Elder brother's garrison

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The seat cushions are warm and cozy.

Xiao Bai enjoyed changing his posture, raised his hand to hold the mouse, and smiled as he clicked on the computer screen...

In the dark hall, the stark white lights and colorful displays reflected hundreds of videos in Xiaobai's pupils, flashing by. Xiaobai's expression remained unchanged from beginning to end.

……

About ten minutes later, the Divine Eagle returned to Little White with two large stacks of documents, totaling over a hundred copies.

"President Lu Lin, these are the documents you requested... I've brought over an overview of all the documents the Admiral has been handling for the past week."

"Okay, thanks." Xiaobai put down the mouse, placed his hand on the file, fiddled with it a few times, and looked at it.

Shenying slowly shrank down next to Xiaobai. She first watched Xiaobai flipping through the documents, then subconsciously raised her gaze to the computer screen in front of her.

The Divine Eagle paused for a moment upon seeing the screen in front of Xiaobai.

What Shenying saw on Xiaobai's computer desktop was a whopping hundreds of shrunk monitoring windows...

These windows are playing footage captured by surveillance cameras at an extremely fast speed. Because of the sheer number of windows, each window is only a few square centimeters in size, and there are folds and overlaps between the windows.

Is this... checking surveillance footage?

The divine eagle was stunned for a long time, looking slightly bewildered.

Even for Shenying herself, monitoring a dozen or so cameras simultaneously is her limit, but Xiaobai monitoring hundreds of cameras at the same time is simply too much...

Moreover, looking at the way the camera windows were arranged, Shenying even had a feeling that Xiaobai didn't need to place so many windows. The reason she placed hundreds of windows was simply because the computer screen was only so big and there wasn't enough room for any more.

So many windows... how can you possibly see them all?

Shenying understood Xiaobai's desire to see more surveillance cameras. After all, the Skynet system was so vast that even if the other side came prepared, as long as they were willing to thoroughly investigate, they would likely be able to find some clues in a few of the tens of thousands of cameras.

However... the reason why Shenying didn't check so many cameras was because there were only two of them, Shenying and Xiaobai. Even if they had two more pairs of eyes, checking dozens of cameras would be the limit. Luo Yingying had only been kidnapped for less than a night and was in the golden period of rescue. Every second wasted was a huge loss, and Shenying simply couldn't spare that much time to thoroughly check the cameras.

As the divine eagle pondered, its gaze returned to Little White.

Xiao Bai was currently flipping through Luo Yingying's information.

"...President Lu Lin, have you found anything?" Shen Ying asked.

"Yes, there is," Xiaobai replied while flipping through the documents.

"So... then if not, then I..." Shenying lowered her head, about to say something, but suddenly paused, continuing to look at Xiaobai, "...Have you found anything?"

"Okay." Xiaobai nodded, pointed to the contents of the surveillance video, and continued to flip through the documents, "Take a look at the videos from these four cameras: G18, G91, F62, and H43. I've paused them all."

Shenying turned to look at the computer screen.

Because Xiaobai brought up so many pop-ups at once, she didn't even notice that four of them were paused.

Shenying picked up the mouse and spent half a minute finding the corresponding camera video.

These four cameras are likely located on several streets near where Luo Yingying disappeared, and they are not very close to each other.

However, one of the cameras had been carefully searched by Shenying before, but nothing was found.

Suppressing her doubts, Shenying carefully reviewed the paused time periods of the four cameras several times. After looking around, she found nothing, so she turned to look at Xiaobai.

"President Lu Lin, are there any special clues in these four cameras?"

"Hmm—" Xiaobai put down the file and looked at Shenying. "Miss Shenying, didn't you notice that there are similar people in these cameras?"

"...?"

Seeing that the divine eagle was still confused, Xiaobai reached out and tapped on the video feeds of the four cameras one by one.

"here."

Xiaobai first pointed to the center of the first camera, where a ship girl was tilting her head and chatting with her companions.

"And here."

Xiaobai then pointed to the second camera, pointing to a ship girl walking alone in the corner.

"And here."

Xiaobai finally pointed to a camera showing a ship girl buying groceries on the street.

"..."

Shenying stared blankly in the direction Xiaobai pointed, and then she realized that the three ship girls were actually the same person.

Although the posture and the angle facing the camera are different, if you look closely, you can indeed tell from her attire and movements that it is the same person... even though she is in a crowd and it is not obvious.

When checking the cameras earlier, Shenying was so focused on finding suspicious ship girls that she didn't notice this situation at all.

...No, rather, it's hard to imagine accurately finding the same person appearing in several locations among hundreds or thousands of people captured by cameras.

Is the president's gaze... like that of a precision machine?

The eagle looked at Little White with a strange expression.

“The locations of these cameras are not on the same route, and judging from the time shown in the cameras, this ship girl seems to have taken a long detour to get here,” Xiaobai said. “Her companions also disappeared before… But I have seen her route, and judging from her speed, based on the timeline, she should have passed through that alley and stayed there for a while during the time when Miss Yingying disappeared.”

"..." Shenying stared blankly for a while, then subconsciously looked at the fourth camera, "Then... what about the fourth one?"

Shenying pointed to the fourth camera and asked.

The camera did not capture the image of the ship girl.

"She's here." Xiaobai pointed her fingertip at the top right corner of the screen, just a tiny spot the size of a grain of rice. "She's here."

"...What...can I see here?" Shenying looked over, looking confused. She only caught a glimpse of half a fleeting figure.

“Look at her hands,” Xiaobai said. “This passing ship girl has a pink pearl bracelet on her hand, and her sleeves are light blue. The nail on her ring finger is longer than the others, and she likes to touch the nail on her ring finger with her thumb. This feature is the same as the rest of her.”

"..." The Divine Eagle looked over, stared at the blurry lens for a while, and nodded thoughtfully.

After thinking for a moment, the Divine Eagle looked at Little White again.

"However... it's not uncommon for ship girls to act suspiciously. Some ship girls like to wander around the streets when they're not on missions."

"That's what I mean, so I found more than twenty ship girls who had similar behaviors in one go," Xiaobai said calmly.

"……How many?"

“More than twenty, to be precise, twenty-three,” Little White smiled at the Divine Eagle.

"...Just during that period of time?"

“Yes, there wasn’t enough time, so we could only find these.” Xiaobai shook her head, took out Luo Yingying’s work files, and continued, “Judging from the footage of Miss Yingying’s disappearance, it seems that Miss Yingying knew the ship girls who kidnapped her… or perhaps the admiral they served. Otherwise, she wouldn’t have walked into the alley on her own. Analyzing from this point of view, the person who kidnapped Miss Yingying is probably someone Miss Yingying met recently. And Miss Yingying is a reliable subordinate who is always focused on work and hardly does anything else. So I think she and the person who kidnapped her must have met through work and had a conflict with each other… Oh right, the reason I think this is someone Miss Yingying met recently is mainly because Miss Yingying usually goes to and from get off work alone and seems quite unguarded. If she had met earlier, she might have been kidnapped much earlier.”

Finally, Xiaobai waved the documents in his hand at the Divine Eagle.

"Just investigate Miss Yingying's recent work data backups, and who she and her department have been receiving recently. We can also retrieve the ship girl information for those people's naval bases and compare it with the twenty-odd suspicious ship girls in the recent camera footage. That should help us find some admirals who are highly suspicious." Xiaobai said, pulling a thin document from the thick stack of files, and continued with a smile, "It's very simple, right?"

"..." Divine Eagle.

Looking at Xiaobai's relaxed and cheerful smile, Shenying felt a great sense of security, but at the same time, some sweat appeared on her forehead.

Chapter 3526 Kidnapping

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Consciousness slowly awoke from the hazy darkness.

The five senses returned to the limbs and torso.

Luo Yingying's breathing quickened for a moment, and with a rapid thumping of her chest, she opened her eyes.

It's so dark, I can't see anything.

The first thing this body felt was the intense feeling of being bound by thick hemp ropes. She felt her feet being tightly bound by thin ropes, her hands being pressed behind her back, her wrists pressed together, and her whole body could only maintain a weak, girlish sitting posture, with her head down and leaning against the wall, motionless.

Then, Luo Yingying heard the crackling sound of a furnace fire burning, and the firewood gradually carbonizing in the flames.

Snap...thud...snap...

As the sound of burning flames surrounded her, a warm breath continuously emanated from one side, and Luo Yingying felt an unpleasant sensation of excessive warmth, even a burning and stuffy feeling, on the left side of her body, especially her left cheek.

……broken.

If you bake it like that, your makeup will be ruined...

The first thought that flashed through Luo Yingying's mind was how she would maintain her meticulously prepared makeup every day under such circumstances.

However, Luo Yingying quickly stopped caring about it.

Because of the feeling of restraint on her body, Luo Yingying quickly remembered her situation.

Oh, right.

It felt like I had been kidnapped.

Luo Yingying tried to turn her head, and she continued to try to open her eyes and look around. Then she realized that a thick black cloth had been covered her eyes, making her vision completely dark.

"Ugh……"

Luo Yingying tried to move, but her body was bound very tightly, and she herself didn't know how long she had been bound in this suffocating position. Although she had some feeling in her limbs, her legs were tightly bound together, and her hands were restrained at her lower back. What Luo Yingying felt more was numbness and weakness caused by prolonged inactivity, which made her completely powerless to try to break free from her restraints.

Judging from the hunger pangs in my stomach, it's probably been no more than half a day since I fainted.

Thankfully, I didn't have to sleep all day.

Luo Yingying felt fortunate.

But soon Luo Yingying became somewhat depressed again.

That being said, this will still... probably affect my work schedule tomorrow...

Luo Yingying felt that she might be obsessed with working, because she was still thinking about work at a time like this.

At this point, I should consider how to save myself...

With her eyes covered, Luo Yingying's vision was completely black, and she could only confirm her location by listening.

Apart from the sound of the campfire, everything else was quiet. The texture under my legs was hard and smooth, with a distinct wood grain, indicating that I was locked in an indoor room.

Thinking of this, Luo Yingying tried to recall her memories before she was kidnapped.

Luo Yingying fainted after being kidnapped, when someone covered her mouth and nose with a handkerchief soaked in a chemical with a strong, pungent odor. This kind of scene often happens in novels and TV dramas, and Luo Yingying had seen it a few times before, but she never thought she would have the chance to experience it herself...

Luo Yingying shook her head, and she carefully recalled what had happened before she fainted.

If I remember correctly, when I left the Admiral's Guild today, because the workload was relatively light and I could see the sun before leaving, I planned to buy half a roast chicken on the way back to the inn to eat while looking at the guild reports and relax. However, when I was passing through a certain alley on my way home, I thought I heard someone calling my name from the alley...

Thinking of this, Luo Yingying's blindfolded face revealed a strange, indescribable expression.

After entering the alley, Luo Yingying did see some familiar ship girls.

Those ship girls were subordinates of a certain admiral whom Luo Yingying had received several times in the past few days while working at the admiral's guild. Because of the guild's business dealings during this period, the two sides had interacted a few times, and Luo Yingying had become familiar with those ship girls.

In Luo Yingying's memory, these ship girls were usually very sensible and well-behaved, and the two sides got along quite well. Therefore, she did not guard against these ship girls. When they called her, although she was curious about their clothes and location, she still went in.

However... the moment she entered, she was suddenly pulled close by the ship girls. Before she could react, she smelled a very strong chemical odor coming from her mouth and nose, and then her consciousness flew away.

This is the whole story of how Luo Yingying was kidnapped.

Luo Yingying didn't know what happened after that. She slept soundly after feeling dizzy and has been asleep ever since. It's probably already dark outside.

Luo Yingying frowned, a strange look of doubt appearing on her fair face.

In the end... why was I kidnapped?

Those ship girls who kidnapped her... should have been following the orders of the admiral to whom they belonged, but according to Luo Yingying's memory, she shouldn't have had any conflict of interest with this admiral.

Rather, it's more accurate to say that not only was there no conflict of interest, but the cooperation was actually quite pleasant...

Even the Admirals' Guild in Chapter 8 has its own performance targets. These targets refer to the amount of Deep Sea Metal that Admirals must exchange for Merit Points within the chapter's sea area. These are requirements assigned by the Admirals' Headquarters and must be met and submitted by the Admirals' Guild every so often.

Since there are sales targets, there are naturally so-called "top salespersons".

In Luo Yingying's memory, the admiral who kidnapped Luo Yingying should be the "top sales admiral" recently. His naval base has been the best in the world in terms of the number of expeditions completed and the amount of deep-sea metal handed over. He has won the title of top sales in the sea area several times in a row. It was for this reason that Luo Yingying received this admiral, gave him a generous reward for being the top sales admiral, and personally encouraged and thanked him for everything he had done for the admiral's guild.

—Isn't this a conflict-free situation?

Luo Yingying thought to herself, feeling a strange feeling in her heart.

She remembered that during her previous encounters with this top-performing sales leader, he had always been polite and courteous, showing no signs of harboring resentment towards her. Furthermore, the rewards and compensation she had given him were always at the highest possible level. Luo Yingying had also been extra careful with her words and actions, striving to be gentle, considerate, sincere, and kind, without displaying any arrogance despite her position second only to the leader in the sales guild. Therefore, logically and emotionally, this person shouldn't have any complaints against her…

That's really strange...

Could it be... that this admiral is not satisfied with his current treatment and wants to advance further?