NIKKE, Swordmaster Ark Succubus Daily

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A half-burnt blue ribbon was placed on Li Zuoyi's table.

He stared at it for half an hour, while Rosanna next to him had been pointing a gun at herself for half an hour.

Anis, who usually watched TV in the command center, also noticed that something was wrong and had already chosen to avoid the situation. She had never seen the commander so angry.

"What are you doing?" Li Zuo looked up at her and asked.

His tone was as calm as still water, but to Rosanna it was like thunder.

"The master clearly told me to be careful, but the other party still managed to get away with it..."

"So you committed suicide?"

Rosanna handed the gun to the man and said with her head bowed, "I have disgraced you, sir, and I have also let down the deceased Mamy and Daisy. At least I should be punished."

The explosion happened shortly after the man left, almost as if they were one after the other.

But she couldn't stop anything.

“It will happen, but not now,” Li Zuoyi said. “According to the investigation into the attackers of Peony and Cherry Blossom, we know that a woman did indeed come into contact with them.”

He then looked at Lapi beside him and asked, "Has the government released any findings on the technology behind those prosthetic bodies?"

Even though the attackers lost consciousness, they continued to wreak havoc, clearly controlled by the prosthetic bodies that made up 70% of their bodies.

Finding a breakthrough in prosthetic technology is also a direction.

“…Yes, the results are in.” Labi replied slowly, “It’s related to Misilis.”

"what?!"

"Moreover, this news was somehow leaked online, and now a large number of people are starting to condemn Missilis."

"Hey, bro! We found her! We found her!" Peony suddenly pushed open the door of the command center, waving a drawing in her hand, and shouted, "Someone just happened to see the woman with the cake and has already gotten her portrait."

Li Zuoyi took the portrait, glanced at it, and realized that he had seen this woman before in the outer region. She had jumped out when he was captured by the strange mass-produced Niki.

But isn't she Niki?

"Lappi, use the military's system to check if she's among the landing Nikkis." Li Zuoyi handed the portrait to Lapi.

A few minutes later, a message appeared on his computer from a user named Claut.

And this Niki belongs to Missilis.

The current owner is... Shuen.

Chapter 71 Sorry, I'm on their side this time...

In the most advanced laboratory in Missilis, Shuen looked at Laplace, who was frozen in a glass jar, and unconsciously walked up to him, placing his hand on the cold glass, his eyes filled with grief.

She was the one who asked Laplace to gather information on heretics, so it's naturally her fault that Laplace has been corrupted.

She simply wanted to gather intelligence on the heretics in advance, hoping to gain a slight advantage in competition with other companies. She only needed to take a look from afar, record the heretics' physical characteristics, and analyze their potential abilities...

As for fighting heretics, she hadn't even considered it.

But no matter how much regret there is, Laplace has already been eroded, and because the erosion has been going on for so long, the method of temporarily slowing down the erosion by freezing is no longer feasible.

Despite having exhausted all available resources and employed every method with even the slightest feasibility, Shuen still failed to alleviate Laplace's erosion.

Is it really only that man who can help us...? But he is also vague about how to remove the corrosion.

What should I do now?!

Suffering greatly, Shuen became so angry that he started smashing everything he could find in the laboratory.

"Um... Lord Shuen, Commander Li Zuoyi is on his way to your laboratory," the secretary's voice came over the laboratory's loudspeaker. "And there are many police officers with him... It seems something very important has happened."

"what?!"

Unable to understand, Shu En walked out of the laboratory and ran into Li Zuoyi, who was followed by rows of fully armed police officers.

"Hey, what's up?" Even if he's going to sit on her again later, she still wants to vent her frustration. Since he's going to bully her anyway, saying a few words won't make a difference.

She then turned to the group of police officers and yelled, "You bunch of bastards, do you know where you are?! This is the Missilis headquarters! Who gave you permission to come in?!"

“Shu En.” Li Zuoyi walked up to her and unfolded the documents in his hand. “You’ve been arrested.”

Shuen frowned as he looked at the heading of the document, the words "arrest warrant," and found his own name in the text below... The charges were terrorist attack on the Ark, illegal human experimentation, and so on.

"Don't joke around!" Shu En felt her scalp tingling. She angrily said to Li Zuoyi, "Something is definitely wrong here!!"

“There’s evidence that you are indeed involved in the Ark attack a while ago.” Li Zuoyi took a deep breath, put away the documents, and reached out to grab her arm. “You’d better come with me obediently. I’ll investigate…”

"Don't touch me!" Shuen angrily shook off his hand and shouted, "I didn't do those things!"

Seeing that the police dared to point guns at her, her burning rage drove her to lose her temper, and she said:

"This is Missilis! I have a hundred ways to kill you all..."

Li Zuo noticed that the policeman next to him was gripping his gun tightly, seemingly a little nervous, and inwardly cursed Shu En as an idiot.

The threat uttered by the CEO of Missilis carried enough weight to put the police on high alert; in the event of any disturbance, an accidental discharge was not entirely out of the question.

"That's enough! Shut up!"

Li Zuo stepped forward and punched Shu En hard in the stomach, causing her body to arch like a shrimp.

"Cough!!!" Shuen's eyes almost popped out of their sockets, her mouth was wide open, and saliva was involuntarily dripping from the corner of her mouth. The almost tearing pain in her abdomen made her mind go blank.

Li Zuo withdrew his hand, and Shu En immediately knelt down, supporting himself with one hand on the ground and clutching his stomach with the other, slurring, "You, no, you don't believe me? Even you..."

Compared to the painful regret she felt in the lab before, she inexplicably felt that something else was hurting her even more.

But soon, Shuen fainted due to the intense pain.

After an unknown amount of time, she slowly opened her eyes due to the jolting.

Looking around, she appeared to be in a moving car.

Her hands weren't handcuffed, and she felt like she was dreaming, but her abdomen still ached slightly, reminding her that what had just happened wasn't a dream.

She noticed that the driver in front of her looked like Li Zuoyi, and he seemed to be on the phone with someone.

Li Zuoyi said to Anderson on the other end of the phone, "Shuen is still unconscious. I will send her to the outpost. Besides, it should still be within my investigation period, right?"

"Do I need to remind you? She's now confirmed to be a criminal. You should hand her over to the police or the military," Anderson said helplessly.

"A criminal? You don't actually think that such an arrogant brat like her would attack the Ark?"

After saying that, Li Zuo let out a scoff, as if mocking him.

"..." Anderson was silent for a moment, then said, "Actually, it doesn't matter whether she is the mastermind behind the attack or not, because people are already watching her and want her to go to jail or die."

"So who wants her arrested?" Li Zuoyi asked.

“Everyone you met at the Missilis party,” Anderson said, “once she’s no longer the CEO of Missilis, countless wolves will soon be trying to seize this opportunity to tear a piece of flesh from Missilis. I advise you to stay away from her. That’s my advice to you.”

As expected, kicking someone when they're down has always been a signature skill of these guys.

Li Zuoyi was naturally aware of the danger involved. Doing this would inevitably cut off their source of income and would certainly incur their resentment.

Who knows what kind of trouble they might cause in the future? Those bastards might already be plotting against him.

Make a note of every single one who dares to come, so we can settle accounts with them one by one later.

However, having been falsely accused himself before, he could understand Shuen's actions just now.

Panic, anger, helplessness... he experienced all of these.

It's less about helping Shuen and more about helping the version of myself that saw no hope back then.

"That's a good suggestion, but I suggest you don't make any more suggestions in the future." Then Li Zuoyi hung up Anderson's phone.

However, not long after hanging up, someone else called.

It was Ingrid!

He answered the phone and asked, "What's up?"

"About Shuen." Ingrid's voice still sounded as mature and sophisticated as ever.

"Are you here to advise me to stay away from Shuen as well?" Li Zuoyi asked.

"...It seems Anderson has already told you this; it's for your safety."

"You're so worried about me, you must like me, right?" Li Zuoyi said irritably.

"That's an interesting assumption. I'm speaking from your perspective..."

'drop'

Before Ingrid could finish speaking, Li Zuoyi hung up the phone.

Less than a second later, the phone rang again; it was Masdin.

Li Zuo answered the phone and asked, "What do you want now?"

“Hey, YOU! Shu En’s…”

'drop'

Li Zuoyi hung up immediately, saying, "They're all so annoying, don't you think so, Shuen?"

There was no response from the back row.

"Still dizzy, did you exert too much force?"

Just then, his phone vibrated. He glanced at it and saw it was a message from Rosanna.

[Klau has been found; he's currently near Memi's house.]

After reading the message, Li Zuo threw his phone onto the passenger seat, slammed on the brakes, turned the steering wheel, and drifted around, speeding towards the outer edge of the area.

Chapter 72 Did I do something wrong? If so...

As Li Zuo got out of the car and closed the door, he saw that nearly half of what used to be a continuous stretch of tin-roofed slums had collapsed and turned into ruins.

There were quite a few people here, all subordinates of the underworld queen's forces. They had surrounded and cleared the area to ensure no one would interfere.

Stepping on the road paved with rusty iron sheets and discarded garbage, Li Zuoyi arrived at the place that used to be Mei Mi's home.

This is the epicenter of the explosion; almost nothing remains, only scorched earth.

On that land, Rosanna was beating someone up, while Peony and Cherry Blossom watched coldly from the sidelines.

'Bang, bang, bang'

Rosanna landed punch after punch on the face of the man she was holding by the neck.

"Brother." Peony noticed Li Zuoyi approaching first.

Sakura, as always, held a long-stemmed pipe and nodded to Li Zuo as a greeting.

“Sir!” Rosanna turned around, saw Li Zuoyi, and immediately forced Niki in front of him, saying, “She is Klaus.”

Li Zuo examined her for a while. Although her face was badly slapped, he still recognized her. She was indeed the Niki who had jumped out to save him but then remained motionless. Her clothes and other details matched up as well.

Her face was covered in 'blood', and the fluid circulating in Niki's body was red, which could be identified as Niki's blood.

Krau opened her damaged eyes and looked at the blurry figure in front of her. She knew it was him, so she grinned and said, "Long time no see."

Li Zuo ignored her and instead asked Rosanna, "How did you catch her?"

"She was just about to slip out of the outer area when our joint search team from the three companies found her, and then I brought her here," Rosanna said resentfully, looking at Krau.

Memi could have stopped worrying about the debts and started over, and Daisy's illness could have had another chance to be treated.

But because of this guy, they lost their lives forever.

If she weren't going to keep him for the master's interrogation, she would have shot that bastard long ago.

Li Zuoyi looked at Krau in front of him and asked, "Did you commit the attack on the Ark?"

“…I was the one who selected the personnel and assigned command,” Krau said.

"What about the bomb at the 'Seaside' restaurant?" Li Zuoyi asked again.

"It was me too, huh? How did you know? The media didn't report on that..." Krau realized and said in surprise, "So you're the one who tore it down?"

Li Zuo glanced at Rosanna. Now that he knew she was the one who did it, there was nothing more to say.