Chapter 537: 530 Victory Team Is Really Bad, But They Can Be Worse

In the original “Ultraman Mebius” series, the exalted King Mevaras required the Guys team’s unwavering belief to overcome—here, he could no longer maintain his original elegance and composure.

You can pretend during ordinary missions, but not in such a complex, high-stakes battle.

He suddenly felt a grudging respect for Apeman; this guy had held out on Earth for so long—perhaps he was the strongest of the Four Kings.

After a brief pause, King Mevaras regained his calm and decided to find Zhengyi first.

On the other side, as soon as Mevaras awakened the Cicada Monster, its disturbance immediately caught the Victory Team’s attention.

Hui Mei: “A monster has appeared in New Tokyo City!”

Qi Ming: “Is it Mevaras?”

Hui Mei: “It’s a cicada-like monster—I’m sending the image to the main screen.”

The earth suddenly split open, accompanied by a deafening roar, as a massive cicada-shaped monster burst forth from the ground.

With a piercing screech, its thick, segmented limbs easily crushed reinforced concrete buildings; nearby residential towers collapsed like stacked blocks, sending clouds of dust into the air.

Shattered glass and construction debris rained down as panicked crowds screamed and scattered in all directions.

Qi Ming stared at the cicada-like monster on the main screen and immediately recognized it.

This creature was also a monster from “Ultraman Taro,” originating from Episode 21, “The Sinking of New Tokyo City”—the [Zemira King].

Shan Zhong: “This monster doesn’t look friendly—it’s destroying everything on sight. Qi Ming, it’s definitely not on our side, right?”

Qi Ming: “Yeah. Eliminate it.”

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On the other side, in the hospital.

After being stung on the thigh by mandrake grass, Zhengyi’s legs had completely lost strength, forcing an emergency hospitalization for observation.

In his room, a cage containing a cicada sat on the table; a nurse warned him it might disturb his rest.

But Zhengyi said it was fine—he felt better just seeing the cicada.

Even though his legs were useless, he wasn’t sad; instead, he was entirely focused on the cicada monster King Mevaras had promised to find for him.

“Boom!” The next moment, the ward shook violently as the earth cracked far away, and the cicada monster emerged from underground.

“A cicada monster—there really is a cicada-like monster!” Zhengyi paid no attention to the collapsing buildings or fleeing crowds; at that moment, his eyes saw only the cicada monster.

“Shhh!” The next moment, Feiyan One, piloted by Shan Zhong, and Dyna Wing, piloted by Hui Mei, arrived and opened fire on the cicada monster.

Zhengyi immediately panicked: “No, stop!”

Ignoring his injuries, he hopped into a wheelchair and rushed out, blocking Feng Yuan and Zhu Xingtuan as they arrived on foot.

“Stop! Stop right now—it’s just a cicada!”

Zhu Xingtuan, in the driver’s seat of the Sherlock car, stared at Zhengyi sitting in the wheelchair blocking their path, utterly stunned.

Feng Yuan stepped out: “Child, what are you saying? How could such a huge monster be a cicada?”

Zhengyi spread his arms, refusing to let the Charlotte car pass to attack the cicada monster: “It has six legs, four wings, and those eyes—it’s definitely a cicada! Please spare it!”

Feng Yuan: “?”

Spare it?

Couldn’t we at least ask it to stop destroying the apartment buildings first?

Zhu Xingtuan: “No. It’s destroying the city.”

Zhengyi shouted in desperation: “Its lifespan is only one week—it’ll die in a week! You know that, yet you still want to kill it… Victory Team is awful!”

Feng Yuan: “?”

One week?

It just came back to life and already destroyed dozens of buildings—if it lived another week, wouldn’t it level the whole city?

Zhu Xingtuan also looked troubled: “Even if it really is a cicada, once it becomes a monster, normal logic no longer applies—it may not even have a one-week lifespan. Besides, it’s already destroying things; we must stop it.”

Zhengyi watched Feiyan One and Feiyan Two pouring fire onto the cicada monster, sweat pouring down his face: “It’s all your fault—it’s only fighting back! Stop!”

“Stop? Why don’t you ask the monster to stop? Is it because the monster isn’t as easy to reason with as the captain?” Qi Ming’s voice came from behind.

The Drum car pulled up beside the Charlotte car; Qi Ming and Karimira stepped out.

He looked at Zhengyi, desperately blocking their path, and thought: So here he is.

In the episode “The Sinking of New Tokyo City,” the child had left the deepest impression on Qi Ming.

Nasty, foolish, beyond description.

Like extreme cat and dog lovers who value pets over human lives, Zhengyi, obsessed with cicadas to the point of madness, saw cicadas as the only important thing.

In the original series, the cicada monster destroyed his home—but he didn’t care.

When the cicada monster burned down buildings and terrorized residents, he acted as if he saw nothing; the moment they attacked the cicada, he went wild, running around causing chaos…

Most absurdly, after his tantrum, the Taro Team agreed with him and chose not to kill the monster—ultimately, Kotaro transformed into Taro merely drove it away.

The innocent Bug Tooth Monster [Shelta], tormented by Taro Team’s underwater rockets, suffered tooth pain; after Kotaro failed to pull its tooth, the agony drove it into a rampage—yet the blame lay entirely with humans, and it was still destroyed by Kotaro’s transformation.

In contrast, this cicada monster, spared because of a brat’s plea, could survive even after deliberately destroying a city… Comparing the two, the Taro Team and Taro were truly hard to judge.

But Qi Ming had no intention of coddling this brat.

“I’ll test the upgraded Battle Device—this thing is yours.” Qi Ming looked at Karimira.

“No problem. Even if you didn’t say it, I wouldn’t let this idiot live—it’s annoying me.” Karimira pulled out the brass-tipped leather belt from Qi Ming’s pants again and sneered.