Chapter 354: NO.117: Karu Qishou, Difficult to Handle Thorny Hand

Weird Badger: 【Great news! The merchant went in again! Three times! Three times!】

Lincoln: 【Insider info—he's getting locked up for 40 years】

Weird Badger: 【For elves, 40 years isn't that long, is it?】

Kanlong: 【Anyway, don't expect me to fish again—this year's out of the question】

Magic Dragon: 【Given what happened last time, the prison side is probably setting an ambush for Kanlong—so not going is the wise move】

Moriarty: 【While scavenging goods in the building, I got trapped by Ultraman's energy shield, couldn't escape in time, and got caught by the police—uh, is this maybe a bit too ridiculous?】

Outsider: 【Though it's absurd, his words are actually acceptable】

Yuan Gongjun: 【How's Lincoln doing over there? That original deck of his looks like a heavy burden】

Magic Dragon: 【Such a total victory—even with side effects, we should wrap it up fast, right? He's got two Ultramen as teammates—what can't that alien titan crew do?】

Magic Dragon: 【By the way, how many people are at the exhibition now? Want to grab a meal together?】

Lincoln: 【I've got a scheduling conflict on my end, so I won't come】

Kanlong: 【I'm still wanted】

Outsider: 【I'm swamped】

Magic Dragon: 【…Yuan Gongjun?】

Yuan Gongjun: 【I've got plans too—came to attend the monster exhibition. Everyone does some process planning, more or less, right?】

Magic Dragon: 【Boring—I'm one of the organizers and I've got free time!】

Lincoln: 【It's because Area B got completely destroyed, so you're just lounging around now, huh?】

Magic Dragon: 【Even if you can guess it, don't say it out loud—people need to learn tact】

Magic Dragon: 【Also, can you help get those two Ultramen's autographs? A bunch of my staff are apparently huge fans of them】

Lincoln: 【One or two copies are fine, but more than that? No way】

Yuan Gongjun: 【Cherish the opportunity, Lincoln—Lipia and I really don't get along】

Yuan Gongjun: 【Got a conflict? Kinda hard to stomach, plus back when I was fishing for Xinbo at the interstellar graveyard, I accidentally snagged him and pulled him up—led to some unpleasant misunderstandings】

「……」

Aomo's fingertip paused.

Hella impressive.

Xinbo, in the Ultraman universe, is a resident spirit monster of the monster graveyard—low aggression, only 40 meters tall (a small fry), but still weighing 30,000 tons—in Yuan Gongjun's words, it's as easy as fishing by the riverbank.

And then he fished up Lipia—still okay?

Aomo seriously doubts he's in the air force.

Rumor has it that air force guys will do anything to hide the fact that they're actually in the air force.

At the same time, even though they can't catch what they want, they end up hauling in all sorts of random junk.

Of course, calling Lipia random junk is pretty rude, so Aomo just cut off that line of thought.

Then he saw the screen flash with a new message:

Magic Dragon: 【One copy is fine! The rest I'll just copy and print!】

Weird Badger: 【…Isn't that a bit too half-assed?】

Magic Dragon: 【I'm happy to help them get autographs—don't push your luck with the boss! Also, Lincoln, you sign one too】

Lincoln: 【?】

Magic Dragon: 【? What? You need to be aware you're a public figure now—you've got fans, whether from these news reports or that villain poll】

Lincoln: 【…I'd rather this fame show up in my mercenary and trainer career】

Magic Dragon: 【I don't know much about the trainer side, but mercenaries… have you actually been working?】

Lincoln: 【I'm studying—trying to bump up my merc rank】

Magic Dragon: 【Oh… then keep at it, and hey—don't forget to sign!】

Autographs and all that…

Aomo silently turned his head, looking at Lipia, who was holding a menu, slightly tilting her head as she listened to Kai speak nearby.

Those two were still chatting about their past battle—more about sharing combat experience than reviewing it, since for Ultraman and Lipia, Gertiza is still a pretty unfamiliar monster type.

Even Bi Ze, sitting beside Lipia, could only suppress his urge to chime in.

As a fan of both Ultraman and Lipia, he was thrilled to be eating at the same table as his 'idol'—but also dying inside from nervous excitement.

The more he cared, the more careful he became—so he acted like he'd suddenly come down with a sickness: hands dangling uselessly, mouth opening and closing like he wanted to speak but couldn't.

At this table, he really was that awkward.

Because on his other side was Shi Huaiya, head down, poking at her phone.

And next to Shi Huaiya was Ailesuzi, then Aomo, Xin Tianqi, and finally the witch beast who'd just arrived in reality—invited to dinner by Aomo—sitting directly across from him.

This seating arrangement put a thick barrier (x between him and Aomo.

Normally he knows plenty of people in class and is pretty socially gifted, but today's table? Nobody here lets him use his social skills.

So he just kept sitting there, awkward as hell, his mind a total mess.

—Plus, he still hadn't recovered from that earlier flood of image-heavy posts.

Looking at how he'd played two rounds, suddenly his buddy had Red Kai and God Eternal Shinji beside him, then a few minutes later, an Alien Baltan showed up with a whole gang of monster girls, bowing and thanking them—felt like this whole thing was getting weirdly complex.

Aomo's reception was polite and spot-on, but Bi Ze just stared blankly at the scene, then, prompted by Shi Huaiya, opened the temporary forum for the monster exhibition.

And there he saw page after page of image-heavy posts.

Flipping through them, he heard gasps from around him, looked up—and saw a suit-wearing Jetton alien leading a group of his kin over.

All of them had the Jetton Company logo pinned on their chests.

Same gratitude, but now with gifts.

Holding an exquisitely wrapped gift box were the Hyper Jetton and the Cosmic Terror Jet, whom he had only seen on the map not long ago, now in life-sized form walking over, causing Bi Ze, who stood beside Aomo, to instinctively hold his breath.

Shocked, with a hint of confusion.

Compared to these two deities appearing in the form of 1.8 or 1.9 meters tall and approaching, he was more concerned about how Jet's rebellious nature ended up mixing with the Alien Babar.

Are not he and Hyper Jetton both creations of the Alien Babar?!

Moreover, Jet even turned around and defeated the Alien Babar, issuing the declaration: 'I will not obey anyone's orders. I follow my will, and I will destroy all Ultramen.' He also possesses the ability to control all Jettons, including the Jetton aliens.

This terrorist plus terrorist weapon honestly holding a gift box, with the leader still being the faceless Jetton alien?

What kind of bizarre dream is this?

From that moment on, Bi Ze wanted to slap himself.

But he feared the pain and hadn't done it yet, leaving it until now.

The overwhelming amount of information and astonishing abnormality left him dazed, and even after following Aomo's group to the restaurant and sitting down, Aomo still asked if anything was wrong.

The aliens' acceptance ability seems not as invincible as he imagined; rather, Bi Ze's wild imagination in his mind is still built upon all knowledge, not truly baseless fantasy.

What makes him unable to understand is not the unknown, but the contradiction of known information.

However, Aomo did not rush to explain it to him.

There was also nothing much to explain, as the development, process, and outcome of the matter had already been organized by someone into posts, with details supplemented by others, and even screen recordings and sharp critiques existed.

Jetton Company even used the privilege of being one of the organizers to post a small announcement on the forum, explaining the entire event while also informing that the building reconstruction would be completed soon.

The two-day exhibition will not end due to a single large-scale destruction.

Although the land in Area B has already suffered greatly, with contemporary technology it is not impossible to achieve rapid infrastructure construction.

Moreover, many monsters are quite suitable for such work.

This is not without being a kind of product display opportunity.

Thus, not only are Jetton Company's own monsters contributing, but other booths' 'enthusiastic' assistance is also present.

The infrastructure team was bustling with activity, while Aomo's group found a restaurant on the spot, chose a private room on a high floor, and could still vaguely see the land of Area B in the distance.

There were also the giant monster engineering teams, whose distance made their visual effect as small as ants.

"Kai, we ordered two dishes; you take a look and see if anything needs to be added."

Kai's call caused Aomo to turn his head from the window, and at a glance he saw Kai's gaze fall on Suzi beside him.

Do even Ultramen know that horse girls have big appetites?

Aomo glanced at the little girl staring at the tablet beside him, responded to Kai with a sound, and also picked up the electronic menu to browse the dishes.

The restaurant at the monster exhibition naturally features monster-themed dishes, although it is clearly adapted for ordinary humans as well—

——with small-print labels, containing many names of Earth dishes.

But apart from that, more are rather bizarre—such as the dish name 'Braised Double-Tailed Monster'.

But seeing Kai order that, Aomo tentatively still believed in the other's taste buds.

After all, this person, when wildly eating Earth people's fried noodles on TV, seemed so happy that his sense of taste is probably not far from that of Earth people.

As for Lipiya……

The energy creature composed of the invincible Spacium-133 atom, generally does not need normal eating, and his current ordering should be the influence of temporary human life, so tentatively we can believe he also has human taste.

So he wants to pick up a pen, cross out a few dishes whose names look very dark.

"Eh? I'm really looking forward to it!"

The Xin Tiaoxi Dun beside him, who was leaning in, dissatisfiedly said, and Aomo was not surprised at all.

Although the menu list does not mark which dish was ordered by whom, but certain items with particularly special names are not hard to guess who made the move.

"You better be responsible for finishing what you ordered."

"Um… can't Xiao She help? Doesn't Suzi Jiang also order braised Yibila!"

"?"

Just now, being stared at by Kai without reacting, the extremely tablet-focused Ailisuzhi, upon hearing Xin Tiaoxi's words, immediately lifted her head.

"……That's imitation Yibila! No radiation!" Glancing at Aomo's fingertip pausing point, she understood what had happened, Suzi was ashamed to be with Xie, but just as she was refuting, suddenly her tone shifted: "Guinea Pig君, is your panel missing something?"

"What could be missing?"

Aomo silently crossed out the baked eggs Xin Tiaoxi ordered, then turned to look at the tablet Suzi handed over.

"Monster cards! Monster cards! Jetton Company gives three monster cards!"

"Jetton, Gomora, Bemstar—value is not low." Aomo said calmly.

In fact, the total value is actually higher than the reward given by the police side.

Know that these three cards are not one-time monster cards; this type of reusable, self-charging original card has always been priceless yet without a market.

Precisely for this reason, the secret key held by Gui Yuan Zhi Tang is practically a wealth key.

Find one monster and you can produce monster cards yourself; merchants are just doing this highly profitable business.

The technology for producing monster cards is not monopolized, but a small device plus a monster can produce temporary, long-term, and permanent three types of monster cards, and the time cost is extremely short—

——Such efficiency is truly enviable.

Once exposed, it would be quite troublesome.

Look at Gui Yuan Zhi Tang currently being on the blacklist of most enterprises, and look at the monster exhibition forum having many posts discussing whether the secret key held by arrested merchants will be auctioned off by law—

Then you can understand why Aomo hides his own counterfeit when he draws it.

Drawing Behemoth is even done through official channels, and those in the know will keep it secret.

And while in battle secretly giving a needle to the materialized Gertiza, Zha, then it is even more necessary to be extremely careful.

One must also take advantage of the chaos at the siege scene to muster courage, seize the opportunity, not dare to act too obviously, and also be careful that when everyone is not slacking, you slacking gives the opponent a chance to absorb you.

A Gertiza monster card with usage limits left Suzi unable to obtain it, so she could only bury her head in looking at Aomo's other gains.

It lay silently on the top layer of Aomo's card box.

Not for easy use, but for easy lifting of a finger at any time.

To suppress that void vortex that made him labor mentally and exhaust his thoughts.