NIKKE, When the Milky Way Blossoms

Even with her cheeks flushed, Yin Hua still managed to maintain a gloomy expression as Diesel shyly removed her clothes, thanks to her superb ability to control her facial expressions.

"Short and weak, yet he likes women with big breasts. He's third-rate, shallow!"

However, the black-haired girl, though sharp-tongued, had a kind heart, and while she said this, she didn't expose Phoenix's lie.

Yin Hua, who graduated first in her class from military academy and made history as a female commander of the Ark, clearly understands this.

—The Central Military Academy did not have any courses on prosthetic body knowledge.

……

……

"Turn off the pain sensors."

Looking at Yin Hua's shapely back and the two obvious fractures in her thoracic vertebrae, Phoenix, under Anick's guidance, mentally prepared himself for something unbearable. He took a deep breath and said:

"Diesel, from now on, you're not allowed to look in my direction without my permission, understand?"

"clear."

At the conductor's command, Phoenix raised his new right arm and, as Anick had instructed, pointed his index finger towards Yin Hua's spine.

rustling sound—

A slight, metallic rustling sound, like metal rubbing against each other or the high-speed vibration of iron sheets, emanated from between the man's fingers.

In the blink of an eye, the metal index finger, under Anik's control, was modified into a scalpel tip using NIMPH.

"Tsk..."

Upon witnessing this horrifying scene, even with mental preparation, Phoenix could not control his fear, and waves of tingling sensations ran down his scalp.

Handsome?

If you see a T-1000 transforming like this in a movie, or Alex Mercer performing these tricks in a game, you might actually think it's cool.

That's fucking awesome.

However, when it came to him, the story of Lord Ye's love of dragons became a true reflection of his own character.

Cut downwards according to the points I marked.

In his mind's eye, Anik marked the location and trajectory of the surgery on Yin Hua's back.

Following the requirements of artificial intelligence, Phoenix, whose emotions were a mix of feelings, did not hesitate and braced himself to easily press his "finger" into Yin Hua's skin, sliding down to the end of the thoracic spine in one stroke.

"……snort."

"?"

Phoenix was taken aback when he heard the patient let out a muffled groan filled with pain.

"Your sensors are still on?"

"Leave me alone, just focus on your surgery!"

Feeling the concern conveyed by the third-rate man, Yin Hua finally felt a little more at ease, but her lips remained as hard as ever.

"This level of pain is nothing. Those who shut down their pain perception are third-rate."

"..."

I had heard a similar explanation from Mihara before, and now I heard it again from the mouth of the special forces captain.

Phoenix couldn't help but wonder if most Nikkis, in order to maintain their sense of human identity, would try their best not to shut down their pain perception.

From this perspective, Anise's habit of frequently turning off her pain receptors makes her an unusual species among Niki's characters.

As expected of Agnes.

"It might hurt a little."

The man's tone softened unconsciously because of Yin Hua's stubbornness.

"You can bear with it a little longer."

As soon as he finished speaking, Phoenix's fingers, which had been transformed into scalpels, were controlled by Anick and turned into an extremely sophisticated, miniature repair module consisting of three repair arms.

Immediately afterwards, they began to inspect and replace parts of Yinhua's central nervous system.

blah-

Sizzle sizzle—sizzle—

The intense and precise calculations led Anik into the anticipated overload phase.

This time,

The minute current not only caused visual hallucinations to reappear, but also confused Phoenix's hearing.

All he could hear were all sorts of bizarre whispers from girls clamoring around his ears.

"Hehe—this commander has NIMPH on him~"

"Yeah, yeah! He's actually willing to expose his NIMPH to repair that flat-chested girl's prosthetic body, that's so kind~"

"What, are you jealous?"

"Hmph! Aren't you envious? If our commanders cared about Niki as much as this commander did, none of us would have died here."

"Eh?!"

"what happened?"

"This commander just glanced at me."

"Huh? Don't be ridiculous. We're electronic ghosts, okay? At most, we can only be observed by instruments."

"No, he...he really is looking at me!"

Amidst the startled cry of a certain ghost, Niki, dozens of ghost girls floated over, laughing and overlapping with the sister who claimed, "The Commander is watching me."

Next second,

When the ghosts saw those eerily green eyes staring at them in the darkness...

The ghost girls were so frightened that they floated back several feet and hid in the darkness, running around aimlessly like headless flies.

"He...he can see us?!"

"Ghost, ghost!!!"

Chapter 103 Can't tell, really can't tell

Do ghosts exist in this world?

The answer is yes.

In fact, Phoenix has always been aware that the Ark world has the concept of ghosts, and those ghosts can even possess Niki.

Well, about this...

Nien, a firepower enthusiast from the Pure Land of Bliss, has a lot to say on this.

However, judging from the current point in time, she hasn't had time to be possessed by a ghost yet.

With Phoenix, the plot destroyer, also present, it remains to be seen whether Nien will go to that haunted elevator in the future.

Of course, these are things to follow.

Even though Phoenix, whose senses were in a state of extreme confusion, knew that the world was haunted, he still couldn't be sure whether the images and sounds he saw and heard were real.

Are those ghostly figures that can overlap each other without colliding volumes an illusion or reality?

He couldn't tell.

He really couldn't tell the difference.

Therefore, the commander, whose senses were confused but whose reason remained intact, boldly chose to ignore everything and focus only on his own consciousness.

How badly has Yinhua's prosthetic body been damaged?

The extent of the damage is still within acceptable limits.

Anik replied in this way.

The cause of the paralysis was that the pins of several key conductive chips broke due to the impact.

I plan to use a simple filling method to temporarily align and fix the chip with the pins. As long as I don't engage in strenuous exercise, walking normally shouldn't be a problem. My hand and foot movements might be a little clumsy occasionally, but that's better than being completely unable to move.

The biggest problem is that the bionic spine has 31.26% deformity damage, which prevents her upper body from twisting and bending.

As long as they can walk, that's fine.

From the very beginning, Phoenix had very low expectations for the outcome of the surgery. Hearing that Yin Hua still had a chance to move was already a great joy for him.

Carrying a woman weighing over 100 kilograms on his back was a nightmare experience he never wanted to go through again.

[We had a deal, right? If I were to repair it, my chip's computing power would definitely be overclocked. But that damn chip leaks electricity as soon as it's overclocked. No matter where in your brain it shocks you, you're not allowed to cause me any trouble!]

He was subdued several times in just a few tens of minutes. The experience was so unpleasant that it was hard to tell whether it was comfortable or uncomfortable. Anick didn't want to try it a second time.

If you really can't stand it, go find Indivilla, don't come to me!