All of a sudden, the merchants on the island began to talk about it, and someone secretly reported the victory to the headquarters of his own company by telegram.

Some people with bad intentions secretly recorded the scene of Bismarck and others returning injured with cameras, and then sent it to newspapers around the world as soon as possible.

This resulted in the plan of Richelieu and Rodney to return to the two BC islands being shelved after Bismarck and others had finally rested for a day.

Because Island A has welcomed dozens of caravans from all over the world, some of them are doing business, and some are like journalists.

In just one day, the reputation of the Xiguang Island Garrison spread throughout the world, and all seven major war zones received the news without exception.

The seven governors who had originally intended to suppress the commotion near Xiguang Island were now in a dilemma.

Because this battle was so stunning, it was impossible to continue hiding it. After much deliberation, the seven governors launched an unprecedented online governor’s meeting.

“Xiao Xiao, tell me what’s going on now. Everyone knows about it. I’m in an uproar here.”

Wang An had always disliked Major General Li Ran. After all, the scandal thirty years ago was a taboo in the Atlantic theater. He was embarrassed to see everyone paying attention to this new admiral again. Now, with the joint guarantee of Governors Xiao Xiao and Chen Yao, he finally agreed to restart the plan of exploring the unknown seas. However, at such a critical moment, such a big news came out again, which made him angry:

“Why does this new guy always make such a big fuss? Didn’t you tell him he would behave himself?”

Xiao Xiao looked at Wang An in front of the screen. His square face was a little angry, but he was very calm. He listened to what he said and then shrugged indifferently:

“Isn’t this bad news? We governors have been in a bit of a mess lately. Reports of deep-sea attacks on the golden routes of various war zones are common. Isn’t it good to have a newcomer to help us regain some of the people’s confidence? Don’t forget that those land countries are always trying to bring us down.”

Xiao Xiao’s words made Wang An feel his breath was choked, his face was uncertain. Indeed, the level of deep-sea activity in the seven major war zones has been somewhat abnormal recently. Although they have been suppressed, they are only suppressed. The garrisons of each war zone are still more than capable of defending the deep sea, but not aggressive enough. Let alone the battle record, it is already good enough to keep the larger Golden Route open. However, this news is too exaggerated. There are exaggerated reports such as a few ship girls annihilating hundreds of deep-sea. Obviously, public opinion has begun to become a little abnormal.

“Then we must also control public opinion. There are always some people who want to take advantage of the situation.”

Wang An thought about it and calmed down. Face was no longer important. What was important was the impact of this incident.

A new admiral suddenly brought good news when the deep-sea operations in the seven war zones were at a disadvantage. It can be said that all the seven governors were not very proud.

Xiao Xiao did not comment. He just wanted Wang An to calm down. The last incident had already touched the wound of the Governor of the Atlantic Theater, and he did not intend to be a lobbyist this time.

However, if he doesn’t take the responsibility, someone else will.

“Sorry, I’m late.” The face of Chen Yao from the Far East War Zone appeared on the screen. He was stunned to see that only Wang An and Xiao Xiao were seated.

“It seems that I am not the last one. What about the other four?”

“Hey, is everyone here?” A lazy blond man appeared on the conference monitor. He took a sip of coffee happily.

“With so many people suffering and hating each other, is it wrong to build it?”

“Good afternoon, everyone.” Then a noble lady wearing a white veil appeared, her voice revealing a hint of laziness.

“Fox spirit.” Behind the noble lady was a little loli in a black Gothic dress, who spoke with disdain without any politeness.

“Be quiet, everyone. What are you arguing about? It’s already so late!” An experienced man finally appeared. He scolded without any hesitation, and then said to Xiao Xiao:

“Let’s start the meeting and stop talking nonsense.”

As he spoke, the big man lit a cigar.

If someone saw this scene, they would definitely recognize that these seven people are the seven governors-general in the world today who have the highest voice and can sit on equal footing with the royal families of various countries on land.

And their reunion after many years was actually due to a small major general who instigated this seemingly calm storm.

So, what was Li Ran doing while the governors were holding their meeting?

Xiguang Island Tutelary Headquarters, noon.

After a day of rest, Li Ran decided to go to Mishima to confirm the situation. After all, they were all his ship girls, so it would be better to take a look.

However, in light of the lesson learned from the previous deep-sea raid, Li Ran only allowed Helena to go with him this time.

At Xiguang Wharf, Li Ran and Helena boarded a private yacht. Just as they were about to start, they heard a voice suddenly calling them:

“Master, please wait a moment.”

Li Ran was stunned for a moment, then he put down his hand that was starting the engine. He turned his head and looked at Shengwei, feeling a little strange:

“what happened?”

Reputation didn’t know how to answer for a moment. After dinner yesterday, Penelope told her about some speculations about Kent, and she had to confirm something for Kent. So she hesitated again and again, and finally spoke:

“Admiral, did you fail in construction before awakening Yixian?”

“You’re talking about this. Sorry, I forgot to tell you yesterday. It’s not a failure. The leader of the Ruoduo Fairy Clan told me that there should be a problem with the transmission of the construction device, so the ship girl I built might have been teleported to somewhere. It happens that you mentioned this matter. Please help me talk to Lexington and search the nearby waters when you have time to see if there is anything found. I’m a little worried.”

Reputation sighed, and then said to Kent who had been hiding aside:

“Come out.”

Li Ran was stunned for a moment, then looked in the direction of the voice, and saw the heavy cruiser Kent who had been hiding from him since she came to his garrison, holding the little tiger. He felt a little strange:

“Miss Kent?”

“Master, let me ask you again, are you sure that there is a malfunction in the construction device, not a construction failure?” Reputation looked at Kent hiding behind her. Although she was a little surprised that such a thing was too coincidental, she still had to confirm it at this point.

“Yes, Chief Ruo Duoruo said it himself. Oh, and the artificial intelligence of the construction device seems to have recovered. The artificial intelligence told me that. What’s wrong? Don’t you believe me?” Li Ran pretended to be angry and wanted to tease him, but he saw the serious face of Shengyu. He immediately felt something was wrong and spoke with a little caution:

“Reputation, you look too serious right now, is there something wrong?”

“Hey, Master, if I say that the ship girl you might have accidentally lost is right next to you, would you believe it?”

“What? You’re not talking about Lin Xian and the others, or Omaha? That’s impossible. They all came back with Helena, right, Helena???” Li Ran turned his head and wanted Helena to prove it for him, but he saw that Helena’s face was also serious. He panicked at this time:

“Come on, why are you two so serious? If I did something wrong, can’t I correct it? Why don’t you say something?”

Kent heard Li Ran mention the four Lin Xian sisters and Omaha, but not herself. The girl felt a little disappointed. She began to think wildly, but felt that she was pushed forward by a force. She heard the voice of reputation in her ears:

“Kent, go and confirm it. Use your intuition to feel whether the master is your builder. There are some things that you must decide for yourself. This is what you told me when you came to the island, right?”

“Sister Shengwang, I…” Kent was still a little timid. Although she felt that Li Ran’s breath was very comfortable, she was still afraid that her intuition would be wrong. However, when she saw the encouraging look on Shengwang’s face, she still hesitated and walked forward.

The little tiger Qiuqiu was originally listless, but when Kent approached Li Ran, he suddenly pounced on Li Ran’s head.

This scared Li Ran.

“There will be no mistake, Kent. You have to believe in Qiuqiu’s reaction.” Helena had a special chat with Kent last night. Qiuqiu is a ship-mounted pet and is relatively shy. Apart from the Goddess of Dawn, only Kent, the owner, can make Qiuqiu approach actively. Kent herself also said that Qiuqiu is the basis for her confidence in finding the builder.

Because ship-mounted pets have perception far beyond that of ordinary people, the ship girls that are built will have an almost invisible connection with the admirals who built them. The ship girls can only vaguely feel this connection, but the ship-mounted pets can discover it immediately.

Kent wanted to call Qiuqiu down, fearing that Qiuqiu would hurt Li Ran, but he saw that Qiuqiu was more docile than ever.

The beauty was frightened at first, because it was a tiger. But after waiting for a long time, she found that the little guy was lying on her head motionless. She mustered up her courage, took the little guy down, looked at Kent on the shore and said:

“Be more careful next time.”

Kent couldn’t stop crying when she saw Li Ran holding the ball like this and nothing happened.

Li Ran was dumbfounded. What was going on? He struggled to get up from the yacht, but he stumbled and fell directly into the water. The little tiger thought quickly and jumped onto Li Ran’s head, then jumped back to the pier on the shore.

“Admiral? Are you okay?” Kent and Helena spoke at the same time.

Shengwang watched Li Ran fall into the water, she secretly held her forehead in her hand, thinking that her master was really slow sometimes.

“puff……”

Li Ran poked his head out of the water and wiped the water stains off his face:

“It’s okay, thank you for your concern… No, Kent, what did you call me just now?”

“Admiral, this is the heavy cruiser Kent. It’s our first meeting. Please take care of me.”

Kent held the little tiger in her arms. She wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes and spoke in a low but firm tone.

Helena looked at Li Ran still struggling in the water, she sighed and said:

“Admiral, Kent is probably the ship girl that was teleported away due to a problem with your construction device. We found her thirty miles away from the sea where the battle took place a few days ago.”

Li Ran was confused. What was going on? Was this called a ship girl falling from the sky?

“Huh…hiss…it’s really a bit cold…” Li Ran climbed up the shore, looking a little embarrassed. Then she looked at Kent, who was nervous and scared. Although she didn’t know what was going on, since Helena and her reputation were like this, it couldn’t be fake. He tried to smile, his voice trembling because he had just fallen into the water:

“Welcome back to Hong Kong, Kent. I’m sorry for having treated you badly these days.”

Kent’s eyes widened, and then she immediately shook her head, put the little tiger on her head, and then walked to Li Ran and stretched out her hand:

“Admiral, if you don’t change your clothes, you’ll catch a cold.”

Looking at the girl who extended her hand, Li Ran felt a little embarrassed, but the girl looked sincere, so he still extended his hand and gently shook it, then took advantage of the situation to stand up:

“Well, I’m sorry to make you laugh.”

“Nothing, wait a moment, Master. I’ll go get some clean clothes.”

Chapter 264: Get out of my way!

Because Li Ran accidentally fell into the water, the plan to go to Island A to confirm the situation was put on hold for a while, about half an hour. After Li Ran changed his clothes and settled Kent, he and Helena finally embarked on this condolence trip.

However, because of this half hour, after Li Ran visited the BC Islands, he found that all the ship girls had gone to Island A. Fortunately, the merchants on the two islands were relatively well-behaved. He simply greeted the fairies in charge of managing the two islands and then left.

It is worth mentioning that Li Ran did not hire anyone else to help manage the BC Islands, but Richelieu and Rodney took in many hired ship girls who came here to work, most of whom were unknown ship girls.

It is precisely because of this that Richelieu and Rodney were able to bring all the ship girls to Island A for reinforcement.

Some people may ask why hired ship girls and unknown ship girls were not allowed to participate in the war at the beginning. There is a reason for that. If a large-scale deep-sea warship appears in the waters near each garrison, it is the responsibility of the garrison to clear these organized deep-sea warships, and it is not allowed to use the power of other than the garrison.

At that time, because the deep sea came too quickly, after Bismarck notified Li Ran, Li Ran could only ask all his ship girls to rush to Island A for reinforcement, and there was no time for 0 to send people to the Leiming Garrison for help, because it would definitely be too late.

That’s all for now, let’s get back to the topic.

After filling up the gas at Island B, Li Ran and Helena headed for Island A in the southwest waters. However, when they approached Island A, they found that the originally not-so-big dock was now packed with all kinds of ships.

“Helena, what’s going on?”

Li Ran was a little confused. Didn’t they say they were attacked by the deep sea? It was only one day ago, how come there were so many merchant ships?

“I don’t know, Admiral, but I don’t think it’s a bad thing.”

Helena was also a little dumbfounded.

“If I had brought Hai Erduo here earlier, I could have asked Bismarck about it.”

Li Ran was a little annoyed. He showed up this time because he was afraid that the main island of Xiguang Island would be attacked by the deep sea again, so he chose to hand over the Sea Ear Communicator to Lexington so that he could return to the rescue as quickly as possible in case of an emergency. After all, Xiguang Island was Li Ran’s base camp.

The three islands can be abandoned, but there must be no problems with Xiguang Island. This is the consensus between Li Ran and the ship girls.

But since the deep sea was repelled without any danger this time, this consensus no longer holds true, but the situation now seems to be even more difficult.

“Anyway, Admiral, let’s go to the island first.” Helena said, and then took out a set of clothes from the ship’s suit space:

“Well, luckily I’m prepared. Admiral, put on this outfit. Otherwise, I don’t think those people will give way.”

Li Ran felt a little warm in his heart as Helena took out the admiral uniform of the major general rank:

“Helena, thanks to you.”

As he spoke, he took the clothes and went to the fitting room to change.

Helena looked at Li Ran’s back, and he smiled gently, sighing softly in his heart:

Admiral, you seem to be getting more and more motivated, that’s great.

I think everyone over there would be very happy if they knew about this.

Helena thought about it, and suddenly felt her eyes sore, then she shook her head:

No matter what happened to the admiral in the past, the current admiral is left to me to protect. I will not let that happen again, I will never allow it!

“Hey? Helena, what do you think?” Li Ran felt that the clothes fit him well, but he had never worn it before. The process of being promoted to the rank of major general was not glorious, so he was somewhat resistant.

After all, he had been a soldier and attached great importance to honor. Although he knew that this so-called major general had nothing to do with the major generals in the army, he still felt a little uncomfortable.

When Helena heard Li Ran’s question, she gently wiped away the tears from her eyes. When she turned around, her face had returned to calm. She gently gathered the purple hair around her ears, then walked forward to re-tie Li Ran’s crooked tie, and said:

“That’s much better. Admiral looks quite handsome in formal attire sometimes.”

“Really? Haha, I think so too.” Li Ran smiled shamelessly, then noticed that Sui Jin’s face had calmed down:

“Now, let’s go over there with honor and hang out our flag!”

Helena nodded, then took out an iron box from the corner of the private yacht. Inside was a flag of the Xiguang Island Garrison. This was something that Reputation had specifically instructed before departure.

As for why there is a flag at the Xiguang Island Garrison, it is because Li Ran was promoted to major general.

Article 36 of the Admiral’s Headquarters stipulates that admirals at the general level are qualified to wear a flag, which represents the sovereignty of the garrison. After the sovereignty monument is erected on any unowned island, a garrison flag will be erected, which means that the place will always belong to the garrison where the flag is located.

The flag of the garrison on Xiguang Island is composed of two griffins surrounded by a circle of wheat ears. In the middle of the two griffins is a long sword that divides the flag into two parts. The background of the flag is black, white and red. This is of course due to the chivalrous sentiments of Richelieu, the Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Li Ran watched Helena climb to the top of the yacht with the flag in her hand. He stared at the crowded merchant ships ahead and a hint of nervousness flashed in his eyes.

Helena actually had no confidence that the merchants would make way when they saw the flag, but the power of this flag was beyond her expectations.

Almost at the moment when the flag was raised, many sailors of the merchants who were originally waiting to enter the port brought their stewards to the deck.