Chapter 35: 34 The Timing Fits Perfectly

That night, Qi Ming set up a telescope on the balcony and gazed at the night sky, searching for a UFO.

At that moment, an eerie blue glow flickered across the sky.

Qi Ming froze for a moment, then his face lit up with ecstatic joy: “It’s a UFO! It’s here—finally come to take me back from my planet!”

He sprinted downstairs, running with excited strides toward the UFO descending through the cloud layer.

“I’m here! I’m here!” Qi Ming ran down the street at dawn, waving his arms and shouting.

The UFO seemed moved by his enthusiasm, noticing him and firing a beam of light in his direction.

“Bang!” At that moment, a man leapt out from the bushes beside the road.

He was muscular, wearing a black vest, his hair streaked with blue, and a long-handcuff on his right hand—he leapt over ten meters and knocked Qi Ming aside.

“Shhh.” In Qi Ming’s stunned gaze, the man who had knocked him down was caught in the beam, shrinking continuously until he was sucked into the UFO.

“Hummmmm…” The UFO drifted away.

Qi Ming spun around, furious and stomping his feet: “You picked the wrong person! I’m the one who belongs with you!”

He was enraged, convinced that the sudden intruder had stolen his chance to return to the cosmos.

The next morning, sullen and defeated, he was dragged by his mother to school.

Yesterday, the captain of the Victory Team had come to his door personally to urge him to return—today, if he still didn’t show up, it would be too rude to make them come again.

When Qi Ming arrived at school and saw the empty seat from yesterday now occupied, he nodded slightly—it seemed he wouldn’t need to make a home visit after all.

“Hey, Qi Ming, why are you at school? Aren’t you going to stare at the stars with your telescope?”

As soon as class ended, several classmates gathered around Qi Ming’s desk to mock him.

Qi Ming walked over:

“What’s wrong with stargazing? My hometown’s District Chief Sun also likes to look at the stars after work.”

“As long as it doesn’t interfere with his duties or trouble others, his hobby is fine.”

Moved that his new teacher was defending him, Qi Ming said: “Teacher, do you know? I’m actually an alien—last night a UFO came to pick me up!”

Qi Ming: “Are you sure? Did you really see a UFO?”

Neither the TPC’s Delta Space Station nor the Radar equipped with the Tangdao Rectifier had detected anything.

But this Qi Ming had a “record”—in the original series, he had indeed seen a UFO from alien invaders.

“Hey, Qi Ming, don’t say things you dreamed up—it’ll just trouble the teacher,” said a girl named Mili.

“I really saw it! I almost went back with the ship!” Qi Ming protested, recounting what had happened the night before.

The more Qi Ming listened, the more serious his expression became.

A beam that shrinks people?

According to what he knew, both Dada from Ultraman and the Crow Man from Ultraman Tiga had used shrinking ray guns to capture humans on Earth.

And the man who suddenly appeared, knocking Qi Ming out of the shrinking beam—wearing handcuffs—

Could he possibly be Zala, the male captive from Episode 14 of Ultraman Tiga, “The Exiled Target,” abducted to Earth by the Muzen aliens to be hunted?

“Mili, can I borrow your sketchpad?” Qi Ming asked.

“Of course!”

Qi Ming quickly sketched the top-shaped spaceship of the Crow Man: “Was the UFO you saw shaped like this?”

Qi Ming nodded frantically: “Yes!”

Qi Ming then drew the figure of Zala, the captive hunted by the Muzen aliens: “Was the man who knocked you away about this appearance?”

Qi Ming gasped: “Teacher, you’re amazing—you could draw that!”

Qi Ming quickly pieced together the clues and understood roughly what had happened.

This Qi Ming, who had encountered alien UFOs in the original Ultraman Eddie series, was still fated to cross paths with UFOs in this fused world.

This time, he had encountered the Crow Man’s spacecraft.

The boy was supposed to pay for his “genius insight,” struck by the shrinking ray and locked in a container as a spare slave.

But Zala, kind-hearted, saved him by taking his place—perhaps not a bad thing.

After all, being captured by the Crow Men meant only lying in a container as a slave, with room for rescue or escape.

But being caught by the Muzen aliens meant instant death.

Qi Ming immediately returned to the ocean base and reported the incident in the command room.

Zhu Xingtuan was skeptical: “You’re saying two kinds of aliens have already invaded Earth? But the radar detected nothing.”

Shan Zhong, just discharged from the hospital, added: “Do you believe the ramblings of a kid who thinks he’s an alien? The Victory Team doesn’t have time to listen to children’s dreams.”

Today was another day of Shan Zhong’s consistent performance.

At that moment, Hui Mei’s expression turned strange: “The intelligence division just submitted a new report—aliens really are capturing humans.”

She said that over the past few nights, many people had vanished.

One eyewitness reported seeing only a flash of blue light before a boxing-trained man disappeared.

Xi Tiao Ning nodded: “It seems Qi Ming’s report was correct—there really is an alien species abducting Earth humans.”

Qi Ming thought the timing didn’t match.

According to Qi Ming’s account, the Crow Man’s spacecraft had arrived only last night, yet Hui Mei’s disappearances had been ongoing for several days.

Moreover, the Crow Man’s shrinking ray didn’t emit blue light when used.

Qi Ming paused, then stepped behind Hui Mei to look at her screen: “Pull up the list of missing persons from these past days.”

Hui Mei nodded. Qi Ming scanned through the names: a male lead from a martial arts film, a fitness adult who ran at night, a thug extorting protection money…

And all these people vanished only after dark.

[After dark] [Blue light] [Missing persons were all strong men].

These three keywords instantly reminded Qi Ming of Ababas from Episode 17 of Ultraman Tiga, “The Red and Blue Battle,” who came to Earth to capture powerful humans as soldiers.

Another triple attack!

The first-generation Gilielod had just died, and now these three alien species had rushed to Earth to cause chaos.

The timing fits perfectly.

Qi Ming was baffled—space was vast, so why were all these aliens rushing headlong toward Earth?

And in this world, they weren’t even following the orderly, one-by-one pattern of the original series—they were barging in all at once, with no regard for rules.

What on Earth’s Japanese territory could possibly be attracting them?

Like the Sphera mother in Ultraman Decker, drawn directly to the planet.

Existence implies reason—there must be a scientifically plausible explanation. Perhaps it’s “that thing” that created this bizarre fused world.

I’ll need to find an alien and ask them.

(End of Chapter)