Ultraman: It turns out this is the easy mode.

"Go! Go! Go! Beat them to death!!!! They're stealing vegetables in the middle of the night!!! You guys! Do you think you're funny?!" Cui Ming roared into the communicator from the makeshift command post, veins bulging on his forehead.

While directing his teammates to flank the planet, he kept a close eye on the aliens darting around on the monitor. To be honest, he was really annoyed. Protecting Earth was tiring enough, but dealing with all sorts of monster attacks and cosmic invasions every day kept his nerves on edge.

Now, to make matters worse, we've encountered this absurd thing—instead of doing legitimate intrusion, it insists on sneaking in at night to steal our crops for vitamin C. Nobody would believe it if I told them, but it actually happened, and we have to waste manpower and resources dealing with it; it's a complete waste of everyone's energy.

"Flank them from the left! Don't let them hide in the woods!" Cui Ming rubbed his throbbing temples and continued giving orders into the communicator, "Capture them alive! I'm going to ask them later if Earth is the only place in the entire universe where vegetables grow, and they're willing to risk getting beaten up to steal them!" He got angrier and angrier as he spoke, feeling that this generation of cosmic invaders was not only mentally ill, but also particularly good at causing trouble.

"Left! That alien with the green hat on the left is going to squeeze through the fence!" Cui Ming shouted into the communicator. As soon as he finished speaking, he saw the alien's cloak get caught on the fence. While struggling, the alien spun around like a top, and the cabbage in his arms rolled all over the ground.

Nan Yuan, wielding the tranquilizer gun, gave chase, but slipped on a rotten tomato with a "plop," tripping and losing his balance. The gun flew through the air, striking the fleeing alien squarely on the back of the head. The alien, clutching his head, turned and saw Nan Yuan sprawled on his back in the vegetable patch. He froze for two seconds before remembering to run, only to trip over his shoelace and fall flat on his face.

Bei Dao took a shortcut by climbing over the greenhouse roof, but unexpectedly, the plastic roof collapsed, and he fell "plop" into a pile of tomatoes. When he climbed out, his face was bright red, looking like a walking ketchup jar. He wiped his face and was about to give chase when he saw three aliens running towards him carrying winter melons. In a moment of panic, he tripped them, but instead of tripping the aliens, he was sent tumbling three times by the rolling winter melons.

Cui Ming, watching from the command post, was facepalming. On the monitor, Nan Yuan and an alien were circling around a scarecrow. After they bumped into each other, they both spun around three times in a daze, and finally bowed to each other in front of the scarecrow. Kitajima was hit on the head by a carrot thrown by the alien. He threw the stun baton in his hand, but it hit Kotaro who came to help, making Kotaro's hair stand on end like a hedgehog.

The most outrageous story is that an alien carrying a bundle of cabbages went into a cornfield, only to have his clothes snagged on a corn stalk. In the struggle, he flung all the cabbages at the face of Moriyama, who was chasing after him. By the time Moriyama ripped the cabbage leaves off his face, the alien had already disappeared with a head full of corn silk.

This battle was hardly like fighting against invaders; it turned into a farcical spectacle in a vegetable garden.

To be honest, it's really beneath them to fight like this. A group of elite team members who should be fighting monsters and powerful enemies are now chasing after aliens stealing vegetables in a vegetable field, covered in mud and vegetable leaves. It's embarrassing to even talk about it.

But with the mission at hand, they had to catch them no matter how outrageous the situation. Besides, these aliens had clearly done their homework, knowing the current rules of Earth's defense forces—not to use lethal force lightly against intruders with no intention of causing harm. So they weren't courting death at all, running away quickly with their bags of vegetables, occasionally turning back to make a face.

"We don't carry any lethal weapons! You can't do anything to us now!!!" an alien shouted arrogantly as it ran, but it tripped over a pumpkin vine and fell, scattering the spinach it was carrying all the way. It got up and was about to show off when it saw Nan Yuan chasing after it with a head full of chicken feathers (who knows where he got them from) and holding a big radish as a weapon. It was so scared that it covered its head and continued to run wildly.

Beidao wiped the dirt off his face and cursed angrily, "These bastards actually know the rules! They know to use non-lethal weapons against us!" He had barely finished speaking when a potato thrown by an alien hit him in the back. When he turned around, he was splashed with vegetable soup, making him look like a chef who had just escaped from a kitchen battlefield.

Watching his team chase the aliens through the vegetable patch on the monitor from the command post, Cui Ming felt a mix of emotions. The battle was indeed humiliating, but the other side stubbornly refused to cross any lines, playing guerrilla warfare with the vegetable sacks—it was truly exasperating. "Don't waste your energy on them! Surround them!" Cui Ming ordered into the communicator, glancing at the aliens' smug expressions on the screen, and couldn't help but mutter, "Once we catch them, we'll make sure they devour all the vegetables! Wait, this is actually a reward for those bastards!"

Cui Ming had a headache, a really bad headache.
"This is Storm Team Two, we're trying to contain the enemy. Why is this our job?! You over there! Stop!" The members of Storm Team Two wailed into their communicators as they chased after the alien who was running around with a head of broccoli, their voices filled with despair.

The sergeant was completely exasperated by the chaotic scene before him! These aliens were as slippery as eels, disappearing into the tomato trellis one moment and popping out from behind the cucumber trellis the next, clutching the stolen vegetables tightly in their hands—it was infuriating! "What the hell?! Can't they just do a proper space invasion?" the sergeant roared at the air, only to be tripped by a rolling pumpkin and fall hard on his backside.

Then his head got even bigger—some alien actually took advantage of him falling and put a bunch of lettuce on his head.

At this moment, Cui Ming pulled out the suppression gun from his waist, a gun he usually disliked, saying it was "too weak." He usually wouldn't even touch it, thinking it was no match for monsters, but it was perfect for dealing with these aliens stealing vegetables.

"It won't kill anyone anyway!" Cui Ming pulled the safety pin and fired at an alien who was trying to climb a tree to escape. The blue electric beam hit the target with a "sizzle," and the alien instantly convulsed and fell from the tree, scattering the carrots he was carrying all over the ground. The carrots bounced three times upon landing.

"Just shoot them dead!" Cui Ming got more and more into the fight. Seeing two aliens carrying sacks trying to squeeze through the fence, he fired a shot right into a fence post. The electrified fence instantly stuck the two to it, rendering them immobile like they were pasted on a New Year's picture. He even fired at the feet of the alien running in front, making him jump around like a burned monkey on the electrified ground, which amused the pursuing team members who couldn't help but laugh. (End of Chapter)