NIKKE, When the Milky Way Blossoms

Where did the high temperature come from?

[Lecher's plasma cannon, Isabel's light wings—aren't these high temperatures?!]

She stopped what she was doing, temporarily putting aside her computing power and returning it to the artificial intelligence simulation of her personality, stomped her foot in frustration, and continued to express her disdain for someone in an annoyed manner.

[If this triggers a chain reaction of explosions, all twenty of us could be wiped out in the weapons depot!]

After saying that, she redirected the computing power back to updating the map, displaying the movements on the ground to Phoenix in detail.

—Leitch is assembling.

After the initial forty Lechers were cleared out by Lapi and the others, the mechanical spiders no longer rushed into the orbital well in small groups to their deaths, like the Calabash Brothers saving their grandfather.

This does not conform to the behavior patterns of lower-level Lechers. Clearly, there is an intelligent Lecher interfering with the behavior of the lower-level Lechers.

Is the commotion still inside the city?

Or does the colossal Lecher of Sky Ring City possess intelligence?

If the group of Lechers above them were to successfully assemble and block all the nearby passages, the outcome they would face would be no different from the consequences of detonating the weapons depot.

“Lecher is trying to surround us.” The lieutenant, realizing the enemy’s intentions, turned back to look at the tunnel behind him and urged, “Lapi, you guys need to move faster. We need to keep changing positions.”

……

……

The two-kilometer interval will only take a few minutes for Ark Niki, whose sprint speed can reach 20 meters per second.

Even so, two minutes was enough time for nearly a thousand Lechers to gather from various areas of Sky Ring City.

The mechanical spiders, of all sizes and models, including those of the Selfless, Servant, and Transcendent levels, were like macrophages in the human body being summoned, one group after another gradually surrounding the "injured" area.

That's too late……

When Lapi and his men reunited with their commander, the unexpected situation forced Phoenix to change their original plans.

"Everyone, go up."

As the lieutenant spoke, he reached out to grab the scratches on the wall for climbing, but Isabel, seeing this, grabbed him from behind and carried him directly to the opening above the wall.

"Let's bring Huaerqiulei up with us."

Phoenix easily slipped into the armory, turned around and took "Florian" back from the woman's hand, nodding: "Thank you for your help."

"Please, please don't say that..."

Hearing her fiancé's thanks, Isabel pursed her lips, twirled a strand of hair hanging down her temple with her fingers, and replied shyly:

“If you are willing to accept someone like me, as your wife, I… I am willing to do anything for you.”

"..."

Considering the critical moment and Isabel's extremely unstable mental state, the man could only grit his teeth and hum in response, silently watching his beaming "fiancée" fly downwards again, speechless.

Time flies by quickly.

Even if Niki moves very fast, it would still take more than a hundred seconds for eighteen Nikis to climb in a line, not to mention the embarrassing incidents where people like Anise, Mihara, and Marian got stuck because of their bust size.

Fortunately, the three of them were the third, fourth, and fifth members to come up after Huaerqiulei and Labi.

After the adjutant and the trainee turned their heads away, their faces flushed, and Phoenix shamelessly stepped forward to help, the other two, except for Mihara, stood on either side of the gap, their faces also red, to assist their companions who were unable to enter the gap due to its size.

The atmosphere, which had been extremely tense, gradually became bizarre as one after another, the stunningly beautiful Niki struggled to squeeze into the armory.

"cough……"

Sensing the various strange gazes directed at him, the lieutenant, whose skin was as thick as a sighing wall in this regard, coughed as if nothing had happened and waved his hand, saying:

"Lorf, carry Waltham on your back."

"Everyone, follow me."

Chapter 272 Let the Fight Begin!!

Day after day of patrols, routes unchanged for decades, and the ceaseless noise of processing.

Lecher, who lived in Sky Ring City, seemed to have a more refined and elegant demeanor than Lecher, who lived in the wild.

Even more dull-witted.

Therefore, when they received the instructions from their superiors, the lower-ranking Lechers of Sky Ring City even took some time to extract the information expressed in the instructions before they began to head south one after another.

Six minutes passed before all three thousand Lechers arrived at the various intersections connecting the city's south side to the underground. Immediately afterwards, a new order was issued.

—Enter underground area S-014 and eliminate the intruders.

An order that lacked both detailed instructions and tactical strategy. If Valerie dared to command her subordinate Niki in such a manner, she would inevitably be reprimanded by the instructor.

Thus, the three thousand Lechers who received the order could only turn into headless flies and rush into the entrances they were guarding, greedily enjoying this rare and dangerous "vacation".

……

……

boom--! ! !

Beneath the Sky Ring City, a tungsten steel bullet pierced through an alloy gate, instantly piercing the cores of two Lechers walking side by side, who then collapsed helplessly to the ground.

Immediately, the other eight startled Lechers turned their guns around and opened fire indiscriminately at the alloy gate. Hundreds of large-caliber armor-piercing rounds tore through a two-finger-wide section of the wall in an instant, but they failed to see the body of Niki, who had launched the sneak attack from behind the wall.

This is impossible.

Even if they were just low-level machines, even if they lacked the ability to think, these eight Lechers could not accept such an illogical reality.

They chose to continue firing.

However, unlike the previous wide-angle sweeping attack which was mainly for killing, this round of shooting was clearly more purposeful, with Lecher's bullets being poured out.

The thunderous gunfire roared once more, and the poor alloy gate was brutally ripped open by the storm of bullets, creating a five-meter-wide, three-meter-high opening.

Then, the four Lechers entered the armory in a two-front, two-back formation, scanning the environment inside the armory from the left and right as they advanced.

Large ammunition crates riddled with bullet holes, heavy weapons covered with tarpaulins, and a magnetic levitation track for transport.

Without Niki, where are they hiding...?

Bang bang bang bang bang-! ! !

The moment the first four Lechers to enter spread out in a fan shape, and the next four Lechers entered in a rectangular formation!

On the rooftop, Lapi and his men, who had already set up their guns, finally pulled the trigger at Phoenix's firing signal, steadily embedding the bullets into the machine gun's firing mechanism, completely destroying any possibility of a counterattack from the eight Lechers.

Needless to say, the Lechers, now sitting ducks, ended their rare vacation as they looked back up.

"Walk."

Without a trace of celebration after the victory, Phoenix, held in Isabel's arms on the roof, urged without thinking:

"Everyone, get out through the opening, and hurry up."

As soon as the man finished speaking, the girls who were holding onto the ceiling rails with one hand released their grip and fell easily. Even Phoenix himself landed directly thanks to the shock absorption system built into his prosthetic lower limbs.

Only Waltham, who was being held by Lorf, had to be personally picked up and dropped off by Isabelle.

After all, she was the only human present without any metal parts on her body. Even if she successfully rolled to dissipate the force of the fall from a height of five or six meters while carrying her own weight, the risk of injury was still too great.

It was precisely this special treatment that stirred the sensitive heart of Commander Huaerqiulei:

I always feel that if I weren't here being a burden, the instructors' actions would be smoother, more efficient, and safer.

but……

She really wanted to command Niki in combat like the instructors, especially the overall atmosphere of the special squadron, that ruthless and decisive yet deadly and dangerous fighting style...

Who wouldn't envy a commander?

"My lover is wonderful, isn't he?"

"Eh?"

Just as Huaerqiulei was suffering from inner turmoil, Isabelle, being a woman herself and with a sensitive heart, keenly noticed the girl's low spirits as she carried the bag.

Seeing the other woman's somewhat bewildered expression, the infatuated woman gently comforted her, "It's alright. It's perfectly normal to be inferior to my lover. You don't need to feel guilty about such a trivial matter, Commander of the Counterattack Force."

Huaer Qiulei: "..."

Isabel's eyes were so sincere that the new commander was momentarily unsure whether she was being sarcastic or genuinely comforting him.

Fortunately, at this awkward moment, the instructor's urging voice came from below, successfully interrupting their thoughts.

“Isabel, just take her with you.”

Observing the distribution map of the Lechers gradually infiltrating underground, Phoenix did not choose to advance to the weakest point in the defense on the map of the sea of ​​consciousness.

His God's-eye view is only 300 meters in radius. Compared to the more than 10 kilometers of Tianhuan City, the amount of information presented is bound to be largely deceptive.

In short, the weakest defensive area within 300 meters is currently uncertain about what the situation is like beyond 300 meters.

"I plan to advance towards Sky Ring Fortress. Do you have any objections?"

The lieutenant turned to look at Labi, Mihara, and the others, then politely exchanged glances with Waltchire and Rudmila. After confirming through their eyes that everyone in the group was unconditionally obedient to his commands, he casually remarked:

"No objections?"

"Then let's prepare to fight."