Ultraman: Because I am Gatanothor.

The highest level of TPC.

This is the office of the highest-ranking administrative leaders of TPC, including Director Ji Gang's office.

In a spacious, bright, and tidy office, an elderly man with almost white hair and wise eyes, wearing a light purple-gray coat, stood in front of a huge floor-to-ceiling window with his hands in his pockets, looking down at the magnificent sea.

He is the supreme leader of TPC, Soichiro Sawai.

He single-handedly lobbied various countries to lay down their arms, disband their defense forces, and establish the TPC organization, which is based on the principle of peace.

"Ji Gang, he's gone into business, hasn't he?" he asked the person next to him.

Beside him stood a long-haired woman with a curvaceous figure, wearing a white team uniform.

This person is called Megumi Kijima. She used to be Director Sawai's personal physician and personal secretary. Later, in order to deal with 'strange phenomena and natural disasters caused by unknown circumstances', Sawai Soichiro formed a seven-person elite team - the Victory Team.

Megumi Kijima was appointed as the team leader.

As it turned out, his judgment was correct; Iriko was very talented, and being a doctor was a waste of her abilities.

Upon hearing this, Megumi replied, "Yes, the field trial of Dolphin 202 is a major project. I heard that too. If nothing unexpected happens, they have been gone for an hour."

As the commander of the Victory Team, she even knew the secrets of the Atlas, so the Dolphin 202 was naturally no problem for her.

"What an amazing young man!" Director Sawai exclaimed.

Megumi knew who he was talking about and nodded in agreement. Her team's Masami Horii, known as the 'brain of the GUTS team,' was already 28 years old. He was the same age as Nanase Kaede and was still in school.

Director Sawai turned around and gave a gentle smile.

"I want him to be a member of the Victory Team!"

Megumi was taken aback. Was this why Director Sawai had called her here?

It seems that Daigo Madoka was the only one he recruited into the GUTS team last time.

Although it was just giving Daigo Madoka a chance, he was able to get into the Victory Team through his own efforts.

However, she didn't think much of it and nodded in agreement, "Okay, I'll go arrange it right away!"

Director Sawai smiled and nodded, "Go ahead!"

He watched Megumi's departing figure until the door closed again, leaving him alone. Then he turned to look at the sea.

His expression turned melancholy, and he murmured, "Ji Gang, you should rein in your thoughts!"

There is a document on the desk.

TPC Armed Plan!

The signatory was none other than Tetsuji Yoshitsugu.

This time, by arranging for the people around him to come to my side, I'm letting him know the purpose of what I'm doing.

Just don't be too impulsive, or it'll be like having your precious treasure snatched away, easily costing you your job.

He wasn't worried that Yoshitsugu Yoshitsugu wouldn't understand. Although that guy looked like a military general and a bit shrewd, he had an exceptionally keen political sense; otherwise, he wouldn't have been put in charge of the police department.

In the corridor, Megumi thought for a moment and understood the deeper meaning behind Director Sawai's actions.

"So that's how it is!" She glanced at the tightly closed door.

She shook her head; she was a staunch supporter of Director Sawai, and she would carry out his decisions without question.

She handled the personnel transfer matter quickly.

Actually, the Victory Team doesn't have a very high status in TPC, but it depends on whose team it is.

For example, the Storm Squad that came later was a normal team in TPC, not like the Victory Squad, which had extremely high freedom.

Many people who break the rules are only given a few words of verbal reprimand and that's it.

Nanase Kazetsu, far away in the deep sea, was unaware that he had already become a member of the GUTS team.

After driving for several hours, they finally entered the outer reaches of the Pacific Ocean.

"Activate the detection radar!" As soon as he finished speaking, the voice control system responded immediately.

"Detection radar is activated!" The voice was that of a young woman, pleasant to listen to, but with a hint of stiffness.

The next second, a display panel in front of him lit up.

There is a green straight line sliding at the top, and the lines on the panel will update each time it is slid.

There is also a number in the lower right corner, 1-100k

This voyage was not only to test various data of Dolphin 202, but also to collect data at the request of other laboratories.

For example, drawing maps of the Pacific Ocean seabed.

This provided Nanase Kaede with the perfect excuse for his actions, so he readily agreed.

At this point, the person in the driver's seat was completely free, because Dolphin 202 was equipped with an autopilot system, and he only needed to pay attention to malfunctions.

Yoshitsuji glanced at the power conversion data, copied it down, and then looked at the energy storage display.

We discovered that there was still more than half of the stock remaining.

That's enough for them to cross the entire Pacific Ocean.

After recording and fixing some minor malfunctions, he put down his notebook and looked at the camera feedback screen on the panel.

The entire fuselage of Dolphin 202 is made of special alloy steel and does not contain any transparent materials such as glass.

The main reason is that if alloy materials and special glass are combined, their joints may not be able to withstand the pressure of such a deep sea. Therefore, it is better to use video transmission to obtain information from the outside world.

Yoshitsuji suddenly spoke up: "What do you think of these strange phenomena?"

Upon hearing this, Nanase Kaede was taken aback. After thinking for a moment, he replied, "That's hard to say, but I think that we humans must have our own weapons in order to meet the challenges ahead!"

Upon hearing this, Yoshitsuji's eyes lit up. He clapped his hands and nodded approvingly, saying, "That's right. We humans can solve our internal problems by laying down our weapons and talking face to face. But when facing other civilizations in the vast ocean and deep space, we are like lambs to the slaughter if we have no means of resistance."

During the old defense force era, extraterrestrial visitors caused quite a bit of trouble on Earth.

To say nothing of the distant past, the Desis aliens alone once destroyed a military base on Earth, which is why Tetsuji Yoshigoro maintains a high level of vigilance towards extraterrestrials.

Fengdu agreed with this, but as a subordinate, he couldn't openly speak ill of the director.

Even in front of Yoshitsuji, it's the same. Although the two of them start arguing as soon as they meet, their relationship is far better than that of blood brothers.

He said, "After all, Director Sawai established TPC with peace as its core ideology. His position was there from the beginning."

Yoshitsuji turned around, looked at the footage transmitted from the camera on the panel, and murmured, "Sigh, if only I were the director..."

Feng Du pretended not to hear these words and went about his own business.

However, he spent most of his time reviewing the data returned by the detection radar.

Although it was his first time in the Pacific Ocean, he had a deep understanding of it and could still remember the general terrain.

Because it was a test of pressure resistance, Fengdu kept the Dolphin 202 close to the seabed.

As a versatile mini-submarine for deep-sea exploration and rescue, Dolphin 202 is naturally equipped with a fish disruptor to prevent aggressive fish from harming it.

Suddenly, Fengdu felt a burning sensation in his palm, as if he had been scalded by boiling water at forty degrees Celsius.

He subconsciously looked at his palm.

He was wearing a pair of full-coverage black gloves, but he could see the progress bar at a glance.

99.02%

When he saw the extra decimal point and those two numbers, even though he was mentally over forty, he couldn't help but breathe rapidly.

'It's gone up!!'

After a three-year hiatus, progress has actually increased again!!!

The control room was very small, and the change in his breathing immediately caught the attention of Yoshitsuji.

"what happened to you?"

Chapter 4 The Sudden Earthquake

Chapter Four

Upon hearing Tetsuji Yoshitsugu's question, Nanase Kazetari quickly suppressed his excitement. He stared at the panel and said, "I remembered something happy!"

Ji Gang Tetsuji: "..."

He felt that the sentence was rather perfunctory, and just as he was about to ask again, he suddenly heard Dolphin 202 sound an urgent alarm.

At the same time, a woman's voice came over.

"alarm……"

"Warning... A large-scale undersea earthquake is detected nearby!"

"Warning! An underwater earthquake is about to occur in ten seconds..."

"Ten...nine...eight...seven..."

Feng Du and Director Ji Gang hurriedly looked at the display panel in the middle, which showed the data fed back from the detection radar.

The image shows countless lines outlining the general shape of the seabed, while eight kilometers directly in front of the green dot, there is a red dot that is rapidly expanding.

The green dots represent their locations, while the red dots represent the source of the earthquake.

As the intelligent system counted down, the halo extending from the red dot rapidly approached the green dot.

"Seven...six..."

Fengdu quickly glanced at the magnitude data returned by the detector.

“八级！！！”

Upon seeing this, his pupils contracted instantly, and a chill instantly enveloped his heart.

Without thinking twice, he slammed his hand on the red button on the seat, instantly releasing the seatbelt buckles that secured both of them.

"Chief, let's go!"

After saying that, without waiting for Director Ji Gang's reaction, he grabbed Director Ji Gang's body and ran backward.

"Let go, old man, I can run!" said Yoshitsuji Yoshitsuji, grabbing a form from the side and running towards his self-rescue device.