NIKKE, after maxing out the favorability, all the Nikkis are not right

"Well, of course, everyone has contributed to our success today."

Rabbi smiled slightly as she continued the conversation, but her gaze remained fixed on Green's face. After staring at him for a long moment, Rabbi continued, "But I think without the Commander, we wouldn't be where we are today."

"I didn't do anything. Think about it, you guys used to be the ones charging into battle, and I was just shouting a few words in the back and writing some reports."

Green shook his head and said.

"Commander, please don't be modest. Being able to work with you is probably the luckiest thing that has ever happened to us."

Rabbi said solemnly: "I suddenly feel very fortunate that on the day we met, it was me who was sent to support you, not some other Nikki..."

"..."

"Commander, please allow me to toast you."

"This cup is for the person I cherish most in my heart, and..."

"A better tomorrow."

327

Chapter 327 Behemoth.

"cheers!"

After a few drinks, dinner officially began.

Anis held a chicken drumstick in her left hand and her pineapple beer in her right, devouring the meal to her heart's content. Nian, on the other hand, grabbed a chocolate bar and happily munched on it as a pre-dinner dessert.

However, Rabi put down his chopsticks after just two bites and casually discussed future plans with Green.

"Commander, we have a map now. There are many areas to explore. Have you decided where to go?"

"First, we should rule out Silver Lake. The ocean isn't our home turf. Aside from Nikkis like Helen who excel at swimming and can move freely in the water, the other Nikkis stand little chance against Letcher in the sea. Besides, we've already ventured there once before. So, let's rule this place out for now until we come up with a plan."

Green took a sip of coffee and pondered for a moment. He continued, "I'm quite interested in the Iron Mountains on the map."

"only……"

"According to the intelligence we currently have, some heretics possess the ability to alter their surroundings. For example, the area where the fire dragons circled transformed into a wilderness covered in lava, and scorpions were able to increase the concentration of Elvira particles in their surroundings. From these clues, it's not difficult to infer that the special locations depicted on these maps must be inhabited by very powerful heretics."

"The shimmering and ever-expanding Silver Lake is probably the jellyfish's territory. It's extremely dangerous."

"The towering Iron Mountains are likely the territory of heretics with metal-related abilities. Given the lack of information, I believe it's still quite dangerous."

"The shimmering crystal city. From the information Dr. Letcher provided, it's difficult to speculate who created these crystals... At least as far as I can remember, no Letcher's abilities have ever been related to crystals. So, it's likely a creation of heretics, or perhaps technology lost on Earth by the Ark."

"I have finished the detailed analysis, Rabbi. Where do you think we should go next?"

"Based on the principle of proximity, I think we should go to Crystal City. It's not too far from our base, and even if we encounter danger, evacuation should be relatively easy."

"Okay, that's settled."

Green nodded.

Since Rabi said so, the next destination is naturally Crystal City.

"Commander, are we about to embark on a new adventure?"

Anis took a big gulp of pineapple beer and said lazily, "We finally secured a base. We should at least rest for a while before we go again, right?"

"Well, yes, there will be a break, but not for long."

"Also, let me tell you something. Considering our current lack of intelligence on the outside world, if we encounter a heretic who can communicate, we should first engage in verbal attacks. If we can't get any more information out of them, we can then resort to physical combat."

Green nodded his brows twice and described his attitude towards heretics.

"Master, it's not that I have a problem with what you said, but can those guys really communicate?"

Nian blinked her big eyes and asked curiously.

"Although most heretics are full of malice towards us, there are also some who are slippery or not so shrewd. If we can win them over, we should do so. It is better to make more friends than to turn them all into enemies."

Green explained, "Besides, you saw it with your own eyes. Even Dr. Letcher was able to make friends with ordinary Letchers, let alone a heretic with the same intelligence as humans."

"But you don't need to worry about whether I'm being too sanctimonious."

"If they refuse to live in peace with us, then we must not hold back and fight them until they flee or surrender. The answer is that simple."

"Understood. We will follow all your instructions."

……

Night time.

Atop a high-rise building in a city not far from humanity's first ground base, a lone figure sat, gazing up at a light that suddenly lit up in the distance. Although the light only shone for a moment before fading abruptly, as if deliberately refracted and distorted by some barrier, she still noticed the unusual glint.

"Oh……"

"Is that a light?"

"How strange, could it be my hallucination?"

In the darkness, her hoarse and slightly magnetic murmurs were heard.

Beside her, a huge crystal stone grew out from the ruins of the house, and in the faint moonlight, it reflected her slightly heroic figure.

Black hair, tall figure, a pair of scarlet pupils flashing with a slightly lonely look under the moonlight, but the most eye-catching thing is not the hair color and figure, but the liquid-like clothes covering her body.

The clothes on her upper body were a black liquid clothing with a gel-like material, wet and sticky, just like black slime was crushed into a latex suit. As for her lower body, it was very normal, a very formal black armor-style waist-length trousers, with only a few patches of snow-white skin exposed on her lower abdomen.

Apart from her clothes, the most recognizable symbol of her identity is the pair of curved horns growing on the upper right side of her head.

In a nutshell, she looks like a heroic girl with a deep voice. Her most distinctive features are her white shark teeth and a pair of horns on her head.

And her name is Behemoth.

The name Behemoth comes from a legendary monster that appeared in the Bible...

Of course, the woman who named herself Behemoth was not a human being, nor was she Nikki, nor was she Letcher.

Strictly speaking, she, like Nihilista and the others, is classified as a "heretic" in the Ark's terms.

But compared with the direct descendants of the queen like Nihilista, heretics like her are naturally not as powerful as the other party.

Behemoth sat lazily on the high building, gazing at the darkness in the distance. After a long while, she sighed in boredom and muttered to herself: "It's so boring on the ground."

"Looking at the same scenery and doing the same things every day is so lonely."

"It would be nice if someone could come and help me kill time... preferably a handsome guy~ How about going to the Garden of Eden?"

"Forget it. The Garden of Eden doesn't seem like a good place. I went to visit there, and they all wanted to shoot me. Speaking of which, if Leviathan knew I secretly went to the Garden of Eden to chat, she would definitely be angry."

Behemoth was muttering to himself.

Suddenly, a sharp voice came to her ears.

"Behemoth!"

"What are you doing alone at this hour of the night? Have you done everything you were asked to do?"

"Don't worry, Leviathan. I've already found out about the whereabouts of the person carrying the coffin."

Behemoth tapped her earlobe gently and contacted her companions on the other side through the embedded headset she picked up on the ground: "So, are you sure that the person in the coffin is our ancestor, that super powerful senior?"

"Yes."

"I guarantee it."

"Lying in that coffin is none other than the one who was once invincible on the battlefield... the origin of all heretics, Anakiole. If we can awaken her, perhaps we can seize this opportunity to strengthen our power once again."

"So please act quickly."

"Whatever you do, get that coffin quickly."

"Okay, okay, I get it. Don't rush me. There's plenty of time. There's no need to rush tonight."

Behemoth laughed and changed the subject to complain: "Ah~ It's really boring to talk about it. It would be great if a handsome human suddenly ran up to me."

"Do you have to be so thirsty, Behemoth?"

"I'm not thirsty, I'm just bored."

Behemoth curled his lips and muttered, "Humans are such an interesting race! They've left so much useful technology on Earth, yet we haven't even seen a single person. Do you think this is normal?"

“That’s why I want to communicate closely with them.”

"If I meet a handsome man who suits my taste, maybe I can become very good friends with him?"

"Men, men, men... Stop talking about men all the time and just do your job well first!"

"Okay, okay, I understand."

"Then I'll hang up first."

Behemoth cut off the communication, jumped down from a tall building, and walked in the city full of crystals.

Collapsed houses, dusty ruins, and clusters of crystals formed the majority of the scenery in this crystal city. As for why these crystals were there and what their purpose was, this was naturally a secret that could not be easily shared with others.

"Humph."

"That coffin-bearing woman is really good at hide-and-seek."

"I've been tracking her for a long time, but she always escapes."

Behemoth looked at the set of footprints on the muddy ground, but he looked a little annoyed.

She had been tracking a man carrying a huge coffin, but the man was extremely good at anti-reconnaissance and concealment, and he had an extremely powerful weapon in his hand. Every time Behemoth was about to find her, the guy could easily escape in advance, never giving Behemoth any chance to succeed.

"Based on my previous experience, this set of footprints is probably fake. It was left there by that guy to lure me somewhere else."

"Tsk."

"But it doesn't matter. I have plenty of time to arrest her."

"After all, what we lack the least is time."

Behemoth whispered softly and walked quickly into the ruins of the city.

……

Early in the morning, when the first ray of light shines into the stronghold through the optical camouflage barrier.

Green sniffed, suddenly screamed, and woke up from the bed in a sweat.

"Commander, what's wrong?"

In the tent, Lavi rubbed his sleepy eyes and got up, immediately asking with concern.

"Nothing, just seemed like a nightmare."

Green took a breath and said, "In my dream, I dreamed that I was pressed by two big rocks and couldn't move at all. It was too scary."

"..."

"Your nightmares might be because Anis and Nian slept on top of you."

"Huh? Really?"

Green lifted his quilt, and sure enough, Anis and Nian were lying on their backs beside him, with one of their feet resting on his knees.

As for why he ended up sleeping with the three guys from the counterattack force, there was nothing he could do. They didn't have time to clean all the dormitories yesterday, so they had to temporarily set up a tent and spend the night in it.

"I was wondering why I had a nightmare, it turns out these two guys were causing trouble."

"Never mind. Since we're already awake, let's just consider it an early start. Come on, Rabbi, let's get to work. Let's first chop some wood and then plow the nearby fields to see if there's any fertile soil suitable for planting."

"learn."

Green got up early and quickly devoted himself to the construction of the stronghold.

Although his base has been established, he cannot rely on the Extraordinary Tool Force for everything. After all, Green has to pay for hiring people to do the work. The central government will only reimburse the construction costs of some infrastructure, such as power plants, transport elevators and other facilities. As for other infrastructure, Green naturally has to spend his own money to repair it.

Although the Extraordinary Tool Force has a good relationship with Green, we can't let others eat for free, right?

Working in civil engineering at Ark is already very hard, and if the money is not paid in the end, how can we cooperate in the future?

Calculating the amount of money he would spend, Green swung his axe and with a few strokes, he easily chopped down a towering tree.

Boom!

Looking at the fallen tree, Green stood there, resting his axe for a moment. Rabbi kindly handed him a chainsaw and said, "Commander, you should use this. It's popular to use primitive methods to cut down trees now."

Green nodded, but only placed the chainsaw on a wooden stake beside him. "Actually, I'm just exercising. Otherwise, I wouldn't be so stupid as to use an axe. Besides, in the wilderness survival process, felling trees has always been a very important step, right? Without wood, nothing can be done."

"Yes, I was standing nearby watching you chop down trees for a long time, Commander."