaller... Where are the supplies inside..." The ship girls stepped forward, opened the container, and checked the supplies inside. After a while, they exclaimed in surprise, "Huh! There are only 25,000 units of resources! What happened to the promised 40,000 units?! How come there are so many missing!"

The ship girls turned back to look at Black Tower with huffs and puffs, as if to express a feeling of "Are you deceiving consumers?"

But the Black Tower is just a Black Tower; architecture has no soul, so it naturally cannot respond to the ship girls.

In the end, the ship girls could only hastily close the containers and angrily prepare to leave the Black Tower. Although it wasn't as many as tens of thousands of units, more than 20,000 units of supplies were still a huge gain for the ship girls, enough for them to rest for two or three days.

The Admiral's Guild's patrol team stepped forward and, just like at Nia's Naval Base, offered to help the ship girls transport supplies back to shore.

The ship girls certainly wouldn't refuse, since the transportation of 30,000 units of supplies was free, and they wouldn't pass up such free labor.

With the appearance of the third fleet of ship girls, the Black Tower fell silent for a few more minutes.

At that moment, two waves of energy appeared simultaneously, and two groups of ship girls emerged from the foot of the black tower at the same time.

"Finally finished!"

"This fifth wave of deep-sea bosses is incredibly resilient!"

"..."

After the two groups of ship girls returned to reality, two waves of energy descended from the sky simultaneously.

The container, which was almost the same size but slightly smaller than the third fleet of ship girls, landed on the sea.

The ship girls immediately went forward to investigate and discovered that the reward for clearing the level was only 23,000 units of supplies.

"Huh! How come so much is missing!"

The ship girls shouted angrily, but their hands didn't stop moving. They immediately closed the container doors, afraid that someone would take away the fruits of their labor.

The crowd of ship girls became even more agitated upon seeing the three groups of ship girls appear unharmed.

"Why are the rewards getting smaller and smaller... Could it be that there are too many monks and not enough porridge, and there aren't enough to go around?"

"Hey! My admiral has also let me challenge him!"

"What a coincidence, me too!"

Among the crowd, a team of ship girls, unable to contain their excitement, once again appeared, determined to challenge the Black Tower.

The ship girls rushed towards the Black Tower, their figures disappearing beneath its base one after another.

On the sea, fluctuations of mental energy appeared incessantly, and the figures of the ship girls disappeared and reappeared.

As more and more ship girls challenge the Black Tower, and more and more ship girl teams succeed and receive rewards.

Correspondingly, the resource rewards obtained by the ship girls are refreshed wave after wave, as if there is an infinite supply of resources inside this black tower.

As for the resources obtained by the ship girls... as more and more teams received rewards, the ship girls who participated in the challenge gradually discovered that the rewards provided by the Black Tower were not reduced according to the order of participation. In fact, during this period, some ship girl teams were able to obtain more than 30,000 resources, or even more than 40,000 resources, while others obtained more than 10,000 or 20,000 resources.

After a brief observation, the ship girls quickly came to a conclusion.

This black tower... seems to distribute rewards based on the time taken to complete the challenge.

Previously, the ship girls from Nia's Naval Base completed the challenge in the shortest time, only a dozen minutes, so they obtained the most supplies, a total of 46,500 units.

After that, the skill level of the ship girls participating in the Black Tower Challenge was much lower, and there was a significant difference in their completion time. The fastest one barely managed to finish in under twenty minutes, and the resources they obtained were only a little over 41,000. In addition, there was a team of ship girls who participated in the challenge for nearly an hour, and when they came out, they only obtained a pitiful little over 10,000 resources. Although it was still a very generous number, it was more than four times less than what Nia's Naval Base had obtained, which was very disappointing.

When the ship girls reported this discovery back to the coast, for some reason, it attracted even more ship girl fleets.

Hey! You should have told me earlier that this thing could be used to get high scores!

The admirals' greatest hobby is challenging themselves. When they saw that the Black Tower not only rewards resources but also has a speed-running and score-chasing mechanism, another group of high-ranking admirals in Chapter 8 who didn't care much about resources but were full of competitive spirit and a desire for challenge also came to join in the fun.

There is really no way.

After all, no one in the world can resist the PVE speedrun scoring mechanism, especially since the rewards for this gameplay are particularly generous.

The ship girls who arrived this time were eager to fight and full of fighting spirit.