Bang, bang, bang!
Kai held a small pistol and fired several shots in a practiced manner.
You could tell it was quite exciting, completely different from the feel of a toy gun!
However, Kai wasn’t a North American server player after all; his aim was all over the place!
Anis squinted at this absurd Commander named Kai!
Was he so clueless he couldn’t even use a gun?
She had a complaint she didn’t know whether to voice, and it was killing her!
She had no choice but to vent her frustration on the Rapture, picking up her launcher and firing a fully charged shot!
“Hey, Marian, watch out for the flying Rapture above—” Anis saw Marian being targeted and quickly warned her, but it was a bit too late.
Kai, who was aiming at the Surface, heard her, fired his last bullet, and then squatted down, asking, “Where?
Marian, you weren’t hurt, were you?”
“Uh, you hit it?!
It should have been a core hit—”
That worked?
Anis was dumbfounded.
Kai stood up and looked out: “Hey!
I hit it!!”
But he immediately squatted back down.
He was still very weak, so it was better to be cautious.
Kai clicked on the system’s [Training] interface.
Bound Nikke companions:
Rapi, Level 20; Anis, Level 15.
Upgrade Materials:
Core Dust: 8 (An unknown substance extracted from a rapture core, containing Rapture combat data.
Can help Nikke break through their limits)
Combat Data: 2000 (Nikke’s combat records, automatically obtained by Nikke through combat and training)
credit points: 0 (The currency of the Ark.
Simply put, it’s money)
These were the gains after he and Marian eliminated the Rapture earlier.
Core Dust was truly difficult to obtain.
Basically, only one unit of Core Dust could be obtained for every Rapture eliminated.
“Commander, credit points can only be obtained within the Ark.
Please continue to work hard.”
Kai thought, my name isn’t going to do well in the Ark!
Doro, why don’t you just give me a few tens of millions first?
I’ll pay you back when I get rich later.
“Doro cannot engage in illegal or criminal activities.
A gentleman loves wealth, but acquires it righteously!
Please be down-to-earth, Commander.”
I’m afraid I’ll be eating purple eggs when I return to the Ark!
No choice, I’ll take it one step at a time.
The number of Rapture encountered this time was small, and Rapi, with Anis and Marian, quickly eliminated them.
Anis stretched: “Haaah!
That was a piece of cake!”
Poof!
Kai just felt Anis was ridiculously huge.
Rapi only introduced herself and Anis’s situation after the battle.
It was that they had just been assigned a Commander, and that Commander had died—Marian frowned, “You two—failed to protect your Commander.”
How could she feel at ease entrusting Kai to these two Nikke who had just lost their Commander and didn’t seem to care at all!
So, she had to protect her own Commander!
“No!” Anis retorted, “We will protect our Commander!
No matter what happens!
Even if it costs us our lives!”
She sighed and continued, “But if someone is determined to die, others cannot stop him.”
Rapi added, “That Commander had already collapsed in the face of insurmountable Rapture.
He sacrificed many Nikke but still failed to achieve his goal.
Only the two of us were left.”
“Oh, right, I just identified your identity information.
Please allow me to query more of your data.” Rapi had only initially confirmed Kai’s information, then was interrupted by the Rapture.
“Anis!”
Anis also didn’t consult Kai’s opinion, “Hmm, let me check—the Ark is full of bugs, and by the way, your name is really absurd!
Let me see the data—”
Complete silence.
Kai broke the silence: “That’s just my codename!
Rapi asked the silent Anis: “What’s wrong?
Why aren’t you speaking?”
Anis didn’t know how to answer for a moment.
After a moment of thought, “This ab-surd!
Commander, is a complete and utter rookie?!”
Rapi: “Huh?”
Anis covered her head: “The data shows he just graduated from the military academy yesterday.”
It seemed they were about to lose another Commander, Anis thought.
Would she and Rapi be called—Commander Killers in the future?
Kai scratched the back of his head, thinking, I’m actually even more absurd.
I haven’t even attended military academy.
Theoretically, I’m even weaker than the cannon fodder Commanders of the Ark!
His only military training was playing PUBG, and he was even a bit bad at it; his friends all called him a medic.
—Rapi, “Let’s go to the city first!
It’s too dangerous here!”
They could only try their best to keep Kai alive a little longer!
“I really don’t understand why they would send a rookie Commander to replace a Commander who died in battle.”
Rapi spoke bluntly as she led the way!
That was just her personality.
Then she further explained the current situation.
“46 hours ago, one Nikke unit performing a search mission in this area lost contact.
They left no information.”
“The Ark decided they needed to be searched for, so they sent us, but we didn’t expect to find any information and now only the two of us are left.”
Anis also added, “The problem is, only the previous Commander knew the coordinates of the combat zone.
So, does our Commander know the coordinates?”
Kai nodded: “I know.”
Those coordinates were where the Tyrant-class Rapture—Blacksmith—accepted the corrupted Nikke.
By the way, could these three little ones take down Blacksmith now?
It felt a bit iffy!
“Eh?!
He’s clearly a rookie, yet surprisingly reliable at a time like this.” Anis’s true nature was completely exposed.
Marian couldn’t stand it anymore, “Commander risks his life to fight for humanity.
You have no idea of his greatness!
He even resisted corruption—”
“!” Kai quickly covered Marian’s mouth.
She really was a scatterbrain, she had promised to keep it a secret!
Moreover, without evidence, they wouldn’t believe it.
Corruption had been the Nikke’s nightmare for the past 100 years!
The Ark’s attitude towards corrupted Nikke was only one—kill!
“Marian, do you remember the place you were going to go before?
The coordinates are there.” Kai subtly reminded her.
“Before?” Marian was puzzled, “Was it when I was corrupted before?
I did sense a summons then, not far from here.”
Rapi: “!!!”
Anis: What’s going on?
What did I just hear?
Kai gently rubbed his temples!
So dizzy!
Marian was truly a self-destructing truck!
I feel like Modernia losing her memory seems a bit smarter than Marian?
Rapi immediately held her gun, aiming it at Marian!
Anis also reacted and aimed at Marian as well!
“Wait!” Kai stood in front of Marian.
“Commander!
Danger!
Marian might already be corrupted!” Rapi was anxious.
Anis stepped forward, ready to pull Kai behind her.
A rookie was just a rookie, still not reacting!
The horror of corruption had long been ingrained in every Nikke’s mind; better to kill than to let one go!
Marian covered her mouth, realizing she seemed to have said something wrong.
Kai: “If she were corrupted now, could I still safely come to your side?”
Rapi felt there was some truth to that, but she still asked, “Marian, what was the cause of the transport plane crash?”
“It, it was me.
I was corrupted at the time, and that feeling was really bad.
I, I made a huge mistake—” Marian might never forgive herself.
“Alright!
Rapi!” Kai knew Marian was too honest.
One should know that even Modernia would lie.
Since it was going to explode, let it explode more thoroughly!
“Why do you think I came to the Surface?
Did the Ark deliberately send a rookie to die?!” Although that was indeed the truth!
Kai continued: “Marian was implanted with corruption within the Ark!
The horror of this matter, I can only say that those who understand, understand!
Those who don’t, I dare not explain!
You’d best not ask too many questions!
The high-level officials involved are too high up!
Speaking about it would do neither of us any good.
It’s best to temporarily pretend not to know.
As for the rest, all I can say is that the waters here are very deep!
Too many things are involved!”
Kai’s stream of nonsense successfully bluffed Rapi and Anis.
Marian was naturally scared too!
“I have already found a way to Release Nikke corruption, so this time I came to the Surface specifically to rescue corrupted Nikke.
So now you also know my biggest secret!
My life is in your hands.
If any of you leak this, I will definitely be purged!”
Kai directly spoke about the worst-case scenario.
Of course, he also knew that Rapi and Anis were trustworthy.
Marian was also fine!
Just a bit silly.
“!!!” Rapi and Anis shivered just thinking about the possibility of traitors among the Ark’s high-ranking officials.
Ultimately, Rapi chose to temporarily believe, “I must check Marian’s specific condition!”
“Marian!
Please remove all your equipment!”
Marian blushed, fidgeting, “B-but, Commander is still here—”
Anis burst out laughing: “Haha, what’s wrong?
Does Commander treat Nikke as humans?
As women?
Don’t worry, don’t worry.
We are just emotionless combat weapons!”
“—In short, how could Commander treat us as women?
Right, Commander?”
Kai looked up at the sky, silent.
Anis immediately had a deadpan expression: “Huh?!
You’re serious!
So you really treat us as—”
Marian was almost looking for a hole to hide in, “My corruption has really been removed—”
Rapi said expressionlessly: “Disarm!”
“Okay, then Commander, please turn your head that way!” Anis said with a slight smile.
Kai had no choice but to turn his head, listening to the sounds behind him.
After a while.
Rapi: “No abnormalities.
Were you really corrupted?”
“Really—” Marian thought for a moment, “The transport plane’s black box should have a record—we’ll know when we check it.”
Rapi’s expression was serious.
If it was true, then Nikke’s corruption could be removed!
“Let’s go to a safe place first.
I think we should go back to the Ark now—because this matter is really very important!”
Rapi felt that the current mission was completely unnecessary.
Protecting Marian and Commander was the most important thing.
Anis secretly walked to Marian’s side and whispered, “Oh!
It’s showing!”
“Eh!!!” Marian checked her clothes, blushing.
“Hehe!
Just kidding!”
Marian: —Kai didn’t want to return to the Ark like this.
Only by using more explosive news to temporarily cover up Marian’s situation could Marian’s safety be temporarily guaranteed, otherwise everyone’s attention would definitely be focused on her.
So, why not go kill a Blacksmith for fun?