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Chapter 292 Kamen Rider 4 Shocker Boss's Suspicion: Time Travel Device

Secret base.

"Tom, something's happened!" Sakurai Yuto and Inui Takumi burst into the secret base and said.

"I understand. But before that, I hope you can hear me out." Shinnosuke Tomari looked at Yuto Sakurai and Takumi Inui and said.

Tomari Shinnosuke immediately informed Inui Takumi and Sakurai Yuto, who had arrived at the secret base, about the time loop.

After a brief discussion, the three of them split up and began to act separately.

Although Tomari Shinnosuke had already called Shijima Kiriko and asked her to take Shijima Tsuyoshi to a safe place.

But by a twist of fate, Go Shijima, disguised as Kamen Rider Mach, and Takumi Inui, transformed into Faiz, arrive on the streets to stop Shocker's atrocities.

In the familiar square.

After Kamen Rider Mach knocked the leech chameleon monster back with a punch, he immediately took out the Gearshift Chariot, inserted the Gearshift White Heat into the Mach Driver, transformed into Deadheat Mach, and launched his finishing move on the leech chameleon monster.

After kicking the leech chameleon to pieces, Mach stood up, looked at the explosion, and laughed, "Nice scene..."

As soon as he said that, Mach seemed to remember something.

"I remember now, after defeating this guy I..."

At this moment, the cheetah snail monster, swinging its tentacles, walked up behind Mach with a cold smile.

Mach turned around and looked at the cheetah snail monster that appeared behind him. His mind was racing, and he recalled the scene when he was killed by the monsters.

"Then, I died..."

While Mach was still in a daze, the Cheetah Snail Monster also raised his left arm, which resembled a snail's body.

"Take this!"

The cheetah snail monster flung out his left arm, and a large amount of purple slime sprayed out from the nozzle on his left arm.

Large amounts of purple slime landed on Mach, pinning him firmly to the spot, making it difficult for him to move.

"I can't move." Mach struggled violently, but found that he couldn't move at all.

"Take this!" A red light flashed from the antennae on the head of the cheetah snail monster, and then it raised its snail-like hands. Orange-red energy accumulated continuously, forming a huge energy ball at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Gun!" Upon seeing this, Faiz didn't hesitate at all. He immediately pulled out the Faiz chip from the accelerometer, inserted it into Faiz's phone, and then quickly rushed towards the Cheetah Snail Monster.

"Ready!"

"Reformation!"

As Faiz charged toward the Cheetah Snail Monster, his silver breastplate unfolded to the sides, revealing the core within the armor, where the red photon blood instantly turned silver.

After transforming into Accelerated Mode, Faiz immediately pressed the Acceleration Gauge.

"Start Up!"

Faiz, leaving a trail of afterimages, charged toward the cheetah snail monster.

Halfway through the run, Faiz leaped up, and a beam of scarlet needles landed on the Cheetah Snail Monster, while Faiz's figure pierced through the Cheetah Snail Monster's body.

The cheetah snail monster exploded instantly, and the flames from the explosion slowly rose, forming a Faiz emblem in the air.

Although the Cheetah Snail Monster was dead, he still hurled the orange-red energy blast he had condensed at Mach, who was immobilized by the slime.

After landing, Faiz didn't pause at all, and immediately turned and rushed towards Mach, who was not far away.

However, the two are too close together.

Despite Faiz pushing his speed to the limit, he was still a second too slow.

"Boom!"

The orange-red energy ball landed on Mach before Faiz could, and exploded with a bang.

The violent explosion blasted Faiz, who was standing almost within reach, into the air, where he landed awkwardly on the ground and rolled around.

Shijima Tsuyoshi fell into the flames once again.

He suffered a setback and died for the fourth time.

Faiz knelt on one knee, staring blankly at the already dead Shijima Tsuyoshi, and Shijima Kiriko, who was prostrate on Shijima Tsuyoshi's body, heartbroken.

Qian Qiao's longing resonated once again with the history-altering device, and time was reset once more.

……

Repair card base.

After time was reset again, the Shocker monsters that had been eliminated reappeared in the Shocker base.

The renovation of No. 4 was also completely completed during this period.

"The time has come!" said the Great Chief of Shocker.

"Start it up," Shen Yun instructed the other Shocker scientists.

"Yes." The Shocker scientist immediately went to a device, flipped a switch, and began supplying energy to Unit 4.

Pale yellow arcs of electricity continuously emerged from Typhoon No. 4's body and surged into its typhoon belt.

"Born, evil warrior!"

As energy continued to be replenished, the mechanical organs inside No. 4's body were also fully activated.

"Whoosh!"

The flap on the typhoon belt, which featured a relief of the Shocker organization, suddenly opened, revealing a windmill inside the belt.

And at this moment, No. 4's previously dim compound eyes also lit up.

Number 4 sat up from the operating table, stretched his limbs, then jumped off and came to the projection of the Shocker Chief, bowing and saying, "Chief."

"Shocker's strongest warrior, use your power to defeat Kamen Rider and fulfill Shocker's goal of conquering the world!" said the Shocker leader.

"Yes," Number 4 said, bowing slightly.

"Shen Yun, take Number 4 to familiarize himself with his vehicle," the Shocker chief said.

"Yes." Shen Yun nodded, then turned to Number 4 and said, "Come with me."

With that, he walked ahead.

Number 4 touched his chin and quickly followed.

Shen Yun brought Number 4 to the warehouse inside the Shocker base where Sky Cyclone was stored.

Sky Cyclone was a propeller plane specially prepared for No. 4.

Despite being just a propeller plane, its performance is not much worse than Drive's Cetron, and in fact, it is slightly better in terms of performance.

"This is the Sky Cyclone, a vehicle specially prepared for you," Shen Yun introduced.

Number 4 looked at the Sky Cyclone with its wings folded upwards and couldn't help but stroke his chin, saying, "Looks good."

"Let me see how good these Kamen Riders who are getting in Shocker are," Number 4 said contemptuously as he jumped into the cockpit of the Sky Cyclone.

Shen Yun stood to the side and opened the warehouse door, revealing a runway leading to the outside world.

The Sky Cyclone's wings, which had been folded upwards, slowly lowered. After piloting the Sky Cyclone, Number 4 sped off the runway from the warehouse and took to the skies, heading towards Drive.

Only after watching the Sky Cyclone gradually disappear from sight did Shen Yun turn his gaze away.

"Next, we just have to wait for Shocker to rule the world as time keeps resetting."

He could also use Shocker's influence to gather the resources he needed to build a travel device that allows him to traverse parallel worlds.

Shen Yun returned to the base lobby, and the images that Number 4 had seen were also transmitted to the virtual projection in the lobby.

After watching Number 4 overpower three knights and use the Sky Cyclone to eliminate Zeronos, Chief Shocker let out a low laugh.

"Each time time resets, we get closer to our ambitions. Surprisingly, what's helping us is the very emotion possessed by our long-time nemesis—what a perfect match! Hahaha!"

At this moment, a red light shone again inside the history-changing device, and green electric arcs danced on the surface of the history-changing machine.

"The history-changing device has resonated once again," the Shocker chieftain exclaimed happily.

The green light curtain once again expanded from the historical rewriting device, resetting time once more.

Time has returned to April 4th, 9:55 AM.

Within this unsolvable loop, time resets again and again, and Shocker's power grows ever stronger. (Although I don't understand how they can rule the world in such a short, repetitive cycle of just a few hours.)

During this constantly looping time, Shen Yun was also collecting various materials needed to assemble the time-space travel device.

With the data from previous tests, Shen Yun was confident he could combine the time machine and spacetime magic array technologies. (It's essentially a low-end version of the Aurora Curtain; Wang Xiaoming's superpower allows him to travel through different times, spaces, and parallel universes—it's incredibly overpowered.)

Through repeated time resets, Shen Yun assembled the collected materials into a time-space travel device.

Meanwhile, Shocker grew stronger with each reset of time, and its territory expanded outwards.

After Shen Yun completed the construction of the time-space travel device, he was summoned by the Great Leader of Shocker.

"Shen Yun, you seem to be making quite a few moves lately," the Shocker chieftain said calmly.

"Chief, it's just collecting some materials for research," Shen Yun replied.

"What kind of research would require the same materials as the history-altering device?" Chief Shocker asked.

"Naturally, it's a device for traversing parallel universes," Shen Yun said without changing his expression.

"Oh? Traveling through parallel universes?" The Shocker leader immediately became interested.

"That's right. Chief, you've encountered warriors from other worlds before. I'm very curious about their worlds, so I plan to develop a way to open a passage to other worlds so that Shocker's influence can spread there," Shen Yun explained.

"Oh? Interesting. Then I'll wait for your good news." The Great Chief of Shocker chuckled.

"Yes." Shen Yun bowed slightly, then got up and left the hall.

Back in his lab, Shen Yun narrowed his eyes and thought to himself.

"The Shocker leader is starting to suspect me..."

It was just a minor matter of having someone collect some materials; in the past, Chief Shocker would never have personally intervened.

However, Chief Shocker has now come personally to test his opinion.

"Is it because they no longer possess the overwhelming power they once had?"

Whether it's the Rock Chieftain or the President of Bataan, their strength is overwhelmingly powerful.

However, after being defeated one after another by the Kamen Riders, Shocker's leader also lost most of his power and no longer had the absolute strength to look down on everything.

It's perfectly normal to have doubts about him.

"It's about time I left too..."

He'd played along with the Shocker leader for so long, and he'd repaid all the debts he owed; it was time for him to leave.

"Let's leave after the Shocker chieftain and Inui Takumi have both perished."

After making the decision, Shen Yun began to debug and test the time travel device.

This is to ensure that the time travel device can select a suitable parallel universe and that there will be no danger when opening a passage to other parallel universes.

Time continued to reset. After being summoned by the leader of the Shuka, Shen Yun did not leave the Shuka base again, focusing on debugging and testing the time-space shuttle device.

Shen Yun did this to show his attitude and prove that he had no ulterior motives towards the leader of Shocker.

Of course, in such a situation, even if one has ulterior motives, one must not show it.

With each time time is reset, Shocker conquers the world in the endless cycle of time.

April 4st morning.

Time did not reset throughout the entire day yesterday.

The leader of Shocka, however, did not take it seriously.

Since Shocker has already conquered the world, it doesn't matter if time isn't reset.

"Shen Yun, is your time travel device ready to use?" the Shocker chieftain asked.

"It's still being tested, but it won't be long before it's ready to use," Shen Yun said.

"Really? Let's speed things up."

"Yes..." Shen Yun nodded.

At that moment, an alarm suddenly sounded in the lobby of the Shocker base.

"What's going on?" Chief Shocker asked.

"Boss, those Kamen Riders are here!" the leech chameleon monster replied.

"Oh? You've come knocking on our door? You've got some nerve." Chief Shocker sneered. "You set off immediately, along with the ants and mammoths, to capture the Poetry Island siblings for me."

"Yes!" The leech chameleon nodded.

Shen Yun understood what was going on after hearing this conversation.

It seems that the Shocker chieftain knew from the beginning whose thoughts were resonating with the history-altering device.

During this constantly resetting time, Tomari Shinnosuke, Sakurai Yuto, and Shijima Go died countless times, but only Inui Takumi and Shijima Kiriko never died.

The reason why the Shocker leader didn't kill Takumi Inui and Kiriko Shijima was probably because he wanted Takumi Inui to keep resetting time and to use Kiriko Shijima as a cover.

Or perhaps if Inui Takumi is killed, this constantly looping distorted time will return to normal, and even the Shocker Boss himself will disappear and fall into a deep sleep.

Therefore, the Shocker chieftain planned to use the Shishio siblings to coerce them into stopping and maintaining this distorted timeline.

"You should go down too. Finish the time-space travel device as soon as possible," said the Shocker chief.

"Yes." Shen Yun bowed slightly and left the hall.

Not long after, the time was reset again, returning to April 4th, 9:55 AM.

"Shinnosuke and the others should have figured out the reason for the time reset by now. The storyline on the 4th is about to end." Shen Yun thought to himself as he stood in front of the time travel device that he had almost perfected.

He said the time travel device still needed debugging, which was obviously just to fool the leader of the Shocker.

The history-altering device reset time so many times. During this period of constant resets, he was not idle. He conducted several adjustments and tests on this time-travel device.

At the same time, he also had A2 secretly record a lot of relevant data when the history alteration device reset time.

These data have also played a significant role in improving the time-space travel device.

……

The Shocker chieftain was also annoyed to see that the time had been reset once again.

The leech chameleon is a useless and troublesome creature that can't even keep an ordinary person in check!

If you can't keep an eye on her, why do you have to try to elevate her to a higher level?

How could this have caused her to fall to her death?

Although the Shocker leader was furious, he did not take his anger out on the leech chameleon monster.

After this time reset, the Kamen Riders may have realized who the real person who resonates with the history-altering device is.

The Shocker chieftain understood this, but he wasn't too panicked.

Let's not even talk about whether these Kamen Riders can get to him.

Even if they did manage to break through to his location, the Shocker leader didn't believe that Takumi Inui would choose to destroy the history-altering device knowing he was doomed.

No one would want to die, especially someone like Qian Qiao who has already died once; he knows all too well how precious life is.

Regardless of whether Qian Qiao falls for it or not, as long as he can buy some time, he can activate the history-altering device, reset time again, and take the entire world into his possession.

Not only this world, but all other worlds, he also wants to take them into his possession.

Although it's been a while, you can go back and look at the settings of the first chapter of Shocker Scroll. One of them is that you can't actively participate in the plot.

According to my outline, I planned to write about Shen Yun as the mastermind behind everything.

The 40th anniversary theatrical version uses technology from the Showa and early Heisei eras, while Zaibatsu X uses technology from the new decade; these are all part of a pre-designed outline.

I'll mention the three theatrical films related to Shocker: Heisei vs. Showa, and Shocker 3 and 4. However, upon reviewing them, there's really not much to write about from the villain's perspective in Heisei vs. Showa and Shocker 3.

Although Shen Yun is on the side of evil, he cannot actually help Shocker achieve a bad end, and given his own position, he cannot openly help the knights.

This positioning is quite awkward.

So the only options are to do nothing, or, like Narutaki, give the knights some pointers and offer some methods.

The section where Shen Yun searches for Tsukasa Kadoya during the Heisei vs. Showa era is an attempt at writing this style, but it's still not very effective and feels like filler.

Of course, there's really nothing to write about on the 3rd; I racked my brains but couldn't figure out how to write it.

I admit that the chapters on the 3rd were indeed quite weak.

So, without writing much, I skipped most of the plot of episode 3 and started writing episode 4.

Number 4 is easier to write than number 3; the plot can be compressed to a great extent, allowing for a quicker completion.

All I can say is that if I had written the 40th anniversary theatrical version first and then directly entered the new Heisei era worldview, it would have been much easier to write.

Writing these three theatrical versions was a thankless and exhausting task.

(End of this chapter)