NIKKE, Swordmaster Ark Succubus Daily

"can."

A jackal passing by overheard their conversation and said to Kura, "I want to eat dumplings too!"

But Kura ignored the jackal and instead asked the viper, who was staring intently at his phone, "So? Have the gangsters all arrived?"

"Hmm~ They've all arrived." Viper, with a lollipop in his mouth, looked at the message on the screen, pressed the send button, and said, "There are still a few sets being prepared, which will take a little time."

"Is that so? I'm really looking forward to the 'fireworks' later." Krau's lips curled up slightly.

"Fireworks?! I want to see them!" the jackal exclaimed excitedly from the side.

"You'll see it soon." Krau patted the jackal's head.

Chapter Fifty-Nine: Where Are My Fireworks?

At the open-air café at the end of the Royal Promenade, the jackal picked up a plate of exquisite cakes from the table, opened her mouth wide, tilted her wrist, and the cakes slid into her mouth. With a movement of her throat, she swallowed them.

The jackal licked the scraps off the plate, while the venomous snake sitting next to her looked at his phone, his fingers clicking incessantly on the screen, and said to Krau:

"I didn't expect you, Krau, to find so many reckless individuals with Ark resident certification chips in such a short time. I thought it would take another month or two. It's great that the mission wasn't delayed."

“That man gave me a list, all I have to do is go find them one by one.” Krau gazed lazily at the Royal Avenue, one arm draped over the back of the chair, his clothes slipping from his shoulder to his arm, revealing the tattoo on his shoulder. To onlookers, he looked like a delinquent girl.

They had been working for a high-ranking official in Missilis.

A while ago, that high-ranking official sent an order—to carry out a terrorist attack on the Ark.

Krau chose the Royal Road.

There's no particular reason; I just wanted to see these seemingly carefree passersby scream and run away in a panicked and disheveled state.

Fortunately, EH had already been secretly dealt with, so they could freely shift the blame onto a dead person.

Therefore, Krau meticulously prepared for this attack, after all, this was her first attack since she 'came back to life,' and it was better to have some kind of ritual.

Fortunately, this open-air coffee shop is in a pretty good location.

"What kind of list is it?" Viper asked.

“It’s a list of gamblers who owe us high-interest loans. We can just go to the outer district and find them one by one.” Krau glanced at the clock tower on the Royal Promenade; it was almost midnight.

She chuckled. "Ten more minutes, let's get ready to watch the fireworks."

……

While chatting with Peony, Li Zuoyi glanced at the clock hanging in the 'Seaside' restaurant.

There are still ten minutes until midnight.

Almost half an hour has passed, and the chef still hasn't served any dishes.

The waiter who took our order has also disappeared.

But now it's just him and Peony in the restaurant, and he doesn't think he's neglecting them because he's too busy.

“…Hey—so you graduated second in your class from military academy, that’s amazing!” Peony sat opposite him, resting her chin on her hands, staring at him intently, her eyes shining.

“It’s nothing,” Li Zuoyi said, standing up. “I’ll go take a look; they’ve left us here for far too long.”

"Ah."

Li Zuoyi walked to the front desk, but there was no one on duty there, not even the person who had greeted guests at the beginning.

However, they did find something; a few drops of faint blood were found on the floor at the front desk.

The bloodstains refer to the kitchen.

"Anik, call the police," Li Zuoyi said softly.

A dialog box popped up next to him: [ACPU forces have been contacted.]

Li Zuoyi followed the trail of blood toward the kitchen, where the door was half-closed.

The two people hiding behind the door, intending to ambush him, were completely unaware that their shadows had given them away.

The best solution now is...

Li Zuo grabbed the doorknob and pushed it back, and a dull thud came from the kitchen, as if the two people had fallen to the ground.

He went into the kitchen, then closed and locked the door behind him, because he didn't want any sounds coming from inside to escape.

He first walked over to the two men who had just fallen to the ground and were now struggling to get up, picked up the daggers they had dropped, and then kicked one of them in the face, knocking them unconscious.

Meanwhile, a row of chefs and waiters, all bound tightly, sat on the ground by the wall, their eyes covered with black cloths.

Li Zuoyi saw a somewhat thin woman at the other end of the kitchen aiming a silenced pistol at him.

"Ah, and you too..."

The gaunt woman gritted her teeth and pulled the trigger.

'Whoosh—clang, pfft'

The woman heard the sound of a bullet entering flesh, but her vision quickly turned red. Before she could even think about why, she could no longer think and fell straight down.

"I hope you'll be more careful when you fire a gun in your next life," Li Zuoyi said, putting down the dagger in his hand and addressing the corpse of the woman with a hole in her forehead.

He deflected the bullet with his dagger.

The dagger had been enhanced by his imagination, and since it was just a regular bullet, not the heavy firepower bullets that Niki used, it wasn't too difficult.

Li Zuoyi freed the cooks and others from their restraints.

According to the head chef and others, the three men entered through the back door of the delivery area and, being armed, quickly took control of the kitchen.

The bloodstains on the ground outside were left by those people who secretly pressed a dagger against the waiter's back.

After telling them that the police would be coming in a while, Li Zuoyi prepared to leave, but he saw a black backpack next to the food truck that clearly did not belong there.

He crouched down and carefully unzipped the zipper.

Sure enough, there was a bomb inside.

It is still the most powerful hybrid bomb.

And judging by its size, it should be big enough to blow the entire restaurant to smithereens.

The countdown timer on the bomb was still ticking.

There are only three minutes left.

"What is this?!" A woman dressed in a suit squatted down next to him and also saw the bomb in the backpack.

Li Zuoyi covered her mouth and said, "Don't make a sound. Take the others out and leave this to me."

Although the woman in the suit still looked panicked, she felt reassured by his calm and composed gaze and nodded.

The woman in the suit then made up a reason and took the two unconscious kidnappers and the people in the kitchen out.

A minute later, Li Zuoyi saw that the woman in the suit had actually returned.

The woman in the suit took out a walkie-talkie and said, "The boss wants to speak to you."

"Sir, get out of there immediately!" Rosanna's anxious voice came through the walkie-talkie. "Even the Ark's riot control team has never been able to successfully disarm those hybrid bombs!"

“I will, after I finish this,” Li Zuoyi said.

"That bomb was most likely made by EH. The police have investigated it, but EH has always succeeded in the past."

"Thank you for your explanation," Li Zuoyi said calmly.

“…It’s still too dangerous. Please leave immediately,” Rosanna said.

"Nothing will happen." Li Zuoyi examined the structure of the bomb. "Today is my first date with Mudan, and it won't be interrupted by something like this."

Because the complex circuitry was completely incomprehensible, the ability to use imagination to prevent the bomb from exploding seemed to have no effect.

But... he has Anik.

In fact, Anik had been crouching beside him the whole time, observing the bomb in the backpack.

He glanced at Anik, who nodded.

Meanwhile, a mechanical voice emanated from the virtual machine room where Ark's most important artificial intelligence, Alnik, resided.

方舟运算资源集合中……运算总量40%……60%……80%……集合80%，耗时2秒。

Starting parsing... 30%... 60%... 100%, parsing complete, time taken 0.01 seconds.

Inform us of the steps...

Anik, standing next to Li Zuoyi, pointed to a black plastic box about the size of a thumb on the bomb's circuit board:

Remove this outer casing.

"Yes, sir..." Li Zuo began, following Anik's instructions step by step, dissecting the bomb.

Unseen by Li Zuoyi, all the computers and processors in the Ark's laboratories, including those in Missilis, Elysium, and Tetra, crashed for several seconds at the same moment.

Numerous error reports were submitted to Anik and were subsequently destroyed.

Cut the wire, disconnect the power, remove the conduit...

Li Zuoyi's fluid movements left the woman in the suit dumbfounded.

Within a minute, the bomb was dismantled and destroyed.

As the last wire was pulled out, the countdown on the electronic screen stopped forever at seventeen seconds.

"I'm leaving the police matter to you." Li Zuoyi patted the woman in the suit on the shoulder, then stood up and walked out the door.

'Thump~~Thump~~~Thump~~'

The melodious chimes of the clock tower striking twelve o'clock reached Li Zuoyi's ears.

……

"Where are my fireworks?!" Krau slammed his fist on the table, drawing stares from many onlookers.

impossible!

Viper had previously helped her obtain EH's hybrid custom bomb blueprints from EH, and she followed the blueprints step by step, so there was no way she could have made a mistake!

what happened? !

The riot squad of the Ark Police has never been able to handle it!

“But that means it was still demolished.” Viper tapped his lips with his finger, tilted his head back to think for a moment, and said with a smile, “Could it be that the police have figured it out themselves?”

"Those thieves who steal tax money can do research on their own?" Krau's lips twitched.

"That's right~"

"Taxes? What are those? Can you eat them?!" The jackal's eyes widened, and its mouth watered.

Viper watched as Krau sat down again with a gloomy expression, then chuckled and said, "So, should I tell those desperados now that they don't need to wait for the fireworks?"

"Well, please."

Chapter Sixty: My Date!!!

The Ark... is still the same as always...

On a bench along Royal Avenue, Isabel, disguised as an ordinary office lady, coldly observes the flow of people.

She was once Niki of Ark, but was betrayed by Ark.

If she hadn't ended up in Paradise, she would have died on the ground long ago, becoming one of countless Nikis from the past.

Isabel didn't want to come back.

However, regarding the question of whether the commander named Li Zuoyi can enter the Ark, the park has already reached a conclusion—he can go, but he must pass a test.

With her aerial combat skills, she was sent by Commander John to deliver a message.

Fortunately, in the park, Niki and the Commander are not in a superior-subordinate relationship, but rather as companions.

As long as they fulfill their respective responsibilities, they are free to act as they please.

Isabel looked at Li Zuoyi, who was on a date with a woman in the distance, and shook her head.

She had been watching him since morning, but couldn't find any free time for him to be alone, so she informed him of the conclusion about the amusement park.

Now we have no choice but to keep an eye on it.