Ultraman: What do you mean by saying L77 is about to explode?

Chapter 125 Sphia Fusion Beast, Ligadron

In the afternoon, at the TPC Research Bureau, the hangar was being prepared.

Originally intended for ecological and scientific research, the Victory Flying Swallow has now been fixed to its support structure. The original positions on the wings of one of the aircraft have been removed and replaced with more powerful firepower, while the other one appears to be faster.

They are two different models from the Flying Swallow series.

Victory Fire Dragon.

Victory Blue Hurricane.

Daigo and Shinjo stood side by side on the takeoff and landing platform, looking up at the two fighter jets that had been forcibly converted in just one week, and for a moment they were both somewhat lost in thought.

"It's unbelievable that this was actually converted from our Flying Swallow," Shinjo murmured to himself, gently stroking the hull of the Victory Fire Dragon. "This feels... this is a real piece of equipment that can go to the battlefield. Compared to the old Flying Swallow, it's much weaker."

"This is technology, New City team members." Kaul, dressed in a pure black TPC uniform, stepped out of the takeoff and landing aircraft.

Kaul walked between the two spaceships, reached out, and gently patted the armor plate.

"Officer Kaul." Daigo and Shinjo immediately stood up straight and saluted.

Kaul waved his hand, indicating that they didn't need to be so polite.

"Daigo, Shinjo, do you know what? Looking at these modified Victory Flying Swallow series fighters, I suddenly felt a difference in time."

"A difference in time?" Daigo asked, somewhat puzzled.

"In the ancient Earth 30 million years ago, Yu Lian and those priests pursued light and superpowers. They used carved crystals and light channels to build suspended sanctuaries. That technology was exquisite and elegant, like works of art, but completely impractical and unable to eliminate monsters."

"When darkness descended upon R'lyeh, those exquisite crystals were shattered into nothingness, just like their civilization, which crumbled instantly upon leaving the giants."

Kaul turned to look at New City: "But now? What I see on this Earth is something completely different. You are using steel and technology to explore the universe, but in the eyes of those aliens, it may seem like a primitive man's fire poker. However, it is powerful enough to fight. When attacked, it will not shatter like crystal. It will continue to fight with its own body and become stronger."

"I like these guys," Kaul patted the Victory Dragon, "because they represent your human will to live, your will to explore. The ancient humans of thirty million years ago lost these things because they relied too much on the light of the giants, but you still have them."

Shinjo and Daigo were somewhat shocked by what Kaul said.

This was the first time they had heard this advisor, from the ancient past or even from a more distant universe, praise the somewhat backward technology of modern humans.

"Officer, we won't lose," Shinjo gritted his teeth and clenched his fists. "Dr. Ezaki and the others are definitely watching us too."

"Then prove it with your actions," Kaul put on his sunglasses and turned around. "Director Reiko Kashiwamura is backstage making final checks. You two, today's test flight won't be as easy as it is at the base, because these will be the fighter jets that the various branches will deploy later. Even our Far East base will manufacture some as spares."

"So, one by one, get serious!"

"yes!"

A few more days passed, on a day when everyone was starting to slack off.

The alarm blared throughout the command center. On the large screen, footage of Jeep No. 3, which Ye Rui had retrieved, was being displayed, but it had now changed.

"Captain, Delta Station has issued an alert: the Jupiter probe Jeep III... breached the warning line three minutes ago and is heading towards Earth!"

"What?!" Captain Megumi stood up from her seat. "Have the Victory Team assemble immediately. We need to intercept Jeep No. 3 right now."

"And member Nozue, try to establish communication with Jeep 3 now, contact Dr. Esaki and the others, slow down immediately, this is Earth."

"No, Captain! Jeep III's communicator isn't responding, and the satellite images... that's not a spaceship at all!"

The view on the main screen has been switched to the Delta Space Station perspective.

In outer space, there was a white spaceship with beautiful lines, representing humanity's greatest achievement in exploring the stars.

At this moment, however, it was enveloped by an unknown substance emitting a blue light. Sphia assimilated the spaceship's thrusters, hatches, and even solar panels.

On the spaceship, a luminous object emitting a yellow glow has grown, resembling a monster. It glides through space without making a sound, hurtling towards Earth.

"It has been turned into a monster by Sphia." Kaul walked in through the automatic door.

"Officer Kaul." Deputy Captain Zongfang turned his head.

Kaul walked to the big screen and looked at the spaceship, whose original appearance was no longer recognizable.

"Sphia has completely devoured the spaceship's control system. The consciousness of Dr. Ezaki and the other two is currently inside it. They are not dead, but they are definitely not alive either. Sphia is forcing them to use their memories of Earth to search for the purest energy on this planet."

"Where did they land?!" Chief Yoshioka didn't know why he had suddenly appeared there.

"It's an energy reserve base, a high-purity liquefied natural gas tank area!" Ye Rui reported the worst possible result.

"Those damned space parasites!" Director Yoshioka gritted his teeth. "Megumi! Have Daigo and Shinjo take off immediately in the newly modified Victory Fire Dragon and Victory Blue Hurricane! We absolutely cannot let that monster get any closer!"

"yes!"

A high-purity energy reserve base located in the suburbs was engulfed in flames.

With a deafening roar, a colossal metal monster, standing 65 meters tall and weighing tens of thousands of tons, landed on Earth.

Its entire body is covered in reflective silver metallic armor, its face is a glowing object, and its hands are steel claws.

Specia Fusion Beast, Composite Monster, Rigadron.

With each step it takes, the ground shatters into dust under its tens of thousands of tons of weight. With a swing of its claws, it easily knocks a crane weighing several tons away, sending it crashing directly onto a gas storage tank and igniting a column of fire.

"Shinjo! Daigo! We absolutely cannot let it get closer to any more storage tanks!"

In mid-air, the Flying Swallow II, piloted by Zong Fang, was conducting flank jamming.

At this moment, at an even higher altitude.

"Victory Blue Hurricane, extreme propulsion, launch!"