DC New Krypton.

Chapter 2148 Cell's Shell
"Marshal Haer, we have detected the same mechanical reaction in the western forest as the time machine you sent through satellite scanning."

Hale received a message from the Red Ribbon Legion's monitoring department.

The Red Ribbon Army's technological level is basically the most powerful on Earth, apart from Dr. Brief, Bulma, King Pilaf, Dr. Gro, and others.

Bulma is a general in the Red Ribbon Army's Complex Technology Institute. Although she hasn't worked there much, the things she creates are enough for the Red Ribbon Army's Technology Institute to research for decades. In addition, Dr. Brief is also an advisor to the Red Ribbon Army and occasionally comes to help his daughter's Technology Institute. He also moved Hale's artificial intelligence to the Red Ribbon Army's Technology Institute. Therefore, the Red Ribbon Army's Technology Institute is very powerful.

Basically, the Red Ribbon Army's satellites are barely able to monitor and scan most of the Earth, ensuring the Earth's safety.

There were many items used to scan the Earth's surface to resemble the outline of a time machine, but it was only after the Red Ribbon Legion's Institute of Technology Monitoring Department confirmed that there was a 95% accuracy in the outline and metal reaction.

“The western forest, I understand.” Hale nodded, receiving the information.

In Hale's memory, he also remembered that the time machine Cell was riding did indeed land in the western forest.

Having confirmed the location, Hale turned and walked out of the cave where Trunks had placed the time machine. "Come with me."

Trunks glanced at his time machine, then turned to look at Hale walking out. Realizing that Hale wasn't using his time machine, he felt a slight sense of relief and began to believe Hale's words and actions. He asked Hale, "Where are you going?"

"Western Forest." Hael emerged from the cave and flew into the sky, heading towards the coordinates provided by the Red Ribbon Legion's monitoring department for the Western Forest.

Trunks had no idea what Hale was planning to do.

But Hael gave him hope, a chance to kill the evil Hael of his own universe, and Trunks flew up with Hael.

The two flew through the sky toward the western forest.

Soon after, they arrived at a valley and landed, where they saw a circular outline covered in moss.

Trunks was wondering why Hale had brought him here.

With a flick of his finger, a faint breath escaped from his fingertip, sweeping away the moss on the circular outline and revealing a time machine exactly like Trunks' time machine.

"My time machine? Why is there another one of my time machines here?" Trunks was a little confused. What was going on?

Is there also a time machine made by a mother here?
Trunks took a closer look and found that not only was the time machine exactly the same, but even the "HOPE" lettering that his mother had sprayed on the surface of the time machine was identical.

This is practically my own time machine.

"What's going on?" Trunks felt very strange and looked at Hale.

"Just like when you came to this universe, from the moment you started piloting the time machine to this universe, more than one parallel universe has already split off."

It seems that there are other Trunks from parallel universes who have traveled to a time earlier than yours and arrived in this universe.

Look at the moss covering this time machine; it arrived four years before you.

"Hey," said Haer.

Trunks was stunned. There was another version of himself here, and he had arrived four years earlier than expected.

And what about the others?

"Commander, we have compiled statistics on human disappearance cases over the past four years. We have not found any large-scale human disappearances on a city-wide scale. However, since four years ago, the number of missing persons cases has increased from western cities to 1,200 percent. On average, more than 700,000 people have gone missing globally each year. Of these newly missing persons, 92 percent of them have their clothes found by the police or their relatives somewhere after they disappeared."

The Red Ribbon Legion has been paying close attention to these disappearances, which are extremely bizarre. Everything the missing person owns—even earrings, headdresses, and underwear—is always perfectly preserved in one place, which is incredibly strange.

The brigadier general of the Red Ribbon Army collected statistics on all the missing persons cases and reported them to Hale.

"I understand. Shift the Red Ribbon Legion's satellite surveillance to city surveillance, keeping a close watch on all humans in every city."

"He said, looking at the almost invisible traces on the ground, taking a few steps, and turning a corner, he found the shell of a large insect molt behind a hidden rock.

The shell of this large insect's remains resembles that of a cicada, but it is more ferocious and aggressive, and the shell is also harder. Judging by its size, it is at least 1.7 meters long.

"What is this?" Trunks, following Hale, also saw the shell of this large insect remains and couldn't help but feel strange.

The shell of this large insect remains was not far from the time machine, giving Trunks a very bad feeling.

"It's the shell of an insect-like monster. If you scan it with the time machine, you'll find some tissue information about this insect-like monster's shell in this time machine," Hale said, scanning Cell's shell.

Seeing the time machine and Cell's remains, Hale was certain that Cell had also come to this universe.

The original plot was that in Cell's parallel universe, because Cell was born too slowly, he wanted to devour Android 17 and Android 18 to replenish himself. However, because Trunks in his universe destroyed Android 17 and Android 18, Cell was unable to devour them to reach his perfect state.

So Cell found an opportunity and killed Trunks when he tried to board the time machine in his universe. He then traveled to four years in the past in this universe, intending to devour Android 17 and Android 18 and grow to their perfect state.

Cell is from a different universe than the current Trunks.

Trunks' universe is now being ravaged by Android 17 and Android 18.

Androids 17 and 18 from Cell's universe were killed and destroyed by Trunks from his own universe before they could be killed.

Therefore, there are two time machines in this universe.

Because of Hael's existence, Hael thought it might prevent Cell from appearing.

"Now it seems that Cell has appeared without any surprise, and it is probably because of his existence that he started to secretly devour humans four years ago, instead of daring to devour the entire population of a city at once."

Haer made a guess in her mind.

It's likely that Cell was wary of Goku and the others' strength, which is why he secretly devoured humans, doing so stealthily and intermittently.

(End of this chapter)