NIKKE, when the stars bloom

"You don't dare, are you afraid of encountering Letcher before rescue comes?

Are you afraid that no one will cover you?

If you are so afraid of death, why didn’t you just follow the first team at the beginning…”

Snapped.

When the words "First Team" jumped out of the girl's mouth, the rational nerve in Arigante's mind was immediately broken.

He walked forward angrily, completely forgetting Nikki's real weight, raised his right leg, and without thinking, kicked Morm who tried to stand between the two of them...

Gudong.

Sitting on the ground, the clown, with a red face, immediately raised his gun and pointed it at Teresela's face, cursing like crazy:

"The first team, the first team, the first team! It's the shitty first team again!!!"

What's so great about that lunatic?! Didn't you see that he brought two extra Nikkis with him?! Who wouldn't be able to score points everywhere with those two Nikkis?!

He's just a brain-sick relative, and only you, Nikki, treat him like a piece of shit!

Maybe the person backing him up is a 70-year-old woman.

spit--!!!"

"You...what right do you have to scold the instructor!"

Teresela, who was still a beginner in swearing, also became furious after hearing the other party insulting the instructor for no reason.

In her opinion, the current conflict and infighting was entirely an internal matter within their own team and had nothing to do with Instructor Phoenix.

Therefore, when Trisella heard Arrigante change the subject and start insulting the instructor, the furious girl grabbed a handful of gravel on the ground and threw it at the bastard's calf.

Even so, NIMPH assumed that this action would hurt the commander, and immediately modified Teresa's throwing action until her palm was facing down, and only then allowed her to open her five fingers.

Hua la la la la——

A handful of gravel hit the ground, making a pleasant sound.

Seeing this, Arigante, who was frightened by Nikki, instinctively moved back. Then, he quickly realized how ridiculous and cowardly his actions were.

The emotions of fear and anger, rising and falling like a roller coaster, eventually wiped out the remaining remnants of rationality of the person involved.

"You dare to attack me?"

Relying on the courage given by NIMPH, the crazy coward finally unleashed his ruthlessness and no longer cared about what would happen next.

"How dare you attack me!"

With his thumb, Arigante unlocked the pistol's safety and aimed the muzzle of the gun at the girl's forehead in front of Trisela's dull eyes.

boom! ! !

Then I heard a gunshot!

The right arm holding the gun broke on the spot and flew two or three meters away.

Then, amid miserable howls of pain, several large-caliber armor-piercing shells pierced through the walls of the ruins.

The two girls, who were still in shock, turned their heads around reflexively and looked in the direction of the gunshot.

next second.

Boom! ! !

I saw a male arm suddenly blast through the white wall, and then retracted back outside the wall.

Then, a pair of tourmaline eyes filled with murderous intent peeked out from the bowl-sized hole in the wall like a ghost.

By the way, he also read with his hoarse voice stick:

"Here's stuff~"

"..."

"..."

Confusion, accompanied by someone's ancient humor, made the Nikkis not know what to say.

Phoenix, who was not able to enjoy the meme, curled his lips in boredom, walked around the wall to the entrance, waved to Teresela and the others, and said:

"What are you standing there for? Come out."

"Well……"

The wounded on the ground continued to wailing, and Teresela, who was pulled up by Morm, pursed her lips, walked out of the bunker step by step, and came to the instructor.

Snapped.

The man's palm gently stroked the girl's head. The strong sense of security was like a warm stream of water, melting Teresa's long-suppressed grievances.

Faint sobs began to echo in everyone's ears.

"Ningya... and... and Sabol... are gone, instructor."

As Teresa spoke sorrowfully, the man slowly stroked the girl's golden hair, and his originally gentle expression returned to calm.

"Where was their last location?"

"Eh?"

Hearing someone's words, Nikki, who was crying in the instructor's chest, suddenly raised her head in surprise, her tearful eyes full of surprise.

"Didn't they say one was missing and the other was abandoned?"

Phoenix patted the silly girl on the back of her head unhappily and said:

"Lead the way quickly. Don't worry about the result. We have to kill a few teams of Letcher to avenge this."

"……Um!"

……

……

"commander."

Seeing that Phoenix had calmed down Teresela and was planning to return along the same route as Team 5's retreat, Marian had no objection, but... she was a little worried about the life of the wounded man in the bunker.

"We...really don't care about him?"

A broken forearm would cause massive blood loss. If the man died, the footage broadcast by the Pioneer Eye would be irrefutable evidence, and the commander would certainly not escape the judgment of the military court afterwards.

if that is the case……

I'm afraid he will end up in a rehabilitation center...

"Don't pay attention to him. There's a rescue team on the way."

Unexpectedly, the man just waved his hand casually and never looked directly at the guy whose name he didn't even know.

"Our medical kit was lost on the way, and no one in the team knew first aid."

"There's nothing I can do but wish him good luck."

Chapter 92: It turns out that this is possible

Phoenix didn't care whether Arigante had the chance to survive.

What he cares about most now is the information provided by Trisela and the warning from Anik.

According to the girl, Ning Ya was ambushed by mechanical tentacles that emerged from the ground, and then dragged underground by them, becoming missing.

And Anik made it clear that the further south they went, the more small underground passages they would find. They were as densely packed as the countless roots of towering ancient trees, and their specific source could not be determined for the time being.

Using the mechanical tentacles' attack method and the unique underground terrain, Phoenix could only think of the scene in the game plot.

——The mechanical creature named "Secret Material H" launched a sneak attack on Metis, the ace unit of Missilis, and succeeded.

Trouble...

Thinking of the giant mechanical creature that he didn't know whether to classify as a Tyrant-class Letcher or a Heretic, Phoenix's mood couldn't help but plummet.

Secret Material H, one of the Letcher machines whose tentacles carry the erosion virus.

Theoretically, the more Nikkis participate in the battle, the more favorable the situation will be for it.

If this is really what's causing the trouble in the area, then the most reasonable thing for Phoenix to do right now would be to withdraw.

How to do?

The man rarely hesitated when making a decision.

withdraw?

Or not withdraw?

The hesitant commander stopped and turned to look at Diesel, Naga, Tia and others beside him.

Looking back at their combat skills, which were not bad but not superb either, Phoenix struggled for a moment but ultimately could not bear to let these students take risks with him. He said decisively:

"Marian stays, the rest of you retreat to the Ark, the first team ends the mission ahead of schedule."

"what?!"

"Eh?"

"Instructor... instructor?"

Before the Nikkis could come to their senses, they heard the commander speaking into the headset:

"Shefti, please inform the relevant departments that traces of unknown Letcher have been found in Area H. They are suspected to be Tyrant-class. I urgently need a team of ground troops with rich combat experience to obey my orders. Please dispatch them nearby."

"I will relay your request to you, Commander Phoenix."

“Instructor! Just now…didn’t we agree to go and rescue Neia together?!”

When Phoenix asked the seven of them to return the same way they came, Trisela, who had the lowest NIMPH control, was the first to shake her head.

"You promised me, instructor!"

Faced with the blonde girl's questioning, someone did not give an immediate answer, but instead ordered Marian to shoot down all the Pioneer Eyes in the sky.

"As the commander of the Ark, I refuse any non-central monitoring on the grounds of carrying out the Ark's confidential mission."

Amid Marian's accurate shooting, Phoenix's unquestionable voice reached the underground audience seats.

Even the person involved was unaware that his unintentional remark, which was only meant to facilitate his continued actions, had inadvertently greatly increased his favorability among the central government officials.

Those intelligence officials who originally had serious prejudices against him changed their previous hostility and their favorable impression of the young man reached a whole new level.

Reject all non-centralized surveillance.

Look! Look at how conscious he is! This guy is definitely one of us!

The central government’s right to monitor the ground?

Isn't that the last power and dignity of their intelligence agencies? ! !

"Okay! Good boy!"

Deputy Minister Ampa, who had been frustrated and wasted most of his life in the intelligence department, slapped his thigh excitedly, picked up his mobile phone and called his long-time friend and the Minister of Intelligence.

"Old Ye, I'm making this clear today. I don't care what method you use, Phoenix must be a member of our intelligence department from now on!

Command objects? Let those sons of bitches eat shit!

Look at the shit they did, they just threw talented people into rehabilitation centers and put them in level one confinement.

How old is that young man this year? Twenty-six years old!

What's wrong with being a bit hot-tempered at the age of 26? What's wrong with being hot-blooded at the age of 26? !

He just came back from the battlefield. Not to mention that he is only 26 years old and has a bad temper. Let's let a 56-year-old old man walk around the earth and see what happens? Who can come back without a bad temper? ! "

Speaking of high emotions, Deputy Minister Ampa's years of pent-up negative emotions were completely vented out like a volcanic eruption.

"Old Ye, haven't you been frustrated enough these years?!

Those bastards from the three major companies came into our intelligence department as if it were their own home, without even saying hello to us!

Let me put it bluntly. In the entire Ark! All departments! I am the only deputy minister who is in the same boat with you, the minister!

Which department is so miserable that the deputy minister and the minister are brothers! Old Ye! !

Isn’t it because the intelligence department has neither power nor money?