Chapter 1700: with translation of chapter title

NO. 315: Darkness is whispering quietly.

Although discussions of the Ultraman IP often come with complaints like 'Why do monsters always have to appear in Japan?', there are actually a few installments set on lands of other languages.

UltramanGreat/Ultraman's Earth battlefield is precisely a land of overly rich linguistic diversity, namely Australia.

But precisely because of that, his fame is worrisome.

Indeed, people always complain 'Monsters are all in Japan', but in fact the most viewed are still indeed Japan.

Aside from those, the other settings are lacking in interest.

This also makes the opponents on those stages equally obscure and niche.

Thus, when faced with the image of Kodala, this chubby blue-green creature emerging from water, most people think that the City of Heaven's Gate also has its own deep-sea blue-skinned chubby one.

Rather than Aomo Lindun directly unboxing, even listing his skill set for you.

Such a terrifying informant is naturally rare; even Ultramen whose careers are spent fighting monsters may not possess such erudite and retentive foundations.

In fact, if not for Aomo speaking up, just relying on Kodala's skin, which has astonishing defensive and absorptive power, would be enough for Sai Luo to pull and tug for a while.

After all, he holds several high-energy-consumption modes of Ultraman; the Sai family's young master has, since long ago, had a mindset of conserving energy whenever possible—not to mention going all out at the start, even just activating a strengthened form at the outset depends on his mood.

——Since leaving Iga Chestnut Person, he no longer even has the habit of briefly cultivating an overlimit opening with Jie De.

Aomo also noticed this and thus called Jie De over. Compared to having high energy consumption, Sai Luo constantly pushes the Ultraman strength limit in his own way; this child Jie De has been smart since young, always at the forefront of borrowing power, and early on learned to use 'borrow and roll' to eliminate regular power consumption.

——When the borrowed power is exhausted, just switch to another borrowed power!

Although at the very beginning he once had the restriction of only being able to transform once a day, later it's unclear whether it was senile dementia forgetting he was senile and thus recovering, or simply relying on growth or excessive gene fusion to overcome this defect… In short, by the time of the theatrical version he had already forgotten this matter, and on the grand cosmic stage and other people's sets it was even less worth mentioning.

The young Ultraman, feeling no flaw at all, naturally immerses himself in the pursuit of strength, switching forms without hesitation, raising strength without delay; his guiding principle is like that of a certain legendary wanderer—since there are so many strength forms, spin the capsule wheel! Use it early, cooldown early!

Kodala certainly torments light-beam and melee combat styles, but aside from T0 contenders like Gurieza who prioritize universal law level, most monsters, especially those limited to planetary range, usually have their main advantages restricted.

Faced with such limitation, you either honestly fight mechanics, fight elemental reactions, or simply unleash power! When you crank output high enough, even a cosmic great monster like Belmosstan, which can devour most energy attacks, will someday be burst by beams, let alone Kodala, an Earth-native monster.

All that can be said is that early Ultraman TV productions didn't have so many god-head demon-face gimmicks, nor did they have the bad habit of cranking up combat intensity to compensate for poorly written drama in odd places.

Thus, when Kodala faces the later-emerging Ultraman productions where Sai Luo and Jie De Ultraman have fully inflated prestige, stats, and mechanics, it truly is confronting an opponent it cannot possibly defeat.

But dealing with a bit of plastic is always no problem.

At least he is one of the final bosses of the simple stats-and-mechanics era; capturing him before Sai Luo slays the escaped monster is still an easily achievable goal.

As for afterward…… either timely escape or swift defeat, Aomo waits for these two outcomes.

Yes, only two.

Although surrender appears in his hypothesis, it actually need not be considered, after all this is his personally conducted proof experiment.

And the so-called proof experiment had already established its conclusion before the experiment; merely to turn that conclusion into fact, he still needed to produce more than one key point capable of proving his conclusion from multiple angles.

Thus, when Sai Luo rushes to the sea area where the deep-sea dragon monster resides, only to encounter a clearly non-security blue-skinned chubby creature not belonging to the monster farm's personnel, his mood is quite good.

Because this is a major key that can determine much information.

First you must believe that the managers here have a covert cooperating action team, so as to ascertain that his work record is not pure, while also giving the Beast Sect's repeatedly severed leads some adhesive ground.

The black-clad bishop's communication code from Earth times comes from Heaven's Gate City; the abnormal monster-industry trades of Heaven's Gate City can be sought for clues in each farm, and the legal cases uncovered from the clues pointing to raptors and rainbow serpent puppets number several, with the fabricated ranch near the Okinawa islands in the ocean being just one, but for Aomo Lindun, whose true body trains nearby here, it is the lowest-cost investigative option.

It basically doesn't take much effort to test it a little.

If there's no reaction, then forget it; if there is a reaction……

then it is now.

From Aomo's perspective, everything proceeds smoothly to an unbelievable degree, like when you're short on money and idly draw a lottery ticket that wins, as natural as receiving a pillow when drowsiness strikes.

But the premise of winning by idly drawing a lottery ticket is that you must have bought at least one ticket.

In this world there are many who dream of getting rich overnight yet are too lazy to buy even a single lottery ticket; Aomo can fully put himself in their shoes, imagining if someone else were in his position, how far they could get in the aforementioned investigative progress——

Could they find clues to that factory?

Would they meet that big company's product manager?

Could they tamper with the breeding company's system here?

If ordinary people cannot do it, then this overly smooth coincidence would be a meticulously designed trap?

Would the other side have such understanding of oneself, even considering one's motive to change the festival's dull atmosphere, and further consider that one would seize the opportunity to kill two birds with one stone by conducting an experiment?

He thinks not.

Although from monster-related matters one often knows that ability can deviate from conventional wisdom, there might also exist the possibility of 'not getting to know you bit by bit, but directly defining your actions through channels like fate or causality,' but such consideration should serve as a contingency.

Rather than being a present-action directive.

At present, no sign of a total reversal has appeared yet; still operating under the previous version's considered direction, he can only await a genuine sense of reversal in a more private domain.

Then, what is meant by a private domain?

Don't forget, Xibiao Mountain is still holding its fireworks festival.

Aomo's own spatial transfer didn't even go far; he's merely at the edge of the forest where dozens of trees have been crushed by giant lobsters, gazing at the bay where Jie De flies off.

So——

He could still be found by certain women who value the festival more.

"…Trainer."

Just like the golden eyes now lighting up from the shadows of the dense forest.

Step by step approaching, when she walks into the soft light woven from stars and moon, the card clutched in the girl's hand first reflects a pattern of some inverted skull.

That is the inverted nautilus, and also the ruler of darkness.