NIKKE, Swordmaster Ark Succubus Daily

Chapter Fifty You are also bait

Dorothy looked at the commander in front of her, her smile widening.

He must be the human that Snow White was talking about, the one with the same abilities as her former commander.

They don't look alike at all, aren't they descendants?

Anyway, the park is testing his blood, and we'll know the answer soon.

Dorothy? Who is she? She looks like a pilgrim.

Paradise? Where is it? Isn't the Ark the only human settlement left?

Li Zuoyi caught the key words in her words. Although he didn't know the answer, the arrival of the Niki Dorothy was indeed timely; otherwise, he might be dismembered by now.

The other Nikis also saw Dorothy and wondered who she was.

"Greetings, everyone." Dorothy, like an elegant noblewoman, slightly curtsied and gave a greeting.

But no one responded to her greeting.

This is a battlefield, is this Niki really okay?

"Commander, are you alright?!" Marian turned to Li Zuoyi and asked anxiously.

"I'm fine." Li Zuoyi pointed to Indivilla, who was struggling to get up in the distance. "Take care of the heretics first, fire!"

The biggest threat right now is Indivilla; I was hoping to get rid of her if possible.

But now a pilgrim has appeared, just like Snow White, who might be able to kill Indivilla.

Dorothy, seemingly unperturbed by being ignored, walked to the side and pulled out her sidearm from somewhere—a rifle as exquisite as her own—and fired along with her squad.

"Thank you, Miss Dorothy."

"Don't mention it, hehe." Dorothy said, holding the gun with her back to him.

With Dorothy's help, Li Zuoyi felt his chances of winning were much better.

He saw Indivilla stand up, his back hunched, as if he had no strength left, silently enduring the incoming bullets.

The heretic was now in a more wretched state, with not a single piece of intact armor on his body, and most of the exposed skin was destroyed. His face, in particular, was half normal and half mechanical, which made people feel uneasy.

Only those scarlet eyes remained unchanged, radiating an ominous light.

Li Zuoyi sensed that she hadn't given up, but being so far away, she couldn't suddenly appear in front of him like before...

At this moment, Li Zuo narrowed his eyes and noticed that her mechanical whip blade had disappeared.

He had just seen her mechanical whip blade detach from her body and fall to the side when Dorothy knocked her away.

But now the whip blade that had been causing him and his teammates trouble is nowhere to be seen.

Li Zuoyi's eyes darted around rapidly.

It's impossible in the sky... It's not on the ground in sight...

The only thing that can be hidden is...

underground.

A slight rustling sound came from beneath his feet. Li Zuoyi immediately turned to the side, and a whip blade burst out from the ground between his feet, grazing past him and only scratching his cheek, from which blood slowly seeped out.

Long-range operation type!

The whip blade missed its target, but it immediately changed direction and attacked Li Zuoyi.

That heretic, like him, would not die in vain; she wanted to drag him down with her.

Li Zuoyi tried to dodge the next whip blade attack, but the pain reminded him that he was injured and not as agile as before, making it almost impossible for him to dodge.

"Commander, be careful!"

Li Zuoyi didn't know how Marian reacted, nor how she pushed him away.

But when he saw her familiar red eyes, he understood.

But now he was more worried about her body, which had been pierced by the whip blade. Didn't she feel pain?

“Marianne…” Li Zuoyi grasped her trembling outstretched hand, which was as cold as a dead corpse.

"Thank goodness, you're alright..." Marian wore her usual gentle smile, as if the blade that had pierced her abdomen had never existed.

The other girls noticed what was happening behind them and turned around, only to be shocked by what they saw. They had just been successfully suppressing the heretics, so why had things turned out like this?

Dorothy, in particular, looked very serious.

As if sensing something, Marian pleaded, "Commander, please let go of my hand."

'Boom! '

Marian's half-body was pulled into the ground by the whip blade.

"Shoot! Shoot that heretic! Stop her!" Li Zuoyi immediately gave the order, gripping Marian's hand tightly, drops of blood from his face falling onto her hand.

As Marian slowly sank into the ground, Anis threw down his gun, lunged at Marian's side, grabbed her other hand, and stopped her from being dragged into the ground.

“Anis…” Marian didn’t expect Anis to go to such lengths.

Seeing that holding her hand was useless, Anis started digging around Marian with his bare hands, hoping to slow her fall.

Li Zuoyi looked at the heretic in the distance. She, like Marian, was slowly sinking into the ground. Clearly, she wanted to take Marian with her.

But the distance was too far, so he couldn't keep track of what was happening there and could only focus on what was in front of him.

Hurry! Hurry... Li Zuoyi desperately concentrated, trying to break the whip blade.

However, after all this time, only a small piece has broken off. It would take at least a hundred more breaks to completely shatter the blade...

But he couldn't think about that now; he could only unleash his full power.

"Damn it! We can't stop her from escaping! Go rescue Marian!" Yin Hua also threw her sniper rifle aside and ran to Marian's side.

Lapi, Besti, and Emma rushed to Marian's side, trying to break the whip blade and stop Marian from falling.

But how could a blade that bullets couldn't damage be broken by bare hands?

Dorothy coldly observed the group, then looked down at her feet and said:

"So their hideout was underground?"

“Marianne!” Li Zuoyi held her hand, looking into her eyes that were about to close, and said, “Everyone is trying to save you! Don’t sleep!”

“I heard someone calling me…” Marian’s eyelids trembled as she spoke as if in a dream; “From a very, very far away place…”

“That’s a revolving lantern, Marian! Don’t listen to that man! If you follow him, you’ll never come back!” Anies shouted as she continued digging, already reaching almost halfway up Marian’s body.

But when she scooped up a handful of soil, a dark and unfathomable cave was revealed underground, and she almost fell in, but luckily Labi pulled her back.

"No...it's...Commander, hurry, let me go..." Marian was slowly dragged into the cave by the whip blade.

"Let go!" Seeing that this idiot was about to be dragged into the cave, Yin Hua forcibly pried his hands off.

"Marianne!" Li Zuoyi was pinned to the ground by Yin Hua and couldn't move. He could only watch as Marianne disappeared into the darkness, dragged into the lair by the hunter like prey.

"I thought you were a great commander, but you're just a third-rate idiot!" Yin Hua retorted, pinning him down.

"What will happen to us if you jump in with us?! How will you avenge Marian then?!"

"..."

Upon hearing this, Li Zuoyi stopped struggling. After a while, he said, "I've calmed down, Yinhua, thank you."

Yinhua, having confirmed that he truly had no intention of jumping into the hole, released him.

Li Zuoyi got up, panting heavily, his military uniform covered in dust, looking quite disheveled.

When was the last time something like this happened? He remembered it was a hundred years ago when he was tricked into going to the Ark and then detained without any reason.

Dorothy's voice came from the side, saying, "Save your frustration for next time. Marian might not even die."

Li Zuo looked up at her and asked, "Really?"

"You have to thank yourself for this. Indivilla was beaten so badly by you that she definitely needs to hide away and repair her damaged core first. So she can't eat that child yet, since the core can't be restored by eating."

In that case, there's still time... Li Zuoyi started calculating the time it would take to travel to and from the Ark.

“There isn’t enough time if you return to the Ark,” Dorothy said considerately. “However, my companions and I are nearby and can help you, as we are hunting heretics.”

“Hunting… heretics…” Li Zuoyi seemed to have heard something incredible.

Someone actually dares to hunt heretics?

“My companions are quite powerful.” Dorothy’s lips curled into a smile, the smile of a strong person. “However, I hope you can do me a favor, it will be of great help to our hunt.”

……

……

Connecting to the park's voice system...

Voice connection successful.

"Dorothy, how's the reconnaissance in Indivilla?" a sophisticated female voice asked.

“Another Ark team has made contact with her,” Dorothy said.

"...Why don't you stop them? The more people who go to deliver it, the more likely they are to ruin our plans."

“Because they seemed like a good decoy,” Dorothy said with a laugh. “But they did a great job as decoys, so I went to rescue them later, although one of Niki's was still captured.”

"Ah—this is definitely a death sentence, and it will restore Indiveria's strength again..." The intellectual female voice sighed.

"Yes, they're doomed... Tell Commander John that the time has come to hunt down the heretics. I've already sent that Ark commander away."

"I see."

Chapter Fifty-One: Divine Substitute

Li Zuoyi pulled out a long sword from the supplies he was carrying.

"If I'm not mistaken, this is just a well-made plastic toy," Yinhua said after glancing at it. "You're not planning to take it to that factory, are you?"

If it weren't for the fact that his commander still seemed normal, she would have thought he had gone mad.

"It's better than empty-handed." Li Zuo put a long sword on his body.

He is now planning to lead the counterattack team to an abandoned laboratory from a century ago.

According to Dorothy, there may still be a potion there that could cause great harm to heretics.

If we can get it back, it might help Dorothy's team hunt down heretics more easily.

Although Dorothy said she wouldn't force him to go get it, he still decided to set off.

He had no choice but to do it for Marian's sake.

"What about them? Should we execute them here? Or wait for you to come back?" Yin Hua pulled out the pistol used to execute Niki and handed it to him, looking at the Metis squad who were still howling.

The nanobots inside the brains of the members of the Metis Squad have been controlled by Rachel. They are no longer Niki, but Rachel, just like the Heretics.

Those Niki who have been corrupted to this extent must be executed on the spot; that is the rule.

Li Zuoyi took the gun. He had just tried using his imagination on the Metis team, but it didn't seem to work.

He was still a little hesitant if it were Niki, but if it were Letcher…

He aimed at one of the blonde girls with twin tails, Niki, whose name I think was Laplace. Looking into her bloodshot eyes and strange expression, he placed his finger on the trigger, activated his ability, and said:

"Please, if you're still conscious, give me some kind of response."

“…Ying, Yingying…Xiongxiong, Xiongxiong…I…I…I…I…I…I…I…”

It's the same as before.

Just as Li Zuoyi made up his mind and was about to pull the trigger, he saw tears streaming from Laplace's eyes.

"I, I, I, am, killed, killed me... Hero, hero..."

Emma covered her mouth in surprise, and Bestie was speechless with astonishment.

"How is this possible?!" Yin Hua couldn't believe that Laplace still had consciousness. All the Nikis she had seen who had been corrupted had lost their sense of self and become puppets of Rachel.