Ultraman Any Key: Qiming

Chapter 17 16. New Soldiers vs. Veterans, the More They Fight, the Younger They Get (Additional Chapter 13 for Alliance Leader Zi Longyue)

Truth cannot be hidden, and Staff Officer Quan Teng, who had just returned from a meeting abroad, found out about Qi Ming.

"Letting a foreigner whose background we don't know join the Victory Team? That's ridiculous!" He thought it was ridiculous and believed that Tuan Moroboshi and Kiriyama were simply crazy.

TPC is a paramilitary organization with strict discipline from top to bottom.

As an important department, the Victory Team has an extremely strict admission assessment, and they only want the elite among the elites.

"This is his information." Chief of Staff Gondo's subordinate, a woman named Saeki Rika, handed him the paper information.

Staff Officer Quan Teng's expression froze slightly after seeing Qi Ming's photo: "Is this, retouched later?"

Saeki Rika: “No.”

"Then...then this." After carefully examining Qi Ming's photo several times, his doubts about Zhu Xingtuan immediately diminished.

"She must have had plastic surgery, but it's a miracle that she looks like this. It's quite natural."

"Finding someone with a good image to join the Victory Team will indeed help increase public support for us, but..."

Saeki Rika: "However, he hasn't undergone any special training or assessment before joining the team. If he rashly participates in the operation, he may very well lose his life. That would be a huge loss."

"Yes, that's what I mean." Staff Officer Gonto nodded quickly.
"We should transfer him to the news department first, blurring his nationality so he can serve as our spokesperson."

"If he still wants to join the Victory Team, I'll just spend my spare time training him."

"Let's go to the command room and talk to Captain Moroboshi."

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The atmosphere in the Victory Team's command room has been disharmonious these days.

Although Qi Ming was called out for a talk by the captain, there seemed to be no movement, which disappointed Yamanaka and Kishida, who were ready to make a fool of himself and put a stop to his arrogance.

The most infuriating thing is that he has no awareness of being a team member.

While they were doing their daily training and driving through the streets searching for Zuluks, he stayed in his room with air conditioning and received the same salary as them. Who could stand that?

Their prejudice against Qi Ming deepened a lot. When they talked about him in the command room, their words were harsh, and Zhu Xingtuan stopped them from saying such "disunited words."

If they just made a few sarcastic remarks, Zhu Xingtuan would follow the principle of "it is better to open up than to block" and let them put forward their "opinions and suggestions".

"This guy, why is he so arrogant all day long? Those who know him know that he is a mercenary, while those who don't know him think that he is the representative who came to accept Japan's surrender decades ago!" Qi Ming skipped today's patrol again, which made Kishida complain.

Huimei hasn't come back yet and is outside helping Qi Ming look for clues about "Himeya Jun".

"No, I, Xiao Feng, am a great man. How can I be on par with that kind of person?" Qi Ming, who happened to walk in, was unhappy when he heard this.

Is the person who "bowed" when accepting the surrender document worthy of being compared with him?
"Oh, Team member Qi Ming is here! He's here just in time! We've already finished what we needed to do." Shan Zhong said in a gloomy tone, "The command room is a little dirty. Can you clean it up?"

Qi Ming found a place to sit down: "It will be clean once you leave."

"you!"

Kishida, who was on the same side as Yamanaka, stood up and said, "You think you are so great, don't you?"

Qi Ming had a puzzled expression: "Anyone can see that, right?"

Moroboshi Tuan wanted to stop them, but Nishijo Nagi beside him made a gesture, asking him not to give Qi Ming special treatment this time.

She stood up and looked at Qi Ming with a cold gaze, her aura even stronger than that of the two men, Yamanaka and Kishida:
"During the last operation, your willful behavior disrupted the planned deployment and nearly led to a disaster."

"And you act like nothing happened, thinking that it's over?"

"Don't you realize how much the other team members dislike you? They don't want to experience another incident like this, where your arrogance increases the danger and escalates the disaster."

Qi Ming was not affected by this overwhelming momentum and refuted each point one by one:

"Did you ask for my opinion when you made the plan? I didn't agree with it." "And after reviewing the situation, didn't you realize that if you had followed me in the mountains and killed the two monsters, the situation wouldn't have evolved into the situation where four monsters gathered together later?"

"Finally, I don't want to be with you three random guys. Why don't you just quit the team?"

Saijo Nagi's rage grew even more intense. "Is that how you talk to your seniors? Didn't your parents teach you to follow local customs and respect local etiquette?"

In Japan, people attach great importance to "hierarchical etiquette". In most cases, the younger generations must obey the elders unconditionally.

If someone dislikes you and scolds you, you cannot show your dissatisfaction, otherwise getting beaten will be a small matter, and you will be isolated, excluded by the team, or even lose your job.

If your senior goes out drinking and doesn't come back late at night, as your junior you must sit in the house and wait for him to come back before you can go to bed.

So far, Qi Ming has not only not bowed or used honorifics, but has even openly defied the authority of his predecessors, which is considered "extremely disrespectful" in Japan.

Qi Ming felt nothing: "I was taught that 'envoys from a superior state should not bow to the ruler of an inferior state'. But you, Vice Captain Nishijo Nagi, barked like a mad dog in public. Could it be..."

Qi Ming paused. He wanted to say casually, "Could it be that your parents died early, resulting in a lack of personality development in you?" But he changed his mind...

It seems that Nishijo Nagi's mother really died!

In the original drama of "Ultraman Nexus", she witnessed her parents being killed by "alien beasts", which also made her develop a lonely and cold personality.

Such an attack goes beyond the humanitarian standards, so let it go.

But the evaluation of "mad dog" was enough to make Xijo Nagi furious. She rushed forward, spun 360 degrees, and delivered a whip kick, straight to Qi Ming's face: "I have to teach you a lesson today!"

Qi Ming was overjoyed: "It's great that you came! This should have happened a long time ago!"

He is not a good boy like Komon. There is no such thing as "stopping the vice-captain from shooting at Himeya Jun and being knocked to the ground without any complaints."

He leaned over and threw a spinning kick, easily breaking it, and then retaliated with a high sweep kick.

Nishijo Nagi's physical skills are not bad. After grabbing Qi Ming's legs closely, she prepared to hit Qi Ming's right leg with her elbow to break his knee.

Qi Ming immediately bent his knees and used the stability of the triangle to break the attack.

You actually... withstood my attack?

The unconvinced Saijo Nagi attacked more fiercely, almost trying to kill him.

She turned around to create some distance, then threw an elbow straight at Qi Ming's crown.

Qi Ming reacted extremely quickly and dodged to the side, using the "white ape holding a peach" technique with one hand, striking Xijo Nagi's jaw with his right palm.

The mandible is rich in nerves, and after being hit, Nishijo Nagi fainted immediately.

"vice captain!"

"What are you doing? Are you rebelling?"

When Kishida and Yamanaka saw Nishijo Nagi fall down, they rushed towards Qi Ming.

But here only Nishijo Nagi could exchange a few moves with Qi Ming. Against them, Qi Ming used a high whip kick and a left hook punch to easily knock Kishida and Yamanaka to the ground.

"How can we protect the Earth if we are with such insects!" After beating the three men to the point where they could no longer get up, Qi Ming looked at the stunned Zhu Xingtuan.

Is this what you mean by "the fastest way to resolve a conflict is to intensify it"?
Everything happened in a flash, and it was too late for Zhu Xingtuan to stop it.

He didn't even notice that the door to the command room had been opened silently for a while.

Staff Officer Gonto, who saw all this, was stunned for a moment, then turned and left.

Saeki Rika: "Aren't you going to talk to Moroboshi about how to transfer the new team members?"

"That's not necessary." Staff Officer Quan Teng thought about Qi Ming's fierce move just now, where he "overcame the superior with the inferior" and instantly defeated three veteran team members: "He has passed the test."

(End of this chapter)