Chapter 1843: with translation of chapter title

NO. 458: Three minutes to launch a theatrical film.

NO. 458: Three minutes to launch a theatrical film.

Three minutes.

Just as the Beast Cult's senior members are extremely professional and adept at responding, they themselves are also racing against the clock.

Ormond Linton's emergency response is equally efficient and extremely swift.

The only embarrassing thing is——this is an accident.

Yes.

Although he had already mentally prepared to take the initiative and flip the table from the outset, physical preparation still took time. Originally, the plan was to first determine what the high priest values most, then gradually scheme, devising a thorough and flawless table-flipping plan, but…

The result was that he briefly lost focus, and the Star-Eater Ghidorah sprang into action, gulping down the water-filled glass tanks around him, and the alarm instantly blared at full volume.

For any other infiltration job, the fiend would be confident in suppressing the alarm system and erasing evidence, but while the Beast Cult's lifestyle is like sewer rats, their actual technology and resources are truly like sewer crocodiles, putting Ormond's reality-warping monster ability—which is a dimensional strike compared to ordinary forces, companies, and organizations—on rare equal footing, even leaving him somewhat stretched.

There's nothing we can do.

The network here also runs on the core of mechanical monsters; Gilbalis's power cannot be tampered with without leaving clear traces—his route upon arrival was completely exposed under cameras, and he would inevitably be seen by the control room staff.

Still, if this were the monitoring post of another organization or company, he could hope for employees to slack off, giving him some leeway to delete records.

But the fiend's biggest impression of the Beast Cult is that, although their thinking is not human-like, they carry out their duties more conscientiously than most people, leaving no room for carelessness or oversight.

This is likely also a manifestation of their survival instinct; Ormond knows they are used to fleeing, and the better their current situation, the less they want to return to the past when police would kick down their doors at any moment. Even if they initially gain the upper hand, any extra police deployed later will only serve to continually stress that there is no living space for them here.

But before that, can they claim they have never deprived others of living space?

It's merely a link in the chain of cause and effect; Ormond Linton won't think that much.

He will only, at the instant he snaps back and notices the alarm, realize the situation is irreversible, and the only recourse is to go with the flow, whereupon he immediately launches his thoughts and actions.

Especially actions carried out through the network as a medium.

First, contact the police.

Although the Beast Cult's status as an extradimensional organization is enough to get him to mobilize the Two-World Safety Bureau, but… after just assigning people a high-risk mission late at night, causing a group to work overtime, assigning another high-risk mission—never mind interpersonal impressions, just manpower is hard to reallocate; it would be better to consider the police station that has long been cooperating with the Safety Bureau and the Two-World Safety Bureau on Heaven's Gate City's security, which once fell behind.

To clarify: 'falling behind' here refers to merit and social standing.

Handling both real-world and otherworldly border entries, these two law enforcement departments often get dragged into mega-sized heinous cases; being stationed in such a remote place as Heaven's Gate City truly brings a constant stream of good and bad news, giving them a presence that peers in other districts cannot match.

Although the police side is likewise a benchmark that colleagues in other districts look up to, compared to these two locally they still fall far short.

Given the countless variables of volunteer police in the locality, officers' merits are often diluted, so you can see that the promotion speed of local workers Xingxiong and Chen Huijie is more than ten times slower than that of Shi Huaiya in the Junction Gate area.

Ormond? Never mind Ormond, because in terms of promotion significance, whether or not Ormond caused the rank is the same, since the Special Ops Director has already reached the limit of her age group and interpersonal relationship stage; after this, the achievements she has accumulated may still push progress a bit, but to go further——

One can only wait out seniority.

The merit opportunities that Ormond brings mainly serve to pave a smooth path for her future, and to allow her subordinates in the Special Ops to also accumulate astonishing merit—no matter which direction everyone develops in the future, that gratitude will remain with Ormond's girlfriend, Shi Huaiya, and is also part of laying out future interpersonal relationships.

And at present, before that, Ormond Linton is willing to bestow fortune upon his girlfriend's female friends.

It doesn't matter if they don't come in person; better yet, avoid accidents. The fiend only needs them to receive and report information in their personal names, so whether providing information or performing meritorious acts, they can sign for themselves, and all he wants is the police's blockade technology.

Regarding the 'land enclosure movement' at crime scenes, Heaven's Gate City's police are not inferior to the Two-World Safety Bureau.

They have top-tier latest equipment, and moreover an extremely professional barrier-mage team, used to cut off the Beast Cult's retreat, which is ideal, but this preparation obviously cannot stop here.

Just as his reason for asking the police for help is the Beast Cult's criminal stance—being unregistered illegal immigrants, plus numerous crime records from Gilbalis's instantaneous sweep, especially the human experiments by the development department and various assaults, looting, and confidential theft by the execution department, which is enough to elevate it from a low-offense smuggling organization straight to an interstellar wanted-criminal level.

Such a justification for justice can sway not only the local police bureau of the corresponding subspace region.

Especially since the Beast Cult itself is an organization armed with monster power, its labels are virtually comprehensive: they modify monsters, they cruelly kill monsters to harvest containers, and they even attempt to breed and replicate monsters as biological weapons—whether you want to protect monsters, stop them, or simply defeat them……

They can all come kicking down the door!

Therefore, in keeping with Heaven's Gate City's local character, within less than three minutes, a notice issued under the official number of Ormond Linton's mercenary agency appeared on a network platform unknown to the Beast Cult.

It was then retweeted by Ormond Linton's trainer account, and within tens of seconds Ormond notified Shi Huaiya, Hol Haiya, etc., via chat window to forward and spread it.

—To avoid giving the horse girls some subtle rhythm, he specifically told his subordinate horse girls not to retweet, but Sirius is irrelevant.

She, who has tasted both victory and defeat in Heaven's Gate City, pressed retweet without pressure, and then there was a strange prompt from Ormond's watchlist:

Does speed symbolize a retweet?

？

After failing to stop Sirius, he got distracted trying to persuade Luna not to follow bad habits—how did the older generation end up intervening?

What are you doing? You're putting on that old-person act—can't you just play it properly?

Forget it, a retired old household head doing this should be fine… Ormond, thinking optimistically, truly anticipates the main focus is not the countless potential 'righteous interveners' in Heaven's Gate City.

Drafting a timed document is trivial for the fiend with boosted computing power; the real focus is still that office of the Light Nation, rarely involved in Heaven's Gate City's law enforcement, hanging high above near-Earth orbit.

There are dangerous monsters, evil extradimensional thugs, and moreover a united joint struggle!

A grand battle that both Ultraman Seiji and Ultraman Zed's seniors—who are unquestionably seniors in the office's eyes, even arguably star idols—will participate in!

What are you still waiting for?

If you're late, you'll have no material to brag about when returning home!

(End of chapter)