4692, Alpha Galaxy, Federal Navy's external traffic flow ship, the 'Magic Yang'

"Salute, Hello, General, I am your adjutant, Lieutenant Katece. I have been waiting for you for a long time. Please go here." A naval officer with the rank of lieutenant stood in the corridor and saluted Bai Yu. She had long red hair on her head and had a few freckles on her face. It seemed that she was very excited to see Bai Yu, the temporary general.

"Hello, Lieutenant Katece." Bai Yu raised his left hand and replied with a smile.

Following Lieutenant Katece into the bridge, there were two soldiers on the bridge, a burly naval lieutenant colonel. He just nodded to Bai Yu to express his respect, while the other tall man in the uniform of a gray army captain stood at attention and shouted loudly: "The sir is here, salute."

"Hello, General, I am the captain of the commuter ship of the 'Magic Young', Lieutenant Colonel Andre." Lieutenant Colonel of the Navy introduced: "This is the military liaison officer of the Federal Army stationed in Mimatal, Major Hubert.

"Hello, Captain Andre." Bai Yu habitually saluted everyone: "Hello, Hubert, uh...Major?" Bai Yu was stunned at Captain Hubert's epaulette.

"Oh, you mean his military rank. This is an old tradition. What? General, you..." Andre raised his eyebrows, but out of respect, he forced himself to put the words "I don't know" back.

[Old tradition? What does it mean?] Bai Yu secretly asked Ora.

[How many years of old traditions are still used...] Ola sighed and explained to Bai Yu: [Many years ago, in the official language of the Empire, the names of "captain" and "captain" were very similar, and they were very easy to confuse. Moreover, the Imperial Navy has always looked down on army officers. Therefore, if an army officer boarded the ship and his rank happened to be a captain, then raise him one level, call him a major until he left the ship, you know, a ship was still controlled by many people at that time, and the captain was the supreme authority and dominance. Of course, the word captain was absolutely sacred. The implicit meaning was that it would rather raise the army captain one level than make him sound like a captain. After the Federation was independent, he learned this habit, but the pronunciation was later modified, but this tradition was preserved.]

"Oh, sorry, I rarely deal with the Army and forgot," Bai Yu explained.

"So that's the case, then, General, are we going to set off now?" Captain Andre asked.

"It's OK at any time, captain." Bai Yu said.

"Yes, obey the order." Captain Andre replied.

"God General, please come with me to the rest cabin." Lieutenant Kateth said.

"Okay, Lieutenant, then, let's see you later." After Bai Yu said goodbye, he followed Lieutenant Katece to leave Cambridge, but was immediately shocked by the army captain... Well, the army major was startled, and he saluted and shouted, "Sir, I'm leaving, salute." As for Lieutenant Colonel Andre, he sat back on the command chair, without even a statement.

[That Andre doesn't seem to like me.] Bai Yu said to Ora a little embarrassedly.

[Nothing is, this is also an old tradition. For example, on a naval warship, if the captain's rank is a second lieutenant, and no matter how high your rank is, he will not salute you, because on his warship, you are on the same level. If he gets off the ship, he still dares to do this, you can immediately whip him according to the naval military rules, because he does not respect the superior.] Ola said.

[Oh my God, this is OK?] Bai Yu said in surprise: [But the army feels quite polite.]

[Haha, this is the tradition of the army. If you encounter a general or above senior officer and suddenly enter the place of a low-level officer or soldier, regardless of the service or location, they must shout like this.] Ola smiled.

[So in the bathroom?] Bai Yu asked jokingly.

[Uh, I really don't know this. I heard that the concept of army rank is also very strict. Soldiers cannot eat in the same restaurant or rest in the same dormitory with officers. Ordinary officers are not allowed to use the same restaurant and dormitory as senior officers. The bathroom may also be separated, right?] Ola guessed.

[Uh, is it unnecessary for me to salute Andre just now?] Bai Yu said calculatingly.

[No, when you just boarded the ship and did this, people would think that you are a very well-educated naval officer. After all, the captain is absolutely authoritative, which shows respect for him. Otherwise, he would not symbolically ask you whether to set sail. This is also a thank you for respect. Of course, you can do it in the future. But it seems that Andre should be very old. Pilots like you, you will not care too much about these things, at least they will not be as serious as him.] Ola said.

Bai Yu sighed [The only disadvantage of Kron technology is that you can't tell how old he is.]

[Haha, yes. After all, everyone's appearance is frozen in adulthood. Few people like aging bodies, but Jack is an exception. It's just a matter of personal preference. By the way, your adjutant named Kateth is much older than you.] Ola laughed.

Bai Yu came to the lounge and found that the equipment in the cabin of the external traffic fleet was really good. She had never lived in such a luxurious room, with a large bed, silk bedding, and a gorgeous chandelier above her head. The tables and chairs were expensive gray Lanxingmu, which reminded her of the set of Principal Bradley's office in the Naval Academy. Although it was not as wide as him, the carvings and decorations on it were also of great appreciation. As soon as Lieutenant Katesi left, she immediately rushed to the bed, hugged the pillow, and rolled comfortably.

"Ora, see if there are any good souvenirs. When you get off the boat, you just need to leave the towel." Bai Yu said that when she was in the Naval Academy, she lived on the Juonian aircraft carrier "Marrior Abeth" for two weeks. When she got off the boat, she secretly took away a towel with the ship logo and Marsrior Abeth's signature, and kept it in her souvenir box.

"Uh, forget it, a great Rear Admiral, please be careful if you really want souvenirs, I think the things in the box on the table are good." Ola said with a headache. Without outsiders around, Ola started chatting with her directly through the terminal of Baiyu's arm. After all, Baiyu's brain is still very easy to get tired when using brainstem plugs for a long time.

"On the table?" Bai Yu then noticed that there was a white box on the table, which looked made of leather.

Bai Yu walked over, opened the box and looked at it, but his eyes stopped moving away from the things in the box.

"It looks good?" Ora suggested: "Try changing it. You can't always wear this ordinary space suit jacket." In the box are two sets of Rear Admiral's white uniforms, one dress and one set of regular clothes.

Bai Yu carefully held the box, put it gently on the bed, picked up the white dress and walked to the mirror, took off the most common off-white space suit on the market, threw it on the ground, and carefully changed into the dress. All the costumes of naval officers, whether they were regular clothes, space suits, armored combat uniforms, or military dresses, were tailor-made, so they fit very well. The lower body was straight pure white women's dress pants, the top was also white, with a front chest wrapped style, and the upper part of the right side of the chest was decorated with a row of six gold buttons, with a Federal War Eagle, a small standing collar, and a small corner of the neckline.

The eagle wing lace made of gold metal, the collar is a golden five-pointed star representing the major general. The left and right shoulders are embroidered with a golden federal naval war eagle. The left and right cuffs are embroidered with a wide gold-edged armband. A golden ribbon is hung on the right chest, and a cluster of tassels at the tail of the ribbon. The only drawback is that there is only a major general's logo, a pilot's logo, and a federal naval badge, which are arranged side by side, making it look extremely empty. There is only a diamond-shaped Federal Navy Academy graduation commemorative medal under the medal, a white leather soft belt decorated with golden buckles, tied to the width of two fingers below the button.

"This Rita doesn't know how to get more medals and medals, it's empty and ugly." Bai Yu pointed at his left chest in the mirror.

"Impossible. Every medal and medal must be registered. Even if you wear it, how do you plan to explain the origin of these things?" Ola playedfully imitated Bai Yu's voice: "Oh, these are there when I got the clothes, haha."

Bai Yu turned around in front of the mirror a few times, and then walked back and forth a few times.

"Isn't it too dazzling? I'm a little embarrassed to wear it." Bai Yu felt her face a little hot.

"It's normal to be embarrassed. According to your resume, you are now a captain in the navy at most. You should be embarrassed to become a major general at once. After all, you lack temperament." Ola commented bluntly.

"Hmph, temperament? That's how." Bai Yu restrained his smile, tightened his silver-white shoulder-length hair, took a step forward, stretched his shoulders a little later, restrained his lower abdomen, took a half breath, straightened his chest, turned his cheeks to the left without notice, raised his lower jaw, and suddenly opened his eyes, his eyes sinking slightly, and the focus of his eyes in the mirror seemed to have awakened his soul, his eyes were arrogant and intimidating, as if he was scanning the crowd.

Ola was stunned and stared at Bai Yu in the mirror blankly. She felt that she couldn't speak. As an artificial intelligence, she felt suffocating under Bai Yu's gaze.

"Huh... I can't do it anymore, I'm too tired, how about it, it's interesting." Bai Yu breathed a sigh of relief, immediately revealed his true colors, and asked Ola proudly.

"Uh, it's good, it's good." Ola felt a little disappointed, as if something that had been searching for for a long time suddenly appeared in front of her. Before she could be happy, she disappeared in a moment. For some reason, Ola suddenly remembered Evelyn's expression that night: "It's better to try that regular suit. It's really awkward to wear a dress in a warship."

"Okay." Bai Yu took off her dress, folded it back on the bed according to the original folds, and took out her regular clothes to try on.

At dinner, Bai Yu had dinner with Captain Andre, Major Hubert and Lieutenant Katece. The dishes were just a few simple canned Navy foods, including canned veal and canned creamy berries soup and vacuum bags of sweet potato mash. However, Andre replaced the ordinary bread with Emma's specialty grain bread. The slightly roasted bread slices were golden in color and slightly crispy in taste. Andre didn't know how to get it. The precious long-limbed dragon deer egg sauce really made Bai Yu's appetite so much that Ora kept secretly reminding her that from the beginning, "Achhe, demeanor, attention to demeanor." It turned into "for the sake of the Major General's seal, it was too ugly to see your appearance."

However, the most interesting thing is Major Hubert. Obviously, the Army has been cultivating the habit of cost-effectiveness for many years and cannot be changed to a strange place. He divided the square dining table into three parts. On one side of Bai Yu, Andre occupied one corner, and he and Katece occupied another corner, but even this did not make him feel much more comfortable. The most outrageous thing is that after Hubert took a look at dinner, he actually took three empty plates and placed next to Bai Yu. This made Captain Andre very troubled, but he finally didn't say anything.

[Why did Major Hubert have to put three empty plates next to me?] Bai Yu really couldn't understand, and he always thought there was a dessert to serve.

[Hey, it's deadly, the typical dogmatic style of the Army.] Aola sighed and said. [The Army Officers Regulations stipulate that when a senior officer eats, no matter what he eats, he must have five dishes and one soup. He sees that the number of dishes is not enough and then put 3 empty plates to make up the number.]

[I'm going, it's so particular, but is there enough food?] Bai Yu counted it again.

[Not enough, let’s not talk about the soup anymore. Canned meat is counted as a dish, and long limb dragon deer egg paste can barely count as a dish, and there are still 3 dishes left. Sweet potato puree and bread can only be considered as staple food.] Ola explained.

[Oh my God, the Army has too many problems! I found that Andrei stared at the empty plate and frowned several times, why didn't he care? This is the Navy's territory.] Bai Yu glanced at Andrei, and he held the five-spice wine for the three empty plates.

[Hmph, have you forgotten, Hubert put the plate in front of someone?] Ola snorted: [It's you, only generals in the army are the standard. He is not qualified enough. Didn't you see him sitting with Lieutenant Katece? Andre at most dislikes him and he will not interfere. Once he says it, it will be a shame for you.]

[Uh, do I want to say something? Stop him?] Bai Yu felt a little embarrassed.

【Nonsense.】Ora said it angrily.

"Major Hubert, how long have you been in the Army?" Bai Yu asked with a smile.

"It's just 30 years, General." Hubert replied respectfully.

"I rarely take naval ships?" Bai Yu decided to avoid making mistakes.

"Yes, General, I am just appointed as the military diplomatic liaison officer in Mimatal. I used to work at the Army Foreign Affairs Office in the capital Star Cost," Hubert said.

Bai Yu pointed to the hollow plate in front of him and said, "It seems that the Army's officer regulations are really... strict."

"Yes, General, there are many officer regulations that are based on respect for the superiors and must be followed." Hubert said affirmatively.

"Thank you very much for your respect for me." Bai Yu said with a smile: "But I am a naval officer."

After hearing this, Andre immediately smiled gratefully to Bai Yu.

"Yes, Your Excellency General, even if the service branches are different, senior officers should be absolutely respected by subordinates," Hubert said.

"So, look, the Naval Officer's Ordinance is really very different from the Army. On this ship, Lieutenant Colonel Andre is the captain and the master of this ship. Although he is my subordinate in military rank, as long as he is on his ship for one day, I must treat him with a rank relationship, and even I must absolutely obey his orders. Of course, I am not saying that you do not respect Captain Andre. Senior Navy officers also have their own privileges, but on the ship, even if there is only one slice of bread when using meals, they are shared equally. Are you right? Captain Andre." Bai Yu said slowly.

"Yes, General, that's right." Andre agreed completely.

Hubert understood what Bai Yu meant after thinking a little: "I understand, General, I will follow Captain Andre's request completely, I'm sorry."

"Ah, this is nothing. It's normal to not adapt to it just after getting on the ship." Andrei said with satisfaction: "For a long time, there are strict requirements on some places on the ship's life, such as water conservation. Hell, science has been progressing for thousands of years. This matter is still the most important thing to pay attention to. If we can wash two less dishes a day, we can drink one more cup of coffee each. You don't know that for a long time, life on the ship is boring. There are only a few cups of that thing in a day. By the way, when it comes to coffee, I have some specialties from Mimatal, Sidro coffee beans, Lord General, are you going to come some?"

"Well, okay, thank you." Bai Yu nodded without thinking.

[Hey, he is talking about ‘coffee’.] Ora roared in a low voice.

"Ah, what? Coffee, my god!" Bai Yu panicked and shouted Andre: "Uh, Captain Andre, you won't happen to know a guy named 'Jack? Lininger', right?"

"Hmm? It sounds familiar..." Andre asked strangely: "What does this person have to do with coffee?"
Chapter completed!