Chapter 1666: with translation of chapter title

NO．281：But, the rainbow snake still speaks in riddles.

Three minutes ago, the time was dialed.

On the cruel battlefield where the environmental skin of the Saichang framework system could no longer automatically cover itself, a one-sided massacre was underway.

After the Dragon Emperor's heavy, powerful 'Dragon Thrash Strike', the first wave of enemies directly suffered heavy casualties, but obviously, given that the existence of the Ekesa Beast was no secret, the countless criminal organizations that should have also thought of this deployed second, third, and fourth waves onto the battlefield, their numbers not inferior to the first wave, and among them were many digital beasts and mechanical beasts that could replenish themselves by using local data.

The abacus beads of this strategy of delay and consumption are about to pop off the faces of the law enforcement crowd.

This was enough to make the net police, who could only watch before, all offer suggestions: 'Don't release the Dragon Thrash Strike anymore; let us handle security.'

Even though the Dragon Emperor's massive physique destined all its skills to be AoE, the Dragon Thrash Strike remains the one that makes teammates reluctant to step forward. After all, no one here can pull off MutekiGamer's strength to soak in battle amidst earth‑shaking and double‑stage heat bursts, while some flying digital beasts and a certain super agent can still rely on long‑range attacks to pick off stragglers; each, just to gain a foothold, must first have the Ekesa Beast seal that move.

And the Dragon Emperor, helplessly sealing it, then letting those net police give it their all, resulted in it being rather embarrassed.

——The various petite human‑form cyber net police, their work efficiency not slow at all, even finding time to repair the data code framework, allowing this world of pure binary code to be re‑covered with vegetation, rocks, and oceans.

When among these people someone even started copying data on the spot to spawn violent soldiers and derive new combat power, the Dragon Emperor, even holding a gun, found it hard to strike; after waiting a while, he helplessly compressed his data, turning into a version several meters long, mixing among the little things, and only when he saw enemies huge, tens or even hundreds of meters tall, could he finally straighten up and relieve pressure on the spot.

Thus, this offensive‑defensive battle, which had no suspense at all, quickly turned into a slaughter.

It even once developed into blocking at several weak data points, waiting for the teleport gate to open.

——Already blocking the enemy's refresh point.

And other law enforcement personnel who were sufficiently agile, or possessed scanning and search capabilities, patrolled everywhere, trying to find enemies not yet processed and still engaged in covert operations.

Frankly speaking, this idea is not problematic.

Indeed, there is more than one hidden cell on site.

Anyone of sound mind wouldn't storm a fully armed checkpoint, let alone the fact that the combat power required to shake the battlefield is too high; if anyone truly had that ability, who would still come to operate this match?

Not everyone is like Lu Zhas, who stockpiles huge combat power but insists on striking where Ultraman cares; most groups are only after wealth, power, or fame—those latter types wouldn't be here either, but outside—in the racetrack, battling wits and courage with the Teqiju, police bureau, and mercenary alliance, focusing on triggering safety devices to shift barrier spaces upon just moving to act, or being surrounded by law enforcement in another dimension.

Very busy, very busy.

Just because he was this busy, Aomo's rainbow snake avatar didn't stay long with the three goddesses before moving elsewhere.

Frequently shuttling between reality and the net, sometimes, in a few words with Shi Huaiya, helping her clarify her thoughts and lock onto her movements, then receiving her affectionate gesture of tapping her fingers on her head; sometimes, distorting his form on the data level, becoming a beast‑shaped rainbow snake like the one split off in the Ultraman universe's illusion, to exchange with Jie Si Ti Si the situation's trajectory on both reality and net sides, then gaining a sentence of concern from her about the match situation, especially regarding Gechengwangpai...

How should I put it?

These justice heroes really do attract each other; originally meant for Sai Luo and Lipiya to help train Gechengwangpai, but now, whether it's Jie De or Jie Si Ti Si, even Ultraman and Red Kai, who temporarily have no time to come here, will inquire about Gechengwangpai's training status, seeming like they're raising horses in the clouds—but you don't have each other's phone numbers? Why must you ask me?

Could I possibly understand Gechengwangpai's training and mental state better than Lipiya and Sai Luo?

This…

This can't be that my regular observation and verbal probing have been exposed……

Aomo is feeling a bit guilty, though his guilt is only slight.

The more these justice heroes gather together, the more they can make the Beast King willing to come over as a guest; at this point, saying a few more words and doing a little operation brings even more unexpected joy.

Since things have come to this, let this matter pass; Aomo, who has reaped benefits from these people like plucking feathers from a passing goose, can naturally be a warm and patient customer service, passing along and explaining to those who refuse to talk directly and insist on using him as a mouthpiece for the light‑pressuring people, and today he also received phone inquiries about the match from Ultraman, the new‑century middle schooler, and Red Kai.

No…… Do you really plan to ask me even when the match starts?

I'm opposite you!

Faced with such a tangled development, Aomo directly transferred the call to Sai Luo and Lipiya's phones, yet he didn't neglect the four‑way concern for his main body and three puppets that remained linked, thus he could continue to give just‑right hints, enabling the members of the six Chasing Light Clubs operating beneath the code land to keep dodging the one‑sided blockade and sweep from above.

Then——

Then came the control lever that could naturally be found very quickly.

But before he could obtain it, he had to face the aftermath of that extreme speed lasting two minutes, followed by the carrot‑man advancing minute by minute.

"Everyone's here; I shouldn't need to prepare a wheelchair too, should I?"

One minute, the five‑colored‑gathered carrot man subdued these humanoid enemies completely.

The one responsible for leading and issuing orders, Nishizaki Toyo, stepped slightly back behind him, and beside him was the most eye‑catching strange creature.

Delicate five‑clawed forelimbs, sturdy legs, a chalk‑white torso, and a thick tail bristling with sharp spines.

Frog‑like horizontal eyes, yet set on the standard triangular head of a viper snake skull; its upper and lower jaws, together with its long, curved neck, are suffused with a dreamy iridescence, and that dreamlike halo obviously stems from the chest‑forked bone collar that splits like the V‑neck of the Mefilas alien.

On that collar lay the auspicious cloud glow that ought to belong to an auspicious beast, yet the shape is truly too weird and seductive; even the bluish‑green mist it spews when opening its mouth seems to dab on greed and ferocity, making the whole thing look like some heart‑bewitching monster.

But this is the form that Aomo's little rainbow snake puppet can fabricate and evolve in the data space, as mentioned earlier—it is the beast‑transformed rainbow snake that has been running back and forth here several times.

By weakening the divine proportion and emphasizing the monster aspect, the result is this form that lets the five carrot men keep their distance from the start, and even Nishizaki Toyo stands aside feeling unusually uneasy.

"uh……"

Although one might have thought, to some degree, about the connection between Aomo Lindun trainer and monsters, with snake imagery, this is still everyone's intuitive perception of that endorsement which reflects who knows how much inner feeling.

"Of course let them handle it; is it okay for you to come over directly like this?"

He couldn't say it more clearly, because he still harbored the hope that Aomo might have to hide his puppets, but the beast‑transformed rainbow snake's opening remarks were always frank.

"Of course not." It opened its mouth again and exhaled, the spines covering its back forming countless needle‑like teeth inside its mouth, making Nishizaki Toyo's eyes twitch as he doubted his junior's taste for the first time.

"When it's time to wrap up, everything should be given a period, but for now please hold onto whatever's beside you and keep your balance."

"?" xN

Not only Nishizaki Toyo, but also the carrot man and those bound by his 'grass rope', along with the club and sect members wondering what these two were saying, also found this doubtful.

Then, in the next second, as the earth shook and mountains swayed, everyone simultaneously experienced a visual like a Relic crystal error, with the prosthetic showing no response— the vision filled with noise and garbled code, the body briefly powerless and unbalanced.

Only the beast‑transformed rainbow snake remained steady, perhaps because of its overly sturdy legs and long tail, or perhaps due to the existence nature Aomo had spoken of……

Nishizaki Toyo recalled the junior saying that the rainbow snake deity was an embodiment of nature, which should be as heavy as mountains and as destructive as a storm, but now clearly wasn't the time to worry about that, so he prepared to speak——

But then he heard the other side ask first:

"Did you hear that? This is the roar of a beast."

"...?"

Nishizaki Toyo was just a bit surprised, then immediately stunned.

Because everyone here, including him, heard that heart‑shaking roar that was delayed by two beats.

It was as if pressure were being applied directly to the heart, making his whole body stiffen; the low dragon roar mixed with a wolf‑like howl made it even harder for him to tell them apart.

"……This is… what sound?" The emerald‑green carrot hero leaned against the wall and slowly straightened up amid the difficulty of speaking.

The sound of the program framework being shaken, the roar of the Dragon Emperor, and also the first howl after the fusion birth of the Flame Wolf and the Lone Wolf.

Compared to Aomo Lindun, the beastified rainbow snake answered much more straightforwardly, and then its frog‑like slit pupil split open again into the familiar black slit at this moment, forming a strange cross‑shaped pupil of a white bar and black vertical.

Not bad, this kind of interweaving will be heard by the whole world.