[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-ultraman-arbitrary-key-dawn":3,"chapter-ultraman-arbitrary-key-dawn-ultraman-arbitrary-key-dawn-chapter-80":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},2261297,4413,"Chapter 80: 78 The Excluded Aihara Ryuu","ultraman-arbitrary-key-dawn-chapter-80",80,"\u003Cp>A massive, unconfirmed creature has appeared within Tokyo!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The location of the massive creature has been confirmed at six sites!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An emergency alarm blared; Qi Ming sighed softly as he gazed at the majestic dragon head on the large screen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ren Long has appeared after all.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kishida gasped: “What? This is the ‘Dragon that commands Earth’s monsters’ you mentioned?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even through the screen, he could sense the extraordinary aura of the six dragon heads.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next moment, Ren Long’s six dragon heads simultaneously unleashed fireballs, striking and destroying several underground pipelines.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nami Nishijo frowned and demanded:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“We’ve let every recent Earth monster go, even established protected zones.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Isn’t that enough? Why is it still coming out to cause chaos?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Emi spoke up: “There have been no casualties—it seems to have waited until civilians fled before launching its attack.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qi Ming exhaled in relief: “It seems Ren Long is still restrained. It’s only here to repair the dragon veins.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yamana: “Repair the dragon veins?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qi Ming: “Emi, bring up Tokyo’s map.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the original Gaia series, excessive human urban development severed the earth’s dragon veins.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, Ren Long appeared and severed all human infrastructure in Tokyo to restore the dragon veins.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once displayed on the screen, Qi Ming pointed to the areas without water or electricity:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“These locations—all of them—are dragon veins.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Human overdevelopment has caused the ‘form’ and ‘energy’ here to oppose each other; if this continues, auspicious land will become cursed.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He did not recite the exact lines of the female feng shui master, Hei Tian Hui, from the original series—he spoke his own understanding.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unlike the deceptive “divination” used to fool others, he truly understood the “Art of Seeking Dragons.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two years ago, during the Spring Festival, Qi Ming heard his father’s unsavory relatives were coming to visit, so he quickly fled abroad with Professor Sima Hui, the archaeologist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sima Hui took Qi Ming to the United States to visit an elderly man surnamed Hu, where Qi Ming came across a copy of the “Sixteen-Character Yin-Yang Feng Shui Secret Art,” flipped through it briefly, and thus gained a basic understanding of feng shui.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kishida: “But why has all of Tokyo been paralyzed? Is the entire city a dragon vein?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qi Ming: “Dragon veins are countless. Some tributaries are as insignificant as human hairs; others are as vital as the brain or heart.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The places Ren Long severed… how could this be.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qi Ming stared at Tokyo’s topographical map, growing more uneasy with each passing moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was this coincidence?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why were all the trains, subways, gas lines, and power cables laid directly atop the main dragon veins?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qi Ming: “Who designed this city layout? Why does it feel like someone deliberately ‘severed the dragon veins’?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kishida: “It was designed by the world-class underground scientist, Dr. Koizumi.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qi Ming frowned: “The survivor of the ‘Underground Science Center Destruction’ incident two years ago?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kishida: “Yes. We still don’t know who was responsible.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“After that accident, Dr. Koizumi was the only outstanding underground scientist left.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Every underground engineering project with related issues must turn to him—he’s overwhelmed.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No, I think I know who did it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Underground Science Center destruction and Dr. Koizumi both originate from Ultraman Jack’s 50th episode, “Invitation from Hell.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the original series, the subterranean being Bokkou Wang destroyed the Underground Science Center to invade the surface world, then hypnotized and murdered the lone survivor, Dr. Koizumi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Afterwards, Bokkou Wang framed Ueno, an officer investigating the truth alongside the doctor’s daughter, for the murder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was a cunning alien, radiating an indescribable air of eerie malice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Bang!” The command room door opened; Colonel Kento entered, looking regretful.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He said the Prime Minister had directly ordered the Defense Force to eliminate the newly appeared dragon monster—TPC was no longer involved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qi Ming sneered: “Eliminate Ren Long? They’re walking to their deaths.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…………………………\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Bang!” Dozens of tanks and six fighter jets rolled toward a dragon head emerging from a bay, their cannons raised and aimed at Ren Long.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Fire!” Commander Aihara Ryuu gave the order, and all weapons opened fire simultaneously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dragon head was engulfed in blue light; it used telekinesis to reflect every attack back, exploding tanks, flipping them over, and causing planes to crash.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Can the dragon head on its tail also use telekinesis? This Ren Long is far stronger than in the original series,” Qi Ming thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Deputy Commander Nishijo: “It didn’t retaliate even when targeted—only responded after being attacked…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kento, watching the battle’s outcome, was stunned: “Such a powerful monster. Without Ultraman, defeating it may come at an enormous cost.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Half an hour passed; all other Defense Force units dispatched to the remaining five dragon heads were annihilated—yet Ultraman still did not appear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ryuu, last time you yelled at Ultraman on the rooftop, you went too far,” one of Ryuu’s fellow officers rebuked him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He believed Ryuu had driven Ultraman away, causing it to abandon the Defense Force to their fate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ryuu felt a bitter pang inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet even in retaliation, Ren Long remained restrained—casualties among the Defense Force were minimal, though all their military equipment was destroyed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…………………………\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the command room, seeing the Defense Force return empty-handed, Kento sighed: Humanity must find a way to make Ultraman a “controllable factor,” to seize this power for itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qi Ming: “?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Here we go again?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He asked: “Have any stone statues been found in Kumamoto City?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Colonel Kento said traces had been discovered, but the survey team kept encountering bad luck—constant mishaps and unexpected events—slowing progress drastically.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qi Ming immediately knew: It was Shōgo Masaki secretly sabotaging them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before this frontline was breached, Kento likely had no energy left to pursue other matters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After dealing with the Defense Force, the six dragon heads retracted, then reappeared at six other locations, destroying pipelines with fireballs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, the Cabinet called Kento, requesting the Victory Team deploy to eliminate the monster.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Colonel Kento hesitated—he believed eliminating this non-lethal monster without Ultraman would cost too much, making it pointless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qi Ming realized something: “Emi, check Ren Long’s movement pattern.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Emi nodded, typed a few keys, and said: “By the way, Dr. Koizumi’s recently planned ‘Underground City’ lies directly along this path.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Underground City… New Frontier Development Project…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Is this the one from Ultraman Dyna’s fourth episode, “Battle! Underground City”?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gaia’s “City of Dragons,” Jack’s “Invitation from Hell,” Dyna’s “Battle! Underground City.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another multi-layered attack… Whatever. I’m used to it by now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1075,"2026-06-19T16:40:33.318Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","854d450b0d898d9c06cabc197177b0c2039bf43b29a9a02a32d0e16d97f12023","ultraman-arbitrary-key-dawn-chapter-81","ultraman-arbitrary-key-dawn-chapter-79",547,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fultraman-arbitrary-key-dawn-cover.jpg"]