Chapter 165

But strangely, these missing persons were discovered one after another yesterday.

When facing the Victory Team's questioning, everyone looked blank, saying that they had lost consciousness during this period.

It's just that they could vaguely feel that something was peeking at their memories and analyzing their emotions.

Moroboshi Dan felt that the Chaos Virus was interested in humans and wanted to understand humans, so it kidnapped them.

And Qi Ming knew more.

This is the content of episode 26 of "Cosmos," "The Power to Defeat the Chaos Virus."

In that episode, the Chaos Virus analyzed the human body and mind, and without relying on other monsters, it materialized on its own, hanging and beating Corona Cosmos.

Are we going to fight such an enemy soon... I hope other evil forces won't make trouble at that time, allowing me to fight one-on-one.

But in any case, the Chaos Virus at least returned the people.

Another evil existence that kidnapped children had no intention of returning them.

On the streets of Tokyo, an old beggar with a cane and ragged clothes was muttering, and a group of children surrounded him.

Arriving at the downtown area, he suddenly shouted:

"Open your eyes and look at this world! The end is coming, the death knell has rung!"

"No one can stop this trend, whether it is the holy Jesus Christ or the Buddha of India."

"Even all the gods in Japan cannot stop it! The end of the world is coming!"

His loud preaching attracted the attention of many people, but most adults just regarded him as a fool. After all, such remarks are very common in this hellish world.

There are even sects in Japan that worship the Root of Destruction, feeling that humans will inevitably be destroyed by the Root of Destruction.

But freedom of speech, the Japanese government can't do anything about them.

The old beggar suddenly sang and danced: "You all have to~ you all have to~ believe in me."

The children followed and danced as if they were possessed: "Oh! Believe in me~ Oh! Believe in me!"

The old beggar danced forward: "You all have to~ you all have to~ believe in me~"

The children also repeated this lyric and followed, following the old beggar to the seaside.

The old beggar stopped by the sea and asked the children: "Is the sea blue?"

The children said in unison: "It's blue!"

The old beggar: "Wrong! The sea is yellow!"

He saw him point his cane at the sea, and the originally blue seawater suddenly turned brown and yellow.

The children immediately said: "That's right, the sea is not blue, it's yellow!"

The old beggar continued to ask: "Is the mountain green?"

Children: "Yes, the mountain is green!"

The old beggar said again: "No, the mountain is tea-colored!"

He took his cane and pointed again, and the vibrant hillside nearby suddenly turned withered and yellow.

After showing his divine power, the old beggar sang and danced again: "You all have to~ you all have to~ believe in me."

The children immediately responded: "Oh believe in me~ oh believe in me!"

This extremely weird scene, like a cult scene, was happening all over Japan.

According to TPC's monitoring, basically every city had the figure of this old beggar.

They wore the same clothes, held the same cane, and said the same lines.

And after the children saw him, they would follow him involuntarily as if they were possessed, and then follow him to sing and dance.

This left the Staff Officers confused. How could old beggars with the same appearance appear in all parts of Japan at the same time?

Are they different old beggars who look similar and dress the same, or can he use the Shadow Clone Technique?

The Victory Team was immediately sent to investigate, and Qi Ming and Emi went together to investigate the old beggar in Tokyo.

The Dram car stopped at a cliff by the sea, Qi Ming and Emi opened the car door and walked out, looking at the old beggar and children singing demonic lyrics by the sea.

"Repeating 'believe in me,' is this the reincarnation of the Fox God?"

Qi Ming activated the 【See Through】 function to look—sure enough, it was the mimicry of the 【Yapool】.

Not only the old beggar, but this beach under the sea is also illusory; it is produced by the overlap of Yapool's Other Dimension and the real world.

Obviously, this is the content of episode 23 of "Ultraman Ace," "Flying to the Other Dimension."

In this episode, Yapool incarnated as an old beggar, like the Pied Piper in fairy tales, and kidnapped the children into the Other Dimension.

Thinking of this, Qi Ming decisively took out his Victory Hyper Gun and fired directly at the old beggar.

The gun fired, the laser hit, but it didn't hit the target.

The old beggar and the children disappeared abruptly from where they were, as if they had never existed, and the Victory Hyper Gun hit nothing.

"Team Member Qi Ming, is he an enemy?" Emi, who vaguely guessed Qi Ming's true identity, was not surprised by Qi Ming's sudden act of pulling out his gun.

"Yes, that is Yapool. He kidnapped the children into his Other Dimensional space," Qi Ming said.

The next moment, the beach below the cliff also disappeared and turned into the sea.

Yapool, who sensed Qi Ming's arrival, withdrew to the Other Dimensional space, and it returned to normal here.

"Don't dare to fight?" Qi Ming said.

In the original series, Hokuto, watching the children disappear, hurriedly came to the beach to scout.

As a result, the old beggar turned into a terrifying monster and sprayed fire, burning him. In pain, Hokuto abruptly returned to the real world from the illusory beach, rolling and falling off the cliff.

After returning to the base, no one in the TAC team believed his words except Minami Yuko, and they ridiculed him one by one.

Mikawa Noriko said Hokuto was daydreaming, Soldier Shan Zhong said Hokuto fell off the cliff in his sleep, and Konno (Bread) ridiculed Hokuto for being burned.

Everyone except Minami Yuko treated Hokuto as a madman, and the mid-term TAC team made no progress.

Recalling this, Qi Ming suddenly felt that compared to the TAC team, the atmosphere of the current Victory Team was not too bad; at least no one would question him now.

After returning to the Command Room, Qi Ming told the others about the matter.

Kishida: "A beach that doesn't exist in reality has become the boundary between Earth and the Other Dimension. The old beggar mimicked by Yapool kidnapped the children and returned to his lair from there, is that what you mean?"

Qi Ming: "Yes."

Soldier Shan Zhong: "It sounds unbelievable, but it makes people have to believe it. Now it's not just Japan; similar events have occurred in other countries."

The UK, France, Brazil... these countries also had old beggars from Japan.

He held the same cane, muttering, and the children disappeared with him.

No matter what method was used, these children could not be found.

Nagi Saijo: "If this continues, the children on Earth will all be taken to the Other Dimension."

Moroboshi Dan also had a serious expression: "This is a matter related to the future of mankind. We can no longer sit and wait for death."

Emi: "Captain, let's launch an attack on Yapool."

Moroboshi Dan: "I also want to attack, but... how to break into the Other Dimension?"

(End of chapter)