Elder brother's garrison

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"Admiral, what did you scan just now?" York quickly recovered from his shock and asked Xiaobai curiously, "Did you find any trace of the Deep Sea Dean?"

"Hmm... I haven't seen the results yet, I'll go check." Xiaobai closed her eyes and focused on recalling.

As soon as Xiaobai had a thought, a 3D map of the surrounding sea appeared in his mind.

This isn't the first time the Deep Sea Will has used its mental scanning ability. It's the Deep Sea Will's most useful exploration ability. Of course, while this ability is useful, it also has some drawbacks. The Deep Sea Will can only accurately search for ship girl units and deep-sea units through mental power, and it's almost useless for ordinary humans.

However, Xiaobai doesn't have any search needs for ordinary humans, so it can't really be considered a drawback.

Xiao Bai closed his eyes and scanned the surrounding sea map before opening them.

Before Xiaobai stood York and Baltimore, both looking on with anticipation.

"Admiral, how is it?" the two ship girls asked, covering their mouths.

"Hmm..." Xiaobai pondered for a moment, then shook his head regretfully, "There are no deep-sea creatures in the waters around here."

"Sigh—I knew it." York and Baltimore sighed in unison. "That makes sense. After all, the Admiral's Guild sent people to investigate. If there were deep-sea creatures, how could they not have detected them..."

"However, I didn't find any live deep-sea creatures, but I did find something else," Xiaobai said, changing the subject.

"Huh?!" York and Baltimore turned around simultaneously to look at Little White. "What is that?"

“I’m not entirely sure about the specifics, but during the scans on the Admiral’s Network, it seems that some things containing very trace amounts of deep-sea aura are scattered beneath the sea area where the Deep Sea Dean once appeared,” Xiaobai said. “The amount of deep-sea aura contained in those things is indeed extremely low, so low that even ordinary ship girls cannot easily detect it.”

"Oh?" York perked up immediately. "Where is it?"

"It's not very convenient to explain in words, so I'll just send it to you directly."

"Spread it? How do we spread it?"

"York, come here." Little White waved to York.

"Admiral?" York leaned closer.

Xiaobai extended her index finger and gently poked York's forehead.

A surge of information-rich mental energy entered York's mind, causing his shoulders to tremble involuntarily. He hissed, his face paling slightly: "So cold!"

Xiaobai's technique of transmitting information using mental power is certainly far inferior to that of the Deep Sea Will, so it's inevitable that it will cause some negative experiences. For example, after receiving Xiaobai's mental power, York felt a cold sensation in his mind and his thinking became sluggish.

However, very quickly, as if in response to stress, York's body began to heat up at a visible rate.

"Good! It's getting hot!" York breathed a sigh of relief, then nodded to Little White and said confidently, "Admiral! I know where those things are! I'll go get them for you right now!"

After York finished speaking, without waiting for Little White and Baltimore to dissuade her, she stretched her back and limbs in front of everyone, and then did a long jump, plunging into the cold seawater with a whoosh.

Gulu gulu gulu...

York's body sank rapidly, approaching the sea surface now filled with searchlights, and soon disappeared from sight.

Xiaobai and Baltimore waited in the same spot for about half an hour.

A fiery red figure emerged once again beneath their feet.

"Crash!!!"

York, radiating immense heat, emerged from the water. She hopped around twice, and a large amount of water vapor began to evaporate from her body. Soon, the seawater on her body dried up, leaving only a layer of fine salt crystals clinging to her skin and clothes.

"Wow! Winter swimming is so refreshing!" York shook his head, his orange hair sending silvery-white salt crystals flying as he swung it. Then he grinned at Little White and Baltimore, flashing a peace sign. "Admiral, Baltimore, I'm back!"

"York, you really are... decisive and efficient..." Xiaobai looked at York with a wry smile.

"Hehe, we'll have to go down and fish it out to see what it is anyway." York laughed nonchalantly, then reached into his pocket and rummaged around, saying as he did so, "Admiral, I just checked the underwater coordinates you gave me. When I got closer and tried to sense it carefully, I could indeed faintly feel a very, very faint deep-sea aura. If you hadn't pointed it out, I wouldn't have been able to detect it at all. However, the things containing the deep-sea aura are all very small, about the size of sand on the seabed. I couldn't collect that many, so I just grabbed a few handfuls."

As York spoke, he took something out of his pocket.

York spread his hands out for Little White and Baltimore to see.

Xiaobai and Baltimore went up to examine it closely, only to see that York was holding a handful of sand that had been dried by her intense body heat.

"This... is this sand from the seabed?" Baltimore asked, puzzled. "Where's the deep-sea scent?"

“Look closely,” York said, pointing to the sand in his hand. “It’s right there in the sand.”

"Oh?" Baltimore covered his mouth, squinted, and looked closely at the sand. "Hmm...ah, there really is!"

Baltimore then noticed that the handful of sand York had brought back contained tiny red particles scattered about. These red particles were almost the same size as the finest sand, so much so that Baltimore, the ship girl, couldn't spot them at first glance when they were mixed in with the sand.

“These little red particles…” Baltimore stretched out her finger, gently picked up a few with her fingertip, and held them up to Little White to look at. “What are these?”

"Hmm... It's too small to tell, but since it exudes the aura of the deep sea, it must have been left by the Dean of the Deep Sea," Xiaobai said. "In any case, let's preserve this sand for now."

"Oh!" York quickly pulled a bottle of mineral water from his ship's equipment space, gulped it down, then vigorously shook off the water droplets before pouring the mixture of sand and small red particles into the bottle and handing it to Little White. "Admiral, here you go!"

"Okay, thank you." Xiaobai put the bottle filled with sand into the ship's equipment space.

"Admiral, there's still a lot of sand mixed with these small particles down here. Is it alright to leave sand with deep-sea scents here?" York asked.

“The presence of those deep-sea auras is already very weak. They are so weak that they can’t even pollute the water source. Even if we leave them alone, they will dissipate on their own after a while,” Xiaobai said to York with a smile. “Besides, it’s so cold, I can’t bear to let you go into the water again.”

Chapter 2317 Metal Fragments

Now that this secret voyage has yielded results, there is no reason for Xiaobai and the ship girls to stay in this area any longer.

A considerable number of exploration ships were still lingering in the waters ahead. Xiaobai, York, and Baltimore carefully bypassed the waters ahead and returned to Peicheng under the cover of night.

Peicheng was still brightly lit at night.

Even when Xiaobai returned, fishing boats full of tourists kept setting sail, and the dock, illuminated in a golden light, was filled with the shouts of tourists and the cries of vendors.

"Freshly issued tickets! The eighth ferry departs tonight, originally priced at two thousand, now only three thousand per ticket!"

"You son of a bitch! You scalper! You've done all sorts of bad things!"

"I'd rather die, die out there, and never find Dean Deepsea again, than buy a single ticket from you scalpers!"

Don't miss out! If you miss this one, you'll have to wait five hours to catch the next one! Buy now and receive a rare gift!

"Braise! Give me one!"

"And me, and me!"

"Hey, didn't you just say you weren't going to buy tickets from scalpers?!"

"Even if I don't buy it, you'll still have to, right? This is like asking, 'If I don't go to hell, who will?'"

"Get out of here!"

At the dock, excited tourists surrounded the oxen, their hands forming a large net as they reached out and frantically tore at the oxen's clothes.

Fierce shouts rose and fell.

A large number of people were moving around.

Just as tourists were frantically scrambling for a single boat ticket, even to the point of fighting over it, three figures climbed from the sea onto the dock from a dark corner unnoticed by anyone.

Several tourists who had been squeezed out of the circle were looking at the sea of ​​people in front of them and cursing angrily when they suddenly seemed to hear footsteps beside them and subconsciously turned their heads to look at the edge of the pier.

Three girls were walking along the road at the dock toward the city.

As they walked, the three girls continued chatting as if no one else was around.

York, are you still cold?

"It's okay, I'm not cold at all. I'm very strong! Look! Isn't there not a drop of water left?"

"Hmm...it's definitely gone. But your skin feels a bit gritty to the touch."

"Those are salt grains left after seawater evaporates."

"Sigh... I'll give you a wash when we get back to the hotel."

"..."

The three girls chatted as they walked past the passengers and quickly disappeared from their sight.

The three girls were so stunningly beautiful that many travelers turned their attention to their backs.

Just then, another scalper started hawking boat tickets on the nearby dock.

"Freshly issued tickets! The eighth ferry departs tonight, originally priced at 2,000, now only 3,499 per ticket!"

"You son of a bitch, you scalper!"

"You wait, once I get a picture of the Deep Sea Dean, I'll make you millions!!"

The passengers were furious and cursed loudly, but they still responded to the call with great enthusiasm and started a new round of ticket scramble. Everyone forgot about the three girls who had just passed by them.

……

It's early morning.

Inside the hotel room, the bathroom door was wide open, and the sound of rushing water filled the air. Two snow-white, delicate bodies were faintly visible through the steam.

The sounds of Baltimore and York echoed in the bathroom.

"Wuhu, I feel so much better after taking a shower!"

"York, don't move around, you still have salt in your hair."

"Oh……"

"These salt grains are so hard to wash off, I've rubbed them three times already."

"That's it."

"Don't suddenly jump into the sea next time."

"Well, there's no other way, we can't exactly send the admiral down to retrieve it, hehe—let's make it easier... There's an opening, watch out!"

"Hey! Stop it!"

"Hahaha Baltimore! Eat my Blastoise Jet!"

"Bounce!"

"..."

The sounds of girls playing and splashing water, occasionally mingled with the splattering of feet and the rustling of towels against skin, seemed to conjure up a beautiful and alluring scene just by listening.

However, Xiaobai had no time to appreciate the beauty at that moment.

There was a table and chairs by the window in the hotel room. Xiaobai was sitting in the chair, staring intently at the plastic bottle in his hand, or more precisely, the sand inside.

Xiao Bai held up the plastic bottle and aimed it at the moon outside the window. He gently shook the sand inside the bottle a few times, and under the bright moonlight, tiny red lights shimmered among the pale yellow sand.

These grains of sand were brought back by Xiaobai from the seabed where the Deep Sea Dean once frequented.

This is the only thing in that sea area that can be definitively linked to the Dean of the Deep Sea.

Hidden within these seemingly ordinary grains of sand are a considerable number of tiny particles with the characteristics of the deep sea.

"This is the first time I've ever seen something like this... What could it be?"

While muttering to himself, Xiaobai unscrewed the bottle cap, found a piece of white paper and laid it flat on the table, then poured the sand from the bottle onto the white paper.

Xiao Bai carefully poked at the sand with his index finger, picked up a small red grain from the sand, and pulled it back to his eyes to examine it carefully.

These small red particles hidden in the sand are slightly larger than ordinary sand, about a third the size of a melon seed. Their outlines are not very smooth, and they are very hard. Even when Xiaobai used some of the power of the ship girls to squeeze these small red particles, she could not deform them.

"Pure red, hard, carrying a trace of deep-sea aura..." Xiaobai muttered to himself as he looked at the red particles in his hand. After a moment of contemplation, he brought them to his mouth and licked them with the tip of his tongue.

crunch.

A crisp sound came from Xiaobai's mouth.

"Hmm... it really is deep-sea ship equipment... but the individual pieces are too small, I really can't taste anything..." Xiaobai lowered her head and picked out a few more small red particles, finally gathering a small pile of red particles the size of melon seeds in her palm, then tilted her head back and put them into her mouth, chewing them with relish. "Hmm... hmm... this taste... sweet and sour... it is indeed the level of deep-sea dean's ship equipment, and it must have been formed a long time ago, not by a new deep-sea dean."

Xiao Bai swallowed the deep-sea ship equipment powder in its mouth, then licked its palm with lingering satisfaction.

Generally speaking, once a deep-sea creature dies, its body and ship equipment will naturally disintegrate in a short period of time. This is the basic premise of deep-sea creatures. However, if a deep-sea creature reaches the highest level of Deep Sea Dean form, then as long as the life force of its original body has not dissipated, the rate at which the ship equipment fragments it leaves behind are decomposed by the ocean will be greatly slowed down.

"At least we can confirm that those two Deep Sea Deans are still alive," Xiaobai muttered to himself, then sighed, "Sigh...this is so complicated."

Xiaobai folded the paper on the table in half, poured the sand off the paper back into the plastic bottle, and carefully tightened the cap.

"Whew! I'm done with my bath!"

With a sigh from York, York and Baltimore, who had finished showering, drying themselves, and changing clothes, walked out of the bathroom together.

York and Baltimore emerged from the bathroom in shorts and shirts, both still steaming from the water.

"Admiral, we're done washing up. Do you want to go wash up too?" Baltimore, still rubbing her red hair and her face flushed from the steam, took a few steps with her long, slender, snow-white legs as she came up behind Xiaobai.

"Okay, I'll go wash it in a bit." Xiaobai replied without blinking, while carefully checking the white paper for any remaining small red particles.

"Huh? Admiral, were you just checking the sand you brought back from the sea?" The sound of footsteps rang out. York, who had just finished showering, ran up behind Xiaobai and looked over Xiaobai's shoulder at the table.