NIKKE, when the stars bloom

"Of course I don't know."

Phoenix blinked helplessly, like an informant who was forced to ask a question he didn't know the answer to, and said with a sad face:

"She could have seriously injured that talking Letcher with just a few shots. Seeing how powerful she was, I asked her out of desperation."

"Then she'll be willing to treat you."

"Ah."

"During the treatment, you fainted again due to excessive blood loss."

"Ah."

"All your other Nikkis are not here either."

"Ah."

"Bullshit! I think you're just going to drink the wine instead of accepting my toast!!!"

After nearly an hour of interrogation, Yak's blood pressure was successfully pushed to the peak by Phoenix's perfect simple logic.

It was his first time to interrogate such a heart-pounding prisoner. There were no complicated reasons, no unnecessary sophistry, no wrong emotions, and even the micro-expressions and micro-movements were completely consistent with the words.

If it were a younger newcomer, he would have probably returned to the office to report on his work by now.

But he was different. The intuition cultivated from more than ten years of interrogation experience kept reminding him that the lieutenant was clearly lying!

"I'm telling you, if you don't tell me the truth, I won't be the one interrogating you later." Yake put on a gloomy face, leaned on the table with both hands, and was about to make some useless threats...

laugh--

The sound of pressure release from the interrogation room's door suddenly disturbed Jack's thoughts as he was still organizing his words.

Looking back, two soldiers with scars on their faces walked into the door of the interrogation room from the corridor.

"The higher-ups sent us here to replace you."

"for me?"

For a moment, Jack was a little confused when he heard the order, but he soon realized that this was probably going to be a double act with red faces and black faces.

So he winked at the two of them, telling them that it would be more appropriate for him to be the red-faced one.

Unexpectedly, one of the two soldiers just glanced at him, then raised his chin slightly and said indifferently:

"go out."

"?"

go out?

Get him out of his workplace?

"Wait, I haven't seen you before." Catching the smell of conspiracy in the air, Yake couldn't help but frowned, "Which department are you from? Order permission..."

However, before he could finish his question, the soldier with his chin raised actually reached out and grabbed his shoulder and pulled him out.

"Your level is too low, get out."

"Wait……"

Jack took several steps back and moved his lips slightly, but the soldier's murderous look forced him to choke.

Finally, the man swallowed, turned his gaze to the slightly uneasy prisoner behind the interrogation table, and silently backed away from the gate of the interrogation room.

呲——

The sound of pressure was heard and the gate closed again, isolating Yak, who was supposed to be inside, from the outside.

……

……

Boom!

"I only have three minutes."

A bony hand clasped Phoenix's head and mercilessly pressed his face against the cold interrogation table.

"Don't try to test my patience."

There was no trace of emotion in Tado's words; judging from his expression, he looked no different from a clerk who was numbly filling out a form.

"I have really told you everything I know. How about...how about this, what do you want to hear? I'll do as you say, okay?"

A lieutenant, whose hands were locked on the table by magnetic rings, had a bitter face. He did not choose to look at the impolite Tado, but moved his eyes to look at the soldier in front of the table.

"Everyone has to deal with their work. I understand this principle. I will definitely cooperate with you in your work."

Boom! !

A solid kick from the instep landed on Phoenix's stomach. If he hadn't been relying on nutritional injections these days, with the force of Tado's kick, he would have vomited out all his overnight meal.

Damn, they dare to torture and extract confessions, who are these guys?

"Lieutenant Phoenix, you may not understand your current situation."

Seeing that the prisoner was still trying to fool him with that flawless and too deceptive rhetoric, and unable to produce any effective evidence to refute it, Bernanse had no choice but to twist the scar on the corner of his lip and patiently explain:

"The minimum sentence for concealing military intelligence is two years. According to my information, your current behavior will most likely result in your life imprisonment in a rehabilitation center."

"What did I do wrong? I really don't know. I, I, I shed blood for the Ark! You can't do this to me!"

Hearing that he might face life imprisonment, Phoenix immediately struggled in panic, shouting, "You framed me! I don't even know you, why did you frame me!!! You..."

Perhaps because he didn't like noise, Tado let go of his hand without thinking and reached down to grab someone's neck.

"Ahem... I... I really... don't know..."

Even though it was difficult for him to breathe, Phoenix was still thinking about the brutal kick he had just received and was not affected by other factors.

Interrogation, interrogation, why interrogate a dead person?

"You think I dare not kill you?"

Bernans didn't believe that there was a commander in the world who was not afraid of death. Besides, he had interrogated these cowards before. If he just taught them how to write the word "cruel", this guy would be like his peers and would cry and beg him to let him go in less than two minutes.

……

……

"Reporting to the commander, we have not received Lieutenant Phoenix. According to the doctor in charge, he was taken away an hour ago."

"..."

After hearing his subordinates' report, Deputy Commander Anderson, who was sitting in his chair and browsing the meeting materials, habitually touched his cufflinks and said, "I understand."

After saying that, he nodded to the officer at the door. After the other party saluted and left, he took out his cell phone and called Ingrid.

"Ingrid, someone secretly took Phoenix away. The one who dared to do this and would do it must be Burnim. I have a meeting in a minute..."

"I already know about this matter. I am rushing to the Central Interrogation Bureau now."

"...Then I'll trouble you."

"Anderson, you're wrong. I'm not helping you."

"..."

"Yinhua told me that the boy is very good, so as the CEO of Paradise, it is also my responsibility to recruit talents."

"...Before that, remember to take him to see Alnick. Alnick has just sent me a request, thinking it necessary to meet him."

"understood."

drip.

Not wanting to bother with Anderson's excuse of going to a meeting, Ingrid hung up the phone and followed the information provided by her insider through the door of the interrogation bureau. Then, with the deputy director's apologetic smile, she arrived at the door of the interrogation room with the house number "7-14".

Without her saying anything, the very perceptive deputy director immediately took small steps forward and unlocked the door of the interrogation room with the master card.

The scene that followed made their expressions freeze immediately.

Phoenix was seen leaning back in his chair with blood in his mouth, while Tado and Bernans stood on the other side of the interrogation table as if nothing had happened, as if the prisoner's injuries were the result of self-harm and had nothing to do with them.

Since they dared to torture and extract a confession, they must have made all possible preparations to avoid being caught on video.

Therefore, rather than pursuing the crimes of these two people, Ingrid is more concerned about Phoenix's current physical condition.

"I'm the CEO of Paradise, Ingrid, Lieutenant Phoenix." The woman ignored the presence of Bernanse and the other man, and strode to the man's side. Seeing that he looked at her weakly with his eyes half open, she continued:

"Treatment first, or go see Alnick first."

“Ha…haha…hahahahahahahahaha…”

I don’t know why, but after hearing the question from this strong woman, Phoenix couldn’t help but grin and laugh softly as if he had heard a joke.

"Ms. Ingrid, I think the first step should be to unlock it."

After saying that, he shook his elbow, motioning the other party to look along his elbow at the disc-shaped magnetic ring lock on the table.

"Untie."

"Hey! Here it comes."

Following the calm tone of the Pure Land CEO, the deputy director of the interrogation bureau came running over with a bitter smile on his face, and opened the lock for the prisoner with sweat all over his forehead.

Bang, bang!

The magnetic ring, which lost its magnetic force due to the current being cut off, split into two halves on the spot, and fell to both sides like a flower bud opening, hitting the interrogation table that was still stained with blood.

"I have to say, this thing is really durable."

Phoenix's words may sound a little confusing at first, but if you think about it carefully, you can easily taste some different flavors in them.

It was a pity that a certain lieutenant had no intention of giving the others present even a little time to think.

call--

In an instant! The sound of breaking wind exploded in Tado's ears! Before the intense sense of crisis even had time to creep into his heart, the scarred soldier instinctively raised his right arm to protect his temporal bone.

boom!

A muffled sound!

Tado stepped back in response. The surging force from his arms proved that his judgment was correct. A mere lieutenant dared to retaliate. Did he really think that he would be afraid...

boom! !

However, there was another muffled sound!!

Before Tado could steady his center of gravity, heart-wrenching pain spread outward from his abdomen. The overbearing impact force forcefully crushed his stomach and intestines. Although it failed to squeeze out the non-existent food residue, the instantly ruptured stomach wall considerately made the person vomit blood.

“Cough, ugh—!”

Seeing the miserable appearance of this guy being forced to bend over and vomit blood, Phoenix, who had endured for more than ten minutes, grinned grimly and punched him again without stopping.

boom! ! !

Click!

The sound of broken bones rang faintly in the interrogation room. But the man was clearly hitting the man's abdomen, so why was there a sound of bones breaking?

To this question, the fainted Tado gave the answer

——What was broken was his spine.

The CEO of Pure Land, whose expression of owing money had never changed for thousands of years, was finally slightly moved at this moment. Even though she knew that Phoenix's right arm was a mechanical prosthesis, and even though she knew how advanced the technology of that right arm was, the bloody scene before her still deeply shocked her soul.

"Oh, by the way, man, who is Alnick?"

Just as the three people present were shocked, someone who had completely become a criminal did not intend to stop his actions. He took a step forward and slapped Bernans who had no time to react.

Snapped! ! !

All that was heard was the loud and crisp sound of a slap echoing in the interrogation room.

Bernanse, who had just tried to pry open the prisoner's mouth, had his jaw shattered by a slap from the prisoner.

"Didn't you hear me?"

Phoenix grabbed the scarred soldier's dislocated jaw and said with a smile: