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Upon hearing Zongfang's suggestion, Kijima Megumi pondered for a moment and then said:

"The vice-captain and Lina drove the Drum vehicle from the ground, while the Xincheng team members drove the Flying Swallow No. 1 to conduct a low-altitude search."

"Understood!" Zongfang, Lina, and Xincheng left the command room with their helmets.

Shinjo headed to the hangar, while Lina and Zongfang went to the underground parking lot.

Shinjo piloted the Flying Swallow No. 1 towards the area where the Flying Swallow No. 2 had disappeared.

Upon arriving at his destination, he did not venture further but waited for Lina and Zongfang to arrive.

Before long, Lina drove the Drum car to the area where the Flying Swallow II had disappeared.

"Commander!" Shinjo greeted him.

"Proceed according to plan and keep communications open at all times," Munakata said to Shinjo as he opened the passenger door.

"Understood!" Shinjo nodded and turned to board the Flying Swallow No. 1.

The Flying Swallow No. 1 ascended vertically, and after reaching a certain altitude, it flew towards the mountains.

Shin-jo scanned the mountains and forests below, searching with his naked eye for the vanished Flying Swallow II.

Xincheng piloted the Flying Swallow No. 1 over the mountain peaks and plunged into the thin mist floating on the mountaintops.

As the Flying Swallow No. 1 flew into the thin mist that enveloped the mountaintop, a piercing alarm suddenly sounded in the cockpit due to the mist. The aircraft suddenly lost control and glided as it plummeted from the sky.

"What happened?" Shinjo quickly tried to operate it.

However, affected by the magnetic field, all the internal instruments of the Flying Swallow-1 malfunctioned, making it impossible to perform any operations. It could only watch helplessly as the Flying Swallow-1 glided into the forest below.

"Shinjo, what's going on?" Munakata asked immediately upon hearing Shinjo's voice.

The screen on the PDI suddenly started flickering, and Zongfang quickly called out:

"New town! New town!!"

The next moment, PDI's screen turned into a black and white snow screen, with only a "hissing" echo.

"Damn it!" Zong Fang cursed under his breath and punched the front of Drum's car.

Looking at the distant mountains shrouded in mist, he immediately contacted Megumi Kijima through PDI and reported to her: "Captain, could you please have Dr. Shen analyze the composition of the mist on this mountain? There might be something wrong with the mist permeating this mountain!"

"Fog? I understand." Megumi nodded and asked, "How's the situation on your end?"

"We lost contact with Shinjo, who was sent to search for him. The entire mountain seems to be experiencing a severe radio disturbance. Perhaps..."

Based on past experience, the situation for Daigo and Horii may not be very optimistic.

"Don't be so pessimistic, everyone. Stay put and wait for the analysis results," Megumi Kijima comforted her.

"Understood." Zongfang nodded and hung up the communication.

"Daigo..." Rena looked at the distant mountains shrouded in a thin mist with a worried expression.

Shin-chan's Flying Swallow No. 1 crashed into the woods, breaking several trees before coming to a slow stop.

The good news is that because the Flying Swallow No. 1 was flying at a low altitude and at a relatively low speed, it was not damaged during the emergency landing.

The bad news was that Shin-chan accidentally hit his head during the turbulence of the emergency landing and passed out.

Command Room.

Seeing the disconnected call, Kijima Megumi didn't hesitate much before immediately contacting Shen Yun.

……

graduate School.

Shen Yun took out the enhanced bone marrow cells of Golza from the petri dish, extracted the DNA molecules from the bone marrow cells, and used Golza's DNA molecules as a blueprint to create a DNA computer.

By utilizing the properties of DNA and employing strand substitution reactions, basic computational units were created, and the three most fundamental logic gates of electronic computers—AND, OR, and NOT—were constructed.

Then, through biochemical reactions, the DNA computer performs calculations.

Using a DNA computer as the transmission system for the mechanical Golza, the mechanical Golza's flexibility is comparable to that of a real monster.

With Karen's assistance, Shen Yun's process of creating a DNA computer using Golza's DNA went quite smoothly.

Not long after, the PDI that Shen Yun had placed on the table suddenly beeped.

Shen Yun put down his work, picked up the PDI, and answered the call.

Ena Iruma's beautiful, intellectual face appeared on PDI's screen.

"Captain Megumi, what's the matter?"

"Doctor, I'd like to ask you to analyze the composition of this fog," said Megumi Kijima, sending the scene footage and some relevant information to Shen Yun's PDI.

Shen Yun looked at the photos of the mountains shrouded in fog taken by the monitoring satellite on the PDI, along with related information, nodded, and said, "I understand. I'll analyze it right away."

After saying that, Shen Yun hung up the call. He turned to look at Karen and said:

"Karen, I'll leave the rest of the DNA computer to you."

"Leave it to me with confidence." Karen smiled confidently, revealing a cute little fang at the corner of her mouth.

Shen Yun smiled slightly as he looked at Karen's energetic and adorable appearance, then focused his attention on the PDI in his hand.

He uploaded the photos taken by the TPC monitoring satellite to his computer and analyzed the white fog in the photos.

A lot can be analyzed from just some images and related information.

Looking at the analyzed data, Shen Yun stroked his chin and said:

"Just as I thought! There's no moisture in this white mist."

As is well known, fog is a weather phenomenon composed of tiny water droplets or ice crystals suspended in the air near the ground, and is a product of water vapor condensation in the air near the ground.

Magnia's weakness is water, so naturally there can be no water vapor in the fog created by Magnia.

Analysis revealed that the fog created by Magnia contained many charged particles.

The constantly changing speed of the fog turns the mountain shrouded in white mist into a powerful electromagnetic field, affecting electronic devices.

Most importantly, this fog is alive.

Although very faint, it definitely showed signs of life.

The fog appears to be a monster; it is recommended to activate the mech.

Shen Yun added this comment to the final analysis results.

To be honest, the ending of this episode felt a bit like a deus ex machina.

He found it hard to imagine that Lina's inner cries for Daigo could wake him from his coma.

That's outrageous.

Moreover, Daigo drifted downstream for who knows how long, and probably never saw the monsters on the mountain.

This also allows him to transform immediately and rescue Lina and Munakata.

What else could this be but a deus ex machina?

Of course, this can also be explained.

It's probably similar to the situation of Takumo in the original work.

However, Shen Yun felt it was better to play it safe.

What if?

Therefore, Shen Yun sent his analysis of the white mist to Ju Jianhui.

Upon receiving the analysis results from Bai Wu, Ju Jian Hui carefully reviewed them.

She looked at the analysis results without seeming surprised.

The white fog that caused the Flying Swallow No. 1 and Flying Swallow No. 2 to crash as soon as they entered it must not be normal fog.

While it's true that fog is alive, this conclusion is extremely absurd.

But ever since Golza appeared, she felt that nothing in this world was impossible.

"A monster? It seems the vice-captain will have to drive the underground Pippa Tank alone," Kijima Keisuke pondered.

If it's just simple electromagnetic interference, then solving it wouldn't be too difficult.

All you need to do is spray a layer of electromagnetic wave absorbing coating onto the vehicle.

But these fogs are alive, and may even be related to monsters.

In that case, we can no longer send planes to this mountain.

"Nozue, can you find Daigo and Horii's locations using their IDs?" Megumi turned to Nozue and asked.

"I'll give it a try." Nori responded, lowered his head and typed on the keyboard, trying to locate the two of them using Daigo and Horii's IDs.

"The analysis results for the fog are in. You all need to return to your units immediately. I have a mission for you," Megumi Kijima said after contacting Munakata.

"Understood!" Zongfang nodded and then hung up the communication.

He turned to look at Lina, who nodded slightly to indicate that she understood.

The two approached each other on either side of the car and simultaneously opened the doors and got in.

Lina turned the Drum vehicle around and headed towards the TPC base.

Personal research institute.

Shen Yun sent the analysis results of the white mist to Ju Jianhui, and then observed the progress of Karen's synthesis of Golza DNA molecules.

Seeing that her progress was going smoothly, Shen Yun handed over the entire production of the DNA computer to Karen.

He himself went to the hangar and worked with the technical staff to build a new type of Zepelion amplifier.

The Kirieloids will cause trouble again in a while, so we have to be prepared.

These rats in the sewers are really disgusting.

……

As dusk fell, thick white mist filled the mountains and forests.

Shin-joong awoke from his coma, grimacing as he rubbed his head, which was still aching from the impact.

"Ouch, that hurts!"

He rubbed his head to relieve the pain while looking around at his surroundings.

The sun had already set, leaving only a sliver of its afterglow slowly swallowed by the night.

The Flying Swallow-1 was shrouded in dense fog, with extremely low visibility.

However, Shinjo's eyesight was excellent, and he could see dark shadows hovering outside the cockpit of the Flying Swallow No. 1.

"What on earth is that? It's disgusting." Shinjo felt a chill run down his spine after he saw the flying object in the fog.

"However, it seems these disgusting things can't get in."

Xincheng quickly realized that he was in a safe situation.

Next, he checked the equipment of Feiyan-1 and found that the internal equipment and body of Feiyan-1 were undamaged.

The magnetic field prevented the system from starting, so Feiyan-1 could not fly and could not send out communications.

"We can only wait for rescue, how annoying!" Shinjo muttered, reclining in his chair, lying down, and immediately closing his eyes to fall asleep.

Since I have nothing to do anyway, and those monsters outside can't get in, I might as well go to sleep.

Maybe you'll wake up to find rescue has arrived.

At worst, we can wait for the fog outside to clear and for those strange things to leave.

Compared to the leisurely pace of Shinjo, Daigo and Horii were much more unlucky.

The two were being chased by a group of small Magnias, with a child in tow.

"What's wrong with them?"

"How should I know? Idiot!"

"What do you mean by 'idiot'?!"

"Ah!" Chizuru Ezaki tripped and fell to the ground, letting out a scream.

Daigo and Horii, who were running ahead, heard the scream and quickly turned around to look.

A lump of flesh lunged at Chizuru Ezaki, but she blocked it with her hand.

Upon seeing this, Daigo quickly ran to her side and knocked her away.

At that moment, more tumors flew over their heads.

"What kind of monsters are these?!"

"Be careful! These are the things stuck to the villagers' necks." Horii came to Chizuru Ezaki's side and raised his Victory Hyper gun to fire at the small Magnias.

But there are just too many of these things, seemingly endless, and you can't possibly defeat them all.

They had just killed one batch when more tumors flew out of the mist and toward them.

"There are too many of them; we can't possibly kill them all," Daigo said, looking at the disgusting tumors flying through the air.

"Idiot! Stop talking nonsense and let's go!" Horii grabbed Ezaki Chizuru's hand and started running.

"Oh, oh." Daigo quickly followed.

The three of them shook off the tumors and found a spacious cave in the mountains, where they lit a fire.

"It attaches itself to a person's body and then manipulates their actions; perhaps it was brought by that meteorite," Horii analyzed.

"Could it be... a cosmic life form?"

"We need to notify headquarters immediately, or things will get out of control." Horii said gravely.

"Let's go down the mountain as soon as it gets light," Da Gu said.

"Um."

"I'm going to the Space Observation Center," Chizuru Ezaki suddenly said.

"What?"

"Observation center? What would you do in a place like that?" Daigo asked curiously.

"No, you have to come down the mountain with us!" Horii said firmly.

"Going down the mountain won't help! We can't escape anyway. So at least..."

"At least what?" Horii pressed.

"This is none of your business! Even if I'm the only one going, I'm going."

……

Command Room.

Megumi looked at Nozue and asked, "Have you found Horii and Daigo's location?"

Nori shook his head and said, "The electromagnetic field on this mountain is too strong, making it impossible to pinpoint Horii and Daigo's location."

"I see..." Megumi frowned.

"However, I found the place with the strongest electromagnetic field on this mountain, and this place should be the source of the electromagnetic field." Ye Rui marked the source of the electromagnetic field and uploaded it to the large screen in the command room.

Megumi looked at the locations marked on the map, lost in thought.

"It's not far from the location of the space observation center..."

At this moment, Zongfang and Lina returned to the command room.

"Captain, what's the mission?" Zongfang asked.

"This will take time to prepare. Your current task is to get a good night's rest and drive the underground Pipa tank up the mountain tomorrow morning to destroy the source of the electromagnetic field," Megumi instructed Munakata and Rena.

"clear."

……

The next morning, the underground Pipa tank, coated with an electromagnetic wave absorbing layer, was transported to the foot of the target mountain.

Lina, piloting the Saber Athena, was also thrown down at the same time.

One was responsible for stopping the monster, and the other was responsible for destroying the source of the magnetic field.

Inside the driver's compartment of the underground Pipa tank.

Zong Fang stood in the passenger seat and pressed a few buttons on the control panel to start the Iron Arm Drill. The huge auger at the head of the underground Pipa tank immediately began to spin.

Next, he sat down in the driver's seat, pushed the control lever, and steered the underground Pipa tank forward.

The tracks of the underground Pipa tank immediately started moving, and it slowly made its way towards the mountainside.

The rapidly spinning iron drill easily broke through the soil and rocks in the mountain.

In the blink of an eye, the underground Pipa Tank disappeared from the ground, leaving a huge cave in the mountain.

Lina also began climbing the mountain in her Saber Athena, though her speed was somewhat slower than that of the underground Pipa Tank.

After all, a straight line is closer than a curve.

Because the mountain wasn't very high and the soil wasn't very hard, the Pipa Tank could burrow underground at an extremely fast speed.

Zongfang drove the underground Pipa tank all the way to the top of the mountain, following the pre-arranged route.

The iron drill pierced the ground, producing a deafening roar.

The underground Pipa Tank emerged from the ground and appeared near the space observation center complex.

At the same time, inside the space observation center.

Horii and Ezaki Chizuru were being chased by the thick fog; the narrow corridor made the white fog move very fast.

"Don't stop, run!"

The two went down the stairs and had just reached the corner when Horii, who was in charge of bringing up the rear, suddenly felt a pain in his neck and felt as if all his strength had been drained away.

Horii clutched his neck, leaning against the wall to support his weak body.

His face was contorted with pain, and he could barely hold onto the Victory Hyper gun, which fell to the ground with a soft thud.

Hearing a soft sound behind her, Chizuru Ezaki quickly turned around.

Horii clutched his neck and slid to the ground in pain.

Seeing this, she didn't care about running away and quickly ran to Horii's side.

"Mr. Horii!"

"Don't worry about me, let's go!" Horii struggled to push Ezaki Chizuru's body away with his hands, urging her to leave quickly.

"No! If we're going to run, we'll run together." Chizuru Ezaki shook her head.

"Can't you listen to me once in a while?" Horii asked, his expression pained.

There was a lump of flesh on his collar, which was constantly shrinking, as if it were absorbing his life energy.

When Chizuru Ezaki saw the tumor on Horii's neck, she was startled, but she quickly calmed down and encouraged him:

"My father gritted his teeth and persevered to the very end, didn't you say that?"

"You're right..." Horii gave a forced smile.

He raised his hand and reached for the tumor clinging to his neck.

Chizuru Ezaki placed her hands on Horii's hands and looked at him with encouraging eyes.

"Damn it! Don't underestimate humans!" Horii gripped the tumor on his neck, growled, and ripped the parasite off, slamming it against the wall. He then quickly grabbed the Victory Hyper gun and fired a shot at the parasite.

"Bang!"

A burst of sparks erupted from the parasite's body, and it immediately burst into flames.

"You did it! You did it!" Chizuru Ezaki smiled.

Horii nodded.

Then, a thick fog rolled in again, and many small Magnias could be vaguely seen through it.

"Use water." Horii's gaze fell on the fire sprinkler heads on the corridor ceiling.

Without hesitation, Horii raised his hand and shot the fire sprinkler head, causing a large amount of water to spray down, forming a water curtain.

The parasites that rushed over fell from the air upon contact with the water, and those pus-like things quickly withered and died.

The thick fog, faced with such a curtain of water, dared not cross the line, and could only linger for a while before retreating helplessly.

At that moment, a violent tremor suddenly occurred outside the space observation center.

Horii and Ezaki Chizuru quickly ran out.

"Bang!"

The underground Pipa tank burst forth from the ground.

"What is that?" Chizuru Ezaki asked curiously, looking at the Pippa Tank underground.

"Horii, can you hear me?" Munakata asked.

"What a familiar voice! It's so clear!" Upon hearing Munakata's voice, Horii was so excited that he almost cried.

"Is Daigo with you?" Munakata asked again.

"No, he went down the mountain. Could it be that he..." Horii immediately realized.

If it weren't for Daigo calling for backup, wouldn't he have been...?

"Ugh! Quickly smash that glowing meteorite, it's the energy source for that fog!" Horii said.

"Understood." Zongfang replied and immediately turned the underground Pipa tank around.

After turning around, he immediately ran to the passenger seat, pressed a few buttons, and used the iron drill to build up energy.

Then, he returned to the driver's seat, aimed the iron drill at the glowing meteorite in the distance, and pressed the launch button.

The underground Pipa Tank fired a blue beam of light toward the glowing meteorite.

Seemingly sensing danger, the fog on the mountain began to recede rapidly, and the smaller Magnias hidden in the fog gathered together to form a huge monster.

Its entire body was covered with white tumors with red spots in the middle, and its mouth had tentacles like sea anemones that kept moving around, making it look disgusting.

Parasitic Monster, Magnia!

"What is that?" Chizuru Ezaki asked Magnia.

"That guy is the true form of that fog," Horii said.

As soon as Magnia appeared, it spewed a mist carrying high-voltage electricity toward the underground Pipa tank.

The fog carrying high-voltage current collided with the blue light emitted by the underground Pipa tank.

The underground Pipa tank's attack and Magnia's exhaled mist only held out for a moment before it fell into a disadvantageous position.

In the blink of an eye, the light from the underground Pipa Tank was overwhelmed by the mist exhaled by Magnia.

Magnia's mist, carrying high-voltage electricity, struck the underground Pipa tank, causing it to flash with pale blue high-voltage electricity.

Sparks kept flying from the control panel of the underground Pipa tank as Munakata attempted a series of actions, but to no avail.

"hateful!"

At that moment, Lina, piloting the Saber Athena, also arrived at the scene.

Seeing that Munakata was in danger, she immediately piloted the Saber Athena and crashed it into Magnia.

The massive fuselage of Saber Athena slammed into Magnia, knocking her to the ground.

"Boom!"

Magnia fell to the ground, shaking the soil more than ten meters high.

"Commander, are you alright?" Lina asked hurriedly.

"I'm fine, you focus on dealing with the monster," Zongfang said.

"Understood!" Lina replied, turning to look at Magnia, who was getting up from the ground.