NIKKE, when the stars bloom

An armor-piercing shell broke through the air as the girl responded, easily tearing through the thick smoke and heading straight for the core of Secret Material H.

boom--!

The next moment, a lattice-shaped spherical force field suddenly appeared outside the core of Letcher, blocking the shells and detonating them in mid-air.

Under the bent cylinder, Secret Material H sensed the attack and twisted its "head" joint, but unexpectedly, as soon as it turned its head, several gun lines were immediately pulled out from the blind spot of its vision, making its spherical stance erratic.

hiss--

Like the vibration of a rattlesnake's tail.

Sensing that it was in danger, the Tyrant-class Letcher waved its four broken tentacles in anger, no longer worrying about whether it would affect other buildings, and swept straight towards Marian and others.

For a moment, broken iron bars, bullets, and ammunition chains…

Countless metal objects of all sizes were flying all over the sky and the ground.

"spread!"

"Get down!"

Almost instantly, Naga, who had considerable prestige among the students, issued a warning to her classmates.

And teacher Maruchana also shouted at her students immediately;

And Phoenix,

The most fragile man on the scene chose to order the teachers and students of MMR Affiliated High School to disperse;

As for Marian, Yinhua, and Diesel, they each rushed towards a commander who was hiding his head while trying to warn the students.

The scene fell into chaos because of the secret material H's reckless and indiscriminate attack.

Even with an all-around conscious vision, facing the overwhelming metal storm, the only thing Phoenix can do is to try his best to avoid large objects.

Say it's too late, then it's fast,

I don't know if it was because the secret material H suddenly got the hang of it, or it just happened to win the prize, but one of its tentacles actually managed to swing towards someone's dodging path in advance.

boom--! ! !

Nanomachines collide closely with the steel floor.

The road surface made of metal plates was instantly smashed up at the four corners and dented inward.

The seemingly solid ground collapsed immediately, exposing the underground structure that provided space for lifting and lowering.

"I got him!"

On the brink of collapse.

Holding Marian's palm with one hand and Phoenix's ankle with the other hand, Yinhua, who was hanging in the air as a buckle, did not forget to say a few more words to someone even at this life-and-death moment.

"It's been a month since we last met, and your skills are still so third-rate!"

“…Tsk, swing me over first!”

Since he was the one hanging at the bottom, Phoenix didn't feel comfortable to be stubborn this time. Instead, he stretched out his hand and tried to grab the nearest steel bar.

It was a pity that the half-meter gap was not something he could make up by simply stretching his arms.

"Marian."

Seeing this, Yinhua shouted for someone tacitly.

Marian, who was carrying more than 200 kilograms of weight on one hand, gritted her teeth and forced herself to shake her arm despite the sparks from her shoulder joint.

With the joint efforts of the two Nikkis, in just one breath, Phoenix's body swung towards the vertical rail used for lifting.

Snapped!

The man's palm successfully grasped the horizontal steel bars used to fix the rails.

"I caught ..."

But before he could finish his words, he heard another teeth-grinding crackling sound above his head.

The iron sheet under Marian, without the support of other iron sheets, finally lost its effective fixation and could not withstand the one-way drag of more than 400 kilograms. It suddenly slid forward, and the girl fell with it...

Yinhua: “!”

Marianne: “!”

The moment they felt their bodies lose weight and were about to fall rapidly, Yinhua and Marian looked at each other with astonishment on their faces, and then tacitly but helplessly let go of their hands.

Clank, clank, clank——!!!

The loud sound of a heavy object falling was like countless steel hammers, hitting Phoenix's heart hard. The man was so frightened that he looked down at his feet desperately.

[Don't worry, both of them are not... dead...]

Compared to Phoenix's panic-stricken emotions, Alnik, who was racing against death, showed the rationality that an artificial intelligence should have.

[Marian is unconscious... Yinhua is still awake... but... judging from his appearance, his central nervous system should be broken.]

"commander!"

Just after listening to Anik's analysis, someone's heart had not yet been relieved, Diesel's shout suddenly sank from above.

Looking up in the direction of the voice, the scene that came into view really made Phoenix's mind, which had just calmed down with great difficulty, become unstable again.

Diesel...

The gentle girl who looked timid actually jumped directly from above to where he was on the railway track.

Chapter 98: Not quite like a normal person

Diesel has only hugged three men in his life.

First, it should be the father who was very vague in the memory fragments.

Second, it was her dead brother.

The third is her current commander, and her only commander.

Different from the hugs from the first two blood relatives, when Diesel took the initiative to ask the commander to put his arms around her neck, an indescribable sense of accomplishment wrapped in shyness and nervousness rushed into the girl's heart.

did not expect……

Even someone as strong as Commander Phoenix has times when he needs to rely on her.

...This feels good.

She hasn't felt the happiness of being relied on for a long time.

"Please hold me tight, Commander."

Even with a bit of girlish shyness, Diesel still showed a warm and innocent smile.

……

……

When his feet touched the ground, the man, who had no idea what the girl was thinking, trotted towards Marian and Yinhua, and whispered:

"Diesel, move the wounded to a hidden location. You will be in charge of Yinhua, Najia and the others."

"What do you mean?"

Hearing that Phoenix was willing to give up the command, Yinhua, who was lying on the ground and smelled something wrong, immediately frowned and asked unkindly:

"Don't tell me you're planning on playing out some stinking drama of personal heroism."

Someone did not respond immediately to the foul-mouthed girl's awkward concern.

He first picked up Marian's submachine gun, confirmed that the magazine was full of bullets, and then made a joke.

"What is personal heroism? I call it single-soldier combat.

Diesel, you protect them both."

Time is precious, and Phoenix didn't want to explain his plan to Yinhua in too much detail. He took a step and rushed into the depths of the underground tunnel according to Anik's navigation.

"You guy, come back here."

Behind him, Yinhua, who was suppressing his anger and not letting himself roar, glared at someone with a murderous look, tilted his head, and watched him disappear into the depths of the dark tunnel.

……

……

Generally speaking, the larger the size, the higher the power consumption.

Since Secret Material H has transformed itself into a military factory, theoretically, there should be an energy station hidden inside it that is specifically responsible for power supply.

Based on the speculation put forward by Anik, Phoenix's subsequent plan is also quite simple and crude.

First, head to the Energy Station.

Then, a surprise blackout was delivered to Secret Material H.

Although the opponent's main body must have an independent power supply system, simply destroying the external power supply will not stop this Tyrant-class Letcher from functioning.

However, its main body is the secret material H, which is a fragment of the heretic, and most of its firepower relies on various weapons from the military factory.

Once the electric turret ceases fire, the threat posed by this Tyrant-class Letcher will immediately become a joke and a shame.

[Found...]

As Phoenix advanced rapidly, Anik, who did not dare to waste time, risked being quickly eroded and forcibly allocated part of his computing power to scan the consciousness map.

In the end, the artificial intelligence locked onto a black box that, from the outside, looked like only half the size of a container.

And its location is right below the main body of secret material H.

[The routes of the cables all converge in this...enclosed box.]

[What to do? Shoot the cables directly?]

After successfully arriving at the target location, Phoenix humbly handed over the decision-making power to artificial intelligence because he had no systematic training in electrical technology.

So, I heard Anik stamping his feet and yelling in my mind.

[How else! Can you still use...your hands...to pull out the plug!!!]

Tsk.

Considering that the artificial idiot's life was threatened, the man, who rarely had a change of heart, didn't say much.

He raised the submachine gun with his left hand with difficulty and aimed at the integrated cables surrounding the black box. Without thinking, he pulled the trigger.

Snapped! ! !

Bang-dang——!

The next second after the gunshot, the submachine gun fell to the ground.

The large-caliber armor-piercing bullet tore a hole in a bundle of integrated cables that were as thick as a bucket, causing a large amount of orange-red debris to fly out of the cables, but failed to cause sufficient effective damage.

Feeling the pain and numbness in his left arm, Phoenix realized that he had overestimated the strength of his left arm.

At the same time, he also underestimated the recoil of Nikki's exclusive submachine gun on the ground.

Fortunately, the man had already considered a backup plan.

Click——

The revolver's safety clicked.

Bang bang bang bang bang! ! !

Five large-caliber round-nosed bullets penetrated into the cables, causing a large amount of electric sparks to fly out of the bundle of integrated cables, so much so that Phoenix subconsciously covered his face and took two steps back.

Two or three seconds later...

Seeing the electric spark quickly dissipate, a poor student who had already handed physics back to the teacher had no choice but to ask the artificial intelligence:

[Is this considered a short circuit? ]

[There are special short-circuit protection measures inside... Each bundle is independent. ]

Phoenix didn't understand circuits, but that didn't stop him from understanding what Anik meant by the word "independence".