Special effects: Starting with Ultraman Tiga

Mid-May.

Summer Solstice has passed.

The weather is getting a bit hot and dry, which makes people's hearts restless.

It hasn't rained for more than two weeks since the beginning of May.

The blazing sun hanging in the sky greedily absorbed the moisture from the ground, as if preparing for the upcoming rainy season.

As evening approached, a gentle breeze swept by, bringing a touch of coolness to the sweltering weather.

After dinner, everyone brought out deck chairs and placed them outside the villa to enjoy the sunset.

Inside the kitchen of the villa.

Shen Yun pulled out a sharp kitchen knife. The gleaming blade reflected Shen Yun's expressionless face, as cold as a fish that had been killed at RT-Mart for ten years.

"Snap!"

With a swift motion, Shen Yun cleaved the chilled Qilin melon in two, its bright red juice flowing freely down the cut surface.

The flesh of the Kirin melon is bright red, with no watermelon seeds, and its rind is less than a finger's thickness.

"Not bad." Shen Yun looked at the bright red flesh of the melon and nodded in satisfaction.

It's a melon that came to repay a debt of gratitude.

Then, Shen Yun quickly cut the bright red flesh of the Qilin melon into small cubes of the same size, and then swept these cubes into the fruit plate, also sticking seven or eight toothpicks on them.

"Done." Shen Yun wiped the juice off his hands, picked up the fruit plate, and walked out of the villa.

Outside the villa, everyone lay on deck chairs, chatting and enjoying the cool evening breeze, thoroughly enjoying themselves.

"Ah~ So quiet, nothing's happening at all with Wenluo and the others." Washio Gaku covered his face with a book and sighed.

"Speaking of which, it seems like the wolf demon hasn't appeared lately." Taiga Sae placed the girl in her hands on her lap, her straight and slender legs unconsciously swinging slightly, then turned to look at Tidom sitting beside her, and said regretfully.

"I was originally planning to defeat the wolf demon and rescue Shirogane..."

"Isn't this good?" Ushida Sotaro, who was wearing a red vest and focused on sumo training, asked without turning his head.

"Of course it's bad! The quieter Wenluo and his men are, the more it proves they're brewing an even bigger conspiracy." Tidom sat up straight, his expression very serious.

"It's alright, as long as we work together, no matter what kind of plan Wen Luo has, we won't let him succeed!" Lion said with great enthusiasm.

"What an optimistic guy," Samezu Kai said, shaking his head as he watched the spirited lion walk with his arms crossed.

"Yeah~" Tidom and Sae Taiga exchanged a glance and laughed.

"Stop worrying unnecessarily, come and have some fruit to cool off." Shen Yunyun brought a fruit platter to the outside of the villa, placed the cut fruit on the small table in the middle of the group, and said with a smile.

"Wow! It's a watermelon!" Taiga Sae exclaimed in surprise as she saw the bright red flesh of the watermelon in the fruit plate, quickly tossing aside the shoujo manga she was holding and jumping off the recliner.

"It doesn't seem to be watermelon season yet, does it? Where did you get these, Professor?" Washio Gakuya asked in surprise, sitting up from his recliner.

"It was a gift from a friend from my hometown; it's a very good quality melon," Shen Yun said casually.

His series of collaborations with the domestic military have provided some technologically valuable contributions.

It's just some fruit being shipped from China; it's no big deal.

"Don't you need to add salt?" Lion asked, picking up a piece of watermelon with a toothpick and watching the others eat it directly.

"No need to add salt. The watermelons from Shen Jun's hometown are much sweeter than those from Japan." Tidom said, forking another piece of watermelon and putting it in his mouth. The flesh was cool and refreshing, and the sweet taste immediately blossomed on his tongue, making Tidom's satisfied eyes squint into crescents.

"Mmm, so sweet!" Lion exclaimed after eating a piece of watermelon.

"Isn't the doctor going to eat?" Taiga Sae asked, looking at Shen Yun who wasn't making any moves.

"No need, you guys can eat it. I'm already tired of it. Watermelons aren't expensive in my hometown," Shen Yun said, shaking his head.

"Huh~ Is it cheap?"

"Hmm, you can probably buy a melon weighing ten or twenty pounds for about 100 yen," Shen Yun calculated and said.

2001年，国内的瓜大多都是2-3毛钱一斤，贵一点的也就4-5毛钱一斤。

At the current exchange rate, 100 yen is roughly equivalent to 7 yuan, so it's not an exaggeration to say that you can buy a melon weighing ten or twenty kilograms with that amount.

"This is too cheap."

"I'm so envious! I also want to be able to eat watermelons freely."

"It's nothing. If you like watermelon, you can eat as much as you want. My friends from my hometown sent over quite a few watermelons, probably around a hundred. And they'll be sending over a batch about every month until summer is over. As long as you can eat it all and don't waste any, you can eat as many as you want," Shen Yun said with a smile.

Fruits suitable for export are of excellent quality.

Although exporting watermelons doesn't generate much profit, the purpose of exporting goods is not to sell them.

What's wrong with me exporting fruit and sending some to my friends in Japan?

"Really?"

"Yay!"

"Dr. Banzai!"

Upon hearing this, everyone cheered excitedly.

However, the excitement lasted only a short while before everyone returned to their relaxed state.

"Speaking of summer, it must be about cooling off, right? It's getting dark, how about we each tell a scary story?" Washio Takeshi suggested, watching the sun about to disappear below the horizon.

"Nani? What kind of game is this?" Tidom became interested and quickly sat up, looking at Washio Takeshi and asking.

"Well, this is a must-do activity for cooling off in summer, right? Although it's not quite summer yet, it's nice to have some fun in advance," Lion said with a smile.

"That's right. Besides that, there's also the summer test of courage, right?" Taiga Sae said with a smile.

"A test of courage?" Tidom looked at Taiga Sae again, puzzled.

"Simply put, it's about going to a scary place to test your courage, such as a cemetery, an abandoned shrine, or an empty school. The organizers will set up the scene in advance and try every possible way to scare people," said Samezu Kaido.

"That sounds interesting," Tidom said with great interest, his eyes showing eagerness.

"Who wants to go first?" Washio Takeshi asked.

"Me, me, me, I'll go first!" Sae Taiga raised her hand and said.

"Let's start with White, and then the others can take over."

"Ahem. What I'm going to tell you is the ghost story of the abandoned doll..." Sae Taiga cleared her throat and then began to vividly recount the horror story she had made up.

However, the horror story that Sae Taiga created has been incorporated into many other ghost stories.

It's basically a story about a discarded doll's resentment and revenge.

After hearing the story written by Taiga Sae, no one was moved.

Tidom, on the other hand, found this kind of strange tale quite interesting, as it was the first time he had heard it.

"Hey White, this ghost story you made up is so unoriginal!" Washio Gaku complained.

"Hmph, what kind of story can you tell, Yellow?" Taiga Sae puffed out her cheeks, dissatisfied.

"What I'm going to tell you are the strange tales of the science lab."

"What? Aren't you just as unoriginal as me?" Taiga Sae teased.

"Nonsense, I never said I would tell an original story," Washio Gaku retorted stubbornly.

"Alright, alright, stop bickering. Let Yellow finish her story first," Shen Yun said with a smile, trying to smooth things over.

Washio Gaku cleared his throat and began to recount the strange tales he had compiled for the science department.

The story is quite cliché: the human skeleton in the science lab isn't made of plastic, but is the skeleton of the school principal's wife, who was murdered. Because of her strong resentment before her death, she becomes able to move and seek revenge on her killer.

After Washio Gaku finished telling the story he had compiled, Shishigaki immediately took over.

Soon, it was Shen Yun's turn to tell the horror story.

After a moment's thought, Shen Yun smiled and said, "I'll tell you a scary story that's been circulating in my hometown."

"Eh~ A scary story from the professor's hometown?"

"I wonder if there are any differences between this and the ghost stories we have here?"

"I'm kind of looking forward to it."

Everyone looked at Shen Yun expectantly.

Seeing the expectant expressions on everyone's faces, Shen Yun didn't keep them in suspense and began to tell the story in a low voice: "This story takes place in a middle school in the 90s. It is said that before this middle school was built, it was a mass grave..."

"Why is the school built on a mass grave?" Tidom asked, raising his hand.

"Good question." Shen Yun smiled upon hearing this and said, "It is said that the land price in the mass grave is cheap, and the students have strong yang energy, which can suppress the yin energy."

The school was originally a cemetery; this is a widely accepted claim across the country.

But to be honest, in China's five thousand years of history, how many chaotic times has it experienced?

In the entire land of China, which place hasn't had a dead person buried?

Let alone a school, even a residential area, if you go back a few hundred years, might have been a mass grave.

"Because this middle school was built on a mass grave, few students and teachers would linger at the school until night."

"The school is bustling and noisy during the day, but it becomes lifeless and ghostly in the evening."

"That day, careless Xiaoming left his homework at school. When he returned, the school was deserted..."

Shen Yun vividly recounted the horror story he had made up, and everyone was captivated by it.

When they talked about some of the more terrifying parts, Tidom and Sae Taiga let out a low gasp.

However, Shen Yun's story was only halfway through when a sudden alarm sounded.

"It's Orug Wave!" Tidom said hastily, sitting up from his recliner.

Seeing this, Shen Yun immediately pulled up a virtual map. Looking at the location from which the evil energy fluctuations were coming, he exclaimed in surprise, "The location of the fluctuations seems to be in an elementary school!"

"Eh? School? Now?! No, no way." Washio Gaku exclaimed in surprise, looking at the sky that had completely darkened.

Isn't this exactly the scene from the doctor's story?

"No, no, it can't be such a coincidence, can it?" Ushida Sotaro swallowed hard, his face slightly pale.

"Why does it have to be a school?" Samezu Kai scratched his head, annoyed.

The story Shen Yun told echoed in his mind, and the image of an extremely gloomy school vividly appeared before his eyes.

"Terrible!" Taiga Sae exclaimed.

"This is just a story I made up, don't take it seriously, just think of it as a test of courage," Shen Yun reassured her.

"A test of courage? I want to participate too!" Upon hearing this, Tidom's eyes gleamed with excitement, eager to try.

"..." Shen Yun looked at the somewhat excited Tidom, hesitating to speak.

You've already shown a lot of courage; you don't need to try anymore.

"What are you afraid of? It's just a fake story. Let's get going." Lion Walk didn't seem afraid at all; instead, he urged them on.

"Let's go! Let's go!" Tidom exclaimed excitedly.

The group quickly entered Turtle Rock and then rode on it to the location from which the Orgu wave had originated.

……

Underground, the evil matrix.

Wenluo took a file, picked up a part from a pile of parts on the table, and began to carefully sand it.

Tiny crumbs fell onto the table as he moved.

"Hmm~ It's perfect." Wenluo looked at the parts that he had polished to perfection with a file and said with satisfaction.

Then, Wenluo installed the polished parts onto the nascent black bat.

Simply sculpting a doll in a rough manner no longer satisfied him, who pursued perfection and beauty.

Only by polishing each part to perfection can the assembled monster truly satisfy him.

"Lord Wenluo, a new Orgu has appeared." Jiaojiao sensed the appearance of the new Orgu and quickly reported to the leader.

"I understand. You can go take a look then. Do whatever you want, just don't bother me," Wen Luo said nonchalantly.

His masterpiece is almost finished; it's just an Orug, so it doesn't matter what it looks like.

"Yes, Lord Wenluo." Jiaojiao bowed slightly, then glanced at the wolf demon sitting in the corner with its eyes closed, and asked, "Lord Wenluo, may we bring the wolf demon along?"

"No, it's not the right time for Wolf Ghost to make a move yet," Wen Luo refused.

"Wagada." Upon hearing this, Jiaojiao did not insist and left the underground matrix with Abaiba.

……

Guishan Elementary School.

The group emerged from Turtle Rock and looked at the deserted, eerily quiet elementary school in the night. They were immediately reminded of the terrifying stories Shen Yun had told them.

"Hiss~ I never imagined that a school at night would be this scary." Washio Takeru looked at the elementary school shrouded in a terrifying atmosphere and couldn't help but rub the goosebumps on his arms.

"Terrifying? I think it's alright," the lion said strangely.

"Let's split up and search," Shen Yun suggested.

"Eh~ Should we split up? Whether it's in a horror story or a horror movie, if you split up, you're more likely to be picked off one by one," Samezu Kai said hastily.

"You said it yourself, it's just a story and a movie. It's better for two people to split up and look for each other, so they can look out for each other," Shen Yun complained.

I should have known he wouldn't have told scary stories about school, but instead told strange tales about rules.

"Doctor, I'll go with you." Sae Taiga quickly grabbed Shen Yun's arm.

"Count me in, count me in!" Tidom exclaimed excitedly.

After discussing their plan at the elementary school gate, the group split into three groups and entered different school buildings. (End of Chapter)