NIKKE, Swordmaster Ark Succubus Daily

Just as he was about to retrieve the documents he needed to process that day, Lapi caught a glimpse of a pot of pure white flowers on the commander's windowsill, the petals emitting a faint halo in the sunlight.

"You suddenly bought flowers?"

"Yes, today is a memorable day."

"Oh, I see. What kind of flower is this?"

"Lilivis".

Lapi was taken aback, and Li Zuoyi asked, "What's wrong?"

"No, I just think the flowers are pretty."

"Right? Lilywes is very beautiful."

For some reason, Lapi felt that the commander's smile when he said those words carried a hint of sadness.

Chapter Twenty-Five: What is a "White Moonlight"?

At the outpost,

Rita and Sandy were looking at the floor plan of the outpost, discussing how to plan the various construction projects to come.

In the commander's office,

Lapi was busy helping the commander with documents, while Marian assisted him.

Mihara and Yuni used various small instruments to scan the commander and transmit the data to Shuen.

As for Anies, she was lying on the windowsill, doing nothing.

At the outpost, each Niki has her own tasks to complete.

'Didi didi didi'

The phone rang, and Li Zuo glanced at it; it was actually Shu En calling.

He looked around the office and decided it wasn't the right place to answer the phone, so he told the others and left the office temporarily.

Each of the Nikis continued with her own business.

Anis, who was leaning on the windowsill, turned his head to look at the white flower on the windowsill and asked, "This flower is called Lilivis, right?"

"Yes, that's what the commander said." Lapi tidied up the documents and put them in the filing cabinet.

“Lilivis, Lilivis,” Anis blinked and said, “Don’t you guys think that name sounds a bit like Lilith?”

Before he finished speaking, Lhapi stopped flipping through the folder, and Mihara and Yuni stopped fiddling with the testing machine.

Marian glanced at Anis and continued with her work.

Anies wasn't happy with the atmosphere. She sat up and addressed the girls in the office:

"Please don't tell me you're not curious about who Lilith the Commander is talking about?"

“That’s the commander’s privacy.” Lapi shook his head. “It’s better not to delve into it.”

Previously, the commander had been fighting the clamor and had fallen into a coma. After the pilgrims came to his rescue, the commander began to mutter a name—Lilith.

A person who can make someone shout out while unconscious must be a very important person.

Not to mention Lilith, such a feminine name.

The relationship between the Commander and Lilith is self-evident.

So when Niki heard the name, she tacitly kept quiet.

They are Niki, not human.

He was the commander, and he was human.

They shouldn't have any unrealistic fantasies in the first place.

They were already lucky to have met such a gentle commander, and they dared not hope for a deeper relationship.

"Can't we even guess?" Anis sighed deeply. "For example, this Lilith actually had a fight with the Commander and is his ex-girlfriend, or something like that."

“Unlikely. If that were the case, given the Commander’s personality, he wouldn’t buy flowers as a souvenir.” Mihara twisted her waist and touched herself as she said, “Whether it’s mentally or physically, he’s not someone who likes pain. He’s more like someone who reads novels and prefers happy endings.”

“Besides, Yuni can assure you that the Commander doesn’t like inflicting pain on others.” Yuni chuckled and touched the leather whip at her waist.

"Then why would the commander suddenly buy flowers?" Anis asked, somewhat troubled.

Marian handed the document to Labi and looked at Anis: "Why is Anis so concerned about this kind of thing?"

Feeling provoked, Anies retorted, "Then how come I'm not angry when I see the Commander being affectionate with other women? Marian clearly likes the Commander the most, doesn't she?"

“Angry? Why? As long as the Commander is happy, I don’t care what happens to me,” Marian said matter-of-factly.

“But when I first met you, you were angry.”

"This, this is because..."

“She clearly wanted to be with him forever, yet she said things like, ‘As long as he’s happy, that’s all that matters,’ which she herself didn’t believe…” Anies exposed Marian’s lies.

"Commander, don't go, Commander..." Marian was already under great mental pressure due to being corrupted, and now her fragile psychological facade had been torn off, and she started shed small pearls.

After a long silence, Lhapi suddenly said, "You probably don't need to worry about this."

“Why? Does Labi know anything?” Anis asked.

“It’s just a guess,” Labi recalled the commander’s expression that morning, where he seemed to be hiding his sadness. “This Lilith person is probably no longer alive.”

Upon hearing this, Marian completely lost her composure.

Mihara sighed in frustration, while Yuni stroked her whip with a gloomy expression.

“…Oh no, this is the worst-case scenario.” Anies buried his face in his hands and leaned on the windowsill. “God, please don’t let it be like this.”

"Why?" Labi asked, puzzled. "Wouldn't that mean we'd lose our most formidable competitor?"

“Lavi,” Mihara said with a helpless smile, “sometimes the living can’t compete with the dead, especially when the dead are particularly important to someone.”

"Sorry, I don't understand."

“Oh, I forgot, Labi is incredibly oblivious in this regard.” Anies clapped his hands, as if trying to comfort himself: “That means it’s very likely not what Labi said, great—”

……

Li Zuoyi answered Shu En's call.

“Hey, Ethel died last night,” Shuen said coldly.

"Really? That's wonderful!"

"Did you do it?"

"What do you think?" Li Zuo countered, "Where do you think I can get Ethel's position?"

"...I'm sorry, I overthought it."

Shuen actually apologized; that's even more shocking than Ethel dying.

“If that’s all there is to it, I’m hanging up,” Li Zuoyi said.

"I have something else to say!" Shuen said impatiently, "You're probably the only one in the entire Ark who's so eager to hang up on me!"

"what's up?"

"Get ready, a lot of supplies will be transported to the outpost soon."

"Why? I didn't apply."

Li Zuoyi found it strange, as even applications weren't approved so quickly.

“Ethel has been making money by reselling supplies from the outpost all these years. After he died, his former subordinates voluntarily revealed the location of the remaining unsold supplies. Although they belong to Missilis, the Missilis documents have already handed them over to the outpost, so you can have them.”

"About how much?" Li Zuo asked cautiously.

“That’s about ten times what you received yesterday,” Shuen said.

ten times? !

It's important to know that commanders don't have a fixed salary; how much they earn depends entirely on the number and difficulty of missions they undertake on the ground.

And all this stuff should last at least half a year.

This can save most of the expenses for the initial outpost base.

"Hmm, not bad." Li Zuoyi said it was alright, but he was secretly overjoyed.

“It’s not much, really, compared to Ethel’s hidden assets,” Shuen said. “His money is all in underground banks, and according to his men, it’s at least 300 million credits.”

"Three hundred million? All that money has been recovered?" Li Zuoyi asked.

“The central government says the memory that Ethel used to store the keys is missing.” Shuen sneered. “What do you mean missing? I guess some high-ranking person took it for pocket money.”

"Do you know what that memory device looks like?" Li Zuoyi reached into his pocket and took out a black, semi-circular memory device.

"It looks black, semi-circular, like the very common kind." Shuen sensed something was off: "Why are you asking about that?"

“Yes, I have one in my pocket,” Li Zuoyi said.

Before leaving, he saw that the computer on Ethel's desk had this memory card plugged in, and thinking that there might be some confidential documents, he brought it back.

Shuen's suspicions vanished instantly, and he said sarcastically, "Ha! Well then, I wish you success in withdrawing the money from the underground bank. That's all, I'm hanging up."

'Beep beep beep'

Li Zuoyi put away his phone, looked at the black storage device in his hand, and couldn't help but frown.

This should be the key to the underground bank that Shun mentioned.

The problem is, what's inside isn't the key...

He spent the whole night watching, and all he saw was the ultimate HD adult film that filled his entire storage device.

Chapter Twenty-Six: White Horse? Code?

Central government

Secret meeting.

"ghost……"

Ethel's voice echoed in the conference room.

"ghost……"

Once again, Ethel's dying voice rang out, as if his soul had truly appeared here.

"That's enough, stop releasing it, Number Two, is this all you've extracted?"

A man slammed his fist on the table and stood up, causing his 3D projection to flicker.

The four people sitting around the marble round table are now 3D projections; their faces are not visible, and their voices are inaudible.

Number Two paused the 3D projection and said calmly:

"Even the top researchers at the Ark Research Institute can only extract the memories of the last minute before death from a complete brain, let alone the brain of someone who has become Mo. At least I can extract one sentence from Ethel before she died. Do you still have any doubts about my abilities, Number Three?"

"Tch, that's it." Number Three sat back down unhappily and asked again, "Number Four, I remember you were protecting Ethel after she was kicked out, right? Why did she die?"

"He just gave me money, and I provided him with supplies and manpower. Whether he dies or not is none of my business." Number Four sat up straight. "But it is indeed a pity that he died."

Number Three put his feet up on the table: "Hmph, it's just a pity about his money. Don't think everyone doesn't know that you've been trying to keep him hanging on, making him think he can come back. You vampire."

"I said, can we get back to the main topic? Aren't we supposed to be discussing who killed Ethel?"

"Isn't it you, Number Five? Aren't you the one among us who wants him dead the most?" Number Three said with a sneer.

"Honestly, you're so annoying. Didn't we agree not to kill each other anymore? I always follow the rules," Number Five said with a chuckle.

"I don't have time to dissect a piece of junk," Number Two said emotionlessly.

"I have a bunch of people waiting for me to take care of them, and I'm not in the mood to kill them," Number Three said, clearly annoyed by the trouble.

“He can still extract more oil, so I don’t need to deal with him now,” Number Four said like a robot.

“I’m even less likely to do it.” Number Five, who was still laughing, suddenly turned cold. “If I wanted to kill him, I wouldn’t let him die so easily.”

Then the four of them fell silent again, and looked at the empty seat in perfect unison.

There was one more person who didn't come, number one.