Chapter 563: Ella Calls
Iowa doesn't like crowded big bathhouses, and prefers to take a bath alone in a big bathtub at home. Today, he soaked in the bathtub sprinkled with roses for a long time, and finally walked down the stairs wrapped in a big bath towel.
Iowa walked into the living room, playing with her long, slightly damp hair that fell on her shoulders. She saw her two younger sisters, Missouri and Wisconsin, sitting on the sofa, one on each side, leaning on the armrests. Missouri was watching a movie, with the TV remote next to her. Wisconsin was playing with her phone, looking at the screen and smiling cunningly.
Iowa sat down on the sofa between her two sisters, crossed her legs, picked up a fashion magazine from the coffee table, opened it and said casually, "Is New Jersey not back yet?"
It's almost 11 o'clock at night now. As the elder sister, I care about my younger sister.
"No." Missouri answered. She stared at the TV screen, thinking that the actress was beautiful and had a hot body, but her acting was terrible. It was an old habit. When there were so many actors, every time I watched a movie, I would unconsciously learn from their acting skills, or find faults.
"I haven't seen her since noon." Wisconsin glanced toward the French window. The quiet beach was illuminated by the lights from the eaves, and the dark sea was rising and falling.
"She didn't run away from home again." Iowa said. She was really scared of her sister. It was not right for two sisters to live together. If she ran , others would talk about her. "She ran away to Guam, North House, West Virginia or somewhere else."
"Let's fight." Wisconsin is now busy inciting everyone in the group to attack the admiral together on Halloween, or to instigate the British to scare the Germans, and the American and Japanese to fight. Anyway, you can't attack each other at ordinary times, but it doesn't matter if you scare people on Halloween, "If you break their legs, they won't run around."
Iowa glanced at Wisconsin and said, "How can you talk like that? That's your sister."
Wisconsin just hummed, fingers typing rapidly on the keyboard.
Where has New Jersey gone?
This is Su Xia's bachelor apartment in Guanhai Building. New Jersey sat on his bed. Even without renovation, the new battleship is powerful. Whether it is Indiana or West Virginia, Alaska or Guam, they are no match. Looking around, "Is this the admiral's room?"
"Yeah...you haven't been here before?" New Jersey didn't want to go home, so Su Xia could only take her to her room. At this time, he took off his coat, opened the French window to the balcony, and walked to the refrigerator. He was about to get a bottle of Coke for New Jersey, but she squatted beside his bed and looked inside. "What are you looking at?"
"I'm going to see if there are any pornographic books hidden in the admiral's room." New Jersey replied.
"Have you found it?" Su Xia asked.
“I can’t even see the cardboard box…” New Jersey withdrew his hand and turned off the flashlight on his phone.
"Isn't it normal that you can't see it?" Su Xia really didn't want to complain, "You think I'm watching anime... Don't say I don't have it. Even if I did, I wouldn't hide it in a cardboard box or under the bed where you can find it so easily... Especially since there are children coming over to play here from time to time, there's no way I can hide anything from them."
"Okay." New Jersey shrugged. "So does the admiral have a pornographic book?"
Su Xia thought for a moment and said, "I don't have any pornographic books. I'm not interested in collecting them. There are so many pornographic pictures."
New Jersey said excitedly, “I want to see it.”
"No." Su Xia was blunt.
"Stingy." New Jersey grabbed Su Xia's pillow and hugged him, rolling on his bed. He looked up at the ceiling and said, "Well, how about I move in and live with the admiral in the future?"
Su Xia smiled: "Okay."
"Forget it." New Jersey refused. She loved to play and hated being bored, but that didn't mean she was stupid. The saying that the first bird to stick its head out gets hammered down was true. "I don't want to move in and be besieged by everyone... and you don't usually come back to sleep, so it's no fun living here alone."
"I still come back occasionally." Su Xia said.
New Jersey snorted, took out his phone again, looked at it and said, "Hey, Admiral, it's eleven o'clock."
Time flies, and in a blink of an eye it’s the next day and Monday again.
If you want the port area to be filled with everyone's laughter, various festivals are essential.
It's late October now, and Halloween is just around the corner.
At ten o'clock in the morning, the sun was shining brightly, illuminating the entire office through the floor-to-ceiling windows.
Su Xia sat behind her desk, tapping away on her laptop keyboard, thinking that if it were still a game, there would definitely be a few costume changes in the game for Halloween, but it was hard to guess who would be the costume change. God knows why the game always likes to provide costume changes for those unpopular ships. Many popular ships still don't have a costume change, which really frustrates the players. It's hard to say whether there will be any activities, it seems that there were none in the past few years.
In any case, activities like those in the game are impossible to occur in reality. After all, the whole world is different from the worldview of the game.
Su Xia shook his head and decided not to think about those irrelevant things. He withdrew his hand that had been typing on the keyboard and put his chin on his hand. He stretched out his other hand to pick up the red teacup and brought it to his mouth. He took a sip and put it down again. He looked at the exquisite gold-plated pattern on the red teacup and said, "Enterprise, what are you preparing for Halloween?"
"Prepare..." Enterprise has just started working and has not yet started reading. "I plan to prepare for the decoration of the tutelary fort today and tomorrow so that I won't be in a hurry when the time comes."
"How do we decorate the garrison?" Su Xia asked. He knew about Halloween, mainly from the game.
"Let me think... stick some black bat paper cutouts on the glass windows, put some pumpkin lanterns under the streetlights, on the benches, and under the windowsills, put a few witch brooms, and then put two scarecrows on the bushes?" Enterprise shook his head. "I'm not good at this either. I plan to leave the job of decorating the garrison to Missouri."
Su Xia nodded. He knew that Missouri liked to perform, and that she would definitely need to set up the stage for the performance. In that case, decorating the garrison was a piece of cake. "Have you asked her? Did she agree?"
"Not yet," Enterprise said, "The admiral must agree."
"Of course I have no problem with that." Su Xia said, "I believe in the company."
"We'll decorate the naval base, and we don't care about the costumes. Whether it's ghosts, zombies, vampires, Cthulhu monsters, or anything else... everyone can make their own costumes based on their own abilities." Enterprise looked at Su Xia and smiled, "If you don't give me candy, I'll make trouble. Admiral, remember to prepare candy... Maybe one box will be enough, one box is definitely not enough, we need several boxes."
"No big deal." Su Xia waved her hand. As long as the children were happy, more candies wouldn't matter.
Su Xia frowned and said, "There should be festive food for Halloween, right?"
"Toffee and pumpkin pie," Enterprise replied.
Su Xia pondered for a moment and said, "I suddenly thought, can we prepare some special food for Halloween? It's better to make all the food special, a special dinner... For example, watermelon juice and tomato juice that look like blood, eyeball jelly, finger bread, and delicacies made from pig brains and cow brains."
"What a dark dish that is." said Enterprise.
"Even though it's Halloween..." Enterprise laughed, "You can't prepare such sinister food."
Su Xia thought about the food, and he was scared when he saw it. His SAN value dropped drastically. If the children saw and ate it, they would definitely not be able to sleep at night. He laughed. It was a good festival and a good activity, so it was better not to do such a gloomy thing.
"Forget about that proposal, it's really too shady." Su Xia leaned back in her chair, holding the back of her head with both hands. "Just decorate the garrison to create a festive atmosphere, then trick or treat if you don't give us candy, and at most have a masquerade... It feels a little bit less."
"What do you think, Admiral?" Enterprise asked.
"I need to think about it." Su Xia said when she suddenly heard her cell phone ringing.
Su Xia took the phone from the desk and saw Ella's name on the caller ID. She said to herself, "Ella called me out of the blue. What happened?"
Su Xia answered the phone, switched to speakerphone mode and put it on the desk, mainly so that the enterprise could listen.
"Hello, Ella." Su Xia greeted.
"Yeah, scumbag Su."
"What did you just say?" Su Xia asked. Of course he knew that Ella was joking, or maybe not. Even if he didn't care in his heart, he couldn't help but care about it.
"Nothing." Ella backed off.
"Okay, what's going on..." Su Xia thought that he and Ella were friends, but that was all. It was just that they were men and women and it was impossible for them to talk on the phone. Otherwise, Ella had a pretty good relationship with Victory, Aurora, Yubari, etc., and they often talked on the phone. "The supply ships appeared in large numbers again, and there are new equipment on the shelves of the trophy shop?"
In the game, loot events occur every once in a while, and the loot shop puts a few new equipment on the shelves each time, although most of them are useless. In the real world, such events are like a large-scale supply ship appearing every once in a while, and the ship headquarters harvests a few new equipment and puts them on the loot shop.
"No. It's still the same." In the ship girl headquarters, which was not known how far away from the garrison, Ella stood by the window of her office and looked out. The sea breeze became stronger, blowing the fallen leaves on the ground into the sky. "Besides, it's not called a supply ship, but a transport ship. Why don't you change your ways?"
"No matter what kind of supply ship or transport ship it is, it's enough to know what it means." Su Xia said indifferently, "If it's not a supply ship that appears again, then what is it? Another deep-sea flagship appears?" He had the impression that he checked the group every day, just lurked and never spoke, and did not hear any news.
"No signs of deep-sea flagship activity have been found for the time being," Ella said.
"Then why did you call?" Su Xia asked.
"Can't I call you if there's nothing wrong?" Ella asked back.
"Okay." Su Xia said, "So Ella, you called me this time to reminisce about the past?"
Ella coughs.
"Well," Ella cleared her throat, "I'm not the liaison sent to your garrison by the Kanmusu headquarters..."
"I recognize the liaison officer, but I don't recognize the liaison officer assigned to our garrison." Su Xia said, "Excuse me, have you ever stayed in our garrison for a day?"
"Yes. Not just for one day, but for many years," Ella said. "Longer than the time you spent in the tutelary fort."
Su Xia was suddenly speechless, thinking that Ella had not been in the garrison recently, but had always been there before.
"Okay. No one comes to visit you for no reason." Su Xia changed the subject, "What on earth do you want to talk to me about?"
"That's right," Ella paused and said, "I plan to go to your garrison in a few days."
"Why did you come to our garrison?" Su Xia asked. It wasn't that she didn't welcome Ella. Ella was a very special existence for a player. She was just a little curious about why Ella suddenly came here. "I've thought it through and decided to stay in our garrison... This time I promise to pay attention to you and let you be our garrison instructor."
"We'll talk about that later." Ella was silent for a long time, "Halloween."
"So what about Halloween? What's the problem?" Su Xia asked.
"It's not... the KanColle headquarters isn't planning on holding any Halloween events... it's fine on a small scale, at most it'll just be a masquerade party... boring." Ella let go. Su Xia insisted on making fun of her and she couldn't escape it no matter what, so she admitted it generously, "Your garrison won't not hold a Halloween event, will you?"
"I see." Su Xia said, "So you called me just to participate in our Halloween event at the garrison..."
"Stop talking nonsense." Ella interrupted Su Xia.
"You can come whenever you want. We definitely welcome you. But what I want to say is that our garrison only has a masquerade party, and there aren't many other activities." Su Xia said, "We were just discussing the Halloween activities, and I guess that's it... What a coincidence that you called... If you don't believe me, you can ask Enterprise, she won't lie to you."
"I testify." Enterprise spoke.
Ella was silent for a moment, then said, "That won't work. How can it be just a masquerade?"
"Admiral Su, don't you want the port to be filled with everyone's laughter?" Ella often contacts everyone, so she naturally knows what Su Xia has been busy with from everyone's mouths. "You can come up with such a perfunctory event?"
Su Xia did not argue with Ella. He said, "To be honest, I also want to organize some interesting activities, but I don't know what to do."
"Okay then." Ella volunteered, "Leave it to me. I'll help you plan the Halloween event."
"No." Su Xia said, "I don't believe you."
"Say it again, who don't you trust?" Ella's voice became eight points higher and sharper.
"You." Su Xia was not afraid, "I don't believe you."
"Asshole." Ella cursed, then thought that one had to bow his head under the eaves, "Just leave it to me, I promise not to cause any trouble."
"Let's talk about it later." Su Xia said, "Let's talk about it when you come. Anyway, I remind you that I don't approve any activities that cause trouble."
"OK!"
Su Xia hung up the phone, looked at Enterprise, and said, "I have a bad feeling."
"Me too." Enterprise nodded.
