NIKKE, When the Milky Way Blossoms

"borrow?!!"

He considered deceiving, robbing, trading, and even coercion, but why did he overlook the most common human experience: "borrowing"?

NIMPH counteractor.

This thing is considered precious because, based on the current timeline, there are probably only a few left in the whole world, and most of them are still in the hands of pilgrims.

While it may not seem precious, this item can actually be produced in the original game storyline, though the protagonist's blood is one of the main raw materials.

Since Phoenix isn't the main character, from his perspective, the NIMPH neutralizer is indeed very precious.

But if he could catch one of the main characters...

Ok?

No, no, no, we've gone off-topic. The point should be to use the information gap to convince Snow White that he has the ability to obtain a new antidote, and then get one from her to solve Anise's corrosion problem.

Then, he returned to the Ark to find the protagonist and draw some blood. He then gave the blood to Snow White, telling her that she could use it to find Dorothy to create a new antidote, and that he would be willing to provide the service free of charge if needed in the future.

"Reasonable."

Under Pepper's increasingly worried gaze, someone who had figured everything out chuckled, completely unaware that he was now behaving like a villain.

……

"Damn it! How can this Leitch heal itself?!"

In the sky, Bestie, whose state was close to going berserk due to her inability to kill Xiaocao, had a ghostly blue starlight in her eyes. She angrily wanted to get more ammunition, but found that she had already emptied several boxes of rockets.

　"I'm out of ammo! Yin Hua!"

After saying that, the silver-haired girl turned around and grabbed the spare rifle and magazine from the transport plane. She planned to rappel down and put the muzzle of the gun into the mouth of the Lecher and fire a burst of bullets to see if it would die.

"return."

Because she was so familiar with Bestie's single-minded thinking when she was in a rage, Yin Hua didn't even glance at her and directly and sternly stopped her.

After a period of time to process it, she finally realized what was going on.

Why did that third-rate guy shout so loudly back then?

And why did that third-rate person unilaterally cut off the communication after shouting?

After a long period of putting myself in their shoes, and eliminating several possibilities that do not conform to the above two points.

In the end, Yinhua came to an answer that infuriated her.

That damn third-rate guy didn't even go west. The reason he cut off the communication was because he was afraid they would figure out he wasn't there based on the ambient sounds!

Concealing intelligence from friendly forces—a third-rate is truly a third-rate! Even if he were a little smarter than other third-rate individuals, he would still be a third-rate piece of trash!

"Yinhua".

"Tsk! No going down means no going down."

Just as Yin Hua, whose feelings had been deceived by some third-rate person, put on her sour face, Emma's subsequent report forced her to quickly turn around and look at the other side of the cabin.

“I think I saw a Niki coming from the south-southeast direction.”

“A Niki? Emma, ​​you mean a Niki?”

"Yes, just her."

As Emma spoke, she skillfully searched the database.

"Hmm~ Top-secret document from the Central Committee, codenamed Snow White from a fairy tale..."

*Bang!*

Before Emma could finish speaking, a gunshot, sounding like a mixture of explosion and buzzing, suddenly rang out! Startled, the three special forces soldiers immediately looked in the direction of the gunshot.

In the distance, on a rooftop only a few stories high, a figure dressed in snow-white light shone brightly under the moonlight, while behind her to the left, the muzzle of a 30mm electromagnetic cannon was frantically scorching and distorting the surrounding air.

"Pilgrims?!"

The moment Yin Hua met Bai Xue's golden eyes, she felt as if she were staring directly at the midday sun, and an instinctive urge to look away surged within her.

Even Bestie, who was still in a berserk state, was not much better off. After seeing those eyes, most of the ferocity on the girl's body immediately dissipated.

Are these pilgrims?

Niki, who disobeyed the Ark's orders and single-handedly eliminated Rachel on the ground?

……

"coming."

"coming?"

"She is coming."

After the gunshot, under Pepper's slightly speechless gaze, Phoenix, while enjoying the cacophony of angry curses from the west, couldn't help but exhale and sigh:

"This is what a sense of security is like. You won't know until you experience it, and once you do, you can't stop."

"How did the commander know she would come?"

Seeing that the man looked like a scumbag who had just finished his business, Pepper, who was already familiar with the commander, immediately rolled her eyes cutely and said, "The commander hasn't told me who she is yet."

"Her."

Phoenix looked up at the ceiling, as if gazing at an endless galaxy, his eyes filled with nostalgia.

"She was the woman I once longed for but could never have..."

"Wow, that's so cheesy."

"Hey, hey, hey, I haven't finished speaking yet."

"Alright, alright, Commander, please continue."

"Her codename is Snow White, and she is one of the women I, Commander, once most wanted to have."

Pepper: "...One of...one of them?!"

Amidst the girl's disdainful gaze, someone said with increasing sorrow:

"You wouldn't understand. If distance can create beauty, then 0.0625 is the most broken love in the world for me."

Chapter Eighteen: There's Nothing to Be Afraid Of

Whether someone's love is broken or not, the clamor on the far west side is unclear and doesn't want to be clear.

It only knew that if it didn't react quickly enough, its body would be more shattered than someone's love when Snow fired the next electromagnetic cannon shot at it.

"Yinhua! That Leicester is trying to escape!"

More concerned about the chaos than the pilgrims, Besti thought that if the self-repairing Lecher escaped, all the rockets he had fired earlier would have been wasted.

sieve--

As soon as Bestie finished speaking, Snow White, who was standing on the rooftop, leaped forward. Her powerful mechanical abilities, combined with sufficient height, enabled her to successfully jump over the street, landing precisely on the low windowsill of the building across the street.

Boom! ! !

Faced with the stomping of a foot weighing nearly a thousand pounds, the delicate windowsill, only a dozen centimeters thick, shattered instantly, sending large amounts of brick fragments flying in all directions, creating a sound like a torrential downpour.

Amidst the dust, the snowflakes that had just shattered the windowsill leaped backward, landing steadily on the street before rushing off in the direction the commotion had fled.

"Chase!"

At the same time, Yinhua decisively issued the order to pursue.

That Lecher individual was too special; they needed to take at least a portion of its tissue back to the Ark so that the research department would have something to do.

Thus, the special forces representing the Ark's top combat power and the pilgrim organization representing Niki's top combat power tacitly set off together in pursuit to the west...

Phoenix, left with a head full of questions, stood there, staring at Pepper with wide eyes.

"Commander... um... they don't seem to be paying attention to us."

"..."

"Well, Commander, don't be discouraged! After all, eliminating Rachel is part of Niki's job, so..."

"Walk."

"Eh?"

Phoenix's face was so dark it looked like it was about to drip ink. He hurriedly pulled up the collar of his right shoulder, his attention completely focused on his mind.

Red dot

Another large wave of red dots,

There was also a large one mixed in; judging by its size, it should be the Raicher that almost caught up with Labi and the others during the day.

Observing the direction of Xiaocao's escape, it circled from west to south, then east, making a U-turn. It turns out this suicidal guy had no intention of escaping at all; it planned to wait for the Lecher group to arrive before launching a counterattack.

"Let's forget about that sniper rifle on the fourth floor. Let's head north and meet up with Lapi and the others."

"Roger that, Commander!"