NIKKE, when the stars bloom

The fire dragon flew into the sky with a roar.

However, this does not mean that Honglian in a furious state will not continue to chase in the direction they left.

boom--!

I saw a shock wave explode in an instant.

The white-haired swordsman who broke through the sound barrier easily was still gritting his teeth to increase his speed, willfully squandering his own body energy which was not too much to begin with.

She was going to kill that fire-breathing lizard!

She didn’t believe that the other party would keep flying in the sky and not come down!!!

Swish!

The red light flashed, and a patrol team of twelve Letchers unfortunately blocked Honglian's way. As a result, three of the unlucky ones were cut into several large pieces of scrap metal by the red light in an instant, and scattered in confusion in the snow.

The other nine surviving Letchers were scanning their surroundings vigilantly. Their extremely limited intelligence made it impossible for them to understand why their companions suddenly disintegrated. They could only honestly pass the news of the enemy attack to the Tianhuan headquarters and let the smarter Letchers judge the specific situation.

"Warning, a supersonic target has been detected approaching the Sky Ring."

"Warning, a supersonic target has been detected approaching the Sky Ring."

Scarlet warning lights and electronic alarms flashed meaninglessly in the corridors.

Under the giant fortress, an eight-layer alloy gate suddenly made a roar that was enough to make people tremble. Through the slowly opened gap in the door, various sophisticated instruments were exposed to the air for the first time in a long time.

One by one, metal bellows of unknown function extended from the walls, coiled on the ceiling in a spider web-like shape, and finally converged on a female body in the center of the secret room, fitting tightly with the prosthetic interfaces on the other body.

"Warning, a supersonic target has been detected approaching the Sky Ring."

Amid the loud alarm, the sweetly sleeping woman frowned slightly, as if she was unhappy that someone had disturbed her sweet dream.

"Warning, a supersonic target has been detected approaching the Sky Ring."

"..."

"Warning, a supersonic target has been detected approaching the Sky Ring."

"..."

"Warning, detected..."

"……Quarrel."

Suddenly, perhaps annoyed by the alarm, the woman uttered a word in a cold voice, and then her eyelashes moved slightly, and she opened her charming blood-red eyes.

Click!

Click, click, click!

As the woman woke up, the various metal joints that were originally connected to her prosthesis began to rotate in fear, quickly detached from her body, and retracted to the ceiling as if escaping.

Who knew this wasn't over yet...

laugh--!

The tall woman suddenly spread out her "body", stepped out, and showed her true enchanting body in the empty secret room.

The next second, a sonic boom sounded and the woman disappeared without a trace.

……

Ode——!

When Honglian gradually regained his composure and killed nearly a hundred Laichers along the way, and was about to reach the vicinity of Tianhuan.

Ode——!

In an instant, a black and red figure suddenly appeared in her field of vision, forcing her to subconsciously raise her knife and make a protective blocking action.

Clang clang——!!!

The sound of exploding swords reached the sky.

The knives collided and cut each other, and a cluster of dazzling pale golden sparks burst out.

Time seems to be muddy at this moment.

There was no time to be surprised or think. The white-haired girl instinctively looked to the side, looking at the black shadow that was about to pass by.

A pair of sweet almond eyes that are always gentle and watery...

An elegant face that is so familiar that you are almost forgetting it...

Clang clang——!!!

The flashes of swords and sabers crossed each other, and the two swordsmen exchanged positions and turned to look at each other almost at the same time.

The memory was so shattered that the source could not be found. Honglian, whose soul was washed away by various emotions, stared blankly at the woman in the distance, and her delicate lips began to tremble slightly.

"……elder sister?"

"..."

no respond.

Or perhaps, the woman's action of swinging the knife and rushing forward was a response to Honglian's words.

Clang clang——!!!

On the snowy plain, the extremely desolate wails burst out from between the blades once again, and they lasted for a long time.

Chapter 240: Parting Ways

Honglian is gone, Baixue is gone too.

A dragon's breath fire burned two members of the goddess army into oblivion.

If an ordinary commander encountered such a terrifying emergency, he would probably be panicked like a headless fly. But Fei is different. The lieutenant can guess where the two white-haired people went just by thinking with his toes.

Most likely he went north to chase after Nihilista, that damned fire dragon.

"There is a high possibility that a large Letcher force will surround us from the Tianhuan side. Everyone should retreat south immediately. Ludmila will lead the way. We should retreat to the nearest large city in the south."

After confirming that Signa and Delta, who were part of the counterattack force, had also returned to the team, Phoenix decisively chose to lead his eighteen Nikkis and Walqiulei to withdraw from the Far North.

No matter whether it was the goddess troops or the heretics, the suppression power shown by both sides just now has completely proved that most of the Nikkis produced by Ark are not their opponents.

To say something not so nice

——Except for Alice who can use team tactics with Shirayuki, and Mihara and Yuni who can cooperate with their superpowers, the rest of Nikki who has no superpowers cannot even reach the passing line of cooperating with the goddess troops due to the insufficient performance of her prosthetics.

"Are we just going to ignore Bai Xue and the others?"

However, what Phoenix could not have expected was that Walqiulei, the original protagonist of the game, suddenly fell ill at this time.

The girl, who had a 100% favorable impression of Nikki, anxiously grabbed the man's sleeve and said:

"Instructor, there are so many Letchers in the Sky Ring, and the amount of ammunition that Bai Xue carries is simply not enough!"

Phoenix couldn't hear what Walqiulei was saying, and he didn't want to pay attention to what she said. He waved his hand and asked Love to pick up this passionate woman and prepare to evacuate south as quickly as possible.

"I order you to let me go! I am the commander of the counterattack force, and I have not received any orders to obey the special squadron!"

"Stop yelling, little beauty. Let your sister hug you."

In the face of Walqiulei's warning, Lolfu ignored it and walked forward while making fun of it.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, Delta suddenly blocked her way with two quick steps, his face calm, and even saluted towards Phoenix's position.

"I'm sorry, our commander, Hua Erqiulei, is at the same level as you. Our troops do not need to obey the orders of the special squadron."

Lolfu: “…”

Now that things have become so official, even the daring Lolfe wouldn't dare to act recklessly. If she intensified the conflict between the two sides, her lieutenant would probably have to go to a military court again.

"Ludmila leads the way. Everyone in the squadron evacuates to the south."

A man's cold and even cold-blooded voice was heard over the burning snowfield. Not only was Walqiulei stunned, but even Labi, Ludmila and a few other Nikkis subconsciously focused their attention on the lieutenant.

No one responded...

This is not because Mihala and others are dissatisfied with their men's decisions, but simply because Her Majesty the Queen, who is responsible for leading the way, has not moved yet.

"Lavi, let's evacuate the same way we came."

Seeing Ludmila standing there, Phoenix's patience was exhausted at this moment.

Today, he is no longer the barefoot commander who was betrayed by the central computer when he first went to the ground. He is responsible for the lives of the twelve Nikkis in the squadron. There are also many people in the outer area who have just started to get their lives on track and need his protection.

Even if we take a step back and say that if he died here, what would happen to the Pure Land that Ingrid had just reorganized?

"Remember, the fighting power of Bai Xue and Hong Lian is not comparable to you and me, Hua Er Qiu Lei."

Before leaving, the lieutenant glanced at his bewildered student and kindly reminded him:

"You don't need to help with problems that the two of them can solve together, and adding more of you won't help with things that they can't solve together.

As for you, it is your own business if you want to realize your own self-improvement. Don’t let others pay for your self-improvement with their lives.”

After that, Phoenix waved his right hand again, signaling Lavi to lead all members of the squadron to retreat southward.

He glanced at Wal Qiulei and the others again, and finally set his eyes on the pitiful Alice.

"……Feel sorry."

……

sieve--!

The sword energy that was powerful enough to stir up the wind and clouds cut and blew the ice crystals accumulated on the snowfield.

Two figures that were almost impossible to capture with the naked eye were galloping freely across the land, scaring all the polar animals into trembling and hiding in their caves.

"Don't you recognize me? Qianghua——!!!"

After fighting for hundreds of rounds, Honglian, with his white hair flying, confirmed once again that the woman in front of him was his sister who had killed the commander and comrades for him, and who had finally died willingly at his hands.

Unfortunately, the woman with black hair and bloodshot eyes was not moved by her questioning at all, and she chopped with a knife on the spot.

Clank, clank, clank——!

At the moment when the swords collided, the heretic with a gentle expression like a rose smiled and nodded, answering Honglian's question in a light tone.

"My name is Normantchesh."

Chapter 241: Tia, You Are a Genius

"Are we...really retreating like this?"

Following at the end of the team, Master's expression became increasingly strange as his pace quickened.

Although she has always longed to be a romantic, free, cunning and treacherous pirate like Jack Sparrow, the loyalty in her bones made her feel that the lieutenant's behavior was both correct and disappointing.

Although he had known Alice for less than four hours in total, the innocent little girl had promised her personally that she would become a member of the crew of the great Captain Master in the future.

Damn it, this is her future first crew member!

When Master thought about his crew going to cause trouble for the fire dragon, he wondered if the commander of the counterattack force drank too much rum on a daily basis and had damaged his brain at such a young age.

Even if there are five Nikkis in total, they can't even put together a missile launcher. How can they fight the air force?

Are the four of us really going to sit down and watch Alice fight a mechanical dragon with an anti-material sniper rifle?

Master couldn't figure out Walqiulei's train of thought, so she had to put her hopes on her own reliable commander. But who knew...

Who knew that the second lieutenant... he was actually so reliable that he parted ways with the counterattack troops on the spot?

"In fact, there are twelve of us against five of them, and our lieutenant is a better fighter than their commander. Why don't we just kidnap them?"

As a "pirate", Master's thinking logic has always been simple and crude. From her point of view, in the situation just now, she could have used force to force the other party to submit.

However, Tia, who was in front of her, turned around and said something very student-like.

"If we kidnap them, will that be against the law?"

Master: “…”

Is this a question of breaking the law? Is breaking the law the point of this question?