NIKKE, Swordmaster Ark Succubus Daily

Is it being monitored?

Is the AI ​​in Ark really that idle?

Shuen's message interrupted his thoughts: "That's not important. What's important is the documents I took from Hannah's office today."

And then what? Does it concern me?

[It's somewhat related to you, since it involves your predecessors.]

Li Zuoyi simply posted a symbol: 【?】

Do you want to know why the outpost is in such a dilapidated state? Why do the commanders who go to the outpost die on the ground so quickly?

Shuen continued to send messages: [The supplies that originally belonged to them have been secretly intercepted, including construction materials and essential supplies for going to the surface. I need to say that this was not done by Missilis.]

In other words, those commanders weren't unwilling to build outposts, but rather lacked the capacity, just like Li Zuoyi during the day.

But if that were all, it would be one thing, but if even the essential supplies for getting to the ground couldn't be guaranteed, it would be strange if the commanders of the outposts had a high survival rate.

The commander is the same as Niki.

Even though they learned a bunch of random things at military academy and their personal qualities varied greatly, they still fought to reclaim the ground and helped the Ark complete many missions.

"Judging from your tone, you seem to know who it is?" Li Zuoyi asked.

Although those documents were encrypted with codes, I, being a genius, still managed to decipher them. Ethel Bridges, now the head of the road traffic department.

It's impossible to say that Li Zuoyi had anticipated this...

You betrayed the Goddess Force, and now you're betraying those who fought for the Ark. What on earth are you thinking?

He really wants to cut open their skulls to see if their brain circuits are different from normal humans.

Why are you telling me all this?

I just wanted to see your reaction. Your companions have been treated like this, aren't you going to do anything? I even told you their names, shouldn't you do something?

Even through the screen, Li Zuoyi could almost hear Shu En's irritating voice.

He replied directly: "I believe the judgment of the Ark AI, Anik, will fall upon him."

But as if she had told a joke, Shuen sent almost the entire screen with 'hahahaha'.

[If Anik's ruling had any effect, would he still be alive? He should have died long ago; he's only alive because he keeps sending money to someone in the central government. And there are countless people like him! You don't even know where he is now!]

Then Shuen kept sending the same message to flood the screen:

Too naive.

Too naive.

Too naive.

……

The ending reads: [Anik wouldn't care about something like that, you idiot, you moron~~~~~~~~~]

“She will still keep an eye on things.” Li Zuoyi closed Shu En’s chat window and opened an address that Anick had given him.

It is a hospital.

The hospital where Ethel is staying.

Li Zuoyi was standing on the cross sign of the hospital's tall building, enjoying the night breeze that Anik had specially arranged for him.

Just like last time, he wore a mask.

Jump down.

"Execution begins."

Chapter Twenty-Four, First

"One second to reach the target floor—the seventeenth floor." Anik's voice came through Li Zuoyi's earpiece as he was freefalling.

Compared to last time, she was clearly much calmer; this time, she was simply reminding him of the height.

Before she could even warn him, Li Zuoyi had already drawn his longsword and swung it down with a simple strike towards the building.

An invisible wind blade hurtled towards the building.

'Crash--'

The entire 17th-floor glass facade was subjected to a tremendous impact, shattering into countless sharp blades that flew into the building.

Through the metal frame without glass, Li Zuoyi saw that more than a dozen security guards in black were injured and fell backward.

While the other bodyguards were still wondering what was happening, a masked man in a trench coat stood in front of them, holding a long sword.

Li Zuoyi saw them guarding a long corridor, at the end of which was a ward.

According to Anick's intelligence, Ethel is inside.

"Encounter, encounter with the enemy!"

The man in black, realizing what was happening, raised his gun.

However, when they raised their arms, they found that the gun barrel and their own hands had been cleanly cut off, and the white bones and pink tissues were visible to the naked eye.

Blood gushed out instantly, and screams filled the air.

"Ahhh—my, my hand!"

"No, no!! Don't come any closer!"

"It hurts! It hurts so much!! Ahhhhh!!"

Li Zuoyi also damaged the electrical wiring in the corridor.

The bright lights began to dim and flicker erratically.

In the eyes of the security guard at the end of the corridor, every time the overhead light dimmed, he could see gunfire flashing and a corner of the person illuminated by the gunfire. Every time the light brightened, the person could see the column of blood spraying onto the ceiling, the fallen companion, and the figure of the person gradually approaching.

Swords flashed, gun barrels were severed, fingers and palms fell to the ground, and the snow-white walls were stained with a bloody painting made of splattered blood.

In the dimly lit corridor, the man, like a vengeful ghost, reaped the lives of his companions.

"Ghosts...ghosts...not human..."

The security guard's pale lips could barely close, his hand holding the gun was no longer under his control, and his whole body was trembling like a leaf.

The ghost was right in front of him, but he didn't even have the courage to fire a shot; he could only watch helplessly as it passed by.

By this time, the power had been restored to the corridor. Looking at his companions scattered all over the ground, some missing hands or arms, the security guard plopped down on the ground, realizing what it meant to survive a disaster.

With a flash of light, the alloy door at the end of the corridor, several centimeters thick, shattered into several pieces.

Li Zuo stepped over the broken door on the ground and entered the room, only to find that it was a completely different world inside.

The room's size, comparable to a large garden, and its extremely luxurious decorations further demonstrate the owner's immense wealth.

Therefore, a large-caliber, electronically controlled artillery piece placed in the center of the room seemed somewhat out of place.

The cannon was pointed directly at Li Zuoyi.

"This is not something you can cut..." Li Zuoyi looked at Ethel, who was hiding behind the cannon, "I didn't expect you to have brought this thing into your room. You have a rather peculiar interest."

He changed his voice, making it sound rough and hoarse.

"It's all your fault! Do you know how much I spent on the black market to buy this back?!" Ethel, wearing only a towel around his lower body, placed his finger on the launch button, his expression contorted, and roared, "Tell me who sent you?! Otherwise, you'd better prepare to be blasted into dust!"

During this time, he had been secretly searching for powerful cyborgs, but none of them were using longswords.

This person was like a ghost that suddenly appeared, wanting to take his life.

The words "I am your executioner" and the power displayed by the cyborg seemed like a mountain pressing down on him.

During this time, he lived in constant fear, terrified that the person would suddenly appear and kill him.

So he ran here, trying to keep himself safe as much as possible, and even deployed a large number of people on each floor.

That person wanted to kill him, but they had to climb up the ladder layer by layer. They thought they could wear him down eventually...

Damn it! Even so, he began to worry that the people around him were there to assassinate him.

He could no longer get proper rest.

To this day, he has never had a good night's sleep.

“No one sent me; I came on my own.”

"...Why did you want to kill me? Who are you?!"

Ethel's eyes were red, and she was panting heavily.

He investigated the relatives of all those who died because of him, and none of them showed any sign of wanting revenge.

Meanwhile, the guys in the central government seemed to be busy with something else and didn't take action against him.

In their eyes, he was nothing more than a dog after being kicked out of the upper echelons, and not worth sending assassins to kill.

This person's identity is therefore very mysterious.

If we don't figure this out, there could be more trouble.

“Control is complete.” Anik’s voice came through the earpiece again.

It seemed there was no need for further words... Li Zuoyi stopped answering his question, gripped his longsword, and walked towards Ethel, his murderous aura no longer concealed.

During his journey to Ethel, he thought he would have so much to say—his sins, the Goddess Army, so much more…

But in the end, he realized that all he wanted to say was the longsword in his hand.

Seeing that this person still dared to move forward, Ethel wasn't one to back down. He pressed the button and said, "Die!"

Nothing happened.

"Die!!" Ethel frantically pressed the button, but the cannon hadn't responded at all.

"Damn it, damn it!"

Ethel abandoned the cumbersome cannon and switched to the latest hand cannon. Although a single shell cost hundreds of thousands of credits, he was willing to risk killing him...

At some point, he noticed a red line on his arms that extended all the way down to his body.

And the red line is slowly widening... blood is flowing out...

The scene before my eyes spun around me...

What, what's going on?

His face was pressed against the ground, and he could only watch as the person slowly walked up to him.

The man squatted down in front of him and said softly:

"After you go down there, apologize to those you have betrayed, especially the hope of humanity that you abandoned with your own hands, and ask them for forgiveness."

At this moment, Ethel, whose consciousness was gradually being consumed by darkness, flashed a last glimmer of light.

"Could it be...it's you..."

"..." Li Zuoyi did not answer. He stood up and raised his foot.

"ghost……"

Li Zuoyi ruthlessly stepped on it.

A 'crack' sounded, like a watermelon shattering, and then silence followed.

"This is just the first one."

……

early morning.

As usual, Lhabi arrived at the commander's office early in the morning.

"Good morning, Commander."

The commander was sitting in front of the computer, propping his head up with his hand, his eyes slightly rimmed with dark circles, staring intently at the screen.

"Good morning~" Li Zuoyi yawned widely, "How is Marian?"

“Her condition is stable,” Labi said.

"That's good."