NIKKE, When the Milky Way Blossoms

The intermittent responses from Lapi through the headset slightly brightened Phoenix's less-than-ideal mood.

The fact that the communication channel wasn't completely cut off meant that there was still a passage nearby connecting to the three-way intersection. In that case, Anik could definitely help him find a route to meet up with Labi.

"Walkyrie, did you bring a gun?"

"Yes, I brought it!"

Upon hearing the instructor's words, the anxious girl, whose psychological defenses were about to crumble, hurriedly pulled out a commander's pistol from her waist and displayed it to Phoenix.

— 5.56 caliber, 20-round magazine, a weapon that, on the ground, can only be used for hunting or suicide.

"call……"

With a sigh of silence, the man shook his head, reached for his waist with his left hand, and placed a 4.5-kilogram four-shot revolver on the student's palm, pressing it so hard that Huaer Qiulei almost lost her balance.

Then, the man earnestly lectured her:

"Don't use those things for women to practice on anymore. Use this instead, you hear me?"

Huaer Qiulei: "..."

Chapter 276 God of Firepower

“Nien, you and your commander hide.”

Without giving the girl any time to process her emotions, Phoenix picked up his big gun after handing over the weapons and called Helen, Alice, and Rudmila to run south.

Five hundred and twenty-two Lechers—this is the statistic provided by Anik, representing the enemy forces that are about to pursue them.

The passageway they were in was very wide, a full forty-six meters wide, and could accommodate more than twenty mechanical spiders side by side at the same time.

Fortunately, there were still many large assembly line machines lying horizontally in the passage. As long as we used guerrilla tactics effectively, relying on Alice and Rudmila's powerful firepower, and combined with our own and Helen's efficient sniping...

The win rate is zero.

In my mind, the tone of the artificial intelligence-deprived voice revealed a human-like sorrow.

Phoenix... I see no chance of winning this battle.

You actually know this very well, right...?

If the four of you alone can eliminate 522 Lechers, then given your personality, you should have prioritized annihilating them all from the start.

Alright, just focus on assisting me with the shooting. If you keep nagging, I might get you arrested for disrupting morale.

Despite Anick's prediction of a zero win rate, Phoenix, standing at the entrance, remained unfazed and said:

"We're the holding side, so the first firefight is our biggest advantage. We must use this advantage to kill enough Lechers at the entrance and exit points, and use their corpses to slow down the enemy's influx into the passage. Understand?"

"clear."

Helen had just agreed when the voice chat in the team channel immediately started ringing out.

"Grandmaster means we need to unleash maximum firepower! Am I right?"

Phoenix: "?"

"Grandmaster, rest assured, I have already settled Master in and will now provide full support to you!"

Nien's unique voice, both earnest and unreliable, was transmitted to Phoenix and the others through the team's voice chat, and what he said made the lieutenant's eyelids twitch three times.

Logically speaking, optimism and being carefree shouldn't be associated, but unfortunately, Fire Girl is clearly a representative of both optimism and naivety.

Isn't she afraid that the passage will be cut in half again by Sky Ring City, leaving her commander alone?

Frustrated by this, Phoenix wanted to urge the other side to turn back, but the first group of twenty-eight Lechers had already impatiently poured into the entrance...

The battle is about to break out.

boom--! ! !

Three sniper rifles roared in an instant, followed by the howl of a heavy machine gun called "Snow Savior".

The next instant, the four Lechers who led the way out of the corner had their cores destroyed and collapsed helplessly to the ground. Seeing this, the twenty-four Lechers behind them launched a fearless charge into the passage.

Thump thump thump thump—! ! !

Just two shots...

Excluding Rudmila's heavy firepower, Phoenix and Helen only fired two shots each. The remaining twelve Lechers, relying on their swarm tactics, managed to hold their ground against the firepower of the four and then unleashed a barrage of shells into the tunnel.

As for why there are twelve instead of sixteen, the reason is quite simple.

Unlike the lieutenant and Helen, whose firing speed was limited to only two shots, Alice emptied her six-round magazine in just three or four seconds, with every shot hitting its mark. Then, Phoenix, Helen, and Rudmila each eliminated two, along with the four that died at the beginning…

In the blink of an eye, the squad had executed a total of sixteen Lechers.

Click!

Phoenix, leaning back against a large machining lathe, calmly listened to the roar of machine guns behind him as he ejected the smoking spent cartridge case from the chamber. He then shouted into the microphone:

"Get out together! Don't let them advance any further!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the man immediately leaned half his body out from the other side of the lathe, and without even aiming, raised his gun and fired.

The bullet precisely destroyed the core of a Lecher, while simultaneously drawing deadly concentrated fire from eleven gun lines.

However, just as Phoenix's hiding place was about to be torn apart by the machine gun, Helen, Alice, and Rudmila, a beat too slow, poked their bodies out and unleashed a third round of fire on Lecher and his men.

In an instant, all sorts of gunshots clashed and tore at each other.

But that's still far from enough!

Alice, who fired two shots, knew very well the terror of the Queen of Hearts' lackeys focusing their fire on a single target; several hollow iron lumps could not withstand the machine guns for long.

Therefore, she must defeat the remaining seven giant spiders as quickly as possible, otherwise her Hatter will be in great danger!

As the strongest member of the squad, Alice saw that Letcher had turned his gun back towards her. The girl resolutely abandoned the idea of ​​hiding back in cover and tried to risk her life to clean her sniper magazine again.

boom--! ! !

At this critical moment, a heart-shaking explosion suddenly rang out, and rolling flames burst out like boiling water among the seven Lechers, engulfing them all.

"Full power! Open it up!!!"

To the north, several tens of meters away.

Upon seeing her impressive record, Nien, who had rushed over, clenched his fist triumphantly, raised his hand, then lowered his elbow, giving himself a good pep talk.

"Perfect hit! This must be the protection of the god of firepower!!!"

As she spoke, the seven grenade pull rings on her right index finger clanged together, seemingly explaining the truth about the explosion to the four people in front of her.

"The second wave is here, three teams combined, forty-two in total. Note that there are six flying Lechers,"

Ignoring Nien's antics, Phoenix provided intelligence to his subordinates while quickly pulling back the bolt, reloading, and turning back to prepare to set up his gun.

"Nien, did you bring any slugs?"

"Rest assured, Master! As a devout follower of the God of Firepower and an absolute powerhouse of the Shotgun Cult, I may leave everything else behind, but I will never forget the slug that is unique to the romance of shotguns."

Inside the pitch-black passage, the eccentric girl explained her "faith" with utmost seriousness, as if even her large-framed glasses were reflecting sunlight out of thin air.

Then, Nien skillfully removed the shotgun shells from the chamber one by one, and then took several heavy slugs from the ammunition belt, loading them into her beloved gun with lightning speed, shouting excitedly.

"Grandmaster, and everyone else, don't look so gloomy! The God of Firepower will protect us!"

Even if a hundred more Lechers come, I'll make them taste the power of fire!

"..."

Glancing at the densely packed red dots on the map, the kind-hearted grandmaster ultimately refrained from shattering the firepower girl's naive fantasy. He simply nodded calmly and said:

"A hundred of them aren't enough for you to fight."

"Then it would have to be at least five hundred, right?"

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When Phoenix boasted that he could take on five hundred Lechers, Nien's face flushed red in the darkness, completely unaware of the seriousness of the situation.

"No... truly worthy of being our grandmaster!"

She could casually utter bold and ambitious words that neither she nor her master would dare to even dream of.

And what about Phoenix?

Seeing Nien's unreliable behavior, the man, who had never managed a subordinate like this before, could only sternly rebuke him:

"Go to the Queen's side and cover her while she reloads. Be quick."

“…Yes, yes!!!”

Perhaps influenced by Phoenix's aura, the usually thick-skinned firepower girl surprisingly gave the commander a military salute before running towards Her Majesty the Queen with her gun at the ready.

Gata, gata gata gata—

From the moment Nien threw the grenade to the moment he ran toward Rudmila, the entire halftime break lasted less than thirty seconds, during which the eerie sound of Lecher's footsteps echoed from the entrance.

Just as the lieutenant had anticipated, the twenty-eight Lecher corpses piled up at the entrance successfully hindered Lecher's movements from behind.

This unexpected turn of events caused the six flying Lechers, who had been moving freely, to inadvertently break away from the main force and become the first to appear under the guns of Phoenix's five men.