My Chat Group Is Really Too Strange Chapter 42

"Just as expected of Mo Wang!" The classmates beside him not only believed what Mo Wang said, but even looked at him with admiration.

"Everyone, get ready to board! We're leaving!"

Mo Wang ignored the admiring looks around him. Just then, the instructor was urging the commanders nearby to board the transport planes.

"Is a transport plane like this really going to be okay?"

Mo Wang stared at the transport plane before him, which looked like a giant black box, and for a moment, he did not even know how to complain about it.

You were taking a bunch of rookie commanders to the most dangerous front line of the war between NIKKE and Raptures, yet you were sending them there in these transport planes that did not seem to have any weapons at all?

How was this any different from a coffin?

Even if they were expendable cannon fodder, you at least had to get them to the front line first, right?

Don't tell me they're reenacting the boss's storyline. Fuck.

"Wait, Mo Wang. Your plane is this one, specially assigned to you."

Just as Mo Wang was about to board, the instructor stopped him.

"Huh?" Mo Wang stared blankly at the instructor. What did that mean?

"Don't misunderstand. The higher-ups are very grateful for your decision to join the front lines without hesitation, as well as your contributions to humanity. Therefore, they have made separate arrangements for you."

The instructor explained.

"So I'm still going to the front line?" Mo Wang asked curiously.

"You're still going to the front line, but... you'll probably be taking another route." The instructor explained somewhat awkwardly.

"That's fine, then."

Mo Wang did not listen to the rest of the explanation. As long as he could reach the front line, that was enough.

It was nice to have a plane all to himself, too. Otherwise, it would be awful if a few unlucky bastards had to accompany him later.

After boarding the transport plane, Mo Wang saw that the pilot was a Mass-produced Type NIKKE.

When she saw him board, she seemed a little nervous.

"Say, you're not going to have any problems, right?"

Seeing her slightly trembling hands, Mo Wang asked instinctively.

"N-No problem! I'll definitely get you safely to the front line!"

Startled by his question, the NIKKE hurriedly replied.

"There's no need to be so nervous. Even if the plane crashes, I'll be fine."

Seeing how tense she was, Mo Wang could not help trying to reassure her.

Yet that only made her even more nervous.

"A-A crash? N-No, that won't happen! As a NIKKE specifically responsible for transport, I'm very confident that I can deliver you safely."

"Very confident?" Mo Wang looked at the extremely nervous NIKKE and truly could not see where that confidence was coming from.

And could she really get him there safely?

Mo Wang did not have that confidence.

For some reason, he felt as if the boss were watching him from up in the sky today.

Could it be because he had not burned any paper offerings for the boss or paid his respects lately?

And he also felt a heavy weight on his back.

Don't tell me every single flag has been planted?

"Lord Mo Wang! Please sit tight, we're leaving."

At the NIKKE's urging, the transport plane soon set off in its designated direction.

And just as Mo Wang had expected—

Before the plane had even been in the air for thirty minutes, a Rapture on the ground blasted it down with a single shot.

Mo Wang: Man, what can I say?

NIKKE Also Had Its Own Background Heroine

When Mo Wang crawled out of the smoke-belching cockpit, his tactical goggles were frantically displaying malfunction reports.

He took off his warped headset. The gilded words "Ark Aviation Special Supply" on its metal casing were curling and peeling away.

"This piece of junk is even more fucking ridiculous than Meituan!" He kicked open the jammed emergency hatch. "It was supposed to cruise in the air for three hours, but the actual experience was landing after half an hour. Anyone who didn't know better would think I was playing PUBG!"

An electronic prompt suddenly sounded from the wreckage. Some charred voice box was still stubbornly functioning: Warning! Warning! Under attack! Please proceed immediately to the assembly point.

"Tch, the plane's already fallen apart, but your broadcast still works, huh? Did you learn from S.H.I.E.L.D. too, making cars where only the air conditioning works?"

Mo Wang complained as he climbed down from the plane.

Looking at the ruins all around him, he wore an utterly baffled expression.

Where the fuck did this dump send me? Is this even the front line?

"This is bad. I didn't expect that I'd fail to account for something as stupid as getting lost."

Although Mo Wang had long prepared himself for the boss's curse to kick in and cause a plane crash—

He truly had not expected that he could get lost as well.

After all, NIKKE was unlike other games. Most places in this damned world did not even have maps.

The satellites in the sky had disappeared centuries ago.

All the existing maps had been drawn by NIKKE who went out exploring.

"This is ridiculous. You can play the opening like this?"

Mo Wang complained as he looked back at the helicopter behind him.

"Forget it. Let's see if there's anything useful inside."

Although he was immensely disgusted by this transport plane that had shattered after one crash, Mo Wang still went inside to see whether there was anything else he could use.

After searching the entire plane, he only found this pile of things:

One broken water bottle.

Half an uneaten chocolate bar. (And it was not even made with real chocolate.)

Half a NIKKE wreckage. (Mo Wang had taken its brain, but it was not completely dead yet.)

One steel pipe that had not bent yet.

"This is absurd. The only useful thing in here is a steel pipe? What, am I changing jobs from Bat Hero to Steel Pipe Hero?"

Mo Wang looked at the steel pipe in his hand. If he was not mistaken, this thing was not even military-grade.

"Are they afraid I won't die thoroughly enough or something?"

Mo Wang complained as he put the things he had managed to find into his backpack.

What else could he do? Now that he was lost, he could only begin wilderness survival.

If it had been anyone else, they would have gone to keep the boss company already.

"Bzzzz—Bzzzz!"

At that moment, a strange mechanical object seemed to notice Mo Wang's presence.

Flashing red lights, it flew toward him at incredible speed.

"Trying to ambush me? Take this!" Naturally, something like this could not hurt Mo Wang.

Mo Wang swung the steel pipe in his hand, and with a crack, the small Rapture was smashed to pieces.

However, the steel pipe in Mo Wang's hand also met the end of its life.

"What... that was just one hit? Was it a disposable weapon?"

Mo Wang looked at the bent steel pipe in his hand. Great. The only useful thing he had was gone now.

"What rotten luck. So this is a Rapture, huh? Honestly, after coming to this world for so long, this is my first time seeing one of these things alive."

As he spoke, Mo Wang walked over to the recently destroyed Rapture and began studying it without the slightest concern.

It was purely mechanical in construction, without any other substances mixed in.

It looked exactly like a robot.

A robot made from the kind of scrap metal one could casually find by the roadside.

And this was the most basic combat Rapture in this world.

At this point, Mo Wang really wanted to complain.

From the worldview Raptures had displayed so far, it was most likely the same old AI crisis routine.

The neighboring Azur Lane, Girls' Frontline, and even NieR had all done this before.

It was hardly a fresh setting.

However, the ridiculous part was that NIKKE's Raptures seemed to evolve rather quickly.

The way they infected NIKKE was also extremely strange.

Originally, these things could only paralyze a NIKKE.

But because of some traitorous idiot, they evolved into something that could directly infect NIKKE and turn them against humanity as Heretics.

Based on what the story had shown so far, it was more like energy infection or memetic infection.

You thought it was a virus? It was actually the whisper of an ancient god.

He would have believed it if someone said its effects were Honkai energy.

What happened to a NIKKE infected by Erosion?

First, low-level NIKKE would directly go berserk and turn into Raptures.

High-level NIKKE would develop a second personality.

Their strength would increase dramatically, and they could even use nanobots to heal themselves.

Hey, listen to those effects. If this were Honkai next door, wouldn't it be pretty much the same?

Of course, that was not the only ridiculous part. These things could even replenish their own energy, making them disasters among disasters.

Even though the Ark had unlocked a great deal of black technology, it still could not truly deal with these robots.

If these robots had not been temporarily unable to invade the Ark, this really would have turned into The Matrix.

Of course, Mo Wang felt that aside from not wanting to fight, the bigger reason humanity could not win was that the Ark was not like those people next door.

This game was all about the older something was, the stronger it became.

Pilgrims from centuries ago could now practically crush the great heroes considered the strongest among NIKKE.

Not to mention those monsters from the Goddess Unit and Fairy Tale Batch 2.

"So what exactly is this Erosion? Could it really be like the Erosion Herrscher in Honkai, capable of memetic infection?"

Mo Wang focused on examining the Rapture wreckage, completely failing to notice the Raptures around him, their scarlet lights exposed, slowly closing in on him step by step.

"Hm? What the hell was that sound?"

Only when a bomb exploded beside him did Mo Wang realize that he seemed to have been surrounded by Raptures.

"Tch, you came at a terrible time. Can't you see I'm doing research?" Mo Wang looked at the Raptures surrounding him, irritation appearing on his face.

"But this works out too. One Rapture isn't enough for my research. I can also catch one for live experimentation."

Rather than fear, Mo Wang looked at the Raptures before him with the smile of a mad doctor from a movie.

Bang!

At that moment, a bullet from somewhere unknown directly cleared out all the Raptures before Mo Wang.

"Hm?"

Mo Wang turned around curiously and saw a voluptuous, beautiful young woman with at least an E-cup chest dart out from the side, taking out the Raptures around them with a few shots.