Ultraman: I Really Didn't Want to Rule the World

Hong Tu blinked: "It might be too late."

As soon as he finished speaking, several heavily armed men scaled the walls on both sides and surrounded them.

Soya Homare and Kudo Yuuki could only shield Hongtu behind them once again.

But to their surprise, the three aliens who had been "captured" also stood up and intentionally or unintentionally shielded Hong Tu between them.

Clearly, these two groups are not working together.

Hong Tu, who was unknowingly surrounded and protected, was speechless.

There were six people surrounding them, plus the sniper hiding in the shadows, making a total of seven.

It looks like it's going to be a tough battle.

The three aliens were unarmed, but they still rushed forward first, attacking the three surroundrs before Homare Muneya and Yuuki Kudo could react, giving them no chance to fire.

The remaining two, Soya Homare and Kudo Yuuki, were stunned for a moment, but quickly reacted and rushed forward.

Soya Homare fought two attackers alone, while Kudo Yuuki faced the last one.

For a moment, only Hong Tu, carrying a suitcase with nothing to do, was left.

Hong Tu: "..." Suddenly, he felt a little regretful about asking Igis for help, otherwise he would have gone himself by now.

However, after glancing at the few people who were too preoccupied to pay attention to him, Hong Tu quietly disappeared into their encirclement.

A sniper atop a high-rise building is hesitating whether to help his comrade first or take out Hong Tu.

To be honest, he was too afraid to aim his gun at Hong Tu again. He had clearly seen the crimson eyes that Hong Tu had just looked at through the sniper rifle lens. That was definitely not an Earthling, but an alien, and a rather terrifying one at that!

After instinctively avoiding Hong Tu, he began to aim his gun at the guys entangled with his companions, looking for an opportunity to take them out.

Until he was suddenly patted on the shoulder.

Sniper: "?"

He blankly put down his sniper rifle, turned around and looked behind him, only to be met with Hong Tu's smiling face.

Sniper: "..."

Sniper: "???"

He screamed in fright and nearly fell off the platform behind him.

Hong Tu reached out and grabbed his collar, pulling him back with an irresistible force: "Let's talk?"

Looking at his collar being grabbed by Hong Tu, and feeling his legs dangling in mid-air, and then at the smiling face that was too close to him, the poor sniper decisively nodded in agreement.

I have this feeling that if I say "no," I'll be in big trouble...

Hong Tu then loosened his grip, letting the guy fall to the ground with a thud. He stepped onto the railing-covered steps at the edge of the building, lowered his body slightly, and trapped the poor sniper in his shadow: "Let's talk about what you're doing stealing this stuff."

The sniper curled up in a ball, trembling, vaguely sensing that the shadow falling on him was not just a simple shadow, but something terrifying.

"I...I'm just a paid mercenary, please spare my life, sir!" The voice sounded like it was about to cry.

Hong Tu tilted her head and withdrew her foot: "Speak properly."

"Yes, sir!" The poor mercenary finally caught his breath and began to confess honestly, "The employer ordered us to retrieve that gem, by any means necessary. They also said that some Temeranians would try to stop us..."

It didn't say the gem was in the hands of such a terrifying creature. What happened to the humans we were promised?

"Temeranians..." Hong Tu felt like she'd heard the name somewhere before. "The Temeranians from that planet whose planet was destroyed?"

The destruction of a planet is quite common in the universe, but if the planet that collapses is one that harbors intelligent life, it will become a topic of great interest to people throughout the universe.

The planet Termelan has been a hot topic recently.

This planet wasn't destroyed by monsters, nor by some alien conspiracy; it was destroyed by the Terran aliens themselves. Such destruction at the expense of their own race is relatively rare, and thus, the planet's destruction became a hot topic on the cosmic internet.

Of course, most of them talked about it as a joke, and maybe a few expressed regret, but not a single one offered a helping hand.

To the aliens, this was... utterly deserved. They destroyed their own planet, and now they expect other planets to lend a helping hand? Don't be ridiculous; they're lucky they didn't kick them while they were down.

Clearly, someone is now taking advantage of the situation.

Hong Tu looked at the box beside her.

As he looked, the box placed to the side opened automatically, and the gems inside flew out.

This is a rather beautiful translucent stone, shaped like an irregular octahedron, about the size of Hong Tu's palm.

Under the sunlight, the stone seemed to have some kind of linear or dotted colored starlight flowing inside. Although it should be a solid, the shimmering light inside made it look more like it was holding some kind of liquid with colored glow.

This is certainly not an ordinary gemstone, nor is it any rare mineral from the universe.

This is... the core stone that collapsed under special circumstances after a star burned out. It is a precious gem formed from the rare element "ether" in the universe due to special reasons.

Today's mini-drama:

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Hong Tu: I regret hiring Igis, otherwise I could have done it myself.

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The aliens who escaped this calamity: ...Thank you, Aegis! We'll send you a banner of appreciation later!

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Egis and others: ? ? ?

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Taiga: Ha, why are we meddling in this?! We should be wary of that Negr guy!

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Chapter 1359 Temerland

Chapter 1359 Temerland

Hongtu certainly recognized the stone, and had even eaten quite a bit of it.

Yes, I ate quite a lot.

Aside from those swallowed whole during the primordial era when the universe was devoured, there were also those brought to him by the Dark Star People of the Empire.

However, because such things were so rare, the Dark Star People of the Empire did not initially realize what they were, and simply presented them to Red Tea as a nice decoration.

Well, even after I found out, I would only offer it to Red Tea, since it tastes pretty good in some ways.

So when Hong Tu saw the picture, she recognized the gemstone and promptly participated in the donation drive.

But I never expected that someone would actually come to steal this thing.

This thing is indeed precious, after all, it is only possible for such a gem to be born when a planet collapses under a series of coincidences.

But as for its uselessness, it really is useless. In the current state of the universe, this gem is probably only good-looking. It does contain abundant energy, but not everyone can use it correctly.

Only a handful of people who are so desperate for energy to fill their stomachs would have the time to go looking for this stuff.

That's right, I'm talking about Hongtu himself.

So the empire treated this thing as a snack for their king.

Although Hong Tu, who recently devoured a universe, isn't very hungry right now, who can resist collecting snacks?

But what do these guys want this thing for?

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Below, it's unclear who first noticed that Hong Tu was missing. Seeing that they couldn't break through the group's entanglement and their target had disappeared, the six attackers decisively chose to retreat.

Kudo Yuuki and a few others were left standing there, bewildered.

"Where is Mr. Red?" Kudo Yuuki asked the burning question.

Muneya Yu couldn't give an answer; even he couldn't figure out when or how Hong Tu left.

Taiga, inside Yuuki Kudo's body, looked annoyed: "Why bother with him? He'll be fine even if you don't help him!"

Kudo Yuuki then remembered that there was another Ultraman inside him: "Did you see where Mr. Red went?"

The rest of Taiga's words were completely ignored.

"I don't know, I didn't see him, he ran away by himself, how would I know where he went!" The ten-centimeter-tall Taiga angrily crossed his arms and sat in mid-air with his back to Kudo Yuuki, sulking.

Kudo Yuuki completely ignored his temper and focused on the key point—Hongtu left on his own.

He breathed a sigh of relief and was about to say something when he saw Hong Tu walking back with a box.

“Mr. Red,” Kudo Yuuki instinctively wanted to go over, but saw Muneyoshi Homare turn around and pull out a baton, looking warily at the other Temeranian.

Although they had just fought together, Muneya Homare hadn't forgotten that these guys had tried to steal things before.

Kudo Yuuki then remembered that there were still three attackers from the first wave.

He looked back and saw that the three men had also assumed a fighting stance, as if they were ready to charge forward again.

Hong Tu tilted her head slightly: "Temeranian?"

The three Temeranians paused, and the alien wearing a gray coat, who had previously intended to attack Hong Tu, finally spoke up: "Earthlings, those are ours."

Hong Tu walked up to Zong Gu Yu and stood opposite the three Temeranians: "This thing is clearly unclaimed, isn't it? And even if it originally belonged to you, it's mine now."

His tone was somewhat contemptuous, which instantly enraged the three Temeranians opposite him.

"Earthlings!"

"Tsk," Hong Tu interrupted him unhappily, "If you can't even protect your own things, are you planning to steal them from others?"

His words were laced with undisguised sarcasm, and the expressions of the several Temeranians who were being addressed were quite unpleasant.

But they weren't about to give up: "That's..."

"That's clearly our planet!" the Temeranian, disguised as an old woman, couldn't help but exclaim.

This sentence attracted the attention of the people behind Hong Tu, and even Taiga was taken aback.

The Temeranian in the gray coat slightly raised his hand to stop his companions from speaking further, and then looked at Hong Tu.