[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-ultraman-arbitrary-key-dawn":3,"chapter-ultraman-arbitrary-key-dawn-ultraman-arbitrary-key-dawn-chapter-536":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},2261753,4413,"Chapter 536","ultraman-arbitrary-key-dawn-chapter-536",536,"\u003Cp>After careful consideration, King Vefras selected a boy named \"Zhengyi.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He originated from Episode 21 of \"Taro,\" titled \"The Sinking of New Tokyo City,\" and was a divine figure who worshipped cicadas as his father and forbade the Seto Team from attacking or destroying the city’s cicada monsters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Vefras clearly did not know this; he saw the boy wearing glasses, dressed plainly, with a respectable appearance, and deemed him perfectly normal, so he chose him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Mr. Zhengyi...\" Vefras appeared before Zhengyi, first calming him and assuring him not to fear, then tempting him to betray Earth, following the same routine once again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Just say to me, 'Give Earth to you,' and I can grant you anything you desire—even immortality.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhengyi thought for a moment: \"Can you make me live forever? Compared to that, cicadas that live only a week are pitiful.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Vefras: \"?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How did this get tied to [cicadas]?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He suddenly felt something was off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After thinking again, Zhengyi said: \"Summer has passed a long time ago; I haven’t seen any cicadas in ages. How about this, Vefras—please help me wake up those sleeping cicadas. I want to see them early!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Vefras: \"?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to his knowledge, cicadas were a species on Earth known as [cicadas].\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When soil temperature consistently rises above 18 degrees, this warmth from the earth awakens them like an alarm clock—so [cicadas] typically emerge in summer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Japan was currently in February, winter, with an average temperature of only around 10 degrees.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhengyi continued: \"Besides ordinary cicadas, I also want to see cicada monsters. Over the past half-year, Earth has seen all kinds of monsters, but none resembling cicadas yet!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Vefras: \"...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When people are utterly speechless, they sometimes feel like laughing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even aliens are no exception.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Previously, that chubby kid named Yingxing wanted to protect disk creatures; now you want cicada-type monsters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What has happened to Earth’s children these days? I heard of reproductive worship—how did monster worship become a thing?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If you can let me see a cicada-like monster, I’ll hand Earth over to you—no problem, right, Vefras!\" Zhengyi gazed at Vefras with eager anticipation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Vefras: \"...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course—normal children would never sell Earth to me. Only an abnormal child like this could lead to something.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But why must your abnormality center on monsters? Couldn’t you have some other quirk?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still, this wish isn’t too difficult—it’s far easier than forcing me to confront four Ultramen directly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Fine, I’ll try.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then Vefras activated his spaceship to secretly \"heat\" the New Tokyo City region, raising the temperature there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For the next six consecutive days, the temperature in New Tokyo City remained consistently above twenty degrees.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cicada nymphs, dormant for years, were startled awake by the heat. They broke through the frozen soil with their sharp forelegs, their black-brown bodies emerging from the ground in this unnatural warm winter, soon crawling in abundance up tree trunks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cherry blossoms bloomed, mistaking the season; withered grass turned green again; stray cats shed their winter coats prematurely. This anomaly quickly drew the attention of the Victory Team.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Emi: \"This is likely the work of an evil alien. They’re trying to disrupt biological rhythms and destroy Earth’s ecosystem.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kishida speculated: \"Perhaps they’re adapting the environment for colonization, or testing human tolerance to sudden climate shifts?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yamana: \"Could it just be nature suddenly going haywire?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even Qi Ming could only think of the 3,000-degree Fire Monster from \"Dyna\" and the Flame Mountain from \"Gaia.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No one could possibly imagine the real reason: Vefras the alien wanted to awaken cicadas early... Who could have guessed such a motive?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Agamus: \"There must be a heat source. Find it, and we’ll solve this.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>………………………………\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhengyi was overjoyed. He caught two cicadas in the wild, locked them in a small cage, and hung the cage around his neck, carrying it everywhere he went.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This drove his mother to despair—there was a newborn baby just one month old at home. How are you supposed to sleep with these cicadas chirping nonstop every day?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"These cicadas are too annoying. Let’s just turn them into specimens,\" she said, staring at the cicadas locked in Zhengyi’s cage.\u003C\u002Fp>",689,"2026-06-19T16:40:34.912Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","b02be3fc5c1ca5bd4786fc0b85eb5ca548aec3b6741624c57163fb401fb1e2c1","ultraman-arbitrary-key-dawn-chapter-537","ultraman-arbitrary-key-dawn-chapter-535",547,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fultraman-arbitrary-key-dawn-cover.jpg"]