NIKKE, Swordmaster Ark Succubus Daily

"Two members of the group reported as having entered Heaven have been found, along with two other women. Please provide instructions... Should we contact the other one? Should we wait a moment? I understand."

Peony assumed an attack stance and said, "Me and Little Brother, who have entered Heaven?"

As the energy storage began, Li Zuo gripped the hilt of his sword and said, "The squad we took down earlier must have reported our characteristics, right?"

That also means that his existence must have already attracted the attention of the underground bank's owner.

The fact that the central government forces haven't launched an attack yet suggests that the captain is likely contacting the person hiding behind the scenes.

In that case, he no longer needs to be so careful.

"It seems that only by capturing EH can I prove myself." Peony stared at the Central Government Army in front of her.

"Rosanna, Sakura, can your men get here in time?" Li Zuoyi asked.

“No, they can’t get here in time, and I’m afraid it’s the same on Sakura’s side,” Rosanna said. “To prevent situations like yours and Peony’s, where civilians are mistaken for terrorists, they’ve all gone to deal with the central government forces that have entered the outer perimeter.”

"Besides us, there were others too?" Li Zuoyi and his group were framed by Hannah, but how could other civilians...?

“They’ve come in before for other reasons, but when they can’t find their target, they’ll just kill civilians to appease their superiors,” Rosanna said. “The Peony Society has also taken measures to prevent this from happening, otherwise she wouldn’t have so few followers around her.”

Anyway, these people in the outer perimeter don't have Ark resident identification codes, so we can just kill them without anyone caring whether they live or die.

Someone must stop them from indiscriminately killing innocent people.

Li Zuoyi recalled that Mudan had previously shouted to the soldiers surrounding them that she was not a terrorist, but the soldiers still decided to open fire, which was probably the reason.

Has the central government's military degenerated to this extent?

"It's alright!" Peony clenched her fist and said, "We're not weak either. There's no need to worry about these people. We can just knock them all out."

"Do you want to suffer all the pain alone again, like last time?" Sakura said angrily, "Even you might..."

"It's alright," Peony said with a smile. "I believe in you, and Xiao Ge is here this time too."

She trusted the young man.

Li Zuoyi, upon hearing their conversation, realized that this seemed to be something they had done before.

However, each time they only managed to knock these people unconscious, while they themselves suffered serious injuries.

Because if people from the outer perimeter kill people from the central government army, it will cause the relationship between the two sides to deteriorate sharply.

Ironically, the reverse is true, and nothing happens at all.

Li Zuoyi began to understand why Mudan and the others would willingly become Niki's partners.

They only wanted to protect this outer area and the ordinary civilians living here.

Therefore, they need power.

Becoming Niki is the fastest and easiest way.

Even though they might be scorned and insulted after Niki's identity was exposed, they still did it without hesitation.

The soldier captain also made contact with another superior at this time.

Peony saw the soldiers' fingers on the triggers and slowly approached them. She said to the young man, "It seems the Central Government Army has made a decision. Young man, can you unleash a hurricane like before?"

Li Zuoyi did not answer; he had already made his decision.

However, the enemy was numerous and scattered, and the charging time was too short; his sword would not be powerful enough to kill them all in one strike.

not enough time.

So he decided...

"Feel sorry."

"Huh?" Before Peony could react, she was struck hard in the abdomen. The force was so great that even Niki involuntarily knelt on the ground, supporting herself with her hands, drooling and coughing incessantly.

Despite the excruciating abdominal pain, only one thought occupied Mudan's mind: Brother, he attacked me?

"You bastard! Ugh!"

"cough!"

Peony barely managed to lift her head and saw that Rosanna and Sakura had also been knocked down by him.

"Cherry blossoms! Rosanna!"

Tears welled in Peony's eyes as she was betrayed twice in one day. She couldn't understand why the people around her always betrayed her for no reason.

She couldn't help but ask, "Why did you do that?!"

Finally, finally, someone is interested...

"Isn't it normal to use something and then discard it?" Li Zuoyi glanced at her.

Upon seeing this, the soldier captain immediately reported to his superior on the other end of the microphone.

On the other end of the microphone, Number Four sat in his study, pondering: So it was just a matter of using relationships.

"Please give your instructions," the soldier captain said.

"What is he doing now?" Number Four asked excitedly.

As expected, the ghost wasn't a ghost at all; it was just a human being.

"They were just staring straight at me," the soldier captain replied, sounding a little flustered.

"Looking at you?" Number Four asked, puzzled.

“Yes…no, he seems to be saying something now…” the soldier captain replied.

"What did you say?" Number Four asked hurriedly.

"It looks like they're counting numbers?" the soldier captain said uncertainly.

Numbers? What numbers? Could they be numbers representing their identities?

Number Four couldn't help but catch his breath.

The soldier captain said, "He's gripping the sword hilt! Please give further instructions!"

"..." But at this moment, Number Four shut his mouth and stopped talking. There was no need to waste words with a dead man.

"He has drawn his sword, please give instructions!" Although the soldier captain was anxious, Number Four still ignored him.

"This speed, how is this possible... Fire! Fire! Aaaaaaah!!"

The sound of continuous gunfire came through Number Four's earpiece, interspersed with the screams of the soldier captain.

Number Four stared at the clock on the table, watching the second hand tick away.

"No, don't go..."

The soldier captain's pleas for mercy abruptly stopped, and Number Four guessed that he was dead.

Only twenty seconds had passed since he started counting.

In just twenty seconds, more than fifty members of the Central Government Army were killed, not even enough for the Number Four troops to get there.

'Thump'—it sounded like something had fallen to the ground.

Then, the sound of footsteps getting closer and closer approached.

Suddenly, a noise broke out.

Number Four knew that someone had picked up the captain's walkie-talkie.

But then there was no sound at all.

Number Four knew that the ghost was right across from him; he could even hear the ghost's breathing.

No one spoke. Number Four didn't speak because he didn't want his voice to be remembered, but what was Ghost waiting for?

After a while, the deep, hoarse voice, seemingly coming from hell, came through the headphones.

"You will die too."

Then, with a 'poof' sound, the microphone seemed to have been crushed.

Number Four fell into deep thought.

You will die too...

It was practically a declaration of certain death.

It turns out that the ghost was also looking for him and wanted to kill him.

37. What? You want to repay a debt of gratitude? (Please click to read further)

In an abandoned shack, Peony loudly questioned the young man: "Do you know what the consequences will be if you kill the Central Government troops?"

Although she knew that the young man hadn't really betrayed them, she was still terrified. If he had, she didn't know what would have become of her.

Li Zuo shrugged and said, "Will I be wanted?"

"Then why did you do it?" Peony stared at him, saying, "There's definitely no problem if the four of us are together."

“Because I want to do it,” Li Zuoyi said with a smile. “And I would be very angry if Peony died because of this.”

Anyway, his current identity has already been targeted by those guys, so one more charge won't be a big deal.

"I... I won't just die like that, because... Brother is here..." Peony felt her face burning, and she forced back her embarrassment as she said, "But even so..."

“Since things have come to this, let’s accept Mr. Rosanna’s kindness. He took the blame for killing the Central Government troops for us.” Rosanna said, leaning against the wall, “He has avenged many people who died unjustly.”

“That’s right. Since the facts are already set in stone, why not try to help him?” Sakura smiled and said to the swordsman, “What you said to the commander behind the scenes of the Central Government Army, ‘You will die too,’ was really cool and satisfying.”

"Haha, I actually just wanted to say something cool." Li Zuoyi didn't understand why the other party didn't say a word, which prevented him from saying many harsh words, so he could only say something casually.

Li Zuoyi asked, "Speaking of which, didn't you leave back then? Why were you following Mudan and me?"

Rosanna and Sakura exchanged a glance. Sakura, supporting her elbow with one hand and flicking her other wrist, tapped her long-handled pipe against the nearby, high-rise wall, and said:

"Isn't it normal to worry about your friend and follow them to observe the situation?"

Peony grabbed the back of her head and said:

"Worried about my safety? No need, hahaha."

“Who’s worried about your safety?” Rosanna sighed and crossed her arms. “We’re worried that your empty brain might cause some trouble.”

Peony is a very good person, but even if her intentions are good, she often causes unfavorable situations due to her impulsiveness.

She was also exceptionally loyal, and she had done things like not abandoning anyone and taking on all the enemy's attacks alone before; the terrible state she was in back then was still vivid in my mind.

That's why Rosanna and Sakura were both staring at her at the same time.

"Does this reason convince you?" Sakura looked the mysterious man wearing a clown mask up and down with great interest.

"That's really too much! Isn't this just saying I only cause trouble? Right, right, bro?" Peony hoped to get some positive feedback from him.

Li Zuo turned his face away and said, "Sorry, I can't refute that."

Peony opened her mouth wide but couldn't speak, deeply shocked.

She had initially thought that what she had said to EH was a lie, but it turned out to be the truth!

“But there’s another reason.” Rosanna walked up to the man and pointed her finger at his chest. “It’s you, the suddenly appearing powerful swordsman. You’re a rather dangerous figure who could disrupt the stability of the outer region, so naturally we have to keep an eye on you.”

Sakura brought her lips to the cigarette holder, but no smoke came out. She nodded in agreement.

Peony slapped Rosanna's hand away from the swordsman's hand and said seriously, "Danger? The swordsman is a good person; he just saved us!"

Rosanna turned to look at her and said, "Then tell me what his name is."

"This one……"

She had nothing to say about the peony, so she pursed her lips and stared at the swordsman, letting him sense her dissatisfaction.

After going through so much together, they should at least be considered friends, so why won't they even say their names?

“What if he’s just showing you what he’s actually doing?” Sakura added.

"This one……"

This peony cannot be guaranteed either.

Under the verbal onslaught of Rosanna and Sakura, Peony's mind became somewhat confused.

She believed the swordsman was a good person.

Even with all her brainpower, she couldn't think of a way to refute these two guys.