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

"Is this, so disgusting?"

"Then I won't eat it anymore."

Anis was about to open a bag of Popeye, but she quickly lost her appetite.

After all, Lavi's embarrassed look made it difficult for her not to wonder what disgusting stuff this Popatri had mixed in.

"But Poppet is cheap." Nian chewed her Poppet with a nonchalant expression on her face. "Anyway, we are all Nikki, and we eat for the taste. Anis, if you are picky about food, our salary can't support such high expenses."

"Well, that's what I said."

"But now I have to overcome this mental difficulty of mine."

"But since we finally made it to the surface, let's go ask Dorothy for a few chickens to take back." Anis felt a little greedy when she thought of chicken. "Eggs, chicken, chicken legs, chicken wings, chickens are really treasures from head to toe. Even if the Ark's Animal and Plant Management Bureau refuses to approve the procedures, I'll secretly bring two back. Commander, do you have any objections?"

"My advice is simple: bring more."

Green expressed his support for Anis's idea.

Poultry are not polar bears that can be fed with some grains every day. They just happen to have a lot of Popat, and the Popat that people don’t want to eat can be left for broiler chickens to be processed, which can produce eggs and meat every day.

Don't underestimate the small amount of meat in a chicken.

But the fact that it’s real meat is enough to beat 99% of the so-called high-end restaurants in the Ark.

Seeing that both wanted to take some chickens back, Rabbi had no objection. However, out of some concern, she whispered, "Commander, if you want to take some poultry back, it would be best to have someone transport it from the Outer Region, or to make some connections with Nikki, who's in charge of inspecting the items. However, given your popularity, I'm sure she'll turn a blind eye."

"it is good!"

"Then let's set a small goal. Starting from the day we return to the Ark, we will eat real meat for every meal!"

Chapter 4000: Nihilista: What are you doing?! ()

After hurriedly finishing his breakfast, Green led the counterattack troops to wander in the wilderness, searching for traces left by the fire dragon.

"Mission Objective: Ground exploration, search for Nihilista. Prioritize defeating the enemy, but don't rule out the possibility of persuading them to cooperate."

"The temperature feels like 28.4 degrees."

"Weather conditions indicate a chance of rain in the next 12 hours."

"There's no sign of Letcher activity nearby. Very good, let's continue."

"Also, it's best not to go too deep into the wilderness. The concentration of Elvira particles there is too high. Plus, the whereabouts of the Heretic Jellyfish are currently unknown. If we encounter her by chance, our chances of winning are not high." Lavi took out her tactical tablet, checked the surrounding environment, and made a simple plan.

"Understood. Let's go."

"Search for the fire dragon. If there is no result within a week, we will abandon the mission and return to paradise."

"Roger that!"

Slowly searching for traces left by the fire dragon in the endless badlands, Green moved forward step by step against the wind and sand. Soon, he came to the ruins of a city. Looking around, he could see collapsed buildings and mountains of debris and garbage.

"It seems that Letcher once wreaked havoc here. They gathered all the resources in the city and dragged them here for decomposition and smelting to extract some metals for making Letcher." Green picked up a piece of iron with burn marks on it from the ground, held it in his palm and muttered to himself.

"Commander, what do you think Letcher is?"

"It's clearly just a metal creation, and it doesn't have a human brain like Nikki. Why does this strange creature have a collective consciousness and obey the command of Queen Letcher?" Anis also picked up a broken crystal ball from the garbage dump and asked.

"It's either technology from alien life, or something invented by humans themselves, but I prefer the latter." Green replied after gently putting down the iron piece in his hand.

"So, that means Letcher is something humans invented themselves?"

"Hmm, I think I've seen a movie like this on TV."

"AI awakens its self-awareness and overthrows human tyranny. To be honest, this plot is so cliché that I even feel sleepy when I go to the cinema to watch it." Anis yawned and threw the crystal ball back into the garbage mountain.

"Let's not talk about this anymore, Commander. If you were to see the Fire Dragon again, what would you say to her?"

"Why, do you have to come up with a really cool line?"

"Hey, isn't that right?"

Anis smiled innocently and immediately started thinking about the line: "Those who play with fire will suffer the consequences!"

Nien also came up with a line: "Bite your teeth, fire dragon! My firepower will hurt a little!"

Green thought about it, and for some reason he suddenly remembered the line Snow White once said to Letcher: "Pray, if you have faith."

"Oh, this line is really so childish!"

"Actually, it was Snow White who said that."

"what?"

"So that normally stern and taciturn pilgrim could actually say something so childish?" Anis grinned and said, "Hmm, I feel like my impression of her has suddenly changed a bit."

"Shh..."

"Don't talk. Listen, is there any sound?"

Green suddenly made a gesture, signaling everyone to be quiet.

After closing their eyes and becoming quiet, the three of them began to listen to the strange sound.

Crunch...Crunch...Crunch...

The sound of metal being roughly broken echoed continuously in the silent ruins.

Green gestured to the three people behind him, then leaned against the wall of the ruins, stuck his head out towards the place where the sound came from, and watched what was going on.

In the dim ruins, the red-black figure of Nihilista suddenly appeared. She stretched out her hand, grabbed a pile of machine parts with brute force, bent and crushed them, and then attached them to her damaged armor.

And the amazing thing is.

They were clearly incompatible parts, but when Nihilista put them together, the parts actually twisted and deformed and turned into a flat armor shell.

Is this the heretic's ability to regenerate himself?

Green sighed in his heart and made some sign language to the three people behind him.

"(It's Nihilista.)"

"(It's her, Commander. What should we do? Send out a flare to call Nikki over to Paradise?)"

"(Don't alert the enemy yet. Jellyfish just left not long ago. If we start a war again now, she might come back.)"

"(What should I do then?)"

"(Let's try to convince her first. Nihilista is very weak now, and she probably doesn't want to go to war with us. Take this opportunity to get more information from her.)"

Snap.

Green stretched out his foot and deliberately crushed a dead branch.

The moment he made the sound, a cannonball was fired from Nihilista's dragon-head cannon, shattering the wall in front of Green.

"who is it?!"

"Oh, it's you guys, the ones who went along with Paradise..."

"What? You want to capture me when I'm weak? Don't think I will surrender." Nihilista stretched out his hand and knocked on the jammed dragon head cannon with a clang, a hint of anger flashing on his wild face.

"If we really wanted to kill you, we would have fired the flare gun immediately, Nihilista." Anis pulled out a flare gun from her arms and waved it in front of Nihilista. "Are you still trying to act so superior?"

"cut..."

"I knew you were hard to change."

"However, that human is quite easy to talk to, right? Since you came to see me with Nikki from your army, I guess you are here to continue discussing cooperation?" Nihilista shifted his gaze away from Nikki and the others and looked at Green with a smile.

"Well, that depends on your sincerity, Nihilista," Green replied noncommittally. "You know, we hold the initiative. We have more leverage than you do. If you don't want to cooperate, we wouldn't mind calling Nikki from Paradise for a righteous one-on-one fight."

"Don't be so afraid of me."

"There's a saying, there are no eternal friends, only eternal interests. How about we continue the topic that was interrupted by that damn jellyfish last time?"

Pfft!

Nihilista sat down on a pile of metal wreckage, and the mechanical dragon tail hanging behind her curled up on her knees as she sat down.

"I won't say the following words a second time, so listen carefully."

"First, I will answer a question for you."

"Queen Letcher, I see your eyes are about to fall out of their sockets out of curiosity about her, so I'll start with her."

"You should also know that all heretics have the ability to regenerate themselves, and the Queen is no exception. If you wish to destroy her, you must understand her origins: how she was created and where she came from. Only after understanding these secrets can you truly kill her."

"So, what do you think is the origin of Queen Letcher?"

"Niki?" Green asked tentatively, but unexpectedly, Nihilista gave a positive answer.

"Hmm, your intuition is quite good. I, Liberelio, Indivilla, Anakiole, and those of my kind you don't know about, as well as the Queen, were all once corrupted Nikki. Through a special process whose principles no one understands, we were born with the ideal appearance in our hearts."

"Eager to fight, I soar through the sky in my current form."

"Libereo, longing for silence, sleeps at the bottom of the water with a face that can only sink to the deep sea."

"As for the Queen, well... I don't know how to describe her, but if I had to find a word, it would probably be motherhood."

"Although I feel awkward using such words to describe her, that's the feeling she gives people."

After listening to the secrets told by the fire dragon.

Anis and Rabi's eyes were a little subtle.

The two exchanged glances, and Rabbi whispered, "Niki is made from the brains of human women, forming a body that is closest to their ideal state. This is then crafted using a process beyond human comprehension. This is exactly the same as the heretics' method of creation."

Anis curled her lips and said, "Well, I don't think we need to think too deeply about it. It's probably just like in novels. There's a lot of plagiarism in the world. Either Letcher plagiarized human technology, or humans plagiarized Letcher's technology."

"So, what does this have to do with our plan to assassinate the Queen?"

"Don't be so impatient. Listen to me." Nihilista shook his finger and continued, "Any living being living in this world will be unconsciously attracted to the Origin."

"During the transformation process, heretics lose their original bodies and are transformed into a completely new one by Letcher's technology. However, the Queen is different. Her original body as Nikki remains somewhere on the surface."

"I've mentioned Lilith's body to you before."

"Some say her body is buried under the ice, guarded closely by her own men. If her body is found and brought before the Queen, she will become deeply obsessed with the body that originally belonged to her."

"Oh?"

"What then?" Anis's interest was clearly piqued. "How can we completely eliminate the Queen?"

"Well... you'll have to figure it out for yourselves." Nihilista smiled playfully. She remained tight-lipped about the most crucial information, unwilling to reveal even a single detail. "If you want to know more, you should also get to know me."

"Actually, I'm an emotional person. When I'm in a good mood, I talk a lot, but when I'm in a bad mood, I don't want to talk."

"It will probably be another week before I feel like talking."

Nihilista acted like a naughty child.

Rabi frowned slightly and pointed out her thoughts directly: "Stop lying, you just want to buy yourself time to repair it."

Nihilista smiled smugly and said, "What do you mean by lying? You're here to kill me, so I can only use this information to stop you. After all, everyone is curious, and I happen to have the information you're interested in."

"So, do you agree or not?"

"Seven days is too long. We can't wait." Rabbi rejected Nihilista's proposal outright. "Commander, I suggest terminating the deal. Dealing with heretics is undoubtedly courting disaster. The intelligence she shared isn't necessarily true."

"Tsk, I'm trading with you sincerely, can't you just trust me for once?"

Nihilista looked annoyed.

She was not a particularly smart person, and this time she sincerely wanted to make a deal with humans.

After all, the situation is stronger than people, and she is also a person who can bend and stretch, so she really didn't lie.

"Hey, human!"

"Don't just sit there thinking and not talking."

"Make your decision quickly!"

Green thought for a while before saying, "I think you are indeed a person worth cooperating with, but Nihilista, the information you gave us is not enough."

Nihilista chuckled and said, "You have to eat one bite at a time, human. How about this, we add another step to this deal?"

Green: "What deal do you want?"

Nihilista pointed the tip of his tail at Green's forehead and said, "I heard you have a special ability. Just by staying with you, I can increase Nikki's firepower and physical strength, greatly improving their combat capabilities."

"How about it?"

"Would you mind trying it with me?"