NIKKE, when the stars bloom

Faced with Decker's sudden outburst of swearing, the dudes, including the one in the leopard print suit, were not angry. Instead, they turned their heads with increasing curiosity and stared at him.

Although everyone is a playboy in the family, there are differences between playboys.

For a bunch of top-notch playboys like them, no matter how mediocre their talents, how morally corrupt, or how mentally abnormal they are, they still need to have basic intelligence, otherwise they will not be able to live to adulthood in a healthy manner.

The reason why Decker Lawrence exploded was that Commander Phoenix was so bold as to provoke the Lawrence family.

Otherwise, why would he be so excited?

"You don't want the money anymore, just let him go."

Without caring about talking nonsense with his friends, the unlucky dude urged with a pained look on his face, "Yes, no charge, just say he is the 10,000th customer of the main store and give it to him for free."

"..."

"Remember, it's not for the two Nikkis, it's for him. Do you understand?"

"..."

"By the way, you just said he was going to the Glory Hotel, right? Apply for him a Royal Avenue Universal Black Card and transfer 10,000 credit points into it."

"..."

"call--"

After hanging up the phone and giving instructions, Decker took a deep breath, then sat back on the sofa, glanced at the brothers around him, and said unhappily:

"Our old man got a little close to that conservative group a few days ago, and as a result, that lunatic came to my store today to buy clothes for his Nikki."

"..."

"laugh--"

As if they had heard the best joke of the year, the few playboys looked at each other, and finally couldn't hold back their gloating smiles and laughed out loud.

“Hahahahahahahaha—”

The VIP box was instantly filled with a happy atmosphere.

And what about Decker?

He no longer cared about the ridicule of these bad friends and just hoped that the plague god would leave his shop as soon as possible.

……

……

"Sorry to have kept you waiting, Mr. Phoenix."

The view returns to Royal Avenue. After receiving the solution from the store manager, waiter Casey immediately walked up to Phoenix with a smile on his face, bowed slightly and said:

"Just now our head office system reminded us that you are our 10,000th lucky customer. So the two sets of clothing you selected will be given to you as free gifts by our Casey head office.

Not only that, in order to compensate for your waiting time, the store manager specifically asked us to prepare a Royal Avenue Universal Black Card worth 10,000 credit points for you."

"...?"

With the huge compensation given by the waiter,

Mihara, Yuni, Rufei, and even the onlookers around them, all had some subtle changes in the way they looked at someone.

As the person involved, Phoenix looked puzzled and confused.

Is there something wrong with the brain of store manager Casey?

How can you send money like this?

Will you continue to do business in the future???

Chapter 57: Life is not a noun (IV)

"There's no need for money."

Seeing the waiter about to hand over the black card, Phoenix waved his hands repeatedly and directly rejected Casey's apology.

In his opinion, it is understandable for a clothing store to give away clothes as an apology.

But even if the customer didn't pester him, he still offered to pay...

Phoenix strongly suspected that the other party's behavior had some improper purpose.

As an operator, if you run the store in an image that "it is easy for customers to get compensation", then there is no doubt that the store will go bankrupt within a few months.

Human beings are not ants. The biggest characteristic of human society is that bad people emerge among good people, and bastards emerge among bad people.

And there are not many good people left in the underground ark.

Casey dared to do such a thing in public. In the days that follow, someone will definitely go to their major stores to commit fraud.

So what is the purpose of the other party sending money actively?

Is there something wrong with this so-called black card? Or is there something wrong with the money transferred?

Phoenix couldn't figure it out.

Since you can't figure it out, the easiest way is naturally to refuse.

"Mihara, Yuni, pack your clothes, and then we will go to the Glory Hotel for dinner." The commander said so, and then nodded and smiled at Lu Fei in a friendly manner.

"Nice to meet you, Miss Lufei. Thank you for supporting us. I'll treat you to a meal some other day."

The unscrupulous man was so polite in his words, but he didn't make any move to take out his cell phone for a long time, which made the blonde girl grumble in her heart.

You say you want to treat someone to a meal to thank them, but they don’t even ask for their contact information. How can we have a meal together?

Let’s have dinner together across the live broadcast room?

Is her live broadcast content really the same as those gaming anchors, good for eating? !

……

……

The eighth floor of Rongguang Hotel, seafood restaurant.

"commander……"

After tasting a few pieces of lobster meat in silence, Mihala, holding a knife and fork, finally asked the question that had been weighing on her mind for a long time.

"I feel a little...how should I put it, I just feel a little confused."

Across the table, Phoenix was eating seafood with big mouthfuls. Born in a coastal city in his previous life, he could tell that all the ingredients used in this hotel came from the real ocean.

This is definitely not a taste that Popeye can imitate.

"What doubts?" The man agreed casually, not caring about his image at all, eating meat and drinking water in big gulps.

Seeing the commander's appetite, Mihara unconsciously felt relieved, but soon she returned to her puzzled expression and said:

"Yunni and I can't sense taste. The commander clearly knows this, so why is he so persistent in bringing us to the hotel for dinner?"

“Well, although I did have another purpose for coming to the hotel in the first place.

But...”

Halfway through his words, Phoenix suddenly raised the cup and took a big gulp of ice water. His throat moved up and down for a while, then he smiled and raised his chin towards Yuni.

"Yuni, are you enjoying your meal?"

"Ok!"

The little girl nodded heavily, still scooping the fifth ball of ice cream in her hand.

Look at her focused look, coupled with her new outfit, her cuteness index has undoubtedly doubled again.

"Nikki also needs to live. Otherwise, even if she has NIMPH, she will go crazy after a while. It's just that her crazy state is a little different from that of ordinary people."

Phoenix, who usually doesn't like to talk about this kind of things, answered Mihala's doubts seriously this time.

"As for life... although it's just a noun, if you want it to fit this noun, you have to mix a lot of verbs into it."

Shila-

Here, the man just stepped into the serious topic.

Over there, the artificial intelligence didn't know which transistor had a short circuit.

Not only did she appear in Phoenix's field of vision without permission, she even stood next to Yuni, pointed at the ice cream and started to go crazy at someone.

【I want to eat this! 】

[Eat shit, can you taste what I eat? ]

[Of course you can! Just invest a lot of computing power to simulate the fluctuations in your sea of ​​consciousness. I want to eat this, too, and I want to eat it now! ]

[Be quiet! There is no such evil way of eating seafood and ice cream at the same time. Wait until I finish the main course before eating dessert. ]

[…Oh, well, remember not to eat too much.]

As Anike spoke, he sat down obediently next to Yuni, staring at the girl's mouth. At first glance, he looked like a psychopathic lesbian.

Seeing such an outrageous scene, Phoenix couldn't help but squint his eyes.

"Life..."

On the other side, Mihala's thoughts once again dived into the depths of her memory because of the commander's words.

It was a colorless ward.

And she lay on the hospital bed like a puppet, unable to move her body or feel any emotions. Even crying with her family became a delusion.

Are you still alive?

Even after she slowly regained her movements, she still believed that she was just a breathing corpse, a dead body that could not sense the outside world.

It was an indescribable fear.

It seemed as if even the concept of fear itself had become blurred, as if all the beautiful and colorful things in the world were stirred together like mud and finally turned into dirty black.

Only pain could make her feel that she was still alive.

It only hurts...

"I don't think Mihala is completely without sentience."

suddenly!

The commander's hoarse voice was like a warm spring breeze, blowing away the already tattered memories.

"Eh?"

Hearing the commander's words, Mihara opened her eyes wide and replied in confusion and with a hint of ridicule:

"Hmm~ I can still feel the pain, Commander."

"It's not that kind of neural perception." Phoenix decisively chose to ignore the woman's teasing and said, "When you were trying on clothes in the clothing store, you looked a little happier than usual. Didn't you notice?"

"Yes, yes?!"

"Yeah! Yuni can feel it too!" The little Lolita, who was about to eat the sixth scoop of ice cream, interjected at the crucial moment.

"But I also go shopping for clothes occasionally, not like what you said..." Mihala stopped talking suddenly, staring at her commander without blinking, and an incredible expression gradually appeared on her face.

Compared to the memory fragments of her buying clothes by herself...

The moment I tried on clothes in Casey's clothing store just now, and the moment I walked out of the dressing room to show the new clothes to the commander, was indeed...

There is indeed a vague, indescribable sense of anticipation and euphoria.

"Really? Mihaela was very happy at that time. Yuni could hear it in the dressing room." The child insisted on his opinion, "Because if Mihaela is happy, Yuni will also be happy."

Happy? What is that feeling of happiness?

Mihala looked down at the tasteless food on her plate, her expression changing from surprise to realization, and then from realization to enlightenment as she thought about it.

finally,

The woman chuckled in relief, her appearance becoming even more charming with the subtle change in expression.

"Is this the life the commander talked about?" she said softly.

Then, he murmured in almost silent lip language:

"Didn't the Commander just say that life is made up of many verbs?

Well, if there are a lot of verbs... this level is not enough."