NIKKE, when the stars bloom

"commander!"

Successfully avoided the attack of the third tentacle.

Marian, who was pressed under Phoenix, saw that her commander looked confused. She had no time to think and could only hug the man's body and continue to roll out.

"Bestie, suppress fire!"

Inside the transport plane, Yinhua, who had finished observing the battle situation, did not care whether the small-scale bombing would cause secondary damage to Phoenix.

While giving orders to Besti, she raised the sniper rifle in her hand, aimed the muzzle at the end of the tentacle that was attacking Marian, and then pulled the trigger without hesitation.

Bang—bang—bang—!

Under the sniper's fire, the armor-piercing bullets hit the bull's eye, forcing the tentacle's movement angle to shift slightly, and finally, it fell on the concrete ground several meters away from Phoenix.

"Carry him on your back and run!"

There was no need for Yinhua to remind her too much. Marian, who had escaped the disaster, had already carried the weak commander on her back and was dealing with the transport plane and the tentacles on the ground.

"Commander, please hold me tight!"

At Nikki's request, Phoenix, who had a headache due to the bumpy ride, closed his eyes tightly, his blank brain unable to hear any reminders.

This degree of concussion is medically considered a very mild head injury.

But for someone at the moment, even if the head injury is so minor that there is no fainting, it is still quite fatal on the battlefield.

Boom!

The sound of rocks breaking was heard, and a fourth tentacle broke out of the ground and headed straight for the girl's calf.

Yinhua's bullet followed closely behind, and one shot caused the tentacle to pause slightly in the air, giving Marian enough time to react.

Pah pah pah pah——

Soon, high-speed shooting from the submachine gun followed.

Although the caliber and power of this series of bullets are not as good as those of sniper rifles and Vulcan cannons, as long as they can penetrate the armor, a sufficient number of bullets can still cause sparks to fly from the tentacles, and various joint parts will be scattered all over the ground as if they were dismembered.

Destroyed a mechanical tentacle and emptied a magazine.

Unable to reload ammunition for the time being, Nikki had no choice but to rush towards the transport plane as fast as she could, praying that she could get the commander into the cabin safely.

"Get ready for liftoff!"

Seeing Marian's desperate decision, Yinhua also reached out decisively and tried his best to reduce the distance the other party needed to run.

Snapped!

Five seconds later, the two Nikkis successfully held hands.

But before Marian's expression could relax, a broken tentacle suddenly shook and exploded not far from her side. The silver-white axis inside was like a poisonous snake hiding under a rock. It found the right opportunity and pounced on the girl's neck.

It's just in the blink of an eye!

Behind Marian, Phoenix, who had regained consciousness a little, immediately stretched out his right hand and grabbed the center of the silver-white tentacle.

However, perhaps because his mind was not clear enough, the man's prediction was obviously not accurate enough. Not only did he fail to catch the other party, but his arm, which had arrived in time, was pierced through by the sharp axis of the tentacle.

Shila-

The harsh, piercing sound of metal friction suddenly rang in Marian's ears, causing the girl's pupils to shrink sharply.

The next second, she felt her body uncontrollably lose balance to the right, and her back felt lighter. If Yinhua had not held her hand tightly, she would have fallen to the ground.

Even so, the scene she caught out of the corner of her eye didn’t let Marianne’s uneasiness escape her.

In the distance, she saw her commander's mechanical right arm was caught by the silver-white tentacle and was pulled twenty or thirty meters away like dragging cargo, and was finally swallowed up by an underground cave half a person's width.

"commander?"

The girl, unable to accept the reality, stared blankly at the hole in the distance. The sudden failure and misfortune washed away her thoughts.

The tentacle axis was clearly coming towards her, why did the commander block it...

The tentacle axis was clearly coming towards her...

It was obviously directed at her...

Why block...

"Hey! Calm down!"

Noticing a strong sense of emptiness in Marian's expression, the experienced Yinhua immediately understood that this was a sign of Nikki's "change of thinking" after suffering severe mental stimulation.

For these humanoid weapons, once there is a change in thinking, it means that NIMPH's control has become unstable, and the central government will force Nikki to be re-brainwashed.

In other words, it restores the factory settings.

Snapped!

In desperation, the captain of the special forces could only slap Marian on the cheek and roared:

"Calm down! That guy isn't dead yet. We still have time to chase him!"

"It's still... not too late."

"Yes, yes...it's not too late...the commander won't die...he won't die..."

Thanks to Yinhua's reminder, Marian's pupils quickly returned to their former clarity.

She shook her right wrist, dropping the empty submachine gun magazine to the ground, and then immediately and steadily inserted the full magazine in her left hand into the gun.

"The Commander will not die... The Commander will not die..."

The girl kept repeating the same sentence as if she was hypnotizing herself.

Then, she ignored Yinhua's dissuasion, took two steps at a time, and rushed into the cave alone in just one breath.

what is this?

Looking at Marian's disappearing figure, Yinhua suddenly felt extremely uneasy.

not right...

This is not the state you should be in after regaining your normal sanity.

Marian... is she still changing her mind?!

……

……

slam-la-

Blah blah blah!

A large amount of broken stones rolled along the traces of Phoenix being dragged, making a roaring sound like a rainstorm in the gradually widening tunnel.

The ancients have proved it with their actions.

No matter whether a person is dragged by a horse or a boat, as long as he is still a human, he will inevitably be dragged to death if he is dragged on the rough ground for such a long time.

Therefore, Phoenix felt that there was no need to risk his life to contribute to this theory.

We must find a way to break free from the axis of that tentacle.

So, the man who felt as if the whole world was spinning, suppressed his dizziness, nausea and pain, stretched out his left hand, quickly groped around his waist, and soon pulled out a large-caliber revolver from the holster.

Then, the muzzle of the pistol that was supposed to be used to shoot Letcher was ruthlessly pointed at his own right elbow by someone.

boom! ! !

One shot.

boom! ! !

Two shots.

boom! ! !

Clank, clank, clank——

When the trigger was pulled for the third time, the fragile elbow joint of the prosthesis could not withstand the impact of the bullet and broke into two pieces on the spot.

Then, because of the loss of external drag, Phoenix immediately rolled sideways with the remaining inertia.

“Cough! Cough cough cough cough cough—”

Having successfully avoided being dragged to death, the man, with blood all over his back, lay powerlessly on the ground, gasping for breath.

unexpectedly,

Before he could take a good rest,

Anik's terrified screams echoed back and forth in his sea of ​​consciousness.

【Erosion virus! 】

[That Letcher's erosion virus is invading my chip! ]

"..."

Listening to the artificial mental retard's scream with tears in his eyes, the man had no choice but to slowly open his eyes, turn over to face the ground, put his left palm on the ground, and asked softly in a bad mood:

"……Then what?"

[I have to... I have to break the core of that Letcher and make its computing power lower than mine.]

In the sea of ​​consciousness, Anik's figure flickered and trembled crazily, and from time to time, some scarlet dots would flash out of her body for a moment.

"call……"

[Phoenix? ]

Seeing that the host did not respond, the artificial intelligence became more and more panicked and helpless, and more and more like a human girl with a complete personality.

[Help, help me... I don't want to be eaten...]

"call--"

The man lying on the ground was gasping for breath, gritting his teeth tightly, saliva mixed with blood overflowing from between his teeth, and finally splashing onto the soil along with the air flow.

"call----!"

The heavy breathing continued, and the hideous veins bulged out from under the skin.

The man first struggled to prop up his left hand, and then used his right limb (which still had his upper arm left) to support the ground. Then he used his hands and feet to stand up from the ground shakily.

"spit--!"

He spat out the blood in his mouth and felt Marian running towards him.

Lieutenant Phoenix silently took out three revolver bullets from his waist and was about to reload the cylinder when he realized that half of his right arm was gone.

I recall the strange law that every time I come to the ground to perform a mission, my body always loses parts.

The man was so upset about this that he couldn't help but curse.

"F*ck, tut! Not once did they follow the script."

Chapter 95 I suddenly remembered something very important

Click, click, click...

The hurried footsteps sounded eerie and strange because of the echo in the tunnel. No matter how dazzling the light of the tactical flashlight was, it could not completely penetrate the darkness underground.

In the middle of the dirt road, the drag marks that were occasionally stained with blood kept stirring up Marian's most fearful thoughts.

She was very scared.

She was afraid that when she found the commander, what would greet her would be a horrible corpse with only the spine left on its back and its internal organs and intestines dragged all over the ground.

The commander cannot die.

She promised Trisela, she promised Diesel, she also promised Nadja...

She had promised so many comrades, and also promised herself, that she would protect the commander with her life and escort him back to the Ark.

even if...

Even if she died...