NIKKE, Swordmaster Ark Succubus Daily

Both Lapi and Anis of the counter-attacking force looked at their commander simultaneously.

Based on the fact that Marian had remained uncorrupted for a long time, they knew that the commander possessed incredible abilities.

But they never imagined they could bring back Niki, who had been completely corrupted.

"Indeed, please send them back to the Ark." Li Zuo returned the pistol that Yin Hua had handed him. "They might still be saved."

"Acting on emotions like this... makes him a third-rate commander." Yin Hua frowned and clicked her tongue, looking quite annoyed.

This kind of person is the least suitable to be a commander... They die too easily...

And nothing is more important than living.

"Then I'd rather be a third-rate person."

Li Zuoyi rallied the counterattack troops, preparing to head to the abandoned laboratory.

Whether Dorothy's words were true or not, he intended to go and see for himself.

"Wait!"

Yinhua called out to him, "You're not even a full-strength unit, and you want to go to a place like that?! You'll die!"

"So?" Li Zuoyi turned to look at her.

Yin Hua left the special forces and walked to Li Zuoyi's side, saying, "I'll go with you."

Besti mustered her courage and said to Yin Hua, "Yin, Yin Hua, between different units..."

Yin Hua gave her a fierce look and said, "Shut up."

"Yes, yes, I'm sorry..." Bestie was about to cry from fright.

She's clearly the captain...

"Commander~ I'm entrusting Yin Hua to you." Emma covered her mouth and said to Yin Hua, "Yin Hua~ be gentle with the Commander~ We'll head back to the Ark now."

Besti, sobbing, picked up the cannon and knocked out Metis's squad in three shots. She then left with Emma and the others.

"Let's hurry up, you third-rate people." Yin Hua, with his hands in his pockets, walked ahead of the group by himself.

"...You promised to be gentle with me..."

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Two days later.

A purple shooting star streaked across the sky.

Niki, named Isabel, soars through the skies, watching over the rapidly moving heretics on the ground.

She is Niki, a member of the Heirs in Paradise, who is currently hunting heretics.

"This is Isabel. The heretics are fleeing southeast."

A calm and collected male voice came through the audio: "Dorothy, we expect to make contact with you in ten seconds."

On the ground, Dorothy watched the heretic rushing towards her, his body shimmering with light, and platinum armor appeared, covering his clothes, as beautiful as a work of art.

"Yes, Commander."

She raised her sidearm—Oz the Ingracious—and seven-colored light gathered at the muzzle, the bullets firing like swords piercing the heretic's body.

As bullets rained down on the heretic, the seven-colored sword embedded in Indivilla's body grew ever larger.

Once a certain critical point was reached, the seven-colored sword erupted within the heretic's body, blasting out a colorful star curtain.

Indeveria's shattered body could no longer support her, and she fell to the ground in a sorry state during her high-speed movement. The momentum of her body caused her to slide right in front of Dorothy.

"mission completed."

Dorothy laughed. The hunt was much simpler than she had expected. Was it because Indiveria hadn't recovered?

But in Indivilla's eyes, that smile was sinister and full of malice.

Soon after, Isabel fell back to the ground, and the other members of the Inheritors' Force arrived one after another.

The tall, purple-clad witch wielding a giant scythe pointed the tip at the heretic.

“Harlan, she is no longer a threat,” Dorothy said to the witch.

"But we can't be careless yet. However, with my shield, her attacks won't be effective, right? Hehehe." The pink-haired girl, who could move two star-shaped floating shields, hid behind the shields and covered her mouth with a laugh.

“Noah is right,” said a man wearing a military uniform from decades ago. “We can’t be careless; that’s fundamental.”

“Yes, Commander John,” Dorothy replied calmly.

John looked down at Indivilla, whose body was badly damaged, and said, "How much do you know about Queen Lecher?"

His purpose, besides hunting dangerous heretics, was also to obtain information about Queen Rachel from them.

Reclaiming the ground was his life's goal.

If they want to reclaim the land, Queen Lecher must be eliminated.

"Human, why would you think I would betray the Queen?" Indiviya mocked, the metallic skin on her face still peeling off.

The answer was as expected... John said, "It's okay. We'll send you to Paradise, dismantle you, and analyze you thoroughly. Even if you don't want to talk about it, I'll still know."

At that moment, the ground began to tremble.

“It seems like there’s something underground…” John steadied himself.

"But, but isn't the heretic here?" Noah gripped her floating shields, her voice trembling with panic.

"It seems there's a backup plan." Harlan gripped the giant scythe in his hand tightly.

Dorothy, who had just been feeling good, was now gritting her teeth, her eyes cold.

"Isabel, take off and check the situation!" John ordered.

"Yes!"

“What did you do?!” John asked Indivilla.

Indeed, it wasn't his imagination that Indivilla was weaker than before.

"As the agent of the gods, unleash divine punishment upon foolish and arrogant humans and their filthy creations!" Indivilla shouted with a loud laugh.

A giant mechanical hand suddenly emerged from the ground, grabbed Indivilla, and pulled her back underground, while her mocking laughter continued to echo in the ears of the Inheritors' forces.

Chapter 52 Antidote

After a day and a night of non-stop trekking and more than a dozen encounters with Lecher, Li Zuoyi finally arrived at the coordinates given by Dorothy.

In the desert, a domed building stands out, slightly tilted, with a small portion of it covered by sand.

This century-old building has no windows; its white exterior walls are eroded and mottled, revealing the gray-black cement inside.

“This is the abandoned laboratory.” Li Zuoyi surveyed the surroundings and said, “Yinhua, scan the area. Anis, Lapi, you two are in charge of guarding the area.”

"Yes!"

After several minutes of scanning, Yin Hua said, "There is no Lecher signal within a 500-meter range."

“No abnormalities were found,” Labi and Anis reported.

Li Zuoyi looked at the open door of the building and said, "Tactical stance, enter."

Lapi automatically stood in front, while Anis and Yinhua formed a triangle behind them, with Li Zuoyi in the center of this triangle.

The three entered the research institute.

The corridor was pitch black. Lapi had a tactical flashlight hanging from his rifle, keeping a watchful eye on any potential dangers ahead.

By the light of his tactical flashlight, Li Zuoyi saw that the corridor was in a mess, with documents scattered everywhere and covered with dense footprints.

It's clear that the evacuation here was extremely urgent.

Li Zuoyi picked up a page at random and flipped through it. He couldn't quite understand the highly technical terms and articles on it, but he could still recognize some of the terms.

For example, Institute 0412, live animal research, antidote...

The antidote—he remembered Dorothy saying that this thing could be very effective against heretics.

“Commander.” Lapi, standing in front, looked into an open room and seemed to have discovered something.

"what happened?"

Li Zuoyi walked to her side and looked into the room, where a long-dehydrated corpse was curled up in the corner.

The room was completely empty except for the door; it was practically a sealed cement can.

He noticed that the door to the room had an observation window, through which one could see what was happening inside.

All the doors in this corridor are like this.

This is a prison.

Li Zuoyi glanced around at several other rooms, each containing a corpse in a different pose.

It seems the researchers here didn't take them with them when they fled.

“The rooms on the left are all filled with men,” Labi said after briefly examining the corpses in each room.

“And the room on the right is full of women,” Yin Hua said after glancing around.

"Don't you feel a bit cold in here?" Although Anies wasn't particularly afraid, he could still sense the eerie atmosphere of the place.

Li Zuoyi was silent for a moment, then said:

"Let's go. Our purpose is not to investigate how dark the experiments from a hundred years ago were."

He temporarily ignored the relationship between the counteractor and these human experiments.

The most urgent task is to find a cure.

The four continued walking forward, only to be stopped by a security door that might require identity verification.

However, the building appears to have been without power, making it impossible to open it with identity verification.

“I’ll give it a try.” Lapi temporarily slung the rifle over his shoulder, and with a spinning kick, he kicked open the security door that resembled a vault door with a thud.

There is another security door that looks bigger and sturdier.

This time, it took the combined efforts of all three Niki units to barely create a gap large enough for a person to squeeze through.

The four of them went inside, turned on their tactical flashlights, and saw various bottles and jars used for experiments. Some were empty, while others contained strangely colored reagents.

After scanning the area with a flashlight, Li Zuoyi realized that this must be where the researchers were conducting their experiments.

The room was a domed structure, about several hundred square meters in size, with tables neatly arranged, each containing the various experimental equipment from earlier.

The most eye-catching feature is a giant glass jar several meters tall in the center of the room, as if something once sat inside it.

However, the broken glass was outside the jar, which means the contents inside must have spilled out.

Perhaps this is why the research institute was abandoned.

But that's not important; what's important is the antidote.

"Everyone, look for clues about the antidote," Li Zuoyi said.

Lapi and the others searched table by table, while Li Zuoyi went to look in front of the giant glass jar first.

After circling around, he found a mummified corpse sitting on the ground behind the giant glass jar, its back against the jar, a pistol still clutched in its hand.

Wearing a white lab coat, is he a researcher...? Li Zuoyi squatted down and looked at the nameplate on the white lab coat.

Director Don Errol

It was actually the director… Li Zuo was taken aback, and then began to search the corpse thoroughly.

Since he is the director, he should have clues about the antidote.

After searching for a while, I finally found a pocket notebook in my pocket.