Chapter 784: with translation of chapter title

NO．153：Irresistible Home

Using the analytical power of mechanical monsters is quite a mentally taxing operation.

The degree of consumption depends on the specific amount of operation.

And if overused, it naturally affects one's physical condition.

Not to mention smoke rising from one's head, when the head actually ignites to test the body's regenerative capacity, that's when it's most exhausting.

When you can get others to help, don't be polite, don't push yourself—among the advice given by seniors at the workstation, this sentence is undoubtedly solid advice.

Not only does it apply to work, but also to interpersonal relations, and even to life.

……

For Aomo, matters involving monsters, Hei'an, and Ultraman are work, interpersonal relations, and life.

So the answer is obvious:

Rather than doing it yourself, it's better to hand it over to the police to screen for you.

The professional criminal investigators' sense of smell is naturally trustworthy, though they usually won't accept one's employment.

But there are always more ways than difficulties.

Even if the criminal investigation department and the People's Court are as isolated from the Two Worlds Safety Bureau and the police information department as mountains apart, with no convenient interpersonal channels for communication—one can still package it as official business and then have one's police friends help coordinate.

「This may be your first lesson, Mr. Jie Si Ti Si。」

The terminal reading the storage projects an image; besides those frames of footage and audio, it also transforms again into a fighter form, but it's a tiny special agent hovering in the lower left corner of the screen.

Looking at it, the small cockpit glass, like an input method skin, emits a rather murky halo, seeming not optimistic.

But that is actually just his standby state.

It is also called a half-dreaming, half-awake state.

It is the state where he recovers stamina, absorbs data to repair himself, while his consciousness sinks to the underlying layer, yet the audio-visual recording function remains normally active.

So facing his state, even if he gets no response, Aomo is willing to 'talk to himself'.

「Not only Ultraman Jack can be your comrade, nor only children can respond to your call。」

「I believe you are not unaware of this, but if you worry about implicating or burdening comrades, you simply need to choose warriors already on the battlefield。」

「The police of this world are undoubtedly such beings, including cyber surveillance officers, far from the frail humans you once imagined。」

He said, drawing another window in the corner of the huge projection, with rapidly jumping text recording the location and time—

—On the big screen being projected at this moment, a dark-red crystal resembling Belial's eye crystal has already appeared.

【Do you have half a ton of demon fragments on hand?】 the police asked.

They obviously wouldn't be ignorant of this; even without looking at Ultraman, they would know the criminals' knowledge and goods.

【Hmm, but they're all at headquarters; the superiors are preparing to trade with the buyer on the 26th, paying in full at once.】 answered by Batem, who has an unclear black bar code.

【Don't you care how the buyer will use it? That's half a ton.】

「Half a ton…」 beside Aomo, the expression of Iga Li Ren is solemn and serious, while Chao Cang Lu unconsciously tenses his body, as if facing the crystal called 'demon fragment' head-on.

It possesses the power to frenzy and strengthen monsters, and can even revive dead monsters—the special crystal called 'demon fragment' is exactly the cell factor lost when Ultraman Belial suffered injuries in multiple battles.

Or rather, it originally was a cell factor.

They evidently underwent some chemical transformation in the universe, ultimately becoming the dark-red hard crystal seen in the image.

What he has encountered are usually palm-sized, but occasionally they reach an astonishing size that an Ultraman's palm can grasp, like those from the giant beasts Belial has incarnated into.

In Belial's tumultuous war career, there have been several records of incarnating into massive bodies, one of which is the Hundred-Body Monster—far superior in specification and completeness to the original Moon-Charge Symbol.

The second is Arc Belial—its volume is less than the Hundred-Body, yet its combat power surpasses it; gripping Sai Luo feels like squeezing a figurine, a giant beast standing 300 meters tall and weighing tons.

It is also a major theoretical producer of demon fragments.

To be frank, Aomo really wants to test their collection on Qian, to see the limit of that frenzied energy, and also to check the effect of revival.

But no matter how you say it, that counts as part of Chao Cang Lu's father's remains, and the latter came precisely to handle these things.

So he hardly ever has such an opportunity.

Of course, if there truly are demon fragments, he can fully believe: those who want to study that thing are certainly not just him.

Not to mention Qian and Suzi, those who trade it should also have some understanding of its nature and function.

They certainly wouldn't buy it just as a decoration.

So research materials and reports like these always have somewhere to look, and one can even speculate about the technical bureau data of the Ultraman Kingdom's office—compared to ethics, he absolutely does not believe that when the demon fragments were first discovered, Ultraman Segar had not analyzed them.

【Don't care, we have plenty more; even if the buyer uses it all to strengthen monsters, they can't outdo us in black-on-black.】

【More? Did you obtain fragments of Ultraman Belial's corpse?】

【Unclear; we also have many who suspect that, but the technical base guards the information tightly.】

【Where is the technical base?】

【No one knows; the technical base crew changes location each time they trade with us.】

【Have you never tried reverse-tracking in communications?】

'The risk is too high, but you already have the communication records, right? You can try to analyze… artificial Belial? That's also an old rumor of the technical base; we're not sure, but considering they can scoop up so many demon fragments, I'm willing to believe it's true, haha—can you tell me what expressions Ultraman Jie De and Sai Luo would have?'

……

Silently recording the time and label location of the information on demon fragments and artificial Belial in the text file, Aomo glanced at Sai Luo and Chao Cang Lu with the corner of his eye, and saw Sai Luo also looking at Chao Cang Lu—the young man being watched by both—his expression showed no change.

Only his fist unconsciously clenched, causing the metal box on Aomo's body to vibrate slightly.

It is a card, with one-quarter of the monster cards trembling, responding to the surge of Belial's son's emotions, also like proof of his talent as a Leo Nexus.

But their vibration lasted only a few extremely short seconds.

It wasn't that Chao Cang Lu had sorted out his emotions, but rather Aomo had already slipped his hand into his pocket.

That palm, slightly calloused, lightly pressed against the box lid, thus gently letting them return to calm.

Compared to that anger surging like underground magma.

Still that heavier, quieter, deeper Hei'an, which makes them heed the call.