Elder brother's garrison

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"If only it were like in the TV dramas, where someone gets a needle stuck in their head, then they could just pull it out and be fine," Hu De said regretfully.

“How can something as delicate as the brain be punctured with a needle?” Lexington said.

The ship girls moved to a different spot and continued studying Deep Sea Musashi's body.

Deep Sea Musashi's regenerative abilities are quite strong. When he was transported back to the yard from the sea, many of the small wounds on his body had already scabbed over. However, during the exercise just now, all of those small wounds broke open again, and blood trickled down the wounds, making him look particularly pitiful.

"If it's not an external problem, it must be an internal one," Akagi said slowly after thinking for a while.

"in?"

“Didn’t you tell me that the Deepsea Abyssal Ships have something called spiritual power?” Akagi said to Lexington.

“Yes, Xiaobai told me.” Lexington looked at Xiaobai.

"It was Yamato-neechan who told me," Shiro said, raising her hand.

All eyes turned to Yamato.

"I said it, so what?" Yamato Shinkai said, brushing the dust off his clothes.

The theory about mental power is that when Xiaobai first met Deep Sea Yamato, Deep Sea Yamato mistook him for the Deep Sea Dean, and Xiaobai accidentally let slip the secret. However, this Deep Sea hero had long since let go of his inhibitions, so it didn't matter whether those Deep Sea secrets were revealed or not.

"Let's go check if there's anything wrong with your mental strength," Akagi said.

"Looking at mental strength...that makes sense." Lexington pondered for a moment. "How do you look at mental strength?"

“This is very simple, isn’t it? Don’t we just happen to have someone here with supernatural abilities that are similar to mental power?” Akagi said.

Xiao Bai suddenly felt that all the ship girls in front of him were looking at him.

"Huh? Me?" Xiaobai pointed to herself.

“It’s you,” Lexington said. “Surely everything will be alright?”

"Hmm... mental power..." Xiaobai thought for a while. The mysterious concept of mental power was something that Deep Sea Yamato had told him. As a human, only the Admiral Network could be associated with this thing.

Thinking about it, I realized I had once brought Deepsea Yamato into my mental world, so I guess that's how it's used.

"I'll give it a try." Xiaobai looked at Deep Sea Musashi lying on the ground and felt sorry for her, so she nodded and agreed, "If it's the kind of thing I did with Yamato-neechan before, it should be fine."

“Just get out of there if you encounter danger. Be careful,” Lexington said.

"It's alright, who can hurt her in her mental world?" Yamato Akagi said nonchalantly. As someone who had experienced Shiro's mental world, she was quite confident in Shiro's strength as an admiral.

Xiaobai squatted down next to Deep Sea Musashi and reached out to touch Deep Sea Musashi's forehead.

Xiaobai closed his eyes, and the Admiral's Network spread out, seeping into Deep Sea Musashi's body.

……

A cool breeze carrying the fragrance of flowers wafted over me.

When Xiaobai opened its eyes again, what it saw was a familiar grassland with no visible boundaries.

It seems I have returned to my own mental world.

Little White was standing in the waist-high grassland, the soft and rough grass blades brushing against his skin, sprinkling dewdrops onto his palms.

Xiao Bai turned around.

Behind me, a small brown tree with colorful, unnamed flowers stood.

This is the fourth time Xiaobai has entered her own mental world. She still remembers that next to this tree, her ship equipment was buried in the lush grass like an ancient sculpture.

However, when she looked in the direction of the ship's equipment this time, she was surprised to find...

The place where the ship's equipment used to lie has now become a large open space.

My ship equipment lay in the middle of the open space, with white, blue, purple and red patterns extending down from it and blending into the earth.

The light swirled like smoke, with purple lightning, blue ice flowers, and red flames appearing and disappearing amidst the white light, like a battery accumulating a large amount of energy.

—What exactly happened to my ship's equipment?

"Who are you? Where is this?" Just then, the girl's questions drew Xiaobai's attention away.

"Ah, Musashi-neechan, this is my spiritual world...you...eh?!" Shiro was about to explain when she suddenly realized that the voice did not belong to Deep Sea Musashi.

Sure enough, as Xiaobai's gaze shifted, she discovered that a slender, dark figure of a young girl was floating in front of her, staring back at her.

Chapter 428 Your life is like a candle flickering in the wind!

It was a dark figure, shrouded in smoke. Black smoke continuously emanated, gathered, and clung to her body, obscuring Xiaobai's face. However, her figure could still be vaguely discerned.

She is not tall and appears petite, but her figure is not like that of a child. She looks like a scaled-down adult with slender and long arms and legs and elegant curves.

"Uh...who are you?" Xiaobai asked the person in front of her.

The dark figure floating in mid-air seemed to be looking at Xiaobai at this moment. She was silent for a while, and her whole body floated in mid-air for a long time before slowly asking, "Didn't you bring me here?"

"Huh?" Little White pointed to himself. "Me?"

"Isn't this your mental space?" The dark figure snorted softly, then looked around. "Human."

Xiao Bai looked at the dark figure with an extremely embarrassed expression.

Xiaobai's mental world can indeed pull nearby Abyssal Fleet ships into it. For example, during a previous opening, Abyssal Yamato was brought in by Xiaobai. This time, Xiaobai was simply bringing Abyssal Musashi in as Abyssal Yamato had instructed.

Logically, it should have been able to bring Deep Sea Musashi in, but for some reason, it was this dark shadow that came in.

—If, as Deepsea Yamato says, the image projected by mental energy is the self in one's mind, then is Deepsea Musashi's self a dark shadow?

Xiao Bai looked at the figure carefully again and again.

Even if the image of oneself in one's mind is a dark shadow, it shouldn't change one's voice. This voice sounds much younger to Xiaobai than that of Deep Sea Musashi, and has nothing to do with Deep Sea Musashi at all.

"I originally intended to bring Musashi-neechan in, but I didn't expect to bring you in instead. I'm really sorry." Xiaobai sincerely apologized to the shadowy figure. "I'll undo it in a bit, please wait a moment."

"Musashi?" The shadowy figure's voice wavered slightly upon hearing Shiro's voice. "You know Musashi?"

"Yes, that's right." Shiro nodded. "Musashi-neechan is lying in my naval base right now."

"Are you the Admiral?" The shadowy figure looked at Little White, her tone clearly showing hostility. She reached up and tapped her forehead. "Humans are getting more and more hopeless."

"..." Xiaobai looked at the dark figure awkwardly, not knowing what to say.

The dark figure slowly landed on the ground and walked up to Xiaobai. Only then did Xiaobai realize that the girl in front of him was not much taller than him.

"Are humans out of talent? It's your turn, an immature brat, to be the admiral?"

"Who! Who hasn't been weaned yet! I've been eating normal rice!" Xiaobai's face immediately turned red.

The shadowy figure shook its head, seemingly quite dissatisfied with Xiaobai's somewhat unsteady reaction.

"Put Musashi back," the shadowy figure said to Shiro.

"what?"

"I'll say it again, put Musashi back." The shadowy figure said to Shiro, "She's my subordinate. If you don't want to die, put her back."

"..." Xiaobai looked at the dark figure strangely for a few moments, "Um, may I ask who you are...?"

Deep Sea Musashi is already the Dean of the Deep Sea. According to what Xiaobai knows, and also what Deep Sea Yamato said, the Dean of the Deep Sea is already the top creature in the Deep Sea Fleet. No one should be able to surpass them.

But the dark figure in front of him said that Deep Sea Musashi was his subordinate.

Xiao Bai suddenly became curious about her identity.

"Me?" The shadowy figure raised its hands with satisfaction, stretching them out to its side. "I am the king of the deep sea, the will of the deep sea's resentment. The end of all things, the being that brings death to humanity!"

"Pfft." Xiaobai covered her mouth and burst out laughing.

"Hey, what are you laughing at!"

"Oh, I'm so sorry, I just accidentally thought it was so cringeworthy, and then... I'm sorry..." Xiaobai quickly coughed lightly and looked apologetically at the dark figure.

The shadowy figure remained silent for a long while, seemingly staring intently at Little White.

Unfortunately, Xiaobai couldn't see the shadowy figure's eyes, so he could only stand awkwardly alongside it.

"Um...excuse me, are you the will of resentment from the deep sea?" Xiaobai had no choice but to ask.

"Hmm." The shadowy figure immediately lost interest.

"Um... well, why does Musashi attack Yamato with her claws bared whenever she sees her?"

"Hmm? Yamato is with you too?" the shadowy figure said, instantly closing in on Shiro.

Xiao Bai took a step back and then nodded sheepishly.

"Heh." Black God shook his head slightly, then nodded. "Interesting."

"...Miss Deep Sea Will?" Xiaobai asked cautiously.

"I did it."

"what?"

“I did it,” the Deep Sea Will said. “When I gave Musashi power and knowledge, I just left something behind.”

Xiao Bai was stunned: "How did you do that?"

"Why should I tell you?" the Deep Sea Will retorted. "But you, did you understand what I said? Put Musashi back."

“…Hmm, I’m afraid that won’t work,” Xiaobai refused.

Musashi had already entered the naval base and was being held captive there by Yamato. Lexington and the others had agreed, so how could Shiro possibly let Musashi go back?

"Human, you may not understand how precious it is for you to hear me speak to you so kindly." The shadowy figure snorted heavily, and the black aura around its body rapidly gathered. "My patience is very limited."

"..." Xiaobai took a few steps back. She felt that the dark shadow was really a bit scary. "...This really won't do."

As soon as she finished speaking, the dark figure stretched out her slender arm and slapped Xiaobai across the face.

With a deafening roar, as if a cannonball had struck a plain, the powerful explosion, accompanied by a tremendous gust of wind, erupted in front of the dark figure.

The hurricane spread rapidly, bowing down the thick, waist-high grass of the entire grassland.

This is the slap that the Deep Sea Will used to teach Deep Sea Musashi a lesson.

Its power was so great that it could even knock Abyssal Musashi out of her ship's equipment. If this slap were to land on a human, Abyssal Will was confident that it could crush a healthy young girl into a pile of minced meat.

The explosion came and went quickly; soon, the bombardment emanating from the will of the deep sea subsided.

"Huh!?" The Deep Sea Will stared in shock at the unharmed Little White in front of it.

Not to mention a pile of minced meat, Xiao Bai wasn't even a hair out of place, wasn't injured at all, and didn't even turn his head.

The Deep Sea Will's hand was blocked by a mysterious air wall as it reached Xiaobai. No matter how hard the Deep Sea Will tried, it couldn't advance even an inch.

"...This is my spiritual world," Xiaobai said shyly to the Will of the Deep Sea. "Well...to put it simply, I'm the boss here."

If we compare Xiaobai's mental world to a game, then Xiaobai is the highest administrator in this game, the GM. All other beings are at most players. No matter how high the damage a player deals or how much money they spend, they can't harm a single hair on the GM's head.

The Will of the Deep Sea withdrew its hand: "No wonder you're so arrogant, not even taking me seriously. Do you think you can do whatever you want just because you own the spiritual world?"

"Huh? I didn't... Please don't be angry..."

"Do you think I can't take over your mental world?!"

"Eh?!?!?!?!"

Seeing Xiaobai's shocked expression, the Will of the Deep Sea finally cheered: "Hahaha, didn't expect that, did you! Are you the only one with a spiritual world? I have one too!"

As the Will of the Deep Sea spoke, she floated into the sky, spreading her arms and legs wide and shouting, "I've been playing in the spiritual world for hundreds of years longer than you! Human! Using this ability in front of me is your biggest mistake! The spiritual world? In the end, it's still just the spiritual world! As long as my spiritual power far surpasses yours and can crush your existence, then this world will be under my control!"

As the deep-sea resentment spoke, the black aura around its body emanated and spread in all directions.

The black energy seemed to have gained sentience, seeping into the space and taking root, clinging to it like tree roots.

At this moment, Xiao Bai also felt that something was indeed beginning to wrap around his body, as if someone was taking something away from him.

"Once I seize control of this mental world, I'll slap you a hundred times! I'll hang you up and beat you! I'll show you what the terror of the deep sea is! Hahahaha..."

The will of the deep sea felt that this human girl looked down on her. Although she, as the queen of the deep sea, would not bother with a little girl, she would not simply let Xiaobai go.

You look down on me, huh? You think you're so great? You think you're so high and mighty ... Well, I, the Will of the Deep Sea, will show you today what it feels like to have everything you rely on turn out to be nothing but bubbles!

"Your life is as fragile as a candle flickering in the wind!" The will of the deep sea stared at Little White with satisfaction in mid-air, mocking him wantonly. "Try your best to resist! I want to see your expression after you see that everything is just a mirage and taste despair!"

"Ah, so it's possible to struggle?" Xiaobai was stunned.

She felt the strange sensation of the needles wrapping around her body, shrank her neck, and then struggled a little.

"Hmph! Try your best to resist! It's all in vain anyway..."

With a "snap!", Xiaobai tore off the things wrapped around its body.