[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-ultraman-arbitrary-key-dawn":3,"chapter-ultraman-arbitrary-key-dawn-ultraman-arbitrary-key-dawn-chapter-546":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},2261763,4413,"Chapter 546","ultraman-arbitrary-key-dawn-chapter-546",546,"\u003Cp>“Beta Wand?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shinjou Aki jolted: “You’re not going to blow up Qi Ming next, after nearly blowing yourself up last time?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blow up?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At those words, Qi Ming remembered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the opening of the Ultraman X movie—“Here Comes Our Ultraman”—Dr. Gelman, while telling two researchers the legend of the Origin Giant Ultraman, pulled out a Beta Wand he had built himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He confidently declared, “I’ve finished crafting the Beta Device that can summon the Origin Giant Ultraman—when I was a child, that’s how the Light Giant transformed,” then swung the Beta Wand violently…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And blew up his own lab.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, is Dr. Gelman making another one?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dr. Gelman, embarrassed by Shinjou Aki dredging up his past, waved his hands: “I’ve improved this one—it won’t explode even if it fails.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qi Ming thought for a moment, took the Beta Wand, and swung it upward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Wait, don’t transform in my room, no!” Shinjou Aki, face pale with terror, dove under the covers for cover.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a long pause, nothing happened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shinjou Aki poked her head out from under the covers: “Huh? Didn’t explode?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dr. Gelman: “Can’t you have a little faith in me?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shinjou Aki turned to Qi Ming and saw faint glimmers of light emanating from the Beta Wand he had swung—then they vanished quickly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No explosion, but no transformation either.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I definitely felt a warm glow just then—that’s the sensation you get right before transformation—but it stopped abruptly,” Qi Ming mused. “It seems… something’s missing.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dr. Gelman: “A missing condition?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He said he would leave the Beta Wand with Qi Ming and asked him to keep an eye out, to find a way forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Over the next two days, Dr. Gelman studied the Ultraman Any Key in meticulous detail, racking his brain but finding no answers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The Star Cluster portion I handled definitely replicates consciousness too—how could this happen…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He believed the problem lay elsewhere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shinjou Aki had packed her bags: “We’ll have to ask other developers of the Any Key—maybe we can catch that ‘most troublesome thing’ along the way.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qi Ming: “The most troublesome thing?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shinjou Aki: “That red ball from the Gaia movie.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In her view, the red ball from the Gaia movie “Supertime Battle” and “Ark” had an absurdly high upper limit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If someone like Shin Fukuyuki—or someone even more evil—used it to make a wish, it might unleash a disaster requiring a “Mystic Four Ultramen” level to oppose.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dr. Gelman said his pursuit of it had been intermittent—it seemed to be deliberately avoiding him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shinjou Aki said: “But we can’t just leave it alone—if a super-villain like Tregear gets hold of it, it’ll be disastrous.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dr. Gelman pulled out his “Door of Anywhere” again; the two stepped inside to begin their journey—to find other Any Key developers and track down the red ball.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before leaving, Shinjou Aki patted Qi Ming’s shoulder with reluctance: “While I’m gone, take care of yourself.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qi Ming thought: “You took the Eternal Core fragment for me, you left me the Dyna Zeon blueprints—whether you’re here or not hardly matters anymore.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shinjou Aki: “So cold-hearted!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The teleportation gate opened, and the two stepped inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Let’s find that guy who calls himself a ‘god-talented’ one first—have you been in touch with him lately?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“He’s apparently in another timeline’s Japan, in a place called ‘Snake Clan Eight Families,’ seeking game design inspiration—and messing with everyone…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qi Ming watched them depart; after they vanished, he stood for a long while, calmed his thoughts, then softly said:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Safe travels. Come back soon.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>……………………………\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the night Shinjou Aki left, three “visitors” arrived on Earth in the form of two purple spheres and one red sphere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At night, in the dense forest of Oilfield Mountain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The red sphere descended, and a man with eye-shadow-like markings, dressed in a uniform, stepped out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If Qi Ming were here, he would instantly recognize him—the Dais Star Man from Episode 7 of Ultraman Dyna, “A Friend in the Box.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He held a firearm, seemingly searching for something.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, he spotted his target.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In a dirt pit, inside a transparent box, lay a small creature covered in blue-purple fur, appearing harmless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was the vicious monster [Gabisu].\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Shhh!” The next moment, the Dais Star Man fired directly, obliterating the box and the Gabisu inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“One more…” After eliminating the target, the Dais Star Man murmured, feeling the task was difficult.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was one more Gabisu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two Gabisu had once ravaged Dais Star, committing unspeakable crimes—his own daughter died in that disaster.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After immense sacrifice, all Dais Star citizens captured them and imprisoned them in special cosmic cages, compressing them from seventy meters down to eight centimeters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had been aboard a spaceship, intending to exile both Gabisu into a black hole.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But they used their last strength to escape the ship and landed on this planet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was troublesome.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Gabisu, now utterly drained of power, were extremely weak—his laser gun could erase them easily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But if he didn’t quickly find the other Gabisu, the cage material sealing it would lose effectiveness from mixing with this planet’s air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Commonly called “oxidation.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that point, the freed Gabisu would rapidly revert to its seventy-meter monstrous form.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once that happened, this planet would face a terrifying catastrophe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He must find the other Gabisu and destroy it—before then!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Boom.” Suddenly, rocks nearby collapsed, and a glowing red object emerged from the mountain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Is this a mechanical artifact of this planet?” Seeing no immediate threat, the Dais Star Man held his ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His priority now was recovering the Gabisu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>………………………………\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next morning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Little Wu rode his bicycle, preparing to represent the “Ultraman Faith” and deliver “love” to Oilfield Mountain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Earlier, coordination had been made: a teacher from a TPC-affiliated orphanage would bring the children on a spring outing to this area.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He would bring a large bag full of Ultraman toys to surprise them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was it really spring? Why was it so hot?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He hadn’t ridden far when a wave of heat slammed into him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sunlight was blindingly white; the wind carried scorching dryness, clinging sticky to his skin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leaves by the roadside curled and wilted from the sun; every pedal stroke felt like struggling through a steamer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It’s still spring—this heat can’t be real. It’s just psychological.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Holding that thought, Little Wu, drenched in sweat, pedaled hard for half an hour—then collapsed from heatstroke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching the overturned bicycle and unconscious Little Wu, Meflas was speechless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Little Wu, Little Wu—even an Ultraman as radiant as the sun can’t shine into every corner.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Ultraman you worship won’t know you’ve collapsed in this remote wilderness, won’t come to save you, won’t take you to Ultraman Star for doing good.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the end, only this old friend of mine can help you.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was about to reveal himself to assist—when suddenly, the sound of an engine approached from afar.\u003C\u002Fp>",1146,"2026-06-19T16:40:34.912Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","27b6600994d03d9a94239370889565e4437f556687c3a9d71e2bfa380739dd5b","ultraman-arbitrary-key-dawn-chapter-547","ultraman-arbitrary-key-dawn-chapter-545",547,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fultraman-arbitrary-key-dawn-cover.jpg"]