Chapter 130: The Monster's Childbirth

The scene was in total chaos, and the police officers felt a sense of disillusionment.

It was too sudden.

A new monster appeared "without warning," then the kidnapper died, and the hostage was left crippled.

In the face of a powerful monster, the grievances, entanglements, and love-hate relationships between humans were so fragile and vulnerable.

"I'll go save the hostage!" Although Shan Zhong disliked Yukiko, he still rushed into the fire without hesitation at this moment.

Qi Ming found a deserted spot, preparing to transform and take out both monsters at once.

But accompanied by a strange fluctuation, that "woman" wearing a yellow dress appeared again.

She was a vassal of that giant tiger, an existence like a "Chang Ghost," legendarily referred to as a "spirit."

"Just let Homugar be; don't worry about it," the female spirit said to Qi Ming with a cold face.

It was less of a request and more of an order.

"Don't worry about it? Let it destroy the city?" Qi Ming looked at the flaming giant tiger in the distance; it was currently hugging a gas storage tank and gnawing on it.

Female spirit: "No, you don't understand anything at all!"

It was the same riddle-like behavior as in the original series, but Qi Ming wasn't buying it.

"I understand everything; I just want to kill it." Qi Ming turned the dial.

"Qi Ming, what are you doing here!" Suddenly, Kishida found him: "There is a residential area near that fire-breathing tiger. Go help evacuate the citizens there."

"Alright." Qi Ming covered the watch with his long sleeve again, thinking that he indeed couldn't attack easily before the crowd was evacuated.

The yellow-clad spirit disappeared again; as long as Homugar's production wasn't hindered, she didn't care.

The Victory Feiyan team watched helplessly as the giant tiger sucked the gas storage tank dry and then collapsed into a deep sleep.

"A tiger, a giant bird—Tokyo has become a zoo."

After rescuing Yukiko, who had fainted from the pain, Shan Zhong looked at Homugar, then at Taro-Ches, feeling speechless.

"Is this tiger also a nocturnal animal?" Looking at the deeply sleeping Homugar, Kishida said: "Let's take it out while we can."

The Defense Force was already preparing to act, and the Victory Feiyan team certainly couldn't fall behind.

"Everyone, stop! This monster cannot be attacked lightly." At this moment, Emi's solemn voice sounded on the communication channel.

Kishida: "What's wrong?"

Emi explained: "According to the results of the radar scan just now, the heat inside the monster is constantly rising. If this continues, it will explode sooner or later due to excess heat."

"Attacking it lightly will trigger an early explosion, so we must ensure the citizens are evacuated to a safe range."

Saijo Nagi's voice appeared on the communication channel: "How big is the explosion range?"

Emi: "Let me see... this monster has the ability to blow up half of Tokyo!"

Once these words were spoken, everyone except Qi Ming shuddered.

They had thought Taro-Ches was already terrifying enough, but it turned out this one was even more heavy-duty.

Kishida hurriedly went to negotiate with Hiroyuki Hiiragi of the Defense Force; once the latter heard that such serious consequences could occur, he immediately ordered the soldiers below to stop.

Even as aggressive and warlike as he was, he didn't dare to gamble with Tokyo.

Hiroyuki Hiiragi paced irritably: "These monsters seriously threaten human survival and should all be eliminated! Yet you TPC want to set up some monster sanctuary!"

Kishida awkwardly defended: "This, just as people are divided into good and bad, monsters are also different; they cannot be treated the same way."

Hiroyuki Hiiragi still felt TPC was being whimsical: "You set up a monster sanctuary merely to please those weak citizens and win their support!"

Qi Ming glanced at him: "Stop using this as an excuse; your thoughts are irrelevant."

The conversation was fruitless, and both sides parted on bad terms.

Shan Zhong pulled on Qi Ming, who was closing his eyes to rest and waiting for the crowd to evacuate to a safe distance: "Member Qi Ming, quickly use your peerless deduction technique to tell us what to do!"

Qi Ming: "Have you heard of 【Homugar】?"

Shan Zhong: "Homugar? The creature from legends that triggers volcanic eruptions? It must have been made up by bored ancestors to fool children."

Today was another day of Shan Zhong's stable performance.

Emi, however, was thoughtful: "No, because I was interested, I specifically searched for information on this."

"Places where Homugar legends circulate clearly don't belong to volcanic zones, yet volcanic eruptions have occurred there."

Kishida: "A monster that forcibly modifies the environment? No wonder Tokyo has been so hot lately."

Emi: "By the way, in the legends about Homugar, every time volcanic activity occurred, it was during a full moon."

Moroboshi Dan: "Today is the full moon! Qi Ming, although this is an Earth monster, it has seriously endangered people's survival. We cannot sit idly by like we did with the giant turtle on Oulong Island!"

"But it's strange; it lived underground before, so why come up to the city? Wouldn't it be better to explode underground?"

Qi Ming: "This tiger is already pregnant; it came to give birth. This species' reproductive method is to transfer the energy of the explosion to the fetus, allowing new life to be born."

Emi: "No wonder two hearts were detected in the monster's body; it turns out it was pregnant!"

Saijo Nagi had always been willing to speculate about monsters with the worst malice: "No wonder every birth is accompanied by a volcanic eruption. Is this species' survival strategy to kill all creatures around the birth site so the young can safely pass through the juvenile stage?"

Qi Ming: "You could think of it that way. Anyway, this is definitely not a good thing; just kill it."

After confirming that the crowd in the monster's neighborhood had been evacuated, Qi Ming found a deserted spot again, preparing to transform.

The yellow-clad spirit appeared again to stop him, her tone full of disappointment: "Why don't you understand! Is Ultraman's power born only for fighting?"

Qi Ming's tone was cold and hard: "I understand very well, and you should stop pretending to be innocent; you started this."

If it were the classic trope where monster appearances were caused by underground development, there would still be room for debate.

But looking at the legends passed down to this day, this monster had always taken the initiative to enter human living areas to stir up trouble.

The spirit naturally didn't admit this: "My goal was clearly to let Homugar coexist with everyone!"

Qi Ming was almost amused to the point of laughter: "Coexist? Does that mean appearing in densely populated areas every time it gives birth, letting people's homes be buried for the sake of its child's birth?"

"What kind of coexistence is this? Isn't this humans being victimized unilaterally? Coexistence doesn't mean humans have to endure the ravages of barbaric monsters."

"If you really want coexistence, don't let it explode."

The spirit yelled at Qi Ming: "Why don't you understand? Humans also obtain life from their own mothers!"

After this whole basket of words, if it had been Zuo Da, he probably would have started to feel confused.

But Qi Ming didn't buy into this moral kidnapping at all. He turned the dial: "First, we humans don't blow up a city when we give birth."

He pointed the dial with Ultraman Gaiya's silhouette toward the spirit and said in the tone of an arbiter: "Second, now, with the power bestowed upon me by the Earth's will, I sentence you to death."

After speaking, he pressed the dial: "Ultraman Gaiya!"

(End of chapter)