Chapter 385

At the Defense Force headquarters, the second-in-command, Martial Officer Saijo, showed a meaningful smile after hearing the report from his subordinates.

"They probably think we were scared out of our wits by the previous mechanical white dragon incident, so we took the initiative to provide intelligence."

After Galactron instantly swept an entire arsenal last time, more than a dozen military officers and excellent researchers died because of it, and Commander Sawara's heart was bleeding when he found out.

Martial Officer Saijo also believed that after these talents withered, the completion time of various confidential projects used by the Defense Force to catch up with TPC would be greatly delayed.

Just when he was anxious, the situation turned around.

A doctor named 【Kisaragi Rui】 brought an entire scientific research team to find him, hoping to work for the Defense Force and develop a warship 【Prometheus】 stronger than the Artedis.

At first, Martial Officer Saijo was skeptical. Did these unknown guys have that ability? Daring to set such conditions and wanting so much research funding.

But their demonstration soon convinced a group of old researchers in the Defense Force, and Martial Officer Saijo generously agreed to the conditions proposed by Dr. Kisaragi Rui.

"Prometheus, really a good name." Martial Officer Saijo said.

"Officer Saijo, we succeeded!" At this moment, one of his secretaries rushed in, his face full of hard-to-suppress ecstasy.

Martial Officer Saijo sat up straight: "What's wrong?"

The secretary lowered his voice:

"Success, the latest developed unmanned drilling machine collected 'Victory Crystal' underground!"

"After testing, it really contains huge energy. If we use it to supply power to mechanical Seven, we will be invincible!"

Martial Officer Saijo was overjoyed, he immediately got up, wanting to go to the scene to check the situation.

In the corridor, "Aihara Ryu" peeked out from the corner of the wall gloomily, looking at the joyful Martial Officer Saijo, a scarlet color flashed in his eyes.

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At the same time, on the Artedis advancing toward Nanjizhou.

Qi Ming looked at the time and place of the ship disappearances in the Antarctic waters recently, and frowned: "Something is not quite right."

In the original *Ultraman 80* series, the core part of the Barack Ship, 【Queen】, originally sank after hitting an iceberg, but the computer system controlling it was not damaged, just because of the impact, the system was disordered.

After self-repair was completed, it followed the sailing scheduled route set by the original program and rushed toward the final destination "Tokyo Bay."

So in the original series, the location of the ship disappearance accidents was getting closer and closer to Japan.

But in this world, the Barack Ship has been hovering in the Antarctic Circle, seemingly intentionally picking on lone warships and ships.

How come it feels like something is manipulating it behind the scenes to attack humans?

With this doubt, the Artedis had already flown over Nanjizhou and arrived outside the "Antarctic Light" protective cover.

"Can only go this far." Looking at the aurora not far away, the aurora dancing like silk in the sky, Kishida said.

Agamus, who was pulled over by Qi Ming, looked at the analysis results on the screen and said: "The protective cover composed of pure energy only covers the area on the sea surface, can go from underwater."

Qi Ming: "Then set out by Dolphin."

Kishida nodded, telling everyone that as long as they enter the Ice City undersea base and turn off the button, they can cancel this Antarctic Light protective cover, and then the Artedis can open in.

Qi Ming, Galgula, Emi, Agamus, four people entered the cockpit of the Dolphin one by one.

"Plop," the Dolphin left the Artedis and was dropped into the ocean of Nanjizhou.

"A bit crowded." There were only two driver's seats on the Dolphin. Now four people squeezed in at once. Fortunately, Qi Ming and Galgula's physical fitness was hard enough, and standing at the back didn't matter.

Soon, the Dolphin entered the range of the Antarctic Light defense circle. "Eh, this is..." After arriving at the area isolated by the Antarctic Light, Agamus's expression stirred, and he began to analyze: "Something is not quite right."

The inside and outside of the Antarctic Light are completely two worlds.

Qi Ming: "Found the Barack Ship that absorbs other ships with magnetic force? I remember this thing can dive."

Agamus tapped the keyboard: "No, there are traces of huge thermal combustion moving below us, look at the image."

Seeing this scene, Qi Ming immediately said: "It is very likely to be the cosmic sea beast 【Reicubas】, be prepared."

Galgula: "Reicubas?"

Qi Ming nodded: "This is a monster created by the aquatic life form 【Scylla】, very strong."

This was the first monster to defeat Ultraman Dyna, capable of switching freely between fire and ice attributes. The cold air released instantly froze Dyna, making him lie dead for a whole episode.

Must be cautious.

Qi Ming emphasized the situation of 【Scylla】 again. This is a very terrifying cosmic creature, capable of seizing control of the main computer system of military facilities through physical contact with network cables.

The communication between Ice City and the outside world was probably cut off by it, and the undersea base was likely already in its grasp.

Agamus followed the trend:

"The temperature nearby is rising rapidly, it seems the opponent wants to use the heat released by this monster to melt the icebergs in Nanjizhou to submerge human civilization."

"Wait, this is eh, also detected weak o-waves."

o-waves? Qi Ming's heart stirred, involuntarily looking at Emi, thinking of a monster incident in the past.

Is it it? Is it also here?

Galgula: "Let's go to that undersea base first, turn off the aurora protective cover, and let the Artedis come in to eliminate the monster."

Qi Ming nodded: "Even if it is occupied by the opponent, we have to go in, we have to figure out what exactly this undersea base is hiding."

Agamus: "But how to get in, the undersea base has already become the territory of the aliens invading Earth, right."

Qi Ming: "Let them take the initiative to invite us in."

Emi understood, began to call the undersea base, and said in a severe tone:

"Calling undersea base, calling undersea base, this is GUTS's Dolphin, now arrived near your base."

"What's wrong with you guys, not only cut off the staff officer's questioning communication, but also opened the protective cover, are you trying to rebel?"

Soon, the undersea base sent a reply: "Very sorry, we absolutely don't have this meaning, it is a program failure that caused us to be unable to turn off the protective cover, welcome everyone to come in and inspect."

This was Scylla answering, it could understand voice data from the computer's memory and simulate human voices.

Agamus understood.

Humans want to regain control of the undersea base, and aliens also want to invite guests into the urn, luring these uninvited guests into the undersea base it controls to kill them. There must be an ambush inside now.

Now it depends on who is more skilled.

"Whoosh." The Dolphin passed through the opened gate and entered the interior of the undersea base.

The next moment, the gate closed with a bang, completely sealing the retreat, as if to turn this undersea base into an iron coffin to bury them.

"Wow, this is not acting anymore, too urgent." Qi Ming opened the cabin door first and jumped onto the deck inside the base from the Dolphin.

The next moment, countless green "mermaids" rushed over, killing them—these were the small monsters manipulated by Scylla, the half-fish soldiers 【Digon】!

"Yo, actually held a grand welcome ceremony!" Qi Ming greeted them without any fear, knocking all the half-fish soldiers blocking the way flying, the scene was extremely stress-relieving.

Galgula held the Snake Heart Sword and slashed, cutting the half-fish soldiers surrounding from behind until they couldn't get up again.