Ultraman Legend of the Light Chaser

The laboratory was spotless. The obsessive-compulsive researchers, who were unkempt themselves, always kept the lab impeccably clean. Sosuke looked around but didn't see any of the researchers possessed by Bizomo, nor even a trace of the disgusting slime that always accompanied Bizomo's appearances.

"Have they already evacuated?" Sosuke wondered to himself, "Then wouldn't it just be Aya and one of her colleagues foolishly waiting in the closet?"

He rushed to the wardrobe, banging on the metal exterior and shouting, "Ling! Are you in there? All your colleagues outside have evacuated! What's the password to your main door? I'll go lock the outside door!"

"Go, it's not safe for you to be like this!"

A lot can happen in ten minutes, enough for Bezomo to infiltrate through the pipes and then take care of all the researchers in the lab who are buried in their workbenches every day.

Sosuke's heart was pounding. For several seconds, his shouts went unanswered. Apart from his own breathing, he could hear nothing else. Fear was like a python opening its jaws to devour its prey, first coiling around the prey's bones. Sosuke felt himself struggling to breathe.

The first cabinet was empty.

He opened the second one with trembling hands, and the white coat fell out. Startled, he threw the coat back, then realized what was happening and frantically groped through the pile of clothes, as if Aya Kamimura might pop out from inside.

There was no one there; he was almost in despair.

“The third one,” he murmured, “answer me, answer me…you must be here, you’re just, just asleep or scared out of your wits.”

Just as the latch was about to open, the cabinet door was pried open with a loud "bang".

With a "thud," Sosuke took a step back and slumped to the ground.

Before him lay a wheelchair, its owner nowhere to be seen. A short plush cushion, bought by Sosuke on Halloween, was slumped on the seat, painted with a menacing pumpkin lantern.

The chair legs were made of steel, coldly reflecting the light, which made Sosuke's eyes redden.

"What's going on... playing hide-and-seek?" He gasped for breath, grabbing the edge of the table to prop himself up.

The researchers had polished the table so brightly that the intense white light cast a frosty glow on it. Sosuke saw his own silhouette reflected on the tabletop, with the ceiling behind him extending and the light tubes lined up in a row—he even hoped to find Hizomo, so he could follow the direction Hizomo had appeared and perhaps find the missing Aya Kamimura and her colleagues.

His gaze followed the arrangement of the light tubes outwards, and at the other end of the table, he spotted another blurry outline.

The outline of a person.

"What!" Cang Jie suddenly looked up, only to be struck hard from behind. Half of his body was slumped over the edge of the table, his numb limbs unresponsive, and he slowly slid down.

Kamimura, his face grim, looked at the short man standing behind Sosuke, wielding a weapon that resembled a blue lightbulb: "Promise me you'll take care of my sister—where is she now?!"

“I don’t know,” the short Kirieloid leaned on the weapon he had “borrowed” from the Manon aliens, staring at Kamimura and gesturing towards Sosuke, who was lying on the ground: “You come here and remove the troublesome badge from his body. This thing will activate on its own when it comes into direct contact with aliens.”

Kamimura stepped forward as instructed, neatly removed the badge, and tossed it aside.

Sosuke was paralyzed and unable to move. He could only open his unfocused eyes and watch as Kamimura Zao threw the badge to the other end of the laboratory. He knew Kamimura Zao and remembered that he was the owner of the dry cleaner and Kamimura Aya's older brother.

Since falling for Aya Kamimura, Sosuke has stopped going to the dry cleaners because he's not ready to meet her family. Especially after realizing that the captain might be the one truly protecting him, he has less expectation of the "magnet god."

"Don't throw it! Don't throw it!" he heard a childish voice say, "What a great energy sample! Take it back and study it! A magnet allowed us to develop this weapon that can break through defenses. If we get a few more badges, we can expose the tomb guardians!"

Kamimura remained noncommittal. He gave Sosuke, who was lying on the ground, another dose of anesthetic and said to the short man, "I'm asking you, are the Manonians' support reliable? We need to take away several 'experimental subjects'."

“That’s unreliable,” the short man replied. “So I’m not going to use their support; we have other options.”

"You're using them as a cover?"

“Right, Raichulan, Muzhen, and Manong are all unreliable idiots, that’s what the god Kirielod said,” the short man said, sucking on his sea salt candy. “Let’s go, let’s go, free test subjects, why not take them?”

"Where's my sister?" Kamimura Zao hoisted Sosuke up and glanced coldly at the short man who seemed completely unaffected.

"Of course, we'll move back to base first for safety reasons. You value her so much... I was just kidding, look how scared you are," the short man shrugged. "It's been a long time since we've been back to Lion's Nose Base. Don't you miss it?"

……

Air force logistics hangar.

The "monster" that had disappeared once reappeared, with a few snowflakes falling in the air. Ralf stared blankly at the Manon alien he was holding under his arm.

With a "thud," the guy with spider legs on his face was slammed to the ground by the "monster," rolling around like a sandbag. The alien who was so arrogant just minutes ago was now obediently unconscious, like a dead fish that wouldn't be woken up by thunder or rain.

The "monster" just stared at Ralf without saying a word, but Ralf inexplicably understood what he meant: "Cuff him! Cuff him now!"

When Ralf pulled out the handcuffs, he was stunned. Herbert and Yang Tai surrounded him, one lifting and the other binding him. They quickly wrapped the Manon alien into a dumpling with a rope, and the "monster" had disappeared, just as he had come and gone like the wind.

"Don't you guys think he's... kind?" Ralf tightened the handcuffs, a surge of pleasure rising within him. An alien! Now he can still use me as a hostage?

“Him? That dark-skinned guy?” Yang Tai was baffled. “I’m really afraid he’ll just rip your brains out… He looks really angry.”

"He just pulled you out of the pile of bricks," Herbert said abruptly, bowing to the arriving Victory team.

“That’s true,” Yang Tai patted his bald head: “Concern leads to confusion, concern leads to confusion.”

Win

Leaving aside how the Li team took over the prisoners, after dealing with the Manonians in the logistics hangar, Aiba Yu searched further down the corridor and caught another Manonian who had tricked the carefree cleaning staff out of the key under the guise of "delivering goods" and was now swaggering from door to door, arresting people.

He had clearly made thorough preparations; all the surveillance cameras had their lenses removed, and tangled wires were exposed. The IT department, in a state of panic, had no time to deal with the surveillance interruption incident, which was "possibly caused by Bizomo pulling the power outage."

Aiba Yu saw him dragging the unconscious logistics personnel into a room—spaceships, technological tools, even space teleportation; the aliens, with their endless methods, always have countless ways to take away what they want.

"Where is Kirieloid?!" Aiba Yu gave the other party no time to react, kicking the "deliveryman" towards the window, shattering the half-closed window instantly. As he landed, Aiba Yu pushed off the ground and accelerated to catch up, pressing the "deliveryman" down on the back of the head and slamming him to the ground.

Two loud bangs rang out inside and outside the room. The smaller one was from legs and claws digging a hole in the ground, while the larger one was from the "deliveryman" banging his head against the ground, his disguised human head being smashed open, revealing his true form with spider legs on both sides.

Cement fragments fell to the ground with a clatter, like a brief hailstorm.

Even the alien Manon, disguised as a "deliveryman," felt a hailstorm in his heart.

"Their life science research center is in trouble, which is the perfect opportunity," the Kirieloid, who had stuffed himself into a child's skin, told him in his memory.

"The tomb keeper's attention will definitely be focused on those laboratories. I will distract him. While you are in the chaos, grab as many healthy test subjects from the executive department as you can, and also take important internal materials with you. The window of opportunity is fifteen minutes. After that time, regardless of whether we are here or not, just leave."

The Kirieloids spoke with great sincerity, much like selfless heroes. Manon Starman had doubts, but thought that as long as he kept a low profile and didn't cause any extra trouble, he wouldn't have to worry about attracting the tomb guardians.

He was already being careful enough! He even used his physical advantages to deal with the burly logistics man who had been repairing airplanes for years and had developed arms as strong as legs, but the tomb keeper still came!

Aiba asked him where the Kirieloids were, and he also wanted to know where the Kirieloids were, and whether their saying "I'm here to attract attention" was attracting the attention of the air.

The Manon alien wanted to speak, but the claw pressing down on the back of his head seemed intent on shoving him into the ground, so he could only shout using telekinesis: "I don't know! The Kirieloids lied to us!"

He finally realized what was going on: "They were just trying to use us to get you out of there! They're right there in the Life Sciences Research Center building!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the south-facing building in Area B suddenly exploded in half. Dr. Tsukishiro's laboratory was in the north building. Aiba Yu had almost cleared out the Bizomo individuals there, and then rushed to the logistics hangar because Yota's badge was shattered. The south building became a "safe haven" for the infiltrating aliens.

Hearing the sound, Aiba Yu looked over and saw a "flower" explode in the middle of the building, with smoke and dust mixed with broken bricks and glass spraying everywhere. The "flower" soon bore fruit - a spaceship actually emerged from it!

Aiba Yu's gaze immediately penetrated the external structure of the spaceship, and amidst the interference of various pipes, components, and energy glow, he found a bunch of white coats lying like a mass grave.

A researcher at the Life Sciences Research Center! No, to be precise, a member of the joint project team with the Space Development Center!

Yu Aiba recognized some of them; they were colleagues of Aya Kamimura, who had recently been in close contact with Sosuke, and were exchanging ideas on a project with the research team studying the monster corpses in the power pod of the Life Science Research Center, which was developing a new fighter jet power system.

Is their intention to obstruct the development of this power system?

Aiba Yu casually pulled out an exposed steel bar and used it as handcuffs to tie up Manong Alien. Then, with a double punch, this "deliveryman" followed in his companion's footsteps.

The wind howled, and the already damaged concrete ground suffered another severe blow.

The "monster" leaped like an arrow, pressing a deep crater into the ground, spreading spiderweb cracks, and a heavy wind whipped up rubble that rolled all over the ground.

underwater.

Inside the silent, stealthy Crowman spaceship.

Tiaoyue Xuansha slowly wiped the bloodstains from her hands, gazing at the tranquil deep blue outside the window.

“Masaki awakened the Natan aliens’ spaceship. As you predicted, Captain Aiba… no, Samuel can’t just abandon those researchers,” Tango Yuji said from behind her. “Aren’t you reluctant to leave this place?”

“I’m reluctant to let go,” Tsui Tsukishiro turned around, clutching the phone that was no longer vibrating. “Some fool said he would come to protect me, of course… I’m reluctant to let him go.”

Chapter 103 Bewilderment

When Fujisawa Sousuke regained consciousness, he found himself in an abandoned factory, where the air was filled with a stench.

What happened to the base? Where is Aya? Was she captured too? A series of questions popped into his mind, and the relief of surviving the ordeal was thrown to the back of his mind.

He remembered hearing a child's voice in his hazy state, talking to another person. That other person… was Kamimura Aya's older brother!

What did the dry cleaner owner mean by infiltrating the base and conspiring with others to kidnap him? Did he learn that his sister had been kidnapped and, driven by greed, come to settle scores with him?

As Fujisawa Sousuke's thoughts wandered, he observed his surroundings—the captain had said that the first thing to do in the event of an accident was to protect oneself.

Stay calm, even though the captain was referring to an accident during the flight.

He actually discovered something.

For example, there was dust all over the ground, a few footprints, and at the end of the footprints was a chair where Kamimura Osamu was sitting, staring at him listlessly. When he saw that Sosuke had woken up, Kamimura Osamu even waved to him.

Sosuke noticed that his hands were bluish-purple, a sign of blood stasis and tissue necrosis.

"What do you want with me tied up here?" Cangjie asked boldly. "I haven't asked you to get my teru teru bozu back yet!"

Kamimura chuckled through gritted teeth, looking sinister, partly due to his expression and partly due to his bluish face. His belly was even bigger; Sousuke thought he looked even fatter than the last time they met, perhaps from eating too much.

Blood trickled from Kamimura's teeth. He waved his hand and quickly put it down, as if even this simple action was very difficult for him.

Sōsuke sniffed, enduring the stench. He sensed something was wrong; the intense, bizarre smell was emanating from Kamimura, as if the person sitting in front of him wasn't a living person, but a rotting corpse!

"Did you find them?"

"How many more people are there?"

"I don't know, let's go back outside first. That guard isn't much of a threat..."

Voices came from behind, along with hurried footsteps, as if a lot of people were coming. Sōsuke thought hopefully that they might be the base's guards. If he could be rescued, he promised that he would never call them "army idiots" again when he got back.

He strained his neck to look back, and several men in black robes impatiently kicked open the old tin door and filed in.

"Oh, you're awake! Did that fat guard yell at you?" One of the guards in the black robe took off her hood, revealing the face of a young woman who looked like a college graduate. Her bangs were neatly trimmed, and beneath them were a pair of clean, clear eyes.