NIKKE, when the stars bloom

Who knew that at this moment...

On the eastern horizon, a violet beam of light traveled across several kilometers and hit Dorothy's body in an instant. If it weren't for the fact that the defense performance of the fairy-tale-type Nikki's prosthetics was also ridiculously high, this shot would have pierced through Dorothy's body on the spot.

Boom——! ! !

The earth shook again. Faced with the roaring pressure from the mountain, Bai Xue, who was accumulating energy, had to grit her teeth and was forced to stand up and dodge.

"Dorothy!"

Honglian, who was struggling with her sister, tried her best to deflect the attacking long sword, and glanced at her mortal enemy who was falling to the ground.

“Is he dead?!”

"……cough."

Hearing Jiumengzi's unpleasant words of concern, the humiliated Ms. Dorothy stood up from the snow angrily, turned her head and glared at the east, staring at the jellyfish-like figure slowly floating towards her, and couldn't help but answer angrily:

"Even if you die, I won't die."

Chapter 274 Two Assistants

Liberelio was furious.

Not only was her sweet dream ruthlessly interrupted by the Queen, but she was also forced to travel a long way to Tianhuan. She thought the Queen was finally planning to gather the heretics to attack the Ark. But what happened? She was just called to support Xiaocao and Normantchesch.

"Can you guys finish this quickly? I need to go back and catch up on my sleep."

The little jellyfish was in low spirits and looked grumpy. She dropped her mouth and the energy barrels behind her, like tentacles, were aimed at Honglian, Shirayuki, and Dorothy in an instant...

Om-! ! !

A volley of fire forced Bai Xue, who was still dodging the attack, to raise her cloak and take the lavender beam.

On the other side, when Honglian saw Libereo pointing a gun at herself, she was about to raise her knife, but unexpectedly, Qianghua in front of her had already raised her hand and blocked the gun's point with the blade of her long knife.

As for Dorothy...

The humiliation of being shot down due to a sneak attack forced Tao to open fire at full power on the spot. In an instant, she broke through the sound barrier, stirred up two high-altitude waves of ice crystals, and sprinted towards Libereo at a low altitude.

Then, two beams of energy, one pink and one purple, flew all over the snowy field.

……

……

Rumble, rumble, rumble——

A huge roar comparable to that of a missile exploding suddenly continued in the underground of Tianhuan City.

Even though the tactical headphones they were wearing had military-grade noise reduction technology, Phoenix and Walqiulei still felt their brains and hearts trembling uncontrollably with the vibration of the space.

[The terrain is changing. The underground structure of this city is modular. There is a 98.28% chance that the other party intends to block our route.]

While Alnick was reporting the situation and constantly refreshing and reconstructing the contents of the 3D map, the lieutenant, whose head was dizzy from the roar, tried to maintain his logical thinking and asked:

【What is the remaining one? 】

[There is a 1.72% chance that the other party intends to block our retreat route.]

After getting the answer from the artificial intelligence, the lieutenant had a vague feeling of "Murphy's Law". Immediately, the man turned around abruptly and made a gesture to return to the original route under the gaze of all the Nikkis.

Rather than constantly guessing whether it is 98.28 or 1.72, Phoenix would rather take a certain risk and look back to see the situation and first figure out what Tianhuan City is planning.

So, surrounded by Rabi and others, the lieutenant retreated 60 to 70 meters and finally saw the scarlet block on the edge of the 3D map that Anik had specially marked, representing the change in terrain.

——All retreat routes within three hundred meters have been blocked.

"What does this mean?"

Observing no less than twenty changed areas, Phoenix inadvertently revealed a look of confusion in front of his subordinates, which was rare at this moment.

The "three blocking and one dredging" strategy has been used for a long time. It often appears in siege tactics and is occasionally used in siege battles. Its strategic objectives are basically three:

1. Deliberately create flaws in the formation to forcibly control the direction of the enemy.

Second, deliberately reveal flaws in the enemy's formation to make the enemy's middle and low-level officers think that there is still an option of withdrawal, preventing the enemy's generals from adopting a strategy of fighting with their backs to the wall and thus lowering the morale of the soldiers.

Third, our own troops cannot block the four sides.

Faced with the above three possibilities, Phoenix decisively crossed out the last option. Thousands of Letchers surrounded twenty Ark Nikkis, and the military force was more than enough.

Then, the middle option was quickly ruled out by the lieutenant.

The other side had already blocked all the retreat routes on their side, which was equivalent to setting up the stage with their own hands, waiting for him to give a free speech and boost morale.

So there is only one answer...

Thinking of this, Phoenix silently turned around, looked over Master's shoulder towards the passage to the north, his tone slightly subtle.

"The retreat is blocked. This city wants to force us to continue to go north."

“Hah——???”

After hearing the conclusion drawn by the commander, Anis did not question the first half of her man's information, but was surprised by the second half of his words.

"Forcing us to continue going north? Isn't that inviting us to visit its home? If that's the case, then why did it send soldiers to attack us halfway???"

Anis's question was logically valid, but what the chestnut-haired girl didn't expect was that the person who answered her was not her commander, but Naga, a classmate who had always been low-key in the team.

“To get the data.”

The top student from MMR High School was probably recalling the bad memories of the past, and his wheat-colored face had turned extremely pale.

"There is no way out. Either we achieve the assessment goal or we fail halfway... Just like the so-called 'monthly exams' in high school, they are all testing our actual combat data."

Naga's words were like the last piece of a puzzle, successfully connecting the questions and answers of Phoenix and Anis together and completing a logical closed loop.

Unfortunately, even though everyone was convinced by Nadja's reasons, Phoenix still remained skeptical.

Measure data?

Humans have been fighting Letcher for over a hundred years and tens of thousands of days and nights, and Letcher still wants to use them to measure data???

suddenly!

A flash of inspiration flashed through the man's mind, and the lieutenant suddenly remembered a vague plot in the original plot of the game - because Walqiulei came back alive from the tyrant, she was also arranged by Ark to be tested in the simulation room for data.

He still remembered that Anderson or Ingrid had commented on the protagonist's command level - it did not conform to the actual combat data and the command was a mess.

"Huaer Qiulei, you will command the team now."

A bold plan popped up in Phoenix's mind uncontrollably. In the stunned eyes of the students, the second lieutenant said seriously:

"I will serve as your intelligence officer and instructor."

……

……

"At the end of the passage, 80 meters away from the left fork, 12 Letchers are approaching us. At the end of the passage, 120 meters away from the right fork, 8 Letchers are leaving.

Above us, 50 meters ahead, ten Letchers are moving south. Behind us, 30 degrees north by south, four Letchers are moving north.

When a new intelligence officer reported several high-priority data in public, when Huaer Qiulei suppressed her nervousness and mustered up the courage to enter the command state...

There was no need for Phoenix's response. Inside the sea of ​​consciousness, the artificial idiot in the personality state had already cried out in surprise.

[It works! Phoenix, her power really works on you!!!]

[The detection distance of the radar map is 1283 meters, and the detection distance of the consciousness map is 641.5 meters. The rounded increase effect is 113.83%...]

[No, that's not right! It fell back to 110.24%...115.77%...109.12%. The increase is not stable enough, and the percentage fluctuates up and down by six points.]

As if he had discovered a treasure chest full of gold coins, or as if he had seen an extremely novel toy, Anik observed and calculated the data while hurriedly scanning the map and calling out the name of the person involved.

[Phoenix! Come on, trick her into it... Hmm? Phoenix? ]

After realizing that someone hadn't responded to his words for a long time, Anik suddenly realized that his host seemed to have suffered a backlash due to the forced amplification of his supernatural powers...

"commander!!!"

When someone's steps suddenly became unsteady, Isabel, who was the first to react, instantly flashed to her lover's side, nervously holding the other's arm, frowning and worriedly saying:

"What's wrong with you? Is it because you use that perception ability too often?!"

"……fine."

At this moment, Phoenix felt as if the whole world was spinning. He shook his neck slightly, swallowed, and suppressed the nausea from his stomach. He said with difficulty: "Everyone, obey Huaer Qiulei's orders, and continue to move forward."

"Yes! Instructor!"

Seeing Phoenix suddenly look haggard and tired, Huaer Qiulei, who was full of doubts just now, finally "understood" why the instructor temporarily let her take charge of the command.

She is so stupid...

The instructor is also a human being! The instructor has his limits too! As a reserve, she should step up and fight for the instructor's rest time!

Fighting spirit is successfully ignited by pressure at this moment.

The girl excitedly raised her right arm and saluted her instructor...

[Radar detection distance 1710 meters, consciousness map detection distance 855 meters, amplification effect 185%. ]

As Walqiulei's desire to fight grew stronger, Anik, sensing that someone's brain had abnormal discharge, had no choice but to ask:

[Phoenix, how do you feel? ]

His vision flickered, and what he saw was sometimes different colors and sometimes distorted. The man leaning on his fiancée half-closed his eyes and reluctantly responded to Anik's question.

【Feel……】

……

【I’m going to die.】

As the title says, pig brain overload,jpg

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Chapter 4 Mutation (K)

The difference between listening to teammates' reports and opening the entire map by yourself is ultimately like a thumb and an index finger, with a whole galaxy between them.

Different from Phoenix's proactive combat style, Walqiulei, who only knows part of the enemy's position but does not know the specific terrain details, prefers to wait at a corner in advance, with a gun at the ready, waiting for Letcher to come and die.

Of course, the simple tactics of setting up a point can also achieve considerable results. However, this undoubtedly greatly slowed down the speed of the group's advancement, which was not fast to begin with.

Phoenix was not in a hurry. The slow movement frequency gave him enough time to adapt to his current physical condition.

Huaer Qiulei was not in a hurry. She cared more about the safety of Nikki and the others than pursuing casualties. As for whether the tactical plan of the point could reflect her command ability, it was not very important.

Needless to say, Lapi, Anis and the others all thought that their commander's poor condition was due to the excessive use of his supernatural powers. Therefore, everyone was willing to slow down and let someone have a good rest.

But their lack of anxiety does not mean that all participants are not anxious about this.

Including the time Phoenix spent commanding the battle, the battle lasted nearly five hours, more than 300 Letchers lost contact, and more than 20 areas were damaged. In response, the city of Tianhuan City finally became anxious.

Based on the efficiency of four areas being damaged per hour, it would take less than a hundred hours for this group of people to dismantle the underground processing plant into scrap metal in three or four days.

As a result, the speed of terrain change began to increase, forcing Phoenix and others to move north like a bulldozer.

Bang bang bang bang——!!!

A dozen sudden gunshots wiped out a Letcher team in a certain passage in an instant. After hearing the instructor's information, Walqiulei, who was forced to speed up, had a high-spirited face that was instantly replaced by tension.

"There are a total of 357 Letchers coming towards us from multiple forks in the back.

After going forward 300 meters, you need to turn upwards. There are three forks in the road above, all of which are guarded by Letcher.

The left road is 440 meters long, with a total of 210 Letchers.

The central branch is the longest, over 600 meters long, with a complex internal structure. There are 280 known Letchers, and the subsequent number is unknown.

The right lane is the shortest, 220 meters, and after crossing the fork, you will enter the three-dimensional intersection. There are 96 Letchers along the entire route, with a master-level Letcher providing assistance."

After a long battle, Phoenix roughly understood the rules of Walqiulei's ability under Anik's calculations. Therefore, he still did not take back the command and let the other party play at will.