Chapter 560: Warehouse Retrieval

Although Saint Louis said that, Qin Ge ultimately still did not give her a reply.

You're kidding, we just confirmed the first owner of the Oath Ring, and now you want him to order a second one right away—at least give him some reaction time, right?

Seeing that Qin Ge's mind was made up, Saint Louis also stopped promoting Hai Lun Na to him.

Because he himself had no hope for this, after all, according to Qin Ge's personality, getting him to change is already rare; if we push further, it's very likely to backfire.

Moreover, Saint Louis never originally meant for Qin Ge to immediately accept Hai Lun Na; she was merely reminding him that Hai Lun Na also silently likes him on the side.

"Commander, we scatteredly earned five hundred from commissions, and a thousand from Siren outposts, so we now have one thousand five hundred Red Thorns." Saint Louis pulled a dossier from the bookshelf beside her and said to Qin Ge.

"Only one thousand five hundred? I thought we had gathered a lot more." Qin Ge said, sounding slightly disappointed.

Saint Louis smiled and said, "It's not that little, because those five hundred are just the income from this period; previously we hardly did any commission missions, so our accumulation of Red Thorns is still relatively low."

"Alright, then it seems we can only destroy more Siren outposts in the future." Qin Ge said to Saint Louis.

"Why is your first reaction to destroy more Siren outposts instead of sending more shipgirls to do commissions?" Saint Louis said.

Qin Ge blinked, then said, "I feel the efficiency of commissions is slow; it's better to destroy a Siren outpost all at once and gain more, so naturally I choose to do more of that."

Moreover, our fleet's strength allows me to make this choice; as long as we don't encounter Siren high-command units like Testers and Purifiers, I feel our fleet can now roam freely in erosion zones of levels five to six.

"That's true." Saint Louis smiled, "But you overlooked one point: even in erosion level five and level six seas, Siren outposts are relatively few."

Qin Ge twitched his mouth, "But we're not that rushed, are we?"

Saint Louis realized, then lightly chuckled, "Heh, that really is a good method. However, I think sooner or later someone will volunteer to go into the sea to encircle and annihilate the Siren fleet; your approach, Commander, will likely only hold for a while, not forever."

Qin Ge rolled his eyes, "Anyway, once I get used to it, everything will be easy to discuss—at least give me some time to adapt."

"Oh dear, it seems the commander himself knows that, so I won't say more." Saint Louis smiled, but her laughter was full of schadenfreude.

Qin Ge looked at her speechlessly, then respectfully said, "So could you trouble Miss Saint Louis to go fetch those one thousand five hundred Red Thorns now?"

"Of course, Commander, please wait a moment; I'll go get them right away."

Saint Louis laughed, finished speaking, then turned and left the office. Leaving Qin Gang alone, he glanced toward the door, sighed, chuckled, shook his head, and then continued with his own work.

The warehouse management in the harbor district is currently handled by the Goddess of the Kitchen, because there are not many shipgirls who can be considered logistics. The Goddess of the Kitchen counts as one, and Evening Stretch also counts as one.

However, compared to that, scientific research is more suited to Evening Stretch, while fleet maintenance is more suited to the Goddess of the Kitchen, so when the fleet reform was first carried out, they let the Goddess of the Kitchen handle the fleet's logistics.

Since both belong to the White Eagle shipgirls, Saint Louis quickly found the Goddess of the Kitchen.

"Huh, is that Saint Louis? You suddenly came to my place—are you feeling unwell?" The Goddess of the Kitchen looked somewhat surprised at the suddenly arriving Saint Louis.

"No, I'm currently the commander's secretary ship, so I'm here under the commander's orders to fetch some things." Saint Louis smiled.

"Oh, it's the commander who sent you; I thought you were feeling unwell." The Goddess of the Kitchen smiled and said, "Right, what do you need to take? I'll get it for you right away."

"Red Thorns." Saint Louis said.

"Red Thorns?" The Goddess of the Kitchen merely asked doubtfully, then got up and went to the place where Red Thorns are stored to fetch them.

Immediately she brought a box to Saint Louis's presence, "Heh, this stuff is pretty heavy; Saint Louis, you'd better put it into your ship equipment space."

"Thank you, Goddess of the Kitchen." Saint Louis smiled and said, then used her ship equipment space to pick up the box on the ground.

Seeing the box on the ground disappear, the Goddess of the Kitchen nodded, then took out a ledger and said to Saint Louis, "Let's do an inventory log next."

"Sure." Saint Louis readily agreed.

The Goddess of the Kitchen then sat back in her original spot, and while writing she read aloud, "Today is the twenty-sixth of the twelfth month in the Donghuang calendar; Saint Louis, under the commander's orders, came to the warehouse to take away one thousand five hundred units of Red Thorns."

After writing that, the Goddess of the Kitchen lifted her head and asked the Saint Louis beside her, "Saint Louis, what does the commander need these Red Thorns for?"

"To purchase the Oath Ring." Saint Louis said without hesitation, without any concealment.

"Huh? Purchase the Oath Ring? Is the commander preparing to pledge an oath with someone?" The Goddess of the Kitchen exclaimed in surprise.

"Yes, the commander has been in the role for over three years now. And he's not young either—he's already twenty-five this year, and will soon be twenty-six."

"Isn't it quite normal to have a marriage ship at this point?" Saint Louis smiled and said.

"I'm just a bit surprised, after all, many people have told me that the commander is someone who is slow to react emotionally, so hearing this news suddenly feels rather abrupt." The Goddess of the Kitchen explained.

"Heh, it's not because your usual focus, Goddess of the Kitchen, is only on enterprises and patients?" Saint Louis said, "So this also shows the commander isn't the emotionally slow person you thought he was; if you get the chance, try to pursue him."

"Huh?" The Goddess of the Kitchen blinked, then flushed slightly and waved her hands, "No need, the commander's work is busy every day; if I go over like that, I'll disturb his work."

"Precisely because his work is busy, occasionally going over to care for him and check on his health is your duty as the Goddess of the Kitchen." Saint Louis laughed and said, "So from now on, you handle it yourself— I've already told you this much."

"And if the registration is finished, then I'll have to leave, because the commander is still waiting over there."

The Goddess of the Kitchen blinked, then finally pointed to the back of the ledger and said to Saint Louis, "Sign here."

"Okay."