NIKKE, when the stars bloom

"I have no ill intentions. I just want to find a black marketeer named Kurt."

Hearing him say this, Dolan, who was sitting behind the desk, couldn't help but narrow his pair of inverted triangle gray eyes slightly, revealing the majesty of a superior.

"You and your woman injured five of my brothers at once, and now you tell me you have no ill intentions? Is this way of greeting becoming popular in the Ark recently?"

The middle-aged man spoke calmly. He was able to organize a powerful gang right under the nose of the Ark Center. It would have been impossible without the support of a backer.

Therefore, he was certain...

Clank, clank——!

Unexpectedly, before Dolan could finish his words, Phoenix, who came to the desk, impatiently pushed the desk with both hands and pressed the edge of the desk directly against his chest, scaring him so much that he almost couldn't keep his seemingly calm face straight.

Is this guy serious?

The sudden action obviously scared the remaining thugs.

Seeing their boss in trouble, how could they not be loyal to him when their lives and property were in his hands? They were about to attack with knives, but were deeply frightened by Volum who came forward later.

"do not move."

The woman played with the dagger she had taken from some unlucky guy and said calmly, "Whoever moves will go to the hospital."

At the same time, the man leaned over and made eye contact with Dolan.

“If you know, just say you know. If you don’t know, go inform your boss.

If you dare to say something nonsense to me again, I will put your head in a condom."

At this point, Dolan, whose face turned red and white, finally sorted out his thoughts from Phoenix's words.

The reason these two masked villains came to his territory to cause trouble might really be that they just wanted to find that damn bastard Kurt through him.

after all……

They didn't even recognize the leader of the Chi'an Gang, and acted as if they had no idea who the Chi'an Gang's backers were.

If one had any understanding at all, he wouldn't be so unruly.

So, which asshole told the other guy that he could contact Kurt?

It’s best not to let him know after this is over!

"…I can help you find Kurt."

After figuring out the key and knowing that the other party had no intention of taking his life, the Chi'an Gang leader's expression returned to his original calmness, but the content of his words became a lot simpler.

"That grandson is a thief. If I act too eager, he will definitely hang up the phone and hide."

"..."

Seeing that Phoenix did not respond, Dolan had no choice but to give up his bossy demeanor and continued:

"Four hours, at the latest at two in the morning. I am sure I can trick him into coming here."

Chapter 50: What details should be paid attention to when killing people

In Kurt's eyes, there are only two kinds of people in this world.

One type is called rich people.

One type is called the poor.

He didn't want to be poor because he had been poor for more than 20 years, and his parents had been poor for 40 to 50 years. In the end, they were so poor that even the hospital wouldn't admit them, and they rotted to death in an abandoned house in the suburbs of the Ark.

So Kurt's ideal is simple - he wants to be rich.

A rich man who no longer worries about money; a rich man who will no longer be looked down upon by others; a rich man who even after his death has a lawyer to collect his body.

For this reason, so-called morality, ethics, and right and wrong can all be abandoned.

In his eyes, these things are worthless. Those hospitals and charitable foundations have proved this to him with their cold faces and words.

But until tonight, when he thought Dolan had landed him a big order...

boom!

In the antique office on the second floor of the nightclub, Kurt covered his stomach and spit out the food residue and acid in his mouth onto the ground. Then he looked up at the masked man in front of him and laughed:

"Who dares to do this...who will leave their real name, who will be afraid of death?"

He is more afraid of being without money than dying.

Not only that, he also found it somewhat funny that there were actually men in this world who were willing to stand up for Nikki.

If it was for non-mass-produced Nikkis, it would be fine. Those customized simulated bodies are indeed more pleasing to the eye than most human women. But taking risks for a group of mass-produced Nikkis...

"You are the commander? No, that's not right... Those brainwashed or crying cowards wouldn't risk losing their identities for a few weapons... So, you are Nikki's family member, right?"

Kurt grinned.

"Is it your elder sister's brain or your younger sister's brain? Could it be that..."

Before he could finish his words, Phoenix's right hand wearing a black rubber glove had already reached into the black market dealer's mouth, and with a scream of pain, he broke out his two upper front teeth.

Blood immediately dripped all over the ground.

"Don't try to provoke me. I won't kill you."

Under the mask, a pair of eyes wearing colored contact lenses slowly smiled into a crescent shape, which made Kurt's heart, which thought it was not afraid of death... a little cold.

The man said slowly, "I'm giving you two choices now."

“First, tell me everything you know, and I promise you won’t die.

Second, if you show me that you won’t say anything next, I can also guarantee that you won’t die.

I will count down from five. If you don’t answer, the default answer is two.

Don't waste my time, you are not the only black marketeer in the entire Ark."

"five……"

After listening to Phoenix's words, Kurt couldn't help but think about the two options before him.

"Four……"

This guy’s first choice should be literal. As long as I cooperate, he will let me go.

"three……"

So what was the second meaning, to torture himself day and night, to make his life worse than death? How could he have the guts to do that...

"two……"

Wait, Dolan...why would Dolan compromise with him and sell out himself?

"one……"

"The left lining of the jacket contains my special mobile phone. Tear open the right collar of the jacket along the seam on the edge, and there is a chip inside. The interface protocol is special and can only be used on my phone. To find the slot, you need to remove the phone case and pull off the circuit board."

"…a pleasure to work with."

Patting Kurt's shoulder with a slight sense of disappointment, Phoenix used his right hand to reach into the opponent's lining at an awkward angle.

Then, he disassembled the phone step by step according to the black market merchant's instructions and inserted the inconspicuous strange chip into the phone slot.

"It contains all the preview videos, which are just normal filming videos, without any visual enhancement."

Kurt, with cold sweat on his forehead, swallowed and felt a surge of fear in his heart.

He really felt it.

He felt the disappointment in the other person's eyes when he did not choose the second option.

madman……

This guy is a sadistic and violent lunatic! The interrogation is just an excuse and psychological comfort for him to commit violence!

That must be the case!

Otherwise, why would he show such a disappointed emotion when the person he was interrogating chose to confess? ! !

……

……

"001. K_S_4", "002. K_S_2", "003. K_L_4"...

Phoenix browsed through the titles of the video catalog, his brows gradually furrowed as his thumb slid.

He could sense that these titles should mean some kind of classification, but due to time constraints, he couldn't finish watching all of the more than 100 videos tonight.

"What do these codes mean?"

Facing the madman's questioning, Kurt was afraid that he would find a reason to abuse him, so he quickly explained with blood all over his mouth:

“The first letter, K is Nikki’s death video, and N is Nikki’s mutilation video.

The letters in the second box are: S for death by shooting, L for death by trampling or crushing, X for mental breakdown, and W for death by video recording.

The number in the third box represents the number of Nikkis in this video that fit the categories in the first two boxes. "

On the side, after hearing Kurt's answer, even though she hadn't seen the content of the video, Wolum's hands had already clenched into fists inadvertently, and the rubber gloves made a "squeaking" sound under her fierce strength.

Normally, she would have resisted NIMPH's control and punched him.

However, tonight, for some unknown reason, she suppressed her inner impulse for the first time without getting permission from her agent.

"What about videos 57, 58, and 59?"

After listening to Kurt's explanation of the video format, Phoenix's thumb scrolled back through the catalog from top to bottom, bringing the three strange videos that had just flashed by back to the screen - "057.U", "058.U", and "059.U".

"What does U mean?"

As the man asked, he clicked on the video, pressed the progress bar with his fingertips, and quickly dragged the screen to find out what was going on.

However, it was this casual operation that caused his pupils to shrink suddenly.

In the video, a woman with burgundy hair appears briefly in the fast-forwarded scene.

Kristen?!

As the opponent's previous commander, Phoenix has a deep memory of Nikki, who did not appear in the game plot and was nicknamed "deserter".

She was also recorded on video?

The man's thumb instantly pulled the progress back to the starting point. Then, he just stood there, forcibly suppressing the violent thoughts in his mind, and watched the unedited source video at five times the speed.

deserter……

It turns out that the so-called deserters were those who did not die under Letcher's guns, failed to record their death videos, and refused to carry out meaningless death missions after the war...

"You got this video from..."

When the words came to his lips, Phoenix paused and chose not to continue. Instead of asking Kurt, he would rather ask Christine herself.

So the man quietly took out his cell phone and called Yuni.

"Please put Viper on the phone."

"..."

"Ah~ Commander, Yuni just hit someone again, she should..."

"Have you ever killed anyone?"

"It can't be an order from the commander... Huh? Killing???"

"I'm going to kill someone. Do you know what details to pay attention to when killing someone?"

"...Commander, are you trying to trick me?"

"Tsk, what use are you to?"

Phoenix hung up the phone irritably, squatted down, stared at Kurt's nervous pupils, and asked again:

"What about you? Do you know what details you should pay attention to when killing someone in the Ark?"

Kurt: "...I, I'm just a black market merchant selling videos."