[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-ultraman-arbitrary-key-dawn":3,"chapter-ultraman-arbitrary-key-dawn-ultraman-arbitrary-key-dawn-chapter-130":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Ultraman Arbitrary Key: Dawn",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2261347,4413,"Chapter 130: 126 Spirit Woman","ultraman-arbitrary-key-dawn-chapter-130",130,"\u003Cp>The scene was in chaos; the police felt utterly disillusioned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It happened too suddenly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A new monster appeared without warning, the kidnappers died, and the hostages were maimed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before the mighty monster, human grudges, loves, and hates were fragile and easily shattered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’ll save the hostages!” Though Yamaguchi disliked Yuriko, he still charged into the flames without hesitation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qi Ming found a deserted spot, preparing to transform and eliminate both monsters at once.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But with a strange ripple, the woman in the yellow dress reappeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was the subordinate of the giant tiger, a being like a “Chang Gui,” known in legend as the “Spirit.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Let Homugar remain as it is. Don’t interfere,” the female Spirit said to Qi Ming with a cold expression.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was less a request than an order.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Do nothing? Let it destroy the city?” Qi Ming glanced at the distant flame-wreathed tiger, which was gnawing on a gas storage tank.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The female Spirit: “No, you understand nothing at all!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Same cryptic nonsense as the original plot, but Qi Ming wasn’t fooled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I understand perfectly—I’m going to kill it.” Qi Ming turned the dial.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Qi Ming, what are you doing here!” Akihata suddenly appeared: “There’s a residential area near that fiery tiger—go help evacuate the civilians there.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Understood.” Qi Ming covered his watch with his sleeve again, thinking he couldn’t strike until the crowd was safely evacuated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Spirit in yellow vanished again; as long as Homugar’s production wasn’t disturbed, she didn’t care.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Victory Team watched helplessly as the giant tiger sucked the gas tank dry, then collapsed and fell into a deep sleep.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Tiger, giant bird—Tokyo’s turned into a zoo.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After rescuing Yuriko, who had fainted from pain, Yamaguchi stared at Homugar, then at Teroches, utterly speechless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Is this tiger also nocturnal?” Akihata said, watching the deeply sleeping Homugar: “Let’s kill it now.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Defense Force had already prepared to act; the Victory Team couldn’t lag behind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Everyone, stop! Don’t attack this monster lightly,” came Emi’s grave voice over the comms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Akihata: “What’s wrong?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Emi explained: “According to the latest radar scan, the monster’s internal heat is continuously rising. If this continues, it will eventually explode from overheating.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“A light attack might trigger premature detonation—ensure all civilians are clear of the danger zone.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nami Nishijo’s voice came over the comms: “How large is the blast radius?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Emi: “Let me check… this monster can blow up half of Tokyo!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At these words, everyone except Qi Ming trembled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They’d thought Teroches was terrifying enough—this one was even worse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Akihata hurried to negotiate with Defense Force’s Hiroyuki Hiiragi, who, upon hearing the potential consequences, immediately ordered his troops to stand down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if he was aggressive and warlike, he wouldn’t gamble with Tokyo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hiroyuki Hiiragi paced irritably: “These monsters pose a grave threat to human survival—they should all be destroyed! Yet TPC wants to create monster reserves!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Akihata awkwardly defended: “Well, just as humans are divided into good and bad, monsters differ too—they can’t all be judged the same.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hiroyuki Hiiragi still thought TPC was delusional: “You create monster reserves only to appease weak civilians and win their support!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qi Ming glanced at him: “Stop using this as an excuse—your opinions don’t matter.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Words failed to connect; the two sides parted on bad terms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yamaguchi tugged at Qi Ming, who sat with closed eyes, waiting for civilians to reach safety: “Team Member Qi Ming, use your peerless predictive technique to tell us what to do!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qi Ming: “Have you heard of Homugar?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yamaguchi: “Homugar? The legendary creature said to trigger volcanic eruptions? Just an old tale invented to scare children.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another day of Yamaguchi performing as expected.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Emi seemed thoughtful: “No—I once researched this out of curiosity.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Places where Homugar legends existed weren’t volcanic zones, yet volcanic eruptions still occurred there.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Akihata: “So it’s a monster that forcibly alters the environment—no wonder Tokyo’s been so hot lately.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Emi: “Also, in every Homugar legend, volcanic activity always occurred during a full moon.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Morishima: “Today is a full moon! Qi Ming, even though this is an Earth monster, it’s already severely threatening human survival—we can’t just ignore it like we did with the giant turtle on Oulongdao!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But it’s strange—it lived underground before. Why come up to the city? Why not just explode underground?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qi Ming: “This tiger is pregnant. It came here to give birth. This species reproduces by transferring explosive energy to the unborn offspring, enabling new life to be born.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Emi: “No wonder we detected two heartbeats inside the monster—it’s pregnant!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nami Nishijo, ever ready to assume the worst about monsters: “So that’s why each birth is accompanied by a volcanic eruption—the species’ survival strategy is to kill all nearby life so the hatchling can safely pass its juvenile stage?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qi Ming: “You can think of it that way. Either way, it’s not a good thing—kill it.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After confirming all civilians in the monster’s vicinity had been evacuated, Qi Ming found another deserted spot and prepared to transform.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Spirit in yellow reappeared to stop him, her tone filled with exasperation: “Why can’t you understand? Is Ultraman’s power meant only for fighting?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qi Ming’s voice was cold and hard: “I understand perfectly. And stop pretending innocence—you started this.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the monster had appeared due to underground development—a classic trope—there might be room for debate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But from the legends passed down through time, this monster has always actively entered human territories to provoke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Spirit denied it: “My goal is for Homugar to coexist with everyone!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qi Ming nearly laughed in anger: “Coexist? You mean each birth happens in densely populated areas, turning people’s homes into funeral pyres for its offspring?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What kind of coexistence is that? Isn’t this just humans suffering one-sidedly? Coexistence doesn’t mean humans must endure savage monsters’ rampages.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If you truly want coexistence, don’t let it explode.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Spirit shouted at Qi Ming: “Why don’t you understand? Humans themselves draw life from their mothers!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After this flood of words, even Kanami might be confused.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Qi Ming was unmoved by this moral blackmail—he turned the dial: “First, when humans give birth, we don’t blow up a city.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He turned the dial, bearing the silhouette of Gaia, toward the Spirit, speaking with the tone of an arbiter: “Second, I now use the power granted me by the Earth’s will to sentence you to death.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He slammed the dial: “Gaia!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1069,"2026-06-19T16:40:33.318Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","92d86dcd7d56650a7092469446e21050dc3e41dd658b20c73922740bc27235b7","ultraman-arbitrary-key-dawn-chapter-131","ultraman-arbitrary-key-dawn-chapter-129",547,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fultraman-arbitrary-key-dawn-cover.jpg"]