NIKKE, when the stars bloom

"Don't worry, Grandmaster. I have already arranged for Master to take care of us. I will immediately start to support you with my maximum firepower!"

Nian's unique voice, which was both serious and unfocused, was transmitted to the ears of Phoenix and others through the team voice. The content of his expression really made the lieutenant's eyelids twitch three times.

It stands to reason that optimism and being thick-skinned should not be connected, but unfortunately, Fire Girl is clearly a representative of someone who is both optimistic and silly.

Isn't she afraid that the passage will be cut in half by Tianhuan City again, leaving her commander alone? ? ?

Phoenix was troubled by this and wanted to urge the other party to go back the same way, but the first batch of 28 Letchers had already rushed into the entrance impatiently...

The battle is about to break out.

boom--! ! !

Three sniper rifles roared at once, followed by the roar from a heavy machine gun called "Snow Savior".

The next moment, the four Letchers who took the lead and turned the corner had their cores blown up on the spot, and they collapsed to the ground helplessly. The twenty-four Letchers behind them saw this and launched a fearless charge towards the passage.

Boom boom boom boom——!!!

Just two shots...

Eliminating Ludmilla's heavy fire, Phoenix and Helen only fired two shots. The remaining twelve Letchers relied on the insect sea tactics, forcing a foothold against the firepower of the four people and frantically poured shells into the passage.

As for why there are twelve instead of sixteen, the reason is simple.

——Unlike the second lieutenant and Helen, who could only fire two shots, Alice successfully emptied her six-round magazine in just three or four seconds, and every shot hit the target. Then Phoenix, Helen, and Ludmila each killed two, and the four who died at the beginning...

In one breath, the team shot and killed a total of sixteen Letchers.

Click!

Pulling the bolt and ejecting the smoking shell from the chamber, Phoenix, with his back against the large processing lathe, calmly listened to the roar of the machine gun behind him and shouted loudly into the microphone:

"Let's get out together! Don't let them push in!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the man immediately leaned half of his body out from the other side of the lathe, raised his gun and started shooting without even aiming.

The bullet accurately destroyed the core of a Letcher and successfully attracted deadly concentrated fire from eleven gun lines.

However, just as the bunker Phoenix was about to be torn apart by the machine gun, Helen, Alice, and Ludmila leaned out half a beat slower and launched a third round of fire at Letcher and the others.

For a moment, various gunshots intertwined and bit each other.

But this is not enough!

Alice, who fired two shots in a row, was well aware of the horror of those lackeys of the Queen of Hearts joining forces to focus their fire on one target. Several large hollow iron lumps could not withstand the machine guns for long.

Therefore, she must defeat the remaining seven big spiders as quickly as possible, otherwise her Hatter will be in danger!

As the strongest fighter in the team, when Alice saw that Letcher had turned the barrel of the gun towards her again, she resolutely gave up the idea of ​​hiding behind the cover and tried to risk her life to clean her sniper magazine again.

boom--! ! !

At this critical moment, a heart-shaking explosion suddenly sounded, and billowing flames burst between the seven Letches like boiling water, engulfing them all.

"Firepower! Full fire!!!"

To the north, dozens of meters away.

After seeing her impressive record, Nian, who was running towards her madly, clenched his fists proudly, raised his hands and lowered his elbows, and encouraged himself vigorously.

"Perfect hit, this must be the protection from the God of Fire!!!"

As she spoke, the seven grenade pull rings on her right index finger made a crisp clinking sound, as if explaining the truth of the explosion to the four people in front of her.

"The second wave is coming, three teams merged into one, a total of 42. Note, there are six flying letchers,"

Phoenix had no time to deal with Nian's antics. While providing intelligence to his subordinates, he quickly pulled the bolt of the gun, loaded the bullet, and turned around again, ready to hold the gun.

"Nian, do you have a single-headed bullet?"

"Master, rest assured! As a devout believer of the God of Firepower and an absolute powerhouse of the Shotgun Sect, I can leave everything behind, but I will never forget the single-headed bullet that belongs exclusively to Shotgun Romance."

In the dark passage, the frivolous girl explained her "belief" very seriously, as if even her large-framed glasses were reflecting the sunlight out of thin air.

Then, Nian took out the shotgun bullets in the gun chamber one by one with great skill, and then took out a few heavy single-headed bullets from the ammunition belt and loaded them into her beloved gun in the blink of an eye, shouting excitedly and joyfully.

"Master, and everyone else, don't be so sad, the God of Fire will protect us!

Even if there are another hundred Letchers, I will let them taste the power of fire!"

"..."

After looking at the densely packed red dots on the map, a kind-hearted master finally did not burst the fire girl's naive fantasy. He just nodded calmly and said:

"One hundred are not enough for you to fight."

"Then we have to start with at least 500, right?"

Chapter 299.99 %

When Nian heard Phoenix boasting that he could defeat five hundred Letchers, his face flushed in the darkness, and he did not realize the seriousness of the problem at all.

"No... You are worthy of being the Grandmaster!"

She can easily come up with bold statements that she and her master would never dare to imagine.

And what about Phoenix?

Seeing Nian's unreliable look, the man who had never led such a subordinate could only frown and say sternly:

"Go to the Queen and cover her while she reloads. Move quickly."

“…Yes, yes!!!”

Perhaps influenced by Phoenix's aura, the nervous Fire Girl saluted the commander for the first time at this moment, and then ran towards Her Majesty the Queen with a gun in hand.

Gada, gada gada gada—

From the moment Nian threw the grenade belt to the moment Nian ran towards Ludmila, the total halftime break was less than thirty seconds. Then the terrifying footsteps of Letcher could be heard faintly from the entrance.

Just as the lieutenant expected, the twenty-eight Letcher bodies piled up at the entrance and exit successfully hindered the movements of the Letchers in the rear.

This incident caused the six flying Letchers that were flying unimpeded to inadvertently separate from the main force and be the first to appear under the guns of Phoenix and his five men.

Then, gunshots were heard again, and the annoying mechanical mosquitoes fell to the ground.

"Helen and I are in one group, Alice is in a separate group, and we take turns firing!"

After making sure that Letcher and his men were temporarily pinned outside the entrance and unable to get in, the lieutenant, despite the violent roar of the heavy machine gun, roared into the microphone with a hoarse voice.

"Don't block the intersection, let them move in slowly--!"

……

……

Panic,

An unprecedented panic that comes from worry.

Wal Qiulei, who was hiding between two processing machine tools, just listened to the roar coming from afar. Not only did her pretty face turn pale, but even her rosy lips had lost their color.

What went wrong?

The lonely girl couldn't understand herself at this moment, nor did she understand where the panic in her heart came from.

Was he afraid for the lives of the instructor and Nian? Or was he worried about the safety of Signa and Delta?

Huaer Qiulei couldn't figure it out, so she just tightly grasped the hand cannon given to her by the instructor, hoping to draw some courage and bravery from the cold and heavy handle.

Gada, Gada...

suddenly!

The all too familiar knocking sound was like a thunderclap, exploding behind her without any warning, startling the girl so much that her pupils shrank into the size of a dot of ink.

Letcher?!

My heart started beating wildly.

But the rationality that followed helped Huaer Qiulei suppress the fear that was about to break out in an instant.

That wasn't Letcher's voice.

The girl wearing a tactical night vision helmet lowered her head in response to the sound, her eyes falling on her hips, only to see that the metal tactical buckle that Nian had given her had slipped off the backpack at some point, dangling and constantly hitting a certain part of the machine tool.

A false alarm...

The overreaction just now was just a normal phenomenon when PTSD is triggered.

However, a girl is a girl. After regaining her composure, the thoughtful Huaer Qiulei reviewed the whole process of her fright. In the end, she saw the source of the lingering panic in her heart.

——She was just afraid.

Of course, there was worry about the instructor, Nian, Lapi and others, but more of it was fear of the situation he was about to face.

She was not an instructor; her chance of survival against Letcher alone was zero; without Nikki by her side, she was actually no different from those useless commanders...

What qualifications do I have to be such a useless person like me, who once got hot-headed and parted ways with my instructor, to hide behind the front line and enjoy this comfort and torment?

If you can’t give orders, can you shoot?

The feeling of self-blame filled her mind, and her fingers gripping the handle became tighter and tighter. After a mental struggle, Huaer Qiulei finally loosened her tightly bitten lips and turned on the team voice chat again...

……

[Increase of 129.37%…176.71%…248.65%…]

Just when the positional battle reached its climax, Letcher in the south did not go to extremes under the deliberate guidance of Phoenix, but advanced slowly and steadily. At this time, a deep headache climbed onto the lieutenant's head along with Alnick's warning.

The black and white image under the night vision goggles was distorted and out of frame again, and the careful battle plan was disrupted by the pain into a blur.

Phoenix couldn't understand why the fighting spirit of a standby personnel behind the front line would suddenly surge?

Is she eavesdropping on some weird BGM? ? ?

[286.57%...291.66%...299.99%. 】

"Helen, you come and take command."

Just as the lieutenant was enduring the pain and preparing to hand over the command of the team, Helen and others, including himself, suddenly heard some extremely dangerous plasma fluctuations hidden in the heavy gunfire.

"Walqiulei, get down--!"

"!"

In the team voice chat, the man's roar did not sound as urgent as it did in reality due to the decibel limit of the voice channel.

However, the female student, who had already been convinced by the instructor, did not dare to be negligent at all. She saw him take a somersault while running, and regardless of the danger of injury, she rushed forward on the spot.

Buzz————! ! !

The high-temperature laser beam, which is enough to melt everything, emits a dazzling light, instantly melting through the machine tool while illuminating the channel as bright as day.

No one was injured or killed by the short-lived laser beam, but the brief period of collective lying down was successfully captured by the Letchers. In just a few seconds, more than a dozen Letchers scattered irregularly in the passage.

For Helen and others, facing such a disadvantage, death is already a foregone conclusion.

Without Letcher's body to provide obstruction and protection, they could not last more than a few rounds of fire with only the machine tools as cover.

it's over...

In the desperate moment, even though she already knew the outcome of her side, Helen, who temporarily took over the command, still stubbornly got up from the ground, her tone as stern as that of a general with great military achievements.

"Everyone, open fire freely! Draw fire and protect the commander!"

It doesn't take much thought to understand that the order Helen issued was tantamount to suicide and was doomed to fail.

But even so, Ludmilla, Alice and Nian still pulled the trigger firmly, using themselves as targets to attract the attention of Letcher, whose position was unknown.

boom--!

The sniper rifle named "Glory" roared furiously, just like the noble girl's mood at the moment, wanting to die here in the most glorious way.

On the other side, the other three who held the belief that “they must die before the commander” were equally unwilling to be outdone.

Alice, who was fantasizing about going on adventures in the mirror with the Mad Hatter in the future, emptied her magazine in the blink of an eye; Nin, who was not good at accurate shooting, simply gave up aiming and fired wildly at the intersection with the most Letchers; as for Her Majesty the Queen, the flames from the heavy machine guns almost became the brightest light in the dark passage.

The sudden burst of firepower even suppressed Letcher's offensive for a time, but unfortunately the number of mechanical spiders was too great, so many that a few stray bullets could accidentally hit and shatter the noble girl's lower abdomen and chest.

“Helen!!!”