NIKKE, When the Milky Way Blossoms

The gate slowly opened, and Phoenix, who was temporarily acting as a bodyguard, raised his left hand like a butler, indicating that the boss, Shuen, should enter first. Only after the girl had stood firm did he step into the elevator, backing away to the side.

hum-

The gate slowly closed, followed by the familiar feeling of falling. Only then did the masked man speak:

"Is the man on the orange armchair at the second coffee table directly in front of the front desk on the first floor your company's lookout?"

"Ok?"

Phoenix's question came so suddenly that Shuen's mind hadn't quite caught up yet, and he actually started to recall the scene when he passed through the lobby, just as the other person had suggested.

The problem is that she's not a professional intelligence agent, so why would she deliberately observe the situation in her own lobby? No matter how hard she racked her brains, she couldn't remember that there was someone sitting at the coffee table.

"has a problem?"

With his mind blank, CEO Missilis feigned ignorance and asked a question in return, successfully throwing the question back into the hands of his bodyguard through a question-and-answer format.

The bodyguard was very polite and immediately replied, "He observed you a total of three times, but when he observed me, he only glanced at me casually."

"uh-huh?"

Unable to grasp the meaning of the half-finished explanation given by someone, Shuen continued to hum in a commanding manner, signaling the other person to continue.

"Given our looks, who do you think a normal person would look at more often?"

Or we can look at it from another angle. Just based on my current appearance, even the automated service machines in the lobby would glance at me several times. Why would that guy only give me a second look?

"..."

Having said all that, how could Shuen not understand Phoenix's implied meaning? So, her face darkened, her eyes narrowed, and she bared her teeth like a hyena cub:

"You mean someone's after me?"

"Why not?"

The lieutenant responded casually, his tone revealing no trace of tension, which subtly soothed Shuen's anxiety.

The next second, the person in question took out their phone from their pocket, and while rapidly tapping the screen, said:

"I'll send someone to arrest that guy right now. You'll be in charge of interrogating him."

"Not urgent."

"Not urgent?"

The girl paused, turned her head, raised her eyes, and stared at the extremely simple metal mask in front of her with a questioning look, waiting for the other party to give a reasonable explanation.

Seeing her like this, the lieutenant's tone remained unchanged:

"What's that old saying again? A friend in need is a friend indeed. Don't you want to see who in Missilis would stand up for you when you're in danger?"

"..."

Atmosphere,

Phoenix's proposal became bizarre.

Shuen's expression first showed dissatisfaction, then turned into embarrassment and anger, and finally transformed into an unreasonable and irrational rage, as he loudly proclaimed his madness:

"There's no need for all that trouble. I'm asking you, are you going to investigate or not?"

"What's there to investigate? Don't you know who sent this spy?"

I sincerely suggest you take this opportunity to conduct a sting operation and properly assess the loyalty of your own personnel, especially security departments like the Mississippi Field Operations Unit.

The man's attitude towards Shuen's tantrum was equally unyielding, his words seemingly bewitched by Anise.

"You're the company president, not the emperor of Ark. What? Has your popularity so bad that no one even wants to burn paper money for you on your seventh day after death?"

As Phoenix uttered this rather rude remark, a series of hysterical screams erupted from inside the ascending elevator car.

"What's it to you?!"

"Look at yourself, you're neither human nor ghost! Those scrap metal guys look more like humans than you. Who would want someone like you burning paper money for them?!"

……

……

On the top floor of the Missilis Building, a young girl in a bathrobe stood alone in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, looking down at the masses hundreds of meters below, her eyes filled with a complex mix of emotions.

Was what you said in the elevator a bit too much?

She thought so.

But then I thought, the other person was the one who said the offensive thing first, and I was just responding with even more vicious words. Even if someone is to apologize, it should be the other person who apologizes first; there's no reason for me to take the initiative and admit my mistake.

but……

That guy was just stating the truth in an annoying tone. Wasn't it a bit much for her to tell him to get out of the elevator halfway through?

A jumble of thoughts raced uncontrollably through Shuen's mind, her thoughts drifting back to the scene of her first meeting with that guy...

That guy, like a giant python, dared to grab her by the neck from behind and negotiate with her...

Beep beep—! Beep beep—!

suddenly!

The sudden alarm instantly abruptly cut off the girl's feelings of shame and anger.

After a moment's thought, Shuen immediately understood the meaning behind those piercing alarm sounds.

—That was the alarm backdoor she secretly implanted in the Missilis Building's surveillance system.

—Someone forcibly shut down the closed-circuit surveillance system in the entire building!

Surprisingly, she did not receive any notification from any relevant department at the first opportunity!

Neither the Missilis Field Service nor the security department responsible for monitoring the building sent her a single notification until the alarm went off.

"Tch...a bunch of traitors, and I paid you such high salaries."

A look of panic flashed across Shuen's eyes. Then, the CEO of Missilis acted swiftly and decisively, turning around and walking to the control panel inside the room. In a few swift movements, he paralyzed the elevator system of the entire building, turning the top floor of the building into a high-altitude island.

Having completed these simple arrangements and ensured his safety for the time being, Shuen, finally relieved, did not immediately call ACPU to report the incident. Instead, he took out his phone and opened Balabala.

[Shuen: Where are you?]

[Shuen: Come back! Someone has sabotaged the building's CCTV!]

[Shu En: Hello???]

[Shu En: I apologize, okay?! It was wrong of me to kick you off the elevator! But remember, you were the one who said I had no friends first!]

[Shuen: Hey!!!]

Chapter 295 Third En ...

bulibuli! m-boer~

The smooth wall, made of some unknown material, was stained with sticky, scarlet blood. As the phone rang, Phoenix, standing at the edge of the corridor, reached into his pocket and shifted his gaze from a man lying on his side on the ground to the phone screen.

On the message screen, Shu En was still bombarding the screen with messages.

To be honest, the lieutenant didn't quite understand the other party's behavior.

They met a total of three times, and this ill-educated brat is vaguely showing signs of treating him as one of his own.

Are they really that easy to fool?

Click!

Phoenix took a picture of Shuen, put away his phone, squatted down, and looked again at the stammering assassin lying on the ground. He said slowly and deliberately:

"How about saying something random? If we're lucky, we might survive."

"..."

There was no response, no feedback; the assassin named Xsis simply lay calmly on the ground, ready to accept his death at any moment.

However, when a gloved hand reached towards his face, sharp nanometal sliced ​​through the skin of his upper eyelid, then through flesh and blood, stimulating his trigeminal nerve...

At that moment, heart-wrenching screams echoed throughout the entire corridor and even the entire floor.

Tens of seconds later...

"I'll talk! I'll talk..."

In less than a hundred seconds, the assassin, who had no conviction left and was in excruciating pain that drove him mad, unsurprisingly chose to compromise.

"What do you want to know?"

Just like in the movie, Xyz, as a prisoner, asked the executioner this classic line.

unfortunately,

He was facing Phoenix, a self-proclaimed mentally sound "conservative".

"I don't know what I want to know either. You can choose what to tell me."

Xyz: "?"

What does "you choose which one to talk about" mean?

What kind of new interrogation method is this?