I might be a fake Ultraman.

As mentioned before, the monsters that the Seth team has dealt with most in the past are mutated creature monsters.

Soon, new mutated monsters appeared.

The whole thing started when several newly constructed buildings in Tokyo began to collapse for unknown reasons.

Most people believe that it's either a shoddy construction project by the contractor or a design flaw.

Then the blame was placed on the designer.

Because the designer was somewhat sensitive, after being questioned, he also doubted that it was his own fault, and then became depressed. When questioned by reporters, he was in a daze and unable to prove that there was no problem with his design. In the end, he even ran away home and hid under the covers to isolate himself.

When the construction team saw this situation, they were immediately delighted. Who else would they blame if not you?
However, those who had worked inside the collapsed buildings said they had heard sounds similar to rats gnawing on wood.

However, the truth is that these buildings did collapse after being eaten by mutated creatures, but not rats, but ants!

It turns out that a new species of ants has appeared in Tokyo. After absorbing PG500 gas produced when new building materials are burned, they suddenly mutated into large ants with a body length of 20 centimeters.

The first to discover these ants were Kenichi Shiratori and his friends.

Among the new friends that Kenichi Shiratori made, one of the children was the son of the designers of these buildings.

To prove that their father's design was correct, the group of mischievous kids decided to go out and explore the building ruins in the middle of the night to find out the truth behind the building's collapse.

Then, when Baili Yuan woke up, he saw Shiratori Kenichi had put a 20-centimeter-long ant in a jar in front of him.

"Xiaoyuan, this must be the culprit that caused those buildings to collapse, but the adults don't believe us!"

Shiratori Kenichi said to Hyakuri Emi with a wronged expression.

Baili Yuan: "..."

He really wanted to ask if Shiratori Kenichi had considered the psychological harm that placing such a large ant in front of a five-year-old child so early in the morning would cause.
"Why don't you give it to Kotaro-nii?" Baili Yuan asked speechlessly.

"Because Kotaro-nii didn't come home; he's still working outside."

"Then just call!"

"Huh? How could I forget? Xiaoyuan, you're so smart!"

Shiratori Kenichi was no longer aggrieved.

Baili Yuan was truly helpless.

Sure enough, when Kenichi Shiratori placed the giant ant in front of Kotaro Higashi, Kotaro Higashi took it seriously, and the Seto team realized the root of the problem.

In fact, the building collapse also attracted the attention of the Seth team, and the Seth team also sent people to investigate.

At that time, Kotaro Higashi discovered what appeared to be wormholes in some ruins.

But the wormhole was only about the size of a child's fist.

It's less a wormhole and more like a shoddy construction project with substandard materials.

The Setter team was conducting their investigation during the day, and they did not find the swarm of large ants.

These large ants live deep underground and only come out at night.

The Setter team named these large ants the Giant Feather Ants.

Because these ants all have wings, they appear to be capable of flight.

In fact, Baili Yuan also discovered that although the Set team was full of martial virtue, they were often unqualified in terms of incident investigation.

The Seth team always seems to miss crucial clues.

If Dan Moroboshi were here, he'd probably be asking all the team members a lot of questions.

But there's really nothing we can do about it.

The main mission of the Seth Corps is to fight monsters. Its full name is the Space Science Guard. Investigation is not the main business of the Seth Corps.

The Seth fleet possesses several warehouses of munitions and various powerful armaments, and can summon a fleet with a single phone call.

However, the Set team lacked suitable instruments for investigation and detection. When truly needed, they had to develop their own. When conducting on-site investigations, the Set team relied more on their eyesight, perhaps with a magnifying glass at most, much like detectives.

The problem is that although the Seth team is full of talented people and has no shortage of R&D personnel, it is fine to ask them to develop some chemical reagents or powerful weapons, but it is really difficult for them to learn detective work.

With no trace of the monster found, the Set team had no authority to conduct further investigations and could only hand the matter over to the police.

Even the vice-captain, who was supposed to be on-site to direct operations, developed a path dependency—if something went wrong and the monster couldn't be found, then it must be a problem with people's morale! I need to call the police!
Kotaro Higashi: Vice-captain, I think there's a problem!
Vice-captain: Is it a monster?
Kotaro Higashi: We haven't found any monsters yet.

Deputy Captain: Call the police.

Higashi Kotaro:......

……

The giant ant was sent to the Set team.

Through research and analysis, the Set team discovered that the giant feathered ant is a mutated organism.

This falls right into the business scope of the Setter team.

Then the Seth team can perform.

So, the Seth team began an ant extermination campaign throughout Tokyo.

According to monitoring, the number of giant feather ants is in the hundreds of millions!

It can devour a building overnight.

The Set team tried poisoning, burning, and flooding, but failed to kill the giant feathered ants.

The giant feathered ant has a very strong vitality.

"What do you mean that the genes of the Giant Feather Ant contain parts similar to those of the Giant Ant Super Beast, Aliponta?"

Baili Yuan is also studying the giant feather ant.

He put the giant ant into the scanning device, and the device quickly provided the results.

This also indicates the origin of these large feathered ants—another legacy of the Apo people.

The giant ant super beast Aliponta is a super beast created by combining an ant and a cosmic monster. It once built a fortress underground in Tokyo.

"That matches up!"

Baili Yuan discovered that there was really nothing wrong with it.

Moreover, Aliponta possesses the ability to spew formic acid and shoot flames.

Giant feather ants also possess the ability to spray formic acid and shoot flames.

It is highly likely that when Ariponta was operating underground in Tokyo, he affected some ordinary ants, causing them to mutate.

There is also a special reason why giant feathered ants come out to destroy buildings at this time.

The Seth team discovered that the damaged buildings were constructed using a special new type of building material.

Although those new building materials are chemically synthesized, tracing back to their origins, those chemically synthesized materials were developed by imitating the chemical components found in the bodies of certain monsters.

This chemically synthesized material does reduce construction costs and make buildings more robust, but at the same time, it reduces the quality of the buildings.

But this also attracted the swarm of large feathered ants.

These large winged ants will spontaneously combust building materials and then absorb the chemical gases produced by the combustion to grow.

The appearance of monsters has affected the lives of Earthlings, but it has also brought them new technologies and materials.

Similarly, the monsters' activities are also affecting the Earth's ecosystem in places unseen by humans.

It is both an opportunity and a crisis. (End of Chapter)