Chapter 998: NO．121：The Ancient Egyptian God Who Oversees Shipping

NO．121：The Ancient Egyptian God Who Oversees Shipping

Secret Key.

It can fully digitize all foundational information—energy, form, genes, etc. —of a giant lifeform, in order to create a precious instrument for manufacturing monster cards.

Regarded as a secret key capable of shaking the foundations of the existing source energy system.

Developed and refined independently by the leader of the small organization Gui Yuan Zhi Tang, it is now in its fourth generation.

As early as four months ago, updates were sent out according to the addresses provided by each organization member.

Worth noting——

Out of their own considerations, the addresses given by the members were all somewhat circuitous.

Only one member, who had been in an unboxing state from the start, directly gave their own office address.

Then, via Penguin Logistics' internal freight channel, it was delivered directly into that member's hands.

The fourth-generation secret key, improved toward being lighter, more efficient, and with more stable information compression.

Its appearance remains that of a metal tube entwined with dark red crystals.

But compared to the pose it had in the hands of the Monster King, which Aomo disparaged as 'the magic wand of an elderly magical girl,' it now usually looks like a pen.

Only when formally used does it quickly deform and elongate, becoming the short‑sword‑shaped instrument the thickness of a forearm in Aomo's hand.

Yet it remains a syringe; its method of use is akin to the long sword used by a certain café worker's transformation, both requiring pulling the sword hilt to activate.

At this moment, the countless red quartz crystals wrapped around the sword's spine serve as indicator lights for the energy‑gathering process.

The more vivid and dripping the color, the closer the secret key's energy tank is to its capacity limit.

That is, it's reminding you to hold back.

Either put the solidified information inside the secret key into a special container, or stop here—don't overfill and burst your belly.

When Aomo once showed difficulty facing the Infinite Pool, the solution he thought of was monster capsules.

Essentially the same as a Poké Ball, it has huge capacity enough to store an entire cargo monster, making it an excellent special container.

Aomo once applied for ten at the Land of Light Office; now nine are full, with one left holding the two meteorite prototypes for Burudon.

It's undeniable that he, who had moved the Infinite Pool with great vigor, once considered tossing Burudon out to free up new warehouse space.

But in the end he still kept it under control.

After all, it is a living four‑dimensional monster, its functional ceiling still quite high; in Aomo's mind it could once be placed alongside Geriza, and it wins by being far more controllable than Geriza.

Just this point alone is enough for Aomo to regain his sanity.

Thus the demon finally returned with nine monster capsules and a secret key whose capacity was nearing its limit.

But he, who had invited a crowd to watch, did not rush to pull the lever.

It was rare to have so many draw tickets, and rare to have so many people present; he decided to try adding a sense of ceremony, first waving at the sole Ultraman present.

"Sai Luo! Come try pulling this lever."

As everyone knows, whether capsules, cards, or medals, Ultraman warriors never participate in the production of monster‑related goods.

"That said, but can you just draw a card for me??"

Those monster seeds drawn from the Chaos Origin, although many are already developed, generally have their ability direction set (that is, they provide specific skill books for the Chaos Origin).

But the monster seed itself, as the core essence of a monster, has an existence that is rather ambiguous.

Simply put, it's hard to pin down to a specific monster.

In other words, this is because UP's classification range is too broad, so it can be regarded as a draw ticket for a random card pool.

This ultimately comes down to the 'luck' segment.

"Me? Are you sure?"

Originally intending to watch from the side and already preparing to mock Aomo's sinking, Sai Luo never expected to get a chance to pull the lever himself.

"Of course, go ahead and pull it down," Aomo said, turning to the others, "It's rare to have so many people; everyone can take turns trying."

Those who had saved up hundreds of draws spoke in a lavish way.

"Then we'll see who's luckiest and let them draw for us," Bi Ze said with a subtle expression, being very familiar with this setup, "Your draw machine won't still have a pity‑timer mechanism, will it?"

"Each draw mechanism depends on the input material," Aomo said, turning to look at the monster capsule temporarily inserted upside‑down into the machine's material port.

"This time's material……probably has no guarantee, so there's no pity‑timer."

"Then I'll draw first!" Sai Luo prepared to pull the lever.

However, at this moment, it was Bi Ze who shouted loudly:

"Don't rush!"

"I'll cut a song for you."

He said this, and amidst the bewildered gazes of everyone except Aomo, he took out his phone and played the song "The Burning Duelists".

"All right, you may draw."

Although he didn't quite understand, after pulling the lever Sai Luo saw a black weapon rise and compress on the other side of the machinery, condensing into a definite card form.

Hum~

The card box placed by Aomo next to the drawing machine responded with countless monster card replies; as Sai Luo lifted his hand to lift the card, his face first showed anticipation, then speechlessness.

"What the heck, Red King……is this just average?" He handed the card to Aomo.

Aomo picked it up, glanced at it, confirmed the design on the card face wasn't special, then lightly laughed and placed it into the open card box.

"It's indeed average, but being able to draw a card is already not bad; this machine occasionally exhibits the phenomenon of card collapse."

"So you can actually draw nothing at all?!" Bi Ze exclaimed in astonishment at the danger of this broken pool.

But frankly speaking, this should count as the danger of the Ultraman Universe.

Setting aside the Ultraman Universe's materials, the monster materials Aomo normally acquires, when making cards, have not only a not‑low success rate but also allow the source to be designated as the shipping target.

Only the broken card that Aomo initially rescued from the Hundred‑Body Monster, after being recovered and redrawn from the Seka Pool, still has an eighty percent chance of being a dud, making his draw record extremely ugly.

After all, the components inside the chaos origin are a bit too complex.

Aomo said, and then he saw Sai Luo pull the lever again; the card that formed this time directly showed cracks appearing, a very clear demonstration of failure.

With the base fixed, the more complex the components, the more they compress the proportion of other components.

"Could it be because the database wasn't updated?" the maiden of the Golden Ancient Bridge raised her hand and lightly tapped the instrument, "If the materials can't find matching monster data, the synthesis would indeed fail."

"It's a shame, this card pool has already been updated," Aomo raised his hand, pointing at the monitor beside him, where a large unfriendly face appeared directly, "With the help of that thing and Ancient Stand, the data for the DLC card pool named 'Ancient Stand Universe' has been entered."

"It's truly heartbreaking, Aomo, how can you address your former comrade like that?"

"Alexis Kailifu, that is the name of that large face."

"Once the danger passed, this guy immediately stopped maintaining that self‑hypnotized posture; the mouth‑full‑of‑justice branch chief turned back into a fugitive dodging capture, and even re‑entwined with Qian—more accurately, it should be said to be entwined with Aomo."

"This can be seen just from the fact that they leave the melon upstairs uneaten and come down to watch the card draw."

"Aomo thinks so."

"Good kids should play with good kids, bad bastards should be left to bad bastards to torment; in Dongyan this is called 'evil meets its match', so he needs to find a chance to introduce them to Evolto."

"But it can't be a plain introduction; we need to make Evolto interested in them."

"Otherwise it's easy to create trouble where one plus one is greater than three, which will come back to haunt oneself."

"That would be too much loss for no gain, just like Sai Luo has pulled the lever seven times now, and aside from the previous Red King, only a Leochubas has appeared…"

"Ancient Skin Monster"

"What the hell!"

"I'm letting you test your luck, not to have you become a relic!"

"The Cosmic Sea Beast Leochubas is fine enough; with Aomo's already‑held Eye Q, Meierba, and Super Gob, only a Golzan card is missing to restore the Five Emperor Kings that the Beast King once showed in hand—this is still worth looking forward to."

"But the Ancient Skin Monster that kids love most is just too divine."

"This card can only be used to amuse kids, right?"

"It can't even serve as a potential unlocker for Sai Luo..."

""Sai Luo, that's enough, switch to Gui She.""

""Huh? I want one too?""

""Just treat it as drawing lots.""

"Pushing Gui She forward, then calling forth the Ancient Skin Monster card—just as unexpected, but with Sai Luo showing a somewhat happy expression, Aomo was somewhat speechless."

""If you like it, I'll give it to you.""

""Eh… better not, my old man doesn't like me carrying this kind of stuff.""

""Isn't he himself using monster capsules all the time?""

""What's inside monster capsules is life, while cards are pure information; even some Ultramen in our clan think that monster cards like this are a desecration of life.""

""Ah, I get it!" the maiden of the Golden Ancient Bridge also chimed in, "My friends and I, as monster girls, occasionally run into newly arrived, very unfriendly Ultramen, and Jetton girl has been wondering whether you lot don't give any ideological guidance to newcomers at all.""

""Uh… the people in charge of registering this might indeed have missed that point," Sai Luo scratched his head a little embarrassedly, "I'll mention it to them later, but changing the monster card situation isn't something that can happen overnight.""

""Does my kind of card draw count too?""

""I think next time I talk with them I can use you as an example; before I could only use Gagula, and whenever I brought it up I'd always get pushed back—""

""Hey! Aomo! How can you even pull this card out?!""

"Suddenly interrupting the small talk here, Gui She held up a card radiating rainbow light, causing Aomo to narrow his eyes slightly to make out the pattern above."

"That was a very familiar pattern, and because it was familiar, he also froze for a moment."

"It is the word‑chewing monster Gagula."

"Its true form is still sleeping inside Chen's body; after experiencing the confession event at Dujuan Terrace High earlier, it began to sleep, and both Aomo and Chen felt that this was some kind of metamorphosis stage."

"Now, not by directly extracting its existence, but by using the monster seed within the Chaotic Origin Body to produce Gagula, it appears before Aomo's eyes."

"I'm very curious about how far it can go."