NIKKE, when the stars bloom

All the above details undoubtedly showed Anderson that Deputy Commander Burnim was very anxious and anxious.

Nearly ten thousand Letchers migrated collectively from Region K to the Pole like a herd of bison. Even though the purpose of these mechanical spiders was unknown, the scale of their migration was enough to attract the attention of the Ark's upper echelons and cause tension among the dignitaries.

"Let...let Lieutenant Phoenix go after Letcher. This is not just my opinion...not just my opinion, Anderson.

All the forces in the Ark are ready to make a move. Even the military is hoping to dispatch a ground intelligence team to investigate the Letcher Group."

At the table, Anderson waited patiently for Burnim to finish his nonsense. Then, he slowly closed his eyes, touched his cufflinks, and asked:

"What is that guy doing in MMR High School now?"

Regarding the matter of the short and fat man forcing the Aegis troops into the special squadron, everyone, including the intelligence department, knew that the command was determined to place a spy around Phoenix.

Therefore, Anderson was too lazy to activate the surveillance, but directly asked Burnim about the news about someone in the past two days.

"Lieutenant Phoenix..."

Thinking of the information Helen sent this morning, the fat deputy commander's facial features became more and more tangled, and he even had a rare bitter smile and speechlessness.

"He..."

……

"Again! There is no rule that you must hit the core when fighting Letcher!"

On the playground of MMR Affiliated High School, a hundred or so students were sitting obediently on the artificial turf.

A pair of eyes that were sending secret glances looked at the instructor on the stage, and then looked at the 1:1 restored "figure" of the Selfless-level Letcher in the ruler in the instructor's hand.

Phoenix picked up the ruler and pointed it at the ammunition chain of the Letcher cannon, saying loudly:

"I'll give you another ten minutes to review. After ten minutes, everyone will start drawing the ammunition supply systems of the five 'selfless' Letchers we're studying today! The exam will last six hours!

Those who fail the test are not allowed to return to the dormitory and will have to practice extra at the shooting range tonight!

Those who don't get full marks are also not allowed to return to the dormitory and will sleep on the floor in the playground tonight!"

As soon as the man finished speaking, the girls in the audience, including Mihala, Yuni, Marianne and other members of the special squadron, all lowered their heads and flipped through the anatomical information of the Letcher structure on the tablet with solemn expressions.

It's been three days,

It's been three days.

In the entire MMR affiliated high school, except for the two top students, Rabi and Maruchana, who scored full marks every time, the other girls, even Marian, whose practical experience was not much less than Rabi, failed to get full marks in the first two theoretical exams.

According to the rules, if you don’t get full marks, you can only camp and sleep in the playground, and even your wife is no exception!

This is a sacred high school, no one can have privileges!!!

As a result, a certain second lieutenant slept exceptionally well in the past two days, and even his complexion has recovered to 50% of its original level!

Whenever Phoenix thought of the three mass-produced levels of Servant-level Letcher, Transcendence-level Letcher, and Master-level Letcher above the Selfless-level Letcher, he felt that his kidneys would not suffer any more in the next two months.

It is considered to be selfless, with a total of four levels of Letcher, adding up to nearly a hundred models, enough for the wives to camp out on the playground for dozens of days.

If it were a little more stringent, it would probably take half a year.

ten minutes later……

"The exam begins!"

The second lieutenant's extremely stern voice echoed faintly over the school playground.

When the tablet forced the exam window to pop up, Yuni and Lei, who had empty heads, suddenly turned into two little salted fish. Their pupils immediately lost their luster, and they sat there like rotten wood that could not be carved, looking at the questions on the tablet and began to think about the meaning of Ji Sheng.

Da da da da da——

The tip of the stylus pen kept tapping on the glass screen of the tablet computer, and the sound was so dense that it seemed like a heavy rain was pouring down from the sky.

As for a certain wicked instructor named Fei, he left the examination room in front of all the Nikkis with a clear conscience and started today's boring and difficult daily training.

……

……

[Fingerprint verification in progress...]

[Iris confirmation in progress...]

【Welcome to the MMR Affiliated High School Combat Simulation Room, dear Commander Phoenix. 】

Following the system's emotionless prompt, the lieutenant walked expertly to the weapons rack in the simulation room's preparation area, stretched out his right hand, and picked up a model of a sniper rifle from the rack.

Then, he first adjusted the muzzle kinetic energy and recoil to Nikki's special data, and then evenly attached magnetic plates of corresponding weight to the gun body to simulate the weight of Nikki's special large-caliber sniper rifle.

When everything was ready, Phoenix stretched out his left index finger and pressed the button for the 7th level simulated combat on the operating screen.

[Site mimicry in progress...]

[Generating Letcher data...]

[Deploying Letcher's position...]

[Dear Commander Phoenix, the system has detected that your Nikki unit has less than one person. Do you want to force a simulated battle? ]

【Confirm/Cancel】

【Sure】

……

……

boom--! ! !

The thunderous roars from the large-caliber sniper rifles continued to torture the acoustic membrane components of the speakers, and the images of virtual Letchers being pierced through the core by the walls were exposed to everyone.

Deputy Commanders Anderson and Burnim, Deputy Minister of Intelligence Ampah, CEO of Pure Land, one of the noble representatives, former chairman of Pure Land, Roderick Austin...

More than a dozen big shots who could make the Ark tremble with just a stomp of their feet gathered in this small command room, staring at the real-time broadcast on the central projection table with different expressions.

They have acknowledged someone's strong combat capabilities.

However, before seeing the broadcast footage, even Deputy Commander Anderson, who had been on the battlefield, had no idea how strong someone was.

After all, Commander Phoenix always has a characteristic when performing missions:

One hundred percent of combat records are highly corrupted, or simply lost or destroyed.

Now, after witnessing the second lieutenant breaking through the seventh floor of the simulation room alone, and dying and trying again and again on the eighth floor, even Roderick Austin, who had a grudge against him for killing his grandson, generously gave the second lieutenant enough praise and respect.

"We voted to imprison them. It's only been two days, and we're going to vote to release them to perform their duties. It makes the parliament seem too frivolous when making decisions."

A member of the Central Council held his forehead in distress and said:

"Does it have to be him? Didn't Huaer Qiulei come back alive from the power plant? Why not let her go?"

"No, according to Anik's deduction, the possibility of Walqiulei obtaining effective intelligence is completely zero. I think there is nothing wrong with the reason given by the computer. Commander Walqiulei's ability is only suitable for frontal combat.

Only the special ground intelligence squadron can handle this kind of tracking mission where every judgment cannot be wrong."

After hearing what the congressman said, Deputy Minister Ampa flatly rejected the other party's proposal.

This middle-aged man, who had been depressed in the intelligence department for most of his life, finally straightened his back and experienced what it meant to be proud.

"Our intelligence department still insists on our decision to publicly sentence Lieutenant Phoenix to exile, and use this as an excuse to move the ground intelligence special squadron into secret operations.

Of course, if you don't mind, we don't even need to sentence them to exile. We can just seal off the MMR Affiliated High School, find a way to get Lieutenant Phoenix and his subordinate Nikki out, and then transfer them to the Outer Edge."

"I agree with the intelligence community's decision."

To everyone's surprise, the first person to stand up and support Deputy Minister Ampa was Ms. Ingrid.

According to normal logic, she, who benefited the most from Phoenix, should be the one who was most opposed to the lieutenant being transferred out of the Ark.

Because as long as that madman is still in the Ark City, no one will dare to use violence to threaten her life.

however……

"I agree with the intelligence community's decision."

Before everyone could figure out Ingrid's purpose, Deputy Commander Anderson suddenly spoke:

"The Infinite Force stationed in the Far North has reported back that the Letcher intelligent entity named Xiaocao, first encountered by Commander Phoenix, appeared in the northern region three days ago.

At the same time, a pilgrim codenamed Snow White also appeared in the area.

Regardless of whether the mission to track the Letcher group is successful, the ground intelligence special squadron led by Lieutenant Phoenix must go to the Far North. We need to know the intelligence of the Letcher intelligent individuals.

We need to try to reach the pilgrims.”

Chapter 183 Ground Intelligence Special Squadron

“Fail.”

“This one also failed.”

“This structure is misunderstood.”

"Whose paper is this? How dare you hand in a blank paper... Oh, Lei... It's okay."

"Huh? Why did Yuni imitate Lei and hand in a blank paper? Who taught her?!"

In Marciana's office, Phoenix was marking students' papers at an average speed of fifteen seconds per paper, while talking to himself in front of the teacher.

The reason why it took more than ten seconds was mainly because he had to circle the wrong places for correction.

Otherwise, with Anik's computing speed, no matter how fast someone swipes the screen, artificial intelligence can still instantly grade all the papers that appear on the screen for him.

Maruchana, who was standing beside him and silently watching the instructor marking the papers, had already gotten used to the scene before him.

At first, she was worried that the instructor would make mistakes or miss some papers because he graded them so quickly.

However, after Marucana worked all night for the second review, she realized that her worries were unnecessary.

——There are nearly a hundred test papers, and the correction content of each one can be summarized in four words: "simple and perfect".

Could it be... that he is really a genius?

Since it is impossible to imagine that an artificial intelligence can live in a person's brain, the teacher naturally gave all the credit for grading the papers to the instructor.

"It's still the same. Rabi gets full marks, and you get full marks too, teacher."

In less than half an hour, Phoenix finished grading dozens of engineering exam papers and summarized the students' performance today based on the detailed tables compiled by Anik.

"The highest scores were given to Nadja and Helen, who each mixed up one structure.

Then came Tia and Marianne, who got two details wrong.

Mihala, Christine, and Ning Ya made three mistakes..."

Da da da da da——

Listening to Phoenix's summary, Marciana quickly picked up the tablet and quickly wrote down the students' scores one by one using abbreviations.

Teachers who understand the benefits of asking students to memorize the Letcher structure diagram will certainly support it.

She even secretly made up her mind to separate the teaching content of "Learning Letcher Structure" into a separate course, further organize and summarize it, and make it an independent theoretical course.

As for whether the students would wail and cry in pain, or even hate her, that was not something she, as a teacher, had to consider.

In Maruchana's eyes, keeping his students alive as much as possible is the top priority.

"Instructor."

"Ok?"

With a grateful heart, Maruchana raised her hand to tuck the slightly messy hair behind her ears, held the tablet in one hand, and bowed slightly with sincerity, "I thank you on behalf of my students."

"what?"

Faced with the teacher's unexpected thanks, someone who hadn't reacted in time responded in confusion. After a while, the lieutenant, whose original intention of teaching was not pure, finally realized what the other party meant.

"It's okay. As long as I can use it on the ground."

Fortunately, Phoenix's skin in this regard is as strong and durable as a city wall. If it were someone with a thinner skin, his face would probably have turned red by now.

dong dong——

"Meaning... Lieutenant."

Just when the instructor and the teacher were treating each other with respect and didn't know how to continue the communication.

Outside the door, Lavi knocked lightly on the door with the back of his hand, successfully breaking up the awkwardness of the impending entry.