[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-ultraman-arbitrary-key-dawn":3,"chapter-ultraman-arbitrary-key-dawn-ultraman-arbitrary-key-dawn-chapter-21":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},2261238,4413,"Chapter 21: 20","ultraman-arbitrary-key-dawn-chapter-21",21,"\u003Cp>“Hurry up, go find Nishijō and the others!” Zhu Xingtuan jumped to his feet as soon as he sensed trouble.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But when he turned back, he found Qi Ming leaning back in his chair, motionless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What are you waiting for?” Zhu Xingtuan was frantic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Waiting for them to come to me,” Qi Ming said calmly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qi Ming asked: “Captain, do you know Journey to the West?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhu Xingtuan had some familiarity with it, but didn’t understand why Qi Ming brought up this classic now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qi Ming continued:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“During the episode of ‘Three Strikes Against the White Bone Spirit,’ Tang Sanzang was deeply frustrated with Sun Wukong’s disobedience.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“In his view, all three disciples were celestial beings sent to earth—fighting demons and eliminating evils was something Sun Wukong could do, but so could Zhu Bajie and Sha Seng.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The latter two were obedient, so he constantly tormented Sun Wukong and used the White Bone Spirit incident to drive him away.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The next demon easily overpowered the pilgrimage team without Sun Wukong, captured Tang Sanzang and made him suffer, forcing Zhu Bajie to go to Flower-Fruit Mountain for help.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“After that, Tang Sanzang became much wiser and never dared to question Sun Wukong again—the pilgrimage’s efficiency improved greatly. Isn’t that exactly what you want, Captain: ‘harmony among us all’?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhu Xingtuan stared wide-eyed: “You, you...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qi Ming spread his arms inside the prison: “Right now, I’m right here in this ‘Flower-Fruit Mountain,’ waiting quietly for my ‘fellow disciples’ to arrive.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…………………………\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before the machinery room, Nishijō Nagi saw the smart lock stop working and decisively pulled out the Victory Hyper Gun to forcibly destroy the lock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dr. Yuushima, who had just been about to flee, froze as the door swung open—he had assumed the system shutdown would buy him enough time to escape.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nishijō Nagi aimed her gun at the doctor and advanced step by step: “Dr. Yuushima, you did this, didn’t you! Why did you do it?!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After seeing the situation before him, Dr. Yuushima no longer panicked: “Qi Ming isn’t here. With just you few...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Be careful!” Tongshan, a staff officer who had fought on the front lines, warned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Mountain Team, don’t kill him—just disable him,” Nishijō Nagi said grimly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Understood.” The sharpshooter from Mountain Team drew his gun and fired.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next instant, a woman in black, wearing sunglasses, appeared abruptly before Dr. Yuushima and raised a gray energy barrier to block the shot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the [Allies] of the Bila aliens on Earth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“There’s another alien!” The group quickly pulled out their guns and aimed at the two.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Aliens? We are the true Earthlings,” the woman in sunglasses said in a low voice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What?” Tongshan flinched, instantly thinking of [Ma Erte].\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Waaoh!” The woman in sunglasses didn’t waste words—she let out a piercing shriek. The terrifying sonic waves forced everyone present to cover their ears, but only Nishijō Nagi could grit her teeth and fire back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though she missed, the sunglasses woman was genuinely surprised.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No need to tangle with them—we have more important things to do,” said Dr. Yuushima.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sunglasses woman nodded and escorted Dr. Yuushima in retreat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tongshan: “Don’t let them escape!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He led his team in pursuit, but the woman’s intermittent shrieks disrupted their advance, widening the gap until they were about to lose sight of them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next instant, a shocking change occurred.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Shhh!” As Dr. Yuushima and the sunglasses woman passed through a corridor, a flash of snowy-white blade light appeared around the corner.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sunglasses woman’s right arm was severed in one stroke; she screamed in agony, and her sunglasses flew off in the pain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under the dim emergency lighting, Nishijō Nagi and the others behind saw that her face had no eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This horrifying sight froze them in place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tongshan, experienced and well-traveled: “Degenerated eyes... Could this be the legendary subterraneans?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It’s the Zuluk aliens—it came too!” Eimi cared more about the creature lurking around the corner who had attacked the sunglasses woman—it was the Zuluk alien who had escaped earlier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This alien, who delighted in killing, had infiltrated the base during its paralysis and joined the chaos.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing the sunglasses woman, it had struck out of impulse, slashing her and nearly knocking her unconscious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the Zuluk alien didn’t press the attack—it had spotted Eimi, the one who had shot it that day, and wanted revenge first.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It came right to us!” Mountain aimed his gun at it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In his view, this alien—easily driven off by just Qi Ming and Eimi—wasn’t dangerous.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But after firing two shots, the Zuluk alien suddenly swung its twin blades—cutting the Victory Hyper Gun’s bullets clean in half.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What the hell?!” Mountain couldn’t believe it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next instant, the Zuluk alien moved so fast it left afterimages as it charged forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At such close range, firing was impossible—Nishijō Nagi could only grit her teeth and engage in hand-to-hand combat for two exchanges, barely avoiding being split in two.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing the iron door slashed to ruin, Nishijō Nagi immediately shouted: “Fall back! Find Qi Ming—only he can handle this thing!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After being personally humiliated, she now had a visceral understanding of Qi Ming’s power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kishida reluctantly said: “Can’t we manage without him?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though it wounded his pride, he felt the wild, oppressive aura radiating from the advancing Zuluk alien and stepped back involuntarily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eimi: “Team Kishida, Dr. Yuushima falsely accused Qi Ming just to exclude him—we can’t let the enemy succeed.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her words gave them a face-saving excuse; they retreated toward Qi Ming’s prison while using gunfire to hold off the Zuluk alien.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dr. Yuushima, meanwhile, took advantage of the chaos to bring the severely wounded sunglasses woman to the command room, manually activating the base’s self-destruct system.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Self-destruct sequence initiating—countdown: six hundred seconds.” The announcement made even Qi Ming sit up straight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sea base was going to self-destruct?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Qi Ming, no more waiting!” Zhu Xingtuan growled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I know. Before my train home departs, I won’t let these aliens turn this ‘waiting room’ into chaos.” Qi Ming prepared to change his plan and enter the fray directly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, Nishijō Nagi and the other four, fighting their way backward, reached the prison area.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Qi Ming, the Zuluk alien is here—right behind us!” Eimi explained immediately, with no hesitation in seeking Qi Ming’s help.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Quick, get him out—no, the prison door is a sliding track system, no lock, can’t open without mechanical control,” Kishida cried, drenched in sweat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No wonder it came to this—so he’s here too. Perfect. Let’s wipe them all out at once.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qi Ming reached out and easily bent two thick iron bars; with everyone’s stunned gazes fixed on him, he stepped calmly out of the cell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tongshan stared in disbelief: “Is our prison that poorly built?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhu Xingtuan, stepping out behind him, said: “No—it’s just that Qi Ming has innate godlike strength.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1146,"2026-06-19T16:40:33.318Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","ac94fe376ec18eee58b06457631cafb6d0a55c2665442eda42bbadbd704fdea5","ultraman-arbitrary-key-dawn-chapter-22","ultraman-arbitrary-key-dawn-chapter-20",547,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fultraman-arbitrary-key-dawn-cover.jpg"]