Elder brother's garrison

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"Anyway..."

"Admiral...would you like some more apples?" Changchun picked up the fruit knife and apples that were placed not far away and smiled shyly at Xiaobai.

"Okay, thank you for your help." Xiaobai leaned against the railing, looking somewhat relaxed, and smiled at Changchun.

“…Oh, that’s right.”

"Ok?"

"Speaking of which... I now understand why you took me to Kyoto, Admiral... But why did you take my sister from New Jersey with you, Admiral?"

"New Jersey?"

"Ah."

"Ah... well..." Xiaobai took the apple slice handed to her by Changchun, took a bite, and smiled mysteriously at Changchun, "I guess you could call it... a souvenir."

"?" Changchun asked curiously.

"It's so delicious, can you peel off another slice for me?" But Xiaobai didn't explain anything further to Changchun.

"Ah, yes, Admiral, please wait a moment, I'll get it to you right away..."

Xiaobai and Changchun made love in bed.

not far away.

New Jersey, who was fast asleep in bed, suddenly shrugged, frowned, and rolled around on the bed.

—Why does this dream suddenly not feel so good anymore?

Ella's family lived in a coastal city quite a distance from Kyoto. Even though Xiaobai took the fastest train, it took him a full day and night to arrive in Kyoto by noon the next day.

Just like when Xiaobai visited Kyoto before, after getting off at the train station, the streets were bustling with traffic and dense crowds. It wasn't until Xiaobai led Changchun and New Jersey along the roadside for more than an hour, away from the train station, that the pedestrian flow finally returned to a more normal and bustling state.

After finally finding a place to rest, Xiaobai and the ship girls sat on a bench by the roadside and caught their breath.

"Phew...it's so crowded...Is this Kyoto...?" Changchun sat on a bench, rubbing his knees, looking at the endless stream of pedestrians around him with a sigh, and sincerely exclaimed, "It's really amazing..."

"Changchun, is this your first time in Kyoto?" Xiaobai's voice came from beside me.

"This is actually my second time here... but the last time I came to Kyoto for ship equipment modification. I was picked up by a private car from the time I arrived in Kyoto until I left. This time I came by train in my own name, and I can finally feel the flow of people in Kyoto..." Changchun said with a sigh.

"Hmm... Did you visit this place last time you came to Changchun?"

"No... Although I spent half a month in Kyoto after the refit, I was mostly at the Ship Equipment Research Center familiarizing myself with the new ship equipment and providing data on the missile destroyer's equipment to the researchers. After providing the data, I rushed back to the naval base." Changchun suddenly smiled and looked at Xiaobai, "Hehe... I had just returned to the naval base and was planning to show off to Fubuki and the others, but I saw you, Admiral, at Fubuki's place... Eh? What are you doing, Admiral?!"

Changchun's eyes widened in surprise.

Suddenly, Xiao Bai pulled out a pair of comical, big-bearded glasses from somewhere and put them on his face, looking at Changchun with a serious expression.

"How is it?" Xiaobai tried to get Changchun's opinion.

"This... Admiral, what is this...?"

"Well... I used to be quite famous online..." Xiaobai scratched his head awkwardly. "When I was in a small city, not many people knew me, but Kyoto is a big city. Maybe some people here will remember me... It wouldn't be good if it caused trouble, so I'd better keep a low profile."

"Keep a low profile..." Changchun looked at the comical glasses on Xiaobai's face with a subtle expression.

From any perspective, this bearded man with glasses must be trying to increase his admiral's exposure, right?

Well... it's true that it's so comical that strangers wouldn't recognize the admiral at first glance.

Fine.

Who can blame them when they're the admiral?

Changchun sighed and said nothing more.

After resting on the bench for a while, Xiaobai and the other two rushed to the ship equipment research center without stopping.

The ship equipment research center in Kyoto is similar to the ship equipment research center in Ella's family. Both are located in relatively remote areas of the city. However, even in a big city like Kyoto, the remoteness is not that great. At most, there are fewer people.

With his big beard and glasses, Xiao Bai occasionally drew attention from passersby, but he still made his way back to the familiar ship equipment research center in a calm and peaceful manner.

"Hmm... these glasses work really well. Changchun, I'll wear them when we go shopping in Kyoto," Xiaobai said excitedly to Changchun.

"..." Changchun.

Changchun thinks.

Perhaps this date between me and the admiral will take an unexpectedly unconventional turn.

After putting away his glasses, Xiaobai went to the entrance of the Ship Equipment Research Center and registered. Normally, one cannot enter the Ship Equipment Research Center without important business, but Xiaobai is a world-renowned admiral, and the ship girls in the naval base have provided the Ship Equipment Research Center with a lot of valuable data. Therefore, Xiaobai is considered a semi-honorary member here. If he just wants to go in for a visit or chat with an acquaintance, the gatekeeper will give him face, and the people in the Ship Equipment Research Center will not stop him casually.

Since we're looking for Vesta at the Ship Equipment Research Center, we should naturally ask Yubari, a familiar face to Shiro, first.

Yubari seems to be doing quite well at the ship equipment research center. If Vestal is here, Yubari will most likely know her. I can ask Yubari to introduce me to Vestal. Given my close relationship with Yubari, Vestal will probably give me face.

That's right.

This is the legendary user of the Face-Face Fruit.

Xiaobai still remembered the location of Yubari's workshop. She led the ship girls towards Yubari's workshop, and every now and then Xiaobai would look back at New Jersey at the rear of the formation and suddenly smile.

Yubari has a strong need for the ship equipment data of the Iowa-class ship girls. Last time, just measuring the ship equipment data of the Missouri and Iowa made Yubari so excited...

Ok.

When Yubari sees that she has collected the last Iowa-class ship girl... what kind of excited expression will she have...?

I'm actually a little excited about it.

Chapter 1649 Weak and powerless!

The ship equipment research center in Kyoto covers a large area.

Under the bright sunshine, several tall buildings that reach into the sky stand side by side, resembling several tall, snow-white city walls behind the gate of the ship equipment research center.

Behind the high-rise building, on the private land belonging to the ship equipment research center, lies a rather large artificial lake. There are no decorative buildings on the lake, and its surface is as smooth as a mirror. With the midday sun shining brightly, the water shimmers and sparkles.

There are several port-like structures around the artificial lake.

Around these ports are rows of large, sophisticated instruments, flashing with colorful lights. Data streams flash across the screens, and researchers in white lab coats move among the instruments with laptops, recording the data.

Boom!

Boom!

Loud cannon shots rang out from the lake and echoed across its surface.

With the booming sound of cannons, several ship girls darted across the artificial lake. Cannon fire and torpedoes clashed and clashed, and as the figures swept past each other, bursts of dazzling orange sparks exploded on the water.

Whenever a series of booming cannon shots rang out from the lake, the sophisticated instruments set up by the port on land would quickly display several sets of numbers, keeping the researchers coming and going busy.

This artificial lake is a special training ground belonging to the Ship Equipment Research Center, used to measure and record the ship equipment strength of the ship girls.

Amidst the sophisticated instruments at the port, a slender figure in a white coat stood out among the many busy researchers.

She was a young woman with waist-length bright red hair. Compared to the other researchers busy among numerous precision instruments, this young woman stood out not only because of her towering figure and appearance, but also because she remained in a position where she could see the lake at a glance while keeping an eye on the measuring instruments around her, without moving an inch from beginning to end.

The young woman kept her head down, listlessly flipping through the folder in her hands. Occasionally, when a huge cannon shot came from the lake, she would symbolically look up and glance at the ship girls training on the lake, before lowering her head again and pouting her cherry-like lips.

"Dr. Yubari! These are the target ship girl's artillery firepower data!"

"Dr. Yubari! The mobility measurement of the target ship girl has been completed!"

"Dr. Yubari! The target ship girl's ship equipment level data has been collected, and the ship equipment reaction results are in!"

"Dr. Yubari..."

Behind the young woman, researchers working among sophisticated instruments approached, carrying their notebooks and folders, carefully handing her the information they had recorded from the instruments.

Compared to the young woman with long, fiery red hair and a youthful appearance, the researchers around her who were responsible for recording data were quite different in age and appearance—most of the researchers looked like middle-aged men or women in their thirties or forties, the kind of age where you could walk down the street with this young woman and call her father or mother without any sense of incongruity.

But even so.

Despite the significant age difference, the researchers surrounding the young woman, regardless of gender, gazed at her from behind with an expression of deep respect and reverence.

"Dr. Yubari! This time, the ship girls have provided us with a lot of valuable data!" A researcher said excitedly to Yubari's back, his arm holding the folder trembling with excitement. "With this data, we will definitely be able to research more directions for ship equipment modification and take a big step forward on the road to unlocking more ship girl technologies!"

"Oh." Compared to the excitement of the researchers around her, Yubari's reaction was much more subdued. She simply nodded, then picked up the folder handed to her by a researcher, glanced at it briefly, sighed slightly, and handed it back. "I saw it."

The researchers were taken aback by Yubari's coldness.

"...Dr. Yubari? Are you not satisfied with this data? Then...would you like to remeasure it?"

"It's okay, it's fine. There's still half of the test left, right? Let her continue."

Yubari shook her head, glanced down at her folder, and spoke to the researcher beside her.

The researchers exchanged glances and meekly returned to their respective instruments.

"Training continues!"

A researcher issued a command to the target ship girl on the sea, and a series of booming cannon shots immediately echoed across the sea.

Yubari listened to the cannon fire on the sea, held the data card in his hand, and sighed helplessly.

Yubari's data card contained an entire page of training data, densely and neatly marked, with a brightly lit name above it.

Iowa.

—These are the ship equipment data that Iowa measured when Yubari returned to the naval base for a visit last time.

As a professional ship equipment researcher, Yubari's expertise allows her to easily visualize, even just by looking at this page of data, the scene of Iowa piloting a beautiful white steel frame, speeding across the azure sea, using its high speed and maneuverability to evade enemy attacks, and bombarding the enemy's body with accurate and powerful shells, creating bursts of blazing flames.

For a true ship equipment enthusiast, powerful ship equipment stats are as captivating as erotic images.

This page contains near-perfect data on the Iowa-class battleships; it's impossible not to love it.

Especially when comparing the perfect data of Iowa on this page with the data of the target ship girl who was training on the lake in front of her, although the researchers around her were praising the training data created by the target ship girl, Yubari felt a sense of powerlessness from the inside out.

Ugh……

This is so boring.

About half an hour passed.

As the sound of cannon fire on the lake gradually faded, the training of the ship girls officially came to an end.

The target ship girl put away her ship equipment and hurried back from the center of the lake towards the port, panting heavily.

Port office.

The researchers responsible for recording the data greeted the ship girl with friendly smiles, holding white towels and sports drinks.

"Welcome, welcome! This ship girl, you've worked hard!"

"You've provided us with invaluable experimental data this time!"

"What a powerful and unrestrained artillery barrage! Absolutely devastating!"

"Thank you so much for your contribution!"

"You've really shown us something!"

"..."

The researchers were generous with their praise, giving the ship girls who came ashore a thumbs up and showering them with compliments.

The ship girl, panting as she returned to shore, looked at the researchers who had gathered around her, and couldn't help but smile smugly.

"I'm only offering you data for free this time because you guys helped me upgrade my ship equipment, and I'm taking advantage of the time I'm familiarizing myself with the equipment's training level." The ship girl accepted the towels and drinks from the researchers and gave them a proud look. "I'm very busy, and opportunities like this are rare, so you'd better cherish this one."

The researchers exchanged somewhat awkward smiles as they observed the ship girl's reaction.

The ship girl in front of everyone was a ship girl who had just undergone ship equipment modification at the Ship Equipment Research Center. Because she had just received brand-new ship equipment, she stayed at the Ship Equipment Research Center for a period of training courses in order to familiarize herself with the use of the new ship equipment, and also provided some ship equipment data to the Ship Equipment Research Center.

—These researchers were actually the same researchers who were in charge of modifying the ship girl's equipment.

When this ship girl first arrived at the ship equipment research center to receive the modification, she was quite polite to the researchers present. However, after the modification was successful and she gained greater power, she was momentarily blinded by the pleasure brought by the increase in strength. This ship girl began to unconsciously swell her ego, her mentality became inflated, and she became a little carried away.

However, this situation is actually quite common, and the researchers present, having been ship equipment modification engineers for so long, have gotten used to it.

"So? How did my stats go this time?" The ship girl opened a sports drink and asked the researchers in front of her casually, "In your records, do I rank first in the stats I achieved today?"

"Well... your data is quite impressive. In recent years, while you might not be number one, you should at least be in the top ten." The researchers exchanged glances, thought for a moment, and then said to the ship girl with great emotion.

In the researchers' minds, this achievement was already quite remarkable.

At least within the current ship girl fandom, this is already considered a modest achievement.

"Isn't there a first place?" But these words made the ship girl frown, revealing a less-than-happy expression. "Who's first?"

“Well…” the researchers smiled awkwardly. “Sorry, the training results are confidential to others, in order to protect their privacy.”

"It doesn't matter if my words aren't kept secret." The ship girl shook her head, thought for a moment, and looked up at the researchers, saying, "...Which naval base is the first one? Can you tell me that? It must be a very famous naval base, right?"