Ultraman Legend of the Light Chaser

At the other end of the base, near the ecological park, Kinoshita Kei was excitedly reporting key information while holding Nakai Ryoya's shoulders.

"The range of spatial distortion! Do you see this data? What does this mean? Ah!" The newcomer made his first independent achievement. He looked like a research dog who had stayed up late for weeks to finally produce the same result as in the paper. He was haggard and emaciated, as if he was about to ascend to immortality. Only his spirit was still high.

Ryo Nakai rubbed his ears: "I can hear you even if you don't speak so loudly. I know you're happy with your results. In fact, the first time I did something similar, I was also like this, nagging Team Leader Fukui... Didn't you draw a huge circle around the data results yourself with a red pen?"

“This circle, that’s right, covers the whole of Japan,” Kinoshita Kei released him and tapped on the crumpled map with a marker: “It’s the same reason why we couldn’t find the crater of the supervolcano in Yellowstone National Park back then… The whole park is a crater! Now, look!”

He pulled Nakai Ryoya aside and showed him the data he had rushed out overnight, measured in terabytes: "Because the starting point of this matter is in Taito Ward, our initial focus didn't even extend beyond Tokyo City, but in fact, the spatial distortion had already covered it, and now it has even extended to the entire Japanese island!"

“In the database of anomalous events at the Geo base, there is actually a similar incident that occurred in the United States. The residents suddenly became like zombies, and the entire location was sealed off. I guess it must have accumulated a certain amount of power there before coming to Tokyo—or it did the same thing in other places, but it was not discovered by the GUARD. There are many small countries in the world where the grassroots systems are not smooth enough. It is possible that the locals would report it as a god descending to earth or a plague.”

The map of Kinoshita's landmarks was shrouded in a pale red light, with the Japanese islands silently submerged within it, as if placed in blood: "Tokyo is just the beginning. It may be a test, or it may have a nasty personality that enjoys watching its targets being slowly destroyed, or perhaps it has a bigger goal."

"Give it enough time; it's affecting humans now, but it could affect monsters, or even giants later!"

Chapter 88 Ritsuko's Plea for Help

"A report from Geo Base confirms that the unknown life form is influencing human thought through radio waves. Victims are mistaking fantasy for reality and exhibiting 'sleepwalking' symptoms. Some are showing aggression. Additionally, there is a warning from the biological research department that the unknown life form is currently using a very simple method of communication: disconnected phone numbers without caller ID. If it becomes aware of other things that use radio waves, such as broadcasting... a large-scale outbreak of victims is inevitable."

Joe

After reading the report she had received, Ji picked out the key points and, not having time to maintain her composure in front of her superior, nearly tipped over her swivel chair: "Atsuko was bewitched by an unknown life form! She kept talking about 'amusement park' and 'let's play together' that day, it was all an illusion!"

……

"Atsuko, Atsuko! Stop fantasizing! Lilia is just your doll. You didn't have any friends when you were little. Nobody invited you to the amusement park. Your doll was the only one who kept you company!"

Ritsuko Sasaki, Atsuko's older sister, sat down on the ground after uttering those cruel words. As an older sister, she shouldn't have hurt her younger sister like that, but she couldn't bear to see Atsuko so dejected—even though Atsuko seemed happy.

Atsuko was still in her room, laughing as she asked through the door, "Sister, Lilia invited me to the amusement park, but why can't I open the door?"

"Knock, knock, knock," she knocked slowly, giving the impression of being reserved and considerate.

In fact, many people who were neglected in childhood unconsciously exhibit this behavior. Because they were neglected, they are more considerate of others' feelings and do not want to upset others, which would lead to them being disliked even more and falling into a cycle of being ignored. Therefore, Atsuko never knocks on the door in a rapid, pattering manner, even if it is something urgent.

She still knocks on doors politely, even when she's locked inside.

"Boom, boom."

The younger sister stood inside the door, while the older sister slumped outside.

"Open the door for me, sister! I'm going to be late. I want to play with Lilia until nightfall. The amusement park lights will be so beautiful then."

Atsuko's room door was locked from the outside, but could still be opened from the inside. So Ritsuko hammered a nail into the door from the outside and tied the doorknob and nail together with a thick rope. This way, Atsuko could unlock the door from the inside, but because of the length of the rope, she was unable to pull the door open.

Atsuko leaned in through the only crack she could open, less than half a millimeter wide, her eyes pressed against the slit as she looked down at her sister: "Sister, I'll study hard when I get back. Let me out."

Ritsuko was startled when she noticed the dark figure behind the crack in the door: "Don't do this, Atsuko... no one invited you."

“If you really want to go to the places you played when you were little, how about I invite you? Amusement parks, Ueno Park, Senso-ji Temple, and Tokyo Skytree, you can go wherever you want,” Ritsuko felt short of breath, and a chill seeped into her bones from the floor. She pleaded, “Don’t do this. You’re not at the age to read books and do homework anymore. You’re an adult now.”

Laughter came from behind the crack in the door: "What are you saying? I'm the most popular child. I read and do my homework diligently, and many people want to play with me. Lilia is the best one."

As she spoke happily, Ritsuko felt goosebumps all over her body. She practically crawled to the sofa, her knees aching, and her trembling hands reached for Atsuko's phone.

Atsuko kept holding her phone and saying, "Sister, your phone is ringing." The phone kept beeping in her hand, but there was no caller ID, so Ritsuko simply confiscated her phone and put it outside.

She opened Atsuko's phone book and searched for familiar names. Atsuko would occasionally mention her colleagues at home, especially praising... the captain of the Lightning Team.

The call connected after a while, and an unfamiliar male voice came from the other end, with some background noise.

"I thought it was something unknown... You're all better now?"

"Hello, are you Captain Kajio? I'm Atsuko's older sister, she often mentions you."

"Hmm? It's me. What can I do for you?" Kajio Katsumi continued on the phone and walked towards the hangar. His team members looked at him strangely. It was rare for them to make a private phone call to Kajio Katsumi, especially in a situation like this where a warning was being broadcast.

“Atsuko has developed a new type of sleepwalking disorder that’s recently become widespread, and I can’t wake her up no matter what I say,” Ritsuko said, her hand trembling slightly as she held the phone. The door behind her was still banging, and there were occasional snippets of Atsuko calling her, making her voice unclear. “She often mentions you, and maybe your words will be helpful to her. Although it’s very presumptuous of me, could you please come and see her?”

"Who are you looking at?" Kajio Katsumi only heard about half a sentence in fragments. What was louder in his ears now was the broadcast from the Ariel base: "We have a mission right now, we'll talk later?"

"Beep, beep—" The other end of the phone hung up, and Ritsuko slumped against the sofa. Atsuko's voice seeped in through the crack in the door.

"Sister, sister~" Atsuko said in a spoiled tone, just like when he was a child. He didn't have many friends, but he could only let himself go a little when he was with his sister.

Ritsuko hugged her arms tightly, which made her feel safer. She put down the phone, got up, and went to find a hammer and nails, as well as a more reliable rope.

"Sister, what are you going to do?"

"I'm sorry, Atsuko, you can't come out."

……

Ariel Base.

"What call is coming in at this hour?" Kitada Yasushi asked.

The three had already entered the hangar. The ground crew, who were doing the final checks, made way for the pilots as they headed to their aircraft. Kajio Katsumi was also puzzled by the strange phone call: "A private call, it seems to be... Atsuko's sister?"

The two team members were immediately drawn to the scene.

Feeling the burning gazes of her teammates, Kajio Katsumi waved her hand dismissively, as if swatting a fly: "We'll talk about it when we get back. Right now, the most important thing is to deal with the enemy! Take care of that werewolf who's been keeping us at bay for most of the night!"

"Captain, it only ran off with Kitada and me for most of the night. You were injured and brought back," Oogawa Satoshi interjected, followed by Kajio Katsuyuki.

Mei's gaze immediately swept over him like a knife. Kitada Yasushi took a deep breath, looked up at the ceiling, and pretended to be uninvolved.

“The gas wolf has consumed natural gas, and the ammunition we used during the pursuit may have affected it,” Takayama Gamu directed the ground crew to refill the fighter jets with a reagent he had specially reverse-engineered based on the gas wolf’s body composition. “The natural gas in the fourth storage tank of the gas plant is expected to be exhausted in twenty minutes. Once the reagent is prepared, inject it immediately. There’s no need to spend time coordinating with the guidance system; aim manually…”

He looked at Kajio Katsumi, who was sitting in the cabin checking the status of the instrument panel: "Manual aiming, you've had special training since you woke up, is that alright?"

"Hmph." You don't have to emphasize the words "awake." Kajio Katsumi didn't really want to talk, so she just nodded and turned her face away to continue her examination.

“These ammunition can turn the gas wolf back into a gaseous state,” Takayama Gamu gestured to fire a gun in front of the other’s dark face. “I will also set off once all the ammunition is ready.”

Chapter 89 The Howling Wind on Uranus

cosmic space.

As He described, the things that affected Planetary Monster Digloff and the "resentment" that flowed together transformed it from something that could only chirp like a sparrow into something even noisier.

Samuel could already feel the warmth of the sun. With an extra source of energy, he accelerated the circulation of energy within his body, which, in the eyes of "resentment," transformed him from a meat grinder into a high-speed blender.

“Ua ...

His voice was so loud, and it seemed to come straight out of Samuel's head, that Samuel's flight was momentarily halted.

"It hurts so much! I'm going to die! You're not a good vessel at all!" He screamed and cried. For some reason, Samuel could already see a dark, twisting mass constantly stretching and contorting, like a pliable, easily kneaded slime, contorting himself into a grotesque shape: "I'm doomed!!!"

Samuel wished He would die quickly and be quieter.

He is now standing on Uranus, which, coincidentally, is named Uranus because its atmosphere contains a certain amount of methane, giving the entire planet a pale blue hue.

This is an ice giant, lacking a stable rocky outer shell. Instead, it is filled with icy storms that obscure its interior. Its outer rings are dim, not as bright and expansive as Saturn's, but merely rings of dark ice and rock.

Deep within the storm lies an "ocean" under extremely high pressure, not an ocean in the conventional sense, but a mass of superheated fluids that have lost their water molecule structure. If you are lucky enough to recklessly fall in and survive, you might see "high-temperature ice," a black solid-like substance.

The planet's surface was far too cold, and the wind speeds were so high that even the fastest sports cars on Earth would be left in the dust. Samuel didn't want to visit, even though it shared the same name as Uranus.

"It's all over, it's all over, I'm going to be shredded into cosmic dust!" the black slime shouted. "Are you happy now?!"

Before Samuel could answer, He suddenly stretched himself out in all directions, until he formed a huge net that covered the sky and the earth. When he spoke again, there was no sign of pain. He just cried out, "Ouch, it hurts! I was faking it!"

His words seemed to have a magical power. When the net was stretched out, Samuel suddenly could not feel the flow of energy. The arc of the silver giant flying over Uranus suddenly turned, as if countless small celestial bodies had crashed into the storm of the ice giant. He plunged headfirst into the dense blue atmosphere, and only felt himself recover when countless knife-like ice crystals scraped his body.

"The Uranus defense line!" He shouted gleefully, "The Earthlings were so arrogant, but we still managed to break through the Uranus defense line! I heard they had the protection of the giant of light, Uranus, hahaha, but until we completely tore this defense line of the same name to shreds, what giant came?"

The dense atmosphere obscured the view outside. Samuel had fallen quite deep; the frigid environment outside was gone, replaced by a gradually rising temperature and pressure that felt like the weight of an entire mountain on his shoulders.

He didn't want to listen to this nonsense. All along the way, they were yelling and bringing in planetary monsters, as if they were doing everything they could to delay his return to Earth. Perhaps the world on Earth had already been turned upside down. He wondered if Pito and his rebellious, sleepy "children," whose only reliable one was Gaia, could hold out.

“You’d be better off on Neptune,” a smile appeared on the slime’s skin. “That planet has lots of carbon. If you fell to this depth, you could see a liquid diamond ocean. We went there after we broke through Uranus’s defenses, while Earthlings can only cower behind Saturn and put up a last-ditch resistance.”

"Until then—Uranus still hadn't appeared, and he wouldn't appear. We captured some Earthlings, and when they mentioned Uranus, they either remained silent or cried terribly, banging their heads on the ground as if they wanted to kill themselves. Hey, want to know why?"

Samuel controlled his body to fly upwards, or rather, "swim." He was used to the warm environment but disliked having a mountain pressing down on him. The dark mass seemed to interfere with the flow of energy within his body for only a moment, then it stopped moving. He didn't know if it couldn't continue or if it deliberately didn't continue. Samuel became wary and silently accelerated the speed of "assimilation." Anyway, he was already close to the sun, so he didn't need to worry too much about energy consumption.

The slime continued its monologue, "Because Uranus doesn't want to help them either!"

He lowered his voice, drawing out the sound in a long, thin tone.

The passage evokes the image of a snake slithering around you: "When Earthlings reveal their ambitions, you will make the same choice as Uranus."

“You’re trying to fit something that happened in another universe into this one.” Samuel finally paid attention to him.

"That is the future! The future of this universe!" He suddenly shouted sternly, "The Earthlings want to play tricks on time, how can I let them succeed? Those who want to transform the Earth and resist will die, those who want to exterminate themselves and escape everything, how can I let them do it so easily? It doesn't matter if you don't understand now, you will see it sooner or later... You are following the old path of Uranus."

The wind howled loudly on Uranus, but even the hurricanes traveling at hundreds of kilometers per hour could not drown out its sudden, sharp cry. Samuel suddenly felt a surge of anger that came from nowhere—just like when he saw Pito a few days ago and couldn't help but want to punch him.

The pitch-black slime grew angrier with each word, now resembling a boiling mass of asphalt. It might have hands and feet; tiny tentacles shot out and then retracted. Its voice boomed like thunder: "Giant of Light, do you know the feeling of your home planet being destroyed, your enemies treating it worthless, and you fleeing in panic? Your kin being killed, all those you hated, those you liked, those you only met once, all turned into tiny, tiny specks of invisible stardust..."

"When you say something, the whole world only hears your own voice."

He laughed maniacally: "They have enemies on all sides... They deserve it! We swam and fled alone, like stray dogs and stray dogs in the universe, and finally united. You know—in the war for the right to survive, we have long been sworn enemies, and can only fight to the death!"

"Hey, Giant of Light, even if I tell you all this, you're still going to side with Earthlings?" He said, "Yes, you haven't had your home planet bombed, and your relatives and friends might still be on Earth. It's understandable that you don't understand us. Just wait a while, and you'll..."

“That won’t be the future here.” Samuel calmed his agitated energy caused by His interference. The dense atmosphere of Uranus was gradually thinning, and the temperature was dropping sharply. He could now see the outside world—the equally dark space of space, dotted with countless diamond-like stars.

"Did you come to the past of your universe, or to a parallel universe that has developed differently?" Samuel said, "There's someone who keeps calling me 'fellow countryman.' The world I used to live in is similar to his world in some ways, but completely different in others. He thinks I'm from the 'past,' but I know his life isn't the 'future' I can see."

The boiling slime's laughter stopped. It shrank, and its "smile" suddenly cracked into sharp teeth: "So what?! The better they live, the deeper my hatred grows! Why should they be able to enjoy themselves here while you continue to protect them..."

"I'm waiting. You'll become like another giant sooner or later."

Chapter Ninety: Severance

Just as Samuel had anticipated, the enemy was delaying his return so as to stir up trouble on Earth.