Ultraman Any Key: Qiming

Chapter 423, Section 419: Qi Ming's Specialist in Dealing with the Sophistry of the "Alien Lord" (Two Chapters Combined)

Zamsha opened the file folder and took out the paper documents inside to read them.

Then he fell silent.

"I can't understand the writing system of your Earth." Zamsha was very honest.

Qi Ming: “…”

Your conversation with Vice-Captain Saijo Nagi was so fluent just now, and now you suddenly can't read anymore...

Hikari: "Then I'll help you."

Zamsha nodded; he was actually more interested in the Hunter Knight's Sword.

The two rushed together to the scene of the incident.

On the way, Zamsha asked, "Does that Qi Ming also know swordsmanship?"

Hikari nodded: "Your skill is superb, no less than mine."

When he was being utterly defeated in his final transformation and battle against Bogaru, Qi Ming, transformed into Mebius, descended from the sky and saved him from danger, while also displaying swordsmanship that impressed him.

Zamsha: "Really? That's something to look forward to."

The Guregorians also hadn't had time to learn Earth's writing system and needed guides, so Dan Moroboshi helped lead the way.

Qi Ming: "I'll join you too."

On the way to Kitagawa Ward in Tokyo, the Guregor looked out the car window at the city: "Is this the civilization of this planet? It looks pretty good."

Dan Moroboshi: "Humanity is constantly striving to improve so that we can live better lives."

"But they came into contact with many enemies that they could not defeat with current technology too early. Until they can protect the earth on their own, we Ultraman will stand with them."

Qi Ming inquired about the Guregor people's experiences of challenging powerful beings in various places, hoping to gain an understanding of the universe's environment.

The Guregor man said he enjoyed the feeling of fighting against strong opponents, so he fought very frequently.

Previously, I would normally challenge a strong opponent once every six months, but recently I've been able to fight one or two matches every month.

Qi Ming: "Playing one or two matches a month, um..."

The Guregor man said with a boastful tone, "That's right, it is precisely because of these continuous battles that I have been able to grow stronger."

Dan Moroboshi: "Did the frequency suddenly increase because the cosmic environment changed?"

Guregorian: "I feel like the universe has become more restless lately, with planets and civilizations fighting each other much more frequently, but I quite like it."

Qi Ming seemed to be deep in thought.

Soon, the three arrived at the interrogation location.

"You must be Qi Ming. Thank you for saving me that day!" The police officer bowed deeply in respect upon seeing Qi Ming.

Qi Ming: "Oh, it's you."

He vaguely remembered this person; he was one of the people who had been trapped at the Defense Force headquarters a few days ago and almost died from pure oxygen, and whom he had saved.

After the defense force became the police department... they've been reassigned to new positions; their efficiency is quite impressive.

“We’ve come over to check on the situation. You can continue,” Qi Ming said.

"Yes, sir!" The officer returned to his post and interrogated the prisoner.

The two prisoners were factory workers who, according to those around them, had always been honest and law-abiding. However, yesterday they suddenly went berserk and attacked those around them. They fainted while fighting and were taken in for interrogation after waking up.

"I...did I really hit my colleague? But I really don't remember anything." The two workers were very flustered when facing the police officer.

Officer: "Could you tell me about what happened before you lost your memory?"

Worker: "Well, that was during our usual lunch break. We went to the convenience store to buy boxed lunches, and then a friend called me. I answered the phone, and then... I don't remember."

Upon seeing this, Qi Ming muttered to himself, "Kitagawa Ward, Tokyo, who suddenly went berserk after receiving a phone call and then lost his memory... Is he the Metaron alien from 'The Street That Is No Longer Being Sniped'?"

He already knew what had happened, but he still intended to let the Guregorians investigate the truth in their own way, so that he could deepen his understanding of Earth.

After listening to the two workers' descriptions, the police officer's subordinate speculated: "You may be overwhelmed by workplace relationships and under too much pressure. Aren't many people experiencing this lately?"

A Guregor standing nearby said, "Something feels off."

Dan Moroboshi: "He lost control after answering the phone... Was it that Mezad from the previous Destruction Summoning Entity?"

Qi Ming helped eliminate this incorrect answer: "No."

The three then went to other crime scenes with similar cases and found that the other perpetrators, like the two workers, had no motive, had no grudge against the people they attacked, and had lost their memories after beating them.

Dan Moroboshi's expression changed. He thought of something: "A similar thing happened three years ago... How is that possible? I clearly killed that guy."

Guregor: "Three years ago? Something like that?"

Dan Moroboshi nodded: "Three years ago, a Metron alien soaked cosmic poppy seeds into cigarettes."

"People who smoke this kind of cigarette will become like this person, losing their rationality and emotions, seeing everyone as an enemy, and turning into people with only violent killing intent."

"A passenger plane carrying hundreds of people crashed as a result, and many people died."

"The Metaron aliens attempted to use this to undermine the trust and order of human society and annihilate humanity, but they have already been annihilated by me."

Qi Ming nodded. This was from "The Street That Was Sniped" in "Ultraman Seven".

The Guregor asked, "Are you sure he died with your own eyes?"

Dan Moroboshi hesitated: "He suffered such a fatal wound, there's no way he could have survived..."

Guregorian: "Perhaps something unexpected happened, like he was rescued."

Dan Moroboshi: "Further investigation is needed."

Soon, the group arrived at the hospital, where the doctor pointed to the analysis results on the screen:

"This is a normal person's brain CT scan, and this is the brain CT scan of those perpetrators. They should be considered the victims."

"The perpetrator's frontal lobe is slightly atrophied; the part that governs human rationality is degenerated there, and their thinking ability will be greatly reduced."

"Speech ability will also decline, memory will be lost, and motivation will be lost."

Dan Moroboshi's expression changed, because this was even more serious than someone who had smoked cigarettes.

These people's lives are ruined.

The Guregor whispered, "Humans are so fragile..."

After he finished speaking, he glanced at Qi Ming without realizing it.

Because Qi Ming had told him on the way that he was different from Seven, who had transformed into an Ultraman but was still essentially human; he was human.

Qi Ming: "I am the most vulnerable."

"Beep beep beep." Suddenly, the doctor's phone rang.

"Excuse me, I need to take this call." The doctor got up to leave.

The Guregorian man abruptly reached out and grabbed his hand as he was about to answer the phone: "Wait!"

The doctor was stunned: "What?"

The Guregorian narrowed his eyes: "That worker just said that he lost his memory after receiving the phone call, and then went on a rampage attacking the people around him."

Dan Moroboshi asked the doctor if the call was from someone he knew. The doctor replied, "Yes, it was my daughter."

“I’ll give it a try,” the Guregor man answered the phone.

The next moment, his whole body was enveloped in red light. He covered his head and squatted down, drenched in sweat: "It's radio waves... a special kind of high-power radio wave is attacking my brain!"

As an alien, his brain structure is more robust than that of humans, which is why he was able to barely withstand this attack.

Finally, with sheer willpower, the Guregor hung up the phone, gritting his teeth and glaring menacingly: "Fine, once I find you, you'll know what's coming to you!"

Dan Moroboshi: Are you alright?

The Guregor caught his breath and said, "This attack is irrelevant to me. I already know what's going on."

He said the problem wasn't with the cell phone, but with the radio waves.

The mastermind behind this incident released a high-power radio wave at a telecommunications base station in Kitagawa Ward, Tokyo. Receiving a phone call could expose you to this frequency of radio waves, which could cause brain damage.

The Guregorian was also a master of radio waves. In the original "Dyna" series, the special radio waves he brought with him controlled all of Japan's broadcasting and communication lines, broadcasting his battle with Dyna live.

Having experienced it firsthand, he quickly located the source of the radio wave and began investigating the origin of this high-output power signal.

"Okay, this is it!" Qi Ming got into the driver's seat, and Moroboshi Dan and the Guregor arrived at a small house in a desolate area.

"This is where the high-powered radio waves originated, and the mastermind behind it all is inside..." Dan Moroboshi took out his Victory Hyper Gun as a warning.

Qi Ming said, "Captain, that guy already knows we're here. But he doesn't seem to understand the situation yet."

He pushed the door open, and a bunch of "monsters" appeared in front of the three of them.

Guregor: "This is..."

Dan Moroboshi: "It's a monster suit. Where am I?"

At that moment, a person dressed in black, wearing a black hat and black sunglasses, stepped out of the shadows:
"It's just a warehouse. This place has been sheltering me for a long time; they've let me hide here."

"Seven, it's been a long time. I didn't expect to see you again before I leave. Don't stand, sit down."

Dan Moroboshi's expression changed drastically: "It really is you, Alien Metron! You're still alive!"

The guy who killed so many people is still around! We must eradicate him completely!
The human form that the Metaron alien had transformed into seemed unconcerned: "Your ice axe almost killed me back then, but luckily I was taken in by a family."

"They glued my wound shut and let me recover there. The kids there even said I wasn't a bad person and were willing to keep my secret."

Qi Ming suddenly said, "If he grows up and finds out that so many people died because of you, will he still think you're not a bad person?"

The Metaron alien looked somewhat uneasy: "In short, I will no longer be monitoring this Earth and this city. Come on, don't be so tense, let me offer you some tea."

He placed a can of tea in front of the group, but no one took it.

The Metaron alien had no choice but to reiterate his position: "I've already abandoned Earth and am about to leave here in a spaceship. Could this farewell party be a little more lively?"

After saying that, he drank his tea, exclaimed that it was delicious, and after a moment of feeling refreshed, he revealed his true form.

They really are Alien Metron!

Dan Moroboshi: "Give up Earth? Earth was never yours to begin with; you're just an invader!"

The Guregorian spoke in an unfriendly tone: "That high-output power radio wave that causes permanent brain damage, was it emitted by you?"

The Metaron alien readily admitted, "That's right. After all, I've been lurking on Earth for so long, and I've developed some feelings for it. So, before I leave, I want to give humanity, which is about to be wiped out, a heads-up."

Dan Moroboshi: "What did you say?!"

Metaron alien: "We are certain that even without launching an attack, Earth will eventually fall into our hands."

"Humans have gradually degenerated because they have acquired convenient tools. The whole city is full of monkeys, and they will automatically head towards extinction."

"Those cell phones are causing your human brains to shrink, making it unnecessary to fight. I'm just slightly accelerating the rate of human degeneration."

The meaning is simple—human beings' excessive use of convenient mobile phones will lead to their own degeneration and destruction.

Dan Moroboshi flew into a rage and swept the tea canister off the table onto the floor.

"What a joke! What do you take humanity for? What do you take life for?!"

"You just said you survived because of human help, right? You were about to leave, yet you still ruined the futures of so many people."

"No matter the reason, you have no right to punish humanity; you are nothing but an alien invader!"

Metaron alien: "Hey, hey, hey, is it really necessary to protect these increasingly degraded and environmentally damaging rude humans, and to get so angry at them? Aren't we all aliens?"

The Guregorian standing nearby suddenly asked, "You say you're from outer space, can you fly?"

Metaron Alien: "Of course."

Guregor: "You just said a spaceship is coming to pick you up... Since you believe that relying on convenient tools will cause people to degenerate, why don't you fly back on your own?"

"In the end, don't you also rely on convenient means of transportation?"

The Metaron alien froze: "Uh, this... this..."

He suddenly realized there was a flaw in his words, so he said, "How about this, let's play rock-paper-scissors. If I lose, I'll disappear immediately and leave this place."

The Guregor sneered, "You think you can leave here?"

Suddenly, they invaded someone else's planet and caused chaos, resulting in countless deaths and injuries.

As a bully who harassed the victim and then turned around and blamed the victim, he thought he was already very arrogant, but he didn't expect there to be an even more powerful figure here.

After they finished, the invaders killed people and then made them reflect on their mistakes, and then they wanted to leave in a swagger.

The Guregor people believe that anyone who dares to do such a thing in their homeland will be torn to pieces.

Qi Ming suddenly spoke up: "I'll do it."

Moroboshi Dan panicked, thinking that Qi Ming had agreed to let the Metron aliens go: "Hey, Qi Ming, you..."

Metron Alien: "Okay, rock-paper-scissors...hehe!"

Qi Ming threw a punch, while the Metron alien transformed back into human form at the last moment and threw a cloth.

"Haha, do you think my hands can only make scissors, so you try to use your fists to restrain me? Humans lose their ability to think after discovering shortcuts..."

"Bang!" The next moment, Qi Ming's fist slammed into his face, sending him flying and crashing heavily to the ground behind him.

"You... why did you suddenly hit me..." The Metaron alien's face contorted as he screamed in pain.

Qi Ming clapped his hands:
"This self-righteous guy tries to deny the relentless advancement of human technology based on his own prejudices. It's laughable."

"Actually, you have a point, which is that technological development does have side effects."

“What you said does have some sobering points. We can reflect on it slowly after we kill you, the invader.”

After saying that, he gestured, and the Guregor man stood up: "I will get rid of him for you."

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This chapter is not simply a "retribution" of this episode, but rather my "criticism" of a series of phenomena that suggest "you Earthlings are wrong, so we must invade and punish you."

The same thing happened in the fourth episode of Max, when the Slan aliens appeared. They said that Earthlings were destroying the environment, so we had to take their place, and then they launched an invasion.

But this episode was very good, mainly because the Slan aliens died a good death.

So, looking at it separately, while you committed a grave crime, you also pointed out areas where we could improve. Let's eliminate this aggressor and then allow humanity to reflect on our actions.

(End of this chapter)