NIKKE, When the Milky Way Blossoms

Then, another gunshot rang out, and the annoying mechanical mosquitoes fell to the ground.

"Helen and I are in one group, Alice is in another group, we'll take turns firing!"

After confirming that the Lechers were temporarily blocked outside the entrance and unable to enter, the lieutenant, enduring the furious roars of the heavy machine gun, roared into the microphone in a hoarse voice.

"Don't block the intersection, let them push in slowly—!"

……

……

panic,

An unprecedented sense of panic stemming from worry.

Hidden between two machine tools, Huaer Qiulei listened to the distant roar. Her pretty face turned pale, and even her rosy lips had lost all color.

What went wrong?

The lone girl couldn't understand herself at this moment, nor did she understand where the surging panic in her heart came from.

Was he afraid of the instructors and Nien's lives? Or was he worried about the safety of Signa and Delta?

Huaerqiulei couldn't understand it. Right now, she just tightly gripped the hand cannon that the instructor had given her, hoping to draw some courage and boldness from the cold, heavy handle.

Click, click...

suddenly!

The familiar knocking sound, like a thunderclap, suddenly and unexpectedly exploded behind her, startling the girl so much that her pupils contracted to the size of ink dots.

Lecher?!

My heart started pounding wildly.

But the rationality that followed instantly helped Huaerqiulei suppress the fear that was about to burst forth.

That wasn't Lecher's voice.

The girl wearing a tactical night vision helmet looked down at the sound, her gaze falling on her hip. She saw that the metal tactical buckle that Nien had given her had somehow slipped off her backpack and was dangling, tapping incessantly on a part of the machine tool.

It was a false alarm...

The overreaction just now was simply a normal phenomenon when PTSD is triggered.

However, a girl is a girl, and the sensitive Huaerqiulei, after regaining her composure, reviewed the entire frightening experience. Ultimately, she saw the source of the lingering fear in her heart.

—She was afraid.

While there was certainly some concern for the instructors, Nien, and Labi, there was even more fear of the situation he was about to face.

She wasn't an instructor; her chances of surviving alone against Lecher were zero; without Niki by her side, she was no different from those useless commanders...

What right does someone as useless as me, someone who once acted impulsively and even parted ways with the instructors, have to hide behind the front lines and enjoy this comfort and torment?

If you can't give orders, surely you can at least fire a gun?

Feelings of self-blame overwhelmed her, and she gripped the handle even tighter. After a struggle with her conscience, Huaerqiulei finally loosened her clenched lips and reopened the team voice chat...

……

[Increase rates: 129.37%... 176.71%... 248.65%...]

Just as the positional warfare reached its climax, and Lecher in the south, under Phoenix's deliberate guidance, did not go to extremes but instead advanced steadily and slowly, a severe headache, accompanied by Anick's warning, crept onto the lieutenant's head.

The black-and-white image under the night vision goggles was distorted and lost frame again, and the meticulous battle plan was disrupted into a blurry and disordered mess by the pain.

Phoenix couldn't understand why the fighting spirit of a standby personnel located behind the front lines would suddenly surge.

Was she eavesdropping on some weird background music?

[286.57%...291.66%...299.99%. 】

"Helen, you take command."

Just as the lieutenant was enduring the pain and preparing to hand over command of the team, Helen and the others, including himself, suddenly heard a dangerous plasma fluctuation hidden within the torrential gunfire.

"Walki, lie down—!"

"!"

In the squad voice chat, the man's roar didn't sound as urgent as it would in real life due to the decibel limit of the voice channel.

However, the female trainee, who had already completely submitted to the instructor, dared not slack off in the slightest. She saw him leap forward while running, disregarding the risk of injury, and fall forward on the spot.

Buzz—! ! !

The high-temperature laser beam, capable of melting everything, emitted a dazzling light, instantly melting through the machine tool and illuminating the passageway as bright as day.

No one was injured or killed by the fleeting laser beam, but the brief moment when everyone lay down was successfully captured by the Lechers. In just a few breaths, more than a dozen Lechers had scattered haphazardly in the passageway.

For Helen and the others, given such a disadvantage, death was already inevitable.

Without the obstacle and protection provided by Lecher's corpse, they couldn't have lasted more than a few rounds of firefights relying solely on the machine tools as cover.

it's over...

In a moment of despair, even knowing the fate of her side, Helen, who had temporarily taken over command, stubbornly got up from the ground, her tone as sharp as that of a decorated general.

"Open fire! Draw fire and protect the commander!"

It's easy to understand without much thought that Helen's order was tantamount to suicide and was destined to be futile.

Even so, Rudmila, Alice, and Nien resolutely pulled the trigger, using themselves as targets to attract the attention of the unpredictable Lecher.

boom--!

The sniper rifle named "Glory" roared furiously, just like the noble girl's state of mind at that moment, wanting to die here in the most glorious way.

On the other side, three others, who were equally determined to die before the commander, were equally unwilling to back down.

Alice, who was dreaming of going on an adventure in the mirror with the Mad Hatter, emptied her magazine in the blink of an eye; Nien, who was not good at accurate shooting, simply gave up aiming and fired wildly at the intersection with the most Lechers; as for Her Majesty the Queen, the tongues of fire from the heavy machine gun became the brightest beacon in the dark passage.

The sudden burst of firepower even suppressed Lecher's offensive for a time, but unfortunately there were just too many mechanical spiders, so many that a few stray bullets could accidentally shatter the noble girl's abdomen and chest.

"Helen!!!"

Suddenly, a deep, beast-like roar rang out in the team's voice chat. The extreme mental tension combined with the adrenaline surge caused Phoenix to suppress his physical discomfort and pounce on his subordinates like a tiger leaping.

The next instant, a figure darted through the hail of bullets, carrying Helen, whose body was now only mangled, and hid behind another machine tool.

"Everyone else, get behind cover!!!"

The man, his eyes bloodshot, roared, placing his right hand on Helen's chest, and said:

"Anik, heal him!"

The target's core power unit is more than 50% damaged, and the estimated repair time is greater than 12 minutes and 3 seconds. Given the current situation, on-site repair is not recommended.

Perhaps because a large amount of computing power was used for other purposes, the AI, which currently lacks personality, continued to report data to its host in a calm, almost indifferent, mechanical tone.

[Note that the right arm has a nanometal missing rate of 22.79%, and the output power is expected to decrease to 64.11% of the standard power.]

[Damage to abdominal neural circuitry, abdominal muscle erosion, and liver hemorrhage were detected. An attempt was made to repair and reconstruct the damage.]

[Note that the right arm has a 26.83% nanometal deficiency rate, and the output power is expected to decrease to 42.65% of the standard power.]

[A leak was detected in the hydraulic tubing of the right leg prosthesis; repairs are underway.]

[Note that the right arm has a 31.55% nanometal deficiency rate, and the output power is expected to decrease to 21.40% of the standard power.]

【detected……】

"Wald Qiulei!"

In less than half a breath, while listening to the AI's endless chatter, Phoenix came up with an idea that might be a desperate gamble.

—They also have a main character.

If we continue to boost Walter's morale and thereby enhance Alice's combat capabilities, our side might have a chance to turn the tide.

So, the unscrupulous man, having made up his mind, contorted his features and roared again:

"They're probably not going to survive. Killing one now will break even, killing two will make a profit. You fucking come over here and make your profit first—!!!"

Hearing the instructor's thuggish shouts from the north, the girl's already hot-blooded soul became even more excited.

Kill Rachel!

Just like the instructor once did, kill a Rachel with your own hands as an unmodified human!

Can I really do it?

Faced with imminent death, Huaerqiulei's ruthlessness and fighting spirit were successfully ignited under the strong influence of someone.

The girl gritted her teeth, risking being torn in two by a stray bullet, and leaned out half of her body. Then she raised the revolver given to her by the instructor, shouted, and pulled the trigger at a Lecher more than a hundred meters away.

"Killing one is enough to break even, killing two is a bonus!!!"

boom--!

The instant the revolver unleashed its astonishing flames!!!

The inhuman pain caused Phoenix's brain and soul to tremble violently, and even Anick in his sea of ​​consciousness groaned as if he were experiencing it himself.

Vision,