Ultraman Any Key: Qiming

Chapter 60 58. Dragon Vein
In order to destroy the ancient mound before it appears, the entire Victory Team entered a state of high alert and began to use all means to search for the ancient mound underground.

Kishida began to look through ancient books: "I know, this monster is Gudun! A powerful ancient monster!"

Qi Ming: "Doesn't it also record that it feeds on 'two-tailed monsters'?"

Kishida nodded repeatedly: "That's right, Team Member Qi Ming is indeed well versed in classical Chinese."

Qi Ming rubbed his temples and asked after a while: "While looking for the ancient mound, why not look for the 'strange stone' as well? It might be the egg of the two-tailed monster."

Unfortunately, after half a day, I got nothing.

Late at night, the other team members who had been busy all day fell into a deep sleep.

Qi Ming seemed to have endless energy and was ready to go out in the dark.

"Where are you going?" The worried Zhu Xingtuan, who was also awake, called out to him.

Qi Ming: "I will use my own method to find Gudun."

Zhu Xingtuan: "I'll go with you."

Qi Ming did not refuse. He drove the Drum car all the way to the quarry where Gudun appeared during the day.

Seeing Qi Ming get out of the car, Zhu Xingtuan followed him with his crutches: "What are you going to do?"

Qi Ming pointed to the huge hole that Gudun had dug during the day and said, "I will transform into Golzan and follow the tunnel that Gudun dug when he moved underground."

Zhu Xingtuan's eyes lit up. This was indeed a good idea.

Looking at Qi Ming turning the dial, he said meaningfully: "Even if this is not your world, you still care about the lives of the people here, right?"

Qi Ming did not answer. He tapped the dial and turned into the huge Golzan.

After thinking for a while, it stuck its head into the ground and followed the tunnel dug by the ancient mound.

Zhu Xingtuan stayed here for a whole night.

Five hours passed, and when the sky was getting light, Golzan's huge head emerged from the ground again.

Under the gaze of Zhu Xingtuan, Golzan first shook off the dirt on his body, and then turned back into Qi Ming.

He sat on a rock, saying nothing.

Zhu Xingtuan hurried forward with his cane: "How is it, have you found the ancient mound?"

Qi Ming paused for a moment and then said, "Captain, do you know what's going on down there?"

Zhu Xingtuan: "What's going on?"

Qi Ming: "It's hard to imagine that one day I'll use the word 'connected in all directions' to describe the underground world."

He said that not long after he went down, he encountered a "cross intersection" formed by two tunnels.

One tunnel was dug by Gudun, and the other was dug by other underground monsters.

After determining the age of the tunnels by looking at the soil quality, Qi Ming chose the left side, where the tunnels had just been dug. After a while, he came across a junction where four tunnels met...

He did this kind of multiple-choice questions about a dozen times a night.

Qi Ming was a little mad: "It's hard to imagine how many active monsters there are underground. The tunnels they have dug out are almost becoming a large maze!"

In this case, if you still want to follow the tunnel to find the ancient mound, you'll be lucky if you can find the way back.

After listening for a long time, Zhu Xingtuan frowned and said, "So, it's all in vain and nothing was gained, right?"

Qi Ming waved his hand. "That's not the case. Drilling around underground is a novel experience for me. Besides, I think I've hit the 'dragon vein'."

To Qi Ming, Golzan is inferior to Tiga, who is also a C-level, in all aspects except for the fact that he has no time limit, making him seem useless.

The first time he transformed into Golzan, he didn't need to consume the Star Gift and could experience a free underground journey, which was pretty good.

Zhu Xingtuan was curious: "What is a dragon vein?" Qi Ming: "The ground veins nourished by dragon energy can also be considered dragon veins."

He said the underground world should be depressing and desolate, but when he entered a tunnel, he felt it was "full of life" and the branches scattered there were still fresh.

He also saw some human corpses, which were not just dry bones, but had "bird feathers and dragon scales".

From a "scientific" point of view, this is a kind of microorganism that nourishes the body and keeps it from decaying, and over time it causes the corpse to mutate.

From the perspective of "feng shui", there is a dragon vein and auspicious land there. Burying there can help one "ascend to heaven" and bless future generations.

This kind of dragon vein that makes living things feel comfortable and can prolong their life is favored by the four spirits, and it is bound to be taken over in this "extraordinarily lively" underground world.

So Qi Ming immediately chose to evacuate to avoid being misunderstood by the monster occupying the dragon vein.

At this point, Qi Ming said in a joking tone that if he died in battle in the future, he would be buried there, allowing him to "enjoy" the Feng Shui treasure land that countless people have spent their entire lives seeking but have not been able to obtain.

"Don't say such unlucky things." Zhu Xingtuan thought for a moment and said, "So, are there really dragons in the world?"

Qi Ming: "Haven't you fought against 'Cosmic Dragon Nas' before?"

Morohoshi: "That's a mechanical weapon brought by aliens, but it's in the shape of a dragon."

Qi Ming: "There should be quite a few living dragons."

This is a world that integrates all Ultraman works. The sea dragon in "Ultraman Seven OV" and the Summer Watch in "Ultraman Max"... may exist.

However, the most famous dragon should be the giant monster of the Earth Emperor - [Renlong].

It was already dawn. Qi Ming looked at the first ray of sunlight emerging from the end of the horizon, and an idea suddenly came to his mind.

In the original "Gaia" series, Renlong is the "god who protects the order of the earth" and can recruit all the monsters on earth to fight.

"If this world also has a [Ren Dragon] with the same role as in the original Gaia series, how powerful would it be?"

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After spending a night underground, Qi Ming returned to the single dormitory at the offshore base and fell into a deep sleep. The other team members, who had just woken up, began a carpet search the next day.

Kishida: "I heard that the Defense Forces are researching a 'ground-penetrating missile' that can directly attack monsters lurking underground. If we find Gudun, we can try to cooperate with them."

Yamanaka: "Ask the defense forces for help? The staff officers won't agree."

Nishijo Nagi: "Let's find it first."

As a result, we still found nothing today, which made people more and more anxious.

At five o'clock in the morning, the Victory Team's emergency assembly signal sounded.

"What's wrong? Have we found the ancient mound?" Team member Kishida was the first to rush to the command room neatly dressed.

When Qi Ming arrived, everyone in the command room widened their eyes.

Shan Zhong: "Team member Qi Ming, you are so yellow."

Qi Ming came in wearing SpongeBob SquarePants pajamas, which made Nishijo Nagi's face twitch.

I want to scold him, but I'm afraid of his sharp response.

Even Qi Ming would make some small mistakes if his biological clock was disrupted.

"Don't worry about the details, what happened?" Qi Ming was not embarrassed at all.

Emi: "According to the information sent by the weather team, the cloud containing the Lightning Man has begun to descend rapidly from the ionosphere!"

Zhu Xingtuan frowned. The ancient mound underground had not been dealt with yet, and strange changes occurred in the sky again.

Is it a coincidence, or is there some connection?

(End of this chapter)