NIKKE, when the stars bloom

"What? You don't believe it?"

Seeing Honglian's expression of "are you kidding me?", Phoenix's gaze slowly, slowly shifted from her face to behind her.

——There, there were more than a dozen ghost girls with different expressions.

"Want me to show you my skills?"

It was as if the aura of a hermit bloomed within the commander's body, and even he himself did not realize that his current state was very much like that of a charlatan.

"Oh?"

Seeing the man in such a state, Honglian naturally would not believe his lies.

She took a sip of wine, not realizing the seriousness of the problem at all, and continued to speak cheerfully and politely:

"Hahahaha~ Then I'll trouble you, sir."

"No trouble, no trouble."

The kindhearted Phoenix was also very polite. He shook his head slightly and raised his hand to a petite ghost girl in the astonishment of the white-haired girl and the ghost sisters, and asked:

"Little sister, if it's convenient, could you tell me your name?"

Honglian: "Ah huh???"

……

……

Margarita, Farin, Mulan, Leila...

When the deceased teammates who once fought side by side with him reappeared from Phoenix's mouth one by one in the form of names.

Honglian, who always acted cool and carefree in the past, could no longer remain confused at this moment, and her eyes suddenly flashed with a murderous intent so strong that it was suffocating.

"How do you know these names? Have you investigated me?"

The old honorifics are no longer used, the easygoing countenance is nowhere to be seen.

From expression to movements, from temperament to tone, Honglian, who seemed like a completely different person, slowly stood up from the edge of the bed, staring murderously into Phoenix's eyes, his tone as cold as the winter sun.

"You have one chance now to explain yourself.

Remember, only once.

I promise it won’t happen again.”

Faced with Honglian's sudden change, even though Phoenix had made sufficient mental preparations in advance, he was inevitably frightened by the naked murderous intent and reached out to pull out the revolver at his waist.

Damn, isn't this old lady's reaction a bit too much? !

He didn't kill the person!

the other side,

Seeing that the only surviving comrade was about to chop off their microphones after a disagreement, the tough women who were responsible for chopping down Letcher at close range on the ground suddenly became anxious and ran around in circles.

In order to prove that Phoenix was not lying, they revealed Honglian's dark history one by one.

"Quick! Tell Honglian that the name of the knife I use is 'Decomposition'!"

"No, this level of privacy shouldn't be enough! Tell her that she was the one who was most opposed to our Nikki drinking in the army at the beginning!"

“Also, when Honglian first joined the army, he was a complete sluggish person.

At that time, we thought she was a cold-blooded warrior whose only thought was about chopping and slashing.

Guess what?

When everyone sang the birthday song for her for the first time, this expressionless face almost burst into tears! "

"..."

In Phoenix's silence, the ghost sisters chattered and revealed Honglian's explosive news.

Although these contents sound extremely exciting, they have actually been familiar with them in their long decades of ghost life.

"Your comrades said you cried the first time they sang Happy Birthday to you."

Phoenix's eyes moved left and right as the ghost sisters waved at him, and he kept muttering rapidly.

“Well, they also said you can’t handle spicy food.

Once a young non-commissioned officer confessed his love to you, but you knocked him to the ground with your scabbard.

You rescued a little girl, and then you slapped her in the face when she said she wanted to be Nikki.

You secretly read romance novels and martial arts novels.

Uh, and..."

As someone revealed more and more private information, Honglian, who was initially filled with murderous intent, now fell into a daze.

he……

Do you really understand psychic communication?

Are there really ghosts in this world???

The white-haired girl's feeling of half-belief and half-doubt was completely ended when the man said something shameful.

"They said you had a pair of pink bear panties with matching...huh???"

Because he spoke too quickly, Phoenix, who didn't think before he spoke, realized belatedly that the privacy he just mentioned seemed a bit too private...

"Well, this is actually my guess..."

The man tried to make a weak explanation, but Honglian was not stupid. Since this guy could say the first half, he must have heard the rest of the second half.

"Falin! Did Falin tell you? I...I'm going to beat her up!"

The white-haired girl, with her face flushed, fiercely clenched the hilt of the knife at her waist, her distorted expression of anger and shame seemed as if she was planning to kill Phoenix on the spot.

"Let her come out to see me!!!"

Clang——!!!

Honglian's loud voice was successfully heard outside the door, giving Yinhua sufficient reason to break in.

"Don't move!"

The special forces captain, holding her sniper rifle, broke into Phoenix's "home" swiftly like a well-trained triangle force anti-riot SWAT.

"lay down your weapon!"

I don’t know if it was because Yinhua’s actions were too professional, or because Phoenix, who was suspected of “sexual harassment”, had something to hide.

In short, the black-haired girl's scolding not only failed to make Honglian put down the hilt of the knife, but instead made the commander holding the revolver raise his hands guiltily.

"that……"

The man with cold sweat on his forehead forced a smile and suggested:

"The pigeon soup is almost ready. Would you like some soup, everyone?"

Chapter 110 When the Stars Bloom

Phoenix's "house demolition effect" was implemented perfectly.

First, he used the time traveler's jokes to temporarily expand Honglian's ability to accept.

Then, he proved with actual actions that he could see the soul of Nikki who survived.

Finally, he successfully fooled Honglian into thinking that he knew so many real cooking techniques because his ancestors were once rich, but now they were in decline, so he was forced to become a commander.

last of the last,

The pigeon soup tastes really good.

Because the first bowl of artwork served as a comparison, even though the second bowl of pigeon soup was only added with salt and MSG, its aroma made the Nikkis understand how important it is to "remove fishy smell".

"Drink, why don't you drink?"

He saw all the Nikkis, including Honglian, standing in a circle around the dining table, staring at the strange scene of him drinking soup alone.

Phoenix, who had never been watched by so many people while eating, felt as if ants were crawling all over her body. Even her eating movements changed from those of a soldier to those of a lady.

"We have plenty of energy, Commander." Marian shook her head after hearing the commander's suggestion to drink soup and said without hesitation:

"The team has lost contact with the Ark. Without a map, we don't know how long it will take to find the underground elevator. Commander, you need to consume as many calories as possible."

"Don't worry about these problems. Let's eat together. There are three pigeons. I can't eat that much by myself."

The man who was drinking soup alone waved his hand and asked Ning Ya to go to the kitchen to get more chopsticks and soup spoons.

"Huh?! But..."

"Don't worry. According to Yinhua, there are many animals here. We can hunt more and make them into jerky. Then we can go back the same way, cross the H area, and try to reestablish contact with Xie Futi."

"go back?!"

Hearing Phoenix's bold idea, amid Diesel and others' amazement and Honglian's confusion, Yinhua only thought for a moment and nodded in praise:

"Well, that's a good idea. Since Letcher can't find us in Region H, it will definitely spread outward, and the distribution density in the region will drop rapidly.

As long as we can quietly break through the outer search circle and successfully return to the interior of Area H, then theoretically speaking, we won't encounter patrolling Letchers on the subsequent sections of the road."

"Break through Letcher's defenses silently?"

Having never experienced cheat-level navigation, Honglian could not be said to be disdainful of Phoenix's plan and Yinhua's analysis, but could only be said to treat them as trash.

"You are so confident, is there a secret passage unknown to others?"

The white-haired old girl, her mood back to normal, started using her flowery ancient words and sentences again, her eyes staring at someone with a piercing gaze, not avoiding the gazes of other Nikkis at all, openly posing as if she wanted to eat Phoenix alive.

When she learned that her dead comrades continued to live in this world in another real way.

When she learned that her comrades had been protecting her and never left her side.

When she learned that only Phoenix could see the appearance and hear the voices of her comrades.

So, after rounding off, the formula "Phoenix is ​​equivalent to her comrades-in-arms", which seems outrageous but actually conforms to the current situation, appears very reasonably in Honglian's cognition.

"If you don't mind, how about I go with you?" Honglian took a sip of the fruit wine in the wine cup, blushing and said lazily.

Although everyone knows that this drunkard's appearance is not out of shyness.

However, when coupled with that sentence that could easily be misunderstood, Marianne, Yinhua and the others felt something was wrong.

You are a pilgrim who has refused to communicate with the Ark for decades. Why do you now inexplicably offer to travel with the Ark Commander?

It's only been a few hours???

"Are you willing to escort us for a while?" Upon hearing Honglian's invitation to join the team, the commander who was suffering from insufficient combat power was very happy and accepted this powerful woman without blinking an eye.

"Come on, come on, everyone, drink soup, everyone, drink soup."

The man warmly invited all the women in the room to taste his cooking, and he was completely unaware that Yinhua and Marian, who were standing behind him, were giving him dangerous looks.

It took more than an hour to capture a pilgrim.

Does the Commander understand women's hearts a little too well?

……

……

Time flies by.

When real night falls on the sky, the dazzling river of stars also hangs in the sky.

The starlight, like thousands of lights, is blue and purple, gorgeous as a song.

Under the night sky, Phoenix brought a rocking chair that he had found from some house, and sat on it with his eyes closed, enjoying the cool night breeze, just like when he was a child in the countryside, and relayed the words of Falin and the others to Honglian one by one.

When comrades who had not communicated with each other for decades met again, they naturally had countless things to say to each other.

They were having a great time chatting, and even Phoenix was infected by their emotions and laughed softly.

"Son."

"Ok?"