NIKKE, when the stars bloom

The gate slowly opened, and Phoenix, who was temporarily acting as a bodyguard, raised his left hand like a butler, signaling Shuen, the boss, to enter first. He did not step sideways and backwards into the elevator until the girl had gained her footing.

hum-

The gate gradually closed, followed by the familiar feeling of falling. At this point, the masked man finally spoke:

"The man on the orange sofa at the second coffee table in front of the lobby counter on the first floor, is he your company's secret agent?"

"Ok?"

Phoenix asked this question so suddenly that Shuen couldn't wrap his mind around it for a while, and he just followed what the other party said and started to recall the scene when he just passed the lobby.

But the problem was that she was not a professional spy, so she would not deliberately observe the situation in her own lobby. No matter how hard she thought, she could not remember that there was someone sitting at the coffee table.

"has a problem?"

The empty-headed CEO of Missilis asked back in a pretentious manner, successfully throwing the question back into the bodyguard's hands by answering it with a question.

The bodyguard was very considerate and answered immediately: "He observed you three times in total, but when he observed me, he just glanced at me in passing."

"uh-huh?"

Shu En, who couldn't figure out the meaning of the half-explanation given by someone, continued to hum like a leader, signaling the other party to continue.

"Based on our looks, who do you think normal people would look at more often?

Or we can think from another angle. Just based on my current appearance, even the smart service machine in the lobby would look at me a few more times. Why would that guy only look at me once? "

"..."

Having said that, Shu En could no longer fail to understand Phoenix's implication. So, she looked gloomy, her eyes narrowed, and she bared her teeth like a hyena cub:

"Are you saying someone is targeting me?"

"Why not?"

The lieutenant responded lightly, and his tone, without a trace of nervousness, invisibly calmed Shu En's inner tension.

The next second, the person took out his phone from his pocket and quickly tapped the screen while saying:

"I will send someone to arrest that guy now, and you will be responsible for interrogating him."

"Not urgent."

"Not urgent?"

The girl's fingertips paused on the spot. She turned her head, raised her eyes, and stared at the extremely simple metal mask in front of her with a questioning look, waiting for the other party to give a reasonable explanation.

Seeing her like this, the lieutenant's tone remained unchanged:

"What's the old saying? A friend in need is a friend indeed. Don't you want to see who in the whole of Missilis will stand up for you when you are in danger?"

"..."

Atmosphere,

It got weird because of Phoenix's proposal.

Shuen's expression first showed dissatisfaction, then turned into shame and annoyance, and finally turned into unreasonable anger. He shouted madly:

"No need to go to so much trouble. I ask you, will you try it?"

"What's there to judge? Don't you know who sent the nail?

I sincerely suggest that you conduct a sting operation and sort out the loyalty of your own party, especially the security departments such as the Missilis Field Department. "

The man's attitude towards Shuen's tantrum was equally tough, and his mouth seemed to be possessed by Anis herself.

"You are the president of the company, not the emperor of the Ark. What's the matter? Your popularity is not so bad that no one wants to burn paper for you even on the seventh day?"

Following Phoenix's rather rude words, a burst of hysterical screams suddenly broke out in the elevator car that was climbing upwards.

"I want you to take care of—?!"

"Look at your half-human, half-ghost appearance. Those scrap metals look more human than you. Who would want a guy like you to burn paper for them!!!"

……

……

On the top floor of the Missilis Building, a girl in a nightgown stood alone in front of the French window, looking down at the countless people hundreds of meters below, her eyes filled with mixed emotions.

Was what I said in the elevator just now a bit too much?

She thought so.

But then I thought that it was the other party who said something excessive first, and I just responded with more vicious words. Even if I apologize, it should be the other party who apologizes first, and there is no reason for me to take the initiative to admit my mistake.

but……

That guy was just telling the truth in a provocative tone. Wouldn't it be a bit too much for her to just ask him to get out of the elevator halfway?

Complex thoughts were running wildly in Shu En's mind, and her thoughts gradually drifted to the scene when she and that guy first met...

The one who was like a giant python, daring to hold her neck from behind and negotiate with her...

Beep! Beep!

suddenly!

The sudden alarm sounded, instantly cutting off the girl's emotions before she had time to express her shame and anger.

After a moment's thought, Shuen immediately confirmed the meaning of these piercing alarms.

——That was the alarm backdoor she secretly implanted in the surveillance system of the Missilis Building

——Someone forcibly shut down the closed-circuit surveillance of the entire building!

And she did not receive any notification from any relevant department at the first time!

Neither the Missilis field department nor the security department responsible for monitoring the building gave her even a single notification until the alarm sounded.

"Tsk... you are a bunch of traitors. I paid you such a high salary."

A look of panic flashed across Shuen's eyes, and then the CEO of Missilis acted decisively. He turned and walked to the control panel in the house, and in a few seconds paralyzed the elevator system of the entire building, turning the top floor of the building into an isolated island in the sky.

After completing these simple arrangements and ensuring his own safety for a short period of time, Shu En, who finally felt relieved, did not call the ACPU to report the incident immediately. Instead, he took out his cell phone and turned on Balabala.

[Shu En: Where are you? ]

[Shu En: Come back! Someone has destroyed the building's CCTV! ]

[Shu En: Hello???]

[Shu En: Isn't it enough that I apologize to you? It was wrong of me to kick you out of the elevator! But remember, you were the first one to say that I have no friends! ]

[Shu En: Hey!!!]

Chapter 295: Meeting Shu En for the Third Time (Part 4)

bulibuli! m-boer~

The smooth wall, made of an unknown material, was stained with sticky scarlet blood. As the cell phone rang, Phoenix, who was standing at the edge of the corridor, reached into his pocket and shifted his gaze from a man lying on the ground to the cell phone screen.

On the blah blah message interface, Shuen was still bombarding the screen with messages.

To be honest, the lieutenant didn't quite understand the other party's behavior.

They had met three times in total. How come this uneducated kid seemed to be treating him as one of his own?

Are you really so gullible???

Click!

After taking a photo of Shuen, Phoenix put away his phone, squatted down and looked at the killer lying on the ground, hesitating, and said slowly:

"Would you consider saying something casually? If you're lucky, you might be able to survive."

"..."

There was no response, no feedback. The killer named Xisis just lay on the ground calmly, ready to accept his death at any time.

However, when a gloved hand reached out to his face, the sharp nanometal cut through the skin of his upper eyelid, then passed through his flesh and blood, affecting the trigeminal nerve...

At that moment, heart-wrenching screams echoed throughout the corridor and the entire floor.

Tens of seconds later...

"I said! I said..."

In less than a hundred seconds, the killer, who had no faith in his heart and was in pain so severe that it was enough to drive him crazy, chose to compromise as expected.

"What do you want to know?"

Just like in the movie, Alexis asked the executioner this classic line as a prisoner.

unfortunately,

He faces Phoenix, a "conservative" who considers himself mentally sane.

"I don't know what I want to know. You can choose what to tell me."

xis: “?”

What does "you choose to talk about it" mean?

What kind of new interrogation technique is this?

"Here……"

The killer was stunned.

He had never imagined that he could be a lowly Party B as a prisoner in his lifetime. Thinking back, he gave up a bright future and turned to the dangerous business of killing people. Wasn't it because he didn't want to be a dog for the mentally retarded Party A?

Why should he experience Party B's pain before he dies???

"I, let me think...

By the way, the order I received was not to assassinate the CEO of Missilis...

But to kill you."

Recalling the memory of being beaten up by the other party not long ago, XISIS couldn't help but laugh at himself and said:

"And I'm not the only one. There are many desperate people who are trying to get to the top floor to kill you."

After the captive started like this, the aimless Phoenix finally found the starting point for the interrogation and immediately threw out three questions without thinking.

"Were the people blocking the entrances and exits outside the building with you? Are you a self-employed person or an employee?"

Facing the question raised by Party A's father, the killer, who did not want to experience that inhuman pain again, answered neatly:

"I accepted the order. The employer did not inform me of any additional information other than the mission objectives, mission requirements, and a map of the building's internal structure."

"To take orders?"

After listening to Psychus's confession, the lieutenant was more curious about the specific process of "taking orders" mentioned by the killer than the key question of who the employer was, so he asked:

"How do you take orders? Has this business become industrialized?"

"That's not the case."

Coco shook his head without hesitation to reject the lieutenant's wild idea, but at the same time, doubts arose in his heart.

The other party's skills are so terrifying, but he doesn't know the situation of their business. Could he be a master sent by the military?

No wonder a mere bodyguard could offer such a high bounty...

It turns out that there are not many good people on Party A.

Although he was complaining in his heart, the killer still spoke from the heart. He explained everything in detail:

"Our industry is very loose, and we still use the traditional approach of old employees guiding new employees and using secret network platforms.

There is a one-on-one model for providing professional services, as well as a reward with public prices and first come, first served.

This time I accepted a limited-time public bounty, and the mission note stated that the target of assassination was the personal bodyguard of CEO Misilis, and the bounty was three million credit points.

Of course, there are also long-term public bounties and cumulative bounties. Cumulative bounties mean that multiple sponsors offer a bounty for one person, and the bounties can be added together.

For example, the second lieutenant who topped the bounty list recently has a cumulative bounty of 260 million, of which 99.99 million is said to be the price offered by the military."

"..."

Hearing from others that his head was worth 260 million, Phoenix was really a little amused and said, "According to what you mean, excluding those whistles outside the building, the people who want to make 3 million this time have complicated backgrounds?"

"Well, you could say that."