They traveled through time at the same time, but the villainous scientist

Chapter 260 Li Gadelon
Victory Team Command Room

"What's going on with this monster? You said its shell contains Gypsy 3 components, could it have been eaten by the monster?"

Shinjo asked Horii, his tone filled with anxiety and confusion.

Gipta 3 was a deep-space exploration spacecraft carrying humanity's dream of exploring Jupiter, but a few months ago, it disappeared into the vast depths of space along with its three elite astronauts, without a trace.

But now, traces of a spaceship have been found among the debris left behind by the monster…

"That's not clear."

"Its atomic structure is very unique, containing both familiar titanium alloys and composite ceramics, as well as a type of organic polymer that we have never seen before."

This fusion method... doesn't seem to be naturally formed, much less something that our current technology can achieve. As for deeper component analysis, more specialized instruments are needed..."

Horii rubbed his forehead, a hint of helplessness in his voice.

Although the GUTS laboratory is advanced, it was ultimately set up to deal with emergency combat situations.

Compared with those top professional research institutions, it still lacks depth in some areas.

The complexity of this armor has exceeded the analytical limits of their current equipment.

Just then, the heavy metal doors of the command center slid open to both sides with a slight hiss of air pressure release.

"Dr. Masaki!"

"You came!"

Upon seeing the newcomers, Daigo, Rena, Vice Captain Munakata, and almost everyone else instinctively surrounded them.

Without exchanging any pleasantries, Masaki Keigo simply nodded slightly to everyone and walked straight to the main control panel.

He skillfully connected his personal terminal to the system, and a clear and well-organized three-dimensional structural model appeared on the main screen.

That was a magnified view of the monster armor's microstructure, with countless peculiar molecular chains interlocking like precise locks, forming a stable and almost perfect three-dimensional network.

"Simply put, the monster's outer armor is some kind of phase change material."

Masaki Keigo explained to everyone.

"Phase transition?"

Daigo asked with some curiosity.

"Simply put, it's like ice melting into water at room temperature."

In this process, it can absorb a large amount of heat energy.

The material used in this armor is based on a similar principle, but its efficiency is billions of times higher.

It can absorb and store almost all kinetic and thermal energy in the instant it is subjected to physical impact or energy attack, through a violent phase change in its internal material structure.

Then energy is consumed to restore its structure...

This absorption efficiency is approaching the theoretical limit in physics.

Masaki Keigo paused for a moment, then explained.

"So, as long as the monster's energy isn't depleted, it can continuously undergo this phase transition to absorb damage, and we'll never be able to break through its defenses?"

Deputy Captain Zongfang immediately grasped the crux of the problem and asked with a serious expression.

No wonder their attacks had no effect whatsoever...

"You can say that."

Masaki Keigo nodded, giving an affirmative answer.

This is the fundamental reason why, in the original story, even Tiga couldn't effectively harm Riggardron before the three astronauts inside the monster fought desperately to seize control of it and cut off its energy supply.

"In this case……"

"As long as we can design a weapon whose attack frequency can exceed the speed of its phase transition, or directly destroy the phase transition structure of this material, we can break through its defenses!"

Just then, Horii clapped his hands and said.

"Yes, I think so too."

Masaki Keigo nodded in agreement.

"Horii, can you develop it by the time the monster appears next time?"

Zongfang immediately pressed for details, explaining that due to public opinion, the Victory Team had to produce corresponding results in their battles.

"With Dr. Masaki's assistance, there shouldn't be any problems!"

Horii looked at Masaki Keigo. "Hmm."

Masaki Keigo simply nodded slightly.

This attitude reassured everyone present.

"it is good!"

Captain Megumi, who had been listening quietly, finally spoke and gave the order.
"Team Member Horii, Dr. Masaki, I'm entrusting the development of the monster weapon to you!"

A few days later, just as Horii and Masaki Keigo were fully engaged in the development of the new weapon, TPC's intelligence center received a series of bizarre reports.

"Captain, the situation is... unusual."

“We have received reports from citizens in different regions.”

The son of Dr. Jiang Qi, the Gypsy 3 astronaut, claims to have seen a phantom of Dr. Jiang Qi on a swing in his yard last night.

Similar reports have also been received from the families of the other two astronauts…

The Ye Rui team member turned his chair around and addressed the crowd with a solemn expression.

The matter itself is quite strange; those heroes who should have perished in the depths of the universe appeared briefly, like ghosts, beside their most beloved relatives.

Is it mass hysteria? Or a hallucination caused by excessive longing?
The atmosphere in the command room became heavy and confusing.

"Ye Rui, immediately investigate all of Dr. Jiang Qi's and his two other team members' personal online accounts, especially those private email addresses or cloud storage that are not publicly accessible!"

Captain Megumi keenly sensed something and decisively gave the order.

"understand!"

Norizuki immediately took action. With the support of the quantum computer developed by Masaki Keigo, TPC's network information processing capabilities were now vastly different from what they used to be.

Finally, Ye Rui found the undelivered email in the spam folder of Dr. Jiang Qi's almost forgotten private email account.

The message was sent right after the monster first appeared.

"found it!"

When Ye Rui projected the video file from the email attachment onto the main screen, everyone in the command room held their breath.

The screen flickered with static, and the signal was extremely unstable.

Before the camera was Dr. Jiang Qi's familiar, refined, and approachable face, but now it was etched with weariness and an unspeakable sorrow. His figure seemed somewhat ethereal, as if he might vanish into thin air at any moment.

"If you can see this image, it means we... have succeeded."

"Gypsy 3 encountered a... a life form of light that cannot be described in words during its return journey. We were drawn to it, and we were... swallowed up by it."

"Our spaceship, our bodies, have all become one with it. It used our knowledge and the materials of the spaceship to build itself a sturdy shell, becoming the monster you see now... We named it, Ligadron."

"Our consciousness has not completely disappeared."

"We're still here, inside this monster's body. But we can't control it."

Driven by the instinct for survival, it desperately craves high-purity energy.

All we can do is, while it lies dormant, exert all our strength to borrow its energy and project our images onto our loved ones, leaving you this message.

"please……"

"You must stop it! Before it causes an even greater disaster!"

At the end of the video, Dr. Jiang Qi's figure faded further and further. Facing the camera, he used his last bit of strength to give a standard TPC military salute.

The video abruptly ended.

The entire command center fell into a long, heartbreaking silence.

"Damn it! Isn't there any other way?"

Xincheng pounded the table in frustration. As a pilot, he had experienced something like this more than once.

Daigo lowered his head, his fists clenched tightly; this was the first time he had encountered such a situation.

In this extremely somber atmosphere, the piercing alarm suddenly shattered the tranquility of the command room!
"Warning! Warning! High energy response detected! Consistent with the biosignal of the target monster, Ligadron!"

Ye Rui's voice trembled slightly due to nervousness.

"The target location... is the high-purity energy storage base in the K-3 area on the outskirts of the city!"

(End of this chapter)